The Dodgers announced that starting pitcher Tony Gonsolin underwent season-ending elbow surgery on Tuesday β and that wasnβt even the most troubling injury update of the day. Instead, in what manager Dave Roberts described as the latest βbig blowβ to the clubβs reeling bullpen, right-hander Brock Stewart was placed on the injured list with what…
Donald Trump has revealed his pick to become the world’s most powerful central banker, declaring Kevin Warsh “may be the best” ever. Mr Warsh, a former member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, will “never let you down” as chair of the country’s central bank, the president said in a Truth Social post. It…
Fat Mike doesnβt do birthdays. So it was probably just a coincidence the NOFX retrospective at the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas last weekend took place on his birthday. βMy wife is going to spank my aβ really hard 59 times,β Michael Burkett, a.k.a. Fat Mike, said on the roof of the museum as…
Kemi Badenoch has accused Sir Keir Starmer of “lying to the whole country” about what he knew regarding Peter Mandelson’s correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. Lord Mandelson was this week stripped of his position as ambassador to the US amid fresh scrutiny over his years-long friendship with the convicted paedophile. The prime minister initially defended the…
Disasters are real β also, these days, frighteningly common, be they epic confluences of nature and negligence or the murderous and preventable kind. And when it comes to disaster movies, itβs hard to know what the acceptable level of exploitation is. Of course, director Paul Greengrass could never be confused with the unseriousness of producer…
Permission for the first vertical space launch from UK soil by a British rocket company has been granted by the air safety regulator. The licence from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) gives Glasgow-based Skyrora the green light to launch its Skylark L rocket from the SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands. “Skyrora is proud to…
President Donald Trump speaks before signing executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on September 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images A federal judge on Monday vacated President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee for employers’ H-1B visa applications. The policy implementing the large fees on high-skilled worker visas violated…
It takes a lot for sweet-tempered 28-year-old Nick Darnell to transform himself into Christmasβ most sought-after sourpuss. Thereβs colored contacts and facial prosthetics, a protruding belly and at least an hour of makeup. But for the devout Christian and preternaturally cheerful young actor, the real metamorphosis is psychological. βPeople today love to connect with the…
With the state of the nation worse on pretty much every metric, itβs good we can still gather round our screen of choice to watch film professionals win awards for a few hours on a March evening. This happened Sunday for the 98th time at the Academy Awards, sent via ABC, Hulu, Disney+ and other…
βBerta, Berta,β a two-character play by Angelica ChΓ©ri, was inspired by a prison work song from Parchman Farm, the notorious Mississippi State Penitentiary whose harsh conditions and history of forced labor extended the nightmare of antebellum slave plantations into the 20th century. The play, which is receiving its West Coast premiere in an Echo Theater…