Author: DailyWestern

Liverpool players returned for pre-season training this morning, just three days after the funeral of team-mate Diogo Jota.Jota was laid to rest, alongside his brother Andre Silva, in the Portuguese town of Gondomar on Saturday.The pair were killed when the Lamborghini they were travelling in came off the road in the province of Zamora in north-west Spain in the early hours of Thursday morning.Jota, 28, married long-term partner Rute Cardoso two weeks ago and had three children. Silva was 25.Diogoal ❤️Remembering our number 20 with every Diogo Jota goal for the Reds. pic.twitter.com/xGzeAJiXkK— Liverpool FC (@LFC) July 7, 2025The majority…

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Severe storms are expected to fire Tuesday afternoon across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City are under the threat of severe weather. These storms will have periods of strong rain. A flood threat extends from Richmond, Virginia to Boston.Philadelphia – Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City will likely see periods of heavy rain in addition to potentially damaging wind gusts beginning Tuesday afternoon as severe storms fire up over more than 85 million people across the heavily traveled Interstate 95 corridor ahead of and during the evening commute.According to the FOX Forecast Center, rain…

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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched down in Washington on Monday to discuss U.S. diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, including Israel-Hamas cease-fire negotiations. The trip’s centerpiece will be an evening meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House. The conversation is expected to focus on cementing a cease-fire and hostage release deal in Gaza. Under the latest U.S.-backed proposalIsrael and Hamas would abide by a 60-day truce, during which Israeli troops would partially withdraw from Gaza, Hamas would release 10 living and 18 deceased hostages in exchange for some number of Palestinian prisoners released by Israel, and…

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The more research I have done on economic statistics, appreciating the practical challenges, the less certain I am that we know anything solid about today’s economy. –Diane Coyle, The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters(page 29) It would be nice to have definitive measures of economic progress. We would like to know whether progress is faster in one country than in another. We would like to know whether progress was faster in one period of time than in another. We would like to know how different policies and institutional arrangements affect progress. Diane Coyle has spent decades doing research…

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FIFA Club World Cup7:00 PMJune 30, 20258th FinalsBank of America StadiumReferee: Iván Arcides Barton Cisneros Who will win? ← → 0 Votes Turn off spoiler to view match statistics0.00Expected goals (xG)0.00Passing435 (88%)Accurate passes168 (72%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 1 G Y. Sommer 5.9 95 D A. Bastoni 38′ 6.5 6 D S. de Vrij 7.0 36 D M. Darmian 6.6 32 M F. Dimarco 6.9 22 M H. Mkhitaryan 6.6 21 M K. Asllani 8′ 6.9 23 M N. Barella 7.2 2 M D. Dumfries 6.2 10 F L. Martínez (C) 7.2 9 F M. Thuram 6.7…

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Vasilije Micic agreed to give up $6.1 million in his buyout with the Milwaukee Bucks, which allows the team to stretch his cap hit and stay at the 15 percent of the cap allowed in stretched salary. Micic’s remaining $2 million will be stretch over three seasons as opposed to Damian Lillard’s over five. Micic plans to return to Europe to continue his career. Micic was traded by the Charlotte Hornets to the Phoenix Suns ahead of the 2025 trade deadline and then back to the Hornets at the draft. The Bucks acquired Micic from the Hornets as part of…

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Historic rain slammed the city of Kerrville, Texas, Friday morning. Footage shot from a bridge overlooking the Guadalupe River, which runs through Kerrville, shows the river surging with floodwater . NOAA river gauges show the Guadalupe River was at nearly 30 feet.KERRVILLE, Texas – Central Texas was hit by historic rain on Friday morning, triggering a “deadly flood wave,” and leading to four Flash Flood Emergencies amid widespread high-water and home rescues throughout the affected areas.Officials in Kerr County say they have found multiple bodies so far and put the number of fatalities at around 24, with the death toll…

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Shorter enrollment periods. More paperwork. Higher premiums. The sweeping tax and spending bill pushed by President Donald Trump includes provisions that would not only reshape people’s experience with the Affordable Care Act but, according to some policy analysts, also sharply undermine the gains in health insurance coverage associated with it. The moves affect consumers and have particular resonance for the 19 states (plus Washington, D.C.) that run their own ACA exchanges. Many of those states fear that the additional red tape — especially requirements that would end automatic reenrollment — would have an outsize impact on their policyholders. That’s because…

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A picture (or two) is worth a thousand words: Figure 1: Sum of nonresidential equipment and structures investment, bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR (blue, left scale), and EPU (news). Q2 investment is GDPNow of 7/3. NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates. Source: BEA, policyuncertainty.com, NBER, and author’s calculations. Figure 2: Sum of nonresidential equipment and structures investment, bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR (blue, left scale), and EPU (legacy three component version). Q2 investment is GDPNow of 7/3. NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates. Source: BEA, policyuncertainty.com, NBER, and author’s calculations. I doubt that policy uncertainty will decline to pre-Trump 2.0 levels, given (in my opinion) Mr. Trump’s ongoing…

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