The Caitlin Clark effect has elevated women’s basketball to new heights, so much so that tickets for this weekend’s Final Four games are much more expensive than those for the men. Interest in women’s basketball is so high at the moment that watching either of Friday’s two seminal games will cost an average of $1,994, […]
MACAO — After more than 40 years, Macao’s horse racing track hosted its final races on Saturday, bringing an end to the sport in the city famous for its massive casinos. In January, the city’s government said it would terminate its contract with the Macao Jockey Club in April. The decision came at the request […]
Well, I’ll give Jules Hardy this much: She’s now quite a bit more famous outside of her native Britain than she was one week ago. Hardy, if you’re not familiar with her (or them; she identifies as nonbinary and uses a variety of pronouns), was best known as BBC’s go-to gaming presenter, as well as […]
Prom night at Utah’s Payson High School will be one for the ages. As students plan for the final prom there before the school relocates at the end of this year, they will have some help from “Footloose” star Kevin Bacon, who is making a special trip to the school on April 20 to mark […]
ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans shot down a last-ditch attempt by Democrats to expand Medicaid on Thursday in a state Senate committee, frustrating Democrats who say GOP leaders broke a promise to advance the bill. The Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee rejected the plan on a tie 7-7 vote, after two Republicans and five Democrats […]
A transgender voice actor who thought a character in a popular video game would cater to his identification is calling for “reparations” after he learned the character model was a grotesque inhuman villain. The actor, Zoey Alexandria, said in a now-deleted post that he was voicing a character for an update to “Dead By Daylight,” […]
Here’s a bizarre cause and effect: Because a wealthy businessman saw a bit of himself in a feisty nun from the late 1800s, the movie “Cabrini” was born. Curiously, the first time that businessman — J. Eustace Wolfington of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania — was approached to finance the film, he said no. Wolfington wasn’t […]
Now that was embarrassing. And shameless. And (insert your adjective here). Do we even need to do these absurd sideshow State of the Union things any longer? One couldn’t help but sense a smidgen of sympathy for president senile Joe Biden as he entered the House chamber fifteen minutes late on Thursday night and slowly […]
HELSINKI (AP) — Alexander Stubb was sworn in Friday as Finland’s new president and said the Nordic country has taken “the final step into the Western community of values” by becoming a NATO member. The 55-year-old former prime minister replaced President Sauli Niinistö, who held the job for two six-year terms. Stubb, a conservative, was […]
HONOLULU — Hawaii officials plan to send debris and ash from the August wildfire that destroyed Lahaina town to Maui’s central landfill. Maui County officials said Wednesday that they picked the permanent disposal site in Kahului over two others that are closer to Lahaina, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. The deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than […]
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