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Caitlin Clark delivered the best performance of her WNBA career Friday night, scoring a franchise-record 45 points and adding 10 assists to become the first player in league history to record a 40-point, 10-assist game.Caitlin Clark has already built a highlight reel that most players could only dream about, but Friday night may have been the finest performance of her WNBA career. Every time the Indiana Fever needed a big basket, Clark seemed to have the answer. She buried deep three-pointers, attacked the rim, knocked down free throws and continued to create easy looks for her teammates. By the time...

A Tesla driver was arrested and charged with murder this week after a mother and her baby died in a fiery crash on Highway 87 in San Jose. The Tesla driver, 31-year-old Zachary Chernicky of San Jose, was allegedly driving 142 mph seconds before he caused the deadly collision, according to prosecutors and the California Highway Patrol. Two of the vehicles tangled in the four-car collision were Teslas that burst into flames on the busy highway on December 2, 2025, the CHP said. Ivana Balistreri, 30, and her 2-year-old toddler, Lilliana, were passengers in a Lexus that also caught fire,...

ABC and NBC showed the entire world that they’re basically nothing more than leftist state-run media. The two broadcast giants decided not to air an address from the president of the United States to the American people because they decided it was a “conspiracy theory” to suggest any wrongdoing with the controversial, sketchy, and ridiculous 2020 election. (snip) Biden told the American people that MAGA was a threat to the very foundations of the republic. He openly trashed more than half the country, and ABC and NBC were perfectly fine with it. They had no problem watching American citizens smeared...

Some doctors call it “walking Ebola” – symptoms of the rare Bundibugyo strain appear to worsen slowly, leaving patients sick enough to spread the virus but not so unwell to stop them moving through their communities. The pattern emerging in the Democratic Republic of Congo resonated with virologist Corri Levine, who devoted her doctoral research to Bundibugyo years before it caused the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. Studying the virus in a biocontainment laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Levine found it replicated more slowly than the Zaire strain responsible for a devastating epidemic that swept West Africa...

Friday marks as sad milestone. It was 30 years ago that TWA Flight 800 exploded in midair off of Long Island minutes after taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to Paris

An employee at a Colorado Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center allegedly shot a female protester Thursday night while trying to get to work. Brandon Booth, 42, an employee of the GEO Group, which operates the Aurora ICE Processing Center in Colorado, was waiting in his car on a nearby street with other workers as a demonstration blocked their access to the facility, according to police. Two female protesters reportedly instigated a verbal confrontation and took pictures of the detention center employees’ cars before walking away. Booth then allegedly fired a single shot towards the direction of the two...

President Donald Trump declared Americans love both kinds of football now. Trump celebrated the USA’s fresh crush on soccer and traded compliments with FIFA President Gianni Infantino during a glowing reception on Friday in New York City, in honor of the 2026 World Cup coming to a close. “This guy, he came to me with this crazy idea [to host the World Cup]. I said ‘Are you crazy? We’re not a soccer country!'” Trump said after taking the microphone. “It turned out we were a soccer country, and I think it’s going to remain [one]." His remark follows the World...

Anyone notice Amazon delivery is getting unreliable lately? I mean the past two months or so? I just a run of bad luck for me?

A car ride would have only taken 16 minutes.(Singapore) What could have been a 16-minute car ride turned into a spontaneous 2.5-hour trek to Changi Airport for a group of three young women. The trio's journey was documented on TikTok by user Angie, and was posted on Thursday (July 16). Captioned "peak unemployment activity", the video has garnered over 180,000 views in one day. According to a Google Maps screenshot shared in the video, the three's journey from Tanah Merah would take two hours and seven minutes. They set off at 2.42am, hoping to make it in time for their...

FIFA has no plans to move Sunday's World Cup final, even as dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires leaves a haze over New York City, reports claim. Spain is due to face Argentina in a blockbuster final at MetLife Stadium and there have been warnings that the combination of heat and 'terrible' air quality constitutes a 'very dangerous and powerful one-two ​punch to the human body.' On Thursday, the air quality in New Jersey, site of the stadium, was rated 'unhealthy for sensitive groups' by several air-quality measurement platforms. According to Bloomberg, FIFA and Andrew Giuliani - who heads of the...

A top Missouri prosecutor was booted for having an affair with an illegal migrant her office was probing for sex assault — and because she slept with two other men in glaring conflicts of interest, too, court papers allege. Disgraced Ray County Prosecutor Camille Johnston was yanked from her position Thursday when a judge signed off on Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s petition laying out a slew of misconduct allegations against her during her three and a half years in office, Hanaway announced. Johnston — an elected official who took office Jan. 1, 2023 — compromised the integrity of her...

WASHINGTON — The highest-ranking woman in the House of Representatives is calling for a “bright-line rule” prohibiting lawmakers from having sexual relationships with congressional staff after The Post revealed Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) slept with at least two aides to Texas Democrats. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), chairwoman of the House Republican Caucus, told The Post that “Senator Gallego’s relationships fall short of the standard the public expects from elected officials.” “Congress should have a bright-line rule that Members should not have romantic or sexual relationships with congressional staff,” the No. 4 House Republican said. “Even if a relationship is consensual,...

KSBW 8 is learning of a local connection to the tragedy in the San Francisco Bay after a boat sank with 20 people on board Tuesday. Family members had gathered on the boat to scatter the ashes of a Santa Cruz County woman who died more than 10 years ago. The ashes being scattered were those of Maria Vi Boisa, who was reported missing from Santa Cruz County in May 2015. The 32-year-old’s remains were eventually found two months later near Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. The cause of death remains undetermined, but the San Francisco Chronicle reported that she...

A prehistoric burial near Stonehenge long known as the “Shaman of Upton Lovell” has been identified as a woman’s, overturning a belief that shaped archaeological interpretation for more than 200 years. Ancient DNA analysis revealed that the individual buried near Stonehenge about 4,000 years ago was biologically female. The finding challenges one of Britain’s best-known prehistoric identifications and is prompting researchers to rethink the roles women held in Early Bronze Age society. Researchers examined surviving skeletal remains, including fragments of the skull, a tooth and a foot bone. DNA testing identified XX chromosomes, confirming the individual was female. The findings,...

Billy the Kid continues to make headlines, 145 years after being gunned down in Fort Sumner. Thursday historians announced new evidence that he was Catholic — a detail that adds more layers of intrigue to one of the Wild West’s mythologized figures. Billy the Kid died July 14, 1881, after being shot by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett. On the first day of the Wild West History Association Roundup, Allen Sanchez said certificates of Billy the Kid’s baptism and his parents’ marriage were located inside St. Peter’s Church in New York City. St. Peter’s is connected to the Sisters of...

Apparently, USC does not have any literature classes — or at least none on ancient Greece. Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” hit theaters on Friday, and the USC football team tried to get in on the fun, posting “Our Odyssey begins August 29” on X, referring to their first game of the year. The issue with that is Homer’s 8th century epic poem “The Odyssey” follows Odysseus’ 10-year journey back to Greece after defeating the city of Troy in the Trojan War — the same city that serves as inspiration for USC’s nickname. The literary Trojans never had an odyssey. In...

All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star Tyson "Kenny Omega" Smith blasted a social media user over a remark made about Will Ospreay and Charlie Kirk. The X user made a critique about Ospreay’s mic skills on Thursday, writing, "Will Ospreay is as bad on the mic as Charlie Kirk, but can't sell the neck as well as he did." Mr. Smith, who is friends with Mr. Ospreay inside and outside the ring, slammed the poster. "What the Foxtrot is wrong with you? It isn’t hard to try having some class," he wrote in response. "A dear friend battles back from a...

Video shows a DoorDash driver completing her delivery despite being hit by a car that was fleeing from police in Houston. The surveillance video from July 8 shared by a neighborhood resident shows the delivery driver pulling up in front of a home and beginning to get out of her car. At the same time, sirens can be heard in the distance. While standing outside of her vehicle, another car being pursued by Houston police strikes her and her car. She told police she thought he was going to turn but didn’t. The suspect then gets out and runs away....

Prepare to see Han shoot Greedo on the big screen again. For years, we thought it could never happen. But now we know for certain — the 50th anniversary theatrical release of the original Star Wars will indeed be George Lucas' original cut from 1977, not available commercially since 2006. The original Star Wars movie hasn't had a wide theatrical release in over forty years. But, according to the Star Wars official site, the original version of Star Wars blasts its way back into movie theaters for a limited release on February 19, 2027. This happens almost thirty years to...

Fresh produce giant Taylor Farms is preparing to recall ingredients linked to a parasite outbreak that has caused severe diarrhea and sickened thousands of people in Michigan and nearby states, according to a report. The California-based lettuce supplier told federal regulators that it was preparing a recall tied to the widening cyclospora outbreak, Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing a document viewed by the outlet. The parasite can cause severe diarrhea, fatigue and nausea. The scope of the recall was not immediately clear. The move would mark the clearest sign yet of a potential source of the outbreak, which prompted Taco...