The best basketball player of the current generation is now the high-paid player in NBA history, as superstar LeBron James and the LA Lakers have agreed to a two-year contract extension for the aging star.

Ex-Pennsylvania judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, were found guilty in 2011 of charges related to what came to be known as the “kids-for-cash” case. Ciavarella was sentenced to 28 years in prison, while Conahan received a 17-year sentence.

A blast that tore through a Kabul mosque during evening prayers on Wednesday killed 21 people, Kabul police said on Thursday, as the United Nations expressed concern over a growing number of civilian casualties from explosions.

A Dallas-Fort Worth Texas School district is temporarily pulling all “challenged” books from its libraries, including the Bible and an illustrated edition of the Diary of Anne Frank.  Over 40 books were flagged in total.

Cheney, who was defeated handily by Harriet Hageman in the Wyoming primary — CNN reports it was the second-worst primary loss for a House incumbent in 60 years — has redoubled her efforts to damage Trump in the public eye.

Abortion opponents have pointed out that these companies — many of which offer paid maternity and paternity leave, as well as family medical plans — will save a lot of money over the long term by paying for employees to get abortions, rather than support them through pregnancy and parenthood.

Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of wounding Rushdie, 75, on Friday just before the “The Satanic Verses” author was to deliver a lecture on stage at an educational retreat near Lake Erie. Rushdie was hospitalized with serious injuries in what writers and politicians around the world decried as an attack on the freedom of expression.