D3sign | Moment | Getty Images Inflation has hit levels not seen in 40 years and Americans’ wallets are feeling the strain. Prices are rising on everything from energy to food to shelter, costing the average American household an additional $327 per month, according to a Moody’s Analytics analysis. That’s higher than last month’s estimate
7:00 AM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. — Looking back, Marcus Satterfield jokes that maybe he was too blunt. As South Carolina‘s oft-criticized offensive coordinator from a year ago, and with the Gamecocks desperately needing a quarterback, Satterfield didn’t sugarcoat things the first time he spoke on the phone in December with Spencer Rattler. Yes, the same
7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. Some nights there are a bounty of NHL games on the schedule, a large proportion of which have massive impacts on the playoff races. Then there are nights like Friday, with three of
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Britta Pedersen | Getty Images It’s not often that a company receives a takeover bid that amounts to an 18% stock premium only to see its shares fall on the
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a grand view while exploring patches of the sky. In an infrared image captured by the telescope and posted on social media by NASA, we see a cosmic cloud that resembles a butterfly. But don’t be fooled. This image is of a cluster of “baby stars”, a nebula of
The Ricketts family-led consortium has withdrawn its bid to buy Chelsea Football Club. The Chicago Cubs owners and their partners opted not to submit a final bid for the Blues, due to “unusual dynamics around the sales process”. Tom and Laura Ricketts had partnered with US billionaires Ken Griffin and Dan Gilbert to place a
The sinking of the Moskva missile cruiser means that the crucial city of Odesa is now a bit safer, and any Russian attack on the port would be harder. The loss of the Russian ship has dominated news stories about the war in the last day or so, and has raised questions about what it
Elon Musk is “not sure” whether his attempt to take over Twitter for $41bn will succeed, he has told a conference in Vancouver. The meme-posting billionaire added that he had a “Plan B” if his offer to buy to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share was turned down – and criticised Mark Zuckerberg’s model of
Cardi B and Offset have finally revealed the name of their son – seven months after he was born. Sharing the very first picture of his face on Instagram, the couple announced his name is Wave Set Cephus. The rappers already share a three-year-old daughter named Kulture, but welcomed their son back in September. He
You can watch our full interview with Putin’s spokesman here: https://youtu.be/L0WScHPbaPA Dmitry Peskov has admitted there have been “significant” losses of Russian troops and said it is a “tragedy”. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman denied Russia has carried out war crimes in Ukraine telling Sky News we are “living in days of fakes and lies”. For the
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent Kremlin critic who has survived two suspected poisonings, has been detained in Moscow on Monday, according to Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin and media reports. His detention came hours after an interview with CNN’s Sara Sidner. #CNN #News
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Concerns related to both the energy transition and energy security have been thrown into sharp relief by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, recent months have also seen commodity prices jump. Marcus Brandt | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The world’s governments have pledged more than $710 billion to “sustainable recovery measures” by
Hollywood star and the co-owner of Wrexham FC, Ryan Reynolds, has gifted a commemorative urinal to Rob McElhenney at the club’s stadium. The pair took full control of the National League club from the Wrexham Supporters Trust in February 2021, investing £2m. Reynolds posted a video on Twitter of himself in the toilet, wishing his
The government hopes it can start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda in a matter of “weeks”, according to Boris Johnson’s policy chief. The UK government is attempting to crack down on Channel crossings by small boats and as part of the plans, the Home Office has signed a “world first” deal with Rwanda to send
In our analysis of the government’s new plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, we’ve looked at the moral and legal implications as well as the cost. There is one thing we’ve overlooked, though, and that is how those changes will impact the country which the government says will process “tens of thousands” of asylum
In this article TWTR Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged Thursday at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver that he is “not sure” he’ll actually be able to buy Twitter. The comments came hours after a regulatory filing revealed that he offered to acquire the company for $54.20 per
The families of the victims endured harrowing testimony about life and death in captivity at the hands of the so-called IS Beatles. When the guilty verdict in the trial of ‘IS Beatle’ El Shafee Elsheikh was read out, Diane Foley, whose son James was 40 when he was murdered, closed her eyes tightly and tilted
Ukraine’s president says his military is “tormenting” Russian forces and their success in holding off invading troops has been “historically significant”. Ukraine landed a symbolic blow on Russia by sinking its Moskva missile cruiser on Thursday – a victory which has led to retaliatory strikes on Kyiv. And while Kharkiv and eastern parts of the
A Russian warship which was allegedly attacked by Ukraine has sunk, according to state-owned media. The missile cruiser Moskva is the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet and sank as it was towed back to a port during bad weather after an explosion and fire, according to reports. Earlier, Russia’s defence ministry said the Soviet-era