Priests, pilgrims and cardinals dressed in black robes and red sashes mixed in the streets of the Vatican on Thursday as tens of thousands of Catholics paid their respects to Pope Francis and preparations for the funeral accelerated. The conclave to select the next pope has not yet started — the Vatican has not announced…
Uncertainty over tariffs and an unpredictable trade war is weighing heavily on companies as they report their latest financial results and try to give investors financial forecasts. Some tariffs remain in place against key U.S. trading partners, but others have been postponed to give nations time to negotiate. The tariff and trade picture has been…
UCLA’s basketball team might downshift its lineup in an attempt to hasten success. Eric Dailey Jr. said Wednesday that the plan next season was for him to move to small forward, which would presumably entail Tyler Bilodeau switching to power forward to take Dailey’s vacated spot. “It’s my natural position,” Dailey said after a name,…
Prince Harry dated Cressida Bonas for several years in his late 20s. They broke up somewhere around his 30th birthday. For years, I believed that Harry and Cressida cared about each other and were moving towards a more serious relationship, but Cressida wanted no part of the royal machinery. There were consistent rumors (from Cressida’s…
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated sharply on Thursday as the Pakistani government announced a series of sweeping retaliatory measures, including the closing of its airspace to Indian carriers, a day after India moved to punish Pakistan over a deadly militant attack in Kashmir. After a high-level meeting of Pakistan’s National Security Committee, the government…
Volkswagen of America and Uber on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a commercial robotaxi service — using autonomous electric VW ID. BUZZ vehicles — in multiple U.S. cities over the next decade. The companies expect to launch a commercial service in Los Angeles, the first city on the list, by late 2026. VW…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Pop into West Virginia’s Milan Puskar Stadium during spring football, and a wave of déjà vu will roll over you. On a brisk March morning in Morgantown, head coach Rich Rodriguez is keeping a watchful eye over the field, wearing a navy blue West Virginia hat, a navy pullover with gold stripes…
Fleur East is set to make her West End debut this summer in Tina – The Tina Turner Musical at London’s Aldwych Theatre. The ‘Sax’ singer – who will share the role with current star Karis Anderson – is to play a limited run from June 24th to September 13th 2025, with performance dates set to vary. …
Last year was tough for Acadia Healthcare, one of the country’s largest providers of mental health services. A slew of federal agencies opened investigations into whether Acadia illegally held patients against their will in its psychiatric hospitals, as described in a New York Times investigation in September. The federal inquiries rattled investors, causing Acadia’s stock…
Russia launched a huge attack on Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 60 others in the Ukrainian capital just hours after the Trump administration again lashed out at President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and threatened to abandon peace talks. The assault was the deadliest on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv,…
