In a small town at the foothills of Mount Rainier, about 45 miles southeast of Seattle, the views are epic, but the cell reception is spotty. Susan Reiter has had a landline in her Enumclaw, Wash., home since 1978. The power goes out multiple times a year, says Reiter, usually caused by fierce wind and […]
Image source, Getty Images By Michelle Roberts, Philippa Roxby & Smitha Mundasad BBC News Catherine, Princess of Wales, says she is having treatment for cancer which was discovered following major abdominal surgery. She started preventative chemotherapy in late February. When was the cancer found? The princess underwent surgery in January. The palace did not disclose […]
World number two Aryna Sabalenka started her Miami Open campaign after an emotional week with an impressive win over her close friend Paula Badosa. Two-time Australian Open champion Sabalenka, 25, played her second-round match four days after the death of her former partner Konstantin Koltsov. Koltsov, an ex-ice hockey player, died in Miami aged 42 […]
Shareholders voted Friday to take former president Donald Trump’s media company public, a long-delayed move that will open the owner of Truth Social to stock-market investors and grant Trump a stake worth billions of dollars he could use to pay down his legal debts. The vote Friday by investors in Digital World Acquisition authorized the […]
Scotland survived a nail-biting finish to beat Turkey 6-5 and retain slim hopes of reaching the Women’s World Curling Championship play-off stage. Rebecca Morrison’s rink sit eighth of 13 teams but need to finish in the top six after their final two games. The Scots next face Japan and then take on a Canadian rink […]
Mar 20, 2024, 08:16 PM ET Head coach Gregg Berhalter said the United States men’s national team will be on “higher alert” because of the depleted Jamaica roster his side will face in the semifinals of the Concacaf Nations League on Thursday in Arlington, Texas. West Ham striker Michail Antonio has dropped out of Jamaica’s […]
It’s difficult to disentangle Labour from my sense of self. Grew up in Stockport, looks a bit like Macaulay Culkin, bad dress sense … the Labour party always seemed to fit in there somewhere. My great-grandfather, a railwayman who had his wages docked in the General Strike nearly a century ago, was a Labour councillor. […]
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a tour of the Middle East by holding talks in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, hoping to secure a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza. Blinken is set to meet Arab foreign ministers and a senior Palestinian official in Cairo on Thursday, according to an Egyptian foreign ministry […]
With the general-election matchup between President Biden and former president Donald Trump solidified as of last week, Tuesday began the process of filling out the ballot in some key House and Senate races. Oh, and there were some additional presidential results to chew over. Both Illinois and Ohio held statewide primaries featuring notable races, while […]