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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, 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 …
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…
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…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has activated a Level 3 emergency response after a lethal outbreak of the Andes strain of hantavirus linked to the cruise ship M/V Hondius. Health officials report at l…
Actor Jesse Williams, best known for his long-running role on the television series Grey’s Anatomy, has reportedly married his girlfriend and co-star Alejandra Onieva in a private ceremony in the United States. Their rel…
Portugal – Singer Bonnie Tyler, 74, has been hospitalized in the country for emergency surgery after experiencing a sudden medical crisis linked to undisclosed intestinal issues. According to a statement released on her …
United States – In the first quarter of 2026, U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded strong investor demand, with April generating about $2 billion in net inflows, the strongest month of the year so far.…
Cupertino, California. Cyble announced on May 8, 2026 that Gartner named it a Challenger in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies. The company said its AI-native platform unifies threat intell…
Los Angeles: Actors Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley are set to reunite in filmmaker Benh Zeitlin's outlaw-romance film 'Hold on to Your Angels', officials said on May 8. Production is scheduled to begin in February, and t…
Miami: Florida entered preliminary talks this week with the Trump administration to close Alligator Alcatraz, a remote ICE detention center in the Everglades, according to a New York Times report published Thursday. Stat…
St. Louis — Circle K offered a temporary 40-cent-per-gallon discount at its stations on Thursday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., drawing drivers who filled up as local pump prices briefly fell below four dollars and customers rep…
Montgomery, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers on Friday approved legislation enabling new U.S. House primaries if courts permit the state to use different congressional districts, and the bill was sent to Republican Gov. Kay Ivey…
Washington: On May 8 a bipartisan group of U.S. senators led by Senator Chris Coons introduced a resolution that names China the "foremost rival and strategic competitor" of the United States, saying Beijing has the inte…