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Utah Jazz rookie Ace Bailey parted ways with manager Omar Cooper on Tuesday, according to Tony Jones of The Athletic. Bailey is “in the process” of searching for new representation, per Jones. Cooper was reportedly attempting to ensure that Bailey landed on an East-Coast team in the 2025 NBA draft. Instead, the Jazz selected him with the No. 5 overall pick.After Bailey was selected, ESPN’s Jonathan Givony reported that Utah “was not one of his preferred destinations.” He declined a workout invitation from the Jazz prior to the draft.On Monday, NBA insider Marc Stein reported that Bailey’s camp “refused to engage” with teams looking to bring…

I have a patient named “Alex.” He is 15. He feels alone, down almost every day. He tells me he’s having trouble with schoolwork. He worries about his future. He struggles to make friends and keep the ones he has. He says it’s hard to get out of bed, to shower and brush his teeth. He doesn’t find joy in things he used to love, like painting. I met him in our emergency department; he was in the middle of a crisis and came to us for help.Alex has depression and anxiety, and these feelings had been going on for…

US President Donald Trump took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday, delivering a sweeping speech that touched on foreign policy, immigration, climate change and more. He attacked friends and rivals alike, while making controversial – and often factually inaccurate – assertions.Here’s a look at some of his key comments and arguments – and how they hold up against the facts.Broken teleprompterTrump kicked off his speech with a lighthearted comment about a non-functional teleprompter, noting that he did not mind that it was not working.“I don’t mind making this speech without a teleprompter, because the teleprompter…

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – JANUARY 4: Monte Morris #23 of the Phoenix Suns holds the ball against Ben Sheppard #26 of the Indiana Pacers at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on January 4, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)Getty ImagesINDIANAPOLIS – With training camp just around the corner, the Indiana Pacers are making another addition to their roster – they plan to sign veteran point guard Monte Morris to a contract.The Pacers currently have 21 players under contract and will have to waive one to make room for Morris, but two of their currently-signed players (Samson Johnson and Gabe McGlothan) are…

Amazon is preparing to shut down all of its Amazon Fresh stores in the UK, just four years after the US tech company launched its first grocery shop in London.The company plans to close all 19 Fresh stores, with plans to convert five of these into Whole Foods Market shops, the US organic grocery chain that it bought in 2017.Amazon launched its first Fresh store in 2021 in Ealing, west London, that allowed customers to walk out with their shopping without having to use a till.Instead, shoppers use an app to enter the store and are charged when they leave,…

The Walt Disney Company is probably hoping that upon viewing the new trailer for the upcoming Star Wars film The Mandalorian and Grogu, audiences feel a swell of nostalgia. No, not for 1977, when Star Wars was fresh and wondrous; after all, Disney didn’t even own it then. Not even for a decade ago, when the company brought the film series roaring back with 2015’s The Force Awakens, still the highest-grossing movie in US box office history. Rather, the trailer, consciously or not, hopes to transport viewers, and presumably profits, back to the halcyon days of … 2019.They would probably…

Centuries ago, Maya children as young as 7 had “tooth gems” — jade inlays in their teeth that likely symbolized social maturity or a rite of passage, a new study finds.Archaeologists already knew that pre-Hispanic Maya adults often sported tooth inlays. But “what is tantalizing is the young age of the individuals” analyzed in the new research, the authors wrote in the study.Dental inlays were common during the Maya Classic (A.D. 250 to 900) and Postclassic (900 to 1550) periods in what are now southern Mexico and parts of Central America. Earlier research found that both men and women had…

According to the pilot union that commissioned the survey, napping appears to have become more routine than intended.A study by a German pilot’s union indicates napping while on duty in the cockpit of an aircraft may be more common than imagined by the everyday passenger. The study, commissioned by the union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), which represents pilots for a number of German airlines, indicates that 93% of pilots admitted to napping while on duty, to varying degrees.European regulators allow pilots to nap during duty periods inflight under specific conditions. A nap period must be planned and agreed upon between the…

Twitch, Roblox, Steam, Lego Play, X and Reddit are among the companies eSafety has approached about whether the under 16s social media ban applies to them from December.Companies approached by the eSafety commissioner this month about the requirement to prevent under 16s from holding social media accounts from 10 December have conducted a self-assessment that the commissioner will use to decide if they need to comply with the ban.eSafety will not be formally declaring which service meets the criteria but companies that eSafety believes meet the criteria will be expected to comply.Sign up: AU Breaking News emailThe eSafety commissioner’s office…

John DevineCambridgeshireJohn Devine/BBCAndrea Moat said she had never seen such high prices for her flowersFlorists have spoken about how cut flowers have reached sky-high prices in the past few years.Andrea Moat, who runs Elizabeth’s Florist on Chatteris High Street in Cambridgeshire, said staple varieties were losing popularity due to their price tag.She said chrysanthemums, traditionally used in floral tributes on graves, had risen up to five times their price post-Covid and post-Brexit, while another florist told the BBC prices for flowers had more than doubled.The British Florist Association said the price of flowers was in-line with other inflation products, with…