Smoke rises from an Israeli strike targeting the southern suburbs on March 5, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon. Daniel Carde | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were mixed Friday, tracking Wall Street losses overnight, as the Iran conflict sends energy prices higher. Overnight, oil prices broke through the $80 per barrel mark, although Brent futures dipped slightly…
David PurdumMarch 5, 2026, 03:23 pm ET to close Joined ESPN in 2014 Journalist covering the gambling industry since 2008 multiple authors A federal judge in New York issued a $1 million civil judgment Thursday against NBA free agent Malik Beasley in a contract dispute with his former agency. Judge Janet A. Vargas found Beasley…
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A Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldier stands guard in front of the National Museum of China in Beijing on March 3, 2025, ahead of the country’s annual legislative meetings known as the “Two Sessions.” Pedro Pardo | Afp | Getty Images China has set its lowest growth target in decades, acknowledging domestic challenges and…
Opening Day is just a few weeks away, which means it’s time to ask the question that’s on everyone’s mind as the new MLB season approaches: Who will be the best player in 2026? To answer that question, we created our annual MLB Rank list of the top 100 players in baseball. More than two…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday the company will fight the Pentagon’s supply chain risk designation in court, while suggesting that the “vast majority” of its customers will be unaffected. Amodei said the Pentagon confirmed the designation, which was announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a letter to the AI firm last week. “Like…
TOPSHOT – Currency dealers monitor exchange rates in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on February 2, 2026. South Korea’s benchmark index Kospi tumbled more than five percent on February 2, in line with a sell-off across Asian markets amid fresh worries about an AI-fuelled tech rally that has…
Bill BarnwellMar 5, 2026, 06:50 PM ET Close Bill Barnwell is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com. He analyzes football on and off the field like no one else on the planet, writing about in-season X’s and O’s, offseason transactions and so much more. He is the host of the Bill Barnwell Show podcast, with…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that Kristi Noem has done an “excellent job” at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), hours after President Trump announced he had tapped Senator Markway Mullin (R-Okla.) to replace him as the department’s secretary. “We all serve at the will of the president,” Hegseth told reporters during a briefing….
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, during a Bloomberg Television interview in San Francisco, Dec. 9, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei confirmed that the U.S. government declared his company a supply chain risk on Thursday and said it has “no choice” but to challenge the designation…
