It isn’t just football fans and Uefa executives who want to give Gianni Infantino the red card for his plan to sell off 20% of the World Cup to a privately backed commercial enterprise. The Fifa president is also in the crosshairs of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee in Washington and ranking Democrat member … Read more
A Korean tech billionaire who publicly admitted to loving a woman other than his wife and fathering a child with her could be ordered to stand trial. He paid his ex-wife nearly $1 billion As the “divorce of the century” in South Korea approaches the decisive ruling. Chi Tae-won, the 65-year-old chairman of South Korea’s … Read more
Spain didn’t just win the 2026 FIFA World Cup; it did it in historic fashion. With its 1-0 win over Argentina on Sunday at New York New Jersey Stadium, Spain broke the all-time streak for matches unbeaten (38), which was previously held by Italy (37) for matches played between 2018 and 2021. During the streak, … Read more
It’s time for another FourFourTwo World Cup quiz! We’ve gone through the archives for this one, wanting to test even the people with the most extensive ball knowledge. This century there has been seven World Cups, with eight quarter-finalists at each tournament. That means there’s been 48 teams in the quarter-finals since the year 2000, … Read more
Arts The urn was reportedly stolen from the church of San Michele Arcangelo di Cangiano sometime between 2012 and 2022. The FBI’s Boston office said the urn was recovered from an antiques dealer in the Northeast who bought it from an Italian dealer. Boston FBI The FBI’s Boston Division has recovered a 17th-century reliquary that … Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The four Artemis II mission astronauts have entered the Orion capsule and are in place for humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, aiming for an evening liftoff. Watch ABC News Live coverage of the Artemis II launch in the video player above. NASA’s launch team … Read more
Brenda Frazier Kelly Chatfield-Taylor, whose name was once synonymous with glittering debutante balls and the social whirl, in 1938 when she made her debut, a social event of the season that attracted 1,000 people. Bettmann Archive There is a memorable line in Anita Loos’ 1927 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Towards the end, the main character … Read more
White flowers now mark the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Fox Hills Drive in Century City, where 73-year-old Rima Manoucharyan was killed Friday evening while crossing the street with her husband. The grandmother of five was walking in a marked crosswalk when she was struck by a black Audi, possibly a Q3 or Q5, and … Read more
austin (Texas Tribune) – The year was 1930, and Texas Democrats had a problem. State Senator Thomas B. Love announced his intention to run for governor as a Democrat, just months after campaigning for Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover. Because of this unacceptable violation of party loyalty, the state Democratic Executive Committee wanted him removed … Read more
In May of 2015, Vick Ballard became the first Remembered Guy, and a great many hours have been spent since doing the work of Remembering various Guys, sometimes on video and sometimes in blog form but also just in those moments when Remembering A Guy is what’s called for. In the intervening decade since Vick … Read more