October 28, 2025, 02:27 pm ET The troubled relationship between team sports and illegal gambling in the United States dates back more than a century, culminating in the game-fixing scandal by eight Chicago White Sox players in the 1919 World Series and the current FBI investigation into prop betting and poker game fixing involving various…
AUSTIN (Nexstar) – Texas judges and justices of the peace, who are legally allowed to perform marriage ceremonies, no longer face punishment if they refuse to perform the ceremony based on a “sincerely held religious belief.” According to a new interpretation Code of Judicial Conduct issued by the Texas Supreme Court. The state supreme court…
Talk about a monster quarter. Apple delivered a great September quarter Thursday evening, even as iPhone supply was constrained by strong demand. The stock really got going after the company’s strong forecast for the holiday quarter. Revenue in Apple’s fiscal 2025 fourth quarter, which ended Sept. 27, rose 8% year over year to $102.47 billion,…
anthony poorOctober 30, 2025, 08:00 PM ET email impression Open extended responses With the announcement Thursday of her latest children’s book, “Happy Spooky Halloween,” Lebron James Has once again put on his writerly hat. What’s the trend in the NBA? , NBA Cup: Court designs for the Lakers, Celtics and others, Jaylen Brown appears as…
Kathryn Bigelow, the filmmaker who recently debuted “A House of Dynamite,” responded to Pentagon criticism after parts of the film showed that the country’s nuclear weapons The detection system can stop the threat only 50 percent of the time. In response to the film, the Pentagon distributed an internal memo criticizing its authenticity. Defense officials…
An electronic board shows Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indices as people walk on a pedestrian bridge at the Lujiazui financial district in Shanghai, China April 3, 2025. Go Nakamura | Reuters Asia-Pacific markets opened mostly higher Friday as investors assessed a truce between Washington and Beijing, following a meeting between President Donald Trump and his…
matt bowenOctober 30, 2025, 07:51 am ET to close Matt Bowen is a fantasy football and NFL writer for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2015, writes regularly for ESPN+ and spent several years on “NFL Matchup.” After graduating from the University of Iowa, Matt played safety in the NFL for St. Louis, Green Bay, Washington…
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after ringing a bell on the floor setting the share price at $47 in its initial public offering (IPO) on March 21, 2024 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Reddit reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday in which…
October 30, 2025, 06:18 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Tony Vitello fully admits he is an unconventional call-up to Major League Baseball, to jump From the college coaching ranks in Tennessee san francisco giants Bypassing the minor leagues. Still, Vitello is hardly fazed by the pressure of taking such a difficult path. “It’s a challenge…
Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) warned Thursday that now former Prince Andrew, Whom King Charles III stripped of his remaining royal titlesWill face justice. Andrew, the king’s younger brother, who would be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, lost his title due to his ties to convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. “Thanks to the courageous…
