The Scripps National Spelling Bee suffered a body blow when eight kids ended up co-champions because they were simply too accomplished to stumble over any of the words Scripps threw at them. That doesn’t mean it’s irretrievably broken. Even some critics who thought the words Thursday night were insultingly easy […]
Daily Archives: May 31, 2019
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May 31, 2019, 9:52 PM UTC By Jessica Levinson, professor at Loyola Law School The Supreme Court is about to start looking a lot more like a political branch. Indeed, in a decade or less, we may look back at this time as the era in which the court lost […]
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – Missouri’s only abortion clinic will stay open at least a few more days after a judge on Friday granted a request by Planned Parenthood for a temporary restraining order, allowing the facility to keep operating until a hearing on Tuesday. Planned Parenthood sued Missouri this week […]
(Reuters) – Tiger Woods’ challenge at the Memorial tournament in Ohio suffered a blow in the second round on Friday with a late double bogey that left him seven strokes off the lead while Justin Rose shot a best of the day 63 to haul himself back into contention. May […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Tank Man photo has come to define what happened at Tiananmen Square There are no official acts of remembrance for the events of 1989 in Beijing. But that statement, although factually correct, is far too neutral. In truth, what happened in Tiananmen Square is […]
MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The plane lost contact with civilian air traffic control at 17:21 UTC, but could still be seen by military primary radar until 18:22 UTC. However, after an initial diversion MH370 passed mostly […]
Stacey Solomon, 29, and boyfriend Joe Swash, 37, welcomed their first child together this month whom they said arrived “earlier than planned”. The Loose Women star has now shared a new photo of their son with Stacey holding him in her arms as she beamed at the camera. Wearing her […]
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) launched a direct plea to Conservative Party leadership contenders, urging the next Prime Minister to reach an agreement with Brussels. In an open letter to the Government, director-general Carolyn Fairbairn said a no deal Brexit would cause “severe” damage to British businesses, adding that […]