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Caption Andy Burnham smiles during a campaign visit to Ashton-in-Makerfield before a by-election, in Manchester, England, on June 9. Burnham is expected to succeed Keir Starmer as the U.K.'s Labour Party leader and prime minister. / AP MANCHESTER, England — Born and raised in northern England, Andy Burnham moved to the generally more posh south to study English literature at the University of Cambridge, where oneprofessor recalls him wearing a soccer jersey to class.

Caption FILE - Singer Bonnie Tyler performs her song "Believe in Me" during a rehearsal for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest at the Malmo Arena in Malmo, Sweden on May 17, 2013. / AP LONDON — Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in 1983 and seeing new generations succumb to its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75.

Caption A banner for the prediction market platform Kalshi hangs from a building on April 1. / Associated Press Campaign staffers looking to profit on political races are still trying to place bets on prediction markets, despite new public scrutiny toward insider trading — and internal efforts to curb the practice. Kalshi, the biggest prediction market company, is hoping to bar political staffers from trading on their own races with a new system that flags possible violations.

Caption President Trump speaks to journalists before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in early May, several months before the renaming took effect. / Getty Images It's official: President Donald J. Trump International Airport is open for business.

Caption Workers install solar panels on the roof of a house on July 6, 2026 in Antipolo, Philippines. In the wake of the Iran war, the Philippines imported more than $400 million in solar panels from February to May. / Getty Images A new round of bombing has begun in the Middle East. More than four months after the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, one thing is clear: some countries are not going back to fossil fuel imports in the same way they relied on them in the past.

Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. This month, the U.S. Department of Education began rolling out a new accountability test that most colleges and universities will soon have to pass. The test itself is simple: If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans.

Caption A job forecast from Boeing says the aviation industry will need to hire 123,000 maintenance technicians in North America through 2044. Here, workers lower jacks holding up a Boeing 767-300 airplane at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., in 2024. / Bloomberg via Getty Images PITTSBURGH — As one graduate after another crosses the stage, cheers and applause ring out, a ritual that celebrates hard work and points to the future.

Caption Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan argues with referee Francois Letexier, of France, during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Argentina and Egypt in Atlanta, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. / AP ATLANTA — The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) said Wednesday it "cannot remain silent" after what it believes was unfair and biased officiating in Egypt's 3-2 round of 16 loss against Argentina on Tuesday.

Caption Airforce One sits on the tarmac before U.S. President Donald Trump departs following the NATO summit at Ankara International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. / AP WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump flew partway home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of the new Qatari-gifted and retrofitted red, white and navy blue jet he arrived in, a surprise swap that came as the U.S. and Iran once again began trading strikes.

Caption U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. / AP ANKARA, Turkey — U.S. President Donald Trump said at a NATO summit Wednesday in Turkey that the U.S. will give Ukraine a license to make Patriot air defense systems to counter missile attacks from Russia in their more than four-year war, a huge coup for Kyiv which has long requested the technology.