Russell Westbrook, NBA MVP and triple-double leader, retires after 18 seasons
Russell Westbrook, the NBA’s career leader in triple-doubles and the 2017 MVP, announced Wednesday he’s retiring after 18 seasons during which he was selected to the league’s 75th anniversary team.
Arkansas trooper threw teen down and punched her in the face during traffic stop, lawsuit says
An 18-year-old Black woman filed a lawsuit this week against an Arkansas State Police trooper she said “slammed her to the ground and struck her in the face” during a traffic stop.
Defense in Charlie Kirk’s killing say shooter hit the ‘intended target,’ did not endanger others
Lawyers for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk say he shouldn’t be eligible for the death penalty because the shooter “hit the intended target” during the assassination last year at a Utah event attended by thousands of people.
3 people found dead, including child, at daycare in Minneapolis area
Three people were were found dead at a home day care in the Twin Cities metropolitan area on Wednesday.
Jenna Ortega says she ‘would go all day’ without food or water when she was a child actor
Jenna Ortega is opening up about the pressures she faced growing up in Hollywood, revealing that as a child actor she sometimes went entire days without asking for food or water because she feared being “in the way.”
Bumble scraps signature rule and now allows men to make first move on dating app
Dating app Bumble announced on Tuesday that it would be getting rid of its hallmark rule that prevents men from making the first move.
Los Angeles Lakers sold to Bob Iger, Josh Kushner for $12 billion
The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to an ownership group led by Josh Kushner and Bob Iger, the businessmen confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday.
At Lindsay Clancy trial, focus turns to medications prescribed before she killed her 3 children
Lindsay Clancy messaged one of her caregivers less than two months before she killed her three young children in 2023 to say she was having “intrusive thoughts I never had before,” “feeling completely hopeless” and worried about becoming addicted to some medications.
David Crowley wins tight Wisconsin race and Iran plot led to Trump’s plane swap: Morning Rundown
David Crowley beats Francesca Hong in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor.
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says a nighttime blitz damages Russia’s Black Sea naval stronghold
Anti-ship missiles, aerial and sea drones blitzed a major Russian naval base on the Black Sea coast, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.