Culture

Big Ten football: Breaking down Washington’s loss at Rutgers (we’ve seen the script before)

Washington traveled a long way to replicate a recent experience in its backyard. While the specifics of UW’s three-point loss at Rutgers on Friday night differed from the five-point loss to Washington State in the middle of the month, the framing was comparable: Yardage dominance, squandered opportunities, baffling decisions and, ultimately, defeat. Our reaction to […]

Sports

Avalanche Journal: Will Jared Bednar keep his superstar forwards together? He’d like to, even with key guys missing

Jared Bednar has been answering questions about the positives and negatives of playing his superstar forwards, Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen, together versus apart, for several seasons. The start to this season offers the same potential storyline, but with a twist: The Colorado Avalanche will start the 2024-25 campaign without Valeri Nichushkin and Gabe Landeskog […]

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MP quits Labour over Keir Starmer’s ‘sleaze’ amid freebies and gifts scandal

Rosie Duffield, MP for Canterbury (Picture: Jeff Gilbert/Shutterstock) Rosie Duffield has resigned as the Labour MP for Canterbury, becoming the first MP to jump ship since the General Election. In her resignation letter, she criticised Prime Minister Keir Starmer over high price tag gifts he and his wife received from Lord Alli. ‘Someone with far-above-average […]

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Biden calls the Israeli strike killing Hezbollah’s Nasrallah a ‘measure of justice’

By AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW LEE REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday called the Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah a “measure of justice” for his four-decade reign of terror. The comments came after Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed earlier Saturday that Nasrallah, one of the group’s founders, was killed in […]