Joel Embiid signs a 3-year, $193 million contract extension with the 76ers
Already an NBA MVP and an Olympic gold medalist, All-Star center Joel Embiid now has until the end of the decade to try to ...
Scientists in South Africa say they have identified the first known outbreak of rabies in seals
Scientists in South Africa say they have identified an outbreak of rabies in seals that is believed to be the first time the ...
A night with Peter Cat Recording Co., the New Delhi band that’s found global appeal
There’s an unspoken reverence emanating from the crowd as Peter Cat Recording Co. begins to play the blend of disco and jazzy psychedelic melodies that intro ...
2 Russians set record for longest single stay on the International Space Station
Two Russians on Friday set a record for the longest continuous stay on the International Space Station, according to Russia’s space agency. Roscosmos said Oleg Kononenko and ...
A’ja Wilson set records. So did Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. WNBA stats in 2024 were eye-popping
A’ja Wilson had a season like none other in WNBA history. Caitlin Clark set records and made the Indiana Fever the biggest draw in the women’s game. Angel Reese rebounded like nobody the league ...
Arundhati Roy’s first memoir, ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me,’ to be published in September 2025
Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy’s first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother. Scribner announced Friday that the Indian author and ...
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Woman whose firm was linked to the exploding pagers is under Hungarian protection, her mother says
ROME (AP) — The woman whose company was linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria this week is under the protection of the Hungarian secret services, her mother told The ...
50 years after ‘The Power Broker,’ Robert Caro’s dreams are still coming true
Robert A. Caro stands between two giant columns in a second-floor library of the New-York Historical Society, looking out on dozens of friends, family members and colleagues. A ...
Austin woman loses thousands, FBI says elder fraud schemes on the rise
An Austin woman said she was schemed out of thousands of dollars. It happened earlier this week after someone called her and ...
Fall equinox to winter solstice; how a cataclysmic event caused us to have seasons on Earth
In this First Warning Weather University lesson, chief meteorologist Nick Bannin explains why seasons are different depending on which hemisphere you live in, and why temperature doesn't mark the ...
Tourists can finally visit the Oval Office. A replica is opening near the White House on Monday
Washington is getting a new tourist stop that offers visitors the next best thing to being in the Oval Office: an identical replica of President Joe Biden ‘s office, right ...
Vouchers ease start-up stress for churches seeing demand for more Christian schools
Florida pastor Melvin Adams knows a few hours of church programming every week is no match for the more than 30 hours children spend at secular schools, absorbing lessons that he says run counter ...