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With no suspects or motive announced, the FBI is joining the investigation into power outages in a North Carolina county believed to have been caused by "intentional" and "targeted" attacks on substations that left around 40,000 customers in the dark Saturday night, prompting a curfew and emergency declaration.

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WASHINGTON---The perennial question of whether it's "soccer" (as Americans call it) or "football" prompted Twitter wisecracks between President Joe Biden and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte this weekend, as the Netherlands sent the United States crashing out of the World Cup. "It's called soccer," Biden said in a video posted on Twitter wishing the US team luck ahead of their last-16 clash against the Dutch side on Saturday at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha. But the clinical Netherlands soon ended the United States' World Cup dream, sweeping into the quarter-finals with a ruthless 3-1 victory---and Rutte was quick to respond to Biden's tweet. "Sorry Joe, football ...

Keep on reading: ‘Football’ or ‘soccer’? Biden, Dutch PM banter on Twitter

Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison for embezzling millions of dollars from four of his clients and obstruction.

Yeng Guiao sounded like a coach trying to make sense of showing up for quarterfinal match that he feels Rain or Shine has little hopes of winning. The best he could muster was "we'll try to stay in [the game] as long as we can." One of his gunners, Rey Nambatac managed to dig up some trite form of optimism. "Bilog ang bola (the ball is round)," Nambatac said, rehashing that overused basketball soundbite that generally means anything can happen. "That is surely a David and Goliath kind of game. But nothing is impossible [if] we try." The feeling of dread came after Rain or Shine survived a tough knockout match against NLEX, 110-100, late Sunday night to lay claim to the No...

Keep on reading: After surviving tough knockout match, Guiao now dealing with the hard part: Trying to beat peerless Dragons—twice

Nike cut ties with Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving Monday.

It's not often that a team can spot a problematic part of its game despite coming from a victory. Petro Gazz has that advantage. "We learned our lesson against Cignal when we let go of [parts of] the third set," said Angels coach Rald Ricafort. "We have to lose the complacency [we fall into] when we get a two-set lead, because there is that chance that we turn [our game] off a little bit." Ricafort was referring to a previous game against the HD Spikers where they blew three match points in the third set before closing out the match in the fourth. But he might as well have been talking about Game 1 of the Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference championship. Th...

Keep on reading: Angels look to close out HD Spikers

Imagine if Siri could write you a college essay, or Alexa could spit out a movie review in the style of Shakespeare.

A soldier in a Ukrainian uniform morosely contemplates the ruins of an Orthodox monastery in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

CNN's Sam Kiley speaks with members of Ukraine's Russian Legion, comprised of Russian defectors and volunteers who fled their country to protect Ukraine, about defending the city of Bakhmut and their hopes for Russia's future.