The NBA suspended Houston Rockets guard Marcus Smart for three games after he punched Golden State Warriors center Charles Bassey during the Rockets’ 115-108 win on Wednesday night. Smart threw the punch in the third quarter, before teammates separated the two players. He was called for a flagrant 2 foul and ejected. The league announced … Read more
Cindy Holscher Wins Kansas Governor’s Race, Defeating Trump-Backed Ty Masterson
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Cindy Holscher will be Kansas’ next governor. The state senator from Overland Park defeated Republican Ty Masterson on Thursday to keep the governor’s office in Democratic hands, winning the closest Kansas governor’s race since 1974. The Associated Press called the race on Nov. 12, over a week after Election Day. Local officials counted provisional ballots … Read more
Coco Gauff Rallies Past Marta Kostyuk at WTA Finals, Forces Jessica Pegula Into Must-Win Match
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Coco Gauff went down 5-1 in the second set with her back hurting. A television announcer suggested she save herself for the third set. Gauff did not. She won six straight games and kept her WTA Finals season alive. Gauff beat Marta Kostyuk 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday at the FAGE WTA Finals in Indian Wells, … Read more
Hegseth Awards Medal to Soldier Who Reprimanded Him at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spent Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery. A day later he was back at the Pentagon with a medal in hand. The recipient was the soldier who had corrected him in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Hegseth awarded Army Spc. Thomas Iglesias the Joint Service Commendation Medal on … Read more
2026 MLB Awards: Yordan Álvarez and Pete Crow-Armstrong Lead All-MLB Teams and Hank Aaron Winners
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Yordan Álvarez and Pete Crow-Armstrong led Major League Baseball’s 2026 awards night, headlining the All-MLB first team and winning the Hank Aaron Award in their respective leagues. The honors were announced Wednesday at the MLB Awards show in Las Vegas, capping a week in which the game’s top individual prizes were handed out. Álvarez, the … Read more
Trump Pulls Vance Off Iran Talks and Says ‘We Don’t Need a Deal’
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has pulled Vice President JD Vance off efforts to negotiate an end to the war with Iran, declaring that the United States does not need a deal and ordering Vance to turn his attention to what he called corruption in Democratic-run cities and states. Trump announced the shift … Read more
NFL Midseason Awards 2026: Joe Burrow or Josh Allen for MVP? The Picks and the Debate
The 2026 NFL season reached its midpoint this week, and the MVP race is already a two-man debate. Joe Burrow and Josh Allen have separated from the field, and the midseason awards picks reflect it. The question for the second half is whether anyone else can crash the party. Pro Football Focus named Burrow its … Read more
Biden Says He Would Not Have Run in 2024 If He Had Known He Had Cancer
Joe Biden says he would not have run for a second term if he had known he had cancer. The former president said so in an exclusive interview with People magazine, his first major sit-down since leaving the White House. He was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in May 2025, months after his presidency … Read more
