Will Americans Start to Care About the World Cup Now?
The tournament’s approach has felt strangely muted, and the U.S. team has had a rough few years. Then the games began.
Clutch time: Canadian and US World Cup mascots feature in Peruvian drugs raid
Lima police dress as mascots in raid on suspect Zayu the Jaguar left out of police operation While tensions between Canada and the United States have risen in the last few years as Donald Trump has made threats to turn his northern neighbor into a 51st state of America, there has been some mutual cooperation … Read more
Longtime New York City TV anchor announces retirement after revealing Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Bill Ritter, anchor on WABC since 2001, said he’s stepping down but will continue to report on the disease A longtime New York City television news anchor has announced his sudden retirement from the airwaves after revealing that he has the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Bill Ritter, a veteran of ABC New York station … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Collins pits record built in Maine potato fields against Platner’s ‘angry rhetoric’
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, learned hard work in the dirt. When she was 10 years old, like several other children in Caribou, Maine, she left school to pick potato fields to aid farmers with the harvest deep in potato country in Aroostook County, dubbed “The County” by locals. “I remember my mother saying to … Read more
Kidnapped US journalist faces Taliban captor in court as 42-year sentence caps long saga
Haji Najibullah imprisoned for role in capture of David Rohde, New York Times journalist held for months in 2008 Haji Najibullah appeared unbothered as he walked into Manhattan federal court earlier this week to learn whether he would face life behind bars for his role in brutal violence during his time as a Taliban commander … Read more
Mamdani is on an endorsement blitz – what does it say about his plan for the left?
New York City mayor’s stumping is irking some Democrats, but others see a cautious strategy from a rising political star The New York Knicks are on an epic playoff run. The World Cup is here. And amid sizzling summer weather and a sports-induced, joyful buzz that has seized New York City in recent days, mayor … Read more
Construction workers begin removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s handpicked board at the Kennedy Center did not have the authority to rename the venue.
ICE, borders and DHS: what’s in Trump’s $70bn immigration crackdown bill?
Bill signed into law by the president bankrolls his mass deportation campaign through the end of his second term Donald Trump signed a new law this week that gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) roughly $70bn in additional funding, bankrolling his mass deportation campaign through the end of his second term in what critics … Read more
New York man who killed gay dancer faces 25 years after hate-crime conviction
Dmitriy Popov fatally stabbed O’Shae Sibley in Brooklyn in 2023 and was found guilty of manslaughter as a hate crime A New York City man who was recently convicted of a hate crime in the 2023 stabbing death of vogue dancer O’Shae Sibley is facing a prison sentence of between eight and 25 years. Sentencing … Read more
Workers begin to remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after court rulings
In the dead of night, behind a screen, the president’s name started to be purged from the facade of the Washington building A crew of workers spent the night removing Donald Trump’s name from the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, hours after a judge rejected an emergency appeal to block the removal … Read more