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by Calculated Risk on 10/05/2025 08:21:00 AM From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Year Data Center. Graph and excerpts reprinted with permission. The AAR Freight Rail Index (FRI), combines seasonally adjusted rail intermodal shipments plus carloads excluding coal and grain. The index fell 0.8% in September 2025 from August 2025, its fifth decline in the past six months. Still, the index is only 1.0% below its level from a year earlier, indicating that recent weakness reflects a gradual adjustment rather than a sharp downturn.emphasis added Rail traffic volumes continue to adjust to evolving market conditions. In September 2025, total…

The FA have marked the start of the grassroots football season with a lively new short film that shines a spotlight on the unsung heroes who make the game tick away from the limelight.Rather than focusing on elite football, the film follows four familiar grassroots characters – The Organiser (Sandra), The Ringer (Nick), The Coaching Parent (Rashida), and The Groundskeeper (Greg) – showing them swap their daily grind for the chaos and charm of matchday. From carefully manicured pitches to nervy last-minute penalties, it captures the humour, stress and joy that only grassroots football can provide.The film also drops in…

Cole Cloer announced his commitment to NC State on Saturday. Cloer is ranked as the No. 25 player in the SC Next 100 for the 2026 class. “Choosing NC State was an easy decision for me,” Cloer told ESPN. “It’s the program I have supported since I was a kid.” Cloer is the second top-25 recruit for the Wolfpack since Will Wade took over last spring. Cloer is also the second recruit for Wade’s class of 2026 behind three-star center Trevor Carter-Givens.

An area of showers and thunderstorms in the Atlantic has been designated as Invest 95L, and the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said it could become our next tropical depression by the middle to end of the upcoming workweek. FOX Weather Meteorologist Haley Meier has the latest on Oct. 5, 2025.MIAMI – It’s been an extremely busy period for the tropical Atlantic Basin with the development of hurricanes Imelda and Humberto over the past few weeks, and now the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is keeping its eyes on Invest 95L for possible tropical development.The term “invest” is simply a naming convention…

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at global responses to Israel’s naval blockade of Gazathe Czech Republic’s parliamentary election, and unidentified drones over Germany. Sign up to receive World Brief in your inbox every weekday. Sign up to receive World Brief in your inbox every weekday. Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and to receive email correspondence from us. You may opt out at any time. Enter your email Sign Up Loading… ‘This Barbarity Must End’ Israeli forces on Friday boarded the final vessel in a 44-ship humanitarian…

Is the Administration secretly happy that the employment situation release was delayed? Without inside information, one can’t answer that, but given the ADP-Stanford Digital Economy Lab release, one could understand why (an 82K downside surprise is not earthshaking, but not reassuring either). Kalshi betting now indicates a 20.8 day shutdown. That will make it such that the CPI and PPI releases are delayed as well (10/15 and 10/16 respectively. Source: Kalshi, accessed 10/4/2025. For NFP employment, the consensus estimate was 50-54K, hardly something to clap about. My nowcast based on q/q changes in ADP private NFP is…

Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso hailed his side’s “serious performance” as Los Blancos picked up three points that saw them leapfrog rivals Barcelona into top spot in LaLiga. For 24 hours at least, Real sit at the summit of Spain’s top-flight after a Vinicius Jr bagged a brace and Kylian Mbappe scored late on to ensure Alonso’s team emerged comfortable 3-1 from their tussle with Villarreal on Saturday. Madrid were looking to bounce back from a 5-2 thrashing at the hands of their city rivals Atletico last weekend, and their hopes were realised, albeit in efficient rather than dazzling fashion,…

Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic is excited about adding big man Sandro Mamukelashvili to the roster this season (signed two-year, $5.5 million contract). (via Toronto Raptors): “Signing Sandro was very important for us this offseason, because we see in him somebody who shares the values of our organization and we see in him somebody […] The post Darko Rajakovic: “Signing Sandro was very important for us this offseason” appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

What to do when hurricane or tropical storm watches, warnings are issued for your town.As the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season winds down, meteorologists will begin turning their attention to the waters surrounding Central America, where a broad area of low pressure known as the Central American Gyre (CAG) could form in the coming weeks.A Central American Gyre typically develops once or twice during the hurricane season, often in the early and late months, and can trigger a range of hazardous weather conditions, including tropical cyclones.Even without spawning a named tropical system, the sprawling circulation can bring days of…

by AI | 03.Oct 2025 | Europe in brief AI The investigation by European experts into the massive power outage that caused chaos in Spain and Portugal in April highlights the phenomena of overvoltage, “a first” in Europe, and possibly in the world, but the “underlying” causes remain unknown. People walk at night in Barcelona, without electricity, following a massive power outage affecting the entire Iberian Peninsula and southern France, on April 28, 2025. (Photo: Josep LAGO / AFP) Paris – The president of the ENTSO-E council, the European network of electricity transmission system operators, Damian Cortinas, stated that this…