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The NBA Playoffs get underway later Tuesday and — for the first time ever — not a single team from Texas will be playing and all four teams from California made the playoffs.

For most people, $10 million is historic wealth, more money than they’ll earn in a lifetime. For the very fortunate few, it’s retirement savings. To Saquon Barkley, $10 million is an insult. Or at least it’s not enough to come to work as a running back for the New York Giants, the amount offered to him for the upcoming season under what’s known as the franchise tag, where the team offers the average of the top five players in the League at that position. Which means that for the time being, Barkley, one of the team’s star players, is poised to sit out training camp if not longer.

Charles Soule and Ryan Browne's neon-drenched comic is giddily over-the-top, featuring a buffed-up wizard named Wizord, his talking koala sidekick and many, many glowing blasts of mystical fire.

Chef Edward Lee was introduced to sauerkraut by New York City's hot dog carts. But when he tried his mother-in-law's recipe, he knew it deserved a better pairing: five-spice-rubbed pork ribs.

More U.S. shoppers are buying into Halloween this year, scaring up a new spending record for costumes, decorations, candy and cute outfits for pets.

As of late last night, the men’s draw of the US Open tennis tournament just got a little more US. That’s because for the first time in a generation, fans in Queens will be treated to an all-American semifinal match on Friday, guaranteeing an American in Sunday’s final – the first one since Andy Roddick in 2006.

The project to replace Albany's Civil War-era Livingston Avenue bridge has come to a halt, for now.

South Africa's cricket and rugby teams have reached top spots in their sports under the leadership of Black captains. Fans are united in a nation still grappling with the legacy of racial division.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday the firing of the city's embattled police superintendent. He also said a task force will begin work on a top to bottom review of the city's police department.

Before Tuesday, North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row, among the top 5 largest death rows in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper's office said it had received clemency petitions from 89 of them.