Blakeney is a 6-4, 180-pound shooting guard with considerable playmaking skill who attends Oak Ridge High School in Orlando. He announced his commitment on Twitter late Thursday: “Coach P I’m coming,” he wrote. MORE: Dynamic Dozen | Players in need of improvement Blakeney was rated No. 19 in the 2015 recruiting class by Sporting News. Louisville earlier had gained a commitment from No. 18 Mitchell, a powerful 6-3 guard from New Hampshire’s Brewster Academy....

CBS News/YouGov Battleground Tracker found that Warren has gained territory on Biden in an estimate of Democratic National Convention delegates. The former vice president had 600 delegates, compared to Warren’s 545. Bernie Sanders rounded out the top three candidates with an estimated 286 delegates. When it came to specific early voting states, the tracker showed Warren to be slightly ahead of both Biden and Sanders in New Hampshire. But she was behind her male counterparts in Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada....

My first contribution to this space was supposed to be about Dale Earnhardt Jr. — my boss, my pal, most likely your favorite racer, the only person who can divert my attention away from my wife while she’s trekking through her first marathon. I write that sentence unashamedly, of course, as I am part of Junior’s publicity team; have been for more than 10 years. The Junior PR machine doesn’t clock out at 5 p....

What path history will blaze is unclear. That Obama seems poised to become the Democratic nominee is certainly evidence we’ve arrived at a redefining moment in this nation’s evolution. But that’s not to say race has ceased to be of consequence. Hillary Clinton made that point in a widely criticized interview, boasting she had a stronger base of support than Obama among “hardworking Americans, white Americans.” (She said she was misunderstood....

Why would this important voice “hate to say it?” Because it is Elon Musk, billionaire developer of the signature electric car of our age, the Tesla. Musk addresses his mixed feelings in a subsequent tweet: “Obviously, this would negatively affect Tesla, but sustainable energy solutions simply cannot react instantaneously to make up for Russian oil & gas exports.” A social media free-for-all soon unfolded, as fossil fuel supporters suggested Musk is a wiser voice than the familiar chorus of climate extremists who fill their days telling us our gasoline engines are dooming coastal cities to an underwater future....

Speaking for the first time since losing his $190 million defamation lawsuit against the Tesla founder, Vernon Unsworth described his humiliation following the pair’s public spat last year while Musk attempted to send a small submarine to help with the rescue operation at the Tham Luang caverns in Chiang Rai. Unsworth dismissed Musk’s attempt to help with the rescue as a PR stunt, adding he can “stick his submarine where it hurts....

Musk made the comments during an interview at the TED 2022 conference Thursday, according to The Hill, the same day reports emerged that he had offered to buy Twitter. With 81.7 million followers on the platform, Musk is both a frequent user and outspoken critic of Twitter. His criticisms of Twitter largely center on his free speech concerns, something he spoke about at the TED 2022 conference. “I think it’s very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech,” Musk was quoted by The Hill....

Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, tweeted on Thursday: “Even Discord has gone corpo”—a derogatory term for a person or organisation that has become “corporate.” In just six hours, his tweet sparked more than 11,200 comments. It was also retweeted over 33,000 times and garnered more than 321,000 likes—with that figure jumping by a thousand every few seconds at the time of writing. The r/WallStreetBets group has caused a stir in recent days after its members rallied behind the struggling video game store GameStop, causing its stock to spike....

The surge, typically seen each spring as the weather warms, is leading to criticism of Biden from across the political spectrum with questions over the impact of his policies and the treatment of people arriving at the border. The president has received majority approval since he entered the White House. According to FiveThirtyEight’s tracker, based on a weighted average of polls, his rating is 53.4 percent approval and 38.8 percent disapproval....

Acho, a current presenter for Fox Sports 1, discussed Flores’ class-action lawsuit against the National Football League and how it alleges that the league has discriminatory hiring practices. However, Acho turned his attention to Flores hiring a law firm with an all-white staff and no Black lawyers. “I did a little perusing of the law firm that’s representing Brian Flores,” Acho told his co-presenter, Marcellus Wiley, “and I noticed a complete lack of diversity in that law firm....

The TikTok, which was uploaded by @tejeda.angelina97, received more than 1.5 million views and 1,100 comments in six days, with many commenters criticizing the restaurant’s corporate for not treating employees better. The video can be found here. “This kid is running this whole store ALONE THIS IS CRAZY,” the caption of the video read. A recent survey conducted by IT software company Ivanti found that just under a quarter of respondents in America have left their job in the past year and 27 percent are considering leaving....

Remember this day, for on this day life in America changed forever, and not for better. We are at war, and the war may never end. The death toll is unimaginable, the worst (and almost the only) domestic war casualties in our history. But we’ve lost more than lives. We’ve lost what’s left of our innocence. Remember what life was like before today: freedom to travel, the right to privacy, a sense of ease and security in our homes and in our cities and towns....

Top U.S. infectious-diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday the highly contagious variant that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says accounts for 95 percent of new COVID cases, “will find just about everybody.” But with the U.S. reporting nearly 1 million new coronavirus infections a day, there is hope that things could soon turn a corner. The New York Times reported that the number of new COVID cases has fallen in New Jersey and Maryland, and is leveling off in a number of major cities....

The Carthage Eagles qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 12 years and will have to navigate their way past the Three Lions, Belgium and Panama in Group G to make it to the knock out stage of the tournament for the first time in their history. Although the Al Ahly defender is upbeat that Nabil Maaloul’s men will put in their best in the tourney, he acknowledged that Gareth Southgate’s side will be difficult....

Southgate has taken a relatively inexperienced group of players to Russia compared to previous tournaments, with Joe Hart and Jack Wilshere among the big names left out. England face Tunisia in their opening game on Monday, with Panama and star-studded Belgium their other opponents in Group G. But Mourinho, whose Manchester United players Jesse Lingard, Ashley Young, Phil Jones and Marcus Rashford are all in the squad, feels England have the talent to go all the way....

Engraftment is the part of the transplant process when the body accepts transplanted bone marrow or stem cells and begins to produce new blood cells. Engraftment syndrome is an inflammatory response in the body that is not fully understood, though it has been known to occur after both main types of a hematopoietic stem cell transplant: autologous (transplant from self) and allogeneic (from another, often related donor). Engraftment syndrome symptoms may mimic those of graft versus host disease (GVHD), when donated bone marrow or stem cells deem the recipient’s cells foreign and attack....

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said the snake measured 18 feet and 9 inches in length—a new record for the Sunshine State. The previous largest Burmese python caught in Florida was slightly smaller, measuring 18 feet and 8 inches. This snake was captured in 2013. The latest record-breaking snake was caught on October 2 near the L-28 Tieback Canal, around 35 miles west of Miami, by snake hunters Ryan Ausburn and Kevin Pavlidis who work with the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and FWC respectively....

A rescue team working with the aquarium is monitoring the pair, with a Facebook post saying they have been seen daily for the last few weeks. In order to free the entangled mother, the aquarium said it would need authorization from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). “Only the mother is currently entangled with [a] line around the top of her dorsal fin,” Clearwater Marine Aquarium said in a statement....

Native plants: These are “best suited to your region’s normal amount of rainfall,” says Jason Mark, who co-manages Alemany Farm, a 4.5-acre San Francisco community garden. In Houston, for example, put in Texas hummingbird sage. To research the best plants for your area, talk to experts at your local nursery and gardening center—and for a plant-hardiness-zone map, check the National Arboretum site, usna.usda.gov. Water: To prevent water from evaporating into the air, avoid using sprinklers, or at least use them very early in the morning....

Solvents like MTBE are among the most hazardous of pollutants, and the toughest to remove from the environment. And they are almost everywhere: trace amounts can be found in most drinking water. After decades of experimentation and false promises, scientists now think they’ve finally discovered bacteria tough enough to eat these chemicals and turn them into harmless byproducts. “People looked for a long time to find organisms that would efficiently degrade these chemicals,” says Dr....