In an emotional advertisement running on Facebook and Instagram over the past month, a young woman, Katie, talks about being diagnosed with an illness that resulted in kidney failure at age 19. But she was able to find a transplant match “because a stranger was scrolling on TikTok.” Thanks to that stranger’s kidney, she continued, […]
Brazil have endured so many low ebbs over the past 15 years that it can be hard to remember them all. The historically embarrassing 7-1 defeat to Germany at their own World Cup? Sure, but don’t forget the moronic reappointment of Dunga as coach in the immediate aftermath or the twin Copa America meltdowns of […]
World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company started by Donald J. Trump and his sons, announced on Tuesday that it was planning to sell a digital currency called a stablecoin, deepening the president’s financial ties to crypto as his administration relaxes enforcement of the industry. The stablecoin would be known as USD1, the company wrote in […]
The 2025 WNBA Draft will be headlined by UConn’s Paige Bueckers, who has been penciled in as the top pick ever since she decided to exercise her fifth year of eligibility. But beyond Bueckers, there is a deep pool of lead guards, scorers, and wings who are eager to make their impact at the next […]
Ticketmaster “may have misled Oasis fans” with unclear pricing when it put their reunion tour on sale last year, the UK’s competition watchdog has said. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the company may have breached consumer protection law by selling “platinum” tickets for almost 2.5 times the standard price, without explaining they came […]
Beijing is ‘highly likely’ to attempt to use AI to meddle in April vote, suggests Canadian intelligence agency. China and India are likely to attempt to interfere in upcoming elections, Canada’s intelligence agency has warned, adding that Russia and Pakistan also pose a potential threat. The deputy director of operations for the Canadian Security Intelligence […]
“We were convinced we were going to do it. We got up this morning with this belief.” In a few words, after seeing his France side turning around their Nations League quarterfinal vs. Croatia at the Stade de France — going from a 2-0 first-leg loss in Split, to a 2-0 win in Paris before […]
The steep trail near the top of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway was covered in inches of spongy fallen needles and peppered with ankle-twisting pine cones. It was also shady, which felt remarkable after the first seven miles of the grueling Cactus to Clouds hike offered little more than a brittlebush leaf’s worth of relief. […]
Helen Catt Political correspondent Ian Duffield Ian Duffield and his wife Linda put £234,000 of their pension savings into Neil Woodford’s fund People who lost tens of thousands of pounds when a star stockpicker’s investment fund collapsed say they have been let down by the UK’s financial regulator and are calling on MPs to investigate. […]
Babies are not ordinarily a fixture of closed-door White House meetings. But when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, convened a group of women this month for a discussion on nutrition and other topics, a healthy-eating activist who calls herself “the Food Babe” was stunned to see President Trump’s press secretary with her eight-month-old […]