BusinessAFP NewsChina hits Alibaba with record $2.78bn for market abuses
Chinese regulators hit e-commerce giant Alibaba with a record 18.2 billion yuan ($2.78 billion) fine on Saturday over practices deemed to be an abuse of the company's dominant market position.
SportsAssociated PressBeal's late heroics lift Wizards past Warriors 110-107
Bradley Beal shook off a sluggish performance — and a sore back — and scored six points in the final 6.1 seconds, lifting the Washington Wizards past the Golden State Warriors 110-107 on Friday night. Russell Westbrook had 19 points, 14 assists and 14 rebounds for his league-leading 21st triple-double. Rui Hachimura added 22 points and five rebounds for the Wizards, who had lost 12 of 16.
SportsAssociated PressLeonard scores 31 as Clippers extend winning streak to 4
Kawhi Leonard scored 31 points, Reggie Jackson added 26 and the Los Angeles Clippers used a dominating second quarter Friday night to defeat the Houston Rockets 126-109 and extend their winning streak to four games. The short handed Clippers, who were missing All-Star Paul George, trailed by 10 at the end of the first quarter and found themselves down 40-26 with 9:57 remaining in the second before outscoring the Rockets 41-6 the remainder of the period. Leonard scored 11 and Jackson connected on three of his career-tying six 3-pointers during the quarter to give Los Angeles a 67-46 advantage at the break.
SportsAssociated PressBridges leads Hornets to 127-119 win over short-handed Bucks
Miles Bridges scored 26 points to lead the Charlotte Hornets to a 127-119 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, who were playing Friday night without all five of their usual starters. The Hornets (27-24) are three games above .500 for the first time since January 2017. “I'm proud of our guys, that they've put us in this position to be where we're at," Hornets coach James Borrego said.
SportsYahoo SportsJayson Tatum becomes youngest player in Celtics history to post 50-point game
The last Celtics player to score as much as Tatum was Larry Bird.
SportsAssociated PressTatum's career-high 53 help Celtics top T-Wolves 145-136
The only regret Jayson Tatum had about his first career 50-point game was that his 2-year-old son wasn't there to see it. “It just means I’ll have to do it again someday," Tatum said. Tatum scored a career-high 53 points — including 18 in the fourth quarter and overtime — and the Boston Celtics held on to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 145-136 on Friday night.
SportsAssociated PressKnicks rally late, snap Grizzlies' 4-game win streak in OT
The Knicks were down and almost out. “We needed it bad,” All-Star Julius Randle said. RJ Barrett scored 20 points, making a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 1:15 left in overtime, and New York used a late rally to stun the Memphis Grizzlies 133-129 on Friday night.
SportsAssociated PressClippers' Beverley to miss time after breaking left hand
Clippers guard Patrick Beverley is likely to miss the rest of the regular season after breaking his left hand during Thursday's game against the Phoenix Suns. Beverley was going for a rebound in the fourth quarter of Los Angeles' 113-103 victory when he broke the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand. The Clippers announced before Friday's game against the Houston Rockets that Beverley had surgery and will be evaluated again in three to four weeks.
SportsAssociated PressHawks win 120-108, overcome 50-point game by Bulls' LaVine
Trae Young scored 42 points, Clint Capela had 22 points and 10 rebounds, and the Atlanta Hawks overcame a sizzling performance by Zach LaVine to beat the Chicago Bulls 120-108 on Friday night. LaVine scored 39 of his career-high 50 points in the first half, and Nikola Vucevic had 25 points and 10 rebounds but the Bulls' three-game winning streak was snapped. Chicago was trying to win four straight for the first time since December 2017.
SportsAssociated PressHoliday, Sabonis lead Pacers past Magic, 111-106
Indiana Pacers shooting guard Aaron Holiday might want to get used to being a top scoring option off the bench after the way he consistently shot in the last few games. Holiday scored 20 points and Domantas Sabonis added 16 points, 15 rebounds and six assists in his return from a three-game injury absence to help Indiana hold off the Orlando Magic 111-106 on Friday night. Holiday made six of Indiana’s 11 3-pointers, two nights after scoring a season-best 22 points in a victory over Minnesota.
SportsYahoo SportsPatrick Beverley out at least 3-4 weeks with fractured hand
Not what the Clippers wanted.
SportsGOBankingRatesFloyd Mayweather and 14 More of the Richest Boxers in the World
Boxing is a rough sport, but it’s quite profitable for the select few who make it big. With lucrative purses and pay-per-view payoffs, famous fighters can fare quite well. Read: The Richest...
HealthYahoo LifeDakota Johnson says we shouldn't call vibrators sex toys. Here's why she may be right.
The actress is working with a sexual wellness company that is legitimizing vibrators and other sexual props.
SportsAssociated PressBucks missing all 5 starters against Hornets
The Milwaukee Bucks were without all five of their usual starters Friday night as they hosted the Charlotte Hornets a night after losing at Dallas. Reigning two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo sat out his fourth straight game with a sore left knee. Jrue Holiday (bruised left knee), Donte DiVincenzo (bruised right hip), Brook Lopez (sore back), Khris Middleton (sore right knee) and reserve forward P.J. Tucker (strained left calf) also were declared out.
SportsYahoo SportsIt’s a great time to join the Phoenix Suns bandwagon
The Suns are now the No. 2 seed in the West, a top-10 offense and defense that now demands the attention of their Western Conference foes, who are approaching them with a level of scrutiny and attention that they haven’t experienced before.
CelebrityYahoo CelebrityDMX remembered by Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber and more: 'Your gift was so obvious to us all'
Tributes are pouring in for DMX who passed away on Friday at age 50.
HealthINSIDERA woman cried blood while on her period, a rare condition that could be caused by sex hormones, doctors say
The 25-year-old was diagnosed with ocular vicarious menstruation, which could be linked to an increase of progesterone and estrogen during periods.
ScienceThe New York TimesThese Rocks Made a 1,000-Mile Trek. Did Dinosaurs Carry Them?
In the summer of 2017, Joshua Malone, then an undergraduate at Augustana College in Illinois, visited a field-research camp in Wyoming and picked up some rocks. Rounded at the edges and the size of small fists, they were out of place amid the fine-grained mudrock that had surrounded them, and Malone asked his father, David, a geologist at Illinois State University who led the dig at the site, if he knew where the rocks had come from. Four years later, the two have developed a surprising answer. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times In a study published this year in the journal Terra Nova, the Malones and colleagues say the stones came from a rock formation in southern Wisconsin about 1,000 miles to the east of where they were found. What is even more surprising is their hypothesis for how the rocks made that journey: They were carried in the guts of long-neck dinosaurs. These animals, known as sauropods, reached lengths of more than 100 feet and weights of 40 tons, and regularly swallowed stones known as gastroliths, perhaps to help them digest plants, just as some birds and reptiles do today. The hypothesis would explain how the rocks acquired their smooth and rounded textures. But questions remain about whether they really made the whole journey in the bellies of these great beasts. The gastroliths were found in Jurassic-aged mudstones in a rock formation called the Morisson. A rainbow of pinks and reds, the Morisson formation brims with dinosaur fossils, including those of sauropods, such as Barosaurus and Diplodocus, as well as meat-eaters such as Allosaurus. But the rocks, which are similar to gastroliths dug up elsewhere, were found on their own without any dinosaur remnants. To get a clue as to how they had ended up in modern-day Wyoming, the team crushed the rocks to retrieve and date the zircon crystals contained inside, a bit like studying ancient fingerprints. “What we found was that the zircon ages inside these gastroliths have distinct age spectra that matched what the ages were in the rocks in southern Wisconsin,” said Malone, now a doctoral student studying geology at the University of Texas at Austin. “We used that to hypothesize that these rocks were ingested somewhere in southern Wisconsin and then transported to Wyoming in the belly of a dinosaur. “There hasn’t really been a study like this before that suggests long-distance dinosaur migration using this technique, so it was a really exciting moment for us.” The Wisconsin-Wyoming connection hints at a trek hundreds of miles longer than previous estimates for sauropod migrations. Changing seasons can drive migrations as animals relocate in search of food and water. And sauropods in particular, says Michael D’Emic, a vertebrate paleontologist at Adelphi University in New York and co-author of the study, would have needed gargantuan amounts of these resources to sustain their gargantuan lives. “Sauropods grew quickly to reach their unparalleled sizes — on par with the rates that large mammals grow today,” he said. “This means that their caloric needs were immense, so given the highly seasonal environments they lived in, it’s not surprising that they would have had to migrate long distances in search of food.” But other scientists say that because the rocks were not found alongside any actual dinosaur remains, the paper’s hypothesis will need more evidence to be proved correct. “Unfortunately, we have no real evidence that these clasts are indeed former gastroliths,” said Oliver Wings, a geologist and vertebrate paleontologist at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. “We cannot exclude the possibility of transport of the stones in the bellies of dinosaurs, but it remains just one possibility of several.” Nevertheless, Wings thinks the team’s new technique swings the door open for paleontologists to date other gastroliths, especially those found preserved with actual dinosaur skeletons. “It would be amazing if they could use that method on genuine gastroliths,” he said. However the rounded rocks got to Wyoming, their discovery helped carry Malone into a family tradition of studying geology. “I kind of rejected geology for the first 19 years of my life,” he said. “It wasn’t until this project, and being out there at that field camp, that I kind of started to get interested in maybe taking that direction in my life.” This article originally appeared in The New York Times. © 2021 The New York Times Company
NewsReutersWhite House says China's moves around Taiwan 'potentially destabilizing'
The White House on Friday said it was keeping a close watch on increased Chinese military activities in the Taiwan Strait, and called Beijing's recent actions potentially destabilizing. "We have ... clearly - publicly, privately - expressed our concerns, our growing concerns, about China's aggression toward Taiwan," White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. "We've seen a concerning increase in PRC military activity in the Taiwan Strait, which we believe is potentially destabilizing," she said, when asked if Washington was concerned about a possible Chinese invasion.
NewsYahoo SportsExperts: Tiger Woods did not receive preferential treatment from police
Experts say the police's handling of the Tiger Woods crash was nothing out of the ordinary.
CelebrityYahoo CelebrityPrince Harry and Meghan Markle pay tribute to Prince Philip
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reacting to the news of Prince Philip's death at age 99.
CelebrityYahoo SportsLeBron James among athletes paying respects to DMX after news of rapper's death
Athletes reacted to news of the icon and legend's death on Friday.
NewsNextSharkJapanese American Olympian Racially Harassed While Training in Orange
Sakura Kokumai, a Japanese American Olympic athlete, was verbally harassed while training at a park in Orange, CA. The incident happened in Grijalva Park on April 1 when Kokumai, 28, was training for her upcoming karate competition at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in July, according to KTLA.
HealthAFP NewsPfizer seeks Covid vaccine authorization for 12-15 year olds in US
Pfizer-BioNTech asked for authorization Friday to use their Covid-19 vaccine on 12 to 15-year-olds in the United States, which could mark a crucial next step toward achieving herd immunity.
SportsYahoo SportsNBA Fact or Fiction: Title favorites, three-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and Paul Pierce
Each week during the 2020-21 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into three of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
