The New York Knicks' Game 2 win over the Philadelphia 76ers ended with a heated exchange as players left the floor at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.

Knicks forward Jeremy Sochan, who played exactly one minute in the 108-102 victory, was spotted talking some trash to 76ers rookie V.J. Edgecombe after the buzzer sounded. Sochan had to be pulled away from the 76ers’ bench. Edgecombe also had to be calmed down.

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Edgecombe was allegedly unhappy with the officiating, and Sochan came over to troll the guard even further, according to Clutch Points.

While nothing came of it on the floor, it could possibly be the bulletin board material the 76ers needed heading into Game 3. Philadelphia was without Joel Embiid for Game 2 and only lost by six after a Game 1 blowout.

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New York had three players in double figures during the night. Jalen Brunson led the way with 26 points, OG Anunoby had 24 and Karl-Anthony Towns had 20 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists. The game featured 25 lead changes, 14 ties, and neither team led by more than seven points.

"Most importantly, it’s staying poised, staying composed," Brunson said. "Just figuring out one just play at a time, one step at a time and not looking too far ahead."

76ers head coach Nick Nurse said the team just didn’t make enough shots. Philadelphia shot 45% from the floor, while New York shot 51%.

"I thought we had maybe four wide-open shots in a row that didn’t go," Nurse said. "We just needed to keep the scoreboard moving and we played great offense. We just didn’t shot-make."

Edgecombe had 17 points in the loss. Tyrese Maxey led the 76ers with 26 points.

Game 3 is set for Friday night.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

World Liberty Financial, a crypto firm started by the Trump and Witkoff families, is accusing Justin Sun, a crypto billionaire and one of their investors, of waging a deliberate smear campaign to tank a crypto product he was allegedly betting against.

"Justin Sun chose to defame World Liberty — repeatedly, publicly and to millions of followers. World Liberty filed this lawsuit as a last resort to correct the record and to protect its token holders, its employees and all its stakeholders," Tom Clare, World Liberty Financial's attorney, said in a press release.

"We are eager to expose the falsity of Sun’s statements in court and in public."

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Sun, a crypto deal maker and the founder of TRON blockchain, a cryptocurrency platform, announced a $30 million investment of WLFI in November 2024, calling himself the company’s largest backer at the time.

"We are thrilled to invest $30 million in World Liberty Financial as its largest investor. The U.S. is becoming the blockchain hub and Bitcoin owes it to [President Donald Trump]," Sun wrote in a post to X.

Two years later, World Liberty Financial is accusing Sun of, first, violating his agreement with the company as an investor by shorting WLFI’s token — a position that set him up to profit if the company’s value declined.

In response, World Liberty Financial froze Sun’s assets.

Then, Sun threatened to publicly criticize the company to his millions of followers online if the company didn’t unlock his holdings, according to World Liberty Financial.

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"Justin Sun engaged in a defamatory campaign to torch World Liberty Financial’s reputation," Zach Witkoff, the son of Trump's Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, posted on X. "He knew his claims were false and made them anyway to harm WLFI token holders. I look forward to the truth coming out in court."

Eric and Donald Trump Jr. also took to X to amplify a thread posted by their company, which accused Sun of "a coordinated media smear campaign against World Liberty Financial" and said he "refused to stop even when confronted with the truth."

World Liberty Financial claimed Sun praised the company online, calling it "one of the biggest and most important projects in crypto" and that he was "fully aligned with the mission."

When the company didn’t unfreeze his assets, Sun published his criticisms of the company, blasting World Liberty Financial's business and leadership structure and warning viewers to stay away from the organization. According to World Liberty Financial's suit, Sun even used fake social media "bot" accounts to amplify the claims.

In a post that garnered over 2 million views, Sun claimed the company had built a feature that enabled them to seize users' digital assets.

"This feature grants the company unilateral power to freeze, restrict, or effectively confiscate the property rights of any token holder—without notice, without reason and without any avenue for recourse," Sun claimed.

Sun pointed to his own digital assets as evidence of his claims.

"The WLFI team's conduct is eroding the community's trust in the project. Unlock the tokens and uphold transparency to the community. Let us build with integrity, not with malfeasance," Sun said in his post.

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Notably, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused Sun in the past of selling unregistered securities, manipulating the market to inflate the value of his assets and paying celebrities to promote his products without disclosures.

In that case, the SEC and Sun reached a settlement for $10 million earlier this year, although Sun denied any wrongdoing.

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The Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, would love for John Fetterman to switch parties.

The Democratic senator says no way, I’m not doing it.

That would seem definitive enough to deflate this highly visible trial balloon.

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Except for one thing: It’s hard to see how he wins re-election as a Democrat.

The Pennsylvania senator has already been through the worst experience of his life: a stroke that left him barely able to speak and struggling to process what others were saying.

In an extraordinarily candid memoir, he recounts how he battled depression, was kicked out of the family home and had suicidal thoughts.

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Compared to that ordeal, political maneuvering is hardly as earth-shattering – and has left him unafraid to speak his mind. That, in turn, includes plenty of criticism of the Democratic Party. 

In an interview on Fox News, Fetterman cited a "communist takeover" in Maine (where Democrats are running far-left Graham Platner for Senate, who has a Nazi tattoo he eventually covered up), support for the Palestinians and attacks on ICE as evidence that the Democrats have descended into "an orgy of socialism."

The hoodie-wearing lawmaker is staunchly pro-Israel, putting him at odds with a liberal party that is increasingly hostile to the Jewish state.

Trump told Sean Hannity, who repeated the offer to Fetterman: "Your job is to tell him: He’s gonna run as a Republican, he’s gonna have our full support, more money than he ever dreamed of, and he’s gonna win big."

Fetterman didn’t respond to the offer but told Politico columnist Jonathan Martin that his party colleagues have been "suspicious or kinda standoffish."

After Trump won a second term, he invited Fetterman to Mar-a-Lago, making him the first Senate Democrat to visit the president-elect. Trump called him "impressive" and "just a common-sense person." Fetterman later became the only Democrat to vote to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general.

He seems to spend more time these days hanging out with GOP lawmakers, especially two who are social friends along with their spouses.

But Fetterman is quick to note that he has voted with the Democrats 93 percent of the time – which raises the obvious question of how comfortable he’d really be as a Republican. 

In an earlier interview on Fox, Fetterman said:

"My voting record actually reflects that I am a Democrat. You know, what’s changed me with many of my other colleagues is that I don’t agree and I use like extreme rhetoric and say, but I support what I think most Americans should agree with these things. 

"You know, the Democratic Party, you know, we became an open border party, without a doubt. And now that’s wrong, and I support to make our border more security, and deport all of the criminals right now. So I can’t be a Republican because in many other areas, I disagree on that. So whether if I’m politically homeless or whatever, but I’m staying in my party."

And, as he enjoys pointing out, he’s the guy who flipped the seat, as lieutenant governor, in the fall campaign against Dr. Oz more than three years ago.

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But his semi-independent status gives him substantial leverage in light of the tight margin in the chamber. And if the Democrats manage to flip three seats in November – which I still think is a long shot – Fetterman could provide the 51st vote.

And if he loses, it would be far from the worst thing that ever happened to him.

Federal prosecutors' stunning indictment of a left-wing activist group for alleged financial crimes is reverberating in Georgia's 2026 Senate race, with Republicans targeting Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., for his past ties to the organization. 

The Department of Justice brought criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center in April for allegedly defrauding its donors by secretly transferring money to extremist groups with the goal of infiltrating and monitoring their activities. 

Ossoff, the most vulnerable Senate Democrat running for re-election in 2026, is endorsed by the law center’s 501(c)(4) arm. The group contributed more than $700,000 to his campaign account in 2020, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.

The Georgia Democrat has also praised the group’s purported efforts to combat racism.

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"Thank you for decades of work defending civil rights in the United States," Ossoff said in a video celebrating the nonprofit group’s 50th anniversary in November 2021.

"I'm deeply concerned, like many of you, by the rising level of polarization, hatred and mistrust in our society," he added. "We must recommit to the path of love, tolerance and peaceful coexistence if we are to flourish as a nation and as a world."

During that time, federal prosecutors allege that instead of combating extremism, the SPLC was providing financial support to organizations that spread it.

Between 2014 and 2023, the Alabama-based organization paid more than $3 million to informants belonging to the United Klans of America, the Aryan Nation and other neo-Nazi groups, according to the 11-count indictment, which included charges of bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. The group allegedly concealed the payments by setting up bank accounts under fictitious names and did not inform federal law enforcement about their activities.

One informant, who the law center paid more than $270,000, was a member of an online group that helped plan the deadly 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to the indictment. Federal prosecutors said the informant attended the rally at the direction of the SPLC and "made racist postings" on behalf of the left-wing nonprofit.

Thirty-two-year-old Heather Heyer died after a man drove his vehicle through a crowd of counter-protesters while injuring nearly 20 others.

"The SPLC was not dismantling these groups," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a news conference in April. The group, he added, "was instead allegedly manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred." 

SPLC interim CEO Bryan Fair slammed the charges as politically motivated and has argued the since-defunct program "saved lives." 

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) hammered Ossoff’s ties to the law center.

"If Jon Ossoff is too spineless to reject the Southern Poverty Law Center’s endorsement and return their money, he’s complicit in funneling millions to violent extremist groups like the KKK," RNC spokeswoman Emma Hall said. "Anyone who doesn't condemn these indicted fraudsters is wrong for Georgia — plain and simple." 

Ossoff has not commented on the grand jury indictment. His campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Ossoff is facing a crowded field of GOP challengers ahead of November.

Reps. Mike Collins and Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley are vying for the Republican nomination in an increasingly bitter three-way contest. President Donald Trump has yet to intervene and a significant chunk of the state’s Republican voters are undecided, according to recent polling.

The GOP candidates have raised just a fraction of the Ossoff campaign’s $31.7 million war chest.

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report changed its race rating to "lean Democrat" in Ossoff’s favor earlier in April, citing an "increasingly sour national environment" for Republicans.

A trucking industry insider is warning about a deadly danger rampant on U.S. highways: unqualified, under-trained commercial truckers, many of whom are illegal immigrants and cannot read basic road signage.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Mike Kucharski, co-owner and vice president of Illinois-based JKC Trucking, issued an impassioned appeal for more investigations into the problem, saying, "This is just madness."

"You wouldn't put someone in a cockpit of a Boeing 737 flying from New York to California if they weren't properly trained or couldn't communicate clearly or speak English. The same standard should apply to our highways," said Kucharski.

"Every day, truck drivers are driving alongside school buses, families and commuters just trying to get to work and back home safely," he continued. "When unqualified drivers slip through the cracks, that creates risk for our motoring public, and you can see that there's accidents all the time."

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This week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into several commercial driving schools in the state for allegedly "endangering Texans by providing inadequate commercial driver training, including to non-English speakers."

A statement by Paxton’s office said these practices violate federal law requiring basic English comprehension and Texas law mandating adequate training to operate a commercial vehicle.

Paxton’s investigation comes just months after U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced his department had issued more than 550 notices of removal — decertification — to "sham CDL training schools" across the country. A statement by the DOT said the schools were found in violation of federal safety standards.

Speaking from inside the industry, Kucharski said that Duffy and Paxton are exactly right to crack down on the rampant CDL school abuse. He pointed to the ongoing spate of fatalities allegedly caused by individuals holding improperly issued CDLs.

In one recent case, Ohio officials revealed last week that Modou Ngom, a semi-truck driver charged in a fiery interstate crash that killed a young family of three, fraudulently obtained an Ohio driver’s license, a commercial driver’s license and later U.S. citizenship under an alternate identity.

Several months ago, in February, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Indiana arrested Bekzhan Beishekeev, an illegal alien semi-truck driver issued a commercial driver’s license by Pennsylvania. The Department of Homeland Security said that Beishekeev allegedly killed four people on Feb. 3, when he swerved into oncoming traffic and struck a van in a head-on collision.

In Oregon, ICE also recently arrested Indian illegal immigrant Rajinder Kumar, who is accused of jackknifing his semi-truck and trailer, blocking both lanes of traffic, causing a crash that killed a newlywed couple.

There have been several other high-profile traffic fatalities involving illegal immigrants and improperly issued CDLs that have rocked the nation in recent months.

"This is just madness what's happening," he said, adding, "It has to stop because the longer this continues, there's going to be more accidents, more people that are going to perish."

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Besides the danger posed to U.S. citizens on the roads, Kucharski said the abuse has been crushing the commercial trucking industry, and by extension, causing disruptions to the U.S. supply chain and impacting prices.

"This is an economic issue, not just a safety issue," he emphasized. "When unqualified drivers get on the road, it doesn't just increase risk, it drives up the insurance costs, which has already risen for all of us; our insurance keeps going up, lawsuits, ultimately prices for the consumers."

Kucharski has previously blown the whistle on illegal immigrants carrying sanctuary state licenses, sending a "shockwave" through the industry by edging out qualified, legitimate American drivers who require higher salaries.

He explained that illegal immigrant truck drivers can exploit a "loophole" in the system by obtaining non-domiciled commercial drivers’ licenses from states such as California and New York. They are then able to outcompete legitimate trucking businesses by charging lower prices, leading to the demise of many American small businesses in the industry.

"All our truckers are fighting for the same load, and it goes to the lowest bidder," he went on. "If you have these drivers coming in that are non-domiciled, they have no family here, they have no home, they live in their truck… They're saying, ‘OK, look, all the market's doing for $2,000, we'll do it for $1,700.’ So, it's putting small trucking businesses out of business every day."

Regarding the CDL schools certifying unqualified drivers, Kucharski confirmed, saying, "They're putting bad actors in there, and they're causing chaos in the trucking industry."

"It's just a huge black eye to the trucking industry," he said.

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"This investigation is absolutely necessary," he continued. "It's about protecting the American public and restoring trust in the industry."

He encouraged other trucking owners to "jump in and join the fight" against the abuse, which he referred to as an "abomination."

"This driving school nightmare keeps me up at night," he admitted. "Our job as owners is to educate everyone else that is not familiar, so we can come up with solutions together that keep the wheels rolling and the U.S. Economy roaring."

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Prince William and Kate Middleton shared a new portrait of Princess Charlotte on Saturday for her 11th birthday along with a video that showed her playing on a recent beach holiday.

The posts come as the royals remain in the political spotlight, just two days after King Charles concluded his successful four-day U.S. state visit with President Donald Trump.

The Prince and Princess of Wales second-born wears a casual black-and-red long-sleeved top and jeans with her hair down as she stands among daisies in a garden in Cornwall.

The snapshot was taken by Matt Porteous, a go-to photographer for the Wales family, who also shot the photo William and Kate shared for Prince Louis’ eighth birthday just a week ago.

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"Wishing Charlotte a very happy 11th birthday!" the royal couple wrote on their social media page.

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A video montage in a separate post showed the princess playing with her dogs, Otto and Orla, throwing a ball on the beach and writing in seashells on the sand during a recent seaside family vacation in Cornwall."

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"Thank you for the lovely birthday messages for Princess Charlotte, 11 today!" the royals captioned the video.

Otto, Orla’s son, also got his own royal birthday wish on Friday, with a windswept photo and a caption to read: "Welcome to the family, Otto! 1 today."

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Charlotte’s older brother Prince George, who is second in line to the throne after his father, will turn 13 on July 22.

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Helena Chard, a British broadcaster and photographer, previously told Fox News Digital that Louis’ portrait being taken in Cornwall "says it all."

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"It’s William’s Duchy, yes. But more than that, they all love Cornwall, and it paints a picture of ‘We holiday where you holiday.' Everyone enjoys a joyful relatable image," she explained.

Charles left the U.S. for an official visit to Bermuda, which is part of the British Commonwealth, on Thursday, after a four-day visit in which he had a bilateral meeting with Trump and a state dinner at the White House, addressed Congress, attended a 9/11 wreath-laying ceremony in New York City, and went to Virginia for 250th anniversary celebrations.