Month March 2025

BBC In Union County, South Carolina, the sprawling cotton mills that once put bread on the table for many are long gone. Union is also what is termed a “food desert”, where many residents live far from the nearest supermarket.…

First Dupree burst over as Josh Thewlis fumbled a high ball, before Miski acrobatically scored in the corner. He was followed in by French, who showed great hands to collect a loose ball after Sam Walters spilled Junior Nsemba’s offload.…

Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Northamptonshire James Stack/Netflix The stars of Toxic Town met their real-life counterparts. From left, actress Claudia Jessie stands with Maggie Mahon; Tracey Taylor stands with Aimee Lou Wood and Susan McIntyre stands with Jodie Whittaker Many…

Reuters Israeli soldiers stand on a tank on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip. Photo: February 2025 The Israeli government has approved a temporary extension of the Gaza ceasefire for the next six weeks, covering the…

The album features some of Russell’s previous Everything Is Recorded collaborators, among them the rapper Berwyn, the saxophonist Kamasi Washington and the doleful, liquid-voiced singer and songwriter Sampha, who has worked on all three albums. “A lot of the process…

The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were announced on Thursday morning and an unusually high number of them are still exclusively in theaters, including the best picture contenders “A Complete Unknown,” “The Brutalist,” “I’m Still Here” and “Nickel Boys.”…

After days of a cautious optimism and two weeks in a hospital with pneumonia in both lungs, Pope Francis on Friday suffered another respiratory crisis, renewing concerns about the prognosis for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican…

In 2018, Democrats won back the House, flipping 41 seats including in conservative-leaning places like the suburbs of Utah and Oklahoma by focusing narrowly on a single issue: Republican efforts to overturn a popular health care program, the Affordable Care…

Problems with a huge database of voter information that effectively functions as the central nervous system of the Democratic Party grew so worrisome last summer that top Democrats staged an extraordinary intervention to keep it running through the November election,…

Politics could also prove problematic. Most of the movies that Hollywood is poised to celebrate represent a cultural paradigm that was shattered by the presidential election. “Emilia Pérez,” a musical exploration of trans identity, has 13 nominations, the most of…