The Golden State Valkyries brought to a conclusion a WNBA season that shattered viewership and attendance records with their first WNBA championship Saturday in a thrilling 68-63 victory over the Atlanta Dream in Game 7. Golden State star Gabby Williams paced the Valkyries with 30 points, 4 blocks and 3 steals in 38 minutes. The…
New York’s Metropolitan Opera House seemed a fitting setting to chat with the Spanish pop artist Rosalía after the global tour for her latest album, “Lux” (which is Latin for light). “I really like how concentrated the energy is in spaces like this,” she said. This superstar knows about energy and performing. Her song “Berghain,”…
A Mexican judge on Friday sentenced three men to more than 158 years of imprisonment for the murder of two Australian surfers and their American friend during an attempted robbery in 2024. Brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33 respectively, and their friend Carter Rhoad, 30, were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s…
The grand jury reviewing the case of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old who was found dead after going missing following an outing with friends on Mississippi’s Horn Island on the Fourth of July, has determined there was no criminal wrongdoing in the teen’s death. Wells’ death sparked a considerable amount of speculation across social media, much…
Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz. The two lawsuits are the first to be filed after the recent passage of laws by California and Congress, which strengthen…
Washington — Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin is urging President Trump to press Chinese President Xi Jinping on evidence that the Iranians used satellite images from Chinese entities to carry out the July attack on a military base in Jordan that killed three U.S. service members and wounded four others. In a letter sent to the…
Human remains found in the Grand Canyon this week were those of the last remaining person missing after deadly flash flooding in late August, officials and the victim’s wife said Thursday. The discovery of Timothy Allen Smith brought the death toll to three from flooding that devastated the Phantom Ranch area at the canyon bottom…
Three people are dead after being swept away by floodwaters early Wednesday on the Navajo Nation, authorities in New Mexico said. Tribal police officers received a report around 12:30 a.m. about people being washed away near the community of Newcomb in northwestern New Mexico. The report followed a day of heavy rain that left roadways…
Washington — President Trump on Monday threw ice-cold water on the momentum for stronger guardrails around advanced artificial intelligence development, claiming the industry is already regulated and all that’s needed is a “SMART (HIGH IQ) PRESIDENT.” The president’s stance posted to Truth Social comes as Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and…
Breanna Stewart and the U.S. faced a stiff challenge from France before dominating in the second half to win its fifth consecutive women’s FIBA World Cup. The 97-79 victory extended the Americans’ streak to 36 straight World Cup wins, dating back to the 2006 World Cup semifinals, when they lost to Russia. The U.S. improved…
