Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Minnesota shocked many around the NBA by trading Karl-Anthony Towns to the New York Knicks for Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo after a run to the 2024 Western Conference Finals. The move was more about finances than basketball, with the Timberwolves eager to make their way under the league’s […]
A massive piece of space junk recently smashed into a village in Kenya. The 1,100-pound (500 kilograms) ring of metal likely came from a rocket, though its exact origins are still unknown, Kenyan officials say. Low-earth orbit is getting increasingly congested. There are currently more than 170 million pieces of debris wider than 0.004 inches […]
Donald Cerrone (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) Zuffa LLC via Getty Images It’s become apparent that no one is going to stop Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone from coming back to the UFC. Cerrone wants to have two more fights under the UFC banner to reach 50 total fights, and former UFC middleweight […]
Donald Trump has promised to do many things once he reoccupies the White House. Among the most famous, and most desired by his biggest fans, is his vow to “drain the swamp” and “demolish the deep state.” The first and arguably most important challenge for such a project is definitional. What is the deep state? […]
In the wake of a successful effort to kill a year-end spending bill and replace it with more limited legislation to keep the government open, Elon Musk declared victory last week on X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform he owns: “Your actions turned a bill that weighed pounds into a bill that weighed ounces!” […]
Is Donald Trump a NIMBY or a YIMBY? Given that the housing crisis is a front-and-center issue throughout the country, whether or not the president-elect reflexively favors housing development is an important question. But Trump is all over the place on the housing issue, as he is on so many others. It’s hard to know […]
WASHINGTON — If President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion that the United States should have control of Greenland sounds familiar, that’s because he’s said it before — during his first term as president. Back in 2019, Trump’s call caused a brief diplomatic tiff with Denmark, under whose sovereignty the vast island falls. Then as now, the suggestion was […]
China begins building a new megaconstellation. The first batch of Internet satellites for China’s Guowang megaconstellation launched Monday on the country’s heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket, Ars reports. The satellites are the first of up to 13,000 spacecraft a consortium of Chinese companies plans to build and launch over the next decade. The Guowang fleet will […]
In a recent interview with Time magazine, Donald Trump walked back his campaign promise to lower grocery prices. “Look, they got them up. I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard,” Trump told Time, admitting to what many of us knew months ago. […]
Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has overseen plenty of new rules that have reshaped how baseball is played and its in-game strategy. Another radical change might be coming down the pike. The Athletic’s Jayson Stark canvassed opinions from around the league about the “Golden At-Bat” rule, which would allow a […]
