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Unrivaled, a new basketball league, is starting to take shape. The 3x3 women's basketball league declared on Tuesday that it has inked a multi-year agreement with Under Armour to serve as its official performance outfitter and uniform partner. This comes after the league signed a television broadcast deal with TNT Sports in October and announced some recent notable player signings. Although the deal's financial details were not disclosed, Under Armour will supply performance clothing and accessories for all players, coaches, and staff to wear on and off the court. Under Armour senior vice president of global sports marketing Sean Eggert remarked, "We are extremely excited to collaborate with Unrivaled to outfit some of the world's top women's basketball players as they compete on this exci...

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were created as a means of competing with established institutions. The crypto business is currently fighting for something else entirely: the ability to open a checking account, with the assistance of tech billionaires Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk. Prominent and influential figures like Musk and Andreessen are attempting to argue that members of the cryptocurrency business are unfairly subjected to discrimination when they attempt to collaborate with large corporate institutions. It is alleged that banks have unjustly debanked cryptocurrency workers by closing their bank accounts in response to pressure from the Biden administration. In the past month, the once-obscure term "debanking" has gained new attention after Andreessen, a Netscape co-founder and...

For President-elect Donald Trump, the oil and gas sector has a list of things to do. Trump has been urged by the advocacy group American Petroleum Institute to expeditiously approve the export of liquefied natural gas, increase drilling on federal lands, ease pipeline permits, remove stringent vehicle emissions and fuel economy regulations, and maintain the current corporate tax rates. The industry sees this five-point plan as a way to turn Trump's three-word catchphrase—drill, baby, drill—into actual legislation. In an interview with NBC News that aired Sunday, Trump stated without going into further detail that he plans to sign executive orders pertaining to energy when he takes office on January 20. Trump is establishing a National Energy Council, which he claims would supervise a strat...

Overnight, a wildfire in Malibu, California, spread to over 2,000 acres, forcing Pepperdine University to temporarily implement a shelter-in-place strategy and evacuate its students. The Los Angeles County Fire Department reports that the Franklin Fire started in the Malibu Canyon region just before 11 p.m. local time on Monday (2 a.m. ET on Tuesday). The fire breaks out while a number of Southern California regions are under red flag warnings due to low humidity, strong Santa Ana winds, and dry vegetation that makes them vulnerable to severe wildfires. The fire had spread to 2,200 acres and was completely uncontrolled by Tuesday morning at around 7 a.m. local time. The city of Malibu reports that the fire has extended across the Pacific Coast Highway, often referred to as Highway 1, in th...

Donald Trump's attempt to withdraw from her office's $486 million civil fraud judgment against the president-elect has been denied by New York Attorney General Letitia James. In a letter to Trump lawyer John Sauer, a lawyer for James' office stated, "This Office will not stipulate to vacate the final judgment" against Trump and his business "or otherwise seek to dismiss the action." Last month, Sauer had requested that James' office voluntarily drop the issue, arguing that it would conflict with Trump's presidential duties and that she should do so to foster "unity." A request for comment was not immediately answered by Sauer. Judith Vale, the deputy state solicitor general, turned down the offer in a letter to Sauer that was made public on Tuesday. She pointed out that both parties had al...

The "Unabomber," Ted Kaczynski's brother, expressed his sorrow that his brother's acts decades ago could inspire violence today and expressed his hope that the man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson did not see his brother as a "key model" on Tuesday. Before being apprehended in the Montana wilderness in 1996, Ted Kaczynski carried out a deadly bombing spree for twenty years, killing three people and injuring twenty-three more. After one of the longest FBI manhunts in history, Kaczynski was captured after taunting agents with a convoluted diatribe. For live coverage, follow along. "It's easy to quickly and thoughtlessly write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies," wrote Luigi Mangione, an Ivy...

WashingtonIn a debate over whether federal officials carried out a thorough enough environmental analysis before allowing an 88-mile railroad project that would transport crude oil in Utah, the Supreme Court on Tuesday considered the project's future. It seemed likely that a majority of justices would find the federal government's analysis adequate based on the two-hour oral argument. However, in order to expedite the licensing process for large infrastructure projects, the court could refrain from issuing a more expansive pro-business finding that would impose new restrictions on the scope of such assessments. The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, a coalition of local counties, has proposed a railroad that would connect northern Utah to the national rail network, facilitating the tra...

Syria's Damascus The dream of a nation liberated from its long-standing tyrant was clouded Tuesday in the outskirts of the capital of Syria by the growing atrocities of the Assad regime. In an attempt to find any sign of loved ones who they believed had vanished into their invisible depths, thousands of people were racing to the maze-like prisons. The rugged, desolate hills west of Damascus are home to the most infamous gulag.The human slaughterhouse is the name given to the labyrinth of small, concrete cells that is Saydnaya Military Prison. Evidence of savage conditions and the desperation of Syrians looking for their loved ones were discovered by NBC News during their visit there on Tuesday. Throughout the 50 years of the Assad family's power, armed guards patrolled a network of inst...

In an exclusive interview with NBC News on Tuesday, Russia's deputy foreign minister stated that Russia is offering asylum to Bashar al Assad, having moved him there in the safest manner possible following the fast fall of the Syrian leader's authority. Sergei Ryabkov, the first Russian official to acknowledge Assad's presence in the country, stated, "He is secured and it shows that Russia acts as required in such an extraordinary situation." Ryabkov stated that it would be improper for me to go into detail about what transpired and how it was settled, adding that he had no idea what was going on with him at the moment. The fall of the regime that Russian President Vladimir Putin fully backed has dealt him a serious setback, enabling Assad to hold onto power following the civil war in Syri...

Dermatologists adore retinol's ability to increase skin cell turnover and stimulate the creation of collagen, the fiber in skin that maintains it tight and smooth. It's as near as it comes to a one-stop shop for topical skin care products. Its effectiveness is also supported by a wealth of data. However, retinal, which is a member of the class of substances known as retinoids, which also contains retinol, may be able to outperform it. Retinaldehyde, short for retinaldehyde, is even more potent than retinol and has a comparable capacity to even out skin tone, reduce fine lines and wrinkles, clear up breakouts, and smooth out skin texture. According to Dr. Gloria Lin, a board-certified dermatologist at Schweiger Dermatology in New York City, retinoid derivatives are vitamin A that can be use...