You don’t have to inform ESPN senior vice president of production Meg Aronowitz about the challenge of producing the women’s NCAA Tournament without Caitlin Clark the year after she had galvanized the property to NFL viewership heights. “You never want to be the guy that follows Nick Saban, right?” Aronowitz said, laughing. There is an […]
Turkish authorities have detained the mayor of Istanbul, just days before he was due to be selected as a presidential candidate. Ekrem Imamoglu, from the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP), is seen as one of Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan’s strongest political rivals. Prosecutors accused him of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, calling him […]
The Trump administration has put journalists at government-funded broadcasters, including Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL), on leave on March 15 as it froze funding to them. MICHAL CIZEK/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption MICHAL CIZEK/AFP via Getty Images/AFP Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to try to block […]
SpaceX and the Coast Guard work together to try to keep civilian boaters away from returning spacecraft after astronauts splash down in the water. But on Tuesday night, they could not do anything about a pod of curious dolphins. A handful of the marine mammals swam up to a recovery boat that was set to […]
The Federal Reserve is set to extend its pause on interest rate cuts on Wednesday as President Trump’s aggressive approach to tariffs and other economic policies fuel extreme uncertainty about the outlook for inflation, growth and unemployment. A decision to stand pat would keep interest rates at 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent, a level that […]
Fittingly, the last men’s college basketball we saw before the NCAA Tournament bracket graced the screen Sunday was the end of Michigan’s win over Wisconsin in the Big Ten tournament final — the needless, grinding, painful end. Out of bounds call, review. Out of bounds call, review. Out of bounds call, review. One of them […]
These are the key developments on day 1,119 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is the roundup of key events on Wednesday, March 19. Fighting Ukraine has announced that the number of Russian soldiers killed and wounded since the war began more than three years ago stands at about 897,010. This includes 1,560 servicemen killed […]
Amber Walliser A few days after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, Amber Walliser stocked up, spending $2,000 (£1,538) on appliances she believed would get more expensive as the White House started to put new taxes on imports But that was a temporary splurge. These days, her family is buckling down, worried about job […]
Former sub-postmaster Lee Castleton is launching legal action against the Post Office and Fujitsu, becoming the first individual Horizon IT scandal victim to sue the two organisations. His case is one of the most high profile in the scandal in which hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted after faulty software said money was missing from […]
As questions continue to swirl around Washington about the future of TikTok, the name of one potential suitor for the popular video app keeps coming up: Oracle. On Tuesday, Oracle met with top aides on Capitol Hill to talk about how the U.S. tech giant, which processes and serves TikTok user data, plans to work […]