LEXINGTON, Ky. — On the eve of UCLA’s biggest game of the season, there was a fluid situation in the locker room. The water boy couldn’t find anything to drink. Nothing on hand aligned with Finn Barkenaes’ new sponsor, Niagara Bottling, leading to jokes about a personal prohibition. “He can’t drink certain kind of drinks because he’s…
EXCLUSIVE: Companion and Homeland star Rupert Friend is joining Chloë Grace-Moretz in serial killer thriller The Edge Of Normal, which is due to start filming this spring. As we revealed last week, this is the first English-language feature from director Carlota Pereda (Piggy). Pic was written by Matt Venne (Dexter: Resurrection) with revisions by Lori Evans Taylor…
Kirsty Coventry was elected on Thursday as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee, capping a monthslong election battle and becoming the first woman and the first African to hold the most powerful role in sports. The election, which has been described in similar language to a papal conclave, was settled — to gasps…
Venture capital investment in European startups passed $52 billion last year, reflecting the market’s long-term growth trajectory and gradual stabilization after the out-sized peaks of 2021-2022 (driven largely by the COVID-19 pandemic), and the comparative slump of 2023, according to a new report. Although 2024 has seen political and regulatory turmoil, Europe’s talent pool of…
Mar 20, 2025, 06:33 AM ET CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Columbia women’s basketball team plays in an intimate 2,700-seat gym nestled in Manhattan that is nowhere to be found on the national sports landscape. Now the Lions and all the other starry-eyed dreamers in the NCAA tournament are being serenaded just like former national…
After steady growth in U.S. public sector employment in 2024, the landscape shifted dramatically in 2025. With constant announcements of federal workforce layoffs and cuts, hundreds of thousands of government employees’ jobs are at risk. Many of these people will seek new employment in the private sector.
Hamas fired its first barrage of rockets in months into Israeli territory on Thursday as Israeli troops expanded their ground raids in northern Gaza in what looked increasingly like a slide back into full-scale war. There were no reports of casualties from the rockets, which were fired at Tel Aviv. The Israeli military said they…
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Later today the McNeese Cowboys will begin their NCAA men’s tournament journey. They’ll leave the locker room at Amica Mutual Pavilion in Providence, make their way down the tunnel to the court, and hope to become the latest No. 12 seed in an NCAA tournament to knock off a No. 5 seed as they take…
It’s been announced today (March 19th) that the West End production of Mean Girls: The Musical is set to close in London this summer ahead of a UK tour in 2026. The musical, which is based on the 2004 film written by Tina Fey and has entertained over 350,000 audience members since its opening last spring,…
