NBA great Jason Kidd joins ownership group of Premier League soccer club Everton
April 24, 2025
NBA great Jason Kidd has entered the soccer world by joining the ownership group of English Premier League club Everton. The Hall of Fame ...Friedkin Group completes purchase of Everton and becomes 10th US owner in Premier League
December 19, 2024
Half of the Premier League is under majority American ownership after Texas-based Friedkin Group completed its 98.8% purchase of Everton on Thursday. The takeover ...MLB invests in Athletes Unlimited Softball League ahead of June debut
May 29, 2025
Major League Baseball is investing in Athletes Unlimited to support its softball league that will debut next month , its first comprehensive partnership with ...Allies say Guatemala election winner is a highly qualified peacebuilder, but opponent's still silent
August 23, 2023
Bernardo Arévalos experience in peacebuilding and diplomacy eminently qualify him to lead Guatemala as the conflict-riven country's next president, those who know him say. ...Who is Guatemala's new president and can he deliver on promised change?
January 15, 2024
Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in early Monday as Guatemala’s new president. Many doubted they would ever see the day as powerful interests aligned against ...Miljenko 'Mike' Grgich, an immigrant who put Napa Valley on the world's wine map, dies at 100
December 14, 2023
Miljenko “Mike” Grgich, a celebrated winemaker who helped establish Napa Valley as one of the world’s premier wine-making regions, has died. He was 100. ...Crimea is a focus of discussions to end Russia's war in Ukraine. Here's why it's so coveted
April 24, 2025
Russias illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless. But Kyiv — and most of the world — never ...Wink Martindale, the genial game show host and an early TV interviewer of Elvis Presley, dies at 91
April 15, 2025
Wink Martindale, the genial host of such hit game shows as “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough” who also did one of the first recorded television interviews ...Former US Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who bridged partisan gaps with his quick wit, dies at age 93
March 14, 2025
Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today’s political acrimony, has died. He ...Crimea has been a battleground and a playground. Why it's coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
March 18, 2025
Russias illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but it sent ...Strip club Cinderella story 'Anora' wins best picture at 97th Academy Awards
March 2, 2025
Anora,” a strip club Cinderella story without the fairy tale ending, was crowned best picture at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Sean ...In Nevada, immigration is a nuanced issue. But the politics of it is painted in black and white
October 21, 2024
Few things say America like Janille and Tom Bakers ranch, with its grazing cattle, scrub brush-dotted desert and snow-capped mountains. If only they could ...Tales from the tour in a year filled with medals and tears and a few digs
December 24, 2024
Scottie Scheffler won a lot of tournaments and had to do a lot of talking this year. One theme stood out even as Scheffler ...Biden tells Morehouse graduates that scenes in Gaza from the Israel-Hamas war break his heart, too
May 19, 2024
President Joe Biden on Sunday offered his most direct recognition of U.S. students anguish over the Israel-Hamas war , telling graduates of historically Black ...Palestinian leader appoints longtime adviser as prime minister in the face of calls for reform
March 14, 2024
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister in the face of U.S. pressure to reform ...70 years ago, school integration was a dream many believed could actually happen. It hasn't
May 15, 2024
Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, that decision — the ...50 years after Hank Aaron's 715th homer, Hall of Fame announces statue, Postal Service unveils stamp
April 8, 2024
The 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run was marked Monday with announcements of a new statue at Baseball’s Hall of Fame and ...Coming home, staying home: 'Apollo 13' and 'Home Alone' among 25 films picked for national registry
December 13, 2023
Houston, we have a problem: Wheres Kevin? Perhaps the ultimate coming-home movie , “Apollo 13,” and the ultimate staying-home one, “Home Alone,” are both ...Why a Guatemalan court’s decision to freeze presidential election results is stirring criticism
July 4, 2023
A week after Guatemala’s June 25 elections boosted a relative long-shot candidate into the final second round of voting, the country’s top court has ...Cowboys rip error-prone Giants 40-0 for worst shutout loss in the series between NFC East rivals
September 11, 2023
The Dallas Cowboys have not only put some distance between themselves and the New York Giants in the NFC East, they showed Sunday night ...