NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The World Cup quarterfinals stage is set and kicks off on Thursday with France vs. Morocco. Despite a thrilling road to this point of the tournament, some teams unexpectedly found their way into the bracket of eight remaining teams. The bracket has sneaky good teams and confident squads who are bound to make a run to the final on July 19. So these are my World Cup quarterfinals power rankings. And remember: These are my rankings. If you don’t like them, get your own.Odds are as of Thursday morning.8.Odds To Win: +3300Coming in at…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A popular U.S.-based gaming brand owned by Microsoft is facing fury after mass employee layoffs occurred in the wake of the company being approved for thousands of foreign worker visas.Microsoft announced that it will lay off 4,800 people total and 1,600 from…
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As Europe searches for its next wave of energy transition and industry 4.0 solutions, technology startups driving the continent’s fourth industrial revolution or “4IR” are increasingly heading to a particular part of Germany in their droves – the Munich-Dresden corridor. An aggregation of Deutscher Startup-Verband and registry origination data from…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For the second straight World Cup, France has sent Morocco home with a 2-0 victory.In 2022, it was a historic semifinal as Morocco became the first-ever African team to reach that stage of the tournament. But France defeated Morocco to reach the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It wasn’t the ending Team USA wished for in the Round of 16 loss to Belgium, but a former FIFA World Cup champion believes the collective work this squad did on home soil should be celebrated.In fact, four years from now when…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The FIFA World Cup may currently dominate the sporting landscape across the Americas, but another football movement is beginning to take shape.With the 2028 Summer Olympics on the horizon, flag football is rapidly emerging as one of the most anticipated additions to…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Kylian Mbappé and France meet Morocco in their 2026 FIFA World Cup Quarterfinal on Thursday, July 9, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. ET from Boston Stadium. France arrive having won all five of their matches in the tournament, scoring 14 goals and conceding…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin has hailed the huge security operation surrounding the World Cup, and the cooperation between federal and local law enforcement as “amazing.”In an exclusive interview with Fox News Chief Correspondent Jonathan Hunt, Mullin said he…
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NYC’s not number one — and it’s not even close. The Big Apple has received a big Bronx cheer from the worldly readers of a high-end travel publication — shoved down to a mediocre number eight on a list of the best cities in the country. Travel + Leisure’s hotly anticipated annual…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security will withhold billions in preparedness grant funding from states that refuse to adopt new election-security measures, including voter citizenship verification, post-election audits and expanded use of paper ballots.The push comes as President Donald Trump…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An unlikely reason has chipped away, for now, at Senate Republican resistance against President Donald Trump’s flagship election priority.The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act has hit brick wall after brick wall in the Senate, and has only twice mustered 50…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump will ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision on the birthright citizenship case, he announced on Wednesday.Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that the court’s decision to uphold birthright citizenship even in case of children of…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump is turning the stalled SAVE America Act into a leverage fight on Capitol Hill, tying the bill to unrelated Republican priorities as the party races to use its congressional majorities before the midterms.The fight now stretches across defense spending,…
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An iconic San Francisco restaurant known for its castle-like facade and A-list customers will reopen in September after being closed down for about 18 years since 2008. The effort to open back up Julius’ Castle, first started by Italian American restaurateur Julius Roz in 1924, has faced a lot of bumps in the road since its current owner Paul Scott brought the property in 2012. Scott said that he faced red tape, legal disputes, sliding hillsides and a fire in his attempt to bring the place back to life. After all those years, he’s finally gotten building permits, a new…
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WASHINGTON – The National Capital Planning Commission on Thursday gave preliminary approval to President Trump’s massive memorial arch and signaled its support for his plan to change the shape of DC’s skyline. The proposal still faces a final vote – likely at the commission’s September meeting – and the lingering…
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