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Rory McIlroy insists he still has a chance to challenge for back-to-back major titles after “crawling out of a hole” in contention for the PGA Championship.The Masters champion is seeking to become the first player since Jordan Spieth in 2015 to win the first two majors in a calendar year, and set an early third-round clubhouse goal after posting an impressive 4-under 66 at Aronimink Golf Club. McIlroy finished the opening round with a 74 with four bogeys, leaving him seven strokes behind the early leader. Despite finishing the second round with a 67, he was just five strokes behind…
A sign for the Senior Community Service Employment Program at the AARP Foundation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May 18, 2017.Laurie Kellman | APRonald Williams was unemployed when a friend recommended a local jobs program for older workers.After he completed training with Goodwill in 2024, Williams quickly landed a job as a custodian — a role he still holds two years later, at age 62.Goodwill’s job training program receives funding through the federal Senior Community Service Employment Program, also known as SCSEP. Williams, who lives in Steubenville, Ohio, credits the federally funded program with giving him confidence in his ability to work…
Havana, Cuba — A few days ago, the manager of the building that houses CNN’s Havana office knocked on our door with an urgent message. They wanted to know if we would be reporting to work during an “imminent” U.S. invasion. Washington’s intense pressure campaign against Cuba was already keenly felt in everyday life. Due to the ongoing US oil blockade, the office experiences power outages several times a day. The deepening economic crisis has created a shortage of fuel for building generators and even toilet paper for toilets. Every day I walk past the giant artificial Christmas tree in…
Hearts have announced that players and staff have reported “serious physical and verbal abuse” following a “disgraceful”, “unacceptable” and “disgraceful” pitch intrusion at Celtic Park following the home team’s 3-1 win.Immediately after Callum Osmund’s goal clinched the Scottish Premiership title, many home fans rushed onto the pitch to celebrate, with some even confronting their vanquished opponents in scenes that Hearts said had “embarrassed Scottish football”. Hart was escorted into the tunnel by club officials and the players were photographed quickly leaving the ground in their match uniforms due to the “intimidating and threatening atmosphere”. Tynecastle Park club said in a…
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman candidate Kevin Warsh testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on his nomination on April 21, 2026, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.Mandel Gunn | AFP | Getty ImagesIf new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh is still itching for a “good family fight” over monetary policy, that’s likely to happen if he sticks with rate cuts.With inflation soaring and Treasury yields soaring, Warsh is likely to come to the Federal Open Market Committee in no mood to ease. Indeed, several officials have recently emphasized the need for the Fed to keep its options open for…
No. 7 on the S&P 500 was lucky — just barely. The S&P 500 rose 0.13% for the week, marking its seventh consecutive weekly gain. This winning streak is the longest since December 2023. All-time highs on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday were enough to offset Friday’s abysmal 1.24% decline. Stocks slumped over the weekend as the high-stakes Beijing summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping yielded few tangible wins for the United States. Rising oil prices and rising bond yields also weighed on the market. It wasn’t all bad news, as strength in tech stocks supported last…
Antoine Semenyo’s sublime flick gave Man City a 1-0 victory over Chelsea in the FA Cup final at Wembley.The winger has been in the spotlight since joining from Bournemouth for £64m in January and his 10th goal in City colors was special on the big stage. Erling Haaland sent a low cross into the box and Semenyo held off Levi Colwill and glanced the ball into the far corner with his right heel. image: Semenyo scored the opening goal in the FA Cup final with a deft backheel flick. City needed inspiration to cut through Chelsea’s stubborn defence, and Semenyo…
According to a lengthy social media post by Deedy Das, a partner at Menlo Ventures, the current mood around the AI boom is not great, even in the tech industry. Das called San Francisco “pretty hot right now” and said “the split in results is the worst I’ve ever seen.” Using “background AI calculations,” he predicted that about 10,000 people, including founders and employees of companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia, will have “retirement assets of well over $20 million,” while everyone else worries that “even if you could work a high-paying (but less than $500,000) job for the rest…
President Donald Trump is considered the ultimate president for the stock market, overseeing numerous expansions to all-time highs while also acting as a catalyst for major declines.Within the first two months of President Trump’s second term, S&P500 It experienced the most rapid decline into corrective territory since World War II, primarily due to uncertainty surrounding tariff policy. Less than a month later, the index nearly ended in bear market territory following the president’s “Emancipation Day” tariff announcement. A correction is defined as a decline of at least 10% but less than 20% from a recent high, and a bear market…
london — When around 150,000 people flocked to London in September to take part in a rally organized by Tommy Robinson, a provocateur of anti-Muslim bigotry with several convictions, it felt like a watershed moment in British politics. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said at the time: “Something has changed in our country.” “This felt different.” So when at least tens of thousands of people gathered again in the British capital on Saturday for the latest “Unite the Kingdom” march, it didn’t feel all that unusual. Views that were once not expressed in public are becoming commonplace. The marches, organized by…