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Orlando Magic No. 1 pick Paolo Banchero put himself in rare company during his NBA debut Wednesday night. The Orlando Magic opened the 2022-23 season on the road against the Detroit Pistons. Although the Magic lost, all eyes were on this year’s top draft selection, Paolo Banchero.The 19-year-old rookie finished his first NBA game with 27 points (11-18 FG), nine rebounds, five assists and two blocks in 35 minutes. Banchero joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James as the only No. 1 picks since 1969 to record at least 25 points, five rebounds and five assists in an NBA debut.  The former…

CNN  —  BMW recently announced a $1.7 billion investment to help prepare its huge Spartanburg, South Carolina, factory to produce electric cars and SUVs. That sum included $700 million for the construction of a battery manufacturing plant nearby. Spartanburg is BMW’s largest factory anywhere in the world. It employs 11,000 people and produces 40,000 SUVs a year, only 40% of which are sold in North America. The rest are exported to 120 other countries. It’s one of a number of such announcements in recent months and years as automakers gear up to start producing more electric vehicles. Mercedes, Hyundai, Honda,…

Tom Brady regrets his choice of words. Earlier this week, on his SiriusXM podcast “Let’s Go,” Brady compared leaving his family for the NFL season to a military deployment. “Earlier this week I made a statement about playing football and the military, and it was a very poor choice of words,” Brady told reporters on Thursday. “I just want to express that to any sentiments out there that people may have taken it in a certain way, so I apologize.” On the podcast, Brady had said, “I almost look at like a football season like you’re going away on deployment…

Mayor Eric Adams used a new TV interview to downplay the increase in violent subway crime — and blamed the news media for creating a false “perception” that the situation underground is out of control. Adams took his dismissive tone about mayhem in the subways — where violent crime this year through August was up 39% compared to 2019 — during a talk with CNN’s Chris Wallace that was recorded just a day after the city’s ninth train-system homicide of the year occurred in Queens. “We have an average of less than six crimes a day on a subway system…

There’s no denying the ever-enduring allure of denim. But deciding what shoes to wear with jeans can be a puzzling sartorial feat for anyone. After all, there are several silhouettes from which to choose. Whether you’re a die hard slim-fit lover who refuses to relinquish those skinnies or a wide-leg fan who enjoys a little extra wiggle room, we’ve put together the failproof formula for outfit success.Ahead, you’ll find some of our favorite street-style stars demonstrating easy-to-copy outfits to try out this season. Discover timeless straight-leg inspiration, which pairs well with classic Chelseas, and It girl–approved tapered silhouettes, which are…

Disclaimer: The Industry Talk section features insights by crypto industry players and is not a part of the editorial content of Cryptonews.com.Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) spiked at the end of September, giving investors hope that a reversal was on the cards after the coin crashed from $0.00059. Although LUNC broke out of the downtrend, buyers didn’t keep up the momentum at the $0.00036 resistance, and Terra Classic began forming lower lows.The bears dominated the price action, and the price failed to break through key resistance levels. LUNC continued its downtrend throughout October. The only good news for the coin is…

Global copper stocks have fallen to perilously low levels, one of the world’s largest commodity traders Trafigura has warned.Speaking at the FT Mining Summit on Thursday, Kostas Bintas, co-head of metals and minerals trading at Trafigura, said the copper market is today running with inventories that cover 4.9 days of global consumption and is expected to finish this year at 2.7 days, according to its own forecasts. Copper stocks are usually counted in weeks.The price of copper, used in everything from wind turbines, electric wires to electric vehicles, is now trading around $7,400 a tonne, some 30 per cent lower…

Spain and France have agreed to build an undersea energy pipeline between the two countries, dropping contentious plans for a gas link over the Pyrenees as EU leaders seek ways to cope with the energy crisis.The new project brings to an end a long-running Franco-Spanish dispute over Midcat, the Pyrenean pipeline plan Madrid advocated strongly but that Paris opposed.Speaking in Brussels during an EU summit, the French, Spanish and Portuguese leaders outlined a “green energy corridor” comprising a submarine pipeline designed to carry gas and hydrogen from Barcelona to Marseille, as well as new gas links between Portugal and Spain.…

Nurse Lucy Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 more at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Dr David Harkness was alerted to a rapid deterioration of Child AA baby allegedly murdered by nurse Lucy Letby had “extraordinary” discoloured patches on his skin which a doctor had never seen before, a court has heard. The newborn twin died at the Countess of Chester Hospital just over 24 hours after his premature birth. Manchester Crown Court heard that Child A and his sister, Child B, were moved to the hospital’s neo-natal unit on the evening of June…

The asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs sixty-six million years ago also created a “mega-tsunami” whose waves grew more than a mile high, according to a new study. Scientists recreated the impact of the Chicxulub, a nine-mile-wide asteroid that not only wiped out the dinosaurs but destroyed most of Earth’s species and plants. The study, which was published in AGU Advances, outlined the effects of the global tsunami and flooding. Researchers hope their work can be used to unlock insight surrounding the geology of the Cretaceous period. “This tsunami was strong enough to disturb and erode sediments in ocean basins halfway…