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Domestic spy agency investigates if rogue members loyal to former president behind the turmoil

The USWNT is looking to avenge its fifth place finish at the 2016 Rio Olympics when it takes the field in Tokyo in a few weeks.

Green grass and wildflowers bend in the alpine breeze. Butterflies land on your head. Marmots chirp. Or were those unicorns? Break out the wineskin and marvel at stone in front of you.

Good morning, Mets fans! All-Star festivities will come to a close on Tuesday night as the annual MLB All-Star Game will take place at Coors Field. New York pitcher Taijuan Walker will be the only Met representing the National League as he replaces ace Jacob deGrom who has elected to rest during the break. Angels […]

New routing on Canada's remote Baffin Island still takes grit and determination, but that doesn't mean you have to take it quite so seriously.

Team USA was projected to qualify just one athlete for the Olympics, but instead maxed out, quadrupling expectations. The team manager had a lot to do with it.

BASIL is a delicious and versatile herb that can flourish when grown indoors on the window sill. Here are four top tips for looking after an indoor basil plant.

Space Force Plans for a new Space Systems Command “consist primarily of renaming the Space and Missile Systems Center” and do not “resolve the fundamental issues of overlap and duplication in roles,” the HAC report says.

By the end of June, 29 Republican-led state legislatures had considered and nine had enacted laws to penalize schools or teachers teaching critical race theory (CRT). Whether or not such laws would stifle anything taught in public schools today is uncertain because existing legislative control over curricula is already extensive. But the war against CRT…

Grady Hendrix's "The Final Girl Support Group" is steeped in tropes of '80s slasher cinema, paying tribute to the young women who survived slaughter.

Just because you may not be seen as a fit for one workplace situation does not rule out that you may be the ideal fit for another.

In 20th-century mathematics, the renowned name of Nicolas Bourbaki stands alone in its class — the class, that is, of renowned mathematical names that don’t actually belong to real people. Bourbaki refers not to a mathematician, but to mathematicians; a whole secret society of them, in fact, who made their name by collectively composing Elements […]

1. Una Healy and Ben Foden's children are BLOCKED from entering the US to visit their father  Daily Mail
2. Una Healy's children blocked from flying to America to visit dad Ben Foden  The Mirror
3. Una Healy and Ben Foden's kids blocked from travelling to US  Metro.co.uk
4. Una Healy's kids 'not ok' as they're blocked from entering US to visit dad Ben Foden  Daily Star
5. Ben Foden's wife says his kids were left heartbroken after international travel ban  The Mirror
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Plus, second-quarter oil M&A figures and why carbon pricing isn’t yet hitting the mark

PM Modi to review Covid situation of southern states on July 16

Andrew Michta, 1945

NATO has a decision to make: Either continue with the 2% of GDP pledge and the usual bromides about allied solidarity or get serious about what the alliance needs the most, namely real exercised pluggable military capabilities that by their very nature will ensure that deterrence in Europe holds, regardless of what does or does not happen in Asia. There is a cliché that war is too important to be left to the military, but in this case, it is high time that Europe's politicians start listening to their militaries. Читать дальше...

Bret Stephens, New York Times

Alidad Vassigh, Worldcrunch

Residents near the Caribbean coast of Honduras have been witness to an unlikely, and much welcome, event: fish that seem to arrive from the skies. Or maybe from somewhere else?

Clair MacDougall, World Politics Review

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—The images that circulated on social media following last month's bloody attack on the village of Solhan, in northeastern Burkina Faso, weren't as gory as those that are often shared online after towns have been hit by armed groups. But even in a country where such killings are a near-daily occurrence, there was something about the photographs—showing dozens of bodies wrapped in woven prayer mats and piled into a...

Chloe Cornish, Financial Times

A journey across this small country symbolises its growing sense of crisis