• Meet Windy and Frankie! News 19’s Adoptable Pets of the Week

    All over the Tennessee Valley, pets are looking for a loving owner to bring them home. Each week, News 19 features a couple of these pets hoping it catches the eye of their future owner, and this week we featured Windy and Frankie!

  • Top Stories: M4 Mac Roadmap Leaked, New iPads in Second Week of May, and More

    Apple's hardware roadmap was in the news this week, with things hopefully firming up for a launch of updated iPad Pro and iPad Air models next month while we look ahead to the other iPad models and a full lineup of M4-based Macs arriving starting later this year. We also heard some fresh rumors about iOS 18, due to be unveiled at WWDC in a couple of months, while we took a look at how things are going with the iPhone 15 Pro now that it's halfway through its flagship lifecycle, so read on...

  • Regulatory scrutiny may queer the pitch for insurtech; and other top startup & tech stories this week

    Hi! This is Pratik Bhakta in Bengaluru. Today, I am breaking an important story on how the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) is increasing its scrutiny on fintech startups that are vying for an insurance manufacturing licence. 109078527Driving the news: Multiple people in the know have told me that the insurance regulator is not comfortable with the typical corporate structures of startups, and may not be in favour of granting them an insurance manufacturing...

  • Employees despair as bell tolls for Paytm Payments Bank; and other top startup & tech stories this week

    Hi, This is Pratik in Bengaluru. For the last three months, we have been reporting about how things unfolded at Paytm Payments Bank, and as of now it looks bleak for the beleaguered banking entity.The resignation of Paytm Payments Bank CEO Surinder Chawla on April 9 left the bank headless, and its affairs in a state of limbo. It wasn’t entirely unexpected, but his departure within a month of the bank stopping basic banking services did cause some surprise. 109260385While the regulatory...

  • Top 5 Plays of the Week – Week 34

    JOPLIN, Mo – After a week of high school sports & collegiate sports, we showed off our Top 5 Plays of the Week from around the Four States Play #1: Cooper Lilienkamp (Carthage Sophomore Outfielder) — Carthage's Cooper Lilienkamp hit a walk-off 2-RBI single against Carl Junction. With two outs in the bottom of the 7th, []

  • Top 5 Plays of the Week – Week 33

    JOPLIN, Mo – After a week of high school sports & collegiate sports, we showed off our Top 5 Plays of the Week from around the Four States. Play #1: Shaun Hunt (Webb City Senior First Baseman) — Webb City's Shaun Hunt had ice in his veins last Thursday when the bases were loaded, Hunt ripped []

  • TWO England players net scintillating hat-tricks, it's a quiet week for some of the league's top forwards and a Liverpool star continues to shine bright but who takes top spot in the latest POWER RANKINGS?

    The three Premier League title-chasing sides all won to leave race still in balance. Chelsea and Manchester United, meanwhile, produced one of the great games. Why this is the end for Erik ten Hag at Man United - Listen to the

  • The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

    The April 12 edition features stories by Stephanie McCrummen, Mark Warren, Trina Moyles, Laura Preston, and Jack King.

  • The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

    This week we're highlighting stories from Yuval Abraham, Paul Tough, Leslie Jamison, Melina Moe, and Meg Bernhard.

  • This week’s other Trump legal story

    THIS WEEK’S OTHER TRUMP LEGAL STORY. The trial of former President Donald Trump, the paperwork case over the nondisclosure agreement he had with a porn star, continues with jury selection in Manhattan. It’s been extensively covered; this newsletter wrote not one but two previews last week, plus more discussion yesterday. So enough about that for a […]

  • ICYMI: GOP's week of a thousand problems

    Pundits might be dismissing Trump’s hush-money case, but voters aren’t Oooh, it’s another poll that should have Trump worried. Very worried. The media has no idea how to handle abortion after Roe  Republicans don't know how to deal with abortion in a post-Roe world. Neither does the media. Seth Meyers drags Trump's desperate lies about his abortion policies You’ve got to watch him try not to lose his sh-t. Cartoon: Western time zones Guess what century o’clock it is in Arizona. Murder...

  • AP Top Stories April 10 A

    Here's the latest for Wednesday April 10th: Arizona court says 1864 near-total abortion ban can be enforced: US says it doesn't know when Israel is planning Rafah offensive; Parents of Michigan school shooter sentenced; Biden meets with Japanese Prime Minister.