Parents accused of leaving 10-year-old behind at airport to catch flight

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Parents accused of leaving 10yearold behind at airport to catch flight Eve Chen, USA TODAY August 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM Parents of a 10yearold child are accused of leaving their son behind at the airport so they could catch a flight.

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Eve Chen, USA TODAY August 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM

Parents of a 10-year-old child are accused of leaving their son behind at the airport so they could catch a flight.

According to Spain's national police, Guardia Civil, the incident took place a few days ago at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport.

Guardia Civil's Catalonia office told USA TODAY the boy wasn't able to board the flight because of issues with his documentation, so his parents decided to leave him unaccompanied while they boarded with their younger child.

At first, airport staff alerted Catalonia police, Mossos d'Esquadra, because the incident happened in a public area of the airport, where they have jurisdiction. They, in turn, alerted Guardia Civil, which has jurisdiction over restricted parts of the airport.

Passengers wait to embark at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat airport in Barcelona, Spain in this file photo from Dec. 8, 2024.

Guardia Civil temporarily stopped the flight, found the family members on the plane and escorted them to a Mossos d'Esquadra station, where the child had been taken in the meantime for safety.

Mossos d'Esquadra said the child was handed over to the parents, who were being reported for child abandonment.

This incident first caught global attention after an apparent airport worker recounted what happened on TikTok.

(This story was with new information.)

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The USDA Is Using Scarlett Johansson And Adam Driver To Scare Off Wolves

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The USDA Is Using Scarlett Johansson And Adam Driver To Scare Off Wolves Elyse WanshelAugust 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM This cowsaving tactic might make you howl with laughter.

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This cow-saving tactic might make you howl with laughter.

The United States Department of Agriculture is using audio of actors Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver to scare off wolves, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.

In the wildly amusing report, the outlet explained that gray wolves in the American West are wreaking havoc on livestock.

"It's basically like driving through Burger King, easy pickings for them," Mary Rickert, the owner of Prather Ranch in Northern California, told the Journal.

Although Rickert has lost as many as 40 calves to the carnivores, she can't just go John Wick on them. The wolves are endangered — which means it's illegal to harm them.

But the USDA has come up with a pretty creative way to keep herds of sheep and cattle from becoming a pack's all-you-can-eat buffet.

Essentially, the agency is using drones equipped with spotlights, loudspeakers and "thermal cameras that can reveal any wolf lurking in the darkness."

When the flying bot spots a wolf near a rancher's animals, it uses the light and the loudspeaker to scare it back into the woods.

Some of the recordings played on the drones' loudspeakers make logical sense — like loud fireworks or gunshots. But others are just straight-up silly, and include AC/DC's "Thunderstuck" and the explosive fight between Johansson's and Driver's characters in Noah Baumbach's 2019 film, "Marriage Story."

"I need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad," a USDA district supervisor (who is totally a human and not a canine) named Paul Wolf told the Journal.

As goofy as this all sounds, the Journal says the recordings seem to be working.

The outlet reports that drones were deployed to an area in Oregon where "11 cows were killed by wolves there in a 20-day period." After 85 days of the drones' booming recordings — which hopefully included Johansson screeching, "You gaslighted me; you're a fucking villain!" and Driver yelling, "I was hot shit and I wanted to fuck everybody, but I didn't!" — only two cows were killed.

Although the idea of using a movie scene to scare off wild animals is a bit goofy, the fight scene in "Marriage Story" displays raw human emotions, and Johansson and Driver did deliver intense performances.

"They've lost their voices; they've lost a sense of who they are," Baumbach described the scene to Entertainment Weekly in 2019. "They're trying to figure out what they believe anymore. And that's a dangerous place, I think, for a couple to find themselves."

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Putin doubts potency of Trump's ultimatum to end the war, sources say

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Putin doubts potency of Trump's ultimatum to end the war, sources say Darya Korsunskaya, Andrew Osborn and Mark TrevelyanAugust 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM By Darya Korsunskaya, Andrew Osborn and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to bow to a sanctions ultimatum expi...

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to bow to a sanctions ultimatum expiring this Friday from U.S. President Donald Trump, and retains the goal of capturing four regions of Ukraine in their entirety, sources close to the Kremlin told Reuters.

Trump has threatened to hit Russia with new sanctions and impose 100% tariffs on countries that buy its oil - of which the biggest are China and India - unless Putin agrees to a ceasefire in Russia's war in Ukraine.

Putin's determination to keep going is prompted by his belief that Russia is winning and by scepticism that yet more U.S. sanctions will have much of an impact after successive waves of economic penalties during 3-1/2 years of war, according to three sources familiar with discussions in the Kremlin.

The Russian leader does not want to anger Trump, and he realises that he may be spurning a chance to improve relations with Washington and the West, but his war goals take precedence, two of the sources said.

Putin's goal is to fully capture the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, which Russia has claimed as its own, and then to talk about a peace agreement, one of the sources said.

"If Putin were able to fully occupy those four regions which he has claimed for Russia he could claim that his war in Ukraine had reached his objectives," said James Rodgers, author of the forthcoming book "The Return of Russia".

The current talks process, in which Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have met three times since May, was an attempt by Moscow to convince Trump that Putin was not rejecting peace, the first source said, adding that the talks were devoid of real substance apart from discussions on humanitarian exchanges.

Russia says it is serious about agreeing a long-term peace in the negotiations but that the process is complicated because the two sides' stances are so far apart. Putin last week described the talks as positive.

Moscow's stated demands include a full Ukrainian withdrawal from the four regions and acceptance by Kyiv of neutral status and limits on the size of its military – demands rejected by Ukraine.

In a sign that there may yet be an opportunity to strike a deal before the deadline, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to visit Russia this week, following an escalation in rhetoric between Trump and Moscow over risks of nuclear war. On Monday, Russia said it was no longer bound by a moratorium on short- and medium-range nuclear missiles.

The Kremlin did not respond to a request for comment for this story. All the sources spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

Trump, who in the past has praised Putin and held out the prospect of lucrative business deals between their two countries, has lately expressed growing impatience with the Russian president. He has complained about what he called Putin's "bullshit" and described Russia's relentless bombing of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities as "disgusting".

The Kremlin has said it noted Trump's statements but it has declined to respond to them.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko last week called on the world to respond with "maximum pressure" after the worst Russian air strike of the year killed 31 people in Kyiv, including five children, in what she called Russia's response to Trump's deadline.

"President Trump wants to stop the killing, which is why he is selling American-made weapons to NATO members and threatening Putin with biting tariffs and sanctions if he does not agree to a ceasefire," White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in response to a request for comment.

The first source said Putin was privately concerned about the recent deterioration of U.S. ties. Putin still retains the hope that Russia can again befriend America and trade with the West, and "he is worried" about Trump's irritation, this person said.

But with Moscow's forces advancing on the battlefield and Ukraine under heavy military pressure, Putin does not believe now is the time to end the war, the source said, adding that neither the Russian people nor the army would understand if he stops now.

Rodgers, the author, said Putin has invested his political reputation and legacy in the war in Ukraine.

"We know from his previous writings and statements that he sees himself as part of a strong tradition of standing up to the West and the rest of world to defend Russia's interests," he said.

The Kremlin leader values the relationship with Trump and does not want to anger him, however, "he simply has a top priority - Putin cannot afford to end the war just because Trump wants it," the second Russian source said.

A third person familiar with Kremlin thinking also said Russia wanted to take all four regions and did not see the logic in stopping at a time of battlefield gains during Russia's summer offensive.

Ukraine has suffered some of its biggest territorial losses of 2025 in the past three months, including 502 square kilometres in July, according to Black Bird Group, a Finland-based military analysis centre. In total, Russia has occupied around a fifth of Ukraine.

Russia's military General Staff has told Putin that the Ukrainian front will crumble in two or three months, the first person said.

However, Russia's recent gains remain relatively minor in purely territorial terms, with only 5,000 square kilometres (1,930 square miles) of Ukraine taken since the start of last year, less than 1% of the country's overall territory, according to a June report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.

Ukrainian and Western military sources, acknowledge that Russia is making gains, but only gradually and with heavy casualties. Russian war bloggers say Moscow's forces have been bogged down during its current summer offensive in areas where the terrain and dense urban landscape favoured Ukraine, but assess that other areas should be faster to take.

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Trump's sanctions threat was "painful and unpleasant," but not a catastrophe, the second source said. The third source said there was a feeling in Moscow that "there's not much more that they can do to us".

It was also not clear if Trump would follow through on his ultimatum, this person said, adding that "he's made threats before" and then not acted, or changed his mind.

The source also said it was hard to imagine that China would stop buying Russian oil on instructions from Trump, and that his actions risked backfiring by driving oil prices higher.

As a consequence of previous rounds of sanctions, Russian oil and gas exporters have taken big hits to their revenues, and foreign direct investment in the country fell by 63% last year, according to U.N. trade data. Around $300 billion of central bank assets have been frozen in foreign jurisdictions.

But Russia's ability to wage war has been unimpeded, thanks in part to ammunition supplies from North Korea and imports from China of dual-use components that have sustained a massive rise in weapons production. The Kremlin has repeatedly said that Russia has some "immunity" to sanctions.

Trump has acknowledged Russia's skill in skirting the measures. "They're wily characters and they're pretty good at avoiding sanctions, so we'll see what happens," he told reporters at the weekend, when asked what his response would be if Russia did not agree to a ceasefire.

The first Russian source noted that Putin, in pursuing the conflict, was turning his back on a U.S. offer made in March that Washington, in return for his agreement to a full ceasefire, would remove U.S. sanctions, recognise Russian possession of Crimea - annexed from Ukraine in 2014 - and acknowledge de facto Russian control of the territory captured by its forces since 2022.

The source called the offer a "fantastic chance," but said stopping a war was much more difficult than starting it.

(Reporting by Darya Korsunskaya and Andrew Osborn; Additional reporting by Nandita Bose; Writing by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)

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MLB contenders watch for fatigue as some starters experience an increased workload

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MLB contenders watch for fatigue as some starters experience an increased workload JAY COHENAugust 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM 1 / 5Royals Cubs BaseballChicago Cubs starting pitcher Matthew Boyd throws against the Kansas City Royals during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Tuesday, July 22, 20...

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1 / 5Royals Cubs BaseballChicago Cubs starting pitcher Matthew Boyd throws against the Kansas City Royals during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

CHICAGO (AP) — At age 34, Matthew Boyd is going back to what was once familiar territory for the left-hander. He has logged 130 2/3 innings so far in his first season with the Chicago Cubs, more than he totaled in the previous two years combined.

It's a workload jump that goes against what had become conventional wisdom in the majors, where teams have frequently capped pitchers' innings in hopes of keeping them healthy.

"Things have been going great," Boyd said. "And I think it's like none of us know what's ahead. And that goes for everybody."

Boyd's workload is worth watching as the Cubs try to rally in the NL Central race and go on a deep October run. He is among a group of pitchers going through a spike in innings in the heart of the playoff picture.

After spending most of his career as a reliever, Clay Holmes has 117 1/3 innings going into his 23rd start for the Mets on Tuesday night. Phillies left-hander Jesús Luzardo is up to 127 innings after he finished with 66 2/3 last year. All-Stars Garrett Crochet of the Red Sox and Bryan Woo of the Mariners also are progressing toward major increases.

"That's something we always monitor and watch," Mariners manager Dan Wilson said. "I know we're in constant communication in-between starts."

The days of predetermined innings limits, especially when it comes to young prospects and pitchers on losing teams, aren't going away anytime soon. But more organizations appear to be going with a case-by-case approach.

"I think the reason why it's changed a little bit and we don't look at that either percentage increase or fixed innings increase is because it wasn't working," said David Stearns, the president of baseball operations for the Mets.

"I think more and more we're trying to treat each pitcher as an individual. And if a pitcher feels good both subjectively and objectively, we try not to artificially shut them down."

Crochet, 26, helped show what might be possible last year. The 6-foot-6 left-hander, who had Tommy John surgery in April 2022, began last season with 73 innings in 72 appearances spanning four seasons with the White Sox.

He made his first big league start on opening day. With the White Sox closely monitoring his workload in the last part of the season, he finished with 32 starts and 146 innings. He is tied for the major league lead with 141 1/3 innings going into Tuesday night's start against Kansas City.

"I think that I really set myself up for this season to go out there and for there really to be no leash necessary," said Crochet, who was traded to the Red Sox in December and then agreed to a $170 million, six-year contract. "I've been feeling really good throughout the season and the five days in between my starts I really feel like I'm prepared and doing a lot to get my body in the right position to have success and to continue to give length throughout the year."

Boyd was recovering from Tommy John surgery when he signed with Cleveland last year. He returned to the majors last August and went 2-2 with a 2.72 ERA in eight starts and 39 2/3 innings for the Guardians. He also pitched 11 2/3 innings for the AL Central champions in the playoffs.

That was enough for Chicago to give Boyd a $29 million, two-year contract in free agency. And he has delivered so far, making the NL All-Star team while going 11-4 with a 2.34 ERA in 22 starts.

Boyd pitched a career-high 185 1/3 innings for Detroit in 2019, but he hasn't approached that territory since. The Cubs gave him nine days off between starts over the All-Star break, and Boyd has frequent conversations with manager Craig Counsell and pitching coach Tommy Hottovy about his workload and how he is feeling.

The Cubs also have rookie right-hander Cade Horton, who is up to 102 2/3 innings this season — including his time with Triple-A Iowa — after he totaled 34 1/3 innings in the minors last year.

"This is an area where the industry has not maybe figured out the answer, so you're just trying to keep getting better answers," Counsell said. "I think in the past, we were just relying on history. I think now we're relying on the data we collect from the actual player."

Communication is one thing, but an array of metrics and biomechanical analysis is at the center of the decision-making process when it comes to pitchers and rest.

"There's tangible things that you just keep an eye on," Boyd said. "You have your spin data, you have your velocity. We have biomechanics tracking. It's like, 'Hey, the mechanics are getting out of whack. ... Is there something we need to address? How do you address that?'

"There's so many different avenues you can go down and levers you can pull if you will. And it's not as cut and dry as like 20% increase, 50% increase (in innings)."

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AP Baseball Writer Mike Fitzpatrick in New York and AP Sports Writer Andrew Destin in Seattle contributed to this report.

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Prince Andrew scores victory over King Charles in Royal Lodge battle: report

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Prince Andrew scores victory over King Charles in Royal Lodge battle: report Stephanie Nolasco, Ashley PapaAugust 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM Prince Andrew achieved a quiet victory. King Charles III has given up on trying to evict the disgraced Duke of York from his palatial Royal Lodge home, the U.K.

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Prince Andrew achieved a quiet victory.

King Charles III has given up on trying to evict the disgraced Duke of York from his palatial Royal Lodge home, the U.K.'s Express reported. According to the outlet, the monarch's younger sibling "has won the row" and will be staying put despite efforts to relocate him to a smaller property.

Buckingham Palace previously told Fox News Digital that they don't answer for Andrew, 65, as he's no longer a working royal.

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According to reports and royal experts who spoke to Fox News Digital, King Charles III can no longer attempt to evict Prince Andrew from his Royal Lodge home.

British royals expert Hilary Fordwich told Fox News Digital she's not entirely convinced that Andrew is out of the woods.

"This is a limited pyrrhic win, as he's certainly not reclaiming any stature either in public or within his own family," she explained. "His remaining in Royal Lodge is merely due to his legal rights derived from the original binding 75-year lease agreement from 2003 with the Crown Estate rather than anything favorable to Andrew's redemption."

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Prince Andrew leaves Balmoral Castle on Sept. 10, 2022, two days after Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96.

Fordwich pointed out that Royal Lodge requires "immense annual upkeep" that reportedly costs several million dollars a year. Andrew stepped back as a senior royal following his controversial friendship with late American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Working or not, Andrew will need to find a way to foot the bill.

Prince Andrew stepped back as a senior royal in 2019.

"Public scrutiny of royal spending is intense," said Fordwich. "It will further destroy his relationship with both his family and the public as he is an entitled embarrassment to both."

"In 2028, this issue may well be revisited," Fordwich warned. "The Crown Estate will then have new grounds to review or revoke the lease due to property maintenance disputes. In the interim, he must fund the estate's costly repairs, all of its upkeep and his security."

King Charles III was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer in February 2024.

The U.K.'s Daily Mail previously reported that Andrew had been tending to the gardens of Royal Lodge to pinch pennies. The 30-room mansion is reportedly surrounded by shrubbery and woodland. Other reports claimed that the king, 76, ordered precious artifacts to be removed from Andrew's home, due to maintenance and security concerns.

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Prince Andrew was said to be Queen Elizabeth II's favorite son. England's longest-reigning monarch died in 2022 at age 96.

Us Weekly also reported that the sprawling 19th-century property is faced with dampness issues, as well as "wear and tear" that is ravaging the building. It noted that "cracks are becoming worse on the brickwork," and there is peeling paint, along with plaster falling off.

These days, the Express reported that Andrew has been "all smiles" knowing that he could officially stay.

King Charles was diagnosed with cancer shortly after receiving treatment for an enlarged prostate.

"It is undoubtedly the case that King Charles would have wished him to downsize," royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told Fox News Digital. "But, he has a 75-year lease and, so long as he fulfilled its provisions, he could not be evicted."

Prince Andrew lives in Royal Lodge with his ex wife, Sarah Ferguson.

Royal expert Ian Pelham Turner told Fox News Digital that Andrew will still need to prove that he can find a way to manage the costly repairs that Royal Lodge requires.

"Andrew has to ensure that the Royal Lodge is being preserved from a current state of near collapse," Turner claimed, adding that this "will be looked at very closely."

Prince Andrew reportedly dug his heels in, to King Charles' dismay.

Andrew has lived at Royal Lodge since 2004. He currently resides there with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.

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Prince Andrew has become a royal outcast following his controversial friendship with late American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

According to reports, he has spent over $9 million on repairs and renovations over the years and $1 million to take it over. His annual rent is a reported $337,000. But despite Charles's concerns, reports claimed that Andrew presented his brother with a lease document which confirmed that he was legally entitled to stay at Royal Lodge.

The Sunday Times reported that the king did not renew the contract for Andrew's private security team. The monarch had been paying for Andrew's security after the prince lost his police protection in 2022. The security team is said to cost the king nearly $4 million annually.

Prince Andrew has been attempting to keep a low profile.

At the time, a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace told Fox News Digital that the palace would not comment on "security matters."

Royal experts don't believe Prince Andrew will ever return to public life.

While Andrew will remain at Royal Lodge, Fordwich stressed that this doesn't mean he'll return to public life.

"The only time he's been seen at any family functions publicly was earlier this year in Windsor at Easter Sunday services and the Garter Day lunch," she said. "He was conspicuously absent this year from [everything else]."

Prince Andrew is reportedly pinching pennies by tending to his gardens.

"Regarding his finances, his family continues to be concerned as to where, in desperation for new income sources, he is securing funding," Fordwich claimed. "In the past, his ill-judged business associations haven't exactly been proper, reflecting poorly upon the monarchy."

King Charles reportedly wanted Prince Andrew to downsize and move to Frogmore Cottage, the former U.K. home of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The property has remained empty following the couple's move to California in 2020.

Charles and Andrew were said to be feuding over Royal Lodge, which is located on the grounds of Windsor Castle, since 2019. While Charles urged Andrew to downsize and move to the smaller Frogmore Cottage, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's former U.K. home, the prince successfully dug his heels in.

King Charles III ascended to the throne upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022.

Charlotte Griffiths, the Mail on Sunday's editor-at-large, reported in November that the monarch was unexpectedly extending a generous olive branch to his brother and paying his rent. It's believed that's what their late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, would have wanted. For years, it has been said that Andrew was her favorite son.

The king was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer in February of last year.

Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine and author of "My Mother and I," agreed with Griffiths' scoop.

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"There's absolutely no doubt that Charles is the one who is providing the money for Andrew, because the [late] queen wouldn't have left Andrew bereft," Seward previously explained to Fox News Digital.

"She would've made a provision for him, and maybe that provision came through his elder brother as monarch," she shared. "When the king dies or the queen dies, the money goes to the next monarch. Everything goes to the next monarch. So, she either would have made provisions for Andrew before she died, or she would've made provisions through Charles."

Prince Andrew is visited by his daughters Princess Eugenie, center, and Princess Beatrice.

"I believe that Charles is helping him," Seward continued. "I don't see who else would. I'm sure [Andrew's ex-wife] Fergie would help him. I know Fergie does very well with her books, but I [can't] imagine she would make enough to run Royal Lodge on her own."

King Charles reportedly vowed to his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, that he would look after Prince Andrew.

"I certainly think that the only person who could really be doing this is either monies from the queen or monies from the king," she said.

Prince Andrew walks in the procession ahead of his father Prince Philip's funeral at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, on April 17, 2021.

Griffiths also claimed that someone at a "glamorous – and usually ultra-discreet – dinner table" told her that "Charles has paid for it all."

"The king has cleared it. It's all done," the source claimed.

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According to reports, Prince Andrew has been feuding with the king over Royal Lodge.

The palace insider, "who's been a guest at Royal Lodge in years gone by," claimed that not only did Charles handle the finances, but none of the funds came from taxpayer money.

The Sunday Times previously reported that Andrew had raised enough money to stay in Royal Lodge. According to the outlet, the prince's funds were approved by the Keeper of the Privy Purse as coming from "legitimate sources." Andrew's only known steady income source is a Royal Navy pension.

Prince Andrew on board HMS Invincible during the Falklands War, in which he served as a helicopter pilot.

"The Duke of York, or Prince Andrew as we like to call him, always lived in a palace," said Seward. "He lived in Buckingham Palace, and then his home was Royal Lodge, which is a very grand home – and he doesn't want to leave it."

Prince Andrew is said to be all smiles following his victory.

"I think King Charles... said to him, 'Andrew, it would be so much better if you moved out of Royal Lodge and moved into Frogmore Cottage... because it's been modernized inside. It's been beautifully done up. It's easy to run. It's not expensive to run. And you're within the security of the Windsor Castle compound, so it's not going to cost millions in security.' But Andrew said, 'No, I want to stay here.'"

Seward stressed that rigorous upkeep – and plenty of funds – are required to keep the royal property in tip-top shape.

Prince Andrew's future is uncertain.

"It's not just a little house in the middle of nowhere," said Seward. "It is huge and therefore needs a lot of upkeep. But I think that there's no way he and Charles would've had a row about it, because Charles isn't like that."

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Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson now look after Queen Elizabeth's dogs.

"He wouldn't have said, 'You've got to get out,'" Seward insisted. "He would've suggested why it would be easier to get out. And Andrew said, 'No, I want to stay.' So, Charles said, 'Fine, but I'm going to have to remove this very expensive security, and we'll need to find an alternative.'"

Prince Andrew arrives at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, to attend a service on March 31, 2024.

"The Crown Estate would've loved to get Andrew out of Royal Lodge, because they could rent the whole thing," said Seward. "It needs to be seen as making money. And as long as Andrew lives in Royal Lodge, that's preventing them from making as much as they could. It's just too bad that he is the late queen's second son."

"[But] I don't think the future holds anything for Prince Andrew," Seward added.

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Alex Ovechkin partners with a Russian technology company to make a movie about his career

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Alex Ovechkin has partnered with a Russian technology company to produce a movie, series or documentary about his NHL career.

Yandex and its streaming platform, Kinopoisk, announced the agreement Tuesday.

Ovechkin this past spring broke Wayne Gretzky's career goals record and has scored 897 going into the final season of his contract with the Washington Capitals. Ovechkin, who turns 40 next month, has along with his representatives granted the rights to adapt his career to Yandex's production label, Plus Studio.

The Moscow native who began his professional career in the Russian league, now the KHL, is expected to take part in commercials and serve as a Yandex ambassador as part of the deal.

Ovechkin has played his entire career with Washington since the Capitals drafted him with the first pick in 2004 and he debuted in 2005. He has been the face of the franchise since, served as their captain since January 2010 and was playoff MVP in 2018 when he led them to their first Stanley Cup championship.

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Fox beats quarterly estimates, boosts buyback by $5 billion August 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM (Reuters) Fox Corp topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue and profit on Tuesday, driven by a surge in advertising, affiliate fee and continued growth at its free adsupported streaming service, Tubi.

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August 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM

(Reuters) -Fox Corp topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue and profit on Tuesday, driven by a surge in advertising, affiliate fee and continued growth at its free ad-supported streaming service, Tubi.

The company also announced a $5 billion increase to its share repurchase authorization.

The owner of Fox News saw revenue from affiliate fee rising 2.6% in the fiscal fourth quarter, driven by growth across both its cable and television segments.

Fox has benefited from improving advertising trends despite tough comparisons from major international sports events like Copa America and the UEFA European Championship in the same period a year before.

Advertising revenues grew 7.1% in the quarter, primarily due to continued digital growth led by Tubi, and higher news ratings and pricing.

Growth at Tubi significantly bolsters Fox by expanding its reach into the rapidly growing, ad-supported streaming sector, attracting large numbers of younger, cord-cutting viewers who are increasingly hard to reach through traditional television channels.

Building on this growing momentum, Fox is set to launch a subscription-based streaming service, Fox One, on August 21 for $19.99 per month, aiming to reach audiences beyond its mainstay cable television business.

In June, the company acquired sports-focused streaming platform and television channel Caliente TV to expand its sports broadcasting presence in Mexico.

Fox's total revenue rose 6.3% to $3.29 billion in the fourth quarter, beating estimates of $3.12 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.

The company also reported a nearly 7% jump in revenue in its cable network programming unit to $1.53 billion, at a time when customers are shifting to digital streaming.

Adjusted profit attributable to Fox's stockholders was $1.27 per share, compared with estimates of 99 cents.

(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)

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