Liverpool will defend their Premier League title at home to Bournemouth in the opening game of the 2025-26 Premier League season. Newly promoted Sunderland kick off their season at home to West Ham United, while their fellow former Championship clubs Leeds and Burnley are at home to Everton and away to Tottenham respectively, the latter…
Eli LedermanJun 16, 2025, 02:35 PM ET Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. Tennessee‘s first commitment in the class of 2027 arrived on Monday with a famous family tie when linebacker prospect JP…
A group of protesters gathered at Parliament Square as MPs debate the final stage of a bill today which could legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. One woman described her son dying of cancer in “excruciating pain” saying that assisted dying would have given him a choice. Another protester said that the bill would…
A Mexican redknee tarantula (Brachypelma smithi) Shutterstock/Milan Zygmunt When I was about 7 or 8 years old, my biology-professor dad brought me a present home from work: a jar of sticks. Or at least that’s what I thought it was. When some of them started moving he explained that they were stick insects. I kept…
Ask a young person what they would like to do with their life and increasingly often the answer will be to find fame and fortune online. Fully 57% of Gen Zs in America would like to be a social-media influencer, according to Morning Consult, a pollster; 53% describe it as a “reputable career choice”. Those…
Getty Images A disproportionate number of children referred to NHS excess weight clinics in England are from the most deprived areas, and a significant number are neurodivergent or have other health conditions, a study has found. Some have a body mass index (BMI) over 50, with 40 deemed to be severely obese. Nearly 4,800 under-18s…
Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to target Nigel Farage’s Reform UK as “the real opposition” was a seismic political choice, elevating the right-wing populist party from outsiders to the status of Britain’s potential government-in-waiting. The controversial move, executed in a speech last month, has divided opinion, with some Labour strategists warning that Starmer has taken a…
BBC Listen to Jim read this article Five times Prof Kevin Fong broke down in tears in a nondescript hearing room in West London, while giving evidence to the Covid inquiry. The 53-year-old has the kind of CV that makes you pay attention: a consultant anaesthetist in London who also works for the air ambulance…
Sebastian Berhalter of United States controls the ball during a Group D match Saudi Arabia on … More Thursday. Getty Images The United States men’s national team has always had trouble competing with the kind of crowds the Mexico national team is able to pull on U.S. soil on. There’s socioeconomic factors at play, of…
Tomasz Schafernaker BBC weather presenter BBC Weather Watchers/Juniperbeddy Blue skies on the beach in Lowestoft, Suffolk Yellow heat health alerts have been issued for most of England with temperatures set to climb as high as 33C by the weekend. Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East England, the South East, the South West…
