The past Venmo transactions suggesting that Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer had gambled on college football games were instead “inside jokes between me and my friends,” Mateer said on social media Tuesday, Aug. 12. Earlier on Tuesday, multiple reports cited screengrabs in linking Mateer to three-year-old reimbursements on Venmo that contained descriptions labeled “sports gambling.” One screengrab included a note that ...
Elon Musk on Monday threatened Apple with legal action over alleged antitrust violations related to rankings of the Grok AI chatbot app, which is owned by his artificial intelligence startup xAI. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. ...
Former Navy SEAL and current GOP House lawmaker Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona delivered a pointed message to former President Barack Obama. ‘You’ve done enough damage. Probably best to sit this one out,’ the congressman told Obama in a post on X. Crane made the comments in response to a post in which Obama declared, ‘Since we passed the Affordable ...
Paige Bueckers and the Dallas Wings travel to Indianapolis to face All-Stars Aliyah Boston Kelsey Mitchell and the Indiana Fever on Tuesday, Aug. 12, a matchup that features two No. 1 overall WNBA draft picks. Not only will the Fever be without Caitlin Clark, the No. 1 overall pick for the 2024 WNBA Draft, Indiana will also be without guards Sydney Colson (left ...
A UFC fight at the White House looks primed to take place on the Fourth of July next year. “It’s absolutely going to happen,” UFC CEO and President Dana White told The Associated Press in a story published Aug. 12. White’s comments come on the heels of a billion-dollar deal to bring UFC to CBS that was announced on Monday, ...
AI-assisted summary Travis Kelce’s statistics the past two seasons show a decline in receiving yards and TDs compared to his career averages. Kelce has returned to training with a former coach and expressed renewed dedication to his football career. His primary goal for the upcoming season is to win the Super Bowl. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end went from ...
The New York Jets will have to navigate the rest of the preseason without their backup quarterback, but the team is holding out hope that it will be at full strength behind center by Week 1. ‘He’s still going through his protocols as far as his rehab, so we’ll see exactly where he is in the next couple weeks,’ Glenn ...
Paige Bueckers and the Dallas Wings travel to Indianapolis to face All-Stars Aliyah Boston, Kelsey Mitchell and the Indiana Fever on Tuesday, Aug. 12, a matchup that features two No. 1 overall WNBA draft picks. Not only will the Fever be without Caitlin Clark, the No. 1 overall pick for the 2024 WNBA Draft, Indiana will also be without guards Sydney Colson (left ...
An Israeli nongovernmental organization is working behind the scenes to provide a critical link between the Israeli military and international organizations with one goal in mind: Get humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians. ‘We really became this informal connector and facilitator between the Israeli authorities and the humanitarian community,’ IsraAID CEO Yotam Polizer said. IsraAID has worked in 64 countries and ...
The U.S. State Department’s annual human rights report delivered a grim assessment of conditions in Venezuela, declaring that human rights have fallen to a new low following reports of widespread abuses and state-sanctioned repression, particularly after the July 2024 presidential election when Nicolás Maduro clung to power. ‘The human rights situation in Venezuela significantly worsened,’ the report reads. ‘Throughout the ...