A mother has been killed in the US as she tried to stop two men from stealing her car with her sleeping six-year-old son inside. Speech therapist Alexa Stakely, 29, suffered a head injury after being struck by the vehicle as it was being driven away and was later pronounced dead at hospital. The thieves
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Jul 2, 2024, 06:03 PM Scotland winger Duhan van der Merwe equalled his country’s record for the most tries while Ewan Ashman scored a hattrick as they beat hosts United States 42-7 in their test at Audi Field on Friday. Van der Merwe opened the scoring after six minutes to equal Stuart Hogg’s 27-try record
The FTSE-100 owner of British Gas, the UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier, is in talks to recruit its next chairman. Sky News has learnt that Centrica, which has a market value of about £7.3bn, is working with headhunters to identify a successor to Scott Wheway. City sources said that Lygon Group, the search firm, was
A 24-year-old man has been arrested after remains were found in two suitcases in Bristol and a flat in west London. There had been a manhunt in the wake of the discovery of body parts, but police are now not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident. The man was detained by armed
Billionaire Elon Musk has donated to a political group working to elect presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to reports. According to Bloomberg, citing sources, the amount was not known but it was “a sizable amount” given to a group called America PAC. Bloomberg reported that the PAC – a group that can receive unlimited contributions
Alec Baldwin had always maintained his innocence over the death of Halyna Hutchins. “Someone is responsible for what happened and I can’t say who that is, but I know it’s not me,” he said in an interview in December 2021, six weeks after the tragedy on the set of Rust in New Mexico. This was
97 / Getty Inflation has throttled back significantly since peaking two years ago. The U.S. economy is even seeing some prices deflate for consumers. Deflation measures how quickly prices are falling for a consumer good or service. It’s the opposite of inflation, which gauges how quickly prices are increasing. Physical goods have accounted for much
Home Office minister Jess Phillips has shared the story of how she was appointed to her new role – and why it means she can no longer appear on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast. Speaking to Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby and Conservative peer Ruth Davidson, it was revealed this episode would be the Labour
A more affordable electric Chevy Silverado is on its way. Chevy’s Silverado EV LT has shown its face as new images of the electric workhorse emerge. Check out the first images below. Chevy’s electric pickup stole the show at CES after its introduction in January 2022. The Work Truck (WT) edition, with 510 hp and
Jul 12, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions It’s here! After a grueling, entertaining and drama-filled month, Sunday night brings the final of the 2024 Copa America, as defending champions Argentina host Colombia in Miami. Which team will reign supreme? Will Argentina and Lionel Messi cruise to victory, or can Colombia shock them? (Game
In this article SNOW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake and formerly co-founder and CEO of startup Neeva, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 21, 2022. Eóin Noonan | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images Snowflake has spent the past seven weeks dealing with the fallout of
Human remains have been found in a flat in west London by officers investigating the discovery of body parts in two suitcases in Bristol. A crime scene has been in place in Scott’s Road, Shepherd’s Bush, since Friday afternoon. And in a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “Officers believe that the remains are connected to
The last government left “a mountain of mess” that was like “a Downing Street party”, according to Sir Keir Starmer. Writing in The Guardian, the Labour prime minister attacked the Conservative government that preceded him and the state they left the economy. Sir Keir said: “Like a Downing Street party, they’ve left a mountain of
Dozens of bodies have been found in Gaza City, Palestinian rescue workers have said, after Israeli forces reportedly pulled out of parts of two districts following days of bombardment and fighting there. Israel’s military launched an incursion into the Tal al Hawa and Sinaah neighbourhoods earlier this week to fight what it said were Hamas
Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case has been dismissed by the judge. The actor cried as the judge made the shock ruling on day three in his trial over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The dismissal was made following a motion submitted by his defence team accusing the prosecution of concealing ammunition evidence. Baldwin,
President Joe Biden has faced more calls from fellow Democrats to step aside in the race for the White House after making further major gaffes at the NATO summit. His performance at the Washington event was seen as make-or-break for the 81-year-old after a disastrous debate performance against rival Donald Trump last month. However, speaking
With hundreds of billions of dollars in new federal infrastructure spending under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, companies are eager to cash in. And states are scrambling for their piece of the pie. “We have funding that goes to projects that come from every state, city,
The Democratic Party is now looking for a new candidate to run for president after Joe Biden announced he would stand down. In a statement addressed to “my fellow Americans”, he said it had been the “greatest honour of my life to serve as your president”. There has been intense speculation over whether the 81-year-old
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Before co-founding biotech startup Inceptive, Jakob Uszkoreit had an idea that would eventually make generative artificial intelligence possible. As a researcher at Google in 2017, Uszkoreit was trying to speed up the training of neural networks. He suggested using a new way to interpret data
Prisoners who have served 40% of their sentence will be released to help alleviate overcrowding, the government has announced. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said failing to act now risks “the collapse of the criminal justice system and a total breakdown of law and order”, including looting and rioting in the streets. Prisoners in England and