England’s meeting with Norway in the World Cup quarter-final revives memories a commentary more famous than their rivalry.

England’s meeting with Norway in the World Cup quarter-final revives memories of a commentary more famous than their rivalry.

OK, I’m gonna need to see video footage of this ASAP.

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BANGKOK (AP) — Oil prices surged nearly 6% after U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the interim agreement with Iran is “over,” though he will allow talks to continue.

Trump made the comments following U.S. strikes on Iran in reaction to attacks on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The price of Brent crude oil jumped 5.6% to more than $78 a barrel. U.S. benchmark crude surged 5.8% to $74.55 a barrel.

“For me, I think it’s over,” Trump responded when asked about the status of the ceasefire. “It’s just a waste of time dealing with them,” he said on the sidelines of the two-day NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.

Crude prices had declined recently from spikes well above $100 a barrel to around the levels they were at before the war with Iran began in late February.

Iran and the United States agreed as part of their interim deal on ending the war to allow ships to pass through the strait without paying charges for 60 days. But Tehran has insisted it must control the vessels’ routes and vowed to later charge fees for passage. That would upend decades of practice in the waterway. The ships attacked Tuesday all appeared to be using a route close to Oman’s shore, rather than one ordered by Tehran.

The upsets for oil markets have coincided with waves of worries that the craze for artificial intelligence-related shares has pushed prices past the amount of gains in productivity and profits likely to result from massive investments in computer chip production capacity and data centers.

“As such, geopolitical headlines will likely determine market sentiment over the coming hours. A further deterioration in the situation could weigh further on equity valuations along with rising stress in technology,” Ipek Ozkardeskaya of Swissquote said in a commentary.

In share trading, Germany’s DAX shed 1.1% to 25,191.69 and the CAC 40 in Paris gave up 0.9% to 8,358.67. Britain’s FTSE 100 slid 0.8% to 10,579.09.

The future for the S&P 500 edged 0.1% lower and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.4%.

In Asian trading, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 2.1% to 66,819.05, while the Kospi in South Korea shed 5.4%, to 7,246.79.

The South Korean index has soared and then fallen back, briefly surpassing the 9,000 level last month and then succumbing to bouts of heavy selling of big AI-related tech shares like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Samsung fell 6.3% early Wednesday after dropping about 7% the day before. SK Hynix shed early gains to drop 5.7%.

Taiwan’s Taiex rose 0.6%.

In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng rose 3% to 24,193.56.

Hong Kong traded shares of Chinese AI model startup Zhipu, known also as Z.ai and traded as Knowledge Atlas Technology, rose nearly 14% on Wednesday.

A six-month lock up period for “cornerstone” investors after its $558 million trading debut in Hong Kong in early January expires this week. State-owned China National Radio reported late Tuesday that nearly 70% of Zhipu’s cornerstone investors are committed to stay on, despite previous worries that the lock up period expiration could trigger a sell-off of shares. Zhipu’s share price has risen more than 1,300% since its January trading debut in Hong Kong.

The Shanghai Composite index declined 0.5% to 3,970.88.

Elsewhere in Asia, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 shed 0.2% to 8,785.10, while India’s Sensex lost 0.7%.

On Tuesday, the roller-coaster ride for AI stocks whipped back down, dragging Wall Street lower.

The S&P 500 fell 0.4%, though the majority of stocks within the index rose.

The drops for stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry dragged the Nasdaq composite 1.2% lower, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.2%.

Advanced Micro Devices sank 6.5% and Intel shed 9.7%. Micron Technology lost 4.7%.

SpaceX, which owns the xAI business, fell 6.8% in its first day of trading after it was included in the Nasdaq 100 index.

In other trading early Wednesday, the U.S. dollar rose to 162.26 Japanese yen from 162.11 yen. The euro climbed to $1.1426 from $1.1414.

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A GE Appliances plant in rural northwest Georgia was short hundreds of workers amid COVID-19. A flexible work option where some workers can sign up for shifts through an app has eased the pain.

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With a number of salacious accusations and an Ethics Committee investigation swirling, Rep. Cory Mills can rightly be described as an embattled congressman. But a new, far-less-scandalous accusation now threatens to take Mills off the ballot in November: bad paperwork.

One of Mills’ Republican opponents, Michael Johnson, recently filed a formal legal complaint alleging Mills improperly notarized his candidate documents — and Johnson wants a judge to strike his fellow Republican from the Florida primary ballot.

The complaint centers on an accusation that Mills didn’t have his candidate forms notarized in Florida. Instead, the complaint alleges that Mills was in Washington, D.C., when he completed the documents, using fellow Florida Republican Rep. Greg Steube’s chief of staff, Alejandro Blair — who’s a Florida notary — to verify the paperwork.

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The complaint notes that Blair isn’t a notary in D.C. And Blair’s notary stamp, which appears on the candidate form attached to the complaint, says he’s licensed in Florida.

Had Mills used a D.C. notary while in D.C., he could have submitted the paperwork. But under Florida law, the notary must authorize the documents in the state they’re licensed to practice.

Mills had his paperwork notarized on June 4, 2026. And evidence suggests he was on Capitol grounds throughout that day.

The House Armed Services Committee — of which Mills is a member — marked up its version of the annual defense policy bill on June 4. It’s generally considered the biggest legislative day for the panel, and according to a log of the markup, Mills was present for committee votes, which started just before 2:10 p.m. and ended around midnight.

Mills also voted on the House floor on June 4, with seven recorded votes taking place between 4:45 p.m. and just after 8 p.m. Mills can even be seen in C-SPAN footage on the House floor.

Making the potential window for travel even narrower, Mills also voted on the House floor on the evening of June 3. But according to his candidate paperwork, Mills signed the documents — and had them notarized by Blair — in Florida on June 4.

In his complaint, Johnson alleges that Mills did not “personally take and subscribe the oath in the required manner,” arguing that Mills may have actually used an “autopen, mechanical signature device, or other non-personal means.”

Johnson says these issues mean Mills is not “lawfully qualified as a candidate.”

“This is just another example of Cory Mills deceiving the voters of this congressional district,” Johnson told MS NOW on Tuesday.

“As we all know, there’s an open House Ethics investigation regarding potential financial violations, sexual misconduct, business issues, stolen valor, and misuse of his office,” Johnson continued. “Everyone in this district encourages Cory Mills to resign. It’d be an ironic end if the thing that takes him down is a paperwork error.”

Neither Mills nor Blair responded to multiple requests for comment on Tuesday.

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The complaint comes ahead of Florida’s primary day, August 18, when Johnson and two other Republicans are looking to knock out Mills as the GOP nominee for Florida’s 7th congressional district. 

But the ballot complaint against Mills is just the latest controversy to his tenure on Capitol Hill.

The Office of Congressional Conduct — a nonpartisan congressional investigative body — first referred Mills to the House Ethics Committee for investigation in August 2024, finding there was “substantial reason” to believe the Florida Republican violated federal contracting and campaign finance laws and made false statements to the government on his financial disclosures. 

Last November, the Ethics Committee announced it had launched a formal investigation, broadening the scope to additionally include potential misuse of office, unreported gifts on official trips overseas, improper favors, and sexual misconduct — including “dating violence” allegations adjudicated in a restraining order against Mills that a Florida county judge had recently granted to an ex-girlfriend.

Mills has previously denied the allegations against him, including in response to questions from MS NOW while at the Capitol in April.

“I have no open cases, criminal and or civil, anywhere in any state across the country,” Mills said. “I have not been indicted and or accused of any type of financial fraud with regards to federal funds or otherwise.”

“Every case has been closed. I was found innocent with no probable cause. And I’m gonna let the due process fail,” he added.

In May, the Ethics Committee updated the public on the progress of its investigation, saying it had authorized more than 20 subpoenas, collected thousands of documents and contacted dozens of witnesses.

“The [investigative subcommittee] expects to receive additional relevant documents and testimony in the coming weeks and will take all necessary steps to conduct a full and thorough investigation,” the statement added.

Fallon Gallagher and Matt Fuller contributed to this report.

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