Kanye West dropped a reference to the No. 24 jersey in his lyrics, rapping on Jay-Z and T.I.’s “Swagga Like Us,” “Tryin’ to get that Kobe number, one over Jordan.” From the moment he came into the league, Bryant paid homage to the greats who came before him. Now it’s current NBA players who pay
A person has been detained in connection with a knife attack in Germany which left three people dead and five seriously injured. It comes following a “large-scale” overnight manhunt around the city of Solingen, involving several police forces. Police were alerted by witnesses shortly after 9.30pm local time on Friday, to reports of several people
As the 2024 U.S. elections reach their home stretch, crypto companies are opening their wallets to try and influence the results. Nearly half of all the corporate money flowing into the election has come from the crypto industry, according to a report this week from the nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen. The sum, approximately $119
Police have made two more arrests after a house fire in Bradford killed a mother and her three children earlier this week. Bryonie Gawith, also known as B, and her three children – Denisty, 9, Oscar, 5, and 22-month-old Aubree Birtle – died in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a fire broke out
A British fraud detection company backed by Mike Lynch, the technology entrepreneur who died this week, is in talks about a sale to Visa, the American payments giant, worth hundreds of millions of pounds. Sky News has learnt that Featurespace, which was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Cambridge, is in advanced negotiations about
Photo: Oregon Department of Transportation, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The US Joint Office of Energy and Transportation has broken ground on a $150 million grant project to repair and upgrade 4,500 EV charging ports. The Joint Office broke ground on its first Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility (EVC-RAA) program-funded project yesterday
Justin and Hailey Bieber have announced the birth of their first child. The couple have named their son Jack Blues Bieber, and announced his birth in a post on Instagram on Saturday morning. A photograph on Justin’s account, shared with his 294 million followers, showed the newborn’s foot. “Welcome Home,” he captioned the picture. Hailey
New research suggests that peculiar zones in the Earth’s mantle, where seismic waves slow dramatically, may be more common than previously thought. These ultra-low velocity zones (ULVZs) have intrigued scientists for years due to their ability to slow seismic waves by up to 50 percent. Recent findings indicate that these enigmatic features could be present
Get ready for a spectacular celestial event this Saturday morning, August 24, when six planets will align in the sky. Following a similar event on June 3, skywatchers will have another chance to view Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury all at once. This planetary parade, while not extremely rare, is a highlight of
Prosecutors in Italy are reportedly planning to launch a manslaughter investigation after a luxury yacht sank, claiming seven lives. Sky News understands this is standard procedure in complex cases, but more details are expected to be revealed at a news conference in Sicily this morning. Among those killed were Hannah Lynch who became the last
Donald Trump has promised to release thousands of documents linked to the assassination of John F Kennedy, after his presidential campaign was endorsed by JFK’s nephew. Robert F Kennedy Jr, also known as RFK Jr, was his rival in the race for the White House. But he suspended his campaign on Friday and joined Mr
Getty Images Meta said Friday that it blocked a “small cluster” of WhatsApp accounts linked to an Iranian hacking group that was targeting officials associated with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The company said in a blog post that the bogus WhatsApp accounts appeared to originate from the Iranian threat actor dubbed
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Bryan Mound storage facility located in Brazoria County, Texas, is one of four sites that make up the country’s oil reserve. Str New | Reuters Crude oil futures rose more than 1% on Friday, but are on pace for a weekly loss as slowing demand in China weighs on the
Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterAug 23, 2024, 08:15 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions Forty years ago, the floodgates officially opened. In June 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma that the NCAA couldn’t control all college football
Lily Allen has said she returned a puppy she adopted during the coronavirus pandemic because it ate her family’s passports. The Smile singer said she and her husband David Harbour are considering adopting a new puppy, but shared she had already tried it once and “I took her back to the home”. Allen said on
In this article WDAY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Carl Eschenbach, Co-CEO Workday, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 18th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBC Workday shares soared as much as 14% on Friday, one day after the finance and human resources software maker
It’s another issue of micromobility solutions in today’s Green Deals, lead by Murf E-Bikes dropping its best-selling Fat Murf Cruiser e-bike by an unexpected $1,000 to a new $1,995 low, along with other models in the lineup seeing price cuts. It is joined by Lectric’s Labor Day savings event that has changed up prices on
Robert F Kennedy Jr is set to abandon his independent presidential bid to endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump. Speaking at a news conference, Mr Kennedy said Democrats were no longer “champions of the constitution” and had departed “dramatically” from the “core values” he grew up with. He added his campaign team had “pulled off a
In this article MSFT CRWD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Delta technician works on a set of screens displaying a blue page and reading “Recovery” in Terminal 2, Delta Airlines, at Los Angeles airport, on July 19, 2024. Airlines, banks, TV channels and other businesses were disrupted worldwide on Friday following a major
Leylaynr | E+ | Getty Images Most parents would take herculean steps to protect their children. But many overlook a relatively simple way to help shore up a child’s financial security: freezing the minor’s credit. This could be especially important in the wake of a major breach in which the Social Security numbers of myriad