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As WNBA popularity soars, player salaries remain a big hurdle for the league to address
Breanna Stewart will start her ninth WNBA season in a few days. The New York Liberty All-Star and WNBA champ has been around ...
What would lifting US sanctions on Syria mean to the war-torn country?
President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will ease sanctions on Syria could eventually facilitate the country’s ...
Rose and Jackson get posthumous reprieve, but gambling on baseball is still MLB’s biggest sin
It was more than 100 years ago that Shoeless Joe Jackson was among eight Black Sox banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 ...
‘Beyond the Gates’ is renewed as veteran Black soap actors cheer its success
When CBS’ soap opera “Beyond the Gates” premiered in February, soap opera fans and veterans alike hailed it as a win for ...
Warwick’s police chief to retire in June
WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI)—- Warwick Police Chief Bradford Connor will be retiring at the end of next month. Mayor Frank Picozzi ...
The Reds will pay tribute to Pete Rose a day after he was posthumously reinstated by MLB
The Cincinnati Reds are paying tribute to Pete Rose on Wednesday night, a day after baseball’s career hits leader was posthumously removed from the major leagues’ permanent ...
FBI says it broke up a plan to attack an Army site in suburban Detroit
A 19-year-old man was arrested after spending months planning an attack on a U.S. Army site in suburban Detroit, authorities said Wednesday. The man was planning a mass shooting at ...