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Trending:Conor McGregor didn’t want to fight at UFC 329, says Din ThomasONE ChampionshipA fighter who once traded the ring for a recording studio is now the headliner on one of the promotion’s most stacked nights of the month. Wanchainoi Pongsuphan PK meets Lao striker Petnamkhong Sor Maneekhot in a strawweight Muay Thai main event topping The Inner Circle 26, streaming live from Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium this Friday, August 14. The 25-year-old Wanchainoi walked away from the sport during COVID to pursue music, releasing an album and building a following through cover videos, before serving in the military and eventually returning…

Background Individual Placement and Support (IPS) was originally developed to help people with serious mental illnesses into competitive employment but has recently shown positive results when delivered to people in treatment for substance use. This paper explores clients’ views and experiences of IPS for substance use to understand how the program is working across England, United Kingdom, and whether any improvements can be made. Methods A longitudinal qualitative study with 48 new IPS clients was conducted between January 2024 and August 2025. Participants were interviewed up to four times each by telephone generating 153 interviews that were analysed inductively by…

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, the U.S. government was the unrivaled patron of American science. It funded nearly two-thirds of the nation’s research and development — much of it for defense — defining the early Cold War. In a phenomenon that’s been widely explored in our Arsenal of Innovation series, for several decades federal dollars pushed the technological frontier, and the private sector followed.Today, that arrangement has been inverted. Industry now funds roughly three-quarters of U.S. research and development, while Washington’s share is less than a fifth. Because the cutting edge increasingly emerges from commercial labs, the…

Trending:Colby Covington praises Arman Tsarukyan following RAF 11 match: “You’re gonna be the UFC lightweight champ”Credit: RIZIN/Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLCFormer Bellator bantamweight king Patchy Mix’s recent struggles continued before he returned to the cage at RIZIN 54. At one point in his career, former Bellator bantamweight champion Patchy Mix was thought to be arguably one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in Mixed Martial Arts. During his Bellator prime, Mix was hypothetically paired up for fights with Sean O’Malley, Merab Dvalishvili, and some of the best bantamweights in the world. After winning 20 of his first 21 fights, including multiple Bellator bantamweight…

Windstock Brawl Pass is now live in-game for this August 2026.It offers two skin sets, the Wind-powered player title, and more rewards. The Brawl Stars Windstock season is now live in-game, introducing a variety of new content, including cosmetics and exciting skins. Season 53 brings the Windstock Brawl Pass, which includes new features like Keys and Vault, two skin sets, Biotech Byron and Retrofuture Rosa, their chromas, and various other exciting rewards. Let’s dive into the details about the new Brawl Pass! Brawl Stars Windstock Brawl Pass Overview Brawl Stars now provides two Brawl Pass skins per season, and Windstock brings two skin sets as well. Set 1 includes Biotech Byron, Unearthed…

South Korea’s MND has issued a legislative notice for a special act establishing the legal framework, nuclear safety, and procurement path for its Jangbogo-N attack submarine program. The Republic of Korea Navy aims to launch its first nuclear-powered attack submarine in the mid-2030s. South Korea’s plan to field nuclear-powered attack submarines has taken another significant step forward, with the Ministry of National Defense (MND) issuing a legislative notice for a proposed special act designed to establish a comprehensive legal framework for the acquisition, operation and nuclear-safety management of the future Jangbogo-N submarines. On July 29, the ministry published the proposed…

Léon Marchand produced another remarkable addition to his increasingly diverse résumé at the 2026 European Aquatics Championships, swimming a lifetime-best 1:43.76 in the 200m freestyle and becoming the sixth-fastest performer in history. The French superstar delivered the performance while leading off the French men’s 4x200m freestyle relay in Paris, making his time eligible as an official individual mark. Marchand ultimately helped France to claim silver behind Great Britain, but his opening leg was certainly the standout individual performance of the race. For an athlete best known for dominating the individual medley, butterfly and breaststroke, the result represents another significant expansion…

President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that the Republican president was flying on Air Force One, according to a report published by The Washington Post on Monday. The Post said the operation was prompted by an Iranian assassination threat against Trump. The ruse was carried out as journalists and some White House staff members were led to believe they were on the same plane as the president as he began his journey back to Washington from the annual gathering of…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. FedEx and Amazon are ramping up the presence of robotic arms within their networks in a bid to boost productivity and limit strenuous employee tasks. On July 30, FedEx announced in a news release the deployment of Dexterity’s dual-armed Mech trailer loading systems at its Maryland-based Hagerstown Hub. The systems are powered by Foresight, Dexterity’s model that makes real-time decisions to optimize package placement during the autonomous loading process. Tens of thousands of trailers are loaded daily across FedEx’s U.S. network. The…

Among the many sectors shaping China’s economic strategy toward the United States and other Western countries, few are as important as food and agriculture. As one of the world’s largest importers of agricultural products, China has frequently used access to its vast markets as leverage in trade negotiations. In 2025, for instance, it suspended soybean imports from the United States for several months—a major setback for U.S. farmers—in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. As part of Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s fragile trade truce in May of this year, China agreed to purchase at least…