With the exception of Canada’s triumph in 2000, no other team has ever broken the U.S.-Mexico duopoly and the two pre-tournament favorites will renew their rivalry at Soldier Field in Chicago on Sunday night. It is hard to know what to make of both sides, who have impressed and underwhelmed in equal measure on their way to the final. The U.S. were efficient but unspectacular during the group stages, were largely outplayed by Curacao in the quarterfinals and survived a scare to beat Jamaica 3-1 in the last four....

Though there was all the reacting-from-home awkwardness you might expect, some funny and touching moments were still to be had from the ceremony. Here are some of the high and low points of the night from hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as well as Daniel Kaluuya, Jane Fonda, and director Lee Isaac Chung’s adorable young daughter. The best and worst quotes from the Golden Globes 2021 “The Golden Globes are awards given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....

In a clip posted to TikTok by owner Chris (@adventuringwithnala) on July 7, Nala the golden retriever can be seen excitedly dashing about on the sand, playing fetch with her owner, and running alongside the waves. Users couldn’t get enough of the playful pup, with the TikTok post receiving 2.7 million likes and almost 40,000 shares at the time of writing. Considering retrievers’ well-documented love of water, it’s no surprise that Nala went wild for the beach....

The video shared from the TikTok account @thegoldenellie begins with the owner tucking herself into the storage space of a couch and closing it shut. Later, a golden retriever was seen hopping onto the sofa and pacing in circles, as a message overlaid on the video read: “It smells like she’s [right] here but she’s not.” The dog was later seen investigating different spots in the room with its nose, including the bottom of the sofa, as subsequent messages overlaid on the video read: “The couch [ate] her” and “keep breathing....

Chandler the dog was filmed by his owner Sydney Paige flicking a pile of clothes off the couch with his paw in order to make space for him to enjoy a dog chew in peace and comfort. But while such callous disregard of his human’s housework might have landed him with an extended stay in the doghouse, viewers on social media were left in stitches over his behavior. At the time of writing, footage of Chandler flicking the laundry to the floor has been watched an astonishing 7....

MORE: Rory McIlroy’s wife now holds his Twitter password The video begins with the golfer and the moose in an intense staring contest, but quickly evolves into a terrifying chase across the course. When golf and the animal kingdom do combine, we’re just glad someone is filming, like when this golfer got chased by a kangaroo. WARNING: Language in the video is NSFW. If I had to choose which animal to get chased by, I’d probably take my chances with the moose — that kangaroo looks crazy fast....

One, three points had to be obtained in their first match against Saudi Arabia. Two, Aleksandr Golovin was going to have to show up. And on those two counts things went exceptionally well for the coach Stanislav Cherchesov and his team. There’s dampening down expectations and then there’s dragging a team’s expectations so low that avoiding a hammering feels like a result. Russian media – and indeed foreign observers – built up to this World Cup by describing the national team as the worst iteration in history and destined for the wooden spoon....

Gonzalez will instead be working with returning cast members James Brown, Bill Cowher and Boomer Esiason. Sean McManus, CBS Sports' chairman, beamed about getting Gonzo fresh off his final year with the Atlanta Falcons. “Having just stepped off the playing field, Tony brings a fresh and insightful perspective,” McManus said in a statement. “As a future Hall of Famer, we are excited for him to share his knowledge, experiences and opinions with our viewers....

Of course, baseball players don’t wear sneakers, and the market for cleats is small, because unlike Air Jordans, you can’t wear them to the office. But the real issue is baseball’s increasingly tenuous hold on the popular imagination. “There’s so much lack of interest in baseball that we discuss the lack of interest almost every week on the show,” says ABC and ESPN sportscaster Dick Schapp. The 28 majorleague teams have failed to produce a single figure with the nationwide credibility to endorse soda pop, let alone a product of some complexity, like fax machines....

But while we behold the latest example of the NFL’s habitual line-stepping, behold this: On the single biggest player issue of the 2016 season — the one some people swear is driving fans away from the game — the NFL has backed off and given the players their space. MORE: National anthem protests around sports The NFL’s official stance on player protests during the national anthem is the same in Week 5 as it was in preseason Week 3, when Colin Kaepernick lit the original fuse....

The incident was first reported by Thomas G. Martin, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami Sector. “Over the weekend, a Good Samaritan discovered over 1 million dollars in cocaine floating at sea near the Florida Keys,” Martin said tweeted Monday. “The package contained nearly 69 lbs. of cocaine.” The Miami Herald reported that the drugs were found by a boater near the island of Islamorada in the upper Florida Keys....

Facebook and Google — ranked 7th and 8th respectively in 2019 — have been bumped out of the leading list for the upcoming year. Facebook now ranks at #23, while Google ranks #11 for 2020. Both companies espouse luxuries fit for a 21st-century workplace, and have the capital to back it up: Giant corporate compounds, open floor plans, yoga rooms and nap areas. So who took their spots? Companies that weren’t previously ranked in the top 10 but now do include: HubSpot, DocuSign, Sammons Financial Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Intuitive Surgical, Ultimate Software and VIPKid....

The Google Doodle was first posted during Computer Science Education Week to honor the 50th anniversary of Logo, the first coding language designed for children. The throwback doodle is the first of a series—of potentially 10—in which Google will look back at some of the most popular interactive doodles. Google Doodle captioned today’s doodle: “As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home....

Before the fix, Google Translate did not predict users entering the word were attempting to translate the phrase “planning to plant flowers” or “planning to visit the park.” Instead, it made only one suggestion as to what phrase the user was entering: “Planning to blow up the car.” Learning of the suggested phrase from Newsweek, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, called on Google to remove it Wednesday, saying it reinforces negative stereotypes....

Gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon, who is running against Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer, threw out the strange offer after proposing a statewide ban on “pornographic” books in K-12 schools on Tuesday. Although Dixon did not specify which books she would ban, she said, “I would take a look at the books that we are seeing that are pornographic and make a decision on what we do to make sure that we are not having children reading pornographic—or having a teacher read—pornographic material to children or a child in school....

The Senate is currently examining Saule Omarova’s nomination for the role. Many Republicans are scrutinizing her upbringing in the former Soviet Union and academic papers she wrote. One senator, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, has taken things one step further by claiming she has a socialist agenda. During the Senate hearing for her new role, he said, “taken in totality, her ideas do amount to a socialist manifesto for American financial services....

The namesake founder of Eshelman Ventures LLC, a private health-care investment company, is one of countless conservative donors who piled hundreds of millions of dollars into legal efforts aimed at overturning President Joe Biden’s election victory. Eshelman has filed two lawsuits, one in Texas state court and another in federal court (later withdrawn), that accuse True the Vote of not spending his total donation of $2.5 million for “election integrity” efforts....

“They’re crazy ideas,” Justice said during his Wednesday coronavirus briefing. “The same very people that are saying that are carrying their cell phones around!” Justice’s state is the fourth-least vaccinated state amongst all 50 states, according to The New York Times. “For God’s sakes a livin’, how difficult is this to understand?” Justice said Wednesday of anti-vaccination advocates. “Why in the world do we have to come up with these crazy ideas—and they’re crazy ideas—that the vaccine’s got something in it and it’s tracing people wherever they go?...

Retired four-star General Michael Hayden, who was nominated in 2006 by former GOP President George W. Bush to be the CIA director, posted his concern about Republicans to Twitter on Wednesday. He re-tweeted a post from Edward Luce, an associate editor of Financial Times. “I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans....