The video is just under two and a half minutes long. A slim man with close-cropped hair walks into a room, pulls a long black mamba — whose venom can kill within an hour — from a crate and allows it to bite his left arm. Immediately after, he lets a taipan from Papua New […]
Washington-Kyiv deal absolves Ukraine of past ‘debt’ for aid, but does not give security guarantees against further Russian aggression. United States Vice President JD Vance has said his administration sees no end to the war in Ukraine, despite preparations in Kyiv to ratify a minerals deal with Washington. Vance told Fox News on Thursday that […]
Liverpool are on a high right now and not just because they clinched the Premier League (though, obviously, when it comes to feel-good, that’s pretty special). They went into 2024-25 thinking it was going to be a transition season under new manager Arne Slot (and away from club legend Jürgen Klopp), new sporting director Richard […]
Television graphics are seen in the window of Nasdaq headquarters in Times Square, as Nasdaq fell nearly 4 percent this morning on January 27, 2025 in New York City. BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images/AFP President Trump and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., don’t […]
Jeff CarlisleMay 1, 2025, 06:51 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Chicago Fire FC is in talks with Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne on a designated player contract, a source confirmed to ESPN, and look to have the inside track to sign the Belgium playmaker […]
Tom Burgess BBC News, North East and Cumbria Niki Cotson More than 700 people have signed Niki’s petition to have the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust put into special measures A mum who says she has been left in chronic pain a year after giving birth has called for an NHS trust to be […]
Social media campaign depicts fictional scenes of officials becoming disillusioned with ruling Chinese Communist Party. The CIA has launched a Chinese-language social media campaign calling on government officials in China to switch sides and leak secrets to the United States. The two videos released on Thursday depict fictional scenes involving Chinese officials who approach the […]
Federal health officials published a report on Thursday declaring that the use of hormonal and surgical treatments in young people with gender dysphoria lacked scientific evidence and expressing concern about long-term harms, a stark reversal from previous agency recommendations and the advice of top U.S. medical groups. The report instead prioritized the role of psychotherapy, […]
Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent BBC Richard Stanton and Rhiannon Davies campaigned for a review into maternity services after their baby daughter died in 2009 Campaigners have questioned Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s commitment to maternity safety after his department watered down funding levels. Almost £100m was invested into improving maternity safety annually following the publication […]
The Justice Department on Thursday accused three of the nation’s largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks over several years to insurance brokers that steered people into private Medicare plans. Federal prosecutors also accused two of the insurers of colluding with brokers to discriminate against people with disabilities, by […]