Yearly Archives: 2024
John Thompson James says he hopes his two children can live as independently as possible in the future James Hunt used to spend his days commuting to London, where he ran a successful marketing firm. But his children Jude and Tommy were diagnosed as autistic when they were toddlers, and he later decided to care […]
Listen to article The Boxing Day Test in Melbourne reached a thrilling conclusion on Monday, as Australia secured a spectacular 184-run victory over India in the final hour of play. With less than 14 overs remaining in the day, Nathan Lyon claimed the last Indian wicket, dismissing Mohammed Siraj and sending the MCG crowd of over 74,000 […]
Todd Archer, ESPN Staff WriterDec 29, 2024, 06:03 PM ET Close Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010. You can follow him on Twitter at @toddarcher. PHILADELPHIA — For the last two months, […]
BBC Hurricane Beryl took its toll on the island’s fishing fleet There are few clearer signs of the destructive power that Hurricane Beryl unleashed on Barbados in July than the scene at the temporary boatyard in the capital, Bridgetown. Scores of mangled and cracked vessels sit on stacks, gaping holes in their hulls, their rudders […]
United States President Joe Biden has announced that he will order a state funeral in Washington for former President Jimmy Carter, calling the Democrat who died on December 29 “an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian,” as per a Bloomberg report. There are no specific plans announced by the White House yet, but the report noted […]
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., November 22, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stock futures were slightly lower in overnight trading Sunday evening ahead of the last few trading sessions of 2024. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 45 points, or […]
Keanu Reeves’ luxury watches recovered in Chile after LA home theft Keanu Reeves’ stolen watches have been found in Chile after a 2023 burglary in his LA home. Local police revealed that among the recovered collection is an engraved $9000 Rolex Submariner watch and three other watches, CNN reported. Chilean authorities said they found at […]
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting […]
“I didn’t try to conceal anything. I tried to put down exactly how I felt.” That’s how former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, described the White House diary he published at age 85. He told Lesley Stahl that he dictated into a tape recorder seven or eight times virtually every day […]
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States who died at the age of 100 on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, had been living in hospice care at his home since Feb. 2023. Back in May, Carter’s son, Jason Carter, said in a speech at the Carter Center in Georgia that his grandfather was “doing […]