The Boston Marathon returns Monday for its 130th edition, welcoming more than 30,000 participants, including a handful of celebrities and notable figures.
The annual 26.2-mile race, which winds through eight Massachusetts cities and towns, will welcome back several high-profile figures such as The Bachelor’s Matt James and retired NASA astronaut Suni Williams, while also marking the debut of others, including former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton.
One major star that spectators will not spot is British pop superstar Harry Styles, who famously ran two marathons last year under the alias Sted Sarandos. Despite finishing the 2025 Berlin Marathon with an impressive qualifying time of 2:59:13, it seems the former One Direction singer, 32, is giving his body a break.
First held in 1897, the Boston Marathon is the oldest of the six World Marathon Majors, which include New York City, London, Tokyo, Berlin and Chicago. It is the only one that does not offer a general lottery, instead requiring participants to qualify through strict time standards based on age group. It does, however, offer a limited number of invitational and charity entries.
Here are all the celebrities and notable figures set to run the 2026 Boston Marathon.
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former presdient Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, will make her Boston Marathon debut after earning a qualifying time at the 2025 NYC Marathon (Getty Images for National Alliance for Eating Disorders)
Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton, 46, is no stranger to marathons, having run multiple New York City races. On Monday, Clinton, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will run her first Boston Marathon after earning a qualifying time of 3:44:22 at the 2025 NYC Marathon — 38 seconds under the qualifying standard for her age group.
Matt James
‘The Bachelor’ star Matt James will return for his third Boston Marathon (Getty Images for Amazon)
Matt James, The Bachelor’s first Black male lead, is continuing his yearly marathon streak. The 34-year-old, who led season 25 of the hit dating show in 2021, ran his first New York City marathon later that year. He has since run the challenging course three more times and added the Boston Marathon to his list of running accomplishments in 2022 and 2025.
Bryan Arenales
‘Love Island’ champion Bryan Arenales will make his Boston Marathon debut after running his first marathon in November (Getty Images for EA Sports)
Fellow reality star Bryan Arenales, who won season seven of Love Island USAlast summer, is preparing to make his Boston Marathon debut this year. He ran his first marathon in Miami in February 2025, followed by both the Jersey City and New York City marathons later that fall.
Zdeno Chára
Former Boston Bruins hockey player Zdeno Chara will run his third Boston Marathon in four years (Getty Images)
Former NHL defenceman and Boston Bruins legend Zdeno Chára will make his third Boston Marathon appearance in three years. The Slovakian hockey player, 49, first ran Boston in 2023 and 2024. He was signed up for the 2025 race as well, but was forced to withdraw after sustaining an undisclosed injury.
Suni Williams
Retired NASA astronaut Suni Williams has participated in the Boston Marathon four times, including one run in space (Getty Images)
Months after retiring as a NASA astronaut, Suni Williams will run her first Boston Marathon (on Earth). The 60-year-old former Navy captain previously participated in the 2007 event on a treadmill in space. She also ran a portion of the course barefoot as an unofficial participant in the 1980s when she was just 17.
Jeff DaRosa
Dropkick Murphys’ multi-instrumentalist Jeff DaRosa will run in support of the Claddagh Fund (Getty)
Multi-instrumentalist Jeff DaRosa of the Boston-founded Celtic punk band the Dropkick Murphys will run his first Boston Marathon on Monday. The musician, 43, turned to running after getting sober. He ran his first marathon in 2024 in Arizona. He will run his second marathon in support of his bandmate Ken Casey’s charity, the Claddagh Fund.
Chris Herren
Former NBA player Chris Herren will make his second Boston Marathon appearance in support of his non-profit, Herren Project (Getty Images)
More than 10 years after his Boston Marathon debut in 2014, former Boston Celtics player Chris Herren will make his return to the course, alongside his wife, Heather. This time around, the former NBA player and recovering addict, 50, will be running on behalf of his non-profit, the Herren Project, which provides recovery addiction resources.
Kristine Lilly
Retired soccer star Kristine Lilly made her Boston Marathon debut in 2012 (WireImage)
Retired soccer star Kristine Lilly will once again run the Boston Marathon on behalf of Mia Hamm Foundation, a charity founded by one of her former teammates to help raise funds for families in need of marrow or cord blood transplants. The 54-year-old athlete, widely considered to be one of the greatest women’s soccer players of all time, first ran the marathon in 2012 for the Children’s Hospital Boston.
MADRID — Venezuela’s exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado drew several thousand supporters Saturday to a rally in Madrid, where the Nobel laureate declined a meeting with Spain’s progressive Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on a multicountry European tour.
Earlier this year, she presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize.
“What happened in the last few hours at the meeting (Sánchez) held in Barcelona with several leaders and political figures from different countries demonstrates why such a meeting was not advisable,” Machado told reporters Saturday.
Machado insisted at an earlier event she will be returning to Venezuela, but declined to say when, or how, and acknowledged the challenges implicit in a return to her country.
Her multistop European tour, during which she met with the leaders of France, Italy and the Netherlands, comes while Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez has continued in her temporary role, exceeding the 90-day limit initially imposed on it, while the U.S. government has lifted some sanctions against her.
She said was in permanent contact with officials in the Trump administration and trusted Washington’s phased process in Venezuela since Maduro’s removal.
“There is one leader in the world, one head of state, who has risked the lives of his country’s citizens for the freedom of Venezuela. And that is Donald Trump,” Machado said, referring to the U.S. military operation in January.
The opposition leader drew a huge crowd in the Spanish capital’s Puerta del Sol, standing beside Madrid’s conservative regional leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso, one of Sánchez’s loudest critics who feted her earlier in the day.
Some 600,000 Venezuelans live in Spain, home to the largest population outside the Americas. Many fled political persecution and violence, but also the country’s collapsing economy. A majority live in the capital, Madrid.
Twenty-seven-year-old Grehlsy Peñuela, a Venezuelan migrant in Spain who attended Saturday’s rally, said she still placed her hopes for her country in Machado and her eventual return to Caracas.
Peñuela, who held signs with the faces of her two cousins she said remain incarcerated in Caracas as political prisoners, would consider returning to Venezuela only under one condition.
“That the current government completely steps down,” she said.
Ryan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.”
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We’ve reached the point of the Premier League season where things start to look more like a knockout competition. There are only so many games remaining, and things such as systems, cohesion and managerial decisions don’t matter as much as they do over the course of the whole year. From here, individual brilliance — a great save, a perfect pass, a fantastic finish — takes on an outsize role in determining how things will shake out.
That’s true at the top of the table, where the gap might only be three points (and a game in hand) for Manchester City up to Arsenal if Pep Guardiola’s side win their head-to-head this weekend. It’s definitely true in the Champions League race, where eight points separate third from eighth. And it’s clearly true at the bottom, where 18th-place Tottenham trail 17th-place West Ham by two points and 16th-place Nottingham Forest by three.
So, what players will have the biggest say in how things go from now until the end of the season? We’ve got another edition of ESPN’s Premier League Top 50 to answer that exact question.
How we rank, and who isn’t eligible
I say this every time, but ranking players with any degree of confidence is impossible. And if I really just wanted to identify the true talent of every Premier League player, I’d probably defer to the market, which means the majority of the list would be made up of players from all the best teams.
But I’d rather reward a star at Brentford instead of a squad player at Arsenal, so the rankings are intended to be something of a balance between the two: your talent in a vacuum and how much value you’ve actually provided so far this season. The rankings are definitely weighted toward attackers, and attackers are the highest-paid players in the world because they’re the most important players in the world, but I’m using a midfielder who produces like an attacker, or a defender who does things that no one else at his position can do, as they will also grade out highly.
In each edition, anyone who is out with a long-term injury will also be removed from the list. So Hugo Ekitike — who would’ve been pushing toward the top 10 but just ruptured his right Achilles — isn’t on the list. All injuries are awful, but this one was particularly brutal.
All right, enough throat-clearing. Onto the list!
He’s experiencing one of the biggest late-career drop-offs we’ve ever seen from one year to the next. And despite that, among players with at least 1,500 minutes played this season, only Erling Haaland, Hugo Ekitike, Bruno Fernandes and Bukayo Saka are generating more non-penalty expected goals+assists per 90 minutes.
Goalkeeping performance is a notoriously volatile thing to measure. What Gradient Sports found is that the percentage of mistakes a keeper makes on shots faced is the most stable number from season to season. It measures this through its grading system, and every time a keeper receives a negative grade, it’s considered a mistake.
Verbruggen has only made a mistake on 1.5% of the shots he has faced this season — the second-best mark in the Premier League.
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Laurens: Top clubs will want Andoni Iraola this summer
Julien Laurens explains why Andoni Iraola has chosen now to leave Bournemouth and what club he could end up at in the summer.
You know how there are certain positions under certain managers or clubs that just seem to produce? Strikers at Eintracht Frankfurt, attacking midfielders under Gian Piero Gasperini, every attacker who has ever played for Hansi Flick and now, maybe center backs for Andoni Iraola?
Last year, Dean Huijsen and Illia Zabarnyi played well enough to secure moves to Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain, respectively, and now Senesi is having a kind of season I’m not sure I’ve really seen before. He’s one of the best attacking passers in the Premier League despite playing as a center back.
Now, ball-playing center backs have always been a thing, and they tend to be cornerstones of all the best teams in the world. But Senesi isn’t just playing line-breaking passes into the feet of his midfielders. No, he is creating opportunities like he is an attacking midfielder. And I don’t mean this hyperbolically.
If we look at the expected possession value created from open-play passes this season — in other words, how much your passes have increased your team’s chances of scoring a goal — then there are seven players who have generated at least five goals worth of value: Jérémy Doku, Adam Wharton, Cody Gakpo, Morgan Rogers, Pedro Neto and Senesi. Five attackers, one incredibly aggressive midfielder and one central defender.
Senesi’s contract expires after the season. It’ll be fascinating to see if someone recognizes this special skill set and figures out a way to use it.
Rogers and Wirtz don’t look that similar in how they move across the field or even stand still. But I think these two are quite similar players.
Below is a plot of what I’m calling “good passes” and “good receptions.” These are passes made or received that increased the team’s expected possession value by somewhere between 1% and 9%. Increasing xPV by 10% or more with a single action is rare, so we can think about what we’re seeing here as players who consistently add marginal value to possessions.
Rogers and Wirtz are alone at the top of both metrics. It’s funny because even though we’re quantifying it, I’d call this a kind of version of hidden value. It’s not goals and assists or even expected goals and assists, but neither player is an under-the-radar prospect. Wirtz is the second-most-expensive player in the history of the Premier League, and Rogers burst into the wider consciousness this season with all the goals he was scoring.
The promise for each player, then — as they’re both still in their pre-prime years — is that they keep doing all these little things and they start to create and score more goals.
Adam Wharton is the Marcos Senesi of midfielders. I know if you throw enough chimpanzees behind a typewriter, you’ll get “War and Peace” or whatever, but I’m pretty sure I’m the first person to say those eight words together.
I mean, look at this!
Crystal Palace play a chaotic style that encourages Wharton to play aggressive passes all game, but those grades wouldn’t be so high if he wasn’t constantly making the big plays. His security under pressure and his defensive ability are the big question marks for whomever signs him, but he’s so good with the ball at his feet — in pretty much any situation — that it might even be worth it for the biggest clubs in the world to build their midfields around his passing and do whatever else they need to do to cover up his deficiencies.
If João Pedro played a different sport with the same name as the one he’s currently paid millions of dollars to play, then we would hear commentators saying the same thing every Sunday: This João Pedro guy? He’s just a FOOTBALL player.
What the heck are they talking about? NFL commentators, yes, will frequently refer to a football player as “a football player” as a means of describing what type of football player that football player is. They are not just citing biographical details, and their brains are not short-circuiting. What they mean — as I’ve gleaned from hearing the phrase hundreds of times now — is that these “football players” don’t necessarily have any flashy attributes to their games, but that they tend to do all of the little things right. Their innate understanding and technical skill sets make it seem like they were almost born to play football.
I feel the same way about João Pedro, who doesn’t stand out in any particular way. He’s not a goal-scoring striker. He’s not a creative midfielder. He’s not a dribbling winger. But he can score goals, he can press, he can defend one-on-one, he can receive passes under pressure, he can make the necessary passes, and he can win headers. He is, quite simply, a football player.
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Burley: Liverpool didn’t get embarrassed by PSG
Steve Nicol and Craig Burley react to Liverpool’s Champions League exit vs. PSG.
Earlier this week I wrote about how Tottenham’s obsession with acquiring athletic players created a massive blind spot in their team-building approach. The immediate result: a team where no one can pass. The longer-term result: a team that’s incredibly expensive and would be relegated if the season ended today.
Part of the issue, and something I didn’t touch on much in the piece, is that being fast and being good at passing have something of a negative relationship. Perhaps when you’re younger and fast, you don’t need to worry about being a good passer since you’re always running by everyone. And maybe great passers at a young age never really need to develop speed because, well, the ball moves faster than the man. Or maybe the power needed for high-speed running actively works against the subtle movements needed to place a pass.
Anyway, all this is to say that players such as Dominik Szoboszlai are incredibly rare. He’s the only player in the Premier League who ranks in the top 30 both for the maximum speed he has reached in a match this season and for his passing grade.
7. Jérémy Doku, attacking midfielder, Manchester City
6. Rayan Cherki, attacking midfielder, Manchester City
Here’s how everyone in the Premier League stacks up, according to open-play expected assists. In other words, who is creating the greatest combined quantity and quality of shots for their teammates:
The main piece of context you need to better understand this chart is that eight of these 10 players have played at least 2,000 minutes in the Premier League this season. The other two haven’t even reached the 1,400-minute mark, and those two players play for the same time: Manchester City’s Rayan Cherki and Jérémy Doku.
5. Bukayo Saka, winger, Arsenal
You could probably say this is the first season of stagnation or regression in a career that has pretty much been on an upward trajectory from the moment Unai Emery started playing Bukayo Saka at left back. He made a leap two seasons ago up into the star level of goal creation, averaging around 0.7 non-penalty expected goals+assists per 90 minutes across 2023-24 and 2025-26.
This season, he has dropped back down 0.54, though some of that can be attributed to the league-wide trend where almost all individual attacking performance is down. And some of it is because of the issues with how Arsenal were built: There’s very little creative passing to get him the ball, especially when Martin Ødegaard is injured, and then their new starting striker, Viktor Gyökeres, just isn’t very good.
There was a world where Saka developed into the kind of attacker who would thrive despite unfavorable context, but he’s still the best attacker on the team that is still favored to win the Premier League. And even if he’s not scoring and creating, he’s always doing a little bit of everything else, too.
Last week, Gradient released what it is calling “overall grades.” It looks at each position, determines what the main requirements for that position are, weighs its various grades for each player across those facets and then puts it all together to come up with a single metric to assess player performance. Obviously, there is no one true number to assess player performance (and it knows this), but it’s still a useful exercise.
If you’ve read this specific column before, you know that I write the same thing about Declan Rice every time. Mainly: He’s good at everything. Well, now I have another number to back up that claim. He’s currently Gradient’s highest-graded player in the Premier League, at an 89.8 out of 100.
If you want to be bullish on Arsenal holding off City’s looming title challenge, then take a look at this chart:
That’s how it looks when you compare the non-penalty xG for each five-game bucket of his season: Games One to Five, Two to Six and on and on. He has been a below 0.5 xG player for all of 2026. He’s averaging 0.72 xG per game for his City career.
If you want to be bullish on City catching Arsenal, then, well, Manchester City have rounded into form and started to close the gap despite the best per-game goal scorer in Premier League history going through his least-productive stretch since he came to England. This City team simply hasn’t been as good as the other City teams that have caught Arsenal, but if Erling Haaland starts playing like Erling Haaland again, then they could easily win their last seven matches.
1. Bruno Fernandes, attacking midfielder, Manchester United
He might set the assist record. He leads the league in expected assists. He leads the league — by a massive margin — in through balls completed. He’s second behind Haaland in combined non-penalty goals+assists, and among players with at least 20 starts, he’s also second behind Haaland in non-penalty goals+assists per 90 minutes.
The difference between Haaland and Bruno is twofold: 1) Haaland plays on a better team, and 2) Bruno spent half of the season playing as part of a two-man midfield.
Perhaps you could argue with the idea that he’s the best player in the Premier League, but I don’t think there’s really any argument to this: Bruno Fernandes is the most important player in the Premier League.
Most people assume scammers need to hack something. A database. A password. A bank system. They don’t.
In most cases, everything a scammer needs to target you is already sitting online, publicly available, completely legal to access, and surprisingly easy to find.
Here’s what they’re actually looking at before they ever pick up the phone.
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Data broker listings often include sensitive details like your address, phone number and relatives, making removal a critical first step.(Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
Your personal profile is already out there, and it’s more complete than you think
There’s an entire industry built around collecting and selling your personal information. It’s called data brokering, and most people have never heard of it.
Right now, without your knowledge or consent, your details are being published by dozens of websites, including:
People search sites (like Whitepages, Spokeo, and BeenVerified): your full name, current address, phone numbers, and age.
Address lookup tools: your current and past home addresses, sometimes going back decades.
Relatives databases: the names and contact information of your family members, automatically linked to your profile.
Property records: whether you own your home, what it’s worth, and when you bought it.
None of this requires a hack. It’s all pulled from public records, voter registrations, court filings, real estate transactions, marriage and divorce records and assembled into a profile that anyone can search for a few dollars or sometimes for free.
They’re not guessing. They’re researching
In 2024, federal prosecutors indicted a network of scam call centers operating out of Montreal that had defrauded hundreds of elderly Americans out of more than $21 million. What made the scheme so effective wasn’t sophisticated technology. It was a spreadsheet.
The scammers were working from lists of potential victims that included names, ages, and household income information pulled from commercial databases. They used those lists to identify targets, then called them pretending to be grandchildren in trouble. The calls were convincing enough that victims handed over thousands of dollars, sometimes in cash picked up at the door.
They didn’t hack anyone. They just did their research first.
A call that sounds personal or urgent often relies on real information found about you online.(Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
Three ways scammers turn your public data into a weapon
Scammers use your publicly available data to make their attacks more personal, believable and harder to detect. Here are three ways they do it.
1) Impersonating your bank
A scammer calls and says, “Hi, this is fraud prevention at [your bank]. We’re seeing suspicious activity on your account ending in 4721.”
They already know your bank, your name, and possibly your address. That’s enough to sound legitimate. From there, they walk you through “confirming your identity,” which is really just you handing over the information they need to access your account.
This kind of scam starts with a simple people-search lookup. Your name and address lead to property records. Property records suggest your income range.
2) The family emergency call
Imagine getting a call:“Meemaw, it’s me. I’m in trouble. Please don’t tell Mom.”Scammers don’t guess. Instead, they research your family first. They use relatives’ databases to find your children’s names, ages and connections.
With that information, they build a story that sounds real. For example, they know to call you “Meemaw.” They also know which grandchild to impersonate. In some cases, they even mention a sibling’s name to make the story more convincing.
As a result, the call feels personal and urgent. However, none of it is random. It’s all based on information that was publicly available the entire time.
3) Targeted phishing with your own details
A phishing email that says “Dear Customer” is easy to ignore. One that says “Dear [your full name], we noticed unusual activity on your account registered to [your home address]” is a lot harder to dismiss.
Scammers use publicly available data to personalize attacks, adding your real name, city, or even a reference to your neighborhood to make a fake email or text look authentic. The more specific the details, the more likely you are to believe it.
“But I’m not on social media.”This is the most common objection, and it misses the point entirely.
You don’t have to be on social media for your information to be online. Data brokers pull from public records, not your Facebook profile. Your information is likely already listed on dozens of sites because of:
The less they think they’ve shared, the more surprised people usually are when they search for themselves on a people-search site for the first time.
The more details a scam includes, the more likely it is built from your publicly available data.(Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
How to reduce your exposure
You don’t have to accept this as permanent. A few practical steps can help:
Search your full name on Whitepages, Spokeo, FastPeopleSearch, and other people-search sites and submit opt-out requests.
Look up your address directly, not just your name, since many listings are organized by location.
Ask elderly family members to search for themselves, too, since older adults are disproportionately targeted.
Be skeptical of any call that opens with personal details, as it can be a sign that someone researched you first.
How to remove your personal data and stop scammers from finding you
The challenge is that there are hundreds of data broker sites, each with its own removal process. Manually opting out of all of them can take hours, and your information often reappears weeks later when brokers refresh their databases.
That’s why ongoing automated removal is the only approach that actually works. That’s why I recommend using a trusted data removal service.
These services automatically contact data brokers on your behalf and request the removal of your personal information. They also continue monitoring those sites and submit new removal requests if your data reappears.
Many services remove personal data from hundreds of data broker and people-search websites, and some plans allow you to request removals from additional sites as needed.
Some have also received third-party assurance from independent firms, helping validate their claims.
The goal is simple: make it much harder for strangers, scammers, and cybercriminals to find your personal information online.
These services often include a money-back guarantee, so you can try them risk-free and see how much of your information is exposed online.
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Kurt’s key takeaways
Most scams don’t start with a breach. They start with a search. Your name, address, relatives and even income clues are already out there, quietly fueling more convincing and more dangerous attacks. That’s what makes this so unsettling. You can do everything “right” online and still be exposed because the system itself is built to share your information. The good news is you’re not powerless. Once you understand how scammers build their playbook, you can start disrupting it. Removing your data, limiting exposure and staying skeptical of anyone who knows a little too much about you can dramatically reduce your risk. The goal isn’t to disappear completely. It’s to make yourself a much harder target.
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Weather forecasts often feel like educated guesses. One day calls for rain, the next update walks that back. That gap between prediction and reality is something researchers have been trying to fix for years.
Mexico is now investing in a national climate supercomputer designed to process enormous amounts of data. The goal sounds simple but carries huge implications: deliver earlier warnings and sharper forecasts before dangerous weather hits.
If the plan works, communities gain more time to prepare and respond.
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Mexico unveils Coatlicue, a new supercomputer designed to improve climate forecasting and national data analysis.(Gobierno de México)
What makes Mexico’s climate supercomputer different?
The project is being led by Claudia Sheinbaum, who serves as Mexico’s president and brings a background in climate science and energy engineering. That experience helps explain why this initiative is getting serious attention both inside and outside the country.
Known as the Coatlicue supercomputer, the system goes far beyond a routine tech upgrade. Engineers designed the platform to handle a scale of computation rarely seen in public infrastructure projects across the region.
At peak performance, the machine will process hundreds of thousands of trillions of operations per second. That level of power mirrors hundreds of thousands of everyday computers running at the same time.
Officials say the system will deliver about 314 petaflops of computing power, making it the most powerful supercomputer in Latin America and more than seven times stronger than Brazil’s Pegaso supercomputer.
Leaders also describe Coatlicue as a public supercomputer designed to support scientific research, artificial intelligence and even entrepreneurial projects.
Researchers are feeding decades of weather records into the system, including data collected since 1950. Gaps in older records will be filled using advanced interpolation methods, allowing scientists to rebuild a more complete climate picture. Teams will test several modeling approaches and select the one with the lowest margin of error.
Early work will focus on densely populated regions such as Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara, where more accurate forecasts can help protect millions of people.
Why climate modeling needs a supercomputer
Modern weather prediction depends on massive data analysis. Temperature, pressure, humidity and wind patterns all interact in complex ways. Small changes can lead to very different outcomes.
That is why Mexico partnered with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Researchers there are helping standardize Mexico’s weather data so models produce consistent and reliable results.
Clean, aligned data allows forecasts to improve faster. Once programming begins, early results could arrive within weeks, offering quicker insights ahead of seasonal storms.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center, a key partner in Mexico’s project, helps advance the high-performance computing needed to improve climate forecasting.(Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
How Mexico’s climate supercomputer could go beyond weather
Climate forecasting may be the headline, but the long-term strategy reaches further. Government planners expect the system to support energy management, agricultural planning and artificial intelligence research.
According to Mexico’s government, the Coatlicue system is designed to push the country deeper into artificial intelligence and large-scale data processing.
Officials say the system is also designed to push Mexico deeper into artificial intelligence and large-scale data processing, expanding far beyond weather forecasting into areas like energy use, agriculture and national data analysis.
The platform is also expected to help analyze large datasets tied to public systems, including efforts aimed at improving transparency and reducing corruption and tax evasion.
Data analysis at this scale can also improve how institutions track patterns across large systems, including areas where transparency matters most. That broader vision turns the project into a foundation for digital decision-making across multiple sectors.
Why timing matters for Mexico’s climate supercomputer
Construction of the full system will take time. The government plans to invest about 6 billion pesos in the project, which is being built near Mexico City and is expected to take at least two years to complete.
Meanwhile, extreme weather continues to increase in frequency and intensity. That urgency is pushing researchers to begin modeling work now with international support rather than waiting for the final system to come online. Early progress could still make a difference in the upcoming rainy seasons.
Rows of high-performance servers power the kind of computing needed to model extreme weather and complex data trends.(Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
What this means for you
Advances like this rarely stay confined to one country. Weather systems cross borders, and forecasting improvements often spread through shared research and global models.
More accurate predictions can translate into earlier alerts before severe storms arrive. Stronger data can help cities prepare for flooding or extreme heat. Faster analysis can reduce damage to homes, infrastructure and crops.
Over time, improvements in one region often influence the tools and forecasts used elsewhere. That means better information could eventually reach your phone when severe weather approaches.
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This project signals a shift in how governments approach major challenges. Climate forecasting may be the starting point, but the bigger story is how data and computing power are becoming tools for everything from energy planning to public accountability. More data and faster processing can lead to smarter decisions, but only if leaders act on what the data shows. Technology can point the way, yet it cannot make the call.
That leaves one question worth asking: If governments had clearer answers powered by data, would they actually move faster or just understand the problem better? Let us know by writing to us at Cyberguy.com.
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Honey is often praised for a range of health benefits, from soothing a sore throat and helping you get to sleep to healing woulds and lowering risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.
Honey’s acidity has the potential to prevent bacterial growth, while its density and stickiness generate osmotic pressure (in the same way as quicksand), which restrains bacteria.
Other compounds in honey contribute anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.
But do the claims about honey for specific health problems and injuries stack up to science? Let’s check what the evidence says.
First, what’s in honey?
Honey contains up to 20% water. The remaining 80% is made of simple sugars: monasaccharides that we rapidly digest. Fructose (32-28%) and glucose (26-31%) are the main ones, followed by small amounts of sucrose and others.
This can increase blood sugar levels to varying degrees. The glycemic index (GI) measures how fast blood sugars rise after eating or drinking. The GI of different Australian honeys ranges from 35 (low) to 72 (high), though most food labels don’t contain GI information.
Honey contains up to 20 per cent water (Getty)
Honey also has traces of vitamins (A, B1, B2, B6, C), minerals (potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc), amino acids (protein) and enzymes from plant, bee and insect secretions.
Nutrients vary depending on where the honeybees collected pollen, the time of honey harvest and how long it has been stored.
Can honey heal wounds?
A 2015 Cochrane review update assessed the effects of honey in treating acute burns, lacerations and chronic wounds, compared to topical treatments or other dressings.
It found high-quality evidence that honey dressings healed second-degree burns 4–5 days faster than conventional dressings. There was moderate-quality evidence that wounds infected after surgery healed faster with honey.
A 2020 review evaluated antimicrobial activity of Manuka and medical-grade honeys against a range of multi-drug resistant bacterial species. It found all honeys were effective against most species and could be considered for use in antibiotic-resistant infections.
Only sterilised medical-grade honey that has been processed to remove contaminants, and meets safety and antibacterial standards, should be used, with guidance from your doctor.
Does honey help adults sleep?
Research on the effects of honey on sleep is limited.
One trial compared sleep quality of 68 adults admitted to hospital. Half were given a mixture of milk (150mL) and honey (30g) twice a day, and half were not.
Those in the honey-mixture group said they slept better after day three. But these results could be biased, because participants were aware they were getting honey-milk and drinking it can be associated with feeling of comfort.
About the author
Clare Collins is a Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Newcastle.
This article was first published by The Conversation and is republished under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Can it soothe sore throats and coughs, or help kids sleep?
Five studies in children have compared honey mixtures to over-the-counter cough medicines or no medication. Each study linked honey to better sleep and less severe coughs in children.
But before you rush out to stock up on honey, there are major limitations related to the honey used. The quantity and type of honey given varies across the studies, with no certainty about which components are present. So the results need to be interpreted with caution.
Chemical analysis of some honey varieties found traces of the “feel-good” brain chemical serotonin and the hormone melatonin, which affects sleep and circadian rhythm. But the researchers concluded the small amounts detected were more likely to affect activity of the bees, rather than affecting human behaviour.
What about for diabetes, heart disease and cancer care?
For diabetes, a 2023 review of 48 clinical trials found honey had some positive effects on a range of risk factors, including glucose tolerance and wound healing. However, the honey dose and type weren’t standardised, so the researchers concluded that honey could be used in addition to, but not instead of, regular medications.
For heart disease, a 2022 analysis combining findings from trials evaluated the impact of honey on blood fats. It found no effect on several risk factors for heart disease: total cholesterol, triglycerides (another type of blood fat), low-density lipoprotein (LDL or bad) cholesterol or high-density lipoprotein (HDL or good) cholesterol.
However, a 2025 meta-analysis of propolis (bee glue) did find significant reductions in triglycerides, LDL (bad) cholesterol, fasting blood sugars, insulin and systolic blood pressure (the top number on a reading). But given most propolis supplement trials have only lasted a few months and supplements are expensive, that money is likely better spent on healthy foods.
For cancer patients, a 2023 review found honey alleviated ulceration and inflammation in the mouth following chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and it reduced some of the toxic effects of chemotherapy.
Can it affect your mind?
Some honeys have psychotropic, or mind-altering effects. “Mad honey” comes from plant nectar of Rhododendron species and naturally contains grayanotoxins, which have pharmacological and toxic effects.
These include nausea, dizziness, low blood pressure, severe bradycardia (an abnormally slow heart rate), neurological complications and even life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heart beat).
It’s illegal to import or sell “mad honey” in Australia but Nepal and Turkey have historically used it for medicinal and psychoactive properties.
Who shouldn’t have honey?
Although commercial honey is pasteurised, the process does not kill spores of the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. This is why babies under one year and immunocompromised people shouldn’t have honey.
Pope Leo XIV said Saturday that remarks he made this week in which he said the “world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants” were not directed at President Donald Trump, a report said.
The pope, speaking onboard a flight to Angola during his 10-day tour of Africa, said reporting about his comments “has not been accurate in all its aspects” and his speech “was prepared two weeks ago, well before the president ever commented on myself and on the message of peace that I am promoting,” according to Reuters.
The news outlet cited the pope as saying his comments were not aimed at Trump.
“As it happens, it was looked at as if I was trying to debate the president, which is not in my interest at all,” the pope reportedly said.
Pope Leo XIV answers journalists’ questions during his flight from Yaoundé, Cameroon, to Luanda, Angola, Saturday, April 18, 2026.(Luca Zennaro/Pool Photo via AP)
Vice President JD Vance later took to X to thank the pope for clearing the record.
“While the media narrative constantly gins up conflict — and yes, real disagreements have happened and will happen — the reality is often much more complicated,” Vance wrote. “Pope Leo preaches the gospel, as he should, and that will inevitably mean he offers his opinions on the moral issues of the day.
“The President — and the entire administration — work to apply those moral principles in a messy world,” he continued. “He will be in our prayers, and I hope that we’ll be in his.”
The vice president’s comments came days after he told Fox News’ Bret Baier on “Special Report” that it would be best for the Vatican to “stick to matters of morality.”
“Let the President of the United States stick to dictating American public policy,” Vance said Tuesday.
Trump last Sunday accused Pope Leo XIV of being “terrible” on foreign policy after the pontiff criticized the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
“He talks about ‘fear’ of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.”
Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump(Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images; Salwan Georges/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
During a speech in Cameroon on Thursday, the pope said, “We must make a decisive change of course — a true conversion — that will lead us in the opposite direction, onto a sustainable path rich in human fraternity.
“The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.
Pope Leo XIV speaks as he meets with the community of Bamenda at Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Bamenda on the fourth day of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa April 16, 2026.(Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images)
“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.
A Las Vegas wine connoisseur achieved a jaw-dropping dining feat in New York City by visiting 28 of the world’s top-rated, award-winning restaurants in just 24 hours.
Joshua Fyksen, a sommelier at Peter Luger Steak House at Caesars Palace, earned a Guinness World Record for visiting the most Michelin-starred restaurants in a single day after completing the ambitious food tour across the Big Apple last May.
“I’ve always loved great food and fine dining,” he told Fox News Digital.
Guinness World Records announced the feat last month. Fyksen set the record with 22 restaurants in 2023 and later lost the title to a duo who completed it in Hong Kong in 2024.
Fyksen set out to do it again last year — mapping out dozens of restaurants across New York City.
Joshua Fyksen of Las Vegas visited 28 of New York City’s top-rated restaurants in 24 hours to set a new Guinness World Record.(Joshua Fyksen)
Fyksen initially planned to visit up to 30 restaurants.
But some last-minute setbacks — including one restaurant closure just the day before and Le Bernardin being closed for lunch — reduced his final total to 28.
“I left my credit card at Le Pavillon, the sixth stop,” he added. “It added more than half an hour that was tough to make up.”
Decked out in a suit with a body camera and a GPS tracker, he began the marathon at 3 p.m. at Oxomoco in Brooklyn.
He started off with a tuna tostada, and finished with a single oyster at his final stop, Gramercy Tavern — completing the record just minutes before the 24-hour mark.
Fyksen had his only sweet of the day, a raspberry macaron, at Café Boulud on the second day of the challenge.(Joshua Fyksen)
Also among his stops were Tuome, Le Pavillon, Café Boulud, Eleven Madison Park and Casa Mono.
Per Guinness World Record rules, Fyksen had to finish every dish he was served.
He tried to order the smallest, fastest food at each stop, but that was not always possible — such as at Semma, a Southern Indian restaurant in Greenwich Village.
“The dish that was recommended from the server ended up being a potato-filled sosa that was huge. It was bigger than my head and the plate it was served on … It was the largest dish of the record and at 8 minutes 20 seconds, it was the dish that took the longest to eat.”
Despite the pace, Fyksen said the experience wasn’t rushed.
Le Pavillon — one of the restaurants Fyksen visited — is considered a classic for couples looking for a special night out together in the Big Apple.(Thomas Schauer/Unknown)
“I savored it. I enjoyed all of it. I wouldn’t do this if I wasn’t able to enjoy it,” he said in an interview on the “Kennedy Saves the World” podcast.
The 24-hour culinary sprint came with a price tag of $1,451.34, including nearly $1,000 spent on food and hundreds of dollars more on transportation, according to Guinness World Records.
Some of the standout dishes included a scallop dumpling with English peas and foie gras at Tuome; a Jonah crab dish paired with apple, grapefruit and wasabi at Le Pavillon; and the tortellini pomodoro at Torrisi, Fyksen said.
One of the biggest challenges for him was securing reservations at some of the most sought-after hot spots.
The tortellini pomodoro at Torrisi was among Fyksen’s favorites, he said. (Joshua Fyksen)
Fyksen said he relied on calendar alerts to book reservations the moment they became available and even contacted certain restaurants directly to request accommodations.
Michelin-starred restaurants are judged anonymously and reevaluated each year, adding to the prestige and pressure of earning and maintaining a star.
But for Fyksen, the passion goes beyond breaking a record, he told Fox News Digital.
“I plan most of my vacations around restaurants,” he said.
“I know eventually someone will beat it,” he said of his Guinness World Record.
Long before the record, he and his wife, Angela, tried tasting menus and visited Manhattan’s Le Bernardin, Per Se and Eleven Madison Park all in the same day.
“One of my favorite dining memories was, in the middle of our honeymoon a few years back, I surprised my wife with a one-day trip to Copenhagen just to eat at Noma the morning after a perfect dinner at Restaurant le Meurice by Alain Ducasse in Paris,” Fyksen recalled.
His wife helped document his latest Big Apple feat. One restaurant she wanted to visit most was The Corner Store, a buzzy, celebrity-frequented hot spot — notably not Michelin-starred or part of her husband’s carefully planned route.
Fyksen included Eleven Madison Park, one of New York City’s most renowned restaurants, in his record-setting run.(Gary He/Bloomberg)
So when the challenge was complete, instead of detoxing or napping — the couple headed to SoHo.
“With that restaurant being one of the hardest reservations in the city, I had to have someone hold a spot in line so that we could walk in for dinner at 5 p.m. And we did, and had a great time,” he said.
While the accomplishment may sound like a dream for some foodies, Fyksen suggested it’s not something he plans to repeat.
“I don’t think I want to do it again,” he said.
Fyksen kicked off his record-setting run in Brooklyn and ended it at Gramercy Tavern nearly 24 hours later. He said he’s unlikely to repeat the culinary feat. (Joshua Fyksen)
But he does want to hold the record for a while, he admitted.
“I know eventually someone will beat it,” Fyksen said.
He added, “I know they’ll have fun. And I hope they’ll take some time to enjoy it and appreciate the great chefs and restaurants that work so hard to achieve the Michelin Stars. I know I did.”
Deirdre Bardolf is a lifestyle writer with Fox News Digital.
KYIV, Ukraine — A gunman who killed at least six people in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, before taking hostages and barricading himself inside a supermarket on Saturday has been shot and killed by police, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukraine’s special tactical police units stormed the store after attempts to contact the gunman with a negotiator failed, the head of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, Ihor Klymenko, said in a statement on social media. The attacker was killed while resisting arrest, he said.
Speaking to reporters at the scene, Klymenko said that the gunman had killed four bystanders while on the street, before entering the supermarket and killing a fifth person.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that a sixth victim, a young woman, died from her injuries in the hospital.
An Associated Press reporter on the scene saw the bodies of the victims in the street covered by emergency blankets before they were taken away.
Klymenko said the shooter was born in 1968 but gave no further details as to his identity. Police negotiators spoke with the attacker for roughly 40 minutes before storming the building, he said.
Before the gunman was shot, a female police negotiator, wearing body armor and standing behind an armored vehicle, used a loudspeaker to call out to the assailant, urging him: “the people are not to blame for this. Please, let them go and we will talk with you.”
“We tried to persuade him, knowing that there was likely a wounded person inside. We even offered to bring in tourniquets to stop the bleeding, but he did not respond,” Klymenko said. “Consequently, the order was given to neutralize him.”
Klymenko, who wore body armor, said the man was carrying a carbine. The short-barrel assault rifle was legally registered, he added.
Last December, the assailant “approached the licensing authorities to have the weapon test-fired as the permit was expiring. He provided a medical certificate. He had also submitted an application to renew his permit for the weapon. That is all we can say for now,” Klymenko said.
He added that the investigation will determine which medical institution issued the certificate.
The shooting took place in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district, the mayor said. Televised footage of the scene showed police taking cover in the shopping mall that housed the supermarket while shots were fired. Bystanders were escorted away from the scene.
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Associated Press writer Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, contributed to this report.
Navigating relationships requires careful communication. Experts advise against uttering phrases like ‘I regret dating you’ or attacking a partner’s financial background. Insulting their family or friends, and mocking their insecurities are also detrimental. Protecting each other’s feelings, even during arguments, is crucial for a lasting bond.
Yes, you love your person. You think they are ‘the one’. They make you laugh so hard. They know even the weirdest things about you. You think this is it. But one wrong word, and the world goes upside down. We obsess so much about saying the right things to our partner. But here’s something no one told you. Sometimes, knowing what not to tell your partner is equally important. Relationships are like fine china. Even seemingly harmless things can destroy the delicate balance. Here are four things that should never leave your lips, no matter how angry, frustrated, or caffeinated you are.
Don’t say you regret this relationship
You might be having the craziest fight of the year, but never say these words: ‘I regret dating you’ or ‘I regret marrying you’. Those are off-limits. Consider them relationship Kryptonite. There is no going back from it. Your partner might forgive you for lying, but this will ruin your bond forever. Telling them you regret the entire relationship will cut deep. You don’t want to say it unless you really mean it. Telling the person you love that they are the biggest mistake of your life is pathetic. No amount of sorry will erase it.
Do not taunt them about their financial situation
Attacking your partner based on their financial background is enough ammunition for a divorce. They might have grown up poor or wealthy, but making it an arsenal during a fight is not right. Keep the wallet wars outside. No one really enjoys hearing how much money they had or didn’t have while growing up. Money matters are deeply personal. They are tied to one’s identity. So weaponizing it will sabotage your relationship. You’re basically saying, “Your past is something I can mock,” and nobody wants to hear that.
Do not insult your partner’s family or friends
You might have a bone to pick with their annoying friend, or perhaps an uncle. Dragging family and friends into your conversation is never a good idea. They might hate this person, but you are still not allowed to talk ill. Here’s the golden rule: they get to complain about their people. You don’t. It is as simple as that. Regardless of how funny it sounded, or even if they laughed, such comments are going to come back for you. So avoid insulting your partner’s loved ones.
Do not mock your partner’s weakness
Remember this: your partner’s insecurities are off limits for comedy. If your partner is insecure about their appearance, and you mock them, it is going to affect them. It’s like adding insult to injury. Kicking them where they are down is a bad strategy. Even though such jokes seem harmless in the moment, they will quietly turn into dealbreakers. Love means protecting each other’s hearts, even during arguments. So, watch your words.
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