Leaky Black named to Julius Erving Award Watch List

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Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is sentenced to 10 years in deadly DWI crash
A Missouri woman convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and recently pardoned by President Donald Trump was sentenced to 10 years this week for killing a mother of two in a drunken-driving crash.
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Michigan priest removed by church after making apparent Nazi salute at pro-life event
Calvin Robinson, who was a priest with the Anglican Catholic Church, had his license revoked after making an apparent Nazi salute at a pro-life event.
TODAY
How many miles do you need to walk to hit 10,000 steps?
There are approximately 2,000 steps in a mile, which makes 10,000 steps about 5 miles. Learn the factors that affect how many steps are in a mile.
TODAY
What is 75 Soft? Lose weight, get fit and boost mental health with the viral challenge
75 Soft Challenge can be more realistic and doable than the 75 Hard mental toughness program. Learn the 75 Soft challenge rules and if it's safe.
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'Unimaginable loss': Tragic DC plane crash leaves school communities reeling
On Thursday, school districts in Virginia announced that current and former students as well as parents died in the flight collision.
AFP
Japan records biggest jump in foreign workers
Japan saw its biggest year-on-year jump in foreign workers since records began, government data showed Friday, as the country seeks to address labour shortages exacerbated by its ageing population.That marks the biggest jump since records began in 2008, and is the latest in a series of annual record-breaking increases.
CNN
Chaos as Italian ski resort is overrun by TikTok tourists
Roccaraso, one of Italy’s most popular ski destinations, called in emergency crowd control measures after thousands of day-trippers inspired by cheap transport and social media took over the slopes.
TODAY
Virgo compatibility: How the earth sign gets along with each zodiac sign (or doesn’t)
What signs are Virgo most compatible with? Find out Virgo compatibility chart with Gemini, with Libra, with Scorpio, with Pisces, with Aries, with Cancer, with Leo and more.
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Arizona's Democratic governor outlines groundwater proposal that has Republican support
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs renewed a push Thursday to regulate groundwater in rural parts of the drought-stricken state, and she's more optimistic this time that her efforts will find support in the Republican-controlled Legislature. Hobbs stood alongside local officials, rural Republican leaders and Democratic lawmakers to unveil her proposal to create new management areas to regulate groundwater pumping — long used by farmers and rural residents without restriction. “We made more progress last year on negotiating rural groundwater reform than has been made ever,” Hobbs said.
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Kash Patel distances himself from Trump's Jan. 6 pardons at FBI director confirmation hearing
WASHINGTON — Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a 10-year term as director of the FBI, distanced himself Thursday from Trump’s sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 rioters, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee he didn’t think violent rioters who assaulted law enforcement deserved a break.
CNN
Takeaways from FBI director nominee Kash Patel’s combative confirmation hearing
President Donald Trump’s pick to run the FBI, Kash Patel, downplayed his past promotion of right-wing conspiracy theories and his pledges to pursue retribution against Trump’s opponents on Thursday at his combative Senate confirmation hearing.
AFP
Asian markets mostly rise but worries over tariffs, AI linger,
Most Asian markets edged up Friday at the end of a week beset by volatility after China's DeepSeek unveiled a groundbreaking chatbot, while sentiment was dampened after Donald Trump confirmed he hit Canada and Mexico with hefty tariffs.As such, we view the advancements made by DeepSeek as promising and healthy for the overall ecosystem."
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FBI tells multiple senior leaders to resign or be fired: reports
Multiple senior officials in the FBI were reportedly told to resign or be fired, Donald Trump's administration expanded its DOJ purge.
Time
Kash Patel Rewrites His Own History in FBI Confirmation Hearing
Patel faced no resistance from Republicans at the hearing.
TODAY
Egg prices are soaring. Here are 5 solid alternatives for cooking and baking
With egg prices soaring due to a nationwide outbreak of bird flu, here are some solid egg alternatives that work as binders in recipes.
AFP
'No happiness': Misery for Myanmar exiles four years on from coup
Four years after Myanmar's military seized power in a coup, the country is in the grip of a bloody civil war that has driven many of the country's young across the border to Thailand.- Ma Phyu: 'I lost all my dreams' - "After the coup, I lost all my dreams," Ma Phyu told AFP. Before the military seized power, the 28-year-old was teaching young children while studying at university in Yangon with the aim of qualifying as a teacher.
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Sacred strokes of color on foreheads are a major display of Hinduism at India’s Maha Kumbh festival
The pilgrims come and go as strangers. This sacred stroke, called tilak, is ubiquitous to the millions of Hindu pilgrims attending the Maha Kumbh festival in India's northern Prayagraj city, where faithful gather at the spot where the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers converge. Applied by Hindu priests using sandalwood paste, turmeric and sacred ashes, these strokes represent divine connections in Hinduism, with each type having its own symbolic association with a deity.
TODAY
Helicopter and plane collision in DC is 1st major accident with US commercial airliner in 16 years
The collision between a passenger flight and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29 marks the first fatal disaster involving a U.S. commercial airliner in 16 years.
AFP
Ghosts of past spies haunt London underground tunnels
Behind a blue door in a narrow London passage lies a little-known network of tunnels deep underground, once home to British spies and a secret long-distance telephone exchange.The UK government later enlarged the site in the 1950s at the start of the Cold War to host a secure long-distance telephone exchange, shrouding it in official secrecy for decades.
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What we know after American Airlines plane crashes with Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C.
An American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. All 67 people aboard the aircraft are presumed dead.

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Jordan Walsh	Arkansas	Harrison Ingram	Stanford
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Dariq Whitehead	Duke	Timmy Allen	Texas
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