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The Oklahoma City Thunder will be shorthanded in Saturday’s pivotal Game 7, as one of Oklahoma's key contributors has been sidelined with an injury.OKC guard Jalen Williams has been ruled out for Game 7 with a hamstring issue, ESPN reported on Friday. Williams appeared to aggravate his left hamstring during the Thunder’s 122-113 victory in Game 2. He missed the next three games before returning for Game 6, but logged just 10 minutes off the bench in Oklahoma City’s loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday, which forced a winner-take-all Game 7."He's obviously not 100%," Mark Daigneault, the head

Eight riders were left dangling near the top of a towering roller coaster for more than three hours before firefighters rescued them one by one at a Texas amusement park, officials said.The Galveston Police Department said authorities responded around 5:35 p.m. Thursday to Pleasure Pier in Galveston, where the Iron Shark roller coaster malfunctioned.Officials said eight people were aboard the ride when it became stuck.The Galveston Fire Department used a ladder truck to remove the stranded passengers one by one using safety harnesses, a process that took roughly three and a half hours to complete.SIX FLAGS GUESTS STRANDED 245 FEET

The NHL and greater sports world continues to mourn the loss of two-time Stanley Cup champion Claude Lemieux, who died on Thursday. He was 60.Lemieux’s death came as a surprise, as he carried the torch at the Montreal Canadiens’ home arena Monday before the team’s Game 3 matchup against the Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference final. In his red and blue Canadiens sweater, No. 32, Lemieux smiled and carried a flame toward a darkened rink.Tributes quickly poured in as news of Lemieux’s death spread, with his daughter among those who remembered one of hockey’s most respected — and polarizing —

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Coast Guard will be ending admissions for college students wanting to commission as officers that take race into consideration as part of the Trump administration’s continued anti-diversity, equity and inclusion initiative, Fox News Digital has learned."The Trump Administration is more focused than ever on eliminating unconstitutional DEI policies like this one," DHS General Counsel James Percival said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital on Friday.He added, "Racial quotas, like those included in this program for students who want to enlist and commission as officers in the U.S. Coast Guard, are a direct violation of the

The Carolina Hurricanes are in the Eastern Conference Final for the second straight season and the fourth of Rod Brind'Amour's tenure behind the bench, and they've got the chance to close things out in Game 5 against the Montreal Canadiens.Of course, teams coming into Game 5 with a 3-1 lead are historically almost guaranteed to move on to the Stanley Cup Final; the Canes are not going to get ahead of their skis.Hurricanes forward Jackson Blake, who scored the OT-winner to sweep the Philadelphia Flyers and send Carolina to the conference final, talked about the need to focus on the

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who has repeatedly referred to Russia as a "pariah state," reiterated his call for the United Nations Security Council to remove Russia from the panel."The United Nations General Assembly should vote on removing the Russians from the Security Council. Russia is a pariah state and should be treated that way," Bacon asserted in a Friday post on X.The Russian Federation is one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.ISRAEL ACCUSES UN OF PLACING IT ON SAME SEXUAL VIOLENCE BLACKLIST AS HAMAS TERRORISTS, SEVERS TIESThe other permanent members include the U.S., the United Kingdom,

New York Giants coach John Harbaugh gets a chance to settle the controversy surrounding Jaxson Dart's appearance at a President Donald Trump rally on Friday afternoon because he will speak with reporters for the first time since the issue began to suck all the oxygen out of the team's offseason program.Harbaugh will surely be asked about his starting quarterback's apparent embrace of the president.And the coach, who is the unquestioned epicenter of power within the franchise since being hired in January, will have his say and that will be it. Because whatever he decrees, players will follow suit. The front

Super Bowl champion Joe Theismann said the NFL has left tradition behind.The NFL has expanded their primetime schedule to holidays and playing games overseas, meaning they are playing more games outside of the traditional Sunday afternoon timeslot. Theismann pointed out the drastic differences in how the games are broadcast."They've drifted away (from tradition). I mean, when you look at all the different streaming services and all the different networks, it used to be ABC, NBC, and CBS, but that doesn't exist anymore. There only used to be those TV channels where you could watch things other than sports only existed