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New York and New Jersey planned to spend roughly a half billion dollars hosting eight World Cup matches, including today’s final. But once it’s over, lawmakers in both states want to know if they got their money’s worth. In New York City, Councilmember Virginia Maloney, who leads the chamber’s committee on economic development, is going to lead that examination. “First I want to make sure we recouped our cost,” she said in an interview on Friday at a coffee shop in her Manhattan district, which includes the Upper East Side. “I’m not confident we can say that.” She said data…
Ukraine is hitting Moscow with drones after Russia unleashed one of its largest ballistic missile barrages at Kyiv.Published On 20 Jul 202620 Jul 2026A Russian strike on a ship near the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa has killed at least 10 people, while Ukraine has launched hundreds of drones to attack Moscow, a day after Kyiv was hit by one of the heaviest barrages of ballistic missiles of the war.Russia struck a Guinea-Bissau-flagged ship carrying corn with a crew from India and Syria, Ukraine’s seaports authority said on Monday. Officials said eight crew members had been rescued.Recommended Stories list…
Andrew here. Save the date: We’re thrilled to announce that the DealBook Summit will take place on Nov. 18 in New York City. We are celebrating DealBook’s 25th anniversary and will be interviewing some of the world’s most consequential leaders. Speakers will be announced soon. You can apply to join us here — and we encourage you to do so early, because we expect overwhelming demand.Today, we’re delving into the debate surrounding A.I. models, as Silicon Valley grapples with Chinese open-weight offerings and whether they could disrupt bleeding-edge closed ones from Anthropic and OpenAI. And we’re watching oil prices as…
The prisons minister has resigned from the government, the BBC has been told.Lord James Timpson was appointed to the role in July 2024 after leaving his job as CEO of the Timpson group, a business which provides key cutting and shoe repair services and employs hundreds of former prisoners.His arrival in government was greeted with much fanfare by some in the Labour Party and described as “radical” and “innovative”.But in a departing statement on Monday, seen exclusively by the BBC, Lord Timpson said he was stepping down and it was an “honour” to serve in the post.His statement did not…
President Donald Trump says the latest strikes by the US hit Iran “very hard”, adding that the attacks were “in honour” of three US soldiers killed in recent days – two in Jordan, one in Iraq.In the early hours of Monday local time, US Central Command (Centcom) said it had launched a “new wave” of strikes for the ninth consecutive night as explosions were heard across Iran.The US said it had targeted military sites and communications networks to “further diminish” Tehran’s attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.Iran said it had responded with a “surprise attack” in Syria and…
Stories of fans left outside stadiums, duped by “ghost tickets” on resale platforms, were everywhere at this year’s World Cup. But advocates are hopeful the near-endless stream of negative headlines and angry supporters will spur long-sought-after laws to outlaw the practice of speculative ticket selling, when resellers put tickets they don’t yet have on the open market. At the state level, it would seem they’re right. Illinois, North Carolina and Washington, D.C. have all passed legislation banning speculative ticket sales since the beginning of the World Cup. Connecticut, Oregon and Vermont have also enacted ghost ticket bans this year. And…
Spain’s 1-0 extra-time victory over Argentina in the World Cup final on Sunday made it difficult to dispute that the country is producing the best football on the planet.Along with their second World Cup title, Spain are reigning champions of the Euros and Olympic Games, along with the Women’s World Cup.Here are the main takeaways from the final:Spain in controlLa Roja captured this World Cup using ball mastery, with an emphasis on possession stifling the opposition’s ability to attack. By playing keep-away, Spain prevented Argentina’s Lionel Messi from being involved for most of the final match.In eight games, La Roja…
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By lunchtime today, the UK will have its fifth prime minister in four years.No other sentence can so pithily summarise the nature of British politics right now than that one.In the summer of 2022 Boris Johnson was on his way out, but still in office. Since then there has been Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer.Little wonder Andy Burnham will say later, we are told, that he is “acutely conscious” of this churn at the top. His critics, within the Labour Party and beyond it, may allow themselves a wry smile at that, given they would argue he…
Last night, Spain defeated Argentina to win the World Cup. Ordinarily, for those of us with no national connection to either country, the choice of whom to support would have been gloriously trivial. We might have chosen the team that played more beautiful football, the player we most admired or simply the side whose colours we preferred.But these are no ordinary times.Gaza and Palestine have changed the way many of us see the world. It has become a moral prism, refracting our judgments not only about governments and political leaders, but about institutions, universities, media, corporations and public figures. We…