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Ace Bailey has been pegged as a can’t-miss prospect, an athletic 6-foot-8 forward who can score like few players in this year’s NBA draft.His decisions leading up to the draft may send him slipping further down the lottery.Once projected as a top-three pick, Bailey could find himself waiting a bit longer than his Rutgers teammate Dylan Harper after opting to decline workouts with several teams within his projected draft range.Bailey might not see a freefall like Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders in the NFL draft, but his actions could be causing doubt among NBA executives heading into the June 25 draft.1.…

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — When the Stanley Cup was brought out onto the ice prior to Game 1 of the final, just as it was last year, everything the Edmonton Oilers expressed about this time being different came into focus.“Last year, I was kind of looking at it with googly eyes,” goaltender Stuart Skinner said. “ This year seeing it, it’s: ‘I was here last year, I saw it. It’s time to get back to work and do my thing.’ It definitely felt completely different.”The Oilers made the start of the series completely different, erasing a multigoal deficit to beat…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder have two of the NBA’s best offenses.But this year’s title hopes may swing on the other facet: Who has the better defense?While both teams made major improvements from last season’s respective rosters in the conference finals and conference semifinals, Pacers coach Rick Carlisle, who led Dallas on its only title run in 2010-11 knows just how difficult the challenge can be, especially against Oklahoma City.“Their depth of great defenders is staggering,” he said before listing names. “ Shai (Gilgeous-Alexander) is a great scorer, but he’s also a great competitor. You’ve…

“Today” host Al Roker says consistency and discipline help him stay fit at 70.Roker’s routine includes weight training, walking 10,000 steps a day, and not avoiding his favorite foods.”Sometimes you have to push yourself to do the things you need to do,” he said.More than 20 years after undergoing gastric bypass surgery and losing over 100 pounds, Al Roker says consistency helps him stay fit at 70.During an interview with People published on Tuesday, the “Today” host spoke about his workout and diet routines.”My mantra is ‘something is better than nothing,'” Roker told People. “Maybe you’ll be running marathons or entering weightlifting…

In 2023, co-founders Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani sold their expense management startup Expensya to Swedish procurement software firm Medius in what is widely considered to be one of the largest acquisitions of an African startup. Some sources say the sum was just over $120 million, although deal terms were not disclosed. Success achieved, both founders swore off entrepreneurship, never intending to do another startup again, and Jouini assumed a CTO role in the merged software company, with other acquisitions spanning three continents. But the pull of a new technological wave — generative AI — and the thought that they…

Tesla could take a hit if President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law.Elon Musk’s AI company, however, may get a boost.Many of Musk’s companies rely largely on federal regulations, subsidies, or contracts. That means the GOP’s federal spending bill, if signed into law, could directly impact his businesses.While Musk has previously shared his disapproval of the bill, the billionaire ratcheted up his criticism this week.”I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk posted on X on Tuesday. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.””Shame on those who voted for it: you know you…

Windsurf, the popular vibe-coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, says Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models. Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan said in a post on X Tuesday that Anthropic gave Windsurf little notice for this change, and the startup now has to find other third-party compute providers to run several of Anthropic’s most popular AI models on its platform. “We have been very clear to Anthropic that this is not our desire — we wanted to pay them for the full capacity,” said Mohan on X. “We…

MIAMI (AP) — The woeful Colorado Rockies have ended their ignominious, record-setting MLB streak of 22 consecutive series losses, which dated to last season.A nervy 3-2 victory at Miami on Tuesday night, highlighted by Hunter Goodman’s third home run in two games, gave Colorado two straight victories over the Marlins to ensure the Rockies would leave town with their first series victory since taking two of three games from Arizona in Denver in mid-September.“That was big-time for the boys, to get that first series win,” Rockies interim manager Warren Schaeffer said. “Who would’ve known it wouldn’t come until June. But…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ally Sentnor and Lynn Biyendolo each scored two goals and the United States beat Jamaica 4-0 on Tuesday night after the team honored longtime defender Becky Sauerbrunn.Sentnor scored in the 19th minute, then formed a heart with her hands in celebration. She scored her second off a deflection 10 minutes later. The 21-year-old 2024 U.S. Soccer Young Player of the Year, who now has four international goals, credited her teammates. “They’re really easy to play with at moving the ball,” Sentnor said. “I’m still trying to work to get better for them.”Biyendolo scored in the 60th…

By Julie Steenhuysen, Michael Erman and Dan Levine(Reuters) -Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos of the U.S. CDC resigned on Tuesday as co-leader of a working group that advises outside experts on COVID-19 vaccines and is leaving the agency, two sources familiar with the move told Reuters.Panagiotakopoulos said in an email to work group colleagues that her decision to step down was based on the belief she is “no longer able to help the most vulnerable members” of the U.S. population.In her role at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s working group of the Advisory Committee on Immunization…