Prince Harry may have finally found a way to live the life that his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, refused to endorse. On Sept. 8, 2022, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. On Aug. 26 this year, Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, returned to the U.K., where their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, will attend school. As the Sussexes settle into their new life in Britain, with details about their private home and their children's school c
I am a historian, but you don’t need a PhD to realize that Americans and Brits learn most of what we know about the world from the movies. When most people think about World War II, for example, we think about the first few minutes of Stephen Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, or this summer, we are discovering the critical role of the chief Allied meteorologist, Captain James Stagg, through the new film, Pressure. We learned all about Vietnam from Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and Platoon. An
James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, once framed disciplinary practices in schools as an outflow of the ideas behind criminal justice reforms he hoped lawmakers would implement in Texas. "I’m recently excited about the formation of a bipartisan criminal justice reform caucus in the Texas House with prominent Democrats and prominent Republicans who understand that we have to move away from a tough-on-crime approach to a smart-on-crime approach, and that, I think, fil
Firms warn of impact of company’s decision to to axe 4,000 jobs and call for government to support sector Jaguar Land Rover confirms plan to cut 4,000 jobs David Roberts is not in an optimistic mood. The chair of Coventry-based Evtec may preside over a business with 900 highly skilled employees, multiple sites and precision machinery, but the outlook for the manufacturer appears tricky. “Everything is against us,” he says. Evtec is a “tier one” supplier to Jaguar Land Rover, also headquartered i
Traveling abroad used to mean leaving your normal entertainment routine at home. Now, your streaming subscriptions can come with you. However, hotels, airports and cafés often mean unfamiliar Wi-Fi networks and different streaming catalogs. If you want to stream safely while traveling outside the U.S., a VPN, or virtual private network , can help. It creates an encrypted connection between your device and the VPN server. That adds useful protection when you are on a network you do not control. A
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Chrystia Freeland understands the U.S.-Canada relationship from her time at the negotiating table. Here's what she sees now. (Image credit: Kevin Dietsch)
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex are seen during the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 at Merkur Spiel-Arena on September 16, 2023 in Duesseldorf, Germany.
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American dom in ance is on the line in this second week of September. The U.S. women's basketball team is among the predominant dynasties in modern international sports, and have won eight consecutive Olympic gold medals and four consecutive World Cups. They have not lost a game at either event since 2006, and three victories in Berlin have extended their World Cup winning streak to 33 games. Their Olympic win streak is at 61 games. The U.S. has never lost a quarterfinal game in the FIBA Women's
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A K means the rich and poor are pulling apart. A C supposedly means they're coming back together. We hear the case for both. Which letter you see may depend on what you choose to pay attention to.
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JERUSALEM — With Israel’s stunning capture of the strategically valuable Ali al-Taher ridge in south Lebanon on Sunday, a major Hezbollah and Iran stronghold, the campaign to degrade Tehran’s so-called "Axis of Resistance" suffered a severe blow. While the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) triumph is not a death blow, it means that the Iranian-regime-backed Hezbollah terrorist movement lost one of its key offensive bases to plan an invasion of Israel. IDF Lt. Col. (Res.) Sarit Zehavi, the founder and
