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Two potential contenders for a WNBA title face off in a matchup that will be broadcast on Twitter on Tuesday night.The Chicago Sky (3-1) are on the road to take on the Atlanta Dream (1-2), who entered this season as a dark horse pick because of some of their young talent, led by last season&rsqu...

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday the “time is now” for Turkey to drop its objections to Sweden joining NATO but said the Biden administration also believed that Turkey should be provided with upgraded F-16 fighters “as soon as possible.” Blinken maintained that the administration had not linked the two issues but acknowledged that some U.S. lawmakers had. President Joe Biden implicitly linked the two issues in a phone call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday. “I spoke to Erdogan and he still wants to work on something on the F-16s. I told him we wanted a deal with Sweden. So let’s get that done," Biden said. Still, Blinken insisted the two issues were distinct. However, he stressed that the completion of both would dramatically strengthen European security. “Both of these are vital, in our judgement, to European security,” Blinken told reporters at a joint news conference in the northern Swedish city of Lulea with Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. “We believe that both should go forward as quickly as possible; that is to say Sweden’s accession and moving forward on the F-16 package more broadly.” “We believe the time is now,” Blinken said. He declined to predict when Turkey and Hungary, the only other NATO member not yet to have ratified Sweden’s membership, would grant their approval. But, he said, “we have no doubt that it can be, it should be, and we expect it to be” completed by the time alliance leaders meet in Vilnius, Lithuania in July at an annual summit. Fresh from a strong re-election victory over the weekend, Erdogan may be willing to ease his objections to Sweden’s membership. Erdogan accuses Sweden of being too soft on groups Ankara considers to be terrorists, and a series of Quran-burning protests in Stockholm angered his religious support base — making his tough stance even more popular. Kristersson said the two sides had been in contact since Sunday’s vote and voiced no hesitancy in speaking about the benefits Sweden would bring to NATO “when we join the alliance.” Blinken is in Sweden attending a meeting of the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council and will travel to Oslo, Norway on Wednesday for a gathering of NATO foreign ministers, before going on to newly admitted alliance member Finland on Friday. Speaking in Oslo ahead of the foreign ministers' meeting, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the goal was to have Sweden inside the grouping before the leaders' summit in July. "There are no guarantees, but it’s absolutely possible to reach a solution and enable the decision on full membership for Sweden by the Vilnius summit,” Stoltenberg said. Read More Ukraine war’s heaviest fight rages in east - follow live Charity boss speaks out over ‘traumatic’ encounter with royal aide

Alexia Ocasio-Cortez has threatened to quit Twitter after Elon Musk promoted a “sick” account impersonating the star Democratic politician. The New York congresswoman said that she was “assessing” what to do after the billionaire interacted with the fake account on his social media platform. “FYI there’s a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral. The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility,” Ms Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Tuesday. “It is releasing false policy statements and gaining spread. I am assessing with my team how to move forward. In the meantime, be careful of what you see.”

It's official: Aaron Rodgers is a Swiftie. And when he gets into his groove, he's going to be breaking out his dance moves for the whole world to see.What does an A-list celebrity do in his first few months in New York? Attend a Taylor Swift concert, duh.New York Jets quarterback A...

Citigroup Inc. has begun to see signs of a rebound in investment banking, with an agreement to avert

BRASILIA Brazil's central government primary budget surplus dropped by 48.3% in April in real terms from the same

Reviewing Arsenal's 2022/23 season with best player, best goal, biggest disappointment & more.

We're closing in on trade season, and the Atlanta Braves are contenders. Could they trade for a former fried in Miami Marlins slugger Jorge Soler?For Jorge Soler to become a Braves trade target, the price would have to drop rather significantly. Trading with any division rival is risky, esp...

Bob Myers will not be returning to the team next season. What does this mean for the future of the Golden State Warriors?Adrian Wojnarowski has reported that Bob Myers is stepping down as president and GM of the Golden State Warriors. It seems some of this is due to overall fatigue from Meyers (...

Nvidia Corp on Tuesday became the first chipmaker to join Wall Street's trillion-dollar club dominated by technology heavyweights

'I felt that the journey through this was winding the bow back as far as it could possibly go to reach its final target,' said Jeremy Strong