The Georgia Public Service Commission got a shock in November: After nearly two decades as an all-Republican body, two incumbent commissioners lost their seats. Georgia voters, frustrated by rising power bills, elected two Democrats with about 60 percent of the vote. One of the ousted commissioners, Republican Tim Echols, was...
Trump destroyed offshore wind. The Northeast can’t live without it.
Since his presidency began last year, Donald Trump has embarked on an all-out campaign to destroy the nation’s nascent offshore wind industry. He has halted all wind lease sales in federal waters, issued stop-work orders for nearly-completed wind farms, and told oil industry executives that his “goal is to not...
The winter storm exposed the grid’s real weakness: Lots of old poles
In 1843, Congress gave Samuel Morse $30,000 to try to send a telegram from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. Rather than bury the transmission wires underground, where technical issues would be hard to identify, the inventor of Morse code strung them along wooden poles and trees. When the system was completed...
Mohamed Salah back among goals as Liverpool roar past Qarabag into last 16
Liverpool are having to stomach “a very bad cocktail” in the Premier League of wasted chances and cheap goals conceded, according to Arne Slot. To extend the mixologist’s analogy, his team are enjoying life with a few margaritas in the Champions League. Slot’s side cruised into the last 16 for...
Kolo Muani fires Tottenham through in Frankfurt one day after car accident
Randal Kolo Muani was lucky to be on the field. The Tottenham striker had endured a moment of indescribable panic when the front right tyre on his Ferrari blew out on the motorway on Tuesday as he drove to Stansted airport for the team flight to Frankfurt. The car was...
Brave Newcastle fall short but Willock leveller sends PSG to playoffs too
On a chilly, fun, boisterous night in Paris, with the Champions League mega-table scrolling away in the background, Newcastle produced a fine performance at the home of the European champions that left both teams outside the automatic qualification slots, but Newcastle much the happier of the two. A 1-1 draw...
Boxing star Gervonta Davis arrested on kidnapping charges after two-week manhunt
Davis arrested after US Marshals surveillance operation Warrant alleges battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping Arrest follows lawsuit and cancelled Jake Paul bout Gervonta Davis, a three-division world champion and one of boxing’s biggest stars, was taken into custody in Miami on Wednesday, nearly two weeks after police issued an arrest warrant...
ICE agents expected to be deployed for Super Bowl in California, officials say
Local officials confirmed that ICE will conduct immigration operations during 8 February game in Santa Clara US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agents are expected to conduct immigration enforcement operations during next month’s Super Bowl game in Santa Clara, California. Local officials confirmed to media that ICE is expected to...
Talent, tech and grit: how Team GB’s Big Tricks and Adrenaline dept got its mojo back
Snow athletes have rebounded with a radical overhaul after funding was cut in response to poor results at Beijing Winter Olympics Just days before the Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, the young Team GB members who think nothing of flying 30ft in the air while spinning like gyroscopes have once again...
Sabalenka v Svitolina, Pegula v Rybakina: Australian Open 2026 semi-finals – live
Women’s singles semis, from 8.30am GMT in Melbourne Swiatek backs Gauff over privacy concerns | Mail Daniel G’day and welcome to the Australian Open 2026 – day 12! It’s not often you wake up on a dingy and cold winter’s morning mentally rubbing your hands together but, indubitably, this is...