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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Top-seeded UConn advances to championship game after beating No. 4 Alabama, 86-72  Yahoo Sports Source link

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday said the footage of the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers is “horrible” and that the attack “never should have happened.” “I thought it was terrible. He was in such trouble. He was just being pummeled. Now that should never have happened,” Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, a day after authorities released footage of the attack on the 29-year-old Black man… Source link

Microsoft appears to be on the cusp of being something it hasn’t been in a long time: cutting-edge. It’s a label the company lost a long time ago after a series of small startups grew to become Microsoft’s biggest competitors. Google, for example, started out as a nimble, innovative upstart and eventually bested Microsoft in browsers, email, and mobile operating systems. But now Microsoft might be the nimble, innovative company that bests Google in artificial intelligence. And… Source link

If anyone makes the Baseball Hall of Fame when results of the always contentious voting are announced Tuesday, it will be legendary Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz. The gregarious postseason hero known as Big Papi is the only candidate trending toward potential induction in the ballots already made public, as tracked by Ryan Thibodaux and company. In his first year on the ballot, Ortiz stands out as a bellwether of several hot button Hall of Fame issues. One is murky steroid suspicion —… Source link

TikTok really was everywhere this year. The app, known for its silly dancing videos, was the world’s most visited site on the internet in 2021, surpassing last year’s leader, Alphabet Inc. GOOG 0.88% ’s Google, according to Cloudflare Inc., NET -0.55% a cloud-infrastructure company that tracks internet traffic.  The app, owned by… Source link

Video communications giant Zoom (ZM) reported its fiscal Q2 2022 earnings after the bell on Monday, beating analysts’ expectations on the top and bottom line. But the company’s growth has slowed as businesses and schools reopen.  The company’s stock was down over 10% in after-hours trading. Here are the most important numbers from the report compared to what Wall Street expected of the company, as compiled by Bloomberg. The company also issued guidance for the third quarter that fell just… Source link

Bloomberg Over 700 Barges Stuck in Mississippi River From Bridge Crack (Bloomberg) — A crack in a bridge over the Mississippi River has stranded more than 700 barges, cutting off the biggest route for U.S. agricultural exports when the critical waterway is at its busiest.The route is shut near Memphis while the Tennessee Department of Transportation inspects a large crack in a highway bridge spanning the river, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A queue has expanded to 47 vessels and 771… Source link

The Guardian Trump and Carlson lead backlash as MLB pulls All-Star Game from Georgia Former president calls on fans to ‘boycott baseball’Obama lauds MLB ‘for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights’ Mike Pence laughs as Donald Trump holds a baseball bat at the White House in 2017. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson led rightwing backlash after Major League Baseball said it would not play its All-Star game in Georgia because of a new law that restricts… Source link

Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Last year’s winning trades are this year’s losing trades Fortunes are won and lost quickly in the financial markets. If you are lucky enough to be sitting on a stock portfolio that’s generating market beating returns, how long can that last? On Tuesday, Compound Capital Advisors’ Charlie Bilello shared some relevant stats. “The 25 stocks in the S&P 500 with the lowest… Source link

Bloomberg Gold Set for First Back-to-Back Weekly Gain Since Early January (Bloomberg) — Gold rose, heading for its first consecutive weekly gains since January as the dollar wavered and investors assessed demand for the metal as a hedge against inflation.Equities fluctuated and Treasury yields retreated from the highest levels of the day, easing pressure on bullion. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index was little changed after rising earlier.Bullion has steadied after two straight monthly losses… Source link