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Treadmills to deadlifts: Why Gen Z are swapping cardio for strength training
Gyms are booming, solitary cardio is out - how workouts are changing.…
Turkiye vs France: UEFA Nations League – teams, kickoff time, lineups
Zinedine Zidane brings 'aura' to his first France game as coach, against Turkiye in Nations League.…
Man shot and wounded during Trump assassination attempt dies in Pennsylvania
James Copenhaver, 76, was left with lingering injuries after gunman opened fire from rooftop at Butler rallyJames Copenhaver, one of three campaign ra…
DR Congo and Ivory Coast top Africa Cup of Nations qualifying opening wins
DR Congo beat Equatorial Guinea, while Ivory Coast cruise by Ghana and Cameroon beat Comoros as AFCON qualifiers begin.…
Nearly 200 people wrongly identified on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens
State election officials said they reviewed 185 records homeland security sent them and confirmed they were US citizensThe Department of Homeland Secu…
Uefa fears impact of Premier League spending on transfer market
Uefa believes "a clear two-speed system" is emerging in the transfer market due to huge spending by Premier League clubs this summer.…
Long agenda, short meeting: Trump and Xi meet
All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly talks with White House correspondent Emily Feng about the Trump/Xi summit.…
Reader Q&A: who’s spending big on the midterms? Our reporters take your questions
Who are the groups backing candidates in the midterms – and why? In our second live discussion ahead of the elections, Joseph Gedeon, Dara Kerr and Ch…
Man Utd borrow another £90m as debt tops £1.1bn
Manchester United confirm they have borrowed another £90m since 30 June, to take their overall debt to more than £1.1bn.…
Mary Peltola’s campaign says reports of her using slurs and shoving staffer are exaggerated
Alaska Democratic nominee in pivotal Senate race ‘struggled to deal with her grief’ after death of husband and mother, spokesperson saidMary Peltola’s…
Texas court ends case against woman sentenced to five years over voting error
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t countedThe nearly decade-long case o…
ICE has wasted tens of millions to carry out Trump’s mass detention agenda – report
US GAO documents array of costly problems as ICE pursues controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacityUS Immigration and Customs Enforcem…
California sheriff ordered to return ballots he confiscated in voter ‘fraud’ inquiry
State supreme court rules Chad Bianco’s conduct unlawful and says he ‘must refrain from further handling’ of ballotsA Republican California sheriff mu…
Trump swoons over strongman soulmate Xi – are you feeling jealous, Vladimir?
Deference was deafening as US president rolled out red carpet for world’s biggest jailer of journalists – perhaps he was seeking tipsOne is an authori…
Democratic lawmakers accuse Trump administration of interference in Brazilian elections
Legislators sent letter to Marco Rubio saying US interference is weakening Brazil’s democratic institutionsUS politics live – latest updatesA group of…
Launch of UK’s ‘largest AI supercomputer’ delayed by power supply problems
Datacentre hailed by government was supposed to start operating next year but may be held back into mid-2030sA huge datacentre project hailed by the U…
France says EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ law should not include the UK
‘If you’re not in the internal market, you don’t get the same protection,’ says French minister of policy designed to curb Chinese competitionFrance i…
Trump’s FDA nominee says MMR shot is ‘safe and effective’ at Senate hearing
Dr Heidi Overton faces confirmation hearing weeks after standing behind Trump as he suggested shot could be ‘quite lethal’Dr Heidi Overton, Donald Tru…
Three more people emerge from New York manhole, as UN general assembly ongoing
The incident is the latest in a series of recent cases involving people entering or departing the US city’s sewer networkThree unidentified people wer…
Why did an OpenAI system hack Australia's health system - and can it be stopped in the future?
News that an automated AI agent hacked a government IT system raises big questions about regulating the tech.…
Trump administration to ask supreme court to allow third-country deportation policy
US attorney general Todd Blanche says justice department will ask high court for help after lower court rejected policyThe Trump administration will a…
Boy, 16, held in ‘cramped’ prison cell alone for 22 hours a day for weeks, Victorian ombudsman finds
Ombudsman finds government breached teen’s human rights, saying the conditions ‘bordered on solitary confinement’Get our breaking news email, free app…
AI hack of Medicare exposes Australia’s vulnerabilities and experts warn ‘there is more of this to come’
Council on AI Strategy chief says incident unlikely to be isolated and country should enhance capability to detect and report incidentsGet our breakin…
Forever Chemicals: Ground Zero
Pervasive, persistent and poisonous: How one US company helped pollute the world with forever chemicals.…
EU says Trump plan to ban US diesel exports would ‘negatively impact both sides’
US president’s suggested 90-day export ban before midterm elections could bring even higher fuel prices across EuropeBusiness live – latest updatesThe…
For their podcast, 2 elementary school students ask adults why they chose their jobs
Kids are used to being asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Two students in Columbus, Ohio, flipped the script to ask grown-ups why they …
On-the-run killer Gary Anderson appears in court
Gary Anderson had been serving life in prison for the murder of Karol Kelly in Londonderry in 2018.…
Rubio warns of Iraq ‘Balkanisation’: Is that a real threat?
US secretary of state's warning comes after he and Trump met the Iraqi PM on the sidelines of the UNGA.…
Drinking at football matches - would fans welcome it?
Andy Burnham has long championed a repeal of the ban which prevents football supporters from drinking alcohol in the view of the pitch. But do fans ev…
‘Unstoppable’ Rumesh revives Sri Lanka’s glory, one javelin throw at a time
A gold at the Asian Games will cap off an unprecedented season for the world number one.…