The results of a rare, closely watched auction in Japan that ended this week are about to be released. But there were no paintings or antique cars on the auction block. The government is selling 165,000 tons of rice — equivalent to roughly two billion bowls — from its emergency stockpile to make up for […]
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 28, 2022. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP WASHINGTON — Democratic U.S. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona, who championed environmental protection during his 12 terms in Congress, died Thursday of complications from cancer treatments, […]
Alex Kirkland Graham Hunter Close Graham Hunter Spain writer Graham Hunter is a Barcelona-based freelance writer for ESPN.com who specializes in La Liga and the Spanish national team. Mar 12, 2025, 08:52 PM ET Real Madrid beat Atlético Madrid in a dramatic penalty shootout Wednesday as the reigning champions advanced to the quarterfinals, in another […]
MaryLou Costa Technology Reporter Donatas Ališauskas Ieva Mackeviciute uses car sharing to get around Vilnius Ieva Mackeviciute lives in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, but works in the capital, Vilnius. She takes the hour-long train into her company’s Vilnius office once a week, where she uses a car-sharing service to drive herself to client meetings throughout […]
President Trump has called the word tariff “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” He imposed hefty tariffs during his first term and promised expansive new ones as he pursued his second. On his first day back in the White House in January, he issued an executive order directing his cabinet picks to prepare even […]
It’s not clear who will benefit if President Trump follows through on his threat to impose 200 percent tariffs on all wines and alcoholic beverages from the European Union, but it certainly would not be American consumers. The tariff warning was posted by Mr. Trump on social media Thursday in retaliation to 50 percent tariffs […]
President Trump’s cabinet has been busy rolling back regulations that will make it far easier to extract and produce fossil fuels. But who will buy them? Nearly everyone, it turns out, particularly under the threat of tariffs. At an annual energy-industry conference in Houston, executives spoke openly about how companies from around the world are […]
As the hours tick by with the New York Giants awaiting word from a 41-year-old who quarterbacked a 5-12 team last season, there’s an inescapable feeling that they picked a terrible time to be on the hunt for a QB savior. The Giants are in a particularly perilous position this offseason. The Daniel Jones experiment […]
The world’s most widely followed stock-market benchmark slid into a correction on Thursday, a drop that underscores how the two-year-long bull market is running out of steam in the early days of the Trump administration. The move stems from investors’ growing pessimism about the whipsawing policy pronouncements from Washington over the past few weeks. On-again, […]
Cheshire Police Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole-life prison sentences for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others (one of whom on two occasions) between June 2015 and June 2016 A police investigation at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and attempted to kill seven others has been expanded to […]