๐Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app๐โฏโฏโฏโฏโฏโฏโฏ A bruising weekend for Keir Starmer: Labour loses its stronghold Caerphilly seat to Plaid Cymru in a by-election and faces fallout from the mistaken release and chaotic recapture of a convicted sex offender. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy unpack what went wrong, as a…
The City Section used to produce lots of top running backs, from Charles White at San Fernando to Milton Knox at Birmingham. This season, Ceasar Reyes of Garfield set a school record with 420 yards rushing in a game and Darnell Miller of Santee set a City Section record with 502 yards rushing against Jefferson….
The American investment giant KKR has made a surprise move to buy Costa Coffee, one of Britain’s biggest high street hospitality groups. Sky News has learnt that KKR is among a small number of parties in talks with The Coca-Cola Company and its advisers at Lazard, the investment bank, about a deal. KKR’s involvement in…
VIENNAย โย On their 30th wedding anniversary, the couple from Mexico were determined to fulfill a long-deferred aspiration: a visit to this storied former Hapsburg capital. And they didnโt come just to catch an opera and savor the Sachertorte. โWe always wanted to see el penacho de Moctezuma,โ said Gema Vargas, referring to the feathered headdress widely…
โTheyโre coming to get you, Barbaraโ is the most famous line from 1968โs revolutionary โNight of the Living Dead.โ Itโs a mean taunt that comes from a sibling, unaware that civilization is crumpling around him. In a few moments, his sister will be fleeing across a field barefoot from an undead zombie (terms that are…
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy is expected to be grilled in the Commons today after an asylum seeker sex offender was mistakenly released from prison. Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead…
SACRAMENTOย โย Austin Reaves hit a three. He ripped the ball from Dario Saricโs hands. He scored on a breakaway layup. All in 20 seconds. On a night without Luka Doncic, the Lakers needed Reaves to do it all Sunday, and the guard responded emphatically as he delivered a career-high 51 points with 11 rebounds and nine…
UK car production fell by more than a quarter (27.1%) last month as a cyber attack at Jaguar Land Rover halted manufacturing at the plant, industry figures show. The total number of vehicles coming off assembly lines – including cars and vans – fell an even sharper 35.9%, according to September data from the Society…
Barbara Boxer decided she was done. Entering her 70s, fresh off reelection to the U.S. Senate, she determined her fourth term would be her last. โI just felt it was time,โ Boxer said. โI wanted to do other things.โ Besides, she knew the Democratic bench was amply stocked with many bright prospects, including Californiaโs then-attorney…
โChainsaw Man โ The Movie: Reze Arc,โ the Japanese anime from Crunchyroll and Sony, claimed the top spot at the domestic box office this weekend, taking in an estimated $17.25 million, according to Comscore. The R-rated movie, based on Tatsuki Fujimotoโs popular manga series, follows teen demon hunter Denji, who is betrayed by the yakuza…