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2026-07-26 07:00:32 (1 week ago)

Female football referee suffers concussion amid male players’ melee

Referee Mathilde Demoncay was knocked down as the players fought during a friendly club match in France.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-26 07:00:29 (1 week ago)

Sophie Cunningham inspires high school athletes to speak out on fairness in women's sports

Young female athletes say Sophie Cunningham's defense of women's sports inspired them to keep fighting for fairness despite facing criticism.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-26 07:00:14 (1 week ago)

100 day sprint to the midterms kicks off as Republicans and Democrats clash for control across the country

Democrats need just six House seats to reclaim the gavel as Fox News polling shows them hitting their highest generic ballot number since 1996.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-26 07:00:12 (1 week ago)

How do we defeat authoritarianism? By building a sense of belonging | Julie Fernandes and Katrina Gamble

Eighty-five million Americans are disaffected and less likely to vote, our survey found. Our democratic revival depends on a sense of community

Our country is at a crossroads between democracy and authoritarianism. And the only antidote is an organized, engaged citizenry. But at this critical moment when we need people to lean into the fight for our future, we find that far too many people have given up.

In a comprehensive, multiracial study, Sojourn Strategies, Ariel Research Partners and Richard Shafranek found that 35% of the US electorate – 85 million people – are disaffected, characterized by high levels of disillusionment and low levels of trust in government and politics. Our democratic revival depends on solutions that transform people from disaffected bystanders into powerful civic agents.

Julie Fernandes is managing director of the Democracy & Power Innovation Fund, a community of organizers, researchers and funders who are working together to strengthen state-based community organizing, and associate director of the Rockefeller Family Fund

Katrina Gamble, PhD, is founder and CEO of Sojourn Strategies, a Black woman-owned social impact consulting firm that brings a people-centered approach to advocacy campaigns, research and philanthropic advising

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-26 07:00:12 (1 week ago)

‘We want to win the league’: Arsenal’s new recruits ink in WSL success

Despite a busy transfer window with Beth Mead moving on and seven new signings, academy graduates such as Lotte Wubben-Moy remain key to trophies

Georgia Stanway looks at her arms and then down at her legs on day one of Arsenal’s pre-season. “As you can see, I’m covered in tattoos,” she says. “I only see the bare skin, the space, so I need to keep collecting more”.

Tattooing and being tattooed is her creative outlet, her way of expressing herself off the pitch. But seeing space is key to the 27-year-old England midfielder being exceptional on the pitch.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-26 07:00:11 (1 week ago)

He’s a doctor and a progressive. Will he win a key US Senate race in Michigan?

Abdul El-Sayed may be buoyed by a younger, anti-establishment coalition as he runs against an establishment candidate

Abdul El-Sayed spends a fair amount of his day not taking himself so seriously. He jokes about his haircut, films selfie videos with supporters and has taken – more than once – to cringey dancing and lip-syncing on camera.

But ask him after a long day on the campaign trail to explain the difference between a virus and a bacterium, and the epidemiologist takes over from the entertainer.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-26 07:00:11 (1 week ago)

Is Burnham’s Oxbridge-heavy cabinet a sign of social mobility or lack of progress on class?

PM’s team can be seen as backward step even though in some ways it is more diverse. Yet its makeup points to wider access to power

• Race, school, gender: the makeup of Andy Burnham’s cabinet – in charts

Like 20 British prime ministers before him, Andy Burnham’s new cabinet minister for AI, Kanishka Narayan, went to Eton. After graduating from the country’s most elite private school, Narayan attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied – what else? – PPE (politics, philosophy and economics), like David Cameron, Rishi Sunak, Ed Miliband and a host of other senior politicians. An MBA at Stanford and a career in the City followed.

But Narayan’s background is hardly typical of the British ruling class. Born in Bihar in eastern India, he moved with his family to Cardiff when he was 12. He and his younger brother were sleeping on the floor of their one-bedroom home when a teacher at his local high school suggested the bright young boy apply for some private schools. His parents, who had joined the Labour party almost as soon as they arrived in Wales, ran a petrol station. Eton was possible only thanks to a full scholarship.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-26 07:00:10 (1 week ago)

From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star

More than seven decades after they were first released, the dark novels of Osamu Dazai have become a publishing sensation, as a new generation of readers engage with his bleakness, humour and brilliance

There’s no question that Japanese literature has been one of the outstanding successes for British bookshops in recent years: in 2024 close to half of the bestselling translated fiction titles were from Japan. Much of the Japanese fiction translated into English fits into broad categories – cats, crime, coffee shops – but one surprise bestseller stands alone.

Sales of books by Osamu Dazai, who killed himself in 1948 aged 38, have rocketed in the last few years. His best-known novel, No Longer Human (1948), has sold more than 75,000 copies in the UK alone. An intense semi-autobiographical account of one man’s alienation, it was the last work of fiction completed before Dazai’s death.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-26 07:00:09 (1 week ago)

‘We count every litre’: how Cuba’s energy crisis sparked a daily struggle for water

Power cuts not only leave people in the dark but leave taps dry, forcing millions of Cubans to spend their days fetching water any way they can

In the cramped kitchen of her flat in Havana’s Chinatown, Mirella Martínez pushes an old metal trolley stacked with empty jerrycans. Wiping the sweat from her forehead, she fans herself gently. “It’s so hot!” she says, as the electric fans remain still due to another power outage that has left her flat sweltering in near darkness for hours.

Mirella Martínez’s flat in Havana has been without running water for nearly three years

Le Monde - World News

2026-07-26 07:00:05 (1 week ago)

Thousands of firefighters are battling the monster blaze near Bordeaux. Their commanders are dealing with a huge coordination challenge

Exhausted firefighters, most of them volunteers, wage a titanic battle in grueling conditions with little time for rest.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-26 07:00:03 (1 week ago)

Beauty queen Lindsay Shiver’s attorney rips Bahamas dispute he says could sink alleged husband murder plot

Lindsay Shiver's attorney argues Bahamian prosecutors lack jurisdiction, claiming she was in the U.S. when the alleged crime occurred.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-26 06:59:10 (1 week ago)

Tottenham begin tour with victory over Auckland FC in front of record crowd

• Scarlett and Richarlison on target in Spurs’ 2-0 victory

• Biggest-ever crowd to watch men’s match in New Zealand

Dane Scarlett and Richarlison were on target as an under-strength Tottenham opened their pre-season tour with an entertaining 2-0 win over A-League champions Auckland FC on Sunday.

Spurs coach Roberto De Zerbi rested most of his top players as the Premier League side dominated a match played in damp conditions in front of a record Eden Park crowd. The 40,112 who packed into New Zealand’s famed rugby ground was the biggest to watch a men’s football match in New Zealand.