FIFA cancels plan to sell World Cup stakes to private equity investors

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FIFA president nixes idea to sell stakes in World Cup to private equity investors

The president of World Cup organizer FIFA said Friday he’s nixing a much-criticized plan to sell stakes in soccer’s biggest tournament to private equity investors. The plan to consolidate FIFA’s commercial and event operations into a new commercial subsidiary valued at $20 billion is off the table, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement. … Read more

In the AI age, internships have higher stakes. There are ways to maximize the experience.

Lucy Rice works 20 hours a week at an unpaid internship, writing and editing stories for a weekly hyperlocal newspaper in New York City. She plans to finish graduate school and then look for work that would eventually allow her to produce longer, explanatory journalism. A friend told her about Straus News, where she is … Read more

READ: The rare filing that underscored the stakes in the Supreme Court’s Lisa Cook ruling

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A rare filing from prominent economists and former government officials highlighted the high stakes in the Supreme Court’s decision allowing Lisa Cook, a top official at the Federal Reserve, to remain in her role while her legal challenge to President Donald Trump‘s firing moves forward. In a … Read more

The U.S. can shrug off its last-gasp loss to Turkey. Now the stakes go up.

The U.S. leaves the group stage with eight goals, the most produced by the men’s national team at any single World Cup. It opened Thursday with a goal by Auston Trusty within two minutes — before conceding two goals before halftime. Players and Pochettino insisted after the match that the team’s momentum from its first … Read more

Golden Tempo wins the 2026 Belmont Stakes, month after its historic Kentucky Derby win

Golden Tempo surged to victory in the 2026 Belmont Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga Springs in New York, capturing the third and final win of the Triple Crown, just a month after winning the Kentucky Derby.  Golden Tempo made Cherie DeVaux the first woman to train a Kentucky Derby winner. She was looking to be … Read more

Remembering the legendary 1973 Belmont Stakes when Secretariat won the Triple Crown

Remembering the legendary 1973 Belmont Stakes when Secretariat won the Triple Crown – CBS News Watch CBS News The 2026 Belmont Stakes are taking place on Saturday in New York. CBS News’ Jon LaPook recalls the legendary 1973 Belmont Stakes, where Secretariat took the Triple Crown and made sports history. Source link

With viral ‘Lego’ videos, Iran stakes claim as a propaganda power player

As part of an overwhelming flow of polished propaganda, Lego-style videos are pouring out of Iran. They’re saturating social media feeds throughout the United States and worldwide with anti-war, pro-Iran messages that cast President Donald Trump as a war criminal who has dragged America into a conflict that it can’t win, on Israel’s behalf. The … Read more