With Pistons guard Cade Cunningham playing a Luka Doncic-like role, the Select Team — a group of young players, plus a couple of veterans, brought in to help the senior group prepare — beat Team USA in a pair of scrimmages Friday afternoon.
The Big 12 bumped the league’s membership to 16 teams beginning in 2024-25 after unanimously voting in Utah and Arizona State on Friday.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — There’s a growing chorus of Democratic-aligned groups calling for former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell to challenge Republican incumbent Sen. Rick Scott, including organizations eager to see a second Hispanic woman in the Senate. POLITICO previously reported that Senate Democratic leaders have urged Mucarsel-Powell, a Miami Democrat who served one term in Congress before […]
Prosecutors on Friday night called a judge’s attention to a social media post from Donald Trump — issued hours earlier — in which they say the former president appeared to declare that he’s “coming after” those he sees as responsible for the series of formidable legal challenges he is facing. Attorneys from special counsel Jack […]
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge ruled Friday the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges. The ruling is the first to undercut Texas’ law since it took effect in 2022 and delivers a major victory to […]
Man, 53, died in hospital after being shot multiple times while walking down Almeida Crescent, off Chapel Street Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A man who police say had organised crime associations was fatally shot on Friday night in what appears to be a targeted attack near […]
The incident comes a day after Kyiv said that it had struck a Russian landing ship with a sea drone A Russian tanker was hit by Ukrainian drones in the Kerch Strait a day after Kyiv said it had carried out a seaborne drone strike on a navy ship, according to reports in the Russian […]
An ‘extremely fierce battle’ in the eastern city of Bakhmut and explosions reported near key Crimean bridge An “extremely fierce battle is going on” in the long-contested eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, has said, with Ukrainian forces advancing “slowly but confidently” south of the city while securing control of […]
Harvard Law School professor and noted defense attorney Charles Ogletree has died at age 70. (Image credit: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The DeSantis administration’s latest culture war fight over a college-level psychology course is sending Florida schools scrambling to figure out how to handle the confusing standoff, with just days to spare before students return from summer break. State education officials insisted late Friday that the Advanced Placement course under scrutiny can still […]