The seeds for the 2025 NBA Finals began getting planted unknowingly in 2017, back when Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was about to enroll at Kentucky and Tyrese Haliburton was getting ready for his senior year of high school in Wisconsin. That was the year the Indiana Pacers traded Paul George to the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Pacers … Read more
LSU Shreveport became the first college baseball team on record to go unbeaten, finishing 59-0 when it won the NAIA championship in Lewiston, Idaho. The Pilots’ perfect season ended with a 13-7 victory over Southeastern (Florida) on Friday night and gave the 10,000-student school in northwest Louisiana its first national title in any sport. For … Read more
Two people were shot Friday outside a Minnesota college arena during a high school graduation, police said. The incident took place around 8:20 p.m. local time outside 3M Arena at Mariucci on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus as the graduation ceremony for Wayzata High School was taking place, the campus police department said … Read more
Hamas said it has submitted a response to the latest ceasefire proposal by U.S. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff to mediators on Saturday, reiterating its key demands. Source link
Democratic governors Tim Walz and Wes Moore are fired up – but not solely to eat South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn’s so-called “world famous” breaded fish. They’re fired up to refocus their party, and on Friday evening, both pitched their theory of how to build up coalitions and win back the Americans they’ve lost: emphasize … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — An appeals court on Friday refused to freeze a California-based judge’s order halting the Trump administration from downsizing the federal workforce, which means that the Department of Government Efficiency-led cuts remain on pause for now. A split three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the downsizing could … Read more
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed in a speech in Singapore on Saturday that the United States will continue to support U.S allies in the Indo-Pacific region against Chinese aggression as he warned that Chinese military action against Taiwan could be “imminent.” Hegseth made his remarks in a speech at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, which is … Read more
President Donald Trump on Friday touted a “blockbuster agreement” between U.S. Steel and Japanese company Nippon Steel that he said would keep the iconic U.S. steelmaker in Pittsburgh — though he previously opposed such a merger and offered few details on the specifics of the deal. Trump discussed the “partnership” between the two companies during … Read more
PBS has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration challenging his executive order targeting public broadcasting. PBS’s lawsuit, filed in United States District Court in Washington, accuses the administration of unlawfully interfering in the operations of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and committing multiple violations of the First Amendment – viewpoint discrimination, illegal retaliation … Read more
President Donald Trump’s steepest tariffs fell into legal limbo this week, casting uncertainty over a major swath of the president’s signature economic policy. The Trump administration could ultimately prevail in a court battle over the levies or seek other legal authorities to reimpose some of the tariffs, experts told ABC News, but a complete revival … Read more