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Two Sundays ago, Paige Bueckers and Sue Bird gathered in the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, as different views of their lives were celebrated.Bueckers led the court crowning. The Huskimo blows away South Carolina and wins UConn’s first national championship in nine years. After the last college game, as the Memorial Net draped around her neck, Bux said she felt overwhelming joy and gratitude.Bird also expressed her gratitude for her moment in the spotlight. She is partly trying to co-host ESPN TV with her best friend and former UConn teammate Diana Taurasi. But, in the first half of the Huskies’…

After Meta blocked news from its platforms in Canada, hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing Facebook pages such as Canada Proud have filled the gap. Our Canada bureau chief explains the effect on voters.

Ana Swanson, who covers trade and international economics for The New York Times, talks to Jeanna Smialek, The Times’s Brussels bureau chief, and Keith Bradsher, The Times’s Beijing bureau chief, about how Trump’s tariffs are playing out in Europe and China.

Augusta, Georgia – Four miles west of Augusta National Golf Club in the town forest mountain area, the colonial revival mixed with the brick Tudors and settled at a garden party at dusk. It’s the night before the 2025 Masters Championship, where Nick Faldo and Ben Crenshaw sat on the back porch, this time here, a typical evening party here. Small, exclusive, with deep cargo. The fireside chat between the two master winners was seen as the highlight of the night. Faldo and Crenshaw play their own roles, play hits, and then tell a story.Then the conversation turned to Rory…

Massacres have spread across once-quiet towns on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, in the deadliest outbreak of sectarian violence since rebels toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Christina Goldbaum, The New York Times’s bureau chief in Syria, traveled to the area to get a sense of who was responsible.

When Sarah Strong dominated South Carolina’s frontcourt in UConn’s national championship win, swallowing rebounds, protecting the edge and scoring anywhere on the court, it’s easy to imagine she’s doing the same at the next level. WNBA executives must drool over drafting the idea of ​​the next Eskimo star.But they have to wait another three years. Under a collective bargaining agreement that expires at the end of the 2025 season, U.S.-born players are eligible to draft after completing four years of college. An exception is that if the player is 22 years old in the WNBA draft calendar year, he can…

Read Dane Brugler’s 2025 “Beast” NFL Draft Guide.There is no consensus on where all quarterbacks can be drafted this year, at least outside of Cam Ward. Probably after Ward became the Tennessee Titan, the rest of the group was a complete mystery. Ward may be the only quarterback we saw Thursday night because it was the quarterback in the first round.Fortunately for us, we will cut all uncertainties and play quarterback matchmakers, making the quarterback prospects the most meaningful team this year. In some cases, this has to do with the type of quarterback the team needs. In other cases,…

Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before Congress more times than any other tech leader. He will testify again soon — as a witness in a federal antitrust trial. Cecilia Kang, a technology reporter for The New York Times, recalls some of Zuckerberg’s past congressional hearings and explains why the stakes are even higher this time.

new video loaded: ‘The Amateur’ | Anatomy of a ScenetranscriptBacktranscript‘The Amateur’ | Anatomy of a SceneThe director James Hawes narrates a sequence from his film, starring Rami Malek.“I’m James Hawes. I’m the director of “The Amateur.” Our hero, Charlie Heller, played by Rami Malek, is on a mission to kill the people who took his wife’s life. And we meet him arriving in Madrid with number two on the list. And he has a plan to try and take this guy out without getting too close. And we get the face to face between the hero and the bad guy…

The Supreme Court in Britain ruled on Wednesday that trans women do not fall within the legal definition of women under the country’s equality legislation.The deputy president of the court, Lord Hodge, said: “The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and biological sex.”However, he added: “We counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another, it is not.” He said the ruling “does not cause disadvantage to trans people” because they have protections…