This calls for a round of drinks at Jack’s: Not only is Virgin River‘s fifth season (finally) arriving this fall, but Netflix has also renewed the drama for Season 6! Season 4, which dropped back in July 2022, ended with another “wait, what?!” cliffhanger — the reveal that Charmaine’s twins, with whom she’s been pregnant … Read more
The one thing the stewards of the PGA of America were concerned about heading into the PGA Championship this week was Rochester’s early-morning weather. And sure enough, the 105th playing of the tournament – which was traditionally played in August until its move to May in 2019 – will start Thursday amid very cold temperatures, … Read more
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland European shares look poised to rally after a wave of optimism that a U.S. debt ceiling deal could be reached as soon as the weekend, which lifted stocks on Wall Street and in Asia. Investors keyed in on an agreement between … Read more
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The top leaders of Pakistan and Iran on Thursday inaugurated the first border market as relations warm between the two countries, officials said. Located in the remote village of Pashin in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, the marketplace is the first of six to be constructed along the Pakistan-Iran border under a 2012 … Read more
WASHINGTON — Congressional hearings are frequently acrimonious, but they rarely descend into the kind of personal attack that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., waged against teachers’ union leader Randi Weingarten at a House hearing last week on pandemic-related school closures, an issue that continues to excite strong passions. Those passions were expressed in a “very … Read more
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – As the Writers Guild of America strikes to bring about better pay and work security in a streaming TV world, a generation of diverse writers like Caroline Renard fear for the future of their careers. While there have been improvements in diversity within writers’ rooms in recent years, … Read more
By Andy Sullivan LAKE CHARLES, La. (Reuters) – In Washington, Republican U.S. Representative Clay Higgins has been a vocal advocate for spending cuts. Back home in Louisiana, it’s a different story. The cowboy-hat wearing conservative regularly highlights federal funding for hospitals, bridges and ports in his district, while voting against the spending bills that include … Read more
A man was indicted on a charge of theft of major artwork nearly two decades after an original pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in film “The Wizard of Oz” were stolen. The shoes, swiped from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapid, Minnesota in August 2005, were recovered in 2018. No arrests … Read more
Aaron Judge was the first person — well, the first person affiliated with a Major League Baseball team — to use the word “cheating” in the wake of his side-eye seen ’round the sport. The Blue Jays broadcasters, Dan Shulman and Buck Martinez, did not accuse him of cheating on Monday. They did explicitly discuss … Read more
A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China. An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Laos and … Read more