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A powerful earthquake has rescuers searching for survivors beneath collapsed buildings in Japan, while President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu meet for the first time since the Iran war in a high-stakes show of diplomacy.

Meanwhile, ICE expands airport arrests, Ford lifts its outlook, and FIFA considers bringing private investors into the World Cup.

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A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, and emergency workers are racing to find people feared trapped under a collapsed shopping mall. Crews are also fighting fires that broke out across the region once the shaking stopped.

Kumamoto sits along one of Japan's most seismically active fault systems. The area has a long, hard history with quakes like this one. The casualty count is still coming into focus as night settles over the search zone.

Federal agents are now arresting travelers at U.S. airports — spouses of American citizens, tech workers, people with active applications still pending. It's a new front in the administration's deportation drive. Enforcement has moved from neighborhoods to jet bridges.

The tactic catches people at exactly the moment they can't easily call a lawyer or reach family. Immigration attorneys warn the airport pipeline may sweep up applicants who assumed pending paperwork would protect them. It doesn't.

President Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington for their first meeting since the Iran war began. Netanyahu warmly praised the talks, casting the sit-down as a public show of unity between the two leaders.

Both leaders then joined President Zelensky at Lindsey Graham's funeral amid an unusually crowded day of diplomacy. Graham, a fierce backer of both Ukraine and Israel, drew world leaders to pay their respects.

Senators announced a breakthrough on the long-stalled Russia sanctions bill championed by the late Lindsey Graham, reaching agreement on the same day Graham was memorialized. The measure had been idling for months as negotiators fought over enforcement language and secondary sanctions.

Rights groups say Iran is rapidly escalating executions of protesters, with the latest hangings prompting rare public demonstrations captured on video. The scenes underline a widening gap between the state's crackdown and the willingness of ordinary Iranians to be seen defying it.

American diplomats walked out of a U.N. Security Council session as France spoke, hours after the U.S. joined Russia and North Korea in voting against extending the term of the U.N. high commissioner for human rights. The vote and the walkout together mark one of the sharper rifts inside the Council in recent memory.

The FAA said seats on hundreds of Boeing 737 MAX jets may need inspections because, left uncorrected, they could injure passengers in an emergency landing or block the aisle during an evacuation. Another item for Boeing's already crowded to-do list.

Florida executed one man Tuesday morning and scheduled a second execution for 6 p.m., a rare instance of a state carrying out two lethal injections in a single day. Double execution days are exceptionally uncommon in the modern era of American capital punishment.

The Trump administration says federal funds can no longer be spent on test strips that let drug users detect hidden additives in the street supply. Harm-reduction workers warn the change could reverse recent progress against overdose deaths.

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Ford raised its full-year guidance after a Q2 earnings beat, citing operational improvements, resilient vehicle pricing, and a stronger mix of profitable products including the recovering F-Series. The pickup line remains the beating heart of Ford's balance sheet.

Visa is cutting about 7% of its workforce, roughly 2,600 employees, as CEO Ryan McInerney pushes an efficiency drive framed around AI reshaping the payments business. Another blue-chip name for the growing list of AI-era layoffs.

Apple is launching an iPhone lease program at $17.99 a month through a partnership with Klarna, weeks after raising iPad and Mac prices in response to a global memory shortage. Subscription hardware is quietly becoming the default.

Scientists have deployed CapuchinAI, a portable touchscreen with facial recognition, in a Costa Rican forest to study primate intelligence without dragging animals into labs. The monkeys, for their part, seem to be running the experiments on the researchers.

Astronomers have captured the clearest image yet of the small companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, the red supergiant whose dimming and brightening has thrilled skywatchers for years. The sighting may help explain those mysterious brightness swings.

Aquariums are relocating 30 beluga whales from a closed Canadian marine attraction to facilities in the United States and Spain in what officials call an unprecedented operation. The move requires permits, coordinated transport, and a police escort.

49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan was injured in a July 14 car accident he said was his fault, suffering a broken nose, three broken ribs, a broken hand, a concussion, and more than 40 stitches to his face. He's expected to be at training camp — visibly worse for wear.

Zinedine Zidane has been confirmed as head coach of the France national team, returning the former Real Madrid boss to a sideline he's been circling for years. Les Bleus now have a manager whose name alone doubles as a recruitment pitch.

FIFA wants to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors, a proposal UEFA openly opposes and traditionalists find alarming. When the world's biggest sporting event goes shopping for outside capital, the ripples reach every league.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association filed an antitrust lawsuit against Penske Media in Los Angeles federal court, accusing the Variety parent of taking improper control of the Golden Globes through its 2023 acquisition. Awards season now has its own courtroom drama.

Naga Munchetty is leaving BBC Breakfast after 17 years on the sofa to take over the presenter's chair at Radio 5 Live Breakfast. British mornings will sound a little different — if slightly less televised — from her next shift on.

A judge ruled the murder case against musician D4vd can proceed to trial after a five-day preliminary hearing in which prosecutors laid out how and why they say he killed 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The decision moves one of the year's most closely watched criminal cases into open court.

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What it is: FIFA is weighing a Kushner-backed plan to spin off a roughly $20 billion operation to run the World Cup, handing outside investors a stake in the sport's crown-jewel tournament. Backers describe a commercial vehicle sitting alongside FIFA, managing the event's sponsorships, broadcasting rights, and hospitality revenue. The pitch arrives just as the tournament balloons in scale and cost.

The detail: The proposal is linked to Jared Kushner's investment circle and championed by FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who has courted private capital ever since expanding the men's tournament to 48 teams. Under the framework being floated, investors would front cash now in exchange for a long-term share of future World Cup profits. Such a structure would reshape how global football finances its single most valuable asset. Supporters insist the money could fund development programs and stadiums that federations cannot afford alone.

Why it matters: Europe's UEFA reacted with fury, warning that private financiers could quietly seize decisions that properly belong to the sport's governing bodies. Critics fear the world's most-watched event is being repackaged as a financial instrument, with fans and national federations pushed to the margins. Returns, they argue, would flow to a handful of backers rather than back into the game. Governance experts also note that once outside money is embedded, unwinding the arrangement becomes nearly impossible.

What to watch: Infantino now faces a direct confrontation with the confederations whose cooperation he needs to close any deal, and UEFA's opposition alone could stall it. Negotiations over control, valuation, and profit-sharing will test how far FIFA can push its members before they revolt. Whether the 2026 tournament becomes the proving ground is the question hanging over football's boardrooms. Regulators and fan groups are already signaling they will fight any move that trades the sport's independence for cash.

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