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While discussing a bill that would stop voting by mail in most cases, President Donald Trump described a scenario involving a young child. As he promoted the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, to a group of Republicans, Trump mentioned daughters being “of age” at “above six years old.” “You know your daughter, she has to be of age, like above six years old,” Trump said. The comment quickly drew attention from Democrats and others on social media who have linked Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, who died in federal custody in 2019 after his arrest on federal…

From Kalshi: My conjecture: As long as the probability of Strait of Hormuz reopening goes down, the betting odds of recession will rise. Polymarket has the end-April odds of Hormuz being open at end-April now down to 37%. The Brent crude futures curve as of Friday close. If $108 is about consistent with closure, then April settlement price is consistent with near complete closure. Source: ICE. This entry was posted on March 13, 2026 by Menzie Chinn.

The League8:00 PMMarch 14, 2026Regular Season – 28Santiago Bernabéu StadiumReferee: Jesus Gil Manzano, Spain Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Real Madrid World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Elche World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Match Stats Lineups Head-2-Head Standings Turn off spoiler to view match statistics1.09Expected goals (xG)0.55-1.00Goals Prevented-1.00Passing420 (89%)Accurate passes464 (88%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 1 G Thibaut Courtois 6.9 20 D Fran Garcia 44′ 7.2 24 D Dean Huijsen 66′ 7.7 22 D Antonio Rüdiger 39′ 7.6…

The Boston Celtics are expected to sign free agent center Charles Bassey to a 10-day contract, league sources told Michael Scotto of HoopsHype. It will be Bassey’s fourth 10-day deal of the 2025/26 season. The five-year veteran previously signed a hardship 10-day contract with Memphis and later joined Philadelphia on two separate 10-day agreements in […] The post Celtics sign Charles Bassey appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the rising U.S. death toll in the Iran wasallegations of Pakistani forces targeting civilians in Afghanistanand the cost of U.S. tariffs for American households. Ongoing Investigation Six U.S. service members were killed when a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, U.S. Central Command confirmed on Friday. “The circumstances of the incident are under investigation,” Centcom wrote on X. “However, the loss of the aircraft was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.” The incident involved two aircraft in “friendly airspace,” only one of which landed safely,…

Chelsea will be looking to maintain pressure on the Premier League top four when they welcome Newcastle to Stamford Bridge on Saturday. The Blues are three points behind both Aston Villa in fourth and Manchester United in third and have a superior goal difference to both. The hosts have not been beaten by Newcastle on their own turf in nearly 15 years – the last time coming after a stunning Papiss Cisse double gave a team then managed by Alan Pardew a 2-0 win in May 2012. The Magpies, meanwhile, are 12th, nine points behind Chelsea. Their most realistic hope…

On March 12, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his first press conference since the U.S. and Israel first attacked Iran. Some social media users doubted the authenticity of the video address, and led them to question whether Netanyahu was still alive. “Rumors swirling that the Prime Minister of Israel – Netanyahu – is dead after this video has been released of him LIVE on TV,” one March 13 X post read. “Look at the 6 fingers.” “Breaking: Latest video released by the israeli government shows that it was ai generated because netanyahu has 6 fingers,” read another March 13…

Q4 GDP growth halved, Q4 consumption undershoots consensus by nearly half percentage point (ann’d): Figure 1: Implied nonfarm payroll (NFP) employmennt preliminary benchmark revision (thin blue), NFP employment (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed population controls (bold orange), industrial production (red), personal income excluding current transfers in Ch.2017$ (bold light green), manufacturing and trade sales in Ch.2017$ (black), and monthly GDP in Ch.2017$ (pink),GDP (blue bars),  all log normalized to 2025M01=0. Source: BLS via FRED, BLS, Federal Reserve, BEA 2025Q4 2nd release,S&P Global Market Insights (nee Macroeconomic Advisers, IHS Markit) (1/22/2026 release), and author’s calculations. Figure 2: Implied Nonfarm Payroll…

Ligue 17:45 PMMarch 13, 2026Regular Season – 26Orange VelodromeReferee: Marc Bollengier, France Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Marseille World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Auxerre World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Match Stats Lineups Head-2-Head Standings Turn off spoiler to view match statistics0.88Expected goals (xG)0.31Passing451 (87%)Accurate passes305 (80%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 16 G Donovan Leon 6.9 22 D Fredrik Oppegaard 6.2 92 D Clement Bag 6.7 20 D Sinaly Diomandé 90+4′ Foul 6.5 24 D Bryan Okoh 45’…

Jrue Holiday and Scoot Henderson each scored 25 points as the Portland Trail Blazers overcame the Utah Jazz 124-114 at the Moda Center on Friday night. Donovan Clingan added a double-double with 21 points and 15 rebounds to anchor Portland’s inside presence. The Jazz, who saw Ace Bailey exit after seven minutes due to concussion […] The post Jrue Holiday and Scoot Henderson lead Trail Blazers past Jazz appeared first on TalkBasket.net.