By CHRIS SHERIDAN AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A star-studded draft takes place with 18-year-old phenom LeBron James picked No. 1. Carmelo Anthony is picked No. 3 followed by Chris Bosh at No. 4 and Dwyane Wade at No. 5. The Detroit Pistons infamously takes Darko Milicic as the No. 2 overall pick.
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Timeline of the National Basketball Association during the 2000s to the NBA’s 75th season. The timeline includes milestone moments in the league’s history and key moments off the court as the NBA celebrates its 75th season.
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has tested positive for COVID-19 as the country’s infection rate remains persistently high. The president’s office said Steinmeier’s wife, Elke Buedenbender, also tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday. Both have mild symptoms and immediately went into isolation. Steinmeier has been Germany’s president, which is a largely ceremonial
Continue ReadingBy Deblina Chakraborty, CNN A subvariant of Omicron, BA.2, is leading to a new wave of Covid-19 infections across Europe. Cases in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries are going up, driven by this very contagious coronavirus strain. The proportion of Covid-19 cases due to BA.2 is rising in the United States,
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN One of the most prominent architecture firms in the world is designing a new metaverse — a virtual city that hopes to be a libertarian utopia. Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has revealed renderings of the “cyber-urban” Liberland metaverse, a small virtual city made of futuristic, curving buildings in the architectural style that
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Golf’s major championship season is on the horizon. The Match Play in Austin, Texas, features the top 64 players available from the world ranking. Four of the top 12 chose not to play with the Masters two weeks away. That includes the last two PGA Tour winners, Sam Burns and Cameron
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The aid agency Oxfam International warns that widespread hunger across East Africa could become “a catastrophe” without an injection of funds to the region’s most vulnerable communities. An estimated 13 million people are facing severe hunger in the Horn of Africa as a result of persistent
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, AMANDA SEITZ and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has been countering disinformation coming from the Kremlin on the violent conflict in Ukraine. Getting accurate news about the war into Russia, though, is a trickier issue. President Vladimir Putin has shut down Russia’s last three independent media outlets, created
Continue ReadingBy LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — Oakland Hills Country Club has landed the U.S. Open in 2034 and 2051. The USGA made the announcement Tuesday at the Detroit Athletic Club. The governing body also says Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, previously scheduled to have the U.S. Open in 2034, will have the
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Opinion by Gina Cummings for CNN Business Perspectives With inflation hitting a 40-year high in the United States, working families are swimming ever faster in the effort to stay afloat. But the water just keeps rising, as mostly stagnant wages are also rapidly losing value. The federal minimum wage has lost at least 21% of
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Dolly Parton has long wanted to do a Broadway musical about her life, but the pandemic has her reconsidering that. “We were talking about doing my Broadway musical and we were really, really far out ahead of that, and then Covid hit and that changed my mind about a whole
Continue ReadingBy Spencer Thomas Click here for updates on this story SALEM, Oregon (KPTV) — A senior at Oregon School for the Deaf, Trayshun Holmes Gournaris, earned the title of state champion in Oregon’s 2022 Poetry Out Loud competition. Last Friday, 11 students from across the state competed in the spoken-word competition, Holmes Gournaris was the
Continue ReadingBy KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Mixing business and friendship can tank a relationship. So if a classmate, colleague or childhood friend asks you to invest in their business, proceed with caution. Evaluate the request as if it was coming from a stranger. Consider their credentials, in the industry and as a businessperson, and review their
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota environmental regulators say damage to the state’s public groundwater resources from missteps during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline is more severe than previously known. The state Department of Natural Resources says Enbridge Energy crews ruptured three groundwater aquifers while building the 340-mile pipeline across northern Minnesota last
Continue ReadingBy Audrey Weil Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Portland police arrested two people nearly two years after a woman was hit and killed in a street racing crash. 58-year-old Joann Mardis was on her way to work near her house on Northeast 122nd Avenue, in July 2020, when the
Continue ReadingBy GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer MacKenzie Scott donated $436 million to Habitat for Humanity International and 84 of its U.S. affiliates – the largest publicly disclosed donation from the billionaire philanthropist since she pledged to give away the majority of her wealth in 2019. The international group received $25 million from Scott and her
Continue ReadingBy GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer MacKenzie Scott donated $436 million to Habitat for Humanity International and 84 of its U.S. affiliates – the largest publicly disclosed donation from the billionaire philanthropist since she pledged to give away the majority of her wealth in 2019. The international group received $25 million from Scott and her
Continue ReadingBy ANNA LIZ NICHOLS Associated Press / Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two Michigan brothers who were wrongfully convicted in the murder of a family friend have been released after 25 years in prison. A Michigan judge on Tuesday set aside the convictions of George and Melvin DeJesus in the 1995 killing of
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Polansky Click here for updates on this story DULUTH, Georgia (WGCL) — More than a dozen people have filed mail-related reports with Duluth Police over the last three months. That includes reports of check washing and missing mail. As part of an ongoing series, CBS46 investigative reporter Rachel Polansky went to the Postal
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