Photos show the 'Feline Oscars,' an international feline beauty competition in Romania

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Photos show the 'Feline Oscars,' an international feline beauty competition in Romania

2026-03-22 13:55 Last Updated At：03-23 11:13

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Photos show an international feline beauty competition dubbed the ‘Feline Oscars’ that featured more than 200 cats Saturday in Bucharest, Romania.

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A woman holds a cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A cat looks out from its cat cave at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a Singapura cat at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A man carries a Maine Coon cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A cat breeder, donning cat-themed tattoos, attends an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A child grimaces while looking at T-shirts displayed for sale at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat sits in a stroller before a judging session at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a British Shorthair cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A breeder holds a kitten at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Gandalf, a British Shorthair cat, stares during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Burrito, a stray cat used for promoting pet adoptions for an animal rescue, sits next to a woman at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Tristan, a Bengal cat, rubs against a red carpet in front of an Oscars themed photo backdrop, at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds Tristan, a Bengal cat, while being interviewed at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

An award winning cat meows in a cage at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman poses with a Singapura cat in front of an Oscars themed photo backdrop during an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

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A woman holds a cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A cat looks out from its cat cave at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a Singapura cat at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A man carries a Maine Coon cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A cat breeder, donning cat-themed tattoos, attends an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A child grimaces while looking at T-shirts displayed for sale at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat sits in a stroller before a judging session at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a British Shorthair cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A breeder holds a kitten at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Gandalf, a British Shorthair cat, stares during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Burrito, a stray cat used for promoting pet adoptions for an animal rescue, sits next to a woman at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Tristan, a Bengal cat, rubs against a red carpet in front of an Oscars themed photo backdrop, at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds Tristan, a Bengal cat, while being interviewed at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

An award winning cat meows in a cage at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman poses with a Singapura cat in front of an Oscars themed photo backdrop during an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Trump's college sports committee tackles laundry list of issues and calls on Congress to act quickly

WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidential committee asked to find solutions for spiraling costs in college sports recommended creating a task force to look at pooling media rights, limiting coaches salaries, and rewriting eligibility and transfer-portal rules, along with at least a dozen other ideas.

A draft document of the committee's proposals, obtained by Yahoo Sports, wants Congress to quickly pass legislation that would create the task force, which would receive the antitrust exemption and the right to override individual state laws that the NCAA and other collegiate sports leaders are seeking.

The committee is the product of a White House summit called by President Donald Trump in March; Trump warned the “whole educational system” was in peril if the issues dogging sports cannot be resolved.

The document unveils a laundry list of items, all of which have been discussed in the revenue-sharing era, as schools struggle to pay players and maintain full athletic programs.

Among the more divisive ideas is pooling the media rights of the conferences — a move the Southeastern and Big Ten Conferences oppose but that a group led by Texas Tech regent Cody Campbell has argued could add some $7 billion in value.

“Important to note that there are currently long-term contracts in place that expire over the next 5-7 years (e.g., ACC expires in 2036), so change will likely be an evolution to a new model,” the paper said in outlining one of the issues that would make that change so difficult.

The paper also called on the task force to create rules for “elimination of salary-cap circumvention,” — in what appears to be a reference to schools' practice of inking third-party NIL deals, often through associated multimedia rights companies, that help schools blow past the current $20.5 million limit they're allowed to pay out directly.

That issue could soon be resolved through an aribtration case brought by Nebraska football players whose NIL deals were rejected by the College Sports Commission, which was placed in charge of analyzing third-party contracts.

The draft paper calls on Congress to implement legislation before its summer break, which traditionally starts in August. Congress has been stalled for more than a year on legislation that would codify elements of the House settlement that put revenue-sharing into place.

Among the biggest hang-ups are the call for the antitrust exemption for the NCAA, which, under this proposal, would instead belong to a task force and then a permanent governing body that would take its place.

AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football

Photos show the 'Feline Oscars,' an international feline beauty competition in Romania

Photos show the 'Feline Oscars,' an international feline beauty competition in Romania

A woman holds a cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A cat looks out from its cat cave at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a Singapura cat at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A man carries a Maine Coon cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A cat breeder, donning cat-themed tattoos, attends an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A child grimaces while looking at T-shirts displayed for sale at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat sits in a stroller before a judging session at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a British Shorthair cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A breeder holds a kitten at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Gandalf, a British Shorthair cat, stares during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Burrito, a stray cat used for promoting pet adoptions for an animal rescue, sits next to a woman at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Tristan, a Bengal cat, rubs against a red carpet in front of an Oscars themed photo backdrop, at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds Tristan, a Bengal cat, while being interviewed at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

An award winning cat meows in a cage at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman poses with a Singapura cat in front of an Oscars themed photo backdrop during an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A cat looks out from its cat cave at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a Singapura cat at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A man carries a Maine Coon cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A cat breeder, donning cat-themed tattoos, attends an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A child grimaces while looking at T-shirts displayed for sale at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat sits in a stroller before a judging session at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds a British Shorthair cat during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A breeder holds a kitten at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Gandalf, a British Shorthair cat, stares during a judging session of an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Burrito, a stray cat used for promoting pet adoptions for an animal rescue, sits next to a woman at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Tristan, a Bengal cat, rubs against a red carpet in front of an Oscars themed photo backdrop, at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman holds Tristan, a Bengal cat, while being interviewed at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

An award winning cat meows in a cage at an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A woman poses with a Singapura cat in front of an Oscars themed photo backdrop during an international feline beauty competition, dubbed the Feline Oscars, featuring more than 200 cats in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

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