Lindsey Vonn says her left leg almost needed to be amputated following her horrific crash while competing at the Milan-Cortina Olympics earlier this month. In a video posted to Instagram on Monday, the U.S. ski racing legend said she has been released from the hospital more than two weeks after suffering a complex tibia fracture…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ New whistleblower documents detail substantial cuts by the Trump administration to the training requirements for new immigration officers. Among the cuts are the elimination of practical exams, use of force and legal training courses, and an overall reduction in training time, contrary to an officialβs testimony to Congress earlier this month. The documents, provided to…
In one respect this decision is not altogether surprising. The way the Supreme Court hearings were going, this seemed the most likely decision from the US judiciary. Even so, it’s an enormous blow to the Trump regime. The best place to begin understanding this is to go all the way back in history to the…
Following the lead of several major Hollywood studios, the Motion Picture Association has sent its own cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, the company behind the controversial AI video generator, Seedance 2.0. The trade association, which represents the interests of major film and TV studios, sent a notice to the Chinese company, reflecting its membersβ collective response…
Sir Keir Starmer’s overhaul of the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is finally out. But it seems much of the educational world, while broadly positive today, is withholding its final verdict as there’s still so much we don’t know or have not fully digested. We don’t know whether the money to create special…
When you ask twins Hudson and Chance December about their unusual last name, itβs like thereβs a secret to be kept. In fact, the two junior baseball players at El Camino Real have a famous father who changed his last name to December. Thatβs Nathan December, a rock guitarist who was a side musician with…
An armed man was shot and killed Sunday morning after he entered the secure perimeter of President Trumpβs private Florida residence and resort, Mar-a-Lago, and was confronted by U.S. Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County sheriffβs deputy. The man killed was identified by investigators as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin from North Carolina, according…
If you’ve ever spent your morning commute daydreaming about starting afresh with your career, this feature is for you. Each Monday, we speak to someone from a different profession to discover what it’s really like. Today we speak to Alistair McFarlane, chief operating officer of game design company Facepunch Studios and the executive producer of…
This story contains spoilers for Episode 6 of βA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.β Ira Parker intended the very last scene of βA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,β Episode 6 (titled βThe Morrowβ), to be just βsomething that was a little funny.β Sundayβs season finale of the HBO fantasy series ends with everyone, including the…
Mainstream schools will receive direct funding to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) as part of a Β£4bn package to make the system more inclusive. Targeted interventions such as small-group language work will receive funding, and there will be help for staff to introduce adaptive teaching styles, as part of a major…