The 2021-2022 NCA men’s basketball season began on Tuesday with several notable matchups and finishes.

The mobile phones of six Palestinian rights workers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were hacked using Israeli technology firm NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, Amnesty International and internet security watchdog Citizen Lab said on Monday.

The NFL announced yesterday that they had fined the Green Bay Packers $300,000 as well as quarterback Aaron Rodgers and wide receiver Adam Lazard $15,000 each for not following the league’s COVID policies.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, invigorated by a surprisingly strong election victory, signaled on Monday he would pursue defense policies aimed at deterring China, address climate change and accelerate recovery from the pandemic.

Early this week, 69-year-old Rev. Franklin Graham had procedure done on his heart. Sources say the founder of Samaritan’s Purse and son of the late pastor Billy Graham is recovering well after surgery to treat an inflammation of the heart, tanks to a skilled team of doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

Migrants trapped in Belarus made multiple attempts to force their way into Poland overnight, Warsaw said on Wednesday, announcing that it had reinforced the border as the European Union prepares to impose sanctions on Belarus over the crisis.

The White House released a Fact Sheet on Tuesday detailing a plan to designate $17 billion from the newly passed $1 trillion infrastructure bill to address the backlogs plaguing America’s shipping ports.