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DUESSELDORF, Germany — A World Cup without Germany used to be unthinkable. Now the four-time champions need to turn things around to ensure a spot at next year’s tournament.A shock 2-0 loss to Slovakia in World Cup qualifying means Julian Nagelsmann’s team may need a perfect record in the rest of its qualifiers, starting with wins over Luxembourg on Friday and Northern Ireland on Monday.”Everyone expects of us that we’ll beat every opponent 5-0, 6-0 but that’s no longer possible,” midfielder Nadiem Amiri said in comments reported by German agency dpa. “The times have simply changed. Everyone’s good, everyone can…

Jeff KassoufOct 9, 2025, 01:01 PM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.United States women’s national team forward Emma Sears has signed a new contract with Racing Louisville FC through the 2028 NWSL season, the club confirmed Thursday.Sears is tied for third in the NWSL Golden Boot race with 10 goals this season after scoring a brace on Saturday in a 3-1 victory over the North Carolina Courage. A week earlier,…

The IRS announced a raft of changes to tax rules for tax year 2026 on Thursday, including higher brackets for capital gains tax.A quick reminder of how these work. If you sell an investment you hold in a taxable account for more than you paid for it, you realize a capital gain. Profits on investments you’ve held for a year or less are taxed at your regular income tax rate (the IRS announced boosts to those brackets, too).Profits on assets you’ve held for longer than a year are subject to the long-term capital gains rate, which, depending on your income,…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 9, 2025.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Thursday said his administration plans to use the ongoing government shutdown to permanently cut government programs popular with Democrats, his latest threat amid the funding stalemate.”We’re only cutting Democrat programs,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.It was not immediately clear which programs Trump had in mind, but he specified that they were “very popular Democrat programs that aren’t popular with Republicans, frankly.””They wanted to do this,” Trump said, doubling down on blaming…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal has recorded 17 deaths from Rift Valley Fever, RVF, a health ministry official said Thursday, in a rare major outbreak of the viral disease in the West African country.With 119 cases reported so far, mostly in northern Senegal’s livestock-producing region, the outbreak is raising concerns about further spread, said Dr. Boly Diop, head of RVF surveillance at the health ministry.“This is the first time Senegal has counted so many people affected,” Diop told local media.RVF is a viral disease that mainly affects livestock. Humans typically become infected through mosquito bites or contact with infected animals.While…

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James was charged Thursday as part of a mortgage fraud investigation aggressively pushed by the Trump administration, becoming the latest foe of the president to be prosecuted by his Justice Department. James, who infuriated President Donald Trump by suing him and his company for fraud in a case that played out as he was running for office, was indicted on charges of bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution following a presentation to a grand jury in Virginia by a prosecutor who was hastily appointed last month amid Trump administration…

Villarreal’s LaLiga game against Barcelona on Dec. 20 in Miami, and AC Milan’s Serie A clash with Como in Perth, Australia, in February will make history. For the first time, regular-season games will be played on foreign soil, and it marks the culmination of a long political and legal struggle.It’s a path that major U.S. sports have trod in the opposite direction for years now — the NFL, NBA and MLB have all played regular-season games overseas — and some see it as a shortcut to globalizing their league and marketing their product around the world. It’s also a contentious…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ever since Donald Trump returned to office, his attempts to make a name for himself as a historic peacemaker have been frustrated by the ceaseless Russian invasion of Ukraine and the persistent fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Now Trump is on the brink of a remarkable breakthrough in one of those conflicts. He’s forged a deal that could end the Middle East bloodshed that began just over two years ago with Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel and cost the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians. If the pieces continue to fall into place —…

You don’t have to start a company at age 20 to become a successful entrepreneur, according to Jeff Bezos. In fact, the billionaire Amazon founder recommends working at a successful, established company for several years before striking out on your own.Rather than delaying your success, acquiring that valuable hands-on experience “increases your odds” of launching a successful business of your own when you’re ready to do so, Bezos said Friday at Italian Tech Week in Turin, Italy.”I always advise young people: Go work at a best-practices company somewhere where you can learn a lot of basic fundamental things [like] how…

A view from the Delta Sky Club at Los Angeles International Airport, Sept. 2, 2022.AaronP | Bauer-Griffin | GC Images | Getty ImagesDelta Air Lines customers are getting used to first class.Revenue from the pricier, roomier seats toward the front of the plane could eclipse sales from standard coach seats for at least a quarter or two next year, Delta executives said Thursday.In the last quarter, Delta said ticket revenue from its premium cabin rose 9% from last year to nearly $5.8 billion, while main-cabin ticket revenue fell 4% from a year earlier to just over $6 billion.CEO Ed Bastian…