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A modest reversal from Friday evening’s carnage in crypto markets is underway after some calming trade war-related remarks from both Beijing and Washington. The walk-backs began late Saturday when China’s Ministry of Commerce said its rare-earth export controls are not blanket bans, and that eligible applications will continue to receive licenses. The agency further said…
This week, OpenAI announced that apps can now run directly inside ChatGPT, letting users book travel, create playlists, and edit designs without switching between different apps. Some immediately declared it the app platform of the future — predicting a ChatGPT-powered world where Apple’s App Store becomes obsolete. An open question was answered today – “what…
Zach KramOct 13, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Zach Kram is a national NBA writer for ESPN.com, specializing in short- and long-term trends across the league’s analytics landscape. He previously worked at The Ringer covering the NBA and MLB. You can follow Zach on X via @zachkram. A decade after winning the first of four…
Sadly, we’re still a few appearances shy of commencing the Tim Meadowsaissance, heretofore referred to as “The Meadows’ Spring Awakening.” (Not every name + “renaissance” rolls off the tongue like “McConaissance.”) Yes, the beloved character actor recently reprised his iconic role as Mr. Duvall in the “Mean Girls” musical and jolted extra life into “Peacemaker”…
Nigel Farage portrays his Reform UK party as a unique phenomenon that has burst on to the global stage, its meteoric rise an exceptional epochal event. But this week, in every one of Europe’s major countries and from India and Thailand to the US and Argentina, hard-right, anti-immigrant, anti-globalisation parties like his are also ahead…
Friday has gone from bad to worse for crypto assets as U.S. President Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China, sending prices cascading lower in a flash crash. Bitcoin BTC$115,057.97, already trading weak at around $117,000 following Trump’s late morning comments about threatening China with tariffs, tumbled below $110,000, down 12%…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reassigning hundreds of employees across several of its agencies to assist in the Trump administration’s broad immigration crackdown and will dismiss staffers who refuse to comply, according to news reports. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the department moved staffers from the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, many of whom focus…
Michael VoepelOct 10, 2025, 12:42 PM ET Close Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. PHOENIX — The Las Vegas Aces are the 2025 champions after a WNBA Finals sweep over…
The following article is an excerpt from the new edition of “In Review by David Ehrlich,” a biweekly newsletter in which our Chief Film Critic and Head Reviews Editor rounds up the site’s latest reviews and muses about current events in the movie world. Subscribe here to receive the newsletter in your inbox every other Friday. This is a…
Much of democratic politics is about getting people’s attention. That’s a particular problem for struggling, less-than-compelling leaders. The further your party falls in the polls, the larger the temptation to launch dramatic, supposedly transformational policies. It’s like speaking more and more loudly to someone who has stopped listening. Thus this week’s Conservative conference in Manchester,…
