WNBA players ranked Caitlin Clark ninth among guards in All-Star voting despite her captain selection, highlighting the gap between fan support and peer recognition.

The first stint only cost him the minimum 15 days, but the Yankees were left holding their breath Monday on the result of Cruz’s MRI exam to determine how severe his oblique strain is and how long it will cost him.

Todd also revealed that his first meal after returning home to Nashville was from Pizza Hut.

The Brazilians move on to face the Manchester City-Al Hilal winner on Friday in Orlando, Florida.

The Idaho firefighters killed and wounded in a bloody mountainside ambush were identified as decades-long veterans of their departments who were “dedicated” to their communities and families, according to fire officials.

In an era when populism keeps gaining momentum, Democratic insiders habitually turn to political has-beens to rescue the party — dooming them to national defeat.

What is known is that the Rangers are in a tough spot to make the changes Chris Drury wants.

Victoria police allege Point Cook man Joshua Brown sexually abused eight children at a western suburbs childcare centre

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A Melbourne childcare worker has been charged with more than 70 offences after allegedly sexually abusing eight children in his care.

Victoria police issued a statement on Tuesday confirming they charged 26-year-old Point Cook man Joshua Brown last month with offences including sexual penetration of a child under 12, attempted sexual penetration of a child under 12, sexual assault of a child under 16 and producing child material for use through a carriage service.

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Growing popularity of mysticism can also be connected to increasing sense of cultural confidence as Chinese brands and products go global

Pass my exams. Meet Mr Right. Get rich. Pinned to a board by the entrance of a dimly lit fortune telling bar in Fengtai, an urban district in the south of Beijing, handwritten notes reveal the inner worries of customers coming for cocktails with a side of spiritual salvation.

One As All is one of several fortune telling bars to have opened in Beijing, Shanghai and other Chinese cities in recent years. Hidden on the 12th floor of a commercial building, the bar serves a wide range of drinks starting at an auspicious 88 yuan (£9) (eight is considered to be lucky number in China). As well as enjoying a sundowner with a view over Beijing’s skyline, customers can consult the in-house fortune teller who specialises in qiuqian, known in English as Chinese lottery sticks, an ancient style of divination often found in Taoist temples. From a private side-room, the smell of incense burning in front of a genuine Taoist shrine wafts into the bar.

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The suspect went postal inside the USPS' Midwood branch on Coney Island Avenue near Avenue I around 1:15 p.m., police said. 

Kudos to the State Department for revoking the visas for British punk-rappers Bob Vylan: Our country doesn’t need to let naked antisemites in for a tour.

How long have the Mets been circling the drain? 

The Nets trade that felt inevitable for months finally happened.

"Is this a kink thing?"

Already notorious for disrupting major corporations on both sides of the Atlantic, the international cyberhackers are now fixed on the airlines, the feds said.

Bryan Kohberger to be spared death penalty but will be given four consecutive life sentences, ABC News reports

Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four Idaho college students in 2022, has agreed to plead guilty to all counts, a move that would spare him from the death penalty, ABC News reported on Monday, citing a letter sent to victims’ family members.

Kohberger, who previously pleaded not guilty on charges of murder in the fatal stabbings, will be sentenced to four consecutive life sentences and waives all right to appeal, according to ABC News.

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You've been warned, Jaws.

Lucy the pygmy pig's owner, Lori Anne Gannone, got the call Monday morning that Hizzoner declared Lucy would get to live out her last years at home.

During a White House briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt brandished a sheet of paper listing global central bank rates with President Trump’s message scrawled across.

The Oscar winner will appear alongside Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough when they play the same character at different ages in Tracy Letts’ play Mary Page Marlowe

Susan Sarandon is to make her UK theatre debut alongside Andrea Riseborough, when the pair portray the same woman at different ages, in Tracy Letts’ drama Mary Page Marlowe.

The play will be staged this autumn at the Old Vic in London by Matthew Warchus, in his final season as artistic director. Several actors portray the title character, which is described as a “time-jumping mosaic” spanning 70 years in the life of an accountant and mother of two in Ohio.

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Firs register is designed to offer assurance on activities of overseas powers seen as posing a national security risk

Where is Andy Cohen this week?!

A Long Island school district may get to keep a shortened version of its "Thunderbirds" team name that New York State seemed poised to shoot down under its Native American logo ban.

Does Mamdani think the city's billionaires are all hoarding their cash and swimming in their vaults like Scrooge McDuck? How naive is this guy?

He first announced his health issues in a post on Sunday, indicating that he was dealing with a “medical emergency.”

Lebron James’ agent, Rich Paul, might have caught the entire league off guard.

Club captain on coming back from injury, the importance of his family and Trent Alexander-Arnold fitting in well

Dani Carvajal misses his family. The good news is that in return he’s about to become reacquainted with something he has missed as much. For some players, this is a competition too far, played on poor pitches in half-empty stadiums and suffocating heat, something they could do without, but it has been good for Real Madrid’s captain, something to aim at.

Now, 270 days later and 4,400 miles away, just as the Club World Cup gets real, he is back to face Juventus in the last 16 in Miami. “And I know what I’m like: if they let me loose, there’ll be no fear,” he says.

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COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — A man who started a wildfire and then fatally shot two firefighters and wounded another in northern Idaho was a 20-year-old transient who attacked the first responders after they asked him to move his vehicle, a sheriff said Monday. Read More

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The Brazilian side Fluminense stunned Inter by knocking the Champions League finalists out of the Club World Cup with a 2-0 victory in the last 16 in Charlotte.

The reign of the new head coach, Cristian Chivu, who took over following Simone Inzaghi’s departure just days after that humbling 5-0 defeat against Paris Saint-Germain a month ago, has not started well as they exited the tournament before the quarter-finals.

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Dealing with very serious blazes means fire and rescue service has limited ability to respond to other emergencies

Firefighters battled wildfires in the Scottish Highlands for a third day on Monday in a situation the first minister has called “extremely serious”.

The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA), which has helped tackle the blazes, warned the fires are “becoming a danger to human life” that are leaving “stretched” firefighters unable to attend other incidents.

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Advocates say the move could turn the tide for other British overseas territories battling for LGBTQ+ rights

A court in London has upheld a Cayman Islands law legalising same-sex civil partnerships, in a move that campaigners say could turn the tide for other British overseas territories battling for LGBTQ+ rights.

On Monday, the privy council, the final court of appeal for the British overseas territory, rejected an appeal that had argued the Caribbean island’s governor had no right to enact the bill, after lawmakers had rejected similar legislation.

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In this astonishing and gross series, we stand witness as teams battle to clean up blood, guts and body fluids. Viewer discretion is very much advised – there will be maggots

It has been a while since we had a good, honest point-and-boke documentary, is it not? “Boke”, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, means to be sick. I use it here because the onomatopoeia gives a better sense of the fight that precedes the act, especially if – say – a programme is unspooling in front of you that keeps the nausea building until you are past the point of no return. Viewer discretion – and a plastic bowl – is advised.

So, then, to Crime Scene Cleaners, a 10-part documentary – yes, 10! – that does exactly what it says on the tin. It follows teams from British and American companies as they move in after bodies have been removed and evidence bagged and tagged by police to clean up anything left behind. “Anything” can mean blood – spattered, accumulated in the bottom of a bath tub, trailed along a floor, soaked into a carpet, stained into grouting, arterially sprayed along skirting boards. Hepatitis B, we are informed via a dramatic voiceover, can survive for up to seven days in dried blood, hepatitis C for up to six weeks on hard surfaces. Clever pathogens.

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Teachers union leaders Pringle and Weingarten expressed differing views on the Supreme Court ruling allowing parents to opt children out of LGBTQ content based on religious beliefs.

NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani under fire for 2021 video advocating socialist principles, including "seizing the means of production," after recently telling NBC he is not a "communist."

Federal authorities uncover North Korean schemes using remote IT workers with false identities to defraud U.S. companies, resulting in indictments after generating $5 million.

The wildfire, in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, burned more than 600 acres in just a few hours on Monday. About 5,000 people were ordered to leave their homes.

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After President Trump suspended trade talks with Canada over its controversial digital services tax, Ottawa scrapped it to get back to the negotiating table.

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Bryan Kohberger, a former criminology student, was set to go on trial this summer in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.

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Also, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a major campaign finance case. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

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Trying to stamp out anti-Israel rhetoric only lends it the frisson of forbidden truth.

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