Aryna Sabalenka has weighed into the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sport, the world No 1 saying it would be unfair for women to face “biological men” in professional tennis. The WTA Tour gender participation policy permits transgender women to participate if they have declared their gender as female for a minimum of four…
Urban air travel is finally getting real attention. Cities are desperate for better ways to move people and things, and electric air taxis and drones have gone from wild sci-fi ideas to actual plans. Now, engineers are working on small aircraft that can zip over traffic jams, carrying folks or packages across town in a…
Amy Lindberg settled quickly into life at Lejeune. She played tennis and ran on her lunch breaks, flitting through sprinklers in the turgid Carolina summers. But something dark was lurking beneath her feet. Sometime before 1953, a massive plume of trichlorethylene, or TCE, had entered the groundwater beneath Camp Lejeune. TCE is a highly effective…
NEED TO KNOW Toyah Cordingley vanished after walking her dog at Wangetti Beach in October 2018 She was found half-buried in sand dunes with a slashed throat and at least 26 stab wounds Rajwinder Singh fled to India the following day and was extradited years later — on Monday, he was found guilty in her…
The draw is done. The schedule is set. For the US men’s national team, all that’s left, aside from playing the games, are the emotional highs and lows. After the draw, US head coach Mauricio Pochettino referenced a “competitive stress” factor triggered by the World Cup. He said the friendlies against Belgium and Portugal in…
Cold air has dominated much of the eastern U.S. so far this month. But that wasn’t the case in a recent December, with tragic results in parts of the central U.S. On Dec. 10, 2021, four years ago today, a swarm of 66 tornadoes tore across parts of nine states from Missouri to Ohio to…
In this photo illustration, iPhone screens display various social media apps on the screens on February 9, 2025 in Bath, England. Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images Australia on Wednesday became the first country to formally bar users under the age of 16 from accessing major social media platforms, a move expected…
Danielle Kayeand Natalie Sherman Watch: Trump claims “prices are coming down” at a rally in Pennsylvania President Donald Trump told a campaign-style rally that consumer prices are falling “tremendously” as he sought to allay voter anxiety about the US cost of living. In a speech at a casino in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the…
Bholanath Ghosh, one of the prime witnesses in the attack on ED officials in Sandeshkhali and connected CBI cases which implicated the now-jailed TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan, was critically injured when a truck collided with his car in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, a senior officer said. Ghosh’s younger son,…
Paul GlynnCulture reporter Getty Images A letter from Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex has now reached her estranged father, who is in hospital in the Philippines. Thomas Markle, who has reportedly had his left lower leg amputated, told the Mail on Sunday he does not want to die while distanced from his daughter. He said…