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Fox Sports is offering $50,000 for someone to watch all 104 Men's World Cup soccer games in a glass cube in Times Square this summer.

The chief World Cup watcher will be required to watch every minute of the matches on Fox One.

The person will have to make social media posts and turn every game into a live watch party for tourists and others passing by.

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President Trump says the U.S.

will stop helping guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz just a day after beginning what he called Project Freedom.

Trump says the pause was needed to finalize a settlement with Iran to end the war.

Yesterday, the U.S.

military sank six small Iranian boats that it says threatened commercial ships.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the move was aimed at helping stranded civilian sailors.

There are about 1,500 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf.

About 1,000 of them are large ocean-going vessels like oil tankers.

The tone is ratcheting up again between the U.S.

and European allies.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports EU leaders say they reject President Trump's latest threat to raise tariffs on European car imports.

A video posted by FBI Director Kash Patel appears to be using AI to rip off an iconic music video by the Beastie Boys.

NPR's Jeff Brumfield has more.

A majority of Republican state senators in Indiana, whose opponents were endorsed by President Trump, have lost their primary elections.

Trump targeted seven state senators who voted against mid-decade redistricting.