JCPenney shoppers are snapping up amazing deals as iconic department store prepares to shutter across the US

Stores may be closing, but the savings are just getting started. Dubbed the retail apocalypse, over the past few years, brick-and-mortar stores have seen significant shutters. Shoppers have lost some major players in the retail game due to low foot traffic, high lease prices, and the pivot toward digital. For JCPenney, as the decline of shopping malls took a hit, the writing was on the wall. The once-booming department store and anchor to malls across America has been quietly closing down locations since 2020. After a bankruptcy filing at the height of the pandemic in 2020, the chain announced it…

LeBron James’ wild Lakers timeline from title glory to final curtain

LeBron James’ Lakers career can now be viewed as a timeline, with each stop telling a different part of the story: the arrival, the injury, the Anthony Davis trade, the bubble championship, the Kobe Bryant grief, the scoring record, the NBA Cup, the Bronny James moment and, finally, the Luka…

The reasons to be optimistic about these Giants

It is the start of July. That means your favorite Giants players and coaches are somewhere other than the team facility, probably on vacation. The early weeks of summer are upon us, and if you cannot muster up some level of optimism about your favorite team, you are either a…

Aaron Judge ‘starting to feel better’ but is weeks away from scan on rib

Aaron Judge is “starting to feel better,” Aaron Boone said, though that feeling has not yet translated into concrete progress toward a return. Thursday will mark four weeks since the Yankees announced their captain had suffered a stress fracture of a rib and would undergo additional medical imaging in “approximately…

Nine key takeaways from election night in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Alabama and Georgia

President Trump continued his hot streak Tuesday, powering several of his preferred Republican candidates to victory in key primary elections.  Here are nine takeaways from contests in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Alabama and Georgia.  Trump takes out Thomas Massie in Kentucky  The president claimed his latest political scalp in the hotly-contested House…

China installs world’s largest floating wind turbine in deep water test — it generates enough energy to power 4,200 homes annually

An energy company has successfully installed the world’s largest single-unit floating offshore wind turbine off the coast of southern China.The 16-megawatt system, known as Three Gorges Pilot, was completed in waters too deep for a traditional fixed-bottom foundation near Yangjiang in Guangdong province. Company representatives published a statement detailing the…

Knicks’ Karl-Anthony Towns point center plan hits Game 1 roadblock

The first seven games of Karl-Anthony Towns, point center, had worked better than anyone could’ve anticipated.  The Knicks offense exploded. Towns was a pivotal part of an attack with a 130.5 offensive rating in that span, averaging eight assists.  But that was against the Hawks and 76ers, teams who didn’t…

US expected to unveil criminal charges against Cuba’s Raul Castro

The Trump administration is expected ​to announce criminal charges against former Cuban president Raul Castro on Wednesday, in a move that would mark a step-up in ‌Washington’s pressure campaign against the Caribbean island’s communist government. The charges against Castro, 94, are expected to be based on a 1996 incident in which Cuban jets…

Mitchell Robinson’s free throw woes aren’t going away for Knicks

It got lost in the historic comeback, but it’s something that will certainly play a factor going forward. Mitchel Robinson was effective early in the Knicks’ epic 115-104 overtime win over the Cavaliers in Game 1 on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. But Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson went to…

Spark plug Josh Hart rides bench during Knicks’ insane comeback win

Madison Square Garden went electric when the Knicks’ customary spark went out. As the Knicks mounted a miraculous 22-point comeback to steal a 115-104 overtime win over the Cavaliers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, Josh Hart was glued to the bench for nearly the entire fourth quarter…

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