What to Know About Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre, Battling to Become Canada’s Next Leader
The April 28 election will come down to two candidates with starkly different personalities and experience: Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre.
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What’s behind this stifling, confusing LeBron James-led Los Angeles Lakers defense
Ramona ShelburneApr 18, 2025, 08:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News SO MUCH WAS happening behind the scenes on Feb. 1 — when the Los Angeles Lakers’ stunning trade for Luka Doncic was being consummated — that it was easy to miss what actually happened…
bitchy | King Charles & Camilla did the ‘Royal Maundy’ service & there was a protest
On Thursday, King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in Durham for the annual Royal Maundy service. Maundy Thursday is a much bigger deal in the UK, I think? I grew up around Evangelicals and I’m not sure non-Catholics in America pay much attention to Maundy Thursday, a recognition of The Last Supper. Anyway, when Queen…
At a Time of Crisis, Canadians Rush to Vote
When I traveled around Canada during the 2021 election campaign, the prevailing mood among voters I spoke with was one of ennui. Even some of those involved in many of the campaigns weren’t obviously excited about the election. That’s certainly not the case this year. Advance polls opened on Friday. At the one near my…
South Florida gets its drinking water from the Everglades—but it’s increasingly under threa
After 25 years of Everglades restoration, drinking water has improved for millions in Florida, but that might not last. Do you know where your drinking water comes from?
Isaiah Stewart resurrects Bad Boys Pistons spirit with every fight and foul
Jerry Seinfeld once punctured the entire premise of team fandom with the observation that at the end of the day, it’s an empty exercise in rooting for laundry. Particularly in this modern league, Seinfeld has a point. Rosters are constantly in flux, staffed by modern-day athlete/mercenaries who hail from any and everywhere on Earth, most…
How to Tell Your Boss They’re Wrong—Tactfully
Your boss is set on a strategy that sounds great in theory, but which you’re sure will be a logistical nightmare. Or maybe you’re in a team meeting, and everyone is nodding along to your boss’s idea that you believe will crash and burn. Speaking up in these moments takes finesse and nerve. How do…
Putin Declares One-Day Easter Truce in Ukraine War
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that from Saturday evening through Sunday, he had ordered his forces to “stop all military activity” against Ukraine.
Read what Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook execs said about Instagram before buying it
The first week of the Meta antitrust trial brought new revelations about how the company formerly known as Facebook approached the competitive threat posed by Instagram in the early 2010s. The U.S. government is accusing Meta of violating competition laws by acquiring companies like Instagram and WhatsApp that threatened the Facebook monopoly. If lawyers for…
ACTRESS YAYA DACOSTA OPENS UP ABOUT HER WORK AS A DOULA
Being a doula means offering emotional, physical, and informational support to individuals and families during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. In a recent interview, actress Yaya DaCosta opens up about her work as a doula, with a desire to help bring change to the prenatal space for Black Women. “I’ve been a birth worker…