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July 22, 2026

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Telemundo and Peacock Redefine Soccer Fandom in the US with Record-Breaking Audiences for Spanish-Language Coverage of FIFA World Cup 2026™

Telemundo, the leading Spanish-language home of world-class soccer in the United States, closes out its coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2026™ with record-breaking audience delivery across every stage of the tournament. With historic milestone wins across all platforms, the tournament is the most-watched FIFA World Cup™ tournament in Spanish-language media history with an average Total Audience Delivery of 6.3 million viewers across the 104 matches, up +143% vs. the 2022 tournament (2.6 million).  Each stage of the 2026 tournament set a new Spanish-language World Cup Total Audience record and delivered triple-digit growth versus the 2022 World Cup. The FIFA

July 22, 2026

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US launches airstrikes on Iran, Tehran fires back at Gulf states

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by hitting Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar in crossfire that again threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Persian Gulf. The strikes came hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said recent Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz signaled the end of the fragile ceasefire. The U.S. struck a variety of military sites and port facilities early Wednesday following Iran’s targeting of several merchant vessels off the coast of Oman, sparking Iranian fire then as

July 22, 2026

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Why have US-Iran strikes resumed and what does it mean for peace? | US-Israel war on Iran News

The United States launched dozens of strikes on Iran early on Wednesday in what it said was retaliation for Tehran’s attacks on commercial ships in the highly contested Strait of Hormuz, sparking widespread fears of the renewal of all-out war in the Middle East. After the US attacks, President Donald Trump told reporters at a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkiye, that he thinks the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Iran is “over”. While he “might” allow peace talks to continue for now, he said, he believed they were a “waste of time”. In an angry tirade, he referred to the

July 22, 2026

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US attacks Iran for 11th consecutive night | US-Israel war on Iran News

US Central Command (CENTCOM) says it has completed its 11th consecutive evening of air strikes against Iran to further degrade the country’s “ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz”. In a statement, CENTCOM said that US forces targeted “Iranian military operations centres, maritime capabilities, aircraft hangars, drone storage facilities, and military logistics infrastructure”. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi, reporting from Tehran, said that “massive explosions were heard across the Iranian capital”, and that the air-defence system had been activated in various locations in Tehran. Meanwhile, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported

July 21, 2026

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Video shows tourists breaking Yellowstone rules at Grand Prismatic

Updated July 21, 2026, 5:11 p.m. ET Visitors are supposed to stick to designated walkways around thermal features at Yellowstone National Park.  It’s not just for their own safety or the protection of the park’s famed, fragile resources. It’s also the law.   That didn’t seem to stop two recent tourists at Yellowstone’s largest hot spring.  Tanya Saueressig of Livingston, Montana, captured video of them walking on the colorful bacterial mats of the park’s iconic Grand Prismatic Spring on July 18. “I did this double take like, this can’t be real … yep, that’s actually people out there,” she told USA TODAY. “And then I started getting scared for them because people have fallen into the thermal features.”

July 21, 2026

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Massive, Record-Breaking Great White Shark Detected Near U.S. Vacation Hotspot

As the summer heats up and the Atlantic water warms, a massive, record-breaking great white shark has been detected off the coast of one popular vacation hotspot. Back in January of 2025, a massive male great white shark became the largest male white shark ever tagged in the western North Atlantic. Now, he’s been detected off the coast of the Outer Banks in North Carolina, and it sounds like he could be headed up north to the Cape Cod area. Massive Great White in Outer Banks At 14 feet long and nearly 1,700 pounds, Contender broke a record last year

July 21, 2026

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Iran’s Pezeshkian reveals domestic criticism of US negotiations – Shafaq News

2026-07-21T15:28:29+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Tehran Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that negotiations with the United States have faced domestic criticism despite achieving results beyond expectations, while accusing Washington of failing to honor its commitments. Speaking to reporters, Pezeshkian noted that “some internal criticism had downplayed the achievements of the talks,” maintaining that the negotiations had exceeded expectations. “The memorandum of understanding focused on reopening the Strait of Hormuz to oil exports, but the US side had not implemented the agreed terms.” Addressing domestic affairs, Pezeshkian said Iran’s “enemy” had waged a comprehensive

July 21, 2026

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How FIFA turned the 2026 World Cup into a record-breaking $15.2 billion business

It was the World Cup of excess – of stadiums unlike almost anything else in the world, 104 games, relentless scoring from the sport’s biggest stars, Donald Trump and, above all, the $15.2 billion FIFA generated across every revenue stream, all for the benefit of soccer. A large portion of that money is said to now be directed toward what experts describe as the sport’s pyramid, with national associations receiving a significant financial boost to help develop the game. That figure is double the revenue generated by the World Cup in Qatar, which brought in around $7.6 billion. Russia 2018

July 21, 2026

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Cuba edges toward breakdown as power cuts and US meddling push society to brink | Cuba

When Cuba’s national grid collapses, as it did for the third time in 10 days on Tuesday, a collective groan spreads across its cities and people wonder, again, whether the island’s antiquated electricity system may soon become unrecoverable. The 777-mile long Caribbean island of 9.5 million people has been sweltering under a six-month-long oil blockade imposed by the US, part of a pressure campaign to bring down its communist government. But the parlous state of Cuba’s infrastructure goes far further back. “The backbone of the system is still the big power plants,’ said Jorge Piñon, a senior energy researcher at

July 21, 2026

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Today’s News: Trump Housing Bill, Europe Heat Wave, Military Flu Outbreak | National News

A dangerous heat wave continues to grip Europe, with record-breaking temperatures leading to deaths in France and the United Kingdom. Stateside, it’s the first official day of President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair, with a 110-foot ferris wheel, movie screenings, daily rodeos and more set up on the National Mall. Meanwhile, Trump yesterday cancelled a bill signing for bipartisan housing legislation in a move that surprised even his own congressional allies. And a federal judge blocked key portions of Trump’s election agenda while the head of the U.S. Postal Service defended a proposal requiring states to hand over voter