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When Sarah Strong dominated South Carolina’s frontcourt in UConn’s national championship win, swallowing rebounds, protecting the edge and scoring anywhere on the court, it’s easy to imagine she’s doing the same at the next level. WNBA executives must drool over drafting the idea of ​​the next Eskimo star.But they have to wait another three years. Under a collective bargaining agreement that expires at the end of the 2025 season, U.S.-born players are eligible to draft after completing four years of college. An exception is that if the player is 22 years old in the WNBA draft calendar year, he can…

Read Dane Brugler’s 2025 “Beast” NFL Draft Guide.There is no consensus on where all quarterbacks can be drafted this year, at least outside of Cam Ward. Probably after Ward became the Tennessee Titan, the rest of the group was a complete mystery. Ward may be the only quarterback we saw Thursday night because it was the quarterback in the first round.Fortunately for us, we will cut all uncertainties and play quarterback matchmakers, making the quarterback prospects the most meaningful team this year. In some cases, this has to do with the type of quarterback the team needs. In other cases,…

Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before Congress more times than any other tech leader. He will testify again soon — as a witness in a federal antitrust trial. Cecilia Kang, a technology reporter for The New York Times, recalls some of Zuckerberg’s past congressional hearings and explains why the stakes are even higher this time.

new video loaded: ‘The Amateur’ | Anatomy of a ScenetranscriptBacktranscript‘The Amateur’ | Anatomy of a SceneThe director James Hawes narrates a sequence from his film, starring Rami Malek.“I’m James Hawes. I’m the director of “The Amateur.” Our hero, Charlie Heller, played by Rami Malek, is on a mission to kill the people who took his wife’s life. And we meet him arriving in Madrid with number two on the list. And he has a plan to try and take this guy out without getting too close. And we get the face to face between the hero and the bad guy…

The Supreme Court in Britain ruled on Wednesday that trans women do not fall within the legal definition of women under the country’s equality legislation.The deputy president of the court, Lord Hodge, said: “The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and biological sex.”However, he added: “We counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another, it is not.” He said the ruling “does not cause disadvantage to trans people” because they have protections…

As the Bahrain Grand Prix unfolded, George Russell ranked second, and his broadcast slowly conveyed the news that different systems were failing. Team principal Toto Wolff simply said: “The car was injured.”Wolff said the Mercedes driver suffered a sudden line brake failure and it took some time to find the settings to reset the system. He lost his GP and went through problems with the onboard lowering system (DRS), which led to his racing workers having to tell him on the radio when he could use the system.Wolf added that people were worried that the British would “lose the whole…

Share prices of big technology companies declined in Asia on Wednesday, dragging broader markets lower, after Nvidia, the American chip giant, revealed that the U.S. government would restrict sales of some of its chips to China.They are the first major limits that President Trump’s administration has put on semiconductor sales abroad. Nvidia dominates the market for chips used in building artificial intelligence systems and will now require a license sell A.I. chips to China. It raises the possibility that the company’s sales to China will evaporate in the coming months, bringing an end to a business that has contracted as…

Nvidia said on Tuesday that the U.S. government had blocked the sale of some of its artificial intelligence chips to China without a license and would begin requiring a license for future sales.The restrictions are the first major limits that President Trump’s administration has put on semiconductor sales abroad. It raises the possibility that Nvidia’s sales to China will evaporate in the coming months, bringing an end to a business that has contracted as the United States has curbed chip exports to its geopolitical rival.Nvidia has fought hard to maintain sales to China in the face of rising U.S. government…

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday outlining a series of actions intended to lower drug prices, including helping states import drugs from Canada.The policies were more modest than proposals to reduce drug prices that Mr. Trump offered in his first term.And one of his new directives could increase drug prices. It calls for the Trump administration to work with Congress to change a 2022 law in a way that could defang a negotiation program meant to reduce Medicare’s spending on commonly used or costly drugs.Such a change has the potential to increase costs for the government, because it…

An Israeli strike killed a security guard and wounded 10 patients at a field hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday, according to the director of the medical facility.The deadly attack on the grounds of the Kuwait Specialty Field Hospital in Khan Younis came two days after an Israeli strike hit one of the enclave’s last functioning medical centers: the Ahli Arab Hospital compound in Gaza City. The strikes highlighted the precarious state of Gaza’s health care sector, which has been decimated by the war.Israel’s military — which has said the strike on Ahli Arab hospital targeted a Hamas command center,…