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Madrid captain Carvajal in race against time for Spain’s World Cup squad | World Cup 2026

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Spain international Dani ⁠Carvajal injured his right foot during a training session for Real Madrid last week.

Spain manager ‌Luis de la Fuente says ⁠Dani ⁠Carvajal could still make his World Cup squad but the right back must prove his ⁠fitness and form after suffering a foot injury in training ⁠with his club Real Madrid last week.

“Carvajal is a very important figure in our dressing room,” de la Fuente said on Wednesday.

“I actually spoke with him yesterday, so I’m aware ‌of what’s going on. He doesn’t have a specific injury, nothing serious, but he needs time to get back to his usual level.

“We’ll see in the remaining matches whether he truly gets the opportunity and delivers the performances.”

De ⁠la Fuente added that Carvajal, ⁠who made just one appearance for Spain in 2025, would understand if he is left out of the squad for the ⁠World Cup, which is being held in the United States, Canada ⁠and Mexico from June 11 to ⁠July 19.

He joins a list of players who have sustained injuries in the weeks before the World Cup with Spanish teammate Lamine Yamal among them.

Carvajal, 34, is approaching the final weeks of his contract with Real and has struggled for game time this season ‌amid competition from Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Spain begin their World Cup campaign against Cape Verde on June 15 ‌and ‌also face Saudi Arabia and Uruguay in Group H.

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The red state growing faster than any other in the US, according to IRS data


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Texas and Florida are drawing the largest number of new residents, but South Carolina is growing faster than any other state as Americans continue to relocate across the country, according to new IRS data.

The trend highlights a broader shift toward the South, as Americans say they’re making the move for lower taxes, more jobs and higher quality of life.

For its size, South Carolina is seeing the biggest influx per capita of new residents from other states, equal to just over 1% of its population. In other words, for every 100 people living in the state, one new person moved in from elsewhere in the country.

THIS STATE ISN’T JUST GROWING — ITS ECONOMY IS GETTING RICHER PER RESIDENT

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Relative to its size, South Carolina grew faster than any other state in the nation. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The Palmetto State added more than 59,000 residents from other states between 2022 and 2023, based on the most recently available IRS data.

The movement isn’t just about people, it’s also about income.

With the influx of residents, South Carolina gained more than 29,000 new tax filers and roughly $4.1 billion in income. This shift is likely to boost local economies in the state as new residents bring spending power and help fill open jobs in growing industries.

Zooming out, Texas and Florida are still drawing the most people overall because they’re much bigger states by size and population, so even smaller increases add up to larger total gains.

Texas led the nation in new residents with 56,473 new tax filers in 2023, followed closely by Florida with 55,349, according to the data.

The gains come as some of the nation’s most expensive states, which are run by Democrats, are seeing the biggest losses. California is down more than 100,000 tax filers and New York by nearly 72,000 from 2022 to 2023.

CALIFORNIA’S LOOMING CAPITAL FLIGHT PROBLEM COULD RESHAPE STATE IN 3 KEY AREAS

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South Carolina saw an increase of 29,000 new tax filers, according to the latest IRS data. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket/Getty Images)

The income losses mirror the population decline, with California losing nearly $12 billion and New York about $10 billion — especially as some of their highest earners relocate.

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Taken together, the shifts suggest Americans aren’t just moving — they’re redistributing income and economic power.

If the trend continues, it could further reshape population growth and state economies in the years ahead.



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One House Democrat is pressing Commerce on the government’s spyware use


A House Democrat who’s been at the forefront of congressional efforts to scrutinize the federal government’s use of commercial spyware wants the Commerce Department to brief Capitol Hill amid apprehension that the Trump administration might further embrace the technology.

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., sent a letter to the department Thursday seeking a briefing on several developments stemming from Immigration and Customs Enforcement acknowledging its use of Paragon’s Graphite spyware, as well as an American company purchasing a controlling stake in Israel’s NSO Group. The Commerce Department sanctioned NSO Group under former President Joe Biden after widespread abuse allegations, including eavesdropping on government officials, activists and journalists.

“The Trump Administration appears to be broadly receptive to using commercial spyware to infiltrate cell phones and allowing U.S. investment in sanctioned spyware companies like NSO Group,” Lee wrote in her letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, which CyberScoop is first reporting.

NSO Group’s new executive chairman, David Friedman, is a former Trump ambassador to Israel and was his bankruptcy attorney. He has said in November that he expects the administration will be “receptive” to using NSO Group tech.

“Given those close ties between NSO Group and the Trump Administration, and the serious concerns about how NSO’s technology could be used to spy on Americans, we write to request information regarding the purchase of NSO Group by an American company and the potential usage of NSO Group spyware by federal law enforcement,” wrote Lee, who sits on the Oversight and Government Reform panel and is the top Democrat on its Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee.

Lee was one of the authors of a recent Democratic letter seeking confirmation of ICE’s use of Paragon’s Graphite, which ICE acknowledged. But they criticized the administration for not answering all their questions, in addition to being outraged.

In her latest letter, Lee asked the Commerce Department to brief Oversight and Government Reform Committee staff about internal department deliberations, Commerce communication with the White House and any outside conversations — including with Friedman — about government use of NSO Group technology or any other commercial spyware, and American investment in NSO.

NSO Group “appears to view the Trump administration as friendly to its interests in the United States, pitching itself as a vital tool for the U.S. government to safeguard national security,” Lee wrote, citing company court filings that it “is reasonably foreseeable that a law enforcement or intelligence agency of the United States will use Pegasus.”

The Biden administration sanctions, and court losses in a case against Meta, represented setbacks for NSO Group’s ambitions. And prior to the U.S. investment firm controlling stake purchase last fall, the Commerce Department under Trump rebuffed efforts to remove NSO Group from its sanctions list.

But the tens of millions of dollars worth of investment, following news that Israel had used Pegasus to track people kidnapped or murdered by Hamas, was a boon.

NSO Group maintains that its products are designed only to help law enforcement and intelligence fight terrorism and crime, and that it vets its customers in advance as well as investigates misuse. News accounts and other investigations have turned up a multitude of abuses.

There have been scattered reports of U.S. flirtation with using NSO Group technology. The FBI acknowledged it had bought a Pegasus license, but stopped short of deploying it. The Times of London reported that “it is believed” the Central Intelligence Agency used Pegasus spyware as part of a rescue mission last month for a U.S. airman downed in Iran.

You can read the full letter below.

Tim Starks

Written by Tim Starks

Tim Starks is senior reporter at CyberScoop. His previous stops include working at The Washington Post, POLITICO and Congressional Quarterly. An Evansville, Ind. native, he’s covered cybersecurity since 2003. Email Tim here: tim.starks@cyberscoop.com.


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Iran’s stance on US war negotiations explained | Al Jazeera

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US President Donald Trump says the war on Iran is ‘close to an end’ as Tehran reviews the latest peace proposal. Al Jazeera’s Almigdad Alruhaid explains Iran’s negotiating position and red lines.



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Britons on hantavirus-hit ship to be asked to isolate back in UK for 45 days | Hantavirus

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British passengers onboard a cruise ship hit with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus will be asked to self-isolate in the UK for 45 days, a health official has suggested, as two passengers who left the vessel continue to isolate at home in Britain.

Neither of the two Britons who left MV Hondius at Saint Helena in late April are reporting symptoms, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKSA).

A British crew member was medically evacuated from the ship after falling ill and flown to the Netherlands for specialist care. The Foreign Office is arranging a charter flight for remaining Britons onboard the ship who are not displaying symptoms, so they can be repatriated once docking Tenerife in the coming days.

Three people on the MV Hondius have died since 11 April. As of Thursday, there have been eight suspected cases, three of which were confirmed as hantavirus – a rare family of viruses carried by rodents – by lab testing, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

“It’s important to reassure people that the risk to the general public remains very low,” said Dr Meera Chand, the deputy director for epidemic and emerging infections at the UKHSA.

“We are standing up arrangements to support, isolate and monitor British nationals from the ship on their return to the UK and we are contact-tracing anyone who may have been in contact with the ship or the hantavirus cases to limit the risk of onward transmission.”

Medical evacuation flight after landing at Schiphol on Thursday. Photograph: Michel van Bergen/EPA

It is understood 19 British nationals were listed among the 150 passengers on the cruise, which was sailing from Argentina to Cape Verde, with four British crew members. The outbreak has been linked to a birdwatching expedition in Argentina joined by two passengers before they boarded the ship.

Officials in Argentina, from where the cruise departed, are scrambling to determine if the country was the source of the deadly outbreak. The Latin American country, which has reported 101 hantavirus infections since June 2025, is consistently ranked by the WHO as having the highest incidence of the rare, rodent-borne disease.

The UKHSA has said that once the ship docks in Tenerife, the remaining British nationals can be repatriated if they do not develop symptoms. It said that none of the British nationals onboard were reporting symptoms, but that they were being closely monitored.

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Spain’s health minister, Mónica García, said on Wednesday that none of the passengers still onboard the ship were presenting symptoms of the disease and that they would be repatriated to their countries. The 14 Spaniards onboard would be flown to a hospital in Madrid to quarantine, she said.

On Monday, South African officials said a British man was in critical condition with the virus and receiving private care in Johannesburg.

About 40 passengers are believed to have disembarked the ship on the south Atlantic island of Saint Helena after the first passenger died, according to Dutch officials.

A flight attendant for the KLM airline showing mild symptoms was being tested for the virus and being admitted to hospital in Amsterdam, a Dutch health ministry spokesperson said.

Among the three individuals medically evacuated from the ship on Wednesday was Martin Anstee, a British crew member. The expedition guide and former police officer was flown to the Netherlands and spoke from hospital, saying: “I’m doing OK. I’m not feeling too bad. There are still lots of tests to be done.”

Martin Anstee was medically evacuated from the ship after falling ill. Photograph: Facebook

It was a “good sign” Anstee was able to communicate with family, said Prof Robin May, the chief scientific officer at the UKHSA, adding that he would be under investigations for some time. May also told BBC Breakfast on Thursday that the two British nationals who had left the cruise earlier on its course had returned to the UK before the outbreak was detected.

“There’s a chance they may have been exposed to the virus, so we have been in contact with them. They have agreed very kindly to self-isolate for the next period of time,” said May, who said the same process would apply to other British nationals onboard, who he suggested would be asked to self-isolate, most likely at home, for 45 days.

May said hantaviruses as a group were widespread across the world. The viruses naturally infect rodents and are “occasionally” transmitted to humans, according to the WHO, through contact with infected rodents or their urine, droppings or saliva.

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A focus is Andes hantavirus, which has shown evidence of limited human-to-human transmission in the past among close contacts, according to the WHO. Found in South America, it can cause a severe and often fatal lung disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. FThe viruses are also found in Europe and Asia, and can cause haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.

May said the Andes virus strain had been studied intently because it was “such a severe disease”, and that there were global efforts to develop vaccines against it. “This is not a virus that spreads easily between humans,” he added, but given it could spread between individuals, “we are contact tracing everyone who might have been in close contact.”

He said: “We will continue to support them and their families whilst they self-isolate, probably at home, but obviously depends very much on the individual circumstances, depending on where they live and who they live with, as to what the most appropriate mechanism is for them to self-isolate for the next 45 days.”