The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 Men’s March Madness Selection Show Ever the gentleman, Greg Gumbel reached out to offer a welcoming handshake. Ernie Johnson responded with … a fist bump? The awkward exchange — one Johnson still describes, a decade later, as “so embarrassing” — lasted maybe two seconds. To Johnson, a […]
Regulators are being summoned to No 10 on Monday to meet Chancellor Rachel Reeves as the government moves to slash bureaucracy and cut the cost of regulation for business by a quarter. The government will also announce plans to streamline environmental permitting and cut red tape it says blocks new housing and infrastructure, as well […]
Sam Gruet Business reporter BBC Canadian retail boss Joanna Goodman is considering no longer ordering from US suppliers Made in Canada. Three words that are now a common presence on Canadian shelves, after Donald Trump’s tariffs sparked a trade war with the US’s northern neighbour. In Canada the economic measures against it have been met […]
US President Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back the federally-funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being “anti-Trump” and “radical”. A White House statement said the order would “ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda”, and included quotes from politicians and right-wing media railing against the […]
About 250 suspected gang members arrive in El Salvador by plane in this photo from Sunday, including 238 members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang and 23 members of the MS-13 gang, who were deported to El Salvador by the U.S.. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele confirmed they will be sent to the country’s mega-prison […]
Good etiquette is expected at meal time in the penguin colony, but the diners with the best manners are found on a new, special island for birds of a certain age. There, geriatric African penguins don’t have to worry about younger birds bombarding the buckets of fish delivered by trainers at the New England Aquarium […]
ESPN college basketball broadcaster Dick Vitale had an emotional moment at the end of the ACC men’s basketball championship game Saturday, expressing how grateful he was to be back in the broadcast booth after nearly two years away due to health issues. “It’s been, to me, a miracle, really, to sit here with you guys. […]
For more than 80 years, Voice of America transmitted the news into countries, many of them authoritarian, where reliable sources of information about the outside world were often hard to come by. Now those broadcasts — long viewed as an important part of U.S. efforts to promote democracy and transparency overseas — are flickering out. […]
A man has been killed in an accident which resulted in the M1 in Leicestershire being closed for a number of hours on Sunday. Police said they received a call at 04:40 GMT on Sunday about a collision on the southbound carriageway near to junction 22, which involved a white VW Golf and a Leyland […]
The former leader seeks political comeback despite ban from public office, echoing Trump’s strategy to regain office. Several thousand supporters of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro packed Copacabana beach in Rio on Sunday to show their backing for the right-wing firebrand, who is accused of attempting to overthrow his left-wing successor. Bolsonaro, 69, has called […]