Rose Lavelle hoping to return to play ‘in the next couple of weeks’ Due to a lower leg knock, the fan-favorite midfielder has yet to play for new club Gotham FC and missed the USWNT's SheBelieves Cup run. 04/17/2024 - 9:55 am | View Link
After a record-breaking Draft Night, WNBA roster cuts loom The WNBA has just 144 available roster spots spread across 12 teams — a daunting fact the 36 rookies drafted Monday will soon have to face. 04/17/2024 - 8:50 am | View Link
Caitlin Clark's Indiana Fever jersey becomes top-selling jersey for a draft pick Basketball superstar Caitlin Clark has broken another yet another record — her Indiana Fever jersey is the top-selling jersey ever for a draft pick. The 22-year-old has had quit ... 04/17/2024 - 8:26 am | View Link
Debts, threats, and ravioli: A beloved Las Vegas eatery gone How many dining today?” It’s a question the hosts at Bella Vita asked customers waiting to be seated for an entertaining and fine dining Italian experience, but in the last year creditors and ... 04/16/2024 - 7:28 pm | View Link
WNBA Draft grades: Fever earn A for picking Clark, Sky receive C+ even with Angel Reese The most anticipated WNBA Draft in recent memory has come and gone. Once again, it was a franchise-changing day for the Indiana Fever, who drafted Caitlin Clark. Meanwhile, several teams made ... 04/16/2024 - 1:01 pm | 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.