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Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs (8) runs a drill during practice at the team’s training camp recently.Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur said Friday the team has no plans to release standout running back Josh Jacobs any time soon.“I fully anticipate him being a member of our team,” LaFleur said.Jacobs was charged with misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor criminal damage to property on Thursday related to his arrest on May 26.In addition to the two misdemeanor charges, Jacobs could face discipline under the NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy. The NFL could suspend Jacobs…

The former prime minister Gordon Brown has said it is inevitable that Ireland will become united at some point in the future, in a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian.While he added that any union would necessarily be “a long process” and based on mutual agreement, Brown’s comments are notable both because of his vehement opposition to Scottish independence, but also because of his involvement in government in efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland.He was Tony Blair’s chancellor when the Good Friday peace agreement was signed in 1998. In 2010, he was prime minister when justice and policing powers were…

The Nigerian government has extradited two Nigerians to the United States to face prosecution over alleged online sexual exploitation and sextortion of two American teenagers who later died by suicide. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said in a statement by its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said Mudashiru Olawale and Adebola Adekunle were extradited on Wednesday. The extradition was facilitated by the Office of the Attorney of the Federation and the EFCC following investigations conducted in collaboration with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). According to the EFCC, the two men were separately identified in FBI investigations into…

David PurdumAug 28, 2026, 06:51 PM ETClose Joined ESPN in 2014 Journalist covering gambling industry since 2008Multiple AuthorsPolymarket US says it followed guidance from a federal regulator and withdrew plans to offer trading on Patrick Mahomes’ return to the field, a type of market the NFL says should be prohibited.On Tuesday, Polymarket self-certified a market on “Will Patrick Mahomes participate in the Kansas City Chiefs’ Week 1 regular-season game?” but withdrew the filing the following day.A Polymarket source told ESPN on Friday that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) asked Polymarket and other prediction market operators to remove contracts such…

By Benjamin Njoku It’s a career high for fast-rising actress and producer Irewole Olaniyan. Her latest project, “Derin vs Life 2”, the sequel to her 2025 hit, has taken YouTube by storm, raking up 1.4 million views in just 24 hours of its release. Critics and fans alike have credited the massive numbers to the quality of storytelling, production, and cast. Audiences have wasted no time diving back into Derin’s world, and the buzz shows no signs of slowing down. For Olaniyan, who debuted as an actress in 2014, took a break and returned in 2019, the success is proof…

To most of the world, he was and will always be the “Butcher of Bosnia”, a grim epithet but one that still fails to fully convey the evil and horror inflicted on its people by Gen Ratko Mladić, who died in prison on Thursday.As commander of the Bosnian Serb forces, Mladić was responsible for the killing of an estimated 100,000 men, women and children during the savage breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He was most notoriously the architect of ethnic cleansing and the genocide at Srebrenica in which at least 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were slaughtered.Today, 31…

Mark Walter chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners, primary owner and chairman of Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers and a 12.7% of BlueCo, a holding company that controls Premier League club Chelsea on the field after the FIFA Club World Cup Final against Paris Saint-Germain on July, 13, 2025 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Rich Graessle | Icon Sportswire | Getty ImagesTwo banks have paused selling products of Mark Walter’s Delaware Life amid concerns of federal probes into how the insurer’s parent company reported about $20 billion in assets…

Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google’s results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with a “Show more” button you can click, you’ll Google will show a full AI Overview at the top of your search, an “Ask anything” box under that, and then the list of links. It can lead to a lot of scrolling.It’s unclear exactly what Google’s…

If bouts of rain wasn’t enough, parts of southern England and Wales will be buffeted by strong winds at times too. This may make travel and camping a challenge at times.The strongest winds of the weekend are expected on Saturday across southern counties of England and Wales as well as the Channel Islands. Some hills and coasts could experience gusts of 40 to 50mph.Monday will be a blustery day more widely across the UK, but again it will be southern areas seeing the strongest gusts – generally 30-40mph.This will make for a cooler feeling spell of weather at times. Throughout…

Guardian writers’ predicted position: 10th (NB: this is not necessarily Tom Garry’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips)Last season’s position: 8thProspectsWith a new manager in charge, the new season brings some fresh optimism for Everton. But nobody associated with the club will be getting carried away. Last season concluded with a respectable eighth-place finish and anything similar again would be considered a solid campaign for a team operating on a relatively small budget. The latest set of financial accounts showed Everton’s wage bill to be five times smaller than Chelsea’s, illustrating the financial gulf between the Merseysiders and…