Lakers get surprising title odds boost as LeBron James era nears end
Apparently, less LeBron James is more for the Lakers.

Austin Reaves is finally reacting to the news that he and LeBron James will no longer be teammates in Los Angeles.
Apparently, less LeBron James is more for the Lakers.
After LeBron James decided not to return to the Lakers for his unprecedented 24th NBA season, teams are clamoring to sign one of the greatest players of all-time, who apparently isn’t factoring money into his free-agency decision for the first time in his career. The competition has gotten so intense that even the governor of Minnesota,...
The Lakers have been extremely aggressive in free agency this offseason after superstar Luka Doncic relayed his desire for major roster improvements heading into the 2026-27 season. The free agency period began with several subtractions, primarily the departure of LeBron James. The Lakers also lost other key free agents in sharpshooter Luke Kennard and defensive...
While the U.S. isn't a bona fide soccer nation yet, the past three weeks have perhaps shown what it would feel like if it were.
Steve Kornacki analyzes key election results in Colorado, including NBC News' projections of John Hickenlooper winning the Democratic Senate primary and Phil Weiser winning the Democratic primary for governor.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled his solution to Gotham’s housing crisis, invoking the free-market housing renaissance in Austin, Texas. Weeks later, his Rent Guidelines Board installed historic price controls. The Rent Guidelines Board, six of whose nine members were appointed by Mamdani, voted 7-1 Thursday to pause rent increases for up to two years. […]
Several prominent elected Republicans with law backgrounds on Tuesday broke with President Trump on the Supreme Court’s ruling over birthright citizenship, arguing that a constitutional amendment would have to be passed to change this method of obtaining citizenship. The high court ruled 6-3 that the 14th Amendment automatically guarantees citizenship for nearly all children born…
Donald Trump claims to have a trick up his sleeve to upend birthright citizenship—though his plan to do so would most likely run afoul of the law.The president downplayed the Supreme Court decision Tuesday that killed his attempts to rewrite the Fourteenth Amendment, claiming that he and his allies could “easily make it up in Congress through Legislation.”“No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!” he wrote on Truth Social. “Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!”But that’s simply not true. Any attempt to change or alter birthright citizenship would require a constitutional amendment, since the right was enshrined in the Constitution in 1868 when Dred Scott was overturned and the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified.Accomplishing that would require a level of coordination and bipartisanship seemingly beyond the current Republican Party. A constitutional amendment requires a supermajority—two thirds of both the House and Senate—to pass. Alternatively, the issue could technically be put to a Constitutional Convention, though two thirds of states would need to support the motion to have one at all, and any proposed changes to an amendment would still require ratification by three fourths of the states.The president was still embittered by the ruling hours after it was read at the bench, writing in a separate post that he “would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN.”In another post, Trump went on to claim that while the Supreme Court’s birthright ruling was a “loss” for his second term agenda, he had actually won the “biggest and most consequential Decision” when they extended him (by a 6-3 margin) sweeping new authorities over some two dozen agencies that were originally intended to be independent. That included granting him the ability to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission, except in cases of “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”