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MINNEAPOLIS. Victor Wembanyama scored 39 points with 15 rebounds and five blocks to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 115-108 Game 3 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night, giving San Antonio a 2-1 lead in…
Washington — The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Friday that its Office of Foreign Assets Control designated ten individuals and companies operating across China, Hong Kong, West Asia and Eastern Europe for alleged…
Philadelphia — The New York Knicks beat the Philadelphia 76ers 108-94 on Friday night in Game 3, taking a 3-0 series lead. The Sixers led early, with Joel Embiid scoring the first nine points and Philadelphia holding a f…
LOS ANGELES — On Friday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 3-1 at Dodger Stadium as Freddie Freeman hit his 100th home run with the Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani delivered an RBI single; Emmet Sheehan sta…
PHOENIX — Mark Vientos homered in the second inning and then led off the 10th with a go-ahead double Friday night, lifting the New York Mets to a 3-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field. Nolan McLean wor…
San Francisco — Rafael Devers homered and Robbie Ray delivered six strong innings as the San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 Friday night at Oracle Park. Devers connected for his fourth home run of the s…
Washington: On Friday, U.S. Southern Command said U.S. forces struck and sank an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one survivor. The command said intelligence had confir…
Philadelphia — Jalen Brunson scored 33 points and late baskets on Friday night to lead the New York Knicks to a 108-94 win over the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 3, giving New York a 3-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semif…
Washington DC: The United States and Iran could resume negotiations in Islamabad as early as next week under a mediated, one-page 14-point memorandum of understanding intended to frame a month-long negotiating process ai…
Kansas City. Kyle Isbel hit a walk-off single in the ninth Friday at Kauffman Stadium, capping a two-run eighth-inning rally and delivering a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers; earlier in the eighth Isbel and Maikel Ga…
COLLEGE PARK, Md. UCLA senior Megan Grant set the Division I single-season home run record when she hit her 38th homer on Saturday, following a game-tying 37th home run in a 19-5 semifinal the previous day. The record su…
Washington: U.S. naval forces have maintained a blockade of Iranian ports imposed about a month ago, and this week exchanges of fire occurred in and around the Strait of Hormuz, including renewed attacks on the United Ar…
Washington, May 9 — At a US-India forum, experts urged closer US-India cooperation on artificial intelligence and defence, saying warfare has shifted to data and algorithms. Vivek Lall, chief executive of General Atomics…
Athens, Ga. — Georgia rallied from a 6-2 deficit to beat LSU 11-8 on Friday, as the Bulldogs' fourth home run of the evening supplied the decisive margin. The teams combined for seven home runs, but Georgia’s late power …
Cleveland — The Guardians defeated the Minnesota Twins 6-4 on Friday night at Progressive Field, securing their third straight victory. Rookie Travis Bazzana hit his first major league home run, and starter Parker Messic…
PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks promoted 23-year-old outfielder Ryan Waldschmidt from Triple-A Reno and designated veteran Alek Thomas for assignment on Friday, the club announced. Waldschmidt, a 2024 draftee who hit …
FLORIDA, US – Florida’s 2026 wildfire season has intensified to “extreme” levels as of Friday, May 8, with state officials reporting that more than 120,000 acres have burned across nearly 2,000 individual fires, an area …
MIAMI — Federal prosecutors this week filed a civil denaturalization complaint seeking to revoke Victor Manuel Rocha's U.S. citizenship after the former ambassador pleaded guilty in 2024 to acting as an illegal agent for…
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a new batch of declassified files on unidentified anomalous phenomena on Friday after President Donald Trump publicly urged expanded disclosure in recent months. The documents include h…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that California will provide hundreds of free diapers to each newborn leaving participating hospitals, supplying roughly 400 diapers per infant in the program’s fir…
Tampa, Florida — This week local authorities responded to several serious incidents: on May 7 the Florida Forest Service closed Jay B. Starkey Wilderness Park after a wildfire that reached 15 acres and was reported 60% c…
San Diego — The St. Louis Cardinals won consecutive games in San Diego this week, beating the Padres 2-1 on Thursday when Jordan Walker doubled and scored on Masyn Winn’s seventh-inning triple, and then recording a 6-0 v…
New York. Union Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh delivered India’s national statement at the International Migration Review Forum on Thursday, May 8, and publicly urged an inclusive, humane fram…
Memphis, Tenn. State Rep. Antonio Parkinson called this week for Memphis and surrounding West Tennessee counties to secede from Tennessee and form a new state after the Tennessee GOP supermajority approved a congressiona…
Washington — President Donald Trump announced on Friday a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine running May 9 through May 11 and posted the plan on Truth Social, saying the pause would suspend all kinetic activi…