Today's five.

Spain won the 2026 World Cup on Sunday and New York City somehow made itself a main character. The final — played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, which is technically New Jersey, but nobody wants to hear that — ended 1-0 in extra time after ninety scoreless minutes. Mayor Mamdani had branded NYC-themed jerseys for the tournament; they sold out every morning during their release window, apparently faster than the bots could get to them. Governors Island hosted a viewing party his office called "The People's Final." Spain fans there lost their minds when the goal finally came. The halftime show had TV characters in it.

Three U.S. service members are dead in two days — two killed in Jordan on Friday, one more in Iraq on Saturday during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone's unexploded ordnance. CENTCOM also found unidentified remains at the Jordan attack site. That's 17 American military deaths since the conflict began, a number AL.com named plainly while most other outlets focused on the daily incident reports. Trump called it "a very sad thing." The U.S. has now conducted nine consecutive waves of operations in the region. Nobody has announced a strategy for when that number stops climbing.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino literally ran across a stage to move Trump along, and Trump stayed anyway. Spain had just beaten Argentina to win the World Cup — their moment, their trophy, their team — and the president of the United States was still on the podium while they tried to lift it. RealClearPolitics called it a political victory for Trump and noted record crowds and ratings. The Daily Beast called it an embarrassing global moment. The Daily Mail called it awkward. All three are correct. Rodri won the Golden Ball. Spain won the cup. Everyone else is just figuring out how to write the caption.

Winning back-to-back World Cups is hard enough without running into the team that just spent 37 games not losing. Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in the final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, with Rodri lifting the trophy in what CBS News's pregame coverage called a clash between the tournament favorite and the defending champions. Argentina had won three consecutive international titles coming in. Spain had momentum and apparently a defense Argentina couldn't crack. The final was held in East Rutherford, with President Trump in attendance — the kind of detail future trivia nights will find inexplicably useful.

Florida's "Stop Woke Act" — the law that restricted how race and diversity topics could be taught at public universities — just lost in federal court, again. Judge Mark Walker, who blocked the law back in 2022, opened that original injunction with the first line of 1984. Not subtly. The ruling framed the law as exactly what Orwell was describing: compelled silence dressed up as neutral policy. The excerpt available only covers the 2022 injunction, but the implication of a fresh victory is that the courts are still singing the same tune. George Orwell has been cited in American legal documents before. It rarely means things are going well for the government.