Hegseth Says Congress Should Pay Tribute to Lindsey Graham by Approving $1.5 Trillion Military Budget

Adidas Shares Crash After World Cup Spending Fuels Earnings Miss Adidas shares crashed the most on record in Europe after outsized World Cup marketing spending weighed on second-quarter operating profit, overshadowing stronger-than-expected tournament-related sales. Profit totaled 574 million euros for the quarter ending in June, missing the 616 million euro estimate of analysts tracked by Bloomberg, as an additional 212 million euros in spending offset strong sales growth and disappointed investors seeking better margin expansion. The German sportswear maker generated 1.5 billion euros in sales, with jersey sales quadrupling and ball sales...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Iran is not engaged in ongoing negotiations with the US. He confirmed that Tehran has received messages from Washington.  “I receive messages from [US special envoy Steve] Witkoff directly, as before, and this does not mean that we are in negotiations,” Araghchi told Al Jazeera in an interview […]

Hillary Clinton Warns Dems: GOP's Anti-Communist Messaging "Very Effective" As Marxist Hijack Party Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Kara Swisher on the "Pivot" podcast that Republicans are deploying what she called a "very effective" anti-communist attack against the Democratic Party's rising class of far-left candidates, who are increasingly defeating establishment Democrats in primary races. Clinton told Swisher that Abdul El-Sayed's narrow victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary is a wake-up call for the party. She said El-Sayed must unite the party by winning over supporters of moderate Rep. Haley...