Tanking Nets battle but fall to Warriors for ninth straight loss

SAN FRANCISCO — Gui Santos scored a career-high 31 points, Draymond Green made two clutch free throws with 6.9 seconds remaining and the Golden State Warriors beat the Nets 109-106 on Wednesday to clinch a play-in spot. Brandin Podziemski had 22 points, six rebounds and five assists for the Warriors (35-38), who won their first game at Chase Center since returning from a grueling 2-4 road trip. Kristaps Porzingis added 17 points and De’Anthony Melton had 14, including a pair of free throws in the final seconds, as Golden State beat Brooklyn in San Francisco for the first time since…

Sirens clipped by Torrent in Takeover Tour battle

CHICAGO — Theresa Schafzahl, Danielle Serdachny and Cayla Barnes each scored in the first period and the Seattle Torrent beat the New York Sirens 4-1 on Wednesday night in the Takeover Tour for their second win away from home this season. Seattle (6-1-2-13) scored the game’s first goal for just…

Strike in Caribbean Sea on alleged drug boat kills 4, US Military says

The U.S. military said it carried out a strike Wednesday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people, as the Trump administration pushes forward with a monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America while waging a war against Iran. The latest attack brings…

WNBA expansion draft order to be determined Friday—here’s how it works

It’s about time. On Wednesday, the WNBA finally provided details and a timeline for the first major offseason event: the Portland and Toronto expansion draft. The league will flip a coin Friday to determine Portland and Toronto’s order for the expansion and college drafts next month. The winner will choose…

Gavin Newsom regrets calling Israel ‘apartheid state’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is walking back earlier controversial remarks where he labeled Israel an “apartheid state.” In a sit-down conversation with Politico published Tuesday, Newsom said “I do” when asked if he regretted the comments. However, the governor still stood by the “apartheid” label, insisting he was talking about…

The Lakers missed their best defender in loss to Pistons 

DETROIT — It isn’t a coincidence that the Los Angeles Lakers’ best stretch of the season has come when they’ve had their full rotation available.  It also isn’t surprising that their season-best nine-game winning streak ended with Monday night’s narrow loss to the Pistons at Little Caesars Arena, which was…

Live Science Today: Jensen Huang AGI claim and major leap to reanimation after death

Today’s top story Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has claimed that humanity has already achieved AGI, but others are less than convinced. (Image credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Have large language models (LLMs) matched or exceeded human intelligence? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says so — saying “I think we’ve achieved AGI”…

An MLB apocalypse looms — but so does a season for the ages

Two students decide before first period that they have such long-standing hatred and distrust that finding common ground on a persistent, ultra-vital issue feels impossible. So they are going to fight at 3 p.m. in the schoolyard. Classes go on around them, but all the other pupils fan those flames…

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