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Knicks clinch playoff berth with 118-109 win over Wizards

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:13:58 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson and Quentin Grimes each scored 27 points, and the New York Knicks clinched a playoff berth with a 118-109 victory over the Washington Wizards on Sunday night.Immanuel Quickley added 22 points and Obi Toppin had 21 for the Knicks, who won their fourth in a row and will be in the postseason for the second time in three years. They had missed the playoffs the previous seven seasons. “Making the playoffs is a great accomplishment, but it’s one of several,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. “It’s the next step along the way. Just keep checking the boxes.”Mitchell Robinson contributed eight points and 11 rebounds for the Knicks, who have won both games since losing All-Star forward Julius Randle to a sprained left ankle. “Every time someone goes out it’s a chance for someone else to get in and get the job done,” Thibodeau added. “That gives your team a lot of confidence. It gives us quality depth and makes us a tough team.” Corey Kispert led Washington with a ...

Yin tops LA Open to become LPGA’s second Chinese winner

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:13:58 GMT

PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — Ruoning Yin became the second Chinese winner in LPGA Tour history Sunday, holding off Georgia Hall in the DIO Implant LA Open.The 20-year-old Yin closed with an eventful 1-under 70 for a one-stroke victory over Hall, the English player whose 5-foot birdie try on the 18th to force a playoff slid by the right side. Recently retired Shanshan Feng is the other only other Chinese champion, winning 10 times on the LPGA Tour.“That means a lot, not just for me, also for China,” Yin said. “Shanshan is always my goal here, and I think she got 10 tour win here, and, yeah, it’s just my first one. She’s definitely the person I look up to.”Yin finished at 15-under 269 at Palos Verdes Golf Club, making six birdies and five bogeys in the final round in her 20th tour start.She had a nine-hole stretch without a par, making a birdie on No. 2, three straight bogeys, four straight birdies and a bogey on No. 10. After dropping a stroke on 13, she birdied 14 and parred ...

LSU’s Reese unapologetic over gestures to Iowa star Clark

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:13:58 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — LSU’s Angel Reese waved her hand in front of her face while staring down Caitlin Clark, then pointed toward her finger as if to say a ring was coming while walking toward the Iowa star.The gestures late in the Tigers’ 102-85 victory in the NCAA championship game Sunday lit up social media, with comments supporting the “Bayou Barbie” for trash talk that’s just part of the game and condemning her for lacking grace in victory.The bubbly junior from Baltimore, who transferred from Maryland to join flamboyant LSU coach Kim Mulkey, was unapologetic in the postgame news conference.“All year, I was critiqued about who I was,” Reese said. “I don’t fit in a box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. But when other people do it, y’all say nothing. So this was for the girls that look like me, that’s going to speak up on what they believe in. It’s unapologetically you.”Clark, the scoring sensation who was the first with consecutive 40-point gam...

Magic hand Pistons 20th loss in 21 games with 128-102 win

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:13:58 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Paolo Banchero and Wendell Carter Jr. had 14 points and nine rebounds each before sitting out the fourth quarter Sunday night in the Orlando Magic’s 128-102 rout of the Detroit Pistons.Jalen Suggs led eight Orlando players in double figures with 18 points, and Cole Anthony added 17 points and six rebounds for the Magic, who shot 57.3% and won for the fifth time in six games.Franz Wagner finished with 16 points and eight assists and a plus-minus of plus-33.Killian Hayes scored 20 points and Eugene Omoruyi added 19 for the Pistons, who lost for the 20th time in 21 games. Jaden Ivey finished with 14 points and six assists.Anthony and Suggs scored five points each on a 23-4 spurt that opened the second quarter and gave the Magic a 24-point lead. The Pistons, who had eight turnovers in the quarter, never threatened again and fell behind by as many as 30 points in the fourth quarter.Suggs made 4 of 6 three pointers and finished the game with four steals and two ...

Foothills and high country fire crews urge residents to stay vigilant to avoid wildfires

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:13:58 GMT

EVERGREEN, Colo. (KDVR) -- Two fires in as many days has communities in the foothills and the high country on alert, which is especially the case on red flag warning days.Fire departments in the foothills and high country communities have a very unique experience fighting fires and citizens play an important role in that."We want to empower our residents to prepare for emergencies, to mitigate the risk around their properties, to be educated so they know how to respond properly, react properly," Einar Jensen, risk reduction coordinator for Evergreen Fire Rescue, said. Recent wildfires a glaring reminder to protect your home Jensen's job is to keep people in Evergreen educated on how to keep the fire risk low."For us, in a community like this, the public is essential to preparedness," Jensen said, "mitigation, education and emergency response."Fire teams fight fires, but Jensen said citizens are just as much a part of the team as they are, especially in mountain and foothill towns....

Thunderbirds wow spectators of all ages at Wings Over Homestead air show

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:13:58 GMT

U.S. miltary pilots took to the South Florida skies this weekend for a very special performance.It had been five years since the Homestead Air Reserve Base hosted the last air show.Wings Over Homestead, held Saturday and Sunday, featured old and new aircraft.7News cameras on Saturday captured an F-16 Falcon Fighter soaring high and roaring with power.The Thunderbirds were back over Homestead, bringing lots of skills and thrills.The show kicked off with stunts in the sky before the jets zoomed off.“We’re excited to put something like this on for the local community,” said Col. Joshua Padgett, 482nd Fighter Wing Commander.Multiple aircraft zipped through the air and performed daring stunts for all to see.Despite a few clouds, thousands of people of all ages showed up for the demosntrations and felt the energy.“You could feel when it flies over you, when it goes ‘vroom!'” said attendee Frank Zamora. “You get a little chill.Besides the performan...

Time to replace Bank of England’s governor with ChatGPT

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:13:58 GMT

Izabella Kaminska is senior finance editor at POLITICO Europe.Is the governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Andrew Bailey, sending coded messages that monetary policy in the United Kingdom has reached its limits, and that his job is now redundant?Could be.In a speech to the London School of Economics (LSE) last Monday, Bailey dropped a bit of a bombshell.Focusing on all the reasons central bankers cannot be relied on to avert an economic crisis stemming from structural supply-side issues related to “technological progress, investment and innovation, and by skills and trends in the population,” Bailey abruptly added it’s important to remember that “policy decisions can have unpredictable and complex effects on the economy” — only to reveal in the next breath that the remark had come not from him but ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence language model.But the intermission prompts a serious question: At this point, might an AI robot do a better job at communicating monetary ...

Turkey is the headache NATO needs

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:13:58 GMT

Turkey may have finally let Finland into NATO, but it’s not budging — yet — on Sweden. And NATO just has to live with that.The unyielding blockade is the latest in a string of Turkish actions that have left the military alliance’s allies grumbling and eye rolling. In 2017, Turkey controversially decided to buy a Russian missile system. It has repeatedly attacked the very same Kurdish militia the U.S. had supported in Syria. And to this day, Turkey’s leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, still chats regularly with Vladimir Putin.And, until late Thursday, Turkey had also blocked Finland from joining the alliance for months, even as war raged nearby. Privately, some officials are bristling at Turkey’s obstructionist approach, its Russia-engaging foreign policies and democratic backsliding. In a symbolic move, the White House didn’t invite Turkish officials to its Summit for Democracy. And some observers are openly wondering how Turkey, a NATO member since 1952, even fits in the Western de...

Emmanuel Macron wants to charm China — after failing with Putin

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:13:58 GMT

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is jetting off on an ambitious diplomatic mission to woo Beijing away from Moscow. Officials in Washington wish him luck with that. France hopes to dissuade China’s leader Xi Jinping from getting any cozier with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and wants the Chinese instead to play a mediation role over the war in Ukraine. However, it is unclear what leverage Macron has — and the backdrop to his three-day trip starting Tuesday isn’t easy. Europe continues to reel from the impact of cutting off trade ties to Russia and geopolitical tensions are ratcheting up between China and the U.S., the world’s two biggest economies. The French president wants to play a more personal card with his Chinese counterpart, after drawing fierce criticism for hours of fruitless phone calls with Putin last year — an effort that failed to stop Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Macron is expected to spend several hours in discussions ...

UPS drivers rally in Boston ahead of national negotiations

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:13:58 GMT

UPS drivers rallied in Boston on Sunday as their union prepares to negotiate a new contract. Negotiations with impact more than 300,000 drivers and warehouse workers across the country. The union said its ready to strike if they’re not given a contract with better pay and other protections.