What happened
Spain yesterday beat defending champions Argentina 1-0 to win its second World Cup title, with Ferran Torres scoring the decisive goal in the 106th minute. Spain captain Rodri was crowned the Golden Ball winner as best player in the biggest-ever World Cup tournament — 48 teams playing 104 matches in three countries. Goalkeeper Unai Simón won the Golden Glove after conceding just one goal during Spain’s eight games and 19-year-old Pau Cubarsí was named the tournament’s best young player. The only honor Spain didn’t win, the Golden Boot, went to France’s Kylian Mbappé, whose 10 goals in the tournament edged out the eight scored by Argentina’s Leonel Messi.

Who said what
Spain was so good, not even an “absolute icon” like Messi “had any answers” amid its “airtight defense,” The Associated Press said. Messi “has put in some of the great World Cup performances,” The Athletic said, but his final international match “was not even within a million miles of being one of them,” and “Argentina had nothing else.” Spain clearly showed “the kind of dominance worthy of a World Cup champion,” and Argentina “had no business winning a second consecutive title,” Nancy Armour said at USA Today. It didn’t “get off a single shot — not just a shot on goal, a shot of any kind — until stoppage time of the second overtime period,” and “only a near-perfect game” by Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez “kept this from being a laugher.”

What next?
President Donald Trump, who was “loudly booed as he entered the field after the match” to hand out medals, “is already seeking an opportunity to host” the next World Cup, The Washington Post said. But the 2030 men’s tournament “will be primarily co-hosted by Morocco, Portugal and Spain, and Saudi Arabia is widely expected to host the 2034 competition.” Next year’s Women’s World Cup is in Brazil.

What happened
U.S. Marshals arrested controversial “manosphere” influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate in Florida on Saturday after British prosecutors said they had filed 38 new criminal charges against the brothers. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said the Tates (pictured above), who are dual U.S.-British citizens, now face a total of 59 charges, including rape, assault, sex trafficking and offenses relating to “indecent images of a child.” They were arrested “pursuant to extradition proceedings,” a U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson told NPR yesterday.

Who said what
The arrest of the Tate brothers, “whose social media empire” promotes “wealth, male dominance and misogyny,” puts the U.S. “at the center of an international legal saga,” The Associated Press said. In 2024, British police “secured European arrest warrants for the pair to have them returned from Romania, where they are based and are under criminal investigation,” the BBC said. But after what Romania said was intervention from the Trump administration, the Tates were allowed to fly to Florida last year.

What next?
The brothers are expected to appear before a magistrate judge in Miami today. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make the “ultimate decision” about whether to order their extradition, the AP said, but the State Department has “granted nearly every British request since ratifying a strengthened extradition treaty in 2007.”

A succession of contenders has tried to topple Benjamin Netanyahu, who has led Israel almost uninterrupted since 2009. But now a “gruff” retired general whose youngest son and two nephews died during Israel’s Gaza invasion following the Oct. 7 attacks is “coming for” the veteran prime minister, said The Telegraph. Gadi Eisenkot has been described as a “stocky newcomer“ and “teddy bear with a steel spine.” And if the pundits and polls are correct, he could also be prime minister by the end of October.

Eisenkot (pictured above) was “born into the Israeli working class” from which the right-wing Likud Party has “traditionally garnered so much support,” said The Telegraph. He joined the military as a private in the Golani infantry brigade and became Israel’s most senior officer, the chief of the general staff. After retiring from the military, Eisenkot entered politics in 2022 and briefly held a role in Netanyahu’s coalition before forming his own party, Yashar, which means “honest” in Hebrew.

Eisenkot “emerged as the most dangerous challenger” to the prime minister after Yashar became the largest party in the opposition bloc hoping to replace Netanyahu in Oct. 27 elections, said The Telegraph. He holds only a razor-thin lead in the polls, but commentators “increasingly believe” Eisenkot “could be the one” to break Netanyahu’s “voodoo-like grip” on the premiership.

The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party could also be “open” to joining a government led by Eisenkot, said The Jerusalem Post. “We are in a secular country,” said Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the spiritual leader of Shas and an influential figure in Israeli politics, in a filmed speech. There’s “no chance” Netanyahu will “repent,” but “Eisenkot might repent.”