For years, the U.S. government has warned travelers they will soon need a Real ID to board domestic flights, only to keep postponing the deadline. But “soon” appears to be real this time. As of May 7, a standard driver’s license or state ID will no longer pass muster at airport security checkpoints, the Department […]
Matt McGrath and Mark Poynting BBC Climate & Science Alamy The UK government is investigating a fast-growing “green fuel” called HVO diesel amid claims of significant fraud, the BBC has learned. HVO is increasingly popular as a transport fuel and for powering music festivals and its backers say it can curb carbon emissions by up […]
Nemanja Matić has blasted André Onana’s claim that Manchester United are “way better” than Lyon by branding the Cameroon international as “one of the worst goalkeepers in United’s history.” Onana responded later on Wednesday by throwing shade at Matić, saying “not everyone” can say they have lifted a trophy at United — Matić played in […]
Natalie Sherman Business reporter, New York Watch: Trump says tariffs will be ‘legendary’ ahead of 104% tax on China US President Donald Trump is ripping up the rulebook on trade that has been in place for more than 50 years. His latest round of sweeping tariffs, which came into force shortly after midnight on Wednesday, […]
The 25 percent tariff Canada began collecting on cars and trucks imported from the United States early Wednesday is not just the country’s latest act of retaliation against tariffs imposed by President Trump on Canadian exports. The estimated 8 billion Canadian dollars a year, about $5.7 billion, that those levies are expected to generate will […]
For the second year in a row, Trader Joe’s has brought a Black Friday-like frenzy to its stores. But instead of lining up for a new video game console or Taylor Swift vinyl, customers are waiting their turn to buy miniature tote bags bearing the grocery chain’s logo for $2.99. Some people camped out in […]
A sharp sell-off in U.S. government bond markets and the dollar has set off fears about the growing fallout from President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, raising questions about what is typically seen as the safest corner for investors during times of turmoil. Yields on 10-year Treasuries — the benchmark for a wide variety of debt — […]
Manchester United striker Rasmus Højlund said he does not like the narrative that a Europa League triumph would “rescue” the club’s torrid campaign. United face Lyon in a crucial Europa League quarterfinal first leg on Thursday — a must-win tie where failure would mean missing out on Champions League football next season and triggering a […]
Bob McManus, the trenchant editorial page editor of The New York Post and a columnist for other conservative publications who prided himself on his unambiguous common-sense commentary about public policy and other topics, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was complications of bile duct cancer, […]
The human brain is so complex that scientific brains have a hard time making sense of it. A piece of neural tissue the size of a grain of sand might be packed with hundreds of thousands of cells linked together by miles of wiring. In 1979, Francis Crick, the Nobel-prize-winning scientist, concluded that the anatomy […]