Bam! Heat’s Adebayo scores 83 points, 2nd only to Wilt Chamberlain in NBA history

It’s Wilt, then Bam. Bam Adebayo had a night for all time on Tuesday, with a point total second to only Wilt Chamberlain in ...

The Latest: Iran fires at Gulf states as Australia grants asylum to women on Iranian soccer team

Iran fired missiles and drones at targets across the Gulf including oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and a ship off the coast of the Emirates, while Israeli and the United States struck targets ...

Severe storms whip up tornadoes in Illinois and Indiana, leveling homes

Major storms that whipped up tornadoes in parts of Illinois and Indiana on Tuesday leveled homes, downed trees and power lines, and overwhelmed a 911 center south of Chicago with emergency calls, ...

Kast to take office as Chile marks its sharpest shift to the right since dictatorship

Chile’s ultraconservative José Antonio Kast takes office as president Wednesday in what will mark the Latin American nation’s most pronounced shift to the right since ...

Russia and Ukraine both claim front-line progress with US-brokered talks on hold

Russian and Ukrainian officials are making contradictory claims of battlefield successes in their 4-year-old war, with ...

Bam Adebayo scores 83 points, 2nd-best in NBA history, sets FT records in Heat win over Wizards

Bam Adebayo scored 83 points, the second-best scoring effort in NBA history, to carry the Miami Heat to a 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night. Adebayo had 31 ...

Canada’s Liberals closer to a majority government after another opposition defection

Another opposition lawmaker in Canada has defected to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals, all but assuring he will soon have a majority government. Opposition New ...

North Korean leader Kim watches cruise missile tests with his daughter

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter observed tests of strategic cruise missiles fired from a warship, state media reported Wednesday, as North Korea ...

Dudamel says Chalamet shows ignorance in claiming ‘no one cares’ about opera and ballet

Famed conductor Gustavo Dudamel said Timothée Chalamet showed ignorance when the Oscar-nominated actor claimed “no one cares” about opera and ballet. “Sadly sometimes it’s a little ...

‘We’re going to work diligently in the next 2 years’: California DOJ extends stipulated judgement with Kern County Sheriff’s Office

In December 2015, The Guardian published an article finding that Kern County led the nation in killings per capita by law enforcement. From incidents of ...

Towering lava fountains of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano trigger park and highway closures

The latest lava fountaining episode of an erupting Hawaii volcano reached 1,000 feet (300 meters) high Tuesday, prompting temporary closures at a national park and part of an ...

Kern County Public Works to host bulky waste collection event

Residents in eastern Kern County will have a chance to dispose of large, bulky unwanted items from their homes for free this month. The Kern County Public Works ...