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Mauricio Pochettino has outlined his determination to one day win the Premier League and Champions League.The Argentine coach is preparing for next summer’s World Cup when he will lead the United States at its home tournament. But his long-term ambitions are to return to elite European club soccer.In an interview with the BBC, the former Tottenham, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea manager said he wants to work in England’s top flight again.”The Premier League is the best in the world. Of course I miss it. I am so happy in the USA, but I am always thinking about returning one day,”…
Roughly 1 in 7 people are leaving unclaimed property on the table, according to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators. While the recent heavy selling in bitcoin and ether is rightly getting all the short-term attention, this estate planning issue is a longer-term one that’s likely to be exacerbated as crypto adoption and ownership increase. Many people neglect to account for cryptocurrency in their estate plans, or they don’t let their heirs know how to access their crypto holdings. With surveys in recent years from Gallup and Pew Research estimating that 14% to 17% of U.S. adults have owned…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday was hosting the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees in the Oval Office for what the White House described as a medal presentation ceremony. This year’s recipients are actor Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, the rock band Kiss and actor-singer Michael Crawford. Trump ignored the Kennedy Center and its premier awards program during his first term as president. But the Republican president instituted a series of changes since returning to office in January, most notably ousting its board of trustees and replacing them with GOP supporters who voted him in as…
Xabi Alonso said Kylian Mbappé is “on his way to making history at Real Madrid” as the star forward closes in on Cristiano Ronaldo’s club record for most goals scored in a calendar year.Mbappé’s brace in Madrid’s 3-0 LaLiga win at Athletic Club on Wednesday made it 55 goals for the club in 2025, just four short of Ronaldo’s 59-goal record, set in 2013.Madrid have four games left this year, starting with hosting Celta Vigo at the Bernabéu on Sunday.Kylian Mbappé is edging close to Cristiano Ronaldo’s Real Madrid goal record. Pedro Castillo/Real Madrid via Getty Images”Kylian is on his way…
There are quiet weeks on Wall Street but there are no meaningless ones. The broad S & P 500 index in the past week barely fluttered the curtains, tiptoeing higher by 0.3%, slowing its two-week, 5.5% rebound rally and finishing just a quarter-percent shy of its former closing high set on Oct. 28. The smooth, if slow, progression reflects a market back in gear after running rough in November, with rotation among sectors supporting the tape and suppressing volatility, the S & P 500 Volatility Index bleeding toward 15 for the first time in almost six weeks. .SPX YTD mountain…
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Authorities hunted Saturday for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall.“We would prefer that he surrender himself peaceably,” St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz said in a statement, “but we will not rest until he is captured.”Detectives and SWAT officers were following leads Saturday in pursuit of 24-year-old Keith Eli, who remained at large three days after he and two other inmates escaped the parish jail in southwestern Louisiana, said Maj. Mark LeBlanc, a spokesman for the sheriff. Eli had been jailed on…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.)Just before Warren Buffett surprised shareholders in early May with his plan to step down as CEO at the end of the year, Berkshire Hathaway’s B shares were outperforming the benchmark S&P 500 by 22.4 percentage points in 2025.Over the following three months, BRKB fell 14.9% to a post-meeting closing low of $459.11 on August 4.Since that date, it has rebounded by 9.9% to close at $504.34, up 11.3% year-to-date.Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwardsBut it…
California officials are warning foragers after an outbreak of poisoning linked to wild mushrooms that has killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in several patients, including children.The state poison control system has identified 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning, likely caused by death cap mushrooms, the health department said Friday. The toxic wild mushrooms are often mistaken for edible ones because of their appearance and taste.“Death cap mushrooms contain potentially deadly toxins that can lead to liver failure,” Erica Pan, director of the California Department of Public Health, said in a statement. “Because the death cap can easily be…
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark says legislation currently stalled in Congress is needed to regulate college athletics and put a stop to what he essentially calls uncapped spending for name, image and likeness in football.“Let me be clear about this,” Yormark said Saturday before the Big 12 championship game between No. 5 Texas Tech and 11th-ranked BYU at the home of the Dallas Cowboys. “The House of Representatives must do what is right for over 500,000 student-athletes and pass the SCORE Act. We must protect their future, their well-being and their fair treatment. They deserve action…
Jodie Foster, Billie Perkins, and Robert De Niro perform a scene in Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese in 1976 in New York, New York. Michael Ochs Archives | Moviepix | Getty ImagesIn the dwindling days of the California gold rush, the wife of a local miner faced a problem. Her husband’s denim work pants kept ripping, so her tailor, Jacob Davis, had the idea to add copper rivets to key points of strain, like the pocket corners and the base of the button fly, to keep them from tearing. Davis’ “riveted pants” soon became a roaring success and, unbeknownst to him…