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The conference cannot convene the board of directors until the court decides which schools have voting rights.

A judge granted a request by Oregon State and Washington State for a temporary restraining order on Monday to prevent departing Pac-12 members from meeting until it can be determined who has the right to chart the future of the disintegrating conference. At a hearing in Whitman County Superior Court in Washington, Judge Gary Libey ruled that a board of directors meeting scheduled for later this week with conference Commissioner George Kliavkoff and university leaders from 10 departing members ca

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to turn to Mark Lambert, a veteran diplomat with a long track record of rallying allies against threats from China, as a key leader of a relatively new diplomatic office designed to coordinate State Department policy toward the communist power.

Veteran diplomat Mark Lambert will lead the new “China House.”