It’s entirely possible that four or five summers from now, Connor Bedard’s name will be etched on the Stanley Cup. He’ll have won the Conn Smythe Trophy that spring, of course, after a truly absurd playoff run flanked by Michael Misa and Frank Nazar, with Artyom Levshunov logging a heroic 30 minutes a night on […]
In 2010, a woman in Sakura, Japan, posted photos of her well-manicured Shiba Inu to her digital journal. The dog, Kabosu, shot her owner a wide-eyed glance, a comic image that quickly jumped from Tumblr to Twitter to Facebook and to the rest of the internet. A meme legend was born. Someone on Reddit called […]
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing at least 1,500 more. Volcanic debris “poured across the land,” wrote the Roman lawyer Pliny the Younger, and blanketed the town in a darkness “like the black of closed and unlighted rooms.” Within two […]
Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso has played down Victor Boniface’s furious reaction with teammate Emiliano Buendía during the team’s Bundesliga win at Eintracht Frankfurt. Boniface lashed out at Argentina winger Buendía after they got in each other’s way during stoppage time in Saturday’s 4-1 win, and he had to be calmed by teammates. Jeremie Frimpong tried […]
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Planning for the extraordinary takes a special kind of audacity. Nobody points to center field and clears the wall with the next swing. One guy might have done it, but that was Babe Ruth, and nobody’s really sure, anyway. Then came Shohei Ohtani. Ohtani, the walking miracle of the Los Angeles Dodgers, […]
Hemmati was removed from office after 182 out of 273 lawmakers voted against him. Iran’s economy minister has been impeached after the parliament voted to dismiss him from office amid rising inflation and a falling currency. Abdolnaser Hemmati was removed from office after 182 out of 273 lawmakers voted against him on Sunday, Mohammad Bagher […]
Pep Guardiola has said not even winning the FA Cup can save Manchester City’s season. City booked their place in the quarterfinals with a hard-fought 3-1 win over Plymouth Argyle at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. Guardiola’s team have reached the last eight of the competition for the seventh year in a row. But he […]
A powerful storm that is threatening a dangerous severe weather outbreak in the South Tuesday is expected to bring widespread impacts on its northern flank across the Midwest, with potentially damaging winds, soaking rain, and areas of snow. The expected low pressure area could even break some atmospheric pressure records. DES MOINES, Iowa — A […]
Sam Runyon navigated to the house by memory as she reviewed her patient’s file, a “problem list” of medications and chronic diseases that went on for several pages. Sam, a 45-year-old nurse, had already seen Cora Perkins survive two types of cancer. During previous appointments, she had found Cora’s arms turning blue from diabetes, or […]
Mary McCool BBC Scotland News ‘I won’t be diverted by SNP rhetoric on Trump visit’ – Starmer The prime minister has dismissed calls from the SNP to scrap an unprecedented second state visit for Donald Trump following a showdown with Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Trump accused Zelensky of “gambling with World War Three” at the White […]