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Iowa lawmakers reach last-minute deal for $4 billion property tax cut
Republican lawmakers struck a deal to deliver what they said would be a $4 billion property tax cut over the next six years, after a weekend marathon.
Spirit Airlines shuts down after White House rescue deal falls through
The airline said early Saturday it had “no choice” but to wind down operations immediately, dashing hopes of a last-minute financial lifeline.
World Cup last-minute ticket sales phase re-opens 50 days from kick-off
With 50 days remaining until the start of the 2026 World Cup, FIFA's last-minute sales phase re-opens on Wednesday with tickets for all 104 matches available on a first-come, first-served basis.
How to get last-minute tickets to FIFA Men’s World Cup
Grab your laptop, coffee and get ready to be patient. That is, if you want to try and secure some men's World Cup tickets Wednesday morning.
'Sports come second': Student-athletes work to balance between classroom, competition
For many college athletes, balancing academics and athletics isn’t achieved through last-minute emails or excuses about missed assignments.
Adams' last-minute charter commission holds first meeting
The group’s procedural meeting lasted about 10 minutes.
Louisville denies Sporting Jax men in last-minute finish
Sporting Jax men's soccer is still looking for its first victory, after a last-minute loss to Louisville City in the USL Championship.
Morgan Wallen’s Tuscaloosa show is this weekend: Secure last-minute ticket deals before they sell out
Country music star Morgan Wallen will be in Tuscaloosa, Alabama this weekend for the next stop on his Still The Problem North American tour. Concertgoers still looking for tickets can find limited seats available.
Walmsley secures 'last-minute' drive for 2026 season
Racing driver Lydia Walmsley says it is a "miracle" that she will be on the grid this year after an 11th hour deal with a new team.
Iran war tests Trump’s most enduring political gifts
The Iran war is ending. Or so the White House says. The last-minute ceasefire this week in a conflict that has convulsed capitals from Washington to Brussels to Tehran has left several key issues up in the air. What does it mean politically? And will it last?
Pakistan’s Last-Minute Diplomacy Secures Iran War Ceasefire
Pakistan warned U.S. officials that ongoing Israeli operations risked collapsing the entire diplomatic process.
Science Center’s last-minute bid fails as town advances acquisition of Main Street building
The Riverhead Town Board voted 3-2 to advance acquisition of the Long Island Science Center’s East Main Street building despite a last-minute 92-page submission from project supporters.
What smart people are saying about Trump's ceasefire deal with Iran
Economists, foreign policy experts, and politicians weigh in on Donald Trump's last-minute ceasefire deal with Iran.
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
Pantheon Review by Walter Cummins The image of Alfred Tennyson I’ve carried for decades goes back to the childhood card game of Authors that depicts him with a stately continence sharpened by a jutting black beard. He’s formidable, his aura superior. Holmes opens his biography of the youthful Tennyson by describing the similar formality of the imposing Tennyson statue at Trinty College Cambridge, sharing the honor with other Trinity greats, including Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Babington Macaulay. Holmes doesn’t want to chip away at that statue but rather reveal its inner youthful core of the man—tall, handsome, and talented but unformed, emerging from a disturbed family of addicted or insane male siblings and four unusual sisters struggling under a violent alcoholic clergyman father. Alfred was certainly statuesque, but would he end up a block of unformed stone like his equally promising brothers? He was youngest of three equally regarded Tennyson brothers at Cambridge, all bright, handsome, and talented, in fact Alfred regarded by some as less promising than his elders who also wrote poetry. Yet Alfred wrote one of his major poems, “The Kraken,” at twenty, revealing both his talent, his interest in geological forces, and the haunting creature that embodied his anxieties. While Holmes focuses on Tennyson of the 1830s and 1840s, he can’t tell his story without exploring his involvement with the Victorian intellectual upheaval. Tennyson was fascinated by new scientific perspectives, following the latest findings as soon as books and articles were published. He was especially taken with Charles Lyell’s deep studies of geology and the discovery of fossils and a timeline of the planet’s development that did much to question fundamental religious assumptions. The impact of these discoveries is reflected in Tennyson’s poetry and led to the crisis in belief he shared with so many contemporaries. He was especially taken by the cycles of destruction and renewal that informed the struggles he confronted in In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Tennyson was only one of the eventual major figures at Cambridge at the same time, young men just beginning to realize their potential. Charles Darwin was at Christ College, although there is no evidence that he and Tennyson even met as students or later in life. Yet evolution became significant in Tennyson’s thinking and the issues of his poetry. One of Tennyson’s best and most important Cambridge friends was Edward FitzGerald, who became the translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and in their on and off relationship served as Tennyson’s harshest critic. FitzGerald was also a friend of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, the two of them partying in Paris as undergraduates. That connection led to a friendship between Thackeray and Tennyson. Others who came to play significant roles in Tennyson’s life were Thomas Carlyle, the Brownings, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Tennyson’s deepest friend at college was Arthur Hallam, who at twenty wrote a glowing review of Tennyson’s first poetry collection, travelled on European adventures with him, and fell in love with his sister Emily. Hallam was also regarded as one more very promising Cambridge student. His sudden death at twenty-two in Vienna from a stroke while travelling with his father devastated many friends, but perhaps Tennyson most of all. He did not write immediate poems of grief but took years to compile those collected in In Memoriam A.H.H., published in 1850, almost twenty years after Hallam’s death For all of Tennyson’s early poetic successes and successes, Holmes reveals him as an often troubled young man suffering periods of depression, fearing planetary upheaval, concerned about supporting himself, disappointed in romances, and worried that he would inherit the family’s mental illness tendencies. Yet despite his seeming withdrawals, he was always writing poetry that he kept private and would not let go, constantly revising. 1850 became a transformative year for Tennyson. He finally consented to publishing In Memoriam with a last-minute prologue that acknowledged God and perhaps convinced the religious Emily Sellwood to marry him after years of pursuit.. He opened up to Emily, revealing his struggles with fears of depression and “weird seizures.” The devastating event of that time was the stillborn death of his unnamed first son. It shook him, but Emily’s faith brought them closer and convinced him to believe in an afterlife. Two later sons survived. With the death of William Wordworth in April of 1950, Tennyson was named poet laureate at age forty-one, reluctantly accepting. It’s as if Tennyson’s life split in half in that year. He lived another forty years, now a recognized success, with the prestige of being an official poet writing patriotic verse, wealthy and revered, no longer the insecure young man seeking an outlet for his immense talent. He earned a place in the Authors deck, now dignified and in 1884 elevated to the peerage as Arthur, Lord Tennyson. Richard Holmes is the author of twenty previous books on the Romantics and Victorians, several of which received awards. The Boundless Deep was shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He captures the complex vicissitudes of Tennyson’s youth, illustrated by frequent excerpts from the poetry, placing that life in the full context of the shattering discoveries that led to an upheaval of thought in the Victorian age.
Mark Sanford makes a last-minute bid to return to Congress in South Carolina
Sanford once built his career in the district, then won the governor’s office. His time as governor was defined by his disappearance and trip to Argentina to see his lover.
Last-Minute Webinar Reminder! Crafting a Winning Print Embellishments Business Plan
Last-Minute Webinar Reminder! Crafting a Winning Print Embellishments Business Plan
$5 flat-fee deliveries: A Haverhill business is built on community connection
From restaurant supplies to last-minute hardware runs, Store to your Door is meeting everyday needs
Georgia was going to dump voting machines that Trump hates. But then things got complicated
A Georgia effort to dump voting machines that Donald Trump hates may get derailed by fear of a chaotic last-minute shift in election methods.
The Oscars had feathered gowns, K-pop lightsticks and ballet's revenge. Inside the strangest, funniest and most viral Oscar moments
Paul Thomas Anderson wins big for "One Battle After Another," Michael B. Jordan nabs Best Actor over Timothée Chalamet after last-minute controversy, and the stars dazzle at the 98th Academy Awards.
GOP Sen. Steve Daines’ last-minute withdrawal from Senate race was meant to block Democrats from fielding a top-tier recruit
GOP Sen. Steve Daines made the last-minute decision to abruptly pull out of his Senate race to prevent Democrats from fielding a top recruit for the open Montana seat, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Tennessee lawmakers widen field for private school players in public school sports bill
A last-minute amendment may have just widened the field.Tennessee lawmakers in the Senate advanced a bill on Monday that would let certain private school studen
Science news this week: China turns a desert into a carbon sink, a Viking Age grave holds a giant who had brain surgery, real-life inception, and a last-minute Valentine's gift idea from nature
Feb. 14 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Eugene Science Center to host adults-only Science Uncensored on Feb. 14, 6-9 p.m.
If you're looking for some last-minute Valentine's Day plans, check out the Eugene Science Center.From 6-9 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, the Center is hosting its
PS5 State of Play February 2026 live updates — last-minute leaks and rumors, and how to watch
State of Play returns for 2026, and it’s going to be a big one
The Two Big Decisions Facing Democrats Ahead of a Shutdown
Plus, senators work on a last-minute budget deal on immigration enforcement, and Tom Homan presented his list of demands to Minnesota leaders.
Will another deadly shooting bring another government shutdown?
Another fatal shooting at the hands of DHS agents is jeopardizing a last-minute scramble in the Senate to keep government funded.
Ethanol politics helps delay spending package
Biofuel boosters made a last-minute appeal for E15 language to become part of the latest fiscal 2026 minibus.
Duke sues star QB Darian Mensah in wake of last-minute transfer portal entry request
Mensah led the Blue Devils to an ACC title in 2025 and is expected to be the transfer portal's most coveted quarterback upon entry
JCPS proposes cutting mental health practitioners in last-minute change
Superintendent Yearwood told JCPS principals he now plans to propose cutting mental health practitioners, rather than academic instructional coaches.
The near death -- and last-minute reprieve -- of a trial for an HIV vaccine
A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started.
Let’s talk Steelers: It needs a name, right?
Pittsburgh defeated the Ravens on Sunday night thanks to a last-minute missed kick.
Forget Target. This year's last-minute holiday shoppers flocked to a lesser-known — but fast-growing
Ollie's, which aims to provide customers with a "treasure-hunt" vibe, has been experiencing rapid growth, opening 86 locations in 2025.
Hawaii Bowl ends in last-minute score, fight as Hawaii pulls off comeback over Cal
Hawaii stuns Cal with a last-minute touchdown after a 21-point deficit.
Kilauea volcano eruption increases visitors, boosts business for Hawaii Island
Kilauea's eruption has caused an 11% rise in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park visits, increasing last-minute bookings and local business traffic.
Google Pixel 10 series starts at $450 in crazy last-minute Amazon deal
Just in time for the holiday, a last-minute Google Pixel 10 deal takes the starting price down to $449, way lower than Black Friday.
'A one-of-a-kind gift': Last-minute holiday shoppers boost Sacramento's local businesses
For small business owners, this final weekend is about more than just sales; it's an opportunity to make a lasting impression.
Democrats push for last-minute vote on extending health care subsidies before deadline
Entertainment: 6 Ways To Have Last-Minute Holiday Fun
Haunted Holidays at The Rave, city lights tours, The Nutcracker and multiple charity events fill the days leading up to Christmas in Milwaukee.
Last-minute gifts made in Illinois, local small businesses
There's still time to get a gift under the tree that is made in Illinois.
Farmers and politics threaten to put EU's free-trade deal with South America on ice
France is creating a last-minute hurdle for a major trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc.
Farmers and politics threaten to put EU's free-trade deal with South America on ice
France is creating a last-minute hurdle for a major trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc
Last-minute gift ideas for Florida sports fans? Check out our books
The USA TODAY Network in Florida stands ready to provide the perfect holiday gift for the sports fan in your life.
Speaker Johnson unveils health care plan as divided Republicans scramble for alternative
The legislation, unveiled Friday, is a last-minute sprint as Johnson's party refuses to extend the enhanced tax subsidies for those who buy policies through the Affordable Care Act.
These Unique Tech Accessories Make Easy Last-Minute Gifts
Some of my favorite tech accessories can refresh your routine.
Health insurers ask GOP to fix their fraud problem — and extend Obamacare subsidies
In a last-minute plea, insurers are urging Republicans to crack down on fraud in their industry.
Amazon adds delivery tracking, last-minute adds, gift ideas to Alexa+
Amazon upgrades Alexa+ with new shopping tools, turning Echo screens into hubs for orders, deals, and gift buying.
Why a deal isn’t coming together on health care
OPINION: Industry experts have been warning about sticker shock but are routinely ignored by a Congress addicted to last-minute brinkmanship.
Jasmine Crockett scrambles Democrats as she weighs a last-minute Texas Senate run
Jasmine Crockett has two cashier’s checks made out to use on Monday: one to submit if she files for reelection for her US House seat, the other to jump into the already competitive Texas Democratic primary for US Senate.
Jax State falls to Kennesaw State on last-minute play of Conference USA title game
Jax State (8-5) will await its bowl destination, expected to be announced on Sunday after the conclusion of all of the conference title games.
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