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深藏不露
Rachel Barber
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在许多美国人难以维持生计之际，美国联邦储备委员会 (美联储) 主席凯文·沃什承诺将通货膨胀率带回 2% 的目标，但在央行进入 7 月会议之际，他究竟计划如何实现这一目标仍不明确。 美联储经常发现自己处于十字路口，在最大化就业和物价稳定的双重使命之间寻求平衡。它拥有两种主要工具来应对这两个问题：资产负债表和联邦基金利率（利率的基准）。美联储通常通过提高利率的目标范围来抑制通胀，并通过降低利率来刺激就业市场。 在经历了三个月的通胀加速后，通胀在 6 月有所放缓，尽管一些预测者预计，由于美国与伊朗之间重新陷入敌对状态，通胀可能会再次回升。在经历了三个月的就业积极增长后，美国雇主的招聘人数在 6 月下降——这使得美联储必须理清这些波动仅仅是噪音，还是新趋势的开始。 在兑现凯文·沃什的承诺方面，美联储可能也处于一个十字路口。
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国籍， 曾属罕见， 现正加速
Christopher Cann
多年来，撤销移民的国籍已被证明是一项成本高昂且充满争议的做法，但特朗普政府表示，数百人无论如何都应该被剥夺国籍。 该计划要求加强此前罕见的撤销国籍 / 取消入籍程序，将其作为更广泛的移民执法议程的一部分，从而扩大唐纳德·特朗普总统在其第一任期内启动的这一做法。 自 2025. 年初以来，美国司法部已采取行动撤销近 90 人的国籍。到 10 月，政府的目标是在联邦法院提起至少 250 起撤销国籍案件。 根据联邦法律，政府可以请求法官撤销通过欺诈或虚假陈述获得国籍的人员的国籍——例如在入籍过程中使用虚假身份或隐瞒不合格的犯罪记录。
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华盛顿州生态部的 Jacob Carnes 和 Lili White 正在军队雅基马训练中心附近的一个池塘中采集水样。附近 140 多个家庭的井水测试结果显示，全氟和多氟烷基物质 (PFAS) 超过了美国环境保护署的饮用水限值。由华盛顿州生态部提供
有毒 PFAS 清理工作
11, 岁的 Phoebe Hyatt 正在她位于华盛顿州东塞拉 (East Selah) 的家中厨房从饮水机中接水，此处靠近军队的雅基马训练中心。由 BRANDI HYATT 提供
战争部“选择悄悄地将其网站上之前的清理计划删除，并发布新的时间表。这最终是对信任的违背。”
参议员 Patty Murray，华盛顿州民主党人
“我借用他们的勇气”
为癌症幸存者而战
Ansley Gavlak
超长距离游泳运动员玛雅·梅里格（Maya Merhige）最大的恐惧之一是水母。然而，她依然心甘情愿地花费数小时在世界上规模最大、最危险的水域中游泳。 原因何在？因为她是在为那些无法游泳的人而泳。 每次梅里格跳入被鲨鱼和水母包围的冰冷海水中，她都是在通过非营利组织“美国泳渡募捐组织”（Swim Across America）为癌症研究和患者计划筹集资金。 “如果那些患者能够忍受癌症治疗——如果那些 7 岁和 4 岁的孩子能够熬过一天的癌症治疗——那么我绝对可以再多游 20 个泳姿，”她说道。 到目前为止，18 岁的梅里格已为癌症研究筹集了超过 $172,000 的资金。 她的目标是成为完成“七大洋挑战赛”（Oceans Seven）最年轻的人，这是一系列全球七个最艰巨的……
削减 物资开支
修复工程在某些情况下被推迟数十年
Austin Fast 今日美国 (USA TODAY)
布兰迪和布拉德·海亚特（Brandi and Brad Hyatt）发现他们位于华盛顿州某陆军基地旁家中的水井被“永久化学品”污染，至今已近五年。 他们开始在所有事情上使用瓶装水，从冲咖啡到刷牙。这对夫妇甚至带着两个年幼的孩子穿过整个城镇去健身房洗澡，以确保孩子不会不小心喝下被污染的洗澡水。 军方在去年安装了一个过滤器，但水井依然处于污染状态。 等到军方提供永久解决方案时，孩子们早已长大——该方案目前已被推迟至 2042 年之后。 根据《今日美国》对军事记录的一项最新分析，数百个军事基地多年来一直推迟对有毒 PFAS（全氟和多氟烷基物质）的清理工作。五月份，五角大楼在其网站一个不起眼的角落发布了最新一轮的延迟计划，将部分截止日期推后了数十年。
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不再寻求对采访录音保密
Anthony Thompson
Anthony Thompson
前总统乔·拜登（Joe Biden）已撤回其旨在阻止公开其回忆录代笔人采访录音的诉讼，这为共和党主导的众议院委员会获取这些材料扫清了道路。 据《国会山》（The Hill）和 NBC4 华盛顿报道，在一家联邦上诉法院就录音和文字记录是否应保密做出分歧裁决并拒绝其请求几天后，拜登的律师于 7 月 25 日向华盛顿特区美国地方法院提交了自愿撤诉通知。 在法院裁定披露这些信息具有实质性的公众利益后，该申请结束了拜登的法律挑战。 此前，由于特别检察官罗伯特·赫尔（Robert Hur）在调查拜登处理机密文件过程中获得了相关录音，双方进行了数月的诉讼。赫尔在 2024 年决定不对拜登提起刑事指控，但共和党人随后寻求获取这些采访材料。 拜登的法律团队曾主张，录音记录的是他在家中的私人对话，将其公开将构成对其隐私的不当侵犯。拜登最终选择撤诉，而没有追求进一步的上诉（包括可能向最高法院提出请求）。
上诉法院支持披露
此次自愿撤诉发生在美国哥伦比亚特区联邦巡回上诉法院以 2-1 的投票结果裁定拜登败诉不到一周后。 在多数意见书中，首席法官斯里·斯里尼瓦桑（Sri Srinivasan）和法官格雷戈里·卡特（Gregory Kat-）
在大峡谷附近获救
官员表示，一名在大峡谷国家公园北缘附近徒步时失踪的83岁男子，在经过一次动用了直升机、无人机、搜救犬及数十名救援人员的彻夜搜寻后获救。
来自犹他州卡纳布（Kanab）的杰拉尔德·金（Gerald Guinn）在崎岖的地形中度过了约一天半的时间，于7月22日被找到。
国家公园管理局官员表示，金是在一次直升机侦察飞行中被发现的，距离他最后一次出现的位置约21⁄2英里；随后他被转移到附近的道路上进行医疗评估。
尽管在户外过夜，金仍被描述为“精神状态良好”。据国家公园管理局和凯恩县（Kane County）警长办公室称，他在接受急救人员评估后获准离开。
多个机构参与了此次救援，包括大峡谷国家公园、凯恩县搜救队以及科科尼诺县（Coconino County）搜救队。
徒步者在与同伴分开后失踪
根据凯恩县警长办公室的说法，金和另一名人士于7月21日中午12:30左右，在大峡谷国家公园与凯巴布国家森林边界的一处偏远地区开始了一次原计划为短途的徒步活动。
两人在寻找附近的一个历史遗迹时故意分开了。尽管另一名徒步者找到了该地点，但金始终没有返回。在搜寻数小时无果后，其同伴请求救援。
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……认定任何隐私顾虑都没有超过公众对发布删减后资料的利益。
法官在裁决书中写道：“我们认为，披露目前已删减资料可能对个人隐私造成的任何剩余侵犯，很可能并不超过披露该资料的公共利益。”
法官弗洛伦斯·潘（Florence Pan）持反对意见，她写道，拜登已经证明了其具有“实质性的隐私利益”，因为这些对话发生在他的家中，且是在一项未导致起诉的刑事调查期间获取的。
这些录音来自拜登在2016年和2017年撰写回忆录《答应我，爸爸》（Promise Me, Dad）期间接受马克·兹沃尼策（Mark Zwonitzer）的采访。兹沃尼策在2007年拜登撰写回忆录《必须遵守的承诺》（Promises to Keep）时也与其合作。
联邦调查人员随后在罗伯特·赫尔（Robert Hur）调查拜登在担任参议员和副总统期间保留机密文件期间获取了这些录音。尽管赫尔拒绝提起指控，但国会中的共和党人在调查结束后寻求获取这些资料。
关于《信息自由法》请求的法律斗争
此案始于保守派智库传统基金会通过《信息自由法》寻求获取这些录音，随后通过起诉要求将其公开。
今年6月，美国地方法院法官达布尼·弗里德里希（Dabney Friedrich）裁定，尽管拜登的隐私利益是正当的，但政府透明度的公共利益更为重要。她还认为，美国司法部的删减处理已充分保护了敏感的个人信息。
拜登对该裁决提出上诉，在案件经过法院审理期间，该上诉暂时阻止了资料的发布。
凯恩县搜救队展开了彻夜搜寻，部署了地面人员、配备前视红外技术的无人机以及搜救犬，但最初并未找到金。
手机信号定位帮助引导救援人员
美国消费者面临的通货膨胀率已连续五年高于美联储 (The Fed) 2% 的目标。凯文·沃什在 7 月早些时候的国会证词中表示，“通货膨胀是一种选择”，并告诉立法者，在他任职期间，这种情况不会成为永久状态。
美联储无法直接控制超市或加油站的价格，但凯文·沃什多次表示，他认为美联储的任务是确保价格上涨不会蔓延到更广泛的美国经济中。
“如果我们政策得当——我可以向各位保证我们会做到——那么过去五年的通胀激增将成为过去式，”凯文·沃什在 7 月 14 日告诉参议员们。
尽管如此，美联储决策者在 7 月会议上可能不会急于加息，原因有几点。
随着消费者通胀率同比从 2 月的 2.4% 上升至 5 月的 4.2%，交易员们开始押注加息。但 6 月份通胀率放缓至 3.5%，加上一份疲软的就业报告，为暂停加息提供了一些理由。虽然汽油价格下跌 9.7% 降低了整体通胀数据，但剔除波动较大的食品和能源价格的“核心”通胀率在 6 月也有所下降，这意味着这种放缓不能被简单地视为伊朗临时停火的结果。
“这是一份相当全面的良好报告，令人惊喜，”金融服务公司 Thrivent 的首席财务官兼投资官大卫·罗亚尔 (David Royal) 表示。
7 月会议还正值法院命令的关税退款、唐纳德·特朗普政府公布的新关税方案以及伊朗战争升级期间——所有这些都将影响经济。
加息、降息还是维持原状？ 任何一种情况都有可能
根据询问对象的不同，有人认为美联储应该三者兼顾。
凯文·沃什告诉立法者，由于联邦公开市场委员会 (FOMC) 成员在 6 月份就利率的最佳路径产生分歧，他预计 7 月会议上将再次出现一场“激烈的家庭争吵”。尽管凯文·沃什没有提交自己的预测，但有 8 位成员认为美联储将维持区间稳定，9 位认为有加息空间，1 位认为在 2026 年底前有降息空间。
“大多数参与者讨论了通胀压力消退且通胀很快将开始回归到 2% 的情景，” 6 月会议纪要显示。 “然而，大多数参与者也指出，在劳动力市场状况稳定的背景下，由于强劲的 AI 相关需求、中东冲突或关税影响，通货膨胀率将维持在高位。”
6 月会议后，一些 FOMC 的投票成员似乎对加息持开放态度。美联储理事丽莎·库克 (Lisa Cook) 在 7 月 15 日表示，她愿意“多等待一段时间”，但如果通胀没有开始放缓，她将准备采取行动，并认为风险依然“严重偏向”更高的通货膨胀。
“死盯着通胀直到它在我们的凝视下消融，这并不是一个选项，”美联储理事克里斯托弗·沃勒 (Christopher Waller) 在 7 月 13 日 6 月通胀报告发布前表示。
报告发布后，白宫经济顾问委员会主任凯文·哈塞特 (Kevin Hassett) 表示，美联储没有“借口”加息，如果通胀继续放缓，他将开始期待降息。
“如果你在观察数据，那么，你知道，现在真的没有加息的借口，”哈塞特在 7 月 15 日告诉 CNBC。“如果再出现一两份这样的报告，我认为他们会考虑另一种方向。”
利率将走向何方？ 政治因素可能起到作用
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根据路透社对经济学家的调查中值预测，美国联邦储备委员会 (美联储) 将在今年剩余时间内维持基准利率不变。但在一个关于 2026 年加息可能性的独立问题中，大多数人将可能性描述为“高”，而上个月大多数人认为可能性为“低”，情况发生了反转。
“我们已经很久没有被美联储的决定真正惊到了，”皇家表示，他补充说，他预计在凯文·沃什领导下的美联储会出现比前任主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔时期更多的出人意料的举措。
然而他补充道，政策制定者可能会推迟采取行动，直到他们能听到凯文·沃什创建的五个旨在就货币政策提供建议的任务组的意见。这些任务组预计将在今年年底前提交建议。
尽管凯文·沃什多次公开肯定自己独立于政治，但皇家和柳金表示，他可能也在考虑今年中期选举前加息的潜在影响。
“在中期选举前加息对于共和党来说几乎是一次自杀任务，我认为我们必须相信凯文·沃什明白这一点，”柳金说道，并补充称消费者可能会将共和党视为执政党而责备他们。“如果你在国会，你无法想象在今天——可能是在中期选举前三、四个月——告诉美国人民，我们将提高他们的信用卡和汽车贷款利率。”
在第二任期内一直向政策制定者施压要求降低利率的总统唐纳德·特朗普，在凯文·沃什 5 月下旬就任主席以来，很少谈及美联储。在政策制定者 6 月维持利率不变后，唐纳德·特朗普回应道：“随便。”
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现任政府在追究撤销国籍案件的数量上，正处于美国现代史上前所未有的速度。相比之下，根据美国司法部的数据，拜登政府在四年内办理了 24 起案件；而唐纳德·特朗普政府在总统的第一任期内则提交了 102 起撤销国籍案件。凯斯西储大学法学教授兼撤销国籍专家卡桑德拉·罗伯逊表示：“这是一个数十年来未曾见过的重大增长。”特朗普政府表示，其目标是那些本不该获得公民身份的罪犯和欺诈者。该政府将此次行动定义为维护入籍诚信的努力。国土安全部部长马克-韦恩·穆林在一份声明中表示：“当你在入籍过程中实施欺诈时，你就放弃了保留美国国籍的权利。国土安全部致力于确保我们利用一切可用工具，撤销这些欺诈者的国籍并将其驱逐。”几十年来，政府每年仅追究极少数的撤销国籍案件，部分原因是这些案件需要大量资源，成本高昂，且可能需要数年时间才能解决。检察官之前追究的案件主要针对国家安全威胁、恐怖组织成员以及涉嫌战争罪的人员。但自特朗普重返办公室以来，其政府已采取行动扩大撤销国籍的适用范围。美国司法部的民事部门已被要求优先处理撤销国籍事务，且机构领导已请求全国各地的美国检察官办公室提供帮助，以增加案件数量。在 7月 20, 的一篇 X 帖文中，白宫将此次行动描述为“史上最大规模的撤销国籍行动”。前美国司法部律师和移民法专家表示，在特朗普领导下追究的案件在很大程度上与之前的政府并无脱节。但他们担心，这一努力可能会分散其他优先事项的资源，例如起诉欺诈或腐败案件。一些人猛烈批评此举是一种旨在恐吓该国 26 million 以上入籍公民的策略。前美国司法部律师斯泰西·杨在描述撤销国籍进程缓慢且在一定程度上无法规模化时表示：“我认为这不会对政府的驱逐目标产生任何实质性影响。但我认为这传递了一个信号，即入籍公民身份是不稳定且不牢固的。”
新政府，新一轮的撤销国籍推进
2025, 就职后一周内，特朗普便下令将其更广泛移民战略的一部分，即为撤销部分美国公民国籍分配“充足资源”。几个月后，美国司法部发布了一份备忘录，指示主要处理撤销国籍案件的民事部门“优先并最大限度地推进撤销国籍程序”。据一名美国司法部官员称，截至 7月 22,，美国司法部已在联邦法院提交了至少 89 起撤销国籍案件——几乎是乔·拜登总统任期内追究数量的四倍。该司法部官员表示，在特朗普任内提交的案件中，政府已胜诉至少 19 起。尽管大多数案件由美国司法部的民事部门处理，但很大一部分已由全国各地的美国检察官办公室接手——专家表示，这一程序上的转变凸显了政府正如何
转移资源，试图撤销比以往任何时候都更多的人的美国公民身份。“偶尔民事部门会与美国检察官办公室合作，但这很少见，”曾在 2006 到 2019 年间在布什、奥巴马以及首任特朗普政府时期的美国司法部民事部门工作的杨（Young）表示。“我不记得有任何案件是由美国检察官办公室独立处理的。”许多待决案件涉及被告在申请美国公民身份时撒谎或隐瞒了会导致其不符合入籍条件的行为细节。在大多数案例中，美国司法部引用了关于性侵犯、电汇诈骗和贩毒等严重指控的刑事定罪。其他案例则涉及被告在入籍过程中使用假名的指控。在多个案例中，政府指控被告参与过战争罪行，或支持如基地组织和青年党等外国恐怖组织。移民专家和前美国司法部律师表示，到目前为止政府的指控似乎并不异常，但他们注意到案件总数的激增——这是由于投入了更多资源来追求撤销国籍（Denaturalization）。
“乍一看，这些案件与之前政府起诉的案件并没有太大区别，”波士顿学院专门研究移民问题的法学教授丹尼尔·坎斯特鲁姆（Daniel Kanstroom）说道。 他补充说，美国司法部似乎在针对那些对入籍前或入籍期间所犯罪行认罪的人。政府认为，这部分人由于不符合“良好道德品质”的要求，起初就应该被拒绝授予公民身份。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 众议员伊尔汗·奥玛尔（Ilhan Omar，民主党-明尼苏达州）一直是总统唐纳德·特朗普推动重新审查撤销美国公民身份标准的频繁目标。 TIM EVANS/路透社
欺诈或“故意”不实作为起诉指南
根据移民政策研究所的数据，从 1990 到 2017 年，每年平均提起 11 起撤销国籍案件。这一低数字在很大程度上可以追溯到最高法院 1967 年的一项裁决，该裁决规定政府仅在存在欺诈或“故意误导”的情况下才能撤销公民身份。弗吉尼亚大学法学教授兼移民律师阿曼达·弗罗斯特（Amanda Frost）表示，该决定是在冷战时期一项试图撤销那些被政府视为政治敌人之人士国籍的努力之后做出的，这些人包括被指控为共产主义者的工会领导人、记者和政府反对者。弗罗斯特说，在两次世界大战期间以及进入 20 世纪 50 年代，大约有 22,000 名移民被撤销了美国公民身份。在接下来的几十年里，政府限制了起诉范围，主要集中在国家安全威胁或与外国恐怖组织有联系的人员。
“最高法院裁决后的共和党和民主党政府都理解该案件传递的信息，并明白撤销国籍应谨慎使用，而不应成为移民执法的常规工具，”弗罗斯特说。在总统巴拉克·奥巴马任内，撤销国籍的案件确实有所增加。当时，新的数字化指纹技术揭露，数百名被下令驱逐出境的人使用了不同的身份完成了入籍。奥巴马政府启动了一项审查，旨在撤销任何与外国恐怖组织有联系的公民国籍。当特朗普在 2016, 年就职时，其政府扩大了该计划，并将案件范围扩展到包括非恐怖主义犯罪，如欺诈和暴力犯罪。该政府还设定了配额。时任司法部长杰夫·塞申斯（Jeff Sessions）下令调查
700,000 名入籍公民，目标是将约 1,600 起案件提交至法院。尽管这些目标最终未能实现，但美国司法部发起的撤销国籍 / 取消入籍案件数量在四年内预计增加至 168 起，远远超过了奥巴马和布什政府时期的数量。
撤销国籍案件周期长、成本高且难以获胜
几十年来仅有少数撤销国籍案件被推进的原因之一是，这些案件可能需要数年时间才能解决，并且需要投入大量资源。 “这是一个极其繁琐的过程，”前诉讼律师兼 Justice Connection 创始人 Young 表示。“存在海量证据，需要密集的证据开示（discovery），且案件经常进入审判阶段或进入上诉程序。”
唐纳德·特朗普政府推动撤销国籍之举，正值美国司法部在应对政府律师大规模离职的同时，还面临着因白宫驱逐出境运动引发法律挑战而导致的历史性案件积压。 “他们不堪重负，”Young 在谈到全国范围内的联邦检察官时说道，并补充称，推动撤销国籍可能会使检察官从医疗保健欺诈、环境犯罪、腐败和危害国家安全等关键案件的诉讼工作中抽身。
而且，即使法官支持政府，也不一定会导致被驱逐出境。相反，被告将恢复其之前的身份，通常是具有合法永久居民身份，并有权在移民法官面前获得正当程序和听证会。 “要将他们驱逐出境，你必须经过一个完全独立的流程，”Young 说道。
尽管如此，特朗普政府仍决心尽可能多地起诉案件。助理总检察长布雷特·舒马特（Brett Shumate）在 7 月 20 日表示，联邦政府“仅触及了表面”，并承诺“将有更多起诉即将到来”。 “我们拒绝给那些通过欺诈手段获得美国国籍的罪犯开绿灯，”舒马特说。“在本届政府领导下，如果你在入籍过程中实施欺诈，你将面临美国司法部的全力打击。”
特朗普及其共和党盟友寻求扩大范围
一份 2025 年发布的美国司法部备忘录扩大了应优先处理的撤销国籍案件范围。其中一些新措辞要求重点关注与毒品卡特尔有关的人员，以及涉嫌“欺诈私人个体、基金或公司”的嫌疑人。备忘录的一个章节指示工作人员优先处理民事部门“认定为足够重要而需推进”的案件。反对者担心，这可能会为针对该政府眼中政治敌人或特定少数群体而发起的起诉打开大门，特别是考虑到特朗普威胁要将一些对手驱逐出境。在司法部工作过近 20 年的 Young 表示，该备忘录的措辞表明，该部门将“在任何时间、针对任何其想要撤销国籍的人员，无论该人是否对公众构成威胁，或过去是否从事过极其恶劣的行为”。美国司法部未就该备忘录的评论请求做出回应。
特朗普曾多次暗示，明尼苏达州民主党众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔（Ilhan Omar）应当被驱逐出境。在 1 月份接受《纽约时报》采访时，他表示其政府正在研究撤销美国国籍的标准，并特别关注索马里裔人士。总统还抛出主张，称纽约市市长佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）是“非法居留”，并誓言将“审查一切”。两名共和党国会议员安迪·奥格尔斯（Andy Ogles）和兰迪·法恩（Randy Fine）已呼吁美国司法部调查马姆达尼的入籍文件。与此同时，在国会山，多名共和党人在今年提出了旨在扩大撤销国籍范围的法案。德克萨斯州众议员奇普·罗伊（Chip Roy）提出的一项法案寻求撤销“社会主义、共产主义、马克思主义或伊斯兰原教旨主义倡导者”的国籍。参议员埃里克·施密特（Eric Schmitt）提出的一项法案，
警方搜寻 第二名嫌疑人
三人死亡，四人受伤
Christopher Cann
当局正在搜寻第二名嫌疑人，他们认为该嫌疑人在西雅图的一个美食节上开火，造成三人死亡，至少四人受伤。枪击事件发生在7月26日（周日），当时正值西雅图中心（Seattle Center）举办的“西雅图之味”（Bite of Seattle）美食节的最后一晚，该户外公园是太空针塔的所在地。枪声导致大量聚集在此的家庭和供应商陷入恐慌，人们四处寻找掩护。西雅图警方助理局长泰隆·戴维斯（Tyrone Davis）表示，共有七人被击中。伤者中包括一名2岁的男孩。警方认为，该事件源于西雅图中心室内餐饮与活动大厅附近至少两人之间的枪战。戴维斯表示，一名嫌疑人已向警方投案，另一名则逃离现场。他补充说，可能还有更多人员参与其中，并敦促目击者提供线索。
“我们仍在努力查清真相，”戴维斯在枪击发生数小时后的新闻发布会上表示。“我们知道在事件发生时现场有人在，他们看到了发生了什么，并认识一些可能涉及其中的人员。”戴维斯说，枪击发生时警方就在西雅图中心，并在数秒内做出了反应。尽管采取了抢救措施，但两人被宣布在现场死亡。西雅图警察局表示，其他几人被送往医院，其中一名女性因伤势过重死亡。华盛顿大学医学院发言人苏珊·格雷格（Susan Gregg）表示，到第二天，医务人员已让三名成年人出院。她表示，该幼儿仍留在哈博วิว医疗中心（Harborview Medical Center），但情况稳定。
西雅图市长凯蒂·威尔逊（Katie Wilson）将此次枪击描述为“一次恐怖的暴力行为”。她说：“受影响的家庭正经历他们人生中最糟糕的时刻，整个社区都在试图理解，一个围绕着文化、联系与快乐而建立的聚会，为何最终以枪击告终。”“西雅图之味”成立于1982年，40多年来一直是西北地区的一项夏季传统活动，拥有超过130家餐饮供应商，并设有现场烹饪演示、现场音乐和其他活动。
关于西雅图枪击案受害者的 已知信息有哪些？
根据西雅图警察局的一份声明，一名56岁的女性以及两名男性（年龄分别为19岁和44岁）死亡。该机构未公开受害者的身份。
两名男性在现场死亡。该女性在区域最高级别的创伤中心——哈博วิว医疗中心死亡，她与多名其他伤者在枪击后被送往该中心。
负责运营该医院的华盛顿大学医学院发言人格雷格表示，截至7月27日（周一），仅该幼儿仍留在哈博วิว医疗中心住院。她表示，该男孩的情况被列为“令人满意”。
格雷格表示，一名23岁的男性和一名39岁的女性已出院。格雷格还表示，在华盛顿大学蒙特莱克医疗中心（UW Medical Center-Montlake），医务人员让一名27岁的男性出院。
美食节枪击案后 警方找回2把枪
戴维斯表示，当局在现场找回了两把枪械。他没有描述这些武器。他补充说，目前没有“对社区造成持续的威胁”。
包括联邦调查局（FBI）和烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局（ATF）在内的多个地方、州和联邦机构也响应并抵达现场。
戴维斯表示，警方目前仅有“有限数量的目击者”，并敦促更多人与执法部门沟通。他还表示，枪击发生的区域没有安装监控摄像头。
今日美国
今日美国
BrieAnna J. Frank
随着中期选举活动的升温，一场关于教会是否能够背书候选人并更公开地参与政治——且不引起美国国税局（IRS）愤怒的法律之争仍在继续。长期以来，国税局一直禁止免税礼拜场所直接参与政治。但自 2024 年起，一场试图推翻这些规则的激烈法庭之争已经展开。一度，一项和解协议为扭转数十年的先例铺平了道路，结果一名法官将这一切全部推翻。
约翰逊修正案（Johnson Amendment）于 1954 年被加入到《内部税收法典》中，禁止所有免税的 501c(3) 组织（如教会和慈善机构）“直接或间接”地参与政治，特别是背书或反对候选人。
国家宗教广播协会（National Religious Broadcasters，一个福音派基督教传播者的国际协会），以及保守派倡议团体“美国代祷者”（Intercessors for America）和两家德克萨斯州教会——位于德克萨斯州瓦斯科姆（Waskom）的瓦斯科姆第一浸信会（First Baptist Church Waskom）和位于德克萨斯州雅典（Athens）的沙泉教会（Sand Springs Church）——于 2024 年 9 月就该规定起诉国税局，指称其违反了他们根据第一修正案享有的言论自由和宗教自由权利。
双方在 2025 年达成了一项拟议的和解协议。其中包括国税局扭转数十年的法律先例，承认教会和其他宗教 501c(3) 组织在某些情况下可以背书政治候选人。在法庭文件中，该机构表示，教会所做的政治背书将不被视为“参与”或“干预”政治竞选，而应被视为一次“关于政治的家庭讨论”。
但一名法官在 3 月下旬的一项意外裁决中驳回了整个案件，称联邦法院没有管辖权去改变原告的税务状态或创建税务法的豁免条款。
几天后，在法律拉锯战之中，唐纳德·特朗普总统的政府宣布，将针对宗教组织的约翰逊修正案发布指导意见，并表示将“继续将宗教自由作为一项基本权利加以保护”。
截至 7 月 24 日，该指导意见尚未出台，而原告正式就驳回决定提起上诉，法律纠纷仍在继续。他们在 7 月 7 日提交的文件中称，该裁决导致了“一次没有任何一方请求的驳回，一项达成的决议被撤销，而原告则陷入了他们起诉旨在结束的沉默之中”。该文件概述了原告的观点，认为国税局“在追求打击不受青睐的保守派和宗教发言人的同时，却允许其他人自由发言”。
不同意识形态光谱的宗教领袖和组织都谴责了他们所描述的现象，即对其盟友和机构进行过度审查，而对另一派的税务违规行为却视而不见。4 月，佐治亚州斯通克雷斯特（Stonecrest）新生传教浸信会（New Birth Missionary Baptist Church）的高级牧师贾马尔·布赖恩特（Jamal Bryant）向《今日美国》谴责了他在约翰逊修正案问题上的所谓“双重标准”，称“在美式论述中，该修正案的运用非常有选择性”。
关于约翰逊修正案的措辞和法律之争，使得宗教机构在 11 月选举前，对于特朗普政府将允许还是不允许什么样的政治参与而处于不确定状态中。
投诉颇多，但约翰逊修正案历史上的执行罕见
尽管它已经存在了更长时间...
Natalie Neysa Alund
在一段视频显示一名男子在南加州海滩攻击一只受保护的海狮后，联邦野生动物部门正在展开调查。
视频显示，一名身穿 T 恤和短裤的男子走向一只在海堤上休息的海狮并踢了该动物，背景中可以听到另一个人在笑。
随后，镜头显示该男子在海狮离开休息地后试图再次踢它。
国家海洋与大气局（NOAA）渔业执法办公室在 7 月 24 日（星期五）的一篇社交媒体帖子中表示，目前正在“调查有关社交媒体上的一段视频报告，该视频显示一名个人与海狮之间的互动，据称发生在拉霍亚海湾（La Jolla Cove）”。
“在视频中，该个人似乎在踢海狮。这是一项正在进行的调查，目前我们无法提供更多细节。”
《今日美国》已联系 NOAA 以获取更多信息。
贾马尔·布赖恩特（Jamal Bryant）牧师 2025 年在阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利发言时表示，《约翰逊修正案》（Johnson Amendment）“在美国话语体系中的使用是非常具有选择性的”。JAKE CRANDALL/USA TODAY NETWORK
在过去的 70 年里，《约翰逊修正案》——以前总统林登·B·约翰逊命名，他在担任美国参议院多数党领袖期间提出了该修正案——很少被执行。纽约的一家教会曾在 1992 年选举期间通过投放报纸广告，劝阻基督徒支持前总统比尔·克林顿，随后失去了其免税地位。法院驳回了该教会基于第一修正案的抗辩，该教会在上诉中同样败诉。此后的几十年里，无数的教会和宗教领袖涉足政治领域。根据宗教监督机构的说法，这些行为有时逾越了法律界限。其中就包括“宗教自由基金会”（Freedom From Religion Foundation），该基金会多年来向美国国税局（IRS）提交了数十起关于涉嫌违反《约翰逊修正案》的投诉。例如，在今年 6 月，由于牧师杰克逊·拉梅尔（Jackson Lahmeyer）称支持者可以在教会领取他此前已放弃的国会竞选标志，该基金会请求该机构调查俄克拉何马州图尔萨的谢里登教会（Sheridan Church）。
该基金会的法律顾问克里斯·莱因（Chris Line）在 3 月告诉《今日美国》，涉嫌违反《约翰逊修正案》的情况在保守派教会中似乎更为普遍，不过他也表示，在民主党方面“也不是一个不重要的问题”。该组织此前批评布赖恩特，认为他的教会试图在 2024 年总统大选前为时任副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）争取选票。并非只有该基金会这样做，“教会与国家分离美国人联合会”（Americans United for Separation of Church and State）也批评布赖恩特在 2022 年在讲道台上谴责前共和党美国参议院候选人赫舍尔·沃克（Herschel Walker）。三一基金会（Trinity Foundation）也指称，布赖恩特在 Instagram 上发布的一篇帖子在 2022 年选举中支持了佐治亚州民主党参议员拉斐尔·沃诺克（Raphael Warnock）。
领导者表示，是信仰而非批评在塑造决策
布赖恩特是几位告诉《今日美国》的宗教领袖之一，他们认为信仰影响信徒生活的其他领域（包括政治）是至关重要的。布赖恩特说：“我们的责任是解读时代并对时代发声。”
在 2 月份为《亚特兰大宪法报》（The Atlanta Journal-Constitution）撰写的一篇评论文章中，布赖恩特写道，黑人教会有着历史性的……
“我们根据我们的圣经信念和使命做出决定，并参考法律以确保我们合规。”
贾斯汀·阿诺特 (Justin Arnot) 比利·格雷厄姆福音传播协会 (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) 总法律顾问
实际上一直以来都是“既是礼拜之所，又是见证之地；既是避难所，又是社会变革的集结地”。在他看来，这种“双重角色”经常使我们“成为目标——受到监视、审查和选择性的警务管控”。
在接受《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 采访时，他提到了一些多年来明确与特朗普结盟的白人福音派领袖和教会。其中就包括比利·葛培礼福音传道协会 (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) 的主席兼首席执行官富兰克林·葛培礼 (Franklin Graham) 牧师，他一直是特朗普的坚定支持者，并曾在特朗普的宗教自由委员会中任职。
比利·葛培礼福音传道协会的总法律顾问贾斯汀·阿诺特 (Justin Arnot) 在 2 月份接受《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 采访时，为葛培礼参与特朗普政府的行为进行了辩护。
在他看来，更多的宗教领袖应该利用教会和国家的双重影响力，以努力塑造国家的道德品格。
与此同时，阿诺特表示，该组织只有极小部分的工作涉及政治领域。他称关于此类工作的指责是“可疑的”，并将诸如“宗教自由基金会” (Freedom From Religion Foundation) 等团体的努力描述为恐吓行为。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 富兰克林·葛培礼 (Franklin Graham) 2025 年在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的五角大楼发表讲道，他一直是总统唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 的坚定支持者。 ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
美国国税局 (IRS) 在 2012 年对该协会以及同样由葛培礼领导的灾难救援非营利组织“好撒玛利亚人计划” (Samaritan’s Purse) 进行了审计。
葛培礼在给时任总统巴拉克·奥巴马 (Barack Obama) 的关于此事的信中表示，“政府中的某人正在针对并试图恐吓我们”。
时任国税局代理局长史蒂文·米勒 (Steven Miller) 在此期间辞职，当时正围绕国税局对“茶党” (tea party) 团体的审查引发广泛争议。
最终，阿诺特表示，该组织的政治决策并不受批评者的引导。
“我们的决策基于圣经信念和我们的使命，并参考法律以确保我们合规，而我们对此充满信心，”他说道。
约翰逊修正案的未来可能会重塑宗教与政治
这场争论各方的领袖告诉《今日美国》(USA TODAY)，全国宗教广播员 (National Religious Broadcasters) 诉讼的最终结果可能会对美国未来的教会和政治生活产生重大影响。
退休的联合卫理公会主教朱利叶斯·C·特林布尔 (Julius C. Trimble) 表示，如果打开大门允许政治资金影响教会，可能会限制他所描述的信仰团体在社会中扮演的先知性和统一性的角色。
莱恩 (Line) 同样担心，如果教会被允许作为免税实体支持政治候选人，它们可能会“直接变成超级政治行动委员会 (super PACs)”。他还表示担心，由于国税局对什么才算作“教会”没有具体定义，政治团体可能会尝试重新登记为教会以获取税务优惠。
另一方面，阿诺特表示，约翰逊修正案目前的现状对宗教组织具有负面的宪法和财务影响。
“撤销（免税资格）的威胁不仅扼杀了言论，而且潜在地扼杀了捐赠，”阿诺特说。在他看来，此前被推翻的协议将简单地强制国税局“不得以随机或武断的方式地在礼拜场所强制执行 [约翰逊修正案]”。
中期选举前的教会选民指南与登记活动
位于圣地亚哥市中心以西的[此处文本缺失]，因其优美的海岸景观和受保护的海狮种群而成为热门目的地。
圣地亚哥市长托德·格洛里亚 (Todd Gloria) 表示，他看了视频，并要求当地执法部门也审查相关片段。
“这种令人作呕的虐待动物行为是不可接受的，”格洛里亚在 X 平台的一篇帖文中写道。
“我们必须保护我们的野生动物。”
圣地亚哥警察局在 Instagram 上发布的一条评论中确认，联邦官员正在调查此事件。
“我们感谢公众的关注，并鼓励任何持有相关信…… [此处文本中断]”
随着中期选举的临近，在围绕《约翰逊修正案》（Johnson Amendment）的争论持续之际，宗教领袖和组织正就参与程度做出各自的决定。
基督联合教会（United Church of Christ）创建了一套工具包，以支持中期选举中“非党派的信仰参与”；与此同时，纽约的一家教会举办了一场名为“陷入正向麻烦”（Getting Into Good Trouble）的选民登记活动，以纪念已故的美国众议员约翰·刘易斯（John Lewis）。刘易斯是 13 名最初的“自由乘车者”（Freedom Riders）之一，他们在 20 世纪 60 年代因倡导民权而遭到殴打并被监禁。
联合卫理公会（The United Methodist Church）长期以来也提供资源，并允许各独立教会举办选民登记活动，以提高公民参与度。联合卫理公会（UMC）的领导者指出了该教派的《社会原则》（Social Principles），这些原则由教会总会制定，并非教会法律，从而在党派政治活动与对社会正义问题的必要参与之间划定了界限。
“有些人将其视为右派与左派之争，而我认为……我们是从正确与错误的角度来看待这件事，”特林布尔（Trimble）说道。
贡献者：Angele Latham, The Tennessean
今日美国 (USA TODAY) 对第一修正案议题的报道由自由论坛（Freedom Forum）与新闻资助合作伙伴（Journalism Funding Partners）合作资助。资助方不提供编辑建议。
“……相关信息请联系国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration），”警方在声明中写道。
根据海洋哺乳动物委员会（Marine Mammal Commission）的说法，加州海狮受到《海洋哺乳动物保护法》（Marine Mammal Protection Act）的保护，这是一部 1972 年颁布的联邦法律。
NOAA 表示，喂食、捕捉、伤害、杀害或骚扰海狮均属违法行为，任何违反者都可能面临监禁。
任何掌握此事件或其他涉及哺乳动物受到伤害或骚扰事件信息的人员，请联系 NOAA 渔业执法办公室，电话：800-853-1964。
今日美国 (USA TODAY)
Karissa Waddick
在这个中位年龄为 44.8 岁、全美最老州的一小部分年轻选民，可能会在今年最关键的一次参议院选举中发挥决定性作用。
随着民主党急于在缅因州的参议院竞选中寻找替代者接替格雷厄姆·普拉特纳 (Graham Platner)，最新的民调显示，35 岁以下的选民在对抗共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯 (Susan Collins) 的这场竞选中依然是一个决定性的群体。
一份于 7 月 21, 公布的新罕布什尔大学调查发现，普拉特纳可能的接任者特洛伊·杰克逊 (Troy Jackson) 与柯林斯在统计学上处于平手状态。杰克逊在女性和年轻选民中领先，在 18-34, 岁的选民中获得了 67% 的支持率，这与普拉特纳在春季针对柯林斯的民调中所获支持率相同。
塔夫茨大学一个研究小组本月的一项分析将缅因州列为年轻选民最有可能影响中期选举结果的顶尖州之一。
18-29 岁的年轻人占缅因州人口的比例相对较低。根据缅因州经济学家办公室 2024 年的数据，该州的中位年龄为 44.8 岁，65 岁以上人口占总人口的 23%。
但缅因州年轻人的投票率在全国范围内都是前所未有的。根据《2025 年缅因州民主状态报告》，2024, 60% 的 18-29 岁年轻人投票，而全国平均水平为 47%。
在 2022 年中期选举期间，缅因州的青年投票率比全国总计高出 10 个百分点以上。
缅因州的选举法（包括当日登记和无需选民身份证件要求）也使年轻选民和州外大学生更容易投票。
35 岁的贾斯汀·切内特 (Justin Chenette) 此前曾与杰克逊共同担任缅因州历史上最年轻的州参议员。他表示，现在要真正看清这场竞选的“局势走向”还为时过早。
尽管是推定提名人，但杰克逊在定于 7 月 25. 举行的特别提名大会之前，无法正式获得候选人名单中的一席之地。届时，他将只有 100 多天的时间来构建针对现任者的竞选活动，而后者已在参议院任职近三十年。
杰克逊激励并动员年轻选民前往投票站的能力，可能对民主党至关重要。该党将缅因州的参议院竞选视为夺回议院控制权的必须之战。
“（杰克逊的）竞选团队必须吸引所有人口统计群体，但年轻人绝对能决定这场竞选的成败，”切内特说。
难以超越的榜样
艾莉森·贝耶 (Alison Beyea) 在上学期观察到科尔比学院 (Colby College) 的学生们围绕普拉特纳的竞选活动而迅速凝聚，这种反应是她多年来未曾在政治候选人身上看到的。
“缅因州美国参议院竞选通常不是科尔比学院的热门讨论话题，但今年春天人们讨论的全部都是这个，”该学院戈尔法布公共事务中心 (Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs) 执行主任贝耶说道，“他们在初选中看到了某种能触动他们的东西，让他们意识到自己想要什么样的领导力。”
普拉特纳的虚拟校园市政厅会议达到了人数上限。贝耶记得，数百名学生到场倾听，甚至包括那些在初选中并不打算投票给他的学生。
她认为普拉特纳帮助他们打破了对政治建制派的深刻幻灭感，并带来了希望。
“他们会不断谈论他传达的信息，即体制是如何想要分裂他们的，”她说，“这引起了学生们的强烈共鸣。”
普拉特纳退出竞选，以及杰克逊作为推定提名人的崛起...
被提名人，这引发了新的疑问：民主党是否能继续延续在年轻人中的势头。从纸面上看，杰克逊与普拉特纳惊人地相似。两人都来自工人阶级背景：普拉特纳是一名牡蛎养殖户，而杰克逊则是一名伐木工。两人都得到了参议员伯尼·桑德斯的基层政治行动组织“我们的革命”(Our Revolution) 的支持，并将其主张集中在生活成本的负担能力上。但杰克逊在缅因州政坛深耕数十年，很可能会因为过去在社会保守观点上的立场而受到审查，包括他此前反对同性婚姻和反对堕胎的立场。此外，他是否具备普拉特纳对年轻选民那种相同的魅力吸引力仍有待观察。“政策起到了巨大的作用，但我认为我们忽略了……那种觉得候选人能让我们产生想要让他们领导我们的感觉的重要性，”贝亚表示。
切内特则认为杰克逊那粗犷的个性可能是一项资产。他说，年轻人正在寻找真实感。“这就是为什么你会看到人们如此倾向于像特洛伊·杰克逊以及其他那些不一定是最圆滑的人的声音，”切内特说。“他们的回应没有经过华盛顿顾问的测试。”在缩短的竞选期间，政治分析人士表示，杰克逊需要通过年轻人所在的地方与他们接触：即网络。倡导组织“Z世代争取变革”(Gen-Z for Change) 的合伙关系总监杰克·佩托茨表示，通过社交媒体触达青年人不仅仅在于“酷炫的剪辑和 TikTok 趋势”。他认为，如果政策平台能引起共鸣，这将能够迅速普及并激励年轻人投票。塔夫茨大学公民学习与参与信息研究中心（Newhouse 资助）主任莉拉·斯特朗表示：“年轻人似乎与那些能够倾听并看到他们忧虑——特别是关于经济以及挑战那些失效体制的候选人——产生共鸣。” “在缅因州以及该国的任何其他地方，这似乎是本届选举中与年轻选民建立联系的秘诀。”
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或将其完全移除。 几十年来，军方一直使用含有有毒 PFAS 的泡沫来灭火。这些化学物质随后会渗入土壤和地下水，并在其中持久存在而不会分解，从而增加了饮用受污染井水人员患某些癌症的概率。 军方未回应《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 关于延期影响人数估值的请求，但考虑到有多少个站点被延期，受影响的邻居总数可能很容易达到数万人。 海亚特一家住在美国陆军雅基马训练中心 (Yakima Training Center) 街道下游，在《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 给他们打电话之前，他们完全不知道清理工作被推迟了。 “他们什么都没告诉我们，”布兰迪·海亚特 (Brandi Hyatt) 说道。 唯一表明情况有所变化的线索，出现在五角大楼网站一个被掩埋的链接后面，该网站公布了 700 多个军事设施的清理时间表。《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 汇编了这些报告——其中许多现已被删除——时间可追溯至 2021,，观察到在过去五年中，至少有 1,000 起在没有正式公告的情况下更改清理时间的情况。 5 月发布的最新延期计划最为剧烈，平均延期十年。 《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 已将时间表详情收集在一个可搜索的数据仪表板中。
延期从 2025 年开始堆积
近四分之三的站点——超过 500 个——至少被延期过一次，且延期时间显著增加。 《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 对现已失效的文件分析显示，从 2021 到 2024, 期间，军方每季度将数十个站点的清理时间表推迟，通常仅推迟一两年。少数站点的进度甚至会加快，通常也仅加快一年左右。 延期在 2025 年 3 月突然开始堆积，当时五角大楼一次性推迟了 150 个以上站点的进度。最新发布的记录（代表截至 2025, 9 月的清理时间表）将近 200 个军事站点的目标日期推迟到了未来多达 20 年。 这些时间表甚至不代表每个基地的邻居可以预期其财产何时免受“永久性化学物质”侵害。在清理环境污染时，军方遵循国会制定的多步骤超级基金 (Superfund) 计划。军方一直在推迟的时间表主要属于“补救调查”步骤，该步骤旨在探索污染的扩散程度以及如何修复损害。在通过这些里程碑之前，最终的清理工作甚至无法开始。
已证实存在污染的站点
《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 发现，即便在五角大楼已公开确认永久性化学物质渗入当地水源的军事站点，也出现了这些清理延期的情况。 水质检测表明，这些化学物质可以流出基地，污染私人水井和市政饮用水源。 俄亥俄州代顿、德克萨斯州沃斯堡和亚利桑那州图森仅是部分示例，这些城市已对军方提起诉讼，声称 PFAS 威胁到它们的水源。 《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 对公开的公共和私人饮用水军事检测结果分析显示，周围的井水
最艰难的公开水域游泳挑战。纪录由 Caitlin O’Reilly 持有，她在 20 岁 227 天时完成了该挑战。 在 8, 7 月，Merhige 完成了该挑战的第五次游泳，即从爱尔兰到苏格兰 21.4 英里的北海峡横渡。在与 50 度的水温、强劲的潮汐和水母蜇伤作斗争后，她以 12 小时 19 分 37 秒的成绩完赛。 这次游泳对 Merhige 具有特殊意义：它恰好发生在她经历一次大手术一年后。在 2023, 发生一起滑雪事故后，医生在她胰腺上发现了一个良性肿瘤，导致她经历了数年的就医和手术。 “我认为这完全改变了我的观点，以及我对癌症经历的理解，”她说。“我能够做到这一点，并且我的身体足够健康能够做到这一点——我不应该将此视为理所当然。”
消防员在 2007. 的一次训练演习中喷洒含有 PFAS 的泡沫以扑灭直升机火灾。消防泡沫在液体燃料上形成一层“毯子”，有助于快速灭火。五角大楼已将停止使用该泡沫的截止日期延长至 2027. 10 月。图片提供：PATRICK HODGES/U.S. ARMY
已有 73 个基地的饮用水中“永久性化学物质”测试结果超过了美国环境保护署 (EPA) 目前的限制。今日美国 (USA TODAY) 发现，除 2 个基地外，其余所有基地的清理进程均出现延迟。 在南卡罗来纳州的 McEntire 空军国民警卫队基地，三分之一的水样测试结果超过了 EPA 限制，其清理时间表已从 2029 年推迟到 2053 年，延迟了近四分之一个世纪。 在费城郊外的 Biddle 空军国民警卫队基地，约 85% 的样本测试结果超过了 EPA 限制，但其清理工作被推迟了 19 年。在华盛顿州的雅基马，尽管从军队雅基马训练中心周边 Hyatt 夫妇邻居处采集的 1,350 多个水样测试结果均高于 EPA 限制，但清理工作仍被推迟了 13 年以上。 对于 Brandi Hyatt 来说，搬进这个位于 2 英亩地块上、拥有三间卧室的家中曾像是梦想成真。这对夫妇和他们的两个孩子享受着穿过后院的小溪和远处白雪皑皑的山峰。此外，街道对面基地里进进出出的士兵车队让他们感到安全和自豪。 直到 2021, 军队敲开 Hyatt 夫妇的门测试他们的水井并发现了 PFAS。她说，自从搬进来以后，至少有五名邻居死于癌症，而她自己也出现了甲状腺疾病。 “在这个温馨的尽头街道上，与所有这些友好的老邻居一起抚养孩子，这是一个美丽的梦想，”Hyatt 停顿了一下说道。“结果发现这个梦想可能正在杀死你，这真的很难接受。”
军方如何回应？
自去年秋天以来，数十名国会议员致信战争部（正式名称为国防部），对延迟问题表示担忧。在 7 月 21, 发送的最新信函中，来自华盛顿州的民主党参议员 Patty Murray 不仅批评了延迟本身，还批评了延迟发生的方式。 “该部门没有与社区领导者协商并向公众公布延迟情况，而是选择悄悄地将其网站上之前的清理时间表删除并发布新时间表，”Murray 写道。“这最终违反了军事领导人与其周边社区之间的信任。” 五角大楼未能在今日美国 (USA TODAY) 的发稿期限前对此请求发表评论。
Maya Merhige 说，如果孩子们能与癌症搏斗， “那么我绝对可以再游 20 个泳姿。”图片提供：美国泳渡募捐组织 (SWIM ACROSS AMERICA)
然而，一名陆军发言人表示，时间表的变动是环境清理过程中的自然组成部分。“这些变动反映了正在进行的具体技术工作，而非我们承诺的改变，”奥兰登·霍华德中校（Lt. Col. Orlandon Howard）在邮件中写道。他将保护饮用水描述为雅基马训练中心的首要任务，并补充说基地官员与州及当地社区保持着定期沟通。“当更新后的 PFAS 数据、不断演变的美国环境保护署 (EPA) 标准以及特定场地的复杂性，使得陆军需要进行超出此前公布时间表之外的额外实地工作和分析时，陆军更新了其时间表，”霍华德写道。由于超级基金清理过程通常需要多年时间，军方此前表示已采取了“临时措施”，例如向至少 55 个污染最严重的军事基地提供瓶装水或安装过滤系统。“当我们的数据表明存在风险时，我们会立即采取行动切断该暴露路径，”霍华德写道，并指出陆军已在雅基马训练中心周围安装了 71 套家用过滤系统，并计划再安装数十套。此外，他们正向许多仍在等待过滤器的海亚特（Hyatts）邻居提供瓶装水。在全国另一端的费城附近，比德尔空军国民警卫队基地（Biddle Air National Guard Base）的官员表示，他们的第一阶段调查即将结束。调查人员表示，需要进行更多的土壤和水采样以填补数据空白，但这必须在空军为该基地提供更多资金后才能实现。与此同时，其清理时间表已被推迟了近 20 年。“我们一直在优先处理全国范围内的临时措施，我们在比德尔基地也是这么做的，”比德尔基地环境修复项目经理威廉·迈尔（William Myer）在 7 月 16 日举行的一次公开会议上说道。“我们正在积极进行地下水设计，以构建一套地下水处理系统。”在 5 月 21 日的季度更新中，战争部首次加入了简短的脚注，解释每个基地时间表被延长的原因，包括优先处理高风险场地、需要额外测试以及极端天气等原因。五角大楼还在其网站上增加了一条注释，称虽然军方“努力维持原定时间表，但由于某些场地遇到的独特因素，可能会出现变动”。《今日美国》获取了军方对数十名对延迟表示担忧的当选官员的部分回复。
该部门的回复总体上与陆军发言人的说法相呼应，同样将原因归咎于更严格的 EPA 法规，并引用了资金可用性和承包商问题等因素。
延迟如何影响社区
（此处为另一篇报道的片段） 高中毕业，成为 14 岁完成 20 英里泳渡的最年轻女性。一年后，她成为 15 岁完成夏威夷莫洛凯海峡 (Molokai Channel) 泳渡的最年轻的人。随后，她又横渡了新西兰的库克海峡 (Cook Strait)、英吉利海峡和莫洛凯海峡。但她说，这些成就并非轻易获得。 “我花了很长时间，直到大约一年前才真正习惯于无法掌控一切的感觉。……在起初，这种在如此巨大的水域中显得如此渺小的感觉真的吓到了我。” 每次泳渡必须独立完成且不得借助外力。游泳者不能接触浮标、船只或任何乘客。每 30 分钟，梅里格 (Merhige) 会通过绳索接一个装满碳水化合物的水瓶以维持能量，尽管当她开始感到不适时，即使是这件事也会变得困难。 梅里格表示，尽管面临身体上的挑战，但心理上的挑战更大。“我已经游泳很长时间了，所以我知道身体上我可以做到。更多的是一个心理问题，比如：‘我该如何继续这样做且不’”
在华盛顿州雅基马附近，陆军花费了近四年时间才为海亚特一家安装全氟和多氟烷基物质 (PFAS) 过滤系统。正是由于在这一“漫长且令人恐惧的过程”中的不确定性，促使布兰迪·海亚特创立了“追求无 PFAS” (Pursue PFAS Free)——这是一个社区组织，旨在收集和分享信息，并为该州几处军事基地周围的清洁水源发声。“每个人都应该在自己的家中感到安全，”她说，“但我不再觉得我的家安全，我的邻居们也一样。” 在污染被发现多年后，她的一些邻居仍然处于不安全状态。格雷格·卡伦在州生态部门负责该地区的危险废物清理工作，他指出，陆军迄今为止安装的 71 套过滤系统，仅相当于井水测试结果超过美国环境保护署 (EPA) 限制的周边家庭数量的一半。他的部门希望陆军在检测和减轻污染方面能更加积极，因此卡伦表示，看到一个未提前告知的 13 年延迟令人担忧。
“我们觉得 2028 年的目标非常乐观——也许过于乐观了，”卡伦说道，他在《今日美国》 (USA TODAY) 联系他之前也并不知晓这一延迟。“但任何长达十年的时间表都令人不安。”卡伦补充说，在军方完成调查之前，无法对清理过程进行公开审查。“在这些文件公布之前，公众实际上无法洞察，也无法看到幕后陆军在做什么，除了陆军选择分享的内容，”卡伦说，“如果陆军将这些交付成果推迟十二年，那么公众在这一影响他们的议题上，真正参与的机会在哪里？”
为了应对关于雅基马地区沟通不畅的批评，陆军创建了一份季度简报和一个 PFAS 网站。其他地点，例如宾夕法尼亚州的比德尔空军国民警卫队基地，则设有咨询委员会定期会议，允许邻居们与领导清理工作的军方官员见面。然而，在比德尔基地相邻的海军航空站工作了数十年的约瑟夫·麦格拉斯表示，这还远远不够。“从日常情况来看，我们根本不知道发生了什么，”麦格拉斯在咨询委员会 7 月 16 日的会议上告诉比德尔的修复经理，“我没看到任何实质性的进展。”
海亚特在描述与军方的互动时措辞更为激烈。“陆军简直是在对所有人进行心理操纵 (gaslighting)，”她告诉《今日美国》 (USA TODAY)。“我热爱我们的士兵，”海亚特说，“但我无法对陆军与我们的沟通方式说出任何好话。”她描述了与陆军官员之间紧张的对话，在这些对话中，她觉得自己受到了欺负，并被指责导致了家中过滤系统安装延迟。
“即使系统安装好了，依然会有那种感觉：我今天安全吗？”海亚特说，并补充道，一名邻居的过滤器故障了数月才被发现。现在，海亚特的组织希望陆军能真正为她和她的邻居提供空间，让他们参与决策。 “不要再告诉我们你们将为我们做什么，以及结果会有多好，让我们成为事件参与的一部分，”海亚特说。
“让我压力那么大？” ” 她说，在五次游泳挑战中，莫洛凯海峡（Molokai Channel）的游泳是最艰苦的——无论是身体上还是精神上。她在水里待了 28 小时，几乎是她和团队预期的两倍时间。 “那是唯一一次我在水里时在想，‘我为什么要这么做？’ ” 默希格（Merhige）说道。 但每当她质疑是否要继续这个决定时，她都会提醒自己是为了谁而游泳。在每次游泳之前，默希格都会将那些正在与癌症抗争或曾与癌症抗争的人的名字写在她的泳帽上。从家人、朋友，甚至是她不认识的癌症患者，每个名字都提醒着她坚持下去的原因。 默希格还剩下两次游泳挑战才能完成“七大洋挑战赛”（Oceans Seven）。她计划在 8 月挑战直布罗陀海峡，并在明年挑战日本的津轻海峡——这两项挑战都将在她 20 岁生日之前完成。 在每次游泳前，她都会像往常一样，在泳帽上写下癌症患者和幸存者的名字。 “我喜欢说，我是在借用他们的勇气。”
Saundra Torry
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由总统唐纳德·特朗普领导的美国司法部授权针对数名《纽约时报》记者的传票，其影响远不止是对记者的攻击。这一行动影响了自由社会中人们了解政府行为的权利。
这也不仅仅是对单一新闻机构的一次打击。这似乎是该政府一系列损害新闻自由的更广泛行动的一部分。
在 7 月 23 日于曼哈顿举行的关于《时报》停止传票请求的听证会上，一名联邦法官谴责了美国司法部的行为，并告诉政府律师：“要么我们撤销这些传票，要么你们撤回传票。”
美国司法部迅速撤回了这些传票，以及要求提供记者电话记录的传票，还包括两名记者的配偶和第三名记者的母亲的电话记录传票。遗憾的是，美国司法部同时声明“此次调查仍在进行中”。
美国司法部传票“违反了记者的宪法权利”
7 月 8 日，《时报》报道称，特朗普在离开土耳其的北约峰会时，使用的是较旧的空军一号专机，而非由卡塔尔捐赠的价值 4 亿美元的新型空军一号。援引“获悉计划的人士”，《时报》记者写道，安全官员担心新飞机缺乏旧型号所具备的必要防御功能。
7 月 19 日，特朗普表示，卡塔尔的飞机“具备很多能力，但据我了解，大约一个月左右，他们将把它送去进行最大化升级”。
联邦大陪审团向相关记者发出传票，企图查明其秘密消息来源。在听证会之前，《时报》新闻编辑部的首席律师写道，这些传票“违反了《时报》及其记者的宪法权利”。
记者们表示，政府还采取了其他恐吓秘密消息来源的行动：
Van Jones 和 David Safavian
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任何看过《法律与秩序》（Law & Order）剧集的人都知道，检察官经常依赖身穿白色实验服的法医专家。他们向陪审团讲述微观毛发比对、咬痕分析、血迹模式以及其他所谓能够证明有罪的结论性“科学玩意儿”。然而，事实往往并非如此。
这些所谓的证据中，很大一部分不过是对结果有某种利益关联的人员所发表的未经证实的意见。没错，DNA 是可靠的（如果在采集过程中操作得当）。但太多时候，伪科学被伪装成事实证据，呈交给那些缺乏相关知识的陪审员。
然而在现实生活中，法院接受伪造的法医鉴定，且往往导致令人不安的后果。
“摇晃婴儿综合征”与法院仍然依赖的伪科学
在 2023 年，尼克·弗兰纳里（Nick Flannery）因其幼子阿洛（Arlo）在辛辛那提郊区突然昏迷而被指控袭击和危害儿童。
在急诊室里，阿洛的医生发现婴儿大脑内有出血，并暗示这是由“摇晃婴儿综合征”引起的。
阿洛身上没有瘀伤，没有骨折，没有颅骨损伤，也没有被忽视的迹象。他的父母是唯一的照顾者，且没有虐待史。根本没有任何证据。这就像是那个“没有叫的狗”一样（指缺失的关键证据）。尽管如此，关于摇晃婴儿综合征的指控依然引发了一系列的连锁反应。
弗兰纳里的孩子们被带走了。审查此案的独立医学专家发现，一种可能在出生时就存在且随时间恶化的既往疾病，很可能是导致阿洛出血和昏迷的原因。健康记录还显示，其头部生长异常且症状与持续性的医疗状况一致，而非虐待性创伤。
由于执意将此案提交陪审团，检察官将主张阿洛·弗兰纳里的伤势是由摇晃婴儿综合征引起的，尽管这一医学理论长期以来一直存在争议。
如果被定罪，尼克·弗兰纳里可能面临 12 年监禁。
不可靠的科学导致了 52% 的冤狱
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h 1 月，联邦调查局（FBI）在早上 6:05 到访了《华盛顿邮报》记者汉娜·纳坦森（Hannah Natanson）的家中，这是针对一名政府承包商非法泄露机密资料指控调查的一部分。FBI 没收了她的手机、一块智能手表和两台电脑——其中一台包含个人信息，包括与一名医生以及纳坦森未婚夫的通信记录。
新闻自由记者委员会（Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press）称此次搜查是“史无前例的”。幸运的是，一名联邦法官在 2 月裁定，应当由“独立的司法审查”而非美国司法部来审查纳坦森被没收的资料。
5 月，美国地方法院法官安东尼·特伦加（Anthony Trenga）维持了该裁决，理由是第一修正案赋予记者“对其消息来源保密性的某种宪法保护”。美国司法部已经起诉了该联邦承包商，但如果政府调查人员能够审查这位《邮报》记者的手机和电脑，他们将发现每一个向其提供信息的来源。
她的许多报道都关于唐纳德·特朗普政府削减联邦员工规模的问题。5 月，纳坦森作为《邮报》团队的一员获得了普利策奖。
Flannery 案仅是众多案例之一，在这些案例中，未经证实的科学理论被用于刑事起诉。罗伯特·罗伯森（Robert Roberson）距离预定于 10 月 16 日执行死刑仅剩几天，他被指控杀害了 2 岁大的女儿，而检察官对此坚信是因为所谓的“摇晃婴儿综合征”。
10 月 9 日，德克萨斯州刑事上诉法院停止了罗伯森的执行，因为州法律规定，如果此前使用的法医学证据随后被证明不可信或在科学上不准确，则必须重新审理定罪案件。罗伯森可能会获得重新审理的机会，而首席侦探计划就摇晃婴儿综合征证据的不可靠性提供证词。
一周。这就是司法系统距离一个不可逆转的错误仅在咫尺之遥。其他人，如密歇根州的乔什·伯恩斯（Josh Burns）和德克萨斯州的安德鲁·罗克（Andrew Roark），在被判定摇晃孩子有罪后被囚禁多年。由于用于定罪的科学缺乏可靠性，上诉法院撤销了他们的定罪。
为了正常运作，我们的司法系统应该依赖可靠、经过验证的证据，而非未经证实的理论和伪科学。错误的定罪剥夺了无辜者的自由，通过旷日持久的诉讼和不必要的监禁耗费了数百万美元的纳税人资金，并迫使政府在这些定罪被推翻时支付巨额的赔偿金以进行弥补。
肯塔基州无辜计划（Kentucky Innocence Project）报告称，伪科学导致了该州 52% 的冤假错案。
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2003 年，一名德克萨斯州法院在罗伯特·罗伯森被判定通过猛烈摇晃其 2 岁女儿尼基（Nikki）导致其不可逆转的脑损伤并死于“摇晃婴儿综合征”后，判处其死刑。在案件审查期间，罗伯森处于死刑待决状态。
许多优秀的消息来源希望保持匿名，而这通常正是美国人了解原本会被掩盖的重大政府行动的方式。
美国人理应获得“关于国家最高办公室的信息……”
h 2025 年，美联社（AP）负责报道白宫的“记者团”成员被限制在若干特定地点报道总统，包括椭圆形办公室和“空军一号”。美联社还被禁止进入白宫记者团。
美联社的报道至关重要，因为其报道出现在全美及国际上的数十家报纸中。
为什么它的记者被禁？当唐纳德·特朗普发布行政命令将墨西哥湾（Gulf of Mexico）更名为美国湾（Gulf of America）时，美联社仍然使用墨西哥湾这个国际公认的名称。
2025 年 4 月，由唐纳德·特朗普在首任期间任命的美国地方法院法官特雷弗·麦克法登（Trevor McFadden）发布了初步禁制令，要求政府允许美联社记者重新进入椭圆形办公室、“空军一号”及其他白宫场所：“如果政府向部分记者敞开大门……那么它不能因为观点不同而向其他记者关上大门。”
两个月后，一个联邦上诉小组推迟了麦克法登关于解除禁令的指令，去年 7 月，全体上诉法院维持了这一推迟决定。
新闻自由记者委员会（Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press）、白宫记者协会以及 46 家新闻机构正致力于帮助美联社重新获得进入记者团的完整权限，以便其能向公众提供“关于国家最高办公室的信息”。
“针对的是总统不喜欢的观点”
在抱怨国家公共广播电台（NPR）和公共广播服务公司（PBS）“非常不公平”且“非常偏颇”之后，特朗普签署了一项行政命令，切断了对这两者的联邦资金支持。
今年3月，美国地方法院法官兰多夫·莫斯（Randolph Moss）裁定，“政府的行为针对的是总统不喜欢并试图扼杀的观点……第一修正案不容许这种类型的观点歧视和报复。”
法官阻止了联邦机构执行总统停止拨款的命令。
但这可能无法让NPR和PBS拿回联邦资金，因为特朗普还呼吁国会削减经费，而众议院和参议院的共和党人在一年前已经这么做了。
记者委员会（Reporters Committee）旨在捍卫记者和新闻机构的第一修正案权利，该委员会主席斯蒂芬·J·阿德勒（Stephen J. Adler）表示，记者受到恐吓是极其危险的：“新闻自由关乎公众的权利——了解他们的社区和国家是如何运行的，并基于独立报道做出明智的决定。当公众的知情权被摧毁时，正如特朗普政府试图通过向《纽约时报》发出传票所做的那样，我们所有人都会遭受不可挽回的损害，这个国家赖以建立的自由亦然。”
桑德拉·托里（Saundra Torry）曾任《今日美国》（USA TODAY）编辑撰稿人，并曾任新闻自由记者委员会主席。
在他们审查的案件中，伪造的法庭科学证据被认定是全美 24% 的冤狱案件的促成因素。 但使用伪造法庭科学最显著的影响可能在于公众对我们法院的信心。
各州需要采取的行动
为了让我们的司法系统发挥作用，州法院必须效仿联邦法院，采用《联邦证据规则》第 702 条中所概述的标准，该标准要求法庭科学证词必须基于“可靠的科学原理和方法”。这项规则赋予法官在缺陷证据污染陪审团之前将其过滤掉的权力。
遗憾的是，州法院很少进行严格的验证。这就是为什么各州现在比以往任何时候都更需要采用基于证据的标准，以确保提供给陪审团的信息是可信且经过审核的。
我们的国父们希望确保法院对每位被告都是公平的。这正是我们最初设立陪审团审判的原因。但只有当陪审员面对的是根植于可靠科学的信任信息时，该系统才能运作。
在电视剧《法律与秩序》中，正确的人通常会被判定有罪。而在现实生活中，情况并非总是如此。
如果我们想要实现真正的正义，法官必须被赋予权力来设定高标准，以筛除垃圾科学并保护无辜者。如果各州希望确保判定正确，他们应该采用《联邦证据规则》第 702 条中设定的方法。
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Jean Hullihan 在 2023 年 67 岁时退休，每月领取 4,200 美元的社会保障福利。Hullihan 曾在国家反恐中心担任情报分析师，且有海外工作经历。
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AARP 表示，社会保障金在六年内将面临全面削减，美国年长者需要的是解决方案，而不是运作不透明的委员会。一个由两党参议员组成的团体提出了一项立法，旨在通过“快速通道”推进任何能够挽救社会保障、加强补充工资税的日益减少的信托基金并保持 100% 福利完整的法案。
一个由七名成员组成的两党社会保障咨询委员会将起草一项法案，以确保该计划的信托基金在接下来的至少半个世纪内保持偿付能力。随后，由国会领导人在众议院和参议院提交名为《保护退休机会并维持全民收入安全》（简称 PROMISE）的法案，然后再由委员会审议，委员会可举行听证会并修订立法。 一些知名智库，如两党政策中心（Bipartisan Policy Center）和负责任联邦委员会（Committee for a Responsible Federal...
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由于基础婴儿床通常成本在 200 美元左右，部分婴儿车价格在 500 美元或更高，许多家庭正在重新思考如何建立婴儿礼品登记表（baby registries）并为新生儿做准备。 来自怀孕与育儿公司 What to Expect 的一项新调查发现，许多家长正在降低对传统礼品登记表的预期，更多的人计划自行购买昂贵的必需品，并转向礼品卡、团体赠礼和二手物品等替代方案。 这项针对 2,099 名孕妇及婴儿年龄在 6 个月以下母亲的调查发现，59% 的受访者预计由于成本上涨，收到的婴儿洗礼（baby shower）礼物将减少。近 8 成（8 in 10）母亲表示，在要求亲友购买昂贵的登记礼品时感到不自在，而 64% 的人预计将自行购买大部分婴儿装备。
不再仅仅依赖礼品登记表，许多家长正在重新思考支持的形式，优先考虑灵活的礼物、实际的帮助以及他们真正需要的物品。
家长们开始接纳礼品卡和实际支持
比起仅用产品填充登记表，越来越多的家长要求提供礼品卡、现金基金以及在婴儿出生后能提供帮助的服务。 调查显示，自 2024 年以来，对商店和餐厅礼品卡的需求增加了 36%，而现金基金的需求增长了 24%。对包括餐饮配送、房屋清洁和产后支持在内的服务需求增长了 22%。目前，近 1/6 的母亲优先选择包含非产品礼物的登记表。这些选项允许亲友根据自己的预算贡献任何金额，同时给予新任父母在需要时购买必需品的灵活性。
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本季度，且近半数的人计划支出将高于去年。 “返校季消费关乎的是一项承诺，而非随意选择，”普华永道（PwC）全球零售业务负责人凯利·佩德森（Kelly Pedersen）告诉 今日美国 ，“家长们并非在寻找跳过清单的理由，而是在寻找能够承担已预见账单的方法。” 佩德森表示，这正是免税假期的作用所在。 “免税周末正是那些注重预算的家长已经圈起来的日期，”他说。“这并不是为了少花钱，而是在面对一项无法回避的支出时采取精明的方式。” 在普华永道的调查中，服装和鞋类是最大的一项支出，金额为 $278。 “从历史上看，服装和鞋类是在免税假期期间获益最多的类别，而这些恰恰是家庭最优先考虑的类别，”佩德森说道。 佩德森指出，本季度的不同之处在于家长们寻找这些时机的方式更加刻意：调查中 54% 的家庭将促销和优惠列为首要购买因素。 73% 的人在购物过程中使用了人工智能（AI），通常是专门用来比较价格和把握购买时机。 佩德森还表示，消费并不会在开学后就停止。家庭预计在开学后每月还将在费用、伙食和活动成本上支出 $635。 “返校季并非一个季节性事件；它是一年一度财务关系的开端，”他说。“那些应对得最好的人，是那些带着计划而来的家庭。”
预算支持这一举措，旨在启动旨在维持社会保障基金偿付能力的谈判。 两党政策中心（BPC）支持该拟议立法，称其为“打破不采取行动之现状的严肃的两党进程”。委员会（CRFB）表示，希望该提案能“启动一个急需的进程，以确保社会保障”。 然而，美国养老金协会（AARP）“强烈”反对该法案。该非营利、非党派组织代表 50 岁及以上的 12500 万美国人，其表示国会迫切需要解决社会保障的财务问题，但没有理由像在《PROMISE Act》中那样将这项工作外包给另一个机构。 “我们强烈反对通过国会快轨处理社会保障变更，”AARP 首席倡导与参与官 Nancy LeaMond 在 7 月 21 日致伊利诺伊州民主党党鞭参议员 Dick Durbin 和路易斯安那州共和党参议员 Bill Cassidy 的信中写道。 Durbin 和 Cassidy 是提出《PROMISE Act》提案的立法者之一。
《PROMISE Act》将如何运作？
《PROMISE Act》将创建一个“独立的、两党参与的”社会保障咨询委员会 (SSAB)，负责制定并向国会提交一份基础法案，以确保社会保障信托基金在至少 50 年内有足够的资金。 参议院和众议院的多数党领袖，或者如果没有他们，任何国会议员都可以提交该基础法案，随后该法案将被提交给参议院财政委员会和众议院筹款委员会，以便有机会举行听证会并对其进行修正。 委员会将对基础法案进行投票或报告。如果他们不这样做，该法案将自动列入参议院和众议院的议事日程。 参议院和众议院的多数党领袖可以将法案向前推进，任何其他国会议员也可以这样做。同样，在程序启动后，国会中的任何人都可以提出修正案。
物价上涨仍是首要担忧
但高成本继续让购物者担忧。 “价格仍然是关注的焦点，尽管消费者比四年前通货膨胀达到顶峰时更加乐观，”全国零售联合会 (NRF) 在 7 月 7 日其网站的一篇返校季博客文章中表示。“今年 78% 的购物者预计在本学期的返校用品上会看到更高的价格，而 2022 年这一比例为 84%。” 但 NRF 表示，不同收入阶层的家庭对价格的看法存在差异。 年收入超过 $100,000 的人群“自 2022 年高通胀以来，担忧程度下降幅度更大，并继续推动消费”，该组织表示。 “低收入家庭虽然不像四年前那样担忧，但仍然担心价格，并正在寻找增加资金利用率的方法。” 该零售组织表示，零售商已经注意到这一点，并将整个夏天开展促销活动。约三分之一的返校购物者告诉 NRF，他们通常围绕夏季促销计划购物。家庭在参与该组织的调查时还表示，如果返校用品的价格高于预期，他们将进行更多的比价购物，或在折扣店寻找商品。 “随着家庭准备迎接返校季，负担能力仍然是首要任务。零售商专注于在本次返校季提供价值，提供具有竞争力的价格、促销和折扣，以帮助家庭管理这些采购成本，”NRF 首席经济学家兼研究执行主任 Mark Mathews 告诉 今日美国。 他表示，销售税假期有助于消费者最大限度地节省开支。 “这些免税购物活动对购物者和零售商都有利。”
最后，参议院和众议院将在 100 小时的审议后对法案进行投票。最终通过需要参议院五分之三的投票通过，以及众议院的多数票通过。 “我们的两党提案让国会能够以透明、公平和两党协作的方式讨论这一问题，”Durbin 在一份新闻稿中说。“我们被选出是为了解决问题——而没有比社会保障的偿付能力和未来更大的问题了。”
为什么 AARP（美国退休人员协会）反对该法案？
尽管德宾（Durbin）吹捧其透明度，但 AARP 表示该法案恰恰相反。该协会称，《承诺法案》（PROMISE Act）限制了辩论和修正案，这可能会让立法者削减社会保障金的支付额。 “加强社会保障应当通过常规程序，在公众的充分监督下，以公开和透明的方式进行——而不是通过一个限制修正案类型并设定随意程序截止日期以快速终止辩论的流程，”AARP 首席倡议与参与官南希·利蒙德（Nancy LeaMond）表示。 她指出，该法案要求咨询委员会的提案必须在 9 月 17 日之前，或在众议院和参议院开会后的第一个工作日提交国会。随后，立法者可以举行听证会并修改社会保障咨询委员会（SSAB）的计划，但无需通过投票将该措施从关键的国会委员会中推进，而这通常是联邦立法程序的标准做法。 利蒙德表示，相反，如果立法者在 11 月 9 日之前未进行投票，该法案将直接提交至众议院和参议院全会——时间点正处于国会选举后的“跛脚鸭会议”期间，“此时离任的议员对选民完全没有责任感”。 在对该法案的其他反对意见中，她认为该法案将审议、修改和辩论的时间上限设为 100 小时，并包含限制允许的修正案类型的条款。 “如果国会的每一项其他法案都遵循常规程序，为什么像社会保障这样重要的事情要采用一种切断辩论、限制修正案种类、限制讨论内容的特殊程序？”AARP 的比尔·斯威尼（Bill Sweeney）表示。
[[IMG_XXXX]] （图注）由于购物者继续表示他们对财务状况和成本上涨感到压力，今年省钱尤为重要。
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根据税务管理人联合会（Federation of Tax Administrators）的资料以及《今日美国》（USA TODAY）的额外报道，以下是参与州及其免税项目的清单。规则和日期因州而异，请查看您所在州的官方网站以获取最新信息。在某些情况下，地方税可能仍然适用。 根据税务管理人联合会的数据，有五个州全年不征收销售税：阿拉斯加州、特拉华州、蒙大拿州、新罕布什尔州和俄勒冈州。阿拉斯加州的部分市级政府仍征收销售税。
阿肯色州：8 月 1-2 日 h 衣物和鞋类：每件 $100 或以下；服装配饰：每件 $50 或以下。 h 学校用品、艺术及教学用品以及学校电子设备免税，无价格上限。
康涅狄格州：8 月 16-22 日 h 低于 $300 的衣物和鞋类；球鞋和背包被新列入免税范围。 h 一项新的州法律规定，非电子类学校用品全年免销售税。
佛罗里达州：至 8 月 20 日 h 学习辅助工具，如闪卡、益智书和拼图：$30 或以下。 h 学校用品：每件 $50 或以下。 h 衣物、鞋类、配饰：每件 $100 或以下。 h 计算机及配件：$1,500 或以下。
伊利诺伊州：8 月 7-16 日 h 衣物和鞋类：$125 及以下。 h 符合条件的学校用品（包括书包、计算器和其他学习用品）不受 $125 阈值的限制。
艾奥瓦州：8 月 7-8 日 h 衣物、鞋类：每件 $100 或以下。
马里兰州：8 月 9-15 日 h 衣物、鞋类：每件 $100 或以下。 h 背包：购买背包/书包的前 $40 免税。 h 除背包外的配饰类物品不 included 在免税日范围内。
马萨诸塞州：8 月 8-9 日 h 用于个人消费且价格在 $2,500 或以下的符合条件的零售商品（不限于学校用品）。 h 有几项例外情况仍需缴税，包括餐饮、汽车和船只、燃气和电力、烟草、大麻或酒精饮料，以及任何单价超过 $2,500 的单品。
密苏里州：8 月 7-9 日 h 衣物：每件 $100 或以下。 h 学校用品：每件 $50 或以下。 h 计算机及外围设备：$1,500. h 计算机软件：$350 或以下。 h 图像计算器：$150 或以下。
政府事务高级副总裁。“对我们来说，这根本不合理。”
AARP 反对其他旨在设立社会保障委员会的法案
AARP 同时也表示，它反对另外两项旨在设立委员会以解决社会保障长期偿债能力的法案： h 一项由共和党籍俄克拉何马州众议员汤姆·科尔 (Tom Cole) 和民主党籍纽约州众议员汤姆·苏佐 (Tom Suozzi) 共同发起的众议院法案，旨在创建一个 13 成员委员会，负责向国会提供关于如何加强社会保障财务状况的建议和立法。AARP 表示，该法案将允许一项拟议方案通过快速的、简单的“赞成或反对”投票直接通过，国会议员将无法提出修正案。 h 另一项提案将创建一个财政委员会，以减少国家债务和年度赤字，并加强不仅限于社会保障，还包括医疗保险和国家高速公路的信托基金。但莉亚·蒙德 (Lea Mond) 表示：“社会保障是一个自筹资金的系统，不对国家债务产生一分钱的影响，国会不应将其置于无关的预算争论的攻击之门中。”她补充道，“相反，任何对社会保障的修改都应集中在美国人民的财务和退休安全上。”
国会应该怎么做？
社会保障为 71million 美国人提供退休金，以给予他们一定的经济保障。莉亚·蒙德表示，这是一项“承诺：在经过一辈子的努力工作后，你将获得你应得的资金”，“履行这一承诺是国会最庄严的职责之一”。 莉亚·蒙德指出，如果“常规程序”是处理日常立法事务的金标准，那么对于像社会保障这样重要的事情，它当然应该是标准。她提到，上一次社会保障信托基金接近耗尽是在 20 世纪 80 年代初，当时并没有走捷径。
新墨西哥州：7月 31 日-8月 2 日 h 学校用品：每件 $30 或更低。 h 衣物或鞋类：每件 $100 或更低。 h 台式机、笔记本电脑、平板电脑和笔记本电脑：$1,000。 h 相关计算机硬件：每件 $500。
纽约州 纽约州没有销售税假期，但在所谓的“大都会通勤交通区”(Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District) 内，全年对价格在 $110 或以下的衣物和鞋类免收销售税。该区域包括纽约市以及达切斯特县、拿骚县、奥兰治县、普特南县、罗克兰县、萨福克县和威斯特彻斯特县。
俄亥俄州：8月 7-9 日 h 衣物：每件 $75 或更低。 h 学校用品：每件 $20 或更低。 h 学校教学材料：每件 $20 或更低。
俄克拉何马州：8月 7-9 日 h 衣物或鞋类：每件 $100 或更低。
宾夕法尼亚州 宾夕法尼亚州没有销售税假期，但全年不对衣物和某些鞋类征收销售税。
南卡罗来纳州：8月 7-9 日 h 衣物、鞋类及配饰。 h 学校用品。 h 计算机、打印机、入耳式耳机和头戴式耳机。
田纳西州：7月 31 日-8月 2 日 h 衣物和鞋类：每件 $100 或更低。 h 学校用品：每件 $100 或更低。 h 计算机，包括笔记本电脑和平板电脑：每件 $1,500 或更低。
德克萨斯州：8月 7-9 日 h 衣物和鞋类：每件 $100 或更低。 h 背包：每件 $100 或更低。 h 学校用品：每件 $100 或更低。
弗吉尼亚州：8月 7-9 日 h 衣物和鞋类：每件 $100 或更低。 h 学校用品：每件 $20 或更低。 h 便携式发电机：每件 $1,000 或更低。 h 燃油电锯：每件 $350 或更低。 h 其他指定的飓风准备物品：每件 $60 或更低。 h 适用于非商业家庭或个人使用的合格能源之星 (Energy Star) 和水资源保护 (WaterSense) 产品：每件 $2,500 或更低。
西弗吉尼亚州：7月 31 日-8月 3 日 h 衣物：每件 $125 或更低。 h 笔记本电脑或平板电脑：每件 $500 或更低。 h 学校教学材料：每件 $20 或更低。 h 学校用品：每件 $50 或更低。
多人合资送礼有助于支付 昂贵的必需品
高价商品， 如 婴儿车、出行系统和育儿室 家具，仍然是新任父母 最大的一笔支出。然而， 礼品清单平台正日益允许 多人共同出资购买单件商品。 调查发现，51% 的送礼者 在 2026, 年采用了多人合资送礼， 较 2024 年增长了 287%。 该功能让准父母能够将 昂贵的必需品列入其礼品清单， 而无需要求一个人支付全额费用。
更多家庭选择 体验而非礼物
一些家庭正在用“筑巢派对”（nesting parties）取代传统的婴儿洗礼会（baby showers）。在筑巢派对上，亲友会帮助准备餐食、整理育儿室或在婴儿出生前处理家务。 What to Expect 发现，自 2024. 年以来，筑巢派对的流行度增长了 58%。此外，母亲们完全跳过创建礼品清单，转而请求亲友提供实际帮助（如接力提供餐食或布置育儿室）的可能性高出 80%。
二手购物和 小型化礼品清单逐渐流行
为了节省预算，三分之二的母亲表示，由于成本增加，她们购买的二手婴儿用品比平时更多。 专家仍然建议某些与安全相关的产品，包括汽车安全座椅、婴儿床和婴儿床垫，应购买新品。 家长们也在采取更极简的方式。礼品清单的平均项目数已从 2024 年的 58 项下降到 2026 年的 54 项，且 58% 的母亲表示，她们正通过关注多功能产品并舍弃可能不使用的产品，刻意尝试用更少的东西维持生活。
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因沙门氏菌风险 被召回
issued the action July 22
Greta Cross
近 1.6 million 打白壳和褐壳鸡蛋因潜在的沙门氏菌污染被召回。 根据美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的一份召回报告，Midwest Poultry Services L.P. 于 July 22, 对来自德克萨斯州的近 1.6 million 打白壳和褐壳非笼养鸡蛋发出召回通知，原因是潜在的肠道沙门氏菌（Salmonella enteritidis）污染。 截至 July 22, Midwest Poultry Services 尚未获悉任何与这些鸡蛋相关的疾病病例。 召回报告称，该公司是通过主动的环境监测实践和根本原因分析发现此问题的。截至 July 22, 该公司已停止分发来自其德克萨斯州农场的鲜蛋。 以下是关于此次鸡蛋召回的须知事项：
哪些鸡蛋被召回？
被召回的白壳和褐壳非笼养鸡蛋在蛋盒的左侧或右侧印有日期编码墨水的识别码。报告称，仅代码为 P-1950 或 0840962 且儒略日（Julian date）在 157 与 184 之间地产品被召回。
被召回的鸡蛋在何处销售？
召回报告显示，被召回的鸡蛋在德克萨斯州和路易斯安那州的 Kroger 商店、德克萨斯州、俄克拉荷马州、阿肯色州、路易斯安那州、新墨西哥州和密西西比州的 Brookshire Grocery 商店以及其他小型零售店销售。 报告还指出，这些鸡蛋还被运往德克萨斯州、俄克拉荷马州和路易斯安那州的餐饮服务商和零售商处。
如果您持有被召回的鸡蛋该怎么办
召回报告敦促消费者避免食用这些鸡蛋，并将产品退回原购买地以获得全额退款。有疑问的消费者应在周一至周五东部时间 8 a.m. 至 4:30 p.m. 之间，拨打 574-405-9531 联系 Midwest Poultry Services。
沙门氏菌中毒症状
沙门氏菌中毒的症状通常在感染后 6 小时至 6 天内开始出现—
Gabe Hauari
Cracker Barrel 已将其 Maple Street Biscuit Co. 品牌及 35 家餐厅出售给 Biscuit Belly LLC，并将关闭该快餐早餐连锁店的 16 个网点。
此次行动发生在该公司于 2025 年 9 月关闭 14 家 Maple Street 门店不到一年后。当时，该公司在给《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 的一份声明中表示，这些门店“简单来说未能满足我们的财务预期”，同时感谢客户的光顾。
Cracker Barrel 于 2019 年以 3600 万美元 ($36 million) 收购了 Maple Street Biscuit Co.。这家早餐连锁店于 2012 年在佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔成立，提供各种比司吉 (biscuits) 和其他早餐食品。在收购时，Maple Street 在七个州拥有 28 家公司自有门店和五家特许经营门店。
在另一项单独的行动中，Cracker Barrel 还完成了一项涉及 26 家公司自有门店的售后回租交易。这意味着 Cracker Barrel 将这些门店出售给投资者，并立即将其租回。Cracker Barrel 表示，这些交易将产生约 7700 万美元 ($77 million) 的净收益。
Midwest Poultry Services 于 7 月 22 日召回了近 160 万 (1.6 million) 打白色壳蛋和棕色非笼养壳蛋，原因是可能受到沙门氏菌污染。提供方：
美国食品药品监督管理局 (U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION)
摄入该细菌后。根据疾病控制与预防中心 (CDC) 的说法，最常见的症状是腹泻、发烧和胃痉挛。
虽然大多数健康人群在无需治疗的情况下可在四到七天内康复，但某些脆弱群体，包括 5 岁以下儿童、65 岁及以上成人以及免疫系统较弱的人员，可能会出现更严重的病情，需要医疗治疗或住院。
如果您出现以下任何更严重的症状，CDC 建议联系您的医疗保健专业人员： h 腹泻且体温高于 102 华氏度。 h 腹泻持续三天以上且没有改善。 h 血便。 h 呕吐严重到无法摄入液体。 h 脱水迹象，例如尿量减少、口干喉干以及站立时感到眩晕。
撰稿人： Mary Walrath-Holdridge
Greta Cross 是《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 的全国趋势记者。 有故事点子？请发送电子邮件至 gcross@usatoday.com。
[[IMG_XXXX]] Cracker Barrel 正在出售 Maple Street Biscuit Co. JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES
向东扩张，并在 2028 年底前将 Biscuit Belly 的门店增加到 60 家以上。
根据新闻发布稿，Biscuit Belly 将在接下来的 18-24 个月内将 Maple Street Biscuit Company 的门店转换为 Biscuit Belly 品牌。转换工作将立即开始，首先从大辛辛那提地区和弗吉尼亚州里士满的门店开始。
“收购像 Maple Street 这样具有标志性的品牌——它是最初的高端比司吉三明治概念之一——这不在我的 2026 年计划之中，”Biscuit Belly 的联合创始人兼首席执行官 Chad Coulter 在新闻发布稿中表示。“成长型品牌面临的两个最大阻力是寻找和建设门店所需的时间，以及寻找优秀团队的难度。当我们审视 Maple Street 的地理分布、足迹和既有团队时，我们突然想到了一个好主意。”
根据该公司资料，Biscuit Belly 于 2019 年开设了首家门店。
你应该有意识地 使用你的带薪休假 (PTO)
约翰尼·C·泰勒 the Younger (Johnny C. Taylor Jr.)
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约翰尼·C·泰勒 the Younger 每周为《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 解答您的职场问题。泰勒是全球最大的人力资源专业人士贸易协会 SHRM 的总裁兼首席执行官，同时也是《重置：动荡时代的领导者工作指南》(Reset: A Leader’s Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval) 的作者。
问题：我觉得自己快要崩溃（倦怠）了，知道我需要休息，但在我的工作环境中，能够随时待命似乎更被看重。我担心请带薪休假 (PTO) 会影响他人对我的看法，尤其是在涉及晋升机会的情况下。我该如何决定请假是否值得？—— Rylan
回答：在大多数情况下，答案是肯定的。使用你应得的带薪休假是维持强劲表现的一部分，而不是你投入程度降低的信号。关键在于有意识且负责任地使用它。
在 SHRM，我们看到了前所未有的员工倦怠程度，尤其是在年轻员工和经理中。这令人担忧，因为倦怠不仅影响个人。它会降低参与度、创新能力、决策能力，并最终影响业务绩效。聪明的雇主意识到，休息和恢复并非是对努力工作的奖励，而是为了维持高绩效而进行的投资。
这就是为什么我谈论的是“工作/生活融合”而非“工作/生活平衡”。目标并不是完美的 50/50 分配。现实生活并非如此运作。目标是找到一种可持续的节奏，让工作和个人责任能够共存，而不会其中一方始终压倒另一方。
硬币引发关注
Faith Wakefield
一枚印有唐纳德·特朗普总统肖像的新型 $1 硬币将于今年秋季发行。这枚金色纪念币引发了广泛关注，但它真的具有投资购买价值吗？
与传统的黄金投资币不同，特朗普 $1 硬币不含贵金属。这意味着，任何超出其 $1 面值的价值将主要取决于收藏者的需求、稀缺性和市场兴趣，而非金价。虽然纪念币的价值可能会随时间增长，但其回报通常比投资币（其大部分价值源自所含贵金属）更不可预测。
那么，特朗普硬币是否适合放入您的投资组合？以下是关于此次新发行硬币的相关信息及其与传统黄金投资币的对比：
关于新款 $1 特朗普硬币的已知信息
美国财政部宣布，新型特朗普 $1 硬币已于 7 月在费城造币厂开始生产，预计将于今年秋季向公众发行。尽管该硬币具有金色外观，但它是由非贵金属制成的，法定面值为 $1。
$1 特朗普硬币会变得值钱吗？
简短的回答是：有可能，但没有保证。
与黄金投资币不同，特朗普硬币不含贵金属。任何高于 $1 面值的价值将取决于收藏者需求、生产数量以及多少人选择收藏而非消费等因素。
“根据生产数量、需求、公众的囤积行为以及造币厂履行订单的速度，它可能会保留少量的收藏溢价，”前美国造币局局长、美国货币储备公司 (U.S. Money Reserve) 总裁 Philip Diehl 表示。他补充道，带有铸造错误的硬币在收藏者中可能会获得更高的价格。
这可能意味着为了去看医生而暂时离开，稍后再补回时间；或者为了参加孩子的演奏会早早离开，在他们睡后完成项目。在精疲力竭之前将这种灵活性融入你的常规生活中，能让你更好地应对工作和生活中不可避免的需求。话虽如此，休带薪年假 (PTO) 同时也伴随着责任。当你不在时，你的团队会承担你的工作量，因此在规划假期时应像对待任何重要项目一样周全。如果可能，尽量避免在关键业务期间安排长期缺勤。尽早沟通，确保工作有人接手，并给同事留下清晰的信息，告知他们在你离开期间可能需要什么。如果你准备充分，你的缺席不应给其他所有人带来不必要的压力。
如果你的组织在口头上声称重视身心健康，但实际上却真切地阻止员工使用应得的带薪年假，请留意这一点。一个期望人们发挥最佳水平，却又阻碍实现高绩效所需的恢复机制的文化是不可持续的。值得思考的是，这样的环境是否能让你继续成长并建立长期的职业生涯。我最好的建议是：像高绩效者使用其他任何资源一样，有意识地使用你的带薪年假。规划、沟通，并让你的团队处于成功状态。我认识的最优秀的领导者从未为请假而道歉。他们准备得如此充分，以至于工作在没有干扰的情况下继续进行。这种规划不会损害你的晋升机会。相反，它展示了组织最看重的判断力、专业素养和领导力。
本专栏中表达的观点和见解仅代表作者本人，不一定反映 今日美国 (USA TODAY) 的观点。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 一枚由财政部发布的新硬币插图，印有唐纳德·特朗普总统的肖像。
由美国造币局提供/经由路透社 (REUTERS)
尽管如此，专家警告不要抱着获得高投资回报的预期去购买纪念币。 “纪念币有时确实能比金条表现更出色，但那是特例，而不是买家应该预设的情况，”定制硬币制造商蒙特雷公司（Monterey Company）的营销总监埃里克·特尼（Eric Turney）表示。
什么是黄金投资币？
黄金投资币，也称为金条币（bullion coins），由政府铸币厂生产，采用符合严格纯度标准的贵金属铸造。与流通货币不同，金条币的主要购买目的是投资，其价值与其中所含黄金的市场价格挂钩。 与新型的特朗普 $1 硬币一样，美国金条币是法定货币并具有官方面值。然而，该面值在实际中几乎没有意义，因为其中包含的黄金价值要高得多。 例如，一盎司的美国金鹰币（American Gold Eagle）面值为 $50，但其市场价值由当前的金价决定。 “如今，一枚一盎司的美国金鹰币的售价大约是特朗普 $1 硬币面值的 4,200 倍，”迪尔（Diehl）说道。
你应该买特朗普硬币还是金条币？
正确的选择取决于你的购买目的。 如果你是一名收藏家，或者是一名寻找政治纪念品的特朗普支持者，那么这款纪念性的 $1 特朗普硬币可能值得考虑。 只需记住，除了 $1 的面值之外，任何其他价值都无法得到保证。
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[[IMG_XXXX]] 新 Amtrak Cascades 列车在今年正式投入服务前的俄勒冈州巡演期间穿过尤金。CHRIS PIETSCH/USA TODAY NETWORK
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南达科他州 快速城：据《南达科他州探照灯》（South Dakota Searchlight）报道，监管南达科他州公立大学的董事会计划向州立法者申请近 $60.5 million 用于建筑工程和维护、在快速城启动一个国防中心以及与人工智能相关的技术升级。该新闻机构称，摄政委员会还支持了建筑资金请求，其中包括启动此前宣布的将南达科他大学桑福德医学院（University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine）搬迁至苏瀑市（Sioux Falls）的资金。
田纳西州 纳什维尔：“保护田纳西森林”（Protect Tennessee Forests）在社交媒体上发布消息称，过去几周在田纳西州有越来越多关于目击锤头蜗牛（hammerhead worm）的报告，这是一种来自东南亚的入侵物种。
德克萨斯州 奥斯汀：一个存在分歧的联邦上诉法院阻止了德克萨斯州执行一项州法律的关键条款，该法律旨在通过限制使用社交媒体来保护儿童免受伤害。
犹他州 盐湖城：据 KUTV 报道，WalletHub 的一项新研究将犹他州列为高风险青少年百分比最低的州之一，在全国排名第 47 位。
佛蒙特州 南伯灵顿：7月 13, 英国皇家空军的“红箭”飞行表演队（Red Arrows）与总部位于佛蒙特州的 BETA Technologies 公司在尚普兰湖上空共同飞行，这是英国与佛蒙特州之间的一项航空合作，包含两场空中演示。这支英国特技飞行队正作为与该国 250 周年庆典相关活动的一部分在美国巡演，近期曾在波士顿和缅因州出现。此次佛蒙特之行将世界上最著名的军事飞行演示队之一与一家开发电动飞机技术的公司聚集在一起。
弗吉尼亚州 斯汤顿：弗吉尼亚哥伦比亚天然气公司（Columbia Gas of Virginia）于 7月 23 在斯汤顿为其新运营中心举行了开业典礼。
华盛顿州 希雅图：希雅图当局正在展开调查，此前有两人爬过地标性建筑太空针塔（Space Needle）的玻璃墙，并从这座 605-foot 高的地标建筑顶端跳伞而下。
西弗吉尼亚州 查尔斯顿：据 WV News 报道，根据一项旨在扩大国家器官捐献登记参与度的州新法，西弗吉尼亚州居民现在可以在办理选民登记或更新选民登记时申请成为器官捐献者。
威斯康星州 密尔沃基：随着密尔沃基与家庭暴力相关的凶杀案增加，当地一家社区组织正发起一项计划，旨在家庭冲突演变为致命事件之前接触处于危机中的男性。Asha Family Services 自 1988. 年以来一直为犯罪和虐待受害者提供服务。从 8 月开始，它将扩大男性计划，包括一个名为“Ujima Men’s Program SOS”的干预计划，以及一个名为“Umoja Dock”的物理空间，男性可以在那里自愿停留最多 72 小时，以期防止报复性暴力。
怀俄明州 塞延：据 WyoFile 报道，怀俄明州户外休闲与旅游信托基金委员会向全州 15 个县授予了 $1.9 million 的拨款，用于步道建设、露营地升级和其他户外休闲基础设施项目，旨在扩大准入并促进旅游业。
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让我来解释一下“姓名、形象和肖像”（NIL）时代的一个巨大谬论。这是一个持续五年的大学体育马戏团，如此混乱且不受约束，以至于 NCAA 和国会无法理清头绪。或者说，他们不想理清。
因为答案一直很简单：与球员进行集体谈判。建立球员工会，制定严格谈判的规则，并对违规者采取惩罚措施。
现在，说说那个谬论：球员不想成为雇员，也不想进行集体谈判。
这可能是我在 NIL era 这一充满谎言和欺骗的五年中所听到的最大的一堆废话。
大学体育领导者，甚至国会内部的一些人，仍在继续推动这场荒谬的闹剧。他们继续声称，球员一直告诉他们，自己不想成为雇员，不想要集体谈判所带来的场内和场外保护。
他们只想成为独立承包商，直接与学校协商，并被那些拿走他们 30% 收入的骗子——无论这些骗子如今自称是“经纪人”还是“中间人”——给坑了。
我的意思是，哪个神智正常的球员会不想通过集体谈判来获得 48.8% 的媒体版权收入？简单算一下：四大强会 (Power conferences) 报告的收益近 $4 billion。而且这些数字在未来十年将呈指数级增长。
如果大学体育领导者对此能够真诚且诚实，他们会承认，其实只有顶尖的 1% 的球员不想进行集体谈判。
他们为什么要想呢？
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入选者让 这项运动的 旧价值观回归
纽约州库珀斯敦 (COOPERSTOWN, NY) —— 在棒球名人堂的入职典礼上，这成为了一个老派的提醒，提醒人们棒球曾经是如何被玩的，我们曾经如何看待这项运动，以及塑造我们观点的统计数据。
新晋名人堂三人组杰夫·肯特 (Jeff Kent)、卡洛斯·贝尔特兰 (Carlos Beltran) 和安德鲁·琼斯 (Andruw Jones) 出现在这里，是为了提醒每个人，传统的统计数据仍然很重要。打入分 (Runs batted in) 不应被视为计分板上的偶然数据。
在球员的心理状态中，确实存在某种关键时刻 (clutch) 的因素。虽然如今每个人都沉迷于在垒率 (on-base percentage)，即便某些强打者只是通过大量保送来填满垒包，但未来的名人堂经理达斯蒂·贝克 (Dusty Baker) 向你提出了一个问题：“如果打入分或得分不重要，”他说，“那么我们为什么还要费心地记录分数？”
肯特、贝尔特兰和琼斯于 7 月 26 日入选，现场有创纪录的 60 位名人堂成员和 12,000 名球迷出席。他们在整个职业生涯中无疑代表了棒球最高价值观。
当三垒有跑者且不到两出局时，他们不会庆祝一次保送，而是希望将跑者打回本垒，而不是将责任推给他人。
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海鹰队现在可以回顾麦克唐纳在 NFC 冠军赛后那句著名的口号：“我们并不在意。” 在新赛季开始之际，没有争取卫冕的号召，也没有其他煽动性的夸耀，西雅图队似乎在某种程度上避开了关注。虽然整体局势永远比任何一支球队（即使是潜在的领跑者）更有利，但以下五个理由说明海鹰队的卫冕机会不应被忽视：
去年的这个时候，麦克唐纳正在实施该联盟现任教练中最剧烈的改革之一，重新配置他的进攻体系，以更好地符合他对球队的整体愿景。相比之下，西雅图队赛季之间的变化相对较小。
对于一个失去了王牌战术策划者（克林特·库比亚克）、超级碗 60 (Super Bowl 60) MVP（肯尼斯·沃克三世）以及其他重要成员的组织来说，这看起来可能过于简化了。然而，由于绝大多数核心球员全部回归，海鹰队可以享受到近期其他冠军球队所不具备的连续性水平。
除了沃克之外，超级碗 60 的所有进攻首发球员均已回归。虽然新协调员布莱恩·弗卢里正在建立自己的体系，但这位前旧金山 49 人队的跑阵协调员知道，库比亚克之前所构建的基础是他可以利用的。
“我认为接手这份工作的一个优势在于会有很大的连续性，”弗卢里在 2 月份被聘用后表示。“我已经开始深入研究（库比亚克）去年在这里所做的一切，目标是尽可能多地予以维持，但同时也有一些领域，我们可以用我们在旧金山开发和实施的方案来进行补充。”
这对萨姆·达诺德来说应该是一个福音，在之前的六年里效力于五支不同的球队，他已经习惯了变动。弗卢里将成为达诺德在相应年限内经历的第七位不同的进攻协调员，但这位四分卫在 6 月份表示，这次更换并没有“太大的过渡压力”。进攻的质感可能会有所改变，但其本质——包括在保持凯尔·沙纳汉进攻整体框架的同时，强调解锁爆发性进攻——应在很大程度上保持不变。
尽管是在预料之中的损失，但沃克在自由市场上的离去，对于在冲刺阶段终于站稳脚跟的跑阵体系来说是一个沉重的打击。
他们拥有自由流动权，且许多人的收入超过了 NFL（国家橄榄球联盟）名单末端的球员。这种设定对他们来说非常完美。但对于足球碗分部（Football Bowl Subdivision）中绝大多数的 14,500 名足球运动员来说并非如此。对于数千名被前述“经纪人”推入转会门户（portal）的球员来说也不是——他们最终发现，实际情况与被推销的截然不同。
我确信大学体育领导者们与他们交流过，而这些领导者热爱当前的设定，因为这让球员在一个破损的系统中处于脆弱地位，并任由教练们在试图保住自身地位和数百万美元收入的同时，寻找下一个更优秀的替代者。
如果你在寻找国会那些天才们目前正在讨论的所有问题的答案（各位，这是在讽刺），那么答案就摆在你们面前：集体谈判。
大学足球运动员协会 (CFBPA) 在 7 月 27. 宣布，斯坦福大学的足球运动员成立了首个由球员主导的分会。这是向潜在的大学运动员工会化以及制定集体谈判协议迈出的第一步。
年龄限制。球员流动。消除司法过度干预（参见：挑选法官）。没有规则。没有执行。所有这些都将通过集体谈判而消失。但随之消失的，还有对现金的囤积。
现在你们开始明白这一切是为了什么，以及一直以来是为了什么：钱。
大学体育领导者不想交出 48.8%（这是目前 NFL 球员在集体谈判协议谈判中从 NFL 球队获得的年度收入比例）的年收入。
这与球员无关，且
[[IMG_XXXX]] 西海鹰队最大的变动之一是新任进攻协调员布莱恩·弗勒里（Brian Fleury），他于 7 月 25. 与跑卫埃马努埃尔·威尔逊（Emanuel Wilson）交谈。STEVEN BISIG/IMAGN IMAGES
在季后赛前的最后三场比赛中，西雅图队在地面进攻中累积了 514 码。随后，在分区赛对阵 49 人的胜利中，扎克·沙博内（Zach Charbonnet）因前交叉韧带撕裂而赛季报销，沃克（Walker）挺身而出，在三场季后赛中冲球 313 码并获得四次达阵。随着沃克加盟堪萨斯城酋长队，而沙博内以“身体状况无法参加训练”名单的身份开启训练营，后卫线无疑成为了西雅图最大的不确定性来源。然而，值得注意的是，在赛季末的激增之前，地面进攻在大部分赛季中一直是个问题。在赛季的前 15 周里，西雅图队在 NFL 中排名第 22 位，场均冲球 113 码，且在每球冲球码数上排名第 27. 位，仅为 3.9 码。但到那时，西海鹰队仍设法取得了 12-3 的战绩，其攻击力主要由达诺德（Darnold）和年度最佳进攻球员贾克逊·史密斯-尼吉巴（Jaxon Smith-Njigba）驱动。在用总第 32 顺位选中圣母大学的贾达里安·普莱斯（Jadarian Price）时，总经理约翰·施耐德（John Schneider）明确表明了他希望地面进攻未来的发展方向。普莱斯在圣母大学与总第 3 顺位选秀球员杰雷米亚·洛夫（Jeremiyah Love）共同出战期间，单场冲球次数从未超过 15 次，因此很难被视为一名每档都能顶住的耐力型球员。但无论是作为跑卫还是回攻手，他都拥有一种摆脱对手的天赋，并且在沃克上赛季以 10 次 20-plus 码的冲球并列 NFL 第 3 名之后，普莱斯应当能够继续带来大额码数收益。为了提高稳定性，西雅图可能需要乔治·霍拉尼（George Holani）和其他替补球员在沙博内回归前协助普莱斯分担压力。但去年的结果应当证明，如果这群后卫需要一点时间来寻找节奏，也没有理由恐慌。除了持球球员本身，还有理由保持乐观。弗勒里的背景应当能让他
他们规避就业的欲望。 球员的自由流动、被击穿的工资帽，以及通过私人NIL（姓名、形象和肖像权）规避工资帽的情况，将在集体谈判开始时终结。阵容更迭和球员管理的混乱局面将不再成为问题。 所有目前困扰大学体育、国会花费一年时间试图修复却无法实现的问题——《保护大学体育法案》（Protect College Sports Act）在国会通过的机会为零——在大学与球员进行集体谈判后都将消失。 在某种意义上，这就像他们之前通过集体谈判达成的，基于House案的最初突破性收入分成协议。那次交易经历了一场诉讼、一名法官以及大学为了每一寸阵地而进行的激烈争夺，但它最终实现了。 这并没有让人们熟知的大学体育走向终结，也没有将任何人或任何事物推向财务崩溃的边缘——尽管那些喋喋不休的悲观主义者不断宣布末日将至，但不知为何，他们每年仍能派出球队参赛。 因为这场比赛中永远有更多的资金。常规赛和季后赛的形式可以被讨论并经过集体谈判决定——这比东南联盟（SEC）专员格雷格·桑基（Greg Sankey）和十大联盟（Big Ten）专员托尼·佩蒂蒂（Tony Petitti）在两年时间里暗中勾结要容易得多。 体育直播对于网络电视和流媒体网站来说就是一切。他们对此永远不满足，因为这是唯一能吸引消费的内容。 而没有什么比橄榄球更畅销的了。 无论是NFL（美国国家橄榄球联盟）还是大学橄榄球。 在当前这像乱哄哄的mosh pit（冲撞舞池）一样的五年NIL时代运行周期中，这是唯一真实且不可否认的事情。 走出这个困境只有一条路： 每年分享那 $4 billion-plus-plus 的资金，结束这场闹剧。
保留去年行之有效的核心框架，同时允许球队扩展到更有前景的阵型，特别是双紧端锋组。进攻线在悄无声息中从令人担忧变成了强项，且所有 5 名首发球员均在队。
对于一支旨在给对手增加压力（taxing）的球队来说，赛季中途交易一名速度型接球手是非常合理的。 西雅图海鹰队收购沙希德的意图是将他激活为曾在库比亚克（Kubiak）麾下的关键球发动机。在 2024 年效力于新奥尔良圣徒队期间，这名接球手的场均接球码数为 17.5 码。然而，在西雅图的半个赛季中，沙希德在 9 场常规赛中仅有 15 次接球，他在努力重新确立自己作为联盟顶级深层威胁（deep threats）地位的过程中陷入了挣扎。 然而，施奈德 (Schneider) 并没有感到买家的后悔，他在自由球员市场开启之初就与沙希德签署了一份为期三年、$51 million 的合同。这笔资金明确表明，海鹰队将这名入选过职业碗 (Pro Bowl) 的回击手视为其进攻体系的关键支柱。 虽然史密斯-恩吉巴 (Smith-Njigba) 肯定将继续作为空中进攻的焦点，但沙希德的贡献将被证明至关重要。不仅他的存在本身就能为达诺德 (Darnold) 打开进攻空间，而且偶尔的纵向长传也能降低对高效且有条理的跑球游戏的依赖。此外，第二年接球手托里·霍顿 (Tory Horton) 也在为此提供助力，他在新秀赛季就贡献了 5 个达阵，并在胫骨受伤干扰其新秀赛季前展现出了巨大的深层威胁潜力。
防线通常在此时已处于
他们并不觉得身体不适，也不会把伤病名单当成带薪假期。他们赛季接赛季地出战，经常在疼痛中坚持，因为他们知道，即便只有 70% 的状态，也比坐在替补席上要有用得多。
他们没有试图塑造品牌，也没有试图让自己成为焦点。他们为了获胜而战，一场接一场，一个赛季又一个赛季。
来看看他们的履历吧： h Kent，历史上本垒打数最多的二垒手，在连续 6 个赛季以及职业生涯中 8 次达到了至少 20 支本垒打并打入 100 或更多分。 h Jones 在亚特兰大队效力的 11 个赛季中，出场超过 150 场比赛，其中 4 个赛季超过 160 场。 h Beltran 曾 9 次入选全明星赛，有 8 个赛季打入至少 100 分（RBIs），并在 7 个赛季中跑回 100 或更多分。
关于这三人组中有人使用性能增强药物的说法，没有任何一次耳语、传闻或暗示。Kent 谈到他希望效仿芝加哥小熊队的伟大球员 Ryne Sandberg，后者在传奇的名人堂演讲中强调了以正确方式对待比赛的重要性。
“我从未有机会见到 Ryne，”Kent 说道，“但我每天都看他打球，因为我想成为像他那样的人。他打球强悍，内心充满平静的激情。我希望他知道，在他之后的我们许多人也是这样打球的。”
Jones 是首位入选名人堂的库拉索球员，他说他的父亲强调了每天坚持工作的重要性。这与你是一名邮政工人、渔民或
退步。在西雅图上赛季以联盟最低失分率结束，且自 1978 年以来在 DVOA（防御调整后平均价值）中排名第 8 之后，很难肯定该团队能否跨越其在 2025 年设定的极高门槛。
但对于这支“黑暗面”来说，前景依然非常光明。
这一切都始于 Macdonald。在超级碗中封锁新英格兰爱国者队可能是这位教练的防守杰作，但这也代表了西雅图整个赛季所实现的成就：在轻装阵型（light boxes）的同时封锁对手的地面进攻，并利用奇特的施压方案干扰四分卫和锋线球员。
随着联盟中最强大的防守截锋组合 Leonard Williams 和 Byron Murphy II 的回归，海鹰队应该能继续在锋线掌控节奏。虽然在 Boye Mafe 离开后，边缘冲压（edge rush）可能不再那么强悍，但这个依然拥有 4 人深度的组群保留了最关键的成员：DeMarcus Lawrence、Uchenna Nwosu 和 Derick Hall。
考虑到安全卫 Coby Bryant 和角卫 Riq Woolen 签约其他球队带来的变动，二线防守（secondary）可能是一个相对的担忧点。但 Devon Witherspoon 和 Josh Jobe 为外线提供了强有力的前景，而 Nick Emmanwori 看起来像是一位崭露头角的动态镍卫（nickel）之星。
即使是最顶尖的竞争者，也可能因为一个明显的问题领域而崩溃。回想一下帕特里克·马霍姆斯在 2024 年 AFC 冠军赛中针对时任布法罗比尔队角卫 Kaiir Elam 的战术——或者西雅图海鹰队在超级碗 60 中压制新英格兰爱国队进攻线左侧的情况。 尽管拥有顶级人才，但西雅图的强项可能在于其缺乏一个明显的被攻击弱点。
对手最可能集中攻击的候选目标或许是安东尼·布拉德福德。这位右护卫在与ラム斯队的三场胶着对决中，其挣扎变得更加明显，他在这些比赛中承受了 13% 的压力率，且赛季 41 次被施压中就有 16 次发生在这些场次。今年秋天，要防止他破坏那些关键的 NFC 西区对决可能会变得更加困难，尤其是如果亚伦·唐纳德决定走出退休状态重新加入他的前东家。但这一缺陷在整个赛季中并未被证明过于麻烦，因为西雅图仅交出了 27 次擒杀，同时依然保持着激进的空中进攻。
由托马斯空出的安全卫位置看起来是唯一另一个存在长期疑问的显著位置。第二轮选中的安全卫巴德·克拉克是一名精明的组织者，在 TCU 期间曾记录过 15 次拦截，他应该在未来接管这一角色。但如果克拉克需要时间适应，上赛季担任 11 次首发的泰·奥卡达可以在朱利安·洛夫身边顶住这个位置。
你在球场上谋生。琼斯说：“一切都始于我的父亲。我父亲从一开始就告诉我，如果一只虾睡着了，水流和风暴就会把它卷走。所以，当我穿上制服时，我准备好投入比赛，因为即使我 4 次机会 0 次命中，我依然能产生影响。这就是为什么我对防守如此自豪。每次走上球场，我都试图做一些特别的事情来帮助我的球队。你要关注的是团队，而不是你自己。” 肯特在 2000 年效力于旧金山巨人的 MVP 赛季中，击球率 .334，击出 41 支本垒打，贡献 125 次打点，OPS 为 1.021，他为能成为一名得分创造者而感到自豪。肯特说：“汤米·拉索达，这项运动中最顶尖的激励者之一，说了一句简单的真理，我整个职业生涯都以此为准则。金钱在于打点……这永远印在我的脑海里，从未离开。如果我想赢，我知道我需要创造得分。这成了我的关注点，作为我那个 era, 的中内野手，我很自豪地为得分产出设定了标杆。这种对得分产出的关注定义了我职业生涯的一大部分。”
是堪萨斯城皇家队的名人堂成员乔治·布雷特帮助塑造了贝尔特兰的职业生涯。当贝尔特兰 21 岁进入大联盟时，布雷特刚刚被选入库珀斯敦，贝尔特兰在 40 岁退休，成为唯一一名击出 300 支本垒打并盗垒 300 次的左右开弓击球手。布雷特教会了贝尔特兰每天比赛的重要性，并且要尽全力去打，他不仅在 2002 年打满了全部 162 场比赛，而且在 2008 年 31 岁时仅缺席了一场比赛。贝尔特兰前往休斯顿，与未来的名人堂成员杰夫·巴格威尔和克雷格·比吉奥成为队友，他们加强了布雷特给他的建议。贝尔特兰说：“如果没学会如何在疼痛中比赛，我绝不可能在大联盟坚持 20 年。” 让我们看看这是否会对下一代产生影响。
PGA TOUR 3M 公开赛 “行动杰克逊” 在第 3 次参赛中夺冠
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杰克逊·科武恩 (Jackson Koivun) 一直早慧。他的母亲梅根 (Meghan) 回忆道，在二年级时，科武恩就已经掌握了加减法，因此他的老师直接跳到教他除法和乘法。“因为老师不知道还能教他什么，”她说，“拼写和其他所有科目也是一样。”他的高尔夫教练弗雷德·加西亚 (Fred Garcia) 还记得科武恩 12 岁时的第一次课。“他大约在五分钟内就打完了一桶中号量的球，简直是在飞快地击球，”加西亚说，“结束后我对他说：‘你得学习如何练习。你得有自己的常规流程。’”科武恩的“常规”变成了获胜。在圣何塞 Cinnabar Hills 担任教学教练的加西亚，给这位心爱的弟子起了一个绰号叫“冠军” (Champ)。而在 7 月 26 日，这位 21 岁的神童在 PGA 巡回赛中首次成为冠军，在明尼苏达州布莱恩的 3M 公开赛中夺冠。这仅是他作为职业球员参加的第 3 次 PGA 巡回赛，也是他职业生涯的总第 13 次起跑。科武恩在 TPC 双城球场以 66 杆（低于标准杆 5 杆）收官，创下了 72 洞赛事总成绩 259 杆（低于标准杆 25 杆）的记录，比世界排名第一的斯科蒂·舍夫勒 (Scottie Scheffler) 领先 3 杆。科武恩在周六发力，最后 10 个洞打出 9 杆低于标准杆的成绩，创造了赛事后九洞 28 杆的记录，单轮打出 61 杆，并追平了 3M 公开赛 54 洞的得分记录。他建立了 3 杆的领先优势，并领先舍夫勒 6 杆，但他知道仍有 birdies（小鸟球）可得，而且有人很可能在最后一轮打出低分——迈克尔·金 (Michael Kim) 在周五打出了 59 杆，但在周末后继乏力。在最后一轮中，科武恩在第一洞以及前六洞中的三个洞打出 birdie，将领先优势扩大到最多 6 杆。但舍夫勒拒绝让比赛变成一场简单的散步，他在最后一轮打出 63 杆，最终成绩为低于标准杆 22 杆，记录下他本赛季的第五个亚军。这位世界第一距离上一次获胜已经过去了 182 天。前大满贯冠军松山英树 (Hideki Matsuyama, 64 杆) 和布莱恩·哈曼 (Brian Harman, 65 杆) 与钱德勒·菲利普斯 (Chandler Phillips) 和丹尼·麦卡锡 (Denny McCarthy) 并列第三，成绩为低于标准杆 20 杆。“我今天尽力了，”舍夫勒说，“周五的后九洞和周六的前九洞让我失去了机会。但我进行了顽强的抵抗。”科武恩一直听到人群在喊：“斯科蒂来了！斯科蒂来了！”他试图屏蔽所有噪音，并在第九洞推入了一个关键的 15 英尺标准杆推球。“如果我没推进那个球，那么我的领先优势就只剩两杆，而我上次检查时领先五杆，”他说。“所以，推进那个球对我维持势头至关重要，帮助我在后九洞保持状态。”他在本赛事的最后 42 个洞中没有出现 bogey（柏忌），并在标准杆 5 的第 12 洞抓到了一只 birdie，接着在短的标准杆 4 第 16 洞直接击球上果岭，为 6 英尺的 birdie 创造了机会。当他在最后一洞推入一个 14 英尺的标准杆推球时，他兴奋地挥动右拳。
卢卡斯·赫伯特以打破纪录的表现夺冠
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卢卡斯·赫伯特 (Lucas Herbert) 绝不会让 7 月 26 日的 LIV 高尔夫联合王国赛冠军之手从指尖溜走。 进入最后一轮时，他以 20 杆低于标准杆的成绩领先布赖森·德尚博 (Bryson DeChambeau) 三杆。这位澳大利亚选手通过 10 个小鸟球，在单轮打出 62 杆，在这次为期四天的赛事中最终以 30 杆低于标准杆的 258 杆完赛。这使他领先于英格兰的泰瑞尔·海顿 (Tyrrell Hatton) 六杆夺冠，后者最终成绩为 63 杆。 德尚博最后一名打出 68 杆，在英格兰罗切斯特的 JCB 高尔夫乡村俱乐部以 21 杆低于标准杆获得第三名。 赫伯特本周的统治力——在打出 62 杆之前，他分别打出了 61, 66 和 69 杆——带领 Rippers GC 以 52 杆低于标准杆的成绩完赛，领先队长乔恩·拉姆 (Jon Rahm) 的 Legion XIII 队四杆。 赫伯特 30 杆低于标准杆的完赛成绩创下了 LIV 历史最低纪录。这是他在本赛季第二次获得个人冠军——他曾在 5 月赢得了 LIV 高尔夫弗吉尼亚赛——并且他以 30 个小鸟球创下了该联盟单场赛事的最高纪录。他在一场比赛中合计 32 个小鸟球和老鹰球的组合同样打破了 LIV 纪录。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 杰克逊·科伊文 (Jackson Koivun) 7 月 26 日在 TPC 双城赛赢得 3M 公开赛后，在第 18 洞果岭接受采访。ANDREW WEVERS/GETTY IMAGES
然后他拥抱了自己的父亲。“在球进洞之前，你永远不会真正觉得你将赢得比赛，在那一刻，所有情绪才会猛然袭来，”科伊文说。“我认为这周我在保持冷静方面做得非常好，但我觉得那是表达情绪的合适时机。”科伊文证明了自己名副其实。上个月，科伊文带领奥本大学在三年内第二次获得全国冠军头衔。在他最后一个赛季的 13 次大学赛首发中赢得了 6 次冠军，成为大学高尔夫历史上首位两次全部赢得年度最佳球员奖（Haskins, Hogan, Nicklaus）的选手——第一次是在 2024 年大一，第二次是在 2026. 年大三。在 5 月赢得了嘉信理财挑战赛的资深职业球员罗素·亨利 (Russell Henley) 与科伊文成了好朋友，并在其大学期间多次与他一起打球。“我认为他没有什么好学的了。那孩子很强，”亨利在一段名为《杰克逊·科伊文的加速》的 PGA Tour.com 视频中说道。“我总是告诉他，当你决定转职业时一定要告诉我，这样我就能退休了。”当科伊文通过 PGA Tour 大学加速计划接受 PGA Tour 会员资格时，他是世界业余高尔夫排名第 1 名的球员。上个月在他职业生涯首秀的约翰迪尔经典赛中，他未能通过截分线，但在最近一次参加的 ISCO 冠军赛中获得了并列第 10 名。至于谢夫勒 (Scheffler)，他对科伊文在领先时能稳住局面且不让任何人追近的表现印象深刻。“我认为这不仅展示了他的天赋，也展示了他的心理素质，”他说。为了衡量他的心理韧性，CBS 体育的阿曼达·巴利奥尼斯 (Amanda Balionis) 请科伊文向电视观众展示他的手套，上面写着 confidence（自信）、trust（信任）和 dominate（统治）这几个词。
“‘统治’是我在大学时想出的词，因为我只想看看自己能打到多么强的程度，”他说。而现在，在打完业余生涯最后一轮仅仅 35 天后，科伊文在 PGA Tour 夺冠的梦想便迅速实现了。这一直以来就是他的行事风格。“聚光灯越亮，他越闪耀，”加西亚 (Garcia) 说道。这位冠军现在正式成为了冠军。
赫伯特表示，在上周于皇家比尔克代尔举行的英国公开赛中强有力的收尾让他增强了对比赛的信心，在那场比赛中，他落后冠军瑞安·福克斯 4 杆，并并列第六。 “我只是想尽可能地将那种状态带到本周，”赫伯特说。“我认为在前两轮中我摆脱了自我纠结，直到昨天才开始思考这个问题。今天在世界上两名顶尖球员的压力下能打出这样的表现，感觉非常好。”
哈顿凭借 9 个小鸟球竭尽全力追赶，但面对赫伯特前所未有地连续四轮出色发挥，这仍然不够。 “显然，卢卡斯今天的表现太惊人了，”哈顿说。“我想快速进入状态，我也确实做到了，但遗憾的是卢卡斯同样出色。是的，我为自己的表现感到自豪。如果在主场球迷面前获胜将是非常棒的，但我已经尽力了。不过，卢卡斯这周的表现确实不可思议。” 澳大利亚选手卡梅伦·史密斯在周日打出 69 杆，以 17 杆下完赛，获得第四名。
[[IMG_XXXX]] Jerry Kelly 在格伦伊格尔斯举行的 2026 ISPS Handa Senior Open 最后一轮比赛中在第三洞进行开球。PAUL DEVLIN/GETTY IMAGES
杰里·凯利赢得 ISPS Handa Senior Open
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杰里·凯利再次成为 PGA Tour Champions 的冠军。在苏格兰历史悠久的格伦伊格尔斯举行的 2026 ISPS Handa Senior Open 中，凯利在 Par-5 的第 18 洞从果岭边沙坑中成功救球并打出小鸟球，最终在最后一轮以 2 杆下 68 杆夺冠。 凯利目前已获得 14 次 PGA Tour Champions 冠军，他可以将这座高级公开赛奖杯与他的两座高级球员冠军奖杯（其中第二座是以 Kaulig Companies Championship 的名义获得）一同摆在壁炉架上。 “赢得这个冠军的感觉无法用语言形容。作为一名 50 岁以上的球手，除了其他奖杯，高级克拉雷特酒杯是我最想要的奖杯，”这位 59 岁的球员在 7 月 26 日表示。“在苏格兰的‘高尔夫之家’完成这一成就，并且真正获胜并进入圣安德鲁斯的‘高尔夫之家’，我的意思是，我完全激动得说不出话来。但一直支持我的这支‘苏格兰军队’才真正带我走到了这里，我非常感谢人们支持我，并在我低落时鼓励我，告诉我‘你可以的’，真正拉了我一把。我非常感激苏格兰这片土地。” 卡梅伦·珀西曾有一个 6 英尺的小鸟球推杆机会，本可以将某些
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给凯利 (Kelly) 带来了压力，但他击球偏左。 随后，凯利攻入了一个 4 英尺的单吃鸟球，成为唯一一位最终成绩低于标准杆 10 杆的选手。 珀西 (Percy) 与马特·戈格尔 (Matt Gogel) 以及南非的达伦·费查特 (Darren Fichardt) 并列第二，成绩为低于标准杆 8 杆；其中戈格尔在最后一轮打出 63 杆。苏格兰的斯蒂芬·加拉格尔 (Stephen Gallacher) 以低于标准杆 6 杆单独排名第五。他在最后一轮打出 62 杆，但在主场夺冠的尝试中遗憾落败。 但今年是凯利的一年，他成为了第 10 位赢得高级公开赛 (Senior Open) 的美国人。 “事实上，我的心态是我比赛中最成功的部分，”凯利说。“在过去，如果击球状态不如预期，我会感到沮丧。但现在我不再担心，而是专注于处理好下一球。我今天对自己有了很多认识，我希望自己在 20, 30 年前就能明白这一点。学习永远不嫌晚，这正是让我挺过来的原因。” 凯利是自 2019 年 61 岁的伯纳德·兰格 (Bernhard Langer) 夺冠以来，年龄最大的一位公开赛冠军。 这是本赛季 28 场 PGA 巡回赛冠军赛中的第 16 场，也是五场高级大满贯赛中的最后一项。在进入三个赛事的季后赛——查尔斯·施瓦布杯 (Charles Schwab Cup) 之前，目前还剩九场赛事。
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巴尔的摩 —— 当九个赛季的艰苦努力最终浓缩成六场比赛时，会是什么样子？对于巴尔的摩东方之鸟队来说，情况是这样的：在管理层更迭期间经历了三个 100 败赛季，随后迎来一批天赋惊人的年轻球员，一个 101 胜赛季，一次球队出售，一次令人沮丧的衰退，一次主教练被解雇，以及最后，这个处于犹豫不决状态的赛季，在美联平庸的泥潭中陷入 51-55 的战绩。关键考验：在底特律的一场三赛制系列赛，看起来像是一场交易截止日前的资格赛 —— 赢家买入，输家卖出 —— 随后是在卡姆登球场与永远具有竞争力的费城费城人队进行的三赛制系列赛。然后是 8 月 3 日的交易截止日，他们在接下来的六场比赛中的表现极有可能决定其立场：激进买入、出售部分球员或采取中立态度。哦，如果这些东方之鸟队连续第二年错过季后赛，球队也不会崩溃。即便他们最看重的年轻球员即将步入自由球员市场，他们在未来几年仍有望保持至少基本合格的竞争力。只不过，2018 年的 118 败，以及 2021 年的 110 败，随后俱乐部总裁迈克·埃利亚斯在 2022 年后承诺的“起飞”本应意味着更多。2023 年的那 101 胜换来了季后赛轮空和在卡姆登球场两场主场比赛。然后是两个季后赛期间连续五场失利。这足以给球队基石们带来一种紧迫感。“自从我来到这里，我们还没赢过一场季后赛，” 2023 年年度最佳新人、两度进入 MVP 前 10 名的冈纳·亨德森告诉《今日美国》体育版，“这是这间更衣室里很多球员，包括我在内，都想做到的，想要突破这一点并发起冲击。我觉得我们拥有能够实现这一目标的团队。现在就看怎么把它做到了。” 对于这些东方之鸟球员来说，实现这一点一直充满挑战。
在去年的 15-28 开局导致主教练布兰登·海德在 87 败赛季中丢掉工作后，今年本应有所不同。埃利亚斯在休赛期很好地增强了球队，最显著的是他在一垒手皮特·阿隆索身上投入的首个九位数承诺。但增强后的阵容表现不规律。伤病没有起到正面作用，而各部门在多个时间点的粗心失误和失败将他们拖入了泥潭。截至 7 月 27 日比赛前，他们距离季后赛席位仅差 2 1/2 场球，并且是全美职棒 22 支球队（每个联盟 11 支）之一 ——
MLB 权力排名 史诗级连败让 Alcantara 重回交易名单
在过去两周里，是否还有比迈阿密马林队的溃败更惨烈的交易截止日崩盘？ 马林队在经历了队史纪录的 12 场连败后，从国联东区竞争者变成了几乎肯定的截止日卖方，这使他们的战绩从 52-42 且距离分區领先仅三场比赛，掉到了 52-54 且在国联外卡争夺战中排名第 8 位。突然之间，这支曾经是棒球界最火热的球队 —— 马林队从 6 月 1 日到 7 月 9 日（这次冷冬之前的最后一次获胜）取得了 26-8 的战绩 —— 可能准备在市场上卖掉最珍视的资产之一。 是的，2022 年国联赛扬奖得主桑迪·Alcantara 在马林队走强之前一直是交易猜测的对象，而现在他确实回到了交易名单中。这让马林队这次连败中的第 12 场失利显得更加奇怪：圣地亚哥教徒队在第八局反超四分，为梅森·米勒创造了他的第 27 次救援成功。随着教徒队失去竞争机会，米勒同样被视为潜在的交易筹码。 但一个与马林队的周末让他们在排名上超越了迈阿密，不仅是在国联排名中，而且在《今日美国》体育版的 MLB 权力排名中。迈阿密下降了 9 位至第 18 位，而谁知道在截止日期过后它还会跌到什么程度。 查看我们的 MLB 权力排名： 1. 洛杉矶道奇队 (–)：再次以如此令人麻木的规律获胜，以至于他们可以悠闲地对待投手大谷翔平。 2. 密尔沃基酿造者队 (–)：成为一名五局投手并没有什么不对
距离季后赛仅差 3 1⁄2 场球。基本上处于悬而未决的状态。而且只有一周的时间来确保他们能带着希望脱颖而出。
在对阵 Skubal 时扮演破坏者
7 月 29 日（星期三）在商业银行球场（Comerica Park）将迎来一个极具戏剧性的时刻：这可能是底特律老虎队王牌、两届赛扬奖得主 Tarik Skubal 的最后一次主场先发。而这场投手的对决集中体现了此次交易截止日的波动性。与 Skubal 相对阵的将是另一位左投手，巴尔的摩队的 Trevor Rogers，他处于类似但规模较小的情况。与 Skubal 一样，Rogers 是一名即将成为自由球员的选手，并且在本赛季是球队的揭幕战先发投手。与 Skubal 一样，他的球队可以将他视为冲击季后赛的关键环节——或者将其作为可出售以换取未来筹码的资产。虽然 Rogers 在接近自由球员阶段的起伏之路上缺乏 Skubal 那样的统治力和荣誉，但他过去两个月的表现——a 1.80 ERA, 45-to-14 的三振与保送比，以及金莺队在他 9 次先发中 6-3 的战绩——使得他对于一个无法签下 Skubal 的球队来说，不仅仅是一个安慰奖。随着金莺队在系列赛开始前领先底特律一场（50-56），Rogers-Skubal 之战只是交易截止日这个宏大背景下数十场微小对决之一：买家、卖家以及那些被划在错误一边的输家。“我们知道自己的排名处于什么位置，”Rogers 说。“在如此接近截止日期的时候，这些比赛确实至关重要。如果我们打得非常好，并让差距缩小一点，改变管理层的想法，也许我们会增加几个补强成员。”Rogers 在对他自己和金莺队都最完美的时机踩下了油门。在前 9 次先发中，他的 ERA 为 6.96，当时金莺队的战绩为 23-30，其投手组位列第 28 位，ERA. 为 4.87。然而，Rogers 找到了解决方法，在这两个月的运行中改善了对球板两侧的掌控力，金莺队的投手组也同样如此。从那时起，他们的 ERA 为 3.42，在全大联盟排名 3.，这让他们有了机会。“我们试图在这里建立的标准，尤其是他们在 ’23 和 ’24 年所做的一切——我们拥有实现它的天赋，”Rogers 说。“只是有时我们无法每天保持一致。希望我们可以继续下去。这里的信任度非常高。我们都知道自己的能力，以及这支球队能走多远。”
是时候收拾残局了
在某些方面，Rogers 象征着巴尔的摩这个“接近但未完全达到”的时代。他是 2024 年 7 月交易截止日的一次收购，是 Elias 的第一次重大挫败——
Sandy Alcantara 在 2022. 赢得了国联赛扬奖。JIM RASSOL/IMAGN IMAGES
当你面对 16 名打者并三振 12 人时，就像 Jacob Misiorowski 那样。 3. 亚特兰大勇士 (–)：Ozzie Albies 预计将击出 26 支本垒打，为 2023 年以来最高。 4. 坦帕湾光芒 (–)：Bryan “The Outmaker” Baker 已连续 17 次成功挽救赛点，仅失 1 分。 5. 纽约洋基 (+1)：不确定交易截止日能否改变他们显然将作为第二名完赛/美联 1 号外卡队的命运。 6. 芝加哥小熊 (-1)：在经历了失 7 分、被击 3 支本垒打的惨败后，Jameson Taillon 的 ERA 为 5.92，轮值位置受到质疑。 7. 费城费城人 (–)：非常悄悄地，他们的得失分差为 -18。 8. 芝加哥白袜 (–)：对于村上宗隆来说，这是一个怎样的“摇铃娃娃”日，在他的父母投出首球后，他击出两支本垒打并打入 6 分。 9. 亚利桑那响尾蛇 (+4)：
Gunnar Henderson 本赛季 693 的 OPS 低于联盟平均水平。
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通过将未来的全明星外野手凯尔·斯托尔斯（Kyle Stowers）和内野手康纳·诺比（Connor Norby）交易至迈阿密，以清理俱乐部资产。随后，罗杰斯在四场先发中表现糟糕，自责分率（ERA,）高达 7.11，并于 8 月中旬被下放到 AAA 级球队。在两个赛季中，巴尔的摩金莺队在常规赛赢得了 192 场比赛，但在主场面对堪萨斯城的两场外卡系列赛中被横扫，导致他们在季后赛的 5 场比赛中全部落败。在这些交易截止日期间，埃利亚斯（Elias）在买入方面的表现并不突出，2023. 年引入了先发投手杰克·弗拉赫蒂（Jack Flaherty）和救援投手藤浪晋太（Shintaro Fujinami）。罗杰斯、先发投手扎克·埃夫林（Zach Eflin）、救援投手塞兰托尼·多明格斯（Seranthony Dominguez）和格雷戈里·索托（Gregory Soto）以及外野手埃洛伊·吉梅内斯（Eloy Jimenez）是 2024 年的补强。除埃夫林外，没有人在这季后赛计划中发挥重要作用。所有这些因素都导致了一种强烈的感觉：埃利亚斯能够组建球队，但在买入方面可能不够激进。
执政第三年的所有者大卫·鲁本斯坦（David Rubenstein）在公开场合依然对埃利亚斯赞赏有加。“迈克几年前曾是年度最佳棒球执行官。同行普遍认为他表现卓越。我非常、非常满意，不能更满意了，”鲁本斯坦周五在宣布为先发投手凯尔·布雷迪什（Kyle Bradish）提供一份 9000 万美元（$90 million）续约合同的新闻发布会上说道。“我们经历了一些伤病，但那不是迈克的错。”
埃利亚斯意识到人们认为他可能过于保护组织内部的年轻天才，因此即使在金莺队的胜率远低于 .500 时，他对交易截止日仍持乐观态度。在金莺队输给亚特兰大的两场比赛中的第一场之前的几个小时，他审视了球队目前的现状以及潜能。“这支球队拥有如此之多的天赋。我认为我们所有人看向战绩时，都觉得应该更好，”埃利亚斯说。“我们目前所处的位置，距离季后赛席位仅一步之遥，有足够的时间到达那里。……但我看这支球队的天赋，我们非常乐观，相信我们会达到预期的目标。”
目前，他们必须在没有捕手阿德利·鲁特施曼（Adley Rutschman）和塞缪尔·巴萨洛（Samuel Basallo）的情况下前进，两人分别因手腕和肩膀受伤而处于伤病名单中。在本周末输给亚特兰大的三场比赛中的两场中，两人的缺席影响显著，包括周日一场令人极为恼火的 3-2、11 局失利。情况依然如故：打击时机不佳，且在简单的防守动作（外野漏球、浅飞球脱落）失误的情况下丢掉两分。“我们比战绩显示出的要好得多，”阿隆索（Alonso）说，他用 22 支本垒球和 .812 的 OPS 履行了他的承诺。“但我们在整体上通过失误丢掉了太多机会。这就是为什么我们的战绩如此之低。但我们具备打出连胜势头、造成杀伤并赢得大量比赛的能力。” 如果鲁特施曼处于……
[[IMG_XXXX]] 由于四名先发投手处于伤病名单，交易截止日对于国家联盟（NL）第 3 名外卡持有者来说是一个令人烦恼的时间。
身体健康且金莺队的胜率进一步跌破 .500 时，他的名字可能会在交易传闻中被地更多地提及。而目前的状况是，如果鲁特施曼最终离队，亨德森将成为埃利亚斯 2019 年具有变革意义的选秀中最重要的象征。然而，随着亨德森步入 25 岁——他上个月刚庆祝了 25 岁生日——比赛变得更艰难了。在他四个完整的赛季中，亨德森的 OPS 从新秀赛季的 .814 变为 .893，随后是 .787，现在是 .701。他在 2024 年的调整后 OPS 高达 155；而现在，他是一个略低于联盟平均水平的击球手。有时——特别是在失利的 2025 赛季中——亨德森会将沮丧之情外化，仿佛压力变得过于沉重。他指出，应对失败是每个球员必须自行克服的问题。“对于我来说，处理失望情绪是一个漫长的学习过程，”亨德森在谈到管理失望情绪时说道。“我仍在努力突破这一点。显然我对自己的期望很高。当你没能真正达到我的标准时，很难不对自己要求苛刻。这对我来说绝对是非常艰难的，也绝对是需要努力改进的地方。”在今年之后，亨德森在成为自由球员之前还剩两个赛季。对他而言，这与其说是生死关头，不如说是他职业生涯以及更广泛的这段金莺 era. 的一个转折点。球队必须努力确保，在经历了多年极其糟糕的棒球比赛后，2023 和 2024 年错失的机会并非最高点。今年或许能提供另一个尝试的机会。“我们需要弥补的差距——坦白说，我们需要赢得每一场能赢的比赛，”亨德森说。“我们想进入季后赛。我们已经很接近了，但还没有进去。我们必须继续赢球。因为结果可能取决于 1 场比赛。”
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美国田径锦标赛的赢家与输家 熟悉的名字与新面孔同样令人印象深刻
Tyler Dragon
2026年美国田径国家锦标赛圆满落幕，冠军正式诞生。 美国田径锦标赛自1991年以来首次在纽约市举行，地点位于兰德尔岛的艾坎体育场 (Icahn Stadium)。 诺亚·莱尔斯 (Noah Lyles)、沙卡里·理查森 (Sha’Carri Richardson)、梅丽莎·杰斐逊-伍登 (Melissa Jefferson-Wooden) 和塔拉·戴维斯-伍德霍尔 (Tara Davis-Woodhall) 参加了为期四天的田径比赛。 本次锦标赛是今年美国境内规模最大的田径赛事。每位美国运动员都力求在2027年北京世界田径锦标赛以及随后的2028年洛杉矶奥运会之前积累势头和信心。 《今日美国》体育频道分析了2026年美国田径国家锦标赛的赢家与输家：
赢家 梅丽莎·杰斐逊-伍登 在 200 米项目中大获全胜
尽管她决定不参加 100 米比赛，但“全美最快女性”的称号依然属于杰斐逊-伍登。 对于杰斐逊-伍登来说，7月 26 日就像是平常的工作日一样，她轻松赢得了女子 200 米冠军，并以 21.69 的赛季最佳成绩冲过终点线。 杰斐逊-伍登领先几米夺冠。她是唯一一名跑进 22 秒的选手。 这位 100 米和 200 米的现任世界冠军继续证明了她目前是世界上最快的女性。
沙卡里·理查森 在 100 米项目中获胜
理查森的主要竞争对手梅丽莎·杰斐逊-伍登没有参加女子 100 米比赛，但理查森作为被高度看好的夺冠热门，以第一名冲过终点线，依然值得赞赏。 理查森在 40 米左右时追平了其他选手，随后迅速超越其他短跑运动员，轻松地率先冲过终点线。 理查森是自 2000 年以来第二位赢得三次美国 100 米冠军的女性。
诺亚·莱尔斯赢得 100 米， 在 200 米中轻微受伤
莱尔斯通常在聚光灯最亮的时候表现出色。 莱尔斯以 9.79 的惊人速度跑出世界领先成绩，赢得了他的第三个国家冠军。
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在 7 月 26 日举行的运动员无限软式垒球联盟 (Athletes Unlimited Softball League) 决赛中，蒙塔纳·福茨 (Montana Fouts) 在一场完赛中三振 4 名击球手，而贾德琳·奥尔钦 (Jadelyn Allchin)、布里·埃利斯 (Bri Ellis) 和萨瓦娜·贾奎什 (Sahvanna Jaquish) 均击出全垒打，犹他爪子队 (Utah Talons) 再次夺冠。
爪子队在三场两胜制的系列赛中横扫芝加哥强盗队 (Chicago Bandits)，分别于周六以 2-1 和周日在德克萨斯州大学城的戴维斯钻石球场以 6-1 获胜。
在犹他州找到永久主场之前，爪子队在上一赛季赢得了首届 AUSL 冠军赛。他们今年的目标是卫冕该冠军。
“三月份我第一次在电话会议中与他们所有人见面时，我问过他们的使命是什么，他们说的是卫冕，”爪子队教练辛迪·鲍尔-马洛恩 (Cindy Ball-Malone) 说道。“我现在只想说：做得好。我为他们感到无比自豪，我简直不敢相信自己拥有这个机会。我觉得”
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男子 100. 米项目。自信的莱尔斯 (Lyles) 在再次被加冕为美国最快男人后，向他的竞争对手们传递了一个信息。
然而，当莱尔斯尝试在 200. 米项目中争取他的第六个全国冠军时，良好的氛围戛然而止。这位 29 岁的短跑运动员在过弯道时抽搐。莱尔斯虽然完成了比赛，但已完全失去了竞争力。
莱尔斯告诉 NBC 体育，在 200, 米项目令人失望的完赛后，他感觉“良好”，这对这位田径界最大的明星之一来说是个好消息。
青少年库珀·卢特肯豪斯 (Cooper Lutkenhaus) 在男子 800 米中抢风头
这位 17 岁的神童在男子 800. 比赛中将其他中长距离跑者甩在身后。卢特肯豪斯在第二圈（也是最后一圈）开始时排名第三，但在距离终点大约 200 米时脱颖而出，以 1:43.48 的金牌成绩完赛。这次获胜是卢特肯豪斯的第 1 个全国冠军。
克里斯托弗·罗宾逊 (Christopher Robinson) 获得 400 米栏冠军
400 米栏项目产生了一位新的全国冠军。罗宾逊跑得非常稳健，最终在后直道上将其他竞争对手甩在身后，以 47.61 的赛季最佳成绩赢得了男子 400 米栏冠军。
这次获胜是罗宾逊的第一个全国冠军。罗宾逊曾在 2023 年在该项目的 NCAA 比赛中夺冠。
蔡斯·杰克逊 (Chase Jackson) 称霸女子铅球
杰克逊在第一次投掷 67 英尺 2 3⁄4 英寸后赢得了女子铅球比赛。但这位女子铅球美国纪录保持者将最好的表现留到了最后，她在最后一次尝试中投出了 67 英尺 5 1⁄4 英寸。
杰克逊在铅球比赛中以超过 4 英尺的优势获胜。
最好的留在最后
尼基·希尔茨 (Nikki Hiltz) 赢得女子 1,500 米四连冠
希尔茨在最后冲刺阶段排名第二，但在向终点线冲刺时，她奋力拼搏。她以微弱优势击败了艾迪·威利 (Addy Wiley) 和艾米莉·麦凯 (Emily Mackay)，连续第四次赢得女子 1,500 米全国冠军。
这场为期四天的美国锦标赛将最精彩的比赛留到了最后，因为男子 110 米栏的冠军是通过照片终点判定出来的。
犹他州的汉娜·弗利彭（Hannah Flippen）在7月9日于俄克拉荷马基督教大学举行的火花队（Spark）与爪形队（Talons）的AUSL比赛中庆祝击出本垒打。SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN
“太幸运了。” 来自加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的外野手奥尔钦（Allchin）被评为冠军赛MVP。她在两次获胜的比赛中以3-for-6的成绩，贡献了3次打点和3次得分。她在第11次投球时击出的两分本垒打为第2场比赛（Game 2）奠定了基调。 埃利斯（Ellis）是AUSL年度最佳回归球员，曾是阿肯色大学的球星，她在第五局击出一记飞越德州农工大学记分牌的单跑本垒打，几乎为爪形队锁定了胜局。 富茨（Fouts）虽然被击出8次安打，但在压力巨大的时刻发挥最佳，周日Bandits队在得分圈有跑者时仅获得1-for-9。乔治娜·科里克（Georgina Corrick）在冠军赛第1场（Game 1）为爪形队投球，仅允许4次安打并完成了5次三振。 富茨的这次出赛为她辉煌的赛季画上了句号，她被评为AUSL年度最佳投手，并以67次三振创下单赛季纪录。 周日的比赛标志着AUSL季后赛历史上第三次门票售罄，也是连续两天的第二次售罄。 Bandits队与爪形队的系列赛标志着AUSL第二个完整赛季的结束，这也是该联盟首次将球队设在特定城市而非巡回参赛。
梅丽莎·杰斐逊-伍登（Melissa Jefferson-Wooden）在伊坎体育场（Icahn Stadium）举行的USATF锦标赛中，以22.50的成绩赢得女子200米预赛。
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科德尔·廷奇（Cordell Tinch）起跑较慢，必须努力追赶布拉德利·富兰克林（Bradley Franklin）。廷奇在最后一个跨栏前积攒了足够的动力追上富兰克林，随后在终点线处完成了一次令人印象深刻的俯身，以微弱优势领先。 两名短跑运动员焦虑地等待了片刻，直到终点摄影确认廷奇以13.00（12.993）的成绩战胜了富兰克林的13.00（12.997）。
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俄勒冈大学的海沃德球场（Hayward Field）去年第14次举办美国田径锦标赛。看到美国规模最大的田径赛事在其他地点举行令人耳目一新。此外，田径赛在全国最大的媒体市场举行，应该有助于提高这项运动的曝光率。NBC体育的摄像机甚至拍到了纽约市市长佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）在现场观赛。
输家 贾斯汀·罗宾逊（Justin Robinson）在赢得男子400后被取消资格
罗宾逊以44.31.的成绩赢得400, 爆冷获胜。然而，罗宾逊随后因违规切入对方跑道而被取消资格。最初以44.39,的成绩获得第二名的克里斯·贝利（Chris Bailey）被宣布为冠军。
昆西·霍尔（Quincy Hall）未能通过首轮预赛
霍尔在2024年巴黎奥运会的男子400在比赛中凭借逆转获胜震惊了田径界。
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奥运会。自那时起，他再也没有取得同样的成功。 霍尔在男子 400 米项目中未能晋级首轮。他跑出了 46.47 的成绩，在首轮预赛中排名第六。 霍尔在巴黎奥运会夺金时跑出了 43.40。
克里斯蒂安·科尔曼 遗憾错过男子 100 米领奖台
科尔曼曾是男子 100 米夺牌的热门人选之一。在决赛中，他从第四道起跑，起跑相当稳健，但最终以第四名（9.93）冲线，与铜牌失之交臂。
女子跳远比赛
塔拉·戴维斯-伍德霍尔在近三年来首次参加的跳远比赛中，以一种戏剧性的方式失利。 戴维斯-伍德霍尔在最后一次跳跃中跳出了 23 英尺 6 英寸，从而在排名上超过了跳出 22 英尺 10 英寸的艾莉莎·琼斯，暂获第一。但经过复核，认定这位现任奥运会及世界冠军在最后一次跳跃中犯规，金牌最终被授予琼斯。 戴维斯-伍德霍尔最远的有效跳跃距离为 22 英尺 7 3⁄4 英寸，足以获得第三名。 这次取消成绩对戴维斯-伍德霍尔来说是一个残酷的丢金方式。但令人欣慰的是，她在锦标赛期间展现了自己的多才多艺。周六的女子 100 米栏比赛中，戴维斯-伍德霍尔以 12.57 的成绩获得第三名，排在金牌得主艾莉亚·阿姆斯特朗 (12.38) 和银牌得主阿拉莎·约翰逊 (12.42) 之后。
女子圆盘抛投与女子跳高赛场其余情况
女子圆盘抛投的结果在预料之中，因为瓦莱丽·西恩在近十年中一直统治着该项目。 西恩在第四次尝试中抛出了 228 英尺 2 英寸，赢得了她的第八个全国圆盘抛投冠军。这位两届奥运金牌得主的领先优势仅为 7 英尺多。2025 年 NCAA 女子圆盘抛投冠军西耶拉·杰克逊以 221 英尺 1 英寸的成绩获得第二名。 同样的情况也发生在女子跳高项目中。 瓦什蒂·坎宁安跳过了 6 英尺 3 1⁄2 英寸的高度，赢得了她的第八个该项目全国冠军。 在另行通知前，全国赛的女子圆盘抛投和女子跳高项目已变成了争夺第二名的战斗。 在 X 上关注 今日美国 (USA TODAY) 体育记者 Tyler Dragon @TheTylerDragon
遍布全国。 在这个初创的职业垒球联赛早期，爪型队 (Talons) 似乎正朝着建立 AUSL 历史上第一个王朝的目标前进。 从大局来看，AUSL 看起来非常成功。在专员金·吴 (Kim Ng) 的领导下，在 MLB 的支持下，并凭借包含 ESPN、MLB Network 和 ABC 比赛在内的亮眼媒体版权组合，AUSL 本常规赛的平均观众人数为 198,000 人，比去年增长了 183%。该联赛还经历了 23 场常规赛售罄，商品销售额增长了约 200%。 这与该运动在大学层面的增长相一致，ESPN 今年播出的女子大学世界系列赛创下了历史最高收视纪录。随着垒球运动在 2028 年重返夏季奥运会，该运动的势头预计将继续增强。
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美国联盟 东区 胜 负 胜率 落后 坦帕湾 62 43 .590 — 纽约扬基 59 46 .562 3 波士顿 54 50 .519 7½ 巴尔的摩 51 55 .481 11½ 多伦多 48 58 .453 14½ 中区 胜 负 胜率 落后 芝加哥白袜 55 49 .529 — 克利夫兰 54 53 .505 2½ 明尼苏达 53 54 .495 3½ 底特律 50 56 .472 6 堪萨斯市 45 62 .421 11½ 西区 胜 负 胜率 落后 德克萨斯 53 52 .505 — 西雅图 52 54 .491 1½ 休斯顿 52 55 .486 2 奥克兰 44 61 .419 9 洛杉矶天使 42 64 .396 11½
国家联盟 东区 胜 负 胜率 落后 亚特兰大 62 43 .590 — 费城 57 49 .538 5½ 华盛顿 54 52 .509 8½ 迈阿密 52 54 .491 10½ 纽约大都会 44 62 .415 18½ 中区 胜 负 胜率 落后 密尔沃基 66 39 .629 — 芝加哥小熊 59 46 .562 7 匹兹堡 54 52 .509 12½ 圣路易斯 53 52 .505 13 辛辛那提 49 55 .471 16½ 西区 胜 负 胜率 落后 洛杉矶道杰 67 39 .632 — 亚利桑那 55 51 .519 12 圣迭戈 53 53 .500 14 旧金山 44 61 .419 22½ 科罗拉多 42 65 .393 25½
周日比分 坦帕湾 1, 克利夫兰 0 华盛顿 10, 亚利桑那 7 亚特兰大 3, 巴尔的摩 2, 11 局 波士顿 6, 多伦多 1 匹兹堡 8, 芝加哥小熊 7 堪萨斯市 5, 底特律 4 圣迭戈 5, 迈阿密 3 纽约大都会 8, 洛杉矶道杰 3 芝加哥白袜 12, 休斯顿 3 明尼苏达 11, 奥克兰 8 密尔沃基 11, 科罗拉多 2 辛辛那提 5, 圣路易斯 3, 10 局 西雅图 6, 德克萨斯 4 洛杉矶天使 4, 旧金山 3 费城 11, 纽约扬基 4
周一比赛 西雅图 在 德克萨斯 巴尔的摩 在 底特律 费城 在 迈阿密 亚利桑那 在 匹兹堡 多伦多 在 华盛顿 克利夫兰 在 辛辛那提 亚特兰大 在 纽约大都会 纽约扬基 在 芝加哥白袜 芝加哥小熊 在 圣路易斯 休斯顿 在 洛杉矶天使 波士顿 在 奥克兰 密尔沃基 在 旧金山
周二比赛 巴尔的摩 在 底特律, 下午 6:40 德克萨斯 在 坦帕湾, 下午 6:40 费城 在 迈阿密, 下午 6:40 亚利桑那 在 匹兹堡, 下午 6:40 多伦多 在 华盛顿, 下午 6:45 克利夫兰 在 辛辛那提, 下午 7:10 亚特兰大 在 纽约大都会, 下午 7:10 纽约扬基 在 芝加哥白袜, 下午 7:40 堪萨斯市 在 明尼苏达, 下午 7:40 芝加哥小熊 在 圣路易斯, 下午 7:45 休斯顿 在 洛杉矶天使, 晚上 9:38 波士顿 在 奥克兰, 晚上 9:40 科罗拉多 在 圣迭戈, 晚上 9:40 密尔沃基 在 旧金山, 晚上 9:45 西雅图 在 洛杉矶道杰, 晚上 10:10
周三比赛 费城 在 迈阿密, 中午 12:10 亚利桑那 在 匹兹堡, 中午 12:35 多伦多 在 华盛顿, 下午 1:05 巴尔的摩 在 底特律, 下午 1:10 亚特兰大 在 纽约大都会, 下午 1:10 密尔沃基 在 旧金山, 下午 3:45 科罗拉多 在 圣迭戈, 下午 4:10 德克萨斯 在 坦帕湾, 下午 6:40 克利夫兰 在 辛辛那提, 下午 7:10 纽约扬基 在 芝加哥白袜, 下午 7:40 堪萨斯市 在 明尼苏达, 下午 7:40 芝加哥小熊 在 圣路易斯, 下午 7:45 休斯顿 在 洛杉矶天使, 晚上 9:38
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覆盖美国西部的巨大热穹今日将使暖空气从德克萨斯州蔓延至蒙大拿州。大多数地区的温度将比平均水平高 5-15 度，部分地区可能会接近历史最高日记录。太平洋西北地区将降低几度。随着风暴走廊向东转移，冷空气将涌入五大湖地区。
该地区将有强风且阳光充足。雷阵雨将浸湿从新英格兰到卡罗来纳州的区域。主要威胁将是洪水，尽管可能会出现强雷阵雨。
最有可能出现破坏性阵风的走廊将是从宾夕法尼亚州到南卡罗来纳州。除佛罗里达州和落基山脉出现零星风暴外，全国其他地区将保持干燥。
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俄亥俄州 艾克伦 79/61t 75/58sh 纽约州 奥巴尼 80/68t 75/64r 阿尔伯克基 101/73t 96/73t 宾夕法尼亚州 艾伦敦 76/64t 77/65t 德克萨斯州 阿马里洛 106/73s 103/73s 加利福尼亚州 安纳海姆 88/66pc 88/66s 阿拉斯加州 安克雷奇 63/52c 67/54pc 科罗拉多州 阿斯彭 83/55t 80/53t 新泽西州 亚特兰蒂克城 79/70t 83/69t 乔治亚州 奥古斯塔 99/77pc 95/70pc 德克萨斯州 奥斯汀 99/76pc 100/76pc 加利福尼亚州 贝克斯菲尔德 98/70s 101/72s 路易斯安那州 巴吞鲁日 96/78s 97/78t 蒙大拿州 比林格斯 100/69pc 94/67c 阿拉巴马州 伯明翰 99/77s 91/71pc 北达科他州 俾斯麦 98/66t 100/70t 爱达荷州 博伊西 98/63s 98/66s 纽约州 布法罗 76/64t 72/64sh 佛蒙特州 伯灵顿 85/67t 73/63r 爱荷华州 锡达拉皮兹 85/63h 87/66s 南卡罗来纳州 查尔斯顿 97/79pc 97/75t 西弗吉尼亚州 查尔斯顿 83/65t 79/58pc 怀俄明州 夏延 83/60t 85/63t
东部联盟 胜 负 胜率 分差 印第安纳 17 10 .630 — 亚特兰大 16 10 .615 ½ 纽约 自由人 15 12 .556 2 华盛顿 14 12 .538 2½ 多伦多 10 16 .385 6½ 芝加哥 9 18 .333 8 康涅狄格 7 20 .259 10 西部联盟 胜 负 胜率 分差 明尼苏达 22 6 .786 — 金州 19 8 .704 2½ 拉斯维加斯 18 8 .692 3 达拉斯 18 9 .667 3½ 波特兰 11 16 .407 10½ 洛杉矶 火花 10 16 .385 11 菲尼克斯 10 18 .357 12 西雅图 6 23 .207 16½ 周二比赛 康涅狄格 对阵 华盛顿，晚上 7:30 多伦多 对阵 明尼苏达，晚上 8 点 印第安纳 对阵 西雅图，晚上 9:30 波特兰 对阵 拉斯维加斯，晚上 10 点 纽约 自由人 对阵 洛杉矶 火花，晚上 10 点 周三比赛 亚特兰大 对阵 达拉斯，晚上 8 点 金州 对阵 菲尼克斯，晚上 10 点
MLS 东部联盟 胜 负 平 积分 得失球 纳什维尔 12 2 3 39 33 12 迈阿密国际 11 2 4 37 43 30 新英格兰 9 5 2 29 26 19 芝加哥 8 6 2 26 30 22 纽约城 7 6 4 25 30 23 夏洛特 7 6 4 25 28 25 辛辛那提 6 6 5 23 41 42 纽约红牛 6 7 4 22 26 37 华盛顿联 5 5 7 22 24 27 奥兰多城 6 9 2 20 28 44 哥伦布 5 8 4 19 24 26 多伦多 3 7 7 16 23 31 蒙特利尔 4 10 3 15 22 33 费城 3 10 4 13 22 31 亚特兰大 3 11 3 12 17 30 西部联盟 胜 负 平 积分 得失球 温哥华 10 3 3 33 37 16 洛杉矶 FC 10 5 3 33 34 18 圣何塞 10 4 3 33 35 20 皇家盐湖城 8 6 2 26 28 24 休斯顿 8 6 2 26 23 24 达拉斯 7 5 5 26 32 25 圣路易斯 7 6 4 25 23 23 西雅图 7 6 3 24 19 20 明尼苏达 6 6 5 23 19 24 波特兰 6 8 3 21 31 32 洛杉矶银河 5 7 6 21 24 29 圣迭戈 5 7 5 20 31 28 科罗拉多 6 10 1 19 26 25 奥斯汀 4 8 5 17 22 35 堪萨斯城 4 11 2 14 18 44 注：胜得三分，平得一分。
周六比分 纽约红牛 0, 夏洛特 2 哥伦布 2, 辛辛那提 1 蒙特利尔 0, 迈阿密国际 1 新英格兰 4, 亚特兰大 1 费城 1, 西雅图 0 纽约城 3, 芝加哥 1 华盛顿联 2, 多伦多 1 圣路易斯 1, 科罗拉多 0 休斯顿 3, 奥斯汀 0 明尼苏达 0, 温哥华 0 奥兰多城 1, 纳什维尔 0 圣迭戈 1, 达拉斯 0 圣何塞 1, 洛杉矶银河 1 波特兰 2, 皇家盐湖城 1 洛杉矶 FC 4, 堪萨斯城 0
周三比赛 MLS 全明星赛 vs 墨西哥联赛全明星赛，地点：夏洛特，晚上 8 点。
周五比赛 多伦多 vs 纽约城，晚上 7:30。
周六比赛 纳什维尔 vs 华盛顿联，晚上 7:30。圣何塞 vs 辛辛那提，晚上 7:30。哥伦布 vs 迈阿密国际，晚上 7:30。亚特兰大 vs 费城，晚上 7:30。新英格兰 vs 蒙特利尔，晚上 7:30。奥兰多城 vs 纽约红牛，晚上 7:30。洛杉矶 FC vs 温哥华，晚上 7:30。夏洛特 vs 芝加哥，晚上 8:30。休斯顿 vs 堪萨斯城，晚上 8:30。皇家盐湖城 vs 圣路易斯，晚上 8:30。圣迭戈 vs 明尼苏达，晚上 8:30。
西雅图 75 奥林匹亚 72 斯波坎 86
波特兰 78 塞勒姆 79
博伊西 98
本德 86
伯恩斯 93
尤里卡 69
里诺 97 埃尔科 100 卡森市 94
萨克拉门托 96
旧金山 71
拉斯维加斯 111
弗雷斯诺 99
洛杉矶 88
棕榈泉 113
圣地亚哥 78 小石城 103 凤凰城 111
费尔班克斯 69
朱诺 68
安克雷奇 63
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空气质量指数 (AQI)
波士顿 达拉斯/沃斯堡 檀香山 洛杉矶
周二 强 雷阵雨 93/73
周二 阵雨 79/64
周三 局部 多云 92/67
周三 雨 70/65
周四 少量 阵雨 71/66
周四 晴朗 宜人 89/68
新奥尔良 费城 圣地亚哥 华盛顿
周二 炎热 96/79
周二 雷阵雨 78/68
周三 零星 雷阵雨 97/78
周三 雷阵雨 79/66
周四 零星 雷阵雨 93/77
周四 阵雨 76/68
今日 周三 今日 周三 今日 周三 今日 周三
克利夫兰 79
辛辛那提 85
辛辛那提 85/65t 83/63s 克利夫兰 79/64t 77/62c 科罗拉多斯普林斯 88/60t 85/61t 哥伦比亚 (南卡罗来纳州) 98/77pc 94/70pc 哥伦布 (俄亥俄州) 84/63t 79/58sh 科珀斯克里斯蒂 (德克萨斯州) 95/79w 97/79w 代顿 (俄亥俄州) 83/63t 81/60s 代顿纳比奇 (佛罗里达州) 95/78t 96/77t 德梅因 (爱荷华州) 85/68s 90/69s 杜鲁斯 (明尼苏达州) 80/61t 85/66t 达勒姆 (北卡罗来纳州) 88/69t 89/65pc 埃尔帕索 (德克萨斯州) 106/82pc 107/79s 费尔班克斯 (阿拉斯加州) 69/43s 68/53c 弗拉格斯塔夫 (亚利桑那州) 82/56t 85/55t 法戈 (北达科他州) 94/69h 101/73t 迈尔斯堡 (佛罗里达州) 89/80t 91/79t 史密斯堡 (阿肯色州) 102/82pc 97/79t 韦恩堡 (印第安纳州) 83/61s 81/59s 弗雷斯诺 (加利福尼亚州) 99/68s 101/70s 大急流 (密歇根州) 83/58s 83/59s 格林贝 (威斯康星州) 80/57h 85/62s 格林斯伯勒 (北卡罗来纳州) 87/69t 88/63pc 格林维尔 (南卡罗来纳州) 94/74t 91/65s 哈里斯堡 (宾夕法尼亚州) 77/69t 80/67t
奥斯汀FC 对阵 科罗拉多，晚上 9:30 西雅图 对阵 波特兰，晚上 10:30 达拉斯FC 对阵 洛杉矶银河，晚上 10:30 NWSL (美国国家女子足球联赛) 胜 负 平 积分 进球 失球 华盛顿 10 3 3 33 25 12 哥谭 9 3 4 31 21 12 犹他 9 4 3 30 26 17 圣地亚哥 9 6 2 29 23 19 波特兰 8 5 4 28 27 20 堪萨斯城 8 7 1 25 23 23 奥兰多 7 8 2 23 22 21 天使之城 7 7 1 22 23 16 北卡罗来纳 6 6 3 21 21 23 西雅图 6 7 2 20 17 19 丹佛 5 6 4 19 21 20 休斯顿 5 7 4 19 19 24 波士顿 5 8 4 19 18 23 湾区 5 7 3 18 16 20 芝加哥 4 12 0 12 8 31 路易维尔 3 10 2 11 18 28 注：获胜得三分，平局得一分。 周五比分 奥兰多 1, 芝加哥 0 休斯顿 1, 湾区 0 波特兰 2, 哥谭 2 周六比分 波士顿 1, 堪萨斯城 0 犹他 4, 北卡罗来纳 1 周日比分 西雅图 2, 圣地亚哥 0 华盛顿 1, 丹佛 0 路易维尔 2, 天使之城 1 周三比赛 路易维尔 对阵 堪萨斯城，晚上 8 点 华盛顿 对阵 犹他，晚上 9 点 哥谭 对阵 湾区，晚上 10 点 周五比赛 奥兰多 对阵 北卡罗来纳，晚上 8 点 周六比赛 芝加哥 对阵 路易维尔，下午 4 点 天使之城 对阵 堪萨斯城，下午 6:30 哥谭 对阵 休斯顿，晚上 8 点 西雅图 对阵 湾区，晚上 8:45 周日比赛 圣地亚哥 对阵 华盛顿，下午 4 点 波特兰 对阵 犹他，晚上 7 点 波士顿 对阵 丹佛，晚上 9 点
NASCAR 杯系列赛 PPG 呈现的砖场 400 赛（印第安那波利斯赛车场）周日 1. (7) Corey Heim, 23XI Racing, 160, 0 分。 2. (23) Christopher Bell, Joe Gibbs, 160, 35. 3. (19) Joey Logano, Team Penske, 160, 34. 4. (11) Chase Briscoe, Joe Gibbs, 160, 36. 5. (5) Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs, 160, 44. 6. (16) Brad Keselowski, RFK Racing, 160, 31. 7. (26) Josh Berry, Wood Brothers, 160, 30. 8. (34) Ryan Preece, RFK Racing, 160, 33. 9. (1) Carson Hocevar, Spire MS, 160, 40. 10. (3) Tyler Reddick, 23XI Racing, 160, 28. 11. (15) Chris Buescher, RFK Racing, 160, 28. 12. (4) Ty Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing, 160, 43. 13. (12) Cole Custer, Haas Factory, 160, 24. 14. (35) Austin Cindric, Team Penske, 160, 23. 15. (30) Zane Smith, Front Row MS, 160, 22. 16. (25) Shane Van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing, 160, 21. 17. (2) Daniel Suárez, Spire MS, 160, 25. 18. (6) Michael McDowell, Spire MS, 160, 30. 19.
(8) Alex Bowman, Hendrick MS, 160, 18. 20. (24) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, HYAK Motor- sports, 160, 17. 21. (21) William Byron, Hendrick MS, 160, 22. 22. (33) Noah Gragson, Front Row Motor- sports, 160, 15. 23. (22) Ross Chastain, Trackhouse, 160, 24. 24. (36) Todd Gilliland, Front Row Motor- sports, 160, 22. 25. (9) AJ Allmendinger, Kaulig, 160, 12. 26. (13) Ryan Blaney, Team Penske, 160, 11. 27. (14) Erik Jones, Legacy Motor Club, 160, 12. 28. (29) Bubba Wallace, 23XI Racing, 160, 9. 29. (20) Austin Dillon, Richard Childress Rac- ing, 160, 8. 30. (28) Ty Dillon, Kaulig Racing, 160, 7. 31. (37) Cody Ware, Rick Ware Racing, 160, 6. 32. (17) John H. Nemechek, Legacy MC, 158, 5. 33. (32) Austin Hill, Richard Childress Racing, 125, 事故 0. 34. (31) Connor Zilisch, Trackhouse Racing, 122, 事故 3. 35. (38) Casey Mears, Beard Motorsports, 121, 事故 2. 36. (18) Riley Herbst, 23XI, 120,
事故 1. 37. (27) Chase Elliott, Hendrick MS, 119, 1. 38. (39) Daniel Dye, Live Fast Motorsports, 93, 事故 0. 39. (10) Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports, 43, 事故 1.
比斯马克 (Bismarck) 98
迈尔斯城 (Miles City) 101 海伦娜 (Helena) 96
比林格斯 (Billings) 100
快速城 (Rapid City) 93 皮埃尔 (Pierre) 94
爱达荷 {Idaho} 瀑布市 (Idaho Falls) 97
杰克逊 {Jackson} 霍尔 {Hole} 89
卡斯珀 (Casper) 95
北普拉特 (North Platte) 85
盐湖城 (Salt Lake City) 102
夏延 (Cheyenne) 83
丹佛 (Denver) 90 阿斯彭 (Aspen) 83
圣乔治 (St. George) 106
托皮卡 (Topeka) 84 威奇托 (Wichita) 98 道奇城 (Dodge City) 101
圣菲 (Santa Fe) 95
旗舰镇 (Flagstaff) 82
俄克拉荷马 {Oklahoma} 城 (City) 103
拉伯克 (Lubbock) 104
米德兰- 奥德萨 (Midland-Odessa) 103
埃尔帕索 (El Paso) 106 奥斯汀 (Austin) 99
莫比尔 (Mobile) 98 檀香山 (Honolulu) 90
夏威夷 (Hawaii)
圣安东尼奥 (San Antonio) 98 休斯敦 (Houston) 98
周二 (TUE) 笔记 (Notas) 温暖 (warm) 82/64
周二 (TUE) 炎热 (Hot) 102/81
周三 (WED) 晴朗 (Sunny) 84/67
周三 (WED) 炎热 (Hot) 103/82
周四 (THU) 局部 晴 (Partly sunny) 88/70
周四 (THU) 炎热 (Hot) 102/83
不健康 s/g AQI
不健康 s/g
不健康 s/g
周二 (TUE) 雷暴 (T-storm) 91/78
周二 (TUE) 雷暴 (T-storms) 80/70
周三 (WED) 下午 (AP.M.) 雷暴 (t-storm) 92/77
周三 (WED) 零星 雷暴 (Stray t-storm) 82/69
周四 (THU) 雷暴 (T-storms) 86/76
周四 (THU) 阵雨 (Shower) 81/68
堪萨斯城 (Kansas City) 86
印第安那波利斯 (Indianapolis) 85
康涅狄格州 {Conn.} 哈特福德 (Hartford) 78/66sh 76/64t 印第安那波利斯 (Indianapolis) 85/62s 83/62s 纽约州 {N.Y.} 斯利普 (Islip) 77/70t 79/68t 密西西比州 {Miss.} 杰克逊 (Jackson) 100/78s 96/75t 佛罗里达州 {Fla.} 杰克逊维尔 (Jacksonville) 98/79sh 98/77t 密苏里州 {Mo.} 杰斐逊城 (Jefferson City) 94/72pc 87/67s 堪萨斯城 (Kansas City) 86/71pc 86/71s 佛罗里达州 {Fla.} 基韦斯特 (Key West) 90/83t 91/82t 田纳西州 {Tenn.} 诺克斯维尔 (Knoxville) 94/72t 89/64pc 德克萨斯州 {Texas} 拉雷多 (Laredo) 104/80s 104/80s 肯塔基州 {Ky.} 莱克斯顿 (Lexington) 89/66s 86/61sh 内布拉斯加州 {Neb.} 林肯 (Lincoln) 85/70pc 91/71t 阿肯色州 {Ark.} 小石城 (Little Rock) 103/81s 93/74pc 加利福尼亚州 {Calif.} 长滩 (Long Beach) 83/68pc 83/69pc 肯塔基州 {Ky.} 路易维尔 (Louisville) 90/68pc 87/67s 德克萨斯州 {Texas} 拉伯克 (Lubbock) 104/74s 102/74s 威斯康星州 {Wis.} 麦迪逊 (Madison) 82/59h 85/65s 新罕布什尔州 {N.H.} 曼彻斯特 (Manchester) 80/66sh 72/65r 田纳西州 {Tenn.} 孟菲斯 (Memphis) 99/78s 92/73pc 密尔沃基 (Milwaukee) 77/64h 81/64s 阿拉巴马州 {Ala.} 莫比尔 (Mobile) 98/77t 96/76t 加利福尼亚州 {Calif.} 莫德斯托 (Modesto) 96/63s 98/64s 阿拉巴马州 {Ala.} 蒙哥马利 (Montgomery) 99/76s 94/72pc 南卡罗来纳州 {S.C.} 默特尔海滩 (Myrtle Beach) 91/78pc 91/72t
夺得经典第五冠
路透社 (REUTERS)
“感谢所有的球迷，感谢整个法国主办这场伟大的比赛，”波加查说道。“感谢我的竞争对手们奉献了精彩的演出。在过去的三周里，我们战斗得很激烈。”
范德波尔和波加查在蒙马特高地（Montmartre）的最后一次爬坡时突围，当时距离终点约 10 公里。在追击组全力追赶的情况下，他们带着微弱的领先优势进入香榭丽舍大街。波加查的挑战在最后一公里内逐渐减弱，而范德波尔则奋力冲刺，在照片评定时击败了 Alpecin-Premier Tech 队的队友贾斯珀·菲利普森（Jasper Philipsen）夺冠，Lidl-Trek 队的马兹·佩德森（Mads Pedersen）获得第三名。
“去年我生病不得不通过电视观看赛段时，我就已经在思考这一刻了，” 31 岁的范德波尔说道。“事情的发展就像一场梦。太不可思议了。这极其艰难，能与世界上最好的车手并肩而行，我对塔德伊充满敬意。”
“我原以为我们会被追上，然后我便只想着这一刻。在最后五百米，我低头全力冲刺，尽我所能……”
“我超级开心。在我的职业生涯中，还有几场比赛是我一直想赢的，这就是其中之一。”
波加查进一步证明了他的统治地位。
Marquette 72
Duluth 80
Fargo 94
Mpls-St. Paul 89
Grand Rapids 83
Milwaukee 77
Madison 82
Detroit 82
Sioux Falls 88
Des Moines 85
Lansing 81
Chicago 82
Springfield 85
Omaha 89
Columbus 84
St. Louis 90
Louisville 90
Jefferson City 94
Knoxville 94
Memphis 99
Nashville 97
Tulsa 102
Birmingham 99
Montgomery 99
Dallas/Ft. Worth 102
Shreveport 98
Jackson 100
Baton Rouge 96
New Orleans 96
Puerto Rico San Juan 92
Brownsville 97
TUE (周二) 强雷阵雨 90/63
TUE (周二) 零星雷阵雨 82/62
WED (周三) 零星雷阵雨 89/66
WED (周三) 微风 81/59
THU (周四) 零星雷阵雨 92/64
THU (周四) 晴朗 84/63
TUE (周二) 零星雷阵雨 111/92
TUE (周二) 晴朗，温暖 102/79
WED (周三) 部分阳光 100/75
WED (周三) 炎热 111/93
THU (周四) 晴朗，炎热 115/91
THU (周四) 非常温暖 103/79
Pittsburgh (匹兹堡) 80
Nags Head, N.C. (北卡罗来纳州纳格斯海德) 84/73pc 83/73t
Nashville, Tenn. (田纳西州纳什维尔) 97/72t 91/67s
Newark, N.J. (新泽西州纽瓦克) 78/70t 82/69t
New Haven, Conn. (康涅狄格州纽黑文) 77/71t 80/66t
Norfolk, Va. (弗吉尼亚州诺福克) 85/71t 87/72t
Oakland, Calif. (加州奥克兰) 74/58pc 75/58s
Oklahoma City (俄克拉荷马市) 103/76s 102/76pc
Omaha, Neb. (内布拉斯加州奥马哈) 89/71s 91/72s
Palm Springs, Calif. (加州棕榈泉) 113/85s 113/86s
Pensacola, Fla. (佛罗里达州彭萨科拉) 95/79t 97/78t
Pierre, S.D. (南达科他州皮埃尔) 94/67t 97/69t
Pittsburgh (匹兹堡) 80/64t 77/61sh
Portland, Maine (缅因州波特兰) 75/63t 68/60sh
Portland, Ore. (俄勒冈州波特兰) 78/59pc 80/57s
Providence, R.I. (罗德岛州普罗维登斯) 78/66sh 72/64t
Raleigh, N.C. (北卡罗来纳州罗利) 89/71t 90/66pc
Rapid City, S.D. (南达科他州快速城) 93/66t 97/66t
Reno, Nev. (内华达州雷诺) 97/62s 98/63s
Richmond, Va. (弗吉尼亚州里士满) 83/69t 87/67pc
Rochester, N.Y. (纽约州罗切斯特) 72/64t 71/63t
Sacramento, Calif. (加州萨克拉门托) 96/59s 98/60s
San Antonio (圣安东尼奥) 98/78pc 98/78pc
San Jose, Calif. (加州圣何塞) 81/59s 83/58s
Santa Fe, N.M. (新墨西哥州圣菲) 95/64t 93/64t
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当两届环法冠军、被广泛认为是其主要竞争对手的约纳斯·温格高（Jonas Vingegaard）在第 15 赛段因摔车而退赛后，他获得连续第三个黄衫的道路变得不再那么复杂。 由于安全部队被重新部署以帮助应对波尔多附近的山火，环法赛在巴黎的传统收官环节被缩短。因此，通常在香榭丽舍大街绕行几圈前将车队带入巴黎的第 21 赛段，里程从原定的 133 公里缩减至 89 公里。 今年的比赛还创下了一项惊人的记录：没有来自法国、意大利或西班牙的骑手赢得任何一个赛段，使其成为首届没有任何一个创造并主办自行车大巡回赛的国家赢得赛段冠军的环法赛。 波加查（Pogacar）最新的胜利为自巴塞罗那大出发（Grand Depart）以来的三周比赛画上了圆满句号，并进一步巩固了他作为这一代主导骑手的地位。
Bangor 82
Augusta 80
Burlington 85 Montpelier 79
Boston 79
Buffalo 76 Albany 80
Hartford 78
New York 78
Philadelphia 80
Harrisburg 77
Annapolis 80
Washington 83
Charleston 83
Richmond 83
Raleigh 89 Charlotte 93
Columbia 98
Atlanta 98
Charleston 97
Savannah 101
Jacksonville 98
Tallahassee 98
Tampa 91 Miami 92
周二 阵雨 约 90/77
周二 晴，温暖 98/78
周三 雨，风 87/76
周三 非常温暖 97/80
周四 少量阵雨 90/77
周四 晴，炎热 100/79
周二 局部晴 78/68
周二 有风 71/58
周三 局部晴 78/70
周三 有风 73/57
周四 有阳光 78/70
周四 有风 72/57
萨拉索塔，佛罗里达州 89/81t 90/80t 萨凡纳，佐治亚州 101/80sh 97/76t 斯科茨代尔，亚利桑那州 109/88t 108/89s 什里夫波特，路易斯安那州 98/79s 100/80t 苏福尔斯，南达科他州 88/69pc 93/71t 南本德，印第安那州 78/58s 79/59s 斯波坎，华盛顿州 86/57s 86/57s 春田市，密苏里州 95/75pc 89/73pc 春田市，伊利诺伊州 85/60s 84/61s 圣路易斯 90/70s 88/71s 圣彼得堡，佛罗里达州 91/80t 92/81t 雪城，纽约州 74/65t 74/64t 塔拉哈西，佛罗里达州 98/78t 98/75t 坦帕，佛罗里达州 91/82t 92/81t 托莱多，俄亥俄州 84/61t 83/56s 托皮卡，堪萨斯州 84/73pc 84/74t 图森，亚利桑那州 103/82pc 103/82pc 图佩洛，密西西比州 98/79s 90/71pc 塔尔萨，俄克拉荷马州 102/80s 100/78t 弗吉尼亚海滩，弗吉尼亚州 83/71t 83/73t 威奇托，堪萨斯州 98/76pc 97/76t 威尔明顿，特拉华州 78/67t 82/67t 温斯顿-塞勒姆，北卡罗来纳州 88/70t 88/66pc 伍斯特，马萨诸塞州 75/64sh 70/62r
雷暴 雨 雪 冰/混合
注：美国本土 48 州至周日数据
最高温：121° 加利福尼亚州，死亡谷 最低温：36° 加利福尼亚州，特拉基
周二 炎热 111/88
周三 炎热 111/86
周四 炎热 112/89
周二 下午 阵雨 75/56
周三 转晴 75/55
周四 阴云密布 76/56
北京 94/78h 96/80t 布宜诺斯艾利斯 61/50c 58/50s 墨西哥，坎昆 92/75sh 93/77s 阿联酋，迪拜 106/93h 112/94h 法兰克福 87/64s 99/65s 香港 88/80t 85/79sh 伊斯坦堡 90/73s 87/70s 耶路撒冷 87/68s 89/70s 约翰内斯堡 66/40s 63/42h 伦敦 87/62pc 93/63s 墨西哥城 75/56r 75/56r 蒙特利尔 82/67t 73/65t 莫斯科 82/61t 67/59sh 印度，孟买 87/82r 87/81r 巴黎 91/66s 102/69s 里约热内罗 81/71h 88/72s 罗马 92/72s 95/71s 首尔 89/77t 90/76pc 新加坡 89/80t 88/79sh 悉尼 72/52s 68/45w 多伦多 77/64t 76/61sh 东京 87/77t 91/76sh
周二 大部分时间晴 88/68
周三 大部分时间晴 88/66
周四 局部晴 87/66
周二 强雷暴 83/70
周三 零星雷暴 86/70
周四 大部分时间晴 85/70
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NFL 训练营 巨人队与喷气机队氛围积极
氛围检测。这是一件无法定义，只能感受的事。 在世界的其他领域，我们会将其称为“国情咨议”甚至“股市”。那些揭示的是不同种类的氛围，与一个国家的走向或其经济的健康状况相关。而谈到 NFL 时，氛围通常不被用作衡量单位。我们会关注自由球员签约、选秀级别、教练以及整体阵容等因素。这在本质上更倾向于分析，但分析并不总能带动门票、周边商品的销售以及希望。体育的魅力，至少在 NFL 中，在于任何人在任何一个周日都有可能获胜。场上的动态可能无法左右球队的走向，但那些不可言说的变量可能会带来决定性的差异。随着训练营临近，现在给联赛“测温”正是时候。
Nick Brinkerhoff
这里是对所有 32 支球队的氛围检测，以及它们在全联盟排名中的位置：
你知道在餐厅点餐被弄错了时的那种感觉吗？ 这就是小马队进入本赛季时的感觉。没有首轮签，没有重磅签约。他们得到的只有为从跟腱断裂中恢复的 Daniel Jones 以及 Alec Pierce 提供的续约合同。竞争冠军似乎还很遥远。
海豚队在休赛期散发出一种“新房”的能量。他们正在建设，但要让这里有家的感觉还需要很长时间。迈阿密多么希望下一个休赛期能快点到来。
在小组项目里总有一个人什么都没做却能获得功劳。在经历了沉闷的休赛期后，美洲虎队就是 NFL 版本的这种人，而且下赛季他们甚至无法在接球手位置上主要使用 Travis Hunter。
钢腿队很久以前就触碰到了天花板，而这给他们带来的只有头痛。匹兹堡连续多个赛季保持胜率的记录，使球队陷入了一个在应该放手的时候仍试图获胜的恶性循环。今年，钢腿队在为 Aaron Rodgers 举办退休派对，并邀请了他的所有朋友。 现在就买好你的外卡赛门票吧。
Mike Evans？走了。Lavonte David？退役了。感觉像是一艘沉船，而我们不知道船上是否有救生衣。NFC 南区在上升，而海盗队在衰落。在经历了一个糟糕的 2025 年后，这支球队需要一个英雄和一些新的能量。
Mike LaFleur 和 Jeremiyah Love 正带领这支球队走出深沉的黑暗深渊。红雀队距离迎来新四分卫还有一年时间，这限制了本赛季的氛围。
机会之窗正在迅速关闭，“大叔”状态已近在咫尺。底特律最好希望他们雇佣的进攻协调员能够胜任。
德州人队本应有良好的氛围。相反，休斯顿被一种诡异的中间状态所困扰，由于 C.J. Stroud 上赛季的挣扎，这种感觉加剧了一种末日将至的预感。
想象你被困在亚特兰大著名的交通拥堵中。很残酷，对吧？但乐观来看，空调很凉爽，收音机声音很大，前方还能看到一些光亮。短期内你会受苦，但至少车子有很多很酷的功能。猎鹰队可能拥有一切。他们只需要一名新司机，而他将在下一个休赛期抵达。在那之前，请享受那六七场胜利。
防守端，但他们是否会被不稳定的四分卫局面所拖累？卡罗来纳在进入本赛季时深知其上限已被封死，这很难让人兴奋。
包装工队并不以在休赛期制造轰动而闻名，但在去年迈卡·帕森斯那次轰动性的交易之后，这个休赛期感觉格外安静。格林贝的历史、传统以及整个小镇对橄榄球的热爱，提升了一支球队的氛围，尽管这支球队看起来与那支在季后赛中屡屡折戟的球队并没有太大区别。
本赛季在克利夫兰，胜利可能依然稀缺。然而，球迷们可以期待一个新的教练组带来的乐观情绪，以及本休赛期注入的一些年轻才俊。
熊队不再是猎手了。对手们知道他们面对的是什么样的对手，这让一些人怀疑熊队是否在 2025. 达到了巅峰。这听起来很疯狂，但底特律狮队在 2023 之后也是如此，看看他们现在的情况。不过，本·约翰逊的第二个赛季给了球迷一个希望的理由。
A.J.布朗走了，但凯文·帕图洛也走了。失去一名球星很痛；然而，马凯·柠檬可能会成为一名新星。无论如何，费城笼罩在谨慎的乐观氛围中，即便这不足以让他们进入联盟上半区。
特拉维斯·凯尔斯回来了。帕特里克·马霍姆斯很健康。即便球队再次朝着正确的方向发展，要扭转局面还需要更多努力，但只要 15 在场，就有理由相信。
指挥官队在这个休赛期寻找到了青春之泉——至少在球场上是这样。指挥官队意识到变革的时机已到，依赖职业生涯末期的老将并不能让情况变得更好。在指挥官队寻求于 2026 与杰登·丹尼尔斯以及新进攻协调员大卫·布洛一起反弹之际，这种意识应当受到赞赏。
A.J.布朗的交易很出色，但这并不能减轻迈克·弗拉贝尔这个量级给球队带来的压力。这场拉锯战将爱国者队置于了一个完美的位置——正中间。
即使是著名的电站也无法在此时消除49ers队的良好氛围。迈克·埃文斯和经过改组的接球手阵容应该会让旧金山再次大胆地梦想——即便伤病之魔依然潜伏在阴影之中。
杰西·明特是否只是一个“不同字体”的约翰·哈博？这重要吗？乌鸦队仍然拥有一名MVP级别的四分卫，现在他们又有一位新的声音在引领方向，那就是来自本·约翰逊体系的年轻进攻协调员德克林·多伊尔。期望值可能降低了，但这支球队仍然可以高飞。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 四分卫费尔南多·门多萨在介绍新闻发布会上展示他的球衣，身边是突击者队总经理约翰·斯派特克（左）和教练克林特·库比克。门多萨于 7 月 23. 签署了新秀合同。KIRBY LEE/IMAGN IMAGES
在纽奥良。圣徒队此前陷入了后德류·布里斯 era, 缺乏薪金空间或希望。然后凯伦·摩尔来了。然后泰勒·肖格来了。现在圣徒队到来了。纽奥良在选秀中选择乔丹·泰森是一次大胆的尝试，这支球队在本赛季可以制造一些真正的轰动。不要说我没警告过你。
维京人队与萨姆·达诺德分手，并看着他在他人麾下大放异彩。氛围糟糕。相反，维京人队与凯勒·马雷建立了一段新关系，这看起来比J.J.麦卡锡有所改善。明尼苏达将永远追寻在达诺德时期拥有的一切，但马雷给了球队一些切实乐观的理由。
很明显，闪电队在天使之城中是公羊队的陪衬。但不要让这一点掩盖了目前闪电队传递出的积极氛围。聘请迈克·麦丹尼尔确保了贾斯汀·赫伯特及其队友在未来将展现出令人兴奋且富有创意的进攻。如果他们能保持健康，这支球队将是一个真正的威胁。
“纳什维加斯”（NashVegas）或许没有像“罪恶之城”那样多的赌场，但泰坦队在进入 2026 赛季之际正下重注。随着田纳西州在自由球员市场上挥金如土，并引入了一套全新的教练团队，他们的支票簿正被频繁使用。这些举措是否奏效仍需时间验证，但在现有的日产体育场（Nissan Stadium）落幕之前，我们会购买一些周边商品和门票去支持这支球队。
比尔队在决定肖恩·麦克多蒙（Sean McDermott）已经将他们带到了极限后，正散发出一种“新车”般的活力。布法罗队积累了大量里程并经历了一些难忘的旅程，但如果没有全轮驱动，你无法登顶。球队希望乔·布雷迪（Joe Brady）能在关键的季后赛中，让四个轮胎都朝着正确的方向旋转。即便没有其他亮点，他们还有一个新体育场即将启用，且乔什·艾伦（Josh Allen）仍然在队中。有很多值得高兴的地方。
人们对野马队的期望极高（a mile high），而这正是他们应该处于的状态。上赛季，丹佛队在分区赛中由于博·尼克斯（Bo Nix）不幸受伤，在即将进入超级碗的门槛前，这段旅程戛然而止。休赛期交易得来的杰伦·沃德尔（Jaylen Waddle）应该能为急需火花的进攻端带来助力，而防守端则承诺将再次占据主导地位。对于丹佛来说，现在就是唯一的机会。
只要乔·伯로우（Joe Burrow）仍受雇于孟加拉虎队，这支球队在氛围感上就很难跌落太远。辛辛那提感觉只要由他首发，就有能力赢得每场比赛。现在，孟加拉虎队决定在防守端进行投资，以协助这些获胜努力。可以肯定地说，德克斯特·“性感德克斯”·劳伦斯（Dexter “Sexy Dexy” Lawrence）可能也是一个能带动氛围的人。
那次交易改变了孟加拉虎队的一切——且是以一种积极的方式。
顶尖天才似乎总能找到通往“之星”（the star）的路。在迈卡·帕森斯（Micah Parsons）被选入队五年后，凯莱布·当斯（Caleb Downs）成了最新一名掉到牛仔队选秀顺位的潜力新星。当然，帕森斯已不在达拉斯，但正是那次交易重建了牛仔队的防守。这支球队的球迷从未缺乏信心，而球队在本赛季的表现可能正好与此相匹配。
新泽西收费公路（New Jersey Turnpike）经常散发出一种明显且无法通过蜡烛掩盖的臭味。当然，这归功于工厂和沼泽，尽管喷气机队和巨头队在大多数赛季也是主要贡献者。但今年或许有所不同。这支绿白之师并不陌生于在休赛期获胜——一次强有力的选秀，以及像吉诺·史密斯（Geno Smith）和德马里奥·戴维斯（Demario Davis）等前喷气机队成员回归带来的资深球员增强，将在 2026 年发挥作用。随着下个休赛期拥有三个首轮选秀权，喷气机队的球迷们寄予厚望——或许这也有充分的理由。
尽管在失去克林特·库比亚克（Klint Kubiak）和肯尼斯·沃克三世（Kenneth Walker III）后有一些令人担忧的因素，但庆祝的纸屑仍在飘落。西雅图理应处于庆祝模式，将伦巴第奖杯（Lombardi Trophy）像当天的最佳渔获一样在鱼市中抛来抛去。
漫步在罗德欧大道（Rodeo Drive），你会看到香奈儿、古驰、路易威登以及……公羊队的球队商店？这些球衣在这次休赛期极其抢手，给南加州带来了冠军氛围——就好像道奇队带来的还不够多似的。迈尔斯·加勒特（Myles Garrett）和特伦特·麦克杜菲（Trent McDuffie）是这次休赛期最大的两笔变动，且两人均加盟了公羊队。对于联盟这支新的超级球队来说，目标只有超级碗，否则就是失败。
如果拉斯维加斯突袭者队（Raiders）是赌场里的一个赌客，管理层一定会怀疑他们在算牌。这个休赛期的所有焦点都集中在了拉斯维加斯。选秀状元？到手。聘请了可以说是最顶尖的主教练候选人？到手。用联盟中最出色的球员之一来稳固进攻线？绝对没问题。在一次失效的交易中找回超级巨星？当然，为什么不呢？自从超级碗（Super Bowl）以来，突袭者队在场外的表现无往不利。现在，他们希望这种势头能转化为场上的胜利。尽管如此，目前的氛围可能已达到历史最高点。
“大蓝”（Big Blue）不再感到忧郁。在聘请了约翰·哈博（John Harbaugh）之后，在贾克森·达特（Jaxson Dart）的新秀赛季之后，情况已经改变。不，这里现在存在一种真实的乐观情绪，而这种情绪在这一地带已经很久没有出现了。而且，布莱恩·达博尔（Brian Daboll）和丹尼尔·琼斯（Daniel Jones）那段像“包办婚姻”般的合作关系，并不属于乐观时期。这种低迷的时间要比那更久远。巨人队重新回到了 NFL 的版图之中。球迷们只需希望这支球队能够像卡姆·斯卡特博（Cam Skattebo）那样，在比赛开始时能稳稳地完成着陆。
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在 36 年间，约翰·斯特林解说了每一场洋基队的比赛。每一次投球，每一次击球，每一次再见分赛……连续 5,060 场播报，从未缺席。他的全垒打解说词已融入纽约棒球的基因。“球飞得很高，飞得很远，出局了！”曾是布朗克斯区夏季的标志性声音。但这本收藏书所讲述的不仅仅是麦克风背后的那个男人。这部由 NorthJersey.com 和 今日美国 体育频道推出的纪念版咖啡桌书，记录了斯特林时代的巅峰时刻：那些冠军、传奇以及令人难忘的精彩瞬间。它通过摄影、故事和幕后花絮，追溯斯特林的职业生涯以及他所解说的洋基队时代。所有精彩尽在其中。立即预订您的副本。
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NASCAR杯系列赛 砖路 400 “海姆时间”赢得 15 场比赛中的第 2 场胜利
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《印第安纳波利斯星报》 今日美国 网络
《印第安纳波利斯星报》| 今日美国 网络
印第安纳波利斯 —— “现在是海姆时间，宝贝，你是这里最强的人。”这是 23XI Racing 车队首席技师罗伯特·“布蒂”·巴克在砖路 400. 赛第 126 圈重启前，通过车内无线电告诉科里·海姆（Corey Heim）的话。片刻之后，海姆驾驶他的 67 号丰田赛车，超越了 5 号丰田赛车的丹尼·汉姆林（Denny Hamlin），后者是与迈克尔·乔丹共同拥有 23XI Racing 的车主。一旦海姆在进入印第安纳波利斯赛道 1 号弯道时超越了他的老板，在这场仅在重启和进站期间交换领先位置的比赛中，就再也没有人能追上他。海姆领跑了最后 35 圈（全部无黄旗），最终率先冲过终点线，于 7 月 26 日夺得了他职业生涯中第二场 NASCAR 杯系列赛的胜利。“他相信我，而我也相信他，”巴克在谈到他的鼓劲之词时说道，“我不经常那样做，也没说太多。我只想确保他知道，‘我是这里最强的家伙’。”海姆是一名兼职车手，
他已同意在 2027. 年为 23XI Racing 全职参赛。在 6 场比赛中，这是他在 6 月 21. 日圣迭戈科罗纳多街道赛道获胜后的第二场胜利。另一场胜利，尤其是在砖路 400 —— 汉姆林唯一未曾赢得的顶级赛事 —— 使得这位 24 岁的车手在进入首个杯赛全赛季前成为了一颗冉冉升起的新星。海姆在 15 场杯赛首发中取得了两次胜利，目前他是砖路 400 第二年轻的获胜者，仅次于杰夫·戈登（Jeff Gordon），后者在 1994. 年以 23 岁的年纪赢得了首届比赛。尽管海姆未来应该会有很多参加砖路 400 的机会，但他不想浪费这一次。“我知道你不可能每年都拥有最强的赛车，所以我想利用这次机会，在我们的赛车速度极快的地方精准执行，”海姆说。“今年在七八次起跑中能两次做到这一点，绝对是一种疯狂的感觉，是我进入今年时无论如何都没有预料到的。”23XI Racing 去年由布巴·华莱士（Bubba Wallace）赢得了这场比赛，自 2024 年将其签为预备车手以及 2025. 年签为开发车手以来，该车队就意识到了海姆的潜力。在今年 12 场比赛的赛程中（还剩 4 场），海姆证明了自己已经完全准备好与世界上最顶尖的量产车赛车手竞争。“我想大家都认为我总是在开玩笑，但我是说，他比其他任何人都更有天赋，”巴克说。“这对一些伟大的车手来说可能有点不公平……但科里在天赋上达到了那个水平。科里在工作态度上也是如此，在心态上也是如此。所以他现在具备了这一切。但这不能保证未来依然如此，但目前，他具备了。”巴克知道海姆必须在重启时沿着内线紧贴汉姆林才能完成超越。
23XI 车队信任汉姆林不会造成事故，同时也承认 45 岁且计划在 2027, 后退休的汉姆林非常渴望在 IMS 首次夺冠。“我不认为他赢过一场砖路——
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赢取 $1M NASCAR 奖金
印第安纳波利斯 —— 托德·吉利兰（Todd Gilliland）在 Brickyard 400. 赛中的完赛排名高于瑞安·布莱尼（Ryan Blaney），从而赢得了 NASCAR 赛季中挑战赛（In-Season Challenge）的 100 万美元奖金。吉利兰最终排名第 24 位，布莱尼排名第 26 位。
布莱尼的排位赛成绩比吉利兰高出 23 位，且在比赛的大部分时间里都遥遥领先于他，但在第 120 圈重启时与约翰·亨特·内梅切克（John Hunter Nemechek）发生接触，导致布莱尼在 3 号和 4. 号弯道之间撞墙。事故发生后，布莱尼驾驶的 12 号 Team Penske 福特赛车的前分流器受损，需要长时间进站修理。布莱尼重新回到赛道时排名第 31 位，在当时所有运行的赛车中排名倒数第二。
“那个 42 号（内梅切克）真是个白痴（脏话），”布莱尼在无线电中说道，“每周都这样。”
吉利兰在一次真正的黑马之旅中夺得了第二个赛季中挑战赛冠军。在进入该挑战赛的 32 名车手中，他的初始排名是第 25 位。随后，他在 Brickyard 400 决赛轮之前，先后击败了丹尼尔·苏亚雷斯（Daniel Suarez，第 8 号种子）、卡森·霍塞瓦尔（Carson Hocevar，第 9 号）、亚历克斯·鲍曼（Alex Bowman，第 32 号）和蔡斯·埃利奥特（Chase Elliott，第 4 号）。最终，吉利兰击败了布莱尼（第 3 号种子，曾在四分之一决赛的亚特兰大赛道夺冠），赢得了冠军。
“太紧张了，”吉利兰在谈到 7 月 26 日顶住布莱尼压力时说，“感觉我们每一轮都只是勉强过关，但我们做到了该做的事。这是值得庆祝的。
“我们会想办法花掉这 100 万美元。”
在夺冠的征程中，吉利兰的单场最高排名从未超过第八。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 车手科里·海姆（Corey Heim）和车队主管罗伯特·“布蒂”·巴克（Robert “Bootie” Barker）于 7 月 26 日在印第安纳波利斯赛车场举行的 NASCAR 杯系列赛 Brickyard 400 中，引导 67 号 Field & Stream 丰田赛车驶向胜利之门。SEAN GARDNER/GETTY IMAGES
“……在那儿，所以他不会给我们任何东西，”巴克说。“但我也不期待。但我确实希望他能公正，而他做到了。”在比赛早些时候，海姆与深受球迷喜爱且同样是新星的卡森·霍塞瓦尔发生了一次冲突，海姆此前在杯系列赛和 Craftsman 卡车系列赛中就与对方发生过摩擦。霍塞瓦尔试图通过超越海姆来摆脱被套圈的状态，但海姆不让霍塞瓦尔的 77 号 Spire Motorsports 雪佛兰赛车通过。当海姆进站后，霍塞瓦尔向他竖起了中指。海姆对此毫无悔意。“我只是在努力维持我的位置，我从未进行后向封堵，”去年获得 Craftsman 卡车系列赛冠军的海姆说道，“我只是在保护我的入站口，而他不高兴。但他输了，我赢了。所以我并不在意。”
作为一名在本周末之前从未在 IMS 椭圆赛道上比赛过的兼职车手，很少有人预料到海姆会在这个“世界赛车之都”夺冠。尽管克里斯托弗·贝尔（Christopher Bell）在最后一段路程的大部分时间里与他差距不到一秒，但海姆依然赢得了比赛。海姆称这段过程是“一场苦战”，并表示这与他在圣迭戈以 10.365 秒的优势获胜不可比拟。（周日，海姆比贝尔早 0.287 秒触及终点线砖墙。）
进入 2027 年，海姆预计将赢得更多比赛，争夺更多顶尖赛事冠军，并成为进入 Chase（NASCAR 的 10 场季后赛）的 16 名杯赛车手之一。与此同时，他将尽一切努力不让名声将自己淹没。“我觉得我很擅长专注自身以及手头的工作，”海姆说，“不被别人的言论或看法所困扰，只要确保我完成了自己的工作并按要求执行即可。”
海姆在周日的执行力达到了经验丰富的杯赛车手水平，而不是像一个第一次在该超级速度赛道上比赛的新手。海姆通过在 Brickyard 400 夺冠，向 NASCAR 世界进一步证明了自己。
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“我认为悲伤最艰难的部分在于，人们会继续前行。但对我们来说，因为我们是他的妻子和孩子，不存在所谓的‘继续前行’。有的只是‘与之共存’和‘与之生活’。他将永远是我们日常生活的一部分，”马尔科姆-贾马尔-沃纳 (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) 的遗孀特尼莎-沃纳 (Tenisha Warner) 在《CBS早晨》的一次情感访谈中坦言。在与盖尔-金 (Gayle King) 谈话以纪念这位《考斯比一家》(Cosby Show) 演员在 54 岁去世一周年之际，她称他的离世“不公平”。这位艾美奖提名者死于在哥斯达黎加的一次意外溺水。
今天是你的生日 谁在庆祝
漫画家吉姆-戴维斯 (Jim Davis) 81 岁。演员兼活动家萨莉-斯特鲁瑟斯 (Sally Struthers)，79 岁。音乐家杰拉德-卡萨尔 (Gerald Casale) (Devo 乐队)，78 岁。新闻主播斯科特-佩利 (Scott Pelley)，69 岁。演员洛丽-劳格林 (Lori Loughlin)，62 岁。歌手普里西拉-陈 (Priscilla Chan)，61 岁。演员伊丽莎白-伯克利 (Elizabeth Berkley)，54 岁。说唱歌手 Afroman，52 岁。歌手雅各比-沙迪克斯 (Jacoby Shaddix) (Papa Roach 乐队)，50 岁。演员约翰-大卫-华盛顿 (John David Washington)，42 岁。说唱歌手 Soulja Boy，36 岁。 – 今日美国 (USA TODAY) 网络
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福克斯依然在 与帕金森病 作斗争
KiMi Robinson 今日美国
洛杉矶 – 当 29 岁的迈克尔·J·福克斯在演艺事业如日中天之时被诊断出患有帕金森病，突然之间，其他一切似乎都变得“渺小”了。h 自他 17 岁来到好莱坞以来已有十多年时间，福克斯决定将注意力从通过试镜获得角色转向意识到自己拥有“一个独特的机会去产生影响，去做一些比讲个笑话更伟大的事情”。h “你想想一个 19 岁、17 岁的孩子，你想要富有、出名并改变世界，你想要成为那个最热门的‘顶流’，”这位 65 岁的演员告诉 今日美国。“而当你开始寻找一种疾病的治愈方法时，那些东西就显得太渺小了。”
“那些变得枯燥乏味的时刻，转而成为了操作一台更大机器的杠杆，”他补充道。 在 7 月 22 日，这位演员创立的迈克尔·J·福克斯帕金森研究基金会是《好莱坞报道者》和社会影响力基金会第三届年度社会影响力峰会的三个获奖机构之一，另外两个是约翰·梅耶的“心与盔甲”退伍军人健康基金会，以及斯蒂芬和艾莎·库里的“饮食、学习、玩耍”基金会。
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卡莉·西蒙 披露其 帕金森病 诊断结果
Edward Segarra
卡莉·西蒙（Carly Simon）透露，她被诊断出患有帕金森病。
这位深受喜爱的流行摇滚歌手以 70 年代的热门歌曲（包括《You’re So Vain》、《Nobody Does It Better》和《Mockingbird》）而闻名。她在 7 月 27 日星期一向《今日美国》（USA TODAY）发布的一份声明中披露了这一健康状况。《人物》（People）杂志率先报道了这一消息。
“很多人给我写信，亲切地询问我为何相对沉默，询问我的近况以及我一直在做什么。事实是，我一直在学习如何与帕金森病共存，”83 岁的西蒙告诉该媒体。“我花了一些时间来理解这个诊断，去适应它，并决定在公开场合透露多少相关信息。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 卡莉·西蒙于 2016 年 2 月 14 日在加利福尼亚州比弗利山庄出席格莱美奖前夕盛典及行业偶像致敬活动。
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帕金森病是一种退行性综合征，会导致涉及运动、认知和行为的大脑回路缓慢丢失。除了焦虑、抑郁和睡眠功能障碍外，它还可能导致震颤、僵直、迟缓和跌倒。“每个人的帕金森病情况都不同，而且具有不可预测性，”西蒙说，她与该病的斗争始于膝盖和其中一个髋关节的关节炎。“有些日子我非常疲惫，完全无法开始一天的活动。而有些日子，它会给我更多的空间去活动、思考、工作，并感觉找回了自我。”西蒙表示，她接受了三次置换手术以治疗受损的关节，但她的活动能力“继续恶化”。“如果没有人搀扶，我很难从低矮的椅子或深陷的沙发上站起来，”西蒙说。“过于柔软的家具成了我的敌人。一旦坐下，我就感觉像是被椅子吞噬了，可能会永远留在那里，就像一个严重超时停留且不受欢迎的客人们一样。”
据梅奥医学中心（Mayo Clinic）称，帕金森病无法治愈。但各种药物和治疗方案可以帮助缓解症状。“这种疾病没有整齐或可预测的时间表，”西蒙说。“它在决定我将度过怎样的一天之前，并不会参考我的日程表。”这位歌手还透露，在诊断和治疗帕金森病期间，她还因基底细胞癌接受了手术。根据皮肤癌基金会（Skin Cancer Foundation）的数据，基底细胞癌是最常见的皮肤癌形式。“在同一时期，我还治疗了脸上的基底细胞癌，”她说。“癌细胞被切除了，但手术影响了我的外貌，让我对在公共场合露面感到更加局促不安。我一直以来对自己外貌的挑剔程度，可能超过任何人的想象。”
除了身体症状外，这位格莱美奖得主歌手还坦诚地谈到了与帕金森病共存的心理代价，她表示这可能包括“焦虑、抑郁、精疲力竭和冷漠”。“这种冷漠感尤其奇怪，”
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现实与虚构在特洛伊木马中碰撞
Patrick Ryan
纽约 —— 想象一下，你和其他 20 个人一起被挤在一个 40 英尺高的木马里，停在海滩上。这听起来可能与好莱坞的魅力背道而驰。但在乔·伯恩塔尔（Jon Bernthal）看来，“那是极其壮丽的。”
这位漫威演员与马特·达蒙（Matt Damon）和汤姆·赫兰德（Tom Holland）共同出演《奥德赛》（The Odyssey，现正上映），这是克里斯托弗·诺兰（Christopher Nolan）对荷马史诗的高度预算重述。在一段令人紧张的早期场景中，伊萨卡的国王奥德修斯（达蒙 饰）和斯巴达统治者墨涅莱俄斯（伯恩thal 饰）与十多名其他士兵一起，在巨大的特洛伊木马中静候时机，这是为了隐藏并对特洛伊发动突袭的一项复杂计划的一部分。
特洛伊的官员们误以为这匹马是礼物，将其拖入王国城墙之内，结果奥德修斯的部下在夜幕降临之时跳出木马，在城市中横冲直撞。为了拍摄这一序列，演员们与诺兰以及摄影师霍伊特·范·霍特马（Hoyte Van Hoytema）一起在这个装置中度过了许多小时。
“我很喜欢，”伯恩塔尔说。“你得相信克里斯（诺兰）就在那里陪着我们——没有人比他工作更刻苦了。”虽然特洛伊木马实际上是虚构的，但“你能真实地感受到那种[体验]会有多么疯狂：被移动起来是什么感觉；里面填满冰冷的水而必须保持安静是什么感觉；以及和我在一起的人们的表情，以及他们有时感到的不适。我记得非常清楚。”
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福克斯及其基金会首席执行官德博拉·W·布鲁克斯 (Deborah W. Brooks) 在其《缩小》(Shrinking) 片中搭档哈里森·福特 (Harrison Ford) 为两人颁发“年度慈善组织奖”之前，在后台接受了《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 的采访。
“这些赞誉总令人感到谦卑，”福克斯说。“这让人们更多地关注我们的基金会，也让人们更多地关注已经取得的进展。”
他的最新荣誉紧随其第 19 次艾美奖提名而至，该奖项由社会影响力基金 (Social Impact Fund) 授予。这是一个成立于 2013 年的非营利组织，旨在通过为组织（包括那些免税状态尚在申请中的组织）提供“法律结构”，来“帮助克服”娱乐业及其他领域在开展慈善事业时面临的“常见行政障碍”。该组织已在 80 多个财政赞助项目中管理了超过 $135 million 的慈善资金，目前的合作伙伴包括约翰·传奇 (John Legend)、凯丽·华盛顿 (Kerry Washington)、瑞安·雷诺兹 (Ryan Reynolds) 和艾丽西亚·凯斯 (Alicia Keys)。
据报道，自 2000, 以来，福克斯的基金会已资助了 $3 billion 的帕金森病研究，同时成功地在联邦层面争取资源，并助力推进突破性的科学发现，例如为出现该神经退行性疾病症状的人群提供一项“至关重要”的脑脊液检测。最终，他们的目标是在“我们的有生之年”消除这种疾病。
“我们所做的事情，不是强加于他们，也不是仅仅为了他们，”福克斯在谈到帕金森综合征患者时说。“而是与他们共同完成的。”
福克斯从隐瞒帕金森病转变为成为“答案的一部分”
福克斯并非一直接受自己的诊断结果。他在 1991. 注意到小指颤抖后被诊断出患病。经过一段时间，他才成为了哈里森·福特在台上演讲时所描述的“我认识的最顽强的乐观主义者”。但当他向世人公开自己的慢性病况时，他意识到“我想成为答案的一部分”。
帕金森病是美国增长最快的神经退行性疾病，是一种不可治愈的脑部疾病。根据美国国家老化研究所 (National Institute on Aging) 的说法，这是一种进行性疾病，“会导致无意识或无法控制的动作，如颤抖、僵直以及平衡和协调困难”。
“我被诊断出患病后，进入了一个隐秘的退隐状态，隐瞒了七年，没告诉任何人。后来当我想到也许可以公开时，我和妻子 [特蕾西·波兰 (Tracy Pollan)] 以及我自己权衡了这件事，进行了很多次对话，”福克斯说。“我意识到这是一个独特的机会。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 巨大的特洛伊木马导致了克里斯托弗·诺兰 (Christopher Nolan) 电影《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) 中的残酷屠杀。
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（该剧组）在六个月的时间里拍摄。对于 49, 岁的伯恩萨尔 (Bernthal) 来说，有机会首次与诺兰合作是一个“掐自己一下才敢相信”的时刻，他在导演家中与诺兰见面时，并不清楚项目的具体细节。
“我跟几个知情人士聊过，他们告诉我他在翻拍《蓝色雷霆》(Blue Thunder)，就是 80 年代那部关于直升机的电影，”伯恩萨尔笑着回忆道。“当时这件事被笼罩在神秘和秘密之中。”
海伦 (Helen，鲁皮塔·尼永奥 Lupita Nyong’o 饰) 的丈夫美诺劳斯 (Menelaus) 成为了年轻的特勒马科斯 (Telemachus，荷兰人 Holland 饰) 的关键资源，后者正在寻找关于失踪父亲奥德修斯 (Odysseus) 命运的答案。伯恩萨尔最关键的戏份是特洛伊战争的闪回，美诺劳斯及其军队在特洛伊制造了血腥的混乱，而这段记忆一直困扰着……
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哈里森·福特和迈克尔·J·福克斯于 7 月 22. 在洛杉矶的 DGA 剧院参加第三届年度社会影响力峰会。MONICA SCHIPPER/GETTY IMAGES
“已经取得了如此之多的成就，”福克斯基金会首席执行官德博拉·W·布鲁克斯说。JOHN SCIULLI/THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER VIA GETTY IMAGES
“如果你在我 17 岁时告诉我，我将来会因为我所患的疾病而成为一名知名的疾病倡导者，我一定会欣喜若狂。”
在确诊不到十年后，这位《家庭纽带》（Family Ties）的演员开始接纳自己作为帕金森病代言人的角色。
“如果在我 17 岁时有人告诉我，我会因为被诊断出某种疾病而成为一名著名的疾病倡导者，我一定会非常激动，”福克斯说。
该基金会的首席执行官布鲁克斯同样为福克斯的影响力感到自豪。
“我记得我入职的第一天，他说过：‘人们可能会因为我而来到这里。而你的工作就是建立一个能让他们再次光顾的机制，’”布鲁克斯说。“客观地说，我们还没有治愈帕金森病。但已经取得了巨大的成就。……如今，这个领域与我们开始时相比已经发生了翻天覆地的变化，这虽然不是关于我们的全部，但与我们所做的一切息息相关。这激励着我们前行。”
福克斯为帕金森病患者制定的粗口口号
除了寻找治愈方法——“科学很难，”福克斯打趣道——他希望给“患者群体一个发声的机会和存在感”。
“他们被吓坏了，”他说。“这是一个会颠覆你世界的可怕诊断。”
根据国家神经疾病和中风研究所的数据，帕金森病患者的平均年龄在 60 岁至 65 岁之间。在被诊断出的人群中，有“极小比例”的人患有早发性帕金森病，即在 50. 岁之前发病。这种进行性运动障碍的症状通常包括震颤、肌肉僵直、平衡问题和动作缓慢。
几十年来，帕金森病让这位《回到未来》的明星付出了沉重代价。在早年应对诊断期间，他产生了酒精依赖，后又从中恢复。他曾多次骨折。在他 2023 年的纪录片《Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie》中，他表示自己“一直处于疼痛之中”。
当被问及好莱坞对帕金森病患者的呈现时，福克斯提到了 Apple TV 的《缩小》（Shrinking）。在第 1, 季中，由福特饰演的治疗师保罗·罗兹被诊断出患有帕金森病，他引导整个演员阵容采用了“(粗口) 帕金森病”的口号。
（福克斯在剧中扮演一名叫盖里的患者，最终成为了保罗旅程的一部分。）
呼应保罗的措辞，福克斯说：“很长一段时间以来，我一直在说‘(粗口) 虚荣心’。这关乎的不是虚荣。不是关乎你的外表。而正是这一点能帮助患者在心态上前进；他们会说，‘事实就是这样。’”
在随后的许多年里一直扮演奥德修斯。
特洛伊之围的拍摄历时多个夜晚，动用了超过 2,000 名群众演员。伯恩萨尔赞扬了电影的特技协调员所设计的“精心排练的动作序列”，战斗场面感觉极其真实，但对演员来说又是“完全安全”的。
“这在片场营造出了一种真实的危险感，”伯恩萨尔回忆道。“那是真的可怕，不需要演戏。从马背上冲下来，接着在特洛伊战争中爆发战斗——那完全是一片混乱。你能感受到那种氛围，但没有人受伤。你必须有那种不顾一切的冲劲，完全释放，但同时你又必须准确知道自己在做什么。当这两者结合时，你就能拍出真正震撼的画面。”
这位《熊餐厅》（The Bear）的明星同样赞扬了该片的男主角戴蒙，他之前在《Ford v Ferrari》中与戴蒙合作过。两位演员不仅在作为父亲和丈夫的身份上产生了共鸣，而且在面对诺兰所创造的一切时共同感到敬畏。
“我记得在摩洛哥海滩上的第一天，那里有所有的船只和数千名背景[演员]，你立刻就能感受到这部电影的规模和范围，”伯恩萨尔说。
“你不会看到大量剧组人员四处跑动——所有出现在镜头里的就是全部。我遇到了马特，他瞪大了眼睛。而这可是马特·戴蒙！”
“我看着他的眼睛，他说：‘我的天(粗口)，伯恩萨尔，这太宏大了。我从未见过这样的场面，’”伯恩萨尔补充道。“每一天，那种孩童般的好奇心都清晰可见。”
赛门说道：“你会发现自己像一只在阳光下晒干的海星一样躺在那里，手臂向四面八方伸展，而内心没有任何指令告诉你该起床、阅读、观看、写作、唱歌、给某人打电话或做任何事情。这是最难解释的事情之一。这不仅仅是悲伤或懒惰。就好像大脑中负责发出‘参与生活’邀请的那部分，暂时地弄丢了宾客名单。”
赛门公开讲述应对“可怕的”帕金森病的心路历程
近年来一直保持低调的赛门表示，在与健康问题作斗争期间，远离聚光灯成了她的一种应对策略。赛门说：“在行动不便、被诊断出患有帕金森病、手术以及这一切带来的情感影响之间，退出公众视线是最能被接受的反应。如果一个人被允许在冬季和夏季都冬眠，那么我已经变成了一只全季节的熊。但我并没有停止生活，也没有停止工作。” 这位高产的创作歌手转向音乐，将近期经历的情绪动荡倾注到她的新专辑《Comes in Waves》中，该专辑预计于 8 月 14 日发行。赛门说：“音乐总是在正确的时间出现。它救了我无数次。它就像一只猫或狗，当你感觉到状态不对时，它会悄悄地出现在你身边。” 赛门说，这个音乐项目——她的第 24 部录音室专辑——“给了我一个无需离开房间就能到达的地方”，同时也“提醒我，疾病可以改变你的生活，但不能成为你生活的全部”。“我不认为帕金森病是一份礼物或恩赐。两者都不是。它是困难的，令人沮丧的，有时甚至是可怕的。我仍在学习如何与之共存，以及如何在不觉得失去了某些本质东西的情况下接受它。” 这位流行偶像表示，她想公开自己的诊断结果，“因为有这么多人表达了真诚的关切……我被这些关切所触动，即使有时我不知道该如何回应。” “我仍在写作、唱歌、想象、欢笑、担忧、回忆，偶尔会被卡在塞得太满的椅子里。如今我的行动更缓慢了，比以前更依赖他人，并且我已经学会接受每一天都会有些许不同。但我依然在这里。” 贡献者：卡伦·温特劳布 (Karen Weintraub) 和 安妮卡·里德 (Anika Reed)
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被诬陷的女性讲述其“有毒”故事的真相
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米歇尔·哈德利（Michelle Hadley）在 2017 年 1 月被宣告无罪。此前，她被前男友伊安·迪亚兹（Ian Diaz）及其当时的妻子安吉拉（Angela）陷害。
获取外界信息的渠道。你完全受制于这个系统。” 哈德利讨论了这段创伤性的经历，她从伊安身上看到的危险信号，以及在洗清冤屈后生活变成了什么样。
问：你为什么想参与这部纪录片，并重新审视生命中如此痛苦的一章？ 答：我一直觉得我没有真正机会去夺回叙事主导权，最重要的是，讲述我在那段关系中遭受的家庭暴力。这部纪录片给了我一个机会，让我能与一家制作公司合作，他们和我一样致力于以一种能够激励家暴幸存者的方式来讲述这个故事。这对我很重要。而且这是到目前为止对该故事最好的讲述。
在你看来，这次网络跟踪骗局中有百分之多少是伊安策划的？你认为安吉拉参与了多少？ 我们并不真正知道闭门之后发生了什么。但我知道伊安具有极强的控制欲，极具操纵性。从整件事开始发生的那一刻起——甚至在我身陷其中时——我就毫不怀疑他是整个计划的推动者，他是主谋。对我来说，这从未成为疑问。真正的问题是，他在多大程度上让安吉拉参与其中？我认为我们任何人永远都不会知道这个问题的答案。
你提到在与伊安约会期间，他有一些令人担忧的行为。那些你当时可能忽略的危险信号是什么？ 我现在年纪大了，也成熟多了，我意识到了一些事情。首先是关系的进展速度之快。现在每当人们向我寻求建议时，我都会告诉他们：“在约会初期一定要放慢速度，因为像伊安这样的人依赖于速度，因为速度让你没有足够的时间去思考、评估、衡量，甚至无法审视内心。”在口语中，这被称为“爱情轰炸”（love bombing）。
另一件事是，你应该真正评估坐在你对面的人——尤其是当你作为一个女性与男性约会时——是否对异性持有尊重。要非常仔细地观察他们通常如何谈论女性。在伊安的案例中，[很明显]他谈论女性、女性朋友以及他母亲的方式……很多时候，这类男人会以贬低的方式谈论他们生活中的女性，并且会将女性客体化。
这很有趣，考虑到这部纪录片中的关键发声者之一是莱斯利（Leslie），她是伊安 20 年的女性朋友。伊安是否也以贬低的方式谈论她？ 他每次在和莱斯利共处之后回来，就没完没了地说她的坏话。我从未对他们的关系感到嫉妒，因为对我而言，我看到了这件事的另一面，坦白说，我认为她从未见过那一面。回想起来，我意识到那是一个巨大的危险信号。因为这是一个被认为是与其关系最亲近的人，而他却在背后说她的坏话。对他母亲也是一样；他会说她的坏话。很多内容集中在外貌和长相上。
在一切揭晓后，你是否收到过伊安或安吉拉的消息？ 没有。而且坦白说，在我的疗愈之旅中，我已经到了不再期待道歉的阶段。
被宣告无罪后，找工作是什么感觉？ 在发生那些事之后，找工作几乎是不可能的。在此之前，我找工作完全没有任何困难，无论何时需要找
工作。在那之后，我看到了明显的改变。实际上，我最终不得不收拾行装，搬到了国家的另一端。纽约市是我重启职业生涯的地方。我在营销和CRM（客户关系管理）领域工作已经超过 15 年了。
你能够重新回到约会市场吗？
这是我必须时刻警惕的事情，[并且]对于让谁进入我的世界必须非常小心，因为我有过一些糟糕的经历。有些人会觉得这压力太大了。他们看到有这么多关于你的报道，无论出于什么原因，他们就是不想去面对。所以这确实让事情变得困难了一些。我约过会，但我目前还是单身。
你在 2023 年伊恩被定罪的同一天产下了你的女儿。抚养她的感受如何？
对许多女性来说，最大的误区是我们被训练得过于顺从或习惯于默认男人的说法。这让你更容易遭受虐待。所以，如果我能教会她仅仅依靠自己的直觉，相信她所看到的，相信她所感受到的，对自己充满自信，那么作为她的母亲，这是我能给她最强大的力量之一。
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7月25日，巴勒斯坦男子站在被占领的西岸塔尔村的一座建筑顶上。当地官员表示，塔尔村的巴勒斯坦人在7月25. 埋葬了四名男子，他们在前一天在该村与以色列定居者的冲突中丧生，7月25,
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被占领的西岸巴勒斯坦村民在7月27 日表示，由于以色列定居者的入侵日益增加以及激烈的对峙（例如上周导致六人被枪杀的事件），该地区已接近崩溃边缘。在7月24 日发生于纳布卢斯西南方向塔尔村的事件后，以色列军队进行了数十次逮捕，并封锁了穿过西岸的道路，该事件导致四名巴勒斯坦人和两名以色列人丧生。
7月27, 早些时候，塔尔村、邻近村庄以及纳布卢斯的大多数入口要么部分关闭，要么全部关闭，导致寻求通过检查站的居民排起长队。
最近的枪击事件发生在塔尔村村民与一群武装定居者对峙之后，村民称这些人试图进入村里的房屋。以色列军队表示，数十名巴勒斯坦人与以色列平民之间发生了“暴力冲突”，期间发生了枪击。
总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡的政府将此次事件定性为恐怖主义，但巴勒斯坦人表示，村民是在自卫，应对定居者为了将他们赶出土地而发起的一系列最新攻击。
71, 岁的艾哈迈德·拉马丹（Ahmed Ramadan）是7月24, 丧生的巴勒斯坦人之一的父亲，他表示，定居者一直骚扰他们位于塔尔边缘、俯瞰西岸起伏丘陵的家。
“他们说我们是恐怖分子。我们不是恐怖分子，”拉马丹说。他表示，7月24, 被杀的定居者贝纳亚胡·梅莱特（Benayahu Mellet）——一名在附近吉拉德农场（Havat Gilad）定居点担任安全协调员的预备役士兵——此前曾来到他家，对他大吼大叫，让他离开并去叙利亚或约旦。
拉马丹说他没有离开的打算，“即使我们死去，也会死在自己的土地上。我们不准备离开这个国家。”
他与幸存的儿子们坐在家里，表示如果定居者再次强力回归，村子已经准备好了。“如果他们来，我们将正面迎接他们，即使他们……
一名巴勒斯坦男子在被以色列占领的西岸纳布卢斯附近的库斯拉（Qusra）的一座清真寺检查损坏情况，巴勒斯坦人称该建筑被以色列定居者破坏。MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/路透社
Andrew Chung
唐纳德·特朗普总统的政府在7月27 日请求美国最高法院允许在全国范围内实施其行政命令，旨在11月3 中期选举前，收紧邮寄投票的规则，此次选举将决定国会控制权。
在一份文件中，美国司法部请求大法官们在诉讼进行期间，暂停一名法官阻止在 23 个主要由民主党执政的州以及华盛顿特区执行这位共和党总统指令的裁决，这些州此前挑战该命令并认为其违宪。
最高法院命令这些州在8月3日前对美国司法部的请求做出回应。
美国地区法官因迪拉·塔尔瓦尼（Indira Talwani）驳回了政府的观点，即这些州缺乏挑战特朗普指令的必要法律地位。
6 月，塔尔瓦尼裁定总统缺乏指令各州如何管理联邦选举的权力，并指出根据美国宪法，各州在确定选民资格要求方面发挥作用。
“杀了我们，”他告诉路透社。 以色列当局最初将 7 月 24 日的事件描述为巴勒斯坦人对在村庄附近行走的徒步旅行者的袭击。该村庄位于西岸的 A 区，是巴勒斯坦控制的区域，以色列人通常被禁止进入。 社交媒体上广泛传播的视频显示，定居者携带步枪并在接近村庄时推搡居民。 来自 Tal 的巴勒斯坦人表示，定居者……
详见 西岸，第 4NN 页
政府表示，大法官应撤销 Talwani 的裁决，因为该诉讼为时过早。 美国司法部在提交的文件中表示，联邦机构“仍在审议如何（如果可能的话）执行该命令，但地区法院抢先决定，无论机构选择怎么做，必然是非法的”。 唐纳德·特朗普在 3 月发布的行政命令是他更广泛地试图对选举做出改变的一部分。特朗普曾多次声称存在广泛的投票舞弊，包括他在 2020 年输给民主党人 乔·拜登 的选举中，他一直敦促共和党控制的国会通过……
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Bo Erickson, Nayera Abdallah 和 Elwely Elwelly
华盛顿 —— 美国总统 唐纳德·特朗普 在 7 月 27 日表示，美国正与伊朗进行“良好的对话”，双方有可能就冲突达成协议，但他警告称，如果谈判未能见效，美国的打击行动将恢复。 尽管特朗普持乐观态度，但德黑兰方面似乎迅速测试了美国军事行动暂停的情况，沙特阿拉伯、约旦和伊拉克在 7 月 27 日报告了无人机袭击。 华盛顿在 7 月 25 日突然暂停了为期两周的对伊朗空袭行动，这是特朗普在这场持续五个月的冲突中最新的战略转向。 “我们正在进行良好的对话，”他说。“我认为很有可能发生某些事情，如果发生了，那就很好；如果没有，我们就回到两天前所做的事情上。” 在 7 月 27 日随后于密歇根州举行的一场竞选集会上，特朗普谈到伊朗时说：“你不能贿赂他们。你必须击败他们，我们会把他们彻底击败。但我们会看看结果如何。目前，非常友好的谈判正在进行中。” 伊朗外交部发言人 Esmail Baghaei 在 7 月 27 日表示，双方仍通过调解人传递信息，伊朗并未放弃外交手段，但有关其请求谈判的报道是“捏造的”。
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伊朗支持的胡塞武装表示，他们在也门西北部击落了一架沙特无人机。伊朗似乎迅速测试了美国军事行动暂停的情况，沙特阿拉伯、约旦和伊拉克在 7 月 27 日报告了无人机袭击。
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南达科他州 阿伯丁 (Aberdeen, SD) 92/68/s 37 德克萨斯州 阿比林 (Abilene, TX) 101/75/s 36 弗吉尼亚州 阿科马克 (Accomac, VA) 79/67/t 44 密歇根州 阿德里安 (Adrian, MI) 83/59/t 25 俄亥俄州 亚克伦 (Akron, OH) 78/64/t 25 新墨西哥州 阿拉莫戈多 (Alamogordo, NM) 106/75/s 49 弗吉尼亚州 亚历山德里亚 (Alexandria, VA) 81/70/t 56 俄亥俄州 联盟市 (Alliance, OH) 79/60/t 25 德克萨斯州 阿马里洛 (Amarillo, TX) 103/73/s 75 爱荷华州 艾姆斯 (Ames, IA) 87/66/s 75 南卡罗来纳州 安德森 (Anderson, SC) 96/73/s 41 威斯康星州 阿普尔顿 (Appleton, WI) 83/61/pc 75 北卡罗来纳州 艾什维尔 (Asheville, NC) 90/68/t 53 俄亥俄州 阿什兰 (Ashland, OH) 80/60/t 75 乔治亚州 雅典 (Athens, GA) 97/75/s 46 乔治亚州 奥古斯塔 (Augusta, GA) 98/76/pc 42 德克萨斯州 奥斯汀 (Austin, TX) 100/77/pc 75 俄克拉荷马州 巴特尔斯维尔 (Bartlesville, OK) 103/75/pc 70 密歇根州 战斗溪 (Battle Creek, MI) 82/57/s 25 印第安纳州 贝德福德 (Bedford, IN) 86/60/s 40 纽约州 宾汉顿 (Binghamton, NY) 70/63/t 44 南卡罗来纳州 布拉夫顿 (Bluffton, SC) 95/81/t 81 华盛顿州 布雷默顿 (Bremerton, WA) 72/52/sh 37 马萨诸塞州 布罗克顿 (Brockton, MA) 81/66/sh 55 德克萨斯州 布朗伍德 (Brownwood, TX) 100/72/s 36 爱荷华州 伯灵顿 (Burlington, IA) 86/65/s 32 北卡罗来纳州 伯灵顿 (Burlington, NC) 90/70/t 58 佛蒙特州 伯灵顿 (Burlington, VT) 83/69/t 55 俄亥俄州 剑桥 (Cambridge, OH) 83/61/t 36 密苏里州 卡姆登顿 (Camdenton, MO) 94/71/pc 39 纽约州 卡南迪古亚 (Canandaigua, NY) 72/63/t 44 俄亥俄州 坎顿 (Canton, OH) 80/61/t 25 新墨西哥州 卡尔斯巴德 (Carlsbad, NM) 106/75/s 79 宾夕法尼亚州 钱伯斯堡 (Chambersburg, PA) 80/67/t 55 新泽西州 樱桃山 (Cherry Hill, NJ) 78/68/t 60 俄亥俄州 辛辛那提 (Cincinnati, OH) 84/65/t 50 田纳西州 克拉克斯维尔 (Clarksville, TN) 96/70/t 51 密歇根州 考德沃特 (Coldwater, MI) 82/57/s 25 俄亥俄州 哥伦布 (Columbus, OH) 83/63/t 50 纽约州 科宁 (Corning, NY) 73/63/t 31 德克萨斯州 科珀斯克里斯蒂 (Corpus Christi, TX) 95/79/s 75 佛罗里达州 戴通纳比奇 (Daytona Beach, FL) 93/76/t 75 新墨西哥州 德明 (Deming, NM) 103/73/t 55 路易斯安那州 德里德 (DeRidder, LA) 96/75/s 53 爱荷华州 德梅因 (Des Moines, IA) 87/70/s 75 密歇根州 底特律 (Detroit, MI) 80/61/t 25 北达科他州 魔鬼湖 (Devils Lake, ND) 92/68/pc 43 新罕普希尔州 多佛 (Dover, NH) 79/63/t 55 德克萨斯州 埃尔帕索 (El Paso, TX) 105/80/pc 75 纽约州 埃尔迈拉 (Elmira, NY) 75/65/t 29 宾夕法尼亚州 伊利 (Erie, PA) 78/65/t 52 俄勒冈州 尤金 (Eugene, OR) 82/55/pc 25
国际城市
8 8
7 67
阿卡普尔科 (Acapulco) 91/76/sh 93/77/pc 亚的斯亚贝巴 (Addis Ababa) 72/55/sh 72/55/r 阿尔及尔 (Algiers) 91/68/s 91/68/s 安曼 (Amman) 91/70/s 94/72/s 阿姆斯特丹 (Amsterdam) 80/64/pc 89/69/s 安卡拉 (Ankara) 89/62/s 85/57/s 亚松森 (Asuncion) 91/67/t 87/67/t 雅典 (Athens) 97/80/s 95/78/s 奥克兰 (Auckland) 55/37/s 58/44/pc 巴格达 (Baghdad) 112/90/s 115/91/s 曼谷 (Bangkok) 92/80/r 90/80/r 北京 (Beijing) 95/77/pc 95/80/t 贝鲁特 (Beirut) 89/76/s 88/78/s 贝尔格莱德 (Belgrade) 87/62/s 94/65/s 柏林 (Berlin) 76/57/sh 86/63/s 波哥大 (Bogota) 69/49/r 66/51/sh 布鲁塞尔 (Brussels) 86/63/s 95/67/s 布加勒斯特 (Bucharest) 87/62/s 89/63/s 布达佩斯 (Budapest) 87/62/s 92/66/s 布宜诺斯艾利斯 (Buenos Aires) 60/51/c 57/51/s 开罗 (Cairo) 97/77/pc 101/78/pc
表示可能有旅行延误
F banks i 9 69
费尔班克斯 (Fairbanks) 69
安克雷奇 (Anchorage) 63
g Anc A h A 63 6
朱诺 (Juneau) 67
檀香山 (Honolulu) 90
90 90
希洛 (Hilo) 87
最高/最低/天气 空气质量 最高/最低/天气 空气质量 最高/最低/天气 空气质量 最高/最低/天气 空气质量
空气质量指数：0-50 良；51-100 中；101-150 对敏感人群不健康；151-200 不健康；201-300 非常不健康；301-500 危险
星期二 星期三 星期二 星期三 星期二 星期三 星期二 星期三
最高/最低/天气 最高/最低/天气 最高/最低/天气 最高/最低/天气 最高/最低/天气 最高/最低/天气 最高/最低/天气 最高/最低/天气
r V 72 72
温哥华 (Vancouver) 72
西雅图 (Seattle) 74
斯波坎 (Spokane) 87 俾斯麦 (Bismarck) 98
p Spok
74 74
7 8 smarck 98 9
Por P d 78
波特兰 (Portland) 78
B i 97
博伊西 (Boise) 97
里诺 (Reno) 96
9 79
97 9
p P d l hih h 79 79 96 96
7 97 9
旧金山 (San Francisco) 73
F an i 73 7
盐湖城 (Salt Lake City) 100
ity ake Ci S t Lake C ke C k La 0 00 0 100
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弗雷斯诺 (Fresno) 99
Ve V Las V Las
拉斯维加斯 (Las Vegas) 110
9 99 99
0 1 1 0 10
洛杉矶 (Los Angeles) 88
os An Los A
凤凰城 (Phoenix) 108
Ph
San an Die n Die n 78 D
圣迭戈 (San Diego) 78 达拉斯 (Dallas) 102 卢博克 (Lubbock) 103
图森 (Tucson) 102
T 10 1 2 0
奇瓦瓦 (Chihuahua) 103 埃莫西约 (Hermosillo) 102 洛斯莫奇斯 (Los Mochis) 101
奇瓦瓦 (Chihuahua) h Ch 103 102 0
最高气温： 122 ℉，阿尔及利亚 Hassi-Messaoud 最低气温： 12 ℉，智利 Balmaceda 降水量： 5.12”，印度 Puri
印第安纳州，埃文斯维尔 91/63/s 75 马萨诸塞州，福尔里弗 79/68/sh 25 新墨西哥州，法明顿 99/70/t 50 北卡罗来纳州，费耶特维尔 93/73/pc 58 威斯康星州，丰杜拉克 80/57/pc 75 佛罗里达州，福特迈尔斯 90/79/t 75 阿肯色州，福特史密斯 104/81/pc 51 马萨诸塞州，弗雷明汉 80/66/sh 55 伊利诺伊州，弗里波特 84/58/pc 75 俄亥俄州，弗里蒙特 83/63/t 39 科罗拉多州，福特柯林斯 91/64/t 75 阿拉巴马州，加兹登 96/74/s 49 佛罗里达州，盖恩斯维尔 96/78/t 75 伊利诺伊州，盖尔斯堡 84/62/pc 75 北卡罗来纳州，加斯托尼亚 94/70/t 58 德克萨斯州，格伦罗斯 102/75/s 43 路易 the 州，冈萨雷斯 97/77/s 56 蒙大拿州，大瀑布城 94/57/s 144 威斯康星州，格林湾 79/57/pc 75 南卡罗来纳州，格林维尔 95/73/t 41 新泽西州，哈肯萨克 78/67/t 58 马里兰州，海格斯敦 83/67/t 55 密西西比州，哈蒂斯堡 100/77/s 33 肯塔基州，亨德森 92/63/s 75 北卡罗来纳州，亨德森维尔 91/69/t 53 纽约州，赫基默 73/64/t 32 密歇根州，希尔斯代尔 81/56/pc 25 密歇根州，霍兰德 80/57/s 25 纽约州，霍内尔 74/61/t 34 路易 the 州，胡马 94/77/s 50 密歇根州，豪威尔 80/57/t 25 堪萨斯州，哈钦森 100/76/pc 45 马萨诸塞州，海安尼斯 78/66/pc 25 印第安纳州，印第安纳波利斯 86/62/s 25 爱荷华州，爱荷华城 86/66/pc 38 纽约州，伊萨卡 72/62/t 44 密西西比州，杰克逊 100/76/s 37 田纳西州，杰克逊 98/74/s 56 佛罗里达州，杰克逊维尔 98/78/sh 75 北卡罗来纳州，杰克逊维尔 90/75/t 58 俄亥俄州，肯特 78/61/t 75 伊利诺伊州，基瓦尼 83/60/pc 75 西弗吉尼亚州，凯瑟 84/64/t 53 北卡罗来纳州，金斯顿 91/73/pc 58 田纳西州，诺克斯维尔 92/71/t 51 印第安纳州，拉斐埃特 83/57/s 34 路易 the 州，拉斐埃特 95/78/s 53 佛罗里达州，莱克兰 90/76/t 75 密歇根州，兰辛 81/57/t 25 新墨西哥州，拉斯克鲁塞斯 103/72/sh 47 宾夕法尼亚州，黎巴嫩 76/66/t 58 佛罗里达州，利斯堡 92/78/t 75
开普敦 67/44/s 69/42/s 加拉加斯 91/77/sh 91/77/r 卡萨布兰卡 91/68/s 88/70/pc 科伦坡 88/80/r 88/79/r 哥本哈根 71/61/pc 76/65/pc 大马士革 100/69/s 103/69/s 都柏林 77/60/c 70/51/sh 日内瓦 90/65/s 96/63/s 危地马拉城 79/62/t 80/63/t 河内 87/79/t 89/79/t 哈拉雷 73/44/s 74/43/pc 哈瓦那 89/73/r 92/72/r 赫尔辛基 67/57/sh 70/58/sh 香港 87/80/t 85/80/sh 雅加达 91/76/pc 91/77/pc 耶路撒冷 86/68/s 88/70/s 约翰内斯堡 67/40/s 63/42/pc 喀布尔 92/67/pc 93/68/pc 喀土穆 99/80/t 102/81/t 基辅 72/55/pc 74/57/pc 金斯顿 92/81/pc 93/83/s
y ary Ca ry 卡尔加里 C 86
卡尔加里 86
R i 0 90
里贾纳 90 魁北克 79
比林格斯 97
y d Cit p C 快速 C d t 94 94
快速城 94
per p r p Caspe 92
卡斯珀 92
夏延 84
y C e Ch
4 84
丹佛 92 印第安纳波利斯 86
r 2 9
科罗拉多斯普林斯 87
p Colorado S o S o Colorad l d S i 7 87
q q Al A b 99 99 99 99
阿尔伯克基 99
0 1 2 0 拉伯克 103
P 0 10
埃尔帕索 105
蒙特雷 97
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Los hi M 1 0 101
历史上的今天 天气百科™
1952年7月28日，亚利桑那州发生了一场严重的风暴，冰雹直径高达1.5英寸。冰雹击碎了窗户，损坏了屋顶，并卷走了本森镇附近的树叶。
宾夕法尼亚州，列维敦 78/67/t 60 伊利诺伊州，林肯 86/59/s 75 肯塔基州，路易维尔 91/66/pc 75 德克萨斯州，拉伯克 103/73/s 75 威斯康星州，马尼托沃克 76/58/pc 25 俄亥俄州，曼斯菲尔德 78/61/t 75 北卡罗来纳州，马歇尔 85/68/t 53 威斯康星州，马什菲尔德 82/59/pc 75 俄亥俄州，马西隆 81/61/t 25 弗吉尼亚州，麦克莱恩 80/68/t 56 佛罗里达州，墨尔本 92/76/t 75 田纳西州，孟菲斯 100/79/s 90 纽约州，米德尔敦 74/63/t 45 马萨诸塞州，米尔福德 79/65/sh 55 威斯康星州，密尔沃基 77/64/pc 75 密歇根州，门罗 83/61/t 25 路易 the 州，门罗 100/78/s 53 阿拉巴马州，蒙哥马利 99/76/s 48 印第安纳州，蒙西 83/59/s 52 田纳西州，马弗里斯博罗 97/71/t 52 佛罗里达州，那不勒斯 90/81/t 75 田纳西州，纳什维尔 98/73/t 52 新泽西州，海王星 78/68/t 55 马萨诸塞州，新贝德福德 79/68/sh 25 北卡罗来纳州，新伯恩 89/74/t 58 俄亥俄州，新费城 81/60/t 25 俄亥俄州，纽瓦克 83/59/t 50 新泽西州，牛顿 72/62/t 60 纽约州，纽约 77/69/t 58 康涅狄格州，诺威奇 78/67/sh 44 佛罗里达州，奥卡拉 95/79/t 75 俄克拉荷马州，俄克拉荷马城 103/76/s 70 路易 the 州，奥佩卢萨 95/76/s 53 威斯康星州，奥什科什 80/59/pc 75 佛罗里达州，棕榈滩 90/79/t 75 加利福尼亚州，棕榈泉 111/87/s 90 佛罗里达州，巴拿马城 92/83/t 75 伊利诺伊州，皮金 86/61/s 75 佛罗里达州，彭萨科拉 97/80/t 75 伊利诺伊州，皮奥里亚 85/61/s 75 弗吉尼亚州，彼得斯堡 83/68/t 56 亚利桑那州，凤凰城 108/91/t 97 密歇根州，波特休伦 76/60/t 32 新罕布什尔州，朴茨茅斯 79/66/t 55 纽约州，波基普西 77/66/t 45 罗德岛州，普罗维登斯 80/68/sh 50 科罗拉多州，普韦布洛 98/66/t 75 马萨诸塞州，昆西 82/66/pc 55 加利福尼亚州，雷丁 101/67/s 36 内华达州，里诺 96/61/s 75 俄亥俄州，拉文纳 79/61/t 75 印第安纳州，里士满 83/60/s 58
蒙特利尔 81
1 81
1 81
拉巴斯 (La Paz) 61/27/s 62/28/s 拉各斯 (Lagos) 83/76/r 82/77/r 利马 (Lima) 76/69/pc 76/68/s 里斯本 (Lisbon) 92/66/s 86/64/s 伦敦 (London) 86/61/pc 92/63/s 马德里 (Madrid) 102/69/s 103/70/s 马尼拉 (Manila) 93/78/r 91/78/t 墨西哥城 (Mexico City) 75/56/r 76/56/r 米兰 (Milan) 95/75/s 99/76/s 蒙巴萨 (Mombasa) 84/70/r 85/69/sh 蒙得维多 (Montevideo) 60/48/c 57/42/pc 蒙特利尔 (Montreal) 81/67/t 73/65/t 莫斯科 (Moscow) 82/58/t 62/58/sh 内罗比 (Nairobi) 73/57/c 75/57/c 新德里 (New Delhi) 91/81/r 92/81/r 巴拿马城 (Panama City) 90/75/r 94/76/r 巴黎 (Paris) 89/65/s 98/68/s 太子港 (Port-au-Prince) 98/76/s 100/75/pc 里约热内卢 (Rio de Janeiro) 81/71/pc 87/71/s 利雅得 (Riyadh) 107/86/c 109/85/pc 罗马 (Rome) 92/73/s 94/72/s
温尼伯 (Winnipeg) 89 桑德贝 (Thunder Bay) 77
p Wi
9 89 89 der Bay Thu h d h 77 7
法戈 (Fargo) 95
Far 9
p Mi li 90
明尼阿波利斯 (Minneapolis) 90
芝加哥 (Chicago) 81
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苏福尔斯 (Sioux Falls) 90
oux Falls 90
O h 90 90
奥马哈 (Omaha) 90
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堪萨斯城 (Kansas City) 89
路易维尔 (Louisville) 91 威奇托 (Wichita) 100
Lou L 91 91 hit 0 100 00 00
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圣路易斯 (St. Louis) 91
Nash 98 phi M
纳什维尔 (Nashville) 98 孟菲斯 (Memphis) 100
俄克拉荷马城 (Oklahoma City) 103
俄克拉荷马城 (Oklahoma City) klahoma C a C h Okl h Cit 103 10
0 100 100
圣安东尼奥 (San Antonio) 98
an A t 98
New N O 96
新奥尔良 (New Orleans) 96
t 100
休斯顿 (Houston) 100
图中显示的是周二的降水区域和高温。
Q b Q
多伦多 (Toronto) 77
Tor T t 7 77 77 7
D t t 0 80
底特律 (Detroit) 80
布法罗 (Buffalo) 76
B 76 76
Y N k Ne k 77 7
纽约 (New York) 77
Cleve d 78
克利夫兰 (Cleveland) 78
费城 (Philadelphia) 79
p d 6 86
华盛顿 (Washington) 85
夏洛特 (Charlotte) 95
夏洛特 (Charlotte) 9
亚特兰大 (Atlanta) A
亚特兰大 (Atlanta) 97
Ch l t 9
查尔斯顿 (Charleston) 95
7 97 97
h 97
伯明翰 (Birmingham) 97
杰克逊维尔 (Jacksonville) 98
Jack J k 98
迈阿密 (Miami) 91
Mi i 91 91 91
坦帕 (Tampa) 91
p T 91 91
问：温度超过 120 度的最长连续天数是多少？
答：加州死亡谷 43 天。
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仍需数年才能追上乌克兰的产量
将累计订购约 200,000 架 无人机
Mike Stone
路透社 (REUTERS)
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路透社 (REUTERS)
路透社 (REUTERS)
华盛顿 —— 负责建立国内无人机产业的五角大楼官员 7 月 27 日表示，美国在这一努力中仍处于最早、最困难的阶段。他承认，尽管政府在加强要求无人机必须使用美国制造零部件的规定，但目前的产量仍仅为乌克兰产量的极小一部分。
国防创新部门副主任兼首席运营官特拉维斯·梅茨 (Travis Metz) 自去年秋天起负责五角大楼的“无人机主导计划” (Drone Dominance Program)。他在一次采访中表示，乌克兰今年将生产 6 million 到 7 million 架小型第一人称视角 (FPV) 攻击无人机，即每月约 500,000 架。相比之下，五角大楼这项 $1.1 billion 项目到 2 月份为止，累计订购的无人机数量将略低于 200,000 架。
梅茨表示：“从零到 200,000 架的跨越要困难得多，”而一旦具备了大规模生产更多无人机的国内能力，进一步扩大规模将会更容易。
但五角大楼在制定“军事无人机必须使用美国零件”的规则后，使得大幅增加无人机产量变得更加艰难。7 月 23 日发布的一份修订后的供应链框架中增加了相关措辞，指出政府的最终目标是建立一个“完全国产”的小型无人飞行器系统供应链。梅茨承认，包括半导体在内等难以采购的组件，仍然是一个大得多的问题。
Diana Novak Jones
田纳西州代表律师 7 月 27 日在纳什维尔告诉陪审团，Meta Platforms 的领导层在寻求最大化从年轻用户身上获取利润时，忽视了关于其 Instagram 平台对青少年影响的内部研究。
在田纳西州法院为期七周的审判开庭陈词中，该州律师表示，Meta 的研究人员多次发出警告，称部分青少年在强迫性地使用该平台，从而导致饮食失调、抑郁和自残。
但尽管有这些警告，Meta 仍然没有禁用自动播放、通知和无限滚动等功能。律师表示，这些功能旨在让青少年尽可能长时间地留在 Instagram 上，从而增加他们观看广告的数量。
Meta 的一名律师反驳称，公司对于青少年在 Instagram 上面临的风险以及发现的危险内容数量一直保持透明。他表示，公司在努力寻找问题并予以修复。
ping 的力量
这起由田纳西州总检察长乔纳森·斯克尔梅蒂 (Jonathan Skrmetti) 办公室提起的诉讼，寻求经济处罚以及法院命令，要求 Instagram 修改该州认为对青少年心理健康有害的平台环节。
如果陪审团认定该公司负有责任，审判将进入第二阶段。
Tim McLaughlin
美国环境保护署（EPA）在 7 月 27 日表示，仅为数据中心提供电力而不接入公共电网的电源，可能不受联邦污染法的约束。
美国环境保护署表示，如果发电厂不向电网供应电力，则无需遵守联邦《清洁空气法》中的“酸雨计划”（Acid Rain Program），该计划一直是大幅减少工业设施烟雾和烟尘污染的关键。
“美国环境保护署认为，考虑到这些定义的字面含义，酸雨计划不适用于与大型电网没有任何连接的发电设施，”美国环境保护署助理署长亚伦·萨博（Aaron Szabo）在 7 月 16 日的一封信中写道。
该机构表示，其对联邦污染法的解读将加速人工智能基础设施的开发，同时减轻区域电网的压力。
美国环境保护署表示，其指南明确了酸雨计划不适用于所谓的“孤岛”发电设施，即独立于更广泛电网运行的设施。该机构表示，这一解读将为……
[[IMG_XXXX]] 乌克兰公司 F-Drones 已与总部位于俄亥俄州的 Ukrainian Defense Drones 达成合作，后者在托莱多（Toledo）附近开设了一家工厂；而乌克兰无人机制造商 General Cherry 已同意与新罕布什尔州的 Wilcox Industries 成立合资企业。据相关公司称。
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……美国在无人机项目之外的（部分）。
梅茨（Metz）表示，在 8 月测试活动中竞争的 19 家公司，其无人机不得包含禁用的部件，如中国制造的无刷电机或电池组，这一标准比项目的第一阶段更为严格。
“这件事变得越来越困难，”他说道，并估计在早期阶段购买的“绝大多数”无人机可能含有中国电机。
尽管如此，他表示预计美国最终将能与乌克兰的无人机产业竞争。“我认为没有理由我们不能……同样成为该领域的世界冠军，”他说道。
梅茨表示，所有受邀参加 8 月在科罗拉多州卡森堡（Fort Carson）举行的“Gauntlet II”测试的 6 家乌克兰公司，都已经……
[[IMG_XXXX]] 检察官称，Meta Platforms 的领导层无视了关于其 Instagram 平台对青少年影响的内部研究。
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……在罗素·珀金斯（Russell Perkins）大法官面前（陈述），该法官负责监督审理，将决定是否命令该公司支付罚款并对 Instagram 进行修改，以使其对青少年更安全。
在路透社通过 Courtroom View Network 观看的开庭陈述期间，州方律师汤姆·卡特梅尔（Tom Cartmell）播放了智能手机收到通知时常见的“叮”的一声。卡特梅尔表示，像通知这种不可预测的奖励会触发多巴胺分泌并促进成瘾，这对儿童的大脑影响尤为强烈。
卡特梅尔说，Meta 了解青少年之所以觉得其平台如此难以抗拒背后的脑科学原理。
卡特梅尔向陪审团展示了一份 2017 年的内部文件，Meta 的产品经理在其中写道，通知和无限滚动等功能“本质上与健康相抵触”且……
（接前文）……旨在通过合资企业与美国制造商合作，或已在采取此类行动，作为获得未来订单的条件。
据相关公司称，乌克兰公司 F-Drones 已与总部位于俄亥俄州的 Ukrainian Defense Drones 达成合作，后者在托莱多（Toledo）附近开设了一家工厂；而乌克兰无人机制造商 General Cherry 已同意与新罕布什尔州的 Wilcox Industries 成立合资企业。
梅茨表示，参加 Gauntlet II 竞争的乌克兰公司被要求将生产本土化至美国，以此作为赢得未来订单的条件。这种结构旨在将乌克兰的战场经验转化为美国的制造能力，而非依赖进口。
表示公司需要向公众发出警告。 “这个警告从未出现，”卡特梅尔（Cartmell）说道。
Meta 的律师凯文·哈夫（Kevin Huff）表示，像卡特梅尔引用的这类文件证明了公司正在搜索平台上的问题，以便对其进行改进。
哈夫表示，公司已经开发了相关工具以帮助限制 Instagram 的问题性使用，并寻求赋予教师和家长权力，以帮助保障青少年的安全。
哈夫敦促陪审团考虑，Meta 是否应为自杀、儿童被剥削和成瘾等社会问题承担全部责任。
“我们认为证据将表明，Meta 正在尽其职责，并赋予他人采取行动的能力，因为保护网络上的青少年是一项共同责任。这需要整个社区的共同努力。”
全美几乎每个州都就 Meta 平台对其儿童产生的所谓影响提出了诉讼。
二十多个此类诉讼已在旧金山的跨区诉讼中合并，而许多其他州则在各自的法院提起诉讼。另外，Meta 和其他社交媒体公司还面临着由个人和学区发起的数千起诉讼。田纳西州的诉讼是第二个进入陪审团审理阶段的州级案件。今年早些时候，新墨西哥州的一个陪审团判定该公司承担责任，并命令其支付 $375 million。一名法官目前正在衡量额外的经济处罚，以及一项要求该公司在州内更改 Facebook、Instagram 和 WhatsApp 的指令。
给予开发商在建设新数据中心的位置和速度上更大的灵活性，这些数据中心正推动着全美国电力需求的激增。
该机构表示，其行动支持总统 唐纳德·特朗普 的“纳税人保护承诺”（Ratepayer Protection Pledge），该承诺于上周扩大，要求参与公司自行建设、采购或支付其设施及相关基础设施所需的所有能源费用。
根据这一不具约束力的承诺，开发商、公用事业公司和州监管机构预计将承担与新项目相关的成本，而不是将其转嫁给住宅用户。
华尔街收盘涨跌不一 投资者 关注科技股 财报
SinÉad Carew 和 Noel Randewich
7月 27 日，华尔街收盘涨跌不一。由于正值季度财报公布的繁忙周，投资者正等待主要科技公司的指引，同时也担心居高不下的油价可能会迫使美国联邦储备委员会 (美联储) 提高利率。
微软、亚马逊、Meta 和苹果计划于本周公布季度业绩。投资者正在质疑，由对人工智能的乐观情绪所驱动的多年上涨行情是否可能正在失去动力。
上周，特斯拉和 Alphabet 的季度业绩显示在人工智能方面投入巨大，令投资者感到不安。沃尔玛上涨 2.1%，微软上涨 1.9%，强生上涨 1% 。
7月 27 日，原油价格跌至一周低点，因为唐纳德·特朗普总统表示华盛顿正与伊朗进行“良好的对话”，且有可能达成和平协议，但同时警告称，如果谈判未能取得成果，美国将恢复袭击。
上周，在针对中东航运的新一轮袭击后，油价飙升，布伦特原油期货价格突破每桶 $100 。在标普 500 指数的 11 个板块指数中，有 7 个上涨，其中消费必需品板块领涨，上涨 1.58%，信息技术板块紧随其后，上涨 1.25%。费城半导体指数 (PHLX chip index) 延续了近期的抛售趋势，下跌 2.2%。该指数较 6月 22 日的历史最高收盘价下跌了 21%，但在 2026 年仍上涨 63%。
中国芯片制造商 CXMT Corp 在 7月 27 日的亮眼首秀，以及关于该国已开始制造国产 DUV 芯片制造工具的报道，也预示着美国半导体产业面临的竞争日益加剧。
“部分市场反应可能与那种潜意识里的怀疑有关，即利率可能会上涨。”
Bill Merz U.S. Bank 资产管理集团资本市场研究与投资组合构建负责人
“今天代表了我们所看到的轮动市场的延续，”U.S. Bank 资产管理集团资本市场研究与投资组合构建负责人 Bill Merz 表示，“部分市场反应可能与那种潜意识里的怀疑有关，即利率可能会上涨。”
标普 500 指数微涨 0.02%，收于 7,413.18 点。纳斯达克指数下跌 0.18%，至 24,932.08 点；道琼斯工业平均指数上涨 0.51%，至 52,210.08 点。
在唐纳德·特朗普于 7月 25 日突然暂停对伊朗为期两周的空袭行动（这是这场持续五个月的冲突中特朗普最新的战略转向）后，布伦特原油价格下跌 8%，至每桶约 $89 。石油公司股价下跌，西方石油下跌 4.1%，埃克森美孚收盘下跌 1.4%。
美联储的货币政策决定将于 7月 29 日公布。根据 CME FedWatch 工具，交易员预计中央银行维持利率不变的可能性为 62%，而加息 25 个基点的可能性为 38%。
6 月份的个人消费支出 (PCE) 物价指数将在央行决定后一天公布，这将成为塑造今年晚些时候市场对利率预期的关键。
根据 LSEG I/B/E/S 的数据，分析师平均预计标普 500 指数的第二季度总盈利将比一年前增长 39%，其中人工智能相关股票贡献了大部分增长。根据 LSEG 数据，标普 500 指数的交易价格约为预期盈利的 20 倍，而 10 年平均值为 20 倍。
在标普 500 指数成分股中，上涨股票与下跌股票的比例为 1.9 比 1。标普 500 指数创下 30 个新高和 3 个新低。美国交易所的交易量相对较轻，成交量为 15.8 billion 股，而此前 20 个交易日的平均成交量为 18.2 billion 股。
Bo Erickson 和 Jason Lange
路透社
华盛顿 —— 仅有三分之一的美国人支持针对伊朗的战争，这是路透社/Ipsos 在这场持续五个月的冲突自爆发以来所做的民调中的最低数值，大多数受访者表示，总统唐纳德·特朗普未能解释其目标。
这项在 7 月 24 日至 7 月 26 日期间进行的民调还显示，这位共和党总统的支持率小幅上升至 37%，比 6 月份高出三个百分点，而 6 月份的支持率与其总统任期内的最低值持平。
特朗普针对此次冲突提出了不断变化的目标，例如帮助伊朗人推翻其领导人、摧毁伊朗的弹道导弹能力以及防止其获得核武器。
民调发现，69% 的美国人（包括 10 人中 4 人的共和党人）
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一项名为《拯救美国法案》（SAVE America Act）的有争议的投票限制方案。特朗普誓言在期中选举前在全国范围内停止使用邮寄选票，且长期以来对这类选票的安全性表示怀疑，尽管选民欺诈的证据十分罕见。考虑到民主党选民传统上比共和党选民更倾向于使用邮寄选票，限制邮寄选票将使共和党获得不成比例的利益。特朗普的行政命令指示国土安全部编制一份各州有资格投票的美国公民名单并传达给各州，并指示美国司法部优先调查并起诉那些向被认为“不具备”联邦选举投票资格的人发放选票的州和地方选举官员。该命令还要求美国邮政署仅向各州核准的邮寄选票名单上的选民投递选票。邮政署近期已采取行动执行特朗普的指令。包括加利福尼亚州和马萨诸塞州在内的各州在波士顿的联邦法院提起诉讼，以挑战特朗普的命令。一组 12 名共和党州总检察长介入此案，为特朗普的指令辩护。塔尔瓦尼（Talwani）法官认定，挑战各州提出的主张并非如政府所称的过于早熟，且他们对于特朗普的指令拥有起诉的法律地位，因为他们将面临选举行政紊乱、合规成本以及切实存在的刑事起诉威胁。法官还指出，联邦机构缺乏为每个州编制准确公民名单的能力。美国司法部请求位于波士顿的美国第一巡回上诉法院暂停执行塔尔瓦尼的裁决，理由是政府认为原告缺乏起诉地位。第一巡回法院在 7 月 25 日驳回了这一请求。6 月，最高法院驳回了一项由共和党支持的挑战，该挑战针对的是允许计算选举日之后收到之邮寄选票的州法律。
“这不在我们的 DNA 中，”他说。 一名伊朗高级官员在 7 月 26 日告诉路透社，只要特朗普自定的停火协议继续有效，伊朗将停止其攻击。 伊朗中央军事指挥部在 7 月 27 日晚些时候指责美国威胁其领海内的船只和油轮，并“试图实施非法的海上封锁”，称此举“构成了地区冲突的升级”。 沙特阿拉伯表示，其击落了瞄准石油目标的无人机，目标包括利雅得。沙特称这些无人机是由伊朗支持的武装组织从伊拉克发射的，并保留回应权利。 另外，伊朗在也门的胡塞武装盟友表示，为了报复沙特的无人机入侵，他们瞄准了向沙特红海主要港口延布（Yanbu）输油的东西管道。 德黑兰还表示，其将继续……
——认为特朗普尚未“清晰地解释美国军事干预伊朗的目标”。 白宫发言人奥利维亚·威尔士（Olivia Wales）表示，特朗普不会根据“波动的民意调查”做出决定，并重申了总统防止伊朗获得核武器的决心。 “对美国人民来说，最重要的是拥有一位采取大胆行动确保他们安全的最高统帅，”威尔士说。 自从美国和以色列在 2 月 28 日发起袭击以来，对该冲突的支持率一直低于 40%。 公众对战争的反对情绪在 11 月 3 日期中选举前给特朗普及其共和党带来了压力，届时总统的盟友将为他们在国会中微弱的多数席位而战。 “我不清楚我们为什么与他们开战。我完全不知道，”来自乔治亚州斯托克布里奇的退休涡轮修理专家亚历克斯·沃马克（Alex Womack）说道，他……
巴勒斯坦人表示，村民们上周是在防御定居者在西岸发起的一系列最新袭击，这些定居者试图将他们赶出这片土地。MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/路透社
……在一名村民从一名定居者手中夺下枪支之前，他们先攻击了这些人。 这一事件遵循了在西岸地区重复出现的模式：大批定居者出现在巴勒斯坦社区附近，威胁并骚扰当地居民，而安全部队往往在旁袖手旁观。 这类武力示威在近几个月变得更加频繁，与此同时，内塔尼亚胡政府的部长们公开讨论兼并西岸，以色列是在 1967 年中东战争后占领该地区的。 7 月 27 , 路透社记者在村边田野里看到了新鲜砍伐的树干。居民表示，在暴力事件发生后，定居者前来砍伐了橄榄树和无花果树。
……对有争议的霍尔木兹海峡的控制，这是全球能源供应的关键水道，特朗普要求船舶能够自由通过。
油价暴跌
在 11 月的中期选举前，公众对这场战争的不满一直给特朗普及其共和党带来压力，在这次选举中，他们必须捍卫在国会中微弱的多数席位。 一项在周末进行的路透社/Ipsos 调查显示，仅有三分之一的美国人支持伊朗战争，这是自冲突初期以来路透社/Ipsos 记录的最低数值，大多数人表示特朗普未能解释其目标。 在连续 13 个夜晚的密集轰炸之后，美国军事行动的结束以及特朗普关于谈判的言论导致油价暴跌。 美国原油 CLc1 下跌 8.21% 至每桶 $81.98，布伦特原油 LCOc1 下跌至每桶 $87.77，当日跌幅 9.31%。 据一名……透露，特朗普决定暂停美国袭击，反映了军方的建议，即轰炸已达到其能实现的极限。
……部分原因是由于他喜欢共和党总统乔治·H·W·布什在 1991 年处理海湾战争的方式而成为共和党人。 沃马克在当年的冲突中曾在美国海军陆战队服役，他表示由于这场战争，他对特朗普的支持已经减弱。“个人认为，我觉得他做得并不太好，”他说道。 迄今为止，已有 18 名美国士兵在冲突中丧生，而伊朗以及伊朗盟友与以色列军队交战的黎巴嫩地区则有数千人死亡。战争导致汽油价格大幅上涨，打击了许多美国人的财务状况。目前全国汽油平均价格略高于每加仑 $4，而战争开始前约为每加仑 $3。 “这在多种方面给该党带来了压力，而且全部都是负面的，”共和党政治战略家、曾在乔治·W·布什总统任期内担任白宫发言人的亚历克斯·科南特表示。“白宫官员从一月份起就一直在说，他们需要在经济争论中获胜。这……”
根据联合国的数据，今年以来已有 18 名巴勒斯坦人在与定居者袭击相关的事件中丧生，而 2025. 全年为 17 人。巴勒斯坦权力机构表示，自今年年初以来，至少有 20 名巴勒斯坦人被定居者杀害。 居民表示，自 7 月 24, 起，塔尔村每天都会遭到军事突袭，共有 60 到 80 人被拘留。根据村委会副主席蒙瑟·什塔亚的说法，约 30 人仍被拘押。 居民称，在 7 月 27, 的凌晨，军方将一名男子从他位于村边的家中扔了出来。路透社观察到两名士兵站在该男子房屋的房顶上。 “所有的军队都在街上，”55, 岁的塔尔居民卡迈尔·什塔亚说道。 随着内塔尼亚胡政府接近 10 月的选举，它加强了对新定居点建设的授权，部长们称此举旨在加强以色列对西岸的控制。
美国官员及数家美国媒体报道。 该美国官员告诉路透社，军方指挥官已向总统建议，他们正面临目标耗尽的情况，且参谋长联席会议主席丹·凯恩 (Dan Caine) 将军对空中弹药的枯竭表示担忧。 特朗普否认了美国面临弹药短缺的说法，称军方正在迅速重建因向乌克兰发货而枯竭的库存。他表示，他希望获得更多“更先进的装备”。
伊朗媒体：6 艘船被驱离
伊朗国家媒体援引一名“知情人士”称，伊朗在 7 月 27 日驱离了六艘试图在未经允许的情况下穿越霍尔木兹海峡的“违规船只”。 在德黑兰向使用由美国推荐路线的船只开火后，特朗普启动了新一轮的轰炸行动以惩罚伊朗。美国曾告知船只在靠近阿曼海岸的区域航行。 伊朗则表示，船只仅可通过一条更靠近其自身海岸且由其控制的霍尔木兹通道，并计划在该通道征收过路费。 两周以来，美国重启的轰炸行动在伊朗造成数十人死亡，并摧毁了南部地区的桥梁、隧道以及军事目标。 在针对邻国美国基地的反击火力中，四名美国服役人员死亡。伊朗还袭击了海湾国家的民用基础设施，称其为对美国袭击的报复。 目前尚不清楚华盛顿可以利用何种筹码来打破伊朗对该海峡的掌控。 华盛顿和德黑兰在 6 月就一个谈判框架达成协议，旨在 8 月底前进行谈判，以解决包括伊朗核计划在内的重大问题。 但双方对备忘录中关于海峡措辞的含义存在分歧：华盛顿坚持认为该条款要求德黑兰允许自由通行，而伊朗则称该条款赋予其监管过境的权力。
当你的注意力显然集中在外交政策时，很难在经济论点上获胜。” 在 2024 年总统竞选活动中，特朗普表示他将使美国远离持久冲突。他最初估计伊朗战争将持续四到五周。 他对被拿来与其他战争（包括持续 20 年并导致 58,000 多名美国士兵丧生的越南战争）进行对比感到愤怒。 来自乔治亚州费尔伯恩的独立选民赖安·安德森 (Rhyan Anderson) 在 2024 年投票给了特朗普，他认为特朗普应该关注国内问题，而不是帮助以色列。 “我最关心的就是关注真正身在国家境内的人们，”安德森说道。他在安保和数据收集领域从事两份工作，并表示他在 2020 年投票给了民主党人 乔·拜登。 “我知道我们有盟友之类的情况，但这里有很多人真的需要帮助。”
联合国、巴勒斯坦人和大多数国家认为定居点根据国际法是非法的。以色列对此持有异议，称其在 1967 年战争中占领的西岸是争议领土，并引用了该土地与圣经的联系。 “我很耐心，我们会一次又一次地耐心等待，但到最后，耐心会耗尽。它就那样消失了，行不通的，” 72 岁的塔尔农民艾哈迈德·什塔亚 (Ahmed Shtayya) 说道。 “任何人类都会保护自己，”他告诉路透社。 像许多巴勒斯坦农民一样，种植番茄、无花果和茄子的什塔亚看到定居者离他越来越近。他表示，当他在工作时，定居者走到他面前，告诉他这片土地属于以色列。 根据村委会副主任的说法，沿着道路向前走几百码，就有一栋一周前被定居者袭击而被烧毁的房屋。 “我已经到了这个地步。如果他们想这样继续下去，必然会发生爆炸，还能有什么结果？” 什塔亚说。
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As many Americans struggle to make ends meet, Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has pledged to bring inflation back to its 2% target, but it remains unclear exactly how he plans to get there as the central bank heads into its July meeting. The Fed often finds itself at a cross- roads, balancing its dual mandate of maximum employment and stable prices. It has two main tools it uses to address both: its balance sheet and the federal funds rate, a benchmark for interest rates. The Fed typically raises its target range for the rate to tame in- flation and lowers the rate to stimulate the job market. After three months of accelerating inflation, it slowed in June, though some forecasters expect it may tick back up amid renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities. And after three months of positive job growth, U.S. employer hiring fell in June — leaving the Fed to sort out whether the swings are just noise or the start of new trends. The Fed may also be at a crossroads when it comes to delivering on Warsh’s
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Revoking an immigrant’s citizen- ship has proven to be a costly and controversial practice over the years, but the Trump administration says hundreds of people deserve to have their citizenship stripped anyway. The plan calls for ramping up the previously rare denaturalization proc- ess as a part of a broader immigration enforcement agenda, expanding a practice President Donald Trump started in his first term. The Justice Department has moved to revoke the citizenship of nearly 90 people since the start of 2025. By October, the government aims to file at least 250 denaturalization cases in federal court. Under federal law, the government can ask a judge to revoke the citizen- ship of someone who obtained it through fraud or misrepresentation – such as using a false identity or con- cealing a disqualifying criminal record during the naturalization process.
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The War Department “chose to quietly remove the previous cleanup schedule from its website and publish new timelines. This is ultimately a violation of trust.”
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It’s been almost five years since Brandi and Brad Hyatt found out the well at their home next to an Army base in Washington is contaminated with “forever chemicals.” They started using bottled water for everything from making coffee to rins- ing off toothbrushes. The couple even carted their two small children across town to bathe at a gym so they couldn’t accidentally swallow contaminated bathwater. The Army installed a filter last year, but the well remains contaminated. The kids will be long grown by the time the military provides a permanent fix, now delayed until after 2042. Hundreds of military bases have been putting off cleanup of toxic PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, for years, according to a new USA TODAY analysis of military records. The latest round of delays, which the Pentagon posted in an ob- scure corner of its website in May, has pushed some deadlines out decades,
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Former President Joe Biden has dropped his lawsuit seeking to block the public release of audio recordings from interviews he gave to the ghostwriter of his memoirs, clearing the way for the material to be released to a Republican- led House committee. Biden’s attorneys filed a notice of vol- untary dismissal July 25 in U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, days after a divided federal appeals court rejected his request to keep the recordings and transcripts private, according to reports from The Hill and NBC4 Washington. The filing ends Biden’s legal chal- lenge after the court ruled there is a sub- stantial public interest in disclosure. The decision follows months of liti- gation over recordings obtained during special counsel Robert Hur’s investiga- tion into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur declined to bring crimi- nal charges against Biden in 2024, but Republicans later sought access to the interview materials. Biden’s legal team had argued that the recordings captured private conver- sations in his home and that releasing them would amount to an unwarranted invasion of his privacy. Instead of pur- suing additional appeals, including a possible request to the Supreme Court, Biden chose to dismiss the case.
Appeals court sides with disclosure
The voluntary dismissal came less than a week after the U.S. Court of Ap- peals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 against Biden. In the majority opinion, Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan and Judge Gregory Kat-
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An 83-year-old man who vanished while hiking near the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park was res- cued after an overnight search that in- volved helicopters, drones, search dogs and dozens of rescuers, officials said. Gerald Guinn, of Kanab, Utah, was found July 22 after spending about a day and a half in rugged terrain. National Park Service officials said Guinn was located during a helicopter reconnaissance flight about 21⁄2 miles from where he was last seen and was carried to a nearby roadway for medical evaluation. Despite spending the night outdoors, Guinn was described as in “good spirits.” He was evaluated by emergency medi- cal personnel before being released, ac- cording to the National Park Service and the Kane County Sheriff’s Office. Multiple agencies assisted in the res- cue, including Grand Canyon National Park, Kane County Search and Rescue and Coconino County Search and Res- cue.
Hiker disappeared after splitting up with companion
According to the Kane County Sher- iff’s Office, Guinn and another person began what was intended to be a short hike around 12:30 p.m. July 21 in a re- mote area along the border of Grand Canyon National Park and the Kaibab National Forest. The pair intentionally separated while searching for a nearby historic ob- ject. Although the other hiker found the site, Guinn never returned. After searching for several hours without suc- cess, the companion called for help.
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sas concluded that any privacy con- cerns did not outweigh the public’s in- terest in releasing the redacted materi- als. “We conclude that any remaining incursion on personal privacy from disclosure of the now-redacted ma- terials likely does not outweigh the public interest in disclosure,” the judges wrote. Judge Florence Pan dissented, writ- ing that Biden had demonstrated a “substantial privacy interest” because the conversations occurred in his home and were obtained during a criminal investigation that did not re- sult in an indictment. The recordings come from inter- views Biden gave to Mark Zwonitzer in 2016 and 2017 while working on his memoir “Promise Me, Dad.” Zwonitzer also collaborated with Biden on his 2007 memoir, “Promises to Keep.” Federal investigators later obtained the recordings during Hur’s investiga- tion into Biden’s retention of classified documents from his time as a senator and vice president. Although Hur de- clined to file charges, Republicans in Congress sought the materials after the investigation concluded.
Legal battle over FOIA request
The case began after the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, sought the recordings through the Freedom of Information Act and later sued to obtain their release. In June, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that Biden’s privacy in- terests, while legitimate, were out- weighed by the public interest in gov- ernment transparency. She also found that Justice Department redactions adequately protected sensitive per- sonal information. Biden appealed that ruling, which temporarily blocked the release while the case moved through the courts.
Kane County Search and Rescue launched an overnight search, deploy- ing ground crews, drones equipped with forward-looking infrared tech- nology and search dogs, but Guinn was not found.
Cell phone ping helped guide rescuers
The National Park Service assumed command of the search July 22, add- ing helicopter and ground search teams. Kane County rescuers later re- joined the effort. Officials said a cell phone ping nar- rowed Guinn’s general location, shift- ing search efforts farther east. A National Park Service helicopter eventually spotted Guinn, who was able to wave to the crew from below. The helicopter could not land be- cause of the steep terrain, prompting a Kane County Search and Rescue team to hike about 11⁄2 miles to reach him. Rescuers found Guinn cold and un- able to walk but otherwise alert. They provided warm clothing and fluids while preparing for an aerial evacuation. As darkness approached, officials determined a helicopter short haul could not be completed safely. Instead, a paramedic was lowered to the scene, and about 20 rescuers carried Guinn to safety, clearing fallen logs and marking hazards along the way. The operation concluded around 1:30 a.m. on July 23. After reaching the roadway, Guinn was evaluated by Kane County Emergency Medical Ser- vices, cleared and released. Reporter Anthony Thompson can be reached at ajthompson@usatoday- co.com, or on X @athompsonUSAT
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promise of price stability for consum- ers. Many Americans don’t want high- er interest rates on their credit cards and personal loans, but they also don’t want prices to keep rising. Raising the Fed’s benchmark interest rate could help cool inflation, but it would make borrowing more expensive. Dean Lyulkin, CEO of Cardiff, a small-business loan company, said Warsh’s refusal to provide forward guidance has made the outcome of the July meeting difficult to predict. “Warsh remains an enigma,”he said. “No one really understands whether he means what he says or what the things he’s saying mean. Until we get a little more data on this Warsh Fed, I think everyone is confused.” Amid the uncertainty, forecasters − many of whom are split −mostly expect the Federal Open Market Com- mittee to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a range of 3.5% to 3.75% at the end of its two-day meet- ing July 29.
A promise to lower inflation but no promise to hike
American consumers have faced inflation above the Fed’s 2% target for five years. Warsh, in congressional tes- timony earlier in July, said “inflation is a choice” and told lawmakers it wouldn’t be permanent on his watch. The Fed can’t directly control prices at the grocery store or gas pump, but Warsh has repeatedly said he views the Fed’s job as ensuring price in- creases don’t broaden into the wider U.S. economy. “If we get policy right, and I can as- sure you we will, the inflation surge of the last five years will be a thing of the past,” Warsh told senators July 14. Still, there are a few reasons why Fed policymakers may not be in a rush to raise rates at their July meeting. As year-over-year consumer infla- tion rose from 2.4% in February to 4.2% in May, traders began betting on a hike. But June’s deceleration to 3.5% and a weaker jobs report gave some reason to pause. Though a 9.7% drop in gas prices drove the headline inflation number lower, “core” inflation – ex- cluding volatile food and energy prices – also fell in June, meaning the decel- eration could not be disregarded as only a result of the temporary ceasefire in Iran. “It was a pretty good report across the board, surprisingly so,” said David Royal, chief financial and investment officer at Thrivent, a financial services company. The July meeting also comes amid court-ordered tariff refunds, new tariff announcements from the Trump ad- ministration, and escalated fighting in the Iran war – all of which will affect the economy.
A rate hike, cut or pause? Any one appears possible
Depending on whom you ask, the Fed should do all three. Warsh told lawmakers he expects another “good family fight” at the July meeting after FOMC members were divided on the best path for rates in June. Though Warsh did not submit his own projections, eight members
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saw the Fed holding the range steady, nine saw room to hike, and one saw room to cut before the end of 2026. “Most participants remarked on sce- narios in which inflationary pressures would dissipate and inflation would soon begin to return to 2 percent,” minutes from their June meeting said. “Most participants, however, also pointed to scenarios in which, in the context of stable labor market condi- tions, inflation would remain elevated due to strong AI-related demand, the conflict in the Middle East, or the effects of tariffs.” After the June meeting, some voting members of the FOMC appeared open to raising rates. Fed Governor Lisa Cook said July 15 that she was willing to wait “a bit more time” but that she’d be pre- pared to act if inflation doesn’t begin to slow and that she believes risks con- tinue to be “strongly weighted” toward higher inflation. “Sternly staring at inflation until it melts before our withering gaze is not an option,” Fed Governor Christopher Wal- ler said July 13 ahead of the June infla- tion report’s release. After its release, White House Eco- nomic Council Director Kevin Hassett said that the Fed has no “excuse”to raise rates and that if inflation continues to slow, he’d begin expecting a cut. “If you’re watching the data, then, you know, there’s not really an excuse for raising rates right now,” Hassett told CNBC on July 15. “Another report or two like this, then I think they’d be thinking the other way.”
Where are interest rates headed? Politics could have a say
The Federal Reserve will keep its benchmarkratesteadyfortherestofthe year, according to the median forecasts of economists polled by Reuters. But in a separate question about the chance of a rate increase in 2026, most described the likelihood as “high,” a reversal from the month before when most viewed it as “low.” “It’s been a long time since we were actually surprised by the Fed’s deci- sion,”Royal said, adding that he expects more surprise moves from the Fed under Warsh than under former Chair Jerome Powell. He added, however, that policymak- ers may hold off on a move until they can hear from the five task forces Warsh cre- ated to advise them on monetary policy. They are expected to deliver recommen- dations before the end of this year. Though Warsh has repeatedly and publicly affirmed his independence from politics, Royal and Lyulkin said he may also be considering the potential effects of raising rates before this year’s midterm elections. “Raising rates into the midterms is almost a suicide mission for the Repub- licans, and I think we have to believe that Kevin Warsh understands that,” Lyulkin said, adding consumers proba- bly would blame the GOP as the party in power. “If you’re in Congress, you can’t imagine telling the American people today – maybe three, four months be- fore the midterms – that we’re going to increase the interest rates on their cred- it cards and their auto loans.” President Donald Trump, who in his second term has pressured policy- makers to lower rates, has said little about the Fed since Warsh was sworn in as chair in late May. After policymakers left rates unchanged in June, Trump re- sponded, “Whatever.”
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The administration is on pace to pur- sue more denaturalization cases than any other in recent modern American history. By comparison, the Biden ad- ministration brought 24 cases over four years; the Trump administration filed 102 denaturalization cases in the presi- dent’s first term, according to the DOJ. “This is a major increase that we haven’t seen in decades,” said Cassan- dra Robertson, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University and an expert on denaturalization. The Trump administration says it is targeting criminals and fraudsters who should not have become citizens in the first place. It framed the campaign as an effort to preserve the integrity of natu- ralization. “When you commit fraud during the naturalization process, you forfeit the right to keep your U.S. citizenship,” Homeland Security Secretary Mark- wayne Mullin said in a statement. “DHS is committed to ensuring we denatural- ize and remove these fraudsters with every tool at our disposal.” For decades the government pursued only a handful of denaturalization cases each year, in part because they require significant resources, are expensive and can take years to resolve. The cases prosecutors did pursue largely targeted national security threats, affiliates of terror groups and suspected war crimi- nals. But since Trump returned to office, his administration has moved to expand the use of denaturalization. The DOJ’s civil division has been ordered to prio- ritize denaturalization, and agency leaders have enlisted the help of U.S. at- torney’s offices nationwide to boost case numbers. In a post on X on July 20, the White House described the cam- paign as the “Largest Denaturalization Effort Ever.” Former DOJ attorneys and immigra- tion law experts said the cases being pursued under Trump largely don’t ap- pear out of step with previous admini- strations. But they expressed concerns that the effort could divert resources from other priorities like prosecuting fraud or corruption cases. Some blasted the effort as a tactic meant to intimidate the country’s more than 26 million nat- uralized citizens. “I don’t think this will make any dent in the administration’s deportation goals,” said Stacey Young, a former DOJ lawyer, describing denaturalization as slow-moving and, to a certain degree, unscalable. “I think it does send a mes- sage that naturalized citizenship is im- permanent and precarious.”
A new administration, a new push for denaturalization
Within a week of taking office in 2025, Trump ordered “adequate re- sources” be dedicated to denaturalizing some U.S. citizens as part of his broader immigration strategy. Months later, the DOJ issued a memo directing the agency’s civil division, which primarily handles denaturaliza- tion cases, to “prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings.” As of July 22, the Justice Department has filed at least 89 denaturalization cases in federal court, according to a DOJ official – nearly four times as many as were pursued during President Joe Biden’s term in office. Of the cases filed under Trump, the government has won at least19, the DOJ official said. And while most cases were handled by the DOJ’s civil division, a significant portion has been taken up by U.S. attorney’s offices across the coun- try – a shift in procedure that experts say highlights how the government is diverting resources to try to strip more people of their U.S. citizenship than ever before. “Occasionally the civil division would partner with U.S. attorney’s of- fices, but that was rare,” said Young, who worked in the DOJ’s civil division from 2006 to 2019 under the Bush, Oba- ma and first Trump administrations. “I don’t remember any cases being han- dled exclusively by U.S. attorney’s of- fices.” Many of the pending cases involve allegations that the defendant lied or omitted details about their conduct that would have made them ineligible for U.S. citizenship. In most cases, the Justice Depart- ment cited criminal convictions on seri- ous charges such as sexual abuse, wire fraud and drug distribution. Others in- volve allegations that the defendant used a fake name during the naturaliza- tion process. In multiple cases, the government accused defendants of participating in war crimes or support- ing foreign terrorist organizations such as al-Qaida and al-Shabaab. Immigration experts and former DOJ lawyers said the government’s allega-
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s push to reexamine criteria for revoking U.S. citizenships.
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tions so far don’t appear out of the ordi- nary but noted the surge in cases overall – the result of more resources being dedicated to pursuing denaturalization. “On first blush, these cases don’t look all that different from cases that have been brought by previous administra- tions,” said Daniel Kanstroom, a law professor at Boston College who spe- cializes in immigration. He added that the DOJ appears to be targeting people who pleaded guilty to crimes committed before or during naturalization. This group, according to the government, should have been de- nied citizenship in the first place be- cause they did not meet the “good moral character” requirement.
Fraud or ‘willful’ untruths as guidelines for prosecution
From 1990 to 2017, an average of 11 denaturalization cases were filed each year, according to the Migration Policy Institute. The low number can largely be traced back to a 1967 ruling by the Su- preme Court that says the government can revoke citizenship only in the case of fraud or “willful misrepresentation.” That decision followed a Cold War effort to denaturalize people whom the government perceived as political ene- mies, including labor leaders, journalists and government opponents accused of being communists, said Amanda Frost, a University of Virginia law professor and immigration attorney. Through the two world wars and into the1950s, about 22,000 immigrants saw their U.S. citi- zenship revoked, Frost said. In the decades that followed, the gov- ernmentlimiteditsprosecutions,focus- ing mainly on national security threats or people with ties to foreign terrorist groups. “Republican and Democratic administrations post the Supreme Court decision understood the message of that case and understood that de- naturalization was to be used sparingly and was not supposed to be a bread- and-butter tool of immigration enforce- ment,” Frost said. Denaturalization cases did tick up under President Barack Obama. At the time, new digital fingerprinting tech- nology revealed that hundreds of people who had been ordered deported had been naturalized using different iden tities. The Obama administration began a review aiming to denaturalize any citizen with ties to foreign terrorist or- ganizations. When Trump took office in 2016, his administration widened the program and broadened the scope of cases to include non-terrorism crimes such as fraud and violent offenses. The admini- stration also set quotas. Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered the in vestigation of 700,000 naturalized citizens, with a goal of bringing about 1,600 cases to court. Although those goals weren’t ulti- mately met, the number of denaturali- zation cases brought by the Justice Department jumped to an estimated 168 over four years, far outpacing the Obama and Bush administrations.
Denaturalization cases are long, costly and difficult to win
Among the reasons only a handful of denaturalization cases were pursued over the decades is that they can take years to resolve and demand significant resources. “It’s a cumbersome process,” said
Young, the former litigator and foun- der of Justice Connection. “There’s tons of evidence, intensive discovery, and cases often go to trial or go up on appeal.” The Trump administration’s de naturalization push comes as the Jus- tice Department grapples with an exodus of government lawyers and a historic caseload stemming from legal challenges to the White House’s de- portation campaign. “They’re overwhelmed,” Young said of federal attorneys nationwide, add- ing that the denaturalization push could pull prosecutors away from cru- cial work such as litigating cases in- volving health care fraud, environ- mental crimes, corruption and nation- al security violations. And even when a judge sides with the government, that doesn’t always lead to deportation. Instead, defen- dants revert to their previous status, which is often a lawful permanent res- ident with the right to due process and a hearing before an immigration judge. “To remove them you have to go through a whole separate process,” Young said. Nevertheless, the Trump admini- stration is set on pursuing as many cases as possible. Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate said July 20 that the federal government has “only scratched the surface” and promised “many more complaints are coming.” “We refuse to give a free pass to criminals who cheated their way into American citizenship,” Shumate said. “Under this administration, if you de- frauded the naturalization process, you will face the full force of the Jus- tice Department.”
Trump, Republican allies seek to widen the net
A DOJ memo published in 2025 expands what denaturalization cases should be prioritized. Some of the new language called for focus on people tied to drug cartels and suspects of “fraud against private individuals, funds, or corporations.” One section of the memo directs staff to prioritize cases the civil division “determines to be sufficiently impor- tant to pursue.” Opponents fear that could open the door to prosecutions targeting the administration’s perceived political enemies or specific minority groups, especially given Trump’s threats to remove some of his adversaries from the country. Young, who worked in the DOJ for nearly 20 years, said the memo’s language suggests the division will “target anyone for denaturalization it wants, whenever it chooses – regard- less of whether a person poses a threat to the public, or engaged in egregious past conduct.” The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment on the memo. Trump has repeatedly suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, should be removed from the country. In an interview with The New York Times in January, he said his admini- stration was examining criteria for taking away American citizenships with a particular eye for people of Somali descent. The president also floated the claim that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is “here illegally” and vowed to “look at everything.” Two Republi- can congressmen, Andy Ogles and Randy Fine, have called on the Justice Department to investigate Mamdani’s naturalization documents. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, several Republicans introduced bills this year intended to expand denaturalization. A bill from Texas Rep. Chip Roy seeks to denaturalize “advocates for socialism, communism, Marxism, or Islamic fundamentalism.” A bill from Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, would create a path to denaturalize anyone convicted of an aggravated felony, fraud or espionage as long as 10 years after naturalization. Currently, the government cannot denaturalize someone for their actions after be- coming a citizen except in a few rare circumstances. Though neither bill is expected to become law, experts said it demon- strates a growing desire among Republicans to widen the govern- ment’s ability to denaturalize some U.S. citizens. Still, any large-scale denaturaliza- tion effort faces a significant obstacle: federal judges. Immigration attorneys and former Justice Department offi- cials said they expect the courts to carefully review each case on its mer- its, as required by law. “I would expect federal judges to be extremely careful with these cases,” said Kanstroom, of Boston College. “The case law is very clear that citizen- ship is a precious thing, and it should not be taken away lightly.”
is sought in Seattle shooting
by gunfire at festival
Christopher Cann
Authorities were searching for a second suspect who they believe opened fire at a food festival in Seattle, killing three people and injuring at least four. The gunfire erupted Sunday, July 26, on the final night of the Bite of Se- attle food festival at the Seattle Center, an outdoor park home to the Space Needle. The shots sent the large crowd of families and vendors into a frenzy as people ran for cover. In total, seven people were struck by gunfire, said Assistant Seattle Po- lice Chief Tyrone Davis. The wounded included a 2-year-old boy. Police believe the incident stemmed from a shoot-out between at least two people near the Seattle Cen- ter’s indoor food and event hall. One suspect surrendered to police, and an- other fled the area, Davis said. He add- ed that more people could have been involved and urged witnesses to come forward. “We’re still trying to figure this out,” Davis said at a news conference hours after the shooting. “We know that there were people out there when this incident occurred, that saw what hap- pened and know some of the people that might be involved.” Police were at the Seattle Center when the gunfire erupted and respon- ded within seconds, Davis said. De- spite lifesaving efforts, two people were pronounced dead at the scene. Several others were taken to hospitals, where one woman died from her inju- ries, the Seattle Police Department said. By the next day, medical staff had discharged three adults, said Susan Gregg, a spokesperson for the Univer- sity of Washington School of Medi- cine. The toddler remained at Harbor- view Medical Center but was in stable condition, she said. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson de- scribed the shootings as “an act of hor- rific violence.” “Impacted families are living through the worst moment of their lives, and an entire community is try- ing to understand how a gathering built around culture, connection, and joy ended in gunfire,” she said. Founded in 1982, Bite of Seattle has been a summer tradition in the North- west for over 40 years and features more than 130 food and beverage ven- dors, along with live cooking demos, live music and other activities.
What do we know about the Seattle shooting victims?
Two men, ages 19 and 44, and a 56- year-old woman were killed, according to a statement from the Seattle Police Department. The agency did not pub- licly identify the victims. The two men died at the scene. The woman died at Harborview Medical Center, the region’s top-level trauma center, where she and multiple other people were taken after the shooting. As of Monday, July 27, only the tod- dler remained hospitalized at Harbor- view Medical Center, said Gregg, a spokesperson for the University of Washington School of Medicine, which operates the hospital. The boy was listed in “satisfactory condition,” she said. A 23-year-old man and 39-year-old woman were discharged, Gregg said. At UW Medical Center-Montlake, medical staff discharged a 27-year-old man, Gregg said.
Police recover 2 guns after food festival shooting
Davis said authorities recovered two firearms at the scene. He did not describe the weapons. He added that there was no “outstanding threat to the community.” Multiple other local, state and fed- eral agencies, including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire- arms and Explosives, also responded to the scene. Davis said police have a “limited number of witnesses” and urged more to speak with law enforcement. He also said there were no surveillance cameras in the area where the shoot- ing broke out.
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heart of political debate
BrieAnna J. Frank
As the midterm campaign heats up, a legal battle continues to unfold over whether churches will be able to en- dorse candidates and more openly take part in politics – without drawing the ire of the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS has long banned tax-exempt houses of worship from direct involve- ment in politics. But since 2024, there has been a heated court battle trying to overturn the rules. At one point, a settle- ment paved the way for the reversal of decades of precedent – only for a judge to throw it all out. The Johnson Amendment was added to the Internal Revenue Code in 1954 and banned all tax-exempt 501c(3) or- ganizations, such as churches and char- ities, from “directly or indirectly”partic- ipating in politics, specifically in en- dorsement or opposition of candidates. The National Religious Broadcasters, an international association of evan- gelical Christian communicators, as well as the conservative advocacy group Intercessors for America and two Texas churches −First Baptist Church Was- kom in Waskom, Texas, and Sand Springs Church in Athens, Texas −sued the IRS over the rule in September 2024, alleging that it violated their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The parties reached a proposed set- tlement in 2025. It included the IRS re- versing decades of legal precedent by saying churches and other religious 501c (3)organizationscouldendorsepolitical candidates in certain circumstances. In court documents, the agency said political endorsements made by a churchwouldnotbeseenas“participat- ing” or “intervening” in political cam- paigns, but instead as a “family discus- sion concerning politics.” But a judge dismissed the entire case in a surprise ruling in late March, saying federal courts do not have the jurisdic- tion to change the tax status of a plain- tiff or create exemptions from tax laws. Days later, President Donald Trump’s administration announced that it would issue guidance on the Johnson Amend- ment for religious organizations amid the legal back-and-forth, saying it would “continue to protect religious freedom as a fundamental right.” That guidance hadn’t come as of July 24, by which point the legal wrangling continued as the plaintiffs formally ap- pealed the dismissal. Their July 7 filing said the decision resulted in “a dismiss- al no party requested, an agreed resolu- tion undone and Plaintiffs left in the si- lence they sued to end.” The filing outlined the plaintiff’s be- liefs that the IRS “pursues disfavored conservative and religious speakers while letting others speak freely.” Religious leaders and organizations across the ideological spectrum have condemned what they describe as out- sized scrutiny of their allies and institu- tions while overlooking tax infractions on the other side of the aisle. InApril,theRev.JamalBryant,senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, con- demned to USA TODAY what he said was a “double standard” when it comes to the Johnson Amendment, saying “it is very selective, how it has been used in American discourse.” The rhetorical and legal battle over the Johnson Amendment leaves reli- gious institutions with uncertainty about what political involvement the Trump administration will and won’t al- low before the November elections.
Complaints, but rare enforcement over Johnson Amendment history
Though it’s been around for more
Natalie Neysa Alund
Federal wildlife authorities are inves- tigating after a video appeared to show a man attacking a protected sea lion at a beach in Southern California. The video appears to show a man wearing a T-shirt and shorts approach- ing a sea lion resting on a seawall and kicking the animal while another per- son can be heard laughing in the back- ground. The footage then appears to show the person attempting to kick the sea lion again as the animal retreats from its resting spot. The National Oceanic and Atmos-
The Rev. Jamal Bryant, speaking in 2025 in Montgomery, Alabama, said the Johnson Amendment “is very selective, how it has been used in American discourse.” JAKE CRANDALL/USA TODAY NETWORK
than 70 years, the Johnson Amendment −named after former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who introduced it when he was serving as U.S. Senate majority leader −has rarely been enforced. A New York church did lose its tax- exempt status after it took out newspa- per advertisements to discourage Chris- tians from supporting former President Bill Clinton in the 1992 election. A court rejected the church’s First Amendment arguments, and the church also lost its case on appeal. The decades since have seen myriad churches and religious leaders wade into the political realm. According to religion watchdog groups, those efforts have at times crossed a legal line. Among them is the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which has filed scores of complaints to the IRS about al- leged Johnson Amendment violations over the years. In June, for example, it asked the agency to investigate Sheri- dan Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer said sup- porters could pick up campaign signs for his since-dropped congressional bid at the church. Chris Line, the foundation’s legal counsel, told USA TODAY in March that alleged Johnson Amendment violations do seem more common in conservative churches, though he said it’s “not an in- significant issue on the Democratic side either.” The organization previously criticized Bryant for what it character- ized as his church’s efforts to secure votes for then-Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The Freedom From Religion Founda- tion was not alone in doing so. Ameri- cans United for Separation of Church and State also criticized Bryant for de- nouncing former Republican U.S. Sen- ate candidate Herschel Walker from the pulpit in 2022. The Trinity Foundation, too, alleged that one of Bryant’s Insta- gram posts endorsed U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Georgia, in the 2022 elec- tion.
Leaders say faith, not criticism, shapes decision-making
Bryant was one of several religious leaders who told USA TODAY they see it as imperative for faith to influence other areas of believers’ lives, including poli- tics. “Our responsibility is to interpret the times and to speak to the time,” Bry- ant said. In a February opinion article for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bryant wrote that the Black church has histori-
pheric Administration Fisheries’ Office of Law Enforcement is “investigating reports of a video on social media that shows an interaction between an indi- vidual and sea lion, allegedly in La Jolla Cove,” the agency said in a social media post on Friday, July 24. “In the video, the individual appears to be kicking the sea lion. “This is an on- going investigation, and we cannot pro- vide further details at this time.” USA TODAY reached out to NOAA for more information.
“We make decisions based on our biblical convictions and our mission and informed by the law to make sure we’re compliant.”
Justin Arnot General counsel, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
cally been a space for “both worship and witness, sanctuaries and staging grounds for social change.” In his view, that “dual role” has “often made us tar- gets – surveilled, scrutinized and selec- tively policed.” In his interview with USA TODAY, he referenced White evangelical leaders and churches that have explicitly aligned with Trump over the years. Among them was the Rev. Franklin Gra- ham, the president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association who has been a steadfast Trump supporter and served on Trump’s Religious Liber- ty Commission. Justin Arnot, general counsel for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, defended Graham’s involvement with the Trump administration in a February interview with USA TODAY. More religious leaders, in his view, should leverage the influence of both the church and the state in an effort to shape the nation’s moral character. At the same time, Arnot said only a fraction of the organization’s work touches the political sphere. He called complaints about such work “dubious,” describing efforts by groups such as the Freedom From Religion Foundation as
Franklin Graham, delivering a sermon at the Pentagon in 2025 in Arlington, Virginia, has been a steadfast supporter of President Donald Trump.
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west of downtown San Diego, is a pop- ular destination for its scenic coastal views and protected sea lion popula- tion. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said he watched the video and asked local law enforcement to review the footage as well. “This disgusting act of animal cruelty is unacceptable,” Gloria wrote in a post on X. “We must protect our wildlife.” In a comment posted on Instagram, the San Diego Police Department con- firmed federal officials are investigating the incident. “We appreciate the public’s concern and encourage anyone with relevant in-
acts of intimidation. The IRS audited both the association and Samaritan’s Purse, a disaster relief nonprofit also led by Graham, in 2012. Graham said “someone in the admini- stration was targeting and attempting to intimidate us” in a letter to then- President Barack Obama about the mat- ter. Then-acting IRS commissioner Ste- ven Miller resigned around the same time amid a wider controversy sur- rounding IRS scrutiny of tea party groups. Ultimately, Arnot said the organiza- tion’s political decision-making isn’t guided by critics. “We make decisions based on our biblical convictions and our mission and informed by the law to make sure we’re compliant, and we’re confident that we are,” he said.
Johnson Amendment’s future could reshape religion, politics
Leaders on all sides of the debate told USA TODAY that the ultimate outcome of the National Religious Broadcasters’ lawsuit could have a significant impact on American church and political life moving forward. Retired United Methodist Church Bishop Julius C. Trimble said opening the door for political money to influence churches could limit what he described as faith communities’ prophetic and unifying role in society. Line similarly feared that churches could “just turn into super PACs” if they are permitted to endorse political candi- dates as tax-exempt entities. He also expressed concern that political groups could attempt to be redesignated as a church for tax benefits, given that the IRS does not have a specific definition of what counts as a “church.” On the other hand, Arnot said the Johnson Amendment as it currently stands has negative constitutional and financial implications for religious or- ganizations. “The threat of revocation chills not only the speech, but it potentially chills the giving,” Arnot said. In his view, the since-tossed settlement would have simply compelled the IRS “not to en- force it [the Johnson Amendment] in random or arbitrary ways against houses of worship.”
Church voter guides, registration drives before midterms
As the midterms draw closer, reli- gious leaders and organizations are making their own decisions about the extent to which they want to get in- volved as the battle over the Johnson Amendment continues. The United Church of Christ created a toolkit to support “nonpartisan faithful engagement” in the midterms, while a New York church hosted a “Getting Into Good Trouble” voter registration drive in honor of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who was among the 13 original Freedom Riders beaten and jailed for their civil rights advocacy in the 1960s. The United Methodist Church, too, has long offered resources and allowed individual churches to host voter regis- tration drives to boost civic participa- tion. UMC leaders pointed to the de- nomination’s Social Principles, which are established by the church’s general conference and are not church law, drawing a line between partisan politi- cal activity and necessary engagement with social justice issues. “Some people see it as right versus left when I think ... we see it from the standpoint of what’s right versus what is wrong,” Trimble said. Contributing: Angele Latham, The Tennessean USA TODAY’s coverage of First Amendment issues is funded through a collaboration between the Freedom Fo- rum and Journalism Funding Partners. Funders do not provide editorial input.
formation to contact the National Oce- anic and Atmospheric Administration,” the police department wrote. According to the Marine Mammal Commission, California sea lions are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, a federal law enacted in 1972. NOAA says it’s illegal to feed, cap- ture, harm, kill or harass sea lions, and anyone who violates it faces potential jail time. Anyone with information about the incident or any other incident involving a mammal being harmed or harassed is asked to contact the NOAA Fisheries Of- fice of Law Enforcement at 800-853- 1964.
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under-35s look for hope
Karissa Waddick
A small bloc of young voters in the country’s oldest state – with a median age of 44.8 – could play a pivotal role in one of the most consequential Senate races this year. As Democrats scramble to replace Graham Platner as their nominee in Maine’s Senate race, new polling sug- gests voters younger than age 35 remain a decisive constituency in the race against Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Published on July 21, a University of New Hampshire survey found Troy Jackson, the likely replacement for Platner, in a statistical dead heat with Collins. Jackson led among women and young voters, garnering 67% support among voters ages 18-34, the same amount Platner notched in a spring poll against Collins. An analysis by a group at Tufts Uni- versity this month ranked Maine among the top states where young voters are likely to sway midterm election out- comes. Young people ages 18-29 make up a relatively low share of Maine’s popula- tion. The median age in the state is 44.8, with folks older than 65 comprising 23% of the population, according to 2024 da- ta from the Maine State Economist Of- fice. But young people in Maine turn out to vote at rates unheard of across the country. In 2024, 60% of young people ages 18-29 voted in Maine, compared with 47% nationally, according to the 2025 State of Democracy in Maine re- port. During the 2022 midterms, Maine’s youth turnout was more than10 percentage points higher than the na- tional total. Maine’s election laws, including same-day registration and no voter ID requirement, also make it easier for young voters and out-of-state college students to cast a ballot. Justin Chenette, 35, previously served alongside Jackson as the young- est state senator in Maine history. He said it’s still “early to really see where
Democratic candidate for governor Troy Jackson, of Maine, speaks during a “Fighting Oligarchy” campaign rally with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, in Portland, Maine, on May 25. PROVIDED BY AMANDA SABGA
the chips are falling” in the race. Though the presumptive nominee, Jackson can’t officially secure a spot on the ticket until a special nominating convention that was set for July 25. Then, he’ll have just more than 100 days to build a campaign against the incum- bent, who has served in the Senate for nearly three decades. Jackson’s ability to energize and mo- bilize young voters to head to the polls could prove critical for Democrats. The party sees Maine’s Senate race as a must-win to flip control of the chamber. “The [Jackson] campaign is going to have to engage all demographics, but young people can absolutely make or break this race,” Chenette said.
Tough act to follow
Alison Beyea watched students at Colby College galvanize around the Platner campaign last semester in a way she hadn’t seen them react to a political
candidate in years. “The Maine U.S. Senate race is not typically a huge topic of conversation at Colby, but it was all that people talked about this spring,”said Beyea, executive director of the Goldfarb Center for Pub- lic Affairs at the college. “They saw something in the primary that spoke to them about what kind of leadership they wanted.” Platner’s virtual campus town hall was at capacity. Hundreds of students turned out to listen to him, even ones who didn’t plan to vote for him in the primary, Beyea remembered. She believes Platner helped cut through their deep disillusionment with the political establishment and offered hope. “They would consistently talk about the message he gave about how the sys- tem wanted to divide them,” she said. “That really resonated for students.” Platner’s departure from the race, and Jackson’s rise as the presumptive
nominee, have raised fresh questions about whether Democrats will continue to build on the momentum with young people. On paper, Jackson is remarkably similar to Platner. Both men come from working-class backgrounds: Platner is an Oyster farmer and Jackson is a log- ger. Both received support from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ grassroots political ac- tion group Our Revolution and focused their messages on affordability. But Jackson has spent decades in Maine politics and is likely to face scru- tiny for past socially conservative view- points, including his previous anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion stances. It also remains to be seen whether he holds the same charismatic pull Planter had over young voters. “The policies play a huge part, but I think we have dismissed... the impor- tance of feeling like a candidate makes us feel like we want them to lead,”Beyea said. Chenette views Jackson’s gruff per- sona as a potential asset. Young people, he said, are looking for authenticity. “That’s why you’re seeing such a movement toward voices like Troy Jack- son and others who are not necessarily the most polished,” Chenette said. “They have not tested their responses by a DC consultant.“ Amid a shortened campaign, politi- cal analysts say Jackson will need to meet young voters where they are: on- line. Reaching youth through social media is about more than “cool editing and TikTok trends,” said Jack Petocz, partnerships director at the advocacy group Gen-Z for Change. That will take off and energize young people to vote, he argued, if the policy platform reso- nates. “There seems to be a resonance with young people and candidates who hear and see their concerns, specifically about the economy and about challeng- ing systems that aren’t working,” said Leela Strong, Newhouse director of the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts. “In Maine and anywhere else in the country, that seems to be the recipe for connecting with young voters this cy- cle.”
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or removed them altogether. For decades, the military has extin- guished fires using foams containing toxic PFAS. These chemicals can then seep into soil and groundwater, where they persist without breaking down, in- creasing the chance of certain cancers in people who drink from contaminated wells. The military did not respond to USA TODAY’s request for an estimate of how many people the delays affect, but the tally could easily total tens of thousands of neighbors considering how many sites have been delayed. The Hyatts, who live down the street from the U.S. Army’s Yakima Training Center, had no idea about the delay in their cleanup until USA TODAY called them. “They do not tell us anything,”Brandi Hyatt said. The only clue that anything changed appeared behind a link buried on the Pentagon’s website, where it publishes the cleanup timelines for more than 700 military installations. USA TODAY has compiled those reports – many of them now deleted – going back to 2021, ob- serving at least 1,000 instances where cleanup times changed over the past five years without a formal announce- ment. The latest delays, posted in May, are the most drastic, averaging a decade. USA TODAY has gathered the timeline details in a searchable data dashboard.
Delays start piling up in 2025
Nearly three-quarters of the sites – over 500 – have been delayed at least once, and the delays are growing signifi- cantly longer. USA TODAY’s analysis of the now- unavailable documents shows from 2021 to 2024, the military delayed cleanup timelines for a few dozen sites each quarter, usually by just a year or two. Timelines at a handful of sites would even speed up, also typically by a year or so. Delays suddenly began to pile up in March 2025, when the Pentagon de- layed over 150 sites at once. The newest records released, representing cleanup timelines as of September 2025, de- layed the target dates for nearly 200 military sites as much as two decades into the future. These timelines don’t even represent when each base’s neighbors can expect their property to be safe from forever chemicals. When cleaning up environ- mental contamination, the military fol- lows the multistep Superfund program laid out by Congress. The timelines the military has been delaying are largely the “remedial investigation”step, which explores how far pollution has spread and how they might repair the damage. The final cleanup can’t even begin until they pass these milestones.
Sites with proven contamination
These cleanup delays are happening even at military sites where the Penta- gon has publicly confirmed forever chemicals are seeping into local water sources, USA TODAY found. Water testing shows the chemicals can drain off-base and contaminate private wells and sources of municipal drinking water. Dayton, Ohio; Fort Worth, Texas; and Tucson, Arizona, are just a sampling of the cities that have filed lawsuits against the military claim- ing PFAS threatens their water sources. USA TODAY’s analysis of available military test results on public and pri- vate drinking water shows wells around
most difficult open-water swims. The record belongs to Caitlin O’Reilly, who completed the challenge at 20 years, 227 days old. On July 8, Merhige completed the fifth swim of the challenge, a 21.4-mile crossing of the North Channel from Ireland to Scotland. Battling 50-degree water, powerful tides and jellyfish stings, she finished in 12 hours, 19 min- utes and 37 seconds. This swim held special significance for Merhige: It took place exactly a year after she had major surgery. After she had a ski accident in 2023, doctors discovered a benign tumor on her pan- creas that led to several years of hospital visits and surgeries. “I think it completely changed my perspective and my understanding of what the cancer experience is like,” she says. “The fact that I can do this and I’m healthy enough to do this – I shouldn’t take advantage of that.”
Firefighters spray PFAS-laden foam to put out a helicopter fire during a training exercise in 2007. Firefighting foams form a “blanket” over liquid fuel that helps extinguish fires quickly. The Pentagon has extended a deadline to stop using the foam to October 2027. PROVIDED BY PATRICK HODGES/U.S. ARMY
73 bases have tested above the current Environmental Protection Agency limit for forever chemicals in drinking water. All but two of these bases have faced delays to their cleanup process, USA TODAY found. At South Carolina’s McEntire Air Na- tional Guard Base, where one-third of water samples have tested above the EPA limit, the cleanup timeline has been delayed nearly a quarter-century from 2029 to 2053. About 85% of samples at Biddle Air National Guard Base outside Philadel- phia have tested above the EPA limit, but its cleanup has been delayed 19 years. And in Yakima, Washington, cleanup was delayed over 13 years even though more than 1,350 water samples taken from the Hyatts’ neighbors around the Army’s Yakima Training Center have tested higher than the EPA limit. For Brandi Hyatt, moving into their three-bedroom home on a 2-acre lot felt like a dream come true. The couple and their two kids enjoyed a stream running through the backyard and views of snow-capped mountain peaks in the distance. Plus, the constant convoys of soldiers driving in and out of the base just down the street gave them a sense of security and pride. Until 2021, when the Army knocked on the Hyatts’ door to test their well and found PFAS. Since moving in, she said at least five neighbors have died of can- cer, and she developed a thyroid condi- tion. “This beautiful dream of raising your babies at the end of a sweet cul-de-sac with all these nice old neighbors,” Hyatt said, pausing. “To find out that dream is potentially killing you, it’s just really hard.”
What does the military say?
Dozens of members of Congress have sent letters to the Department of War, formally the Department of Defense, since last fall to express their concern about the delays. In the latest, sent July 21, Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, criticizes not just the delays but the way they’ve been hap- pening. “Instead of consulting with commu- nity leaders and announcing the delays to the public, the department instead chose to quietly remove the previous cleanup schedule from its website and publish new timelines,” Murray wrote. “This is ultimately a violation of trust between military leaders and their sur- rounding communities.” The Pentagon did not respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment in time for publication.
If children can battle through cancer, “then I can most definitely swim another 20 strokes,” Maya Merhige says. PROVIDED BY SWIM ACROSS AMERICA
However, an Army spokesperson said schedule changes are a natural part of the environmental cleanup process. “They reflect ongoing technical work, not a change in our commitment,”wrote Lt. Col. Orlandon Howard in an email. He described protecting drinking wa- ter as the first priority at the Yakima Training Center, adding that base offi- cials maintain regular communication with the state and local community. “The Army updated its timeline when it became evident that updated PFAS data, evolving U.S. EPA standards and site-specific complexity required the Army to perform additional fieldwork and analysis beyond what the earlier published timeline reflected,” Howard wrote. Since the Superfund cleanup process typically takes many years, the military has previously said it’s taken “interim actions”such as providing bottled water or installing filtration systems near at least 55 military bases with the worst contamination. “When our data indicates a risk, we act immediately to cut off that exposure path,” Howard wrote, noting the Army has installed 71 in-home filtration sys- tems around the Yakima Training Cen- ter, with plans for dozens more. Plus, they’re providing bottled water to many of the Hyatts’ neighbors still waiting for a filter. Across the country near Philadel- phia, officials at the Biddle Air National Guard Base said the first phase of their investigation is wrapping up. Investiga- tors said more soil and water sampling is required to fill in gaps in their data, but that can’t happen until the Air Force awards the base more funding. Mean- while, its cleanup timeline has been de- layed nearly two decades. “We’ve been prioritizing interim ac- tions across the nation, and we’re doing it at Biddle,” said William Myer, Biddle’s environmental restoration program manager, at a public meeting held July 16. “We’re actively doing a ground- water design to construct a groundwa- ter treatment system.” For the first time, the War Depart- ment’s quarterly update on May 21 in- cluded brief footnotes to explain why each base’s timeline was extended, in- cluding reasons such as the prioritiza- tion of higher-risk sites, a need for addi- tional testing and severe weather. The Pentagon has also added a note to its website that while the military “strives to maintain original schedules, shifts may occur due to unique factors encountered at some sites.” USA TODAY obtained some of the military’s responses to the dozens of elected officials who have expressed concerns about the delays. The
high school, becoming the youngest woman to complete the 20-mile swim at age 14. One year later, she became the youngest person to complete the Molo- kai Channel swim in Hawaii at age 15. She followed that by crossing the Cook Strait in New Zealand, the English Channel and the Molokai Channel. But those feats didn’t come easily, she says. “It took me a long time until maybe a year ago to really be OK with not having a lot of control. ... That really scared me at the beginning – the feeling of being so small in such a big body of water.” Each swim must be completed solo and unassisted. Swimmers cannot touch a buoy, the boat or any passen- gers. Every 30 minutes, Merhige is handed a water bottle on a rope filled with carbohydrates to stay fueled, though even that can be difficult when she begins to feel sick. Despite the physical challenges, Merhige says, the mental challenge is even greater. “I have swum for a long time, so I know that physically I can. It’s much more a mental thing to be like, ‘How can I continue doing this and not
department’s responses generally echo the Army spokesperson’s comments, also blaming tougher EPA regulations and citing factors like funding availabil- ity and contractor problems.
How delays affect the community
Near Yakima, Washington, it took the Army nearly four years to install the Hy- atts’ PFAS filtration system. It was the uncertainty during this “really long, frightening process,” that prompted Brandi Hyatt to found Pursue PFAS Free, a community group that gathers and shares information and advocates for clean water around a handful of military bases across the state. “Everyone deserves to be safe in their homes,”she said. “I didn’t feel safe in my home anymore, and my neighbors didn’t.” Some of her neighbors still aren’t safe, years after the contamination was discovered. Greg Caron, who manages hazardous waste cleanup in the region for the state’s ecology department, points out that the 71 filtration systems the Army has installed to date is just half the count of nearby homes whose wells have tested over the EPA limits. His de- partment wants the Army to be more proactive in testing and mitigating the contamination, so Caron said seeing an unannounced 13-year delay is worri- some. “We felt like the 2028 goal was very optimistic – maybe too overly optimis- tic,” said Caron, who also was unaware of the delay until USA TODAY contacted him. “But any timeline that’s a decade long is troubling.” A public review of the cleanup proc- ess cannot occur until the military fin- ishes its investigation, Caron added. “Until those documents are released, the public really has no insight, no view behind the curtain about what the Army is doing, except for what the Army chooses to share,” Caron said. “If the Army pushes back those deliverables for a dozen years, then where’s the pub- lic’s opportunity for real participation in this issue that affects them?” The Army created a quarterly news- letter and PFAS website in response to criticism about poor communication in Yakima. Other sites, like Biddle Air Na- tional Guard Base in Pennsylvania, have regular meetings of advisory boards that allow neighbors to meet the mili- tary officials leading the cleanup. How- ever, Joseph McGrath, who worked for decades at the Naval Air Station adjoin- ing Biddle, said it’s not enough. “From the day to day, we have no idea what’s going on,” McGrath told Biddle’s restoration manager during the adviso- ry board’s July 16 meeting. “I don’t see anything on an active level.” Hyatt had stronger words for her in- teractions with the military. “The Army just gaslights everybody,” she told USA TODAY. “I love our soldiers,”Hyatt said. “But I don’t have nice things to say about the way the Army has communicated with us.” She described tense conversations with Army officials where she felt bul- lied and blamed for the delays holding up the installation of their home filtra- tion system. “Even when you get the system in, there’s still this sense of like, am I safe today?” Hyatt said, adding that a neigh- bor’s filter malfunctioned for months before they discovered the problem. Now, Hyatt’s group wants the Army to truly provide space for her and her neighbors to sit at the decision-making table. “Stop telling us what you’re going to do for us and how good it’s going to be, and let us be a part of what’s happen- ing,” Hyatt said.
stress myself out?’ ” The Molokai Channel swim was the toughest of the five swims, she says – physically and mentally. She was in the water for 28 hours, nearly twice as long as she and her crew had expected. “That was the only time I’ve ever been in the water and been like, ‘Why do I do this?’ ” Merhige says. But whenever she questions her de- cision to continue, she reminds herself for whom she is swimming. Before every swim, Merhige writes the names of those who have or are fighting cancer on her swim cap. From family members to friends and even cancer patients she doesn’t know, each name serves as a re- minder of why she keeps going. Merhige has two swims remaining to complete the Oceans Seven challenge. She is scheduled to swim the Strait of Gibraltar in August and complete the Tsugaru Strait in Japan next year – both before her 20th birthday. Before each swim, she’ll write the names of cancer patients and survivors across her cap, just as she always does. “I like to say that I borrow their bravery.”
Saundra Torry
Opinion contributor
Subpoenas of several New York Times reporters authorized by Presi- dent Donald Trump’s Justice Depart- ment were far more than an attack on reporters. It’s an action that affects the rights of people in a free society to know what their government is doing. It’s also more than just a single strike against one news organization. It ap- pears to be part of broader actions by the administration that have harmed press freedom. At a July 23 hearing in Manhattan on The Times’ motion to stop the subpoe- nas, a federal judge assailed the Depart- ment of Justice’s actions and told gov- ernment lawyers: “Either we can quash the subpoenas, or you could withdraw the subpoenas.” The DOJ quickly withdrew them, along with subpoenas for phone records of the reporters, two reporters’ spouses and a third’s mother. Unfortunately, the Justice Department also stated that “this investigation remains ongoing.”
DOJ subpoenas ‘violate the constitutional rights’ of journalists
On July 8, The Times reported that Trump relied on the older Air Force One jet when he left the NATO summit in Turkey rather than flying his newer, $400 million Air Force One donated by Qatar. Citing “people briefed on the plans,” The Times reporters wrote that security officials feared the new jet lacked the necessary defensive features of the older model. On July 19, Trump said the Qatari jet “has a lot of capability, but as I under- stand it, in about a month or so, they’re going to send it to have it be maxed out.” The federal grand jury’s subpoenas of reporters involved was an attempt to discover their confidential sources. Be- fore the hearing, The Times’ top news- room lawyer wrote that the subpoenas “violate the constitutional rights of The Times and its journalists.” There have been other administra- tion actions that reporters say intimi- date confidential sources:
Van Jones and David Safavian
Opinion contributors
Anyone who has watched an episode of “Law & Order” knows that prosecu- tors often rely on forensic experts dressed in white lab coats. They tell ju- ries about microscopic hair compari- sons, bite mark analysis, bloodstain patterns and other science-y stuff that’s supposedly conclusive proof of guilt. Except, too often, it’s not. Much of this so-called evidence is lit- tle more than the unsubstantiated opi- nion of someone with a stake in the out- come. Yes, DNA is reliable (if collected properly). Too often, however, junk sci- ence is dressed up as factual evidence for jurors who don’t know any better. In real life, however, courts accept phony forensics, often with troubling consequences.
‘Shaken baby syndrome’ and the junk science courts still lean on
In 2023, Nick Flannery was charged with assault and child endangerment after his infant son, Arlo, suddenly col- lapsed in a Cincinnati suburb. In the emergency room, Arlo’s doc- tors found bleeding in the baby’s brain and suggested it was caused by “shaken baby syndrome.” Arlo had no bruises, no fractures, no skull injuries and no signs of neglect. His parents were the sole caregivers, with no history of abuse. There was no evidence whatsoever. It was the prover- bial dog that didn’t bark. The allegation
At Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on June 19, President Donald Trump applauds as he tours the aircraft gifted by Qatar that will be used as Air Force One.
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h In January, the FBI arrived at the home of Washington Post reporter Han- nah Natanson at 6:05 a.m. as part of a probe into accusations that a govern- ment contractor illegally revealed clas- sified materials. The FBI seized her cell- phone, a smart watch and two comput- ers – one with personal information, in- cluding communications with a physician and Natanson’s fiancé. The Reporters Committee for Free- dom of the Press called this search “un- precedented.” Fortunately, a federal judge ruled in February that “an inde- pendent judicial review,” and not the Justice Department, should examine Natanson’s seized materials. In May, U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga upheld that ruling, citing the First Amendment that entitles reporters “to some constitutional protection of the confidentiality of their sources.”The Justice Department has already charged the federal contractor, but if government investigators can review The Post reporter’s phone and comput- ers, they’ll discover every source who has given her information. Much of her reporting was on the Trump administration’s cutting the fed- eral workforce. In May, Natanson was part of The Post team that won a Pulit- zer Prize.
of shaken baby syndrome nevertheless set off a chain reaction. The Flannery children were taken away. Independent medical experts re- viewing the case found that a preexist- ing condition, which might have origi- nated at birth and worsened over time, likely led to Arlo’s bleeding and collapse. Health records also showed unusual head growth and symptoms consistent with an ongoing medical condition, rather than abusive trauma. Intent on taking the case to a jury, prosecutors will argue that Arlo Flan- nery’s injuries were from shaken baby syndrome, despite it being a long-dis- puted medical theory. If convicted, Nick Flannery could face 12 years in prison.
Unreliable science contributes to 52% of wrongful convictions
The Flannery case is just one of many where unproven scientific theories are being used in criminal prosecutions. Robert Roberson was just days away from a scheduled Oct. 16 execution for the alleged murder of his 2-year-old daughter through what prosecutors were simply convinced was shaken ba- by syndrome. On Oct. 9, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stopped Roberson’s execution because state law required convictions to be reopened if previously used foren- sic evidence had since been discredited or proven scientifically inaccurate. Roberson will likely get a new trial, with the lead detective planning to tes- tify about how unreliable shaken baby syndrome evidence is. A week. That’s how close the justice system came to an irreversible mistake. Others, such as Josh Burns in Michi- gan and Andrew Roark in Texas, served
Many excellent sources want to re- main anonymous, which is often how Americans learn about major govern- ment actions that would otherwise re- main concealed.
Americans deserve ‘information ... about the nation’s highest office’
h In 2025, Associated Press reporters covering the White House as part of what’s known as the “press pool” were restricted from covering the president in several limited locations, including the Oval Office and Air Force One. The AP also was banned from the White House press pool. AP’s coverage is crucial because its stories appear in scores of newspapers across the United States and interna- tionally. Why were its journalists banned? When Trump issued an exec- utive order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the AP still referred to the Gulf of Mex- ico, its internationally recognized name. In April 2025, U.S. District Judge Tre- vor McFadden, appointed by President Trump in his first term, issued a prelimi- nary injunction ordering the admini- stration to allow AP reporters back into the Oval Office, the Air Force One and other White House places: “If the Gov-
In 2003, a Texas court sentenced Robert Roberson to death after he was convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, by shaking her so forcefully that he caused irreversible brain damage and death from “shaken baby syndrome.” Roberson is on death row while his case is under review.
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years behind bars after being found guilty of shaking their kids. Their con- victions were reversed by appellate courts due to the unreliable nature of the science used to convict them. To work, our justice system should depend on reliable, validated evidence rather than unproven theories and junk science. Wrongful convictions rob inno- cent people of their freedom, drain mil- lions in taxpayer dollars through pro- tracted litigation and unnecessary in- carceration, and force the government to pay for the substantial settlements required to redress when those convic- tions are overturned. The Kentucky Innocence Project re- ports that junk science contributed to 52% of wrongful convictions in the
ernment opens its doors to some jour- nalists ... it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints.” Two months later, a federal appeals panel delayed McFadden’s order to lift the ban, and last July the full court of appeals upheld the delay. The Reporters Committee for Free- dom of the Press, the White House Cor- respondents’ Association and 46 news organizations are working to help AP re- gain full access to the press pool so it can provide “information to the public about the nation’s highest office.”
‘Targeted at viewpoints that the President does not like’
h After complaining that National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) were “very unfair” and “very biased,” Trump issued an executive order cutting off their fed- eral funding. In March, U.S. District Judge Ran- dolph Moss ruled the “government ac- tion is targeted at viewpoints that the President does not like and seeks to squelch. ... The First Amendment does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type.” The judge blocked federal agencies from enforcing the president’s order to cease funding. But that may not get federal dollars back for NPR and PBS because Trump also called on Congress to cut funding, and House and Senate Republicans did so a year ago. Stephen J. Adler, chairman of the Re- porters Committee, which defends the First Amendment rights of reporters and news organizations, said how dan- gerous it is for reporters to be intimidat- ed: “Press freedom is about the rights of the public – to learn how their commu- nity and country are being run and to make informed decisions based on in- dependent reporting. When the public’s right to know is crushed, as the Trump administration is trying to do with its subpoenas against The New York Times, all of us suffer irreparable harm, as does the freedom upon which this nation is built.” Saundra Torry is a former USA TO- DAY editorial writer and a past chair- woman of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
cases they have reviewed, and that false forensic evidence was determined to be a contributing factor to 24% of all wrongful convictions nationally. But the most significant impact of using phony forensics is probably on public confidence in our courts.
What states need to do
For our system of justice to work, state courts must follow the lead of fed- eral courts by adopting the standards outlined in Federal Rule of Evi- dence 702, which require forensic testi- mony to be based on “reliable scientific principles and methods.” This rule em- powers judges to filter out flawed evi- dence before it taints the jury. Unfortunately, vigorous validation happens infrequently in state courts. That’s why it is more important than ever for states to adopt evidence-based standards to ensure that only credible and vetted information is given to juries. Our Founding Fathers wanted to make sure that the courts were fair to every defendant. It is why we have jury trials in the first place. But the system only works when jurors are presented with trusted information rooted in sound science. In “Law & Order,” the right person is usually found guilty. In real life, that’s not always the case. If we are to have true justice, judges must be empowered to set a high bar to screen out junk science and protect the innocent. If states want to ensure that they get it right, they should adopt the approach set out in Federal Rule of Evi- dence 702. Van Jones is an attorney, criminal justice advocate and TV personality. David Safavian is an attorney and a conservative activist.
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Measure to save Social Security faces pushback
at ‘fast track’ measure
Medora Lee
Social Security is facing across-the- board benefit cuts in six years, and older Americans want solutions, not opaque- ly operating committees, AARP says. A bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation to fast-track any Social Security-saving bills that could shore up the dwindling trust fund that supplements payroll taxes and keep benefits 100% intact.
A bipartisan, seven-member Social Security Advisory Board would draft a bill to keep the program’s trust funds solvent for at least the next half-cen- tury. The Protecting Retirement Op- portunities and Maintaining Income Security for Everyone, or PROMISE, Act would then be introduced in the House and Senate by congressional leaders before being considered by committees, which could hold hear- ings and revise the legislation. Some prominent think tanks such as the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Committee for a Responsible Federal
new baby registry ideas amid costs
gifts, survey finds
Anthony Thompson
With a basic crib often costing around $200 and some strollers priced at $500 or more, many families are re- thinking how they build baby registries and prepare for a newborn. A new survey from pregnancy and parenting company What to Expect found that many parents are scaling back their expectations for traditional baby registries, with more planning to buy expensive essentials themselves and turning to alternatives such as gift cards, group gifting and secondhand items. The survey of 2,099 pregnant wom- en and mothers with babies younger than 6 months found 59% expect to re- ceive fewer baby shower gifts because of rising costs. Nearly 8 in10 moms said they feel uncomfortable asking friends and family to purchase expensive reg- istry items, while 64% expect to buy
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most baby gear on their own. Instead of relying solely on a registry, many parents are rethinking what sup- port looks like, prioritizing flexible gifts, practical help and only the items they truly need.
Parents are embracing gift cards and practical support
Rather than filling registries with products alone, more parents are asking for gift cards, cash funds and services that can help after the baby arrives. According to the survey, requests for store and restaurant gift cards have in- creased 36% since 2024, while cash funds are up 24%. Requests for services, including meal delivery, house cleaning and postpartum support, have risen 22%. Nearly 1 in 6 moms now prioritize registries that include non-product gifts. Those options allow loved ones to contribute whatever amount fits their budget while giving new parents flexibil- ity to purchase necessities when they need them.
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season, and nearly half plan to spend more than they did last year. “Back-to-school spending is about commitment, not discretion,” Kelly Pe- dersen, PwC’s global retail leader, told USA TODAY. “Parents aren’t looking for a reason to skip the list – they’re looking for ways to absorb a bill they know is coming.” That’s exactly where tax holidays fit in, Pedersen said. “Tax-free weekends are exactly the kind of date a budget-conscious parent has already circled,” he said. “It’s not about spending less. It’s about being smart with a commitment that doesn’t go away.” Clothing and shoes are the largest line item in the PwC survey at $278. “Clothing and shoes have historically been the categories that have benefited most during tax holiday windows, and those are precisely the categories fam- ilies are prioritizing most,” Pedersen said. What’s different this season is just how deliberately parents are hunting for those windows, Pedersen said: 54% of families in the survey cited sales and promotions as a top purchase factor. Seventy-three percent are using AI somewhere in their shopping journey, often specifically to compare prices and time purchases. The spending also doesn’t stop when school starts, Pedersen said. Families expect to spend another $635 every month after that on fees, meals and ac- tivity costs. “Back-to-school isn’t a seasonal event; it’s the opening of a year-round financial relationship,” he said. “The families doing it best are the ones show- ing up with a plan.”
Budget support the move to jump-start talks to keep Social Security solvent. BPC endorsed the proposed legisla- tion as a “serious bipartisan process to break the status quo of inaction.” The CRFB said it hoped the proposal “jump- starts a much-needed process to secure Social Security.” AARP “strongly” opposes the bill, however. The nonprofit, nonpartisan advocate for125 million Americans ages 50 and up says Congress urgently needs to address Social Security’s finances, but there’s no reason for lawmakers to farm out that work to another body as it would in the PROMISE Act. “We strongly object to fast-tracking Social Security changes through Con- gress,” AARP Chief Advocacy and En- gagement Officer Nancy LeaMond wrote in a July 21 letter addressed to Sen. Dick Durbin, the Democratic whip from Illinois, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R- Louisiana. Durbin and Cassidy are among the lawmakers who introduced the PROMISE Act proposal.
How would the PROMISE Act work?
The PROMISE Act would create an “independent, bipartisan” Social Secu- rity Advisory Board (SSAB) to develop and send a base bill to Congress that would ensure the Social Security trust funds have enough money for at least 50 years. Majority leaders of the Senate and the House, or, if not, any member of Congress could introduce the base bill, which would then be referred to the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee for a chance to hold hearings and amend it. The committees would vote, or re- port, on the base bill. If they don’t, the bill would automatically be placed on the Senate and House calendars. The majority leaders of the Senate and House could move the bill forward, as could any other member of Congress. Similarly, anyone in Congress could of- fer amendments after the motion to proceed.
Rising prices still a top concern
But high costs continue to worry shoppers. “Prices are still top of mind, though consumers remain more optimistic than they were four years ago when in- flationwasatitspeak,”theNRFsaidina back-to-school blog post on its website July 7. “This year 78% of shoppers ex- pect to see higher prices on back-to- school items this school season, com- pared with 84% in 2022.” But there’s a difference in how households in different income brack- ets are viewing prices, the NRF said. Those earning more than $100,000 a year “have seen a steeper drop in con- cern since 2022’s higher inflation and continue to drive spending,” it said. “Lower-income households, while less concerned than four years ago, remain worried about prices and are looking for ways to stretch their dollars.” Retailers are taking note and will have sale promotions all summer, the retail group said. About one-third of back-to-school shoppers told the NRF they typically plan their shopping around summer sales. Families also told the group for its survey that if back- to-school items are pricier than expect- ed, they will be doing more comparative shopping or checking for the items at discount stores. “As families prepare for the back-to- school season, affordability remains a top priority. Retailers are focused on de- livering value this back-to-school sea- son, offering competitive prices, pro- motions and discounts to help families manage the cost of these purchases,” Mark Mathews, the NRF’s chief econo- mist and executive director of research, told USA TODAY. Sales tax holidays help consumers maximize their savings, he said. “These tax-free shopping events benefit both shoppers and retailers.”
Finally, the Senate and House would vote on the bill after100 hours of consid- eration. Final passage would require a three-fifths vote in the Senate and a ma- jority vote in the House. “Our bipartisan proposal opens Con- gress to debate this issue in a transpar- ent, fair, and bipartisan way,” Durbin said in a release. “We were elected to solve problems −and there’s no greater problem than the solvency and future of Social Security.”
Why does AARP oppose the bill?
Though Durbin touts transparency, AARP said the bill offers the opposite. It said the PROMISE Act limits debate and amendments, and that could allow law- makers to cut Social Security payments. “Strengthening Social Security should happen through regular order, in full public view, with openness and transparency −rather than through a process that limits the type of amend- ments and sets arbitrary procedural deadlines to short-circuit the debate,” said Nancy LeaMond, AARP’s chief ad- vocacy and engagement officer. The bill calls for the advisory board’s proposal to be introduced in Congress by Sept. 17 or the first day after that when the House and Senate are in ses- sion, she said. Lawmakers could then hold hearings and amend the SSAB plan but would not need to vote to advance the measure out of key congressional committees, as is typical for federal leg- islation. Instead, if lawmakers don’t vote by Nov. 9, the bill would move straight to the House and Senate floors −during a post-election “lame-duck session” of Congress “when departing members are completely unaccountable to voters,” LeaMond said. Among her other objections to the bill, she argues that it caps the time to consider, amend and debate the bill at 100 hours and includes language that limits the types of amendments al- lowed. “If every other bill in Congress goes through regular order, why would some- thing as important as Social Security get a special process that cuts off debate, that limits the kind of amendments, that limits the kind of things you can talk about?” said Bill Sweeney, AARP’s
Saving money is particularly important this year as shoppers continue to say they are stressed about finances and rising costs.
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Here’s a list of participating states and what’s tax-free, according to the Federation of Tax Administrators and additional report- ing by USA TODAY. Rules and dates vary by state, so check your state’s website for the most updated information. In some instances, local taxes may also still apply. Five states don’t charge sales tax year- round: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon, according to the Federation of Tax Administrators. Some mu- nicipalities in Alaska do charge sales tax.
Arkansas: Aug 1-2 h Clothing and shoes: $100 or less per item, clothing accessories: $50 or less per item. h School, art and instructional supplies and electronic devices for school are tax-free with no cap on price.
Connecticut: Aug. 16-22 h Clothing and footwear less than $300; cleat- ed shoes and backpacks are newly added as tax-free. h A new state law exempts non-electronic school supplies from sales tax year-round.
Florida: Through Aug. 20 h Learning aids, such as flash cards, puzzle books and puzzles: $30 or less. h School supplies: $50 or less per item. h Clothing, footwear, accessories: $100 or less per item. h Computers and accessories: $1,500 or less.
Illinois: Aug. 7-16 h Clothing and footwear: $125 and less. h Eligible school supplies including book bags, calculators and other items used for studying are not subject to $125 threshold.
Iowa: Aug. 7-8 h Clothing, footwear: $100 or less per item.
Maryland: Aug. 9-15 h Clothing, footwear: $100 or less per item. h Backpacks: The first $40 of a backpack/ book bag purchase is tax-free. h Accessory items, except for backpacks, are not included in the tax-free holiday.
Massachusetts: Aug. 8-9 h Eligible retail items bought for personal use costing $2,500 or less (not limited to school supplies). h There are several exceptions when tax still applies, including meals, motor vehicles and boats, gas and electricity, tobacco, marijua- na or alcoholic beverages, and any single item with a price more than $2,500.
Missouri: Aug. 7-9 h Clothing: $100 or less per item. h School supplies: $50 or less per item. h Computers and peripheral devices: $1,500. h Computer software: $350 or less. h Graphic calculators: $150 or less.
senior vice president for government affairs. “To us, that just doesn’t make sense.”
AARP opposes other bills that create Social Security commissions
AARP also said it opposes two other bills that would create commissions to address Social Security’s long-term solvency: h One House bill, sponsored by Reps. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, and Tom Suozzi, D-New York, creates a 13- member commissiontasked with pro- viding recommendations and legisla- tion to Congress on how to shore up Social Security’s finances. That bill would allow a proposed plan to move forward on an expedited, up-or-down vote. Individual members of Congress would not be able to offer amend- ments, AARP said. h Another proposal would create a fiscal commission to reduce the na- tional debt and annual deficits and shore up trust funds dedicated not just for Social Security but also for Medi- care and the nation’s highways. But “Social Security is a self-financed sys- tem that does not contribute a penny to the national debt, and Congress should not put it in the crosshairs of unrelated budget debates,” LeaMond said. “Instead, any changes to Social Security should focus on the financial and retirement security of the Amer- ican people.”
What should Congress do instead?
Social Security provides retirement benefits to 71million Americans to give them some financial security. It’s “a promise: that after a lifetime of hard work, you will receive the money you have earned,” LeaMond said. “Keeping that promise is one of Congress’s most solemn responsibilities.” “If regular order is the gold standard for routine legislative matters, it cer- tainly should be the standard for something as important as Social Se- curity,” LeaMond said, noting that the last time Social Security approached trust fund depletion, in the early 1980s, there were no shortcuts.
New Mexico: July 31-Aug. 2 h School supplies: $30 and less per item. h Clothing or shoes: $100 or less per item. h Desktop, laptop, tablet and notebook com- puters: $1,000. h Related computer hardware: $500 per item.
New York New York does not have a sales tax holiday, but year-round in what's called the Met- ropolitan Commuter Transportation District, there is no sales tax for clothing and footwear that costs $110 or less. The MCTD consists of New York City and the counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester.
Ohio: Aug. 7-9 h Clothing: $75 or less per item. h School supplies: $20 or less per item. h School instructional materials: $20 or less per item.
Oklahoma: Aug. 7-9 h Clothing or footwear: $100 or less per item.
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania does not have a sales tax holi- day, but year-round it does not charge sales tax for clothing and certain footwear.
South Carolina: Aug. 7-9 h Clothing, shoes and accessories. h School supplies. h Computers, printers, earbuds and head- phones.
Tennessee: July 31-Aug. 2 h Clothing and shoes: $100 or less per item. h School supplies: $100 or less per item. h Computers, including laptops and tablets: $1,500 or less per item.
Texas: Aug. 7-9 h Clothing and shoes: $100 or less per item. h Backpacks: $100 or less per item. h School supplies: $100 or less per item.
Virginia: Aug. 7-9 h Clothing and shoes: $100 or less per item. h School supplies: $20 or less per item. h Portable generator: $1,000 or less per item. h Gas-powered chainsaws: $350 or less per item. h Other specified hurricane preparedness items: $60 or less per item. h Qualifying Energy Star and WaterSense products for noncommercial home or per- sonal use: $2,500 or less per item.
West Virginia: July 31-Aug. 3 h Clothing: $125 or less per item. h Laptop or tablet computers: $500 or less per item. h School instruction material: $20 or less per item. h School supplies: $50 or less per item.
Group gifting helps cover expensive essentials
High-ticket purchases, such as strollers, travel systems and nursery furniture, remain among the biggest expenses for new parents. However, registry platforms are increasingly al- lowing multiple people to contribute toward a single item. The survey found 51% of gift-givers used group gifting in 2026, a 287% in- crease from 2024. That feature allows expectant par- ents to include costly essentials on their registries without asking one person to cover the full price.
More families are choosing experiences over presents
Some families are replacing tradi- tional baby showers with "nesting par- ties," where friends and relatives help prepare meals, organize the nursery or tackle household tasks before the baby arrives. What to Expect found nesting par- ties have grown 58% in popularity since 2024. Moms are also 80% more likely to skip creating a registry alto- gether in favor of asking loved ones to help with practical tasks, such as meal trains or setting up the nursery.
Secondhand shopping and smaller registries gain popularity
To stretch their budgets, two-thirds of moms said they're purchasing more secondhand baby items than they oth- erwise would because of higher costs. Experts still recommend buying cer- tain safety-related products, including car seats, cribs and crib mattresses, new. Parents are also taking a more mini- malist approach. The average registry has declined from 58 items in 2024 to 54 in 2026, and 58% of moms said they're intentionally trying to get by with less by focusing on multipurpose items and skipping products they may not use.
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issued the action July 22
Greta Cross
Nearly 1.6 million dozen white-shell and brown-shell eggs have been recalled due to potential salmonella contamina- tion. Midwest Poultry Services L.P. issued a recallonJuly22fornearly1.6milliondoz- en white and brown cage-free eggs from Texas due to potential Salmonella enter- itidis contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration recall report. As of July 22, Midwest Poultry Ser- vices was not aware of any illnesses re- lated to the eggs. The company identified the issue through proactive environmental moni- toring practices and root cause analysis, according to the recall report. The com- pany was not distributing fresh eggs from its Texas farms as of July 22. Here's what to know about the egg re- call:
What eggs are recalled?
The recalled white and brown cage- free eggs have an identifying code print- ed on the left or right sides of the carton in date-coding ink. Only the codes P-1950 or 0840962 with a Julian date between 157 and 184 are recalled, according to the report.
Where were the recalled eggs sold?
The recalled eggs were sold in Kroger stores in Texas and Louisiana, Brooksh- ire Grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Mississippi, and at other smaller retail outlets, according to the recall report. The eggs were also shipped to food- service and retailers in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, the report states.
What to do if you own the recalled eggs
Consumers are urged to avoid con- sumption of the eggs and return the products to their original place of pur- chase for a full refund, according to the recall report. Consumers with questions should contact Midwest Poultry Services at 574-405-9531between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. ET Monday through Friday.
Symptoms of salmonella poisoning
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Street Biscuit Co., closes sites
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Cracker Barrel has sold its Maple Street Biscuit Co. brand and 35 restau- rants to Biscuit Belly LLC and will close 16 locations of the fast-casual breakfast chain. The move comes less than a year af- ter Cracker Barrel closed14 Maple Street locations in September 2025 because they “simply didn’t meet our financial expectations,” the company told USA TODAY in a statement at the time, while thanking customers for their patronage. Cracker Barrel acquired Maple Street Biscuit Co. in 2019 for $36 million. The breakfast chain was founded in Jack- sonville, Florida, in 2012, and serves a variety of biscuits and other breakfast foods. At the time of the acquisition, Maple Street had 28 company-owned locations and five franchised locations across seven states. In a separate move, Cracker Barrel also completed a sale-leaseback deal in- volving 26 company-owned locations. That means Cracker Barrel sold the lo- cations to an investor and immediately leased them back. Cracker Barrel said these transactions will generate ap- proximately $77 million in net proceeds.
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gesting the bacteria. The most common symptoms are diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps, according to the Cen- ters for Disease Control and Prevention. While most healthy people can re- cover in four to seven days without treatment, some vulnerable groups, in- cluding children younger than 5, adults 65 and older, and those with weakened immune systems, may experience more severe illness that requires medical treatment or hospitalization. If you display any of these more seri- ous symptoms, the CDC advises con- tacting your health care professional: h Diarrhea and a fever higher than 102 degrees Fahrenheit. h Diarrhea for more than three days that is not improving. h Bloody diarrhea. h So much vomiting that you cannot keep liquids down. h Signs of dehydration, such as not urinating much, dry mouth and throat, and feeling dizzy when standing up. Contributing: Mary Walrath-Hol- dridge Greta Cross is a national trending re- porter at USA TODAY. Story idea? Email her at gcross@usatoday.com.
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east and bring Biscuit Belly to over 60 units by the end of 2028.” According to the news release, Bis- cuit Belly will convert the Maple Street Biscuit Company locations to the Bis- cuit Belly brand over the next 18-24 months. The conversions will begin immediately, starting with locations in greater Cincinnati and Richmond, Vir- ginia. “Acquiring an iconic brand like Ma- ple Street, one of the original gourmet biscuit sandwich concepts, was not on my 2026 bingo card,” said Chad Coul- ter, cofounder and CEO of Biscuit Belly, in the news release. “Two of the big- gest headwinds that growing brands encounter are the time required to find and build locations, and the difficulty of finding great teams. When we looked at Maple Street’s geography, footprints, and established teams, a light bulb went off.” Biscuit Belly opened its first loca- tion in 2019, according to the company.
You should use your PTO intentionally
Johnny C. Taylor Jr.
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Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your workplace questions each week for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of SHRM, the world's largest trade association of human resources pro- fessionals, and author of “Reset: A Leader’s Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval.” Question: I’m feeling burned out and know I need time off, but in my workplace, being constantly avail- able seems to be valued. I worry that taking PTO could hurt how I’m per- ceived, especially with advance- ment opportunities in play. How do I decide if it’s worth it to take some time off? – Rylan Answer: In most cases, the answer is yes. Taking the paid time off you’ve earned is part of sustaining strong per- formance, not a sign you’re less com- mitted. The key is using it intentionally and responsibly. At SHRM, we’re seeing unprece- dented levels of employee burnout, particularly among younger workers and managers. That’s concerning be- cause burnout doesn’t just affect indi- viduals. It reduces engagement, inno- vation, decision-making, and ulti- mately business performance. Smart employers recognize that rest and re- covery aren’t rewards for working hard. They’re investments in sustain- ing high performance. That’s why I talk about work/life in- tegration rather than work/life bal- ance. The goal isn’t a perfect 50/50 split. Real life doesn’t work that way. The goal is finding a sustainable rhythm where work and personal re- sponsibilities can coexist without one consistently overwhelming the other.
coin generates buzz
Faith Wakefield
The new $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump’s likeness will be avail- able this fall. This gold-colored com- memorative coin has generated plenty of buzz, but is it actually worth buying as an investment? Unlike traditional gold bullion coins, the Trump $1 coin contains no precious metals. That means any val- ue beyond its $1face value will depend largely on collector demand, scarcity and market interest – not the price of gold. While commemorative coins can appreciate over time, their returns tend to be less predictable than those of bullion coins, which derive much of their value from the precious metals they contain. So, does the Trump coin have a place in your portfolio? Here’s what to know about the new release and how it compares with traditional gold invest- ment coins:
What we know about the new $1 Trump coin
The U.S. Treasury Department an- nounced that production of the new Trump $1 coin began at the Philadel- phia Mint in July, with a public release expected this fall. Although the coin has a gold-colored finish, it is made of non-precious metals and carries a le- gal-tender face value of $1.
Could the $1 Trump coin become valuable?
The short answer is: possibly, but there’s no guarantee. Unlike gold bullion coins, the Trump coin contains no precious met- als. Any value above its $1 face value will depend on factors such as collec- tor demand, the number of coins pro- duced and how many people choose to keep rather than spend them. “It could retain a small collector premium depending on the number of coins produced, demand, hoarding be- havior by the public and how quickly the Mint fulfills orders,” says Philip Diehl, former U.S. Mint director and president of the U.S. Money Reserve. He adds that coins with minting errors could also command higher prices among collectors.
That might mean stepping away for a doctor’s appointment and making up the time later, or leaving early for your child’s recital and finishing a project af- ter they’re asleep. Building that flexibil- ity into your routine before burnout sets in makes you better equipped to handle the inevitable demands of both work and life. That said, taking PTO also comes with responsibilities. Your team carries your workload while you’re away, so plan your time off as thoughtfully as you would any important project. When possible, avoid scheduling extended ab- sences during critical business periods. Communicate early, make sure your work is covered, and leave your col- leagues with clear information about what they may need while you’re gone. When you prepare well, your absence shouldn’t create unnecessary stress for everyone else. If your organization genuinely dis- courages employees from using earned PTO despite saying it values well-being, pay attention to that. A culture that ex- pects people to perform at their best while discouraging the recovery that makes high performance possible isn’t sustainable. It’s worth asking whether that’s an environment where you can continue to grow and build a long-term career. My best advice is this: Use your PTO the way high performers use every other resource – intentionally. Plan, commu- nicate, and leave your team set up for success. The best leaders I know never apologize for taking time off. They pre- pare so well that the work continues without disruption. That kind of plan- ning doesn’t hurt your chances for ad- vancement. If anything, it demon- strates the judgment, professionalism, and leadership organizations value most. The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.
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Still, experts caution against buying commemorative coins with the expec- tation of strong investment returns. “Commemorative coins can some- times outperform bullion, but that is the exception, not something a buyer should assume,” says Eric Turney, mar- keting director at Monterey Company, a custom coin manufacturer.
What are gold investment coins?
Gold investment coins, also known as bullion coins, are produced by gov- ernment mints and struck from pre- cious metals that meet strict purity standards. Unlike circulating currency, bullion coins are purchased primarily as investments, and their value is tied to the market price of the gold they con- tain. Like the new Trump $1coin, U.S. gold bullion coins are legal tender and carry an official face value. However, that face value has little practical significance be- cause the gold they contain is worth far more. For example, the one-ounce American Gold Eagle has a face value of $50, but the current price of gold deter- mines its market value. “Today, a one-ounce Gold American Eagle sells for about 4,200 times the face value of a Trump $1 coin,” Diehl says.
Should you buy the Trump coin or gold bullion coins?
The right choice depends on why you’re buying. If you’re a collector or Trump sup- porter looking for a piece of political memorabilia, the commemorative $1 Trump coin may be worth considering. Just keep in mind that any value beyond its $1 face value is not guaranteed.
ALABAMA Trinity: Alabama Cooper- age, an Alabama manufacturing facil- ity that produces alcohol storage barrels, has made the decision to shutter its operations in Trinity, trig- gering over 70 layoffs.
ALASKA Anchorage: Three Western Alaska tribal governments and mul- tiple environmental groups have filed two lawsuits to overturn a federal permit for a 19-mile road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska Beacon reported.
ARIZONA Casa Grande: Firefighters with the Eloy Fire Department gave 81 cows an impromptu spa day after the truck that was hauling the herd broke down at a truck stop in Casa Grande, according to a Facebook post from the Eloy Fire District. To stop the cows from overheating, firefighters began spraying cool water into the trailer, according to the post.
ARKANSAS Ozark: Students in the air conditioning and refrigeration program at Arkansas Tech Univer- sity-Ozark Campus posted a 94% pass rate on the recent EPA 608 in- dustry certification exam, surpassing the national average of 85%.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The US High Speed Rail coalition applauded the signing of a memorandum of understanding to advance devel- opment of the Southern California High Desert Corridor. The coalition said the signing of the document and project is a critical link in creating a Southwest Regional High-Speed Rail Network.
COLORADO Eagle County: Colorado has a new wolf pack to replace one lost earlier this year when its parents died, leaving the state with four packs. The new wolf pack, confirmed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, was named the Piney Ridge pack and resides in Eagle County, according to an agency news release.
CONNECTICUT Cheshire: City offi- cials have banned e-bikes, e-scooters and other motorized rideable vehicles from Bartlem Park following com- plaints of reckless riding and vandal- ism at the park’s newly constructed bandshell, WFSB reported.
DELAWARE Millsboro: A Millsboro woman faces a litany of animal cru- elty charges after 26 live animals and seven dead were seized from her home the week of July 15.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing- ton: The National Guard has signed a nearly $300 million contract to house up to 2,000 troops in furnished DC apartments, a move officials say will reduce lodging costs but critics argue could prolong the Guard’s presence in the city, WUSA9 reported.
FLORIDA Orlando: Brightline an- nounced more discounts on its rail fares between South Florida and Orlando as it borrowed more money to pay for daily operations, it missed a debt payment and a financial agen- cy downgraded its credit rating.
GEORGIA Warrenton: Asama Cold- water Manufacturing Georgia LLC will eliminate 107 jobs at its foundry in Warrenton, according to a recent filing under the federal Worker Ad- justment and Retraining Notification Act. The plant’s phased shutdown is scheduled to begin in September.
HAWAII Honolulu: The University of Hawaii and University Laboratory School reached an agreement that allows the school to remain on the university’s Manoa campus through June 30, 2029, with an option to ex- tend through 2034, Hawaii News Now reported.
IDAHO Nampa: Central Elementary School will not be ready for the start of the school year after flooding dam- aged classrooms, electrical systems and HVAC equipment, forcing the district to relocate students and staff temporarily, KTVB7 reported.
ILLINOIS Macomb: Illinois trans- portation and Extension officials are launching a prairie restoration project in Macomb that will convert an un- managed state right-of-way into hab- itat for pollinators, wildlife and edu- cational programming.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The city has designated the bridge connecting downtown with a new business dis- trict across the White River the Greenlawn Memorial Bridge, paying homage to the former city cemetery excavated to make way for construc- tion. The new name honors Green- lawn Cemetery, the city’s first public burial ground that held the remains of the city’s earliest pioneers, in- cluding African American residents.
HIGHLIGHT: OREGON
The new Amtrak Cascades train rolls through Eugene during a tour of Oregon before official service begins later this year. CHRIS PIETSCH/USA TODAY NETWORK
Eugene: The new passenger train that will serve the Amtrak Cascades line from Eugene to Vancouver, British Columbia, arrived in Eugene for the first time on July 23. The new Airo trains will replace much of Amtrak’s passenger fleet start- ing with the northwest’s Amtrak Cascades line, which currently relies on trains primarily built in the1970s. Amtrak is targeting a September launch. On July 22, the train did its first test run of the northern half of the route from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C., and back. On July 23, the train tested the southern half of the route from Seattle to Eugene and back. The test seemed to go smoothly.
IOWA Des Moines: Iowa farm in- come tumbled 53% from 2022 to 2024, squeezed by record-high in- put costs, depressed corn and soy- bean prices and continued trade uncertainty, a new report shows. The pain is likely to continue through 2027, even with federal government assistance helping farmers stay afloat, according to the report from Iowa State University, the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and the Iowa Bankers Association.
KANSAS Topeka: Kansas’ six state universities will receive $2 million each that the Legislature set aside as incentive for the Kansas Board of Regents to adopt an anti-diversity, equity and inclusion policy.
KENTUCKY Louisville: The U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams and the State Board of Elections seeking unredacted information on Kentucky voters was dismissed, according to a release from Jefferson County Clerk David Yates.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: While the exact count of mosquitoes in Louisi- ana is impossible to calculate, the state is estimated to have the fourth highest mosquito population in the United States, according to World Population Review. Louisiana is home to a total of 68 species of mosquito, making it the state with the fourth most species.
MAINE York: Members of the His- toric District Commission hoped a new town-wide tax break for own- ers of York’s historic homes would encourage their preservation. But the Selectboard voted to reject the proposal, sending the commission back to the drawing board as it looks for ways to protect older homes from demolition.
MARYLAND Baltimore: Perdue Farms and the Baltimore Ravens launched a multi-year partnership that will bring Perdue products to Ravens facilities and game-day operations while supporting hun- ger-relief efforts across Maryland.
MASSACHUSETTS Hopedale: Near- ly 1,000 new jobs are soon coming to Hopedale as global shipping and logistics company Maersk prepares to open a fulfillment hub in town later this summer.
MICHIGAN Detroit: Detroit’s long underused city-owned airport wel- comed the opening of the head- quarters for a helicopter touring company, marking the first new commercial development at the facility in 60 years. MyFlight Tours opened its new $4 million 12,000- square-foot building at the Coleman A. Young International Airport.
MINNESOTA St. Cloud: Spanier Bus Service has been recognized for its commitment to employing veterans. The company received the Employer of Veterans Award from the Amer- ican Legion Department of Minne- sota, according to an announce- ment.
MISSOURI Springfield: A new book collection focused on Missouri’s role in the Civil War will begin reaching readers in August as Fry’s Lyon Foundation Inc. launches the first volumes of its “1861 Missouri Speaks Collection.”
MONTANA Helena: The ACLU of Montana reached a settlement with the federal government that pro- tects two Montana State University international students from depor- tation by restoring their student status and allowing them to con- tinue their studies in the United States, The Daily Montanan report- ed.
NEBRASKA Julian: A restored his- toric building in Julian has been transformed into a new museum aimed at preserving and show- casing the community’s local histo- ry and heritage, KOLN reported.
NEVADA Reno: Reno ranks among the United States’ top emerging metro areas, according to an annual ranking by LinkedIn. The profes- sional networking platform ranked the Reno metro area No. 3 in its 2026 Cities on the Rise report.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Portsmouth: Richard Hartley, appointed last year as New Hampshire’s director of ports and harbors, has been asked to take part in leadership training after an investigation into two com- plaints regarding his workplace behavior.
NEW JERSEY Montclair: Montclair State University has launched con- struction of a new $120 million in- terdisciplinary science building that is scheduled to open in time for the start of the 2028-2029 academic year.
NEW MEXICO Sunland Park: A third party hearing officer has scheduled an October hearing in Sunland Park regarding the air qual- ity permit application related to Project Jupiter.
NEW YORK New York: A federal judge has ruled that New York City cannot prohibit Uber Technologies and Lyft from deactivating drivers from their apps without advance notice, ruling that the novel law is unconstitutional.
NORTH CAROLINA Fayetteville: The North Carolina Department of Envi- ronmental Quality plans to install a soil vapor extraction system at the long-closed Cliffdale Landfill after an investigation found methane from decomposing waste was mi- grating to nearby properties.
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SOUTH CAROLINA Spartanburg: An urban farm located in Spartanburg’s Northside community is coming back to life, thanks to a partnership be- tween the city and a local nonprofit organization. Volunteers and staff members with Ruth’s Gleanings, a healthy food ministry based in Spar- tanburg, are working to rehabilitate the small farm located beside the Hub City Farmers’ Market. The prop- erty, which is owned by the city and has sat idle for more than a year, has been renamed Full Harvest Farm.
SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: The board that oversees South Dakota’s public universities plans to ask state lawmakers for nearly $60.5 million for building projects and mainte- nance, the launch of a national de- fense center in Rapid City and tech- nology upgrades related to artificial intelligence, South Dakota Search- light reported. The Board of Regents also endorsed construction funding requests, including funding to begin the previously announced move of the University of South Dakota San- ford School of Medicine to Sioux Falls, according to the news outlet.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Protect Ten- nessee Forests posted on social media that there has been an in- crease in reports in Tennessee in the past few weeks of sightings of the hammerhead worm, an invasive spe- cies from Southeast Asia.
TEXAS Austin: A divided federal appeals court blocked Texas from enforcing a key provision of a state law meant to shield children from harm through using social media.
UTAH Salt Lake City: A new Wal- letHub study has ranked Utah among the states with the lowest percentage of at-risk youths, placing 47th in the nation, KUTV reported.
VERMONT South Burlington: The Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows and Vermont-based BETA Technologies flew together above Lake Champlain on July 13, an aviation collaboration between the United Kingdom and Vermont in a pair of aerial demon- strations. The British aerobatic team is touring the U.S. as part of events tied to the nation’s 250th anniversary and recently appeared in Boston and Maine. The Vermont visit brought together one of the world’s best- known military flight demonstration teams and a company developing electric aircraft technology.
VIRGINIA Staunton: Columbia Gas of Virginia held a grand opening cere- mony on its new operations center in Staunton on July 23.
WASHINGTON Seattle: Authorities in Seattle are investigating after two people climbed over the glass wall of the iconic Space Needle and para- chuted from the top of the 605-foot landmark building.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: West Virginia residents can now sign up as organ donors when registering to vote or updating their voter registration under a new state law aimed at ex- panding participation in the national organ donor registry, WV News re- ported.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: As domestic violence-related homicides increase in Milwaukee, a local community organization is launching initiatives to reach men in crisis before family conflicts turn deadly. Asha Family Services has been providing services to victims of crime and abuse since 1988. Starting in August, it will ex- pand its men’s programs, including an intervention program called the Ujima Men’s Program SOS and a physical space called the Umoja Dock, where men can voluntarily stay for up to 72 hours in hopes of pre- venting retaliatory violence.
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of NIL era isn’t what you think
Let me explain the great fallacy of the name, image and likeness (NIL) era, a five-year college sports circus so unhinged and unbridled, the NCAA and Congress can’t figure it out. Or don’t want to. Because the answer has always been as simple as collectively bargain- ing with players. A player union, strict- ly bargained rules, and consequences for those who break rules. Now, the fallacy: Players don’t want to be employees and collectively bar- gain. Maybe the biggest load of crap I’ve heard in five years of NIL era lies and deceit. College sports leaders, and even some within Congress, continue to push this ridiculous charade. Continue to say players keep telling them they don’t want to be employees, don’t want the on- and off-field protections that come with collectively bargaining. They just want to be individual con- tractors, negotiate directly with schools and be swindled by “agents” and “middlemen” and whatever the crooks who take 30% of their earnings are calling themselves these days. I mean, what player in his right mind wouldn’t want to collectively bargain and have access to 48.8% of media rights revenue? Some quick math: The four Power conferences re- ported earnings of nearly $4 billion. And those numbers will grow expo- nentially over the next decade. If college sports leaders were genu- ine and honest about it all, they’d ad- mit it’s really just the top 1% of players who don’t want to collectively bargain. Why would they?
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class brings back game’s old values
COOPERSTOWN, NY – It was an old-school reminder to the way base- ball used to be played, the way we looked at the game, and the stats that shaped our opinions at the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The new Hall of Fame trio of Jeff Kent, Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones were here to remind everyone the traditional statistics should still matter. Runs batted in should not be considered a fluke stat in a box score. There really is a clutch element in a player’s psyche. And while everyone is engrossed with on-base percentage these days, even if some sluggers are only clogging the bases by drawing a rash of walks, future Hall of Fame manager Dusty Baker has a question for you: “If driving in runs or scoring runs isn’t important,” he said, “then why are we bothering to keep score?” Kent, Beltran and Jones, inducted July 26 with a record 60 Hall of Famers and 12,000 fans in attendance, cer- tainly represented baseball’s greatest values throughout their careers. They didn’t celebrate drawing a walk with a runner on third base with less than two outs, instead wanting to drive them in, not letting the responsi- bility fall to someone else. They didn’t sit out games when they
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Seahawks, who can fall back on Mac- donald’s now-famous post-NFC cham- pionship refrain: “We did not care.” With no rallying cries for a repeat bid or other inflammatory boasting accom- panying the start of a new season, Seat- tle seems as though it’s somehow flying under the radar. While the field will al- ways have a more favorable outlook than any one team – even a potential front-runner – here are five reasons the Seahawks’ repeat chances shouldn’t be overlooked:
At this time last year, McDonald was implementing one of the league’s more drastic overhauls for an incumbent coach, reconfiguring his offense to bet- ter adhere to his overall vision for the team. By comparison, the season-to- season change for Seattle is relatively minimal. That might seem like an oversimplifi- cation for an organization that lost its ace play-caller (Klint Kubiak), Super Bowl 60 MVP (Kenneth Walker III) and other meaningful pieces. Yet with the overwhelming majority of their core coming back, the Seahawks could enjoy a level of continuity not seen by other recent title winners. Other than Walker, every offensive starter from Super Bowl 60 is back. And while new coordinator Brian Fleury is instituting his own system, the former SanFrancisco49ersrungamecoordina- tor knows he has a basis to work with in what Kubiak already built. “I do think one of the advantages of taking this job is there is gonna be a lot of continuity,” Fleury said in February after his hiring. “I’ve already started to dive into everything that (Kubiak) was doing here last year, and the goal would be to maintain as much of that as pos- sible, but there’s also areas where we can supplement that with things that we’ve developed and done in San Fran- cisco.” That should be a boon to Sam Dar- nold, who has grown accustomed to change after playing for five different teams in his previous six years. Fleury will be Darnold’s seventh different of- fensive coordinator in as many seasons, but the quarterback said in June that the switch hasn’t been “too much of a transition.” The texture of the attack might shift, but the essence – including the emphasis on unlocking explosive plays while staying true to the overall framework of a Kyle Shanahan offense – should remain largely the same.
Though it was an expected loss, Walker’s departure in free agency is a difficult blow to a run game that finally found its footing down the stretch.
They have free movement, and many make more than end of roster players in the NFL. The setup is perfect for them. But not for the vast majority of the 14,500 football players in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Not for thousands of players pushed into the portal by afore- mentioned “agents” – only to find it’s not what they were sold. I’m sure college sports leaders have spoken to them, and they love the cur- rent setup that leaves them vulnerable within a broken system, and to coaches trying to find the next better – while try- ing to save their own hides and protect their own millions. If you’re looking for answers to all the problems the brilliant minds of Con- gress are currently debating (that’s sar- casm, everyone), it’s right in front of you with collective bargaining. Stanford football players formed the first player-led chapter of the College Football Players Association (CFBPA), the organization announced July 27. It’s a first step toward potentially unioniz- ing college athletes and developing a collective bargaining agreement. Age limitations. Player movement. Elimination of judicial overreach (see: judge shopping). No rules. No enforce- ment. All of it goes away with collective bargaining. But so, too, does the hoard- ing of cash. Now you’re starting to see what this is all about, what it’s always about: money. College sports leaders don’t want to fork over 48.8% (the current number NFL players receive from NFL fran- chises in CBA negotiations) of annual revenue. It has nothing to do with players and
One of the Seahawks’ biggest changes is new offensive coordinator Brian Fleury, talking with running back Emanuel Wilson on July 25. STEVEN BISIG/IMAGN IMAGES
In the final three games before the playoffs, Seattle racked up 514 yards on the ground. Then, with Zach Charbon- net succumbing to a torn anterior cruci- ate ligament in the divisional-round win over the 49ers, Walker stepped up by rushing for 313 yards and four scores in three postseason games. With Walker off to the Kansas City Chiefs and Charbonnet opening up camp on the physically unable to per- form list, the backfield is unquestion- ably the greatest source of uncertainty for Seattle. It’s worth noting, however, that the run game remained a problem for the majority of the season before the late- season swell. Through the first 15 weeks of the season, Seattle ranked 22nd in the NFL with113 rushing yards per game and 27th with 3.9 yards per carry. But the Seahawks still managed to go12-3 to that point, their attack fueled primarily by Darnold and Offensive Player of the Year Jaxon Smith-Njigba. In selecting Notre Dame’s Jadarian Price with the No. 32 overall pick, gener- al manager John Schneider made a clear statement about where he wants the ground game to go from here. Price can hardly be considered an every-down grinder after never logging more than 15 carries in a game while operating along- side No. 3 overall pick Jeremiyah Love for the Fighting Irish. But he had a knack for breaking away from opponents, both as a runner and returner, and should be able to keep the chunk gains coming af- ter Walker tied for third in the NFL with 10 carries of 20-plus yards last season. For more consistency, Seattle might need George Holani and other backups to help spell Price until Charbonnet re- turns. But last year’s results should serve as evidence that there’s no reason to panic if it takes the assortment of backs a bit of time to find their stride. There’s reason for optimism beyond the ballcarriers themselves, too. Fleu- ry’s background should allow him to
their desire to avoid employment. Free player movement, blown sala- ry caps and circumventing the salary cap with private NIL ends when collec- tive bargaining begins. The free-for-all of roster turnover and player manage- ment ceases to be a problem. All of the issues that currently plague college sports, that Congress has spent a year trying to fix and won’t – the Protect College Sports Act has ze- ro chance of getting through Congress – will go away when universities and players collectively bargain. The same way they collectively bar- gained, in a sense, to reach the original groundbreaking revenue share deal from the House case. That deal took a lawsuit and a judge, and universities fighting for every single inch of ground, but it happened. It wasn’t the end of college sports as we know it, and it hasn’t pushed any- one or anything to the edge of a finan- cial cliff – despite the nattering nabobs of negativism constantly declaring the end is near, yet somehow managing to field teams every single year. Because there’s always more mon- ey in the game. How the regular season and postseason are formatted can be debated and collectively bargained – a helluva lot easier than SEC Commis- sioner Greg Sankey and Big Ten Com- missioner Tony Petitti playing footsie for two years. Live sports is everything for net- work television, and streaming sites. They can’t get enough of it because it’s the only thing that sells. And nothing sells quite like football. The NFL and college football. The only thing that’s real and unde- niable in this current mosh pit of a five- year NIL era run. There’s one way out of this mess: Share the $4 billion-plus-plus annual- ly, and end this charade.
keep the bones of what worked last year while allowing the team to expand into more promising looks, particularly in two-tight-end sets. The offensive line, which quietly went from a concern to an area of strength, also returns all five starters.
A midseason trade for a speedy re- ceiver made plenty of sense for a team intent on taxing its opponents. The Seahawks acquired Shaheed with the intent of unlocking him as the big-play dynamo he previously was un- der Kubiak, for whom the pass catcher averaged17.5 yards per catch in 2024 on the New Orleans Saints. In a half-sea- son in Seattle, however, Shaheed posted just 15 catches in nine regular-season games as he struggled to reaffirm his place as one of the league’s premier deep threats. Yet there was no buyer’s remorse from Schneider, who re-signed Shaheed to a three-year, $51 million contract at the outset of free agency. That money made clear that the Seahawks see the Pro Bowl kick returner as a critical sta- ple of their offense. Though Smith-Njigba is sure to re- main the focal point of the aerial attack, Shaheed’s contributions should prove vital. Not only does his mere presence open up the field for Darnold, but the oc- casional vertical shot also can reduce the reliance on having an efficient and methodical run game. Also aiding in that effort: second-year receiver Tory Horton, who scored five touchdowns as a rookie and showed sizable potential as a deep threat before a shin injury dis- rupted his rookie campaign.
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weren’t feeling well, or treat the in- jured list like a paid vacation. They posted, season after season, often- times playing in pain, knowing they were a whole lot more valuable at 70% than sitting on the bench. They didn’t try to create a brand. They didn’t try to draw attention to themselves. They played to win, game after game, season after season. Go ahead, check out their résumés: h Kent, who hit the most home runs by a second baseman in history, hit at least 20 homers and drove in 100 or more runs in six consecutive seasons and eight times in his career. h Jones played more than 150 games in 11 seasons with Atlanta, in- cluding four more than 160 games. h Beltran, a nine-time All-Star, had eight seasons of at least 100 RBIs and seven scoring 100 or more runs. And there wasn’t a single whisper, rumor or innuendo that any of the trio used performance-enhancing drugs, with Kent talking about how he want- ed to emulate Chicago Cubs great Ryne Sandberg, whose legendary Hall speech emphasized the importance of playing the game the right way. “I never had the chance to meet Ryne,” Kent said, “but I watched him play every day because I wanted to be like him. He played with toughness, and he played with quiet fire. I hope he knows that a lot of us who came after him play that way as well.” Jones, the first player from Curaçao to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, said it was his father who stressed the importance of showing up to work ev- ery day. It was no different than if you were a postal worker, a fisherman, or
regression. And after Seattle finished last season as the league’s stingiest unit in points allowed – and the No. 8 since 1978 in DVOA (defense-adjusted value over average) – it’s difficult to say with any sense of certainty that the group can clear the sky-high bar it set in 2025. But things are still looking mighty bright for the “Dark Side.” That all starts with Macdonald. Shut- ting down the Patriots in the Super Bowl might have been the coach’s defensive masterpiece, but it also represented a feat Seattle had achieved all season: shutting down opposing run games while living in light boxes and stymieing quarterbacks and linemen with exotic pressure packages. With the league’s most formidable defensive tackle tandem in Leonard Williams and Byron Murphy II return- ing, the Seahawks should continue to set the tone up front. Though the edge rush might not be quite as formidable after Boye Mafe’s exit, a group that still runs four deep retained its most impor- tant pieces in DeMarcus Lawrence, Uchenna Nwosu and Derick Hall. The secondary could be a relative concern given the change prompted by safety Coby Bryant and cornerback Riq Woolen signing elsewhere. But Devon Witherspoon and Josh Jobe provide a strong outlook on the outside, while Nick Emmanwori looks like a burgeon- ing star as a dynamic nickel.
Even the foremost contenders can be undone by one glaring problem area. Think back to Patrick Mahomes picking on then-Buffalo Bills cornerback Kaiir Elam in the 2024 AFC championship game – or the Seahawks overwhelming the left side of the Patriots’ offensive line in Super Bowl 60. For all of its top-tier talent, Seattle’s strong suit might be its lack of an obvi- ous area to attack. The most obvious candidate for op- ponents to zero in on might be Anthony Bradford. The right guard’s struggles became more pronounced in the three close matchups with the Rams, when he surrendered a 13% pressure rate and 16 of his 41 pressures on the season. Pre- venting him from derailing those critical NFC West tilts might get even more dif- ficult this fall, especially if Aaron Don- ald hops out of retirement to join his for- mer team. But that shortcoming didn’t prove too troublesome on the season, as Seattle surrendered just 27 sacks while still featuring an aggressive aerial attack. The safety spot vacated by Thomas looks like the only other notable spot with lingering questions. Second-round safety Bud Clark, a savvy playmaker who recorded 15 interceptions at TCU, should take over the role down the line. But Ty Okada, who stepped in with 11 starts last season, can hold down the role next to Julian Love if Clark requires time to acclimate.
you made a living on the ball field. “Everything started with my dad,” Jones said. “My dad told me from the beginning, if a shrimp goes to sleep, the water, the storm, will take him away. So, when I put the uniform on, I showed up ready to play because I could go oh-for-4 and have an impact. That’s why I took so much pride in my defense. Every time I walked on that field, I was trying to do something special to help my team. You focus on the team, not yourself.” Kent, who hit .334 with 41 homers, 125 RBIs with a 1.021 OPS during his 2000 MVP season with the San Francis- co Giants, was proud to be a run pro- ducer. “Tommy Lasorda, one of the best motivators in the game, said a simple truth that I lived by for my whole career,” Kent said. “Money lies in the RBIs ... It stuck in my brain forever, and it never left. If I was going to win, I knew I need- ed to produce runs. That became my fo- cus, and as a middle infielder in my era, I’m proud that I set the bar for run pro- duction. That focus on run production defined a big part of my career.” It was Kansas City Royals Hall of Famer George Brett who helped shape Beltran’s career. He was just being elect- ed into Cooperstown when Beltran broke in as a 21-year-old, and retired at 40, becoming the only switch-hitter to hit 300 homers and steal 300 bases. Brett taught Beltran the importance of playing every day, and as hard as he could, and he not only played all 162 games in 2002, but he missed just one game in 2008 when he was 31 years old. Beltran went to Houston and became teammates with future Hall of Famers Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio, who rein- forced the advice Brett gave him. “There’s no way I could have lasted 20 years in the big leagues without learning how to play with pain,” Beltran said. Let’s see if it rubs off on the next generation.
PGA TOUR 3M OPEN ‘Action Jackson’ wins in 3rd start
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Jackson Koivun always has been precocious. In second grade, Koivun already had mastered addition and subtraction, so his teacher jumped ahead to teaching him division and multiplication, re- called his mother, Meghan. “Because she didn’t know what else to do,” she said. “It was the same with spelling and everything else.” Fred Garcia, his golf coach, remem- bers their first lesson when Koivun was 12. “He hit a medium bucket of balls in about five minutes, just rifling through them,”Garcia said. “When he got done, I said ‘You’ve got to learn how to practice. You’ve got to have a routine.’ ” Koivun’s routine became winning. Champ is the nickname that Garcia, teaching pro at Cinnabar Hills in San Jose, bestowed on his prized pupil, and on July 26, the 21-year-old prodigy be- came a champion for the first time on the PGA Tour, winning the 3M Open in Blaine, Minnesota, in just his third PGA Tour start as a professional and 13th ca- reer start overall. Koivun closed in 5-under 66 at TPC Twin Cities to set a 72-hole tournament scoring record of 25-under 259 and three strokes better than world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. Koivun made his move on Saturday, playing the final 10 holes in 9 under to shoot a tournament-record back-nine score of 28, card 61 and tie the 3M Open 54-hole scoring record. He built a three- stroke lead and six ahead of Scheffler, but he knew there were birdies to be had and that someone likely would go low in the final round – Michael Kim shot 59 on Friday but ran out of gas on the weekend. In the final round, Koivun birdied the first hole and three of the first six to stretch his lead to as many as six. But Scheffler refused to make it a cakewalk, throwing a final-round 63 to finish 22 under and record his fifth runner-up of the season. The world No. 1 has gone 182 days since his last win. Past major champions Hideki Matsuyama (64) and Brian Harman (65) tied for third at 20 under along with Chandler Phillips and Denny McCarthy. “I did what I could today,”Scheffler said. “My back nine Fri- day and front nine Saturday cost me. But I put up a good fight.” Koivun kept hearing the crowd say- ing, “Scottie’s coming! Scottie’s com- ing!” He tried to tune out all the noise and holed a critical 15-foot par putt at the ninth. “If I missed that, then I only had a two-shot lead where last time I checked I had a five-shot lead,”he said. “So, mak- ing that was huge for my momentum, just helped me keep it rolling on the back nine.” He played the final 42 holes of the tournament bogey-free, tacking on a birdie at the par-5 12th, and drove the short, par-416th, to set up a 6-foot bird- ie. He pumped his right fist when he holed a 14-foot par putt at the last and
Lucas Herbert wins with record-setting showing
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Lucas Herbert wasn’t about to be de- nied the LIV Golf United Kingdom championship on July 26. Entering the final round at 20-under with a three-stroke lead over Bryson De- Chambeau, the Australian holed10 bird- ies for a 62 and a 30-under-par 258 for the four-day event. That gave him a six- stroke victory over England’s Tyrrell Hatton, who turned in a 63. DeChambeau closed with a 68 to fin- ish 21-under par and in third place at JCB Golf & Country Club in Rocester, England. Herbert’s dominance this week – his 62 was preceded by rounds of 61, 66 and 69 – led Rippers GC to a 52-under finish, four strokes ahead of captain Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII. The 30-under finish by Herbert marked the lowest in LIV history. This was his second individual victory of the season – he also won LIV Golf Virginia in May – and he set the league record for birdies in a tournament with 30. His combination of 32 birdies and eagles in a tournament also broke a LIV record.
Jackson Koivun is interviewed on the 18th green July 26 after making par to win the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities. ANDREW WEVERS/GETTY IMAGES
then hugged his dad. “It never really feels like you’re go- ing to win until you make the putt and that’s kind of when all the emotions come crashing down on you,” Koivun said. “I think I did a really good job this week of staying levelheaded, but I felt like that was an appropriate time to show some emotions.” Koivun is proving to live up to the hype. Last month, Koivun led Auburn to its second national championship title in three years. He won six times in 13 collegiate starts in his final season, becoming the first player in collegiate golf history to win all three Player of the Year awards (Haskins, Hogan, Nicklaus) twice – first as a freshman in 2024 and again as a junior in 2026. Veteran pro Russell Henley, who won the Charles Schwab Challenge in May, has become good friends with Koivun and played with him a bunch during his college days. “I don’t think he has a lot to learn. That kid’s good,” Henley told PGA Tour.com in a video titled “The Acceleration of Jackson Koivun.” “I always tell him just let me know when you’re going to turn pro so I can retire.” Koivun was the No. 1-ranked player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings when he accepted PGA Tour member- ship via PGA Tour University Acceler- ated. He missed the cut at the John Deere Classic last month in his profes- sional debut but finished tied for 10th at the ISCO Championship in his most recent start. Scheffler, for one, was impressed with how he handled himself sleeping on a lead and never let anyone cut into it. “I think that shows not only how tal- ented of a player he is, but I think the mental strength he has as well,” he said. As a measure of his mental forti- tude, CBS Sports’ Amanda Balionis asked Koivun to show the TV audience his glove, where he’d written the words confidence, trust and dominate. “Dominate’s a word I came up with in college because I just want to go see how good I can play,” he said. And now, just 35 days after playing his final round as an amateur, Koivun’s dream of winning on the PGA Tour is complete in a flash. That’s always been his M.O. “The bigger the spotlight, the more he shines,” Garcia said. Champ is officially a champ.
Herbert said confidence in his game grew after his strong finish at The Open Championship last week at Roy- al Birkdale, where he finished four shots behind winner Ryan Fox and tied for sixth. “Just wanted to really carry that into this week the best I could,” Herbert said. “I think I got out of my own way the first two rounds and I started thinking about it yesterday. It was just good to play like that today when I was being pushed by two of the best play- ers in the world.” Hatton pushed as hard as he could with nine birdies, but it wasn’t enough given Herbert’s unprecedented four rounds. “Obviously Lucas played amazing today, Hatton said. “I wanted to get off to a fast start, which is what I did, but unfortunately Lucas did as well. Yeah, I’m very proud of how I played. It would have been amazing to win in front of home fans, but I tried my best. But actually Lucas was incredible this week.” Australian Cameron Smith shot a 69 on Sunday to finish in fourth at 17-under.
Jerry Kelly plays his tee shot from the third hole during the final round of the 2026 ISPS Handa Senior Open at Gleneagles. PAUL DEVLIN/GETTY IMAGES Jerry Kelly wins ISPS Handa Senior Open
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Jerry Kelly is a PGA Tour Champi- ons major winner again. Kelly got up and down for birdie from a greenside bunker on the par-5 18th hole to clinch a final-round 2-under 68 to win the 2026 ISPS Handa Senior Open at his- toric Gleneagles in Scotland. Kelly now has 14 PGA Tour Champi- ons wins and he can put the Senior Open trophy on the mantle next to his two Senior Players titles (the second of which was won under the name Kaulig Companies Championship). “It’s indescribable to win it. The senior Claret Jug is the trophy that I’ve wanted as an over-50 golfer other than any other,” the 59-year-old said on July 26. “To do it in Scotland at the Home of Golf and to actually win and get into the Home of Golf at St An- drews, I mean, I’m absolutely speech- less. But it’s been this Scotland army out here that’s been behind me that really brought me through, and I really appreciate the people for getting be- hind me and just lifting me up when things were going low, saying you’ve got this and really pulling me through. I really appreciate Scotland itself.” Cameron Percy had a 6-footer for birdie that could have put some
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pressure on Kelly, but he missed left. Kelly then made his 4-foot birdie to fin- ish as the only golfer at double digits un- der par. Percy tied Matt Gogel, who shot a fi- nal-round 63, and South Africa’s Darren Fichardt, for second at 8 under. Scot- land’s Stephen Gallacher was solo fifth at 6 under. He shot a final-round 62 but came up short in his bid to win on home soil. But this was Kelly’s year and he’s now the10th American to win the Senior Open. “My brain, actually, was the most successful part of my game,” said Kelly. “In the past I would have gotten down that I wasn’t striking it the way I’d like to strike it. But instead of worrying about that, I just went and took care of the next shot. I learned a lot about myself today, and I wish I would have learned it about 20, 30 years ago. You’re never too old to learn, and that’s what really pulled me through.” Kelly is the oldest Open winner since Bernhard Langer, at age 61, won it in 2019. This was the 16th of 28 PGA Tour Champions events, and the last of the five senior majors, this season. There are now nine events before the three- tournament postseason, the Charles Schwab Cup.
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BALTIMORE – What does it look like when nine seasons of toil comes down to six games? For the Baltimore Orioles, it looks like this: Three 100-loss seasons amid front office regime change, an influx of in- sanely talented young players, a101-win season, a sale of the franchise, a desul- tory regression, a managerial firing and finally, this fence-sitter of a season, stuck in a quagmire of American League mediocrity at 51-55. The crucible: A three-game series at Detroit that looks like a trade deadline play-in match – winner to buy, loser to sell – followed by a three-game set at Camden Yards against the eternally contending Philadelphia Phillies. And then, the Aug. 3 trade deadline, where their performance in the next six games very likely will determine their stance: Buy aggressively, sell off parts or play the middle. Oh, the franchise won’t collapse if these Orioles miss the playoffs for a sec- ond consecutive year. They are poised to be at least serviceable in coming years, even as their prized young players march toward free agency. It’s just that118 losses in 2018, and110 in 2021, followed by club president Mike Elias’s promised “liftoff” after 2022 was supposed to mean much more. Those101wins in 2023 bought a play- off bye and two home games at Camden Yards. And then five consecutive losses over two postseasons. It’s enough to add a jolt of urgency for franchise cornerstones. “We haven’t won a playoff game since I’ve been here,” Gunnar Henderson, the 2023 Rookie of the Year and two-time top-10 MVP finisher, tells USA TODAY Sports. “That’s something a lot of guys in this room, including myself, want to do, want to get past, and make a run. I feel like we got the group to do it. It’s just a matter of doing it.” For these Orioles, the doing has been challenging. After last year’s 15-28 start cost manager Brandon Hyde his job on the way to an 87-loss season, this year was supposed to be different. Elias aug- mented the club well in the offseason, most notably his first nine-figure com- mitment in first baseman Pete Alonso. But an improved squad has per- formed arrhythmically. Injuries have not helped, but sloppy play and failures at various points in all departments have dragged them into the mire. Heading into play July 27, they were 2 1⁄2 games out of a playoff berth and one of 22 teams – 11 in each league – across
MLB POWER RANKINGS Epic losing streak puts Alcantara in play
Has there ever been a more calami- tous trade-deadline collapse than the Miami Marlins’ pratfall the last two weeks? The Marlins went from National League East contenders to almost cer- tain deadline sellers over the course of a franchise-record 12-game losing streak, taking them from 52-42 and three games out of the division lead to 52-54 and the No. 8 position in the NL wild- card chase. Suddenly, the hottest team in baseball – the Marlins were 26-8 from June 1 until July 9, their last win before this cold spell – could be poised to sell one of the most cherished assets on the market. Yes, 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara, long a subject of trade conjecture until the Marlins’ hot streak, is very much back in play. That’s what made the Marlins’ 12th loss in this skid even stranger: The San Diego Padres rallied for four runs in the eighth inning, setting up Mason Miller for his 27th save. Miller, too, has been targeted as potential trade fodder with the Padres slipping from contention. But a weekend with the Marlins vaulted them ahead of Miami, not just in the NL standings but USA TODAY Sports’MLB power rankings. Miami has tumbled nine spots to No. 18, and who knows how far it may fall once the dead- line is done. A look at our MLB power rankings: 1. Los Angeles Dodgers (–): Once again winning with such numbing reg- ularity they can take their sweet time with Shohei Ohtani, Pitcher. 2. Milwaukee Brewers (–): Nothing wrong with being a five-inning pitcher
the majors within 3 1⁄2 games of the post- season. Limbo, basically. And one week to ensure they emerge with hope.
Playing spoiler against Skubal
Wednesday, July 29 at Comerica Park will mark a most dramatic time: It is possibly the final home start for Detroit Tigers ace and two-time reigning Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal. And the pitching matchup epitomizes the volatility of this trade deadline. Opposing Skubal will be another left- hander, Baltimore’s Trevor Rogers, in a similar but scaled-down situation. Like Skubal, Rogers is a pending free agent and was his club’s opening-day starter this season. Like Skubal, his team could view him as a crucial piece of a playoff push – or an asset to be sold for future parts. And while Rogers’ up-and-down journey to the verge of free agency lacks Skubal’s dominance and accolades, his performance the last two months – a 1.80 ERA, a 45-to-14 strikeout-to-walk ratio and the Orioles’ 6-3 record in his nine starts – would make him more than a consolation prize for a team that can’t land Skubal. With the Orioles a game up on Detroit (50-56) entering the series, Rogers- Skubal is one of just dozens of mini-bat- tles that will play out within the vaster landscape of the deadline: Buyers and sellers and losers who get caught on the wrong side of that line. “We know where we’re at, standing- wise,” says Rogers. “These games really matter this close to the deadline. If we play really good ball and make that gap a little bit closer, change the front office’s mind, maybe we add a couple pieces.” Rogers hit the accelerator at a perfect time for himself and the Orioles. He had a 6.96 ERA through nine starts, at which point the Orioles were 23-30 and their pitching staff 28th with a 4.87 ERA. Yet Rogers figured it out, improving his command to both sides of the plate in this two-month run, and so, too has the Orioles staff. They rank third in the majors with a 3.42 ERA since that point, giving them a chance. “The standard we’re trying to create here, especially what they did in ’23 and ’24 – we have the talent to do it,” says Rogers. “There’s just been times we haven’t been consistent doing it every single day. Hopefully, we can continue that. The trust in here is really high. We all know what we’re capable of and where we can go with this team.”
Time to clean it up
Rogers is in some ways symbolic of this close-but-not-quite era in Balti- more. He was a trade-deadline acquisi- tion in July 2024, Elias’first major burn-
Sandy Alcantara won the NL Cy Young in 2022. JIM RASSOL/IMAGN IMAGES
when you strike out 12 of 16 batters faced, like Jacob Misiorowski. 3. Atlanta Braves (–): Ozzie Albies on pace for 26 homers, most since 2023. 4. Tampa Bay Rays (–): Bryan “The Outmaker” Baker has converted 17 con- secutive save chances, allowing just one run. 5. New York Yankees (+1): Not sure trade deadline can change their appar- ent fate as second-place finisher/No. 1 American League wild card. 6. Chicago Cubs (-1): After seven- run, three-homer debacle, Jameson Taillon’s ERA is 5.92 and rotation spot in question. 7. Philadelphia Phillies (–): Very quietly, their run differential is mi- nus-18. 8. Chicago White Sox (–): What a bobblehead day for Munetaka Muraka- mi as parents throw out first pitch, he hits two homers and drives in six. 9. Arizona Diamondbacks (+4):
Gunnar Henderson’s .693 OPS is below league average this season.
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ing of club assets by shipping future All- Star outfielder Kyle Stowers and infield- er Connor Norby to Miami. And then Rogers was hit hard in four starts, posting a 7.11 ERA, and optioned to Class AAA in mid-August. The Orioles would get swept at home by Kansas City in a two-game wild-card series, giving them five losses in as many playoff games over two seasons in which they won 192 regular-season games. Over those deadlines, Elias did not shine on the buy side, bringing in start- ing pitcher Jack Flaherty and reliever Shintaro Fujinami in 2023. Rogers, starter Zach Eflin, relievers Seranthony Dominguez and Gregory Soto and out- fielder Eloy Jimenez were 2024 adds. None save for Eflin factored heavily into postseason plans. All of which con- tributed to the strong feeling Elias could build a team, yet perhaps not act aggres- sively enough on the buy side. Third-year owner David Rubenstein remains publicly effusive of Elias. “Mike was the baseball executive of the year a few years ago. Widely regard- ed as outstanding by his peers. I’m very very happy, couldn’t be more pleased,” Rubenstein said Friday at a news con- ference announcing a $90 million con- tract extension for starter Kyle Bradish. “We’ve had some injuries, but that’s not Mike’s fault.” Elias, aware of the perception he’s perhaps too protective of young organi- zational talent, has sounded bullish on the trade deadline even when the Orioles were well below .500. Hours be- fore the Orioles dropped the first of two games against Atlanta, he cast an eye toward what they have – and can be. “We have so much talent on this team. I think we all look at our record and it should be better,” says Elias. “Where we’re at right now, we’re within arms’ reach of a playoff spot, have enough time to get there. ... But I look at
With four starting pitchers on injured list, trade deadline a vexing time for holders of NL’s No. 3 wild card. 10. Boston Red Sox (+5): A win-now move from Craig Breslow? Lots of sub- text to Curtis Mead acquisition. 11. Pittsburgh Pirates (-1): No need to wait for deadline to upgrade bullpen. 12. Texas Rangers (+2): Still hanging on to first place as Corey Seager heads out on rehab assignment. 13. Washington Nationals (+4): Hours after trading Curtis Mead, All- Stars CJ Abrams, James Wood combine for four home runs. 14. St. Louis Cardinals (-3): Losing home series to Reds continues drift away from contention. 15. Cleveland Guardians (-3): Five straight losses puts them closer to third than first. 16. San Diego Padres (+2): A sweep in Miami means a very happy flight all the way to San Diego.
the talent on this team and we’re ex- tremely optimistic we’re going to get where we want to go.” For now, they’ll have to do so without catchers Adley Rutschman and Samuel Basallo, both on the injured list with wrist and shoulder injuries, respective- ly. Their absences were felt in losing two of three games this weekend to Atlanta, including a particularly aggravating 3-2, 11-inning loss Sunday. It was more of the same: Inopportune hitting and two runs given away when simple defensive plays – a booted ball in the outfield, a shallow fly falling – were not made. “We’re way better than what our rec- ord shows,” says Alonso, who has up- held his end of the bargain with 22 home runs and a .812 OPS. “But we’ve given a lot away collectively, through mistakes. That’s why our record is what it is. But we have the ability to go on a run. To do damage and win a lot of games.” If Rutschman were healthy and the Orioles deeper below .500, he’d likely hear his name bandied about even more in trade rumors. As it is, Rutschman’s eventual departure would leave Hen- derson as the significant symbol of Eli- as’ transformative 2019 draft. Yet as Henderson eases into his mid-20s – he celebrated his 25th birthday last month – the game has come harder. In his four full seasons, Henderson’s OPS has gone from .814 his rookie sea- son to .893, .787 and now .701. His ad- justed OPS was a whopping155 in 2024; now, he’s a slightly below league aver- age hitter. At times – particularly in the lost 2025 season – Henderson has worn his frustrations outwardly, as if the bur- den became too much. He notes that dealing with failure is something every player must navigate himself. “It’s something that’s been a long learning curve for me,” Henderson says of managing disappointment. “Still try- ing to break through that. I obviously have high expectations of myself. When you don’t really, to my standard, achieve that, it’s hard to not be hard on yourself. That’s something that’s definitely been tough, for me. And definitely something to work on.” Henderson himself will have two seasons remaining before free agency after this year. It’s not so much do-or- die time for him as much as it is an in- flection point in his tenure and, more broadly, this Orioles era. The franchise must work to ensure the missed opportunities in 2023 and ’24 weren’t the high-water mark after years of ugly, ugly baseball. This year may offer another bite at the apple. “The ground that we need to make up – we honestly need to win every game we can,” says Henderson. “We want to make the playoffs. We’re close, but not in there. We gotta keep winning games. Because it can come down to one game.”
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Champions were crowned at the 2026 USA Track and Field National Championships. The U.S. track and field champion- ships were held in New York City for the first time since1991, at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island. Noah Lyles, Sha’Carri Richardson, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Tara Davis-Woodhall competed during the four-day track and field competition. The championships serve as the big- gest track and field event in the country this year. Every American athlete is at- tempting to build momentum and confi- dence ahead of the 2027 World Track and Field Championships in Beijing and later the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. USA TODAY Sports analyzes the win- ners and losers from the 2026 USA Track and Field National Champion- ships:
WINNERS Melissa Jefferson-Wooden wins big in 200
The fastest woman in the country ti- tle still belongs to Jefferson-Wooden even though she decided not to run the 100. July 26 was just another day in the office for Jefferson-Wooden as she easi- ly won the women’s 200, crossing the finish line with a season-best time of 21.69. Jefferson-Wooden won by a couple of meters. She was the only runner to run sub-22 seconds. The reigning world champion in the 100 and 200 continues to show she’s currently the fastest woman in the world.
Sha’Carri Richardson victorious in 100
Richardson’s chief competitor, Me- lissa Jefferson-Wooden, didn’t compete in the women’s 100, but Richardson still deserves credit for crossing the finish line in first as the heavy favorite. Richardson pulled even with the field around 40 meters, surged past the other sprinters and crossed the finish line comfortably in first. Richardson is the second woman to win three U.S. 100m titles since 2000.
Noah Lyles wins 100, sustains minor injury in 200
Lyles typically shines when the lights are at their brightest. Lyles ran a blistering and world-lead- ing 9.79 to win his third national title in
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Montana Fouts struck out four bat- ters in a complete game while Jadelyn Allchin, Bri Ellis and Sahvanna Jaquish each hit home runs as the Utah Talons repeated as champions of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League on July 26. The Talons swept the Chicago Ban- dits in a best-of-three series, winning 2-1on Saturday and 6-1on Sunday at Da- vis Diamond in College Station, Texas. Before finding a permanent home in Utah, the Talons won the inaugural AUSL Championship last season. Their goal this year was to defend that title. “The first time I met all of them on a call in March, I asked them what their mission was, and they said to repeat,” Talons coach Cindy Ball-Malone said. “All I’m going to say is: job well done. In- credibly proud of them, and I’m pinch- ing myself with this opportunity. I feel
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the men’s 100. The confident Lyles de- livered a message to his fellow compet- itors after being crowned the fastest man in America once again. However, the good vibes ended for Lyles as he tried to go for his sixth na- tional title in the 200. The 29-year-old sprinter suffered a cramp as he rounded the turn. Lyles was able to finish the race, but he was well out of contention. Lyles told NBC Sports that he was “fine” following his disappointing finish in the 200, which is good news for one of track and field’s biggest stars.
Teenager Cooper Lutkenhaus steals show in men’s 800
The 17-year-old prodigy ran away from the other distance runners in the men’s 800. Lutkenhaus was in third at the start of the second and final lap but separated from the runners with rough- ly 200 meters to go, posting a gold med- al-winning time of 1:43.48. The win was Lutkenhaus’ first national title.
Christopher Robinson wins gold in 400 hurdles
A new national champion was crowned in the 400 hurdles. Robinson ran a clean race and even- tually separated himself from the other competitors down the backstretch to win the men’s 400 hurdles with a sea- son-best time of 47.61. The win was Robinson’s first national title. Robinson was an NCAA champ in the event in 2023.
Chase Jackson dominates women’s shot put
Jackson won the women’s shot put competition after her first throw of 67 feet, 2 3⁄4 inches. But the women’s shot put American record holder saved her best for last when she tossed 67 feet, 5 1⁄4 inches on her final attempt. Jackson won the shot put competi- tion by more than 4 feet.
Best for last
Nikki Hiltz wins fourth consecutive title in women’s 1,500
Hiltz was in second down the home stretch but dug deep as she fought hard as she raced toward the finish line. She narrowly edged Addy Wiley and Emily Mackay to win her fourth national title in a row in the women’s 1,500.
The four-day U.S championships saved its best race for last as the men’s 110 hurdles was decided in a photo finish.
Utah’s Hannah Flippen celebrates a home run during an AUSL game between the Spark and the Talons on July 9 at Oklahoma Christian University. SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN
so blessed.” Allchin, an outfielder from UCLA, was named MVP of the championship series. She went 3-for-6 with three RBIs and three runs scored across the two wins. Her two-run homer just 11 pitches
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden wins the women’s 200-meter heat in 22.50 during the USATF Championships at Icahn Stadium.
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Cordell Tinch was slow out of the blocks and had work hard to catch Brad- ley Franklin. Tinch built up enough mo- mentum to catch Franklin at the final hurdle, and then he made an impressive lean at the line to just barely edge Franklin. The two sprinters anxiously waited for a few moments until the photo finish confirmed Tinch was victorious at 13.00 (12.993) over Franklin’s 13.00 (12.997).
Track and field fans
Hayward Field at the University of Oregon hosted the U.S. Track and Field championships for the 14th time last year. It was refreshing to see the biggest track and field competition in the U.S. held at another location. The fact that the track meet was held in the largest media market in the country should also help with the sport’s exposure. The NBC Sports cameras even showed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in attendance.
LOSERS Justin Robinson disqualified after winning men’s 400
Robinson pulled off a huge upset by winning the 400, running a 44.31. Rob- inson, though, was later disqualified for a lane violation. Chris Bailey, who origi- nally came in second with a time of 44.39, was named the winner.
Quincy Hall unable to get out of first round
Hall shocked the track and field world with a come-from-behind win in the men’s 400 at the 2024 Paris
into Game 2 set the tone for the clincher. Ellis, the AUSL Comeback Player of the Year and former Arkansas star, all but sealed the win for the Talons in the fifth inning when she blasted a solo din- ger over Texas A&M’s scoreboard. Fouts allowed eight hits but was at her best when the pressure was on as the Bandits went1-for-9 with runners in scoring position on Sunday. Georgina Corrick pitched Game 1 of the champi- onship series, allowing just four hits while striking out five for the Talons. The outing from Fouts completes a stellar season in which she was named AUSL Pitcher of the Year and set a sin- gle-season record with 67 strikeouts. Sunday’s game marked the third sell- out in AUSL postseason history, includ- ing the second sellout in as many days. The series between the Bandits and Tal- ons caps off AUSL’s second full season of play and its first where teams were based in cities, rather than touring
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Olympics. He hasn’t had the same suc- cess since. Hall didn’t qualify past the first round in the men’s 400. He ran a 46.47 and fin- ished sixth in his opening round heat. Hall ran 43.40 when he won gold at the Paris Games.
Christian Coleman just misses men’s 100 podium
Coleman was one of the favorites to win a medal in the men’s 100. He had a pretty solid start running out of lane four in the final but crossed the finish line in fourth (9.93), just missing out on a bronze medal.
Women’s long jump competition
Tara Davis-Woodhall lost her first long jump competition in nearly three years in dramatic fashion. Davis-Woodhall leaped 23 feet and 6 inches on her final jump to claim first place over Alyssa Jones, who had jumped 22 feet, 10 inches. But upon re- view, it was determined that the reign- ing Olympic and world champion long jumper had fouled on her final jump and the gold medal was awarded to Jones. Davis-Woodhall’s best legal jump of 22 feet, 7 3⁄4 inches was good enough for third place. The disqualification was a tough way for Davis-Woodhall to lose a gold medal. The silver lining is she did show off her versatility during the champion- ships. Davis-Woodhall ran a12.57 to fin- ish third behind gold medalist Alia Arm- strong (12.38) and silver medalist Alaysha Johnson (12.42) in the women’s 100 hurdles on Saturday.
The rest of the women’s discus, women’s high jump fields
The women’s discus had a predict- able outcome because Valarie Sion has dominated the event for nearly a decade. Sion threw 228 feet, 2 inches on her fourth attempt to win her eighth nation- al title in the discus. The two-time Olympic gold medalist won by just over 7 feet. Cierra Jackson, the 2025 NCAA women’s discus champion, came in sec- ond with a throw of 221 feet, 1 inch. The same can be said for the women’s high jump. Vashti Cunningham cleared the bar at 6 feet, 3 1⁄2 inches to win her eighth na- tional championship in the event. The women’s discus and women’s high jump at nationals has become a battle for second place until further notice. Follow USA TODAY Sports’ Tyler Dragon on X @TheTylerDragon
across the country. In the early years of this fledgling professional softball league, the Talons seem to be on their way toward estab- lishing the AUSL’s first dynasty. For the league in the bigger picture, the AUSL looks like a success. Led by Commissioner Kim Ng, backed by MLB and with an impressive media rights package that featured games on ESPN, MLB Network and ABC, the AUSL aver- aged 198,000 viewers this regular sea- son, up 183% from last year. The league also saw 23 regular-season sellouts and merchandise sales increase by about 200%. That lines up with the growth that the sport is seeing at the college level, where ESPN delivered the most- watched Women’s College World Series on record this year. Momentum for soft- ball is expected to keep building as the sport returns to the Summer Olympics in 2028.
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EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Indiana 17 10 .630 — Atlanta 16 10 .615 ½ N.Y. Liberty 15 12 .556 2 Washington 14 12 .538 2½ Toronto 10 16 .385 6½ Chicago 9 18 .333 8 Connecticut 7 20 .259 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 22 6 .786 — Golden State 19 8 .704 2½ Las Vegas 18 8 .692 3 Dallas 18 9 .667 3½ Portland 11 16 .407 10½ L.A. Sparks 10 16 .385 11 Phoenix 10 18 .357 12 Seattle 6 23 .207 16½ Tuesday’s Games Connecticut at Washington, 7:30 p.m. Toronto at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Indiana at Seattle, 9:30 p.m. Portland at Las Vegas, 10 p.m. N.Y. Liberty at L.A. Sparks, 10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Atlanta at Dallas, 8 p.m. Golden State at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Nashville 12 2 3 39 33 12 Inter Miami CF 11 2 4 37 43 30 New England 9 5 2 29 26 19 Chicago 8 6 2 26 30 22 NY City FC 7 6 4 25 30 23 Charlotte FC 7 6 4 25 28 25 Cincinnati 6 6 5 23 41 42 NY Red Bulls 6 7 4 22 26 37 D.C. United 5 5 7 22 24 27 Orlando City 6 9 2 20 28 44 Columbus 5 8 4 19 24 26 Toronto FC 3 7 7 16 23 31 CF Montreal 4 10 3 15 22 33 Philadelphia 3 10 4 13 22 31 Atlanta 3 11 3 12 17 30 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Vancouver 10 3 3 33 37 16 Los Angeles FC 10 5 3 33 34 18 San Jose 10 4 3 33 35 20 Real Salt Lake 8 6 2 26 28 24 Houston 8 6 2 26 23 24 FC Dallas 7 5 5 26 32 25 Saint Louis 7 6 4 25 23 23 Seattle 7 6 3 24 19 20 Minnesota 6 6 5 23 19 24 Portland 6 8 3 21 31 32 LA Galaxy 5 7 6 21 24 29 San Diego FC 5 7 5 20 31 28 Colorado 6 10 1 19 26 25 Austin FC 4 8 5 17 22 35 Sporting KC 4 11 2 14 18 44 Note: Three points for win, one point for tie. Saturday’s Scores NY Red Bulls 0, Charlotte FC 2 Columbus 2, Cincinnati 1 CF Montreal 0, Inter Miami CF 1 New England 4, Atlanta 1 Philadelphia 1, Seattle 0 NY City FC 3, Chicago 1 D.C. United 2, Toronto FC 1 Saint Louis 1, Colorado 0 Houston 3, Austin FC 0 Minnesota 0, Vancouver 0 Orlando City 1, Nashville 0 San Diego FC 1, FC Dallas 0 San Jose 1, LA Galaxy 1 Portland 2, Real Salt Lake 1 Los Angeles FC 4, Sporting KC 0 Wednesday’s Game MLS All-Stars vs Liga MX All-Stars at Char- lotte, 8 p.m. Friday’s Game Toronto FC at NY City FC, 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Nashville at D.C. United, 7:30 p.m. San Jose at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m. Columbus at Inter Miami CF, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. New England at CF Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Orlando City at NY Red Bulls, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles FC at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte FC at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Houston at Sporting KC, 8:30 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Saint Louis, 8:30 p.m. San Diego FC at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.
Seattle 75 Olympia 72 Spokane 86
Portland 78 Salem 79
Boise 98
Bend 86
Burns 93
Eureka 69
Reno 97 Elko 100 Carson City 94
Sacramento 96
San Francisco 71
Las Vegas 111
Fresno 99
Los Angeles 88
Palm Springs 113
San Diego 78 Little Rock 103 Phoenix 111
Fairbanks 69
Juneau 68
Anchorage 63
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WED Rain 70/65
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THU Sunny, nice 89/68
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TUE Hot 96/79
TUE T-storms 78/68
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WED T-storms 79/66
THU Stray t-storm 93/77
THU Shower 76/68
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Cleveland 79
Cincinnati 85
Cincinnati 85/65t 83/63s Cleveland 79/64t 77/62c Colorado Springs 88/60t 85/61t Columbia, S.C. 98/77pc 94/70pc Columbus, Ohio 84/63t 79/58sh Corpus Christi, Texas 95/79w 97/79w Dayton, Ohio 83/63t 81/60s Daytona Beach, Fla. 95/78t 96/77t Des Moines, Iowa 85/68s 90/69s Duluth, Minn. 80/61t 85/66t Durham, N.C. 88/69t 89/65pc El Paso, Texas 106/82pc 107/79s Fairbanks, Alaska 69/43s 68/53c Flagstaff, Ariz. 82/56t 85/55t Fargo, N.D. 94/69h 101/73t Fort Myers, Fla. 89/80t 91/79t Fort Smith, Ark. 102/82pc 97/79t Fort Wayne, Ind. 83/61s 81/59s Fresno, Calif. 99/68s 101/70s Grand Rapids, Mich. 83/58s 83/59s Green Bay, Wis. 80/57h 85/62s Greensboro, N.C. 87/69t 88/63pc Greenville, S.C. 94/74t 91/65s Harrisburg, Pa. 77/69t 80/67t
Austin FC at Colorado, 9:30 p.m. Seattle at Portland, 10:30 p.m. FC Dallas at LA Galaxy, 10:30 p.m. NWSL W L D Pts GF GA Washington 10 3 3 33 25 12 Gotham 9 3 4 31 21 12 Utah 9 4 3 30 26 17 San Diego 9 6 2 29 23 19 Portland 8 5 4 28 27 20 Kansas City 8 7 1 25 23 23 Orlando 7 8 2 23 22 21 Angel City 7 7 1 22 23 16 North Carolina 6 6 3 21 21 23 Seattle 6 7 2 20 17 19 Denver 5 6 4 19 21 20 Houston 5 7 4 19 19 24 Boston 5 8 4 19 18 23 Bay 5 7 3 18 16 20 Chicago 4 12 0 12 8 31 Louisville 3 10 2 11 18 28 Note: Three points for win, one point for tie. Friday’s Scores Orlando 1, Chicago 0 Houston 1, Bay 0 Portland 2, Gotham 2 Saturday’s Scores Boston 1, Kansas City 0 Utah 4, North Carolina 1 Sunday’s Scores Seattle 2, San Diego 0 Washington 1, Denver 0 Louisville 2, Angel City 1 Wednesday’s Games Louisville at Kansas City, 8 p.m. Washington at Utah, 9 p.m. Gotham at Bay, 10 p.m. Friday’s Game Orlando at North Carolina, 8 p.m. Saturday’s Games Chicago at Louisville, 4 p.m. Angel City at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m. Gotham at Houston, 8 p.m. Seattle at Bay, 8:45 p.m. Sunday’s Games San Diego at Washington, 4 p.m. Portland at Utah, 7 p.m. Boston at Denver, 9 p.m.
NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 presented by PPG Indianapolis Motor Speedway Sunday 1. (7) Corey Heim, 23XI Racing, 160, 0 points. 2. (23) Christopher Bell, Joe Gibbs, 160, 35. 3. (19) Joey Logano, Team Penske, 160, 34. 4. (11) Chase Briscoe, Joe Gibbs, 160, 36. 5. (5) Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs, 160, 44. 6. (16) Brad Keselowski, RFK Racing, 160, 31. 7. (26) Josh Berry, Wood Brothers, 160, 30. 8. (34) Ryan Preece, RFK Racing, 160, 33. 9. (1) Carson Hocevar, Spire MS, 160, 40. 10. (3) Tyler Reddick, 23XI Racing, 160, 28. 11. (15) Chris Buescher, RFK Racing, 160, 28. 12. (4) Ty Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing, 160, 43. 13. (12) Cole Custer, Haas Factory, 160, 24. 14. (35) Austin Cindric, Team Penske, 160, 23. 15. (30) Zane Smith, Front Row MS, 160, 22. 16. (25) Shane Van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing, 160, 21. 17. (2) Daniel Suárez, Spire MS, 160, 25. 18. (6) Michael McDowell, Spire MS, 160, 30. 19. (8) Alex Bowman, Hendrick MS, 160, 18. 20. (24) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, HYAK Motor- sports, 160, 17. 21. (21) William Byron, Hendrick MS, 160, 22. 22. (33) Noah Gragson, Front Row Motor- sports, 160, 15. 23. (22) Ross Chastain, Trackhouse, 160, 24. 24. (36) Todd Gilliland, Front Row Motor- sports, 160, 22. 25. (9) AJ Allmendinger, Kaulig, 160, 12. 26. (13) Ryan Blaney, Team Penske, 160, 11. 27. (14) Erik Jones, Legacy Motor Club, 160, 12. 28. (29) Bubba Wallace, 23XI Racing, 160, 9. 29. (20) Austin Dillon, Richard Childress Rac- ing, 160, 8. 30. (28) Ty Dillon, Kaulig Racing, 160, 7. 31. (37) Cody Ware, Rick Ware Racing, 160, 6. 32. (17) John H. Nemechek, Legacy MC, 158, 5. 33. (32) Austin Hill, Richard Childress Racing, 125, Accident 0. 34. (31) Connor Zilisch, Trackhouse Racing, 122, Accident 3. 35. (38) Casey Mears, Beard Motorsports, 121, Accident 2. 36. (18) Riley Herbst, 23XI, 120, Accident 1. 37. (27) Chase Elliott, Hendrick MS, 119, 1. 38. (39) Daniel Dye, Live Fast Motorsports, 93, Accident 0. 39. (10) Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports, 43, Accident 1.
Bismarck 98
Miles City 101 Helena 96
Billings 100
Rapid City 93 Pierre 94
Idaho Falls 97
Jackson Hole 89
Casper 95
North Platte 85
Salt Lake City 102
Cheyenne 83
Denver 90 Aspen 83
St. George 106
Topeka 84 Wichita 98 Dodge City 101
Santa Fe 95
Flagstaff 82
Oklahoma City 103
Lubbock 104
Midland- Odessa 103
El Paso 106 Austin 99
Mobile 98 Honolulu 90
Hawaii
San Antonio 98 Houston 98
TUE Notas warm 82/64
TUE Hot 102/81
WED Sunny 84/67
WED Hot 103/82
THU Partly sunny 88/70
THU Hot 102/83
Unhealthy s/g AQI
Unhealthy s/g
Unhealthy s/g
TUE T-storm 91/78
TUE T-storms 80/70
WED AP.M. t-storm 92/77
WED Stray t-storm 82/69
THU T-storms 86/76
THU Shower 81/68
Kansas City 86
Indianapolis 85
Hartford, Conn. 78/66sh 76/64t Indianapolis 85/62s 83/62s Islip, N.Y. 77/70t 79/68t Jackson, Miss. 100/78s 96/75t Jacksonville, Fla. 98/79sh 98/77t Jefferson City, Mo. 94/72pc 87/67s Kansas City 86/71pc 86/71s Key West, Fla. 90/83t 91/82t Knoxville, Tenn. 94/72t 89/64pc Laredo, Texas 104/80s 104/80s Lexington, Ky. 89/66s 86/61sh Lincoln, Neb. 85/70pc 91/71t Little Rock, Ark. 103/81s 93/74pc Long Beach, Calif. 83/68pc 83/69pc Louisville, Ky. 90/68pc 87/67s Lubbock, Texas 104/74s 102/74s Madison, Wis. 82/59h 85/65s Manchester, N.H. 80/66sh 72/65r Memphis, Tenn. 99/78s 92/73pc Milwaukee 77/64h 81/64s Mobile, Ala. 98/77t 96/76t Modesto, Calif. 96/63s 98/64s Montgomery, Ala. 99/76s 94/72pc Myrtle Beach, S.C. 91/78pc 91/72t
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secured a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title after safely navigating the final stage, won by Mathieu van der Poel, to seal a third consecutive crown in cycling’s greatest race. The 27-year-old UAE Team Emir- ates XRGcyclist, affectionately known as “Pogi”, only needed to avoid a race- ending mishap on the run into Paris on July 26 to join Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain as a five-time Tour champion. Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel fin- ished second overall, while Mexico’s Isaac del Toro rounded out the overall podium in third. “Thank-you to all the fans and to all of France for hosting this great race,” Pogacar said. “Thank-you to my com- petitors for putting on a great show. We fought hard over the last three weeks.” Van der Poel and Pogacar broke away on the final ascent of Mont- martre with around 10 kilometres re- maining and took a slender advantage into the run to the Champs-Elysees as the chasing group closed relentlessly. Pogacar’s challenge faded inside the final kilometer, but Van der Poel pressed on to secure victory in a photo finish ahead of Alpecin-Premier Tech teammate Jasper Philipsen, with Mads Pedersen of Lidl-Trek in third. “When I was sick last year and I had to watch the stage on television, I was already thinking about this moment,” said Van der Poel, 31. “The way it went, it’s a dream. It’s incredible. It was super hard, and to be up there with the best rider in the world, all my respect for Tadej. “I thought we were going to get caught back, then I was just thinking about this moment. I put my head down in the last five hundred meters. I just went as hard as I could … “I’m super happy. I have a few races I still wanted to win in my career and this was one of them.” Pogacar underlined his supremacy
Marquette 72
Duluth 80
Fargo 94
Mpls-St. Paul 89
Grand Rapids 83
Milwaukee 77 Madison 82
Detroit 82
Sioux Falls 88
Des Moines 85
Lansing 81
Chicago 82 Springfield 85
Omaha 89
Columbus 84
St. Louis 90
Louisville 90
Jefferson City 94
Knoxville 94
Memphis 99
Nashville 97
Tulsa 102
Birmingham 99 Montgomery 99
Dallas/Ft. Worth 102
Shreveport 98
Jackson 100
Baton Rouge 96
New Orleans 96
Puerto Rico
San Juan 92
Brownsville 97
TUE Heavy t-storm 90/63
TUE Stray t-storm 82/62
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WED Breezy 81/59
THU Stray t-storm 92/64
THU Sunny 84/63
TUE Stray t-storm 111/92
TUE Sunny, warm 102/79
WED Some sun 100/75
WED Hot 111/93
THU Sunny, hot 115/91
THU Very warm 103/79
Pittsburgh 80
Nags Head, N.C. 84/73pc 83/73t Nashville, Tenn. 97/72t 91/67s Newark, N.J. 78/70t 82/69t New Haven, Conn. 77/71t 80/66t Norfolk, Va. 85/71t 87/72t Oakland, Calif. 74/58pc 75/58s Oklahoma City 103/76s 102/76pc Omaha, Neb. 89/71s 91/72s Palm Springs, Calif. 113/85s 113/86s Pensacola, Fla. 95/79t 97/78t Pierre, S.D. 94/67t 97/69t Pittsburgh 80/64t 77/61sh Portland, Maine 75/63t 68/60sh Portland, Ore. 78/59pc 80/57s Providence, R.I. 78/66sh 72/64t Raleigh, N.C. 89/71t 90/66pc Rapid City, S.D. 93/66t 97/66t Reno, Nev. 97/62s 98/63s Richmond, Va. 83/69t 87/67pc Rochester, N.Y. 72/64t 71/63t Sacramento, Calif. 96/59s 98/60s San Antonio 98/78pc 98/78pc San Jose, Calif. 81/59s 83/58s Santa Fe, N.M. 95/64t 93/64t
after completing the final stage of the Tour de France on July 26.
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stage victories. His path to a third straight yellow jer- sey became less complicated when two- time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard, widely regarded as his principal chal- lenger, withdrew after a crash on Stage 15. The Tour’s traditional finale in Paris was shortened after security forces were redeployed to help tackle wildfires near Bordeaux. As a result, Stage 21, which customarily takes the peloton into Paris before several laps of the Champs-Elysees, was reduced to 89 ki- lometers from the 133 originally scheduled. This year’s race also produced a re- markable first: no rider from France, Ita- ly or Spain won a stage, making it the first Tour de France without a stage vic- tory from any of the three nations that created and host cycling’s Grand Tours. Pogacar’s latest triumph caps three weeks of racing since the Grand Depart in Barcelona and further cements his status as the dominant rider of his generation.
Bangor 82
Augusta 80
Burlington 85 Montpelier 79
Boston 79
Buffalo 76 Albany 80
Hartford 78
New York 78
Philadelphia 80
Harrisburg 77
Annapolis 80
Washington 83
Charleston 83
Richmond 83
Raleigh 89 Charlotte 93
Columbia 98
Atlanta 98
Charleston 97
Savannah 101
Jacksonville 98
Tallahassee 98
Tampa 91 Miami 92
TUE Showers around 90/77
TUE Sunny, warm 98/78
WED Rain, wind 87/76
WED Very warm 97/80
THU Afew showers 90/77
THU Sunny, hot 100/79
TUE Partly sunny 78/68
TUE Breezy 71/58
WED Partly sunny 78/70
WED Breezy 73/57
THU Some sun 78/70
THU Breezy 72/57
Sarasota, Fla. 89/81t 90/80t Savannah, Ga. 101/80sh 97/76t Scottsdale, Ariz. 109/88t 108/89s Shreveport, La. 98/79s 100/80t Sioux Falls, S.D. 88/69pc 93/71t South Bend, Ind. 78/58s 79/59s Spokane, Wash. 86/57s 86/57s Springfield, Mo. 95/75pc 89/73pc Springfield, Ill. 85/60s 84/61s St. Louis 90/70s 88/71s St. Petersburg, Fla. 91/80t 92/81t Syracuse, N.Y. 74/65t 74/64t Tallahassee, Fla. 98/78t 98/75t Tampa, Fla. 91/82t 92/81t Toledo, Ohio 84/61t 83/56s Topeka, Kan. 84/73pc 84/74t Tucson, Ariz. 103/82pc 103/82pc Tupelo, Miss. 98/79s 90/71pc Tulsa, Okla. 102/80s 100/78t Virginia Beach, Va. 83/71t 83/73t Wichita, Kan. 98/76pc 97/76t Wilmington, Del. 78/67t 82/67t Winston-Salem, N.C. 88/70t 88/66pc Worcester, Mass. 75/64sh 70/62r
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WED Hot 111/86
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TUE AP.M. shower 75/56
WED Clearing 75/55
THU Clouding up 76/56
Beijing 94/78h 96/80t Buenos Aires 61/50c 58/50s Cancun, Mexico 92/75sh 93/77s Dubai, UAE 106/93h 112/94h Frankfurt 87/64s 99/65s Hong Kong 88/80t 85/79sh Istanbul 90/73s 87/70s Jerusalem 87/68s 89/70s Johannesburg 66/40s 63/42h London 87/62pc 93/63s Mexico City 75/56r 75/56r Montreal 82/67t 73/65t Moscow 82/61t 67/59sh Mumbai, India 87/82r 87/81r Paris 91/66s 102/69s Rio de Janeiro 81/71h 88/72s Rome 92/72s 95/71s Seoul 89/77t 90/76pc Singapore 89/80t 88/79sh Sydney 72/52s 68/45w Toronto 77/64t 76/61sh Tokyo 87/77t 91/76sh
TUE Mostly sunny 88/68
WED Mostly sunny 88/66
THU Partly sunny 87/66
TUE Heavy t-storm 83/70
WED Stray t-storm 86/70
THU Mostly sunny 85/70
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NFL TRAINING CAMPS Positive vibes pulse for Giants, Jets
he vibe check. It’s something that can’t be defined, only felt. In other areas of the world, we would call it a “State of the Union Address” or even the “stock market.” Those reveal dif- ferent kinds of vibes, related to the direction of a country or the health of its economy. When it comes to the NFL, vibes aren’t typi- cally used as a unit of measurement. We look at things like free agency, draft class, coaching and the roster as a whole. It’s more analytical in nature, but that doesn’t always sell tickets, merchandise and hope. The allure of sports, at least in the NFL, is that anyone can win on any given Sunday. Those on-field dynamics might not swing a team’s way, but the unspoken variables could make all the difference. As training camps near, it only makes sense to take the league’s temperature.
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Here’s a vibe check for all 32 teams and where they land in the leaguewide rankings:
You know that feeling when they get your order wrong at the restaurant? That’s how the Colts feel going into the season. No first-round pick, no big sign- ings. All they got was extensions for Daniel Jones, coming off a torn Achilles, and Alec Pierce. Contending feels like a long way away.
The Dolphins are throwing off some new house energy this offseason. They are building, but it’ll take a long time for this place to feel like a home. Next off- season can’t come soon enough for Mi- ami.
There’s always one person in the group project that gets credit for doing nothing. The Jags are just the NFL ver- sion of that after a quiet offseason and now they won’t even get to see Travis Hunter primarily at receiver next sea- son.
The Steelers hit their ceiling a long time ago and all it did was give them a headache. Pittsburgh’s streak of sea- sons with a winning record has trapped the team in a vicious cycle of trying to win when it’s time to let go. This year the Steelers are throwing a retirement party for Aaron Rodgers and inviting all of his friends. Get your wild-card round tickets now.
Mike Evans? Gone. Lavonte David? Retired. It feels like a sinking ship and we don’t know if the life vests are on board. The NFC South is trending up while the Bucs fade. This team could use a hero and some new energy after fin- ishing off a miserable 2025.
Mike LaFleur and Jeremiyah Love are flying this team out of the deep, dark depths. The Cards are still a year away from a new quarterback, which limits the vibes for this season.
The window is closing rapidly and “Unc”status is within reach. Detroit bet- ter hope it nailed the offensive coordi- nator hire.
The Texans should have good vibes. Instead, Houston is plagued by this weird in-between feeling that contrib- utes to a sense of impending doom brought on by C.J. Stroud’s struggles last season.
Imagine you’re stuck in the famous Atlanta traffic. Brutal, right? On the bright side, the A/C is chilly, the radio is blasting and there’s some daylight up ahead. You’ll suffer in the short term, but at least the car has plenty of cool features. The Falcons might have it all. They just need a new driver and he’ll be arriving next offseason. Until then, en- joy the six or seven wins.
defense, but will they be held back by a shaky quarterback situation? Carolina heads into the season knowing its ceil- ing is capped and that’s tough to get ex- cited about.
The Packers aren’t known for making a lot of noise in the offseason, but this one feels exceptionally quiet after the Micah Parsons’ blockbuster last year. Green Bay’s history, tradition and over- all small-town love of football lifts the vibes for a team that doesn’t look all that different from the one that keeps falling short in the playoffs.
Wins will be in short supply again this season in Cleveland. However, fans can look to a new coaching staff for some optimism and an infusion of some young talent this offseason.
The Bears are no longer the hunters. Opponents know what they’re up against and that will leave some won- dering if the Bears peaked in 2025. It sounds crazy, but the same was true of the Lions after 2023 and look at where they are now. Ben Johnson’s second season gives fans a reason for hope, however.
A.J. Brown is gone, but so is Kevin Pa- tullo. Losing a star hurts; however, a new one could emerge in Makai Lemon. Either way, there is a cautious optimism in Philadelphia even if it’s not enough to land in the top half of the league.
Travis Kelce is back. Patrick Ma- homes is healthy. It’ll take a little more to turn things around even if the team is trending in the right direction again, but there is reason to believe as long as No. 15 is suiting up.
Washington dipped into the fountain of youth this offseason – at least on the football field. The Commanders realized that it was time for change and things weren’t getting any better by relying on veterans at the end of their careers. That type of awareness should be commend- ed as the Commanders look to bounce back in 2026 with Jayden Daniels and new offensive coordinator David Blough.
The A.J. Brown trade was great, but that doesn’t rid the organization of the Mike Vrabel-sized weight hanging over the team. This tug-of-war lands the Pa- triots in the perfect spot – the middle.
Not even the famed electric substa- tion could zap the good vibes out of the Niners right now. Mike Evans and a re- vamped receiver room should have San Francisco dreaming big again – even if the injury bug keeps lurking in the shad- ows.
Is Jesse Minter just John Harbaugh in a different font? Does it matter? The Ravens still have an MVP-level quarter- back and now they have a new voice leading the way with a young offensive coordinator that comes from the Ben Johnson tree in Declan Doyle. Expecta- tions might’ve lowered, but this team can still fly high.
Quarterback Fernando Mendoza flashes his jersey at his introductory news conference, flanked by Raiders general manager John Spytek, left, and coach Klint Kubiak. Mendoza signed his rookie deal July 23. KIRBY LEE/IMAGN IMAGES
in New Orleans. The Saints were stuck in the post-Drew Brees era, with no cap space or hope. Then Kellen Moore ar- rived. Then Tyler Shough arrived. Now the Saints have arrived. New Orleans swung for the fences with the Jordyn Tyson pick in the draft and this team can make some real noise this season. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
The Vikings broke up with Sam Dar- nold and watched him thrive with someone else. Bad vibes. The Vikings are instead in a new relationship with Kyler Murray, which appears to be an improvement over J.J. McCarthy. Min- nesota will forever chase what it had with Darnold, but Murray gives the team some legitimate reasons to be op- timistic.
It’s clear that the Chargers are the Rams’ understudy in the City of Angels. Just don’t let that distract you from the positive vibes coming from the Bolts right now. Hiring Mike McDaniel en- sures Justin Herbert and company will feature an exciting, creative offense go- ing forward. If they can remain healthy, this team should be a real threat.
“NashVegas”might not have the casi- nos like “Sin City,”but the Titans are bet- ting big going into the 2026 season. The checkbook was getting a workout as Tennessee went on a spending spree in free agency and also brought in a brand- new coaching staff. Time will tell if those moves work out, but we’d be buy- ing some merch and some tickets to see this team before bringing down the cur- tain on the current Nissan Stadium.
The Bills are throwing off some new- car energy after deciding that Sean McDermott took them as far as he could. Buffalo racked up the miles and experi- enced some memorable trips, but you’re not getting up the mountain without some all-wheel drive. The team hopes Joe Brady is the guy who starts spinning all four tires in the right direction when it counts in the postseason. If nothing else, there’s a new stadium to open and Josh Allen still plays for the team. There’s a lot to be happy about.
Expectations are a mile high for the Broncos, which is exactly where they should be. On the doorstep of a Super Bowl appearance last season, Denver saw its ride come to an end after Bo Nix’s unfortunate injury in the division- al round. An offseason trade for Jaylen Waddle should provide a spark for an of- fense that needed it and the defense promises to be dominant again. It’s now or never in Denver.
As long as Joe Burrow remains em- ployed by the Bengals, it will be hard for this team to drop too far in terms of vibes. Cincinnati feels like it is capable of winning every game he starts. Now the Bengals decided to invest in a de- fense to assist in those winning efforts. It seems safe to say that Dexter “Sexy Dexy” Lawrence might be a vibes guy.
That trade changed everything for the Bengals – in a good way.
Star talent seems to find a way to the star. Caleb Downs is the latest prospect to fall to the Cowboys’ pick, half a dec- ade after Micah Parsons fell to them. Of course, Parsons is no longer in Dallas, but it was that trade that has rebuilt the Cowboys defense. Fans of this team are never lacking confidence and team per- formance might just match that this season.
The New Jersey Turnpike often has a noticeable stench to it and it’s nothing you’ll find in candle form. Of course, that is thanks to the factories and marshes, even if the Jets and Giants are major contributors most seasons. This year might be different though. The green-and-white are no strangers to winning in the offseason – a strong draft and some popular veteran additions in the form of former Jets like Geno Smith and Demario Davis will do the trick in 2026. And with three first-round picks next offseason, hopes are high for Jets fans – maybe for good reason too.
The confetti is still falling, even if there are some reasons for concern after losing Klint Kubiak and Kenneth Walker III. Seattle is rightfully in a celebratory mood, tossing the Lombardi Trophy across the fish market like it was the catch of the day.
Walk down Rodeo Drive and you’ll see Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and ... the Rams’ team store? Those jerseys are all the rage this offseason, bringing championship vibes to Southern Cali- fornia – as if the Dodgers didn’t bring enough of that already. Myles Garrett and Trent McDuffie were two of the big- gest movers this offseason and both landed with the Rams. It’s Super Bowl or bust for the league’s new super team.
If the Raiders were a person at the ca- sino, management would be suspecting them of counting cards. It’s all coming up Vegas this offseason. No.1pick in the draft? Check. Hiring arguably the top head coaching candidate? Check. An- chor the offensive line with one of the league’s best? Absolutely. Getting a su- perstar back in a voided trade? Sure, why not? The Raiders have done noth- ing but win off-the-field since the Super Bowl. Now they’ll hope that translates to victories on it. Still, the vibes might be at an all-time high.
“Big Blue” is no longer feeling blue. Not after hiring John Harbaugh. Not af- ter Jaxson Dart’s rookie season. No, there is legitimate optimism that hasn’t been present around these parts in a long time. And no, the Brian Daboll and Daniel Jones arranged marriage wasn’t one of those times for optimism. It goes back much further than that. The Giants are back on the NFL map. Fans just have to hope that this team, unlike Cam Skat- tebo, can stick the landing when the games begin.
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NASCAR CUP SERIES BRICKYARD 400 ‘Heim time’ earns 2nd win in 15 races
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INDIANAPOLIS – You’re Heim Time, baby, the baddest man here. That’s what 23XI Racing crew chief Robert “Bootie” Barker told Corey Heim over the driver’s in-car radio ahead of the lap 126 restart in the Brickyard 400. Moments later, Heim got his No. 67 Toyota around the No. 5 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Denny Hamlin, who co-owns 23XI Racing with Michael Jordan. Once Heim overtook his boss head- ing into Turn 1 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, there was no catching him in a race that only saw the lead ex- changed during restarts and pit stops. Heim led the final 35 laps, all caution- free, to take the checkered flag and se- cure the second NASCAR Cup Series win of his career July 26. “He believes me, and I do believe in him,” Barker said about his pep talk. “I don’t do that often. I didn’t do much. I wanted to make sure he knew, ‘I’m the baddest boy here.’ ” Heim is a part-time driver who has agreed to race full-time for 23XI Racing in 2027. The Brickyard 400 is his sec- ond win in six races after winning at the Coronado Street Course in San Diego on June 21. Another win, espe- cially in the Brickyard 400 – the lone crown jewel race that Hamlin hasn’t won – has made the 24-year-old a ris- ing star ahead of his first full Cup sea- son. Heim has two wins in 15 Cup starts, and he’s now the second youngest winner of the Brickyard 400 behind Jeff Gordon, who won the inaugural race as a 23-year-old in 1994. While Heim should have plenty of Brickyard 400 opportunities ahead of him, he didn’t want to waste this one. “I know that you’re not gonna be the best car every year, so I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity and ex- ecute where our cars were really fast,” Heim said. “The fact that we were able to do it twice this year in seven or eight starts is definitely a crazy feeling and something I didn’t expect coming into the year by any means.” 23XI Racing, which won this race last year with Bubba Wallace, has sensed Heim’s potential since signing him as a reserve driver in 2024 and de- velopment driver in 2025. With a 12- race schedule this year that has four races to go, Heim is proving that he’s more than ready to compete with the best stock car drivers in the world. “I think everybody thinks I’m al- ways joking, but I mean, he’s more tal- ented than everybody else,” Barker said. “That’s almost a bit of a disser- vice to some of the great drivers … but Corey’s there in talent. Corey’s also there in work ethic, and he’s there as far as mentality. So he has all of that now. But now that’s no guarantee go- ing forward, but right now, he has it.” Barker knew that Heim would have to pinch Hamlin in along the inside line to complete the pass on the restart. The 23XI crew trusted Hamlin to not cause an accident while acknowledg- ing that Hamlin, who is 45 and plans to retire after 2027, desperately wanted to win at IMS for the first time. “I don’t think he’s ever won a Brick-
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INDIANAPOLIS – Todd Gilliland has won $1 million in NASCAR’s In- Season Challenge after finishing high- er than Ryan Blaney in the Brickyard 400. Gilli- land finished 24th, Bla- ney finished 26th. Blaney qualified 23 spots higher than Gilli- land and was comfort- ably ahead of him for most of the race, but contact with John Hunter Nemechek on a lap 120 restart spun Blaney into the wall between Turns 3 and 4. After the crash, Blaney’s No.12 Team Penske Ford suffered splitter damage that re- quired a lengthy pit stop for repair. Bla- ney rejoined the field in 31st, which was second-last of cars running at the time. “What a dumb (expletive) that 42
Driver Corey Heim and crew chief Robert “Bootie” Barker guided the No. 67 Field & Stream Toyota to victory lane July 26 in the NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. SEAN GARDNER/GETTY IMAGES
yard, so he ain’t gonna give us nothing,” Barker said. “But I don’t expect it either. But I do expect from him to be fair, and he was.” Earlier in the race, Heim was in- volved in an encounter with fan favorite and fellow rising star Carson Hocevar, who Heim has had incidents with in the Cup Series and the Craftsman Truck Se- ries. Hocevar was trying to get unlapped by passing Heim, who wouldn’t let Ho- cevar’s No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chev- rolet get by him. Once Heim pitted, Hocevar flashed his middle finger at him. Heim has no re- morse. “I was just trying to hold my position, and I never threw a back block,” said Heim, who won the Craftsman Truck Series championship last year. “I was just trying to protect my entry (into pit lane), and he didn’t like it. But he lost; I won. So I don’t really care.” As a part-time driver who had never raced on the IMS oval before this week- end, not many had Heim on their radar to win at the Racing Capital of the World. But Heim did so despite Christo- pher Bell being within a second of him for most of the final stint, which Heim called “a grind” and said wasn’t compa- rable to his 10.365-second win in San Diego. (Heim got to the bricks 0.287 sec- onds before Bell on Sunday.) Going into 2027, Heim will be expect- ed to win more races, compete for more crown jewel victories and be one of the 16 Cup drivers who make the Chase – NASCAR’s 10-race playoff. In the mean- time, he’ll do what it takes to not let the hype consume him. “I feel like I’m pretty good at just kind of focusing on myself and focusing on the task at hand,” Heim said, “and not getting too caught up in what other peo- ple say or think, and just making sure that I do my job and execute as I should.” Sunday’s execution from Heim was at the level of an experienced Cup driv- er, not someone who was racing on this particular superspeedway for the first time. Heim further announced himself to the NASCAR world by winning at the Brickyard 400.
(Nemechek) is,” Blaney said on his ra- dio. “Every week.” Gilliland has captured the second In- Season Challenge championship in what was truly an underdog run. He en- tered the tournament 25th of the 32 drivers who qualified for the In-Season Challenge. He then finished higher than Daniel Suarez (No. 8 seed), Carson Ho- cevar (No. 9), Alex Bowman (No. 32) and Chase Elliott (No. 4) to make it to the fi- nal round at the Brickyard 400. Gilliland beat out Blaney, who was the No. 3 seed and won at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the quarterfinal round, for the champi- onship. “It was nerve wracking,” Gilliland said of holding off Blaney on July 26. “Seems like we barely squeezed by ev- ery round but we did what we need to do. This is something to celebrate. “We’ll figure out something to do with $1 million bucks.” Gilliland never finished better than eighth en route to the championship.
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The Hollywood Reporter and the Social Impact Fund, at the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles on July 22. MONICA SCHIPPER/GETTY IMAGES Fox still is bringing the fight to Parkinson’s
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LOS ANGELES – When a 29-year-old Michael J. Fox was diag- nosed with Parkinson’s disease just as his acting career was in full swing, suddenly everything else seemed “silly.” h It had been a little more than a decade since he’d arrived in Hollywood at 17, and Fox made the decision to shift his focus from acing auditions to recognizing he had “a unique opportunity to make a difference and do something bigger than just telling a joke.” h “You think about a 19-year-old, 17-year-old kid, you want to be rich and fam- ous and change the world, and you want to be the big ‘it’ thing,” the 65-year-old tells USA TODAY. “And when you start to search for a cure for a disease, that stuff is just so silly.”
“The point where it got boring and tedious turned into a lever to operate a much bigger machine,” he adds. On July 22, the actor’s Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Re- search was one of three honorees at The Hollywood Reporter’s and So-
cial Impact Fund’s third annual So- cial Impact Summit, alongside John Mayer’s Heart and Armor Founda- tion for Veterans Health and Ste- phen and Ayesha Curry’s Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation.
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Carly Simon reveals her Parkinson’s diagnosis
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Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the has sing- er revealed. Simon, the beloved pop rocker known for ’70s hits including “You’re So Vain,” “Nobody Does It Better” and “Mockingbird,” made the health reve- lation in a statement to USA TODAY Monday, July 27. People magazine was the first to report the news. “So many people have written to me, kindly wondering about my rela- tive silence, asking how I am and what I have been doing. The truth is, I’ve been learning how to live with Parkin- son’s disease,” Simon, 83, told the out- let. “It has taken me some time to un- derstand the diagnosis, to adjust to it and to decide how much I wanted to say about it publicly.”
Carly Simon attends the Pre-Grammys Gala and Salute to Industry Icons in Beverly Hills, California, on Feb. 14, 2016.
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Parkinson’s disease is a degenera- tive syndrome that results in the slow loss of brain circuitry involved in movement, cognition and behavior. It can cause tremors, stiffness, slowness and falls in addition to anxiety, depres- sion and sleep dysfunction. “Parkinson’s is different for every- one, and it can be unpredictable,” said Simon, whose battle with the disease began with arthritis in the knees and one of her hips. “Some days I’m so tired I can’t get the day moving at all. On others, it gives me a little more room to move, think, work and feel like my- self.” Simon said she had three replace- ment surgeries to treat her damaged joints, but her mobility “continued to worsen.” “I had trouble standing up from low chairs and deep couches without someone offering me an arm,” Simon said. “Overstuffed furniture became my enemy. Once seated, I could feel as though I had been swallowed by the chair and might remain there perma- nently, like a guest who had badly overstayed her welcome.” Parkinson’s is incurable, according to the Mayo Clinic. But various medi- cines and treatments can help manage symptoms. “There is no tidy or predictable schedule to the illness,”Simon said. “It does not consult my calendar before deciding what kind of day I am going to have.” The singer also shared that she had surgery for basal cell carcinoma amid her Parkinson’s diagnosis and treat- ment. Basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer, accord- ing to the Skin Cancer Foundation. “During this same period, I was also treated for basal cell carcinoma on my face,” she said. “The cancer was re- moved, but the surgery affected my appearance and made me more self- conscious about being seen in public. I have always been more critical of my appearance than anyone else could possibly imagine.” In addition to her physical symp- toms, the Grammy-winning singer also was candid on the mental toll of living with Parkinson’s, which she said can include “anxiety, depression, ex- haustion and apathy.” “The apathy is particularly strange,”
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Reality, fiction collide inside Trojan Horse
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NEW YORK – Imagine you’re crammed inside a 40-foot-tall wooden horse with 20 other guys on a beach. That may sound like the antithesis of Hollywood glamour. But in the words of Jon Bernthal, “it was glorious.” The Marvel actor costars with Matt Damon and Tom Holland in “The Odys- sey” (in theaters), Christopher Nolan’s big-budget retelling of Homer’s epic po- em. In a nerve-jangling early scene, Ith- acan king Odysseus (Damon) and Spar- tan ruler Menelaus (Bernthal) steel themselves inside a colossal Trojan Horse along with more than a dozen other soldiers, as part of an intricate plot to hide and launch a surprise attack on Troy. Mistaking the horse for a gift, Trojan officers drag it inside the walls of their kingdom, only for Odysseus’ men to jump out and rampage the city come nightfall. To film the sequence, the ac- tors spent numerous hours inside the contraption alongside Nolan and cine- matographer Hoyte Van Hoytema. “I loved it,” Bernthal says. “You better believe Chris was in there with us – there’s no one working harder than him.” Although the Trojan Horse was, in fact, fictional, “you got a real sense of how insane that [experience] would be: what it’s like to be moved; what it’s like to have it filling up with ice-cold water and having to be quiet; the looks of the folks I was in there with and their dis- comfort at times. I remember it well.” “The Odyssey” is a star-studded, globe-trotting saga that filmed in six countries −including Greece and Ice-
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Fox and his foundation’s CEO, Debo- rah W. Brooks, spoke with USA TODAY backstage before his “Shrinking” costar Harrison Ford presented the two with the Philanthropic Organization of the Year award. “These approbations are always humbling,”Fox says. “It’s great attention for our foundation; it’s great attention for the progress that’s been made.” His latest accolade, which arrives on the heels of his 19th Emmy nomination, comes courtesy of the Social Impact Fund, a nonprofit organization founded in 2013 that “helps overcome common administrative barriers” for philan- thropic endeavors in the entertainment industry and beyond by providing a “le- gal structure” for organizations, includ- ing those whose tax-exempt status is pending. The organization has adminis- tered more than $135 million in charita- ble funds across more than 80 fiscally sponsored projects, with current part- ners including John Legend, Kerry Washington, Ryan Reynolds and Alicia Keys. Since 2000, Fox’s foundation report- edly has funded $3 billion in Parkin- son’s research while also successfully advocating for resources at the federal level and helping advance breakthrough scientific discoveries, such as a “crucial” spinal fluid test for those exhibiting symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease. Ultimately, they are working toward a goal of eliminating the disease “in our lifetime.” “What we’re doing isn’t happening at them or for them,” Fox says of people with Parkinsonism symptoms. “It’s happening with them.”
Fox went from hiding Parkinson’s to becoming ‘part of the answer’
Fox wasn’t always accepting of his di- agnosis, discovered after he noticed a tremor in his pinky finger in 1991. It took some time to become, as Ford described his costar in his onstage speech, “the most stubborn optimist I know.” But by the time he let the world in on his chron- ic condition, he’d had the revelation that “I want to be part of the answer.” The fastest-growing neurodegenera- tive condition in the United States, Par- kinson’s is an incurable brain disorder, a progressive disease “that causes unin- tended or uncontrollable movements, such as shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with balance and coordination,”accord- ing to the National Institute on Aging. “I was diagnosed, and I went into a hidden retreat and hid for seven years, didn’t tell anyone about it. And then when it occurred to me that I might go public with it, I weighed that with my wife [Tracy Pollan] and myself, [had] a lot of conversations about it,” Fox says. “And I realized it was a unique opportu- nity.”
The towering Trojan Horse leads to brutal carnage in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”
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land −across a six-month period. The chance to work with Nolan for the first time was a “pinch-yourself moment”for Bernthal, 49, who met Nolan at the di- rector’s home not knowing the specifics of the project. “I talked to a couple different people in the know who told me he was doing a remake of ‘Blue Thunder,’ that helicop- ter movie from the ’80s,” Bernthal re- calls, laughing. “It was so shrouded in mystery and secrecy.” Menelaus, husband of Helen (Lupita Nyong’o), becomes a key resource for the young Telemachus (Holland) as he searches for answers about the fate of his missing father, Odysseus. Bernthal’s biggest scenes are flashbacks to the Trojan War, as Menelaus and his army wreak bloody havoc on Troy that haunts
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“I would’ve been thrilled if you’d told me when I was 17 that I’d be well-known as a disease advocate for something I was diagnosed with.”
Less than a decade after receiving his diagnosis, the “Family Ties” actor came to embrace the role of being the face of Parkinson’s. “I would’ve been thrilled if you’d told me when I was17 that I’d be well-known as a disease advocate for something I was diagnosed with,” Fox says. Brooks, the foundation’s CEO, has been equally as proud of Fox’s impact. “I remember the first day of my job, he said, ‘People may come here just be- cause of me. It’s your job to build some- thing that brings them back,’ ” Brooks says. “Objectively, we have not cured Parkinson’s. But there is so much that has been accomplished. ... Today, it’s a field transformed from where it was
Odysseus for many years after. The siege of Troy was filmed over multiple nights with more than 2,000 extras. Bernthal commends the movie’s stunt coordinators for the “meticulously well-rehearsed action sequences,” with fighting that felt extremely visceral yet “completely safe” for the actors. “It created this real sense of danger on set,” Bernthal recalls. “It was genu- inely scary, no acting necessary. Com- ing out of the horse and the battle that ensues in the Trojan War – it was com- plete and utter chaos. You felt it, but no- body got hurt. You have to have reckless abandonment and let it all go, but you also have to know exactly what you’re doing. That marriage is when you get something really electric.” “The Bear” star similarly praises the
when we started, and that’s not every- thing about us, but it has a lot to do with almost everything we do. That keeps us motivated.”
Fox’s expletive-laden motto for Parkinson’s patients
Beyond finding a cure – “science is hard,”Fox quips – he hopes to give “the patient community a say and a pres- ence.” “They’re scared to death,” he says. “That’s a freaky diagnosis that rocks your world.” The average Parkinson’s patient is in their early to mid-60s, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. A “small per- cent” of those diagnosed have early onset Parkinson’s, which begins be- fore age 50. Symptoms of the progres- sive movement disorder typically in- clude tremors, muscle stiffness, bal- ance issues and slowed movement. Parkinson’s has taken a toll on the “Back to the Future” star over the dec- ades. He developed – and recovered from – alcohol addiction while coping with his diagnosis in the early years. He has broken a number of bones. He is “in pain all the time,” he said in his 2023 documentary, “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.” When asked about representation of Parkinson’s patients in Hollywood, Fox brings up Apple TV’s “Shrinking,” in which Ford’s Paul Rhoades, a thera- pist diagnosed with Parkinson’s in Season 1, gets the ensemble cast on board with the motto “(expletive) Par- kinson’s.” (Fox, playing a patient named Gerry, eventually becomes part of Paul’s journey.) Echoing Paul’s refrain, Fox says, “For a long time I’ve been saying ‘(ex- pletive) vanity.’ It’s not about vanity. It’s not about how you look. And that’s the thing that helps patients move for- ward in their minds; they say, ‘This is what it is.’ ”
film’s leading man, Damon, with whom he previously worked on “Ford v Ferra- ri.” The actors bonded as both dads and husbands, but also in their shared awe over what Nolan had created. “I remember my first day in Morocco on that beach, with all those ships and thousands of background [actors], and you see the size and scope of the film im- mediately,” Bernthal says. “You don’t see a ton of crew members running around – it’s just all what’s go- ing to be on the screen. I ran into Matt and he was wide-eyed. And this is Matt Damon! “I look into his eyes and he said, ‘Holy (expletive), Bernthal, this is huge. I’ve never seen anything like it,’ ” Bernthal adds. “There was a childlike wonder that was palpable every single day.”
Simon said. “You can find yourself ly- ing there like a starfish drying in the sun, arms pointing in all directions, while nothing inside is telling you to get up, read, watch, write, sing, call someone or do much of anything at all. That has been one of the hardest things to explain. It is not simply sad- ness or laziness. It is as though the part of the brain that sends out invitations to participate in life has temporarily misplaced the guest list.”
Simon opens up about navigating ‘frightening’ Parkinson’s disease
Simon, who has maintained a low profile in recent years, said stepping back from the spotlight became a cop- ing strategy amid her health struggles. “Between my mobility issues, the Parkinson’s diagnosis, the surgery and the emotional effects of it all, with- drawing from public view was the most palatable reaction,” Simon said. “If a person is allowed to hibernate during both winter and summer, then I have become an all-season bear. But I have not stopped living, and I have not stopped working.” The prolific singer/songwriter turned to music, channeling the emo- tional turmoil of her recent experienc- es into her new album, “Comes in Waves,”which is set for release Aug.14. “Music has always known when to arrive. It has rescued me more times [than] I can count,” Simon said. “It is like a cat or dog that quietly appears beside you when it senses you are not quite yourself.” Simon said the musical project, her 24th studio effort, “gave me some- where to go without having to leave the room,”as well as “reminded me that ill- ness can change your life without be- coming the whole of your life.” “I do not consider Parkinson’s a gift or a blessing. It is neither. It is difficult, frustrating and sometimes frighten- ing. “I am still learning how to live with it and how to accept it without feeling that I have surrendered something es- sential.” The pop icon said she wanted to share her diagnosis “because so many people have reached out with genuine concern. ... I am touched by that con- cern, even when I have not known how to respond.” “I am still writing, singing, imagin- ing, laughing, worrying, remembering and occasionally getting trapped in an overstuffed chair. “These days I move more slowly, I lean on others more than I once did and I have learned to accept that every day will look a little different. “But I am still very much here.” Contributing: Karen Weintraub and Anika Reed
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Framed woman tells her side of ‘Toxic’ story
Kalia Richardson
Warning: this story contains spoilers from Netflix’s new documentary, “A Toxic Love Story,” streaming now. While Michelle Hadley served 88 days in prison for a crime she did not commit, she kept her sanity by making calendars and welcome packets for oth- er inmates – resources she says she wishes she had. “I would just find ways to find pur- pose in a horrible situation,”Hadley tells USA TODAY, noting that she also would trade coffee packets in exchange for art- work and aid her older cellmate who had difficulty hearing. Hadley, 39, ended up behind bars in 2016 after being falsely accused of a crime involving her ex, former U.S. Mar- shal Ian Diaz, and his then-wife Angela Connell Diaz. The twisted tale is now at the center of Netflix’s new documen- tary, “A Toxic Love Story” (streaming now). At the time, Ian and Angela claimed they were receiving death threats, cy- berstalking messages and images of de- capitated fetuses from a “Lilithistruth” user, believed to be Hadley. The newly married couple also claimed Hadley was posing as Angela on Craigslist and re- sponding to “rape fantasy” ads to lure men to her home to sexually assault her. The Anaheim Police Department eventually arrested and imprisoned Hadley – only to learn months later that Ian and Angela were in fact the ones who puppeteered the stalking and ha- rassment scheme. Hadley then was ex- onerated in January 2017. That month, Angela pleaded guilty to all charges, including fraud, false im- prisonment and falsely reporting a crime. She later was sentenced to five years in state prison. By June 2023, Ian also was sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison for conspiracy to com- mit cyberstalking, cyberstalking, perju- ry, and obstruction of justice. “It turns your whole world upside down, and it really did feel like being buried alive because it just felt like I was so powerless,”Hadley says, recalling the time she spent in jail. “You don’t have
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Michelle Hadley was exonerated in January 2017, after being framed by her former boyfriend Ian Diaz and his wife at the time, Angela.
access to outside information. You’re just so at the mercy of the system.” Hadley discusses the traumatic or- deal, the red flags she saw in Ian and what life has been like since clearing her name. Question: Why did you want to be part of this documentary and revisit such a traumatic chapter in your life? Answer: I never felt like I really had a chance to reclaim the narrative, and most importantly, to tell the story about the domestic abuse that I experienced in the relationship. This documentary was an opportunity for me to partner with a production company that was just as committed as I am to telling the story in a way that would uplift survi- vors of domestic abuse. That was very important to me. And it was the best telling of the story that’s been done so far. In your opinion, what percentage of this cyberstalking hoax was Ian’s doing? How much do you think Ange- la played a part? We don’t really know what was going on behind closed doors. I do know that Ian was extremely controlling, extreme- ly manipulative. I had no doubts from
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the moment that this whole thing start- ed happening – even while I was in it – that he was the one driving the whole thing, that he was the mastermind. That was never a question for me. The real question is how much did he get Angela to participate? And I don’t think any of us will ever know the answer to that question. You mentioned some concerning behaviors in Ian while you were dat- ing. What were those red flags you may have overlooked at the time? I’m much older, much wiser, and there were a few things that I realized. One is how quickly the relationship pro- gressed. This is something I tell every- one now when people ask me for my ad- vice. I say, “Always slow down the early stages of dating because people like Ian thrive on speed because speed doesn’t give you enough time to think and to as- sess and to evaluate and even check in with yourself.” You’ll hear it called collo- quially as love bombing. The other thing is you should really be evaluating if the person sitting across from you, especially if you’re a woman dating a man, has a level of respect for the opposite sex. Pay really close atten- tion to how they talk about women in general. In Ian’s case, [it was evident] how he spoke about women, female friends, his mom … A lot of the time, these types of guys will speak in a de- rogatory way about the women in their lives, and will also objectify women. That’s interesting, considering one of the key voices in this doc is Leslie, a female friend of Ian’s for 20 years. Did Ian speak in a derogatory way about her? He would come back from the time he
spent with Leslie and do nothing but say negative things about her. I never had any jealousy about their relationship because, for me, I was seeing the flip side of it, which I don’t think she ever saw, to be honest. In retrospect, I look back, and I realized what a huge red flag that was. Because here’s someone who was supposedly his closest friend, and yet he was turning around and saying negative things about her behind her back. And same with his mom; he would say negative things about her. A lot of it centered around appearance and looks. Have you heard from Ian or Angela since everything unfolded? No. And to be honest, I’ve reached a point in my healing journey where I’m not living for the apology. Afterbeingexonerated,whatwasit like finding a job? It was almost impossible to find work after what happened. Before, I had no trouble finding work at all, any time I needed to find work. And afterwards, I saw a noticeable difference. I actually ended up having to pick up and move all the way across the country. New York City was the place where I relaunched my career. I’ve been working in market- ing and CRM, customer relationship management, for over 15 years now. Have you been able to reenter the dating pool? It’s something I’ve had to be really on guard with [and] just be very careful who I let into my world because I’ve had some bad experiences. There are some people where it’s just too much for them. They see that you’ve got all these articles about you, and they just don’t want to deal with it for whatever reason. So it does make it a little more difficult. I have dated, but I’m still single. You gave birth to your daughter the same day Ian was convicted in 2023. What has it been like raising her? The biggest trip-up for a lot of women is that we’re so trained to defer to or de- fault to what men say. And it just makes you much more susceptible to abuse. So if I can teach her to just rely on her own instincts, trust what she sees, trust what she feels, be confident in herself, that’s one of the most powerful things I can give her as her mom.
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Palestinian men stand atop a building in the village of Tal in the occupied West Bank on July 25. Palestinians in Tal buried four men on July 25, who were killed during a clash with Israeli settlers in the village the previous day, local officials said.
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Palestinian villagers in the occupied West Bank said on July 27 the area was coming close to a breaking point after increasing incursions by Israeli settlers and violent stand-offs, such as one that left six people shot dead last week. The Israeli military made dozens of arrests and blocked roadways through the West Bank after the July 24 incident in the village of Tal, southwest of Nab- lus, where four Palestinians and two Is- raelis were killed. Early on July 27, most entrances to Tal, neighboring villages and Nablus were either partially or fully shuttered, creating long lines of residents seeking to pass the checkpoints. The recent shootings occurred after villagers from Tal confronted a large group of armed settlers they said tried to enter houses in the village. The Israeli military said there was a “violent con- frontation” between dozens of Palestin- ians and Israeli civilians in which shots were fired. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya- hu’s government has characterized the incident as terrorism but Palestinians say villagers were defending them- selves against the latest in a series of at- tacks by settlers seeking to drive them off the land. Ahmed Ramadan, 71, the father of one of the Palestinians killed on July 24, said settlers have continually harassed their home on the edge of Tal overlook- ing the rolling hills of the West Bank. “They say we are terrorists. We are
blocking Trump order
Andrew Chung
President Donald Trump’s admini- stration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on July 27 to allow implementation na- tionwide of his executive order aimed at tightening rules for mail-in voting ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections that will decide control of Congress. In a filing, the Justice Department re- quested that the justices put on hold a judge’s ruling preventing the enforce- ment of the Republican president’s di- rective in 23 mostly Democratic-gov-
A Palestinian man inspects the damage at a mosque, which Palestinians say was damaged by Israeli settlers, in Qusra near Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS
not terrorists,” Ramadan said. He said the settler killed on July 24, Benayahu Mellet – an army reservist who was serving as security coordinator for the nearby settlement of Havat Gilad – had previously come to his home and yelled at him to leave and go to Syria or Jordan. Ramadan said he had no intention of leaving, “Even if we die, we’ll die here on our land. We’re not prepared to leave this country.” Sitting at home with his surviving sons, he said if settlers return in force the village was ready. “If they come, we’ll meet them head-on, even if they
erned states and Washington, DC, which had challenged the order as un- constitutional, while the litigation plays out. The Supreme Court ordered those states to respond to the Justice Depart- ment’s request by Aug. 3. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani re- jected the administration’s argument that the states lacked the necessary le- gal standing to challenge Trump’s direc- tive. In June, Talwani ruled that the presi- dent lacked the authority to order changes in how states administer feder- al elections, noting that under the U.S. Constitution, states have the role of de- termining voter-eligibility require- ments.
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kill us,” he told Reuters. Israeli authorities initially por- trayed the July 24 incident as an attack by Palestinians on hikers walking near the village, located in Area A of the West Bank, a zone under Palestinian control that Israelis are generally pro- hibited from entering. Video widely circulated on social media showed settlers carrying rifles and pushing residents as they ap- proached the village. Palestinians from Tal said settlers
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The administration said the justices should lift Talwani’s ruling because the lawsuit is premature. Federal agencies “are still deliberat- ing over how (if at all) to implement the order, yet the district court preemptive- ly decided that whatever the agencies may choose to do will necessarily be un- lawful,” the Justice Department said in its filing. Trump’s executive order, issued in March, is part of his wider efforts to make changes to elections. Trump, who has made false claims of widespread voting fraud including in his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden, has pressed the Republican-controlled Congress to pass
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seeking to resume talks
Bo Erickson, Nayera Abdallah and Elwely Elwelly
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said on July 27 that the United States was having “good talks” with Iran and there was a chance of a deal over their conflict, but he warned that U.S. strikes would resume if the nego- tiations failed to deliver. Despite Trump’s optimism, Tehran appeared to quickly test the pause in the U.S. military campaign, with Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq reporting drone attacks on July 27. Washington abruptly suspended a two-week campaign of air strikes on Iran on July 25 in Trump’s latest stra- tegic U-turn in the five-month-old conflict. “We’re having good talks,” he said. “I think there’s a good chance that something could happen, and if it does, good, if it doesn’t, we go back to doing what we were doing two days ago.” At a campaign rally in Michigan lat- er on July 27, Trump said of Iran: “You can’t bribe them. You’ve got to beat them, and we’ll beat the hell out of them. But we’ll see how it turns out. Right now, there are very friendly ne- gotiations going on.” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on July 27 that messages were still being passed be- tween the sides through mediators and Iran had not forsaken diplomacy, but reports that it requested negotia- tions were “fabricated.”
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Iran-backed Houthi rebels say they downed a Saudi drone over the northwest of Yemen. Iran appeared to quickly test the pause in the U.S. military campaign, with Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq reporting drone attacks on July 27.
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years from matching Ukraine’s output
ordered about 200K drones by February
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WASHINGTON – The Pentagon offi- cial tasked with building a domestic drone industry said on July 27 that the United States is still in the earliest, hardest phase of that effort, acknowl- edging output remains a fraction of Ukraine’s production even as the gov- ernment tightens rules requiring drones be built with American-made parts. Travis Metz, deputy director and chief operating officer of the Defense Innovation Unit who has run the Penta- gon’s Drone Dominance Program since last fall, said in an interview that Uk- raine will produce between 6 million and 7 million small first-person-view attack drones this year, or roughly 500,000 a month. By comparison, the Pentagon’s $1.1 billion program will have ordered just under 200,000 drones cumulatively by February. “It’s much harder to get from zero to 200,000” than it will be to scale up fur- ther once a domestic capacity to build many more drones exists, Metz said. But the Pentagon just made a big surge in drone building much tougher when it instituted rules that military drones must be made with U.S. parts. A revised supply chain framework re- leased July 23 adds language stating the government’s ultimate goal is “a wholly domestic” small unmanned air- craft system supply chain. Metz ac- knowledged that harder-to-source components, including semiconduc- tors, remains a far bigger problem for
on teen harm, Tennessee tells jury
Diana Novak Jones
Attorneys for the state of Tennessee told a jury in Nashville on July 27 that Meta Platforms’leadership disregarded internal research about its Instagram platform’s impact on teenagers as the company sought to maximize profit from young users. During opening statements in a sev- en-week trial in state court in Tennes- see, the state’s lawyers said Meta re- searchers repeatedly flagged that some teenagers were compulsively using the platform, leading to eating disorders, depression and self-harm. But despite those warnings, Meta did not disable features such as auto- play, notifications and infinite scroll that, the lawyers said, were designed to keep teens on Instagram as long as pos- sible and increase the number of ads they viewed. An attorney for Meta countered that the company has been transparent about the risks teens face on Instagram and the amount of dangerous content that it finds. The company works hard to find problems and fix them, he said.
Power of the ping
The lawsuit, filed by Tennessee At- torney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s of- fice, seeks financial penalties and a court order directing Instagram to mod- ify aspects of the platform that the state says are harmful to teens’ mental health. If the jury finds the company liable, the trial will enter a second phase be-
Tim McLaughlin
Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to federal pollu- tion laws, the U.S. Environmental Pro- tection Agency said on July 27. The EPA said if the power plants are not supplying electricity to the grid then they would not be subject to the federal Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Pro- gram, which has been key to the dra- matic reduction of smog and soot pollu- tion from industrial facilities. “The EPA believes that, considering the plain text of these definitions, the
Ukrainian company F-Drones has partnered with Ohio-based Ukrainian Defense Drones, which opened a facility near Toledo, while Ukrainian drone maker General Cherry has agreed to a joint venture with New Hampshire’s Wilcox Industries, according to the companies.
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the U.S. outside the drone effort. None of the drones from the 19 com- panies competing in an August test event may contain banned parts like Chinese-made brushless motors or bat- tery packs, Metz said, a stricter stan- dard than the program’s first phase. “It’s an increasingly difficult thing,” he said, estimating that “the vast ma- jority”of drones purchased in an earlier phase likely contained Chinese motors. Still, he said he expects the United States to eventually rival Ukraine’s drone industry. “I see no reason why we shouldn’t … be the world champions of this as well,” he said. Metz said all six Ukrainian compa- nies invited to August’s “Gauntlet II” test at Fort Carson, Colorado, have en-
Prosecutors say Meta Platforms’ leadership disregarded internal research about its Instagram platform’s impact on teenagers.
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fore Chancellor Russell Perkins, the judge overseeing the trial, who will de- cide whether to order the company to pay financial penalties and make changes to Instagram to make it safer for teens. During the opening statements, which Reuters watched on Courtroom View Network, Tom Cartmell, a lawyer for the state, played the familiar dinging sound of a notification hitting a smart- phone. Unpredictable rewards like no- tifications trigger dopamine hits that promote addiction, which has a partic- ularly strong impact on the brains of kids, Cartmell said. Meta understood the brain science behind why teens find its platform so ir- resistible, Cartmell said. Cartmell showed the jury an internal document from 2017 in which Meta product managers wrote that features like notifications and infinite scroll “are inherently at odds with well-being”and
Acid Rain Program does not apply to power generation facilities that are not connected in any way to the larger electricity grid,” EPA Assistant Admin- istrator Aaron Szabo wrote in a July 16 letter. The agency said its interpretation of federal pollution laws would speed the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure while reducing strain on regional electric grids. The EPA said its guidance clarifies that the Acid Rain Program does not ap- ply to so-called “islanded” power gen- eration facilities that operate separate- ly from the broader grid. The agency said the interpretation would give de-
tered or are moving toward joint ven- tures with U.S. manufacturers as a con- dition of future orders. Ukrainian company F-Drones has partnered with Ohio-based Ukrainian Defense Drones, which opened a facil- ity near Toledo, while Ukrainian drone maker General Cherry has agreed to a joint venture with New Hampshire’s Wilcox Industries, according to the companies. Metz said the Ukrainian companies competing in Gauntlet II are being re- quired to localize production in the United States as a condition of winning future orders, a structure designed to convert Ukraine’s battlefield expertise into American manufacturing capacity rather than reliance on imports.
said that the company needed to warn the public. “This warning never came,” Cartmell said. Kevin Huff, a lawyer for Meta, said documents like those Cartmell cited are proof that the company is searching for problems on its platforms, so it can im- prove them. The company has developed tools to help limit problematic use of Insta- gram, and seeks to empower teachers and parents to help keep teens safe, Huff said. Huff urged jurors to consider wheth- er Meta should bear sole responsibility for societal problems such as suicide, child exploitation and addiction. “We think the evidence will show that Meta is doing its part and empow- ering others to do their part, because protecting teens online is a shared re- sponsibility. It takes a village.” Nearly every state in the country has filed claims against Meta over its plat- forms’ alleged impact on children. More than two dozen of the lawsuits have been consolidated in multidistrict litigation in San Francisco, while many other states have sued in their own courts. Separately, Meta and other so- cial media companies are facing thou- sands of lawsuits brought by individ- uals and school districts. Tennessee’s lawsuit is the second state case to reach a jury. Earlier this year, a jury in New Mexico found the company liable and ordered it to pay $375 million. A judge is weighing additional financial penalties as well as an order directing the compa- ny to change Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in the state.
velopers greater flexibility in where and how quickly they can build new data centers, which are driving a surge in electricity demand across the United States. The agency said its action supports President Donald Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge, which was expanded last week and requires participating companies to build, procure or pay for all energy needed to power their facil- ities and associated infrastructure. Under the non-binding pledge, de- velopers, utilities and state regulators are expected to bear the costs associat- ed with new projects rather than pass- ing them on to residential customers.
Wall Street ends mixed as investors focus on tech earnings
SinÉad Carew and Noel Randewich
Wall Street ended mixed on July 27 , as investors awaited guidance from major technology companies in a busy week for quarterly earnings, while also worrying that stubbornly high oil prices could force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Ap- ple are set to report quarterly results this week. Investors were questioning whether a multi-year rally fueled by optimism about artificial intelligence may be losing steam. Investors last week were spooked by quarterly results from Tesla and Al- phabet that showed heavy spending on artificial intelligence. Walmart rose 2.1%, Microsoft added 1.9% and John- son & Johnson rose 1% On July 27, crude fell to a one-week low as President Donald Trump said Washington was having “good talks” with Iran and there was a chance of a peace deal, but warned U.S. strikes would resume if the negotiations failed to deliver. Oil prices surged last week, with Brent futures surpassing $100 a barrel, after new strikes on shipping in the Middle East. Seven of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes rose, led by consumer staples, up 1.58%, followed by a 1.25% gain in information technology. The PHLX chip index extended its recent selloff, falling 2.2%. It is down 21% from its record high close on June 22 and remains up 63% in 2026. Chinese chipmaker CXMT Corp’s stellar debut on July 27 and a report that the country has started manufac- turing homegrown DUV chipmaking tools also signaled intensifying com- petition for the U.S. semiconductor in- dustry.
“Part of the market reaction may be related to that creeping suspicion that perhaps a rate hike is coming.”
Bill Merz Head of capital markets research and portfolio construction at U.S. Bank Asset Management Group
“Today represents a continuation of the rotational market that we’ve seen,” said Bill Merz, head of capital markets research and portfolio construction at U.S. Bank Asset Management Group. “Part of the market reaction may be re- lated to that creeping suspicion that perhaps a rate hike is coming.” The S&P 500 edged up 0.02% to end the session at 7,413.18 points. The Nasdaq declined 0.18% to 24,932.08 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Aver- age rose 0.51% to 52,210.08 points. Brent crude prices slid 8% to about $89 a barrel after Washington abruptly suspended a two-week campaign of air strikes against Iran on July 25 in Trump’s latest strategic U-turn in the five-month-old conflict. Oil company shares declined. Occi- dental Petroleum fell 4.1% and Exxon Mobil closed down 1.4%. The Fed’s monetary policy decision is due on July 29 and traders are pro- jecting a 62% chance the central bank will leave rates unchanged, with a 38% chance of a 25-basis-point hike, ac- cording to the CME FedWatch tool. The Personal Consumption Expen- ditures Price Index for June is due a day after the central bank’s decision and will be key in shaping market ex- pectations for interest rates later this year. Analysts on average expect S&P 500 aggregate second-quarter earn- ings to jump 39% from a year ago, with AI-related stocks accounting for much of that growth, according to LSEG I/B/ E/S. The S&P 500 is trading at around 20 times expected earnings, compared to a 10-year average of 20, according to LSEG data. Advancing issues outnum- bered falling ones within the S&P 500 by a 1.9-to-one ratio. The S&P 500 posted 30 new highs and three new lows. Volume on U.S. exchanges was relatively light, with 15.8 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 18.2 billion shares over the previous 20 sessions.
Bo Erickson and Jason Lange
REUTERS
WASHINGTON – Just one in three Americans support the war on Iran, the lowest reading in a Reuters/Ipsos poll since the five-month-old conflict’s early days, with most respondents saying that President Donald Trump has failed to explain his goals. The poll, conducted July 24 through July 26, also showed the Republican president’s approval rating ticking higher to 37%, up three points from June when his rating tied the lowest of his presidency. Trump has offered shifting objectives for the conflict such as aiding Iranians to topple their leaders, taking out Iran’s ballistic-missile capabilities and pre- venting it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The poll found that 69% of Ameri- cans – including four in 10 Republicans
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a contentious package of voting re- strictions called the SAVE America Act. Trump has vowed to end the use of mail-in ballots nationwide before the midterms, and has long cast doubt on the security of such ballots, although evidence of voter fraud is rare. Restricting mail-in ballots would stand to disproportionately benefit Republicans given that Democratic voters traditionally have been more likely to use mail-in ballots than Re- publican voters. Trump’s executive order directed the Department of Homeland Security to compile and transmit to the states a list of U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state, and the Justice Depart- ment to prioritize investigating and prosecuting state and local election of- ficials who issue ballots to people deemed “not eligible” to vote in federal elections. It also required the U.S. Postal Ser- vice to deliver ballots only to voters on each state’s approved mail-in ballot list. The Postal Service recently moved to implement Trump’s directive. States, including California and Massachusetts, sued in federal court in Boston to challenge Trump’s order. A group of 12 Republican state attor- neys general intervened in the case to defend Trump’s directive. Talwani found that the claims made by the challenging states were not pre- mature, as the administration had ar- gued, and that they had legal standing to sue over Trump’s directive because they would face election administra- tion disruption, compliance costs and a credible threat of criminal prosecu- tion. The judge also noted that federal agencies lack the ability to compile ac- curate citizen lists for each state. The Justice Department asked the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to put Talwani’s ruling on hold based on the administration’s view that the challengers lacked standing to sue. The 1st Circuit rejected the re- quest on July 25. In June, the Supreme Court rejected a Republican-backed challenge to state laws that allow mail- in ballots received after Election Day to be counted.
“This is not in our DNA,” he said. A senior Iranian official told Reuters on July 26 that Iran would halt its own attacks as long as Trump’s self-imposed ceasefire continued. Iran’s central military command later on July 27 accused the U.S. of threaten- ing vessels and oil tankers in its territo- rial waters and of “attempting to imple- ment an illegal maritime blockade,” which it said “constitutes an escalation of the conflict in the region.” Saudi Arabia said it shot down drones aimed at petroleum targets, in- cluding in Riyadh. It said they had been launched from Iraq by Iran-backed armed groups, and it reserved the right to respond. Separately, Iran’s Houthi allies in Ye- men said they had targeted the East- West Pipeline carrying oil to Saudi Ara- bia’s main Red Sea port of Yanbu in re- taliation for Saudi drone incursions. Tehran also said it remained in con-
– think Trump has not “clearly ex- plained the goals of U.S. military in- volvement in Iran.” White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said Trump will not make decisions based on “fluid opinion polls” and reiterated the presi- dent’s resolve to prevent Iran from ever acquiring a nuclear weapon. “What matters most to the American people is having a commander in chief who takes bold action to keep them safe,” Wales said. Approval of the conflict has been be- low 40% since the United States and Is- rael launched strikes on Feb. 28. Public disapproval of the war is weighing on Trump and his Republican Party ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elec- tions when the president’s allies will de- fend slim majorities in Congress. “It’s not clear why we started a war with them. I have no idea,” said Alex Womack, a retired turbine repair spe- cialist from Stockbridge, Georgia, who
Palestinians say villagers last week were defending themselves against the latest in a series of attacks by settlers in the West Bank seeking to drive them off the land. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS
attacked them first before one of the villagers wrestled a gun from one of the settlers. The incident followed a pattern seen repeatedly around the West Bank, with large groups of settlers ap- pearing near Palestinian communi- ties, threatening and harassing their inhabitants, often as security forces stand by. Such shows of force have become more frequent over recent months, while ministers in Netanyahu’s gov- ernment talk openly about annexing the West Bank, which Israel occupied following the 1967 Middle East war. On July 27 , Reuters reporters could see freshly cut tree trunks in fields at the edge of the village. Residents said that after the violence, settlers had come and cut down olive and fig trees.
trol of the contested Strait of Hormuz, the key waterway for global energy sup- plies, which Trump has demanded ves- sels be able to pass through freely.
Oil prices tumble
Public disapproval of the war has been weighing on Trump and his Re- publican Party ahead of November mid- term elections in which they have to de- fend slim congressional majorities. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted over the weekend showed just one in three Americans support the Iran war, the lowest Reuters/Ipsos reading since the conflict’s early days, with most saying Trump has failed to explain his goals. The end of the U.S. campaign after 13 successive nights of intensifying bomb- ing and Trump’s remarks on talks sent oil prices tumbling. U.S. crude CLc1 fell 8.21% to $81.98 a barrel, and Brent LCOc1fell to $87.77 per barrel, down 9.31% on the day. Trump’s decision to suspend U.S. at- tacks reflected advice from his military that the bombing had reached the limits of what it could achieve, according to a
became a Republican in part because he liked how Republican President George H.W. Bush handled the Gulf War in 1991. Womack, who served in the U.S. Ma- rine Corps during that conflict, said his support for Trump has ebbed because of the war. “I don’t think he’s doing very well, personally,” he said. To date, 18 American soldiers have died in the conflict while thousands have died in Iran and in Lebanon, where Iran-allied fighters have battled Israeli forces. The war has pushed gasoline prices sharply higher, a blow to the fi- nances of many Americans. Gasoline prices are averaging just over $4 a gallon nationwide, up from about $3 a gallon just before the war started. “This puts pressure on the party in a myriad of ways, all of them bad,” said Alex Conant, a Republican political strategist and a White House spokes- man during the presidency of George W. Bush. “The White House officials have been saying since January that they need to win economic arguments. It’s
According to United Nations figures, 18 Palestinians have been killed in inci- dents linked to settler attacks so far this year, compared with 17 in the whole of 2025. The Palestinian Authority says at least 20 Palestinians have been killed by settlers since the start of the year. Since July 24, residents said there have been daily military raids on Tal, with between 60 and 80 people de- tained. About 30 remain in detention according to the deputy head of the vil- lage council Munther Shtayya. In the early hours of July 27, resi- dents said the military threw a man out of his house on the edge of the village. Reuters observed two soldiers standing on the roof of the man’s home. “All of the military is here in the streets,” said Kamal Shtayya, 55, a resi- dent of Tal. As Netanyahu’s government ap- proaches elections in October, it has stepped up authorization for new settle- ment building in a drive ministers say is intended to tighten Israeli control over the West Bank.
U.S. official and several U.S. media re- ports. The U.S. official told Reuters that mil- itary commanders had advised the president they were running out of tar- gets and that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, had expressed concern over the depletion of air munitions. Trump dismissed suggestions that the United States faced munitions shortages, saying the military was rap- idly rebuilding inventories depleted by shipments to Ukraine. He said he would like more of “the more sophisticated stuff.”
Iranian media: 6 ships turned back
Iranian state media outlets cited an “informed source” as saying that Iran had turned around six “offending ships” on July 27 that had attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz without permis- sion. Trump launched his renewed bomb- ing campaign to punish Iran after Teh- ran fired on ships using a route promot- ed by the United States, which told ves-
hard to win the economic arguments when you’re clearly focused on foreign policy.” In campaigning for the 2024 presi- dential election, Trump said he would keep the United States out of enduring conflicts. He initially estimated the Iran war would last four to five weeks. He has bristled over comparisons to other wars, including the Vietnam War, which lasted two decades and claimed the lives of more than 58,000 U.S. sol- diers. Rhyan Anderson, an independent from Fairburn, Georgia, who voted for Trump in 2024, said he thinks Trump should focus on domestic problems rather than on helping Israel. “My biggest thing is just focus on the people who are actually in the country,” said Anderson, who works two jobs in security and data collection and said he voted for Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. “I know we have allies and things like that, but there’s a lot of people here that real- ly need help.”
The United Nations, Palestinians and most countries regard settlements as il- legal under international law. Israel dis- putes this, saying the West Bank, which it captured in the 1967 war, is disputed territory, and citing biblical ties to the land. “I’m patient, we’ll be patient and pa- tient and patient, but at the end of the day, patience runs out. It just flies away, it doesn’t work,” 72-year-old Tal farmer Ahmed Shtayya said. “Any human being defends himself,” he told Reuters. Like many Palestinian farmers, Shtayya, who grows tomatoes, figs and eggplants, has seen settlers come ever closer. He said settlers have come up to him as he has been working, telling him the land belongs to Israel. Just a few hundred yards up the road lies a burned-out home attacked by set- tlers a week ago, according to the vice head of the village council. “I’ve come to this point. If they want to continue like this, there must be an explosion, what else?” Shtayya said.
sels to sail close to the coast of Oman. Iran says ships may pass only through a Hormuz channel that runs closer to its own coast, which it controls and where it intends to impose transit fees. The two weeks of renewed U.S. bombing killed scores in Iran and de- stroyed bridges and tunnels across the south as well as military targets. Four U.S. service members were killed in return fire against U.S. bases in neighboring states. Iran also struck ci- vilian infrastructure in Gulf countries, calling it retaliation for U.S. strikes. It remains unclear what leverage Washington can exert to break Iran’s grip on the strait. Washington and Tehran reached an agreement in June on a framework for talks meant to take place by the end of August to resolve major issues such as Iran’s nuclear program. But they have disputed the meaning of the memorandum’s language about the strait, with Washington insisting it requires Tehran to allow free travel, while Iran says it grants it the authority to supervise transit.
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