Award to be officially announced on Sunday evening Canadian aiming to deliver OKC back-to-back titles Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been voted the NBA Most Valuable Player for the second consecutive season, ESPN reported Sunday morning. The official announcement of the winner is set to come at Sunday at 7.30pm. Continue reading…
The Senate parliamentarian rejected the last item in the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill — $1 billion in White House and Secret Service security funding tied in part to President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, considered nonpartisan since taking the role in 2012 during former President Barack Obama’s administration, ruled the funding provision … Read more
Tom Steyer has built his campaign for governor of California around affordability – he’s not the only Democrat testing the party’s appetite for a populist from the 1% Tom Steyer has built his campaign for governor of California around affordability – and taxing the uber-wealthy. It is perhaps an unusual message for a candidate with … Read more
Daniel Sikkema is accused of hiring someone to kill his husband, Brent Sikkema, amid a divorce and alleged fights over money In the early morning hours of 14 January 2024, a hitman slipped into the renowned New York City gallerist Brent Sikkema’s Rio de Janeiro townhouse. The alleged assassin, Alejandro Triana Prevez, grabbed a kitchen … Read more
The Vaillancourt fountain, an enormous sculpture in place since the 1970s, has been equally reviled and revered It was a surreal, fitting end for one of San Francisco’s most divisive public artworks: the Vaillancourt fountain, an enormous concrete sculpture looming over Embarcadero Plaza since the 1970s, had burst into flames. The hulking fountain’s angled arms … Read more
China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock “Farewell,” the flag-waving Chinese children chanted to Donald Trump as he strolled along the red carpet back to Air Force One at the end of his summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing. The … Read more
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells Meet the Press that Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) made a “political decision” in breaking with President Trump, saying Cassidy’s loss in the Louisiana Republican primary shows there is “no room” in the GOP to oppose Trump’s agenda and warning that Republicans who do “are going to get destroyed.”
Disruption of Long Island Rail Road continues into second day after workers went on strike as Monday rush hour looms The shutdown of the Long Island Rail Road, North America’s largest commuter rail system, continued into a second day on Sunday after unionized workers went on strike for the first time in three decades a … Read more
Known for his ‘Manitowoc Minute’ skits and midwestern humor, the journalist turned comedian is speaking out against the AI datacenter boom in Wisconsin Last summer, journalist turned comedian Charlie Berens started getting social media messages from concerned Wisconsin residents about plans for a massive datacenter campus in their state. The developer, Vantage Data Centers, claimed … Read more
Experts say slashed funding and growing misinformation are some of the greatest challenges facing public health The hantavirus outbreak, while unlikely to spark the next big pandemic, is shining a spotlight on the ways public health has deteriorated in the US: its ability to test for rare diseases, its expertise on outbreak prevention and response, … Read more
