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How to watch NCAA college football in 2024, including today’s games: Full schedule, livestream options, more
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The 2024 NCAA college football season has arrived. The 2024 NCAA college football season features a downsized Pac-12 Conference, and heavy hitters like UCLA, USC and Washington each making their Big Ten debut. All the shakeups and changes in college football this season, including a Nick Saban-less landscape, are sure to make the 2024 college football season one of the most dramatic in recent memory.
Keep reading below to find out everything you need to know about watching the best NCAA college football games this season, even if you don’t have cable.
What networks and streaming services carry college football?
The 2024 NCAA college football season will air across five networks: ESPN, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox.
- ABC broadcasts some of the best college football games of the week on “ABC Saturday Night Football.”
- ESPN broadcasts about four or five games per week, generally Thursday through Sunday. The American, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, SEC and Sun Belt are all covered by ESPN.
- NBC airs some Big Ten games and Notre Dame games. 15 Big Ten football games will also stream on Peacock and nine additional games will air exclusively on Peacock.
- CBS will air 70 college football games this season, including military service academies, Conference USA, Mid-American Conference, Mountain West, select UConn home games, some Big Ten games and the Big Ten Football Championship Game. You can watch college football games airing on CBS with a subscription to Paramount+ with Showtime.
- Fox will air select Big Ten football games, SEC games, Ivy League games, Big Sky games, American Athletic games and more.
- The streaming service ESPN+ (different from the ESPN TV channel) will carry several college football games that you can’t watch elsewhere.
You can stream every network-aired college football game on Fubo, and every network-aired college football game (except those airing on CBS) on Sling TV.
When does the 2024 NCAA college football season start?
The 2024 NCAA college football season kicked off on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024 with Zero Week and the Florida State vs. Georgia Tech game. Week 1 of the 2024 NCAA college football season starts Thursday, Aug. 29.
The Thursday games kick off with Howard vs. Rutgers at 6:00 p.m. ET; that game will air on BIG10. Later in the day at 8:00 p.m., ESPN will air the North Dakota State vs. Colorado game. For late-night college football, truTV will air the Sacramento State vs. San Jose State game at 10:00 p.m. ET.
Most D1 programs will play their first game of the season on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024.
Key dates for the 2024 NCAA college football season
- August 24, 2024: Week 0 of the regular season begins, with the ACC rivals Florida State vs. Georgia Tech game in Dublin, Ireland
- August 29–September 2, 2024: Week 1 of the regular season
- November 23, 2024: College football regular season ends
- November 24, 2024: College football playoffs Selection Sunday
- November 30, 2024: College football regular season ends, and playoffs first round begins
- December 6–7, 2024: Conference championships
- December 7, 2024: College football playoffs second round
- December 8, 2024: College football playoff Selection Sunday
- December 13–14, 2024: College football playoffs quarterfinal
- December 14, 2024: Army-Navy Game and the start of bowl season
- January 20, 2025: Postseason ends, except for any all-star games
- January 8, 2024: College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta
How to watch the 2024 NCAA college football season
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With a newly expanded Big Ten Conference and streaming exclusive games on Peacock and ESPN+, tracking how to watch your favorite college football teams play can be tough, especially if you don’t have a cable subscription. Keep reading to find out how to watch every college football game this season.
Paramount+: Watch CBS-aired college football games without cable
If you want to spend your weekend watching college football but don’t have a cable subscription, consider a subscription to Paramount+ with Showtime. A Paramount+ with Showtime subscription gives viewers access to all CBS original content, movies and more, plus every NCAA college football game and NFL football game broadcast on CBS.
Note: CBS Essentials and Paramount+ are both subsidiaries of Paramount Global.
A sports-lovers dream, the platform live streams college football games airing on CBS, NFL football, PGA Tour golf, professional soccer and more with the Paramount+ with Showtime tier, starting at $12.99 per month. You can also get a one-year subscription to Paramount+ with Showtime for $120.
What you can stream with Paramount+ with Showtime:
- All NFL games airing on CBS locally and nationally on all its subscription tiers
- On-demand CBS programming, including hit shows like “Survivor” and “NCIS”
- Paramount+ original programming like “Lawmen Bass Reaves” and “Tulsa King”
- Professional soccer, including Champions League live (with Paramount+ with Showtime)
- Live college football games airing on CBS.
Add Paramount+ with Showtime to your Amazon Prime Video subscription
You can also add Paramount+ with Showtime to your Prime Video subscription to access CBS-aired college football games, plus Paramount+ originals. Add Paramount+ with Showtime to get access to CBS-aired college football and more for $12.99 per month. Both pricing tiers come with a seven-day free trial, but you can only watch college football live with a Paramount+ with Showtime subscription.
Sling TV is the most cost-effective way to stream network-aired NCAA college football games
If you don’t have cable TV, one of the most cost-effective ways to stream college football this season is through a subscription to Sling TV. We suggest leveling up your coverage to the Orange + Blue with Sports Extra tier to get more NFL and college football games this fall.
The Orange + Blue plan regularly costs $60 per month, but the streamer currently offers a $25 off promotion for your first month, so you’ll pay just $35. The Orange + Blue with Sports Extra plan is $50 for your first month and $75 per month after. The Sports Extra add-on features 18 channels, including NFL Redzone, ESPNU, SEC Network, Big 10 Network and ACC Network, making it ideal for pro and college football fans.
The streamer is also currently offering big savings on four months of the Orange + Blue tier plus the Sports Extra plan when you prepay for the Sling TV Season Pass. The plan costs $219, reduced from $300.
Note: Because Sling TV does not carry CBS, Sling subscribers will want to add Paramount+ to their bundle.
Top features of Sling TV Orange + Blue plan:
- Sling TV is our top choice for streaming major sporting events like NASCAR.
- There are 52 channels to watch in total, including local ESPN, NBC, Fox and ABC affiliates (where available).
- You get access to most local NFL games and nationally broadcast games at the lowest price.
- All subscription tiers include 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage.
- You can add Golf Channel, NBA TV, NHL Network, NFL RedZone, MLB Network, Tennis Channel and more sports-oriented channels (18 in total) via Sling TV’s Sports Extras add-on.
Watch every network-aired college football game with FuboTV
You can watch every college football game airing on network TV on FuboTV. FuboTV is a sports-centric streaming service that offers access to almost every NFL game of the season. Packages include CBS, Fox Sunday NFC games via “NFL on Fox”, NBC (Sunday Night Football), ESPN (Monday Night Football), NFL Network and more, so you’ll be able to watch more than just today’s games, all without a cable subscription.
To watch college football without cable, start a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You can begin watching immediately on your TV, phone, tablet or computer. In addition to college football, FuboTV offers MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and international soccer games.
Top features of FuboTV Pro Tier:
- There are no contracts with FuboTV — you can cancel at any time.
- The Pro tier includes over 180 channels, including NFL Network. (You’ll need to upgrade to Ultimate for NFL RedZone.)
- FuboTV includes all the channels you’ll need to watch college and pro football, including CBS (not available through Sling TV).
- All tiers come with 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
- Stream on your TV, phone, tablet and other devices.
Watch every network-aired college football game on Hulu + Live TV
You can watch college football and the NFL with Hulu + Live TV. The bundle features access to 90 channels, including both Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS and ESPN. Unlimited DVR storage is also included. Watch every game on every network with Hulu + Live TV, plus catch the NFL this season and popular studio shows (including NFL Total Access and the Emmy-nominated show Good Morning Football) and lots more.
Hulu + Live TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+ for $77 per month after a three-day free trial.
Stream NBC-aired college football and exclusive games on Peacock
Peacock subscribers can access NBC-aired college football games, NBC-aired NFL games, Peacock originals like “Love Island” and the Annette Bening thriller “Apples Never Fall,” plus live NBC-aired content with a Peacock Premium Plus subscription, and Peacock’s library of on-demand content including “The Office.”
You can get a year of Peacock Premium (with ads) for $80, or a year of Peacock Premium Plus (mostly ad-free) for $120. Or, get a monthly subscription: Peacock Premium subscription costs $8 per month, while Peacock Premium Plus is $14 per month.
Watch college football games you won’t see elsewhere on ESPN+
ESPN+ will play host to college football games airing on ESPN, plus 25 NFL games this season, including one ESPN+- exclusive NFL game on October 21, 2024, when the Arizona Cardinals host the Los Angeles Chargers.
ESPN+ is ESPN’s subscription streaming platform, which offers coverage of some of Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark’s WNBA games, original studio shows and top-tier series that aren’t accessible on the ESPN networks. ESPN+ subscribers may purchase UFC PPV events and access the platform’s vast archive of on-demand content, including the entire 30 For 30 catalog, game replays and select ESPN films.
ESPN+ offers exclusive live sports, original shows, and a vast library of on-demand content, including the entire 30 For 30 series and more. Here’s a sampling of what’s available on ESPN+:
- Exclusive fantasy sports tools and content from some of the world’s most respected voices in sports.
- Select WNBA games.
- Every Fight Night UFC event UFC PPV event (PPV events are subject to an additional charge).
- Soccer including EFL Championship, US Open Cup and Bundesliga.
- College sports including the Ivy League, Big Sky Conference and Atlantic A10 Conference.
- MLB and the World Series.
- Top-tier tennis including the Australian Open and Wimbledon.
- The PGA Tour and the Masters.
It is important to note that ESPN+ does not include access to the ESPN network. It is a separate sports-centric service, with separate sports programming.
An ESPN+ subscription costs $11 per month. Or save 15% when you pay annually ($110).
Watch college football live with a digital HDTV antenna
You can also watch network-aired WNBA games on TV with an affordable indoor antenna, which pulls in local over-the-air HDTV channels such as CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, PBS, Univision and more. Here’s the kicker: There’s no monthly charge.
For anyone living in a partially blocked-off area (those near mountains or in first-floor apartments), a digital TV antenna may not pick up a good signal — or any signal at all. But for many homes, a digital TV antenna provides a seriously inexpensive way to watch sports without paying a cable company. Indoor TV antennas can also provide some much-needed TV backup if a storm knocks out your cable.
This ultra-thin, multi-directional Mohu Leaf Plus amplified digital antenna with a 60-mile range can filter out cellular and FM signals. It delivers a high-quality picture in 1080p HDTV and top-tier sound. It comes with a 16-foot digital coax cable.
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Full Week Zero and Week 1 2024 college football schedule
The 2024 NCAA college football season begins on August 24, 2024. Below is the full schedule for Week Zero and Week 1. Track the entire 2024 college football season here.
All times Eastern
Saturday, August 24
Florida State vs. Georgia Tech at 12:00 p.m. (ESPN)
McNeese vs. Tarleton State at 3:30 p.m. (ESPNU)
Montana State vs. New Mexico at 4:00 p.m. (FS1)
North Alabama vs. Southeast Missouri State at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN)
Florida A&M vs. Norfolk State at 7:30 p.m. (ABC)
SMU vs. Nevada at 8:00 p.m. (CBSSN)
Delaware State vs. Hawai’i at 11:59 p.m. (Spectrum Sports PPV)
Sunday, August 25
Deleware St. vs. Hawaii at 12 a.m. (Spectrum Sports)
Thursday, August 29
Howard vs. Rutgers at 6:00 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
North Carolina A&T vs. Wake Forest at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+/ACCNX)
New Hampshire vs. UCF at 7:00 p.m. (Big 12/ESPN+)
Western Carolina vs. NC State at 7:00 p.m. (ACC Network)
Jackson State vs. UL Monroe at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Lafayette vs. Buffalo at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Fordham vs. Bowling Green at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Central Connecticut vs. Central Michigan at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs. Arkansas at 7:30 p.m. (ESPNU)
Duquesne vs. Toledo at 7:30 p.m. (ESPN+)
North Carolina vs. Minnesota at 8:00 p.m. (FOX)
Murray State vs. Missouri at 8:00 p.m. (SEC Network)
North Dakota State vs. Colorado at 8:00 p.m. (ESPN)
Lindenwood vs. Kansas at 8:00 p.m. (Big 12/ESPN+)
Coastal Carolina vs. Jacksonville State at 8:00 p.m. (CBSSN)
Alcorn State vs. UAB at 8:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
SE Louisiana vs. Tulane at 8:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Northwestern State vs. Tulsa at 8:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Southern Utah vs. Utah at 9:00 p.m. (Big 12/ESPN+)
Eastern Illinois vs. Illinois at 9:00 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
Friday, August 30
Lehigh vs. Army at 6:00 p.m. (CBSSN)
Temple vs. Oklahoma at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN)
Florida Atlantic vs. Michigan State at 7:00 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
Elon vs. Duke at 7:30 p.m. (ACC Network)
Western Michigan vs. Wisconsin at 9:00 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
TCU vs. Stanford at 10:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Saturday, August 31
Clemson vs. Georgia at 12:00 p.m. (ABC)
Virginia Tech vs. Vanderbilt at 12:00 p.m. (ESPN)
Illinois State vs. Iowa at 12:00 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
Austin Peay vs. Louisville at 12:00 p.m. (ACC Network)
Indiana State vs. Purdue at 12:00 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
Kent State vs. Pitt at 12:00 p.m. (ESPNU)
Bucknell vs. Navy at 12:00 p.m. (CBSSN)
UConn vs. Maryland at 12:00 p.m. (FS1)
Florida International vs. Indiana at 12:00 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
Penn State vs. West Virginia at 12:00 p.m. (FOX)
Chattanooga vs. Tennessee at 12:45 p.m. (SEC Network)
South Dakota State vs. Oklahoma State at 2:00 p.m. (Big 12/ESPN+)
Towson vs. Cincinnati at 2:30 p.m. (Big 12/ESPN+)
Miami (Fla.) vs. Florida at 3:30 p.m. (ABC)
Colorado State vs. Texas at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Eastern Michigan vs. UMass at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN+)
East Tennessee State vs. Appalachian State at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN+)
North Dakota vs. Iowa State at 3:30 p.m. (FS1)
Ohio vs. Syracuse at 3:30 p.m. (ACC Network)
Kennesaw State vs. UTSA at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN+)
Merrimack vs. Air Force at 3:30 p.m. (CBSSN)
UTEP vs. Nebraska at 3:30 p.m. (FOX)
Western Illinois vs. Northern Illinois at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN+)
Akron vs. Ohio State at 3:30 p.m. (CBS)
Miami (Ohio) vs. Northwestern at 3:30 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
Boise State vs. Georgia Southern at 4:00 p.m. (ESPNU)
Old Dominion vs. South Carolina at 4:15 p.m. (SEC Network)
Stony Brook vs. Marshall at 5:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
UC Davis vs. Cal at 5:00 p.m. (ESPN+/ACCNX)
North Texas vs. South Alabama at 5:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Eastern Kentucky vs. Mississippi State at 6:00 p.m. (ESPN+/SECN+)
Campbell vs. Liberty at 6:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Richmond vs. Virginia at 6:00 p.m. (ESPN+/ACCNX)
Norfolk State vs. East Carolina at 6:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Western Kentucky vs. Alabama at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN)
Furman vs. Ole Miss at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+/SECN+)
Central Arkansas vs. Arkansas State at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Bethune-Cookman vs. South Florida at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Tarleton State vs. Baylor at 7:00 p.m. (Big 12/ESPN+)
UNLV vs. Houston at 7:00 p.m. (FS1)
UT Martin vs. Kansas State at 7:00 p.m. (Big 12/ESPN+)
Tennessee Tech vs. Middle Tennessee at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Sam Houston vs. Rice at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Nevada vs. Troy at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
North Alabama vs. Memphis at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Alabama A&M vs. Auburn at 7:30 p.m. (ESPN+/SECN+)
Notre Dame vs. Texas A&M at 7:30 p.m. (ABC)
Fresno State vs. Michigan at 7:30 p.m. (NBC)
Idaho vs. Oregon at 7:30 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
UCLA vs. Hawai’i at 7:30 p.m. (CBS)
Abilene Christian vs. Texas Tech at 7:30 p.m. (Big 12/ESPN+)
Southern Miss vs. Kentucky at 7:45 p.m. (SEC Network)
Southern Illinois vs. BYU at 8:00 p.m. (Big 12/ESPN+)
Georgia State vs. Georgia Tech at 8:00 p.m. (ACC Network)
Houston Christian vs. SMU at 8:00 p.m. (ESPN+/ACCNX)
Grambling vs. Louisiana at 8:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Nicholls vs. Louisiana Tech at 8:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
James Madison vs, Charlotte at 8:00 p.m. (ESPNU)
Lamar vs. Texas State at 8:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
Southeast Missouri State vs. New Mexico State at 9:00 p.m. (ESPN+)
New Mexico vs. Arizona at 10:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Wyoming vs. Arizona State at 10:30 p.m. (FS1)
Weber State vs. Washington at 11:00 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
Sunday, September 1
North Carolina Central vs. Alabama State at 3:00 p.m. (ESPN)
USC vs. LSU at 7:30 p.m. (ABC)
Monday, September 2
Boston College vs. Florida State at 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Dania Beach, Fla. — Scientists have moved about about 300 endangered sea corals from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration.
Nova Southeastern University and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi researchers packed up the corals Wednesday at the NSU’s Oceanographic Campus in Dania Beach. The sea creatures were then loaded onto a van, taken to a nearby airport and flown to Texas.
Researchers were taking extreme caution with the transfer of these delicate corals, NSU researcher Shane Wever said.
“The process that we’re undertaking today is a really great opportunity for us to expand the representation of the corals that we are working with and the locations where they’re stored,” Wever said. “Increasing the locations that they’re stored really acts as safeguards for us to protect them and to preserve them for the future.”
Each coral was packaged with fresh clean sea water and extra oxygen, inside a protective case and inside insulated and padded coolers and was in transport for the shortest time possible.
NSU’s marine science research facility serves as a coral reef nursery, where rescued corals are stored, processed for restoration and transplanted back into the ocean. The school has shared corals with other universities, like the University of Miami, Florida Atlantic University and Texas State University, as well as the Coral Restoration Foundation in the Florida Keys.
Despite the importance of corals, it’s easy for people living on land to forget how important things in the ocean are, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi researcher Keisha Bahr said.
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“Corals serve a lot of different purposes,” Bahr said. “First of all, they protect our coastlines, especially here in Florida, from wave energy and coastal erosion. They also supply us with a lot of the food that we get from our oceans. And they are nurseries for a lot of the organisms that come from the sea.”
Abnormally high ocean temperatures caused widespread coral bleaching in 2023, wiping out corals in the Florida Keys. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi turned to NSU when its partners in the Keys were no longer able to provide corals for its research. Broward County was spared from the majority of the 2023 bleaching so the NSU offshore coral nursery had healthy corals to donate.
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“We’re losing corals at an alarming rate,” Bahr said. “We lost about half of our corals in last three decades. So we need to make sure that we continue to have these girls into the future.”
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is using some of these corals to study the effects of sediment from Port Everglades on coral health. The rest will either help the university with its work creating a bleaching guide for the Caribbean or act as a genetic bank, representing nearly 100 genetically distinct Staghorn coral colonies from across South Florida’s reefs.
“We wanted to give them as many genotypes, which are genetic individuals, as we could to really act as a safeguard for these this super important species,” Wever said.
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CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted dozens of women gets 30 years in prison as victims stare him down
A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday after an emotional hearing in which victims described being deceived by a man who appeared kind, educated and part of an agency “that is supposed to protect the world from evil.”
Brian Jeffrey Raymond, with a graying beard and orange prison jumpsuit, sat dejectedly as he heard his punishment for one of the most egregious misconduct cases in the CIA’s history. It was chronicled in his own library of more than 500 images that showed him in some cases straddling and groping his nude, unconscious victims.
“It’s safe to say he’s a sexual predator,” U.S. Senior Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said in imposing the full sentence prosecutors had requested. “You are going to have a period of time to think about this.”
Prosecutors say the 48-year-old Raymond’s assaults date to 2006 and tracked his career in Mexico, Peru and other countries, all following a similar pattern.
He would lure women he met on Tinder and other dating apps to his government-leased apartment and drug them while serving wine and snacks. Once they were unconscious, he spent hours posing their naked bodies before photographing and assaulting them. He opened their eyelids at times and stuck his fingers in their mouths.
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One by one, about a dozen of Raymond’s victims who were identified only by numbers in court recounted how the longtime spy upended their lives. Some said they only learned what happened after the FBI showed them the photos of being assaulted while unconscious.
“My body looks like a corpse on his bed,” one victim said of the photos. “Now I have these nightmares of seeing myself dead.”
One described suffering a nervous breakdown. Another spoke of a recurring trance that caused her to run red lights while driving. Many told how their confidence and trust in others had been shattered forever.
“I hope he is haunted by the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life,” said one of the women, who like others stared Raymond down as they walked away from the podium.
Reading from a statement, Raymond told the judge that he has spent countless hours contemplating his “downward spiral.”
“It betrayed everything I stand for and I know no apology will ever be enough,” he said. “There are no words to describe how sorry I am. That’s not who I am and yet it’s who I became.”
In October 2021, the FBI issued a notice to the public, seeking other potential victims of and additional information about Raymond, saying that some women depicted in the incriminating photos and videos remain unidentified.
In a statement Wednesday, authorities praised all the victims who came forward.
“The FBI thanks the brave women who shared information that furthered this investigation,” said
FBI Assistant Director in Charge David Sundberg of the Washington Field Office. “We recognize our domestic and foreign law enforcement partners who helped bring Raymond to justice for his reprehensible crimes.”
Raymond’s sentencing comes amid a reckoning on sexual misconduct at the CIA. The Associated Press reported last week that another veteran CIA officer faces state charges in Virginia for allegedly reaching up a co-worker’s skirt and forcibly kissing her during a drunken party in the office.
Still another former CIA employee – an officer trainee – is scheduled to face a jury trial next month on charges he assaulted a woman with a scarf in a stairwell at the agency’s Langley, Virginia, headquarters. That case emboldened some two dozen women to come forward to authorities and Congress with accounts of their own of sexual assaults, unwanted touching and what they contend are the CIA’s efforts to silence them.
And yet the full extent of sexual misconduct at the CIA remains a classified secret in the name of national security, including a recent 648-page internal watchdog report that found systemic shortcomings in the agency’s handling of such complaints.
“The classified nature of the activities allowed the agency to hide a lot of things,” said Liza Mundy, author of “Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA.” The male-dominated agency, she said, has long been a refuge for egregious sexual misconduct. “For decades, men at the top had free rein.”
CIA has publicly condemned Raymond’s crimes and implemented sweeping reforms intended to keep women safe, streamline claims and more quickly discipline offenders.
Last year, the CIA announced the appointment of Dr. Taleeta Jackson, a seasoned psychologist who previously led the Sexual Assault Prevention Program at the U.S. Navy, as the new head of a dedicated sexual assault and prevention office at CIA.
“There is absolutely no excuse for Mr. Raymond’s reprehensible, appalling behavior,” the agency said Wednesday. “As this case shows, we are committed to engaging with law enforcement.”
But a veil of secrecy still surrounds the Raymond case nearly four years after his arrest. Even after Raymond pleaded guilty late last year, prosecutors have tiptoed around the exact nature of his work and declined to disclose a complete list of the countries where he assaulted women.
Still, they offered an unbridled account of Raymond’s conduct, describing him as a “serial offender” whose assaults increased over time and become “almost frenetic” during his final CIA posting in Mexico City, where he was discovered in 2020 after a naked woman screamed for help from his apartment balcony.
U.S. officials scoured Raymond’s electronic devices and began identifying the victims he had listed by name and physical characteristics, all of whom described experiencing some form of memory loss during their time with him.
One victim said Raymond seemed like a “perfect gentleman” when they met in Mexico in 2020, recalling only that they kissed. Unbeknownst to the woman, after she blacked out, he took 35 videos and close-up photos of her breasts and genitals.
“The defendant’s manipulation often resulted in women blaming themselves for losing consciousness, feeling ashamed, and apologizing to the defendant,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing. “He was more than willing to gaslight the women, often suggesting that the women drank too much and that, despite their instincts to the contrary, nothing had happened.”
Raymond, a San Diego native and former White House intern who is fluent in Spanish and Mandarin, ultimately pleaded guilty to four of 25 federal counts including sexual abuse, coercion and transportation of obscene material. As part of his sentence, the judge ordered him to pay $10,000 to each of his 28 victims.
Raymond’s attorneys had sought leniency, contending his “quasi-military” work at the CIA in the years following 9/11 became a breeding ground for the emotional callousness and “objectification of other people” that enabled his years of preying upon women.
“While he was working tirelessly at his government job, he ignored his own need for help, and over time he began to isolate himself, detach himself from human feelings and become emotionally numb,” defense attorney Howard Katzoff wrote in a court filing.
“He was an invaluable government worker, but it took its toll on him and sent him down a dark path.”
Bangkok — A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her.
“I was about to scoop some water and when I sat down it bit me immediately,” Arom Arunroj told Thailand’s Thairath newspaper. “When I looked I saw the snake wrapping around me.”
The 13-to-16-foot-long python coiled itself around her torso, squeezing her down to the floor of her kitchen.
“I grabbed it by the head, but it wouldn’t release me,” she said. “It only tightened.”
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Pythons are non-venomous constrictors, which kill their prey by gradually squeezing the breath out of it.
Propped up against her kitchen door, she cried for help but it wasn’t until a neighbor happened to be walking by about an hour and a half later and heard her screams that authorities were called.
Responding police officer Anusorn Wongmalee told The Associated Press on Thursday that when he arrived the woman was still leaning against her door, looking exhausted and pale, with the snake coiled around her.
Police and animal control officers used a crowbar to hit the snake on the head until it released its grip and slithered away before it could be captured.
In all, Arom spent about two hours on Tuesday night in the clutches of the python before being freed.
She was treated for several bites but appeared to be otherwise unharmed in videos of her talking to Thai media shortly after the incident.
Encounters with snakes are not uncommon in Thailand, and last year 26 people were killed by venomous snake bites, according to government statistics. A total of 12,000 people were treated for venomous bites by snakes and other animals 2023.
The reticulated python is the largest snake found in Thailand and usually ranges in size from 5 to 21 feet, weighing up to about 165 pounds. They have been found as big as 33 feet long and 287 pounds.
Smaller pythons feed on small mammals such as rats, but larger snakes switch to prey such as pigs, deer and even domestic dogs and cats. Attacks on humans are not common, though do happen occasionally.
There have also been fatal attacks in Indonesia, where a woman was found inside the belly of a reticulated python that swallowed her whole in June — the fifth person to be devoured by one of the snakes in the country since 2017.
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CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted dozens of women gets 30 years in prison as victims stare him down
300 sea corals brought from Florida to Texas as part of effort to save the species
More Minnesota nonprofits are facing financial distress