The Celtics have picked up their option on center Neemias Queta for next season and are adding a four-year, $56 million extension, his agent, Bill Duffy of WME Basketball, told ESPN's Shams Charania.
Restricted free agent Tari Eason has agreed to a five-year, $81.5 million deal to return to the Houston Rockets, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania on Thursday.
The Knicks found a replacement for backup center Mitchell Robinson in veteran Andre Drummond, who agreed to a one-year, $3.9 million contract with New York on Friday, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania.
As digital services increasingly become the default channel for healthcare, government benefits, banking, and social connection, older adults who lack internet skills and access face growing disadvantages. Studies found that only about 61 percent of Americans aged 65 and older use the internet regularly, with barriers including lack of foundational knowledge, fear of misusing devices, declining vision and motor skills, and prohibitive costs. Programs across the country have sought to address this divide through targeted interventions. Los Angeles County's Aging & Disabilities department launched its Access to Technology program, distributing over 3,000 tablets with multi-year data plans alongside structured digital literacy training. Advocates argue that digital inclusion for older adults is not merely a convenience issue but a health equity imperative, with social isolation and missed care opportunities carrying measurable public health costs.
The year 2023 marked a turning point in cardiovascular medicine, with several significant research developments offering new hope for heart attack survivors. Clinical results for semaglutide and tirzepatide — GLP-1 receptor agonists originally developed for diabetes and obesity — demonstrated statistically significant reductions in nonfatal heart attacks, cardiovascular death, and stroke in high-risk patients, extending the potential benefits of these drugs well beyond metabolic disease into mainstream cardiac care.
The concept of the multiverse — rooted in physicist Hugh Everett's 1957 Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics — has undergone a remarkable cultural transformation, migrating from the margins of theoretical physics into mainstream entertainment and everyday conversation. Films like "Everything Everywhere All at Once," which swept the 2023 Academy Awards with seven wins, brought the idea of branching parallel realities to mass audiences in an emotionally resonant form.
On June 14, 2023, a severely overcrowded fishing vessel carrying an estimated 750 migrants capsized and sank in international waters off the southwestern coast of Greece near Pylos, in what became one of the deadliest migrant maritime disasters in the Mediterranean in years. Only approximately 100 survivors were rescued and authorities recovered 82 bodies, leaving hundreds more missing and presumed dead.
David Shrigley is a Glasgow-based British artist whose work occupies a singular space between fine art, graphic humor, and philosophical absurdism. He is best known for his deceptively simple drawings — crude figures paired with deadpan, often darkly comic text — that probe mortality, anxiety, and the strangeness of everyday existence. He earned a Turner Prize nomination in 2013 and a Fourth Plinth commission for Trafalgar Square in 2016.