Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Friday accused President Donald Trump of ‘skipping town’ for a trip to Asia during the ongoing government shutdown. Trump departed for Asia Friday night for a weeklong trip…
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Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands. The technology alleged to have been used to execute a multistate, rigged poker operation sounds like…
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Target said Thursday that it is eliminating about 1,800 corporate positions in an effort to streamline decision-making and accelerate initiatives to rebuild the flagging discount retailer’s customer base. About 1,000 employees are expected to receive…
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Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups is one of 31 defendants accused of helping mobsters swindle millions of dollars from unsuspecting poker players during a series of rigged games. All this was outlined in…
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The NBA said it investigated “unusual betting activity’’ related to Terry Rozier in 2023 and did not find a violation of league rules. But now Rozier has been charged in the Eastern District of New…
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The NBA staged two games on Thursday night and both needed more than 48 minutes to be decided. After Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a career-high 55 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to victory, it…
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Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert targeted five different receivers in a 277-yard, three-touchdown outing in Week 8. None of his targets were wide receiver Quentin Johnston. Despite suiting up and playing in the Oct.…
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The Oklahoma City Thunder are 2-0, but things have hardly been easy for the defending NBA champions. Both contests they’ve played went to double overtime, the latest coming Thursday night in an NBA Finals rematch…
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Politics
Mayor Eric Adams endorses Andrew Cuomo as his successor as Zohran Mamdani maintains lead in NYC race
Mayor Eric Adams formally endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to replace him as the next mayor of New York City on Thursday, less than one month after Adams suspended his re-election campaign. The endorsement followed…
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Politics
Trump ‘not interested’ in de-escalation with ‘unhinged’ leader of Colombia, White House says
President Donald Trump is ‘not interested’ in making peace with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the White House said Thursday, as tensions between Washington and Bogotá continue to escalate. ‘I don’t think we’re seeing de-escalation from…