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It’s playoff time in the NBA.Here’s a look at the NBA title odds at DraftKings Sportsbook as of April 28, now that the postseason is up and running.2024-25 NBA Finals winnerOklahoma City Thunder: +150 (bet $10 to win $25 total)Boston Celtics: +190 (bet $10 to win $29 total)Cleveland Cavaliers: +550 (bet $10 to win $65 total)Golden State Warriors: +1700 (bet $10 to win $180 total)LA Clippers: +2500 (bet $10 to win $260 total)Minnesota Timberwolves: +2800 (bet $10 to win $290 total)Los Angeles Lakers: +4000 (bet $10 to win $410 total)New York Knicks: +4500 (bet $10 to win $460 total) Denver Nuggets:…
Laurence Fox has denied sharing a compromising photo of TV star Narinder Kaur on social media.The 46-year-old is alleged to have shared a compromising image in a tweet posted in April 2024 of Kaur, who appears regularly on Good Morning Britain and has previously appeared on GB News.Fox, of Peldon in Essex, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, charged with two counts under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.He is accused in the first count of sharing a “photograph or film of the person in an intimate state intending to cause alarm, distress or humiliation”. The second alleges he sent…
The Social Security Administration is backing off a plan it announced in March to withhold 100% of many beneficiaries’ monthly payments to claw back money the government had allegedly overpaid them. Instead, the agency will default to withholding 50% of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits, the agency said in an “emergency message” to staff dated April 25. The agency long made it a routine to halt benefits to recoup billions of dollars it sent recipients but later said they should not have received. A policy under the Joe Biden administration to provide relief to beneficiaries, who often live on…
Eric Williams NFC West Writer For the past two seasons, Daryl Johnston, the former Pro Bowl fullback and FOX NFL analyst, has handled the day-to-day football operations for the USFL.With the league now merging with the XFL to create the United Football League, Johnston will continue as the head of football operations for the UFL, the premier spring football league.Former president and CEO of the XFL, Russ Brandon will serve as the president and CEO of the UFL. As the UFL announced Monday, four teams from the USFL will remain in the Birmingham Stallions, Memphis Showboats, Michigan Panthers and Houston Gamblers…
This week’s set of elections across England will be a series of firsts: it will be the first big ballot box test of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership and Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative Party.We will have the first by-election of this parliament in Labour-held Runcorn, the inaugural elections for the mayoralty of Hull and East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and our first chance to see if Reform’s surge in the polls since the general election can translate into seats. In play are over 1,600 council seats, six mayoralties and the Labour-held seat of Runcorn and Helsby after a by-election was…
–Record-breaking 13th annual fundraiser featured Eric Church concert, Carolina Herrera fashion show by Neiman Marcus, Miranda Lambert set, and more–AUSTIN, Texas, April 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The 13th annual Mack, Jack & McConaughey (MJ&M) fundraising weekend has set a new record, raising over $17 million for five charitable organizations dedicated to children’s education, health and wellness. Held April 24-25, 2025, in Austin, Texas, the event was the most successful in the organization’s history. MJ&M, the joint fundraising initiative created by Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, ACM Award-winning recording artist Jack Ingram, and Texas coaching legend Mack Brown, supports CureDuchenne, Dell Children’s Medical…
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NEW YORK — Adelynn Campbell’s last plane trip ended with a panic attack that she got through largely with the help of a kind flight attendant. That was last year — before 67 people died in January when an American Airlines jet collided with a helicopter over Washington, D.C., in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in almost a quarter century. Now, Campbell is even more hesitant to book a flight.“It’s definitely spiked my concern about getting on a plane and it’s making the whole situation a little more stressful than it used to be,” said Campbell, 30, who manages a…
WASHINGTON — Why not tax the millionaires?As Congress begins drafting a massive package for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” with trillions of dollars in tax breaks and federal program cuts, it’s a question that won’t seem to go away.Trump himself has mused he’d “love” to tax wealthier Americans a little bit more, but the Republican president has also repeatedly walked it back. This week, the president dismissed a tax hike as “disruptive” when asked about it at the White House.But still it swirls.And it’s setting up a potential showdown between the old guard of the Republican Party, which sees…
The evening news brought the Vietnam War into American living rooms, but once the news was over, so was the war. Prime-time shows brought nary a mention of it as networks looked to bring uncontroversial content to the broadest possible audience. But the war simmered below the surface as subtext, and when enough years passed, television would finally take it on as a subject.“Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” premiered on CBS six weeks after the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorized U.S. combat troops in Vietnam, and the daft comedy was among the chief images of the military in American homes through…