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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The last time the New York Knicks made the NBA Finals, the San Antonio Spurs were the opponent and just happened to have a generational big man talent who was heading to the title round for the first time. Back then for the Spurs, it was Tim Duncan. This time for …
Claude Lemieux’s brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter Claudia Lemieux Bishop. Lemieux died of suicide at age 60 on Thursday, according to authorities, after earlier in the week serving as the Montreal …
SINGAPORE, May 31 (Reuters) – Japanese defence minister Koizumi Shinjirō denied accusations of “new militarism” in a speech delivered at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s premier forum for defence leaders, militaries and diplomats. “Think about it. There’s a country that has a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons and strategic bombers. Japan has neither of …
May 30 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Saturday it had carried out a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific killing three men, the second strike in as many days. U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X that intelligence had confirmed that the vessel was transiting along “narco-trafficking” routes in …
A search is underway for four inmates who escaped from a correctional center in central Alabama Saturday, authorities said. The inmates escaped the Perry County Correctional PREP Center in Uniontown, Alabama, the Perry County Sheriff’s Office reported. Law enforcement agencies were alerted at approximately 1 a.m. local time on Saturday of the escape, the sheriff’s …
5/30: CBS Weekend News – CBS News Watch CBS News Five men escape a flooded cave in Laos after ten days; a United flight diverts after an unruly passenger tried to breach the cockpit.
Hawthorne, California — It was 1971 when America’s love affair with the car went lunar. The Apollo Lunar Rover turned American moon-walkers into moon-drivers, allowing astronauts to explore more than 50 miles of lunar crust and craters. “The Apollo Lunar Rover was a phenomenal machine, but fundamentally it had a very different job to do …
NEW YORK (AP) — Lee Mazzilli and Bobby Valentine, longtime friends, former roommates and New York Mets teammates who represent two different eras of the franchise, were still finishing each other’s sentences when they were inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame before Saturday’s game against the Miami Marlins. “When we were rooming together, we …
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Eric Cole put himself in position for another shot at his first PGA Tour victory, shooting a season-best 7-under 63 on Saturday to take the third-round lead in the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial. Cole matched the best round of the tournament to get to 12-under 198, a stroke ahead …
LONDON, May 31 (Reuters) – British foreign minister Yvette Cooper will travel to China on Monday, and then onwards to India later in the week, with the visits to focus on global issues from the Strait of Hormuz and the Russia-Ukraine war to the recent Ebola outbreak. Cooper will meet her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi …