Paige Bueckers ran off the court at Spokane Arena with a smile splitting her face and a Final Four hat perched atop her head. She waved to the crowd and headed for the UConn locker room. The second-seeded Huskies had just beaten No. 1 seeded USC on Monday night behind Bueckers’ 31 points. Little girls […]
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and two-time Costa Rican President Oscar Arias looks at the media during the opening ceremony of the XV World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at the University in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 13, 2015. Manu Fernandez/AP hide caption toggle caption Manu Fernandez/AP Former Costa Rica president Óscar Arias Sánchez – a Nobel […]
Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada had introduced a 25 percent tariff on cars and trucks made in the United States in retaliation for the tariffs that went into effect Thursday morning on Canadian vehicles. Five hours before the tariffs imposed by President Trump took effect, the automaker Stellantis told the union representing workers […]
The Prince of Wales’ Earthshot Prize will be held in Brazil later this year, Kensington Palace has announced, in the same month the country hosts the COP30 UN climate change conference. The main awards ceremony, along with several days of events for nominees, investors and environmental leaders, will be held in Rio de Janeiro in […]
Share prices fell sharply for a second day on Friday in Asia, and futures market trading indicated that American share prices might soon tumble further as well, as worries spread about the economic effect of President Trump’s broad tariffs. The Nikkei 225 Index in Japan was down 3.8 percent. That followed a 2.8 percent drop […]
The Zambia women’s national team have removed their four U.S.-based players from the squad for the Yongchuan International Tournament in China due to concerns over U.S. travel measures, the Zambia FA said on Wednesday. FAZ general secretary Reuben Kamanga said Orlando Pride trio Barbra Banda, Prisca Chilufya and Grace Chanda, along with Bay FC forward […]
Richard Bernstein, a former correspondent and critic for The New York Times whose deep knowledge of Asia and Europe illuminated reporting from Tiananmen Square to the Bastille, and who wrote things as he saw them in 10 books driven by unflinching intellectual curiosity, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 80. His death, in a […]
The New Civil Liberties Alliance — a nonprofit group that describes itself as battling “violations by the administrative state” — sued the federal government on Thursday over the means by which it imposed steep new levies on Chinese imports earlier this year. The new filing, which the group said was the first such lawsuit to […]
David Silverberg Technology Reporter Kelsey Krakora Kelsey Krakora made a career shift into live shopping After graduating college Kelsey Krakora worked full time in a steakhouse, bartending and serving meals. She had dabbled with selling clothes online, but only part-time. But in 2021 that all changed for Cleveland-based Ms Krakora. She switched to selling clothes […]
Fergus Walsh Medical editor Camilla Horrox Global health producer BBC April Hubbard sits on the theatre stage where she plans to die later this year. She is not terminally ill, but the 39-year-old performance and burlesque artist has been approved for assisted dying under Canada’s increasingly liberal laws. Warning: This article contains details and descriptions […]