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NBA Europe is eyeing a 16-team league that will tip off in October 2027, regardless of whether the EuroLeague is involved in the venture, NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum said Tuesday. “We remain in active discussions with the EuroLeague,” Tatum said. “We believe all parties must be aligned, and we are also realistic. We are ready to proceed with FIBA and our partners if needed. There will be a meeting […]

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Notwithstanding fresh hostilities in the Middle East, AI shares drove equity markets in Asia to new records on Wednesday. [MKTS/GLOB] AI kingmaker Jensen Huang – the CEO of Nvidia – offered the latest shove higher by anointing superhero-sounding chipmaker Marvell Technology as the next trillion-dollar company, promptly sending its stock price up more than 30%. A […]

By Christine Chen SYDNEY, June 3 (Reuters) – KPMG Australia’s chief operating officer stepped aside from her executive role on Wednesday, the accounting firm said, in the latest fallout from a growing scandal over allegations it misused client information to win lucrative audit contracts. Eileen Hoggett will remain as an audit partner after relinquishing the executive role while investigations are pending, according to an internal email from KPMG Australia interim […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — One sweep and one lopsided five-game series in the third round sucked some of the air out of the NHL playoffs. Vegas and Carolina brought it all back with a terrific start to the Stanley Cup Final. The Golden Knights’ 5-4 victory on Tuesday night had a little bit of everything, from Nikolaj Ehlers scoring 25 seconds in for the Hurricanes and lifting an already riled-up […]

The two biggest conferences in college sports released a statement Tuesday saying they do not support the current version of a bipartisan bill designed to regulate an industry struggling for answers in a quickly changing era in which some players make millions. The Southeastern and Big Ten conferences said the “bill leaves critical issues unresolved,” including not “meaningfully” preempting state laws with a federal one, which has long been considered […]

CBS News fired longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, a day after he allegedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job. The move deepened the turmoil at the nation’s most influential TV news program and the news unit that oversees it. Pelley had criticized the program’s leadership during an introductory meeting Monday between the show’s […]

ZURICH, June 3 (Reuters) – Swiss voters look set to reject a referendum proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million people, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday. Concern about rapid growth in Switzerland’s population, which climbed to 9.1 million last year from 7.3 million in 2002, and its impact on public infrastructure has fed support for the proposal. The initiative, which goes to a vote on […]

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (Reuters) – French quantum computing startup Quobly said on Wednesday it has raised €115 million ($133.72 million) in a funding round led by France’s state-backed investment bank Bpifrance, chipmaker STMicroelectronics and Sealsq. The funding follows a wave of public investment in quantum computing in the U.S. and Europe. French President Emmanuel Macron last month said France will invest €1 billion in quantum computing, […]

Tomas Hertl scored to break a third-period deadlock and give the Vegas Golden Knights a 5-4 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes in the opener of the Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday in Raleigh, N.C. Shea Theodore scored once in a three-point performance for the Golden Knights in the comeback win. Brett Howden tallied once and added an assist, and Ivan Barbashev and William Karlsson added singles. Vegas goaltender Carter Hart […]