Senate Dems Form Plan to Avoid A Shutdown

Official: Hansi Flick nominated for La Liga coach of the month award

Barcelona have been on a sizzling run since the turn of the year, which has shown no signs of a slowdown as we enter into the international break in March.In fact, Barça have been in terrific form ...

Yahoo Sports - 16h

Official: Real Madrid superstar nominated for Player of the Month award

Kylian Mbappe has been on sizzling hot form since the turn of the year. With 10 goals in 10 league matches in 2025, he has emerged as one of the top performing La Liga players so far this ...

Yahoo Sports - 15h

Former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan dies aged 76

Flamboyant former Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan has died aged 76 after battling an "aggressive form of prostate cancer", his family announced on Thursday."He passed away peacefully with ...

Yahoo Sports - 12h

Worried Juventus owner schedules meeting with club directors – report

Corriere dello Sport reports that Juventus directors are expected to meet club owner John Elkann on Friday to discuss the team’s poor form and the possible next steps if the Bianconeri fail to ...

Yahoo Sports - 12h

UFC targets Rose Namajunas vs. Miranda Maverick for June event

Former UFC strawweight champion Rose Namajunas has her next assignment, and it comes in the form of a rising contender. At a UFC Fight Night event June 14, Namajunas (13-7 MMA, 11-6 UFC) returns to ...

Yahoo Sports - 4h

Schumer clashes with liberal colleagues over House GOP funding bill

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) surprised Washington Thursday by announcing on the Senate floor that he would vote to advance a House Republican-drafted six-month government funding ...

The Hill - 6d

Pelosi shades Schumer on funding bill: ‘Listen to the women’

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday issued a blistering statement on how senators should handle a government funding vote that, without naming him, dinged Senate Minority Leader ...

The Hill - 6d

Democrats grill Trump ambassador nominees for Canada, Mexico amid trade battles

Democratic Senators grilled President Trump's ambassador nominees for Canada and Mexico during the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing Thursday over the administration's new trade ...

The Hill - Mar. 13

‘Not quite yet beautiful’: Republicans at odds over spending cuts after meeting Trump

Senate Republicans aren’t seeing eye to eye with their colleagues in the House over places to cut spending in order to pay for their extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts. GOP members of the Senate ...

The Hill - 6d

Murphy backs Schumer's leadership but says caucus must 'change our tactics' to be effective

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) backed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) leadership on Sunday but said the caucus "must change our tactics" to be effective. “I still support Senator ...

The Hill - 4d

Ivey on whether Schumer should step down: 'We'll see'

Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) on Wednesday commented further on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) leadership, a day after he discussed “a new leader” for Senate Democrats. “So, yes or no, ...

The Hill - 16h

Purdue star Trey Kaufman-Renn alleges racist comments made by Illinois fans toward 13-year-old brother

Purdue is reportedly planning to file a report to the Big Ten over the incident

CBS Sports - Mar. 8

Virgin Group looks to raise £700mn to fund Eurostar rival

Richard Branson’s group is one of several planning a new cross-Channel service

Financial Times - Mar. 9

What will be in the chancellor's Spring Statement?

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will give more detail about the government's plans for the economy.

BBC News - Mar. 9

State Reforms + the State of Reform

We look at plans for a civil service shake-up and at division in Reform UK.

BBC News - Mar. 9

Ministers to shake up clean power project grid connections

Changes come as part of package of reforms aimed at accelerating planning decisions

Financial Times - Mar. 10

Spirit Airlines to Go Premium After Bankruptcy

Spirit plans to turn its focus toward more wealthy travelers.

Inc. - Mar. 12

Rayner and Cooper criticised cuts in ‘tense’ UK cabinet meeting

‘Large minority’ of ministers protested about planned spending reductions in their own departments

Financial Times - 6d

'Do you have communist links?' US sends 36 questions to UN aid groups

UN groups fear the move is a sign the US is planning to abandon humanitarian work.

BBC News - 5d

March Madness 2025: Stanford women’s basketball officially misses first NCAA tournament since 1987

The first season in the post-Tara VanDerveer era didn’t go as planned at Stanford.

Yahoo Sports - 3d

7 Lessons a CFO Learned in Starting or Scaling a Business

Risk, failure, mission, and business plans are important, but your approach to these is more important.

Inc. - 3d

Starmer is zigging where Blair zagged

Labour’s controversial plans to reform welfare illustrate the divide between the two

Financial Times - 2d

Hungary breaks with the EU by seeking to turn Ukraine into ‘buffer zone’

Also in this newsletter: Brussels’ plan to tighten carbon border taxes

Financial Times - 16h

Bill Belichick reportedly called Marco Rubio to express his interest in the North Carolina job

North Carolina's hiring of the former New England Patriots head coach began among United States senators.

Yahoo Sports - Mar. 7

Argentina’s Milei signs decree paving way for IMF loan deal

Libertarian leader shields long-awaited agreement from potential defeat in opposition-dominated senate

Financial Times - Mar. 11

Republicans fear time is running out to pass Trump’s agenda

House and Senate Republicans are sinking deeper into an impasse over how to advance President Donald Trump’s vast legislative agenda.

Politico - Mar. 13

Trump urged to appoint special envoy to China

Senator Steve Daines offers to act as intermediary in effort to secure meeting with President Xi Jinping

Financial Times - Mar. 13

D.C. parents protest Congress' funding bill over a $1B cut to the city's budget

Parents are mobilizing to persuade senators to reject a Republican funding bill because it would deal a blow to the D.C. city budget.

NBC News - Mar. 13

What happens to Social Security, TSA and other programs if government shuts down?

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are on edge as the Senate struggles to reach a deal ahead of Friday night's looming deadline.

ABC News - Mar. 13

FirstFT: Tesla warns Trump administration it is ‘exposed’ in trade war

Also in today’s newsletter, top Senate Democrat backs Republican funding bill, and China criticises Panama ports deal

Financial Times - 6d

25 Years After It Started, The Battle Of Ontario Is About To Get Good Again

The Senators and Leafs are both finally relevant at the same time, and jostling for playoff position down the stretch.

Yahoo Sports - 5d

Passage: In memoriam

"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson.

CBS News - 4d

Walz knocks Schumer over government funding blowup

Walz piled on the Senate minority leader during Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most recent podcast episode.

Politico - 2d

Chuck Schumer Isn’t Jewish Like the Pope Isn’t Catholic

Derided by the MAGA right and yelled at by the far left, the Senate Democratic leader is inhabiting a very Jewish place right now.

The New York Times - 2d

Poland plans military training for every adult male amid growing European security fears

PM Donald Tusk says country needs army of 500,000 and backs withdrawal from treaty banning landmines. Ukraine war live: latest updates as Russia steps up attacks Poland’s prime minister, ...

The Guardian - Mar. 8

Texas army base poised to become mass deportation hub under Trump plan

Reports of Fort Bliss being used for detention as well as expulsion purposes spark outrage from critics. The huge US army base of Fort Bliss at the Texas-Mexico border is poised to become a ...

The Guardian - Mar. 8