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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — After a young Memphis Grizzlies fan had her prized basketball stolen, Ja Morant jumped in to ease the anguish. Ellie Hughes, an 11-year-old Grizzlies fan, was trying to get Morant’s attention for an autograph at Monday’s game against San Antonio when two people swiped her special ball. Hughes, of Forrest City, Arkansas, had collected players’ signatures on the ball for the past six years. Hearing of her plight through social media, Morant reached out to her family, invited her to Wednesday night’s rematch against the Spurs and then gave her his game-worn jersey and Ja 1 Nike…

Gambling whistleblower and independent Kogarah candidate Troy Stolz is challenging Opposition Leader Chris Minns at the state election. Mr Stolz wants punters to be forced to use gaming cards rather than cash at all venues across the state to prevent money laundering and problem gambling.The Perrottet government is also pushing for mandatory cashless cards in poker machines but is facing resistance from Labor and ClubsNSW. Source: Sky News

The vehicles come as Haiti contends with surging levels of gang violence, particularly in the capital Port-au-Prince.Canada has delivered armoured vehicles to Haiti to help combat criminal gangs as the Caribbean nation faces a humanitarian crisis, the Canadian foreign ministry said. Canadian military aircraft made the delivery to the Haitian National Police in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, it added. Haitian gangs seized control of much of the country since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, leading to routine gun battles with police. Hundreds died in turf battles last year and, in September, Haitian gangs blocked a fuel…

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SAN DIEGO — Longtime slugger Nelson Cruz has agreed to a $1 million, one-year contract with the San Diego Padres, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. The people spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the contract is pending a physical and had not been completed. The right-handed-hitting Cruz, who turns 43 on July 1, is expected to platoon at DH with 37-year-old lefty hitter Matt Carpenter, who signed a one-year deal with the Padres last month. Cruz is a seven-time All-Star and four-time Silver Slugger Award winner who has 459 career home…

The ACCC has ruled against a landmark deal which would see Telstra and TPG arrange a mobile sharing network across regional Australia. The competition regulator claimed the plan would give Telstra an unassailable lead and could result in Optus pulling out of the market.Mitry Lawyers, Richard Mitry said Telstra is the “biggest player” in the regions and combining resources with TPG would create a “significant imbalance”. Source: Sky News

The family of a micro-preemie who weighed just 1 pound, 5 ounces at birth celebrated the child’s one-year birthday on Jan. 10 after the little boy spent 155 stays in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) — defying all odds.”He was under a pound-and-a-half and 23 weeks and two days,” Samantha Smith, a neonatal nurse practitioner at Pediatrix Neonatology of Texas and Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, told Fox News Digital.”So he was kind of on the edge of viability, which is about 22 weeks,” she said.MICHIGAN UPS WORKER, BORN A PREEMIE HERSELF, MAKES WARMING BLANKETS FOR OTHER BABIES…

The Penn Biden Center lies at the heart of the latest Biden controversy but in some ways remains shrouded by mystery.The White House revealed earlier this week that classified documents were discovered at the Washington, D.C. office for President Biden’s think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, in early November. On Wednesday, news broke that another trove of classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president had been discovered at another location, leading to louder calls for Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate the president’s handling of such documents. The Biden Center has since…

Princeton University must show “an ounce of courage” against pressure from “little radical activist undergraduates” demanding the school remove a statue honoring the college’s former president, Fox News’ Pete Hegseth said.Princeton University’s Committee on Naming is reviewing a proposal to remove a statue of the school’s sixth president, John Witherspoon, because of his complicated history with slavery. The petition, signed by over 300 people at Princeton, suggests replacing the statue with a plaque that “details both the positive and negative aspects of Witherspoon’s legacy.””The idea that his statue would be removed is completely antithetical to history, antithetical to what the…

Several harrowing videos of heavy waves battering cruise ships in the Drake Passage as passengers look on have gone viral in recent months, serving as a reminder that the high-priced cruises to Antarctica, while breathtaking, take passengers through arguably the most treacherous waters in the world.In early December, a TikTok vlogger who goes by “Natasha” shared a video of massive waves battering her cruise ship as it sailed through the Drake Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans at the southern tip of South America. The video was viewed more than 12 million times, the New York Post reported.”Waves are…