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After beating the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals on Monday night, 96-88, the Golden State Warriors have a 69% chance to repeat as NBA champions.
That is according to Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight website, which uses a combination of its Elo model and Carmelo player rankings to offer NBA playoff result probabilities. It gives the Cleveland Cavaliers a comparatively measly 31% chance to lift the Larry O'Brien Trophy.
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German police arrested three Pakistani suspects as 18 women have reported becoming victims of sexual assaults at a music festival, authorities said.
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Police arrested the driver of a cargo truck after they found 774 kilograms of dagga in a hidden compartment attached to the vehicle’s undercarriage.
Читать дальше...NOTRE-DAME-DE-GRAVENCHON, France (AP) — Outside Gate A of the ExxonMobil oil refinery, the strike was fizzling.
NOTRE-DAME-DE-GRAVENCHON, France (AP) — Outside Gate A of the ExxonMobil oil refinery, the strike was fizzling.
Trump's attorneys lose fight to keep documents from Trump University private, including guidelines and scripts used to enroll students.
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LOS ANGELES, May 31 (UPI) -- Charlize Theron threw a baby shower for "The Huntsman: Winter's War" co-star Emily Blunt, who is expecting her second child with John Krasinski.
The NBA Finals may be a sequel to last year, but when it comes to ticket prices, it’s a brand-new story.
California Gov. Jerry Brown: I'm backing Hillary Clinton May 31, 2016, 6:54 a.m. Bernie Sanders' stumping in California extends to showing up at the Warriors' Game 7 win in the Western Conference finals. Jerry Brown, who has a long history with the Clintons, endorses Hillary Hillary Clinton and...
All 120 Austin Reed stores will close by the end of June at the cost of 1,000 jobs, the menswear retailer's administrator said.
Eric DuVall
OAKLAND, Calif., May 31 (UPI) -- The Secret Service jumped the stage during a Bernie Sanders rally when four protesters jumped a barricade during his speech.
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Disney may have its first hiccup in its lucrative "Star Wars" franchise.
The first cut of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" was shown to Disney executives, and they were not satisfied, according to a Page Six story quoting an anonymous source.
The source told Page Six that the execs "are not happy with the movie" and it will now go back and do four weeks of reshoots in July.
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The delay with setting a date for the next round of intra-Syrian talks in Geneva is caused by Syrian Opposition’s High Negotiations Committee (HNC) ultimatums, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
The Santa Monica Police Department on Monday identified a man accused of attempting to drug his date’s unattended drink, according to three women dining in the same restaurant.
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Читать дальше...A long-running legal dispute over a two-second sequence of a Kraftwerk song has ruled in favour of the hip-hop producer who sampled the track. ...
(ATTN: RECASTS headline; ADDS more info in paras 6-8, 12-18) By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korean talent management YG Entertainment sealed a deal with two Chinese companies Tuesday in the latest sign of the two countries' enhanced
Stephen Feller
BILTHOVEN, Netherlands, May 31 (UPI) -- Researchers found about one-third of children's family history increases risk for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, regardless of all other health factors.
India’s history of its treatment of the victims of human trafficking has been dismal, with the government having previously handing out punishments to the survivors. However, all of that is set to change with the addition of a new law unveiled by the Indian Minister for Women and Children.
ENSCHEDE – Een 54-jarige man uit Borne is dinsdag opgepakt, omdat hij in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag een stacaravan op camping de Twentse Es in Glanerbrug in brand stak. De man werd op heterdaad betrapt.
Cyborgs are among us. They call themselves biohackers, body hackers or simply experimentators, but they all have the same hobby horse: augmenting the human body with technology, creating a new species of men-machines.
Eurozone unemployment is down from its peak, but the good news is far from spreading everywhere in the bloc.
The 69-year-old says the Champions League winners have an obligation to improve every season and could be tempted to make a summer move for the France international