Boogie Ellis walked stiffly into the postgame interview room, dragging his left leg behind him the same way the fifth-year senior is trying to drag an underachieving USC team into the postseason picture. Ellis fought through a lingering hamstring injury to score 18 points with five rebounds, but lacked his usual explosiveness to make key…
First, the “Board Man” got paid. Then he and the Clippers got a win. Hours after All-Star wing Kawhi Leonard signed a three-year contract extension worth $152.3 million on Wednesday, he scored 29 points as the Clippers slowly awoke to outlast the skidding Toronto Raptors, 126-120, at Crypto.com Arena and improve to 24-13. Leonard’s curving…
January 11, 2024 at 1:00 a.m. EST Yuna the lioness at the Wild Animals Rescue Center near Kyiv. (Alice Martins for The Washington Post) Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save CHUBYNSKE, Ukraine — Yuna the lioness lay in the corner of her outdoor enclosure, completely still. Fragments of a Russian missile,…
Updated Jan. 11, 2024 1:00 am ET TOKYO—China’s near-monopoly on the solar-energy market has prompted the U.S. and allies to step up the search for workarounds. Engineers believe they have found one in a type of solar cell that looks and feels like camera film. Japan is pushing the technology with subsidies and other support,…
Alijah Arenas is human. He misses shots, he makes turnovers. It encouraged Birmingham coach Nick Halic to order Arenas to be double-teamed the entire game Wednesday. The strategy was working at times. The Chatsworth High sophomore missed his first six shots and was limited to 10 points at halftime. It was only a matter of…
A BYD Seagull small electric car is on display during the 20th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Shares of Chinese electric car makers have started the new year in reverse gear, as intense competition and continuing price wars pressure…
Jan. 10, 2024 11:40 pm ET Google laid off hundreds of employees in several areas of the business on Wednesday, a sign of further cost reductions at the search giant as it continues to reverse a pandemic hiring spree. The cuts affected employees in divisions including those working on Google’s Assistant program, hardware and internal…
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at a Washington hotel, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, after attending a hearing before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals at the federal courthouse in Washington. Susan Walsh | AP Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday signaled that he plans to retain his stake in his business empire…
Tesla Inc. signage during a launch of company’s Model Y electric vehicle in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday, July 20, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Malaysia is doubling down on the semiconductor industry to capture growth in the growing electric vehicle market. In an exclusive interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Thursday,…
Brian Armstrong, chief executive officer of Coinbase Global Inc., speaks during the Messari Mainnet summit in New York, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Now that the SEC has approved the creation of bitcoin exchange-traded funds, Coinbase’s position in the crypto market is poised to take a dramatic turn….
