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The 6-foot-6 sharp-shooting Illinois guard helped Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Kansas win its first two state titles, one coming with a perfect season. He won a school record 80 games and finished among the top five on the school’s career lists in scoring, rebounds, assists and steals. He earned back-to-back Kansas Class 6A …
1m ago Oil prices keep soaring after Trump indicates Iran war likely to intensify with weeks yet to go Oil prices continued to surge on worries of a prolonged Iran war but most Asian markets that were open rose moderately in cautious trading Friday. In Europe, trading was closed in France, Germany and Britain for …
By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK, April 2 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday dismissed actor Blake Lively’s sexual harassment claims in her lawsuit against actor and director Justin Baldoni, significantly narrowing her case over the filming of their 2024 romantic drama “It Ends With Us.” U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman’s 152-page …
Lawyers for the family of an Oklahoma junior college basketball player who died after suffering a head injury during a game said Thursday the student had been struck by another player’s elbow and accused the team of not providing proper medical care before putting him back on the court. Ethan Dietz died on Nov. 25 …
A man detained in Bahrain last month as the island kingdom came under missile attack from Iran vanished for days, until his family was called to retrieve his body from a military hospital. Relatives said Mohamed al-Mousawi, a Shiite Muslim who had previously been imprisoned, was saving money to start a business. His body was …
AMSTERDAM, April 3 (Reuters) – Leading Russian state oil and gas companies Rosneft and Gazprom supported wartime camps where more than 2,000 Ukrainian children were taken, facilitating transportation and providing funds, Yale University research has alleged, prompting calls from some U.S. lawmakers to reinstate sanctions on the two firms. The findings, released by Yale last …
ATHENS, April 3 (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to reshuffle his cabinet, a government official said on Friday, as an investigation into alleged farm-aid fraud involving EU funds widens, reaching more senior members of the ruling centre-right party. The scandal has rocked the government since last year, when European prosecutors charged …
Washington — President Trump continues to dangle potential military action against Cuba, appearing to be emboldened by his administration’s interventions in Venezuela and Iran. After the U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, Mr. Trump warned that he had his sights set on Cuba. Standing alongside Mr. Trump at a news conference about …
A key senator is demanding the Transportation Security Administration reverse its decision to let travelers keep their shoes on their feet while passing through airport screening, a controversial policy at the center of a classified security warning — escalating pressure on the agency following months of scrutiny over airport security vulnerabilities. In a letter obtained …
April 3 (Reuters) – Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was elected president on Friday after breezing through a parliamentary vote, formalising his grip on political power in the war-torn nation five years after he ousted an elected government in a coup. His carefully choreographed journey from top general to civilian president follows a lopsided …