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Sports

Djokovic defeats Alcaraz: How it happened and what it means

Jake MichaelsJan 21, 2025, 12:01 PM ET Close Jake Michaels is a Melbourne-based sports writer. He has been with ESPN since 2013, covering everything from AFL to Formula One, basketball to boxing, and tennis, both in Australia and around the world. MELBOURNE, Australia — There was a sense of déjà vu as Novak Djokovic marched […]

Politics

Opinion: Don’t forget what happened four years ago on Jan. 6

Four years ago on Jan. 6, not even most Republicans would have imagined this 2025 anniversary: The West Front of the Capitol — where rioters battled outnumbered police to breach the building, marauding and hunting for lawmakers — is currently getting gussied up for this month’s inauguration of the 2021 mob’s inciter: Donald Trump. “All […]

Weather

Mother clinging to life revealed what happened. Now detectives more keen than ever to solve horrific murder

Three decades on from the unsolved murder of a mother who was attacked in a churchyard, detectives have renewed their push to find her killer or killers. Tracey Mertens was doused in petrol and set alight in Eaton churchyard near Congleton, in Cheshireon 23 December 1994. She was 31-years-old. Despite having burns to around 95 […]