Atletico Madrid midfielder Cardoso is the latest name in the growing list of injured players for tournament cohosts USA.
Published On 12 May 202612 May 2026
Atletico Madrid’s midfielder Johnny Cardoso will undergo surgery on his right ankle, the La Liga club has confirmed, dealing a significant blow to his hopes of playing at next month’s World Cup for the United States (USA).
“Cardoso sustained the injury during training last Thursday, resulting in a severe sprain that has affected the joint,” Atletico said in a statement on Monday.
It is the latest setback for Cardoso, whose debut season at Atletico has been hampered by injuries. The 24-year-old also saw limited action during the March international window, playing only 45 minutes in a friendly against Belgium.
USA coach Mauricio Pochettino is expected to name his 26-man World Cup squad later this month, with the cohosts already facing injury concerns.
Captain Christian Pulisic recently missed matches for AC Milan with a muscular problem, while Olympique de Marseille winger Tim Weah and Olympique Lyonnais midfielder Tanner Tessmann have also been sidelined.
The USA, who cohost the tournament alongside Mexico and Canada, will play Senegal on May 31 and Germany on June 6 in warm-up matches before opening their Group D campaign against Paraguay in California, on June 12.
They will also face Australia and Turkiye at the World Cup.
India’s IT shares fell to a three-year low on Tuesday as investor jitters around the threat posed by artificial intelligence to flagship IT firms flared up again, after OpenAI announced a new AI venture.
The Nifty IT index fell 3.6% to its lowest since May 2023, with Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, HCL Technologies and Wipro falling between 2.5% and 4%.
Analysts at HSBC said in a Tuesday note that India’s top-tier IT firms largely failed to meet street expectations for earnings in March quarter as well in their outlooks for the new financial year, adding that strong spending globally on AI could be “crowding out” demand for traditional IT services.
HSBC’s warning comes a day after OpenAI said it is launching a new company backed by more than $4 billion, embedding engineers into organizations to identify where AI can make the most impact. It’s the latest challenge to Indian IT firms’ business model from a major AI company targeting enterprise clients.
Indian IT stocks are unlikely to attract positive investor interest unless global AI activity, cloud capex growth and cloud revenue momentum slow, HSBC said.
Indian IT companies derive a significant share of their revenue from North America and are considered sensitive to US economic uncertainty and corporate technology spending trends.
The industry has been under pressure for much of 2026, starting with a February rout after the roll-out of Anthropic’s Claude Code and on fears rapid advances in generative AI would disrupt demand for traditional IT and professional services.
India’s IT stocks have slid 25.4% so far this year, making them India’s worst-performing sector, compared with a 9.7% drop in the benchmark Nifty 50.
March quarter results have done little to soothe investor worries. Dollar revenue at industry bellwether Tata Consultancy Services shrank 0.5% year-on-year to $30 billion for the year ended March – the first decline since the company’s 2004 IPO.
Industry peers have flagged challenges of meeting targets with limited visibility on demand: HCL Tech’s CEO C Vijayakumar said in the company’s post-earnings investor call it took “25%-30% more effort to convert and get to the same number” in terms of total contract value.
The broader Indian market remained under pressure on Tuesday, with the rupee sliding to a record low on elevated crude oil prices with talks to end the US-Israeli war with Iran finding no success.
A swarm of agitators descended on the Oregon hotel where FBI Director Kash Patel was believed to be staying while attending a friend’s funeral over the weekend.
Video circulating on social media shows the crowd shouting as they convened outside the Sentinel Hotel in downtown Portland on Saturday night.
The group arrived to protest what they described as the “weaponization” of the FBI under President Donald Trump’s administration, as well as Patel’s handling of documents stemming from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to FOX 12 Oregon.
It’s not clear at which hotel Patel stayed.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel speaks alongside Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche during a news conference at the at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building on April 21, 2026 in Washington, DC.(Anna Moneymaker)
Sources confirmed to Fox News Digital that Patel and his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins were in town over the weekend to attend a funeral for a close friend.
A crowd of protesters reportedly used flight data to track FBI Director Kash Patel to the Sentinel Hotel in downtown Portland, Ore., on May 9, 2026.(Rhein Amacher)
Patel helped carry the friend’s casket during the service, sources said. The funeral was scheduled for Saturday and set to take place in Portland, according to an obituary shared with Fox News.
The protesters obtained Patel’s suspected travel itinerary using publicly available tracking data to follow a Department of Justice aircraft believed to be connected to the FBI director, FOX 12 reported.
A crowd of protesters shout outside the Sentinel Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon, on May 9, 2026, searching for FBI Director Kash Patel.(Rhein Amacher)
Demonstrators then reportedly narrowed down the hotel in which Patel was believed to be a guest by observing security measures throughout the downtown area.
“It wasn’t 100% confirmed but very likely he was at the Sentinel,” one protester told FOX 12. “We were there to protest the weaponization of Trump’s and Patel’s FBI to suppress our freedom of speech and freedom of press.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the Department of Justice, Sentinel Hotel, Portland Police Bureau and FBI for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Kelley Kramer and Mitch Picasso contributed to this report.
Julia Bonavita is a U.S. Writer for Fox News Digital and a Fox Flight Team drone pilot. You can follow her at @juliabonavita13 on all platforms and send story tips to julia.bonavita@fox.com.
Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope
BORK!BORK!BORK! “Let’s cross this one off your list”
are words to strike fear into the hearts of many a Windows user, particularly
when they appear on some Post Office digital signage.
Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register
reader in East Dulwich, London, the screen is one of two public displays designed to entertain and inform customers waiting to be ignored by a
member of staff.
The Post Office is a place where objects
can be sent and forms completed or collected. It is normally identifiable
by a queue of depressed citizens snaking toward (and sometimes beyond) the door,
and an impressive ability to have not quite enough staff to ensure all
available positions are open.
Here, Windows is thankfully relegated to serving up information rather than the all-important task of announcing available counters. The English may be patient queuers, but even they would baulk at a mechanical voice declaring “IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL”, followed by the news that Windows needed to dump its memory before service could resume.
That said, using Microsoft’s finest to run an information
screen does seem overkill. “I’ve always been
amazed that a full-fat OS is used on a system that only has to perform a
trivial function,” our reader noted, and we’d have to agree, particularly when Windows, in this instance, doesn’t even seem able to do that right.
The message, in theory, is helpful. Windows needs an update and is politely asking when a good time would be. The
problem is that, without a keyboard and mouse is available nobody in the queue can
help. And, frankly, Windows shouldn’t need to ask.
Considering the opening
times of the average Post Office, there is plenty of time when the doors are
locked, and there are no punters on hand to witness the operating system giving
itself a jolly good update, with a cheeky reboot or two to finish the job. ®
Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: The turmoil in the Indian stock markets continued on Tuesday as both benchmark indices closed sharply lower amid rising concerns over the escalating tensions in West Asia, elevated crude oil prices and weakness in the Indian rupee against the US dollar.
It was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone. In the final strait, Collen Kebinatshipi surged past South Africa’s Zakithi Nene to win the men’s 4x400m relay for Botswana. The home crowd, a sea of light blue, went wild.
“It means so many things to us,” Letsile Tebogo, 22, the reigning 200m Olympic champion, who ran the second leg, told reporters afterwards. “Not just the team … but for the people that always cheer for us behind the TV. Now they had that experience to see first-hand how much effort, how much pressure, how much we give for them.”
In an interview after the championships, the World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, said: “I put that atmosphere in the top three that I’ve experienced live in athletics. The first was Cathy Freeman winning in Sydney. The second was Mo Farah hitting the front with a lap or so to go in the 10,000 in London, when the wall of noise was deafening … [This] comfortably sits in the top three for me.”
Botswana’s Bayapo Ndori, Letsile Tebogo, Lee Eppie and Collen Kebinatshipi celebrate after winning gold in the men’s 4x400m at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo last year. Photograph: Abbie Parr/AP
Botswana, a country larger by area than Spain but with a population of just 2.5 million, has had a meteoric rise to the top of men’s sprinting. Tebogo’s Olympic gold in Paris in 2024 was the country’s first, and only its fourth medal of any colour. The men’s 4x400m relay team took silver, improving on bronze from three years earlier. Then, at the world championships in Tokyo last year, Kebinatshipi won the 400m while the relay team he anchored also took home gold.
The athletes are superstars in Botswana, their faces plastered on billboards advertising everything from mobile phone contracts to milk. “My life has changed a lot,” Kebinatshipi told a press conference before the relays.
Collen Kebinatshipi celebrates after winning gold in the men’s 400m at the World Athletics Championships last year. Photograph: Hannah Peters/Getty Images
The 22-year-old, who started running at school, said he now allowed half an hour for photos with fans when he went out shopping. “At first I was a bit nervous, because I wasn’t used to it … Nowadays I’m used to it, so it’s cool with me,” he said.
Years-long investment in young athletes is one of the biggest reasons for the southern African country’s recent success, sports officials said. The Botswana Athletics Association’s chief executive, Mabua Mabua, said: “I must thank the school sports programmes that we used to have, because basically all of the athletes that you are seeing, the youthful ones, are coming from that programme.”
He also highlighted the country’s infrastructure. “All of the preparations for the team are done locally. Normally people say: ‘No, they should go to Europe, USA, for preparations’. It’s local coaches, a local environment.”
Resego Kelly Makwala, 14, the daughter of the former Botswana sprint star Isaac Makwala, is emerging as a promising young athlete. Photograph: Kefilwe Monosi/The Guardian
The Botswana National Sports Commission runs programmes for 15 sports to spot and nurture talent. Re Ba Bona Ha (“We See Them Here” in Setswana) is a coaching initiative for children aged five to 13 that was launched for football in 2002, with athletics added in 2008. Up to 300 children attended athletics sessions every year, said Frederick Kebadiretse, the BNSC’s sports development manager.
Then there are twice-yearly holiday camps to identify older students for eight centres of sports excellence, which were founded in 2011. The centres run weekday afternoon and weekend training sessions, with 30 to 40 students picked each year for athletics.
However, the school sports programme was suspended in 2019 over a dispute between the government and teachers and sports officials said that without it, Botswana’s recent athletics success was at risk. “The pipeline is not there,” said Martin Mokgwathi, who chaired the world relays organising committee. “[Performance] will dip unless something is done very, very quickly.”
Martin Mokgwathi at the Botswana national stadium, where this year’s world relays competition was held. Photograph: Kefilwe Monosi/The Guardian
Botswana’s female athletes have not yet matched the men’s results. Oratile Nowe, the seventh fastest woman this year over 800m, is the current highest performer.
The officials admitted more needed to be done to support women and girls. “We need to widen the pipeline so we can get more and more young women to join,” Mokgwathi said. “The other thing, of course, is to encourage more and more women to become coaches and technical officials … And we need to protect young women coming into the sport, so that they stay.”
Oratile Nowe celebrates after winning the women’s 800m at the Botswana golden grand prix last month. Photograph: Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP/Getty Images
Isaac Makwala is trying to fill the pipelines. Makwala, whom numerous young athletes cite as an inspiration, was the first man to run 400m in under 44 seconds and 200m in under 20 seconds in the same day. The son of farmers from a village in northern Botswana, he started running at school, although he didn’t compete until he was 21.
After retiring in 2024, Makwala founded the Isaac Makwala Athletics Academy, putting about 50 12- to 16-year-olds through sprinting drills five afternoons a week. “I have a daughter here, she drives me to be a coach,” he said. “I want to see how well she will run after. Did she take her talent from me?”
Tuduetso Gaboutloeloe encourages her daughter Leloba, 13, during a training session at the Isaac Makwala Athletics Academy in Gaborone. Photograph: Kefilwe Monosi/The Guardian
Earlier this year his daughter, Resego Kelly Makwala, became Botswana’s under-18 girls champion in 400m, aged just 14. “I do really like it,” she said. “The times. When I make good times, PBs [personal bests].”
Makwala’s centre relies on motivated parents who can afford the 100 pula (£5.50) registration and 500 pula monthly fees. Tuduetso Gaboutloeloe, a tax collector, is one. “I want to be honest with you, the way the economy is bad, I want to see [my daughter] going places, maybe getting a scholarship so she can progress very well,” she said. “Because right now, it’s a struggle.”
Her 13-year-old daughter, Leloba, who runs 800m and wants to try 400m too, dreams of Olympic success. “I do imagine myself winning medals,” she said.
TUCSON, Ariz. — It’s been 100 days since 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie’s suspected abduction from her Tucson bedroom, and authorities say they have “nothing new” — as outside volunteer groups push to join the search.
Guthrie vanished from her home in the Catalina Foothills, an upscale suburb north of Tucson, in the early hours of Feb. 1, according to authorities. There have been no signs of her since. There are no publicly identified suspects, beyond a masked man who appeared on her front steps on doorbell video.
“We just want to help, and we just want to find Nancy Guthrie,” said Josh Gill, an organizer at the Louisiana-based nonprofit United Cajun Navy, which volunteers for search and rescue operations around the country. “That’s it.”
UCN has participated in several other successful searches recently, including one that found missing Louisiana 14-year-old Heaven Bruno after 67 days, Gill said. A tipster who follows UCN social media posts sharing coverage of her disappearance and reported a potential sighting to state police, who found her alive, Gill said.
Pima County deputies investigate outside the home of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona. Guthrie has been missing since Feb. 1, when she is believed to have been abducted from her house.(Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital, Courtesy NBC)
“They found her and reported it,” he told Fox News Digital, adding that’s not the first time someone saw a UCN post about a case before calling in a tip that helped crack it.
Another group, Madres Buscadoras de Sonora (Searching Mothers of Sonora), has also asked for permission to help.
Fox News Digital asked the Pima County Sheriff’s Department for details about air and ground searches last week; however, they declined to discuss anything beyond what investigators shared with the public back on Feb. 2.
Law enforcement personnel search near a roadway outside Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood in Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 11, 2026.(Patrick Breen/The Republic)
“We had a map in the initial press conference on the screens for the initial search,” a spokesperson said. “I’ve been advised that we do not have any additional information to provide.”
That map appears to show the search heavily focused on Guthrie’s immediate neighborhood. The colored lines represent ground searches. Two rings showed the general area of ground covered by helicopter and plane.
On Saturday, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Fox News Digital that his investigators are getting closer to solving the case. He did not elaborate, however.
FBI investigators search the Catalina Foothills in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 11, 2026, as part of the ongoing investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.(DWS for Fox News Digital)
The most recent publicly known development is that a private lab in Florida that received DNA evidence from inside Guthrie’s home back in February had transferred the sample to the FBI for more advanced analysis after 11 weeks.
Speaking with Fox News’ Jonathan Hunt Monday, Nanos said investigators were still working with the labs and following up on leads.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos speaks in the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Tucson, Arizona, on Friday, May 8, 2026. Nanos said that investigators are getting closer to solving the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie.(Matt Symons for Fox News Digital)
Gill’s group previously sent a 41-page proposal to the sheriff’s department, seeking an official blessing from authorities before sending volunteers with K9s, drones and medical equipment. However, he told Fox News Digital that despite offering to revise the plan and a Change.org petition asking the sheriff to invite them in, the group has received “zero response.”
A general view of a wash near the home of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Ariz., on May 5, 2026.(Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)
“At this point, I can’t imagine saying no to anyone offering help,” said Bob Krygier, a retired Pima County Sheriff’s Department lieutenant who has been following the case. “Those are just extra feet on the ground that I don’t have to pay, quite honestly.”
Jason Pack, a retired FBI supervisory agent, said task force investigators are likely still making progress behind the scenes.
“If investigators are still reviewing evidence, revisiting timelines and pushing forensic analysis forward, then the case is still moving, even if most of that movement happens far from television cameras and social media speculation,” he told Fox News Digital. “And sometimes the most important breakthroughs happen quietly long before the public ever hears a word about them.”
A video showing an illegal horse race in Sicily, with spectators firing pistols into the air and brandishing Kalashnikov rifles, went viral and prompted a police investigation that led to the seizure of the animals.
The clip, reportedly filmed last Friday, shows two jockeys driving horse-drawn carts at breakneck speed along country roads in the town of Palagonia, near Catania, in eastern Sicily. Behind them, dozens of people follow on scooters, firing shots into the air. The footage was posted on social media by an animal rights activist, Enrico Rizzi.
Police said: “Following reports of an unauthorised horse race, accompanied by dozens of people filming the event and firing gunshots into the air, police carried out investigations in the San Cristoforo district of Catania, which led to two men aged 40 and 45 being reported to prosecutors.
“Officers immediately began intensive inspections of several stables in the San Cristoforo district, together with veterinarians from the regional health department, in order to identify the horses used in the race and place them in safety.”
The newspaper La Sicilia reported that the horses had been seized and the stables shut down. Several people were taken to the police station for questioning and the investigation is continuing.
Illegal horse racing remains widespread in Sicily, as well as in Calabria and Campania. Past investigations have shown that such races are often organised by mafia families linked to Cosa Nostra, the Camorra and the ’Ndrangheta.
The races generate large sums of undeclared cash, with bets often reaching thousands of euros for a single event. The cities where the phenomenon is most entrenched include Catania, Messina and Palermo, where repeated police raids over the years have led to arrests, prosecutions and the seizure of illegal stables.
The Italian animal welfare organisation LAV wrote in its annual report last year: “Illegal horse races, in addition to being a source of illicit profits linked to gambling, represent one of the most striking displays of criminal prestige and mafia control over the territory.
“They allow criminal groups to demonstrate their complete domination of the area by occupying and blocking public roads and deploying men and vehicles. The horses are subjected to whipping, kept in unsanitary conditions and administered banned drugs. Many come from the regulated racing industry and are fraudulently reused in street races.”
According to LAV, seven illegal horse races were stopped in 2024, leading to 70 people being reported and the seizure of 29 horses and a pony. Between 1998 and 2024, a total of 4,324 people were reported, 1,430 horses seized and 165 clandestine races disrupted.
The horses are often given names inspired by notorious figures, ranging from mafia bosses such as Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, who was known as “Binnu u Tratturi”, to the mob turncoat Carmine Schiavone and even Osama bin Laden.
Neapolitan-style ballads (neomelodica music) celebrating the competing horses are widely circulated and frequently serve as the soundtrack to videos of the races posted on social media.
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EXCLUSIVE — When Virginia-based Deputy Sheriff Chris Darlington puts his badge away, he sits down at his piano. And he’s now ready to release his first single on major country radio.
Darlington has served in law enforcement for nearly 20 years and is currently the Frederick County Sheriff’s office deputy in northern Virginia. He’s just as passionate about music, managing to incorporate the efforts of the men and women in uniform into some of his songwriting.
One of his first singles, “Hold the Line,” was a 2020 ballad intended to boost the morale of law enforcement at a time when communities were growing increasingly hostile to police. That year marked the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and violent riots in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Major cities seemed to sour on law enforcement and, according to some, the media only fanned the flames.
“That was kind of a bad year for everyone with the COVID, with the shutdown,” Darlington told Fox News Digital. “So that gave me time, right, to think and to write more. And I felt like the media was real hard then. It seemed like every time something happened, right, that law enforcement didn’t do right, or maybe they did do right. Or maybe it was a one side saying was right, one side thing was wrong. I felt like it was a bad time for law enforcement.”
Frederick County Deputy Sheriff Chris Darlington poses next to his police car.(Photo courtesy ofr Chris Darlington.)
“Somewhere, you know, something would kick off and the media would be demonizing law enforcement as a whole,” he continued. “So I felt like law enforcement could use something to lift up their spirits and motivate them to keep them going. So that was the idea behind the song. I just wanted to uplift the men and women that do the job and let them know that, yeah, there’s some bad eggs in a dozen. But you know, for the most part, most of us are good people.”
Darlington warned fellow artists against painting authority figures in a bad light. In 2025, Zach Bryan caused a country music stir when he released an anti-ICE single questioning the agency’s priorities.
“I respect Zach as an artist, and everybody has the right to speak their mind. I’d just encourage people with a huge platform to be careful with their words, because they carry weight,” Darlington said. “As an active duty deputy sheriff, I’d hate to see a brother or sister in law enforcement get hurt because of division or negativity fueled toward cops just trying to do their job and make it home safe.”
Darlington praised Bryan as an artist and acknowledged his freedom of speech, but expanded on how his lyrics could negatively impact the work he and his fellow officers do on a daily basis.
“I’ll give him credit,” Darlington said. “He’s a good artist. But I think that, you know, he’s riding his country music lane. And I think that he needs to be careful, for one, because a lot of his listeners probably don’t — maybe he gained some, maybe he lost some. I don’t how it balanced out for him. But I will say, as a respect to him having a right to write about what he wants, I’d give him that freedom. I think that’s his God-given right to tell his story, and I can’t take that away from him. I will say that I felt like a line in that song was kind of a blow to law enforcement as a whole.”
Chris Darlington performing at a concert in Frederick, Maryland.(Chris Darlington)
A representative for Bryan didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Darlington believes the majority of country music listeners still adhere to traditional values and a sense of patriotism.
“And hopefully we can maintain those listeners, so I guess what I’m trying to say, hopefully the whole industry doesn’t change and shift due to a political climate,” he said. “That makes sense. But I think traditionally, I think that most country music listeners are still the same. They still hold the traditional American values. But, you know, we could lose that, and I want to be the ones that kind of hold that.”
While Darlington said he has noticed that some respect has “dissipated” in some younger people for law enforcement due to what they’ve witnessed in the media, he is fortunate to serve in a county in which the relationship between police and the community is still on solid ground.
“I think we’ve got a lot of good people here in Frederick County that are still good people,” he said. “And just, for example, I can be in a drive-thru in my cruiser and the person in front of me sometimes will buy your, pay for your meal, or I can be sitting down in a restaurant even on my meal break and when I go to pay, somebody will pay. So I’m blessed that we still live in a good community here.”
Virginia-based Deputy Sheriff Chris Darlington said the media has fanned the flames of anti-police sentiment in communities across the country.(Getty Images)
Darlington’s new single, “What Do You Want,” will be his first song to make it to major country radio.
“I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything on country radio like it,” he said. “It’s an upbeat song, and it is kind of about like when you’re in the point of a relationship where you’re kind of getting played, where you are getting strung on, like, you know, make up your mind, you’re kind of getting these maybes, but you know, you are not getting a full commitment of yes or no, and you’re getting strung on the road.”
The National Sheriffs’ Association said they were “proud” to stand behind Darlington’s career move.
“The National Sheriffs’ Association is proud to see one of our own go from protecting communities in uniform to lighting up the country music stage,” a spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement. “His story is a reminder that law enforcement officers bring talent, heart, and dedication to everything they do.”
Darlington will be performing his new music at this week’s National Police Week Gala in Washington, D.C.
Cortney O’Brien is an Editor at Fox News. Twitter: @obrienc2
