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The Browns announce their starting QB The Cleveland Browns announced that 40-year-old former Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco will be the team’s starting quarterback for the season-opening matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals on September 7th. Flacco hasn’t played a single snap in Cleveland’s two preseason games. “Joe’s the same guy that he was then,” head coach Kevin Stefanski said last week. “He’s the same guy every single day. I think that’s one of the things you admire about Joe is how he approaches his business. He’s done a really nice job in camp. He’s also done a really nice job…
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FOX Weather Meteorologists Bob Van Dillen and Haley Meier provide the latest update on Monday, Aug. 18 for Hurricane Erin. The category 4 hurricane is maintaining 140 mph winds and is forecast to move along the U.S. East Coast with life-threatening coastal conditions. OCRACOKE ISLAND, N.C. – Hurricane Erin continues to churn as the Category 4 storm moves across the Atlantic Ocean, prompting some areas along North Carolina’s Outer Banks to begin evacuations.Images shared by the North Carolina Ferry System on Monday afternoon showed the large line of island residents flocking to the evacuation site. The ferry system is assisting…
President Donald Trump will meet Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Aug. 18 at the White House to discuss a possible end to the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump met with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15 in Alaska to discuss ending the war, but afterward, both world leaders were tight-lipped about the details in public remarks. After speaking with Zelenskyy and other European leaders, Trump announced Aug. 16 he is backing a peace plan that includes Ukraine ceding territory it controls to Russia as well as U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine to deter future Russian attacks. PolitiFact is live fact-checking Trump…
by Calculated Risk on 8/18/2025 10:00:00 AM The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 32, down from 33 last month. Any number below 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as poor than good.From the NAHB: Builder Confidence Plateaus at Relatively Low LevelElevated mortgage rates, weak buyer traffic and ongoing supply-side challenges continued to act as a drag on builder confidence in August, as sentiment levels remain in a holding pattern at a low level.Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes was 32 in Augustdown one point from…
The League7:30 PMAugust 17, 2025Regular Season – 1RCDE StadiumReferee: Mateo Busquets Ferrer, Spain Who will win? ← → 0 Votes Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Turn off spoiler to view match statistics1.25Expected goals (xG)0.87Passing322 (82%)Accurate passes552 (89%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 13 G Marko Dmitrović 6.9 22 D Carlos Romero 7.0 6 D Leandro Cabrera 7.5 5 D Fernando Calero 54′ Foul 6.7 23 D Omar the Hilali 74′ Foul 84′ 7.0 10 M Pol Lozano 6.3 8 M Edu Expósito 73′ 8.7 7 M Javi Puado (C) 6.3 14 M…
The New Orleans Pelicans and free agent forward Jalen McDaniels have agreed to a contract. New Orleans has one open standard spot on their regular season roster and is approximately $4.2 million under the luxury tax line. McDaniels appeared in four NBA games with the Washington Wizards last season. The 6-foot-9 forward has always played for the Charlotte Hornets, Philadelphia 76ers and Toronto Raptors during his six-year NBA career. In 38 G League games with the Capital City Go-Go last season, McDaniels averaged 13.5 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.
Powerful Hurricane Erin is gaining strength after slamming parts of the Caribbean with strong winds and flooding rain, and impacts from the monster storm will be felt along the U.S. East Coast. FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross has expert analysis on the latest forecast and when impacts will be felt here.Updated at 9:45 a.m. ET on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025Hurricane Erin is intensifying again. Now back up to Category 4. And the storm is growing in size. Outer bands are lashing the Caribbean islands and will impact the southern end of the Bahamian chain today.A Tropical Storm Warning is…
U.S. President Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet (literally) for Russian President Vladimir Putin when the two men arrived in Alaska on Friday for their closely watched summit on the Ukraine war. Between Trump’s warm welcome to his Russian counterpart and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s notable absence from the talks, it is unclear just how much progress will be made toward securing a peace deal. Trump and his lineup of top U.S. officials hosted Putin and his own senior delegation at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Upon landing in Anchorage, Trump gave Putin a first-class greeting: ordering a military flyover, applauding…
By Akiva Malamet, Bautista Vivanco, and Michael F. Cannon, Cato at LibertyAugust 11, 2025. Excerpts: While Ozempic and other GLP‑1 drugs are great at helping patients lose weight(among many other promising uses), these impressive medications come with an impressive price tag. For those paying out of pocket, a month’s supply can cost around $1,000. Congress prohibits Medicare from subsidizing anti-obesity medications but allows GLP‑1 drugs for the treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular disease (a particularly vulnerable subset of its beneficiary population). The Congressional Budget Office studied the budgetary impact of authorizing Medicare to subsidize anti-obesity medications. It concluded that subsidizing…