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Two more charged in gambling scheme that ended Porter’s career
Two additional defendants have been criminally charged in New York over a gambling scheme that led the National Basketball Association to ban former Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter for life. Read more
Report: UConn’s Dan Hurley set to meet with Lakers
Report: UConn’s Dan Hurley set to meet with Lakers The Los Angeles Lakers are preparing a “massive, long-term contract offer” to Dan Hurley to become their next head coach, and the UConn coach is set to meet with the NBA team’s brass on Friday in Los Angeles, ESPN reported on Thursday. Read more
Kristaps Porzingis’ return sparks Celtics in Finals opener
Kristaps Porzingis returned from a 10-game absence to record 20 points off the bench and the Boston Celtics snuffed a second-half rally to beat the Dallas Mavericks 107-89 tonight in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Read more
Oklahoma downs Texas to secure WCWS four-peat
Oklahoma became the first program to win four consecutive Women’s College World Series titles, beating Texas 8-4 today to sweep the WCWS Championship Series. Read more
Netflix faces $170M ‘Baby Reindeer’ defamation lawsuit
The plaintiff Fiona Harvey has publicly claimed to be the inspiration behind the character Martha, played by actress Jessica Gunning, who shares a physical resemblance and like her is a lawyer in London. Read more
Samsung Electronics’ union set to stage first walkout on Friday
The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), which has about 28,000 members, or more than a fifth of the company’s total workforce, has said it will stop work for a day as part of broader protest measures. Read more
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HFD makes multiple airlift rescues for hikers on Diamond Head
The first rescue was called in at 8:46 a.m. for a 20-year-old woman who became ill while hiking and was unable to descend on her own. Read more
Walmart to replace paper shelf labels with digital price screens
The company on Thursday announced an expanded roll-out of digital shelf labels that will allow it to update prices on over 120,000 items within minutes. Read more
Alex Jones asks to convert his bankruptcy to a liquidation
Courts in Texas and Connecticut have ordered Jones to pay $1.5 billion to the relatives of 20 students and six staff members killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Read more
Southwest swelters under extreme temperatures
Some 30 million people from Northern California, south through Arizona and east into Texas, were under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories issued by the National Weather Service through Saturday. The same region suffered under weeks of extremely hot weather last summer. Read more
Trace levels of chromium detected at well serving Laupahoehoe
The well is part of the Hawaii County Department of Water Supply’s Laupahoehoe-Kapehu system, which serves the Laupahoehoe area of Hawaii island. Read more
Netflix reveals new details on animated titles with Skydance
The new animated releases signal Netflix’s increased investment in such family-friendly content as well as adult content. Read more
S&P 500, Nasdaq close slightly down ahead of payrolls data
Benchmark S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose early and reached fresh intraday record highs, but then they retreated as technology stocks dipped. Read more
Boeing Starliner’s 1st astronaut crew welcomed to space station
The rendezvous was achieved despite an earlier loss of several guidance-control jet thrusters, some of them due to a helium propulsion leak, which NASA and Boeing said should not compromise the mission. Read more
Judge reshuffles hearings in Trump documents case
The move by the judge, Aileen Cannon, was unlikely to have much impact on the overall trajectory of the case, but it reflected the substantial number of unresolved legal motions she is juggling. Read more
U.S. weekly jobless claims edge higher
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 229,000 for the week ended June 1, the Labor Department said today. Read more
Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law describes finding crack, gun in his truck
“Check yourself into a local rehab hunter, this has all got to stop,” Hallie Biden wrote in an October 2018 text shortly after Hunter Biden bought the gun. Read more
Starbucks partners with food delivery platform Grubhub
Starbucks delivery has been available on DoorDash in the U.S. since last year. It also has tie-ups with Uber Eats and Postmates, the food delivery arms of Uber. Read more
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