Photos released by the Warren County Sheriff's Office show Stevenson smiling cheerfully while seated on a plane alongside multiple law enforcement officers.

Certainly, it was an All-Star day for Carlos Rodón.

Mariners star Cal Raleigh hit his 37th and 38th home runs to move within one of Barry Bonds’ 2001 record for homers before the All-Star break.

After two heavily controversial scorecards in her first two wins over Amanda Serrano, Katie Taylor said completing the sweep on Friday was "very satisfying."

The Victory Test against England has been immortalised in calypso song but is going unremarked during this series

“So at Lord’s was the scenery / Bound to go down in history.” Why isn’t Lord’s cricket ground marking the diamond anniversary of the Victory Test? We are now almost 75 years on from West Indies’ deeply resonant first win at motherland HQ, two years after the first Windrush crossing, hats in the air, Rae and Stollmeyer, cricket, lovely cricket, a rush of blood in the dry yonic centre of the great colonial game, all of that.

It would be wrong to say Lord’s carries no trace of this occasion. Wander around its fragrant perimeters during the India Test, past the gated lawns, the scrolling bars and food courts, and you might spot an embossed brick in the wall of historical moments, just down from Wangfrott Major taking the inaugural village cup and the opening of the media centre: 1950 West Indies win their first Test at Lord’s.

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© Illustration: Robin Hursthouse/The Guardian

© Illustration: Robin Hursthouse/The Guardian

Jess Fishlock’s goal was cosmically appropriate but real legacy of this team will be decided after the tournament is over

It had to be her. Wales’s debut at a European Championship has meant a group stage full of new experiences, but it felt fitting that a 38-year‑old Jess Fishlock, double Champions League winner and icon of the women’s game, would register the first Wales goal in a major tournament against France on Wednesday night.

Three years ago, it felt cosmically appropriate that it should be Gareth Bale who scored the only Wales goal of the 2022 World Cup, a Welsh legend ticking off another career ambition before retirement. But unlike the postmortems and recrimination prompted by such a disappointing performance from the men’s team in Qatar, this time there is no judgment from the Welsh support out in Switzerland, only pride. Wales face England on Sunday having lost their first two games of Group D, and yet there is no doubt back home that Rhian Wilkinson’s team are history makers.

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Club World Cup final features two youth-driven teams but Enzo Maresca’s side believe they can hurt favourites

Chelsea have already made over £80m from their Club World Cup adventure but they can achieve something priceless against Paris Saint-Germain. This goes beyond gaudy gold badges and money in the bank. The season with no end is almost over, the final of the tournament that nobody asked for is here and while Chelsea have no intention of getting carried away if they triumph in New Jersey on Sunday it is also the case that there would be no better way to demonstrate that they are on to something with their youth-driven project than by beating Luis Enrique’s awesome PSG.

Easier said than done, of course. One school of thought is that Chelsea will have done well if they leave the MetLife Stadium with their dignity intact. Premier League opponents hold no fears for PSG, whose path to Champions League glory was paved by wins over Manchester City, Liverpool, Aston Villa and Arsenal, while they were in terrifying form against Real Madrid on Wednesday. It finished 4-0, but it could have been 10; PSG really were that good and the reality is there will only be one outcome if they hit those heights again.

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© Photograph: Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC/Getty Images

Arne Slot’s squad face an emotional afternoon at Preston on Sunday but believe it is better to start again at Deepdale than on tour in Hong Kong

Outside Anfield, the red sea of tributes to Diogo Jota and André Silva has continued to grow this week along with questions over whether Liverpool could play at Preston on Sunday, their first game since the brothers’ tragic loss. Inside Anfield, and specifically a grieving Liverpool dressing room, there was no major debate over the pre-season friendly. The Premier League champions intend to honour their teammate in the best way they know how.

It will be only 10 days since the deaths of Jota and Silva when Liverpool appear at Deepdale for what is certain to be a hugely emotional occasion, and less than two days since the club retired Jota’s No 20 shirt. There was no pressure on Liverpool to honour a friendly that could have been cancelled easily – unlike their commitment to a tour of Hong Kong and Japan at the end of the month – but at no point was that option relayed to Preston.

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Young Chelsea striker is mixing first experience of tournament football with photography hobby and family time in effort to stay focused

Aggie Beever-Jones doesn’t have much tournament experience. The England striker missed out on the 2020 under-17 Euros owing to Covid cancellations and featured at only the under-19s Euros in 2022, where she scored twice in the group stage against Norway, before arriving at Euro 2025.

By the time a player breaks into the senior side they usually have several tournaments under their belt but Covid means Beever-Jones is a part of the generation of young players coming through that lost out.

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© Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

© Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

All 20 teams are jetting around between league seasons, including for friendlies, training camps and the Club World Cup

After a training camp in Spain the Gunners head to Asia, kicking off their tour with a friendly against Milan in Singapore. They play again at the National Stadium four days later, against Newcastle, then face Spurs in Hong Kong. Two friendlies follow at the Emirates Stadium, against Villarreal and Athletic Club.

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Centre-right government rejects long-established national policies focused on rehabilitation and reintegration

Sweden is moving away from criminal rehabilitation in favour of US-style mass incarceration, experts have said, as the country prepares to rent places in Estonian jails to help house its rapidly expanding prison population.

The move to outsource prison places is one of a slew of policies aimed at transforming the Swedish criminal justice system as the centre-right government struggles to tackle gang violence and prisons warn of overcrowding.

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© Photograph: Jeppe Gustafsson/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Jeppe Gustafsson/Shutterstock

Dear Abby advises a woman who's migraines are triggered by her husband's smoking addiction.

The last known sighting of the 26-year-old backpacker was June 29.

The series against West Indies may be decided but every Test counts, as long as Sabina Park’s lights shine bright enough

It’s a strange concept, in a region known for sunshine, to end a Caribbean tour with a day-night Test. It’s stranger still to choose Kingston, Jamaica, a venue that until a couple of months ago didn’t even have floodlights. Up until two days before the match, there has been local conjecture about whether they would be adequate for the match, with a chance that plans would have to be changed. But one day out, the lights have been announced fit by sports minister Olivia Grange.

Putting the pieces together, it’s likely related to Jamaica’s upcoming election and a sitting government that has worn plenty of whacks for not supporting cricket, having refused to bid for matches at last year’s T20 World Cup citing expense. A cricket spectacle might be an attempt to recover some ground. It helps that Mexico, Canada, and the USA have host qualification for next year’s football World Cup, opening up a potential spot for Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz, who have also used Sabina Park recently.

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© Photograph: Ricardo Mazalán/AP

While she said their relationship wasn't sexual, she did admit they were very close.

Amazon Prime Day is over but there are still deals to shop today.

The three Cambodian sites’ inscription coincides with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power of the brutal regime

Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by Unesco to its world heritage list.

The three locations were inscribed to the list by the UN cultural agency on Friday during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.

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Jake Retzlaff broke his silence regarding his decision to leave BYU after reportedly being set to face a seven-game suspension.

A local Kentucky school board chairman resigned after a social media post resurfaced of him allegedly calling to "shoot Republicans."

He was known as a tightly wound Hollywood tough guy, on and off screen – and then the star found himself fighting for his life. He talks about ‘bullying his body’ into recovery, and how the accident changed him

Six ribs broken in 14 places. Three breaks in the lower pelvis. Right and left ankle broken. Left tibia broken. Left wrist fractured. Left toes, three breaks. Right clavicle broken. Right shoulder blade cracked. Eye socket, jaw, mandible, all broken. Major laceration back of head. Lung collapsed. Liver pierced from rib bone. The inventory of Jeremy Renner’s injuries, documented by the twice Oscar-nominated movie star himself, was exhaustive. It was a miracle that the actor had survived; he had no right to. Renner had been crushed by his own 14,000lb (6,350kg) snowplough on New Year’s Day 2023. A neighbour who helped him at the scene believes he died momentarily. So does Renner. He tells me it was a very special moment.

“What I experienced when I passed was this collective divinity and beautiful, powerful peace. It is the most exhilarating peace you could ever feel. It’s the highest adrenaline rush. Everything stopped … maybe for 30 seconds, maybe a minute. It was definitive for me. It all made perfect sense.” Does he believe in God? “No. My dad’s a theologist and I studied all religions growing up, so I steer away from religions.”

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© Photograph: Sebastian Nevols/The Guardian

From blessed and venerable to I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which of Shakespeare’s female characters has the most lines?
2 What is the only shipping forecast area named after a person?
3 Which high street chain was sold for £1 in June?
4 Where does the bánh mì sandwich come from?
5 Which TV presenter was horseracing’s champion lady rider in 1990?
6 What irritant has the botanical name Urtica dioica?
7 Which Conservative peer’s father drafted the 1945 Labour manifesto?
8 What is Africa’s largest antelope?
What links:
9 Prosecco and peach cocktail; sliced raw beef; brownish-orange hair?
10 Cutting; doglike; millstone; before millstone; wise judgment?
11 American Dad; I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here; Jeopardy; Police Squad; Up Pompeii?
12 First class (62%); second class (41%); third class (25%); crew (24%)?
13 Abcoulomb; defence; hijack; nope; stupid?
14 Servant of God; Venerable; Blessed?
15 Altai; Buryat; Chukchi; Evenki; Kalmyk; Nenets?

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© Photograph: robertomm/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The floods in Texas, hunger in Gaza, wildfires in Syria and Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

• Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing

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© Photograph: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

People in Ukrainian capital are exhausted and struggling for normality amid a dramatic rise in bombardment

At 1am on Thursday, Dartsia Liuba went to the basement of her Kyiv apartment building with her two children and husband, Roma. The air-raid siren had gone off. A Russian attack was coming. Liuba scooped up her seven-month-old baby daughter, Halyna, and woke her bleary-eyed nine-year-old, Orysia, and they staggered down three floors to wait in sticky darkness.

Soon explosions began. There was an ugly whine in the sky immediately above their district of Podil. It came from a Shahed kamikaze drone. The streets echoed with booms and rat-tat-tat machine-gun fire as Ukrainian air defence units tried to bring it down. The moped-like buzzing stopped – and then resumed as more drones appeared, in a swarm too big to count.

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© Photograph: Anastasia Vlasova/The Guardian

© Photograph: Anastasia Vlasova/The Guardian

The small ceremony happened on the historic Lover’s Leap Bridge in New Milford, Conn.