It’s no secret that U.S. electricity prices have been rising over the last few years: The average residential energy bill in 2025 was roughly 30 percent higher than in 2021. This jump is largely in line with the overall inflation Americans have experienced during this period. As the cost of...
Mikaela Shiffrin overcame grief, crashes and her own self-doubt to win slalom gold again
The greatest American skier of all time won her first Olympic medal in 2014. The 12 years in between have been marked by brutal ups and downs A lot can happen in 12 years. If you’re Mikaela Shiffrin, as a teenager you can become the youngest ever person to win...
Hull KR’s rollercoaster ride from the depths to chance of World Club Challenge glory
Longstanding owner Neil Hudgell has revived club and the Super League champions take on Brisbane Broncos with the world crown up for grabs To appreciate the absolute highs, you perhaps have to first experience the ultimate lows: when Hull KR walk out for the World Club Challenge on Thursday, few...
‘Princess Anne thought I was Joe Marler’: Heyes mixed up in case of mistaken identity
Prop gets erroneous credit for Traitors appearance ‘Who am I to correct her? I didn’t really know what to say’ Anyone who tuned in to the celebrity version of The Traitors last year will be familiar with the former England rugby player Joe Marler. With the exception, it turns out,...
‘My DNA is in this car’: Lewis Hamilton revved up for Ferrari in new F1 season
Seven-time world champion upbeat for 2026 ‘I’m more connected to this car for sure,’ he says Lewis Hamilton believes he is in the “best place” he has been at Ferrari, with a new car that carries his “DNA”. The seven-time champion failed to take a podium place for the first...
Soft toys and a jagged edge: how Russia is circling the Winter Olympics
Russia is back in love with the Games and a return to athletes competing under their own flag at LA in two years’ time seems highly likely First came the reverberating cheers. Then a deluge of soft toys lobbed from the stands. But across the face of the brilliant Russian...
Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew
The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes? José Mourinho: against provoking opposition fans. José Mourinho: in favour of restrained celebrations. José Mourinho, once of the poke‑in‑the‑eye, sprint‑down‑the‑touchline, accost‑the‑referee-in-the-car-park school of footballing expression: now apparently very big...
Arsenal set up Chelsea showdown in Women’s Champions League with win over Leuven
A hard-fought victory over OH Leuven at Meadow Park sent Arsenal through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, where they will face Chelsea next month. The visitors tested Renée Slegers’s side when Sára Pusztai cancelled out Alessia Russo’s goal but a penalty from Mariona Caldentey and second from Russo...
Anthony Gordon grabs four as Newcastle hit Qarabag for six in playoff
When the Qarabag manager, Gurban Gurbanov, declared before kick-off that Newcastle possess “a style of play that does not suit us”, there were suggestions that he was playing mind games. Long before half-time it was fully apparent that he had rather understated things. Had this been a boxing match it...
Arsenal suffer new blow in title race after Edozie’s equaliser boosts Wolves
Whichever way you look at it, Arsenal did not produce a performance worthy of champions. No one in red and white will want to remember this freezing cold night at Molineux – but it will live long in the memory of Wolves’ Tom Edozie, whose debut goal was a just...