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US President Donald Trump flanked by US Vice President JD Vance (L) and FIFA president Gianni Infantino (R) holds the World Cup Trophy as he makes an announcement in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 22, 2025.. Trump announced the 2026 World Cup draw will be held on December 5 at Washington’s Kennedy Center. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images In the latest of the increasingly regular broadcasts featuring Donald Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino, the US president announced that the draw for…

SpotifyFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysSpotify is adding a new in-app messaging feature.Conversations are one-to-one with people you know.The feature is available for users 16 and older.Spotify is getting a little more social.Since you’re already talking with your friends about songs, audiobooks, and podcasts, the music streaming app is adding a new feature that lets you send private messages to other users within the Spotify app. The feature is available for free and premium users ages 16 years and older. If you don’t have it already, you should sometime this week. Also: YouTube Music just copied one…

After a hiatus of more than a year — during which she insisted she had not retired — Venus Williams returned to the highest level of tennis, with a first-round match at the U.S. Open on Monday.

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing targets in the cosmos: potentially Earth-like worlds around nearby red dwarf stars.Red dwarfs, or M dwarfs, are the most tempting places to seek alien Earths because they’re the most abundant and enduring stars. They make up the majority of the stars in the Milky Way and shine with a slow thermonuclear simmer that should allow them to live exponentially longer than most—even, say, for 14…

The national parks can be as beautiful as they are deadly.Our national parks are perhaps our greatest treasure in the United States, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t come without a risk when visiting. While most national park-related deaths are related to traffic incidents, there are certain parks that qualify as more dangerous than others. The National Park Service has a comprehensive webpage with data on deaths in the parks and their causes. Visitors can analyze fatalities by type as well as demographics. Several parks statistically stand out among the total of 63 as the most harrowing to visit.…

More than one hundred US human rights, faith-based and civil rights groups have demanded that the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, immediately secure the release of a 16-year-old dual American-Palestinian citizen who has been in an Israeli prison for six months over allegations of rock throwing.The coalition, which includes the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Pax Christi USA, warned that Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim’s deteriorating health puts “his life on the line” and demanded urgent US intervention in the most significant organized pressure campaign on the imprisoned teenager’s case yet.“Mohammed is an American child with a community…

Sarah TurnnidgeBBC News, BristolBBCNumbers of motorhomes are rising on Clifton Down in BristolA council is urging the deputy prime minister to help it cope with a rise in van-dwelling. Bristol City Council wrote to Angela Rayner, who is also secretary of state for housing and communities, requesting funding to provide welfare support to those living in vans.While people have lived in vehicles for many years around the city, tensions have grown in recent months due to a rising number of motorhomes and caravans being parked on Clifton Down. In a statement published online, Councillor Barry Parsons said the council wrote…

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ties to the Russian government, that exposed confidential court documents. The breach of the judiciary’s electronic case filing system first came to light in a report by Politico three weeks ago, which went on to say that the vulnerabilities exploited in the hack were known since 2020. The New York Times, citing people familiar with the intrusion, said that Russia was “at least partly responsible” for the hack. A “severe threat” to national security Two overlapping filing platforms—one known as…

Cystic fibrosis care, AI in cancer screening & science of run clubs.

The Dallas Cowboys hit the road to take on the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2025 NFL Kickoff Game on Thursday, September 4. Kickoff at Lincoln Financial Field is scheduled for 8:20 p.m. ET. There will be millions of dollars on the line in NFL DFS tournaments, cash games and 50-50s on FanDuel and DraftKings, so finding DFS sleepers and building lineup variance will be critical for this single-game slate. Eagles running back Saquon Barkley rushed for 233 yards in two games against the Cowboys in 2024, but should you include him in your NFL DFS lineups for the NFL Kickoff…