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Manchester United are braced for talks with Kobbie Mainoo and Joshua Zirkzee ahead of the January transfer window, sources have told ESPN, with both players concerned about a lack of game time under head coach Ruben Amorim.Mainoo had a request to leave Old Trafford on loan turned down by United at the end of the summer window.The 20-year-old is yet to start a Premier League game so far this season.Zirkzee is also yet to start a league game and has been limited to just 74 minutes in three appearances. Mainoo has recorded 113 minutes in five appearances.After missing out on…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime political foe of President Donald Trump, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on mortgage fraud charges.It’s a case she says is bogus, cooked up by the Justice Department to cater to Trump, who had pushed for the Democrat to be prosecuted for something and ousted a federal prosecutor who resisted bringing charges.It’s also a turnabout for James, who spent years investigating and suing the Republican president. She won a staggering judgment — later reversed on appeal — in a lawsuit alleging he defrauded banks by overstating…

Popular narratives and conventional wisdom are sometimes right. Heck, Occam’s razor suggests that the simplest explanation is more likely than the more complex one to be correct. Of course, Occam — who wasn’t actually called Occam, but was rather a 14th-century Franciscan monk who happened to be from a village named Ockham, a few miles down the road from Chelsea’s training ground — lived in a world without sports and, specifically, football. So take it with a pinch of salt.Here’s a look at some popular recent narratives and how they stack up.’Liverpool’s somewhat disappointing early-season performances and results are largely…

CLEVELAND (AP) — A critically endangered rhino made its public debut Friday at a Cleveland zoo, dashing about its enclosure and giving a boost to the endangered species. The 120-pound (55-kilogram) eastern black rhino was born earlier this month to 22-year-old mother Kibibbi and 25-year-old father Forrest at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. The zoo has a long history of caring for the species, which has fewer than 583 adults in the wild, alongside global partners. A male Eastern Black Rhino calf born Sept. 13, 2025, explores his surroundings Friday, Oct. 10, 2025 as he makes his public debut at the…

In recent days, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, invited far-right extremist Tommy Robinson to visit Israel. This was not diplomatic courtesy, but an ideological embrace. Chikli hailed Robinson as “a true friend of Israel and the Jewish people” and praised him as “a courageous leader on the front line against radical Islam”. He vowed on X (formerly Twitter) that together, they would “build stronger bridges of solidarity, fight terror, and defend Western civilization”. But this is not solidarity. It is strategy – and a dangerous one. Israel is openly aligning itself with the European far…

When snow covers the frozen ground, and most South Dakota farmers have sold or stored their products for the season, the operators of Cedar Creek Gardens are still able to grow vegetables and harvest a lucrative crop.Located in a remote area southwest of Murdo, about 12 miles south of Interstate 90, the sprawling farm is one of dozens in the state that utilize what are called farm tunnels to extend the planting and growing seasons.The tunnels are fortified above-ground hoop buildings covered in plastic that capture heat from the sun, creating a greenhouse effect. Many of the tunnels at Cedar…

Inter Miami defender Jordi Alba admits he changed his mind after signing a contract extension with the club through the 2027 Major League Soccer season, choosing instead to retire from football at the end of the current campaign.”It’s true that I renewed my contract in May, but the conversations were much earlier, and well, maybe it’s true that the time in May, now October, hasn’t been long, but it’s a decision I’ve been meditating on, that I’ve been making over time, and it’s been a while, well, three or four weeks since I communicated it to the team, to the…

Even though the U.S. has a stark shortage of air traffic controllers, ones who call in sick instead of working without a paycheck during the federal government shutdown risk being fired, the U.S. transportation secretary warned.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said this week that he understands the controllers’ frustrations and worries. But during an appearance Thursday on Fox Business, he said that by calling in sick they are causing major disruptions to air traffic, and it won’t be tolerated.“If we have some of our staff that aren’t dedicated like we need, we’ll let them go,” Duffy said, noting that more than…

Middle East Eye has obtained a copy of the agreement signed by Israel, Hamas and the mediators in Egypt to end the genocide in Gaza. The document, which includes the signatures of several mediators, including US envoy Steve Witkoff, is titled the “Implementation Steps for President Trump’s proposal for a ‘Comprehensive End of Gaza War’.” It details six stages to the deal, beginning with US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the war in Gaza has ended and that “the parties have agreed to implement the necessary steps to that end.” The second step states that “the war will immediately end…

Last night I dreamed of my mother, Suzan. She was smiling at me and said: “Israel’s war on Gaza will end next week.” Even though the dream was about the waking nightmare of war, her presence in it was enough to bring my soul back to life. I had missed my late mother terribly. For weeks, I longed to see her – even for just a moment in a dream. I opened my eyes smiling, my heart full. I tried to force myself back to sleep, hoping to see her once more, but the deafening Israeli bombardment in my neighbourhood…