Next has teamed up with a stock clearance specialist as it pursues a takeover of the family-owned shoe retailer Russell & Bromley. Sky News has learnt that the FTSE-100 retailer is working with Retail Realisation, which badges itself as a specialist retail advisory firm, on its interest in the 145-year-old chain. Industry sources said the…
Stephen A. Smith is arguably the most-well known sports commentator in the country. But the outspoken ESPN commentatorβs perspective outside the sports arena has landed him in a firestorm. The furor is due to his pointed comments defending an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a Minneapolis woman driving away from him. Just…
Evictions of migrants living in asylum hotels are set to start in the spring, Sky News understands. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is also expected to end the government’s legal duty to automatically support destitute asylum seekers. A Home Office source told The i Paper it would allow the minister to remove accommodation and weekly allowances…
Elon Muskβs Grok chatbot on Thursday started restricting the ability for non-paying users to create deepfake, sexualized images after global pushback from users and governments. Late last month, some users began tagging Grok on Muskβs social media platform X with prompts such as βput her in a bikiniβ to generate nonconsensual images of real people…
JuJu Watkins is returning to Sierra Canyon High on Friday, the place where she was a high school basketball All-American. The school will hold a ceremony retiring her jersey at halftime of the boysβ basketball game between Sierra Canyon and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. She will be presented with a framed jersey. Watkins is sitting…
The owners of the RAC will next week launch a process expected to culminate in a Β£5bn sale or stock market listing of the breakdown recovery service later in 2026. Sky News has learnt that the RAC’s shareholders have arranged a beauty parade of investment banks to take place in the coming days as they…
One chimpanzee with a typewriter could pound out the script for βPrimateβ in an hour. Some pretty young things throw a pool party at an Oahu home and β yikes! β the familyβs rabid pet chimp bashes in their skulls. Thatβs it, thatβs the plot. Any tease that the movie could possibly be about anything…
A Labour MP who broke ranks to oppose the government’s plans to restrict jury trials has said he is not expecting to lose the party whip – but he does “not care” if he does. Karl Turner, the Labour MP for Hull East, told Sky News he does not expect to be suspended from the…
Rep. Julia Brownley, a Democrat who has represented swaths of Ventura and Los Angeles counties for more than a decade, announced Thursday that she would not seek reelection. βServing our community and our country has been the honor of my lifetime. Every step of this journey has been shaped by the people I represent, by…
CIF City Section and Southern Section high school boys’ and girls’ basketball scores for Thursday’s games.