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Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring, speaks during an Amazon product event in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Sept. 30, 2025.Charly Triballeau | AFP | Getty ImagesIn 2023, Jamie Siminoff called up Amazon’s former devices boss, Dave Limp, to say he was stepping down from leading the video doorbell company he sold to the e-commerce giant for $839 million in 2018.Siminoff, who started Ring in 2013, said Limp and Amazon offered him the opportunity to work elsewhere at the company, but he declined.”I said, ‘I think I have to leave,'” Siminoff recalled in an interview on Friday. “I…

Galatasaray began to gain a foothold in the aftermath, without truly troubling the visitors, and the woodwork soon saved them once more.Alvin Ayman’s lofted cross from the left wing was plum for Sonni-Lambie and his nod aimed at the right side of goal bumped away off the upright.Kone-Doherty also dragged narrowly wide of the near post from the edge of the box before a hugely dominant half for Liverpool drew to a close.Galatasaray got themselves on the front foot when play resumed and Furkan Kocak was able to fire in a shot from a cutback that was deflected behind.The same…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — After years of failed attempts, Republicans in Nebraska have enacted a measure that uses taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuition, despite voters repealing a newly-passed state law that would fund private school tuition with state dollars.Republican Gov. Jim Pillen signed an executive order opting the state into a federal school choice tax credit program included in President Donald Trump’s tax and budget bill passed in July.“I am not opting this in, I am cannonballing it into the state of Nebraska,” Pillen said as he announced the move Monday at Catholic school in Lincoln. He…

Wales captain Aaron Ramsey is to end a 13-month absence from international football.The 86-times capped Ramsey has been selected in a 26-man squad for the Wembley friendly with England on October 9 and the World Cup qualifier against Belgium in Cardiff four days later. On Ramsey’s recall, head coach Craig Bellamy said: “He’s fit. I haven’t had that luxury with him.”When I look back at that first game [against Turkey in September 2024] he was immense. He has the brain. That’s never going to go.”We have legs in and around him that could really benefit from his type of profile.…

PARIS (AP) — The South African ambassador to France, Emmanuel Nkosinathi Mthethwa, known as Nathi Mthethwa, was found dead on Tuesday morning at the foot of a luxury hotel tower in western Paris, a French prosecutor said.The 58-year-old ambassador had been reported missing on Monday evening, after his wife said she received a worrying message from him “in which he apologized and expressed his intention to take his own life,” Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.On Tuesday morning, a security guard at the Hyatt hotel discovered Mthethwa’s body in the inner courtyard, Beccuau said, adding an investigation has…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Pfizer has agreed to lower drug costs under a deal struck with the Trump administration, President Donald Trump said Tuesday, as he promised similar deals with other drugmakers facing a threat of tariffs.The announcement, which Trump made with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla at the White House, came as the Republican president has for months sought to lower drug costs. It also came as Washington faced a federal government shutdown at midnight amid a standoff between Democrats and Republicans over health care and its costs.Under the agreement, New York-based Pfizer will charge most-favored-nation pricing to Medicaid and…

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — The party of Gabon’s president Tuesday won the most seats in the first round of the country’s first legislative elections since a 2023 military coup ended a 50-year-old political dynasty. The Democratic Union of Builders, or UDB, a party founded in July by Gabon’s leader Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, won 55 of the 145 seats in the National Assembly, according to provisional results released by the Interior Ministry.The Gabonese Democratic Party, or PDG, the party of former president Ali Bongo Ondimba, won three seats. The UDB and PDG, running on a joint ticket in some…

The federal government is nearing a partial shutdown, with a range of effects on public services and the broader U.S. economy. Employee furloughs and potential layoffs would halt some government activities. Other functions — like NASA’s space missions, President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and certain public health work at FDA and the USDA — would continue. Here is a look at some of what agencies are planning: A partisan standoff over health care and spending is threatening to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost seven years, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott…

Sam MarsdenMoises LlorensSep 30, 2025, 08:30 AM ETBarcelona sporting director Deco said there is no penalty clause if the club do not make Marcus Rashford’s loan move from Manchester United permanent next summer.Barça have an option to sign Rashford for around €30 million ($35m) at the end of the season, but will not be penalised if they don’t take it up.United had included a similar clause in previous loan deals, with Chelsea having to pay them £5m ($6.7m) when they returned Jadon Sancho after his loan.Editor’s Picks2 Related”There’s no penalty clause in the loan agreement if we don’t sign him,”…

The U.S. government was on track Tuesday to shut down after midnight as Republicans and Democrats in Congress both refused to budge from their opposing positions on a funding deal that could avoid that outcome.Lawmakers took to the airwaves to blame each other for the looming shutdown.House Speaker Mike Johnson, during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” said Democrats “need to come to their senses here, and do the right thing.”Johnson, R-La., said that top Democrats — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both of New York — have “painted themselves into a corner” by…