Thomas Tuchel has handed Marcus Rashford a shock recall in his first England squad, which also includes call-ups for Myles Lewis-Skelly, Dominic Solanke and Dan Burn. Rashford, 27, has not played for England since March 2024 and fell out of favour under Ruben Amorim at Manchester United before joining Aston Villa on loan in January, […]
Elon Musk’s electric carmaker Tesla has warned it and other US exporters could be harmed by countries retaliating to Donald Trump’s trade tariffs. Mr Musk is a close ally of the US president and is leading efforts to reduce the size of the federal government. But in an unsigned letter addressed to a US trade […]
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PORTLAND, Ore. — When the Portland Trail Blazers were in Utah on Feb. 24, there was a special meeting after the game. Danny Berger, a 34-year-old former basketball player at Utah State, reconnected with former NBA player and now Blazers assistant coach Ryan Gomes. They met years before in Connecticut at a charity golf tournament […]
A contracting firm called Leidos took in more than $16 billion in revenue last year, most of it through contracts with federal agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs. So when the Trump administration’s budget cutters took aim at the V.A. last month, it seemed like bad news not just for the department’s employees but […]
Two teams rarely meet each other more than two or three times in a single season. Beyond the usual double of home-and-away league fixtures and occasional cup clash, facing a team four times in one campaign is almost unheard of. But what is more exceptional is facing an opponent four times in a row. Starting […]
The NFL never sleeps, especially when it comes to the swirling tornado of activity otherwise known as free agency. Whom would the Las Vegas Raiders target as their next signal caller? Where would Sam Darnold land? And don’t forget the surprise contract extensions that pop up out of nowhere. But the past week also featured […]
As US President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on February 28 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for an explosive meeting that would reveal deep fissures between Washington and Kyiv, he was also asked by a reporter about another world leader: Vladimir Putin. In the very setting in which he joined forces with Vice […]
Belgian police have raided several locations in the country as part of an investigation into corruption within the European Parliament. Prosecutors said the alleged corruption was “under the guise of commercial lobbying”, and that several people had been detained for questioning. According to officials, an address in Portugal was also searched by local police, while […]
PALM DESERT, Calif. — It’s a drizzly gray morning in the desert and Lance Davis, the country’s most famous bee catcher, is slightly cranky. He is sitting in his office on the backside of an industrial complex in the middle of the Coachella Valley, with no bees, no honey, no work and no money. There’s […]