Andy Burnham’s triumph in the Makerfield byelection leaves the prime minister with only two options: fight openly for the Labour leadership, or leave office cleanly. The former Greater Manchester mayor easily saw off Reform UK’s candidate – winning 55% of the vote to his rightwing rival’s 35%. He won largely because he changed the political…
Jun 19, 2026, 08:30 AM ET AT THE WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Kevin Fredericks is trying to focus on his lines. In early June the comedian and content creator known to millions as KevOnStage visited the wrestling giant’s sprawling training facility. He’s here preparing to film a guest spot for “Evolve,” one of WWE’s…
Frank Bruni: Bret, you just wrote a compelling column calling President Trump’s truce with Iran less a deal than a debacle. I couldn’t agree more. But doesn’t it perfectly fit this presidency’s pattern? Trump blusters about restored American greatness — about our country being the “hottest” in the world, whatever that means — while making…
The European Parliament approved a major part of the trade deal that it settled on with the United States last summer at President Trump’s golf course in Turnberry, Scotland — nearly a year after the agreement was struck. European Union lawmakers agreed to cut tariffs to zero on American industrial goods, including machinery and car…
Buster OlneyJun 16, 2026, 07:00 AM ET CloseSenior writer ESPN Magazine/ESPN.com Analyst/reporter ESPN television Author of “The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty” Multiple Authors It’s a good time to be Andrew Friedman, the head of baseball operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He’s probably having a hard time fitting all of his championship rings…
The resignations from the heart of government this week will only deepen the anti-Westminster mood ahead of the Makerfield byelection. The departure of the defence secretary, John Healey, and his deputy illustrates that Sir Keir Starmer’s problem is not just his unpopularity. It is that his claim to competence is being challenged from the inside….
Democrats are arguing and criticizing and buzzing about candidates like Jon Ossoff, James Talarico and Graham Platner. What about Republicans? The Texas Senate primary drew some attention, and angst. Anyone else? Anywhere in the country? Benjamin Domenech, opinion editor of The Daily Wire and the writer of the newsletter The Transom, assessed some of the…
Buried in the fine print of Obamacare regulations, the Trump administration is floating a novel idea for those who can’t afford to shell out tens of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket medical costs. Why not borrow the money from your health insurance company? In the dense 1,121-page final rule issued last month about how the…
Bradford DoolittleJun 10, 2026, 07:00 AM ET CloseMLB writer and analyst for ESPN.com Former NBA writer and analyst for ESPN.com Been with ESPN since 2013 Multiple Authors This season’s MLB trade deadline — Aug. 3 — is a little later than usual. Still, it’s not too early in the season to begin pondering how teams…
‘We are living through a moment of hellish, mindless destruction,” Caragh Thuring tells me, shortly after offering me a cup of tea and a chocolate chip biscuit. We are sitting in the artist’s east London studio, surrounded by paintings, magazine cuttings and cryptic handwritten notes (“AWARENESS, TESTING”). There are metal racks littered with crumpled tubes…
