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Damian Lillard has a torn left Achilles tendon, confirming the Milwaukee Bucks’ worst fears after the seven-time all-NBA guard was helped off the court Sunday night.The Bucks announced the severity of Lillard’s injury after he had an MRI on Monday.The injury knocks Lillard out for the rest of the postseason and could put his status for next season in doubt as well. When Kevin Durant tore his Achilles tendon in the 2019 NBA Finals, he ended up missing the entire 2019-20 season.The Bucks had been bracing for this outcome after Milwaukee’s 129-103 loss to the Indiana Pacers in Game 4.…
President Trump’s meme coin, which had slumped 88% from its most recent high, got a boost Wednesday after its website invited the top 220 holders of the digital token to an “intimate private dinner” with the president.After the dinner offer was posted on the $TRUMP meme coin website and X account, the value of the meme coin surged as much as $5.32, or 58%, to $14.32 on Wednesday afternoon. That gain only partially erased the meme coin’s decline in value, which hit a peak of $75.35 on January 19 the day before Mr. Trump’s inauguration. The dinner offer promises $TRUMP coin…
NXP Semiconductors NV said on Monday CEO Kurt Sievers would retire by the end of the year, and insider Rafael Sotomayor would succeed him.Shares of the company fell more than 7 per cent in extended trading following underwhelming forecast and beat.Sotomayor will take on the role of the president effective Monday, and will become the CEO in October. NXP forecast second-quarter revenue slightly above Wall Street expectations, while posting quarterly revenue that beat estimates by a small margin. “We are operating in a very uncertain environment influenced by tariffs with volatile direct and indirect effects,” Sievers said in a statement.NXP…
Shares of Deliveroo, the food delivery service based in London, are hitting three-year highs on Monday after it received a $3.6 billion proposed takeover offer from DoorDash. Deliveroo announced the bid after markets closed in Europe on Friday. On Monday, the company also said that it was suspending a $133.5 million share buyback it had announced last month.Deliveroo said Friday that its board has informed DoorDash that if a firm offer is made at the financial terms provided, it will recommend the bid to its shareholders.Deliveroo added that its board has decided to engage in talks with DoorDash about the…
A pack of private equity firms are circling one of the main subsidiaries of NCC Group, the London-listed cybersecurity specialist.Sky News has learnt that Montagu Private Equity and Bridgepoint are among the buyout firms which are interested in bidding for Escode, which specialises in software escrow and verification services. City sources said a deal for Escode could be worth between £300m and £400m, while NCC Group’s entire market capitalisation on Monday afternoon was just over £440m.Several other private equity firms are also said to be interested, although a formal auction is not under way and the identities of the other…
China on Thursday denied U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion that the two sides were involved in active negotiations over tariffs, and said the U.S. should revoke its unilateral tariffs against the nation. China’s pushback on tariffs, with U.S. import duties now standing as high as 145% on China-made products, comes after Mr. Trump said Tuesday that the final tariff rate on China’s goods would come down “substantially.” But Beijing on Thursday said that any suggestion of progress in this matter was as groundless as “trying to catch the wind.”The trade war between China and the U.S. has escalated during the past…
We rarely think about how essential and reliable electricity grids are until they fail.Now, millions of people across Spain, Portugal and parts of France are likely thinking of little else. While local power cuts are fairly common, what’s happened across the Iberian peninsula is something far more extreme. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 1:07 Mayhem in Spain after major power outage Much of Spain and Portugal’s electricity transmission system collapsed in seconds including in major cities Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona and Seville.Blackouts latest: ‘Rare atmospheric phenomenon’ behind outages Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible…
FORT MYERS, Fla., April 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC (FCS) Director of Drug Development Manish Patel, MD, was the oral presenter of an abstract analyzing the results of the first in-human study of a first-in-class treatment for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The abstract, “A Dual Androgen Receptor Ligand-Directed Degrader and Antagonist, for Heavily Pretreated Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer: Results from Additional Exploratory Analyses,” was presented at the annual American Urology Association meeting. FCS Director of Drug Development Manish R. Patel, MD…
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy, JrTom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images When Robert F Kennedy Jr took over as head of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) earlier this year, it was clear that identifying causes of autism would be one of his top priorities. Before becoming the country’s highest-ranking public health official, Kennedy spent much of his career peddling debunked claims that vaccines were behind rising autism rates. Now, he has declared autism an epidemic – and is launching a $50 million initiative to address it. Source link
Noem describes Trump’s effect on border Noem says border agents experiencing “night and day difference” since Trump took office 00:17 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants Monday amid a significant drop in illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. “If you talk to all of these agents that have been down here for years, they say it’s night and day difference from where we were a year ago, that they were overwhelmed with illegals and people that were turning themselves in because they knew that they would be released into the United States undocumented with…