Lionel Messi announced his retirement from international soccer, ending his Argentina national team career.

Aaron Donald revealed he is coming out of retirement to rejoin the Los Angeles Rams, citing his wife's advice in the decision.

Dan Hooker said Salahdine Parnasse's UFC headlining appearance will be his first and last, ahead of their event.

California lawmakers unanimously passed a bill exempting open-source software distributed under GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses from the state's age-verification law.

The European Commission's new ProtectEU strategy includes renewed proposals requiring tech companies to provide law enforcement with access to encrypted communications.

The European Union designated ChatGPT and Reddit as Very Large Online Platforms, subjecting them to the bloc's strictest content moderation and risk-management obligations under the Digital Services Act.

US equity funds recorded their largest weekly outflow since March, with investors pulling money ahead of Nvidia earnings and a Federal Reserve event.

Oil prices rose and stocks fell after the US struck Iranian sites in the Strait of Hormuz, with gas topping $4 daily in August for the first time.

Iran's president admitted the country has many problems and missiles are of no use as the US chokes its economy while weakening Tehran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz.

A study published this week found that a catastrophic flood in Nepal's Seti River valley was triggered by a massive ice and rock avalanche, an event scientists linked to climate change.

SpaceX and NASA postponed the next crewed launch to the International Space Station after detecting a leak on the Dragon spacecraft's capsule.

GPS signals across the United States were disrupted by as much as 33 feet of error over the past week, an anomaly scientists said they had never observed before.

President Trump announced the U.S. reached an agreement to take control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, according to NPR.

Corporate political donations for the U.S. midterms have shattered records, reaching $646 million so far, according to Reuters.

The House returned from recess with a government funding bill at the top of its agenda, as reported by NPR.

The Pogues have quietly built a fandom machine that rivals Hawkins — with merch drops, cast lore, and a devoted Gen Z following that keeps the teen drama trending between seasons. It's the rare Netflix hit that turned a beach-set YA show into a full-blown lifestyle brand.

The 22-year-old pop star shared the stage with Fleetwood Mac legend Stevie Nicks for a goosebump-inducing rendition of "Landslide" — a cross-generational moment that had fans weeping and instantly became the most-shared clip of the festival season.

Snickers launched a digital candy bar you can "feed" to ChatGPT when it gives a wrong answer — a playful twist on the brand's "You're not you when you're hungry" tagline that's sparking viral screenshots of people "punishing" the AI with virtual Snickers.