The emergency department waiting room was jammed, as it always is, with patients sitting for hours, closely packed on hard metal chairs. Only those with conditions so dire they needed immediate care — like a heart attack — got seen immediately. One man had had enough. He pounded on the glass window in front of […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) (R) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) held a press conference on the Republican budget bill on April 10. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images/Getty Images North America House Republicans have approved a multitrillion budget […]
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Watch: Experts dispute claims dire wolf brought back from extinction There is a magnificent, snow-white wolf on the cover of Time Magazine today – accompanied by a headline announcing the return of the dire wolf. This now extinct species is possibly most famous for its fictional role in Game […]
Liv McMahon Technology reporter Reuters The world’s most popular gadgets – phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatches – could be about to get a lot more expensive in the US. Many of them are made in China, which now faces a 125% tariff on its goods imported to the US, under President Donald Trump’s controversial trade policy. […]
A dizzying escalation of tariffs has unraveled a trade relationship between the United States and China forged over decades, jeopardizing the fate of two superpowers and threatening to drag down the world economy. The brinkmanship displayed by the two countries has already far exceeded the battles they waged during President Trump’s first term. In 2018 […]
European Union officials had just approved retaliatory levies of 10 to 25 percent on about $23 billion of American imports when President Trump abruptly changed tack on Wednesday, announcing that he would hit pause on some of the tariffs he had placed on Europe and much of the rest of the world. Mr. Trump’s announcement […]
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is edging closer to signing a new deal at Anfield, a source confirmed. Salah, alongside teammates Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold, is out of contract at the end of the season. While a source has told ESPN Real Madrid are “very optimistic” of landing Alexander-Arnold on a free transfer, there […]
“It’s not a cookbook,” the poet Jim Franks said about his new book, “Existential Bread.” To dispel any confusion, here’s what readers won’t find in its pages: photos of backlit loaves of bread or of disembodied hands measuring, dusting and kneading. There are no recipes. It’s about bread baking, but only insofar as bread baking […]
For the past week, President Trump has been urging calm in the face of the financial chaos that he created and resisting calls for him to rethink his approach. “I know what the hell I’m doing,” he told Republicans on Tuesday as the massive tariffs he had imposed sent global markets into a tailspin. “BE […]
PA Media Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is among the authors whose books may have been accessed Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is among a number of authors whose books may have been accessed by technology company Meta to train their latest AI (artificial intelligence) model. Mr Adams said the books had “been […]