U.S. skiing great Lindsey Vonn says her βOlympic dream is not overβ after crashing and injuring her left knee during a downhill race that was meant to be her final warmup before the start of the Milan Cortina Games next week. βI crashed today in the Downhill race in Switzerland and injured my left knee,β…
The dismantling of Sanjeev Gupta’s British business empire is accelerating after advisers were hired to find a buyer for a steel production business which supplies oil giants including BP and Shell. Sky News has learnt that Liberty Steel’s Hartlepool-based steel pipes unit, which employs about 170 people, is hunting a buyer within weeks. Industry sources…
For years at CNN, Don Lemon had been a thorn in the side of President Trump, frequently taking him to task during his first term over his comments about immigrants and other matters. On Friday, the former CNN anchor β now an independent journalist who hosts his own YouTube show β was in a Los…
Keir Starmer describes himself as a “British pragmatist” who takes a “common sense” approach. When it comes to global affairs, and domestic ones too, he isn’t one to grandstand, he’d rather try to get things done. That has been the entire tenor of his three-day visit to China as the former human rights lawyer-turned prime…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ He has called Colombian President Gustavo Petro βa sick manβ and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a βdictator.β He once slammed French President Emmanuel Macron as βpublicity-seeking,β and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as βdishonest and weak.β President Trump is known for hurling scathing insults at world leaders. Then thereβs Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum….
If you want to watch top pitching in high school baseball this season, stop by a Bay League game. During Thursdayβs media day at Mira Costa, three outstanding senior pitchers look physically and emotionally prepared to show how good they are. Garrett Jacobs from Mira Costa, a UCLA commit, Robby Zimmerman from Redondo Union, a…
Donald Trump has revealed his pick to become the world’s most powerful central banker, declaring Kevin Warsh “may be the best” ever. Mr Warsh, a former member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, will “never let you down” as chair of the country’s central bank, the president said in a Truth Social post. It…
When Don Toliver set out to make his new album βOctane,β the rapper was first fixated on Los Angelesβ San Gabriel Mountains. Though it wasnβt the sparsely green terrain or occasionally snowcapped mountains that caught his eye, it was instead the historic collection of white domes and solar towers that make up the Mount Wilson…
China has lifted restrictions on some British MPs and peers and will now allow all parliamentarians to visit the country, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Speaking to Sky News’s political editor Beth Rigby, the prime minister said the sanctions have been a “real cause for concern across parliament”, and he had raised the issue with…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Senate Democrats reached a deal with the White House late Thursday to prevent a partial government shutdown by moving to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks, providing more time to negotiate new restrictions for federal immigration agents carrying out President Trumpβs deportation campaign. The deal follows widespread outrage over the fatal…