Minutes after the news broke of former President Donald Trump's historic conviction on 34 counts of felony falsification of business records, President Joe Biden posted on X seeking donations to his re-election campaign. It didn't seem to work out the way he -- or, more likely, the intern posting to...

The U.S. is hoping that its latest supply of armaments will shift the momentum of the war in Ukraine. A video taken by CNN shows a U.S. M1A1 Abrams tank being used by Ukrainian forces to lay down fire on a Russian position. The tanks, which the U.S. committed as...

Former NBA player Drew Gordon, the older brother of the Denver Nuggets’ Aaron Gordon, passed away from injuries sustained in a car accident in Portland, Oregon. He was 33. Gordon played in nine games for the Philadelphia 76ers during the 2014-2015 season. Former NBA player Drew Gordon, the brother of Aaron Gordon, died in a car accident Thursday, his agent confirmed to @MarcJSpears. He was 33 years old. pic.twitter.com/SS0aPe8ybj — NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) May 31, 2024 Per ESPN: A native of San Jose, California, Gordon’s pro basketball journey also included stops in the G League, Serbia, Sardinia, Turkey, France, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and three different teams in Russia. The former McDonald’s All-American played collegiately at UCLA and New Mexico. He is survived by his wife, Angela, and three children. Drew Gordon has passed away in a car accident at 33 years old. Gordon played nine games for the 76ers in the 2014-15 season and has played professionally in US and abroad since college ball at New Mexico and UCLA. Drew is the older brother of Nuggets F Aaron Gordon. RIP. — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 31, 2024 We are heartbroken over the passing of Drew Gordon. A two-time all-conference forward, he helped lead us to the 2012 Mountain West title. pic.twitter.com/tdleKSxTOF — Lobo Basketball (@UNMLoboMBB) May 31, 2024 “The Denver Nuggets organization is devastated to learn about the tragic passing of Drew Gordon. Drew was far too young to leave this world, but his legacy will forever live on through his three beautiful children and all of his loved ones. Our hearts are with Aaron and the Gordon family during this extremely difficult time,” the Denver Nuggets stated. pic.twitter.com/kxVm4TrL5F — Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) May 31, 2024 PEOPLE reports: Per CBS Sports, Drew’s college career began at UCLA, where he spent two years in the UCLA Bruins men’s basketball program. He then transferred to New Mexico for junior season, joining the New Mexico Lobos men’s basketball team for two seasons. Despite averaging at least 13 points and 10 rebounds every game, Drew did not make the 2012 NBA draft, according to the outlet, but still had a successful basketball career. CBS Sports reported that Drew went on to play for the Dallas Mavericks in the Summer League before switching between foreign leagues and the G League. “Drew continued playing professional basketball for nearly ten years after his time at the Philadelphia 76ers. With most of his career taking place abroad, he went on to receive the title of All-Star in France in 2015, before retiring in 2023,” PEOPLE noted.

According to a new Emerson College Polling/The Hill/PIX11 survey of New York voters, Donald Trump is gaining on Joe Biden in the deep-blue state. Trump is within single digits of Biden. In the poll, Biden led Trump 48 percent to 41 percent. Per Emerson College Polling: A new Emerson College Polling/The Hill/PIX11 survey of New York voters finds President Joe Biden with 48% support in the 2024 presidential election, while 41% support former President Donald Trump; 12% are undecided. When undecided voters are asked which candidate they lean toward, Biden’s lead increases to 10 points, 55% to 45%. With third-party candidates on the ballot, 44% support Biden, 38% Trump, 6% support Robert Kennedy Jr., 2% Cornel West, and 1% Jill Stein; 11% are undecided. “The Emerson College poll surveyed 1,000 New York voters between May 28 and 29. It had a margin of error of 3 percentage points,” the New York Post reports. It would be interesting to redo this survey after Thursday’s guilty verdict in the “hush money” witch hunt. Trump lost the Empire State in the 2016 and 2020 elections by 20+ points. Biden leads Trump by single digits in New York: poll https://t.co/mqioQKub4L pic.twitter.com/B8s3q0rMyf — New York Post (@nypost) May 31, 2024 Notably, independent voters in New York are leaning toward Trump. Biden leads Trump by single digits in New York — independents have ‘flipped’ for ex-president: poll https://t.co/2qo5udRnn1 pic.twitter.com/ogbxxyz4Rz — New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) May 31, 2024 “Independent voters in New York who traditionally vote for Democrats, according to exit polling, have flipped to lean toward Trump by a margin of 10 points, 43% to 33%,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said in a statement. From the New York Post: A Republican presidential candidate hasn’t won New York in the general election since 1984, when President Ronald Reagan beat former Vice President Walter Mondale by an 8-point margin. In 2016, Trump lost the Empire State to Hillary Clinton by a 22.5-point margin, and in 2020, Biden defeated the former president by 23.2 points in New York. Last week, the presumptive GOP nominee held his first campaign rally in New York — his birth state — since 2016. The South Bronx event, permitted for 3,500 attendees, drew a crowd of between 8,000 and 10,000 people, law enforcement sources told The Post. The rally, although not as large as Trump’s Wildwood, NJ, gathering three weeks ago, which drew about 100,000 people, was supposed to show that Trump isn’t “afraid” to show up in traditionally Democratic voting areas, a Trump campaign official said.

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued stern warnings to Western Leaders not to allow Ukraine to have missiles that would be able to strike deep into Russian territory. It was not a new warning, as Putin has often warned that such an escalation would widen the conflict. Russia and Ukraine, after all, share an […] The post The World Inches Closer To All-Out War appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.