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Sen. Ted Cruz is confident the Protect College Sports Act will hit the Senate floor this week. Whether it actually does is another matter.Cruz, speaking with CBS Sports on Monday, was resolute. The bill received a significant boost late Friday when the Big Ten and SEC endorsed the legislation, giving it new momentum after weeks of negotiations. Cruz, one of three authors of the bipartisan legislation, said he has spoken directly with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and President Donald Trump multiple times and believes the Senate will stay in session until the bill passes.”This bill is going to pass,”…

Grande began singing at the age of eight and made her name as a teenage actress in Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious and its spin-off, Sam & Cat.Since releasing her debut single in 2011, she has scored 10 US number one hits and earned 20 Grammy Award nominations, winning three times.She has also made a successful move into acting, earning an Oscar nomination in 2025 for Wicked.But she has also experienced some difficult times.In 2017, 22 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack outside her concert at Manchester Arena.The following year, she said she was dealing with symptoms of post-traumatic stress…

The solution to today’s puzzleEarlier today I set you the following puzzle, suggested by Briton Alex Chui, the most successful ever candidate at the International Mathematical Olympiad.Last month Alex, who is a pupil at Tonbridge School in Kent, became the first person to win a medal at the olympiad for seven years in a row. Bravo! Continue reading…

Die Universität Hamburg hat eines ihrer versteckten Wahrzeichen zurück. Nach der abgeschlossenen Sanierung des Philosophenturms hängt das dreiteilige Gemälde des Künstlers Oskar Kokoschka wieder im …

NewsFeedBodycam footage from firefighters shows the speed needed to put out the blaze sweeping through the northwestern US. More than 60,000 people have fled their homes as wildfires raged near Spokane, Washington for a third straight day.Published On 4 Aug 20264 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Farmers across Europe are warning of a slump in food production and rising prices as crops from maize to salads suffer as a result of extreme heat, drought and wildfires.Olive groves have also been hit as the climate crisis drives temperatures across the continent to fresh record highs, meaning the cost of olive oil – already at elevated levels – is expected to start rising again.The vegetable growers association Légumes de France has warned that thousands of tonnes of products worth tens of millions of euros had been lost – including salad leaves, carrots, leeks, garlic and onion with production…

For a while this year, it looked like nothing could stop Nigel Farage getting to Downing Street. Not the allegations of schoolboy racism, not the dodgy Cameo videos or even the £400,000 he trousered for advertising gold bullion.But at the end of April, the Guardian’s City editor, Anna Isaac, delivered a game-changing scoop. That Farage had been given a £5m gift, as he termed it, from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harbourne.Farage has come up with all manner of explanations for the gift, but it set off a domino-run of allegations against the Reform leader as well as other party figures…

For decades, we’ve been told that weight loss is a matter of willpower: eat less, move more. But modern science has proven this isn’t actually the case. More on that in a moment. But first, let’s go back a few hundred thousand years to examine our early human ancestors. Because we can blame a lot of the difficulty we have with weight loss today on our predecessors of the past – maybe the ultimate case of blame the parents. For our early ancestors, body fat was a lifeline: too little could mean starvation, too much could slow you down. Over…

Mixed martial arts fighter Allan Nascimento has died at the age of 34, says the UFC.According to MMA’s leading promotion, the Brazilian flyweight was found unresponsive on Monday morning after suffering an apparent heart attack in his sleep.”Despite the efforts of the responding medical team, he was pronounced deceased at the scene,” added a UFC statement., external”Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Allan’s family, friends, team-mates and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time.”Nascimento had been with the UFC since 2021 and his last fight was a split-decision loss to Mitch Raposo in June.That left Nascimento with an overall…

Popular TikTok personality Habeeb Hamzat, widely known as Peller, has alleged that suspected hoodlums stole mobile phones belonging to some guests during his traditional wedding in Lagos. Peller made the claim during a TikTok livestream on Monday, saying the incidents happened outside the wedding venue while the ceremony was taking place. According to him, several guests later reached out to complain that their phones were snatched by suspected agberos gathered around the area. The content creator said he had already spent a considerable amount compensating some of the affected guests by replacing the stolen devices. He blamed the thefts on…