6:37 PM ET LOS ANGELES — LeBron James and the Lakers had a “productive” discussion about their future together on Thursday, Rich Paul, CEO of Klutch Sports Group, told ESPN. No new deal has been agreed upon yet, however, sources said. James and Paul met with Lakers vice president of basketball operations and general manager
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We’re adding four stocks to our Investing Club Bullpen, including Starbucks (SBUX) and Airbnb (ABNB). Jim Cramer announced them in Thursday’s “Monthly Meeting.” The Bullpen should be treated like a watch list of sorts and an outside area to perform homework and due diligence. As the baseball metaphor suggests, it consists of stocks in reserve
In this article WBD David Zaslav, President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery talks to the media as he arrives at the Sun Valley Resort for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 05, 2022 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images The biggest decision for any big media chief executive
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak may have been grilled by Kay Burley but it was the audience members who got first crack at each of the candidates during Sky News’ The Battle for Number 10. Not only that, it will be those audience members – and their fellow Conservative Party members around the UK –
CNN’s Jeff Zeleny is in Pennsylvania where Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is slowly emerging from a near-fatal setback — a stroke and heart condition that sent him to the hospital in May. Meanwhile, some Republicans are concerned that Dr. Mehmet Oz is not taking advantage of Fetterman’s absence on the campaign trail. The two
NASA and the White House have since late last year quietly drawn up contingency plans for the International Space Station in light of tensions with Moscow that began building before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to nine people with knowledge of the plans. The US space agency’s game planning shows how the US is juggling its relationship
Liz Truss has refused a Conservative Party member’s request for her to apologise for proposing to link public sector pay to local living costs – reiterating that the policy was “misrepresented”. On Monday night, the foreign secretary and Tory leadership frontrunner said she would save £8.8bn by introducing regional pay boards instead of national ones
A Russian judge has convicted and sentenced American basketball player Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for drug possession and smuggling. President Joe Biden described the jail term as “unacceptable” and called for her immediate release. Judge Anna Sotnikova said the time Griner has served in custody since her arrest in February would count
The parents of one of the Sandy Hook victims have been awarded $4.1m (£3.3m) in damages in a defamation trial brought against internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose six-year-old son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 students and six teachers killed in the attack in Connecticut, successfully sued Jones and
How does it feel running an energy intensive business in the age of soaring prices? “It’s like a train coming down the tracks and you know you can’t avoid it,” says Matthew Greene. He’s the managing director of Ercon Powder Coating, a second-generation family firm in Bilston in the West Midlands, one of hundreds of
This isn’t the first time we’ve reported that SONDORS is ready to deliver its Metacycle electric motorcycle to pre-order customers. But to be fair, it’s not the first time the Southern California-based company has said it was ready for deliveries. But now with photos of Metacycles purportedly in SONDORS’ domestic logistics facilities, the first bikes
21 July 2022, Bavaria, Essenbach: Water vapor rises behind sunflowers from the cooling system of the nuclear power plant (NPP) Isar 2. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Nuclear energy is at an inflection point. Early exuberance about its potential was undercut by a series of devastating and dangerous accidents at Three Mile
In this article BABA Alibaba has faced growth challenges amid regulatory tightening on China’s domestic technology sector and a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. But analysts think the e-commerce giant’s growth could pick up through the rest of 2022. Kuang Da | Jiemian News | VCG | Getty Images Alibaba reported fiscal first-quarter earnings
Stargazers and space enthusiasts might want to turn their eyes to the night sky in the coming weeks, as the stage is set for a spectacular meteor shower. Known as Perseids, these meteor showers occur annually and are usually visible from Earth in the night sky. The shower usually peaks during mid-August and this year,
Chrissy Teigen is pregnant two years after suffering a tragic miscarriage. The TV presenter and model has said she is “feeling hopeful and amazing” as she shared the news of her pregnancy on Instagram to her 38 million followers. Mrs Teigen, who is married to John Legend, suffered a stillbirth at 20 weeks of pregnancy
Legendary children’s performer Bernard Cribbins, of the Wombles of Wimbledon and the Railway Children, has died aged 93. The beloved actor was born in Oldham in 1928 and after appearing on stage, he found fame in film and TV, becoming widely known as the narrator of The Wombles and a long-time host on Jackanory. Read
The family of an American sentenced to 14 years at a hard labor camp in Russia fears that he has been given what amounts to a “a death sentence” and is calling on the Biden administration to designate him as wrongfully detained, which would trigger formal diplomatic efforts to secure his release. #CNN #News
The Bank of England has hiked interest rates by half a percentage point – the sixth rise since December and the biggest rise since 1995. This means the bank rate now stands at 1.75% – its highest level since late 2008 at the beginning of the global financial crisis. It will increase borrowing costs for
Next says warm weather and demand for formal clothing have helped boost its sales in recent months. The British retailer said that full price sales were 4.7% stronger than expected in the second financial quarter, saying this was likely the result of “unusually warm and dry weather”. The return to formal dressing “perhaps driven by
7:00 PM ET As soon as the PGA Tour suspended players who competed in the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series, it seemed inevitable that the circuits’ battle for the best players in the world would end up in a courtroom. On Wednesday, Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau and nine other LIV Golf players field an antitrust