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LeBron James will become the NBA’s all-time leading scorer in the next few days – or hours – passing Los Angeles Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the prestigious list.  James’ achievement will more than likely be celebrated in the Lakers’ next two games when LA welcomes the Oklahoma City Thunder and the New Orleans Pelicans to the Crypto.com arena.  With the four-time NBA champion just 36 points away from the record, James is preparing to add another achievement to his list, which will only help his case in the “greatest of all time” debate.  LEBRON JAMES TALKS LAKERS LOSING OUT ON…

A lithium-ion battery fire prompted a cross-country flight’s return to California, where four on the aircraft were hospitalized, authorities said.The United Airlines flight from San Diego International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport had been in the air for a matter of seconds Tuesday morning when the emergency erupted in its cabin, according to officials and data from the flight tracking site FlightAware.Seven people reported injuries, four of whom were taken to a UC San Diego trauma facility, the San Diego Fire Department said.Emergency responders work near a United Airlines plane after it landed because of a fire in San…

U.S. stocks slid Wednesday as investors returned focus to the latest batch of corporate earnings. Wall Street also continued to weigh the outlook for future Federal Reserve policy moves.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 207.68 points, or 0.61%, to 33,949.01. The S&P 500 slid 1.11% to end at 4,117.86 . The Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.68% to close at 11,910.52.Chipotle slid roughly 5% after missing expectations on the top and bottom lines in its latest results. Lumen Technologies tumbled nearly 21% after it reported a fourth-quarter loss of $3.1 billion and gave guidance for the year that was under Wall…

A foundation that shaped them. Katherine Heigl, Amy Adams and Ryan Gosling are among the A-listers that grew up in the Mormon church. Heigl’s family converted to the religion after her brother Jason died in 1986 of injuries suffered in a car accident. “Both my parents felt a great desire for answers, and they found an answer in the Mormon church — or answers they could live with, anyway, because there really are none,” the Grey’s Anatomy alum told Vanity Fair in January 2008. “I give my parents unbelievable credit for pulling it together, and I give the Mormon church…

President Biden’s handling of the border with Mexico has left the US in “an absolute catastrophe” — one that is now being felt in the northernmost reaches of New York, a top House Republican told The Post on Tuesday. “The situation at the southern border is an absolute catastrophe that has gotten worse under Joe Biden,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the House Republican Conference chairwoman, said ahead of Biden’s State of the Union address. “We just don’t have migrants filling New York City’s hotels. We have buses of migrants going right through my district! This failure to control the border…

I was blessed with my mom’s natural curls, but growing up, I thought of this more as a curse. In high school, I’d wake up extra early each morning to methodically straighten my locks into a Justin Bieber-esque swoop. I’d avoid pool parties or swimming altogether, knowing the second my hair gets wet, it would start spiraling. I hated it! But then again, who could blame me: My tricky texture falls somewhere between straight and super curly—it’s more of a wavy curl—and I simply had no idea how to work with them. Even throughout my 20s, blow-drying it straight into a side-parted…

Actor Alec Baldwin, who’s accused of fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, filed a motion Tuesday to remove special prosecutor Andrea Reeb from the case, citing New Mexico’s separation-of-powers statute.Baldwin’s legal team argues that Reeb, a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, should be barred from the prosecutor’s table because the state constitution says a “sitting member of the Legislature may not ‘exercise any powers properly belonging’ to either the executive or judicial branch,” according to a filing with the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico.”As a special prosecutor, Representative Reeb is vested by statute with ‘all the…

Los Angeles Rams running back Ronnie Rivers nearly doubled his 2022 salary during a trip to Las Vegas this weekend.  The 24-year-old won $514,837 when he hit the Mega Progressive Jackpot while playing three-card poker at Caesars Palace. The rookie barely made more than his winnings during his first season in the NFL, bringing in about $515,670, according to Spotrac. He is set to make $870,000 in 2023.  Rivers was in town celebrating his mother’s birthday and plans to buy a home with his winnings, according to KTNV, Las Vegas’ ABC affiliate.  Rivers signed with the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted…

A firefighter who was swept into a storm drain while responding to a storm on the Hawaiian island of Maui died over the weekend, officials said.Treʻ Evans-Dumaran, 24, died Saturday, according to a Maui County news release. He was in critical condition in the intensive care unit at Maui Memorial Medical Center after he was swept into a storm drain during heavy rain in Wailuku on Jan. 27. He was carried the length of eight football fields until he was found where the drain ended near the shoreline.A week ago, county officials said Evans-Dumaran, who was with the Maui Fire…

The Tennessee police chief whose department was roiled by revelations that at least five male officers had sex with a female officer — both on and off the job — has been fired.La Vergne Police Chief Burrel “Chip” Davis was let go Monday after a “third-party investigator” concluded that he had been aware of what was going on but failed to discipline any of the officers, the city said in a statement.”The conclusion also states that Davis impeded the initial investigation into sexual misconduct, ‘contrary to City policy and permitted — if not encouraged — conduct potentially contrary to state and…