A slow Saturday on the NFL calendar has picked up considerably. With the NFL knowing that coverage of all things Deshaun Watson is unavoidable, the league steered the emergence of…
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Which trumpeter was the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer prize? The Saturday quiz
The questions1 The Aralkum in Central Asia is the world’s newest what?2 Which insect is thought to be named after the colour of one of its varieties, the male Brimstone?3…

Judge narrows San Diego, Baltimore bond collusion cases against big banks
A federal judge on Tuesday narrowed claims by San Diego and Baltimore in antitrust litigation seeking to hold eight banks liable for driving up interest rates that state and local…

Apple says iPads will keep working as home hubs in iPadOS 16, but there’s a catch
Text discovered in iOS 16 beta code indicated that Apple plans to drop iPad home hub support in the new update, but it turns out that’s not quite the full…

Home ruined by builders who ‘bodged extension and then walked away’
A family says they are waiting for their extension “to fall down” after council contractors walked out without completing the job. Amy Reed and Steven Bradshaw had asked for the…

A full-season suspension would push Deshaun Watson’s entire contact back by a year
Much was made of the fact that the Browns gave Deshaun Watson a base salary for 2022 of only $1 million, given that the approach would reduce dramatically the financial…

A tiny drop of this hair serum might just change your life
Back in February, I interviewed Jonathan Van Ness, Queer Eye presenter, activist and standup comic, whose original profession – hairdressing – had born an eponymous product line. Unsure if it…

Cryptoverse: Ether holds its breath for the lean, mean ‘merge’
Investors in ether and its troubled twin stETH are nervously anticipating a crypto milestone: The merge. That's the name for a major upgrade of the Ethereum blockchain network upon which…

Crypto exchange CoinFlex says ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Roger Ver owes $47 million
One of the difficulties of cryptocurrency is figuring out who to believe. Case in point: the conflict between Mark Lamb, CEO of CoinFlex, and Roger “Bitcoin Jesus” Ver, an early…

Man accused of being abusive shares last conversation with partner day before she died
A man accused of being abusive has revealed his last conversation with his ex-partner claiming they were "very much in love" when she was found dead the next day. An…