The St Vincent and the Grenadines government has delayed a controversial effort to amend a section of the country’s constitution that the opposition says renders the prime minister ineligible for his position in parliament. Two bills, among six listed for the parliament session on Tuesday this week, were aimed at clarifying a section of the…
If you were to imagine a waterfall, a misty cascade into an azure pool surrounded by towering trees might come to mind. That mental vision might also be accompanied by the imagined roar of water splashing down. But when it comes to our brains, does imagining a waterfall activate different areas compared with seeing or…
Celebrities are learning the hard way that the AI discourse is toxic. Celebrities are continuing to learn the hard way that publicly pontificating about their views on AI, like politics, might come with far more risk than reward. The latest incident involves beloved Academy Award winner and Walk the Line star Reese Witherspoon, who is…
The New York Giants hold the Nos. 5 and 10 overall selections in the 2026 NFL draft in Pittsburgh, and they can end up with any combination of the best dozen or so elite names in this year’s class. The focus this week has been on the Giants taking Arizona State wide receiver Jordyn Tyson,…
Ships are anchored near the shoreline on April 22, 2026 in Bandar Abbas, Iran. Stringer | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Thursday said he has ordered the U.S. Navy “to shoot and kill any boat” that is laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. “There is to be no hesitation,” Trump wrote in a…
Lamine Yamal’s World Cup participation with Spain was thrown into doubt by the hamstring injury he suffered while scoring a game-winning penalty. Published On 23 Apr 202623 Apr 2026 Spanish international Lamine Yamal is expected to be fit for this summer’s World Cup, but his domestic season is over due to injury, his club Barcelona…
Cat Little backs PM’s claim that due process had been followed in appointing Labour grandee as ambassador to US
The Trump administration has moved to reclassify marijuana, more than four months after Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the attorney general to move it from schedule I to schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. The schedule I classification meant marijuana was alongside heroin, LSD, MDMA and synthetic opioids, whereas a schedule III…
Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people’s locations. The researchers say these two campaigns are likely a small snapshot of what they believe to be widespread exploitation of surveillance vendors seeking access to global phone networks. On Thursday, the Citizen Lab,…
Comcast topped Wall Street’s revenue and earnings estimates for the first quarter on Thursday, lifted by NBC’s sports slate in February and improving broadband customer losses. The company said it lost 65,000 broadband customers compared with 183,000 losses in the same period last year. Heightened competition from wireless providers like Verizon and T-Mobile has led…
