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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chicago hosted the NBA’s annual draft lottery Monday night. Despite entering the lottery with 1.8% odds, the Dallas Mavericks landed the top selection for the upcoming draft.The Dallas Wings won the WNBA Draft lottery and landed the top selection in last month’s draft. Paige Bueckers was the first player off the board. The former UConn basketball star said she was shocked by the Mavs’ good fortune in the lottery. Paige Bueckers is interviewed by ESPN after being selected with the No. 1 overall pick by the Dallas Wings in the 2025 WNBA Draft at…

Three countries on President Trump’s Middle East tour this week are also the sites of recent investments in Trump businesses that benefit the president. Eric Lipton, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, describes those investments, and what those countries — Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — are, at the same time, seeking from Mr. Trump and the United States.

House Republicans Wednesday moved forward with a tax bill to cut billions of dollars in climate-related funding, reduce regulations, and prematurely phase out clean energy tax credits as part of President Trump’s, “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.” The heart of the Republican budget legislation targets key climate and energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.Cuts would impact businesses and consumers, affecting renewable energy, manufacturing, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles. Concurrently, House Republicans proposed streamlining permitting for fossil fuels, rescinding Clean Air Act pollution funding, and allocating $2 billion to the strategic petroleum reserve. The Inflation Reduction Act has led to $321 billion worth…

An Amazon device is displayed at an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City on Feb. 26, 2025.Brendan McDermid | ReutersAmazon is laying off roughly 100 employees in its devices and services division, the company confirmed Wednesday.The devices and services unit includes a wide range of businesses, such as the Alexa voice assistant, Echo hardware, Ring video doorbells and Zoox robotaxis.”As part of our ongoing work to make our teams and programs operate more efficiently, and to better align with our product roadmap, we’ve made the difficult decision to eliminate a small number of roles,” Amazon spokesperson Kristy Schmidt…

Asia is set to see a travel boom, and countries in the region are gearing up to exploit this surge in demand.Singapore’s Changi Airport on Wednesday broke ground on its fifth terminal, which is expected to be operational in the mid-2030s.The new terminal, which sits on a plot of land 1,080 hectares large, will almost double the size of Changi Airport’s existing area.This will allow the airport to handle 140 million passengers per year from its current capacity of 90 million passengers. Changi, which was most recently awarded Skytrax’s “World’s Best Airport” in 2025 for the 13th time, welcomed 67.7…

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Editor’s note: This story contains disturbing and graphic details. Discretion is advised.  The cousin of a young security guard whose life was violently cut short in Kelowna, B.C., is deeply disappointed in the sentence handed down on Wednesday to a man responsible for her death.Harmandeep Kaur died in February 2022 after a brutal attack on the UBC-Okanagan campus.“Fifteen years does not reflect the gravity of harm done,” said Amrit Pal Singh. “This falls short of justice.”Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes sentenced Dante Ognibene-Hebbourn, 24, to 15 years in prison, less time served.It means Ognibene-Hebbourn, who’s been in custody…

Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has discussed the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Moscow.The meeting on Wednesday came days after a United Nations interim report found Russia responsible for the disaster.A UN aviation council found this week that Russia was responsible for the downing of MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014 during fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.Moscow has rejected the International Civil Aviation Organisation Council’s (ICAO) findings on the crash that killed all 298 passengers and crew, calling the ruling biased.Anwar said in a…

SEOUL: Two people have been arrested for allegedly blackmailing Spurs and South Korea captain Son Heung-min, police said on Thursday (May 15). The accused are a woman in her 20s and a man in his 40s, a spokesperson for the Korean National Police Agency told AFP. The two allegedly tried to extort money from the 32-year-old forward by falsely claiming that the woman was pregnant with Son’s child, Yonhap news agency said. The footballer’s agency, Son & Football Limited, said it filed a police complaint for blackmail and will pursue “strong legal action without leniency”. The two “threatened the player…