WASHINGTON — When the Rev. Lee Scott publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president during the Evangelicals for Harris Zoom call on Aug. 14, the Presbyterian pastor and farmer said he was taking a risk.... More »
When she was a child growing up in Kenya, Margaret Nyamumbo learned about a custom that took place on her grandfather’s coffee farm: every few weeks, the women who worked there would gather around a table and drop money into a large pot. Anyone who had contrib... More »
Men’s rugby union in the northern hemisphere cranks up once again. On Friday the Premiership and the United Rugby Championship resume, the former opening with a rerun of last season’s final when champions Northampton travel to Bath.It almost goes without sayin... More »
The private organizers in charge of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and Paralympics announced a new corporate partnership Thursday, the latest in a string of deals that will help pay the tab for their $7-billion sporting event.The agreement between LA28 and Ceda... More »
In late June and early July, Iranian hackers sent unsolicited emails to people associated with President Biden's camp. Those emails contained excerpts from materials not available to the public that had been stolen from former President Trump's campaign, accor... More »
As Vice President Kamala Harris prepared to visit Michigan on Thursday, the national group that mobilized primary voters to cast “uncommitted” ballots against President Biden over the United States’ support for Israel in the war in Gaza announced that it would... More »
One surefire way to go viral on Threads—the Meta-owned Instagram-spinoff social network with more than 200 million users—is to ask a ridiculous question that enrages your followers so much, they just have to chime in to answer you, mock you, or berate you. Whe... More »
Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah traded cross-border attacks overnight and into Thursday, continuing a pattern of strikes after two extraordinary days in which hand-held devices belonging to Hezbollah members exploded, killing over 30 and wounding tho... More »
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Emma Raducanu reached the quarter-finals of the Korea Open after beating eighth seed Yuan Yue in straight sets. The 21-year-old needed seven match points to clinch a hard-fought 6-4, 6-3 victory over the eighth seed.Raducanu edged ahead following a close first... More »
GettyHaiti's government has taken a key step towards holding long-delayed elections with the creation of a body which will oversee the polls. More »
There is only “weak evidence” that high-grade face masks better protected health workers than surgical ones in the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has been told. More »