After the NBA banned Toronto Raptors reserve player Jontay Porter after a sports gambling probe, the leagues that have been doing business with betting sites are scrambling to protect the integrity of their games. NBC’s Adrienne Broaddus reports in this week’s Sunday Focus.
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Caitlin Clark’s pro salary exposes an undeniable economic reality separating the WNBA and NBA
Despite record ratings, women’s basketball still struggles financially, leaving players far behind their male counterparts in compensation. Why is this happening?
Tesla cuts U.S. prices on its Model Y, S and X vehicles after a difficult week
Tesla knocked $2,000 off the prices of three of its five models in the United States late Friday, another sign of the challenges facing the electric vehicle maker led by billionaire Elon Musk.
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ album breaks multiple Spotify records
Taylor Swift’s new album “The Tortured Poets Department” broke records on Spotify and other music streaming platforms.
House passes foreign aid bills and bill that could ban TikTok
The House passed a series of spending bills that includes $60.8 billion of Ukraine aid and over $26 billion in aid to Israel. The House also voted to effectively ban the social media platform TikTok if it doesn’t divest from its Chinese parent company.
‘Sesame Street’ writers set new contract, avert strike
Writers at Sesame Workshop reached a five-year agreement with the production company behind “Sesame Street,” averting the possibility of picket lines popping up in the show’s friendly neighborhood.
Two imprisoned Georgia men say they were wrongly convicted, and blame a single informant
Sonny Bharadia and Erik Heard are serving life sentences in Georgia for different crimes. Both say Sterling Flint wrongly incriminated them.
From stare-downs to shut-eye: Trump’s every move in criminal trial under the microscope
But behind every scowl, whisper or even yawn, Trump’s team sees a clear message the presumptive GOP nominee has the opportunity to get across: Defiance.
Tall flowers, dead shrubs, ephemeral lake: Death Valley has become a picture of climate whiplash
Death Valley has ping ponged between severe drought and record rainfall, giving rise to extra-tall wildflowers, an ephemeral lake and dead bushes.
Volkswagen workers in Tennessee vote to join UAW in historic win for union
The United Auto Workers said late Friday that Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have overwhelmingly voted to join the union — marking a major milestone for the labor organization and its first successful organizing drive of an automaker outside of Detroit’s Big Three.