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Barcelona goalkeeper Joan García will be available for Saturday’s league opener against Mallorca after LaLiga granted the club permission to use salary space allocated for the injured Marc-André ter Stegen.Barça remain in excess of LaLiga’s financial fair play rules but regulations allow new signings to be registered in place of players deemed to be injured long-term.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedThe rough definition of long-term is four months, with a LaLiga panel ruling on Wednesday that Ter Stegen’s back injury fits the parameters.Barça used the same measure last season to register Dani Olmo in place of the injured Andreas Christensen.It draws a conclusion…

Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare.Courtesy: UnitedHealth GroupA New York state man was arrested Wednesday and charged with leaving threatening voicemails for the widow of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson hours after Thompson was fatally shot on a Manhattan sidewalk in December.The suspect, Shane Daley, left Paulette Thompson profanity-laced voicemails calling her husband a “f—— capitalist pig” and declaring he died because he was “profiting off the backs of poor Americans,” according to a criminal complaint in Albany federal court charging Daley with cyberstalking.”This s— is gonna keep happening to you f—— p—–,” Daley, 40, warned Paulette in one of three voicemails…

Liverpool have agreed a deal to sign Parma defender Giovanni Leoni.An agreement was reached late on Wednesday night and the fee for the 18-year-old defender is £26m plus add-ons. Leoni now has permission to travel to Liverpool to agree personal terms and undergo a medical, which is expected to begin on Thursday.Liverpool saw off competition from elite Italian clubs and Premier League sides, with the player adamant his choice was a move to Arne Slot’s side.Leoni will also immediately join the first-team set-up for this season, with any suggestion of a loan move completely ruled out. Liverpool were targeting reinforcements…

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins speaks at the Business Roundtable CEO Workforce Forum in Washington on June 17, 2025.Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCisco reported results on Wednesday that narrowly exceeded analysts’ expectations and issued quarterly guidance that was also better than expected.Here’s how the company did in its fiscal fourth quarter comparison with LSEG consensus:Earnings per share: 99 cents adjusted vs. 98 cents expectedRevenue: $14.67 billion vs. $14.62 billion expectedRevenue increased 7.6% year over year in the quarter, which ended on July 26, according to a statement. Net income rose to $2.82 billion, or 71 cents per share, from…

Beth LindopAug 13, 2025, 03:58 PM ETCloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.Liverpool are closing in on a deal to sign centre-back Giovanni Leoni from Parma, sources told ESPN.The 18-year-old had attracted interest from Serie A side Inter Milan but now looks set to move to Anfield for an initial fee of £26 million ($35m).- Sources: Liverpool begin Guéhi talks with Palace- Prem matches to have moment of silence for Jota- Premier League 2025-26 kit rankingShould a deal be finalised, he will provide Liverpool with crucial defensive reinforcement following the departure…

Nearly everyone is overloaded with information these days. In each minute of every day, 138.9 million reels are played on Instagram and Facebook, according to a 2024 report by Domo called “Data Never Sleeps.”Consuming this much content on a daily basis has shown to have negative effects on a person’s ability to focus. Since 2004, psychologist Gloria Mark has studied attention spans, and her research shows that people’s attention when viewing a screen decreased from an average of two and half minutes in 2004 to an average of 47 seconds in 2016 — which is about the length of many videos on…

UDINE, Italy — Paris Saint-Germain beat Tottenham Hotspur 4-3 on penalties to win the UEFA Super Cup on Wednesday, completing a remarkable rally after scoring two late goals to take the match to a shootout.Nuno Mendes converted PSG’s final kick from the spot to secure a fifth trophy of 2025 for the French club.Lee Kang-in scored in the 85th for PSG, and fellow substitute Goncalo Ramos grabbed an equalizer in the fourth minute of stoppage time to make it 2-2 in regulation.Set piece goals by Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero had Spurs halfway towards another trophy — only three months…

Contrary to popular belief, you won’t need a machine learning degree or other highly technical skills to succeed in the near future, according to Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman.As more artificial intelligence-powered tools get integrated into the workplace, employers will prioritize hiring workers with “soft skills” like creativity and adaptability, Garman told CNBC’s “Closing Bell Overtime” on Friday. His advice to his own child, a rising high school senior, he said: Develop your critical thinking skills in college, no matter what subject you study.”I think part of going to college is building [your] critical thinking,” Garman said. “It’s less…

Manchester United will face League Two side Grimsby Town in the second round of the Carabao Cup, plus there are two all-Premier League ties.Bournemouth will host Brentford while Wolves will play West Ham when the 11 Premier League clubs not participating in a European competition enter the Carabao Cup in the second round. Promoted Leeds face a trip to either Bolton or Sheffield Wednesday and Everton will host League One Mansfield.League One Doncaster’s reward for their 4-0 drubbing of Middlesbrough is a trip to Accrington, while Bromley host League One Wycombe after dumping Ipswich, who spent last season in the…

People shop for pet supplies at a pet retail store in New York City, Aug. 12, 2025.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesGoldman Sachs is taking the heat for its call that heavier tariff-induced consumer inflation is ahead, but it’s far from alone in that view among its Wall Street brethren.Despite investors’ embrace of Tuesday’s fairly benign consumer price index report, economists expect that the biggest impact to inflation is yet to come.With pre-tariff inventories rolling off, effective tariff rates climbing higher and companies less willing to absorb higher costs from the duties, the general feeling is that consumers are increasingly going…