Barely a minute or two ticked away at Galen Center last month,but USC freshman Alijah Arenas already was exhausted. His legs felt like anchors dragging across the court. Every trip down and back left his lungs howling. Not 48 hours earlier, Arenas was confined to his bed, sick with a particularly unforgiving form of the…
A Sainsbury’s store manager has won Β£12,000 after an International Men’s Day social media post left him feeling “humiliated and violated”. Darren Cooper was on leave for anxiety when his regional director put up a post celebrating male leaders who “all show up for work each day, put on a name badge and provide support,…
This article contains some Season 1 spoilers for βScarpetta.β Itβs taken many years for Kay Scarpetta to arrive on television, but with Prime Videoβs new series, viewers get two iterations of the beloved literary character. In βScarpetta,β premiering Wednesday, the forensic medical examiner is played by both Nicole Kidman and Rosy McEwen, who skillfully solve…
Majorities of over 100 sound pretty healthy. But those numbers do not tell the whole story. There was an ominous warning for the government in the voting figures on its controversial jury trial reforms. The numbers revealed that in the two votes, 93 Labour MPs failed to support the government in the first vote and…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Russia is emerging as one of the few early economic beneficiaries of the war with Iran, as disruptions to energy infrastructure drive up demand for Russian exports and the world casts its gaze to the Middle East and away from Moscowβs war in Ukraine. The U.S. and its European counterparts slapped severe sanctions on Russia…
The Defense Department has officially notified senior leadership figures throughout the U.S. military that they must remove Anthropic’s artificial intelligence products from their systems within 180 days, according to an internal memorandum obtained by CBS News. The memo was dated March 6, a day after the Pentagon formally designated Anthropic a supply chain risk. It…
BOSTONΒ βΒ Charlie McAvoy scored 39 seconds into overtime and Jeremy Swayman stopped 14 shots on Tuesday night to earn the Boston Bruins their 13th straight victory at home, 2-1 over the Kings. Mason Lohrei scored midway through the third period to break a scoreless tie. But the Kings tied it five minutes later when Drew Doughtyβs…
Iran’s move to shut the Strait of Hormuz has brought shipping through the 24-mile stretch of water close to a standstill. Only a handful of vessels have transited in recent days, many switching off their tracking systems or linked to “shadow fleets”. “They can’t physically close a waterway of that size, but the threat is…
A judge recently entered an eviction ruling against actor Mickey Rourke who, despite owing nearly $60,000 in unpaid rent at his Beverly Grove home, rejected more than $100,000 raised in a GoFundMe campaign coordinated by his manager to keep him housed. On Monday, a judge issued a default eviction ruling in favor of Rourkeβs landlord,…
Labour MP Charlotte Nichols has told the House of Commons that it took 1,088 days after she was raped for her case to reach court. During a debate on the Courts and Tribunals Bill, she said that she was raped at an event she attended as an MP. While she has previously spoken about the…