The evening of August 28, 2022 and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is at home in Barcelona, playing video games and waiting for news as talks continue about a potential transfer to Chelsea. Aubameyang is relaxed — content to stay in Spain or help ease Barcelona’s financial worries by returning to England, where he flourished for Arsenal before […]
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The Saudi-backed LIV Golf league announced Tuesday that it would return to the Trump family’s Doral resort in April, the clearest sign yet that Trump family business deals using Saudi government financing will continue into the new presidency. President-elect Donald J. Trump has been a vocal advocate of the breakaway LIV Golf, which was started […]
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The Golden Globe Awards drew an average of 9.3 million viewers for CBS on Sunday night, a modest decline from last year, according to Nielsen. The good news for the Globes is that the award show, on life support not long ago, has managed to stop the bleeding. Last year’s ceremony drew 9.4 million viewers, […]
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Just a week into 2025, the media industry got its first consequential transaction: The Walt Disney Company is buying 70 percent of Fubo, the video service that had sued to block the media giant’s plan to create Venu, a sports streaming joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery. The agreement, which was announced Monday, […]
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Active from Dec. 26, 2024, to Jan. 16. Peak night: Jan. 2 to 3. The Quadrantids, which the International Meteor Organization says could be one of the strongest meteor showers this year, are also one of the few caused by debris from an asteroid. Best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the shower is one of […]
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Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, the first tournaments of 2025 reached their sharp ends all across Australia and New Zealand. Aryna Sabalenka continued a remarkable record and too many matches were ended by retirements. If you’d […]
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Exxon Mobil sued California’s attorney general, the Sierra Club and other environmental groups on Monday, alleging that they conspired to defame the oil giant and kneecap its business prospects amid a debate over whether plastics can be recycled effectively. The claims are an escalation in the legal conflict between oil companies and environmental groups, which […]
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The Washington Post has started laying off roughly 4 percent of its work force, the company said on Tuesday, as the newspaper struggles to stem millions of dollars in annual losses. The cuts will affect fewer than 100 people across The Post’s business divisions, which include its advertising sales, marketing and information technology teams. They […]
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Jan. 6, 2025, 6:35 p.m. ET Dana White, left, the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Mark Zuckerberg have bonded over their passion for professional fighting. Credit…Jeff Bottari/Zuffa, via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post Monday that Meta had added Dana White, the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, and two […]
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Two bodies were discovered in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane on Monday after a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the airline said in a statement on Tuesday. JetBlue Flight 1801 departed Kennedy Airport in New York at 7:49 p.m. Monday and landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport at 11:10 p.m., according to […]
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