PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles have returned home and celebrated the second Super Bowl championship in franchise history Friday.Five days after the Eagles’ 40-22 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, fans lined the streets for Friday’s victory parade, celebrating with the team along the parade route on the way to the stage set at the famous “Rocky” steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. South Philly is prepared to parade. pic.twitter.com/wkY92wECBr — Brooks Kubena (@BKubena) February 14, 2025Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, the reigning Super Bowl MVP, was the first of Philadelphia’s players to address the crowd from…
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A British couple who had been on a motorcycle tour around the world were detained in Iran, Britain’s foreign office said on Saturday.The couple, Craig and Lindsay Foreman, were last heard from on social media in early January. But this week, Iranian state media reported that two British nationals had been detained on suspicion of “security crimes.”Britain’s foreign office confirmed their detention after the Iranian reports, and on Saturday issued a statement on behalf of the couple’s family.“This unexpected turn of events has caused significant concern for our entire family, and we are deeply focused on ensuring their safety and…
Jalen Brunson, #11 of the New York Knicks, drives to the basket during the game against the Indiana Pacers in Round 2, Game 1 of the 2024 NBA Playoffs at Madison Square Garden in New York City on May 6, 2024.Nathaniel S. Butler | National Basketball Association | Getty ImagesJames Dolan’s New York Knicks are in the middle of a promising and exciting season. It’s a different story for the Dolan-owned TV channels that air New York-area teams’ games.MSG Networks, a subsidiary of Sphere Entertainment, is navigating financial turmoil. Executives have been in discussions with lenders to refinance $829 million…
File: The Amazon distribution center in Garner, N.C. opened in August 2020. Across four floors, the warehouse covers 2 million square feet.Scott Sharpe | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesAmazon workers at a facility near Raleigh, North Carolina, overwhelmingly voted against unionizing on Saturday.Of the 3,276 ballots cast, there were 2,447 votes opposing the union and 829 in favor, according to Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), the group seeking to represent workers. The results still need to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board.The election at the facility, named RDU1 and located in the suburb of…
Jannik Sinner, the world’s No. 1 male tennis player, has accepted a three-month ban from the sport following an anti-doping rule violation.Australian Open champion Sinner, 23, received a sanction in August but was found by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) to bear “no fault or negligence” after twice testing positive for clostebol — a banned anabolic steroid — at the Indian Wells Masters 1000 tournament in March. He was permitted to continue playing.The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed against that ruling in September with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) having set a hearing date for April.However, WADA…
The senior American diplomat slipped quietly into Belarus, a police state run by a strongman reviled for decades in the West, traveling by car across the border for meetings with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko and the head of his KGB security apparatus.It was Mr. Lukashenko’s first meeting with a senior State Department official in five years, and the start of what could be a highly consequential thawing of frozen relations between the United States and Russia’s closest ally.The below-the-radar American visit to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, on Wednesday came just a day after President Trump had a long telephone call…
Snow blankets the city in this aerial drone photograph in Buffalo, New York, on December 25, 2022.Joed Viera | Afp | Getty ImagesMuch of the eastern half of the United States is bracing for severe weather this weekend, with “life-threatening” flash flooding possible in parts of the Southeast and significant snow set to blanket the Upper Midwest through to New England.The heaviest snowfall — with possible totals in the double digits — is expected in Michigan, upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, northern Massachusetts and the interior of Maine, according to the National Weather Service.The NWS warned early Saturday that severe flash flooding is…
Associated Press White House reporter Darlene Superville and AP photographer Ben Curtis are told by a U.S. President Donald Trump administration member that they have been denied from joining the White House press pool in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., February 15, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersReuters on Saturday objected to the restrictions placed on media outlets by the White House, after the Trump administration earlier this week barred the Associated Press from key spaces such as the Oval Office and Air Force One. “Reuters stands with the Associated Press and other media organizations in objecting to coverage restrictions imposed by…
Pitchers and catchers have officially reported, full-squad workouts are almost here and spring training games start in a week. Although there are still some quality free agents on the market, most of the offseason moves have been made, so it’s time for my first MLB power rankings of the year.Let’s take stock of the league landscape after all of the signings and trades, also factoring in rookies who are ready to make their mark, breakout candidates, players coming back from injury-filled seasons, and more.Here is how I view MLB’s 30 teams, from the upper echelon to the bottom dwellers, as spring…
A rooster roams on a farm on January 23, 2023 in Austin, Texas.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesAs avian flu drives egg prices to record levels and increasingly poses a risk to humans, moves by the White House to cut spending and restrict communications have hobbled public health officials’ response, with the new administration yet to outline a clear strategy on how it plans to stem the spread of the virus.State and local public health officials have gone weeks without regular updates on avian flu from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after President Donald Trump froze nearly all external communications from the agency,…
