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OnlyFans Star Christie McFit Was Once Left in a Box, Now Profits From Her Own

OnlyFans Star Christie McFit Was Once Left in a Box, Now Profits From Her Own

Christie McCarthy's life has come full circle in the wildest way imaginable ... she tells TMZ she was abandoned in a box as a newborn in China -- and now she's making a fortune showing

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Graham Platner’s Ex-GF Claims He Would Sneakily Remove Condoms During Sex

Graham Platner’s Ex-GF Claims He Would Sneakily Remove Condoms During Sex

Maine Democrat Graham Platner Ex Claims He Took Off Condoms During Sex Without Consent Published July 7, 2026 4:04 PM PDT Fresh trouble for Graham Platner ... a second ex-girlfriend has stepped forward with new

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Terrence Howard Claims His Former Agents Ruined His Chance to Be HSN Star

Terrence Howard Claims His Former Agents Ruined His Chance to Be HSN Star

Terrence Howard is ratcheting up his legal war with his former talent agents ... claiming they failed to let him know about a chance at getting his own signature fragrance and potentially becoming a Home

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Djokovic wins five-hour epic to earn Sinner showdown at Wimbledon

Djokovic wins five-hour epic to earn Sinner showdown at Wimbledon

Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates winning against Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime during their quarter-final on the ninth day of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on

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Morocco offer France first real test of World Cup credentials

Morocco offer France first real test of World Cup credentials

NEW YORK: France’s World Cup campaign has already tested their firepower, patience and nerves, but Thursday’s quarter-final against Morocco will offer Didier Deschamps’ side something different: their first full football examination of the tournament.The meeting

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Iran warns of ‘decisive’ action after US strikes around Strait of Hormuz

Iran warns of ‘decisive’ action after US strikes around Strait of Hormuz

TEHRAN: Iranian state media on Tuesday reported a series of explosions heard in the Strait of Hormuz region, moments after US officials announced “powerful” strikes on Iran.IRIB news reported six explosions were heard on the

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Influencer Ayzia J Dead at 22 After Car Flips, Crashes Into a Tree

Influencer Ayzia J Dead at 22 After Car Flips, Crashes Into a Tree

Influencer Ayzia J Dead at 22 In Fatal Car Crash Published July 7, 2026 3:01 PM PDT Influencer Ayzia J. Toledo -- who went by Ayzia J on social media -- is dead after crashing

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Nato defence push already strains Europe’s budgets

Nato defence push already strains Europe’s budgets

Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte is insisting that member states are keeping their promise to boost defence spending. Yet progress has been uneven and the ‌push is already stretching some national budgets. Under pressure from US President Donald Trump, members of the 32-country military pact agreed at ​last year’s summit to boost defence spending to ‌5% of GDP by 2035 — just over double the overall level for European states and Canada in 2025. But since ‌then, two camps have emerged: one is led by Germany and ‌the mostly Nordic and eastern European nations which have found the ‌fiscal space to raise spending; in the other are several big players struggling to do the same. “The UK isn’t managing, for example. France isn’t and Italy isn’t either,” Guntram Wolff, senior fellow at the Bruegel economics think tank, said of the three largest economies in Europe behind Germany. Nato says its European members plus Canada spent an extra $90bn on defence in real terms last year compared to 2024 as they seek to raise core military spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2035 with a further 1.5% GDP on security-related items. Before the summit, Rutte has stressed that last year’s new spend amounts to a bigger $139bn tally in nominal terms and that there is a “strong commitment” to hit the combined 5% target on time. Germany will use a rule change exempting defence items from strict borrowing limits to double its spending ​to over €200bn ($228.38bn) between now and 2030, according to a budget draft seen by Reuters ahead of a cabinet review on Monday. Poland, Lithuania and Estonia — countries where the perception of the threat posed by Russia is at its sharpest — are already well on their way to making the new targets, with Warsaw notably having ‌devoted 4.3% of GDP to defence last year. Elsewhere the push faces political ​and fiscal roadblocks. Britain last week announced plans for an extra £15bn ($20.01bn) of defence spending, partly funded by ​cuts elsewhere. But it emerged that one-third was still unfunded, creating an early budget challenge for the likely new prime minister Andy Burnham. More fundamentally, the plan was criticised by opposition politicians and former military chiefs for failing to set out when defence spending would reach 3% of GDP, on the way to meeting Britain’s Nato commitment to spend 3.5% of GDP by 2035. “Defence spending will likely remain one of the biggest fiscal pressures facing the UK in the medium term,” said Max Warner, senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think tank. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is due to tell the summit that Rome, despite one of Europe’s largest debt burdens, will lift core and non-core defence spending to 2.8% of GDP in 2026, roughly 0.71 percentage point higher than last year. But with higher military spending unpopular with many voters ahead of next year’s national elections, most of the increase will come from domestic security spending such as police ‌duties. Plans detailed by France in April would lift ‌its defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the decade from about 2% now, even as it attempts to bring its overall deficit into line with euro area rules - a tough budget goal as it heads towards next year’s presidential elections. Spain’s Socialist government meanwhile is not seen budging from its refusal to spend more than 2.1% of GDP on defence, with new resources set to be heavily skewed towards technologies with civil applications. Elsewhere, NATO officials have queried the assertion of three countries — Czech Republic, Slovenia and Albania — that they had met the old alliance target of 2% of GDP and asked them to review and re-submit their spending figures. “For us, the challenge is to ensure that Allies remain on the credible path towards that 3.5% commitment, if you keep on bumping along at 2%, then you’re not on the ​credible path,” a senior Nato official said. Bruegel’s Wolff noted that, unlike at last year’s summit in the Hague, European leaders can look Trump in the eye and argue they have stepped up to shoulder the burden of a Ukrainian war effort that has shown it is able to resist Russian advances. Still, even if European publics may be starting to accept that more money should go on the military, some observers argue that arms suppliers will need to be convinced that government defence spending will remain high before they make the investment needed to increase their capacity. “There has been a before Trump, and there will be an after Trump, so this 5% target can change any time,” said Ana Boata, head of economic research at Allianz Trade. “So I think there is a bit of scepticism from European defence companies to actually ramp up investments in order ‌to ramp up production,” she said. — Reuters 

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Yakin overcomes Manzambi loss with tactical rethink to steer Swiss into quarters

Yakin overcomes Manzambi loss with tactical rethink to steer Swiss into quarters

Switzerland coach Murat Yakin and his players celebrate after Switzerland qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Cup beating Colombia in Vancouver on July 7, 2026. (Reuters) Shorn of one of the tournament's breakout talents, ‌Switzerland boss Murat Yakin reshuffled his deck and performed a tactical ​overhaul before reaching the World ‌Cup quarter-finals via a 4-3 penalty shootout victory over Colombia having ground ‌out a 0-0 ⁠draw.Yakin's World Cup ‌has been full of tactical tweaks, turns ‌and twists, but on Tuesday he had no choice but to tear up the ⁠script after Manzambi suffered a knee injury in training the day before the game, and the coach was not found wanting.Despite starting the opening game against Qatar on the bench, the 20-year-old Manzambi made the most of his chance when it came, scoring twice against Bosnia and going on to notch a total of three goals and two assists heading into Tuesday's clash.More importantly, he made himself indispensable ​to Yakin's tactical plans, allowing the Swiss to sit deep and offering them a dangerous outlet for counter-attacks, as well as the ability to hold the ball up when needed.The injury forced ‌Yakin to tear up his ⁠original game plan and ​once the game started it quickly became apparent that the Swiss ​would be happy with a stalemate, sitting back and controlling the tempo and seldom throwing players forward in attack. With Switzerland's Ruben Vargas also benched due to injury worries, Breel Embolo was left to forage on his own for much of the game against Colombia's miserly defence - unit that had conceded just one goal coming into the match."I think it's natural that it kind of goes that way in the way the game played out," Swiss goalkeeper Gregor Kobel told reporters."We knew they were very physical, we knew they were a very good team, ‌and they had the crowd on ‌their side, obviously, so it was ⁠a tough game for us."TARGET MANThe Colombians had their chances but they lacked an ⁠Embolo-like figure up front, a target ⁠man who could keep a defence busy and attract defenders to open up spaces for others, and though the game statistics showed they created 15 chances, only three were on target."We knew we probably had some stretches in the game where we had to defend and stay strong mentally, and I think we did a really good job with ​that. And yeah, obviously we had a few players who were missing so it was a big challenge, but I think everybody did a really good job and yeah, we executed it very well," Kobel said.Switzerland's progress means that Colombia and their noisy, colourful, passionate fans leave the tournament after playing some superb football."Fortunately, God, football and life have brought us this far, and I simply want to thank the whole country and everyone who filled the stadium here," forward Luis Suarez said."Let's hope this is ‌a major turning point, ​because what this team showed at this World Cup has to be viewed in a positive light."  Related Story

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Dalic quits after ‘incredible era’ as Croatia coach

Dalic quits after ‘incredible era’ as Croatia coach

Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic applauds their fans after the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group L match against Ghana in Philadelphia on June 27, 2026. (Reuters) Croatia's most successful football coach, Zlatko Dalic, resigned on Wednesday, ending a tenure that included taking the team to the 2018 World Cup final."As much as I still feel the ambition and desire to achieve new successes with Croatia, I feel that this is the right moment to bring this incredible era to a close," he said in a statement."I am leaving with a full heart and proud that I have made my contribution to the greatest achievements in the history of Croatian football," the 59-year-old added.Dalic took over as coach in October 2017.Apart from their final defeat in Russia, where Croatia, led by Luka Modric, lost to France, Dalic guided the nation to the 2022 Qatar World Cup semi-finals and the Euro 2020 last 16."Zlatko's name will remain forever written in golden letters in the history of Croatian football," Croatian Football Federation (HSN) head Marijan Kustic said.Croatia failed to move into the last 16 of this year's World Cup, losing 2-1 in a gripping match against Portugal earlier this month.Local media are tipping former national coach Slaven Bilic as Dalic's likely successor.Bilic, 57, led Croatia from 2006-12. He recorded a higher winning percentage than Dalic, with 42 victories, 15 draws and eight defeats in 65 matches but his best performance in a major tournament was to reach the quarterfinals of the 2008 Euros where Croatia lost on penalties to Turkey.Bilic was a defender who played 44 times for Croatia. He has coached several clubs, including West Ham United, where he played in the mid-1990s.The former defender's last coaching position was at Saudi Arabia's Al-Fateh, during the 2023-2024 season.Dalic has repeatedly said he considered his job the "biggest privilege and pleasure a coach can have".His most notable previous coaching spells came outside Europe -- he was in charge of top Saudi Arabian clubs Al-Faisaly and Al-Hilal.In 2014, the former defensive midfielder took over Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates, where he was named coach of the year twice, leading the club to the 2016 Asian Champions League final.  Related Story