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My first introduction to World Cup mania came courtesy of a soda can. In 1989, I was a kid visiting Italy for the first time, and Coca-Cola released special-edition cans in honor of the country hosting the following year’s FIFA World Cup. One featured a jaunty stick figure in red, white and green—the colors of the Italian flag—with a soccer ball for a head. I brought one of those cans back home and kept it on my dresser for years because it reminded me of how much I had loved Italy. As for soccer? Not so much. For decades, that souvenir can was pretty much the extent of World Cup fever in my life. Now, the sport—along with all its heated global rivalries and wild superfandom—is descending on North America. The 2026 FIFA World Cup, the largest in history, will run for 39 days, from June 11 to July 19, and feature matches in 16 host cities. The United States will hold games in 11 cities across the country (78 of the 104 World Cup matches), while Mexico will h...

There’s a moment—usually somewhere around the third time you’ve googled “why am I so tired” in a single week—when you start to suspect you’ve lost something important. Not your keys. Not your youth. (Well, maybe your youth.) But something harder to name. A lightness in your chest. A willingness to be delighted . A sense that the world is fundamentally interesting and not just an endless scroll of overdue tasks and confusing news alerts. Ask Julian Shapiro-Barnum about that indefinable something, and he’ll tell you exactly where to find it: the playground. Shapiro-Barnum is the creator of Recess Therapy, the wildly popular TikTok series where he wanders into parks and playgrounds and asks kids the kinds of questions adults usually reserve for therapists and philosophy professors—and gets answers that are somehow better than anything you’d hear in either setting. The videos go viral constantly, and it’s easy to see why. The...

Living in Arizona means pool weather is always right around the corner. But as any pool owner knows, keeping the water sparkling isn’t just a summer task—it’s a year-round commitment. In my backyard, that means a weekly pool service, a solar-powered skimmer that patrols the surface and a traditional hose-connected vacuum that suctions the pool floor. While this cleaning combo gets the job done, the hose has always been my biggest frustration. It snakes across the water, gets in the way during swims, tangles with the skimmer and occasionally disconnects from the wall. So when I had the opportunity to test the Beatbot Sora 70 , a cordless robotic pool cleaner that promises to handle multiple cleaning tasks in a single device, I was curious whether it could streamline my routine. NANCY SNYDER FOR READER'S DIGEST We Tried It Beatbot Sora 70 An all-in-one cordless robotic pool cleaner designed to vacuum debris, scrub walls and waterlines, and skim the pool's surface. Shop o...