Four years ago, Chris Stirewalt was at the center of a political firestorm. As a member of the Fox News Decision Team, he spent the 2020 election night huddled with other data nerds to decide when states could be called for Donald Trump or Joe Biden. It was Fox’s call for Arizona, made far earlier […]
Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia and flew to their new home in Europe. These kittens were no different than any other, except that they’d been created in a lab. They were clones: genetically identical to their predecessor, now sadly deceased. It had taken […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s call for “at least” $2 trillion in cuts to federal spending is drawing skepticism from experts as the billionaire tech magnate cements himself as one of former President Trump’s most prominent backers. “How much do you think we can rip out of this wasted, $6.5 trillion Harris-Biden budget?” Howard Lutnick, Wall…
Women are more likely than men to die of complications from high-risk cardiovascular surgery, a new study finds. These life-threatening complications, such as heart attacks and infections, were more likely to be recognized too late in women than in men, resulting in the higher death rate seen in women. Not recognizing or responding quickly enough […]
Jake Trotter, ESPN Senior WriterOct 28, 2024, 12:39 PM ET Close Jake Trotter covers college football for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown (Ohio) Journal newspapers. You can follow him @Jake_Trotter. Penn State coach James Franklin said Monday that quarterback Drew Allar’s status for […]
Scott Taetsch/Getty Images The Washington Commanders beat the Chicago Bears on Sunday, 18-15, after Jayden Daniels’ last-gasp Hail Mary as time expired was improbably tipped to Noah Brown in the end zone, resulting in a game-winning touchdown. It was arguably the play of the season thus far, and players from both sides offered their perspectives […]
Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny and other Latino celebrities shared an appeal from Vice President Kamala Harris to their millions of followers on Sunday night as a guest at a Trump rally declared the territory an “island of garbage” in a racist comedy set. “There is so much at stake in this election for Puerto […]
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is calling on volunteers of all ages to help students and citizen scientists document seasonal change through leaf color and land cover. The data collection event will support students across North America, Latin America, Central America, and Europe, who are working together to document […]
A month-long Vatican summit has ended with a call for women to have more leadership roles in the Catholic Church, but not a call for women to be ordained as priests, as some progressives had hoped at the start of the process. The synod was the end of a four-year consultation aimed at gauging the […]
In 2015, when Barack Obama appeared on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, it was a big event precisely because it was a one-off — an exception rather than a rule. Almost a decade later, the media landscape has changed so completely that independent podcasters with little if any journalism experience seem to have an easier time […]
