The Las Vegas Raiders stuck to the script on NFL Draft night, selecting Indiana quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza with the first overall pick. Mendoza arrives in the desert with a massive mandate: revitalize a rebuilding franchise and pull the Raiders out of the AFC West cellar following a dismal campaign. Raiders draft…
BALTIMORE — Tyler O’Neill and Coby Mayo hit successive homers in the fourth inning, Trevor Rogers took a two-hitter into the seventh and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Angels 5-2 Wednesday night. Despite unloading several key players before Monday’s trade deadline, the Orioles remain in the thick of the AL wild-card race after winning the first two…
Background on Kirsten Acuna’s Journalism Journey Kirsten Acuna launched her journalism career fueled by a lifelong passion for storytelling. With an early focus on celebrity culture, she quickly made a name for herself by covering a diverse range of entertainment topics. Her enthusiasm for movies, TV shows, and star-studded events set the stage for her…
Politics / August 5, 2026 The lessons from a primary win that can be applied to defeat a Republican in November. Ad Policy Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a news conference at the Spirit of Detroit shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Michigan, Wednesday, August 5, 2026, in Detroit. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson…
The Las Vegas Raiders stuck to the script on NFL Draft night, selecting Indiana quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza with the first overall pick. Mendoza arrives in the desert with a massive mandate: revitalize a rebuilding franchise and pull the Raiders out of the AFC West cellar following a dismal campaign. Raiders draft…
BALTIMORE — Tyler O’Neill and Coby Mayo hit successive homers in the fourth inning, Trevor Rogers took a two-hitter into the seventh and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Angels 5-2 Wednesday night. Despite unloading several key players before Monday’s trade deadline, the Orioles remain in the thick of the AL wild-card race after winning the first two…
Background on Kirsten Acuna’s Journalism Journey Kirsten Acuna launched her journalism career fueled by a lifelong passion for storytelling. With an early focus on celebrity culture, she quickly made a name for herself by covering a diverse range of entertainment topics. Her enthusiasm for movies, TV shows, and star-studded events set the stage for her…
Politics / August 5, 2026 The lessons from a primary win that can be applied to defeat a Republican in November. Ad Policy Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a news conference at the Spirit of Detroit shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Michigan, Wednesday, August 5, 2026, in Detroit. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson…
Yves here. Just wait for the hysteria about progressives (who will be called socialists and worse) to shift to a higher register as a result of El-Sayed’s probable success. The Hill has made a call too: El-Sayed beats Stevens to take on Rogers in battleground Michigan Senate race. Even though experts expect a very hard…
Iran has warned Gulf states that any new US attack on its territory would trigger retaliation against critical energy infrastructure across the region, according to five sources, as Tehran seeks to raise the cost of military action by threatening Washington’s closest regional allies. The warning was delivered through a flurry of high-level diplomatic contacts after…
Southeast Asia’s insurance industry has quietly turned into one of the region’s most crowded battlegrounds for digital disruption. Behind traditional insurers’ glossy premiums and paperwork-heavy claims lies a swarm of insurtechs rewriting the rules, some genuinely solving access gaps, others simply repackaging old products with an app and an API. From Singapore’s bolttech and Igloo…
In 2022 and 2023, shortly before the portable drone changed armed conflict forever, the war in Ukraine was defined largely by a single, simple statistic: which side could shoot more artillery shells. The answer, for most of those first two years, was Russia. They had a massive stockpile of 152-millimeter shells, produced by a flourishing…
By now, all the criticisms associated with The Hundred have been well-documented – the gimmicky attempts to build hollow identities, the excessive broadcast coverage hype, the fundamental lack of tradition and tribalism essential for English sport fandom, as well as the severe knock-on effects to the beloved county game in the height of summer and…
Henry Winter’s World Cup Diary, Day 27 Subscribe to World Soccer Kansas CityTuning into France versus Morocco I really hoped that the Moroccans might have a go rather than sit back and take the inevitable. France’s attack is rightly being celebrated but really their defence also deserves some fleurs. There’s been so little rotation. France…
