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One of the favorites to win the 2026 World Cup will kick off their tournament on Tuesday when Argentina take on Algeria in a Group J match. La Albiceleste, led by Lionel Messi, are the reigning world champions and sit No. 1 in the FIFA rankings, while Algeria are No. 28 and back at the World Cup for the first time since 2014. Argentina are -310 favorites to win the group, with Algeria at +750.Kickoff is 9 p.m. ET at Kansas City Stadium. The latest Algeria vs. Argentina odds from FanDuel Sportsbook list La Albiceleste as -240 favorites (risk $240…

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Forget the final score. The real World Cup upset this summer is how many international fans are discovering that America is, against all odds, kind of great — especially in a “why does this gas station have 40 kinds of jerky and also a Wi-Fi password printed on the receipt” way — and they’re documenting their delightful experiences on social media.The breakout star of the bunch is a German fan known on X as Freddy who has been chronicling a six-week road trip across the U.S. and Canada, following Germany’s national team, and has picked up hundreds of thousands of…

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Welcome to the newly formed Value Stock Contrarian Commiseration Committee. Processing ContentTrue, it doesn’t actually exist. But if it did, it would boast distinguished founding members like the recently retired investor Warren Buffett; the father of value investing, the late Ben Graham; and his protégé, the late David Dodd.  Bernard Horn is president and portfolio manager of Polaris Capital Management. We of the VSCCC have come together after weathering one of the longest value droughts in recent history. We celebrate what we see as the imminent return to sanity in stock valuations — one driven by investors who value tangible assets…

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On September 15, 1970, Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to “make the economy [of Chile] scream” (CIA Director Richard Helms’s actual note of the conversation can be seen here). But it wasn’t the economy that screamed: it was people. “The economy” is an abstraction. The concrete reality of sanctions and embargos is people who are starving. Driving people to starvation has become the foreign policy of the United States. America has always struggled for its soul. In his book The True Flag, Stephen Kinzer pins the date the struggle began as 1898. That year, America confronted the choice between remembering…

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A class of 2027 recruit announced his visit to Lincoln in a unique way. Defensive back Kamauri Whitfield posted a video with coach Matt Rhule, which showed the two driving around town.Whitfield is an intriguing three-star prospect in this class. He is the 76th-ranked corner and the 50th-ranked player in his class from the state of Florida, according to the Rivals Industry Rankings. He has several offers on the table, including from Florida, Virginia Tech, Oregon, and Georgia Tech.AdvertisementThe Huskers are putting together a solid secondary group in the class of 2027. Four-star safety Corey Hadley will help bolster the safety…

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The financial sector is made up of companies that operate in the various offerings within the finance industry–encompassing everything from insurance and money management to payments and digital banking technology. This sector includes some of the world’s most well-known and largest companies, such as Square, Morgan Stanley, American Express, and Bank of America. The shares are known as financial service stock.Stocks in the financial services sector, which are holistically represented by the Fidelity® MSCI Financials ETF (FNCL), have broadly outperformed the market, but it helps to review each new stock to learn which are or will perform the best. Here are the…

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Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “weak,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown.  All times on the map are Japan time. The New York Times A moderately strong, 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.The temblor happened at 7:46 p.m. Japan time about 2 miles northwest of Noda, Japan, data from the agency shows.As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake’s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update…

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Holistic Planning, a Nacogdoches, Texas-based registered investment advisor founded in 2023 by long-time Edward Jones advisors, has built its own in-house agentic operating system and added Altruist as its preferred custodian. Holistic Planning expects to move about $450 million to Altruist, representing about 36% of its $1.25 billion in total client assets. Jason Barber, founder and CEO of Holistic Planning and Uptick Partners, a breakaway support platform, said the partnership with Altruist has made it much easier to build the unified platform, called HolisticOS. Altruist’s real-time APIs enabled the RIA to integrate the custodial infrastructure directly into its software. The firm will make…

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