After the NBA fined Ja Morant $75,000 last week for making finger-gun gesture celebrations, the Memphis Grizzlies star has found a new way to commemorate a made 3-pointer. In the Grizzlies’ 141-125 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday night, Morant mimicked pulling a pin, tossing a grenade and covering his ears following a made […]
Jennifer Meierhans Business reporter Getty Images The UK government is poised to take control of a major British Steel plant in Scunthorpe, which is at risk of imminent closure. MPs have been called back from their Easter break to pass an emergency law which would keep the Chinese-owned site operating. What is British Steel and […]
An American pastor has been kidnapped by armed men after they stormed his church service in South Africa, local authorities say. Josh Sullivan had been conducting a service at Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell, a township in Gqeberra in the Eastern Cape, on Thursday evening when “four armed and masked male suspects entered”, police spokesman […]
Michael Buchanan Senior Social Affairs Correspondent Contributor handout It took six months for Lucy Earle to be assigned an Access to Work caseworker Businesses employing disabled people say they are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds by the government, and fear they may have to let staff go. Under the Access to Work scheme, companies […]
The Trump administration announced Friday it would delay the implementation of a Biden-era rule meant to restrict coverage of unproven and costly bandages known as skin substitutes. The policy will be delayed until 2026, allowing companies to continue setting high prices for new products, taking advantage of a loophole in Medicare rules. The companies sell […]
President Trump didn’t seem to mind as his worldwide tariffs set off stock market sell-offs and wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. “Be cool,” he told Americans. Then he blinked on Wednesday afternoon in the face of financial turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields that could shake the dominant position of […]
Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said on Friday. Towana Looney, 53, lived with the kidney for 130 days, which is longer than anyone else has tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. She has resumed dialysis, hospital officials […]
President Trump has big ambitions for the global trading system and is using tariffs to try to rip it down and rebuild it. But the European Union is taking action after action to make sure the continent is at the center of whatever world comes next. As one of the globe’s biggest and most open […]
Martin Eastaugh BBC News Reporting fromOxford Crown Court PA Media Lisa Davenport was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Friday A woman described as a “devoted daughter” has received a suspended prison sentence after she admitted the manslaughter of her terminally ill father. Dr Lisa Davenport used a pillow to smother Barrie Davenport, 88, at […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Calvin Booth was done with Michael Malone. It was Monday afternoon in Denver, and the Nuggets general manager had reached his breaking point with the franchise’s longtime coach, whose team was on a four-game slide. The locker room was a mess, with team and league sources indicating that the franchise’s most important […]