The Knicks mopped the floor with the Sixers the last time they met in the playoffs. Three decades ago. Game 3 of the 1989 Eastern Conference quarterfinals should have started a blood feud between these franchises. Here's what happened, and here's why it didn't. 04/18/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
This Date in Baseball-Week Ahead 1952 — Hoyt Wilhelm of the Giants hit a home run at the Polo Grounds in his first major league at-bat. He was the winner, too, and pitched 1,070 games in the majors — but never hit another homer. 04/18/2024 - 10:00 am | View Link
The Morning Meeting: Some Big Wins in the NL East on Wednesday Great Wednesday in the NL East - The division once again went four for five, with only the Miami Marlins unable to put one in the win column! There were some lo ... 04/18/2024 - 6:34 am | View Link
Phillies hang on to sweep Rockies after the lineup's best night of the season The Phillies finally had the offensive night they'd been waiting for, scoring four runs quickly and tacking on three more, all of which they needed in a narrow win over the Rockies. 04/17/2024 - 6:17 pm | View Link
The Sports Report: Lakers beat Pelicans to make playoffs as No. 7 seed The Lakers will get Denver in the first round beginning Saturday, a Western Conference finals rematch from a year ago. 04/17/2024 - 12:30 am | View Link
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.
Israel launched a retaliatory strike against a site in Iran late Thursday night (early Friday morning local time), U. S. officials confirmed to several media outlets, though an Iranian official has downplayed the attack as a “failed and humiliating” drone strike.
ABC News, CBS News, NPR, and others have cited unnamed U.
New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman.
Several students involved in the protest said they also were suspended from Columbia and Barnard College, including Isra Hirsi, who is the daughter of Democratic U.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina formally requested on Thursday to join NATO as a global partner, a status that would clear the way for greater political and security cooperation at a time when the right-wing government of President Javier Milei aims to boost ties with Western powers and attract investment.
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The request came as NATO’s Deputy General Secretary Mircea Geoana held talks in Brussels on regional security challenges with visiting Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petri.
Geoana said he welcomed Argentina’s bid to become an accredited partner in the alliance—a valued role short of “ally” for nations that are not in NATO’s geographical area and not required to take part in collective military actions.
A Covid-19 patient with a weakened immune system incubated a highly mutated novel strain over 613 days before succumbing to an underlying illness, researchers in the Netherlands found.
The patient, a 72-year-old man with a blood disorder, failed to mount a strong immune response to multiple Covid shots before catching the omicron variant in February 2022.