January 17, 2025 - Virgin Islands News

Sports

Sosa on Cubs Hall of Fame nod: ‘Time was right’

Former Cubs star Sammy Sosa was elected to the team’s Hall of Fame along with former first baseman Derrek Lee.

January 17, 2025

Entertainment

Christopher Walken has to watch ‘Severance’ on DVDs because he ‘doesn’t have the equipment’ to stream Apple TV+

Walken is gonna Walken.

January 17, 2025

Sports

Swiatek steamrolls Raducanu to make 4th round

Iga Swiatek won the final 11 games of Saturday’s match against Emma Raducanu and won 6-1, 6-0 to advance to the fourth round at the Australian Open.

January 17, 2025

Technology

TikTok says it will go dark Sunday unless Biden admin assures service providers they won’t be punished

The statement came hours after the Supreme Court upheld a law banning TikTok in the United States on national security grounds if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell it.

January 17, 2025

Lifestyle

The 10 safest states in the US in 2025 — and six of them are in one region right near NYC

For crime-weary Gothamites, a better life could be just up the road.

January 17, 2025

Local News

UVI and the BVI’s HLSCC Partner for Combined Degree Program

It was a momentous occasion on Friday for the University of the Virgin Islands School of Agriculture (SOA) and the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) from the British Virgin Islands as they formally launched a partnership agreement at the Great Hall on the University of the Virgin Islands Albert Sheen Campus.

January 17, 2025

Sports

CB Lucas leaves UW for Miami, bypasses portal

The lawyer for Xavier Lucas says the former Wisconsin player is transferring to Miami, even though the cornerback’s former school never entered his name into the portal.

January 17, 2025

Sports

Thunder sit SGA vs. Mavs due to sprained wrist

Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is sitting out Friday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks due to a sprained right wrist.

January 17, 2025

Politics

Pence Is Said to Be Planning to Attend Trump’s Inauguration

The relationship between President-elect Trump and his former vice president, Mike Pence, was irreparably broken when Mr. Pence refused Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.

January 17, 2025

Politics

ICE officers prepping for ‘big f–king operation’ across sanctuary cities immediately after Trump inauguration

ICE officers are prepping to carry out raids in at least two sanctuary cities: Chicago and New York City, multiple sources told The Post.

January 17, 2025

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