Morning Digest
25 stories from 4 sources, 26 more held back.
New Delhi debunks US claim on ‘attack on Christians’. A proposed amendment to India’s foreign funding rules for charities and religious organizations has raised the temperature in India-US relations, with New Delhi’s ambassador to Washington posting a myth-buster on X to counter criticism from a US lawmaker.
NATO nation rebuffs Ukraine’s missile plea. Finland will not hand over more of its air defense missiles to Ukraine, Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen has said, insisting that Helsinki cannot risk its combat readiness amid tensions with Russia.
A Ukrainian drone attack on the city of Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan has killed at least 12 people overnight and left 39 others injured, according to local officials. Mayor Radmir Belyaev said “both industrial and civilian sites” were targeted in the city, which is located some 880km east of Moscow.
French police have detained 420 people for allegedly starting fires deliberately or through serious negligence during a devastating wildfire season that has burned nearly 120,000 hectares across the country, according to the Interior Ministry. France has experienced successive heatwaves this summer as exceptionally high temperatures have affected much of Europe.
Iran will release footage of its new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, appearing in public, a senior paramilitary commander said on Sunday, in an apparent effort to dispel rumors about his health. Khamenei has not been seen in public since March, when he was chosen to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28 during the first wave of US-Israeli strikes on Tehran.
Former US President Joe Biden’s cancer has worsened, spreading to his bones, his son Hunter Biden said in a wide-ranging interview with BBC Newsnight aired on Saturday. Biden’s team revealed in May 2025, four months after he left office following Donald Trump’s election victory over his handpicked successor, Kamala Harris, that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Moscow will not settle for “freezing” the Ukraine conflict without addressing its origins and resolving its underlying causes, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin has said.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi-backed government forces in the port city of Mokha on Sunday, describing the attack as a tit-for-tat response to the kingdom’s “aggression.”
Top US streamer banned over ‘just shoot kids’ comment (VIDEO). Twitch has banned top US streamer Zack ‘Asmongold’ Hoyt after he suggested that migrants crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – including children – should be shot to stop the flow and avoid unrest in the area.
Netanyahu nixes Trump’s Gaza peace plan (VIDEO). Israel has rejected US President Donald Trump’s 15-point peace plan for Gaza and will not withdraw troops from the Palestinian enclave until Hamas is completely disarmed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. The roadmap was published last month as part of efforts by the Trump-led Board of Peace to end the Gaza conflict.
The signing of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan may eventually be remembered as one of the more consequential geopolitical developments to emerge from the current Middle Eastern crisis.
Russian drones strike Ukrainian troops at key Donbass stronghold (GRAPHIC VIDEO). The Russian Defense Ministry released footage on Sunday showing drone operators disrupting a Ukrainian troop rotation in a key sector of the front line in the northern part of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
Club Brugge left back Joaquin Seys and Leicester City wonderkid Louis Page are on the radar of Manchester United, while Liverpool could let forward Cody Gakpo leave for Tottenham Hotspur if they sign Bradley Barcola or Ibrahim Mbaye from Paris Saint-Germain. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe. Transfers home page | Men's summer grades | Women's grades.
Mexico won its second consecutive Concacaf U20 championship after beating the United States 2-0 at Estadio Azteca in the final Sunday in Mexico City. The Americans were reduced to 10 players after Chris Applewhite was shown a straight red card for a sliding tackle on which it appeared the U.S. defender made minimal contact on Mexico's Hugo Camberos.
Free agent forward Ben Simmons is expected to be a full participant with "zero restrictions" at a player-led private minicamp for the Australian men's basketball team, beginning Monday in Melbourne, a source told ESPN Andscape on Sunday. Simmons, 30, didn't play in the 2025-26 NBA season in hopes of fully recovering from back and other injuries.
José Mourinho was all set to replace Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United boss in 2013 before changing his mind at the last minute and re-joining Chelsea, a new Netflix docuseries on the Portuguese manager has revealed.
Jackson Koivun has experienced the nerves of a Sunday finish and the sweat of a playoff chase in the six short weeks he has been on the PGA Tour. The 21-year-old now can say he has conquered both.
The football world was rocked when the Scottish great announced he was retiring after overseeing a 13th Premier League title triumph during a spell of unrivalled dominance at Old Trafford. United have failed to return to those heights since Ferguson stepped down, with successor David Moyes sacked after only 10 months in charge.
PHOENIX -- Hezly Rivera is leaning into her role as the leader of the next wave of U.S. women's gymnasts. The 18-year-old Olympic gold medalist won her second straight national title on Sunday, rallying from fourth during the final day of competition with four poised and professional routines.
Gibbs -- the 23-year-old grandson of former NFL coaching great and NASCAR team owner Joe Gibbs -- won by 0.253 seconds over his JGR teammate for his second victory of the season and his career. Gibbs and Bell each pitted with 60 laps remaining in the 350-lap race, but while Bell took four tires, Gibbs just went with two, and came out ahead.
MINNEAPOLIS --Minnesota Lynx guard Kayla McBride wanted to give the hometown fans a show Sunday. She delivered one that the Target Center crowd will never forget. The five-time All-Star and four-time EuroLeague champion broke the WNBA single-game record by making 10 3-pointers Sunday in a 103-90 victory over the Dallas Wings.
BOSTON -- Jacob Wilson's father will be very proud. All that work on the Little League fields on up has paid off. Wilson, 24, set an MLB record for his position, playing his 111th consecutive errorless game at shortstop for the Athletics and surpassing the Baltimore Orioles' Mike Bordick, who went 110 games in 2002.
BEDMINSTER, N.J. -- Joaquín Niemann closed with a 2-under 69 Sunday for a three-shot victory in LIV Golf New York, extending his record with his ninth career victory in the last three years. Jon Rahm shot 76 and tied for 41st, but that still was enough to clinch the season points title for the third straight time since the two-time major champion joined LIV Golf.
A week ago, OpenAI’s upcoming Astra model was making major waves in the math world after knocking out 10 long-standing problems. Days later, it set off an alarm the company had never rung before.
Bryan Stevenson teaches America how to remember, and judges keep showing Trump who's boss. This week, Trump tried to rewrite history, but a man who builds museums fought back. And Trump lost his twentieth case after trying to steal your voting data.
New Delhi debunks US claim on ‘attack on Christians’. A proposed amendment to India’s foreign funding rules for charities and religious organizations has raised the temperature in India-US relations, with New Delhi’s ambassador to Washington posting a myth-buster on X to counter criticism from a US lawmaker.
NATO nation rebuffs Ukraine’s missile plea. Finland will not hand over more of its air defense missiles to Ukraine, Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen has said, insisting that Helsinki cannot risk its combat readiness amid tensions with Russia.
A Ukrainian drone attack on the city of Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan has killed at least 12 people overnight and left 39 others injured, according to local officials. Mayor Radmir Belyaev said “both industrial and civilian sites” were targeted in the city, which is located some 880km east of Moscow.
French police have detained 420 people for allegedly starting fires deliberately or through serious negligence during a devastating wildfire season that has burned nearly 120,000 hectares across the country, according to the Interior Ministry. France has experienced successive heatwaves this summer as exceptionally high temperatures have affected much of Europe.
Iran will release footage of its new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, appearing in public, a senior paramilitary commander said on Sunday, in an apparent effort to dispel rumors about his health. Khamenei has not been seen in public since March, when he was chosen to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28 during the first wave of US-Israeli strikes on Tehran.
Former US President Joe Biden’s cancer has worsened, spreading to his bones, his son Hunter Biden said in a wide-ranging interview with BBC Newsnight aired on Saturday. Biden’s team revealed in May 2025, four months after he left office following Donald Trump’s election victory over his handpicked successor, Kamala Harris, that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Moscow will not settle for “freezing” the Ukraine conflict without addressing its origins and resolving its underlying causes, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin has said.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi-backed government forces in the port city of Mokha on Sunday, describing the attack as a tit-for-tat response to the kingdom’s “aggression.”
Top US streamer banned over ‘just shoot kids’ comment (VIDEO). Twitch has banned top US streamer Zack ‘Asmongold’ Hoyt after he suggested that migrants crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – including children – should be shot to stop the flow and avoid unrest in the area.
Netanyahu nixes Trump’s Gaza peace plan (VIDEO). Israel has rejected US President Donald Trump’s 15-point peace plan for Gaza and will not withdraw troops from the Palestinian enclave until Hamas is completely disarmed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. The roadmap was published last month as part of efforts by the Trump-led Board of Peace to end the Gaza conflict.
The signing of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan may eventually be remembered as one of the more consequential geopolitical developments to emerge from the current Middle Eastern crisis.
Russian drones strike Ukrainian troops at key Donbass stronghold (GRAPHIC VIDEO). The Russian Defense Ministry released footage on Sunday showing drone operators disrupting a Ukrainian troop rotation in a key sector of the front line in the northern part of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
Club Brugge left back Joaquin Seys and Leicester City wonderkid Louis Page are on the radar of Manchester United, while Liverpool could let forward Cody Gakpo leave for Tottenham Hotspur if they sign Bradley Barcola or Ibrahim Mbaye from Paris Saint-Germain. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe. Transfers home page | Men's summer grades | Women's grades.
Mexico won its second consecutive Concacaf U20 championship after beating the United States 2-0 at Estadio Azteca in the final Sunday in Mexico City. The Americans were reduced to 10 players after Chris Applewhite was shown a straight red card for a sliding tackle on which it appeared the U.S. defender made minimal contact on Mexico's Hugo Camberos.
Free agent forward Ben Simmons is expected to be a full participant with "zero restrictions" at a player-led private minicamp for the Australian men's basketball team, beginning Monday in Melbourne, a source told ESPN Andscape on Sunday. Simmons, 30, didn't play in the 2025-26 NBA season in hopes of fully recovering from back and other injuries.
José Mourinho was all set to replace Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United boss in 2013 before changing his mind at the last minute and re-joining Chelsea, a new Netflix docuseries on the Portuguese manager has revealed.
Jackson Koivun has experienced the nerves of a Sunday finish and the sweat of a playoff chase in the six short weeks he has been on the PGA Tour. The 21-year-old now can say he has conquered both.
The football world was rocked when the Scottish great announced he was retiring after overseeing a 13th Premier League title triumph during a spell of unrivalled dominance at Old Trafford. United have failed to return to those heights since Ferguson stepped down, with successor David Moyes sacked after only 10 months in charge.
PHOENIX -- Hezly Rivera is leaning into her role as the leader of the next wave of U.S. women's gymnasts. The 18-year-old Olympic gold medalist won her second straight national title on Sunday, rallying from fourth during the final day of competition with four poised and professional routines.
Gibbs -- the 23-year-old grandson of former NFL coaching great and NASCAR team owner Joe Gibbs -- won by 0.253 seconds over his JGR teammate for his second victory of the season and his career. Gibbs and Bell each pitted with 60 laps remaining in the 350-lap race, but while Bell took four tires, Gibbs just went with two, and came out ahead.
MINNEAPOLIS --Minnesota Lynx guard Kayla McBride wanted to give the hometown fans a show Sunday. She delivered one that the Target Center crowd will never forget. The five-time All-Star and four-time EuroLeague champion broke the WNBA single-game record by making 10 3-pointers Sunday in a 103-90 victory over the Dallas Wings.
BOSTON -- Jacob Wilson's father will be very proud. All that work on the Little League fields on up has paid off. Wilson, 24, set an MLB record for his position, playing his 111th consecutive errorless game at shortstop for the Athletics and surpassing the Baltimore Orioles' Mike Bordick, who went 110 games in 2002.
BEDMINSTER, N.J. -- Joaquín Niemann closed with a 2-under 69 Sunday for a three-shot victory in LIV Golf New York, extending his record with his ninth career victory in the last three years. Jon Rahm shot 76 and tied for 41st, but that still was enough to clinch the season points title for the third straight time since the two-time major champion joined LIV Golf.
Bryan Stevenson teaches America how to remember, and judges keep showing Trump who's boss. This week, Trump tried to rewrite history, but a man who builds museums fought back. And Trump lost his twentieth case after trying to steal your voting data.
A week ago, OpenAI’s upcoming Astra model was making major waves in the math world after knocking out 10 long-standing problems. Days later, it set off an alarm the company had never rung before.