If college football’s playoff system ain’t broke, why fix it?
Dan WetzelJul 18, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Dan Wetzel is a senior writer focused on investigative reporting, news analysis and feature storytelling. Open...
Arch to victory? Texas preseason pick to win SEC
Associated Press Jul 18, 2025, 05:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Texas, with Heisman Trophy candidate Arch Manning set to take over as starting...
Every shop and home burned or ransacked: The Syrian city engulfed in tribal violence
The Syrian presidency has announced it’s assembling a special taskforce to try to stop nearly a week of sectarian clashes in the southern Druze...
Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for $10bn after Epstein letter report
Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch, two Wall Street Journal reporters and the publication’s owner, News Corp. The US president has...
NASCAR nixes ’26 Chicago race, eyes ’27 return
Associated Press Jul 18, 2025, 06:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHICAGO — NASCAR is pressing pause on its Chicago Street Race, answering at...
Israel and Syria agree to ceasefire, says US ambassador to Turkey
Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire, the US ambassador to Turkey has said. Several hundred people have reportedly been killed this week...
Trump sues Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch and two reporters after Epstein letter report
Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch, two Wall Street Journal reporters and the publication’s owner, News Corp. The US president has...
White, NASCAR pioneer and HOFer, dies at 95
Associated Press Jul 18, 2025, 06:20 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rex White, who was NASCAR’s oldest living champion and a 2015 inductee into...
Peter Thiel-backed cryptocurrency exchange Bullish files to go public on NYSE
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, holds hundred dollar bills as he speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at Miami...
Microsoft stops relying on Chinese engineers for Pentagon cloud support
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (L) returns to the stage after a pre-recorded interview during the Microsoft Build conference opening keynote...
Block shares soar 10% on entry into S&P 500
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on Friday,...
Ofwat could be scrapped in water reforms
An independent review of the water industry is to recommend sweeping changes to the way the sector is managed, including the potential replacement of...
Quantum Leap: Scientists Achieve Magic State Distillation on Logical Qubits for the First Time
Scientists have shown the elusive phenomenon of quantum computing that could create the way for fault-tolerant machines, which are much powerful than any of...
The investor behind Opendoor’s 190% run nearly shut down his fund
Courtesy: Opendoor On June 6, online real estate service Opendoor was so desperate to get its beaten-down stock price back over $1 and stay...
MLB All-Star week buzz: Latest intel on trade rumors, Tucker’s free agency and more
Multiple Contributors Jul 18, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The baseball world gathered in Atlanta for the Download the ESPN app and...
Trump denies claim he wrote birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein – and says he has ordered release of more case files
Donald Trump has called an alleged letter he wrote to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein “fake” and said he will sue the “ass off” Rupert Murdoch,...
‘Horrific incident’ at sheriff training facility in LA – at least three people dead
At least three people have been killed after a “horrific incident” at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility, officials have said. A...
Gemini North Telescope Spots Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Racing Through Solar System
A rare interstellar object has been spotted in our solar system, making it the second known object to cross over from outside our cosmic...
NASA Grounds Boeing Starliner Until 2026 After Test Flight Failures
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner, a crew capsule for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, has been plagued by persistent problems. Its first crewed test flight in...
NASA and ISRO Prepare to Launch NISAR Earth-Mapping Satellite
NASA’s NISAR Earth-observing satellite (concept image shown) will carry an advanced dual-band radar system to map Earth’s land and ice in 3D. NASA will...