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When did Mikel Merino start to be seen as a striker who sometimes plays in midfield rather than a midfielder who fills in up front? His winning performance against Brentford was just the latest example of him rightfully filling the role.The 29-year-old has scored or assisted in five of his six starts up front for Arsenal since returning to his position following injury to Victor Gokeres. Against Brentford, he achieved both with a header for the first goal and a feed for Bukayo Saka for the second goal. “He was great again today,” said Mikel Arteta with a smile, praising…
new york – starbucks Workers United held a rally outside the Empire State Building on Thursday as its indefinite strike enters its third week with no signs of an imminent resolution.Hundreds of picketers gathered outside the famous landmark, adding to the crowd of holiday shoppers and tourists. The landmark is also home to a sleek three-story Starbucks Reserve store and the company’s regional headquarters. Members of other unions, including the Workers United-affiliated AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, joined the baristas in protesting, with speakers chanting “No coffee, no contracts” and “What’s disgusting? Union busting.””Their fight is really a…
Beta Technologies’ all-electric battery-powered ALIA CTOL, CX300 single-engine airplane, performs at the 55th Paris International Air Show (Salon Internationale de la Aerospace – SIAE) held at Paris Bourget Airport in Le Bourget, north of Paris, France, on June 18, 2025. Mustafa Yalcin | Anadolu | Getty Imagesbeta technology on Thursday announced its first quarterly results since going public on the New York Stock Exchange.The electric aircraft maker, which went public last month, had sales of $8.9 million, more than double the $3.1 million a year ago.”As a newly public company, we remain firmly grounded in what makes BETA unique: a…
The New York Times building photographed on September 16, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesThe New York Times filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging new restrictions on reporters covering the Pentagon, saying they violate the U.S. Constitution’s freedom of the press protections.The lawsuit against the Pentagon and Secretary Pete Hegseth comes nearly two months after reporters from the Times and other mainstream news outlets, including CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC, staged a dramatic walkout from the Pentagon, refusing to comply with rules and surrendering their credentials. Those outlets have been replaced by reporters broadly sympathetic…
Somalis and Somali Americans have condemned President Donald Trump’s attacks on their communities after the US president called them “trash” and hurled insults at them.President Trump’s comments this week sparked outrage and condemnation of racism.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listOn Tuesday, the US president ended his last Cabinet meeting of the year with a vitriolic tirade against both the Somali diaspora and former Somali refugee child Rep. Ilhan Omar.”If we continue to bring trash into our country, we’re going in the wrong direction. Ilhan Omar is trash. Her friends are trash,” Trump said.“If they come from hell and…
The family of a Colombian man killed in an alleged US attack in the Caribbean has filed what is believed to be the first complaint against such an attack with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The petition, filed Tuesday by U.S. human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik, alleges that the U.S. rammed Alejandro Carranza’s boat off the coast of Colombia on September 15, killing him. It alleges that the United States violated Carranza’s human rights and carried out an extrajudicial killing. Kovarik told CNN he wants compensation for the families and an end to such killings, but did not…
Ref Watch’s Dermot Gallagher questioned why referee Thomas Bramall noticed the grappling between Rodrigo Bentancur and Dan Byrne but “ignored” it and needed VAR to award a penalty.In the draw at St James’ Park, a Tottenham midfielder was penalized for dragging Byrne onto the floor, giving Newcastle a spot-kick, but there was debate as to whether it was a foul. Dermot explained in the mid-week special edition of Ref Watch: “I think this raises a lot of questions. “Just before the corner, Thomas Bramall went up to the two players and said to Bentancur, “You’re looking the wrong way.””He told…
Meta Inc. may be planning significant layoffs at its Metaverse division, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. Company executives are considering cutting the virtual reality platform’s budget by up to 30%, the report said, adding that the cuts would also include layoffs. If Meta moves forward with such plans, the move would reflect an overall lack of interest in products like Meta’s social virtual reality platform, Horizon World, and virtual reality hardware, both in the industry as a whole and among consumers. Since Meta rebranded in 2021, investors have grown skeptical of the company’s allocation of resources to the Metaverse project,…
People walk next to the Google Cloud logo during the 2025 Mobile World Congress (MWC) on March 4, 2025 in Barcelona, Spain.Albert Geerreutergoogle Cloud on Thursday announced a multi-year partnership with artificial intelligence coding startup Replit, giving the search giant new leverage against rival coding products such as Anthropic and Cursor. Under this partnership, Replit will expand its use of Google Cloud services, add more Google models to its platform, and support AI coding use cases for enterprise customers. Google will continue to be Replit’s primary cloud provider. Founded nearly 10 years ago, Replit is a leader in the rapidly…
U.S. authorities have arrested a suspect allegedly involved in leaving pipe bombs near the headquarters of the nation’s two major political parties in Washington, D.C., the night before the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.On Thursday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice identified the suspect as Brian Cole Jr. in a joint press conference.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”I think some people have given up on finding the perpetrator, but neither the FBI nor our partners have,” said Darren Cox, FBI assistant director.He explained that the investigation involved cleaning up “3 million rows of…