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South Carolina apologizes to LSU for song choice after win

Jan 26, 2025, 07:17 PM ET The University of South Carolina’s athletics department issued an apology to LSU and women’s basketball player Flau’Jae Johnson on Sunday in response to the Gamecocks’ DJ playing a song by Johnson’s late father at the end of Friday’s game between the teams at Colonial Life Arena. The athletics department […]

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South Korea reports initial findings of Jeju Air crash to ICAO, U.S. and Thailand

By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s authorities investigating last month’s Jeju Air plane crash have submitted a preliminary accident report to the U.N. aviation agency and to the authorities of the United States, France and Thailand, an official said on Monday. The investigation into the deadliest air disaster on the country’s soil remains […]

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NCAA women’s basketball Power Rankings: Will depth drive South Carolina to run it back?

Michael VoepelJan 22, 2025, 06:25 AM ET Close Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Playing defending national champion South Carolina was already difficult enough. But how the Gamecocks have responded […]

Business & Finance

South Korea GDP misses estimates as weak consumption, construction sector drive growth to 6-quarter low

The Seoul skyline. Mongkol Chuewong | Moment | Getty Images South Korea’s fourth-quarter GDP missed estimates Thursday, with weakness in consumption and the construction sector driving growth to a six-quarter low of 1.2%, year on year. Advance figures missed the 1.4% expansion expected by economists polled by Reuters, and the growth was also softer compared […]

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South Korea to remove concrete embankment blamed for exacerbating deadly plane crash

By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s transport ministry said on Wednesday that it would remove the concrete embankment installed at Muan International Airport following last month’s Jeju Air crash, its deadliest domestic air disaster. While investigators are still probing what caused Jeju Air flight 7C2216 to crash, including reported bird strikes, experts have […]

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South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested as agencies probe his short-lived martial law decree

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – JANUARY 15: Investigators arrive at the entrance to the presidential residence of Yoon Suk Yeol, as authorities try to execute an arrest warrant, in Seoul, South Korea, on January 15, 2025. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested Wednesday by the country’s Corruption Investigation […]

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Critical data missing from black boxes in Jeju Air crash in South Korea

SEOUL – The two black boxes on the Boeing jet involved in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, the transport ministry said on Saturday. South Korean investigators previously said the flight data and cockpit voice recorders were key to finding out the cause of last month’s crash that killed 179 […]

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‘Black boxes’ from crashed South Korean plane stopped recording about four minutes before disaster, officials say

Flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before the plane belly-landed and exploded on the runway, investigators said Saturday. Officials probing the country’s deadliest aviation accident in almost three decades had hoped information from the so-called black boxes would shed light […]