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11:24 PM on Wednesday, June 3

Victor Wembanyama got blessed by nuns before the game, got the loudest ovation when the starters were announced, pumped his fist to the crowd a few times and generally seemed to enjoy his first taste of the NBA Finals

11:01 PM on Wednesday, June 3

Some of the leading artificial intelligence companies are moving toward initial public offerings this year at eye-popping valuations

10:13 PM on Wednesday, June 3

President Donald Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, tapping his former personal attorney who has aggressively pursued the Republican president’s agenda while leading the Justice Department in an acting role

8:54 PM on Wednesday, June 3

Ohio State University has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle hundreds of legal claims from former student athletes who said they were sexually abused decades ago by a doctor at the university

8:24 PM on Wednesday, June 3

There has been no announcement that President Donald Trump plans to attend an NBA Finals game at New York’s Madison Square Garden next week

7:51 PM on Wednesday, June 3

The U.S. military has attacked another boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two men

7:07 PM on Wednesday, June 3

Argentina is drawing a crowd wherever it goes as it prepares for the World Cup

6:52 PM on Wednesday, June 3

The NBA is making continued progress on its plans to start a league in Europe, Commissioner Adam Silver said before the start of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night

6:41 PM on Wednesday, June 3

Phillies ace Cristopher Sánchez extended his consecutive shutout innings streak to 50 2/3 before allowing a two-out RBI single to San Diego’s Jackson Merrill in the seventh Wednesday night

5:30 PM on Wednesday, June 3

There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship

5:02 PM on Wednesday, June 3

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred worries the owners' salary cap proposal could lead to a work stoppage like the one that canceled the 1994 World Series

3:01 PM on Wednesday, June 3

A train has struck a semi-truck in eastern Iowa, killing one person and injuring another

10:30 AM on Wednesday, June 3

The New York Knicks’ winning streak lives on, and they struck first in the NBA Finals

9:53 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Police say a man held 10 people hostage inside a California office building before the FBI shot and killed him, bringing a more than 15-hour standoff to an end

7:08 AM on Wednesday, June 3

A performance artist in Hong Kong has tried to display a red thread to commemorate the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing

4:57 AM on Wednesday, June 3

President Donald Trump acknowledged criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “crazy” in a phone call that involved expletives

3:36 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Britain’s interior minister accused activists of hijacking a teenager's murder to stir up violence after police were attacked at a protest

2:13 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Indonesia's former head of the National Nutrition Agency has been arrested on corruption charges related to a multibillion-dollar free-meals program

1:10 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Kuwait says Iranian drones have heavily damaged a passenger terminal at its main, killing one person, wounding dozens and briefly closing the airfield

6:15 PM on Tuesday, June 2

South Korea’s ruling liberal party has won a majority of races in local elections but lost the crucial Seoul mayoral contest