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Rachel Reeves has urged Andy Burnham to arrive in Downing Street with a “worked through plan”, saying the incoming prime minister will be tested quickly by a range of incoming “shocks and challenges”.In what could be one of the first female chancellor’s final major interviews while in No 11, Reeves said Burnham should remain focused on the priorities that first brought him into politics.Burnham’s bid to become Labour leader and prime minister has been backed by 322 of the party’s 403 MPs, leaving him just one short of the number required to make it mathematically impossible for a rival to…

Inside the 2026 World Cup’s refereeing storm It is unworthy that the 2026 World Cup’s defining narratives centre on manipulation and political string-pulling rather than footballing brilliance. I am no conspiracy theorist, yet the mounting evidence suggests something is amiss. But the more I look at the facts and evidence that have piled up over the last month, the clearer a certain picture is emerging: something about this tournament does not sit right, and it is not the football. Are the goalposts being shifted? Are the referees on call to Gianni Infantino? Has football become the ultimate political tool? Let’s…

Liverpool’s Paddy Pimblett, who beat Benoit Saint-Denis in just 52 seconds in the co-main event, was being interviewed when he saw McGregor’s fight waved off via a TV backstage.”Oh my god, McGregor’s done already? He’s finished, the new boy is in town. I can become the face of the organisation now,” Pimblett said.”You could call that the changing of the guard, I can be the new face of MMA now. I just got a finish in 52 seconds on the biggest card of the year.”Some speculated that McGregor, who has one fight remaining on his UFC contract, may have carried…

Jay-Z turned Yankee Stadium into a celebration of legacy, hometown pride, and the enduring impact of Reasonable Doubt, delivering an opening-night performance that balanced nostalgia with spectacle as the first of three anniversary concerts. When I arrived in the Bronx, the atmosphere surrounding Yankee Stadium felt like an event long before anyone stepped inside. It was absolute pandemonium. Traffic had completely overwhelmed the Grand Concourse, River Avenue, 161st Street, and the surrounding blocks, forcing me to abandon the car and walk the rest of the way to the stadium. Thousands of fans poured through the streets in every direction, all…

Iyobosa Uwugiaren reviews the Town Hall on Building a Consensus for State Police, organised by THISDAY/Arise News recently, arguing that the true measure of the event’s success will not lie in the quality of the discussions alone, but in whether the ideas generated influence the constitutional amendments and policy decisions that now lie ahead Speakers at the THISDAY/ARISE News Town Hall on Building a National Consensus for State Police and National Security commended the Chairman/Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY/ARISE Media Group, Prince Nduka Obaigbena, for convening what many described as a timely and nationally significant national conversation.  Their commendations, however, went beyond acknowledging…

Latest match highlights, reaction and previews from the FIFA World Cup 2026 in North America.

Looking for help with today’s Easy, Medium and Hard NYT Pips puzzles? Whether you’re after a nudge in the right direction or just want to compare notes, below you’ll find everything you need to solve each of today’s Pips plus a full walkthrough for today’s Hard Pips. It’s lazy Sunday and also my son’s 16th birthday, so happy birthday kiddo, even if you’re hardly a kid anymore. Before the festivities, we have some Pips to solve!Looking for Friday’s Pips? Read our guide right here.How To Play PipsIn Pips, you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a…

Last weekend’s brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven for a slurpee. This time, though, I stayed home and put the new Ninja Slushi Twist to the test. Ninja’s latest slushie machine builds on the popularity of the original Slushi, but with a big upgrade. Instead of a single mixing chamber, the Slushi Twist has two 48-ounce vessels that can make two completely different frozen drinks at the same time. Beyond classic slushies, it can also make frappés, milkshakes, frozen coffees, and smoothies —…

By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja Abuja has a way of transforming seemingly routine political exchanges into conversations that echo far beyond the Federal Capital Territory.  On any given day, the city’s hotels, private residences and political party offices double as informal negotiating tables where governors, former ministers, lawmakers and party strategists quietly take the measure of one another.   Alliances are tested over breakfast meetings, political futures are debated in hushed conversations, and a single public statement can alter the calculations of men already looking beyond tomorrow’s headlines to the presidential contest of 2027.  It was against that backdrop that an exchange between former…

There is no approved drug to help the medical teams scrabbling to save lives in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – but there are hopes that could change within months as the first patients are enrolled in a treatment trial.It is a record pace to set up and start this kind of research, scientists said, with patients enrolled just six weeks after the outbreak being declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 17 May.Nevertheless, in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province, where the virus is raging, people…