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Or at least Long Beach and LA: Figure 1: Inbound loaded TEU’s at Long Beach and LA ports, n.s.a. (black, left scale), year-on-year growth (light blue, right scale). NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates shaded gray. Source: Ports of Long Beach, LA, NBER and author’s calculations. Inbound traffic is down 3.5% y/y, and down 32.7% q/q AR. This entry was posted on July 25, 2025 by Menzie Kent.

Lionel Messi is furious with the MLS for suspending him as punishment for missing the All-Star Game on Wednesday in a move that could have an “impact long-term”, Inter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas has warned. Eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi, who is by far the league’s most high-profile player, is banned alongside team-mate and fellow Barcelona icon Jordi Alba for Miami’s potentially crucial home game against leaders Cincinnati on Saturday in a decision described by MLS Commissioner Don Garber as “very, very difficult”. “Leo Messi is extremely upset,” said Mas, via journalist Guillem Balaguewho is Messi’s biographer. “I’m hopeful it…

Myron Gardner and the Miami Heat have agreed to a two-way contract. Gardner averaged 13.2 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 2.8 steals in 22.2 minutes across four Summer League games with the Heat. In 50 games in the G League last season with the Osceola Magic, Gardner averaged 10.0 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 21.2 minutes.

FOX Weather Meteorologist Craig Herrera talks about the chilly weather seen in San Francisco this summer.SAN FRANCISCO – While the majority of the county bakes under a sweltering heat dome, the San Francisco Bay Area is experiencing one of its coldest summers in decades.Temperatures were five degrees below average for June and are currently about four degrees below average for July.With an average high temperature just shy of 68 degrees overall this season, this has been San Francisco’s coolest summer since 1965.The current conditions in the Bay Area are more typical of summer in Anchorage, Alaska, according to the FOX…

“I was born into Japanese the way one is thrown into a sack,” the Japanese German writer Yoko Tawada once wrote. “That is why this language became for me my exterior skin. The German language, on the other hand, I swallowed whole and it has been sitting in my stomach ever since.” If these metaphors at first suggest a linguistic hierarchy, Tawada went on to neatly refute the idea in an interview. Her native language is as intimate and impossible to slough off as her skin; a second language, by contrast, is consciously consumed: chewed, tasted, metabolized. Some foreign words,…

by Calculated Risk on 7/25/2025 10:56:00 AM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Final Look at Local Housing Markets in June and a Look Ahead to July SalesA brief excerpt: After the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) releases the monthly existing home sales reportI pick up additional local market data that is reported after the NAR. This is the final look at local markets in June.There were several key stories for June:• Sales NSA are down 1.5% year-over-year (YoY) through June compared to the same period in 2024, and sales last year were the lowest since 1995! The…

The tragic passing of Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva in early July sent shockwaves through the football world.The pair died in a car accident in Spain while traveling ahead of Jota’s return to pre-season training with Liverpool – a devastating loss that has left a lasting impact on teammates, fans and the wider footballing community.Among those most deeply affected is Jota’s close friend and former Liverpool teammate, Kostas Tsimikas. The Greek international had already posted an emotional tribute shortly after the news broke, recalling the memories, laughs and bond the two shared – both on and off the…

Golden State Warriors swingman Moses Moody praised longtime teammate Draymond Green for being a guiding presence throughout his NBA journey. In a recent one-on-one interview with DJ Siddiqi on RG, Moody described Green as a mentor who has taught him more than just basketball strategy. “He teaches me so much, not even just about basketball,” […] The post Moses Moody credits Draymond Green for shaping his growth appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

FOX Weather is your Hurricane HQ. (FOX Weather) Updated at 9 a.m. ET Friday, July 25, 2025The broad disturbance that we’ve been following across the northern Gulf will move into Texas later today. The National Hurricane Center is still drawing a slight-chance lemon where it could develop, but the odds are in the ultra-low category. Even if that very unlikely event happened, and it developed an organized circulation, the main effect would be spotty, heavy tropical downpours along the coast. The broad disturbance that we’ve been following across the northern Gulf will move into Texas later today. (NOAA)Even after the…

Brussels/Copenhagen – The informal meeting of EU interior ministers on Tuesday in Copenhagen focused on the fight against illegal migration. The chair country Denmark has been one of the hardliners in the EU on migration policy for years. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) stated after the council that the interior ministers wanted to further intensify the measures taken for deportations and broaden European alliances for deportations to Afghanistan or Syria. “After the deportations to Syria and Afghanistan from Austria and Germany, there is broad consensus among the European interior ministers that returns and deportations must go beyond isolated events. We…