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Less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest in the coming weeks to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine, the summit appears to be off. Trump announced the Budapest summit on Oct. 16 following a call with Putin, estimating that it would take place “within two weeks or so.” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov were tasked with organizing the summit and were due to meet in the coming days to finalize plans; however, after the two held…
by Calculated Risk on 10/21/2025 03:46:00 PM Here are a few photos from my trip to Patagonia:Click on graph for larger image.The first photo is at Cape Horn with a friend since high school. We were lucky to able to go ashore!The albatross is a memorial to all the sailors that lost their lives sailing around the Cape.Here is a poem on a plaque near the monument.”I am the albatross that awaits you at the end of the world.I am the forgotten souls of dead mariners who crossed Cape Horn from every sea on Earth.But they did not die in the…
Khris Middleton is set to make an emotional return to Milwaukee on Wednesday, marking his first appearance at Fiserv Forum as an opposing player since being traded by the Bucks at last season’s deadline. Now wearing a Washington Wizards uniform, the veteran forward acknowledged that the night will carry deep personal meaning. According to Monumental […] The post Giannis Antetokounmpo anticipates emotional reunion with Khris Middleton appeared first on TalkBasket.net.
Fall colors are in full swing for Beech Mountain, North Carolina along the Blue Ridge Parkway. BEECH MOUNTAIN, N.C. – Fall colors are making a bright comeback along the Blue Ridge Parkway town of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, after last year’s leaf peeping season was cut short due to the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene.Beech Mountain, located at Milepost 305 along the Blue Ridge Parkway, is among the first to see peak fall colors in the Southeast. At an elevation of 5,506 feet, Beech is the highest town in the Eastern U.S. This year is already proving to be a…
Luxembourg – The European Commission has heeded the Czech request to amend the new ETS2 emissions allowance system and presented a specific legislative change proposal, informed Czech Minister of the Environment Petr Hladík on the social network X. The proposals were presented today to ministers at a meeting in Luxembourg by the Commissioner for Climate Wopke Hoekstra. Their aim is primarily to stabilize the price of emissions allowances. “A success for the Czech Republic! The European Commission has heeded our request to amend the EU ETS2 system and presented a specific legislative change proposal that aligns exactly with our demands,”…
Discussions on what constitutes a “fair” (or just) price are quite old. Classical market liberals will typically classify a fair price as any price that is voluntarily agreed upon by the parties in an exchange. That’s all well and good, but I wonder how useful the concept of “fair price” is. First, a bit of technicality: while price and cost are related, the price of something and its cost are not the same thing. The cost of a thing is the highest-valued alternative individual must forego when making their consumption choice. The price is the money outlay. For example, the…
Barcelona are looking to get back on track in the Champions League when they host Olympiacos tonight. The Spanish champions lost 2-1 to holders PSG last time out, meaning there is importance to this clash against their Greek opponents. Olympiacos are only two points adrift of Barca, but are yet to win in the competition this term. However, they will fancy themselves to do a job in Spain during the early round of kick-offs. Read on to see how both teams line-up. Barcelona team news Barcelona: Szcesny, Kounde, Garcia, Cubarsi, Balde, Casado, Fernandez, Pedri, Yamal, Lopez, Rashford Olympiacos team news…
The Dallas Mavericks have picked up the 2026-27 rookie scale team option for Dereck Lively II. This is Lively’s fourth-year rookie scale option. Lively will be on the Mavericks cap sheet for $7.2 million for next season. Lively suffered through an injury-plagued sophomore season. The 7-foot-1 center appeared in only 36 games due to foot and leg injuries. Lively averaged 8.7 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.6 blocks in 23.1 minutes per game for Dallas in his second NBA season.
Tropical Depressions, Tropical Storms, and Hurricanes all have different characteristics that are compared and contrasted in this videoMIAMI – Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) say Invest 98L has become better organized over the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea and strengthened into Tropical Storm Melissa late Tuesday morning.The NHC said that Tropical Storm Melissa’s winds have reached 50 mph, officially designating the system as a tropical storm.HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHERThis graphic shows information on Tropical Storm Melissa.(FOX Weather) A tropical storm is a tropical cyclone that has maximum sustained winds between 39 and 73 mph, which is…
Circumcision doesn’t typically come up at White House Cabinet meetings, but Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently brought up the procedure in the context of autism.”There’s two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it’s highly likely because they’re given Tylenol,” said Kennedy, who like President Donald Trump cited shaky research about the drug and autism when warning pregnant women against taking Tylenol. Circumcision is the removal of penis foreskin, a typically elective procedure performed on infants largely for religious and cultural reasons. We looked at the studies,…