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Tom Thibodeau wasn’t upset with Julius Randle for allowing his emotions to get the better of him. He was more displeased with everyone else for letting it escalate.  “When he got the first [technical foul], we have to do a better job of helping him walk away,” the Knicks’ coach said after his team’s 112-99 win over the Kings. “As a team, staff, all of us.”  Randle was ejected with 3:35 left in the third quarter after picking up consecutive technical fouls. He felt he was fouled on back-to-back plays, and didn’t let the first technical stop him from expressing…

Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi ushered in a new era of global communications, sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, Dec. 12, 1901. The message was merely the letter “s” in Morse code (dot-dot-dot). But it proved after years of advances by Marconi that radio could make the world a smaller place. The wireless signal traveled 2,000 miles from a transmitting station in Poldhu, Cornwall, in the far southwestern corner of England, to a receiving station in St. John’s, Newfoundland.ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, DEC. 11, 1972, APOLLO 17 ASTRONAUTS BECOME LAST HUMANS TO WALK ON…

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN  —  A few days before Karen Bass was sworn in on Sunday as the first female mayor of Los Angeles, term-limited Democratic Mayor Eric Garcetti was making his farewell tour through South Los Angeles. He donned a hard hat to survey construction at a massive affordable housing site, checked in on formerly unsheltered residents at a motel-to-interim housing conversion and toured another spacious campus with more than 90 shelter beds and nearly 200 units for the formerly…

CNN  —  The government funding standoff gripping Washington ahead of Friday’s shutdown deadline is one of the first indicators of the coming shift in power dynamics that will return the capital to a governing cold war between congressional Republicans and a Democratic White House. An omnibus spending bill that would avert the closure of the federal government would be one of the last acts of unified Democratic political control of Washington. But it’s being pushed to the last minute as the routine disputes between Republicans and Democrats over spending priorities are exacerbated by conservative Republicans who want to hold key…

Mars has embarked on a drive to convince developing country consumers to eat more chocolate, claiming it is on track to double the value of its confectionery sales in emerging markets in the five years to 2024.The word’s largest confectionery maker has developed local products such as a bacon Snickers in Brazil as it seeks to raise the amount of chocolate eaten by consumers in less wealthy countries closer to the European average of 7kg a year. Blas Maquivar, head of global emerging markets at Mars Wrigley, the company’s snacks division, said the comparable figure in emerging markets is just…

Justin Herbert and his near-pinpoint accuracy guided the Los Angeles Chargers to a 23-17 victory over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday night.Los Angeles moved to 7-6 and was certainly still in the hunt to catch the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC West, though it seems unlikely. The Dolphins fell to 8-5, allowing the Buffalo Bills to get some breathing room in the race for the AFC West.The story of the game was Herbet, who matched up against his 2020 NFL Draft classmate. And he was outstanding. Herbert and the Chargers started the scoring in the second quarter with a…

This time, Jalen Brunson couldn’t shake it off.  After going down hard earlier in the game, only to continue playing, his second hard trip to the floor Sunday night ended his evening.  With 9:03 left in the game, Brunson sprained his right ankle while defending a drive, and didn’t return in the Knicks’ 112-99 win over the Kings at the Garden. Sacramento’s Davion Mitchell landed on Brunson’s leg and the Knicks’ guard limped to the locker room.  His status for Wednesday’s game against the Bulls in Chicago is uncertain.  “I don’t know [if he’ll play]. To be totally honest, we’ll…

After the dust settled, organizers of the 109th Grey Cup in Regina called the event a tremendous success. However, that sentiment is not shared by some in the restaurant industry.“I don’t even want to do a Grey Cup again. I just felt like we were left out,” says Kelly Monette, general manager of Bushwakker Brewpub.The Grey Cup festival left a sour taste for the brewpub located in Regina’s warehouse district.With expectations for a prosperous week, Monette says extra staff were brought in, but most nights she sent them home early.In comparison, Monette says the 2013 Grey Cup in Regina brought…

The operator of the Keystone Pipeline System, which carries a form of crude oil from Canada to multiple states for refining, said over the weekend that its largest-yet breach has been contained for now.The pipeline failure three miles east of Washington, Kansas, on Wednesday caused an estimated 14,000 barrels of crude, or 588,000 gallons of a form of crude known as tar sands oil, to spill into a natural waterway, Mill Creek, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.The administration has ordered the affected section of pipeline, about 160 miles north of Wichita, closed…

​Music industry leaders from across Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba gathered in Regina this weekend for the Very Prairie 2022 Music Summit. Focused on building careers, businesses and the local industry at large, the fifth edition of the conference had stakeholders and artists sharing expertise and taking questions on topics like distribution, money management, team-building and creating a more inclusive industry environment.It was held at the University of Regina — College Avenue Campus. Panels focused on women in music, the future of music and protective spaces in music ended the summit on Sunday. The Saskatchewan Music Awards followed at Darke Hall.The…