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Shaquille OβNeal was never suspended for drug use of any kind during his decorated 19-year NBA career. The rugged 7-foot-1, 325-pound Hall of Fame center freely acknowledged playing through pain and openly worried about damage to his kidneys and liver from his prolonged use of legal anti-inflammatory medications. He also recently recounted on βInside the…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ Theyβre blowing up boats in the high seas, threatening tariffs from Brazil to Mexico and punishing anyone deemed hostile β while lavishing aid and praise on allies all aboard with the White House program. Welcome to the Monroe Doctrine 2.0, the Trump administrationβs bellicose, youβre-with-us-or-against-us approach to Latin America. Not yet a year into…
On the Shelf Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run By Peter Ames CarlinDoubleday: 256 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Before βBorn to Run,β Bruce Springsteen was in danger of being dropped by his record label….
ESPNβs new direct-to-consumer streaming service will be the new home for WWEβs biggest live events including WrestleMania, the companies announced Wedesday. The Walt Disney Co.βs sports media unit will pay around $1.6 billion in a five year deal with the WWE, which will begin in 2026. The rights fee is nearly double the $180 million…
Elon Musk has just gotten even closer to being the first-ever trillionaire after a court reinstated his Tesla stock options worth billions. According to Forbes’s billionaires index, the Tesla chief executive’s net worth climbed to $749bn (Β£559bn) on Friday, making Musk the first person to surpass the $700bn milestone. He is already the world’s richest…
The Trump administration and House Republicans advanced measures this week to end gender-affirming care for transgender children and some young adults, drawing outrage and resistance from LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, families with transgender kids, medical providers and some of Californiaβs liberal leaders. The latest efforts β which seek to ban such care nationwide, strip funding from…
Jerry Adler, who spent decades backstage on Broadway before reinventing himself in his 60s as a television actor, most memorably as Herman βHeshβ Rabkin on HBOβs βThe Sopranosβ and Howard Lyman on CBSβ βThe Good Wife,β has died. He was 96. Adler died Saturday in New York, where he lived, according to his family. A…
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has written to the UK’s human rights watchdog asking for an investigation into the government’s plan to postpone some local elections next year. In a letter to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Sir Ed said that nearly ten million people could see their democratic rights “ripped away”. It…
SAN DIEGOΒ βΒ While their spring convention was held beneath mostly sunny San Diego skies, delegates and leaders of the California Republican party basked in a different sort of glow over the weekend as the campaign for a leading Democratic candidate for governor imploded because of allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. The party did not endorse…
Informa, the FTSE-100 events group behind the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show and World of Concrete, is kicking off a search for its next chairman. Sky News has learnt that Informa, which has a market capitalisation of about Β£11.3bn, is working with headhunters to find a successor to John Rishton. City sources said on Monday…
