JUNE 1, 2019
PARIS, FRANCE - Serena Williams lost to a younger American in their first match together for the first time in her two-decade career. Sofia Kenin, a 20-year-old born in Moscow and raised in Florida, upset the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion 6-2, 7-5 in the French Open third round.
Williams dropped to 34-3 all-time against younger Americans (h/t @BenRothenberg). Kenin...
JUNE 1, 2019
LONDON — Britain and the U.S. may have a special relationship but President Donald Trump’s state visit will be a diplomatic balancing act for the U.K., where Trump is deeply unpopular.
Even before his arrival on British shores, the president caused a stir by wading into the contest to replace Theresa May as prime minister and criticizing Meghan...
MAY 31, 2019
Brief Scorecard: West Indies 108 for 3 (Gayle 50, Amir 3-26) beat Pakistan 105 (Thomas 4-27, Holder 3-42) by seven wickets
LONDON - There's a simple reason why this game was so short: because the West Indies bowlers were, too. In a spell of fast bowling more suited to Test cricket of the 1980s than limited-overs in this...
MAY 31, 2019
Key Speakers At The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)
San Jose, California - Apple Inc.’s developer conference beginning Monday will move the company closer to a future in which the iPhone is no longer the central cog for other products and services.
Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and other leaders will make a keynote presentation at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose,...
MAY 31, 2019
Stocks dropped Friday as investors feared President Donald Trump’s surprise threat of tariffs on all Mexico imports, amid a worsening trade war with China, could risk sending the U.S. economy into a recession.
The Dow was down 200 points, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq dropped 0.8%. The S&P 500 was already down 5.3% this month through Thursday...
MAY 31, 2019
Not one, two, but eight dictionary experts claimed the 92nd Scripps National Spelling Bee championship title Thursday, after surviving 20 total rounds on a historic night.
The voice of the Scripps Bee, Jacques Bailly, announced three hours into the final competition that everyone who nailed their 12th word of the night would share the honor, marking the first time more...
MAY 30, 2019
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, its special envoy to the United States, and foreign ministry officials who carried out working-level negotiations for the second U.S.-North Korea summit in February, holding them responsible for its collapse, a South Korean newspaper reported on Friday.
Kim Yong Chol, a senior official who had been U.S. Secretary...
MAY 30, 2019
Brief Scorecard: England 311 for 8 (Stokes 89, Morgan 57, Roy 54, Root 51, Ngidi 3-66) beat South Africa 207 (de Kock 68, van der Dussen 50, Archer 3-27) by 104 runs
LONDON - Ben Stokes top-scored with 89 while Jofra Archer picked 3 wickets as England stormed to a 104-run win over South Africa at The Oval...
MAY 30, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked former special counsel Robert Mueller while speaking to reporters outside the White House, calling him a "true never-Trumper" and saying that he never should've been tapped as special counsel.
"I think Mueller is a true never-Trumper," the president said.
Trump's comments came one day after Mueller's first public remarks on...
MAY 29, 2019
Chinese President Xi Jinping stands by national flags.
The biggest newspaper in China explicitly warned the U.S. on Wednesday that it would cut off rare earth minerals as a countermeasure in the escalated trade battle, using an expression it only used twice in history, both of which involved full-on wars.
"We advise the U.S. side not to underestimate...
