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China’s DF-61 rollout reignites the nuclear chess match, spotlighting its mobile missile edge and the US struggle to keep its aging, silo-bound arsenal credible. This month, multiple media outlets reported that China has rolled out what appears to be a new road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the DF-61, during a military parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of its World War II victory. President Xi Jinping oversaw the event attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other foreign dignitaries. Imagery showed 16-wheeled transporter-erector-launchers carrying canisters labeled DF-61, though whether they contained actual missiles…

Signage at the Nidec Corp. Qingdao Industrial Park in Qingdao, China, on July 9, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Nidec Corp plunged as much as 22.44% Thursday, after the company announced a probe into allegations of improper accounting in its group.This marks the largest one-day drop in the Japanese electronics components manufacturer’s shares.The Kyoto-based company is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of mini or brushless motors used in devices like hard drives and larger motors found in electric vehicles, appliances, and factory robots.Nidec shares have declined 10.61% since the start of the year. By comparison, the 225-stock…

A small replica of the Charging Bull statue is seen on a street vendor stall outside the New York Stock Exchange on July 11, 2025.Jeenah Moon | Reuters The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite climbed Wednesday, powered by tech shares after a federal court decision allowed Google to keep its Chrome browser.Optimism around a looming rate cut by the Federal Reserve also buoyed markets, with the CME Fedwatch tool indicating a 96.6% chance of a Fed rate cut in its September meeting later this month.However, weak economic data seems to hang like a dark cloud over investors. Job openings…

Liga MX is set to reinstate promotion and relegation with the conditions of the format and date of return to be announced soon by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, sources confirmed to ESPN.The Mexican league suspended promotion and relegation in 2019 for six seasons, seeing the first division maintain 18 teams for the period. Now, it’s expected to return sometime in 2026 under different requirements that could see second division teams once again play in Liga MX.Originally, ten clubs from Liga de Expansion sought for the reinstatement of promotion and relegation by filing a case to the Court of…

Jeff KassoufSep 3, 2025, 09:33 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.Angel City FC forward Alyssa Thompson boarded a London-bound plane from Los Angeles on Wednesday as six-time reigning English champions Chelsea attempt to finalize a deal for the American, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN.England’s transfer deadline closes at 11 p.m. local time Thursday. Multiple sources confirmed that Angel City and Chelsea have not yet agreed to a deal, but…

LONDON (AP) — European countries are stuck between a rock and a hard place as a coalition of countries meets in Paris on Thursday to discuss security guarantees for a postwar Ukraine.The war is raging unabated, with no ceasefire in sight — and the crucial question of American involvement in ensuring Ukraine’s future security remains unresolved.For months, the so-called “coalition of the willing” has been meeting to discuss aid for Ukraine, including sketching out plans for military support in the event of a ceasefire to deter future Russian aggression.The coalition leaders — French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K Prime Minister…

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 26, 2025.Jonathan Ernst | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday night asked the Supreme Court to quickly accept and rule on an appeal seeking to overturn lower court decisions that found most of his tariffs are illegal.The request comes five days after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in a 7-4 ruling, said that Trump overstepped his authority when he implemented the steep levies on virtually every country. That decision threw a central pillar of Trump’s trade agenda into doubt.Trump is asking…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Ned is a perfectly nice snail. If he had a dating profile, it might read: good listener, stable home, likes broccoli, seeks love.But he’s already exhausted his local options and it’s not because he’s picky or unappealing. Instead, he’s a common garden snail with an uncommon anatomical problem that’s ruining his love life.Ned’s shell coils to the left, not the right, making him the 1 in 40,000 snails whose sex organs don’t line up with those of the rest of their species. Unless another lefty snail is found, the young gastropod faces a lifetime of…

MOROGORO, Tanzania (AP) — A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, toppled furniture and scattered clothes to find him and pull a trigger on its pack, alerting searchers above.Then a resounding click. A survivor has been found. The search in Morogoro in Tanzania’s Uluguru Mountains is over and the rat scurries out of the abandoned building to be rewarded with a banana. A successful mission is complete for this African giant pouched rat being trained for search and…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — World shares mostly traded higher Thursday after a rally of technology stocks steadied Wall Street and a slide in the dollar made Asian assets more attractive. The future for the S&P 500 rose 0.1% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed less than 0.1%.In early European trading, Germany’s DAX climbed 0.4% to 23,690.74 while Britain’s FTSE 100 added 0.1% to 9,187.40. In Paris, the CAC 40 slipped 0.2% to 7,703.00.Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 1.5% to 42,580.27 while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 1% to 8,826.50. South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.5% to 3,200.83. Taiwan’s Taiex climbed…