The United States women’s national team will face China in a pair of games this spring as head coach Emma Hayes continues to evaluate players who will help her squad on the road toward the 2027 World Cup. The teams will meet at Allianz Field in St. Paul, Minn., on May 31 and again on […]
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” erasing $4 billion in additional savings that the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers. Late Sunday night, the group erased or altered more than 1,000 contracts it had claimed to cancel, representing more than 40 percent […]
A cross-country storm will bring a multitude of threats this week, including severe storms, heavy rain, strong winds and accumulating snow. A powerful storm system is sweeping across the U.S., bringing a dangerous mix of severe weather, including tornadoes, flooding, heavy snow and high winds, impacting millions from the West Coast to the East Coast. […]
President Trump campaigned on a promise to bring down interest rates. And he has fulfilled that pledge in one key way, with U.S. government bond yields falling sharply. But the reason for the drop is an unnerving one: Investors appear to be more on edge about the outlook for the economy. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent […]
The United Kingdom has said there are several proposals for a potential Ukraine ceasefire after French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a limited initial one-month truce, as Kyiv reiterated its need for security guarantees as part of any agreement. European countries, led by the UK and France, are looking at options for a proposal to halt […]
For the third week in a row, Pope Francis has been unable to deliver his traditional Angelus prayer in person, with the Vatican publishing his written comments instead. Vatican officials said the text, sent from his hospital room in Rome, had been written “in the past few days”. In it, the Pope thanked people for […]
For almost a decade, Jill Saulnier was an energy line forward for the Canadian women’s national team, winning two Olympic medals and a world championship. Now she can add a new line to her resume: She threw the first real punches in the history of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, in a fight with Ottawa […]
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent Getty Images A looming deadline for people to plug gaps in their National Insurance record, to ensure they get the full state pension, has been softened. Concerns over a rush of last-minute enquiries mean anyone who requests a call back from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on […]
At the biggest toy industry trade show in the Western Hemisphere this weekend, toy makers, as usual, displayed seemingly endless rows of stuffed animals, action figures and puzzles, hoping to entice retailers to pick their products. But this year, the chatter at Toy Fair New York was dominated not by the next Barbie, but a […]
Data given to BBC Weather by Nature’s Calendar, external – a citizen science project by the Woodland Trust – demonstrates how climate change is triggering natural events. Since 2000 they have used public sightings of plants, animals and fungi to log the effects of weather and climate on nature. Alex Marshall from Nature’s Calendar explained […]