Friday, May 30th, 2025
The noise battle at the heart of Real Madrid’s stadium
Xavi Torrent/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Real Madrid’s stadium played host to two back-to-back Taylor Swift concerts last May Last year, tens of thousands of ‘Swifties’ – Taylor Swift fans – thronged Madrid to watch back-to-back concerts at the Spanish capital’s famous Bernabéu stadium, home to Real Madrid, who won Europe’s Champions League final less than 24 hours later, on 1 June. The mega-concert was one of dozens of high-profile gigs staged at the newly renovated stadium in 2024 to boost the club’s revenue. But the project was shortRead more
White House blames ‘formatting issues’ in health report that cited non-existent studies
The wide-ranging “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not actually exist. Asked about the report’s problems on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the report will be updated. She did not directly respond to a question of whether artificial intelligence had been used to generate the 72-page report, which calls for increased scrutiny of the childhood vaccine schedule andRead more
Carney welcomes U.S. court decision striking down parts of Trump’s tariffs agenda
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday he welcomed a U.S. court decision that struck down parts of Donald Trump’s tariffs regime, with judges saying the president overstepped his constitutional authority by imposing sweeping levies on global goods. That decision was later “stayed” — or paused — by an appellate court “until further notice” while it considers other legal arguments from the Trump administration, keeping the tariffs in effect for now. Before that decision, Carney said the lower court’s findings were “consistent with Canada’s long-standing position” that Trump’s tariffs are “unlawful as well as unjustified.” But Carney warned that theRead more
Trump says he plans to double steel and aluminum tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump said he will double the tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50 per cent next Wednesday. Trump initially announced the boosted duties on steel during a rally at U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works–Irvin Plant near Pittsburgh Friday evening. He told a cheering crowd of steelworkers that the increased levies will “further secure the steel industry in the United States.” “Nobody is going to get around that,” Trump said. In a post on social media after the rally, Trump said he would also be increasing tariffs on aluminum to 50Read more