Mohamed Salah scores as Egypt earns first-ever World Cup win, downing New Zealand 3-1

From the pyramids and ancient myths - to modern day sports, lovers, and friends - Egypt has always held a place in my heart. Sunday, on Father's Day, I spoke with El-Sherif a former romantic interest you may remember from my trip to Egypt in December 2000 and beyond. Soul connections never die no matter what lifetime. Sunday we talked about the 2026 World Cup with hopes for Egypt scoring a big win. As the game ran late for me - I read about Egypt's victory this morning in a text from El-Sherif and also on the news. I think I'm more excited about this than the US victories.

Mohamed Salah scores as Egypt earns first-ever World Cup win, downing New Zealand 3-1   NBC - June 21, 2026

Mohamed Salah delivers Egypt's historic first World Cup win; Are Pharaohs on crash course with USMNT?   New York Times - June 21, 2026

Salah led Egypt to their first victory in the country's 92-year tournament history against New Zealand   Aljazeera - June 21, 2026

Messi shows why he's the GOAT with record-breaking goals ESPN - June 22, 2026

Lionel Messi makes history as the World Cup's all-time top scorer New York Times - June 22, 2026

Both Clive Davis and Alan Greenspan spent decades operating at the absolute pinnacle of their respective industries, leaving complex, defining marks on global finance and pop culture. Each became a towering figure whose decisions reverberated far beyond their industries - one shaping the soundtrack of generations, the other influencing the flow of trillions of dollars through the world economy.

Together, they leave behind an extraordinary blueprint of leadership, vision, and influence, demonstrating how a single individual can alter the course of culture and commerce on a global scale. Their legacies endure not only in the institutions and careers they helped build, but also in the lasting influence they exerted on the world around them.

Clive Davis, legendary music mogul dies at 94. He was the founder of Arista Records and was once president of Columbia Records.

Clive Jay Davis (April 4, 1932 - June 22, 2026) was an American record executive, A&R executive, record producer, and lawyer. He won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a non-performer, in 2000. Davis was born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents, Herman and Florence Davis. Read more ...

The visionary architect behind the soundtrack of modern pop music passed away peacefully from age-related illness at his home in Manhattan. Davis had an uncanny instinct for spotting raw genius. He is credited with discovering or directly launching Whitney Houston, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Barry Manilow, and Alicia Keys. He also famously resurrected the careers of legends like Aretha Franklin and Carlos Santana. A five-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, his annual pre-Grammy gala was Hollywood's most exclusive, star-studded event for half a century.

Alan Greenspan, economist and longtime head of the Federal Reserve, dies at 100 from complications of Parkinson's disease

Alan Greenspan (March 6, 1926 - June 22, 2026) was an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. Greenspan was born in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.

His father, Herbert Greenspan, was of Romanian Jewish descent. His mother, Rose Goldsmith, was of Hungarian Jewish descent. Read more ...

Nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1987, Greenspan served five terms across four U.S. presidents. He steered the global financial system for nearly 19 years, making him the second-longest-serving chair in Fed history. Lauded for engineering a decade-long economic boom in the 1990s, his strict commitment to financial deregulation later drew sharp criticism for contributing to the 2007–2008 housing crash. He later candidly acknowledged flaws in his hands-off oversight.

Belgian Nobel laureate Francois Englert died at age 93

The physics community is mourning the loss of Francois Englert whose theoretical breakthroughs fundamentally shaped modern particle physics. His legacy is defined by a single, revolutionary idea - he figured out why the universe has substance instead of just being empty light.

Without his theory, particles would zip through space at the speed of light. They could never clump together to form atoms, stars, planets, or people. His work provided the final, missing piece to the Standard Model of physics, which is humanity's best blueprint for how the universe works.

The Higgs boson is considered by physicists to be the keystone of the fundamental structure of matter, the elementary particle that gives mass to many others, in line with the theory known as the Standard Model. In 2013 Englert was awarded the Nobel Prize jointly with Briton Peter Higgs, who died in 2024. The pair laid the theoretical foundations, as early as 1964, that would lead to the discovery of the boson in 2012 at CERN, the Swiss laboratory.

Francois, Baron Englert (November 6, 1932 - June 18, 2026) was a Holocaust survivor. He was born into a Belgian Jewish family. Read more ...

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