Britain’s biggest steel producer is encouraging the government to take a big stake in the company as part of a plan to preserve the long-term future of the vast Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales. Sky News has learnt that Tata Steel has presented proposals to Whitehall in recent weeks aimed at securing a state
Tens of thousands of people in the far eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk have taken part in a protest march over the arrest of a popular regional governor on murder charges. Following his detention earlier in July, Sergei Furgal was flown 3,800 miles to Moscow where he has been in jail for two months. His
A TV news reporter in the US has revealed how she found out she had cancer after a viewer sent her an email raising concern about a lump on her neck. Victoria Price, a correspondent with NBC affiliate WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida, said she was alerted last month by a sharp-eyed member of the public,
Grime artist Wiley’s management company says it has dropped him over antisemitism accusations – and Twitter has banned him for seven days. The firm, A-List Management, has “cut all ties” with the British musician, 41, following a series of social media posts made on accounts belonging to him, his manager John Woolf said. Wiley, known
A devastating surge of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles is hitting one small community hardest of all, it has been revealed. People with heritage in the Pacific Islands have been found to have the highest infection rate of any racial or ethnic group in LA County. Image: The Ali family has been labelled ‘the COVID
It’s no exaggeration to say the next month is critical in the UK’s fight against coronavirus. Tomorrow is our final Sophy Ridge on Sunday before we break for the summer and MPs return to their constituencies for the summer recess. With infection rates relatively low, August provides a breathing space to get organised. Image: Boris
US officials and scientists have begun laying the groundwork for a more secure “virtually unhackable” internet based on quantum computing technology. At a presentation Thursday, Department of Energy (DOE) officials issued a report that lays out a blueprint strategy for the development of a national quantum Internet, using laws of quantum mechanics to transmit information
The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars, and on Friday put out a request for ideas from the private sector on how to do that. The U.S. Department of Energy put out the formal request to build what it calls a fission surface power system that
7:27 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Yoenis Cespedes came back with a bang, taking immediate advantage of the new designated hitter rule in the National League by launching a home run that sent Jacob deGrom and the New York Mets past the Atlanta Braves 1-0 in their season opener Friday. After five dominant
Police officers are facing heightened hostility and anger as they carry out stop and search operations in London’s black communities. Frontline officers have told Sky News tensions are running extremely high in many of the capital’s boroughs, following recent high-profile stop and search incidents. Senior officers said the tactic remained a “vital component” in tackling
Boris Johnson has admitted the government has got some things wrong during the pandemic, but expects the worst of it will be over “by the middle of next year”. “Of course… there are things we get wrong and we’re learning the whole time,” he told Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates. “You’ve got to
The air is highly charged in Portland even before nightfall. Almost everyone walking in the city centre streets is wearing a helmet. We pass one corner and someone is putting shin pads on. Fresh graffiti is going up on another corner. This doesn’t feel like a protest limping into its 55th night. Image: Federal officers
9:00 AM ET Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. On paper, the NCAA-approved college football practice plan that begins today looks normal: up to eight hours each
Indoor gyms, swimming pools, dance studios and leisure centres in England are allowed to reopen today for the first time in four months – but at least a third of public facilities are expected to remain shut due to financial hardship. Earlier this month, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden announced that gyms and leisure centres would
British businesses saw their fastest upturn in five years during July as their European counterparts also witnessed growth for the first time since the coronavirus hit, fresh figures indicate. However, despite the encouraging signs, experts have warned that a hoped for V-shaped recovery is not guaranteed given the economic damage caused by the lockdowns aimed
12:08 PM ET When NHL Seattle first installed signage on its downtown office in 2018, employees arrived at work the next morning to a surprise. Stuck to the door was a Post-it note with a handwritten message: “Release the Kraken.” “That may have been the first time I heard or thought of Kraken,” said Heidi