Getty Images NBA free agency is here. Players can officially begin negotiating with teams across the league as of Monday evening. There will be a flurry of activity this week. But many of the biggest names who could’ve been part of the free-agent pool stayed put without testing the waters. LeBron James, James Harden, Kyrie…
India has cut crude imports from Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iraq to buy more from the US ahead of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs © 2017 Bloomberg Finance LP Good morning. The Brics meeting is this week, and both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman are expected to travel to Brazil for it. Neither…
US Treasury says it removed 518 Syrian individuals and entities from its list of sanctions after president’s decree. Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle a web of sanctions against Syria, a move that will likely unlock investments in the country more than six months after the…
LOS ANGELES: The Trump administration has intensified its immigration crackdown by suing Los Angeles over its sanctuary city policies, which limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The lawsuit, filed by the US Justice Department, targets the city, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Los Angeles City Council, accusing them of obstructing federal immigration laws. This legal…
This is an article version of the CBS Sports HQ AM Newsletter, the ultimate guide to every day in sports. You can sign up to get it in your inbox every weekday morning here. THE USMNT … It may not be a high bar, but the USMNT just picked up arguably its most important win…
Major League Baseball’s amateur draft is now just a few weeks away, with the Washington Nationals scheduled to the third No. 1 selection in franchise history come Sunday, July 13. While it remains unclear who the Nationals will take at the top, this much is certain: MLB’s amateur draft is more complicated and less understood…
The season is halfway done. If you haven’t had to change out your closers yet, consider yourself lucky. Relief pitcher remains as volatile as ever, which means the past three months have led to much hand-wringing with regard to saves, holds, and other bullpen matters. I’ve done my best to keep you abreast with near-weekly…
ROME: A migrant boat sank between Tunisia and Italy, leaving one woman dead, though the Italian coastguard managed to rescue 87 survivors, the Red Cross told AFP Monday. After setting out from La Louza in Tunisia, the fishing boat sank in the middle of the night when it was approximately 45 miles (72 kilometres) from…
The dollar’s sharp decline has confounded widespread predictions at the start of the year that Trump’s trade war would do greater damage to economies outside the US © FT montage/Dreamstime The US dollar has suffered its worst first half of the year since 1973, as Donald Trump’s trade and economic policies prompt global investors to…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter says Iran learned from its latest conflict with Israel
