JuJu Watkins is adding more hardware to her trophy case. The Southern California sophomore guard won the John R. Wooden Award as the nation’s outstanding women’s basketball player on Saturday. She beat out UConn’s Paige Bueckers, who won in 2021, by 46 votes. Watkins was honored as The Associated Press player of the year on…
Firefighters are dealing with a wild blaze that has spread over a large area of forest in Scotland with police urging people to stay away from the area. Emergency services were called to Glentrool in Galloway, southern Scotland, at about 11.50pm on Friday with fire crews still on the scene on Saturday afternoon. Police Scotland…
Robin Levinson King in Boston, Jenna Moon in Washington DC & Bernd Debusmann Jr in Florida BBC News Getty Images Thousands of people turned out for a protest in Washington DC. Crowds of liberal protesters have amassed in cities across the US to denounce Donald Trump’s presidency, in the largest nationwide show of opposition since…
The US began collecting a 10% “baseline” tariff on all imports on Saturday as President Donald Trump urged Americans to “hang tough” after market turmoil. The UK and France are among hundreds of countries impacted and its leaders have said nothing is off the table. While China, which has been hit the hardest by President…
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Spain in the latest protest against housing speculation and to demand access to affordable homes. Organisers claim that up to 150,000 joined the protest in Madrid while smaller demonstrations were held in about 40 cities across the country. Protesters from Málaga on the Costa…
Visitors take pictures by a sign posted in front of Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Jan. 29, 2025. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Meta on Saturday released the first models from its latest open-source artificial intelligence software Llama 4, as the company scrambles to lead the race to invest in generative AI. But…
A 9-year-old boy in Kentucky was swept away by flood waters on Friday, one of at least nine people to die in a series of dramatic storms that continue to pummel the US. High winds and heavy rain continued to batter states including Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky on Saturday, delaying recovery efforts. Forecasters at the…
Only three days after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, including a 20 percent tariff on goods from the European Union, Elon Musk said on Saturday that he hoped that Europe and the United States moved “to a zero-tariff situation, effectively creating a free-trade zone.” Mr. Musk made the remarks during a videoconference appearance with Italy’s…
Labour have suspended Dan Norris, the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, after he was arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences. Norris, a former Labour minister who defeated Jacob Rees-Mogg as MP at last year’s general election, was taken into custody after police raided his constituency home on Friday. Police said…
The formula at the core of President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement that continues to rattle markets is bewildering economists, who say it is based on flawed assumptions. Economists argue that Trump’s formula relies on a flawed, underestimation of a key metric, resulting in inflated tariff rates for countries. According to the Office of the United…
