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Here’s how you can watch all of the World Cup 2026 action on Prime Video
We're here to make the streaming situation a lot less complicated.
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The United States enter a charged World Cup asking: what is enough?
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Unlike most other countries, the US are playing the 2026 World Cup not just for themselves, but for the future of their voice in the sportWorld Cup newsletter | Daily podcast | Download the appMauricio Pochettino paused. The microphone signal flickered. He tried, for a second time, to say a few things to the 5,500 fans who had gathered in the sun Monday at Championship Soccer Stadium in Irvine, California – the United States’ World Cup home base – for an open training session. Nothing. Then something. More choppy audio. By the time things came back online, he had developed a quip.“We are in the greatest country in the world,” he said in his Rioplatense-accented English. “But the technology does not work.” Continue reading...
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How to watch all 3 World Cup 2026 opening ceremonies: Shakira, Katy Perry, more
All three host nations will have their own opening ceremonies.
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How To Watch The World Cup on FOX One: Price, ESPN Bundle, FOX One Free Trial Info
Who's ready for a summer of nonstop World Cup action?!
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States Are Ditching Trump’s “Great American State Fair”
President Trump’s Freedom 250 birthday extravaganza is looking so bleak that entire states are pulling out.NOTUS has reported that Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and North Carolina—the last of which Trump won in 2024—have all declined to send a representative to the president’s 16-day fair on the National Mall. Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Washington remain undecided even as the fair begins just two weeks from now.Each state is supposed to have a 600-square-foot themed booth with a representative or official sent by state leadership. With these states declining to send one, the administration has decided to pick their own. Multiple states said they had no knowledge as to who was chosen to represent their homes or why.Other states noted the hefty price attached to the event. Michele Walker, the comms director of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, told NOTUS her state would have to spend a minimum of $100,000 on travel, hotels, and their themed booth all together.“We decided early in the process that we do not have the capacity to participate,” Walker said. “Our limited resources are focused on America250 events across North Carolina.”This news comes just a week after nearly all of the first wave of musical performers—from Young MC to the Commodores—dropped out as well. This lack of enthusiasm only reaffirms that this “Freedom 250” event, unlike the educational America250 commission, is just a birthday party for Trump.
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FIFA World Cup 2026 begins with Mexico vs. South Africa — How to watch for free
It's been a long four years, but the FIFA World Cup officially kicks off today.
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Trump handed a warning shot ahead of World Cup with troubling new poll
As soccer fans from across the world travel to the United States this month to cheer on their countries’ teams at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, a poll released Wednesday by Data for Progress suggests Americans don’t believe many visitors have warm feelings toward the host country after a year-and-a-half of President Donald Trump’s leadership.Overall the poll found that 62% of American voters think the country’s reputation has deteriorated under Trump, with just 32% saying it’s gotten better.Republicans were the only political faction to believe Trump has improved global views of the US, while Independents and Democrats overwhelmingly said the president has made them worse.The poll also found 52% of US voters believed Trump’s mass deportation policies have hurt the country’s image in the world, with just 34% saying the deportations have helped.Trump’s immigration policies collided with the World Cup earlier this week when Somali referee Omar Artan, who was selected by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) to work at the celebrated event, was barred from entering the US despite having a valid visa.A Trump administration official claimed Artan had an “association with suspected members of terror organizations,” but provided no evidence for the allegation. US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) called his treatment by the US “a disgrace.”Polling data published last year by Pew suggests that Democrats and Independents are more accurately measuring global public sentiment of the US under Trump’s leadership than Republicans.Specifically, Pew found that net positive perceptions of the US dropped by 10 percentage points or more among residents in a dozen countries between 2024 and 2025, including in key allies such as Canada, Mexico, Germany, and France.What’s more, Pew found only five countries where the United States’ reputation has improved since Trump’s election: South Africa, India, Israel, Nigeria, and Turkey.Trump during his second term has taken a number of actions that have sparked anger from foreign governments, including making repeated threats to seize Greenland as a US territory, invading Venezuela and abducting its president, imposing an oil blockade on and threatening to take over Cuba, launching a global trade war, and waging an illegal war of choice on Iran.
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Mexico vs. South Africa prediction: Odds, picks, best bet for World Cup opener
Four years of waiting are over; the 2026 World Cup is about to commence.
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'Unhinged' Trump threat could've gotten a Pentagon official charged: ex-spokeswoman
President Donald Trump warned that U.S. forces were preparing to take control of Kharg Island in a major escalation of the war in Iran, and a national security expert denounced his statements as "unhinged" and unnecessarily risky.The 79-year-old president posted on Truth Social that U.S. forces would be "hitting Iran ... very hard tonight" and seizing the country's oil and gas markets on the Persian Gulf island. Former Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told CNN's "The Situation Room" that his statements were reckless."This post is incredibly unhinged and incredibly dangerous," said Singh, the former deputy press secretary for the Defense Department. "It is previewing U.S. military action before it actually takes place, which puts the lives of our pilots at risk, our Navy and Marines, our sailors and Marines who are operating in that area of responsibility just outside of Iran. So previewing military action before it's actually happened, one, you're losing the element of surprise, and two, you're putting our troops at risk.""You'll remember just a few weeks ago, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the war has concluded," she added. "This is clearly not the case, as we're seeing the ceasefire is not holding – we're back at kinetic action. So, I think, you know, to say that the war is even concluded back then was was a silly statement, and now it's proven so even more so."Singh suggested the president didn't appreciate what a massive undertaking the operation would be."Taking Kharg Island would require so many capabilities and resources that the U.S. is continuing to draw down every single day, including long-range capabilities, and it's not just taking Kharg Island, which we know is the crown jewel of Iran's oil hub and exporting. It's also holding Kharg Island. Essentially, our military would have to hold that, and it would require an incredible ground force that would basically be sitting ducks for Iran to target if they have to. For how long? For however long they have to hold that island."The president is allowed under the law to declassify information as he sees fit, but Singh said Trump's statements would have been problematic for anyone else in government to make."I would have probably been fired," the former Pentagon official said. "I think, you know, we would always have issues when it came to, you know, media outlets reporting on actions that hadn't been taken, even though we were, you know, leaning in that direction. It's incredibly dangerous to signal to the enemy that one when you're going to conduct strikes and potential targets, and so the fact that it's the president of the United States doing that not only just puts our men and women in uniform at risk. It is just so unprecedented. I could not imagine Secretary [Lloyd] Austin or President [Joe] Biden doing something like this and not having just such tremendous bipartisan blowback, and I'm not really seeing that today from the Republican Party right now."In fact, Singh said, she would have probably faced criminal charges for making the same statements as Trump."I would have faced charges," she said. "Yeah, definitely." - YouTube youtu.be
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