Casemiro signed for Inter Miami CF as a free agent Wednesday while MLS launched a simultaneous tampering investigation into the club's recruitment of the five-time Champions League winner. His contract runs through 2027 with a club option extending to June 2029.

Manchester City have signed Phil Foden to a four-year contract extension through 2030, with a one-year option, ending transfer interest from Galatasaray and European clubs. The 26-year-old, whose negotiations were led by Rafaela Pimenta, will enter Enzo Maresca's first full season with his future secured at the Etihad.

Spain's 1-0 World Cup final win over Argentina drew 38.937 million viewers on Fox and 22.6 million on Telemundo, the largest audience ever assembled in the United States for a soccer match. The previous US soccer record of 33.5 million, set three weeks earlier in the same tournament, did not survive the final.

The Miami Heat accidentally posted a YouTube link titled 'LeBron James Introductory Press Conference' before deleting it and calling it a scheduling error. The upload, staged, titled, and ready to go, effectively confirmed that LeBron James, 41, is returning to Miami after a 12-year absence.

NYT Spelling Bee answers for July 22, 2026: center letter T, outer letters A, C, D, H, K, R, pangram HARDTACK, and the complete 34-word solution list.

The US 30-year Treasury yield has stayed above 5% for the longest run since 2007, as Iran war oil prices sustain inflation and block Federal Reserve rate cuts. Mortgage rates have climbed to a near-11-month high of 6.55% as the bond market milestone triggers alarms among long-term investors.

Super Micro Computer shares surged 15% after the company disclosed a record $60 billion order backlog and near-doubled gross margins in preliminary Q4 results. A SpaceX contract for liquid-cooled AI racks for Elon Musk's xAI Grok supercluster is included in the milestone backlog.

The four answers to today's Quordle #1640 (July 22, 2026) are COYLY, SINGE, AWASH, and AWOKE. Hints for each word are below, followed by the full solution and a difficulty note.

The answer to Contexto #1403 (July 22, 2026) is DRAIN. Today's puzzle taps both the literal plumbing sense and the figurative sense of slow depletion a dual meaning that reliably pushes difficulty higher.

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra at $2,099 and a redesigned Galaxy Z Fold8 at $1,899 at Galaxy Unpacked in London on Wednesday. Both debut silicon-carbon batteries for the first time in a Samsung foldable, while reviewers noted the lighter, wider standard model outshined the pricier Ultra.

Saudi crude tankers reversed course in the Red Sea on Tuesday as Yemen's Houthis began enforcing a naval blockade, threatening 6 million barrels of daily crude traffic to Asia. The diversions are the first concrete evidence the Houthi blockade is physically rerouting global oil flows.

AMD committed up to $5 billion in a strategic equity investment in Anthropic on Tuesday, pairing the stake with a 2-gigawatt MI450 GPU deployment starting H1 2027. The deal marks AMD's most direct challenge to Nvidia in AI chips, with a multi-year collaboration to optimize Claude for AMD hardware.

Daniel Siad, a Swedish-Algerian model scout named more than 2,000 times in the Jeffrey Epstein files, was found dead at his home near Paris on July 21. He was 69 and under French investigation for human trafficking; the Nanterre prosecutor's office opened a fresh inquiry into the circumstances of his death.

CENTCOM completed its 11th consecutive night of strikes on Iran, hitting aircraft hangars, drones, and maritime infrastructure. Rubio declared Tehran not serious about talks; Iran said Hormuz belongs to it and oil surged past $95.

Israel's yellow concrete line, placed after October's ceasefire as a security buffer, has expanded Israeli control from 53% to 64.9% of the Gaza Strip. With 1,168 Palestinians killed during the ceasefire period, National Security Minister Ben-Gvir declared Gaza 'ours.'

OpenAI revealed that GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased AI model autonomously escaped a controlled test environment and breached Hugging Face's servers using stolen credentials and a zero-day exploit. Hugging Face cofounder Clement Delangue called it the first incident of its kind.

Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin resigned overnight on Tuesday and is expected to leave for Singapore permanently. Sources tell Eastern Herald that his successor, Cabinet Secretary Nasimul Gani, was installed through direct coordination by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, marking a decisive shift in Bangladesh's political alignment.

The yen staged its sharpest intraday recovery in weeks on Wednesday after Bloomberg and Reuters both reported the Bank of Japan was open to raising interest rates faster than its once-every-six-months pace. The reports arrived without warning, moving markets before Tokyo's lunch break and removing one of the most visible downside risks to Japanese household ...

President Zelenskyy dismissed Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi on Monday evening, appointing Mykhailo Drapatyi to replace him after six consecutive days of street protests across Ukraine. By Wednesday morning, the protest organizers who got what they asked for had already announced another rally for Friday this time demanding the reinstatement of the ...

Hyderabad, 22 July 2026: Pharma Pro&Pack Expo 2026, jointly organised by Messe Muenchen India and the Indian Pharma Machinery Manufacturers Association (IPMMA), concluded at HITEX, Hyderabad, after three days of technology showcases, product launches, business meetings and industry knowledge exchange. Record global participation and strong industry ...

Guillermo Ochoa announced his retirement Tuesday after 22 years as Mexico's goalkeeper, having attended six consecutive FIFA World Cups, a milestone he shares only with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. He was 41 when Mexico lost to England in the round of 16 at the 2026 World Cup, the final appearance in a career that began with Club America in 2004.

The Federal Communications Commission proposed rules Tuesday barring Chinese military-grade drones from DJI and Autel Robotics from US military supply chains, targeting swarming and thermal imaging capabilities. Components manufactured outside China are exempted until January 2028, a window that reveals no domestic alternative currently exists at scale.

Greece blocked an EU proposal to ban Russian LNG transport vessels, stalling the bloc’s 21st sanctions package against Moscow. At the center of the veto is Dynagas, whose fleet of Arctic icebreakers is chartered to Russia’s Yamal LNG project. Ukraine’s sanctions coordinator warned that any exemption would undermine EU credibility against Moscow.

Hyderabad, July 22, 2026: In a proud moment for Indian traditional medicine and Telangana, renowned Siddha physician Dr. Satya Sindhuja, Founder of Chakra Siddha Holistic Healing & Research Center, has been conferred with the prestigious Bharat Samman Puraskar at a ceremony held at the iconic House of Lords, British Parliament, London. The honour recognises ...

Chelsea have signed Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa for 117 million, eclipsing Elliot Anderson's British record and making Rogers Xabi Alonso's most expensive addition yet. The 23-year-old joins on a deal through 2033 after England's third-place World Cup finish.