Women to watch at the French Open, where play begins Sunday: ——— NAOMI OSAKA Ranked: 1 Country: Japan Age: 21 2019 Match Record: 19-5 2019 Singles Titles: 1 Career Singles Titles: 3 Grand Slam Singles Titles: 2 — Australian Open (2019), U.S. Open (2018) Last 5 French Opens: 2018-Lost in 3rd Round, 2017-1st, 2016-3rd, 2015-Did […]
FRENCH OPEN ’19: Serena Williams tries again for 24th major Read More »
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Scarlett Lewis sees reminders of her son Jesse — who died at age 6 with 19 classmates and six educators in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting — in photographs on her refrigerator door, in portraits she painted of him from memory and now, uncomfortably, in the Newtown Community Center, a soaring
A Lesson of Sandy Hook: ‘Err on the Side of the Victims’ Read More »
OAKHURST, Calif. — Pacific Gas & Electric has a big problem. Its equipment keeps coming into contact with dry trees and shrubs and starting devastating wildfires. So the company is scrambling to trim or cut down hundreds of thousands of trees across its vast Northern California territory. But it has another problem: finding people to
As California Wildfire Season Looms, Finding Tree Trimmers Is a New Problem Read More »
Serious problems persist at Wyoming’s largest mental health facility four years after employees left an incapacitated woman on a couch without food, water or bathroom use for over 24 hours, according to two groups that provide legal and advocacy services to patients in need. They include a suicide, attempted suicides, the sexual assault of a
Problems persist at Wyoming’s largest mental health facility Read More »
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Child (left) and Kerr were friends for more than 10 years The children’s author Judith Kerr has died at the age of 95. Most famous for her book The Tiger Who Came to Tea and her series of Mog books, Kerr continued working into her nineties and published her most
Lauren Child pays tribute to ‘generous’ Judith Kerr Read More »
Image copyright Newscast Sales in the UK arm of baby goods retailer Mothercare plunged almost 9% last year as its losses widened to £87.3m. The firm said its sales had fallen following reduced consumer confidence after last year’s restructuring. That led to it closing almost a third of its stores. It is now left with
Mothercare sales plunge as losses widen Read More »
Most cruise lines have a large staff that includes a deck crew, housekeeping, entertainers and more. But only one has a chief meteorologist whose sole job is to track the daily weather for multiple ships and about 150,000 passengers. James Van Fleet joined Royal Caribbean International two years ago, after more than two decades as
Worried About the Weather for Your Cruise? So Is James Van Fleet Read More »
Late last year, Tesla Inc. was fully charged and cruising down the highway on Autopilot. Shares were trading above $370 each, sales of the Model 3 small electric car were strong and the company had appointed a new board chair to rein in the antics of sometimes impulsive CEO Elon Musk. But around the middle
Tesla’s bad news accelerates as Wall Street loses faith Read More »
The president of French soccer champion Paris Saint-Germain is the latest sports official implicated in a sprawling five-year corruption probe that keeps spreading. Prosecutors in France have implicated Nasser al-Khelaifi — who leads Qatar-owned PSG, is chairman of Qatar-owned broadcaster beIN Sports, and sits on the executive committee of European soccer body UEFA — in
Soccer club president latest tie to French corruption probe Read More »
Health Secretary Matt Hancock says he would be “brutally honest” about what it would take to get a Brexit deal through Parliament if he becomes the next prime minister. Announcing he’s running for Tory leader, he tells BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the next PM must be “completely straight forward” or risk running into
Hancock would be ‘brutally honest’ about Brexit as PM Read More »
