The Miami Heat on Thursday provided a payoff to a member of their summer-league roster, extending an Exhibit 10 contract to undrafted Fresno State center Orlando Robinson. The deal basically means an invitation to training camp, possibly being forwarded then to the Heat’s G League affiliate, the Sioux Falls Skyforce. A $50,000 guarantee also could…
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Mr. Biggs checks things out at the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 7, 2022. The ElleVet Project is on its 2022 relief mission to provide free veterinary care, supplies to pets of the homeless and street pets throughout California, New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Montana and Florida that began on June 2.…
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By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI | Associated Press LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday amid a mass revolt by top members of his government, marking an end to three tumultuous years in power in which he brazenly bent and sometimes broke the rules of British politics. Months of…
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By JIM HEINTZ | Associated Press MOSCOW — Jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner returned to a Russian court Thursday to face her trial on drug charges as a senior Russian diplomat warned that U.S. criticism of how Russia’s handling the case wouldn’t help her release prospects. Griner’s trial began last week amid a growing…
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By IRENE YAGÜE and JOSEPH WILSON | Associated Press PAMPLONA, Spain — The first bull run in three years took place Thursday at the San Fermín festival in the Spanish city of Pamplona. No one was gored, but several runners took knocks and hard falls as tens of thousands people reveled in the return of…
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Even before P.J. Tucker left the Miami Heat, teammate Haywood Highsmith wanted to be the next Tucker. Now, in very real terms, Highsmith potentially will have the opportunity to follow in Tucker’s footsteps. With Tucker having departed to the Philadelphia 76ers in NBA free agency, Highsmith finds himself playing for the Heat’s summer-league team in…
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LOS ANGELES — An 8-year-old girl from Riverside who was hit in the face by a cell phone while riding a roller coaster at Magic Mountain needed 10 stitches to close the wound, and her family is looking for answers into how it happened, according to media reports. Josh Evans told Fox 11 his daughter…
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If there’s any lesson to take from the Miami Marlins’ recent run of wins — besides it being more fun to play bad teams — it’s how desperately this roster needs help if they’re thinking playoffs. And if there’s any lesson you can take from the past quarter-century of the Marlins’ ownership — four owners…
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(CNN) — Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world’s richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, Business Insider reported on Wednesday. Musk fathered the children with Shivon Zilis, according to court documents obtained by Business Insider that pertained to changing the children’s legal names…
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Freshly released minutes of Federal Reserve meetings show officials solidified their resolve in June to keep raising interest rates for longer to prevent higher inflation from becoming entrenched, even if that slowed the US economy. Policy makers increased interest rates by 75 basis points last month and backed hiking them at their next meeting in…
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