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5:55 AM on Monday, July 6

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is doing all he can to get his 26-year-old son-in-law elected to his old congressional district in the vast north woods of Wisconsin

2:48 AM on Monday, July 6

Sky, the UK-based TV, internet and mobile phone provider owned by Comcast, has agreed to buy ITV’s media and entertainment arm for up to 1.6 billion pounds, which is $2.1 billion

11:57 PM on Sunday, July 5

Australia and Fiji have signed a new bilateral defense alliance in a second major diplomatic win within a year for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese against Chinese influence in the South Pacific

11:14 PM on Sunday, July 5

The Trump administration plans to open a 528-bed holding center for migrant families and unaccompanied children awaiting removal from the U.S., putting it next to a Louisiana airfield that has become the nation’s largest hub of deportation flights

11:09 PM on Sunday, July 5

President Donald Trump will be heading to Ankara, Turkey, for the annual NATO summit

8:59 PM on Sunday, July 5

Chase Briscoe held off Christopher Bell in NASCAR’s return to Chicagoland Speedway, racing to his first Cup Series victory of the season

7:28 PM on Sunday, July 5

Summer McIntosh broke the longest-standing individual women’s swimming world record Sunday night, finishing the 200-meter butterfly in 2 minutes 1.65 seconds at the Canadian trials

6:59 PM on Sunday, July 5

President Donald Trump has posted a falsified image of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama boarding Air Force One covered with graffiti

6:45 PM on Sunday, July 5

Catcher Eliézer Alfonzo has made his major league debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers with his sister and stepmother still missing after Venezuela’s catastrophic earthquakes

6:20 PM on Sunday, July 5

Jude Bellingham scored two goals 98 seconds apart, Harry Kane converted a penalty when England was down to 10 men, and England handed Mexico its first World Cup loss at Estadio Azteca, a wild 3-2 victory to reach the quarterfinals

5:53 PM on Sunday, July 5

There’s not usually a clock ticking down in tennis

5:51 PM on Sunday, July 5

Eury Pérez was pulled after pitching seven perfect innings Sunday, and the Miami Marlins nearly blew an eight-run lead before holding on for a 9-8 victory over the Athletics

5:30 PM on Sunday, July 5

Vinícius Júnior had the ball at the penalty spot, a perfect chance to give Brazil the lead

4:31 PM on Sunday, July 5

A massive cyclone has made landfall over a U.S. territory in the western Pacific

2:59 PM on Sunday, July 5

Tennessee National Guard members assigned by the Trump administration to a crime-fighting patrol in Memphis fatally shot a man who authorities say turned toward the soldiers with a gun during a downtown pursuit

2:55 PM on Sunday, July 5

Erling Haaland headed in the go-ahead goal in the 79th minute and scored again before the end of regulation time, carrying Norway into the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time with a 2-1 win over Brazil that showcased the young striker on soccer’s biggest stage

12:00 PM on Sunday, July 5

U.S. President Donald Trump intervened on behalf of American star forward Folarin Balogun, whose suspension was lifted in a decision that allows him to play in a World Cup match against Belgium on Monday

8:04 AM on Sunday, July 5

Wildland firefighters have gathered to pay tribute to three of their own who died after they were trapped by flames a week ago in western Colorado

7:27 AM on Sunday, July 5

Hundreds of firefighters are battling wildfires in Portugal, Spain and Greece

11:16 PM on Saturday, July 4

As Russia’s full-scale invasion enters its fifth year, a group of Ukrainian amateur climbers is trying to build something new: a climbing culture inspired by the sense of community surrounding California’s Yosemite National Park