Media lawyers scoffed last year when President Trump sued two news organizations for producing journalism that, he claimed, violated laws meant to protect consumers from things like deceptive advertising. They’re not laughing anymore. First Amendment experts still believe that Mr. Trump’s cases, against CBS News and The Des Moines Register, lack legal merit. But they […]
Adam Eley and Alison Holt, social affairs editor BBC News BBC Jessie, her face blurred for privacy, in the hospital bed where she lived for 18 months “I feel very angry, upset, worthless, and like my mental health and my life does not matter,” says Jessie, propped up in a hospital bed. She is recording […]
As introductions to English football go, this was about as unceremonious as it gets. Two of Manchester City’s four midseason signings made their debuts in Saturday’s 2-1 FA Cup fourth-round win (stream a replay on ESPN+,U.S. only) at League One minnows Leyton Orient. Nico Gonzalez lasted 22 minutes before injury struck and Vitor Reis was […]
Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “all stakeholder engagement,” effectively stopping the agency’s operations, in an email from the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, on Saturday evening. Mr. Vought, who was confirmed this week to lead the Office of […]
Emma Lynch/BBC Braving the 3.9C water on a winter morning at the west reservoir in London It is a cold morning in the depths of winter. And I feel like I’ve left my sanity as well as my warm clothes in the changing room as I stride out to the edge of a reservoir in […]
Christal Hayes and Kayla Epstein Reporting fromLos Angeles Watch: Moment horses are rescued from approaching LA fire The trailers arrived all at once, carrying hundreds of horses fleeing the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles. Some horses came solo, others in trailers packed with fellow animals. Many had their owners, but others arrived alone, […]
A mother and daughter were killed Thursday night in Tennessee after a possible tornado, according to local emergency management. The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said severe weather impacted the Deer Lodge and Sunbright communities about 8:30 p.m. local time. The likely tornado struck about 60 miles northeast of Knoxville. MORGAN COUNTY, Tenn. – A mother and […]
At a time when the documentary film business is atrophying, one of the world’s leading documentarians, Alex Gibney, has taken on a powerful partner: Wendy Schmidt, a billionaire philanthropist by way of Google. “We’ve been managing to make films on important social issues for a long time, but finding and getting those stories to audiences […]
Super-featherweight boxer John Cooney, 28, has died after his defeat by Welshman Nathan Howells in Belfast last Saturday. The Irish boxer suffered an intracranial haemorrhage and had surgery to relieve pressure on his brain following the bout at the Ulster Hall. Galway man Cooney was assessed by the medical team in the ring before being […]
It began with a viral photo. There was Patrick Mahomes, standing victorious in a locker room, his arm raised in triumph, his torso shirtless, his gut exposed and … kind of flabby? Maybe it was the lighting. Or a bad angle. Mahomes blamed that. Still, the evidence seemed undeniable: Here was one of the greatest […]