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As the Toronto Maple Leafs struggle to earn wins, captain Auston Matthews is sidelined with a lower-body injury. (Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images)NHLI via Getty ImagesFor the last nine years, the large and vocal fanbase of the Toronto Maple Leafs has lamented its team’s inability to make a meaningful push for the Stanley Cup.This year’s incarnation of the NHL’s most valuable franchise is reminding observers that things can get worse. Toronto’s championship drought is now creeping toward 60 years. Many of those seasons ended without a sniff of the playoffs.At the United Center in Chicago on Saturday, the…

Penny for your thoughts? Better raise the price. The US Mint brought more than two centuries of penny production to a close last week, and the final coins off the presses could become a hot item among collectors. Some reports suggest those final five pennies, struck during a ceremony in Philadelphia, could be worth as much as $5 million each. Others say the numbers may be far more modest.Read also: Trump Puts the Penny on Notice: The Fuss Over Our 1-Cent CoinThe circulating penny was first issued in 1793, though it began to resemble our modern pennies in 1809. That’s the…

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. In honor of the National Book Awards presented by the National Book Association on Nov. 19, this week’s challenge celebrates winners from the past 20 years and asks you to identify a title by a short description of the work. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books if you’d like to do further reading.

Bill BarnwellNov 17, 2025, 08:30 AM ETCloseBill Barnwell is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com. He analyzes football on and off the field like no one else on the planet, writing about in-season X’s and O’s, offseason transactions and so much more.He is the host of the Bill Barnwell Show podcast, with episodes released weekly. Barnwell joined ESPN in 2011 as a staff writer at Grantland.When Broncos kicker Wil Lutz lined up for a 35-yard field goal to win the game against the Chiefs on Sunday, it must have felt like déjà vu for Denver. Almost exactly one year ago,…

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Ashley Moran clearly remembers the first time he completed the new four-day Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk in northern New South Wales, long before it opened to the public in April this year.It was 2020 and the newest NSW Great Walk wasn’t even a track. “It had been pink-tagged by the trail construction company, but it was pretty arduous trying to navigate through dense rainforest and find those little pink ribbons,” he says.Moran had been involved in developing the walk since its inception in 2018. As chair of the Widjabul Wia-bal Gurrumbil Aboriginal Corporation (WWGAC), he worked with the NSW National Parks…

NewsFeedIsrael’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says that if the UN officially recognises a Palestinian state, then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should order targeted assassinations of senior Palestinian Authority officials.Published On 17 Nov 202517 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

An emergency food charity that sends meals to foodbanks across Blackpool has said it could face closure without support to keep its services running.The Big Food Project is a redistributor of surplus food from supermarkets and manufacturers to 125 foodbanks, schools, community kitchens, crisis services and families across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre.It said it urgently needed help to keep its three trucks on the road, its warehouse open and food reaching those who need it most through its 150 volunteers.”Last week we put 17,600 meals out of the warehouse,” founder Neil Reid said. “But we need people to volunteer, we…

Sequoia-backed fintech platform Aspora, which lets the Indian diaspora send money back to India, is launching a new feature for users to pay bills. This means Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) can pay utility bills or recharge their mobile prepaid plans for their family. The startup said that until now, users had to either transfer the money to their Indian accounts or ask someone to handle the bills for them. The other option for them was to use their foreign cards and try and pay bills while facing high charges and payment failures. Aspora has hooked up to the Bharat Bill Payment…

Today marks the first World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day – mandated by the World Health Assembly – a historic milestone in global efforts to end a preventable cancer. This day of action builds on powerful momentum, with countries and partners uniting to launch ambitious vaccination campaigns, expand screening and treatment services, and accelerate progress toward eliminating cervical cancer as a public health problem. The annual commemoration highlights a critical opportunity: cervical cancer – the fourth most common cancer in women – claims over 350 000 lives each year, yet it is a disease that we have the tools to eliminate.The Day…