What FIFA calls ‘New York New Jersey’

Where is the World Cup being played again? In the northeastern United States, eight World Cup games, including the final, will be played in what FIFA calls “New York New Jersey.” But elected leaders from this portmanteau place are jostling over where exactly it is. The state of New Jersey and New York City bid…

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The UK’s World Cup diplomatic mullet

While Boston and Dallas have been taken over by marauding Scotland and England fans, Washington, D.C., this week welcomed a (slightly) more sedate British crowd at Duke’s Grocery, a trendy restaurant and bar in Washington’s West End neighborhood. Call it the U.K.’s diplomatic mullet: Business in the front; party in the back. More than a…

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