U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent speaks to reporters before walking into the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 13, 2025.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday dismissed concerns Americans might be having about a potential impending recession and the status of their retirement plans, saying that President Donald Trump and his administration are “building the long-term economic fundamentals for prosperity.”During an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Bessent called it a “false narrative” that Americans who are close to retiring may be reticent to do so after their retirement savings may have dropped this…
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SAN ANTONIO — From their seats seven rows behind Duke’s bench, Ralph and Kelly Flagg had the perfect vantage point of the moment everything turned to dust.With eight seconds left in Saturday’s national semifinal against No. 1 Houston, their son Cooper rose up for the turnaround jumper that legacies are made of. Sink it, and Duke’s in the national championship game for the first time in a decade. But miss it?Everything, over. Immediately.Which is why, as one of the best freshmen to play college basketball lifted off from just inside the left elbow, 68,252 sets of eyes inside the Alamodome…
If the third season of “The White Lotus” has you thinking that it’s time to plan a vacation to Thailand, you’re not alone. The hit HBO series — which returned to TV screens in February — has created a surge of interest in the latest locale where its eponymous fictional hotel is set.”After the White Lotus premiere, there was a big spike up,” says Kate Bodden, a spokesperson for the airfare search platform Skiplagged. “Searches to Krabi were up 50% year-over-year.” Indeed, it’s not the first time this has happened. Season one of the show was set in Maui, Hawaii and season…
When the season finale of “The White Lotus” airs on Sunday, viewers are expecting lots of questions to be answered: Will Gaitok confront Valentin? Does Piper still want to stay in Thailand? And of course, who is killed?Audiences will also be tuning into to find out how exactly the girls’ trip storyline plays out. For the last seven episodes we’ve seen three childhood best friends, played by Michelle Monaghan, Leslie Bibb, and Carrie Coon, struggle to bond at this luxury resort. For anyone who has desperately tried to sustain the spark with a childhood friend, this dynamic is all too familiar.Despite…
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett stands next to U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. Leah Millis | ReutersA crashing stock market is not part of an intentional strategy by President Donald Trump, White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. This came after Trump shared a link to a video on his social media platform, Truth Social, which claimed the president was causing the markets to plummet on purpose as part of his broader economic plans. The video, which initially appeared on…
The Athletic has in-depth coverage of the 2025 Men’s Final Four.The men’s NCAA Tournament started with 68 teams and plenty of March Madness dreams.Three weeks and 66 games later, we’re set for Monday’s national championship game, where the fun will come to its conclusion as Florida and Houston meet in San Antonio.It’s been an interesting and unusual tournament, one notably short on Cinderellas and decidedly heavy on big-conference dominance. All four No. 1 seeds reached the Final Four, and now we’ll have a title game featuring two of them, plus a nice selection of future NBA stars.It’s the SEC vs. the…
Russia bombarded Ukraine with ballistic missiles and drones on Sunday that killed one person and wounded at least seven others, the latest in a series of deadly attacks that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has said makes clear Moscow has little real interest in cease-fire negotiations.While Russian drone and missile attacks have been unrelenting throughout more than three years of war, they have intensified in recent weeks amid ongoing peace talks led by the Trump administration.The Ukrainian authorities said the barrage on Sunday killed one man, damaged buildings and started fires in three neighborhoods of Kyiv, the capital. Damage and…
Nurse Sherry Andrews works at the City of Lubbock Health Department as people get the MMR vaccine, in Lubbock, Texas, U.S. Feb. 27, 2025. Annie Rice | ReutersA second school-aged child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed Sunday, as the outbreak continues to swell.Aaron Davis, a spokesperson for UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, said that the child was “receiving treatment for complications of measles while hospitalized” and was not vaccinated.A unvaccinated school-age child died of measles in February in Lubbock — the first measles death in the U.S. in a decade. In early…
Whether to buy cryptocurrency as a long-term holding may be the biggest decision an investor interested in digital assets has to make, but where to store crypto like bitcoin can become the most consequential.Following the wildfires earlier this year in California, social media posts began to appear with claims of bitcoin losses, with some users showing metal plates intended to protect seed phrases burnt up and illegible or describing the complexity of recovering crypto keys stored in a safety deposit box in a bank impacted by the fires. While impossible to verify individual claims about fires consuming hard drives, laptops and…
Just when you think you’ve seen everything that football has to offer, along come Ipswich Town.Amid another morale-sapping defeat that all but sealed their relegation from the Premier League, Ipswich, with a little help from their opponents, Wolverhampton Wanderers, served up the maddest two minutes of Premier League action you are likely to see this season.A backpass, a mistake, a save, a free kick, a melee on the goal line, a thudding shot and a point-blank block… there was nothing technically proficient about any of it, but it was memorable. Are you not entertained?For the uninitiated, this was all about…
