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Championship side Sheffield Wednesday have filed for administration, according to a court filing. The club currently sit bottom of the Championship, the second tier of English football, with just six points after 11 games. Known as The Owls, they are one of the oldest surviving clubs in world football, with more than 150 years of…
Thousands of Americans hoping to get airborne found themselves stuck on the ground Thursday evening as Alaska Airlines experienced an IT outage that prevented any of its planes from taking off. βA temporary ground stop is in place,β the airline announced on social media at 4:20 p.m. βWe apologize for the inconvenience. If youβre scheduled…
AI is driving the stock market to record highs, dominating countless debates about the value of human labor, and radically rewiring the way schools approach education. Itβs also causing a stir in the art world, with media artist Refik Anadol poised to open Dataland, the worldβs first museum of AI arts, inside the Frank Gehry-designed…
In a by-election in the birthplace of the comedian Tommy Cooper, it was Plaid Cymru that had the last laugh. During the campaign, Nigel Farage and Reform UK’s candidate Llyr Powell had posed for photos in front of the statue of the legendary comic in Caerphilly. But when the result was declared at 2.10am at…
In four days, the Chargersβ defense went from rattled to relentless. The Minnesota Vikings were the victims, unable to move the ball Thursday night against a unit that looked shaky and unsure of itself in a humbling loss to Indianapolis the previous Sunday. That, along with the consistently excellent play of quarterback Justin Herbert and…
US sanctions against Russia’s two largest energy companies, the state-owned Rosneft and privately held Lukoil, are perhaps the most significant economic measures imposed by the West since the invasion of Ukraine. If fully implemented, they have the potential to significantly choke off the flow of fossil fuel revenue that funds Russia’s war machine, but their…
To say that President Trump is unfazed by Saturdayβs nationwide βNo Kingsβ rally, which vies for bragging rights as perhaps the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, is the sort of understatement too typical when describing his monarchical outrages. Leave aside Trumpβs grotesque mockery of the protests β his post that night of an AI-generated…
A new expanded edition of Maia Kobabeβs award-winning graphic memoir βGender Queerβ will be released next year. Oni Press has announced that βGender Queer: The Annotated Editionβ will be available in May. The special hardcover edition of the seminal LGBTQ+ coming of age memoir includes commentary by Kobabe as well as other comic creators and…
The government is refusing to make time in parliament for MPs to debate the conduct of Prince Andrew amid a flood of new allegations against him. The prime minister’s spokesperson told reporters: “Prince Andrew has already confirmed he will not use his titles. “We support the decision made by the Royal Family, and we know…
NEW YORKΒ βΒ Federal prosecutors unsealed two indictments Thursday outlining an illegal betting scheme that has rocked the NBA and named current and former players, including the Miami Heatβs Terry Rozier; former Clippers player and current Portland head coach Chauncey Billups; and retired NBA player and friend of LeBron James Damon Jones. Prosecutors are accusing Rozier and…
