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Jay BilasJun 24, 2025, 07:15 AM ETClose College basketball analyst for ESPN and ESPN Insider Played and coached at Duke Practicing attorneyThe 2025 NBA draft will mark my 23rd straight year sitting on the main desk for ESPN. In all of those years, there have been hits and misses, we’ve been right and wrong, but every year, I gain more respect for the process. When I first started, after spending long hours on player evaluations, I probably thought I knew which prospects would hit. I quickly learned that I didn’t know. Nobody knows.All anyone does is “believe.” Hands up all…

The BBC’s Wyre Davies has visited the scene of an Iranian missile attack on a residential building in Beersheba, Israel. According to search and rescue teams the building took a direct hit in the early hours, killing at least four people. Three of the dead were sheltering inside a “safe room”.Follow live updates on this story.

Crypto company Digital Asset said Tuesday that it’s netted $135 million in funding from a raft of major names in banking and finance.The firm, which touts itself as a regulated crypto player, said it raised the fresh cash in a funding round co-led by DRW and Tradeweb, with Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas and Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities also investing.The investment highlights how large financial institutions are embedding themselves in the once murky world of cryptocurrencies.Previously associated with fraud, money laundering and other illicit activities, digital assets have become a more mainstream asset class over the years as big names like…

As Meta’s platforms fill up with more AI-generated content, the company still has a lot of work to do when it comes to enforcing its policies around manipulated media. The Oversight Board is once again criticizing the social media company over its handling of such posts, writing in its latest decision that its inability to enforce its rules consistently is “incoherent and unjustifiable.”If that sounds familiar, it’s because this is the second time since last year the Oversight Board has used the word “incoherent” to describe Meta’s approach to manipulated media. The board had previously urged Meta to update its…

Anyone who’s spent time in the “John Wick” universe — or invested countless hours in bringing the blockbuster Lionsgate franchise to life — could imagine the pitfalls awaiting the production team behind the Ana de Armas-starring spinoff “Ballerina,” which hit theaters on June 6. Predominantly filmed in the Czech Republic, the production was a high-octane thrill-ride where “every second scene was a shoot-’em-up or an explosion or a car chase,” according to Dave Arrowsmith, the film’s supervising art director. That included “very big, complex set builds” — both in Prague’s historic Barrandov Studios and on location — as well as…

Following last week’s conjunction between Regulus and Mars, the moon now gets in on the act. This meeting of a star, a planet and a moon takes place on 29 June. The chart shows the view looking west from London at 22:15 BST that day.Red planet Mars has moved on from its close pass of blue-white star Regulus, giving enough space for a waxing crescent moon to slip in between them. The moon will be 4.7 days old, and heading towards its first quarter (half-moon) phase. Just over 22% of its visible surface will be illuminated.From the moon, our nearest…

Fans of the Niçoise salad will enjoy diving deeper into the unique local cuisine of Nice, a notably different style of gastronomy that reflects the influence of neighboring Italy, specifically that of the Ligurian region. Based on seasonal ingredients that bring fresh salads and fruits in summer, and root vegetables and stews in winter, Nissarde cooking often involves eggs, olives, mushrooms, and deep-sea fish like tuna and sardines.The Nice Côte d’Azur tourism board lists about two dozen restaurants as traditional “Cuisine Nissarde” establishments, eight of them in or near Vieux Nice (the old town). Family-run Chez Acchiardo is one of…

At a potentially historic summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday, NATO leaders are expected to endorse a goal of spending 5% of their gross domestic product on their security, to be able to fulfil the alliance’s plans for defending against outside attack.

McFadden defends Liz Kendall’s handling of welfare reform briefChancellor of the duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden has praised Liz Kendall’s handling of her government brief amid a rebellion by Labour MPs over welfare reform plans.Asked on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme how long she could stay in her job if she could not convince Labour MPs to vote alongside the government, McFadden said “Liz Kendall is doing an excellent job.”He continued: She has been central to the development of these reforms. She has argued for them, not as a difficult choice, but as the right choice, because she believes…

Google could be forced to make a series of changes to its search business, including giving internet users an option to choose alternative services, after the UK competition watchdog proposed to tighten regulation of the company.The Competition and Market Authority (CMA) is preparing to designate the world’s largest search engine with “strategic market status” – a term that gives the watchdog extra powers to regulate technology companies deemed to have considerable market heft.Google, which is owned by the US tech company Alphabet, accounts for more than 90% of search queries in Britain.The CMA said it was minded to introduce bespoke…