Mark Cuban speaks onstage during the 2025 SXSW Conference and Festival at Hilton Austin in Austin, Texas, on March 10, 2025. Julia Beverly | Wireimage | Getty Images Mark Cuban is launching a new $750 million private equity fund focused on sports franchises, called Harbinger Sports Partners. As sports valuations soar and teams look for…
A leading European winemaker has warned it may have to abandon its ancestral lands in Catalonia in 30 years’ time because climate change could make traditional growing areas too dry and hot. Familia Torres is already installing irrigation at its vineyards in Spain and California and is planting vines on land at higher altitudes as…
The beginning of Major League Baseball’s Rivalry Weekend series between the Philadelphia Phillies and Pittsburgh Pirates was also an ending of sorts. Before the season, NBC Sports Philadelphia announced it was changing the Phillies’ logo on its scorebug from the letter “P” to “PHI.” Normally, that would not be a story worthy of headlines. But…
Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon has a strained left hamstring and his availability is in doubt for Game 7 against the Thunder in Oklahoma City on Sunday, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity on Friday night because the extent of the…
New South Wales police have charged a 28-year-old man for allegedly stabbing one man and assaulting another while he was being transported from the Villawood immigration detention centre. Tongan national Paea Teu was being taken from the detention centre to Sydney airport on Thursday when police allege he attacked two men who were transporting him….
A grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport. Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Justice Department and Boeing are close to a deal that would allow the aerospace giant to avoid pleading guilty or a trial in a criminal case related to two deadly crashes of its 737 Max…
The New York Knicks reached the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 25 years and ended the one-year NBA title reign of the Boston Celtics with astonishing ease, rolling to a 119-81 victory in Game 6 on Friday night. Jalen Brunson and OG Anunoby each scored 23 points for the Knicks, who will…
Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Earlier this week, Anthropic received a $2.5 billion, five-year revolving credit line to amp up its liquidity in an ever-expanding — and expensive — competition in the artificial intelligence industry. Anthropic, founded…
An Australian man captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine has been jailed for 13 years on the charge of being a “mercenary”, a move that has “appalled” the Australian government. The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said on Saturday that Russia was obliged to treat Oscar Jenkins humanely as he was “a full…
Napheesa Collier scored 34 points, spoiling the WNBA debut of fellow UConn alum Paige Bueckers and leading the Minnesota Lynx to a 99-84 victory over the Dallas Wings in the season opener for both teams Friday night. Bueckers scored the first points of the season for the Wings, and the No. 1 overall pick in…
