Former Wycombe Wanderers owner Rob Couhig has reached an agreement to buy Reading, the English League One club said on Saturday. The 75-year-old American lawyer has a varied investment portfolio which includes businesses in industries such as pharmaceuticals and real estate. Chinese businessman Dai Yongge was ordered to sell the club in March having been […]
Spend enough time in San Francisco, peering into the cyberpunk future, and you may find that weird things start seeming normal. Fleets of self-driving cars? Yawn. A start-up trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth? Sure, why not. Summoning a godlike artificial intelligence that could wipe out humanity? Ho-hum. You may even find yourself, as I […]
Angel City FC defender Gisele Thompson scored her first career NWSL goal, assisted by her sister, forward Alyssa Thompson, in their team’s 4-3 victory over the Washington Spirit. The Angel City pair made NWSL history in the 22nd minute by scoring the league’s first sister-to-sister goal. Alyssa Thompson created space on the left side of […]
Emir Nader BBC World Service, London Alaa Daraghmeh BBC Arabic, West Bank BBC Jumaa Zawayda was ordered by Israeli forces to leave his home On the night Israeli forces entered Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and began ordering its 20,000 Palestinian residents to leave their homes, 66-year-old Jumaa Zawayda said he would […]
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on March 6, including an order terminating the security clearances of those who work at the law firm Perkins Coie. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images A federal judge on Friday struck down President Trump’s executive order […]
Helen Catt Political correspondent Getty Images When the UK became the first major economy in the world to commit to reducing its carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, there was so little disagreement among MPs it was simply ‘nodded through’ without a vote. Six years on, the political climate is very different, the consensus […]
A United States district judge has struck down an executive order from President Donald Trump that targeted the law firm Perkins Coie over its representation of his Democratic election rival Hillary Clinton. On Friday in Washington, DC, Judge Beryl A Howell issued a five-page order declaring the executive order unconstitutional. “Executive Order 14230 is unlawful, […]
President Trump on Friday proposed slashing $163 billion in federal spending next fiscal year, a drastic retrenchment in the role and reach of government that, if enacted, would eliminate a vast set of climate, education, health and housing programs, including some that benefit the poor. Issuing his first budget proposal since returning to office, Mr. […]
When Lyubomirsky arrived at graduate school for social psychology at Stanford in 1989, academic research on happiness was only beginning to gain legitimacy. Ed Diener, a psychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who would eventually be known for his work in the field, waited until he was granted tenure before tackling the subject, […]
Lewis Adams BBC News, Essex PA Media The Lampard Inquiry has been told of an “extraordinary and shocking number of deaths” at inpatient units in Essex Bereaved families have been traumatised by “distressing and appalling delays” to inquest proceedings, a landmark inquiry heard. The Lampard Inquiry is examining the deaths of more than 2,000 mental […]