Old Trafford – Details of Jim Ratcliffe’s bid for Manchester United emerge – Getty Images/Joe Prior Sir Jim Ratcliffe is committed to buying out the Glazers completely at Manchester United and will match Qatar in promising a major redevelopment of Old Trafford and the club’s training base. On Friday night, Ratcliffe and Qatar both announced … Read more
The week saw former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley enters the 2024 presidential contest with a generational salvo against America’s aging leadership. This comes as President Joe Biden continues to face questions about whether he is too old – read: unfit – to seek a second term, as polling shows a majority of Democrats don’t … Read more
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The ongoing bird flu outbreak has cost the government roughly $661 million and added to consumers’ pain at the grocery store after more than 58 million birds were slaughtered to limit the spread of the virus. In addition to the cost of the government response and rising prices for eggs, chicken … Read more
The 2023 NBA All-Star weekend in Salt Lake City continues with All-Star Saturday Night contests — starting with the Skills Challenge, the 3-Point Contest and finishing with the Slam Dunk contest — on Saturday at 8 pm ET. All three events will be televised on TNT. The All-Star Game will cap the weekend on Sunday … Read more
“The 360” shows you different perspectives on the day’s top stories and debates. What’s happening President Biden announced Monday that the two national emergencies that have provided the legal basis for much of the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic will end on May 11. While the declaration of emergencies carried symbolic weight, their … Read more
The Pitt Panthers are on fire right now after having won six games in a row, but they have their work cut out for them in order to make it a seven game winning streak. Pitt travels down to Blacksburg today for a key ACC showdown against the Virginia Tech Hokies. The Panthers are currently … Read more
Republican and Democratic leaders have both vowed to leave Medicare and Social Security alone as the debt ceiling fight rears up. But will that really save the two nation’s two most important entitlement programs? Currently, the trust funds of both programs face shortfalls as the number of retired Americans have vastly outpaced the programs’ dedicated … Read more
Laboratory technicians work on testing human COVID-19 samples at a laboratory in Shenyang, China, on Feb. 12, 2020. (AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The World Health Organization is denying a report made by a top scientific journal that it had “quietly shelved” an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. But that denial itself … Read more
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party is set to elect its next chair Saturday from a field led by far-right candidates after sweeping losses to Democrats in last year’s midterms left Republicans powerless in the state government and the party in disarray. The winner, inheriting a state party torn apart by infighting and … Read more
A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins found that among 853 participants with moderate to severe hearing loss, “hearing aid use was associated with a 32% lower prevalence of dementia.” (Getty Images) Older adults with severe hearing loss are more likely to have dementia, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg … Read more