Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterNov 16, 2023, 02:55 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions NASCAR Hall of Fame broadcaster Ken Squier died Wednesday at the age of 88. Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Storyteller. That term has become a
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of X, arrives for the Inaugural AI Insight Forum in Russell Building on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Tesla, SpaceX, and X Corp. leader Elon Musk issued
One of the most quoted pieces of folk wisdom is that “voters don’t like divided parties”. The implication is that a political party which can’t keep its own house in order is unlikely to be trusted to run the country. This month epic disunity has been on display in both the government and the opposition.
A group of Tory MPs plans to write a letter to Rishi Sunak demanding his “emergency legislation” to revive the Rwanda deportation scheme overrides human rights laws. Sky News understands the New Conservatives group – a cohort of predominantly red wall MPs on the right of the party – will demand the legislation be “over-engineered”
New York state has sued PepsiCo for allegedly polluting one of its rivers with plastic bottles and wrappers. The lawsuit accuses the soft drinks company and its Frito-Lay subsidiaries of creating a public nuisance by the mass production of the single-use items, some of which inevitably fall or blow into the Buffalo River when they
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has once again addressed calls for him to run for US president – revealing he was approached “out of the blue” by political parties. One of Hollywood’s most recognisable and well-paid actors, Johnson has previously said he would seriously consider running for the White House after a poll suggested 46% of
Amazon.com said on Thursday its two prototype satellites for its planned Kuiper internet network have been operating successfully in orbit, with the project on track to start launching operational satellites by mid-2024. The Kuiper internet network is set to compete against billionaire Elon Musk‘s Starlink, the world’s largest satellite operator, to offer broadband internet service
Associated Press Nov 16, 2023, 10:46 AM ET Ken Squier, a longtime NASCAR announcer and broadcaster, has died. He was 88. Squier died Wednesday night in Waterbury, Vermont, according to the management of the local WDEV radio, which he owned. “Though he never sat behind the wheel of a stock car, Ken Squier contributed to
The grieving mother of a teenager stabbed to death in Wolverhampton has described him as a “courageous, compassionate and confident young soul”. Shawn Seesahai, 19, died after an incident near Laburnum Road in East Park at around 8.30pm on Monday. In a statement released through West Midlands Police, Mr Seesahai’s mother said her son “was
One of the biggest challenges facing Israeli forces during their ground operation in Gaza is the huge network of underground tunnels used by Hamas. Hundreds of kilometres long and up to 80m (262ft) deep, the system is used for various reasons – including carrying out attacks, smuggling in goods and storing weapons. Israel-Hamas war live:
Jeremy Hunt has said there is “no guarantee” deportation flights to Rwanda will take off next year – in an apparent climbdown on the government’s position. On Wednesday Rishi Sunak said three times the flights would take off by spring, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling that the asylum scheme is unlawful. Follow live: James Cleverly
The government has announced plans to remove benefits and step up monitoring of welfare recipients in an effort to bring more people into work. Job seekers will have benefits such as free prescriptions and legal aid removed if they’re judged not to be looking for work under the chancellor’s Back to Work Plan which aims
A mother in Virginia has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after her six-year-old son shot his school teacher with a gun. Deja Nicole Taylor, 26, pleaded guilty in June to possessing a firearm while using cannabis and making a false statement while purchasing a pistol. Taylor also pleaded guilty to a charge of
Nearly 18-months after the initial announcement of a new “N” performance line of EVs beginning with the IONIQ 5, Hyundai has brought its souped up model stateside to kickoff 2023’s AutoMobility LA event in California. Here’s the latest. Hyundai Motor Group’s N and N Line performance sub-brands were a mere seven years old when the Korean automaker
Hotel Chocolat has agreed to a £534m takeover offer from Mars, the maker of goods from Snickers bars to Pedigree dog food. The UK specialist chocolatier retailer said the offer represented a 170% premium to its London share price of 139p and the deal would allow its brand to expand internationally This breaking news story
Direct lines of communication between American and Chinese military forces are to be reopened for the first time in more than a year, Joe Biden has announced. Speaking after a meeting with China’s premier Xi Jinping in California, the US president said the restoration of military-to-military communications would help to prevent accidents which could spiral
In this article CSCO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chuck Robbins, CEO & Chairman of Cisco, speaking on Squawk Box at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 18th, 2023. Adam Galica | CNBC Cisco shares were down as much as 13% in extended trading on Wednesday after the networking hardware maker issued a
Charging speed can be a big part of buying an electric vehicle. Are you wondering which EVs charge the fastest? A new Edmunds EV charging test shows Hyundai, Kia, and Porsche electric cars top the list. Check out the full list below. In the “first independent measure of how quickly a car can add range
In this article AMZN DIS GS NFLX ENR-DE XOM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The US Treasury building in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A custom-built rack for the Maia 100 AI Accelerator and its “sidekick” inside a thermal chamber at a Microsoft lab in Redmond, Washington. The sidekick acts like a car radiator, cycling liquid to and from the rack to cool the chips as they handle the
A wave of Labour frontbenchers have resigned in order to back an SNP motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Afzal Khan, Yasmin Qureshi, Paula Barker and Naz Shah are among the shadow junior ministers that have defied party orders to abstain from the vote. The MPs say Sir Keir Starmer’s calls for humanitarian pauses
To see the column of people up close was quite something. Several hundred Palestinians, young and elderly, in a thin line facing south on the main north-south road that cuts down through Gaza. On a loudhailer, an Israeli soldier is issuing instructions in Arabic. They should move south, they are told, and they will be
When French President Emmanuel Macron called for a ceasefire last Friday, he said he was hoping the US and UK would follow suit. So far, they have not. There has been a marked shift in rhetoric in most Western capitals vis-a-vis how Israel is exercising its manifest right to defend itself, as the horrors of
Tim Vickery, South America correspondentNov 15, 2023, 09:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions lt’s more than 20 years since Brazil last won the World Cup. But their clubs have now won the Copa Libertadores five times in a row — an unprecedented domination, underlining the point that the giant country continues to be an excellent
Rishi Sunak has said he will introduce emergency legislation to make sure his Rwanda plan is not blocked again – and insisted “flights will be heading off in the spring as planned”. After the Supreme Court ruled the flagship asylum policy is unlawful, the prime minister said he had been working on a new international
Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterNov 15, 2023, 08:15 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions SAINT SIMONS ISLAND, Georgia — After another tumultuous season in men’s professional golf, the PGA Tour’s last wrap-around schedule for the foreseeable future wraps
Manchester United has confirmed its chief executive of two years, Richard Arnold, “has decided to step down” as part of a “management transition”. The development was revealed shortly after Sky News reported that Mr Arnold would be replaced by the club’s general counsel, Patrick Stewart, on an interim basis. The change is taking place as
A deported killer is offering to return to Britain to show his victim’s daughter where he buried her mother’s body 54 years ago. Nizamodeen Hosein was 22 when he and his older brother Arthur kidnapped Muriel McKay, the wife of a newspaper executive, and held her ransom for £1 million. The brothers were caught and
Friends stars Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer have paid tribute to Matthew Perry. Aniston, who played Rachel Green in the show, wrote in an Instagram post: “Oh boy this one has cut deep… Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before. “We all experience
The wife of The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has sent “love and prayers” to those “struggling” as she posted a photo of the Fairytale Of New York singer in hospital. Victoria Mary Clarke thanked well-wishers on X, formerly Twitter, and revealed the singer’s bandmates Spider Stacy and Terry Woods had visited him recently. The Irish
Despite Tesla’s long-awaited Cyberquad electric ATV likely still having a long wait ahead of us, it’s actually been two years since the company rolled out a smaller version designed for young riders. But after a Consumer Product Safety Commission recall put the kibosh on the original version, Tesla has returned with an updated model that
Siemens Energy site in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany, August 3, 2022. Wolfgang Rattay | Reuters Siemens Energy has secured 7.5 billion euros ($8.15 billion) in project-related state guarantees from the German government, hours before announcing a nearly 5 billion euro loss for its fiscal year. The German economy ministry announced late on Tuesday that
Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, at a press conference at the IMF Headquarters on April 14, 2023. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images News | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Central bank digital currencies have the potential to replace cash, but adoption could take time, said Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International