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The Los Angeles Lakers’ brief reign is over. The Phoenix Suns eliminated the Lakers from the N.B.A. playoffs on Thursday night with a 113-100 victory in Game 6 of their first-round series, ending LeBron James’s hopes of hauling the Lakers to back-to-back championships. It is the first time that James, 36, has exited the playoffs …

Saturday night’s scheduled contest between No. 7 seed Oregon and No. 10 seed VCU in the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament has been declared a no-contest with the Ducks advancing on to the second round because of COVID-19 issues within the VCU program. It’s the first cancellation of the tournament as the event proceeds with rigorous COVID-19 testing standards. …

Hundreds of thousands of employees are expected to return to work in New York City on Monday as the city moves into its first phase of reopening after nearly three months of restrictions and closures. Shops can partially reopen for curbside pickup, though most of the resumed economic activity will be in construction and manufacturing. …

But the country isn’t celebrating yet. “That does give us confidence that we’ve achieved our goal of elimination, which never meant zero but it does mean we know where our cases are coming from,” Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand’s Director General of Health, said on Monday, adding that there was only one case since April 1 …

Farmington • On a chilly Thursday evening, Lisa and Dan Cappelli bundle up their 2-week-old granddaughter and head to the Davis County jail. They are going to visit Lisa’s son, who was arrested for a probation violation just two days after his daughter, Nellie, was born. But the Davis County jail, like more than half …

The 2019 FIBA World Cup has officially concluded as Spain beat Argentina to take home the gold. France won over Australia on Sunday as well to earn bronze, while Serbia defeated the Czech Republic to earn fifth place. Rounding out the top eight was Team USA in seventh place and Poland in eighth.  The results …

Michael Adams, Bu Xiangzhi and Sam Shankland are some of the players that were eliminated from the FIDE World Cup in the tiebreaks of the first round. Round two starts on Friday. You can follow the games here as part of our live portal Chess.com/events. There is daily coverage by our Twitch partner, the Chessbrahs. GMs Yasser Seirawan, Eric Hansen …

Kevin ConnellyImage: Mexy Xavier Spencer Stuart, a leading executive search and leadership advisory firm, in July launched a new business unit focussing on culture & engagement, leadership development and talent advisory. Known as Kincentric: A Spencer Stuart Company, the entity was acquired from Aon. Kevin Connelly, CEO of Kincentric, speaks to Forbes India about …

NEW YORK (CNN) — Researchers have successfully eliminated HIV from the DNA of infected mice, a promising step toward a cure for the nearly 37 million people living with the virus. In a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications, researchers from Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center …