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Pascal Siakam scores playoff career-high 39 points as the Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks for a 2-0 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference finals.The Indiana Pacers are halfway to a chance to play for an elusive NBA title as they head home in their Eastern Conference finals, but they might prefer to stay right where they are. Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 39 points on Friday night, as the Pacers beat the New York Knicks 114-109. The result means the Pacers lead 2-0 in the playoffs after the first two games of the series at the Knicks’…

Four Planned Parenthood clinics in Minnesota and four of the six in Iowa will shut down in a year, the Midwestern affiliate operating them said Friday, blaming a freeze in federal funds, budget cuts proposed in Congress and state restrictions on abortion. Two of the Minnesota clinics closing are in the Twin Cities area, in Apple Valley and Richfield. The others are in Alexandria and Bemidji.According to Planned Parenthood North Central States, the four closing in Iowa include the only Planned Parenthood facility in the state that provides abortion procedures, in Ames, home to Iowa State University. The others are…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! ESPN’s “Around the Horn” aired for the final time Friday after a nearly 23-year run. One of the main contestants on the game show throughout the years, Tim Cowlishaw, took a swipe at ESPN in his final comments on the show. “I want to thank ESPN for the opportunity that I did not seek and never expected to get back in 2002. I’d also like to say that while ESPN is currently gearing itself more toward hiring athletes instead of journalists,” Cowlishaw said during the show’s final episode Friday.  Sports journalists Tony Reali and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Miley Cyrus recently detailed how a glamorous music video shoot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame led her to the hospital. Cyrus, 32, recalled the moment she filmed her “Something Beautiful” visual album and then landed in the ICU. “I filmed this video in October [2024] by November at Thanksgiving, I was put in the ICU for a moment — just for a moment,” Cyrus said Thursday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”BILLY RAY CYRUS’ INAUGURATION STUMBLE REIGNITES YEARS OF HOUSEHOLD DRAMA: WHO’S WHO IN THE FAMOUS FAMILY Miley Cyrus shares her experience of landing in…

The Reserve Bank could use fresh inflation insights to gauge the depth of further rate cuts as global uncertainty threatens Australia’s economic progress.Consumer price data for April, to be released on Wednesday, will help guide the RBA on future changes after it reduced the cash rate to its lowest level in two years.The decision showed the central bank was moving in a more dovish direction as Australia’s main inflation measure returned to its target range of two to three per cent, NAB economists Michelle Shi and Gareth Spence said.The RBA on Tuesday cut the official cash rate by a quarter…

SEOUL: North Korea has detained three people over an accident that occurred during the launch of a new warship this past week, state media reported early Sunday (May 25). The failed launch that crippled the 5,000-tonne warship was witnessed by leader Kim Jong Un who said the accident damaged the country’s dignity and vowed to punish those found responsible, calling it a “criminal act caused by absolute carelessness”. The mishap likely occurred in front of a large crowd at the northeastern port of Chongjin, increasing the public humiliation for Kim who tried to show off military might, experts say. Those…

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesNick Pinto is a marketing director at his family’s law firm in New Jersey. He’s also a crypto trader who spent enough money on Donald Trump’s meme coin to win a spot at a private black-tie dinner with the president scheduled for Thursday night.”I was kind of early in bitcoin and ethereum, so I’ve always been trading crypto,” the 25-year-old Pinto said, adding that he finished number 72 on the leaderboard for the token contest. “Once I saw the announcement that Trump was releasing a coin, I immediately started to purchase it.”Pinto said in…

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are designed to provide incentives to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, but the goal isn’t as feasible as it appears, according to an analysis from Wells Fargo. Moving factory work back to the U.S would mean a significant increase in labor costs, which many companies simply could not afford, the Wall Street bank said. Even if they are willing to absorb or pass the higher prices onto consumers, companies are challenged by an already tight labor market for production workers. “A meaningful increase in factory jobs does not appear likely in the foreseeable…

101 East investigates cross-border persecution and the killing of former Cambodian opposition MP, Lim Kimya, in ThailandCritics say the Cambodian government’s attacks on opposition members and activists have gone global. On January 7, 2025, former Cambodian opposition politician, Lim Kimya, was gunned down outside a busy bus station in central Bangkok. A former Thai marine confessed to carrying out the hit as a gun for hire, but two Cambodians with ties to their country’s governing party are on the run, suspected of organising the murder. While Lim Kimya’s family and friends are seeking justice, Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Manet, denies…

As Americans hit the road for the Memorial Day holiday weekend, they’re getting good news at the gas pumps.While gas prices have risen roughly 20 cents per gallon since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, according to GasBuddy, a fuel savings platform, “all 50 states are lower than last Memorial Day.”And GasBuddy notes that gas prices are at their “lowest seasonal (Memorial Day) level since 2021.”The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that when adjusted for inflation, the average U.S. retail gasoline prices going into Memorial Day weekend are 14% lower than last year, in large…