French Champagne producers do nearly a billion dollars’ worth of business with the United States every year. But on Friday in Épernay, the world capital of sparkling wine, the only number on anybody’s lips was 200. That was the percent tariff that President Trump has threatened to impose on Champagne and other European wines and…
A student-led protest movement in Serbia rallied more than 100,000 people for a huge peaceful street demonstration on Saturday in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, defying warnings from the country’s embattled strongman leader that months of unrest were careening out of control into violence. Saturday’s rally, the biggest outpouring of public discontent in Serbia in decades, was…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Losses by Auburn and Michigan State on Saturday likely assured that the SEC will have multiple No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in the modern era when the field of 68 is revealed Sunday on CBS. Entering the day, Auburn was the top overall seed, followed by…
Lucy Hale may be best known as the de-facto leader in Pretty Little Liars, but in an alternate reality she might have been enmeshed in a double life as the protagonist in Disney‘s Hannah Montana. The actress said the auditioning process for the role, which eventually went to Miley Cyrus, solidified her desire to be…
Junior Bridgeman, who followed a strong N.B.A. career with a remarkable run as an entrepreneur, acquiring hundreds of fast-food restaurants, a Coca-Cola bottling business and a minority stake in the Milwaukee Bucks, his team for a decade, died on Tuesday in Louisville, Ky. He was 71. The cause was a cardiac event, a family spokesman…
Roy L. Prosterman, a lawyer who left a lucrative corporate law practice to champion land reform in the underdeveloped world, died on Feb. 27 at his home in Seattle. He was 89. His death was announced by the Seattle land-rights institute Landesa, of which he was a founder. The organization did not specify a cause….
The lunar eclipse this week had many of us gazing up at the night sky to marvel at the red-tinged moon, and now we can see what that eerie effect looked like from the other side thanks to images captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander. From the lander’s perspective on the moon, the phenomenon on…
Whitney High in Cerritos, long regarded as having one of the best academic schools inthe nation, proved on Saturday how brains and brawn can go together. The Wildcats culminated an historic girls basketball season by winning their first state title, defeating Half Moon Bay 48-40 in the Division IV final at Golden 1 Center. “I…
In late February, Prince Harry made a surprise appearance at the Upfront Summit. There was some coverage of what Harry discussed there – he made a speech, and then sat for a Q&A session, and the biggest headline initially was that Harry joked about never being allowed to vote. Well, Upfront Ventures finally released the…
