NBA: Kevin Durant leads Suns to victory

11/06/2023

Washington, United States— Kevin Durant scored 41 points to lead the Phoenix Suns over Detroit and former Suns coach Monty Williams on Sunday while Britain’s O.G. Anunoby sparked Toronto’s stunning NBA rally at San Antonio. Durant added five assists, four rebounds,…

What is US daylight saving time and why was it created?

11/06/2023

As countries, including the United States, Canada, and Cuba set clocks back an hour last Nov. 5 when daylight saving time ended, debate is once again emerging in the U.S. over whether and how to end this practice.…

Who is Sam Bankman-Fried, the onetime crypto mogul convicted of fraud?

11/03/2023

NEW YORK—A few years after graduating from college, Sam Bankman-Fried grew worried he was not taking enough risks. So the son of two Stanford Law School professors quit his Wall Street job and in 2017 started a…

Bob Knight, noted NCAA basketball coach, dies at age 83

11/02/2023

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.— Bob Knight, the brilliant and combustible coach who won three NCAA titles at Indiana and for years was the scowling face of college basketball, has died. He was 83. Knight’s family made the announcement on social…

California wildfire forces evacuations

11/01/2023

TEMECULA, California —A Southern California wildfire fueled by desert winds burned 2,487 acres (1,010 hectares) and prompted evacuation orders for more than 4,000 people in Riverside County, officials said on Tuesday. The Highland Fire nearly doubled in…

Man who received second pig heart transplant dies

11/01/2023

WASHINGTON — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday, October 31, 2023. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure…

Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends’ co-stars pay tribute to fallen cast mate

10/31/2023

LOS ANGELES – The five surviving co-stars of the hit 1990s television sitcom “Friends” paid tribute on Monday to their fallen cast mate, Matthew Perry, in a joint message lamenting his death two days earlier as an…

Florida Halloween shooting:  Two dead, 16 hurt, one man arrested

10/30/2023

Police in Tampa, Florida, have arrested a man suspected of killing two people in gun violence that sparked chaos on Sunday around a clutch of bars and clubs as people celebrated Halloween, authorities said. Sixteen people were…

NBA: Wembanyama falters in first road game as Clippers topple Spurs

10/30/2023

LOS ANGELES— Kawhi Leonard scored 21 points, Paul George added 19 and the Los Angeles Clippers’ stars schooled Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama in his first road game, a 123-83 rout of San Antonio on Sunday night. Wembanyama…

Matthew Perry’s death ‘seems impossible’ 

10/30/2023

LOS ANGELES—Family, friends and fellow celebrities on Sunday mourned the loss of Matthew Perry, the wise-cracking co-star of the 1990s hit television sitcom “Friends,” a day after the actor was found dead in a hot tub at…

Maine shootings: At least 22 dead, gunman at large

10/26/2023

Washington, United States—At least 22 people were killed and “many, many more” were injured in shootings in the city of Lewiston, Maine Wednesday evening, city officials reported, overwhelming local hospitals with gunshot victims. City Councilor Robert McCarthy told…

Off-duty pilot attempts to disable engines of aircraft on flight

10/24/2023

An off-duty pilot riding in the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines jet tried to disable the aircraft’s engines on a flight from the Seattle area to San Francisco, but crew members subdued him, and the plane landed…

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