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France head coach Didier Deschamps has given his full backing to Ousmane Dembélé for the Ballon d’Or, ahead of his side’s UEFA Nations League semifinal with a Spain side featuring another leading contender for the award, Lamine Yamal.Dembele was named Champions League player of the season after helping Paris Saint-Germain win the title for the first time with a 5-0 drubbing of Inter Milan.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedMuch of the talk since Saturday’s final has been about the Ballon d’Or award, with many seeing the PSG forward as the main rival to Spain and Barcelona’s Yamal.”Of course I am for Ousmane, since…

Apparently, convincing your friends to sell chicken can pay off — big.At 24, Arman Oganesyan was making $50 a night as a stand-up comedian with no restaurant or business experience when he pitched the idea of selling Nashville hot chicken to his childhood friends Dave Kopushyan and Tommy Rubenyan. Pooling $900 in savings, they launched Dave’s Hot Chicken in 2017 as a pop-up in a Los Angeles parking lot.On Monday, private equity firm Roark Capital bought a majority stake in Dave’s Hot Chicken, which is now a franchise business with more than 300 locations, in a deal worth “pretty close”…

ATLANTA (AP) — Three years after Atlanta rapper Young Thug and 27 others were indicted on gang and racketeering charges, followed by a long, problem-plagued trial, nobody will be convicted of murder.When Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced the indictment in May 2022, she said her office was cracking down on a violent street gang responsible for multiple killings run by Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams.But Willis dropped the only remaining murder charge Monday after defendant Demise McMullen pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of aggravated assault. Young Thug went home Oct. 31 after pleading guilty…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Facing a legislature dominated by Democrats, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo stood before Nevada lawmakers earlier this year with a message that some did not expect to go far: “Set aside partisan politics.”It was a plea that might have seemed more aspirational than realistic, given the country’s deep polarization. Yet it set the stage for one of the session’s most unexpected outcomes — a bipartisan agreement to bring voter ID requirements to the perennial battleground state by next year’s midterm elections.In a deal that came together in the waning days of the session, the Democratic-controlled Legislature approved…

Finland played to a 1-1 draw vs. Serbia on Tuesday. HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA/LEHTIKUVA/AFP via Getty ImagesFinland women’s national team manager has apologised for mistakenly calling up a long-retired 51-year-old for this week’s game against Serbia.When submitting the lineup, manager Outi Saarinen mistakenly entered former player Stina Ruuskanen instead of 23-year-old Djurgarden defender Nanne Ruuskanen.The error was not discovered until past deadline.Ruuskanen, who received her call-up 29 years after playing two senior internationals for Finland, took the mix-up in good humour.Puolustaja Nanne Ruuskasta ei nähdä tiistaina Helmareiden kokoonpanossa Nations League -ottelussa Serbiaa vastaan inhimillisen virheen vuoksi.Lue lisää⤵️https://t.co/Akt4vnw8wX— Helmarit (@HelmaritFI) June 3, 2025 “I’m…

Johnson & Johnson manufacturing facility in Wilson, North Carolina.Courtesy: Johnson & JohnsonData from the New York Federal Reserve shows a majority of companies have passed along at least some of President Donald Trump’s tariffs onto customers, the latest in a growing body of evidence indicating the policy change is likely to stretch consumers’ wallets.In May, about 77% of service firms that saw increased costs due to higher U.S. tariffs tariffs passed through at least at least some of the rise to clients, according to a survey conducted by the New York Fed that was released Wednesday. Around 75% of manufacturers…

A store closing sign is displayed as customers shop during the last day of a store closing sale at a JOANN Fabric and Crafts location in a shopping mall following the company’s bankruptcy in Torrance, California, on May 27, 2025.Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty ImagesThe U.S. economy has contracted over the past six weeks as hiring has slowed and consumers and businesses worried about tariff-related price increases, according to a Federal Reserve report Wednesday.In its periodic “Beige Book” summary of conditions, the central bank noted that “economic activity has declined slightly since the previous report” released April 23.”All…

Jack Grealish is expected to be left out of Manchester City’s Club World Cup squad, Sky Sports News has learned.City are yet to submit their final 35-player squad ahead of the tournament in the USA but, as it stands, the England international will not be part of next week’s travelling party. Grealish has two years left on his Man City contract and will fight for his place after struggling for game time this season. Image: Will Grealish leave Man City this summer? If any options come up during the summer for a move, they will be considered.Due to his transfer…

As more parts of the world face intense drought, new technologies are emerging to clean and reuse existing water. Investors are seeing potential for big profits.Water treatment is expensive. It uses a lot of energy and produces its own waste that gets disposed of at a hefty price. Capture6, a startup in Berkeley, California, says it’s developing a solution, and one with an added benefit to the environment. Capture6’s technology repurposes industrial and water treatment waste, generating clean water and capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”That combination of water treatment, brine management, and carbon capture all at once is part…

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” as “immoral” and “grotesque,” and reiterated that he will vote against it unless his GOP colleagues make major changes.”This is immoral, what us old farts doing to our young people,” Johnson said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” after sounding alarms that the massive tax-and-spending-cut bill would add trillions of dollars to national deficits.”This is grotesque, what we’re doing,” Johnson said. “We need to own up to that. This is our moment.””I can’t accept the scenario, I can’t accept it, so I won’t vote for it, unless we…