On January 20, Ronnie O’Sullivan played a perfect match of snooker. It was in the semifinals of the World Grand Prix tournament, held in Leicester—a middling English city with a minor arena. Still, in front of the capacity 3,000 spectators and over half-a-million television watchers, O’Sullivan played about as well as he has ever played
This week President Joe Biden was stuck in 2020. He referred to Donald Trump as a “sitting president” and touted his foreign policy achievements during “the previous administration.” In other words, it was a pretty good week for the 81-year-old, who typically describes himself as a member of the U.S. Senate, where he served from
Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis defended her decision to fire an employee who blew the whistle on attempted abuse of taxpayer funds in her office, saying in a statement Friday she terminated the whistleblower for poor work performance. But Willis sang a different tune about the whistleblower, former director of juvenile diversion Amanda Timpson,
A senior staffer at the BBC is under fire following reports that she posted a litany of anti-Semitic content on social media in recent months. Dawn Queva, a senior scheduling coordinator and playout planner at BBC Three, called Jewish people “Nazi apartheid parasites,” “a bunch of thieving squatters,” and other anti-Semitic slurs in posts exposed
The United States started carrying out retaliatory strikes on Friday in Iraq and Syria, U.S. officials said, after a deadly drone attack by Iran-backed militants in Jordan that killed three U.S. troops and injured some 40 others. The United States targeted Iran’s Quds Force—the elite branch of the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—as well Iranian
The Iranian government on Friday claimed that it conducted a “massive operation” against Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, and stole information about “secret military facilities” and “weapons factories” operated by the Jewish state. Iran’s intelligence ministry described the operation as “the largest combined intelligence and counterintelligence operation against the Israeli regime’s Mossad spy agency” in
California and Arizona have seen more illegal border crossings as Texas has taken unprecedented measures to shut down its own border with Mexico, Fox News reported Friday. Sources in Customs and Border Protection told the outlet that during the last week of January, about 72 percent of Border Patrol’s 32,809 apprehensions of illegal immigrants occurred