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The Las Vegas Grand Prix received a two-year contract extension that keeps the race that runs down the iconic Strip on the calendar through 2027.Las Vegas was added to the F1 schedule in 2023 on a three-year contract but with commitment from casino partners and a 10-year approval from Clark County for the race to take place along the Strip.Las Vegas was on the 2026 calendar announced earlier this week even though the extension wasn’t revealed until Saturday at the Canadian Grand Prix.Emily Prazer, the president of the Las Vegas Grand Prix and chief commercial officer of F1, said the…
LONDON (AP) — Madison Keys was stunned in straight sets by 37-year-old qualifier Tatjana Maria in the Queen’s Club semifinals on Saturday.Maria, a German mother of two, beat Keys 6-3, 7-6 (3) for her first career victory in four meetings with the reigning Australian Open champion.She is the oldest singles finalist on the WTA Tour since 2020, when Serena Williams won the Auckland Classic at age 38.“You always have to keep going. You never can stop; it doesn’t matter how it goes,” she said. “I love to play tennis, I love this sport, and we live for these special moments.”No.…
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller can look across the vast landscape of Oakmont where each won momentous U.S. Open titles and see in some respects how little has changed.The course is longer than when Nicklaus defeated Arnold Palmer in a playoff in 1962, than when Miller set a U.S. Open record that still stands 52 years later as the only man with a 63 in the final round to win.But it’s still about putting. It’s still those greens that feel like putting on a basketball court.“I was talking to some of the guys in the locker…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The book is called “The Obstacle Is the Way.” It’s a gift that Oklahoma City coach Mark Daigneault gave to Thunder center Isaiah Hartenstein during a trying time this season, knowing the voracious reader would figure out the meaning.Message delivered.“I read it and remembered that everything happens for a reason,” Hartenstein said. “And after that, everything worked out great.”Such has been the story of the Thunder season. Such was the story of Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Faced with the biggest challenge of their season — a 10-point deficit in the second half, staring at…
Climate change may be putting millions more people at risk from an infection-causing fungi, which is likely spreading due to warming global temperatures, scientists say.There will likely be an increased risk of infection due to harmful fungi in the coming years due to climate change, according to researchers from the University of Manchester.MORE: What to know about Fusarium graminearum, the biological pathogen allegedly smuggled into the USThe scientists mapped the effects of rising temperatures on global distribution of three infection-causing fungi under different climate scenarios through 2100: Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger, according to the paper, which has…
Landing a summer internship can sometimes feel like only half the battle — the next challenge is often turning it into a full-time gig.Interning at a tech giant puts you in the running for a full-time role, but that doesn’t mean it’s a done deal. Yasmeen Ahmad, a product and GTM executive at Google Cloud, has seen her fair share of interns at the tech giant, and she said there’s one trait that jumps out to her.”The people who stand out the most for me are those who really take initiative and look for opportunities,” Ahmad told Business Insider in…
If your LinkedIn inbox is a deluge of wishful recruiters, you hold a doctorate in machine learning, and you’re swatting away mid-six-figure job offers, congratulations: you’re probably an AI research engineer — one of the most eligible job candidates in America.Knowledge of machine learning is the hottest ticket in today’s hiring market, and there’s data to show it. An analysis of job-listing data by the University of Maryland, along with job listings platform LinkUp and Outrigger Group, found that one in four US tech jobs posted so far this year are seeking employees with AI skills.LinkedIn data shows that AI…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government.But the justices also have 21 cases to resolve that were argued between December and mid-May, including a push by Republican-led states to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors. One of the argued cases was an emergency appeal, the administration’s bid to be allowed to enforce Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the…
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Brad Marchand is making more highlights for his new team, Sam Bennett is piling up the goals again and the Florida Panthers are on the verge of hoisting the Stanley Cup for the second year in a row.Marchand scored twice, Bennett had his playoff-leading 15th goal and the Panthers beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 in Game 5 of the final on Saturday night to take a 3-2 series lead.The Panthers improved to 10-3 on the road during this run, matching the NHL record for victories away from home in a single playoffs. They can hoist the…
DETROIT (AP) — Cincinnati Reds left-hander Wade Miley declined on Friday to specifically address an accusation in court documents of providing drugs to the late Tyler Skaggs, a Los Angeles Angels pitcher who died of an accidental overdose in 2019.Skaggs’ former agent, Ryan Hamill, said in a deposition that Skaggs told him he was using pain pills containing oxycodone, which were provided by Miley.The deposition is part of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Skaggs’ family against the Angels in California. A former publicist for the Angels, Eric Kay, was convicted in Texas of providing the fentanyl-laced pills that an…