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The dust has barely settled on a grueling yet historic 2026 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), but the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is already looking far into the horizon. Following Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s dramatic five-wicket victory over the Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, clinching their second consecutive title, conversations have quickly shifted from on-field heroics to the structural future of the multi-billion-dollar league.As climate patterns shift and athlete welfare takes center stage, IPL Chairman Arun Dhumal has dropped a massive bomb regarding the competition’s traditional scheduling. The board is actively…

The White House correspondents’ dinner has been rescheduled for July 24, after a shooting interrupted the annual event in April, White House Correspondents’ Association president Weijia Jiang said.”Rescheduling was not automatic. It was a choice that the WHCA board made after thoughtful consideration and input from our members,” she said in a statement.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Melania Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Weijia Jiang attend as Mentalist Oz Pearlman hosts The White House Correspondents Dinner at Washington Hilton, April 25, 2026.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Ad Policy Demonstrators participate in a “March on Wall Street” to call for economic justice on August 28, 2025, in New York City. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images) We often think of democracy as a political issue, rather than an economic one. Matt Stoller and Zephyr Teachout, two leaders in the anti-monopoly movement, believe that’s a fundamentally false division. They joined us to explain why, as they see it, economic concentration is causing the loss of freedom we are experiencing across so many aspects of our lives, and why this country needs a great “re-illusionment” (or whatever word…

The New England Patriots probably overpaid in the blockbuster trade with the Philadelphia Eagles for wide receiver A.J. Brown.The Patriots gave up a 2028 first-round pick and a 2027 first-round selection for Brown, the 28-year-old Super Bowl champion that wanted a fresh start away from Philadelphia.According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel never wanted to trade Brown to the Eagles when he was coaching the Tennessee Titans. Now, the defensive-minded Vrabel lands a wide receiver that he’s comfortable with to help the Patriots get one step closer to raising another Super Bowl banner following their loss against…

At the beginning of 2026, stock markets in Southeast Asia looked poised for a good year. Jakarta’s IDX Composite Index was reaching new heights every day. Global index provider FTSE Russell was preparing to upgrade Vietnam to Secondary Emerging Market status, a move likely to attract billions of dollars from institutional funds. U.S. President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs caused the Malaysian and Singaporean markets to stumble in early 2025, but entering the New Year, both were trending upward. We are now almost halfway into 2026, and equities across the region have been on a wild ride. Thailand’s stock market…

Dear patient readers, Apologies for major Links overload. Seemed hard to trim, too many of the items struck me as having merit. * * * Kitten hitchhikes more than 100 miles through Pennsylvania in grill of car CBS (Paul R) Tiny blue octopus identified as new species AccuWeather (Li). Cute! The secret to pigeons’ incredible navigation was hiding in their liver Science Daily (Kevin W) Please circulate widely: A “dove release” at a wedding or funeral is a death sentence for the birds. The white “doves” sold for releases aren’t doves. They’re domestic white pigeons bred to be small and…

Eli Lilly has told about 50 hospitals participating in a federal drug discount program to submit comprehensive claims data over the next five days or they will no longer receive the mandated price breaks. The move comes after the company announced a policy in January demanding such data in a bid to reduce what it calls duplicate discounts paid to participating hospitals. The issue has riled the pharmaceutical industry and contributed to a long-standing clash with hospitals over the 340B drug discount program. For the past few years, more than 2,300 hospitals have complied with the demand, but some of…

Ghana head coach Carlos Queiroz has named his final 26-man squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The final squad which Ghanaians had been waiting was released at 11 : 00 pm. Vice-captain Alexander Djiku’s niggling knee injury forced him out and has been replaced by Derrick Luckassen. Solomon Agbasi has been placed by stand-by. Here is the full squad: Goalkeepers Benjamin Asare Lawrence Ati-Zigi Joseph Anang Defenders Baba Abdul Rahman Gideon Mensah Marvin Senaya Alidu Seidu Abdul Mumin Jerome Opoku Jonas Adjetey Kojo Oppong Nkrumah Preprah Derrick Luckassen Midfielders Thomas Partey Elisha Owusu Kwasi Sibo Augustine Boakye Caleb Yirenkyi…

Tom Holland is opening up about the surprising new direction behind Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and it sounds like Marvel and Sony are taking Peter Parker into completely uncharted territory. Spider-Man: Brand New Day Cover [credit: Empire Magazine] Speaking with Empire, Holland revealed that he actually pitched part of the movie’s story himself, describing it as a “Spider-puberty” concept centered around Peter Parker evolving into adulthood while dealing with dramatic new changes to his powers. According to Holland, “They liked the idea,” and the film appears ready to push Spider-Man further than fans have seen before. The comments line up…

How did Freese do it? By scraping his way through the college and professional ranks and continuing to improve, channeling the same energy he had as a young boy leaping onto his bed. “I just continue to remind myself,” Freese told NBC News, “I’m always a student of the game.”Being a student happens to run in the family. Matt’s paternal grandparents, Ernst and Elisabeth Freese, were German scientists who immigrated to the U.S. after World War II and ended up working for the National Institutes of Health. Ernst was a renowned molecular biologist who studied DNA mutations, the link between…