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The defending champs will celebrate their 2024 NBA title with a banner and ring ceremony prior to Knicks-Celtics at TD Garden in Boston.  • Get NBA League Pass TODAY > BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics are giving themselves one more chance to celebrate their latest NBA championship before they turn their attention to a repeat. The league’s most decorated franchise will raise its 18th banner to the TD Garden rafters Tuesday night before the season opener against the New York Knicks (7:30 ET, TNT). Players will also receive their championship rings in the pregame ceremony. “This is a great accomplishment,…

Geneva — Ukraine’s population has declined by around eight million since Russia invaded in February 2022, sparking an exodus and sending birth rates plunging, the United Nations said Tuesday. The U.N. Population Fund said there had not been a census, but that there clearly had been a dramatic population decline in war-torn Ukraine. “Overall, Ukraine’s population has declined by an estimated 10 million since 2014 and by an estimated eight million since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022,”  UNFPA’s regional director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Florence Bauer said in comments sent to journalists. Ukraine’s population stood at…

Once the most dominant team in professional cycling, Ineos Grenadiers have struggled to match the pace of their rivals, trailing behind powerful squads like UAE Team Emirates, Visma-Lease a Bike, Soudal-Quickstep and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe. After finishing the 2024 season as the seventh-best team also behind Lidl-Trek and Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, the British squad announce sweeping changes to its staff for 2025.Performance director Scott Drawer said he “spent six months listening, observing, and working with the team to determine what’s needed to set ourselves up for excellence for 2025 and beyond” according to the team’s press release. “I’ve been looking at…

Canva just released a ton of new features, including a new AI image generator called Dream Lab. It’s release season, and that goes for software, too, which is why it’s no surprise that Canva announced a slew of new features in its ‘Droptober’ release. Lifewire received the press release announcing Canva’s Droptober feature launches via email. Among the new features coming to Canva is a new image generator called Dream Lab, which the company says is powered by Leonardo.Ai, which it acquired in July 2024. The image generator is designed to sit atop Canva rather than be built into the…

People’s LightMalvern, Pennsylvania 11:54 A.M. EDT      THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Let’s get to it.      MS. LONGWELL:  Let’s do it.  Let’s do it.      THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everyone.      AUDIENCE:  Good morning.      AUDIENCE MEMBER:  Happy birthday!      MS. LONGWELL:  Oh, happy belated birthday.  (Applause.)  Oh, yeah. THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  Thank you.  I appreciate that.  Thank you.       MS. LONGWELL:  Audience members showing me up — that’s tough.  (Laughter.) Okay.  So, I’ve got to start with the thing that brings us here today, because I’ve got to say it is unusual for somebody who was as…

MALVERN, Pa. — Vice President Kamala Harris held a series of moderated conversations with former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney in suburban cities in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin on Monday during which Cheney worked to assuage concerns that Republicans may have about voting for the Democratic candidate.”If you’re at all concerned, you can vote your conscience and not ever have to say a word to anybody, and there will be millions of Republicans who do that on Nov. 5, vote for Vice President Harris,” Cheney said to Republicans at the Michigan event.Cheney and Harris also worked…

Wendy’s has a spooky treat for adults in store this Halloween season!Beginning Oct. 21, the burger chain is offering its customers a new Halloween themed-meal designed as a kids’ meal for adults for a limited time at participating Wendy’s locations nationwide or while supplies last, according to an announcement by Wendy’s on Monday.The “Boo! Bag” meal features a Dave’s Single burger, small fry, small Frosty, a glow-in-the-dark Bone Chiller Frosty figure and a Boo! Book.Boo! Books come with coupons for five free Jr. Frosty treats, plus a coupon to get a Wendy’s kids’ meal for $1.99 with any purchase.Wendy’s is…

The political analyst Samuel Lubell introduced the concept of the sun and moon parties in 1951. The sun party is the majority party, and “it is within the majority party that the issues of any particular period are fought out; while the minority party shines in reflected radiance of the heat thus generated.”Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Democratic Party was the sun party for two generations, until the dawn of the Reagan majority. When Bill Clinton signed welfare reform and (falsely) declared, “The era of big government is over,” he was reflecting the reality of that transformation.In the early 2000s, the GOP…

Officials investigating the death of Liam Payne in Argentina said Tuesday they are trying to reconstruct the former “One Direction” star’s final hours as experts scour cell phones, computers, photographs and videos from security cameras.Payne’s father, Geoff Payne, has been updated about the investigation by the head of Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office, according to a news release. Geoff Payne has been in Argentina since the weekend, when he visited the hotel where Payne fell to his death. The prosecutor’s office told Geoff Payne that toxicology reports are still pending. Another study to see if Payne was ill at…

With just 14 days until Election Day, here’s a look at who is leading in the race between Democratic nominee Harris and Republican nominee Trump. Image Credit: Getty Images With two weeks to go, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are campaigning in key battleground states as the race remains tight nationwide. Here’s an overview of their standings and campaign activities. What Are the Latest Updates from the Polls? Trump and Harris are in a tight race across seven key battleground states, according to a recent voter survey published by The Washington Post. As of October 21,…