America’s second biggest sporting obsession returns this weekend, which means marching bands, 100,000-seat stadiums, ancient rivalries and, increasingly, the operating model of a sport being invented in real time Is college football healthy? It’s a seductive question, one that now comes up every year around this time. Actually, it never recedes, so it’s just with … Read more
The site once paired news and scores with distinctive voices. Its overhaul under Sinclair Media is the latest sign that serious tennis writing in the US is becoming endangered A few weeks ago, as I often do, I went to the Tennis.com site to get an update about a match and to check out the … Read more
The singer had a serendipitous mixture of humor, humility and humanity. We could all stand to channel it a bit more The moment that the world found out that Dolly Parton had died, I was in a hair salon in the reddest congressional district in New York state. The neighborhood on the shore of Lake … Read more
A federal judge on Thursday again blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail-in voting, halting the directive, at least for now, for a second time with only about a week before the first mail ballots are expected to be sent out for the upcoming midterm elections. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued a … Read more
The judge said the regulation is most likely unlawful because the president can’t insert the federal government into elections without Congress’ approval.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” amid his ongoing trade war with Canada, saying her state would continue using the old name. “New York won’t be calling it that,” Hochul, a Democrat, wrote on X. Trump’s order, directs the Interior … Read more
President’s directive stalls for a second time about a week before the first postal ballots are due to be sent out A federal judge on Thursday halted – at least for the moment – attempts to implement Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting. The president’s directive stalled for a second time about a week … Read more
Anthropic argued designation as ‘supply chain risk’ could cost the company billions of dollars in lost business and reputational harm A US federal judge ruled Thursday that sanctions imposed in February by the Trump administration against AI giant Anthropic were illegal, finding that the government had punished the artificial intelligence company for publicly criticising the … Read more
Decision allows manufacturers to begin shipping doses, but confusion remains about insurance coverage The US Food and Drug Administration approved updated Covid-19 vaccines on Thursday, allowing manufacturers to begin shipping doses to pharmacies and doctors’ offices across the country. The FDA approved Moderna, Novavax-Sanofi and Pfizer-BioNTech’s updated Covid vaccines, the companies said on Thursday, after … Read more
Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro joined a multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration Thursday challenging new conditions on federal family planning grants, including requirements aimed at ensuring taxpayer resources do not support elective abortion and promoting “life-affirming” services. Shapiro announced the lawsuit by accusing the Trump administration of making it harder for low-income Pennsylvanians to … Read more
