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CNN  —  The apparent sound made when the Titan submersible imploded in June 2023 has been revealed in new footage released Thursday by the Marine Board of Investigation, the US Coast Guard’s highest level of inquiry. Cameras on the sub’s mother ship captured the moment when Wendy Rush – whose husband Stockton founded OceanGate, the company which built the ill-fated vessel, and was one of five people who died in its implosion – heard a faint cracking sound similar to a car door slamming. “What was that bang?” she says, turning to the people next to her. At that point,…

There were shock selections and intriguing indications from Thomas Tuchel as he named his England squad for next month’s internationals.Here’s what we learnt from the England boss and his picks to face Andorra in a World Cup qualifier and then Senegal in a friendly… Toney’s surprise recall a blow for SolankeIvan Toney’s recall to the England squad for the first time since last summer’s Euros and his swapping of Brentford for Al Ahli was the headline grabbing selection on Friday morning. “I don’t think anybody saw it coming,” said Sky Sports News’ Rob Dorsett.Toney has scored 22 goals in 29…

The use of all forms of pyros – including flares, smoke bombs and fireworks – at all sports grounds is illegal and could result in a lifetime stadium ban and police action.In recent weeks there has been an increase in their use. Following the game against Tottenham Hotspur when Liverpool clinched the title, there were close to 50 reports of burns outside Anfield, with the youngest being a three-year-old child.Alder Hey had to treat several children in its emergency department with burns from flares after the game, including burns to the hands from holding flares and burns to the face…

FILE PHOTO: People walk on the Business School campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., April 15, 2025. Faith Ninivaggi | ReutersA federal judge in Boston on Friday temporarily halted the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard University enrolling international students, hours after the private school filed a lawsuit challenging that draconian action.The order came a day after the Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students under the F-1 visa program at the behest of Secretary Kristi Noem, saying the private school tolerated “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” on campus.Judge Allison Burroughs, in issuing a temporary restraining order…

CNN  —  More than 200 wealthy crypto bros gathered for a private event at President Donald Trump’s golf club just outside Washington, DC, on Thursday night — dining on filet mignon and halibut while the president stood at a podium regaling them with tales of his 2024 victory. The black-tie dinner was a special reward for the top 220 holders of the president’s personal $TRUMP meme coin, with those in the room having contributed millions in investment in his crypto token. The 25 biggest investors got an even more exclusive privilege — access to a small VIP reception with the…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Vice President JD Vance told military academy graduates Friday that President Donald Trump is working to ensure that U.S. armed forces are only sent into harm’s way with clear goals rather than the “undefined missions” and “open-ended conflicts” of the past.Vance, in a commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy, said Trump’s approach “doesn’t mean that we ignore threats but means that we approach them with discipline and if we send you to war, we do it with a very specific set of goals in mind.”Vance said the alternative under Trump will be quicker-hit military actions,…

Saturday encompasses an achievement decades in the making for Arsenal. The last time the club featured in a Women’s Champions League final it was 2007. Apple had just introduced the iPhone to the world. Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister. Manchester United were dominating the Premier League. Events that feel like a lifetime ago, because they were.Arsenal have endured plenty of false dawns and near misses since their European zenith. Some campaigns were spent outside continental competition altogether. But now the Gunners are back on the biggest stage they plan to attack the game in Lisbon with “no…

LONDON (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Warren Stephens met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday to “convey the priorities of the Trump administration,” after President Donald Trump urged the U.K. to ditch wind power projects and drill for oil.The U.S. Embassy said those priorities include “maximizing the U.S.-U.K. partnership to advance our shared interests, such as the recently announced trade deal and our defense and security alliance which promotes stability and prosperity worldwide.”The embassy said the meeting at 10 Downing St. was the second for the two men since Stephens, a billionaire investment banker and Republican donor, took up his…

MADRID (AP) — Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was awarded Spain’s 2025 Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts for her images that for decades have captured “the social reality not only of Mexico, but also of many places,” prize organizers said Friday.Iturbide became famous internationally for her sparse, cinematic and mostly black-and-white photographs of Indigenous societies in Mexico, with a particular focus on the role of women in them. In “Our Lady of the Iguanas,” one of Iturbide’s best-known images published in 1979, an Indigenous Zapotec woman in southern Mexico carries live iguanas on her head that form the shape…

President Donald Trump on Friday said he is “recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union” after complaining that trade negotiations have stalled.The steep new import duties would start June 1, Trump wrote on Truth Social.The EU “has been very difficult to deal with,” Trump wrote of the 27-nation bloc. “Our discussions with them are going nowhere!”Asked later Friday if he was looking to cut a deal with the EU in the next nine days, Trump said he was not.”I just said, it’s time that we play the game the way I know how to play the game,” he…