Gold is making fresh highs while bitcoin is struggling to hold key levels, reopening a debate crypto investors never fully settled. If bitcoin is supposed to be digital gold, this is the kind of tape it is meant to win. Right now, it is not. The question is getting louder because gold is rallying on…
There’s plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that’s actually costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every single day, not because of the surgeries themselves, but because of everything in between from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guesswork about room…
Dec 24, 2025, 05:00 AM ET It’s that time of year again: Let’s look at the past 12 months in women’s soccer and pick the best of the best. It’s now our fifth year of polling experts and putting together a list of the top 50 players in the world for ESPN FC Women’s Rank,…
Editor Affonso Gonçalves has worked with directors as wide-ranging in style as Maggie Gyllenhaal and Todd Haynes, Roger Ross Williams, and Ira Sachs. But on “Hamnet,” he wasn’t just brought in to bring a raw, rhythmic, textured approach to the fictionalized story of William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal), Agnes Shakespeare (Jessie Buckley), and how the death…
When Donald Trump’s second state visit was announced, and when the finer details for the Windsor banquet on 17 September 2025 became known, there was no way Led By Donkeys was going to let that pass unprotested. It was just so craven, rolling out the red carpet for Trump. Their next art-activist event unfolded like…
Bitcoin BTC$87,746.24 has disappointed investors this year, trailing both gold and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 stock index, despite expectations that it would benefit from fiat currency devaluation. But according to a VanEck manager, the largest crypto asset could be setting up for a major comeback next year. “Bitcoin is lagging the Nasdaq 100 Index by…
In June, U.S. insurance giant Aflac disclosed a data breach where hackers stole customers’ personal information, including Social Security numbers and health information, without saying how many victims were affected. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it has begun notifying around 22.65 million people whose data was stolen during the cyberattack. In a filing with the…
Mark SchlabachDec 23, 2025, 10:40 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia The second TGL season tees off Sunday with a rematch of last year’s SoFi Cup finals, in which Atlanta Drive GC defeated New York Golf Club in a pair of…
In the spirit of us both being fans of Japanese anime, specifically the shōnen genre that filled Cartoon Network and Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block, like “Dragon Ball Z” and “My Hero Academia,” I ask Critics Choice and Golden Globe Award nominee Michael B. Jordan what arc his career is currently in. As we sit…
The formula for stable government, according to Britain’s constitution, is a big parliamentary majority and divided opposition. Sir Keir Starmer’s predicament proves that those conditions are not sufficient. The prime minister’s inability to convince voters that he has an agenda for national renewal, and the demoralising effect that has had on the Labour party, make…