Don Van Natta Jr., ESPN Senior WriterSep 11, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Host and co-executive producer of the new ESPN series, “Backstory” Member of three Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national, explanatory and public service journalism Author of three books, including New York Times best-selling “First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers, and Cheaters from
Rishi Sunak has accused Sir Keir Starmer of “hiding” an impact assessment on the winter fuel payment cut for 10 million pensioners. Mr Sunak asked Sir Keir twice if he would publish an impact assessment on the policy after Labour MPs voted on Tuesday to push the cut through. However, Sir Keir responded by saying
The Scottish government has been defeated in a non-binding vote calling on ministers to expand free school meals to all primary pupils. The SNP administration suffered a double defeat at Holyrood, with MSPs also backing a separate motion calling on the government to reverse its decision to reintroduce peak ScotRail fares. Opposition politicians joined forces
The divorce between Jonas Brothers singer Joe Jonas and his estranged wife Sophie Turner has been approved, five years after the pair got married. Florida judge Gina Beovides also signed off a confidential settlement over splitting assets, spousal support and custody of their two daughters, four-year-old Willa and two-year-old Delphine. She declared the marriage “irretrievably
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signalled her first budget as chancellor could be a painful mix of spending cuts, tax rises and increased borrowing. Speaking to Sky News after official figures showed the economy flatlined in July with GDP growth of 0.0%, she refused to rule out increasing business and wealth taxes, or further cuts to
The chancellor has defended the government’s £500m steel industry subsidy, with thousands of jobs set to be lost at Britain’s biggest steelworks. When asked why the government is spending money on jobs that are going to be scrapped, Rachel Reeves said the steel industry was “incredibly important” to the UK economy. The government, Ms Reeves
As the old saying goes, even the dogs in the street know he was talking nonsense. Donald Trump rolled out the long-debunked rumour that Haitian immigrants were eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. The debate moderator, in serious tone, duly interjected that they’d contacted the “city manager” who had played it down. It
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have clashed over issues including abortion, the economy and illegal immigration in their first – and possibly only – debate before the US election. Ms Harris’s attacks appeared to get under her rival’s skin at times, claiming people left his rallies out of “boredom” and Russian President Vladimir Putin “would
On today’s spectacular episode of Quick Charge, we bust the myth of slowing EV sales by teaching journalists how to do math. We also check out the new, $50,000 mainstream Lucid and break the news to California that they’re not #1 anymore. We also mark Greenlane’s groundbreaking (literally!) flagship EV charging station for big trucks, and talk
Stand With Crypto’s bus tour through five battleground states kicked off last week in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Logan Dobson/Stand With Crypto Alliance A big purple bus adorned with “AMERICA ❤️ CRYPTO” started making its way across five swing states last week, on a mission to get out the vote ahead of the presidential election.
A groundbreaking study from the National University of Singapore has revealed that it is possible to reverse the ageing process in mouse egg cells, offering new hope for fertility treatments. Researchers, led by Dr Rong Li, Director of the Mechanobiology Institute, have discovered a method to rejuvenate ageing mouse oocytes by placing them into younger
The Health Ministry has confirmed the presence of the Mpox virus, specifically the West African clade 2, in a recent patient. The case, verified on September 9, 2024, is travel-related and not part of the ongoing global public health emergency involving clade 1 of the virus. This case is an isolated incident, similar to the
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has completed its Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission, landing safely at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on September 7, 2024. After more than three months in space, the uncrewed capsule returned with a successful parachute-assisted landing at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT). This marked the end of a mission initially planned
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon’s computing unit AWS is in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in the expansion of its data center business in the country as part of the tech giant’s effort to boost its cloud offer in Europe, four people familiar with the matter
Former Chelsea and Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has been named the head coach of the US men’s national team. The 52-year-old is now the USMNT’s tenth head coach in 14 years and was hired nearly four months after he left Chelsea having spent just one season in charge. “The decision to join US Soccer wasn’t
Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterSep 10, 2024, 07:33 AM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Open Extended Reactions TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State coach Mike Norvell has dealt with 0-2 starts. Bad home losses. Negativity. Quarterbacks getting booed. Never, however, as a defending conference champion. And never
Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl, well known for his reputation as “the nicest guy in rock”, has admitted becoming the father to a baby born “outside of my marriage”. The former Nirvana drummer, 55, said he plans to be a “loving and supportive parent” to his new daughter in an Instagram post on Tuesday. Grohl,
D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Sep 9, 2024, 07:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — On her very first day of the next chapter of her life, Shelby Rogers woke up to a text message from her sister: “Happy first day of retirement,” it read. Rogers, 31, had officially finished her career at the US
If you want a sense of the “change” government, Sir Keir Starmer becoming the first prime minister in 15 years to address the Trade Union Congress is it. The Tories out and Labour in is what the trade union movement has yearned for. This has been a patient base, waiting for a new deal. But
The Lucid Gravity is “set to be the best SUV ever,” CEO Peter Rawlinson said during its Technology & Manufacturing Day on Tuesday. Lucid revealed at the event that the Gravity electric SUV will feature an NACS port, unlocking access to +15,000 Tesla Superchargers. With advanced new tech, the Gravity will enable “mass savings” as
U.S. crude oil futures on Tuesday fell more than 1%, shedding gains from the previous session as OPEC lowered its demand forecast for the second time in two months. OPEC now expects demand to grow by about 2 million barrels per day in 2024, some 80,000 bpd slower than its previous forecast. The group of
Presenter and author Carol Vorderman has called on the prime minister to apologise over cutting winter fuel payments for pensioners. The controversial policy was approved by parliament today, despite a number of Labour MPs abstaining from the vote, with ministers saying “tough decisions” were needed to fix the public finances. But it was widely criticised
President Joe Biden is “not ruling out” allowing Ukraine to fire missiles deep into Russian territory, the US secretary of state has told Sky News. Antony Blinken made the comment after he told a news conference in London that Iran has provided Moscow with short-range missiles and Vladimir Putin will “likely use them within weeks
A slump in oil prices could lead to further reductions at the fuel pumps but any benefit risks being stripped away next month as the chancellor seeks ways to bolster the public finances. A barrel of Brent crude, the international benchmark, slipped below $70 for the first time since December 2021 on Tuesday afternoon. The
Victoria Matiash, Fantasy HockeySep 9, 2024, 09:00 AM ET Close ESPN.com Fantasy Contributor since 2010 Part-time anchor at NEWSTALK1010 Open Extended Reactions Here we go again! For fantasy hockey enthusiasts, we’re on the cusp of the most wonderful time of the year. Whether you’re looking to repeat as league champion, or hoping for a much
Warren East, former CEO of Rolls Royce and Arm, speaking at a tech event in London on June 13, 2022. Luke MacGregor | Bloomberg via Getty Images CAMBRIDGE, England — The U.K. is doing a bad job of commercializing technology businesses globally and needs a mindset shift from the investor community to win on the
Antarctica, now a vast frozen continent, was not always covered in ice. Around 34 million years ago, during the Eocene-Oligocene boundary, the continent was ice-free. According to Eric Wolff, a paleoclimatologist from the University of Cambridge, Antarctica resembled northern Canada with tundra and coniferous forests before it froze. The shift to ice began due to
Mel Stride has become the latest Tory leadership hopeful to be knocked out of the race to replace Rishi Sunak. Conservative MPs held their second round of voting on Tuesday as they narrowed down the candidates to lead the party. And the former work and pensions secretary came in last place with just 16 MPs
Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia and the Kremlin “will likely use them within weeks in Ukraine”, the US secretary of state has said. Speaking during a visit to the UK, Antony Blinken said the development was “a threat to all of Europe” and showed how Iran’s “destabilising influence reaches far beyond the
Kamala Harris was a prosecutor for far longer than she’s been a politician. Harris’s lengthy career in law started in 1990 when she became a deputy district attorney specialising in prosecuting child sexual assault offenders. It ran until 2017 when she was overseeing the largest state justice department in the country as attorney general of
A mum who decided to go to Ibiza rather than attend the sentencing of her 12-year-old son involved in the summer’s riots has been ordered to pay compensation amounting to the cost of her holiday. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons because of his age, was previously due to be sentenced on
There is “no clear link” between the appearance of a guest on The Jeremy Kyle Show and his suicide, a coroner has concluded. Steve Dymond, 63, was found dead at his home in Portsmouth, Hampshire, in May 2019, seven days after taking part in the show. Hampshire coroner Jason Pegg said there was “an absence
MPs have voted to cut the winter fuel payment for all but the country’s poorest pensioners. A Tory move to block the measure was defeated by 348 to 228 votes – a majority of 120. Labour has a working majority in the Commons of 167. The division list showed Labour MP Jon Trickett supported the
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