Portugal's FA has pledged to honour Cristiano Ronaldo as manager Jorge Jesus named his first squad since the captain’s international retirement, then faced a barrage of questions about the rift that preceded the departure.
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Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, brought his illustrious 23-year career to an end, having featured in six World Cups and six European Championships.
Here is a look back at some of his biggest international milestones.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has announced his retirement from international football at the age of 41.
It marks the end of a remarkable career with the Portugal team.
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One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
‘Tonight we can turn that inshallah into alhamdulillah’.
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed gave an impassioned victory speech as he beat Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan senate race.
Imad Salem Zahra, the Palestinian child whose photo went viral after he was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers, tells Al Jazeera what happened that day.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in 15 minutes as Al Nassr beat Al Kholood 5-3, taking his official career tally to 985 goals.
Can Ronaldo reach 1,000 career goals by the end of 2026?
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Hamed Mirzaei lost his wife, parents and many others members of his family in a devastating attack on a residential building in Tehran.
He shares with Al Jazeera how the US-Israeli attack on his home on March 9, 2026, changed his life.
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Cristiano Ronaldo's 2008 Ballon d’Or win voted as the 'best Ballon d’Or of all time' in a public vote. Ronaldo scored 42 goals and led Manchester United to the 2007/2008 English Premier League and UEFA Champions League titles.
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Macklemore's ‘Free Palestine Tour’ kickoff concert at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland is going viral after a lineup of major guest performers joined him on stage and expressed their support on social media.
American rapper Macklemore opened his ‘Free Palestine’ tour before a sold-out crowd in Dublin after announcing that all tour proceeds would support organisations helping Palestinians.
US rapper Macklemore vowed to continue speaking out for Palestinian freedom at the opening of his “Free Palestine” tour in Dublin, despite industry backlash over his advocacy. Hozier and Kneecap joined him in support at the concert.
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