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From Teddy's Tennis Court to Trump's Octagon: How the South Lawn Became a Fight Venue

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The putting green Dwight Eisenhower had installed outside the Oval Office left golf-spike marks on the wooden floors inside. The horseshoe pit that George H.W. Bush ceremonially ... Read More


Beijing Pushes Back on Pentagon's Discriminatory List, Threatens Countermeasures as US-China Tensions Rise

BEIJING, June 9 -- The Chinese government made clear on Tuesday that it has no intention of accepting Washington's latest attempt to define which of its companies belong to the military, even as the t... Read More


Stokes Nightclub Scandal Exposes England's Deeper Cricketing Crisis

LONDON, June 9 -- The question England's cricket establishment has spent months avoiding finally arrived not from a batting collapse in Sydney or a board review in a windowless room, but from a nightc... Read More


Five Moments That Defined Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup Legacy

LISBON, June 9 -- The number that frames everything is five. Five World Cups, 14 goals, one record that Lionel Messi himself has never matched: the distinction of being the only male player to score i... Read More


Bronson Reed Watched Rhea Ripley Grow Up Ringside Before Either Was a WWE Star

ADELAIDE, June 9 -- The first time Rhea Ripley saw professional wrestling up close, she was a teenager watching a big Australian called Bronson Reed throw people around at local shows in South Austral... Read More


Idris Elba, Newly Knighted, Closes the Book on Bond - and Says Global Markets Would Never Accept a Black 007

LONDON, June 9 -- The timing was hard to miss. Days after Idris Elba was knighted at Windsor Castle, the 53-year-old actor sat for British GQ and settled, with unusual finality, the question that has ... Read More


UK Watchdog Opens Formal Probe Into Paramount's $110 Billion Warner Takeover, Sets August 7 Deadline

That deadline, June 9 -- The question was never whether Britain's competition authority would look at the deal. The question was how hard. On Tuesday, the Competition and Markets Authority moved past ... Read More


Trump Sends the Senate the Lawyer Who Defended Him, Nominating Blanche to Run the Justice Department

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The lawyer who sat beside Donald Trump at the defense table through his hush-money trial, and who fought the two federal cases against him, is now the president's choice to run t... Read More


Kremlin Still Waiting to Be Briefed on Witkoff and Kushner's 'Very Positive' Call With Zelensky

MOSCOW, June 9 -- The conversation happened on Sunday. By Tuesday morning, Moscow still did not know what was said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on June 9 that the United States had not ... Read More


Apple's Siri Finally Arrived. The Market It Was Built For Has Already Left.

CUPERTINO, June 9 -- Craig Federighi did not mean it as a concession. But when Apple's senior vice president of software engineering told reporters Monday that agentic AI involving "long-horizon tasks... Read More