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Jayson Tatum scores 25 to lead Celtics past Cavaliers 113-98 and into 3rd consecutive East finals 05/15/2024 11:08pm • BOSTON (AP) — Al Horford wanted to savor the moment. With play stopped and the Celtics' victory no longer in doubt, Horford turned in the direction of the sideline, walked a few paces, stopped and extended his hands overhead, bringing an already raucous TD Garden crowd to its feet in applause. T The Nuggets are playing like champions again and putting the Timberwolves on the ropes 05/15/2024 08:23pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Repeating a championship in the NBA is as challenging as ever with the talent level across the league these days, with the Golden State Warriors the only one to do so over the last decade. Look at the five teams that hoisted the Larry O'Brien trophy prior to the Denver Nuggets l The Mirage casino, which ushered in an era of Las Vegas Strip megaresorts in the '90s, is closing 05/15/2024 08:10pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors this summer, the end of an era for a property credited with helping transform Sin City into an ultra-luxury resort destination. The July 17 closure will clear the way for major renovations and construction Latina Creators Who are Building Generational Wealth -- And What You Can Learn From Them 05/15/2024 08:00pm • Wanting to provide financial resources to family members is a universal human desire. However, not everyone starts out on the same economic starting line. Demographic inequities persist. According to a 2023 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis report, Hispanic families owned only about 23 cents for eve How to Get Accepted to Multiple Top Business Schools 05/15/2024 08:00pm • Nikita Srivastava applied to seven MBA programs and got admitted to three: Yale University School of Management in Connecticut, New York University's Stern School of Business and the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business in Illinois. "I definitely was not expecting it," says Srivastava, w How Cannes works, from the standing ovations to the juries to the Palm Dog 05/15/2024 05:05pm • CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is hallowed ground in cinema but understanding its unique landscape can be confounding. The Côte d’Azur festival, which kicked off Tuesday, is a 10-day ballet of spectacle and film where even the photographers wear tuxedos, standing ovations are ti Changes from Visa mean Americans will carry fewer physical credit, debit cards in their wallets 05/15/2024 05:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Your wallet may soon be getting thinner. Visa on Wednesday announced major changes to how credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S. in the coming months and years. The new features could mean Americans will be carrying fewer physical cards in their wallets, and will make the Trevor Rogers and the Marlins bullpen shut out the Tigers for the second straight day in a 2-0 win 05/15/2024 04:22pm • DETROIT (AP) — Bryan De La Cruz homered, Trevor Rogers pitched five scoreless innings and the Miami Marlins beat the Detroit Tigers 2-0 on Wednesday afternoon. Miami (13-32) has won two straight and three of four after a four-game losing streak. They shut out the Tigers on Tuesday and Wednesday to Man pleads guilty in theft of Arnold Palmer green jacket, other Masters memorabilia from Augusta 05/15/2024 04:17pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A former warehouse assistant for the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia pleaded guilty on Wednesday to transporting millions of dollars' worth of stolen Masters tournament memorabilia and historic items, including one of Arnold Palmer's iconic green jackets. Richard Globensky, o Movie Review: ‘IF,’ imperfect but charming, may have us all checking under beds for our old friends 05/15/2024 03:49pm • How do you make a kid’s movie that appeals not only to the kids, but the adults sitting next to them? Most movies try to achieve this by throwing in a layer of wink-wink pop culture references that’ll earn a few knowing laughs from parents but fly nicely over the heads of the young ones. So letâ Participation in the NHL's player assistance program is up this season. That may not be a bad thing 05/15/2024 03:46pm • It was untreated anxiety and depression that Colorado Avalanche defenseman Samuel Girard blamed for his alcohol abuse, a problem that reached the point where he needed to step away from hockey. He made a decision to leave the Avalanche and enter the NHL/NHLPA player assistance program earlier this s US inflation eased last month in the first slowdown of 2024 05/15/2024 12:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Led by lower food and auto prices, inflation in the United States cooled slightly last month after three elevated readings, likely offering a tentative sigh of relief for officials at the Federal Reserve as well as President Joe Biden’s re-election team. Consumer prices rose 0. Community colleges offer clean energy training as climate-related jobs expand across America 05/15/2024 12:37pm • DANVILLE, Illinois (AP) — On the south side of Chicago, students learn to work on Rivian electric pickup trucks and SUVs through a new technician program at Olive-Harvey College. About 150 miles (240 kilometers) south, students at Danville Area Community College in Illinois are taught to troublesh Morocco’s automotive industry shifts gears to prep for electric vehicle era 05/15/2024 11:06am • TANGIERS, Morocco (AP) — A train that travels from rural northern Morocco to a port on the Mediterranean Sea carries no passengers. Three times a day, it brings hundreds of cars stacked bumper to bumper from a Renault factory outside Tangiers to vessels that transport them to European dealerships. As Melinda French Gates leaves the Gates Foundation, many hope she’ll double down on gender equity 05/15/2024 09:42am • NEW YORK (AP) — Melinda French Gates is already one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the United States and is now poised to put another $12.5 billion toward intractable problems like closing the gender pay gap and increasing women's political participation, her grantees