The Senate passed a short-term extension of the surveillance court bill on Friday as Republican House lawmakers remained firm on their demands for warrants and safeguards against abuses. The brief extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) Section 702, which runs until April 30, passed the Senate by unanimous voice vote, according to Axios….
Eva Victor touched down at Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting festival this week, where the actor-writer-director broke down the challenges and lessons they learned when making their debut feature Sorry, Baby. The film, which Victor wrote, directed and starred in, premiered at Sundance in 2025 before it was snapped up by A24 for $8M. The film’s logline is…
The San Diego Padres are nearing a sale to a group led by José E Feliciano, co-founder of private equity firm Clearlake Capital and co-owner of Chelsea FC, and his wife, Kwanza Jones, for a Major League Baseball-record $3.9bn, according to multiple reports. The Wall Street Journal and the Athletic reported on Friday that the…
My friend and colleague Felicia Cox, who has died aged 60, was an inspirational nurse leader who carried out pioneering work in pain management. She was editor in chief of the British Journal of Pain for more than a decade and a founder member of the Pain Nurse Network, which was originally for UK nurses…
April 17, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults By K. R. Callaway edited by Claire Cameron Scientists have long studied…
She’s now going on day three or possibly four of this. What we’ve witnessed here is a years-long, catastrophic failure of conservative media to demonstrate to Democratic staffers that they are fair and professional news outlets who can be trusted with sensitive information. Fox News should have been all over Swalwell’s sexual… https://t.co/NyCU8oBCnt —…
NEW YORK — Don Schlitz, the storied country music songwriter known for such hits as “The Gambler,” “On the Other Hand” and “Forever and Ever, Amen,” died Thursday at a Nashville hospital. He was 73. The cause of death was not immediately known. A press release from the Grand Ole Opry described it as a…
Following their exit from the UEFA Champions League, Barcelona’s focus will shift entirely to La Liga and the season ahead. The club are hard at work trying to return to 1:1 rule in the coming summer so they can reinforce the team heading into the new campaign. Advertisement To that end, La Liga president Javier…
I can sympathise with Stuart Heritage (My son is getting glasses for the first time. He’s fine about it but I’m an emotional wreck, 16 April), as I too was extremely short-sighted for most of my life, and suffered as a youngster from numerous taunts. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel….
The supreme court handed a win on Friday to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana. The 8-0 procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740m to clean up damage to the state’s…
