As kickboxing continues to grow on a global scale with promotions like GLORY, K-1, ONE Championship, and more, fighters are constantly jockeying for position in the eyes (and rankings) of the media. Every month, Combat Press will compile kickboxing rankings for each weight class from heavyweight to strawweight, as well as the pound-for-pound rankings for both men and women. Note: the numbers in parentheses represent the fighter’s ranking from the previous month. Rico Verhoeven (1) Levi Rigters...
Elias Rodriques A new career-spanning book offers a portrait of Painter’s career as a historian, essayist, and most recently visual artist.
National journalist James Bennet cites Urban Milwaukee's theater review as fine example of local cultural coverage.
Two veterans of World War II lit the national Liberation flame at midnight in Wageningen on Saturday, kicking off a day of celebration nationwide. Canadese veteran Pierce “George” Brewster, who is 101, and 99-year-old Geoff Roberts from London lit the fire together with Wageningen mayor Floor Vermeulen on the square in front of Hotel de Wereld, where Germany signed the capitulation documents in 1945. The flame was then used to light torches which are taken by some 2,500 relay runners
‘Foreign agents’ law just one of many moves made back towards Moscow while the west looked the other wayEurope live – latest updatesThe army of riot police had finally retreated from Rustaveli Avenue, the broad thoroughfare in front of the parliament building, back into the barricaded parliamentary estate.The last hour on the streets of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, had been violent. Snatch squads had grabbed protesters as officers, beating their shields with truncheons, surged forward to push...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A big donation from a major retailer is helping transform an old dirt lot at an Albuquerque high school into something a lot more meaningful. "I think it's amazing," said Adrian Mora, On the surface, it's new flowers, vegetable plants and even some gnomes sprinkled throughout this garden at Albuquerque Public Schools' Freedom []
California lawmakers are looking for answers on how billions of state dollars have been spent to fight the homelessness crisis.
Here’s a tip for today’s journalists from Phelim McAleer. If there’s a play in New York City about one of the most horrific days in recent memory it might be a story. If said play requires a police presence to keep the stars and audience safe, that’s your lede. Tell it to the mainstream media. Reporters have collectively ignored “October 7: In Their Own Words,” McAleer’s new stage production about the Hamas attacks on Israel that killed 1,200 people. A Google News search on the subject reveals...
Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Gillian Keegan said there was a difference between trans people who had undergone gender reassignment and those who had not.
Catching Freedom, the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby winner who finished fourth in the Kentucky Derby on May 4, will make his next start in Saturday’s $2 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, trainer Brad Cox said Sunday.
THE MODERATOR: Jordan Spieth is joining us here at the 106th PGA Championship. Jordan, welcome to Valhalla and what is your 12th PGA Championship. How has your week been and what have you seen of the course so far and what do you think?JORDAN SPIETH: Thank you. Yeah, I was here 11 years ago. I
Israeli protesters halted a convoy of aid bound for Gaza at a checkpoint between the occupied West Bank and Israel. Videos circulating online showed them hurling some of the aid off trucks and destroying it. Police said a number of arrests were made, without elaborating.