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Manchester United playing Arsenal on Sunday should be the biggest match of the English football weekend.But it isn’t.Even though more than 75,000 supporters will head to Old Trafford to watch that Premier League fixture, the game with the highest attendance anywhere in Europe on Saturday or Sunday took place at Wembley Stadium in London between the Sidemen and YouTube Allstars.Liverpool, Arsenal and United are playing second-fiddle, crowd-wise, to sides that included KSI, Logan Paul, iShowSpeed, MrBeast, Kai Cenat, AngryGinge and Chunkz.The Sidemen, a YouTube collective with 22 million subscribers, sold 90,000 tickets to watch them at England’s national stadium against…

The Secret Service shot a man near the White House early Sunday after an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement officers, the agency said in a statement.President Trump was not at the White House at the time. He is spending the weekend in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago Club.Earlier on Saturday, the local police shared information with the Secret Service about a suicidal person who may have been traveling to Washington from Indiana. Around midnight, members of the Secret Service encountered the person’s parked vehicle near 17th and F Streets, about a block from the White House. A man was outside of…

When Roger Cook walked into his local cafe early on Sunday morning, there was a smattering of quiet applause from other diners.Able to call himself a premier elected by the people for the first time, Mr Cook ordered a bigger coffee than usual.He’d had a late night celebrating, but there was no hangover.Instead, there was a glimpse of a tear as he choked up while reflecting on a private moment at home with his family after victory was declared.“It was pride and love and I had the opportunity at home to give them a hug,” he said.“Thanks, that’s enough,” he…

Western feminist movements have mobilised for women’s rights around the world—except when it comes to Palestine.⁣

As it moves to transform U.S. relations with Russia, the Trump administration is talking with Moscow about readmitting potentially scores of Russian diplomats into the United States after years of expulsions.But the good-will gesture, which would be reciprocated by Moscow, could be a kind of Trojan horse, experts and diplomats warn, as the Kremlin is likely to dispatch spies posing as diplomats to restore its diminished espionage capabilities within the United States.U.S. and Russian officials met in Istanbul last month to discuss returning more diplomats to each other’s countries after years of tit-for-tat expulsions and the shuttering of diplomatic facilities.…

The Secret Service shot a man during an armed confrontation near the White House Sunday, the agency announced. The incident took place just after midnight, about a block west of the White House near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.In a statement, the Secret Service said that earlier on Saturday police shared information about a suicidal individual who may have been traveling to Washington, D.C., from Indiana. The Secret Service shot a man during an armed confrontation near the White House Sunday, the agency announced.  (AP)SOUTH CAROLINA MAN FACES FEDERAL CHARGES FOR ALLEGEDLY THREATENING TO ASSASSINATE TRUMPAt around midnight, members of the Secret…

The US Secret Service has shot an armed man outside the White House after a confrontation, and the man is now in an area hospital, it says.US President Donald Trump was not in the residence at the time, as he is spending the weekend at his Florida residence.Secret Service officials received a tip on Saturday from local authorities that a suicidal person may be travelling to Washington DC from Indiana and the person’s car was found a block from the White House, it said in a statement.The man brandished a firearm as officers approached him and shots were fired shortly…

The railroad tracks that slice through downtown Freehold, N.J., used to be lined by dozens of men, waiting for work. Each morning, the men — day laborers, almost all from Latin America and undocumented — would be scooped up by local contractors in pickup trucks for jobs painting, landscaping, removing debris.In recent weeks, the tracks have been desolate. On a gray February morning, a laborer named Mario, who came from Mexico two decades ago, said it was the quietest he could remember.“Because of the president, we have a fear,” said Mario, 55, who agreed to be interviewed on the condition…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.More than half of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 can be linked to just 36 fossil fuel and cement producers, according to a report from the Carbon Majors database.  The climate watchdog found that emissions from the world’s largest oil, gas, coal and cement producers increased in 2023, with state-owned companies making up 16 of the top 20 emitters. The top five state-owned emitters — Saudi Aramco, Coal India, CHN Energy, National Iranian Oil Company and Jinneng Group — accounted…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Fintech myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.City veteran Martin Gilbert has vowed he will “never” sell his shares in fintech Revolut as he invests in a new fund aimed at buying stock from employees of fast-growing technology firms globally.Gilbert, who is chair of London-based Revolut, is backing the LTC Invest fund V with two other entrepreneurs, contributing a combined $20mn, according to people familiar with the situation.The fund will snap up stock in established tech companies from existing shareholders — such as fintech staff who took shares in their…