Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterSep 15, 2023, 09:43 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year To celebrate NASCAR’s 75th anniversary, we’re detailing our 75 favorite things about the pinnacle of stock car racing. Illustration by ESPN We are closing in on
At the main roundabout outside Port Talbot steelworks, union reps and those on their lunch break gathered holding a banner: “British Steel – Back It or Lose It!” Some 4,000 are employed by Tata Steel here, more than 12% of the town’s entire population. One of them is Greg Coggins, who has worked for Tata
Lucy Letby, the nurse jailed for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others, has filed a formal appeal against her convictions. She was handed 14 whole-life orders after being convicted last month, meaning she will never be allowed out of prison. Letby who was in her mid-20s and working at the Countess of
Susan Hall, the Conservative candidate for London mayor, is reported to have liked tweets praising controversial former minister Enoch Powell. Ms Hall, who will go up against Labour’s Sadiq Khan in the mayoral election next May, liked a message in February 2020 quoting the far-right, anti-immigration politician as saying: “It’s never too late to save
Business secretary Kemi Badenoch has had a busy week. It started on Monday with a £75m cheque to BMW to secure 4,000 jobs tied to future production of electric Minis at its Oxford plant. It ends with a £500m subsidy to sweeten the decarbonisation, by Indian industrial giant Tata, of its Port Talbot steel plant
In the growing electric vehicle industry, it is electric cars that are given center stage when it comes to environmentally-conscious solutions to transportation. But what if I told you there was an electric vehicle that was displacing twice as much oil as those electric cars? And if that wasn’t impressive enough, consider this: It does
In an aerial view, oil storage tanks are shown at the Enterprise Sealy Station on August 28, 2023 in Sealy, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images News | Getty Images Oil prices climbed to their highest level of the year this week, extending a rally that has put a return to $100 a barrel sharply
A man accused of repeatedly stalking celebrities has been arrested for barging into a dressing room at a New York City fashion show and screaming that he wanted to marry Emma Watson, police say. Chad Michael Busto, who was arrested last month after attempts to approach Drew Barrymore, pleaded not guilty to criminal trespass and
In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Arm Holdings jumped another 6% on Friday in U.S. pre-market trade, continuing its rally after its Nasdaq debut this week. The British chip designer’s shares were trading just over $67 around 6:10 a.m. ET, implying a valuation of more than $72 billion. Arm shares were even
American XL bully dogs are a danger to communities and will banned, Rishi Sunak has said, after a man was mauled to death. Announcing the move, the prime minister stressed the need to end such violent attacks “and keep people safe”. Mr Sunak was responding to the latest incident in which a man died after
From Indie Kylie to gold hotpants Kylie, can’t-get-her-out-of-our heads Kylie to Country Kylie, the star has always been a master of reinvention. Now, Kylie Minogue has ushered in the era of the Padam-ic, thanks to the summer heartbeat-pounding earworm that set TikTok alight and spent four weeks in the UK Top 10, her highest-charting single
Thousands of jobs are expected to be lost at Britain’s largest steelworks despite a £500m rescue package. The government will make the offer to assist Tata Steel employees who may face redundancy at its site in Port Talbot, as it moves from blast furnaces to greener steel production. Tata is expected to contribute £700m towards
The levelling up agenda is “steaming ahead”, a government minister has insisted – despite being unable to say whether the HS2 rail link will go to Manchester as planned. Policing minister Chris Philp said there were “spades in the ground” and “track being laid” for the rail line that will link London to the North
For the first time in US history coordinated industrial action is taking place against the three major car producers, the biggest form of strike action in a year of industrial unrest across the country. Up to 150,000 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union are to take part in action against General Motors, which
A potential cholera outbreak could add to misery in the Libyan city of Derna, where the sheer number of people dead or unaccounted for after a massive flood is overwhelming survivors. The number of fatalities has soared to 11,300, according to the Libyan Red Crescent, with a further 10,100 reported missing as hopes of finding
The sheer numbers of people dead or unaccounted for in the Libyan city of Derna is overwhelming survivors, who say they had minutes to get away before the coastal city was devastated by flooding. A Sky News TV crew has reached the devastated port city where people have been using their bare hands to dig