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Latvia earned its first EuroBasket 2025 victory in Riga, edging out Estonia 72-70 in a heated Group A battle. The Baltic showdown drew 10,291 fans, with blue and burgundy jerseys evenly spread across the arena. Supporters from both nations created a festive atmosphere, but the action on the court was anything but light. The game […] The post Kristaps Porzingis lifts Latvia past Estonia with clutch performance appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross reflects on devastating impacts of Hurricane Katrina 20 years later.Twenty years ago this morning I was handling the weather for the CBS Early Show from Miami. We were carefully watching as Katrina made landfall in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi. Up until 9:15 AM ET / 8:15 AM CT, we had been cautiously optimistic that the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans were going to hold up well enough to avoid a disaster, but we were very concerned for the Mississippi coast.Just 36 years earlier, Hurricane Camille had produced unimaginable storm surge that…

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a leading supporter of stricter gun laws, said hours after an Aug. 27 deadly Minneapolis school shooting that legislation enacted during the Biden administration led to a decline in mass shootings. “There is something deeply wrong with a country that chooses to make running for their lives part of kids’ back to school ritual,” Murphy wrote on X. “When we finally passed a gun safety bill in 2022, mass shooting began to drop. But it was an unacceptably small start. We must do more.” Murphy referred to the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that then-President Joe Biden…

I’d say “yes”. From RealClearPolitics: So, if the BLS job numbers are so unpredictable, and we employ so many people to compile them, why do we pay so much attention to them? The answer is that we are all trying to guess what lies ahead for the economy. Uncertainty is bad for business. But numbers which have to be revised time after time make predictions about the future less certain. Fortunately, the private sector offers us alternatives. If an independently produced number collected in the private sector—from Automatic Data Processing (ADP) —is as good as the CES, why doesn’t the…

League Cup7:00 PMAugust 27, 20252nd RoundBlundell ParkReferee: Tony Harrington, England Who will win? ← → 0 Votes Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Turn off spoiler to view match statistics0.00Expected goals (xG)0.00Passing145 (67%)Accurate passes457 (87%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 24 G André Onana 5.3 26 D Ayden Heaven 6.7 5 D Harry Maguire (C) 89′ 8.2 33 D Tyler Fredricson 36′ 6.3 13 M Patrick Dorga 6.7 25 M Manuel Ugarte 6.3 37 M Kobbie Mainoo 7.2 2 M Diogo dalot 7.5 10 F Matheus Cunha 7.2 16 F Amad Diallo 6.3…

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FOX Weather is your Hurricane HQ (FOX Weather)Updated at 9:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025A hostile pall is descending over the tropics, which should limit any significant development for the next week or two or so. Dust and dry air, an unsupportive upper-wind regime and higher-than-normal air pressure over the tropical belt should limit development between Africa and the Caribbean.The National Hurricane Center is painting a low-probability potential development area for a disturbance forecast to move off the African coast late in the weekend. It’s going to have tough sledding once it’s over the ocean but could conceivably…

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. Some personnel news: We’re excited to welcome Sam Skove as FP’s newest staff writer! Sam joins us from Politicowhere he covered space, and we’re really glad we had a space for him on our team. (He has also quickly realized that insufferable puns are an occupational hazard of working with us.) Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: U.S. President Donald Trump’s repurposing of the U.S. militarya new U.S. ambassador to Indiaand more Russian attacks on Ukraine. Trump is less than a year into his second term and has already begun radically…

by Calculated Risk on 8/28/2025 07:47:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.Friday:• At 8:30 AM ET, Personal Income and Outlays, July 2025. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in personal income, and for a 0.5% increase in personal spending. And for the Core PCE price index to increase 0.3%.  PCE prices are expected to be up 2.6% YoY, and core PCE prices up 2.9% YoY.• At 9:45 AM, Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for August.• At 10:00 AM, University of Michigan’s Consumer sentiment index (Preliminary for August).

Newcastle United’s long wait for domestic silverware finally ended last season when they lifted the Carabao Cup – and the club marked the historic moment with a one-of-a-kind exhibition that captured the spirit of their journey to glory.’The Road to Wembley’hosted at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in collaboration with VERSUS, offered supporters an immersive, documentary-style retelling of the Magpies’ cup success. The exhibition featured more than 100 photographs by club photographers Serena Taylor, Harriet Massey and Michelle Mercer, each capturing intimate moments from the campaign. Visitors also experienced cinematic displays, installations from fan group Wor Flags, and the…