One Day Cup: Middlesex thrash hapless Glamorgan

Metro Bank One Day Cup, Radlett

Glamorgan 66 all out (20.5 ov): Byrom 29; Sharma 4-29, Cornwell 3-1, Roland-Jones 3-35

Middlesex 67-2 (9.1 overs): De Caires 45*; Edwards 2-7

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What next for India’s ‘Cockroach’ movement after education minister sacked

New Delhi, India – Silence descended over Jantar Mantar and the adjoining Parliament Street in central New Delhi at midnight, hours after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) called off its agitation following the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

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Left-wing Democrats are riding high - but can they lure back swing voters?

On a Saturday evening in Michigan, the skies still hazy from drifting Canadian wildfire smoke, hundreds of voters packed into Detroit's opulent 104-year-old Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez took the stage.

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One excellent, unforgettable expansion has fixed Doom: The Dark Ages

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I liked Doom: The Dark Ages when it arrived last year, but I really ought to have loved it. The first two Dooms of id's modern trilogy are generationally great FPS campaigns with unmatched action, memorable guns, and late-game fights that will grind your teeth down to the gums. They successfully reestablished Doom around speed, hyper mobility, and improvisational gun swapping—ideas that id actively turned away from when it designed The Dark Ages around a shield.

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NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Sunday, July 26

NYT Connections Guide Answers And Clues

Today's Connections

Credit: NYT / Erik Kain

Welcome back, Connectioneers! If you’re looking for help with today’s puzzling NYT Connections puzzle, I’m here to offer my assistance with some extra clues and the solutions to the Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple groups.

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MrBeast’s Newest Battle: Granting Wishes for Kids Battling Cancer (With Assist From LeBron James)

Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast aka, the most followed creator on YouTube, stays busy churning out a genre of content that lands to a rabid fan base. Recent videos and view counts include “7 Days Stranded in the Arctic” (102 million), “I Stranded 100 People in the Wilderness For $250,000” (142 million), “Last to Leave Grocery Store Wins $250,000” (172 million), and “Survive 30 Days Stranded With Your Ex, Win” $250,000 (132 million).

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Katy Perry Slams Trump Administration for Using Song ‘Firework’ in Military Strikes Video: ‘I Absolutely Do Not Condone It’

Katy Perry has blasted the White House for using her 2010 hit song “Firework” in a TikTok post depicting footage of military strikes. The video, posted to the official White House TikTok account on Thursday, times the song’s lyrics — “boom, boom, boom” — to clips of bomb explosions with the caption “Iran has been warned.”

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Final Fantasy 14 Finally Has a Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date, and It's Less Than 2 Weeks Away

Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy 14 has a Nintendo Switch 2 release date of August 4, 2026.

Game director Naoki Yoshida (a.k.a. Yoshi-P) suited up in Bastion armor and took the stage at Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival 2026 in Berlin to confirm the news alongside a laundry list of new updates coming in the near future. While Square Enix had previously confirmed plans to bring FFXIV to Switch 2 in August, today's news locks in a launch that's only a little more than one week away.

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How Bravo Struck Gold With ‘The Real Housewives of Rhode Island’

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Bravo has introduced its first new U.S.-based Housewives installment since The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in 2020, and everyone from locals to viewers from afar has thoughts about The Real Housewives of Rhode Island

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Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

“Everybody’s on their phone at my program!” jokes Charlie Bailey, a librarian in South Philadelphia. He’s just asked his audience to pull out their phones so that he can walk them through the steps of disabling Apple Intelligence and Gemini.

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