Anthony Lewis Local Democracy Reporting Service Holder Mathias Architects Plans for a ski slope in Merthyr Tydfil have raised concerns among council officers Plans that could see Merthyr Tydfil become Wales’ St Moritz are facing the cold shoulder after being recommended for refusal. The location, visual and ecological impact of the scheme, which would include […]
The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup final in the United States will break with tradition and have a Super Bowl-style halftime show, FIFA president Gianni Infantino has said. MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, which will be known as New York New Jersey Stadium during the tournament, was announced in February 2024 as the venue that […]
The way phenomenal and accomplished athletes’ minds work can often catch regular folks off-guard. How is it that a tennis player like Naomi Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1, would ever get to a place where she might question her ability? It happens all the time, even with the all-time […]
It didn’t take long for American business leaders to embrace this way of thinking. It enabled them to rationalize their success as the natural outgrowth of their own productivity, and to cast heavier workloads as a way of empowering employees rather than grinding them down. When Georges Doriot, a founder of one of the first […]
Newcastle United want to hold on to their best players and are not under any pressure to part with their top assets, chief executive Darren Eales said amid speculation that striker Alexander Isak could leave the Premier League club. Despite being under contract until 2028, Isak, who has scored 22 goals in 31 appearances in […]
Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson announced his retirement from Fox Sports, where he served as an integral part of its NFL Sunday pregame shows for decades, yukking it up weekly with Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and host Curt Menefee. Johnson’s retirement is not much of a surprise as, at 81 years old, there had been […]
In the summer of 2005, Alexis Ohanian, a tech entrepreneur, sent an email to his colleague Steve Huffman with an ominous subject line: “Meet the enemy.” The body of the email contained just one line — a link to Digg, a community-focused social message board where people shared and discussed news articles and links to […]
The first quarterback domino didn’t end up falling. If the Rams and Matthew Stafford had gone through with a divorce — which felt like a real possibility for a few days as the Raiders and Giants were prepared to offer significant money and draft capital to reel him in — it would’ve caused a chain […]
In November, Elon Musk asked a federal court to block OpenAI’s plan to transform itself from a nonprofit into a purely for-profit company. On Tuesday, a federal judge in San Francisco denied Mr. Musk’s request, calling it “extraordinary.” But the court allowed Mr. Musk to proceed with other aspects of a lawsuit he filed last […]
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said President Donald Trump will “probably” announce a deal to reduce tariffs on Canada and Mexico on Wednesday. “Both the Canadians and Mexicans were on the phone with me all day today trying to show that they’ll do better” on reducing the flow of fentanyl into the US, Lutnick […]