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The United States powered into the last 32 of the World Cup on Friday with a 2-0 victory over Australia as Brazil prepared to kickstart their campaign against Haiti. A day after Mexico sealed their place in the knockout rounds, the USA emulated their fellow World Cup co-hosts with a clinical Group D win over Australia in Seattle. A Cameron Burgess own goal in the 11th minute and a headed effort from Alex Freeman two minutes before half-time sealed a comfortable win for Mauricio Pochettino’s side, who have advanced to the second phase of the tournament with a game to…

Nothing’s next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won’t be coming this year:We were working on a successor but with memory prices where they are right now, we can’t build a phone that feels like a genuine step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF. As a result, we’ve decided not to launch a new CMF phone this year.Last week, Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei also said the RAM shortage has impacted the…

Financial services giant Charles Schwab will reportedly enter the prediction markets business by offering customers wagers on the S&P 500.According to a Friday Wall Street Journal report, Charles Schwab is planning to launch options contracts allowing users to place yes-or-no wagers on the performance of the S&P 500 stock market index. The move, expected to roll out in a matter of months as part of a partnership with Cboe Global Market, could mark the company’s first into prediction markets.Source: KalshiWhile prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket offer a variety of event contracts based on the outcome of events, including…

Anne Hathaway met husband Adam Shulman and it was love at first sight — but their real-life fairy tale almost didn’t come true. “You know when you don’t know someone very well, you just meet them and you’re like, ‘Wow, you really have it going on?’… We hit it off immediately, but it took us a pretty long time to get together,” Hathaway told Vogue in October 2010, noting that despite the terrible timing, she was convinced she had found The One. The pair first crossed paths through mutual friends while attending the Palm Springs Film Festival in April 2008. While the Ella Enchanted actress told Harper’s Bazaar…

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, sentenced a 37-year-old man, Zakaria Garba, to death by hanging over his involvement in the 2014 bombing at the major motor park in Nyanya, one of the bustling, highly populated communities on the border between Abuja, the Nigerian capital city, and the neighbouring Nasarawa State. No fewer than 70 people were killed, while several others sustained varying degrees of injuries in the devastating bombing. Trial judge James Omotsoho, in his judgement delivered during the just-concluded Abuja mass trial of suspected terrorists, also imposed a life imprisonment on Mr Garba one of the…

It’s glaring that Tinubu cannot protect citizens, and he shows neither anger nor remorse. He has to allow people to protect themselves. He withdrew policemen from politicians, yet Minister Wike still moves around in a Rolls Royce with a battalion of policemen. Since Tinubu is a pathetic commander-in-chief, he should outsource security to the people. He must allow ordinary Nigerians to protect themselves. It was probably good law to prohibit citizens from keeping rifles all those years. But times have changed radically. Poor Nigerians. These days, ordinary people are one wrong journey away from a brutal death. General Rabe is…

Controversial actor Yul Edochie has broken his silence over allegations levelled against him by Emmanuel Obasi, the ex-husband of his wife, Judy Austin. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Mr Obasi, in several videos and interviews, levelled several allegations against the son of veteran actor Pete Edochie. Mr Obasi’s allegations include that Yul had an affair with Austin before they separated and prevented him from accessing the two children he shares with her, among others. Responding, the 44-year-old denied preventing Mr Obasi from seeing his children in a statement posted on his X page on Friday. He said: “Some of my…

The leadership of The Imole Campaign Council, the group leading the re-election campaign of Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on Friday visited the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, to seek royal blessings before formally commencing its electioneering campaign activities. The campaign council led by the former Peoples Democratic Party National Secretary, Prof Wale Oladipo, who chairs the group, had sought the monarch’s blessing before starting it campaign activities. Oladipo, who was joined by the state Deputy Governor, Kola Adewusi; Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Lere Oyewumi; the lawmaker representing Ede North, Ede South, Egbedore and Ejigbo Federal…

The Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory Command, CP Ahmed Sanusi, has directed all 17 Divisional Police Officers under the Metro Area Command to end robbery and related criminal activities within the city centre within two weeks. Sanusi gave the directive on Friday during a meeting with the DPOs convened to review the prevailing security situation and strengthen operational strategies across the command. According to a statement issued by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, the meeting focused on emerging security threats and operational gaps within the Metro Area Command. The statement said the commissioner expressed concern…

After choosing to represent the USA ahead of Nigeria and England, Folarin Balogun is playing at the World Cup with the USMNT, and he is eager to make an impact on American soil. ABIODUN ADEWALE explores the player’s American dream in this interview with Get French Football Lots of people are kind of looking at you now, even maybe more so than, say, Pulisic, as almost the leader of the attack at this year’s World Cup. Would you say that you have a very pivotal role to play for the US this summer? Yeah, definitely. I think it’s an opportunity,…