πΉπππππ πΊππππππΈ
News That Matters, Words That Empower.
Bill Gates says he believes he would have been diagnosed with a form of autism if he had grown up in this era. The Microsoft co-founder, who is one of the world’s richest people, makes the observation in his memoir: Source Code: My Beginnings – which will be released on Tuesday. In an excerpt shared…
In the wake of the Lakersβ trade for Luka Doncic late Saturday night, the immediate fallout pertained to LeBron James and his future with the organization. For every minute of his NBA career, teams have always put James at the forefront of their plans, the Lakers included. The expectation ahead of the trade deadline was…
Scottish ministers are being urged to order a report into cats’ impact on wildlife which could see pets banned from areas whereΒ endangered species live.Β The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission (SAWC) made the recommendation in a report to Holyrood in response to evidence that cats have a “significant impact on wildlife populations”. SAWC is calling for…
βJoan is yours.β Thatβs what the email from director James Mangold to Monica Barbaro said. The actor had sent in her audition tape for the role of folk legend Joan Baez in βA Complete Unknown,β the story of Bob Dylanβs arrival on the folk scene. After learning that sheβd made the shortlist, Barbaro was to…
The UK and the US have a “fair and balanced trading relationship”, Number 10 has said, after Donald Trump claimed the UK is “out of line”. The American president suggested he is ready to impose tariffs on both the UK and the EU after he announced 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, and…
SEOULΒ βΒ Kim Hyeong-bae, a South Korean linguist, had a problem: how to translate the word βdeepfakeβ into Korean. A senior researcher at the National Institute of Korean Language, a government regulator, Kim works in the public language department. His job is to sift through the many foreign words that clutter everyday speech and bring them to…
Itβs a bit astonishing to think that Los Alamitos High has four basketball players who have each scored more than 1,000 points during their four-year career. And all the points were scored as Los Alamitos students. Trent Minter, Wes Trevino, Liam Gray and Samori Guyness pulled off the feat. The fact they stayed together for…
KKR, one of the world’s biggest private equity investors, is advancing plans to play a crucial role in a rescue of Britain’s biggest water supplier. Sky News has learnt that KKR, which manages assets of more than $600bn, has hired investment bankers and lawyers to help formulate a plan to inject billions of pounds of…
In Edward Bergerβs suspenseful βConclave,β a spirited monologue from newcomer Cardinal Benitez (Carlos Diehz) speaks of the pettiness among the clergymen gathered to select the next pontiff. βThese things are not the church,β he says. βThe church is not a tradition. The church is not the past. The church is what we do next.β The…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Donald Trump has been back in the White House for only two weeks, but heβs already remaking the federal government. Heβs trying to create an imperial presidency β and heβs ruling by decree. In a blizzard of executive orders, Trump has halted federal spending on clean energy, infrastructure, foreign aid and anything connected with βdiversity,…
