π Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app π Nigel Farage’s Reform won more than 40% of seats at May’s council elections. The Conservatives lost control of 16 English councils and won 20% of seats – one of the lowest proportions in the past two decades. How do the Tories make…
NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff will join MSNBC full time once the progressive cable channel is spun off into a new company, which will be called Versant. Later this year, MSNBC is heading to Versant, which will be the new stand-alone home for current parent company Comcastβs cable networks. As a result, MSNBC will no…
Former hedge fund manager Crispin Odey “bullied” colleagues not to introduce measures at his firm to protect women, a tribunal heard. The hearing on Thursday also heard accusations that the 67-year-old threatened to close the company, Odey Asset Management (OAM), in order to put pressure on its governing body. Mr Odey is taking legal action…
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed this month in Minnesota. Silverio Villegas GonzΓ‘lez was shot and killed in September in a Chicago suburb. Keith Porter Jr. was gunned down on New Yearβs Eve in front of the Northridge apartment building where he lived. All of them were slain by ICE agents. In…
Septuagenarian TV star Kelsey Grammer is still growing his family, most recently with the arrival of his newest child. The beloved βCheersβ and βFrasierβ actor, who turned 70 in February, is now a father of eight. Grammer announced he and wife Kayte Walsh welcomed their fourth child together during his appearance on the βPod Meets…
The Dodgers are leading the majors in on-base-plus-slugging percentage as an offense this year. They are second in the National League in scoring, and third in team batting average. They have the leagueβs top players in hitting (Will Smith batting .324 and Freddie Freeman batting .306) and OPS (Shohei Ohtani at .982 and Smith at…
Some are calling the controversy over Olivia Rodrigoβs recent outfit choices babydoll-dress-gate, Olivia Rodrigo calls it βweird.β The dress debacle kicked up in early May when Rodrigo released the music video for βDrop Dead,β in which she runs through the Palace of Versailles wearing a pink-and-blue ruffled babydoll set while singing about the intensity of…
MILANΒ βΒ When she skated, Tara Lipinski was always nervous. But it was different before the free skate of the 1998 Olympics. The teenager cried that morning. She called her parents after the six-minute warmup and said she couldnβt do it. Her legs were physically shaking in her beginning pose. She didnβt know what to do. βWhen…
Police should consider disclosing the ethnicity and nationality of suspects when they are charged in high-profile and sensitive cases, new national guidance says. Coming into force today, it says there must be a policing reason to release the information, such as where there are high levels of disinformation, if it will improve public safety, or…
SACRAMENTOΒ βΒ Cori Closeβs candid remarks about the growing challenges of coaching in modern college athletics sparked a reaction nationwide among her peers. On Thursday, the UCLA womenβs basketball coach was asked about the rapid changes shaping college sports ahead of her Bruinsβ Sweet 16 matchup against Minnesota on Friday night. The No. 1-seeded Bruins (33-1) entered…