Graham HunterApr 1, 2025, 04:00 AM ET Close Graham Hunter is a Barcelona-based freelance writer for ESPN.com who specializes in La Liga and the Spanish national team. Above and beyond anything else, when Atlético Madrid host Barcelona at the Estadio Metropolitano on Wednesday (stream LIVE on ESPN+ at 3 p.m. ET) is a glaring opportunity […]
Joshua Nevett Political reporter BBC The UK is best-placed to eventually overturn US trade tariffs set to be announced on Wednesday, the trade secretary has said. Jonathan Reynolds told the BBC the UK was expecting to be hit by the new raft of import taxes set to be imposed by President Donald Trump. Reynolds said […]
Women in blue cloth hairnets sew the finishing touches on plush pink piggies and orange stuffed foxes, before tossing them onto giant piles in Maria Liao’s factory in southern China. They will be boxed and shipped to the United States, where many of Ms. Liao’s clients are based. The factory is quieter than it should […]
Predictable. Compelling. Depressing. Exciting. Indicative of future tournaments that will lack the charm America has grown to love. Indicative of a weekend ahead that will thrill American basketball lovers. Take your pick and acknowledge two truths. One, the men’s NCAA Tournament Final Four will feature all No. 1 seeds for the first time since 2008 […]
For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant. This trumpet-shaped organism is among the largest unicellular organisms, stretching as long as a sharpened pencil tip. But sometimes it has a hard time vacuuming up the swimming bacteria and microscopic algae it eats to survive. New research reveals that […]
Clodagh Rice BBC News NI business correspondent PA Media The amount of an increase in wages will depend on age Up to 170,000 of the lowest paid workers in Northern Ireland are due to receive a pay rise on Tuesday. Newsportual Living Wage paid to over-21s is going up by 6.7%, from £11.44 to £12.21 […]
A federal bankruptcy judge in Houston on Monday rejected Johnson & Johnson’s request to approve a $9 billion settlement with tens of thousands of people who are suing the company over claims that its talcum powder products caused cancer. The proposal would have resolved nearly all current and future claims that the company’s talc products […]
America is more prosperous than ever. U.S. household net worth reached a new peak at the end of 2024. The unemployment rate has levitated just above record lows for three years. The overall debt that households are carrying compared with the assets they own is also near a record low. But even a land of […]
The question posed to Wen Han, founder of the electric truck maker Windrose Technology, was a simple one: Is it accurate to call the firm a Chinese company? After some rambling, Mr. Han settled on an answer: “I would describe it as Chinese origin.” There’s a reason it felt like a trick question: Windrose’s investors […]
At airports and land borders across the country, tourists and other visitors coming to the United States have reported being caught up in the Trump administration’s campaign of “enhanced vetting.” Even legal immigrants, like green card holders, and naturalized citizens have been pulled aside for additional questioning and searches. This has prompted questions about best […]