The Magic on Saturday waived forward Jonathan Isaac, which will save Orlando $6.5 million, according to ESPN's Bobby Marks.
Read Full Story →Restricted free agent Mark Williams intends to sign a three-year, $38 million, fully guaranteed contract to return to the Suns, sources said.
Read article →Narcisse Ngoy, the 57th pick in this week's NBA draft, says he still plans to play college basketball at Auburn next season.
Read article →Isaiah Hartenstein intends to sign a new three-year contract worth $75 million to return to the Thunder through the 2028-29 season, sources told ESPN.
Read article →Jose Alvarado is declining his $4.5 million player option and intends to sign a new three-year, $14-plus million deal to return to the Knicks, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania.
Read article →New Bulls forward Caleb Wilson was asked about his expectations for his debut season, and he set his sights on Rookie of the Year.
Read article →The top four picks in the NBA draft are receiving marquee billing in an NBA summer league schedule that also features a Heat-Bucks matchup after their blockbuster Giannis Antetokounmpo trade.
Read article →We're grading the biggest NBA free agent signings and extensions, including Austin Reaves' new deal with the Lakers.
Read article →The Thunder are trading Isaiah Joe to the Pistons for two second-round picks, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania.
Read article →Estonia's parliament voted 55 to 34 on June 20, 2023, to legalize same-sex marriage, making Estonia the first Central European country — and the first former Soviet republic — to do so. The legislation amended the Family Law Act to allow marriage between any two adults regardless of sex, and also granted same-sex couples full adoption rights. The law took effect on January 1, 2024. The vote reflected a significant shift in Estonian society: polls showed 53 percent of the population supported same-sex marriage at the time of passage. The milestone was seen as a meaningful departure from the broader pattern in Central and Eastern Europe, where same-sex marriage remains illegal across most countries that were once part of the Soviet bloc.
Read Full Story →Andrew Callaghan is the creator and host of Channel 5, a YouTube-based street journalism operation that has become one of the most distinctive voices in American media. Starting with "All Gas No Brakes" — a series launched in 2019 in which he drove an RV across the country interviewing people at fringe events — Callaghan developed an interviewing style that is non-confrontational, curious, and deeply empathetic.
Read article →Rod McKuen was, by any commercial measure, the most successful poet in American publishing history. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he sold more than 60 million books of poetry and 100 million recordings worldwide, filled Carnegie Hall annually on his birthday, and wrote songs for Frank Sinatra. His plain-spoken, romantically accessible verse attracted a devoted mass audience.
Read article →Tarn Coffey is an Anchorage-based entrepreneur who made an unlikely bet: growing sweet corn commercially in Nenana, Alaska. After noticing that the region's long summer days produced enough heat to mature corn outdoors, Coffey spent a decade growing it in his backyard before scaling up. In 2022 he won 225 acres of state land at auction and planted his first commercial crops in spring 2023.
Read article →In May 2023, Ireland's Data Protection Commission issued Meta Platforms a record €1.2 billion fine — the largest penalty ever handed down under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation — for systematically transferring the personal data of European Facebook users to servers in the United States in violation of GDPR rules.
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