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As always, the conversation around college football in the 2025-2026 offseason has revolved around strength of schedule.Conference bragging rights are based on it. The College Football Playoff selection committee incorporates a strength of schedule and strength of resume metric into their ranking system. Perceptions of team strength can swing wildly based on assumptions of their schedule’s difficulty.Predictably, the Big Ten and SEC dominate most lists of the toughest schedules in the country in 2026. The Texas Longhorns may have the most difficult road of any team in the country. Ohio State has road trips to Texas, USC, Iowa, Nebraska and…

The long-time former manager of singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian has admitted to taking money owed to his client, ending a long-running legal battle.

NEW DELHI: The chairman of India’s Tata Sons, N Chandrasekaran, said on Wednesday (Aug 12) that he has resigned in light of the lack of board approval for his reappointment amid tensions with the charity arm that controls the salt-to-aviation Tata Group.Tata Sons controls more than 30 companies in the conglomerate, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata Motors and Air India, but is in turn 66 per cent owned by Tata Trusts, the group’s charitable arm.Disagreements have been brewing between Chandrasekaran and Tata Trusts over the past few months, with the two sides clashing over board representation, strategy, losses at…

New Delhi, India – The vapour heat treatment (VHT) facility in Rehmanpur village of Lucknow, the capital of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh – used to sterilise fruit and vegetables – was preparing for the busiest time of the year when Japanese quarantine inspectors turned up in March.Export documents had been cleared, shipping schedules finalised, and growers in the western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat reserved their best Alphonso and Kesar mangoes for export to Japan, one of Asia’s premium markets.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listEverything appeared set for the season to begin when production ground…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth has won the Republican gubernatorial primary and will move on to face the Democratic nominee in November to replace outgoing Gov. Tim Walz.The victory amounts to a significant show of strength for Demuth, who stayed in the race after losing the Republican Party endorsement to Kendall Qualls at the state convention. Qualls secured the endorsement after 10 ballots, but Demuth argued that her legislative experience and record of leading House Republicans made her the party’s strongest candidate for November.Additionally, Demuth defeated MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Less than a week after being shot and losing a leg while protecting three deputies, heroic Florida K-9 Ace was back on his feet Tuesday for an emotional return to the sheriff’s office.Ace, a 7-year-old German shepherd who has served with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office since March 2020, was wounded as deputies attempted to arrest 27-year-old Angel Bowers.Authorities said Bowers allegedly fired at least four rounds at three deputies who were attempting to arrest him after he failed to appear in court. Bowers was killed by deputies at the scene.DEPUTY US…

A woman accused of stabbing her partner in the heart spent years recording their “extremely toxic” relationship on her phone, a court has been told.

A bank charter application changes what a token can become. Meta AI predicts XRP is mispriced against that backdrop at $1.01, and the price prediction reaches $7 to $9 by the end of 2027 with a stretch case of $12 to $15.The regulatory foundation came first. Ripple settled its 5-year SEC case for $125M cash in August 2025 with both appeals dropped, confirming retail XRP sales are not securities.Meta AI calls that the clearest regulatory status in U.S. crypto. Six spot XRP ETF filings followed, with analysts forecasting $5B to $8B in first-year inflows.Early ETF products are already seeing net…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan which has exposed tensions between the two leaders. But is this simply a disagreement over the terms of a Gaza deal or evidence of a much deeper divide?Published On 12 Aug 202612 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

CBS News projects Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the heavy favorite, will win the Democratic primary in Minnesota’s gubernatorial race and will face the Republican challenger in November.With 16% of the votes tallied, Klobuchar has earned 89% of the vote. Six other Democratic candidates were on the ballot.The Minnesota DFL endorsed Klobuchar and her running mate, former Fergus Falls Mayor Ben Schierer, in May. She rode an early lead in both polling and fundraising to the primary win.In an effort to distinguish herself from outgoing Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, Klobuchar has made addressing fraud in the state a central focus of her…