Gasol, 41, announced his retirement from professional basketball in a live press conference shared to his Twitter account. Gasol’s Hall of Fame caliber career began at 18 with FC Barcelona in his native Spain, where the club won Spanish League titles in 1999 and 2001, with Gasol earning Finals MVP honours in 2001. After three seasons with FC Barcelona, Gasol was selected third overall by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2001 NBA Draft before his rights were traded to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Shareef Abdur-Rahim....

This Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, it will be NXT TakeOver: War Games, the latest installment of the TakeOver events that have reached epic levels of praise with their incredible matches over the past few years. Once again, the expectations are huge on this show that includes just four matches but all of them with their own importance. The card includes Tommaso Ciampa defending the NXT Championship against Velveteen Dream, Shayna Baszler taking on Kairi Sane in a 2-out-of-3 falls match for the NXT Women’s Championship, Aleister Black and Johnny Gargano squaring off in a grudge match, and the double-cage War Games match pitting Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, Kyle O’Reilly, and Bobby Fish) against War Raiders, Ricochet, and Pete Dunne....

The controversial photoshopped clip mocked up Gosar, an Arizona Republican, killing a giant Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, could no longer be found on the congressman’s social media accounts on Wednesday. Gosar faced a wave of criticism after it was uploaded to his Twitter account on Sunday. It was later posted on his Instagram account. The posts have been viewed more than 3 million times combined. The 90-second anti-immigrant clip edited the opening credits of Attack on Titan, a show in which man-eating giants try to breach city walls....

Gosar was censured and removed from his House committee assignments last month over tweeting the edited anime video, which depicts him killing Ocasio-Cortez with a sword before turning the blade towards President Joe Biden. The Arizona Republican initially deleted the video from Twitter shortly after controversy ensued. However, he quickly reversed course, praising the video and sharing it in another tweet minutes after being censured. In an interview with Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla....

According to Rolling Stone, during the school year, the program will pair 20 young music educators from all over the five boroughs of New York City with veteran teachers. Along with Simon himself, they will provide mentoring and skills training to students from grades 6 through 12. As the curator, Simon will also be scheduling guests and artists-in-residence to visit the schools. During the 11 week residency, these artists will teach three master classes for the students culminating in a public student performance....

Jones’s attorney, Joseph Cammarata, retorted that the aspersions against his client were “typical attack the plaintiff” tactics. And Jones herself told a New York Daily News reporter: “This has to do with what Clinton did to me. It has nothing to do with who I am or what I was in the past.” Still, it was hard to discount the growing questions about her credibility. Dave Harrington, Jones’s former boss at the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, dismissed the notion that the alleged incident had affected her job rating, or that anyone even knew it had occurred: “That [story never, never surfaced....

Paxton carried a shutout into the eighth inning and the Seattle Mariners held off a late rally by Oakland for a 6-5 win Tuesday night, handing the Athletics their fifth loss in six games. “This young man’s got greatness written all over him, he’s just got to stay healthy,” manager Lloyd McClendon said. “I thought it was a dominant performance.” Paxton (5-1) gave up three hits through the seventh. Ahead 6-0, he was chased in Oakland’s three-run eighth, and the A’s nearly got even in a harried ninth....

The sharp-elbowed infighting is just one sign of the gold rush underway in the budding business of pay-to-play music downloads. Companies are piling in, hoping to give music fans a better alternative to free services like KaZaa, with all their attendant baggage–lawsuits, viruses and unwanted porn. The new players, and those expected to join in, include the biggest names in computers (Dell and Hewlett-Packard), retailing (Wal-Mart), software (Microsoft) and the Internet (AOL)....

Scholes selects his Man Utd XI The playmaker was an outstanding performer during his first season in England, helping the Hammers to finish seventh and earning a prominent role in France’s run to the final of Euro 2016 on home soil. West Ham has struggled to recapture its best form since moving to London Stadium, failing to qualify for the group stage of the Europa League and winning just three of 11 Premier League matches so far this season....

The Department of Energy said recently that the price could climb another nine cents a gallon by the end of next month. Phil Flynn, energy analyst at Alaron Trading Corp., predicts the average gas price could jump even higher by summer–to more than $2 a gallon during the peak driving season. “Regardless of how high energy prices seem to be now, there is still a strong chance they’ll go even higher,” he says....

DACA protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, called “Dreamers.” Those that are part of the program are eligible for work permits and deferring deportation for a renewable two-year period. The New York Times reported that the ruling by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn could make up to 300,000 new people eligible for the program. A July memo by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf had set different limits on the program, only allowing those who had already applied use the benefits and shortening the term to one year....

The pair spoke over the phone Tuesday in a bid to bridge their differences over what action to take, after a previous call between Pelosi and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows failed to breach the impasse. Mnuchin expressed his hopes for a bipartisan agreement at a meeting of the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis, insisting he was willing to negotiate the matter “with no conditions whatsoever any time....

Pelosi added that she believes investigators should still look into Biden’s records from during his time as a senator to see if there’s any mention of sexual assault accusations. However, bureaucratic and logistical hurdles have made accessing Biden’s records somewhat unlikely, at least in the near future. During her Tuesday evening appearance on the MSNBC news program The Beat With Ari, host Ari Melber asked Pelosi whether she considered the accusations “a closed issue” following Biden’s denial of Reade’s allegations on MSNBC’s Morning Joe last Friday....

With a possible government shutdown looming, President Joe Biden’s economic agenda faces a crucial week on Capitol Hill. Democratic leaders will need to bridge internal divisions in their fractured caucus to pass the two bills, and the Senate is expected to vote on a stopgap funding bill that would head off a federal shutdown. The House will begin debate on the infrastructure framework Monday and vote on it Thursday, Pelosi told her members in a letter....

She derided the proposal that is expected to arrive on the Senate floor for debate next week. Introduced as the Just and Unifying Solutions to Invigorate Communities Everywhere (JUSTICE) Act, it is the Senate’s first attempt to address the recent calls for police reform that have spread throughout the U.S. after George Floyd’s death. Among its suggestions are the banning of law enforcement officials’ use of chokeholds in most cases and increasing officers’ use of body cameras....

The Penguins’ star center was disappointed to come up short in Game 5 in Pittsburgh on Thursday, but believes the series could end Sunday in San Jose. MORE: Remembering Gordie Howe “Yeah, 4-2 we lost, but I think we played a little bit better than San Jose,” Malkin said after practice Saturday, via NHL.com. “They’re a good team, but they were a little bit lucky.” Malkin’s notion is hard to question....

Individual states are easing social distancing restrictions on their own timelines, attempting a relative return to normalcy at a staggered rate. Nineteen remain completely locked down, six will begin reopenings soon and 25 are partially reopened already. That’s something Franklin would like to avoid in college football, if possible — he’d prefer all schools to open their camps at the same time for the sake of an equal competitive playing field....

The state legislature sent the measure, Senate Bill 613, to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (D), in an apparent effort to pressure him to reopen the economy. The legislation, which was approved in the state’s Senate along party lines, disregards warnings from the state’s health officials, who say such a move is likely to endanger more lives. It is unclear whether Wolf will sign the bill, according to KDKA Radio....

The incident occurred in Allentown on Saturday evening, Black Lives Matter to Lehigh Valley wrote on Twitter. The group posted a 26-second clip that showed three officers restraining a man. One of the officers is seen using his elbow to pin the man down by the neck, before later adjusting position to use his knee instead. Alongside the video, Black Lives Matter to Lehigh Valley noted that the neck restraint was the same one “used to murder” George Floyd....