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The 2025 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame class has officially been inducted after a star-studded ceremony on Saturday in Springfield, Massachusetts. Some of the greatest basketball players to ever take the floor, on both the men’s and women’s side, gathered on stage to reflect on their careers and express appreciation to those who helped get them to the Hall of Fame. Here is the full list of Saturday’s inductees:Carmelo Anthony (Player)Dwight Howard (Player)Sue Bird (Player)Maya Moore (Player)Sylvia Fowles (Player)Danny Crawford (Referee)2008 U.S. Olympic men’s team (Carmelo Anthony, Carlos Boozer, Chris Bosh, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Jason Kidd, Chris Paul, Tayshaun Prince, Michael Redd, Dwyane…

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The jihadist group Boko Haram has killed more than 60 people in an overnight attack in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno State, local officials say.On Friday night militants struck the village of Darul Jamal, home to a military base on the Nigeria-Cameroon border, killing at least five soldiers.The Nigerian Air Force said it killed 30 militants in strikes after receiving reports of the raid on the village, where residents had recently returned following years of displacement.The attack comes amid a resurgence in jihadist activity in Nigeria’s north-east, with Boko Haram fights and rivals, the West African branch of the Islamic State group,…

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 08: Melania Trump and Donald Trump attend day 9 of the 2015 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 8, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Uri Schanker/GC Images)GC Images US Open officials sent an email to broadcasters asking them to censor any negative reactions to President Donald Trump’s appearance at the men’s final on Sunday. The intention is to show Trump on the various feeds during the pre-match ceremony before the final between world No. 1 Jannik Sinner and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz, when it figures to be…

The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in legal battles between AI companies and the writers, visual artists and other creative professionals who accuse them of copyright infringement.The company has agreed to pay authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.“As best as we can tell, it’s the largest copyright recovery ever,” said…

In the 1960s, I trained as a dental auxiliary (later known as dental therapists). We were trained to fill in gaps in the school dental service and could do simple fillings, extractions of baby teeth and dental health education (The Guardian view on the dental divide: ministers must brush up their policy as well as children’s teeth, 2 September). I worked for over 20 years in the school dental service.The school dental officer would visit every school in their area. If children needed treatment their parents were sent a card. Their children could be treated by their own dentist or…

EastEnders star Jamie Borthwick has been axed from the BBC soap after 19 years.Borthwick, 31, portrayed the character of Jay Brown and was one of the show’s longest-serving cast members, having arrived on Albert Square in 2006.Earlier this year, he was suspended by the BBC after using a slur against people with disabilities on the set of Strictly Come Dancing.A BBC Studios spokesperson said: “We can confirm that Jamie Borthwick will not be returning to EastEnders. We do not comment on individual matters.”BBC News has contacted Borthwick’s representatives for a comment.According to the Mirror, Borthwick had been due to restart…

Gold Coast coach Damien Hardwick has declared his club will no longer be stomped on or forgotten after beating Fremantle in dramatic fashion to set up a blockbuster Q-Clash semi-final.The Suns blew a 26-point lead against the Dockers on Saturday night but managed to regain their composure in the dying minutes to seal a famous one-point elimination final win at Optus Stadium.Suns defender Mac Andrew drifted forward to kick the game-tying goal with just 72 seconds remaining.Then the retiring David Swallow kicked the match-winning behind from a 50m set shot with just nine seconds left on the clock after being…

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although this claim sounds incredible, it’s a great illustration of how quickly large numbers can creep into everyday situations—with occasionally challenging consequences, as the developers of an online poker game painfully discovered in the late 1990s.The mathematics of card shuffling is quite easy to explain. To calculate how many arrangements 52 playing cards can have, you must go through all the possible shuffles. So logically, one of…

A cable linking two cabins disconnected shortly before the funicular crash that killed 16 people in Lisbon this week, inspectors said Saturday. The vehicle passed a visual inspection on the morning of the accident.