Greg WyshynskiOct 3, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The 2024-25 NHL season was a smashing success. There was Alex Ovechkin breaking Wayne Gretzky’s goals record. There were the Florida Panthers shattering the hearts of Edmonton Oilers fans for a second straight Final series to win another Stanley Cup….
At a time when so many major Hollywood distributors are avoiding political stories for fear of offending or provoking, the new documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 is refreshingly direct. The director, Raoul Peck, intersperses readings of 1984 and Animal Farm author George Orwell’s writing about authoritarianism with footage of President Donald Trump and his supporters. Where the…
The economic consequences of the current federal government shutdown hinge critically on how long it lasts. If it is resolved quickly, the costs will be small, but if it drags on, it could send the U.S. economy into a tailspin. That’s because the economy is already in a precarious state, with the labor market struggling,…
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has brought the multibillion-dollar Reko Diq mining project under its purview, asking the government to provide a detailed briefing on its status. The move expands the Fund’s oversight from balance-of-payments support to scrutiny of major projects in Pakistan. Sources said the briefing, initially scheduled for this week, has now…
Few filmmakers have mined their own life as ruthlessly, or as artfully, as Noah Baumbach. The angst and anxiety he felt as a child watching his parents’ marriage collapse became the raw material for his 2005 breakout The Squid and the Whale. His own divorce from actress Jennifer Jason Leigh informed his Oscar-winning Marriage Story…
The Week 5 NFL schedule for the 2025 season brings some exciting matchups. Browns rookie QB Dillon Gabriel is making his NFL debut in London against the Vikings. Old teammates in Carolina, QBs Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold, will face off again in the Bucs-Seahawks matchup. And Commanders QB Jayden Daniels makes his return from…
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said. Goodall died of natural causes, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a social media post. “Dr Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist…
ISLAMABAD: The Constitutional Bench has ruled that the eight-judge majority judgment of the Supreme Court announced on July 12, 2024, which held that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was entitled to get reserved seats, had ignored the “will of people” and “command of the Constitution”. “Elections to the reserved seats, no doubt indirect, and no doubt…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday, appreciating the “dignified” participation of Pakistani nationals in Sumud Gaza Flotilla, demanded their return as they were intercepted on their way to Gaza to supply the humanitarian aid. The prime minister, in a post on X, appreciated the Pakistani nationals including Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, Mazhar Saeed Shah, Wajahat…
JERUSALEM: Israel faced international condemnation and protests on Thursday after its military intercepted almost all of about 40 boats in a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza and took captive more than 450 foreign activists, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg. Cameras broadcasting live feeds from the boats showed armed Israeli soldiers in helmets and night vision…
