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Bill ConnellyMay 26, 2025, 06:00 AM ETCloseBill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019.The best domestic league in the world didn’t exactly enjoy its most thrilling season in 2024-25. The Premier League title and all three relegation spots were locked up before May, and while the race for UEFA Champions League berths went all the way to the end of the season, the only final-day drama we got revolved around a controversial refereeing decision. Hell, with Mohamed Salah’s steady heroics — at one point in the fall,…

CNN  —  In a Memorial Day post to his Truth Social platform Monday, President Donald Trump marked the solemn occasion honoring America’s war dead by blasting his political opponents and perceived enemies as “scum,” members of the federal judiciary as “USA hating” as well as “monsters,” and his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, as “incompetent.” The all-caps message, posted just before 7:00 a.m. ET, sees the president wishing a “Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds,” which he writes were responsible for illegal…

The top stories and transfer rumours from Monday’s newspapers…DAILY MIRRORBarcelona are ready to make their move for Arsenal transfer target Joan Garcia. Arsenal are said to be considering a sensational move to bring Emiliano Martinez back to the Emirates – five years after he was brutally shown the door by Mikel Arteta.Manchester United are set to strip Marcus Rashford of the No 10 shirt and give it to the incoming Matheus Cunha.DAILY MAILManchester United have reportedly agreed a deal to sign Wolves striker Matheus Cunha, with the club set to trigger his £62.5m release clause. The Qatari group which failed…

Liverpool staged a victory parade on Monday to celebrate winning the Premier League title.Liverpool clinched the title with a 5-1 demolition of Tottenham Hotspur last month and lifted the trophy at Anfield on Sunday following a 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace.An open top bus will move through Liverpool this afternoon Photo by Jess Hornby/Getty ImagesThe parade started at around 2.30 p.m. BST (9.30 a.m.ET) at Allerton Maze in the south of the city before travelling northbound on Queens Drive, towards the Fiveways roundabout and on to the Rocket flyover.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedThe 15-kilometre parade route will be the same one used following…

CNN  —  Firefighters in Germany had to use hydraulic equipment to free a man who got stuck under a train armrest while searching for a dropped AirPod. Emergency services were called to Lehrte station in north-central Germany on Friday evening following reports that a passenger was trapped, the local fire department said in a statement published Saturday. “What initially looked like a fairly simple rescue then developed into a complex rescue operation, however, as the person’s hand had swollen so much in the meantime that it could no longer be freed using simple rescue equipment,” it said. Firefighters had to…

May 26, 2025, 04:00 AM ETThe Premier League is over. Liverpool were worthy champions, while the previous Big Six of Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur all had mixed seasons for one reason or another. Some worse than others …To get an insight into which players performed well and which struggled, we’ve given the top 20 stars from each squad a rating out of 10, based on minutes played in the league.As ever, 10 equals the best, and any player who didn’t manage enough minutes to break into their top 20 — through injury, January transfer, or…

Scotland captain Rachel Corsie will retire from football following the upcoming Nations League matches against Austria and Netherlands.The defender, who has 154 caps for the national side, was recalled to the squad by new head coach Melissa Andreatta last week. However, a series of injuries had left her in “chronic pain” and after six surgeries – including five on her left knee – Corsie admits now is the right time to retire.The 35-year-old has played for nine clubs across Scotland, England, USA and Australia during an 18-year playing career. Image: Corsie won 16 trophies with Glasgow City, including seven league…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Using xenon gas treatment and the latest technology is making climbing Mount Everest not just faster but also better for the environment, cutting down garbage and waste, a renowned mountain guide said Monday.Lukas Furtenbach took a team of British climbers, who left London on May 16, to scale the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak on May 21. They returned home two days later, in one of the fastest ascents on record of the world’s highest peak, including the climbers’ travel from their homes and back. The use of xenon gas treatment has, however, drawn controversy and has even…

PARIS (AP) — They were just playfighting.That was French President Emmanuel Macron ‘s explanation Monday for video images that appeared to show his wife, Brigitte, pushing her husband away with both hands on his face before they disembarked from their plane to start a tour of Southeast Asia this weekend.The moment quickly made headlines in France, with media trying to decipher the interaction that cameras spotted through the just-opened door of the plane. The headline of a story on the website of the daily Le Parisien newspaper asked: “Slap or ‘squabble’? The images of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron disembarking in…

A new government report, presented by France’s Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, revives the spectre of the Muslim Brotherhood as an underground Islamist threat poised to capture local and national institutions. But behind this alarmist framing lies a deeper political strategy: to delegitimise non-compliant Muslim political participation ahead of the 2026 and 2027 elections, and to bolster the far right parties as the most credible guardians of the republic against a manufactured enemy. On 21 May, a confidential report – drafted by two civil servants and initially classified as “Secret Défense” before being leaked to Le Figaro – was presented to…