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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! John Wall’s new role brings him back to the city where his NBA career began. On Thursday, officials at Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C., confirmed to ESPN that Wall was named the school’s president of basketball operations.Wall joins a standout program that recently became the latest HBCU to reach an NCAA Division I men’s tournament game, a rare feat among mid-majors.Wall was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft and spent his first nine seasons with the Washington Wizards. He was named Howard’s honorary captain…

Lava is flowing down a mountainside in the Philippines as the country’s most active volcano erupts.

BEIJING: China accused the Philippines of landing personnel on a disputed reef in the South China Sea on Sunday (May 3) as Manila said it would dispatch ships to drive off Chinese vessels it said were conducting research illegally.The exchange extends a run of heightened tension between China and the Philippines, a United States ally, over Sandy Cay, an unoccupied sandbar in the South China Sea.On Sunday, China’s Coast Guard said it had identified five Philippine personnel who had landed on Sandy Cay, an action Beijing termed “illegal,” according to state-run media outlet Global Times. The report did not specify what…

Andy Serkis, the iconic voice of Gollum in “Lord of the Rings,” speaks with “CBS Saturday Morning” about his latest project, an animated version of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”

An entire street is leveled. Houses and shops are flattened, including a popular cafe. This is what is left of the town of Bint Jbeil, just a couple of miles from the Israeli border, nearly two months after Israel relaunched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon. The village of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon. Drone video from @amitseg, via Telegram. The destruction of this town, a Hezbollah stronghold, is repeated again and again across southern Lebanon, a lush region of undulating vistas, where Israel has razed border villages as part of an effort to lay the groundwork for a larger…

Trump administration officials were on the first nonstop commercial flight between the U.S. and Venezuela in seven years when it took off Thursday from Miami, bound for Caracas. National Energy Dominance Council’s Jarrod Agen led the U.S. team, and Venezuela’s newly appointed Ambassador to the U.S., Félix Plasencia, was also on board the American Airlines flight.Agen told CBS News that a White House team traveling to Caracas plans to push along some agreements between U.S. companies and Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA and some of its mining companies. HKN Energy, a company backed by Ross Perot Jr., as well as Hunt…

Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures as Apple holds an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, U.S. Sept. 9, 2025.Manuel Orbegozo | ReutersThe global memory crisis played an outsized role in tech earnings season, which hit an apex this week. Apple CEO Tim Cook warned it’s just the beginning.”We believe memory costs will drive an increasing impact on our business,” Cook said in the Q&A portion of his company’s earnings call on Thursday after repeatedly telling analysts that the company faced “supply constraints” in the latest quarter. “We’ll continue to evaluate this.”Apple’s earnings report, which…

Some used wheelchairs, others crutches or a walker, but however they took part everyone was proud as punch at the 2026 Healthy Strides Foundation Move-A-Thon, showing off the benefits of space-age tech funded by Telethon and Mineral Resources.About 400 people braved the chill to join the starting line at Elizabeth Baillie Park on Sunday morning.Many of them have first-hand knowledge of Healthy Strides’ intensive therapy centre that helps children with cerebral palsy and other neurological conditions.Founder Dayna Pool began the Move-a-Thon four years ago, to give young people an opportunity to get active and give back to Telethon.Hannah Davis, four-years-old,…

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition is “almost certain” to contest the next general election independently, said its chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. However, there would still be a need to reach some understanding with other political blocs, he added in an interview with news outlet New Straits Times (NST).”We have gone solo before,” he told NST in an exclusive interview marking the 80th anniversary of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), BN’s lynchpin party which Zahid also heads as president.”We contested solo in GE15 (Malaysi’s 15th general election in November 2022) and in the general election before that,” he added…

Game TheoryWho actually gets to go to the World Cup? With US President Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies, some fans may never make it past the American border. Because while teams qualify on merit, passports don’t. Al Jazeera’s Samantha Johnson explains.Published On 3 May 20263 May 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo