How the ABA changed basketball forever: Dr J, George Gervin and the league that dared to be different

Fifty summers after the ABA-NBA merger, George Gervin, Ralph Simpson and others reflect on the league whose swagger and innovations changed basketball forever After practice, George Gervin wanted to go home. He was a rookie playing for the Virginia Squires of the upstart American Basketball Association, and the sleek, Detroit-born hooper didn’t yet know what … Read more

WATCH: Smithsonian director admits she sees history as ‘tool’ of ‘social justice’ after explosive hearing

After an explosive series of congressional hearings on alleged woke “ideological capture” at the Smithsonian, a resurfaced video of a presentation by National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig shows her calling “history as a practice” a “prime tool of social justice.” In a series of July hearings on Capitol Hill, Hartig defended the … Read more

Trump administration has paid back 60% of $165bn in tariff refunds

Government has so far returned $100bn to companies that paid levies US supreme court ruled illegal Business live – latest updates The Trump administration has refunded about $100bn from the tariffs it collected before the US supreme court ruled them illegal, according to reports. The $100bn (£74bn) figure, which represents 60% of the total $165bn … Read more

Democrats’ bitter civil war hits Michigan, but biggest prize still up for grabs

DETROIT — The Democratic Party‘s progressive wing was aiming to notch its biggest victory yet Tuesday and deliver a high-profile blow to the center-left establishment in an intensifying ideological battle. But the anticipated triumph in battleground Michigan‘s Democratic Senate primary will have to wait. The race between progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a former Wayne County … Read more

Socialist tenant organizer who blasted ‘sell-out Democrats’ loses Midwest primary

Jordan Herrera, an attorney, Air Force veteran and former Missouri assistant attorney general, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday in Missouri’s newly redrawn 4th Congressional District, defeating better-funded democratic socialist Hartzell Gray in a seven-way primary. Herrera prevailed over Gray, the 33-year-old former Kansas City radio host and tenant organizer who drew national attention after appearing … Read more