It was the most extraordinary finale to an occasion when the tension seemed to override everything. The spectacle was suffocated. There was almost too much at stake for both teams. And then there we were, the players from each team standing on the sideline behind the referee, Chris Kavanagh, as he pored over the replay monitor on the advice of the video assistant, Darren England, his heart hammering, like that of everybody else inside the stadium.

Arsenal led 1-0 through Leandro Trossard’s 83rd minute goal, which had come shortly after David Raya had produced a massive one-on-one save to deny the West Ham midfielder, Mateus Fernandes. Now West Ham had their lifeline. Or had they? It all came down to Kavanagh’s interpretation of the moment when West Ham sent their goalkeeper, Mads Hermansen, forward for an all-or-nothing 95th minute corner and, after a melee of bodies, the West Ham substitute, Callum Wilson, had lashed a shot over the line.

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De vrouwen van SCHC spelen al jaren in de top van de Nederlandse hockey, maar waren nog nooit landskampioen. Donderdag beginnen de play-offs en heeft SCHC, dat een uitstekend seizoen draaide, een nieuwe kans. „De buitenwereld ziet misschien ‘eindstand: verloren’, maar wij zijn elk jaar gegroeid.”

Waren de berichten van Jamshid letterlijke dreigementen? Óf figuurlijke straattaal, zoals de advocaat volhoudt? En in hoeverre is „ik blaas je op in honderd stukken” af te doen als beeldspraak als je een dag later op iemands deur bonst?

The tragedy was plural, though she never catalogued it. Mother died at five. Stepmother, she called a "wicked witch." Husband dropped dead in the first year. Living with her sister Pearl until Pearl died, too. The films — Bad Girls Go to Hell, A Night to Dismember, Let Me Die a Woman — carry titles that read less like marketing choices and more like private correspondence with a universe that kept taking things. She never said this. She said she just thought of a crazy idea and made a movie. [CW: NSFW; sex & violence; grindhouse]

“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” — Norman Bates

For just the first three months of 2026, Rocket Lab's launch business reports $63.7 million in revenue, reports CNBC — plus another $136.7 million from its space systems business. Besides beating Wall Street's expectations, Rocket Lab also announced that its backlog has more than doubled from a year ago to $2.2 billion, and that it's buying space robotics company Motiv Space Systems.
Friday its stock price shot up 34% in one day...

Rocket Lab's stock has more than quadrupled over the past year, benefiting from skyrocketing demand for businesses tied to the space economy ahead of SpaceX's hotly anticipated IPO later this year. Demand for space systems and satellites is also escalating as President Donald Trump pursues his ambitious Golden Dome missile defense project and NASA's crewed Artemis missions rev up.

Rocket Lab said Thursday that it signed its largest contract ever with a confidential customer for its Neutron and Electron rockets through 2029, weeks after landing a $190 million deal for 20 hypersonic test flights... "The demand signal is clear," CEO Peter Beck said on an earnings call with analysts, calling the pace of new product releases from the company this year "relentless".... Rocket Lab's good news lifted other space companies. Firefly Aeropspace and Intuitive Machines both jumped more than 20, while Redwire gained 19%. Voyager Technologies rose 14%.


"The company anticipates revenue between $225 million and $240 million during the second quarter."

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