Bret Stephens: Hola, Gail. ¿Qué opinas sobre la insistencia de Donald Trump en que el inglés sea nuestro idioma oficial? Gail Collins: Hey, Bret, great to be back conversing. And in Spanish no less, a language I once attempted — and failed — to learn. It was my second effort at becoming bilingual. In college,…
In an unforgettable moment for the Ocean County Library on its 100th anniversary, a Toms River woman identified as Mary Cooper returned a long-overdue book borrowed by her grandfather, Captain Charles Tilton, nearly a century ago. The book titled, Home-Made Toys for Girls and Boys by A. Neely Hall, was checked out from the library…
Elon Musk, a proud holder of degrees in Physics and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, has never shied away from criticizing the very system that shaped him. Standing at a rally in 2024, backing Trump’s re-election bid, Musk declared, “Too many people spend four years in college, accumulate a ton of debt, and don’t…
An object, officially called 2024 PT5, which was first spotted in August 2023, then observed as a near-Earth asteroid. Subsequent research included the thrilling speculation that this in reality could be lunar debris, thus a fragment of the Moon which broke thousands of years ago. According to the astronomers, they think it is a small…
For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still close enough to Earth to observe in detail. Now, one team has concluded that 2024 PT5 is a chunk of the real moon. The rock was…
Shreyas Iyer (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: The wait is finally over. India men’s senior selection committee chaired by Ajit Agarkar will pick India’s provisional squad for the upcoming Champions Trophy tomorrow (January 18) in Mumbai and they are set to face a happy headache while doing the same. While top-order is more or less clear,…
Michael Olise does not like shin pads. So much so that when the France winger was being brought on for Leroy Sane during Bayern Munich’s 1-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League in November, he was not wearing any. This was spotted by the game’s fourth official Florin Andrei, who instructed the 23-year-old…
An Indian fan was forced to leave the stadium during the second Test between India and Australia at the Adelaide Oval for showing a piece of ‘sandpaper‘ while sitting in the stands, trying to remind of the infamous scandal that rocked Australian cricket during their 2018 tour of South Africa. In a video that has…