The LA Clippers have acquired guard Kris Dunn in a sign-and-trade with the Utah Jazz in trade for guard Russell Westbrook, a proper to swap second-round draft picks in 2030, the Draft rights to middle Balsa Koprivica and money issues, it was introduced by President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank.

Jazz obtain: 

• Russell Westbrook
• 2nd-round decide swap in 2030
• Draft rights to Balsa Koprivica
• Money issues

Clippers obtain:

“Kris is a relentless point-of-attack defender, a connector on the offensive finish and a terrific teammate,” stated Frank. “He’ll assist enhance our protection and steadiness our backcourt.”

Dunn, 30, averaged 5.4 factors, 3.8 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 1.0 steal in 66 video games for the Jazz final season. The 6-foot-3 guard has appeared in 333 profession video games with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Chicago Bulls, Atlanta Hawks, Portland Path Blazers and Jazz, averaging 7.9 factors, 4.2 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 1.4 steals. Initially chosen with the fifth general decide within the 2016 NBA Draft, Dunn was named to the NBA G League All-Defensive Workforce in 2023. A local of New London, Conn., Dunn attended Windfall, the place he was named a consensus Second-Workforce All-American in 2016 and the Huge East Participant of the Yr in 2015 and 2016.

“Russ is an all-time nice and we have been lucky to have him right here,” stated Frank. “He lifted the vitality and depth of the group. We look ahead to seeing him proceed his embellished profession.”

Westbrook, 35, appeared in 89 video games over the past two seasons with the Clippers, averaging 12.2 factors, 5.2 assists and 5.0 rebounds. The 16-year NBA veteran has appeared in 1,162 video games and holds profession averages of 21.7 factors, 8.1 assists, 7.1 rebounds and 1.6 steals with the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards, Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers. A Los Angeles native, Westbrook gained the 2016-17 Most Useful Participant, is a nine-time All-NBA honoree (two first-team picks), nine-time NBA All-Star, two-time All-Star Recreation MVP (2015, 2016), two-time NBA scoring champion, 2012 Olympic gold medalist with the US and a member of the NBA seventy fifth Anniversary Workforce. Initially chosen by the Seattle SuperSonics with the fourth general decide within the 2008 NBA Draft out of UCLA, Westbrook is the NBA’s all-time chief in triple-doubles (199) and ranks ninth on the all-time assists listing (9,468).

Worldwide Flight Companies (WFS), a member of the SATS Group, is beginning a three-month trial utilizing HVO biofuel in its airside transport fleet at London’s Heathrow Airport in assist of SATS’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) group priorities and Heathrow’s purpose for all airport autos to be zero-emission or utilizing biofuels by 2030.

Commencing on July 1 2024, the trial initially includes two of WFS’s airside transport autos. Based mostly on the profitable end result of the trial, WFS will start growing the usage of biofuel throughout its fleet of 77 airside autos, which conduct roughly 130,000 truck actions a yr at Heathrow in assist of 10 airline prospects.

The biofuel supplier for the trial is Airport Vitality, a part of WP Group.

WFS has already transitioned its airside vans from diesel to a completely electrical fleet to assist Heathrow Airport’s sustainability technique ‘Heathrow 2.0’ and WFS’s sustainability initiatives. Its airside fleet additionally meets the Euro 6 environmental customary, which limits dangerous exhaust emissions and enhance native air high quality.

“This trial will assist us decide if biofuel is appropriate for our operation and, whether it is, we’ll transfer extra autos over to HVO (hydrotreated or hydrogenated vegetable oil) over the following 12 months,” mentioned Paul Carmody, WFS’ Managing Director UK Cargo. “As a part of our shut working relationship with Heathrow, we’re dedicated to supporting the airport’s sustainability targets, and the usage of cleaner biofuels is simply one of many methods we purpose to do that.”

James Golding, Head of Cargo at Heathrow Airport, mentioned: “Heathrow is dedicated to decarbonisation, and as a part of our Heathrow 2.0 sustainability technique and cargo technique the top purpose is for all airside autos to be zero emissions. Biofuels play an extremely essential function on this journey, so we assist WFS’ biofuel trials throughout their diesel vans, which can assist scale back lifecycle carbon emissions at Heathrow, benefiting each individuals and planet.”

Along with this newest biofuel trial, WFS has commenced a transport fleet renewal and improve programme to satisfy new environmental requirements. It is usually getting ready to trial an electrical truck in its Heathrow transport operation and championing environmentally pleasant driving requirements by upskilling its driving group via elevated coaching assist and evaluation.

Responding to what has been the deadliest day for protests in Bangladesh with 32 deaths in a single day yesterday through the quota reform protests and ongoing violence within the nation, Babu Ram Pant, Deputy Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty Worldwide, mentioned:

“The rising loss of life toll is a surprising indictment of absolutely the intolerance proven by the Bangladeshi authorities to protest and dissent. The illegal power used towards protesters exhibits a callous disregard for the proper to life and an abject failure by regulation enforcement officers to uphold their obligations underneath home and worldwide human rights regulation.

“Amnesty Worldwide has repeatedly referred to as for the Authorities of Bangladesh to undertake a rights-respecting method within the policing of protests. The regulation enforcement businesses should instantly finish their illegal use of deadly power towards protesters and be certain that the proper of individuals to peaceable meeting is assured in regulation and apply.

The rising loss of life toll is a surprising indictment of absolutely the intolerance proven by the Bangladeshi authorities to protest and dissent.

Babu Ram Pant, Deputy Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty Worldwide

“Authorities should instantly conduct a immediate, impartial and neutral investigation into the deaths and maintain all these discovered accountable totally accountable. Victims of illegal police violence should obtain full reparations from the state.

“The arbitrary imposition of a complete shutdown of the web throughout the nation and a blanket ban on protests introduced by the Dhaka Metropolitan police additional restricts the rights to freedom of expression and peaceable meeting. Such blanket restrictions are at odds with Bangladesh’s worldwide obligations as a state occasion to the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

“It’s reckless to impede entry to data throughout what has been every week of escalating violence and heavy-handed crackdown on pupil led protests throughout the nation. Blanket shutdowns impression individuals’s security, safety, mobility, livelihood whereas creating instability and panic, additional undermining their belief in authorities. The ban should be urgently lifted, and all of the individuals detained or arrested solely for exercising their proper to protest peacefully needs to be instantly and unconditionally launched.”  

Background

Virtually 39 deaths have been reported in Bangladesh through the ongoing violence because the mass quota reform protests began on 1 July 2024.

Any regulation enforcement intervention within the context of protests ought to first goal to de-escalate tensions. Furthermore, the authorities should exhaust all non-forceful measures earlier than resorting to power. If recourse to forceful means is totally mandatory, the authorities should use solely the minimal power required to attain a respectable goal, and prior warnings should be given. Firearms will not be an applicable software for the policing of protests and should be restricted to focused people in circumstances by which it’s strictly essential to confront an imminent menace of loss of life or severe damage.

On 17 July 2024, Amnesty Worldwide verified proof of illegal power getting used towards pupil protesters through the ongoing ‘Bangla-Blockade’ quota-reform protest and urged the federal government to make sure protestors are protected against additional hurt.

The Clippers and Jazz agreed to a sign-and-trade deal involving Russell Westbrook, the groups introduced Thursday, and sources informed ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that the previous MVP is anticipated to hitch the Nuggets after Utah waives him and buys out the rest of his contract.

The Clippers obtained guard Kris Dunn from the Jazz as a part of the sign-and-trade deal. The Clippers and Dunn agreed to a three-year, $17 million contract with a non-guaranteed season within the third yr, sources informed Wojnarowski.

Utah additionally obtained a 2030 second-round choose swap, the draft rights to middle Balsa Koprivica, who was the 57th choose within the 2021 NBA draft, and $4.3 million in money, sources stated.

The Jazz introduced Saturday that they had been formally waiving the previous MVP guard.

Westbrook is coming off a 2023-24 season through which he averaged a career-low 11.1 factors for the Clippers. The Nuggets can use a veteran backup level guard who can present vitality and defend after Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Reggie Jackson left in free company.

“I believe we want some assist in the backcourt,” Nuggets basic supervisor Calvin Sales space informed ”Altitude TV” on Tuesday. “We’re going to attempt to proceed to establish that and survey the market. Now we have a roster spot left and I believe if we are able to add a high-level guard, we will likely be pleased with that.”

Westbrook, 35, opted in to his $4 million contract final month, however Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank lately had talks with Westbrook’s agent to seek out the suitable match for the nine-time All-Star after Paul George left for the Philadelphia 76ers in free company.

“Russ is an all-time nice, and we had been lucky to have him right here,” Frank stated in a press release. “He lifted the vitality and depth of the group. We stay up for seeing him proceed his embellished profession.”

Westbrook went into final season as the start line guard for the Clippers. However LA traded for James Harden, and Westbrook moved to a sixth-man position shortly after and the Clippers proceeded to go on a 26-5 run throughout their finest stretch.

Westbrook additionally averaged profession lows of 4.5 assists and 22.5 minutes. However the fan favourite performed a number of the finest particular person protection of his profession, rating fourth in discipline aim share allowed because the contesting defender amongst gamers to contest 300-plus pictures final season, in response to Second Spectrum monitoring.

Westbrook typically was paired with George, his buddy and former Thunder teammate, collectively on the courtroom. The Clippers now are shifting ahead with Kawhi Leonard and Harden whereas including defensive-minded gamers comparable to Dunn, Derrick Jones Jr. and Nicolas Batum in free company.

Dunn averaged 5.4 factors, 3.8 assists and 1.0 steals whereas capturing 36.9% from 3-point vary in 66 video games — his most since his rookie season in 2016-17.

Dunn additionally ranked sixth in deflections per 36 minutes amongst gamers to play no less than 1,000 minutes, in response to analysis by ESPN Stats & Data. The Clippers focused the defensive-minded Dunn early in free company.

“The federal government has determined to impose a curfew and deploy the army in support of the civilian authorities,” he mentioned in a press release.

Some 67 folks have now died since violence broke out – though the precise toll is troublesome to evaluate due partly to an nearly full communications shutdown, with cellular web and phone traces reportedly down.

Bus and prepare providers have reportedly additionally been halted, whereas images from Dhaka present massive numbers of police in riot gear on the streets.

Faculties and universities throughout Bangladesh have additionally been shut till additional discover.

However this has achieved little to cease the protesters, who vowed to proceed with their very own “Full Shutdown”, which has seen them blockade roads throughout the town.

On Friday, college students chanting “benefit, benefit” and “we can’t let the blood that has been shed of our brothers go in useless” had been joined by plenty of dad and mom outdoors Dhaka college.

The scholars are arguing that the quota system is discriminatory, and are asking for recruitment based mostly on benefit. Critics say the system unfairly advantages the households of pro-government teams who help Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who gained her fourth straight election in January.

A march organised by Islamist events was met with tear gasoline, rubber bullets and stun grenades.

Protestors additionally stormed the Narsingdi district jail on Friday, the place a number of hundred inmates had been reported to have escaped onto the streets. A number of witnesses confirmed the incident to BBC Bangla.

FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — Vice President Kamala Harris blasted President Donald Trump’s collection of Sen. JD Vance as his operating mate, calling Vance’s acceptance speech a distraction from their agenda and making the case in opposition to what she known as their “excessive” and “divisive” insurance policies. 

Harris has been touring the nation because the Republican Get together holds its conference in Milwaukee, addressing voters in swing states as questions swirl about the way forward for the Democratic ticket. On Thursday, she spoke in entrance of a crowd in a highschool gymnasium right here and responded on to Vance’s Wednesday evening speech wherein he formally accepted the nomination. 

 Vance, a Marine Corps veteran, gained nationwide consideration together with his bestselling 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” His speech Wednesday evening anchored in on a childhood formed by poverty and habit, in addition to his beliefs on financial coverage, immigration and commerce. 

“It was compelling. It’s a compelling story. However it’s not the total story,” Harris stated. “Frankly, what may be very telling is what he didn’t discuss on that stage. He didn’t discuss Venture 2025, the 900-page blueprint for a second time period. He didn’t discuss it as a result of their plans are excessive, and they’re divisive.” 

Vance, like most audio system on the Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC), didn’t explicitly point out abortion in his speech, however he has lengthy opposed abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. On Wednesday, CNN reported on feedback Vance made on a podcast in January 2022 calling for a nationwide abortion ban. 

“He needs to direct consideration away from his document and his Venture 2025 plan to recommend that he and his operating mate are going to prioritize the center class,” Harris stated of Trump. “However we aren’t shopping for it. As you realize, I’m a former prosecutor, so let’s take a look at the information, we could?”

Trump has publicly distanced himself from Venture 2025, an effort led by the Heritage Basis that features a few of his conservative allies. The plan lays out how a future Trump administration might curtail abortion entry, LGBTQ+ rights and public training. Chris LaCivita, a Trump co-campaign supervisor and senior strategist, known as Venture 2025 “a ache within the ass” of the Trump marketing campaign in remarks to the CNN-Politico Grill on the RNC. 

Harris on Thursday criticized the Republican leaders, together with Trump, who telegraphed that the GOP conference would foster unity after Trump’s tried assassination on Saturday. 

“In case you’re planning to face for unity, it’s essential to do greater than use the phrase,” Harris stated to resounding applause. 

“You can not stand for unity if you’re pushing an agenda that deprives entire teams of Individuals of fundamental freedoms. You can not declare you stand for unity if you’re intent on taking away reproductive freedoms from the individuals of America,” Harris stated, referencing conservative plans that would restrict entry to contraception and fertility therapy.   

“You can not declare to be for unity in case you attempt to overturn a free and honest election,” she added, referencing Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Vance has stated that if he had been vice chairman on January 6, 2021, he would have sought to delay the certification of the election for Biden. 

Harris’ look in Fayetteville, residence to a big inhabitants of service members and veterans, marks her seventh go to to the state this 12 months and her fifteenth since taking workplace. The Biden marketing campaign views North Carolina as a crucial battleground state in 2024 and has poured important sources into successful the state, which final voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. 

Harris, who was launched by a navy partner on the rally, stated one of many “best honors” of her function is assembly with U.S. service members all over the world. 

“Our service members possess extraordinary talent, self-discipline, dedication and love of nation,” she stated. “And I do know their households serve with equal dedication.”

Harris’ look additionally comes amid a brand new spate of headlines about efforts by some Democratic officers to steer President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid from the highest of the ticket within the wake of his disastrous debate efficiency in opposition to Trump three weeks in the past. 

On Wednesday, prime Home Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, a detailed ally of former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, publicly known as on Biden to step apart. Different prime leaders together with Pelosi, Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries have reportedly communicated to Biden their issues about his remaining on the prime of the ticket. Later that day, Biden canceled a deliberate look in Las Vegas after testing constructive for COVID-19. 

Former President Barack Obama can be telling allies he believes Biden has little to no path to win reelection, based on The Washington Submit. 

The tumult and uncertainty over Biden’s future is placing much more scrutiny on Harris. Voters on the Fayetteville rally stated in interviews that they nonetheless supported the ticket and would help Harris if Biden stepped apart. A ballot of Black voters in battleground states performed by SplitTicket and Knowledge for Progress discovered that 68 % can be blissful if Harris grew to become the nominee within the occasion of Biden’s withdrawal. 

Alda Midgette, a social employee, stated she nonetheless prioritized Biden’s monitor document and accomplishments over “beauty issues” like his supply, together with how he got here throughout within the debate. She praised Harris as an adept messenger, saying she brings stability to the political area and would have “an ideal probability” if she have been to be the nominee. 

The Biden marketing campaign and its surrogates view Harris, a former prosecutor, as a formidable opponent and foil to Vance. 

The Biden marketing campaign has urged the Trump marketing campaign to affix Harris in accepting CBS Information’ invitation for a vice-presidential debate. Referencing the uncertainty inside the Democratic Get together, Brian Hughes, a senior Trump marketing campaign advisor, fired again, “We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for vice chairman goes to be, so we will’t lock in a date earlier than their conference. To take action can be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her operating mate.”

Each Harris and Vance served within the Senate, although they didn’t overlap within the chamber.

Whereas operating for Senate in 2021, Vance attacked plenty of Democratic politicians, together with Harris, for not having kids. He derisively referred to them as “the childless left” and argued political leaders with out kids don’t have any stake in the way forward for the nation. Harris has two stepchildren together with her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. 

“The VP will take it to JD Vance,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren stated on a Biden marketing campaign name with reporters on Monday. “I’ve identified her for 15 years, she’s been in each type of combat on behalf of working households. And she or he is robust. She is aware of what she’s speaking about and he or she doesn’t give an inch.” 

Harris on Thursday contrasted Biden’s and Trump’s data on points together with the economic system and well being care, touting the Biden administration’s legislative achievements on home manufacturing and lowering prescription drug prices. 

She warned that Trump would proceed to “assault reproductive freedom and he’ll proceed to undermine our democracy.”

“In the end on this election, we every face a query,” she stated. “What sort of nation will we wish to stay in? Can we wish to stay in a rustic of freedom, compassion and rule of legislation? Or a rustic of chaos, concern and hate? We every have the ability to reply this query.” 

This TV adaptation of Laura Lippman’s bestselling novel may simply have drowned below the load of its personal materials. Impressed by a real story, it’s a fancy but round story, with a plot that features the disappearance of younger Tessie Durst (Bianca Belle), the homicide of Cleo, an assassination try on state senator Myrtle Summers (Angela Robinson) — plus unlawful playing, corruption, misogyny, and an online of secrets and techniques and lies from its ensemble, all set amid racial tensions in Sixties Baltimore.

It’s a lot — however the assured execution from Honey Boy’s Alma Har’el (who directs all seven episodes) makes this a fascinating watch. Cleo and Maddie are the anchors to this story, the story weaving between Black and Jewish existence and cultures, which units the ladies on a dramatic collision course of revelation and hazard. The sweetness is how its twisty slow-burn thriller retains all the pieces linked.

There’s a surreal, trendy strategy right here, reduce from related material as HBO’s Huge Little Lies and Sharp Objects in the way it integrates extra otherworldly moments with characters’ recollections of occasions. The temper jolts sharply between dream-like situations and nightmarish actuality; at occasions, its mesmeric pictures can verge into style-over-substance territory. However for probably the most half, that aptitude is backed up by appreciable narrative heft. It’s persistently stunning and compelling.

Equally rewarding are the performances from Portman and Ingram. Each of their characters search freedom from their respective patriarchal cages and gender expectations, and carry that weight in each scene. Portman relishes each second taking part in such a sophisticated and flawed determine, remodeling herself from a bored housewife to a rising investigative journalist. When Tessie and Cleo’s murders unlock deep-rooted traumas and secrets and techniques from Maddie’s previous, Portman’s unravelling efficiency shines via the ugliness of that journey.

However the actual star of the present right here is Ingram, whose poise and fearlessness encompasses all of the guises of being a Black girl in America. It’s a first-rate efficiency from the actor, during which Cleo’s emotional improvement is pushed by the love of her youngsters and getting what’s truthful. It’s no exaggeration to say that she steals each scene she’s in.