Mar 16, 2025, 11:32 PM ET It’s Sunday, and the first week of the 2025 NWSL season is in the books, which means it’s time for ESPN’s Power Rankings. Who’s climbing the table? Who’s in free fall? Our writers studied the action from across Matchday 1 to come up with this week’s order of all […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
The fate of debt-laden Thames Water will become clearer as soon as tomorrow. The Court of Appeal is expected to decide whether the company’s plan to borrow a further £3bn to avoid collapse can proceed or whether it upholds objections from a small group of creditors and Liberal Democrat MP Charlie Maynard. If it approves […]
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station at 1:35 a.m. Eastern time, paving the way for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — two NASA astronauts who have remained in space for months longer than planned — to finally return home. The Crew-10 mission, an international team of four astronauts from the U.S., […]
A viral moment featured in ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary “The New York Sack Exchange” has resulted in a $25 million lawsuit. Former New York Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau is suing ESPN, NFL, NFL Films and “30 for 30” co-directors James Weiner and Ken Rodgers regarding the promotion and publication of an exchange between […]
The Chinese government and the Communist Party jointly issued a lengthy list of planned initiatives on Sunday to get people to spend more, in yet another move by Beijing to offset potential harm from its escalating economic warfare with Washington. The road map for economic stimulus included larger pensions, better medical benefits and higher wages […]