A mother pleads for Britain’s help in freeing son from Egyptian prison, one day of hunger at a time
Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day ...
The slash-and-burn tactics Musk brings to Washington often backfired at Twitter
When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, he laid off thousands of employees, stopped paying rent and auctioned off coffee makers and office chairs in hopes of a big turnaround. Now the world’s ...
Hubie Brown, a basketball coach, broadcaster and always a teacher, calls his final game at 91
Hubie Brown had just taken his first college coaching job in 1968 and didn’t expect that he’d also be asked to teach. So, for ...
Silicon Valley and Indian investors spend big as English cricket goes up for sale
Foreign investors have been googly-eyed about English soccer for decades. Now, they are buying into an even more quintessential English sport — cricket. Auctions of franchises in a tournament ...
Irondequoit’s Winterfest returning to Town Hall
The Town of Irondequoit is announcing the return of its Winterfest this weekend! The town’s version of the festival will be ...
RPD will provide update on Maplewood Park shooting
RPD’s press conference will be live-streamed on this page at 11:30 a.m. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The Rochester Police ...
Red states pursue their own DOGE-style reforms
Numerous Republican-led states are seeking to implement measures to slash the size and cost of state governments in an effort ...
What is influenza A, the type of flu making people so sick right now?
(NEXSTAR) – The flu is spreading far and wide across the U.S. – and influenza A is largely to blame. Of all the flu tests ...
The NFL announces the Steelers will play in Dublin in 2025 for Ireland’s first regular-season game
Dublin will host Ireland’s first NFL regular-season game when the Pittsburgh Steelers play at Croke Park in 2025, the league announced Friday, two days before the Chiefs and ...
Russia claims it’s taken another eastern Ukraine town. Kyiv officials make no comment
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Friday that its forces had captured the mining town of Toretsk in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where ...
Ian McEwan’s next novel, ‘What We Can Know,’ is science fiction ‘without the science’
The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s immersion into a poem written during happier times.
Deadline approaching for Urban-Suburban applications
February 14 is the deadline to get applications in for the Urban-Suburban program if you want to enroll your student for the ...