The Athletic has live coverage of Houston vs. Tennessee and Auburn vs. Michigan State in the Elite Eight of the Men’s NCAA TournamentSAN FRANCISCO — In summer 2022, the new Florida men’s basketball staff had zero wins, an auspicious but limited track record and one guarantee: Thomas Haugh, the lanky three-star recruit in the practice gym, was not leaving Gainesville without plans to come back. He was possibly the only human ever to be both a native of New Oxford, Pa., and a die-hard Florida fan. A 6-foot-9 devotee of Tim Tebow Mania. If anyone was going to run to…
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A video that circulated widely on the internet recently showed a Haitian gang leader, Joseph Wilson, shirtless, happily showing off belts of .50 caliber ammunition, mockingly saying he used the armor-piercing bullets to groom his hair.“We have enough combs for our hair to last a year,” he joked.So how did he get them?Guns are not manufactured in Haiti, and it’s illegal to ship any there, but the gangs terrorizing the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, never seem to be short of them — or of ammunition.Experts estimate that there are about 20 armed groups operating in Port-au-Prince, some who carry AR-15 and…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing in ceremony for Alina Habba as US Attorney General for New Jersey, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 28, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.””A lot of people want me to do it,”…
At the end of a week when the true impact of Hollywood coming to Wrexham was laid bare by a balance sheet containing almost as many new records as music store HMV, it felt appropriate that the Welsh club should make the long trip to Exeter City.The Devon club are in their 21st season of fan ownership, the same model that kept Wrexham afloat for more than a decade before Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney rode into town.Like Saturday’s 2-0 victors, Exeter had a stint in the National League — five years in their case, between 2003 and 2008 —…
Micah Maʻa, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Janet Evans, Chief Athlete Officer, LA28, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Delaney Schnell, and LA28 Chairperson and President Casey Wasserman appear as the Olympic Flag arrives to LA on August 12, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Emma Mcintyre | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesLos Angeles pulled off a rare feat in 1984: the city turned a profit on the Summer Olympics. It’s looking like that may not be easy in 2028. And that could come at a bad time for the city.”The city of L.A., financially, we are in trouble,” Controller Kenneth Mejia wrote in…
FILE PHOTO: An “Open House” sign outside of a home in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWhen Maryland Governor Wes Moore was 8 years old, his mother told him she wanted to send him to military school to correct his behavior.Yet it wasn’t until he was 13 that she finally did send him to a military school in Pennsylvania. He ran away five times in the first four days.”That place ended up really helping me change my life,” said Moore while speaking about retirement security at a BlackRock conference in Washington, D.C.,…
Making it to the WNBA or setting incredible NCAA records never crossed Shakyla Hill’s mind when she arrived at Grambling State in 2015.She had other aspirations. She wanted to be a lawyer.Recording a quadruple-double in a game was never part of the plan. Getting two in a career wasn’t even a thought.But it happened for the student-athlete who preferred law over layups.“I probably said my first two years a hundred times, I’m playing basketball to pay for school. I’m not in school to play basketball,” Hill told The Athletic. “But then the (first) quadruple-double happened, and it kind of just…
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, has tried and failed three times to become president. Now, even as her popularity rises, she may be barred from taking part in an election to lead France if she is found guilty of embezzlement on Monday.Such a verdict, far from certain, has been equated by Ms. Le Pen with a “political death” sentence and a “very violent attack on the will of the people.” It would ignite a major political storm at a time when the French Fifth Republic has appeared increasingly dysfunctional.On the one hand stands the principle, as Nicolas Barret,…
From America’s largest bank to its biggest asset manager, Wall Street investment strategies once reserved for private banking clients are increasingly being offered to Main Street investors.In the midst of a market correction and ongoing uncertainty about the outlook for U.S. stocks and the global economy, JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock are among major players in the ETF space making bets that private strategies will continue to see greater adoption. That includes private credit as a mainstream bond portfolio holding, as well as equity income strategies that involved more complicated trading than traditional dividend equity funds.”Across our business we are looking…
The top-performing U.S. stock in Berkshire Hathaway ‘s enormous equity portfolio this year turns out to be a lesser-known name in the internet world. VeriSign , which provides a dotcom domain registry service, has seen its shares climb more than 21% this year and more than 32% over the past 12 months. The Reston, Virginia-based company recently reported a rise in fourth-quarter revenue, boosted by solid demand for domain registrations. Berkshire first bought VeriSign stock in the fourth quarter of 2012, shortly after Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett hired Ted Weschler as his investing lieutenant. The conglomerate left the size of the…
