A soccer star has accused a pop star of making the daughter of a movie star cry. Chappell Roan β who, in recent years, called out fansβ βcreepy behaviorβ and said she βpumped the brakesβ on fame to protect her own privacy β was accused over the weekend by soccer star Jorginho of rough treatment…
DETROITΒ βΒ Heβs the hottest player in the NBA. Not even the NBAβs technical foul rule can slow Luka Doncic down. The NBA rescinded Doncicβs 16th technical foul, the league announced Sunday, allowing Doncic to avoid a mandatory one-game suspension that would have kept him out of Mondayβs game against the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons. Doncic and…
HAVANAΒ βΒ Reggaeton boomed in a neighborhood bar in Old Havana on a recent night, when, suddenly, the music stopped and everything went dark. The customers groaned. Another blackout. A U.S. blockade on oil shipments to Cuba has plunged the island into its worst energy crisis in modern history. The countryβs already cratering economy now teeters on…
Californiaβs economy might see a boost from the stateβs expanded film and TV tax credits, but local lawmakers say itβs not enough. Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom authorizing an expanded $750-million film and TV tax credit program last summer, the impending merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. and the projected budget cuts that are expected to…
Sir Keir Starmer is to chair a COBRA meeting on Monday morning, Sky News understands. Ministers and officials will discuss the cost-of-living impacts of the ongoing Iran war and plans to help households. COBRA meetings are the government’s regular way to respond to a national emergency. Politics Hub: Follow all the latest news The prime…
When youβre already an All-American in high school and several new players show up perhaps as talented as you, the challenge is developing chemistry and seeing whoβs going to remain humble and unselfish for the good of the team. Maxi Adams, Sierra Canyonβs 6-foot-8 senior, was the big man on campus until another All-American, Brandon…
SACRAMENTOΒ βΒ Every two years, elite athletes compete in the Olympics, biennial plants β like carrots and onions β produce seeds and people across America look on with consternation and mounting impatience as California counts its election ballots. The prolonged tally has become as much a part of electioneering in the Golden State as wall-to-wall advertising, high-flown…
Like the mythical city of Brigadoon, Lisa Kudrowβs βThe Comebackβ has returned to television after many years away, with the difference that time has not stood still for its inhabitants, older in a changing world that values them less and which they navigate with less assurance. Kudrow, who created and writes the series with Michael…
Labour’s left-wing factions have united behind a call for a “major reset” β warning the party will “only survive if it chooses a different path”. The statement, from a coalition of MPs, councillors and activists, comes after a major intervention from Angela Rayner, in which she criticised Sir Keir Starmer’s “un-British” immigration reforms and said…
The adage goes, it doesnβt have to be pretty. But for the UCLA womenβs basketball team, thatβs not the philosophy. Coach Cori Close preaches thriving, not surviving, and thatβs been evident in the Bruinsβ lopsided victory margin all season. Thatβs why leading by 10 points at halftime against a No. 16 seed was likely alarming….