Super Bowl LIX was expected to be fun and close, with the Kansas City Chiefs seeking to become the first team to win the big game three years in a row and the Philadelphia Eagles playing upstart. It ended up being a runaway few saw coming, as the slight favorite Kansas City fell 40-22 to […]
Assisted dying cases would no longer have to be signed off by the High Court under changes suggested by the bill’s supporters. The proposed law currently says a High Court judge must check each person is eligible and has not been coerced into making the decision to die. But BBC News has been told Kim […]
A federal judge rules US government has defied a previous ruling that suspended president’s sweeping order to freeze federal spending. A United States federal judge has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump did not fully comply with his order halting a federal spending freeze that has thrown the government into chaos. On Monday, […]
Hope you enjoyed the Super Bowl on Sunday night, and congrats to the Philadelphia Eagles. The ads were better than the game. We’ve got a rundown below. I got into a substantive debate on Sunday with Joe Lonsdale, the venture capitalist and co-founder of Palantir, and other investors, about how carried interest is taxed. President […]
Nearly two dozen states sued the Trump administration and the National Institutes of Health on Monday to block a $4 billion cut to research funding that scientists say would cost thousands of jobs and eviscerate studies into treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and a host of other ailments. The funding cuts were to take […]
The inner core at the center of the Earth, a ball of iron and nickel about 1,500 miles wide, may not be perfectly solid. A new study finds evidence that the inner core’s outer boundary has noticeably changed shape over the past few decades. “The most likely thing is the outer core is kind of […]
Feb 10, 2025, 10:40 AM ET A part-owner of Los Angeles FC apologized Monday for reposting reportedly anti-Israel posts on social media that were criticized by his club and Major League Soccer as “deeply offensive.” The Jewish Chronicle first reported that Ruben Gnanalingam reposted messages on his LinkedIn page, including comments urging “armies” to “dismantle” […]
President Trump is poised to move forward with sweeping tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum on Monday, re-upping a policy from his first term that pleased domestic metal makers, but hurt other American industries and ignited trade wars with allies on multiple fronts. The 25 percent tariffs that the president said he would impose on […]
An artificial intelligence race is heating up between the United States and China — but don’t count Europe out. That was the pitch that President Emmanuel Macron of France made on Monday as Paris hosted an A.I. summit, where government leaders, top tech executives and academic experts have gathered to discuss the hopes surrounding A.I., […]
A series of storms, fueled by deep tropical moisture, will bring repeated rounds of downpours through midweek. By the end of Friday, rain totals in the Southeast could reach 5 to 8 inches, with parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee expected to see the highest amounts. Winter storms moving across the country will produce […]