Simone Biles won her 20th world championships gold medal as the 26-year-old continued her impressive return from a two-year hiatus away from gymnastics, playing a key role in a historic victory for the US in the women’s team final. Cre: CNN

A Picasso masterpiece entitled "Femme à la montre" is expected to fetch more than $120 million when it goes up for auction this fall. The piece depicts Picasso's lover and "golden muse" Marie-Thérèse Walter, who featured in many of his portraits. Picasso first met Walter in Paris in 1927 when he was still married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, a Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer. Walter would become...

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The FBI is investigating more than a dozen Uzbek nationals allowed into the US after they sought asylum at the southern border with Mexico earlier this year, a scramble set off when US intelligence officials found that the migrants traveled with the help of a smuggler with ties to ISIS, according to multiple US officials. While the FBI says no specific ISIS plot has been identified, officials are...

More than 3,000 people have been evacuated since Wednesday as wildfires continue to tear through the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife, a popular tourist destination, the region’s authorities said Thursday in a statement. Cre: CNN

Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to four federal charges stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He faced charges for spreading "prolific lies," organizing a fake elector plot and exploiting the January 6 attack. This is the third time the former president has been placed under arrest and arraigned in four months. Cre: CNN

BRITNEY SPEARS JOINS SPOTIFY’S ‘BILLIONS CLUB’ It’s been seven years since Britney Spears released her last album, but she’s still making news in the music space. Over the weekend Spears became a member of Spotify’s “Billions Club,” when her 2003 hit single “Toxic” hit a billion streams according to the streaming platform....

LIONEL MESSI SIGNS FOR MLS CLUB INTER MIAMI Soccer great Lionel Messi signed for Major League Soccer (MLS) club Inter Miami on Saturday, the club announced. The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner, who is under contract with the club until the end of the 2025 MLS season, said he was “very excited,” while co-owner David Beckham described the signing as a “dream come true.”...

Ticketmaster has created more bad blood with Taylor Swift fans after its website glitched Tuesday, preventing thousands of Swifties from buying tickets for the singer's upcoming concerts in France. The company said on Twitter Tuesday that it had "put on hold" ticket sales for four dates of Swift's hugely popular Eras Tour in Paris, including two dates in Lyon, both scheduled for spring next year. The...

7 INJURED DURING SEVERE TURBULENCE ON HAWAIIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA Seven people were injured on a Hawaiian Airlines flight to Sydney, Australia, on Friday when the plane was buffeted by severe turbulence, the airline confirmed. The turbulence struck about five hours after the plane departed from Honolulu Friday afternoon, a Hawaiian Airlines spokesperson told CNN....