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Allan LittleSenior correspondentBBCAsked last month whether he was planning to join Israel in attacking Iran, US President Donald Trump said “I may do it. I may not do it. Nobody knows what I’m going to do”.He let the world believe he had agreed a two-week pause to allow Iran to resume negotiations. And then he bombed anyway.A pattern is emerging: The most predictable thing about Trump is his unpredictability. He changes his mind. He contradicts himself. He is inconsistent.”[Trump] has put together a highly centralised policy-making operation, arguably the most centralised, at least in the area of foreign policy, since…
Several months into negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement, it appears the Women’s National Basketball Players Association and WNBA have made little progress in striking a deal before the current contract expires after this season. The WNBPA received its first response from the WNBA last month, which Mercury star Satou Sabally recently called a “slap in the face.” Speaking after Liberty practice Saturday, WNBPA vice president Breanna Stewart said the league’s response was “pretty polar opposite” to the players union’s initial proposal. “That was the hardest part,” Stewart said. “It’s like, we’re not even talking about the same thing…
Reader report sent by CW: Around 7 am on June 21, 2025, someone with the master key broke into the USPS mail boxes for our townhome complex and stole everyone’s mail. This incident was not the first time our cluster box unit (CBU) had been broken into. Around 6:30 am on November 27, 2024, someone with a master key broke into our CBU, but during that break-in, an image of the mail thief was captured by a door camera. After the second incident, we decided to reach out to the U.S. Postal Service, to ask if our CBU could be…
In the coming weeks, Congress will write tax and spending legislation that should include relief for many victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires. But apart from the cash assistance Gov. Gavin Newsom has already requested, California’s congressional delegation should work to include two urgently needed changes to the tax code in that same legislation. Without these, rebuilding the fire-ravaged areas of Los Angeles could take years longer.The Internal Revenue Code was not written with massive urban wildfires in mind. By taxing the revenue from most sales as income, current tax law encourages many fire victims to hold their now-empty…
Zoe CorbynTechnology ReporterReporting fromSan FranciscoGetty ImagesPresident Trump has described windfarms as “disgusting” and “ugly”US green fuel company HIF Global has a big vision for Texas’s Matagorda County: a $7bn (£5.2bn) commercial scale e-methanol factory to supply the world market.The plant, which it claims would be the largest to date anywhere, would make e-methanol from captured carbon dioxide and green hydrogen produced on site using renewable energy.Its construction would create thousands of jobs and the product would power ships and planes in a far cleaner way.But the company has yet to make its final investment decision. It is waiting to see…
Sebastian Usher & David GrittenBBC NewsReutersIsraeli hostages’ families took part in a rally in Tel Aviv to demand a deal that would see them all released Israel has decided to send a delegation to Qatar on Sunday for proximity talks with Hamas on the latest proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he had accepted the invitation despite what he described as the “unacceptable” changes that Hamas wanted to make to a plan presented by mediators from Qatar, the US and Egypt.On Friday night, Hamas said it had delivered a “positive response”…
A father frantically searching for his daughter — who he feared was swept away by the catastrophic flooding of Texas’ Guadalupe River — instead made a grim discovery. Ty Badon was calling out his daughter’s name as he and his son searched the land near receded flood waters when Badon said they discovered the body of a child, according to CNN. Ty Badon recounts his desperate search for his daughter feared swept away during the Texas floods. CNN Weather “My son and I were walking and I thought it was a mannequin,” Badon said, becoming emotional as he recounted the…
Photography by West Smith When I first saw the poster for Meet Us In The Parking Lot: Drag Wrestling at Massive, my brain couldn’t quite piece together what it was going to be. After working in the independent pro wrestling industry for ten years now, I know how much hard work and training it takes before a wrestler is allowed to even have a match in the ring. “There is no way they are actually going to wrestle,” I thought. I reached out to drag queen Mimi Gina, one of the wrestlers on the poster. They replied with a voice…
Rams owner Stan Kroenke will build a movie studio next to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood that will serve as the international broadcast center for the 2028 Olympic Games. Construction will start by summer on the studio and production facility that will house hundreds of broadcasters from around the world that have acquired rights to cover the Summer Games in Los Angeles, Kroenke’s company said Tuesday. After the Games, the facility known as Hollywood Park Studios will be used to make movies, television shows and other productions and perhaps host live broadcasts. The development is part of Hollywood Park, a multibillion-dollar…
Michael DempseyTechnology ReporterReaction EnginesReaction Engines hoped one day its tech would power a reusable space plane”It was going great until it fell apart.” Richard Varvill recalls the emotional shock that hits home when a high-tech venture goes off the rails.The former chief technology officer speaks ruefully about his long career trying to bring a revolutionary aerospace engine to fruition at UK firm Reaction Engines.The origins of Reaction Engines go back to the Hotol project in the 1980s. This was a futuristic space plane that caught the public imagination with the prospect of a British aircraft flying beyond the atmosphere.The secret…