U.S. national average gasoline prices have been rising in most weeks so far this year, and are expected to reach the highest summer prices since 2018. Most of the increase has been the result of rallying crude oil prices, the component with the highest weight in the way prices are calculated. Rising gasoline demand compared … Read more
A suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a weekend traffic stop accidentally drew her firearm instead of a stun gun, the city’s police chief said Monday. Although rare, a string of similar incidents has happened in recent years across the U.S. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said the officer, … Read more
MMA Weekly UFC Vegas 23 weigh-in results & video: Vettori vs. Holland set; Norma Dumont pulled for missing weight The UFC Vegas 23 weigh-in results are in with Saturday’s main event fighters easily hitting the mark. The UFC Vegas 23 weigh-ins took place on Friday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. UFC Vegas 23 … Read more
Medical and recreational cannabis use has been legalized in a growing number of U.S. states and on a national level in Canada, fueling a burgeoning legal cannabis industry in recent years. Cannabis stocks are now a prime focus for investors seeking potentially explosive sales and stock growth. But there are certain considerations associated with marijuana … Read more
Fox Corp. is standing behind Tucker Carlson after the Anti-Defamation League last week called for the company to fire the opinion host for his on-air defense of the white-supremacist “great replacement” theory. In a letter sent Sunday to the civil rights group and shared with The Associated Press, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Carlson had … Read more
The Patriots announced that they dropped a player on Monday afternoon, but it wasn’t wide receiver Julian Edelman. News of Edelman’s release is only on the league’s transaction report for the day and hasn’t been acknowledged by the team at this point. They did announced that Michael Barnett has been waived, however. Barnett signed with … Read more
Text size Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said that the chip maker was on track to report sales above its $5.3 billion forecast for its fiscal first quarter. The company also announced its first data center CPU. Dreamstime Chip maker Nvidia gave investors two reasons to cheer Monday. The company announced its first line of data-center … Read more
Hank Azaria attends the 2020 Winter TCA Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images) It’s been more than a year since Hank Azaria officially stepped away from voicing Springfield’s resident convenience store owner Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on The Simpsons — a highly personal decision that ended up anticipating a larger sea change in the … Read more
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, often mentioned as a possible 2024 GOP presidential contender, said Monday that she would not seek her party’s nomination if former President Donald Trump opts to run a second time. “Yes,” Haley said, when asked if she would support a second bid … Read more
Clippers forward Marcus Morris Sr. drives for a layup against Pistons forward Josh Jackson on Sunday night at Staples Center. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) When Clippers forward Nicolas Batum learned last month that his starting job now belonged to Marcus Morris, and a role off the bench awaited, he had every reason to … Read more