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Iñaki Williams Cleared the Path — Then Watched Nico Win Spain the World Cup

Nico Williams won Spain the World Cup off the bench and hung his medal around his mother's neck. His brother Iñaki — who plays for Ghana and will likely never lift the trophy — wrote the tribute of the tournament, and its generosity is the hardest act of the night.

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Movies

Feige turns Marvel’s failure to land Adam Driver into a punchline as X-Men rumors swirl

Christopher Nolan, on the Odyssey backlash: “I spent 10 years of my life dealing with Batman”

Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner in Will Gluck's One Night Only

One Night Only strands Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner on the city’s one legal night for sex

The writer who gave Oldman his Churchill now directs Jared Harris into the Potsdam endgame

TV Shows

WWE: Unreal on Netflix opens the writers’ room where John Cena’s goodbye gets scripted

Netflix’s WWE: Unreal returns for a third season built around John Cena’s farewell, filming the writers’ room where wins are assigned and careers are decided long before anyone reaches the ring.

Dutton Ranch Season 2’s biggest cast change is the creator Taylor Sheridan fired

Spooky in Love on Netflix: Park Eun-bin sees the dead who never got justice

The East Palace on Netflix sends a ghost-slayer to audit the crimes a royal court buried

The Map of Longing on Netflix: the sister born to save Lucy inherits a game made of grief

Sports

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How Spain Won the 2026 World Cup: a System That Starved the Stars, and a Bench Deep Enough to Finish It

Spain lifted the World Cup without a single dominant star. The idea that won it: control refined into suffocation, and a squad so deep the games were finished by substitutes. A tactical read of how the champions were built.

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Jon Stewart, on the World Cup final: “Spain defeating Argentina 1-0 on the pitch, in the footy”

Tom Brady wants to be the villain: “It’s an incredible feeling … to send the crowd home early”

Lionel Messi, after beating England: “The fans wanted this victory more than any other”

Technology

No Rest for the Wicked — key art showing the hand-painted action RPG world

No Rest for the Wicked exits early access with 60 hours of new content

Forza Horizon 6’s Japan Map Is Built to Be Found, Not Admired

Analysis

Jaafar Jackson — actor and singer, star of the Michael biopic (2026)

Jaafar Jackson won a $1 billion biopic his cousin still calls a fantasy

Willy Adames — shortstop at Nationals Park, September 2020

Willy Adames was signed to fix the Giants. He has. They haven’t

Silhouetted hand reaching toward a glowing blue screen in darkness — parasocial bonds in the digital age

Parasocial bonds worked because no one could answer. AI can

Music

BTS named the song NORMAL and released it five ways without playing it live

BTS has released the explicit Korean-language version of NORMAL, completing a multi-format rollout of five distinct variants issued across separate release windows. The Korean explicit cut delivers the most unfiltered take on a track built around the dissonance between the ordinary and the extraordinary.

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