A report from 433.fr understands that Bayern Munich partnering up with FC Montfermeil, a club based in the suburbs of Paris.
FC Montfermeil specializes in the development of youth talent and are considered one of the best training clubs in France.
A delegation from Bayern traveled to the Île-de-France region at the beginning of August to finalize the details of the cooperation.
With the deal, the German champions now want to have control over the big talent pool that emerges in the Parisian suburbs.
PSG were also interested in doing a deal with FC Montfermeil, which is why negotiations with the Bavarians dragged on.

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Zohran Mamdani stormed into office brandishing the banner of "affordability," and almost singlehandedly pushed the issue to the center of today's political debate. Of all the charismatic, 34-year-old Mayor's initiatives aimed at lowering living costs, the one that's garnered the most coverage is his proposal to get Gotham into the grocery business.
The city-owned food store initiative looks so radical, even for this avowed democratic socialist, because it puts a city in direct competition versus an immense, entrenched private industry. On his other big "affordability" initiatives, providing free bus service and freezing rent on one million apartments, Mamdani's simply using his regulatory and budget powers in the Democratic mayors' traditional vein of tightening price controls on housing and delivering more freebees
This one's different: It's extraordinarily rare for a municipality to challenge local businesses by starting its own enterprises that aim to do the same thing. The only major example: city-backed companies that battle the Verizons and Comcasts to supply broadband. They're all either struggling, or already flopped. Mamdani's predecessor Eric Adams shuttered the $2 billion fiber-optic buildout started a few years earlier under Mayor Bill de Blasio. As for supermarkets, Chicago last year killed plans for a city-owned emporium as impractical. Kansas City, apparently the only major metro ever to open a taxpayer-funded supermarket, ended the failed foray in early 2025.
Hence, Mamdani's plan would probably reign as the biggest push any city's ever made to launch its own business amid a galaxy of private players. The Mayor's identified a big problem. New Yorkers indeed suffer from extremely high prices for everything from chicken to eggs to milk. The city's riddled with "food desert" neighborhoods where residents often can't find much other than processed items nearby, and must travel 20 minutes or more to reach outlets that offer wide choices of fresh foods at low cost.
But that drastic shortage in the metro that ranks among the world's wealthiest is almost totally self-inflicted. Contrary to Mamdani's claim that "the private market alone has not delivered affordable, full-service grocery options," here's the real rub: A web of antiquated regulations—and one in particular that effectively bans big stores where they're needed most—is blocking major chains from deploying billions of their own capital to open far more of the kinds of giant extravaganzas featuring baseball-field length stretches of checkout lanes that bring far lower stickers to the suburbs just beyond Gotham's borders.

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By Bo Erickson
MARIETTA, Georgia, July 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump rallied supporters in Georgia on Wednesday to press for stricter nationwide voting requirements, leaning into his election-security message that some Republicans worry could hurt them in the state's competitive U.S. Senate race.
Trump's ‌speech in the Atlanta suburbs follows months of attacks on Georgia's election system, which he has criticized since his 2020 loss in the ‌state. So far this year, the president has questioned Georgia's voting system at least nine times during public events and interviews, according to a Reuters review.
In a June podcast, Trump falsely said the 2020 election in Georgia was rigged. Days later, during a telephone rally for a Republican gubernatorial candidate, Trump said: "Our elections are corrupt."
On Wednesday, Trump said some Republican victories in the state were "not going to be that easy with the cheating and everything else going on."

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TAMPA, Fla. – Steve Sarkisian broke some news Thursday at the SEC's media days when he announced that blue-chip defensive back recruit John Meredith reclassified from the 2027 class to 2026 and will join Texas football for the upcoming football season.
Meredith, a 6-foot-2, 188-pound cornerback, was ranked as the No. 2 overall prospect in the nation for 2027, per 247 Sports. He played last season at Trinity High School in the Fort Worth suburbs but tried to transfer to defending state champion North Crowley in the offseason. Earlier this month, the UIL declared Meredith ineligible at North Crowley but said he could play at Trinity.
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When Mark Cuban sold his majority stake of the Dallas Mavericks in 2023, he did so with the belief that he'd still have a say in business operations and control over basketball decisions.
Two-plus years later, the Mavericks have made drastic changes to both the business and the basketball team, most notably the controversial trade of Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Cuban says that those decisions were made without his input and he feels shut out of the operation. And he's taking his escalating dispute with majority owners Patrick Dumont and Miriam Adelson to court.
Per the Dallas Morning News, Cuban filed a petition this week in Dallas County accusing Dumont of engaging in "adversarial business practices."
At issue, among other things: Dumont's decision to hand basketball control from Cuban to former general manager Nico Harrison and the prospect of moving the team from the American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas to a site near the former Valley View Mall in the suburbs north of the city.

Dakar, Senegal – The silence came before kickoff. Not from fear but anticipation, a nation holding its breath.
Across Dakar, radios crackled from open windows. Men gathered shoulder to shoulder in cafes, their eyes fixed on flickering television screens. Families crowded into living rooms. Friends leaned over phones, tea growing cold as conversation gave way to concentration.
The city’s usual rhythm horns, its markets, its arguments, its laughter – did not disappear. It simply yielded to something larger.
Senegal were in the first knockout round of the World Cup, playing against Belgium.
On the 25th-minute mark of the game, the boy from the suburbs of Dakar, Habib Diarra, delivered the nation from its anxiety, sweeping a loose ball beyond the Belgian goalkeeper: 1-0 to Senegal.

America's wealthiest suburbs are concentrated in a handful of places — and one New York town has now topped the list three years running.
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The Chicago Bears' Board of Directors voted Thursday to advance the stadium development in Hammond, Indiana, the team said Friday.
The exact site will still be selected.
This is this first time that the Bears' board has voted on any stadium site.
"There is more work to do but barring anything very strange, it's a done deal," one ESPN source said.
Chicago Bears brass said in a statement, "Yesterday, the Chicago Bears Board of Directors met and voted to advance our stadium development project in Hammond, Indiana, with the exact site to be selected. We believe a world-class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region, connecting Northwest Indiana to the South Side of Chicago through the Loop and across neighborhoods and suburbs stretching north of the city. It will bring Chicagoland together and deliver new opportunities to its residents and businesses."

The Chicago Bears have officially made up their minds to leave the land of Lincoln for Hammond, Indiana, after local lawmakers failed to pass a bill incentivizing the team to stay.
The team announced the plan Friday, saying the board for the Bears voted on the move the day before.
Illinois lawmakers say the deal isn't done yet, however.
The team's decision comes after Indiana lawmakers courted the team by passing a framework to help finance a new stadium.
"We believe a world-class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region, connecting Northwest Indiana to the South Side of Chicago through the Loop and across neighborhoods and suburbs stretching north of the city," the Bears said in a statement. "It will bring Chicagoland together and deliver new opportunities to its residents and businesses."

Dylan Dreyer reflected on moving out of her New York City apartment, sharing emotional moments from her family's last day there
The Today show meteorologist has been open about her divorce from Brian Fichera, emphasizing their commitment to co-parenting their three sons
Dreyer also shared how moving to the suburbs has brought joy and new experiences for her and her children
Dylan Dreyer is reflecting on moving out of her New York City apartment.
On the Thursday, June 4 episode of her The Parent Chat podcast, the Today show co-host opened up about what it was like to make the move last fall.

California Democrats persuaded voters to let them redraw the state's congressional map so the party could potentially gain five seats in the U.S. House to counter GOP redistricting in Texas. Tuesday’s primary will be the first indication of whether that will pay off.
The state’s unusual primary system, in which the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party, means Democrats have a chance of effectively missing out on a pickup in the San Diego suburbs, where Republican Rep. Darrell Issa's district was redrawn to give it a slight Democratic lean.
Issa retired, and a Republican San Diego County supervisor, Jim Desmond, stepped in to run. So did an avalanche of nine Democrats — so many that some fear the Democratic vote will be split among them, leaving Desmond and the only other GOP candidate, Jim O’Neil, as the top vote-getters. Under that scenario, Democrats would be locked out of the November general election.
“After millions of dollars and a nationwide effort to redraw these districts in response to Texas, Democrats being shut out would be a nightmare,” said Ammar Campa-Najjar, a former Obama administration official who is one of the Democrats running.
California has been the bright spot for Democrats in a redistricting war kicked off by President Donald Trump to help his party retain control of the House. After Texas redrew its map to make as many as five more seats winnable for the GOP, California voters allowed Democrats to suspend their state’s own independent redistricting commission and create a new map in retaliation.

Mumbai Rains-Weather Forecast: Heavy to Very Heavy Rainfall Likely at Isolated Places in City and Suburbs Today, Says BMC

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George Wendt was an old-school Chicago fan from Beverly who grew up watching the Bears, White Sox and Notre Dame football, the sports pyramid of almost every kid on the South Side or in the south suburbs.