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Pedestrians shelter from the rain under umbrellas as they pass the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the name of the clock’s bell, “Big Ben”, at the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, in London on February 22, 2024. Henry Nicholls | AFP | Getty ImagesLONDON — European stocks retreated into the red on Monday, having initially opened the new trading week higher.The pan-European Stoxx 600 was down 0.3% by 11:41 a.m. in London (6:41 a.m. ET), giving back its early morning gains, with major bourses also dropping into negative territory.Saab was one of the strong gainers on Monday…

WEST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all.It was a small, light-brown tortoise getting a veterinary checkup. Over the next half-hour, spectators watched through a plate-glass window as the young sulcata tortoise — an endangered species also known as the African spurred tortoise — underwent measurements, X-rays, a blood draw, microchipping and more.Inside the northern New Jersey zoo’s spacious new, publicly visible treatment room, Dr. Kailey Anderson tucked the gel-covered wand of a Doppler machine between the…

Sammi Ekmark played tennis for Arizona State University.Courtesy of Sammi EkmarkSammi Ekmark, 29, co-founded personalized greeting and gift card company Ink’d Greetings in 2023 alongside her husband Andrew — a major pivot from her previous career as a star tennis player.Ekmark picked up the sport when she was 10 years old, and by the time she was in college, she was playing on a Division I team where she was individually ranked among the top 50 tennis players in singles in the United States.”I really focused on tennis. I was 92-0 in high school, so I never lost a match,”…

A protester holds a sign related to the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 2025. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Republicans in Congress to vote to release files related to deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a sharp reversal from previous resistance within his inner circle.”House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” Trump said in a lengthy post on his Truth Social account. “And it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated…

“And the man in the suit has just bought a new car/ From the profit he’s made on your dreams” — Traffic Leftist online personality Hasan Piker recently took a trip to China, and — like many other influencers who have been there — declared it to be a paradise, praising “abundance style consumption paired up with a centrally controlled economy” and “1950s Soviet era building blocks next to the Gucci store.”[1]  Meanwhile, pro-China pundits continue to crow about the country’s technological achievements and export performance. But when you talk to ordinary Chinese people about what their lives or their families’ lives are…

BEIJING — Alibaba is helping the Chinese military to target the U.S., according to a White House memo, the Financial Times reported Friday. The memo alleged “Alibaba provides tech support for Chinese military ‘operations’ against targets in the U.S.,” according to the FT. The FT said it could not independently verify the claims, and did not publish a full version of the memo. It was not clear when the memo was released. The White House did not respond to requests for comment, while the FT said it stood by its reporting.”The assertions and innuendoes in the article are completely false,”…

Tomatoes sit in a box at the National Produce Fruit and Vegetable store on November 14, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images After a few weeks of intense focus on whether there is an AI bubble in the markets or not, a recurrent character of 2025 has emerged to the fore: tariffs. On Friday stateside, tech stocks recovered slightly after the Nasdaq hit its lowest level in about 3 weeks, perhaps indicating that the AI-fueled volatility could be nearing an end. However, just as AI steps away from the spotlight, tariffs enter the stage, like the next act in…

Visitors in front of the Cinderella Castle at Tokyo Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan on Jan. 17, 2023.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJapan on Monday said it dispatched a senior foreign ministry official to China to ease rising tensions, public broadcaster NHK reported, as tourism-exposed stocks in Tokyo slumped amid the diplomatic feud.Masaaki Kanai, a director-general at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is expected to meet his counterpart Liu Jinsong on Tuesday, according to media outlet Kyodo.Japan’s tourism-exposed stocks fell Monday after Beijing issued a travel and study alert for its citizens considering going to Japan.Beauty and cosmetics firm Shiseido, which…

Jeff KassoufNov 16, 2025, 08:16 PM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.ORLANDO, Fla. — Gotham FC playmaker Jaedyn Shaw scored seven minutes into second-half stoppage time on her team’s only shot on target of the game to lift them to a 1-0 win over the defending NWSL champion Orlando Pride in Sunday’s semifinal at Inter&Co Stadium.Gotham, the lowest-seeded team in this year’s playoff field, will face the Washington Spirit on…

TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — Thirteen years ago, Abdoulaye Cissé risked his life to smuggle tens of thousands of fragile manuscripts out of Timbuktu as al-Qaida -linked extremists swept into the desert town.At night, he loaded crates of manuscripts from the Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Islamic Studies and Research onto donkey carts, aware that their pages carried evidence of his people’s glorious past. They were taken to the river, where wooden boats and then buses took them to Mali’s capital, Bamako — a 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) journey.“It was dark, but we knew the route by heart,” said Cissé, the institute’s general…