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Sources: Fox is paying $485M for 2026 World Cup broadcast rights, an estimated $500M to $1B below market value, after FIFA moved to avoid litigation with Fox (Tariq Panja/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

How a Curious FIFA Deal Gave Fox a Huge Bargain for World Cup Broadcast Rights
A decision to stave off litigation between Fox and FIFA turned into a bonanza worth hundreds of millions of dollars in discounted World Cup rights to the broadcaster.

#PONTIFEX wants the #StarTrekFuture
'With his encyclical, Leo XIV does not simply proclaim that another world is possible: He calls on us to build that other world'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/religions/article/2026/05/26/with-his-encyclical-leo-xiv-does-not-simply-proclaim-that-another-world-is-possible-he-calls-on-us-to-build-that-other-world_6753818_63.html

Around the world, governments are scapegoating LGBT people
to build popular support for their erosion of individual rights
—often under the guide of protecting children
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/lgbt-rights-children-authoritarianism/

Protecting Children Means Defending LGBT Rights
Around the world, governments are scapegoating LGBT people to build popular support for their erosion of individual rights—often under the guide of protecting children.

Heat stress exposure climbed from 16% to 22% worldwide over 50 years, study shows #environment

Heat stress exposure climbed from 16% to 22% worldwide over 50 years, study shows
The number of people exposed to dangerous heat stress worldwide has risen sharply over the past half-century, propelled by climate change, according to a study released Monday as Europe sweltered through a punishing heat wave.

World Cup games at Cowboys' stadium have something Dallas NFL games don't https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/worldcup/2026/06/25/att-stadium-dallas-cowboys-world-cup-curtains/90699559007/

Democrats grapple uncomfortably with World Cup success (Adam Wren/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/25/world-cup-2026/democrats-grapple-world-cup-success-00977530
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p139#a260625p139

A deep dive into how Claude Code and OpenClaw unleashed the AI agent revolution that is rapidly transforming the modern computing landscape (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-ai-agents-plunged-tech-world-into-chaos/

AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened
The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing’s biggest transformation possibly ever.

Anup Kaphle is stepping down as EIC of Rest of World by the end of April, moving into an advisory role (Anup Kaphle/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/inside/anup-kaphle-to-step-down-as-rest-of-worlds-editor-in-chief/

Anup Kaphle to step down as Rest of World’s Editor-in-Chief
A note on what the publication built, and why he’s leaving confident in what comes next.

Europe: the world's fastest-warming continent https://phys.org/news/2026-06-europe-world-fastest-continent.html
What is driving Europe's heat wave?

Europe: the world's fastest-warming continent
The latest heat wave sweeping across Europe is a stark reminder that it is the world's fastest-warming continent, stretching into an Arctic that is heating at an even greater pace.

World burned less coal in 2025, but built more plants over energy uncertainty https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/world-burned-less-coal-in-2025-but-built-more-plants-over-energy-uncertainty/

World burned less coal in 2025, but built more plants over energy uncertainty
Coal use across the world continued to drop in 2025, but there was an increase in the capacity to burn it, according to an annual report by data analysis group Global Energy Monitor. Overall power generation from coal declined by 0.6% last year, but the amount that was on call if needed for power grids […]