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Listen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.When U.S. President Donald Trump first started talking about Canada becoming the 51st state, Halifax’s Dale Darling says she had a visceral reaction.”I don’t understand why anyone would think that any nation would react well to, basically, talk of colonization,” she said.Darling’s reaction was immediate. She stopped buying American products.”It is hard to look in a neutral way at what’s going on outside our borders and I simply had…

A record heatwave that has gripped much of Europe could be linked to 212 deaths in Spain between Sunday and Wednesday, according to estimates from a public institute. The MoMo monitoring system compiles daily death statistics in Spain and compares them with the levels foreseeable based on historical records. It also incorporates external factors, such as weather data from the national weather agency Aemet, to assess likely causes of mortality spikes. Its data registered an excess mortality of 98 deaths for the same four days of 2025, during what was the hottest summer on record in a country on the…

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. It’s been four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health majority opinion on June 24, 2022. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and [Planned Parenthood v.] Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.” Reversing Roe didn’t calm debate or heal division. A confusing patchwork of state laws began to take shape hours after the Supreme Court ruled…

Carlo Ancelotti says Neymar “has the passion of a boy to play football” after the Brazil superstar made his return to the national team last night. Neymar’s participation in the World Cup had been delayed by a calf injury sustained playing for Santos just before the squad was announced but he made his long-awaited comeback against Scotland. The former Barcelona and PSG forward came on with 14 minutes to go to a hero’s reception in Miami with Brazil already 3-0 up and cruising to top spot in Group C. Ancelotti received plenty of criticism for taking Neymar to the World…

Texas Super Kings (TSK) returned to winning ways with a clinical all-round performance as they defeated San Francisco Unicorns (SFU) by 22 runs in the Oakland leg of Major League Cricket (MLC) 2026. After posting a competitive total on a challenging surface, the Super Kings bowlers dominated proceedings to register their second victory of the campaign.Donovan Ferreira powers Texas Super Kings to fighting totalAfter being asked to bat first, Texas Super Kings managed 161/8 in their allotted 20 overs, with Donovan Ferreira producing a crucial innings under pressure. The Super Kings made a strong start through captain Faf du Plessis…

Below, Owen Jones shares five key insights from his new book, Force of Nature: Understanding Evolution’s Deepest Logic―and Putting It to Use. Jones is a professor of law and biology at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses, in part, on the implications of natural selection for everything from medicine to law to the way we make decisions. What’s the big idea? We are prone to make big, extremely consequential mistakes and miss important opportunities to improve the human condition anytime we overlook, underestimate, or misunderstand natural selection. Listen to the audio version of this Book Bite—read by Jones himself—in the Next Big…

Stefan Wyss, socio y director de conciertos y giras de Gadget Entertainment Group. Gadget es uno de los promotores más antiguos de Suiza y celebró su 30.º aniversario en 2024. En 2020, después de colaborar con éxito durante años, Gadget unió fuerzas con WePromote, una red de promotores responsable de algunos de los festivales más queridos de Suiza, incluido OpenAir St.Gallen. CTS Eventim compró una participación del 60% en esta nueva empresa e incorporó abc Productions de André Béchirformando la agencia de servicios completos Gadget abc Entertainment Group AG, como se la conoce hoy. Como parte de la red Eventim…

Xabier Agote has to push past people lined up to get on board the San Juan, tied up next to the dock in Pasaia, in Spain’s Basque country.This is the first time the replica of a 16th century Spanish galleon is open for tours and it’s a popular attraction. Tickets sold out within hours.“It’s fantastic,” he says as he walks over the metal gangplank and steps on board. “The more people [that] come, the happier I am.”WATCH | The rebuilding of the San Juan:Canada’s connection to a replica 16th-century Spanish shipThe San Juan is an exact replica of a Basque…

If you’re an American living in Spain, you may not know that your child may have tax obligations in the US, despite not living there. The Local Spain spoke a US tax expert to find out what parents need to know. If you are American and have moved to Spain you will have to continue filing your US tax declaration, as well as your Spanish one – but what about your children who have US citizenship? Even if your children live their whole life in Spain, they may still have obligations to the US tax authorities if they have American…

Solomun posted a photo with Idris Elba on Sunday and left a short caption pointing at something ahead: “Next: All Night Long.” The image appeared on Instagram on June 22, 2026. The caption read “Sunday with @idriselba / Next: All Night Long.” The post gave no format, release date, label, or venue. Still, the pairing got attention fast. The photo drew over 16,000 likes within two days – a strong reaction to a two-line announcement with nothing else attached. Solomun is a Bosnian-German DJ and producer with one of the more devoted followings in electronic music. Born Mladen Solomun in…