Sara Sharif told a social worker she felt safe living with her father and stepmother because “they don’t hit me”, four years before she died from their brutal campaign of torture. The schoolgirl’s haunting words are buried in hundreds of pages of private family court papers that were disclosed after an application by media organisations,…
Jeremiyah Love tied the Notre Dame record with a 98-yard touchdown run, Riley Leonard added two more scores and the Fighting Irish shut down the highest-scoring team in the College Football Playoff, overwhelming Indiana on Friday night, 27-17. The seventh-seeded Fighting Irish (12-1) won their 11th straight — and their first playoff victory. They’ll face…
Prices barely moved in November but still held higher than the Federal Reserve’s target when looked at from a year ago, according to a Commerce Department measure released Friday. The personal consumption expenditures price index, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, showed an increase of just 0.1% from October. The measure indicated a 2.4% inflation rate…
The 10-year Treasury yield retreated on Friday as a key inflation gauge showed cooler-than-expected price pressures. Mid-morning remarks by Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee, confirming that rates could still decline next year despite the central bank’s cautious stance, also helped lift bond prices. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell 4.4 basis points to 4.526% after topping…
every year, at the beginning of November, one of the most impressive natural spectacles in the world takes place in Michoacán, Mexico. Hundreds of millions of migrating monarch butterflies settle in the forested massifs of the country’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, roughly 100 kilometers west of Mexico City. Having flown south for eight months, beginning…
Aytac Unal/ | Anadolu | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump this week transferred his entire stake of shares in Trump Media to a revocable trust of which he is the sole beneficiary, regulatory filings revealed Thursday evening. Trump did not receive any money for the gift of his 114,750,000 shares of Trump Media stock to…
The New South Wales transport minister is calling on rail unions to end industrial action amid hundreds of cancellations across the train network on Saturday, saying “no level of disturbance or disruption” over the new year period is “tolerable”. Close to 40% of train services were expected to be cancelled or delayed on Saturday, Jo…
Cotie McMahon had 16 points and six rebounds, leading six players in double-figure scoring, and No. 11 Ohio State beat Stanford, 84-59, on Friday night in the Invisalign Bay Area Women’s Classic. McMahon, who came in averaging a team-high 18.6 points per game, missed eight of her first nine shots and wound up 5 for…
Esther Gonzalez of Spain kisses the FIFA Women’s World Cup Trophy after the team’s victory in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 Final match between Spain and England at Stadium Australia on August 20, 2023. Alex Pantling – Fifa | Fifa | Getty Images Netflix on Friday announced it has secured…
A lone traveler makes his way past a nearly deserted TSA security screening area at Orlando International Airport ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton, on October 9, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. Paul Hennessy | Anadolu | Getty Images A government shutdown is looming just as the peak holiday travel season gets underway. Lawmakers have…
