Astros to option Jose Abreu to spring training facility The Houston Astros announced on Tuesday their plans to option slumping first baseman Jose Abreu, 37, to their spring training facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, to try to get the 2020 American ... 04/30/2024 - 11:01 am | View Link
Horses show off in Versailles, keeping alive royal tradition The historic Versailles Palace Gardens will soon host the Paris Olympics equestrian sports. Meanwhile, the select riders in the National Equestrian Academy who handle the palace's famed royal stables ... 04/29/2024 - 9:44 am | View Link
US military ships are working to build a pier for Gaza aid. It's going to cost at least $320 million A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip are offshore of the enclave and ... 04/29/2024 - 9:30 am | View Link
Olympic champion Douglas makes return at American Classic Gabby Douglas is officially back. The 2012 Olympic gymnastics champion posted an all-around total of 50.65 at the American Classic, her first competition since the 2016 Olympics. 04/27/2024 - 11:12 am | View Link
James, Ham face uncertain futures with Lakers LeBron James plans to rest and then prepare for training camp with USA Basketball, in order to get ready for the Paris Games this summer. James demurred when asked about his longtime goal of playing ... 04/26/2024 - 7:31 pm | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.