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Wolves have rejected an improved second offer worth £55m from Newcastle for striker Jorgen Strand Larsen.The bid was rejected on Tuesday night when the 25-year-old scored two late goals as Wolves beat West Ham 3-2 to reach the Carabao Cup third round, with Wolves manager Vitor Pereira admitting “every player has a price” in the post-match press conference. Newcastle had an opening £50m offer turned down on Monday.Newcastle’s well-documented search for a Callum Wilson replacement has proved frustrating so far, with multiple bids also rejected for Brentford striker Yoane Wissa.The Magpies are currently without Alexander Isak, who continues to make…

The top stories and transfer rumours from Wednesday’s newspapers…THE TELEGRAPH Alexander Isak remains adamant he wants to leave Newcastle United despite the intervention of chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan who is keen to broker a deal to keep the striker at the club. The Liverpool teenager Rio Ngumoha is at the centre of a bitter legal dispute between the Premier League champions and his former club Chelsea. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Sky Sports’ Keith Downie has the latest on the Alexander Isak saga Brazil forward Antony has edged closer to his Manchester United departure as talks…

Jeff CarlisleAug 26, 2025, 06:56 PM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.In his brief time as manager with the U.S. men’s national team, Mauricio Pochettino hasn’t shied away from making, shall we say, interesting roster decisions. The roster at the Gold Cup was chock-full of players making their international debuts when it would have been easy to err on the side of going with experienced performers, even as some players opted to sit the tournament out.But Tuesday’s USMNT roster strayed from bucking convention into choices that were downright mystifying.Granted, some familiar names made their…

Aug 26, 2025, 06:44 PM ETWest Ham United captain Jarrod Bowen needed to be pulled away by teammates after attempting to approach fans following a 3-2 loss to Wolves in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday that continued the team’s miserable start to the season.Bowen took to Instagram to apologise to West Ham’s traveling fans for his post-match conduct at Molineux, after he and his teammates went over to applaud them. At one stage, he appeared to point at a fan and make a comment, before attempting to vault the advertising hoarding — only to be stopped by teammates.The England winger…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on August 26, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesThe S&P 500 ticked higher on Wednesday as investors turn their eyes to Nvidia earnings, which could be a make-or-break moment for the bull market.The broad market index rose 0.1%, while Nvidia shares were little changed. Nvidia, which accounts for roughly 8% of the S&P 500, has the biggest weight in the benchmark, according to FactSet data. The Nasdaq Composite traded around the flatline, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 84 points,…

Brendan Rodgers called Celtic’s demotion to the Europa League a “huge blow” for the club, following a 3-2 penalty shootout loss to Kairat Almaty.Celtic, who reached the Champions League knockout stages last season, drop into the second-tier competition after a goalless 210 minutes led to a nervy shootout in eastern Kazakhstan, where the game was staged 250 miles from the Chinese border. Adam Idah, Luke McCowan and Daizen Maeda all saw penalties saved by Kairat’s 21-year-old second-choice goalkeeper Temirlan Anarbekov, as they became just the second Kazakh side to earn a place in the Champions League proper.Rodgers told Amazon Prime:…

From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors. Residents run across a bridge over the flooding Beas River following incessant rains in Kullu, in northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Aqil Khan) Residents run across a bridge over the flooding Beas River following incessant rains in Kullu, in northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Aqil Khan)Read More Aviation buffs observe an Eurofighter Typhoon German Airforce aircraft fly by during a show of military and acrobatic aviation…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Police arrested seven people Tuesday after they occupied the office of Microsoft President Brad Smith as part of continued protests over the company’s ties to the Israel Defense Forces during the ongoing war in Gaza, organizers said.Current and former Microsoft employees were among those arrested, said the protest group No Azure for Apartheid. Azure is Microsoft’s primary cloud computing platform, and Microsoft has said it is reviewing a report in a British newspaper this month that Israel has used it to facilitate attacks on Palestinian targets.The protesters could be seen huddled together on a Twitch livestream…

NASA administrator Sean Duffy visits the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Control Building at the Kennedy Space Center for Space Launch Complex 39A before the NASA and SpaceX Launch Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station on July 31, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo | Getty ImagesTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy pulled $175 million from California’s high-speed rail project on Tuesday, just a month after canceling $4 billion in federal grants.Duffy cited four projects related to the broader California high-speed rail initiative that would lose funding, including track extensions, grade separations, design work and the construction of…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australian police on Wednesday identified a suspect who shot and killed two police officers and seriously wounded a third as the search for the shooter entered day two in a vast, remote rural area in the country’s southeast. Dezi Freeman, 56, was heavily armed and experienced in wilderness survival skills, Victoria’s Chief Commissioner of Police Mike Bush told reporters. People were urged to stay indoors.The shooting happened on Tuesday, when 10 armed police officers tried to execute a search warrant at Freeman’s property in Porepunkah, a town of just over 1,000 people located 320 kilometers…