Amid allegations of three domestic violence incidents involving reality TV star Taylor Frankie Paul, fans are worried about whether MomTok can survive this. Paul, who gained an online following after founding MomTok β a loosely connected group of TikTokers who made content about their lives as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…
πListen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast appπ MPs may be on recess – but as the Iran war enters its fifth week should Whitehall ramp up contingency planning for its impact at home? With the Strait of Hormuz still shut and reports of a potential US ground invasion, Prime Minister Sir…
SACRAMENTOΒ βΒ The team that canβt stop dancing wonβt stop dancing. The top-seeded UCLA womenβs basketball team beat Duke 70-58 in the Elite Eight. It wasnβt balletic, but beautiful. Sundayβs game at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento wasnβt a fun, free-flowing joy ride that so many of the Bruinsβ wins have been this season. It was a…
Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for governor of California, has accused President Trump of trying to sway the election following reports that FBI Director Kash Patel may release documents from a decade-old investigation into the congressmanβs ties to a suspected Chinese spy. Patel directed agents in the bureauβs San Francisco office to redact…
This spring, the most valuable commodity in agriculture is not sunshine or even rain, it is fertiliser. By some estimates, up to half of global production of crops and livestock depends on the magical combination of minerals and chemicals that make up synthetic fertiliser. But the Iran war is pushing up prices and squeezing availability…
Last May, a strange thing happened on the U.S. album charts. Two metal bands (or at least metal-adjacent hard rock acts) scored No. 1 albums in the same month. The genre hadnβt seen multiple bestsellers in the same year since 2019 β and those were from veteran acts. So it was notable when the young…
The government is reviewing its electric car sale quotas – one of its flagship green policies. With 2025 having the lowest vehicle production in the UK since 1952, ministers are now looking at how to change the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate, the government confirmed. If it decides to lower the quotas, it would represent…
A look at The Timesβ top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the sixth week of the season: Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week 1. ORANGE LUTHERAN (7-1): Gary Morse had 16-strikeout performance; 4 2. ST. JOHN BOSCO (9-2): Three-game series with Orange Lutheran this week; 1 3. NORCO (10-1): Three-game…
HAVANAΒ βΒ Yenisey Taboadaβs small apartment on the outskirts of Havana is filled with photos of her imprisoned son. Duannis was 22 and watching soccer at a cafe when he spontaneously joined Cubaβs biggest antigovernment street protest in decades. He was beaten by security forces, arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison. His motherβs apartment is…
Motorists should “fill up as normal” as the government is “well prepared” for disruption, a senior minister has said as fuel prices soar. Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, told Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips the public should listen to trade bodies, such as the RAC, as the cost of petrol climbed above an average of…