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Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
Caitlin Clark breaks yet another record as HUGE poster of WNBA star covers entire 30-storey hotel in Indiana
Caitlin Clark is no stranger to record-breaking feats, and the presence of her brand new Nike advert in downtown Indiana is doing exactly that. Over the past few days, city officials have been plastering the basketball star all over the front of the 30-storey JW Marriott, and the finished product has now been revealed. According to various sources, the new Nike ad - in place ahead of the WNBA All-Star Game - is the largest sports graphic ever installed on the building, covering almost the entirety of the 30 floors of the hotel. While Indiana boasts such sporting talent as Tyrese Haliburton and previous icons including Wayne Gretzky, nobody has come close to having their name and photo so bold across the landscape of the city. The Nike advert shows Clark shooting a three-pointer from behind, with the words 'From Downtown in my town. Welcome to Indianapolis' below it. On the side of the hotel, another huge poster carries the WNBA logo, the words 'the floor is ours', and a Nike tick. Fever star Clark is set to captain a team in the WNBA All-Star Game in just her second season in the league, and she is already widely regarded as the biggest female name ever to play the game of basketball. Clark's importance to the WNBA has been laid bare by the TV viewing figures, which are down up to 40% for Fever games when she is absent. Unfortunately for the league that is the case now, with Clark set to miss another game on Saturday night as she battles back from a groin issue. She missed two games last week and is considered day-to-day, according to coach Stephanie White. Off the court, it has been a lucrative time for the WNBA superstar, who is cashing in on her fame with various brand deals. Her Nike contract, though, has attracted some heat, with Dave Portnoy even claiming she is 'getting screwed' after only agreeing a $28m deal with the sports giants. Clark was selected No 1 overall in the 2024 WNBA Draft and put pen to paper with Nike just days later on an eight-year contract. Even then, Portnoy claimed the deal should 'start at $80m', and Clark's fame has only risen exponentially in the months and years since. 'I hope she has an early opt out if they don't pay up when she blows through this deal,' the Barstool founder added. The Indiana Fever star also has a signature shoe in the works, with an expected release date tentatively penciled in for spring 2026. Speaking last week, sneaker insider Nick DePaula told Front Office Sports that he expects Nike to bring in up to $150million from sales of the Clark shoe.
The Independent
an hour ago
- The Independent
Former liberal climate activist says Mamdani is ‘selling a fantasy'
A former liberal climate activist who now embraces conservative ideals claimed young New York City voters who cast their ballot for the mayoral Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani are misguided, and that his policies will make them poorer. Lucy Biggers, a 35-year-old woman who once heavily advocated for environmental-saving policies but has since abandoned them, is using her social media following to promote her new beliefs that align more closely with Republicans: lower taxes, less regulation, and less government intervention. She has also downplayed the current impact of climate change on weather. Taking to TikTok, Biggers tried to relate to Mamdani's supporters by saying she, too, would have loved a candidate like Mamdani when she was young, but she now sees his policies as flawed. Referring to young voters as people with underdeveloped frontal lobes, Biggers said Mamdani appealed to the group of voters by selling them a fantasy that ultimately doesn't work.' 'You're indoctrinated as a young person in America to believe that capitalism is bad and all your problems is because of these evil business owners,' Biggers said in her TikTok video. 'I have to warn young people who are caught up in the Mamdani vibes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions,' Biggers claimed. Mamdani, who conservatives have portrayed as a radical socialist, has said he wants to implement a freeze on rent-stabilized apartments, expand free fares on city buses, open a city-owned grocery store, and raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations. His policies seek to create equality in the city, which is widely popular with Democratic voters. Ultimately, he beat the established Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary last month. However, Biggers believes that raising taxes on the wealthy in the largest city in the United States will drive them away, forcing lower- and middle-class taxpayers to foot the bill for government-paid-for policies. 'His policies are not going to be the things that fix our city or our government. The policies that we really, really need is less regulation, less taxes,' Biggers asserted. The social media personality told the New York Post that young people glorify socialism because 'they don't know what happened in Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR.' Seeking to relate to people on TikTok, Biggers claimed she 'helped' get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Representative in New York, elected in 2018. At the time, Biggers worked for NowThis, which filmed a video with Ocasio-Cortez that went viral. However, YouTube channels like The Young Turks had already been profiling Ocasio-Cortez before the NowThis video. Biggers now works for The Free Press, a right-leaning online media organization that sought investments from David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, Howard Schultz, and more. However, from the TikTok comments, it appears Biggers has not convinced a major audience of her beliefs. Many cited her place of employment as a major influence on her anti-Mamdani rhetoric.
Daily Mail
an hour ago
- Daily Mail
Hamas says it is ready for ceasefire talks with Israel 'immediately' - which could see a 60-day truce and 10 hostages released from Gaza
Hamas has said it is ready to start ceasefire talks with Israel 'immediately' in a move that could see a 60-day truce and 10 hostages released from Gaza. Security officials in Tel-Aviv reportedly met tonight to discuss their next steps before Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Washington for talks on Monday with US President Donald Trump. And it is believed that the Israeli cabinet have decided to send a delegation to Qatar for talks on a possible deal, according to Israel's Channel 12 whose report cited a senior official. It was unclear whether the delegation will fly to Qatar on Saturday or Sunday. The move comes after Trump launched a renewed push to end nearly 21 months of war in Gaza - where the civil defence agency said a further 35 people were killed in Israeli military operations today. 'No decision has been made yet on that issue,' an Israeli government official said when asked about Hamas' s seemingly positive response to the latest ceasefire proposal. The militant group said yesterday it was 'ready to engage immediately and seriously in a cycle of negotiations on the mechanism to put in place' a US-backed truce proposal. Two Palestinian sources close to the discussions told the AFP news agency that the proposals included a 60-day truce, during which Hamas would release 10 living hostages and several bodies in exchange for Palestinians detained by Israel. They said the group was also demanding certain conditions for Israel's withdrawal, guarantees against a resumption of fighting during negotiations and the return of the UN-led aid distribution system. Hamas ally Islamic Jihad said it supported ceasefire talks but demanded guarantees that Israel 'will not resume its aggression' once hostages held in Gaza are freed. When asked about Hamas's response aboard Air Force One, Trump said: 'That's good. They haven't briefed me on it. We have to get it over with. We have to do something about Gaza.' The war began with Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which sparked an Israeli offensive in the territory that aimed to destroy Hamas and bring home all the hostages seized by Palestinian militants. Previous ceasefires mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States secured temporary halts in fighting and the return of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. Of the 251 hostages taken by Palestinian militants during the October 2023 attack, 49 are still held in Gaza, including 27 the Israeli military says are dead. The Egyptian foreign ministry said today that top diplomat Badr Abdelatty held a phone call with Washington's enjoy to th Mid, Steve Witkoff, to discuss recent developments 'and preparations for holding indirect meetings between the two parties concerned to reach an agreement'. The Egyptian foreign ministry said today that top diplomat Badr Abdelatty held a phone call with Washington's enjoy to th, Steve Witkoff, to discuss recent developments 'and preparations for holding indirect meetings between the two parties concerned to reach an agreement'. Pictures of the remaining Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip are displayed on a table by a beach outside the US embassy branch office in Tel Aviv on July 4, 2025 The Hostages and Missing Families Forum has also renewed calls for a negotiated agreement to bring the hostages home. 'This is the hour to bring about a comprehensive deal that will guarantee the return of the last hostage,' they said. Recent efforts to broker a new truce have repeatedly failed, with the main point of contention said to be Israel's rejection of Hamas's demand for guarantees of a lasting ceasefire. The war has created dire humanitarian conditions for the more than two million people in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has recently expanded its military operations. US and Israel-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, took the lead in food distribution in the territory in late May after Israel partially lifted a more than two-month blockade on aid deliveries. The group said two of its US staff members were wounded 'in a targeted terrorist attack' at one of its aid centres in southern Gaza's Khan Yunis on Saturday, adding that reports indicated a pair of assailants 'threw two grenades at the Americans'. The Israeli military said it had evacuated the injured. UN agencies and major aid groups have refused to cooperate with the GHF over concerns it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives. Its operations have been marred by near-daily reports of Israeli fire on people waiting to collect rations. UN human rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said yesterday that more than 500 people have been killed waiting to access food from GHF distribution points. GHF chairman Johnnie Moore, a Christian evangelical leader allied to Trump, on Wednesday rejected calls for the lead role in Gaza aid distributions to revert to UN agencies, saying: 'We will not be shut down.' Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said Israeli military operations killed 35 people across Gaza on Saturday. The Hamas attack of October 2023 resulted in the deaths of around 1,200 people, who were mostly civilians. Israel's retaliatory campaign has killed at least 57,338 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. The United Nations considers these figures reliable.
