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1 day ago | thedailybeast.com | Ewan Palmer

Soccer fans in Iran have been left devastated after President Donald Trump’s new travel ban which means they won’t be able to go to the U.S. to watch their country compete in next year’s FIFA World Cup. Of the 12 countries included in Trump’s ban, Iran is the only one already confirmed to play in the 2026 tournament—co-hosted by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico—with others still in contention to qualify.

1 day ago | thedailybeast.com | Ewan Palmer

Donald Trump is considering using the millions he received from lawsuit settlements as seed money to build his presidential library in his adopted home state of Florida. The president plans to create what’s sure to be a tasteful monument to his time in the White House at Florida Atlantic University, which has reportedly offered Trump a 100-year lease for free land on its campus, according to The Wall Street Journal.

1 day ago | thedailybeast.com | Ewan Palmer

Sen. Markwayne Mullin scrambled to defend why Egypt was left off Donald Trump’s newly announced 12-country travel ban, despite the president citing a recent attack allegedly committed by an Egyptian national as justification. In an interview Wednesday with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on The Source, the Oklahoma Republican argued that Trump mentioned the Boulder, Colorado, attack only to highlight visa and vetting issues, not to suggest Egypt should be added to the ban.

1 day ago | thedailybeast.com | Tom Sanders

A Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany on Wednesday night after hitting severe turbulence that left nine people with injuries. The plane, carrying 179 passengers and six crew from Berlin to Milan, encountered the turbulence around 8:30pm, forcing the pilot to divert to Memmingen Airport, in Bavaria. Eight passengers and one crew member were hurt during the incident, with three taken to hospital for further treatment.

1 day ago | thedailybeast.com | Ewan Palmer

Joe Biden has lashed out at President Donald Trump’s “ridiculous and false” claims that he was not making his own decisions while in the White House. The 82-year-old former president issued the rebuke after his successor launched a probe into Biden’s alleged “cognitive decline” while in office and whether his team took advantage of his diminishing mental state to sign off on a number of actions using an autopen.