Month: May 2025

For the first time since 1988, the New York Yankees have a new full-time play-by-play announcer on the radio. Dave Sims replaced John Sterling, who retired early in the 2024 season but briefly returned for the postseason, on WFAN. Sims was previously the television broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners. Sterling, of course, never missed a […]

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Ransomware gangs once thrived on infected email attachments and bogus invoices, but security-savvy users and hardened mail gateways have weakened those tactics. Attackers are now focusing on a subtler trick that targets the small checkbox labeled “I’m not a robot” that most people click without thinking.  A widespread campaign known as MacReaper has compromised more […]

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President Donald Trump and his allies have railed against federal judges for blocking key executive orders in his second term, accusing so-called “activist” judges of overstepping their authority and blocking him from delivering on some of his top policy priorities. Some of Trump’s most sweeping executive orders and actions have been blocked or paused by […]

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A visual tribute to Pope Leo XIV’s faithful service – reflecting his journey through priesthood, leadership, and devotion within the Catholic Church.

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The identity of a Trump administration official who was allegedly targeted by the Biden administration’s State Department in a “disinformation” dossier remains a mystery nearly two weeks after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed details on the file. Rubio revealed at the most recent Trump administration Cabinet meeting April 30 that an unidentified Trump administration […]

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The latest political action by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to challenge the employment equity regime through the court system may be akin to stirring the hornet’s nest. It is evident that it is a strategic move, but a folly in the context of a political party that is a partner in a coalition government – […]

The judicial conduct tribunal into Eastern Cape judge president Selby Mbenenge heard on Monday that CCTV footage from the date of the alleged incident of indecent exposure was not stored — despite footage from the day before and after having been preserved. The director of facilities and security management at the office of the chief […]

It was up to United States President Donald Trump to decide whether he would attend the G20 leaders’ summit in South Africa in November, International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola said on Monday. “The G20 is for all leaders of the G20 … they are all invited to attend,” Lamola told a briefing about South Africa’s […]

The success of South Africa’s HIV treatment programme — the largest in the world — has also created a slumbering threat: a considerably larger group of people who need to be treated for age-related illnesses such as diabetes, heart conditions and high blood pressure — also called noncommunicable diseases — on top of having to […]

South Africa’s largest food producer, Tiger Brands, has agreed to settle claims from certain groups in the listeriosis class-action lawsuit, seven years after the country experienced the world’s deadliest listeriosis outbreak. The 2017-18 outbreak caused 218 deaths out of more than 1 000 infections as a result of people consuming contaminated processed food products — […]