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MLB Rank 2025 in-season update: Ranking baseball’s top 50 players

Aug 11, 2025, 04:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions A week into the 2025 MLB season, we created our annual MLB Rank list of...

Sports

MLB Rank update: What we got right — and very wrong — on both of this season’s lists

Aug 12, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions To kick off the 2025 MLB season, we brought together more than 60 ESPN baseball...

Business

Thames Water crisis: Ministers line up administrator for utility giant

Ministers have lined up insolvency practitioners to prepare for the potential collapse of Thames Water, Britain’s biggest water utility. Sky News can exclusively reveal...

Business

Wage rises slow as retail and hospitality jobs continue to fall

The rate of wage rises in the UK continued to slow as the number of job vacancies and people in work fell, according to...

Business

US and China extend tariffs deadline again

The world’s two largest economies, the US and China, have again extended the deadline for tariffs to come into effect. A last-minute executive order...

Business

Money Problem: ‘My husband is freelance and in hospital – how can I make sure we don’t lose our home?’

Every week, our Money blog team finds the answer to a reader’s financial problem or consumer dispute. Here’s our latest… My husband is freelance...

Business

UK’s biggest independent toy shop chain given to employees

The UK’s biggest independent toy retailer is being taken from private ownership and will be owned by its employees, who will share in the...

World

What are West Bank settlements, who are settlers, and why are they controversial?

There are increasing reports of violence and intimidation by Israeli settlers in occupied Palestinian territory. Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay has been inside...

Politics

House of Lords under fire for dropping rule that once caught out cricket legend and historian

Campaigners have criticised a change to the rules around declarations of interest in the House of Lords as a “retrograde step” which will lead...

Politics

PM on brink of unwanted small boats milestone – and far faster than his Tory predecessors

The number of people who have illegally crossed the Channel on small boats under the Labour government is on the brink of passing 50,000....

Technology

Musk threatens ‘immediate’ legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations

Elon musk and the xAI logo. Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images Elon Musk, the founder of xAI, on Monday threatened Apple with...

Man who plotted to murder gang member involved in record-breaking heist attacked in prison

A man jailed for plotting to murder a member of the gang that carried out Britain’s biggest-ever cash robbery has been attacked in prison....

Sports

Sources: Alabama names Simpson starting QB

Chris LowAug 11, 2025, 08:25 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Open Extended Reactions...

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Texas No. 1 in preseason AP Top 25 for first time

Associated Press Aug 11, 2025, 12:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions For the first time, Texas will open a college football season ranked No....

Sports

Kraken defenseman Evans agrees to 2-year deal

Associated Press Aug 11, 2025, 07:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SEATTLE — Seattle Kraken defenseman Ryker Evans agreed Monday to a two-year contract...

Trump says he hopes to get ‘prime territory’ back for Ukraine as he prepares for Putin summit

Donald Trump has said he would try to return territory to Ukraine as he prepares to meet Vladimir Putin and lay the groundwork for...

Trump gaffe reveals how central Putin is to his narrative – with Zelenskyy left out in the cold

And then there were two. It will be a Trump-Putin bilateral summit in Alaska. Ukraine latest: Trump details talks with Putin The US president...

Technology

Trump flip-flops on Intel CEO, calls him ‘success’ days after demanding resignation

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan makes a speech on stage in Taipei, Taiwan May 19, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters President Donald Trump said Monday...

Technology

StubHub IPO is back on for September after ticketing company delayed plans on tariff concerns

StubHub, the ticketing marketplace that spun out of eBay in 2020, has resumed its plans to go public and is now aiming to hold...

Sports

Sens purchase 11 acres, inch closer to new arena

Kristen ShiltonAug 11, 2025, 02:47 PM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Open Extended Reactions The Ottawa Senators are...