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The Nets are finally giving David Duke Jr. a well-deserved standard contract, league sources told the Post. After spending his rookie campaign and almost all of his second season as a two-way, Duke Jr. is being converted to a standard deal. The move was expected to be made official on Friday.
Source: Brian Lewis @ New York Post

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The war against transgender youth in the United States has taken another disturbing turn. On Friday, Republican legislators in Kansas approved a plan to end gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The move comes amid a year of unprecedented legislative attacks on trans youth.

In 2023, the Raiders traded tight end Darren Waller to the Giants. It nearly happened last year. Waller’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, recently told Pat McAfee that Waller was nearly traded in 2022. Rosenhaus said that the Raiders talked to both the Packers and the Dolphins about a Waller trade. The Raiders eventually pulled back, and [more]

A Mpumalanga businessman has been sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to bribe a Special Investigating Unit investigator to make a PPE corruption case against a Department of Public Works service provider go away.

A FORMER cheerleader has shared her excitement after discovering she could still fit into her childhood uniform.

Microsoft has added new features to Edge. With the update, an AI-powered image generator based on DALL-E technology is made available on desktops for Edge users worldwide.

Протестующие против пенсионной реформы на улицах Парижа французы освистали кортеж премьер-министра страны Элизабет Борн. Об этом сообщает «360» в своем Telegram-канале.

Book review of Sam Miller’s Migrants: To move is to live, to live is to move

Books | To move is to live, to live is to move

If higher mortgage rates and tighter lending standards weren't the dagger for prospective U.S. homebuyers, then recent bank failures would seem to have added new obstacles to closing deals. 

By Katelynn Richardson Daily Caller News Foundation Two conservative justices dissented from the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to decline to review a state’s law banning biological men from competing in women’s sports. West Virginia asked the court to overturn an injunction against its Save Women’s Sports Act in early March, which had been blocked by…

The U.S. Supreme Court's already-battered reputation suffered even more when ProPublica, on April 6, published a bombshell report revealing that "for over 20 years," Justice Clarence Thomas has "been treated to luxury vacations by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow" and failed to disclose that information. In response, Sen. Dick Durbin — the Illinois Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee — is calling for an "enforceable code of conduct" for justices. And progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York)... Читать дальше...

'Challenge runs' are a strange and simultaneously irresistible thing. Take a suitably open-ended and pliable game, like Dark Souls, Minecraft or Fallout, impose a set of arbitrary restrictions on yourself, and watch the hilarity ensue. Whether it's beating Dark Souls with only a hundred arrows and no other weapons or trying to have sex with every possible partner in New Vegas as quickly as possible, there's nothing like challenge runs to give you a different perspective on these beloved games... Читать дальше...

The U.S. dollar rose as bets on another 25-basis point rate hike increased following March’s labor data.

Friday was a busy morning for fire crews in the City as they battled an early morning residential fire on Parade St.

John terry has revealed the reason he left his role as Dean Smith's No2 at Aston Villa - days after the Villains had made their way back into the Premier League - was due to 'family reasons'

ActionSA has rejected claims by environmental and infrastructure services MMC Jack Sekwaila that homeless people are to blame for dirty streets and infrastructure theft in Johannesburg.

Flying high after winning their first two matches, the Punjab Kings are set to be bolstered further when their explosive English batsman Liam Livingstone, who was having nets at the Old Trafford recently, joins them next week.

R Madhavan to play lead in GD Naidu biopic See poster

We’ve never known much about what to expect from Star Wars: The Acolyte, the Disney+ series from Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), other than it’s set at the end of the High Republic era around 100 years before The Phantom Menace, will explore the Dark Side, and has a ridiculously talented cast. At Star Wars Celebration…

Sam Miller views history through the prism of societies on the move

Tesla cut prices on its entire U.S. electric vehicle model lineup for the third time this year in an apparent effort to lure more buyers amid rising interest rates. The cuts that appeared Friday on Tesla’s website ranged from $5,000 per vehicle for Tesla’s slower-selling more expensive models, the S large sedan and the X big SUV. The company lopped $2,000 off the price of the Y small SUV, its most popular model, and added a lower-cost dual-motor version priced at $49,990. The 3 small sedan saw a $1,000 price cut. Читать дальше...