The Milwaukee Bucks overcame the absence of star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo and beat the Atlanta Hawks 123-112 on Thursday night at Fiserv Forum to grab a 3-2 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. and Toronto Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. finished as the leading vote-getters in each league as the starters for the 2021 MLB All-Star Game were revealed Thursday. Tropical Storm Elsa formed in the southern Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and forecasters say it may cause heavy rains and flooding in the Caribbean, and could ultimately reach South Florida. The United States on Thursday condemned Russia for handing down its harshest sentence yet on Jehovah's Witnesses amid the Kremlin's crackdown on those who practice the Christian denomination. Search and rescue efforts of a condo that collapsed in South Florida resumed Thursday evening after efforts were suspended earlier in the day over fears the other half of the structure could buckle. Former Georgia Bulldogs and Miami Hurricanes head football coach Mark Richt revealed Thursday that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Homes and other structures in the Canadian town of Lytton were destroyed after the approximately 250 residents were forced to evacuate due to a wildfire. Roger Federer advanced to the third round at Wimbledon after beating France's Richard Gasquet 7-6 (1), 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday in London. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday imposed a moratorium on all federal executions amid a review of the Justice Department's policies. Virgin Galactic said Thursday that founder Richard Branson will be part of a four-person crew on its first fully crewed spaceflight on July 11. Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young and Milwaukee Bucks star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo will miss Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals on Thursday night at Fiserv Forum in Wisconsin. Trading app Robinhood settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of Alex Kearns, 20, who died by suicide in June 2020 after mistakenly believing he owed $730,000 through his account on the trading app. The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the death sentence for a death row inmate convicted of kidnapping and killing a man in 2013. Sudden and dramatic environmental shifts, triggered by climate change, fueled the decline of prehistoric elephants, mammoths and mastodonts, according to a new study. Californians will vote Sept. 14 on whether to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom and possibly elect a successor, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis announced Thursday. A new water purification technology uses a catalyst of gold and palladium to instantly turn hydrogen and oxygen into hydrogen peroxide, a common disinfectant. A dedicated lottery player who made an extra trip to a second store in South Carolina to buy a drawing ticket five minutes before the cutoff time ended up winning $200,000. A dog who went missing in Florida was reunited with his owner 7 years later when he ended up at an animal shelter in Michigan. A cooldown is on the way for the Northeast as the holiday weekend begins, but not before severe thunderstorms bring dangerous conditions. The rate of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men remained low during a three-year period in a region of Australia in which affordable pre-exposure treatment was widely available, a Lancet study found. The S&P 500 hit another record after rising for a sixth consecutive day and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite each rose to begin the second half of 2021. An alligator paid a visit to a church in Florida where it was greeted by parishioners and the pastor offered it a business card. The U.S. deficit will reach $3 trillion for 2021, the second-largest shortfall since 1945 due to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday. |
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