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的菜单上 有“真实食物”
帮助美国人健康饮食
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华盛顿 − 准备好迎接一些加入酸菜的餐点吧。美国卫生与公共服务部 (HHS) 部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪 (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) 将与名厨们一起测试他的烹饪技巧，以激励美国人健康饮食。
他在接受《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 的一次独家面对面采访时表示，他推出了一个名为《真实食物秀》(The Real Food Show) 的新烹饪系列节目，旨在帮助将新的《美国人饮食指南》转化为简单且经济实惠的家庭自制餐点。
作为一名发酵食品的布道者（他曾随身携带私藏的酸菜去餐厅），这位 HHS 部长表示，食谱将以泡菜、酸菜和酸奶为特色。
美国卫生与公共服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪 (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) 与名厨 Andrew Gruel 共同参与《真实食物秀》(The Real Food Show) 的一集节目。由 HHS 提供
在准备尝试改变美国人的饮食习惯之际，肯尼迪还谈到了与家人一起烹饪是缓解孤独的良药；他自己的饮食习惯（“我什么都吃，我没有呕吐反射”）；他在唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 总统内阁成员中作为减肥导师的地位；以及他妻子在外出就餐时禁止的一项烹饪习惯。
1 月公布的新饮食指南将每餐的蛋白质、全脂乳制品、蔬菜、水果和全谷物列为优先。随新指南一同推出的口号“吃真实食物”在他周围的影响者圈子（包括拳击传奇迈克·泰森 (Mike Tyson)）中是一句经常重复的格言。
“当我们发布饮食指南时，立即产生了一种积极的反应，但公众和批评者也产生了一点担忧，认为这种食物比我们一直以来食用的超加工食物要贵得多，”
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肯尼迪：隐孢子虫病 (Cyclosporiasis) 暴发“难以追踪”
卫生部长表示，食品监测比以往任何时候都好。3A
杰基，快来接你的男人。 一只年轻的雌性白头海雕被发现停歇在 Shadow 附近并梳理羽毛，而 Shadow 的长期伴侣杰基 (Jackie) 仍在一个距离他们位于加利福尼亚州大熊谷 (Big Bear Valley) 家中 170 英里外的重症监护室里。这只新雕不仅在 Shadow 身边徘徊，而且运营让这些猛禽出名的直播巢穴摄像头的团队表示，他们认为她与杰基发生了一场打斗——
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加拿大皇家骑警 (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) 警员 Marie-Pierre Guertin（左）、Samuel Perreault-Magny 和 Jonathan Maheu 在与美国接壤的边境一条死胡同上巡逻。照片由 TREVOR HUGHES/USA TODAY 拍摄
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纽约-加拿大边境的一段偏远地区被称为“伐带” (the slash) —— 这是一个由两国共同维护的 20 英尺宽的走廊，全长约 1,300 英里。只有少数标牌警告禁止非法越境。
“你会同情这些人。……在我们的制服和徽章背后，我们也是人类。”
加拿大下士 Samuel Perreault-Magny
在 Shadow 身边梳理羽毛
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《今日美国》独家抢先预览 雅各布·特兰布莱饰演青少年 天才 泰德·卡钦斯基（炸弹客）。见 Life 栏目
多雷亚，加拿大 —— 当他们的八轮全地形车（ATV）颠簸地穿过这个边境社区的高草丛时，加拿大皇家骑警的无线电中传来了滋滋的响声：一小群移民已经从纽约偷偷跨越了国际边界，蜷缩在一棵大树下。
加拿大皇家骑警的警员们用法语商讨策略，考虑在这次日常的“猫鼠游戏”中下一步该怎么做。这里位于蒙特利尔西南方向约 90 分钟车程处。加速追捕这些移民？还是呼叫同事支援？
片刻之后，他们决定采取不同的方法。
他们等待。
“这些人已经觉得自己快要没命了。他们只是想要更好的生活。这就是成为一名警察最难的部分。你会同情这些人，比如一个带着 10 岁孩子的母亲，”下士塞缪尔
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在住院之前。一些杰基的长期粉丝将这只新的雌鹰称为“女性乔琳”（Jolene，源自多莉·帕顿的一首关于出轨女子的名曲），而小报报道这一进展时的急促程度，简直就像在报道一场名人出轨丑闻。
“周四，有人看到影子（Shadow）与另一只雌鹰坐在树栖点上，而他的‘孩子妈’杰基正在医院康复，”《加州邮报》在一条推广该三角恋故事的 Facebook 帖子上写道。
“我不知道谁得告诉她，但我知道没有一只叫乔琳的鹰能……
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华盛顿 —— 尽管唐纳德·特朗普总统要求降息，且部分预测认为政策制定者将通过加息来应对高企的通胀，但分歧严重的美联储仍选择观望，维持关键利率不变。
联邦基金利率作为全国利率的基准，继续维持在 3.5% 至 3.75% 的范围内，与今年以来一致。美联储政策制定者肩负着实现最大就业和物价稳定的任务，在 7 月 29 日会议之前，他们从经济数据中收到了截然不同的信号。在经历了三个月的价格飙升和强劲的就业增长后，通胀和招聘在 6 月份有所放缓。
美联储通常会忽略供应端冲击，例如与伊朗战争相关的石油市场动荡，后者在近几个月推高了汽油价格。但一些分析师认为，考虑到美联储主席凯文·沃什针对通胀的强硬立场，维持利率不变可能会危及美联储的信誉。
美联储在决定同时发布的声明中呼应了 6 月发布的声明。政策制定者表示，经济……
愤怒的总统表示
Francesca Chambers, Michael Collins 以及 Michael Loria
华盛顿 —— 美国与伊朗之间战斗的短暂停火状态戛然而止，原因是德黑兰发动了唐纳德·特朗普政府称之为“突袭”的攻击，驻中东的美国军队仅有几分钟的时间将其击落。
这次发生在 7 月 28 日（周二）的弹道导弹袭击，威胁到要重新点燃一场唐纳德·特朗普总统在经过数月谈判后旨在平息的冲突。特朗普在接受福克斯新闻（Fox News）采访时誓言，美国将“把他们（脏话）揍得痛快”。随着沙特阿拉伯加入冲突，且伊朗试图在期中选举临近之际测试特朗普的决心，最新的袭击引发了人们对更大规模战争的担忧。
特朗普承诺的报复性打击于 7 月 29 日东部时间晚上 8 点左右开始。负责监督中东行动的军事部门美国中央司令部宣布了此次打击，称其为“对昨日伊朗企图攻击美国军队的强力回应”。
“我们将非常沉重地打击他们，因为轮到我们打击他们了。他们知道这即将到来，”特朗普早前在白宫告诉记者。
中央司令部周二晚上表示，它与沙特阿拉伯武装部队协调，共同攻击在伊拉克境内对美国部队和沙特能源基础设施发动无人机袭击的伊朗支持的武装分子。
伊朗的袭击发生在以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡在白宫与特朗普会晤讨论战争的数小时之后。内塔尼亚胡周三仍留在华盛顿，并在布莱尔屋（白宫综合体内的宾馆，也是以色列领导人的下榻地）与国防部长皮特·海格塞斯会面。
最新的战斗是否会触发更大规模的冲突？
最新一轮的战斗以及沙特阿拉伯的参与引发了人们对中东地区更大规模冲突的担忧。
事实上，这种情况已经在发生了，非党派研究机构民主防御基金会伊朗项目高级主任 Behnam Ben Taleblu 表示。Taleblu 称，自 2023 年 10 月 7 日哈马斯袭击以色列以来，中东实际上一直陷入区域冲突之中。
“这些是许多不同的行动和许多不同的战斗，”他说道。“沙特人会时而介入，时而退出，其他参与者也会如此。问题是，接下来会发生什么？那个威胁网络将如何反应？”
伊拉克巴特拉（Bartella）7 月 29 日，伊拉克民众动员力量（PMF）的一处阵地在袭击中受损，PMF 表示袭击是由美国和沙特军队实施的。路透社
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经济活动正以稳健的步伐扩张，就业增长与劳动力增长保持同步，且通胀依然高企。
“委员会将实现价格稳定，”美联储再次表示。
在联邦公开市场委员会的 12 名投票成员中，有 9 人投票支持该行动。克利夫兰美联储主席 Beth Hammack、明尼阿波利斯美联储主席 Neel Kashkari 和达拉斯美联储主席 Lorie Logan 则持反对意见，他们更倾向于将目标范围上调 0.25 个百分点。
美联储政策制定者在 2025 年末三次投票降低联邦基金利率的目标范围，每次降低 0.25 个百分点。最近一次行动是在 12 月。
在公告之后举行的凯文·沃什新闻发布会上，他呼应了 7 月早些时候在国会证词中对立法者的表态，表示他并不认为 6 月份通胀的放缓意味着美联储实现价格稳定的目标已经达成。
“我们明白，五年多时间高于目标的通胀，不可能在九周内或通过单月适度的价格下降就治愈，”沃什说。
“我们的信誉建立在履行职责和完成责任之上。美国人有权期待这一点，因为我们国家的繁荣取决于此。”
他补充说，他及其同事正在跟踪经济趋势，而不是单一的报告。
在被追问关于他如何……
沙特阿拉伯国防部周三（7月 29.）宣布，沙特阿拉伯加入美国，共同攻击与伊朗结盟的武装分子。沙特方面表示，沙特袭击了驻伊拉克的伊朗关联民兵组织。
此次袭击标志着沙特正式参战，是以应对伊朗武装分子对该国油气设施的袭击。
沙特国防部官员表示，沙特的袭击与美国中央司令部协调一致。
美国中央司令部确认了与沙特战机的协调攻击，称其目标是伊拉克东部的“伊朗结盟恐怖分子”。据军方官员称，此次攻击是为了回应伊朗指使对该地区美国资产发起的袭击。
美国中央司令部在一份声明中表示：“针对美军的不正当袭击并未取得成功。”
唐纳德·特朗普现在会怎么做？
美国中央司令部在 7月 28 声明中表示，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队及其附属代理人“必须停止这些攻击，以避免美国采取进一步的军事回应”。
塔勒布卢（Taleblu）认为，唐纳德·特朗普不应攻击隧道和桥梁。
塔勒布卢表示，美国及其盟友打击准军事中心和伊朗军事基地可能会更为明智。
同时，也可以将目标定为伊朗司法部门，因为该部门一直在处决伊朗抗议者。
他说：“总统需要扭转对待伊斯兰共和国的局面。”
塔勒布卢表示，虽然唐纳德·特朗普做出回应至关重要，但关键是不能仓促决定。
“如果总统退回到春季时的姿态，即仅对平民基础设施发出威胁，我认为这将使他陷入最糟糕的境地。”
接下来会发生什么？
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第三，他说，委员会考虑了“由这些冲击引起的价格上涨”以及这些上涨是短暂的还是持久的：“这些变化是否表明存在更广泛的通胀动态，还是我们仅仅因为它们处于明亮的路灯下而关注它们？”
最后，该小组讨论了美联储可用于实现物价稳定的货币政策工具和策略。
唐纳德·特朗普称赞凯文·沃什
7月 27,，唐纳德·特朗普称凯文·沃什“太棒了”。他还指责美联储其他董事会成员“带有很强的政治色彩”。
在得知该小组于 7月 29 将基准利率维持不变后，总统再次称赞凯文·沃什。
“凯文有一个董事会。他太棒了。他是个天才。很聪明，”唐纳德·特朗普在椭圆形办公室告诉记者。“我知道他希望能看到更低的利率。但他有一个董事会。这是一个政治董事会。他们想维持高利率。我们通过利率进行博弈。”
TransUnion 研究与咨询高级副总裁查理·怀斯（Charlie Wise）在给今日美国的一份便函中表示，当前的消费信贷市场趋势可能会继续。
他说：“稳定的利率可能给消费者带来更大的信心，让他们继续做出……在不确定性中被推迟的借贷决定。”
最新一轮的战斗以及特朗普倾向于提出随后又撤回威胁的行为，表明双方都在试图在未来的谈判中获得筹码，乔治·W·布什总统时期的国家安全委员会伊朗事务主任艾米莉·哈丁（Emily Harding）表示。
“这就是伊朗的运作方式。他们就喜欢通过这种方式证明，他们将从一场谈判中榨取出最后一丝价值，”哈丁说道。她目前是战略与国际研究中心（CSIS）情报、国家安全与技术项目的主任，该中心是一家总部位于华盛顿、分析国防问题的智库。
由于特朗普认为自己是一位谈判大师，并相信可以通过实力实现和平，“他将试图展示他能变得多么强硬，从而赢得让步，”她说道。
“这也将成为他的一种默认模式：‘我会一直打击你，直到你做出让步。’”
哈丁警告称，这种时断时续的战斗模式可能会一直持续到秋季，直到中期选举之后。
“我认为到11月中旬，特朗普克制自己的动力很小，届时他将在军事方面采取非常强硬的推动，”她说道。
“目前伊朗人没有屈服的动力。
“我认为本届政府对他们的误判在于，即使是我们现在面对的第二梯队和第三梯队领导层，他们仍然有很强的动力去维护国家和维护其意识形态基础。”
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肯尼迪在节目开始前表示。“而且那是不真实的。” 美国卫生与公共服务部 (HHS) 表示，该节目可通过 hhs.gov/real-food-show 观看，将向人们展示如何在可能的情况下，以每份少于 $5 的成本准备健康餐食。 前几集将由主厨安德鲁·格鲁尔 (Andrew Gruel) 和罗伯特·欧文 (Robert Irvine) 主持。在与格鲁尔合作的第一集中，肯尼迪将烹饪一道“苹果白豆绿叶沙拉配脆三文鱼饼”。 肯尼迪的“让美国再次健康” (Make America Healthy Again) 运动在一个跨党派的选民群体（主要是被称为 MAHA 妈妈的人群）中找到了共鸣，该运动承诺通过减少环境毒素、超加工食品和“过度医疗化”来对抗儿童慢性疾病。
我们已经“忘记了如何烹饪”
肯尼迪表示，该节目可以教会人们，在家烹饪可以更便宜且更健康。 “快餐并不便宜，”他说。“那样的一顿饭要花费 $12 到 $14。人们在家里可以吃得便宜得多，而且食物质量更好。但许多美国人已经忘记了如何烹饪。这正在变成一项失传的艺术。”
美国卫生与公共服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪 1 月 8 日在华盛顿公布该部门新的膳食指南食物图表。
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他说，小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪领导的美国卫生与公共服务部的一部分工作将是让美国人“重新接触”烹饪。 根据美国营养学会同行评审期刊《营养研究进展》(Current Developments in Nutrition) 2023 年的一项研究，超过一半的男性和近四分之三的女性经常在家烹饪。
击败孤独的“神圣仪式”
肯尼迪表示，烹饪不仅是一种获得良好营养的方式，而且是一种“被抛弃的神圣仪式”。 “我们国家存在一种 malaise（倦怠感），一种孤独的流行病，”他说。 他表示，成瘾是一种孤独和脱节的疾病。 “而我们开始让人们重新建立联系的方式之一，就是通过重新回归烹饪这一神圣仪式，与家人团聚，创造一些美好且实用的东西，然后与他们坐在一起享受其中。”
“快要取代 Jackie 的位置了，”来自印第安纳州的 Jackie 粉丝 Tracey Michelle 在 TikTok 上发布道。“那是 Jackie 的巢，而 Shadow 是 Jackie 的男人。” 其他白头海雕爱好者则对这种将野生鸟类拟人化的行为感到不满。他们认为这完全是大自然的一部分，而负面的性格刻画是对这些仅仅遵循本能的生物的不尊重。 尽管专家表示，现在判断 Jolene 是否在试图诱惑 Shadow 交配还为时过早，但这一进展让白头海雕爱好者们好奇：他会等待多久？
这只新来的雌鹰真的是入侵者吗？
根据大熊谷之友（Friends of Big Bear Valley）的说法，在 Jackie 和 Shadow 巢穴附近出没的这只雌性白头海雕是一只亚成鸟，据信大约 31⁄2 岁。该组织自 2015 年起一直运行一个猛禽巢穴摄像头的实时直播。 她被认为是亚成鸟，因为白头海雕直到 5 岁左右才达到成熟期，这个年龄通常是它们开始交配和产卵的时候。 该组织表示，在某些情况下，海雕在 4 岁时就开始产卵。 该组织认为，同一只雌鸟曾在 2023 年停留在 Jackie 附近，而当时 Jackie 并没有表现出太强的领地意识，因为那时不是筑巢季节。
美国卫生与公共服务部部长迅速将家中更好的厨师之名归功于他的妻子，演员谢丽尔·海因斯（Cheryl Hines）。 小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪表示，虽然他每天做两顿“简易”餐，但他的妻子是“好得多的厨师”。 当有客人来访或孩子们回家时，海因斯会接管平底锅。 “她热爱烹饪，也热爱烘焙，”他说。“她是一个非常、非常出色的厨师。” 他的拿手菜包括鸡蛋、培根、芝士汉堡和汉堡包。 “我可以做一份非常棒的欧姆蛋，”小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪说道，并补充说他是跟 Gruel 厨师学的。然后，他的特长是牛排、肉类和鱼类。”
有一种吃酸菜的方法
小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪已知是发酵食品的爱好者，他说他习惯于自带酸菜去餐厅。 “我以前随身携带，但收到了太多投诉。” 当被问到投诉是否来自同行食客时，小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪说：“主要是我妻子。酸菜很难携带且容易洒出来。一旦洒了，就会引发其他问题。” 他也不自己制作酸菜。 “我用商店买的酸菜，”他说。 随后，这位美国卫生与公共服务部部长描述了正确的食用方法。 “你应该采取‘一口接一口’的方式来吃，”他说。“吃一口肉，吃一口酸菜。这可以说是规定的、完美地食用方式。不过，你知道，我并不总是每次尝试时都能做得那么完美。”
特朗普内阁的减肥大师
不仅是小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪在采用这种“肉类与发酵食品”饮食法。 他说，其他追随者还包括副总统 JD Vance、商务部长 Howard Lutnick 和交通部长 Sean Duffy。 他表示，他们通过这种饮食法都减轻了体重。 成为特朗普内阁的减肥大师感觉如何？“压力很大，”他笑着说。
“我真的什么都吃”
当被问到吃过最奇异的食物时，小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪说：“我真的什么都吃，因为我没有呕吐反射。” “我喜欢尝试各种食物。旅行时，我会吃……街头摊贩做的菜。” 尽管小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪可能是纯肉饮食的爱好者，但他也曾多次尝试纯素饮食。 但这种尝试从未持续太久。 “我就是有一种渴望，一种对蛋白质的原始渴望，”他说。 他开玩笑说，他的妻子会说他仅仅坚持了 24 小时。 “我准备好了厨房，在能力范围内做了所有准备，但我无法在这种饮食下坚持太久，”他说。“我一直觉得饿。”
一只“亚成鸟”雌性白头海雕被 Shadow 和 Jackie 的资深鹰巢摄像头粉丝昵称为 Jolene。
由大熊谷之友（FRIENDS OF BIG BEAR VALLEY）提供
根据7月26日的一篇Facebook帖子。 “杰基完全不在意那只亚成年鹰与她一同栖息，”帖子称，“事实上，她继续理毛且显得非常放松，尽管偶尔会瞥一眼另一只老鹰以监视其动向。” 在杰基发生冲突并住院之前，没有人再次在意那只亚成年鹰。大熊谷的朋友们表示，那只鹰很可能是与杰基发生打斗的两只亚成年鹰之一，并且现在一直盘旋在巢穴周围。此后，杰基一直住在奥海猛禽中心（Ojai Raptor Center）住院，在那里她接受了“挽救生命的输血”，并针对一种神秘疾病接受检测和治疗，护理人员认为该病在打斗之前就已经出现。她目前仍处于危重状态。
美国卫生与公共服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪在接受《今日美国》采访时，为联邦食品监测辩护。JOSH MORGAN/USA TODAY 小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪：食品追踪比以往任何时候都“更好”
称人员削减并非主因
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, Bart Jansen 以及 Sara Moniuszko
华盛顿 —— 美国卫生与公共服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪在接受《今日美国》的一次独家采访中表示，尽管数千人因爆发性腹泻疫情而生病，但食源性疾病的监测工作“比以往任何时候都运行得更好”。
肯尼迪表示，疫情在每年夏天都会发生，联邦当局已迅速对其进行追踪。
在采访中，肯尼迪提到了 2018 年 9 月的情况，当时在联邦疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）于 6 月首次收到相关病例通知后，一次跨州环孢子虫病（cyclosporiasis）疫情被宣布结束。同年 7 月 13 日，与此次疫情相关的零售商自愿停止销售其沙拉（该产品被怀疑为致病源），FDA 在 7 月 26 日完成了对该产品的最终分析。
如今，环孢子虫病（一种以引起爆发性腹泻而闻名的令人反胃的寄生虫感染）的病例已波及 45 个州。在部分病例中，来自墨西哥的加工生菜与疫情相关。
“我们已经建立了监测系统，且其运行效果在历史上是最好的，”肯尼迪说。他否认 CDC 的人员削减损害了疾病监测。
去年，联邦卫生官员缩减了“食源性疾病主动监测网络”（Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network），该计划数十年来一直追踪美国的食物中毒感染。与大肠杆菌或沙门氏菌等其他食源性疾病不同，环孢子虫病是一种可污染食物和水的寄生虫感染。
CDC 表示，这项名为 FoodNet 的计划将不再被要求监测其追踪的 10 种病原体中的 8 种，其中包括环孢子虫。
尽管有人好奇这只新出现的雌鸟是否为 Jackie 和 Shadow 的后代，但“大熊谷之友”（Friends of Big Bear Valley）认为可能性不大，因为年龄与这对伴侣的任何幼鸟都不匹配。
Shadow，“野性且自由”， 可能会随心所欲
在 7 月 22 日看到这只亚成鸟与 Shadow 共同栖息后，“大熊谷之友”发布消息称，这只雄鸟对此“有很多话要说”。
该组织并未详细说明，直到在接下来的几天里再次看到她与他在一起。在另一篇帖子中，该组织表示，当后代 Sandy 和 Luna 还在巢中时，Shadow 对这只亚成鸟表现出了一些防御行为。
但该组织表示，Sandy 和 Luna 已有几天未在该区域出现，这可能表明它们已经“开启了生命之旅”——这是每只老鹰生命中的一个里程碑，通常发生在它们离巢约四周后。
该组织称，如果 Sandy 和 Luna 确实已经离开，Shadow 可能会降低领地意识。他们表示，Shadow “是一只野性且自由的老鹰”，“他向哪个方向发展取决于他自己”。
特拉华大学微生物食品安全教授 Kalmia Kniel 告诉《今日美国》，数据的丢失可能会阻碍卫生官员追踪病例、确定源头并阻止进一步传播的能力。Kniel 说：“我们可以利用的信息大大减少了。我认为我们现在正看到其中的一些影响。”
肯尼迪表示，环孢子虫病由于有两周的潜伏期而难以追踪；相比之下，贾第鞭毛虫或隐孢子虫引起的疾病会让人们立即发病。肯尼迪说：“很多时候，等到人们开始生病，那些‘罪魁祸首’农产品已经从市场上下架了，很难追踪到具体是什么。”
专家们一致认为，与食源性疾病相关的疫情可能难以追踪，而环孢子虫病的寄生特性和长潜伏期增加了挑战。 “当你面对一个难以对付的病菌时……”
“要查明原因，就像隐孢子虫病（cyclosporiasis）那样，需要更长的时间［来追踪］。这需要花费更多的时间，做更多的基础工作，”食品安全律师比尔·马勒（Bill Marler）告诉《今日美国》。马勒表示，他预计这将是一次漫长的调查，特别是考虑到由于预算削减和解雇，CDC和FDA的人员已大幅精简。肯尼迪在 29 日发表的评论之际，密歇根州卫生官员报告了 10,077 例隐孢子虫病病例，比前一天更新时增加了 397 例。密歇根州卫生部门报告称，截至 7 月 23 日共有 160 例住院病例，但无死亡病例。美国食品药品监督管理局的一项调查将此次爆发与 Taco Bell 餐厅提供的冰山生菜联系起来，这些生菜源自墨西哥中部的私营公司 Taylor Farms 的经营点。但鉴于此次爆发的规模，当局仍在寻找其他潜在来源。CDC 已
收到 6,707 例经实验室确认的国内隐孢子虫病病例报告。该机构表示，它已知在 45 个州还有 11,500 多个额外病例，这些病例尚未经过实验室确认或需要进一步调查。 贡献者：Mary Walrath-Holdridge
近十年时间，并共同抚育了八只雏鹰。 “我高度怀疑 Shadow 现在是否能找到另一个配偶，因为现在不是繁殖季节，”阿拉斯加猛禽中心（Alaska Raptor Center）的鸟类主管詹妮弗·塞德利夫（Jennifer Cedarleaf）表示，该中心一年中最多治疗过 150 只白头海雕。“但如果 Jackie 出了什么事，明年没有出现，他会找另一个配偶的。” 通过多年的观察，“大熊谷之友”（Friends of Big Bear Valley）表示，Jackie 的生殖激素通常在 12 月开始起作用。他们说，Shadow 在月底或 1 月初激素起作用之前，“通常会处于一种 12 月的暴躁状态”。 虽然大多数海雕终身制配对，但 Jackie 和 Shadow 已经经历过一次三角恋。Jackie 的第一个配偶被称为 Mr. B，两人在 2018. 年育有两个雏鹰。其中一只雏鹰在一次 24 小时的雨暴后死亡，但另一只名为 Stormy 的雏鹰存活了下来，并在那个夏天离开了大熊谷。 不久之后，一只新的雄鹰来到镇上，赶走了 Mr. B 并赢得了 Jackie 的心。那个入侵者就是 Shadow。 从那时起，这对伴侣经历了所有事情，从降下数英寸积雪的冬季风暴，到乌鸦袭击它们的巢穴并吃掉它们的蛋。该组织表示，它们之间有着“难以置信的纽带”。 “但话说回来，Shadow 还是会做他想做的事，”该组织提醒那些可能在为潜在的心碎做准备的粉丝们。“这件事我们说了不算。”
今日美国
今日美国
拜登
他保留了 机密 文件
幕后细节
Terry Collins
在一家保守派智库公布的材料中，乔·拜登告诉一名代笔作者，他保留了担任副总统期间的机密信息。7月27日，遗产基金会（Heritage Foundation）旗下的监督项目（Oversight Project）公布了三小时的音频和117页的转录文本。此前，这位前总统撤回了一项旨在阻止其与回忆录代笔作者马克·刘易斯·兹沃尼泽（Mark Lewis Zwonitzer）的对话公开的诉讼。在2016年10月一次关于奥巴马政府处理敏感外交政策事务的采访中，拜登告诉兹沃尼泽：“他们甚至不知道我有这个。”拜登在奥巴马政府期间担任了两届副总统。在一段2017年的音频剪辑中，拜登告诉兹沃尼泽，他在家中发现了2009年与阿富汗战略相关的文件。拜登说：“我刚好在楼下发现了所有这些机密资料。我给[当时的总统巴拉克·奥巴马]写了一份40页的手写备忘录，反对向伊拉克——我的意思是向阿富汗——部署额外部队，理由是这没有意义，离开的那一天就像到达之前的那一天一样。”这些音频和转录文本的公布，是在拜登的律师于7月24日在华盛顿美国地方法院提交自愿撤诉通知几天之后。在对潜在机密信息进行脱敏处理后，这些材料被公开。在此前一个月，一名联邦法官裁定，与拜登回忆录相关的数小时音频记录可以移交给遗产基金会，驳回了他阻止披露的请求。美国地方法院法官达布尼·弗里德里希（Dabney Friedrich）在6月20日的裁决中表示，尽管拜登的隐私利益确实存在，但公众对这些材料的兴趣以及政府在《信息自由法》下促进透明度的义务更重要。这些录音源自拜登2017年为撰写关于其儿子博·拜登（Beau Biden）去世的回忆录而接受兹沃尼泽的采访。司法部在特别检察官罗伯特·赫尔（Robert Hur）2023年对拜登处理机密文件进行调查期间获得了这些材料。赫尔最终在2024年2月决定不对拜登提起指控，但表示这位前总统在这些对话背景下分享了机密材料。赫尔表示，他认为陪审团会认为拜登是一个令人同情的人物，因为他当时74岁，且赫尔将其描述为“记忆力不佳”。拜登的长期发言人TJ Ducklo没有立即回应今日美国（USA TODAY）的置评请求，但告诉美联社，监督项目公布这些材料是出于政治动机。Ducklo表示：“拜登总统十年前为了写书而进行的关于其已故儿子的对话是私人的，且是在明确要求保持私密的条件下提供给司法部的。现在改变立场将其公开，正是本届政府将司法部武器化以进行政治报复的最新例子。”音频还详细描述了拜登与奥巴马会面，并就他是否应该在2016年竞选总统提供建议的情况。拜登回忆道：“他说是否参选是我的决定，与大局无关。”拜登指出，奥巴马质疑他是否能在民主党提名中击败希拉里·克林顿，奥巴马告诉他这将是“一场真正的艰苦战”。拜登说：“事实是他当时认为这不可行，认为我不能，我实际上不能出去赢得提名。那是我当时的看法。”拜登最终没有在2016年竞选民主党总统提名，决定等到2020年。 贡献：Anthony Thompson
对COVID、特朗普和名声的见解
Eduardo Cuevas
安东尼·福西（Anthony Fauci）博士的个人日记已被用于对他发起的新一轮攻击。这位顶尖免疫学家曾是国家应对 COVID-19 疫情的公众代表。
通过传票获取的这本日记共有 1,500 多页，其作者是现年 85 岁的前国家过敏和传染病研究所所长，现已进入公开记录。前政府官员的私人个人写作被政府获取并向公众公布的情况十分罕见。在本案中，福西的日记是在政府服务器上创建并存储的。
这些页面由肯塔基州共和党籍联邦参议员兰德·保罗（Rand Paul）公布，揭示了福西对诸多问题的看法，从 COVID-19 的起源及其随后的公共卫生应对，到他与唐纳德·特朗普总统之间充满争议的关系，以及福西自身的名人效应。保罗领导参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会，一直在调查 COVID-19 的起源，而这些日记最终是由美国卫生与公共服务部（HHS）部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）转交的。
日记的内容涵盖了 2001 至 2015, 以及从 2020 年 1 月（大流行初期）到 2022. 12 月的记录。世界卫生组织估计，全球有超过 7 million 人死于 COVID-19，其中美国有 1.2 million 人。
以下是福西写作中的四个显著话题，并附有其日记中直接且未经编辑的引用。在 7 月 29 参议院听证会上，福西多次援引宪法第 5 修正案（19, 19）中关于不自证其罪的权利。
COVID-19 的起源
在 2020, 年初，他的日记条目包括调查当时这种新型冠状病毒的起源，其中涵盖了许多共和党人持有的观点，即该病毒起源于中国武汉病毒研究所，且美国的资金资助促成了该病毒的产生。多项研究表明，现有证据显示病毒是自然地从动物传染给人类的。在 1 月 3, 2020, 他描述了武汉出现的“不寻常的肺炎病例”。他几乎每天更新关于 COVID-19 的情况，包括病例数和入境旅客的情况。
在 2020 年 1 月下旬，他描述了关于导致大流行的病毒及其制造方式的“阴谋论”，以及该人造病毒是故意还是无意中释放的。他说：“我建议我们在一个召集机构的赞助下，聚集一个更大规模的合格进化生物学家/病毒学家群体，仔细研究此事。我们同意次日通过电话召集会议。”
在 2021, 他说他面临来自右翼的压力，特别是来自保罗的压力。但他表示，美国向武汉实验室提供的资金导致病毒产生在“分子层面是不可能的”。同年 8 月，他还提到众议院共和党人继续推行“实验室泄漏导致 COVID-19 且国立卫生研究院（NIH）在其中扮演了角色”的观点，但福西表示这“没有任何新信息或数据的支持”。
他说，这些指控源于关于特朗普赢得 2020 年选举的“大谎言”（尽管他在普选票和选举人团票数中均告失败），且认为特朗普关于中国导致病毒产生是对的，而福西帮助制造了病毒。“接下来，抹黑福西，这样看起来就像特朗普在说实话，”他在 8 月 2, 2021 写道。“这很简单且显而易见”
“一场旨在让特朗普连任并免除他在应对 COVID-19 这一彻底混乱局面中任何责任的协同努力。”一项 2022 年的研究提供了证据，表明冠状病毒起源于海鲜市场的动物，并建议进一步研究。世界卫生组织在 2025 年发布的一份报告中称，其对病毒起源有了更多的了解，但仍需要更多信息，而中国不愿提供。2025, 美国中央情报局（CIA）表示，病毒来自实验室而非自然的“可能性更大”，尽管其表示对该评估的“信心较低”。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 唐纳德·特朗普总统在 2020 年白宫的一次冠状病毒简报会上，观看安东尼·福齐（Anthony Fauci）回答问题。LEAH MILLIS/路透社
学校关闭
回想起来，长达数周甚至数月的学校关闭，成为了人们反弹公共卫生指令（这些指令旨在遏制 COVID-19 传播）的导火索，尽管当时官员们正试图进一步了解人们是如何相互感染的。 在 2020, 1 月下旬，福齐写道中国官员关闭了学校，并且他开始提到美国人也需要关闭学校。 3 月 15 日，在大约各城市和州开始实施封锁令的时候，福齐提到了他与前纽约市市长比尔·德布拉西奥（Bill de Blasio）以及加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽森（Gavin Newsom）关于在这两个民主党控制的司法管辖区关闭学校的对话。在疫情初期，纽约市成为了该国疫情的中心。 一天后，他说他制定了一套“更激进的缓解” 15 天策略，其中包括关闭学校。 随后在 4 月，他提到了与共和党人、佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯（Ron DeSantis）的对话，德桑蒂斯希望保持学校开放，但福齐说德桑蒂斯随后表示他正在评估情况。 之后，他表示向总统首席助手马克·梅多斯（Mark Meadows）澄清过，他从未说过不要开放学校，而是认为在学校重新开放时疫苗应该准备就绪。尽管如此，在 7 月初，福齐说：“特朗普不惜一切代价想要开放学校。显然他根本不在意孩子的安全。”
在 8 月，他承认默认立场应该是重新开放学校，因为考虑到“对儿童的心理影响”，以及许多儿童依赖学校的早餐和午餐。
福齐写道，特朗普是“真正的尴尬”且是“一个非常奇怪的人”
福齐在特朗普第一任期内及其之后发表了多次贬低特朗普的言论。在不同的段落中，福齐称特朗普“失去控制”、“真正的尴尬”以及“一个非常奇怪的人”。 “特朗普在推动开放国家并让经济在选举日之前恢复方面失去了控制，”福齐在 22, 2020 年 5 月写道。 “他绝望了，”福齐写道（此处有拼写错误）。“这一切都是为了连任。” 在夏天，他写到了与特朗普的关系，其中总统对福齐的态度是“还可以”，告诉记者他们的关系很好，但同时又转发攻击福齐的帖子。 “他是一个非常奇怪的人，”福齐在 28, 2020, 7 月的日记条目中写道。 在 2020 年选举前的几天，福齐在 10 月 15 日表示：“随着选举临近，病例在增加，且随着我们进入寒冷天气，激增是不可避免的。特朗普在竞选活动中胡言乱语。他真的失去了控制。真正的尴尬。”
福齐如何面对名声？
福齐在领导美国国家过敏和传染病研究所期间，为 7 位美国总统服务，在任职 40 多年后于 2022 年辞职。尽管他是 HIV/AIDS 等研究领域的支柱，但在开始出现在新闻简报会和新闻网络采访之前，大多数美国公众并不知晓他。 在他的日记中，他重点记录了几篇关于他的重大新闻报道。他的这些记录已成为批评者攻击他自我宣传的素材。 撰稿人：乔伊·加里森（Joey Garrison）和埃琳·曼斯菲尔德（Erin Mansfield）
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朋友、家人、同事和选民在充满情感的仪式上向参议员林赛·格雷厄姆告别，深情缅怀他的幽默感、个人魅力以及对公开辩论的热爱。这位来自南卡罗来纳州的共和党人于7月11日意外去世，享年 71 岁。他在被安葬于南卡罗来纳州皮肯斯县的出生地之前，在国会大厦圆形大厅获得了致敬，并在华盛顿国家大教堂举行了纪念仪式。特朗普在座无虚席的大教堂的悼词中说，格雷厄姆“是个坚强的人，但他也很美好”，“他是一股自然力量，我会非常想念他”。
布莱恩·科伯格是一名刑事司法专业研究生，他此前承认在 2022 年谋杀 Idaho 四名大学生并被判处四次终身监禁，而现在他声称自己无罪。31 岁的科伯格提交了一份所谓的“定罪后救济申请”，并在接受《纽约时报》采访时声称自己是被误导而认罪的。“我的实际清白就是我的真相，”他说道。科伯格的认罪曾导致受害者家属产生分歧，因为这使他避免了审判和死刑。针对他的新主张，其中一个家庭称他为“一只怎么拍都拍不死的蚊子”。
如果薪资增长能说明问题，那么建筑业正处于繁荣时期。人力资源和薪资服务提供商 ADP 的一项分析显示，自 2023, 8月以来，在建筑业中跳槽的工人在几乎每个月的薪资增长都超过了所有其他就业部门的员工。6月份，建筑业跳槽者的薪资同比增长了 12.9%，这表明电工、管道工、木匠和暖通空调（HVAC）专业人员的职业投资正在获得回报。ADP 研究负责人兼首席经济学家内拉·理查森写道，这些独特技能“可以是赚大钱的另一个宝贵门径”，“专业贸易是年度‘最热门’职业”。
并徒步 10 英里获救
Anthony Thompson
据其好友及多篇新闻报道，一名蒙大拿州护士在一次罕见的徒步事故中被自己的登山杖穿透，他凭借医学训练和坚强意志，艰难跋涉 10 多英里才抵达安全地带。
据福克斯新闻（Fox News）和蒙大拿州电视台 KTMF 报道，伤员大卫·奇法尔迪（David Cifaldi）是一名伤口护理诊所护士，曾任急诊室护士。 July 20 时，他与 2 名朋友在攀登蒙大拿州最高峰——花岗岩峰（Granite Peak）时，在上升过程中因踩到松动的岩石而滑落。
这次坠落导致他的一根登山杖刺穿了他的侧腹，登山杖被卡在体内。奇法尔迪告诉 KTMF，这次事故“简直太诡异了”。
奇法尔迪表示，在意识到发生了什么之后，他的医学本能占据了主导。他评估了自己的伤势，判定伤口严重，但没有立即危及生命。
据 KTMF 报道，奇法尔迪说：“我想我的‘护士大脑’启动了。一旦我能够进行自我评估并确定目前没有生命危险，我就相当确信自己能靠自己的力量下山。”
奇法尔迪在登山杖仍卡在体内的状态下徒步走出
根据奇法尔迪的朋友杰西·罗斯（Jesse Ross）创建的 GoFundMe 页面，这名护士在踩到一块松动的岩石并掉了一根登山杖后，在海拔约 11,800 英尺的高度坠落。罗斯在筹款页面上写道，登山杖穿透了他的背阔肌，两个伤口之间约有 8 英寸的距离。奇法尔迪报告称没有大出血，没有失去知觉，也没有关键部位被击中的迹象。
奇法尔迪和他的朋友们决定不取出登山杖，而是尝试自救。该小组小心地
一名蒙大拿州护士在攀登该州最高峰花岗岩峰时受伤。他徒步走回 10 英里抵达安全地带。
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转身并开始艰难的下山过程，此时登山杖仍从奇法尔迪的身体中伸出。
一名朋友使用卫星通讯器联系搜救队，另一名朋友则留在奇法尔迪身边监测他的情况。奇法尔迪还要求其中一名朋友先行前进，警告后续行走的徒步者，以免他们意外地与他相遇。
经过大约 61⁄2 小时的徒步，该小组抵达了起点。在被送往医院之前，奇法尔迪在崎岖的地形中行走 10 多英里。
山岳救援后医生取出登山杖
罗斯表示，奇法尔迪被送往约两小时车程外的比林格斯（Billings）的一家急诊室，医生在那里将登山杖取出。
罗斯说，从坠落到取出，登山杖在他体内停留了 8 到 9 个小时。奇法尔迪目前在家里继续康复，并希望能够重新回到患者护理工作中。截至 July 28,，奇法尔迪的 GoFundMe 已筹集了 $4,900 多，目标金额为 $8,000。
在回想这次事故时，奇法尔迪说，他知道结果可能会糟糕得多。
他告诉 KTMF：“我觉得非常幸运。如果位置偏移几英寸，这就是另一个故事了。”
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龙卷风 破坏景象
威斯康星州多蒂岛（Doty Island）的社区在一场最高风速达 165 英里/小时的龙卷风席卷该地区后清理残骸，许多街区被摧毁。
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卡莉·西蒙（Carly Simon）是婴儿潮一代的标志性人物，以 70 年代的金曲如《You’re So Vain》、《Nobody Does It Better》、《Anticipation》和《Mockingbird》而闻名，她目前正在与帕金森病作斗争。这位 83, 歌手在给《今日美国》的一份声明中确认了她的病情，并表示淡出公众视线是她应对健康挑战的方式之一：“如果一个人被允许在冬季和夏季都冬眠，那么我已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。”她的新专辑《Comes in Waves》将于 Aug. 14 发行。
村上宗隆
村上宗隆或许还只是个新人，但他已经创造了职业生涯的高光日。这位来自日本的芝加哥白袜队 26 岁的一垒之星，在以 12-3 大胜休斯顿太空人队的比赛中，贡献了 6 次打点并轰出两支全垒打——而这正是在为他举办的摇头娃娃赠送日。惊喜并未就此停止：村上宗隆的父母也到场为比赛投出了开球（父亲 Kimiya 投出了一个弹跳球，而母亲 Fumiyo 则投出了一个完美的弧线球）。“感觉太棒了，”他随后通过翻译说道，“现在真的超级兴奋。” −由 Robert Abitbol 编译
Perreault-Magny 表示：“我们有很多同情心。确实有一些罪犯在跨境，但也有一些人想要跨境是为了获得更好的生活。在制服和徽章之后，我们也是人。”这种策略与加拿大边境以南常见的情况截然不同，在那样的地方，受总统 唐纳德·特朗普 鼓动的联邦移民当局采取激进手段，拦截并拘留非法进入美国或在没有许可的情况下留在该国的人员。美国特工的这种做法招致了显著批评，包括佩戴面具以及枪击导致移民和美国公民抗议者死亡。在这种背景下，加拿大皇家骑警向《今日美国》提供了一个罕见的幕后视角，展示他们的运作方式。通过船只、无标志皮卡车和全地形车（ATV）巡逻，加拿大的联邦官员演示了他们如何确保南部边境免受美国移民政策、宽松的枪支法律以及对包括芬太尼在内的非法药物需求的后果影响。他们向在世界上最长边境线上遇到的主要是妇女和儿童的群体展示了一种不同的方式：他们佩戴身份证件和身体摄像头，但不遮盖面部。而且，移民很少死在他们手中。据一名发言人称，魁北克的加拿大皇家骑警没有枪击导致移民死亡的记录。根据人权观察组织（Human Rights Watch）的数据，自 2000 年以来，至少有 17 人在加拿大移民拘留监管期间死亡，其中大多数死在省监狱中。相比之下，根据《今日美国》的移民执法追踪器，自特朗普在 2025 年 1 月重新入主白宫以来，至少有 53 人在 ICE 拘留期间死亡。多年来，两国之间的跨境活动要随意得多，不需要护照。在许多地区，社区被边界分割，人们只需走过去而无需经过移民检查。边境管制在 1976 年蒙特利尔奥运会之前收紧，随后在 2001 年 9/11 袭击后再次收紧。特朗普在第一任期内进一步采取严厉措施，并在 2025 年重返办公室后加倍强化。与加拿大同行一样，美国官员使用巡逻船、车辆和远程摄像头监测边境。“这里没有墙，塔楼里也没有拿着步枪的人，但我们 24/7 全天候在此，”Perreault-Magny 在其团队巡逻该区域时说道。每天，小规模的移民群体在这段遥远的美加边境地区跨境，方向双向。走私者将枪支向北运送，将药物向两个方向运送。虽然大多数移民步行通过森林茂密的区域，但其他人尝试乘船跨境，特别是在跨越边境的 Akwesasne 莫霍克印第安原住民保留地。加拿大当局优先逮捕走私者。“这些人是我们可以送进监狱或驱逐出加拿大的，”Perreault-Magny 说道。尽管在特朗普领导下，人们将大量注意力集中在墨西哥边境，但白宫也将加强加拿大边境的执法视为重点。特朗普政府抱怨说，加拿大未能确保其侧的 5,525 英里长边境的安全，这条边境横跨森林、山脉和大湖区。在特朗普任内，从加拿大入境的次数大幅下降。2024 年，美国官员报告北边境发生了近 200,000 次“遭遇”。去年，这一数字下降至 85,746。上个月，美国官员拦截了约 5,000 名非法跨境人员。根据加拿大统计数据，2026 年第一季度有 74 人在从美国进入加拿大的过程中被抓获。但加拿大皇家骑警表示，随着特朗普加强美国移民执法，他们现在看到寻求在加拿大避难的人数有所增加。
几乎没有逃脱的机会
聚集在树下的移民们并不知情，但加拿大皇家骑警在他们跨越边境之前就已经盯上了他们。
由于连接纽约州北部与魁北克省南部的这片边境地区如此偏远，移民们几乎没有逃脱的机会。该地区只有少数几条公路穿过，且骑警们能认出当地农民的车辆。此外，警员们还配备了无人机和直升机，用于追踪潜伏在黑暗中的人员。
最终，一辆汽车或小型面包车会沿着狭窄的土路缓缓驶来，准备接走那些支付了至少 $1,000 以换取 GPS 坐标和跨境指引的移民。有时，他们会叫出租车，或向当地人询问如何前往蒙特利尔，甚至前往数百英里外的多伦多。就在这时，在附近守候的骑警们会迅速出击。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 加拿大皇家骑警的乔纳森·马赫（Jonathan Maheu）中士驾驶着一辆全地形车（ATV），沿着纽约州边境附近被称为“砍伐线”（the slash）的边界线行驶。巡逻过程大体平静；美国和加拿大的当局有时会在边界线上非正式地会面聊天。 lPHOTOS BY TREVOR HUGHES/USA TODAY
海地移民人数上升
特朗普将极大的关注点放在了美墨边境，部署军队，扩建边境墙，并遣返大多数寻求庇护的跨境者。与此同时，他在国内加强了移民执法，包括取消数十万长期居民的临时保护身份（TPS），其中包括逃离家园的海地人。
美国和加拿大之间有一项长期协议，要求逃离迫害的人员必须在他们首先踏入的国家申请庇护。两国在 2023 年 3 月达成的一项协议堵住了一个漏洞，此前该漏洞允许潜入美国边境进入加拿大的人员寻求庇护。
“你希望能够更好地帮助他们，但这绝对不是我们希望人们进入我国的方式。不幸的是，尽管我同情他们，但我们仍有工作要做，而且我们会执行。”
—— 塞缪尔·佩雷奥-马尼（Samuel Perreault-Magny）下士
现在，大多数被截获非法进入加拿大的人员会被立即遣返回美国，而在特朗普政府的政策下，他们的庇护申请通常会被拒绝。在从美国跨境的庇护申请者例外情况中，有一项是针对能够逃避抓捕两周的人员，这将重新启动庇护申请的时间表。
与美墨边境不同，美加边境大多缺乏物理障碍。相反，大部分边境线穿过广阔的森林。冬季积雪深厚；夏季，蚊子和蜱虫会攻击任何没有喷涂骑警口中所谓的“夏季香水”——驱虫喷雾的人。
骑警表示，在 2023 年加美协议签署后，他们发现从事双向跨境走私人员的犯罪组织数量有所增加。在某些情况下，前往美国南下的移民与潜入加拿大并等待 14 天期限届满的人员住在同一处蒙特利尔安全屋中。
难民期。 Perreault-Magny 表示，他知道大多数移民只是在追求更好的生活。 “你希望能够更好地帮助他们，但这绝对不是我们希望人们进入我国的方式，”Perreault-Magny 说道。“不幸的是，尽管我同情他们，但我们仍有工作要完成，而且我们会完成它——请不要误会。” 特朗普和美国移民官员经常将移民描述为从内部摧毁国家的入侵力量。他们公开点名并羞辱那些被驱逐出境的人，在许多情况下甚至强迫他们摆拍拍照。相比之下，他们的加拿大同行则给予每位移民尊严，包括禁止记者在他们被拘留期间拍摄照片。 Perreault-Magny 是一位幼儿的父亲，他表示曾看到母亲们抱着婴儿穿过森林，他们的脚上包裹着铝箔以抵御冬日的严寒。他曾在齐腰深的积雪中追踪其他移民团体长达七个多小时，在试图逮捕他们的同时，也担心他们的安全。
人权组织发出呼吁
美国与加拿大之间日益增加的紧张来源是对寻求庇护者的待遇。根据 2023 年的协议，非法从美国进入加拿大寻求庇护的人几乎总是会被遣返，理由是这两个国家会对他们给予同等待遇。但国际特赦组织和其他人权组织认为，在特朗普激进的执法下，美国现在经常违反被拘留者的人权。 “每天都有逃离危险的人出现在加拿大边境，对如果被遣返回美国将会发生什么表示深切恐惧，”加拿大难民委员会主席 Asma Faizi 说道。 国际特赦组织和其他团体正代表一个洪都拉斯家庭提起诉讼。该家庭成员在得知特朗普政府拒绝了他们 2022 年在马里兰州的庇护申请后，于去年在加拿大寻求庇护。这家人——一对夫妇和他们年幼的儿子——表示，特朗普政府在没有解释的情况下取消了他们的庇护申请，为了避免被强行送回危险的母国，他们寻求在加拿大避难。 根据 2023, 年的协议，该家庭成员被从加拿大驱逐出境，在德克萨斯州迪利（Dilley）一个备受争议的家庭移民拘留中心被羁押了两周，随后被驱逐回洪都拉斯，目前他们仍处于潜逃状态。 国际特赦组织的移民律师 Julia Sande 表示，观察美国如何对待被拘留者令许多加拿大人感到惊恐。 “随着政策的变化，随着人们被剥夺身份，随着这场混乱在美国展开，如果人们不再觉得在美国安全，他们当然会来加拿大，”Sande 说道。 “我们一直听到人们担心美国正在发生的事情。他们惊恐地看着大规模的驱逐和拘留，以及刻意的残酷和混乱。”
跨境可能致命
除了巡逻陆地边界外，Perreault-Magny 及其同事还监测圣劳伦斯河，该河流在纽约州北部大部分地区构成了美国与加拿大的边界。这里点缀着小岛，是毒品、枪支和人口走私者的黄金地带。最近，Perreault-Magny 和他的同事 Jonathan Maheu 中士驾驶巡逻艇在水面上以约 35 mph 的速度航行，并减速检查经过的船只。Maheu 说，人们会对走私者如此频繁地在船上装载人员并表现得像不打算跨境一样而感到惊讶。2023 年，一个罗马尼亚家庭的四名成员在 3 月的一场冬日风暴中因船只沉没而全部溺亡。美国检察官表示，该家庭是通过阿克韦萨尼莫霍克（Akwesasne Mohawk）印第安保留地从加拿大被走私到美国的。该保留地横跨加拿大和美国，且
Maheu表示，管辖权的重叠可能会使走私变得更容易。“在某些地方，你只需把一袋枪扔过小溪就过了边境，或者乘船行驶10分钟就能卸下毒品，”他说道。美国检察官还将目标锁定在加拿大边境的人口贩运组织上。7月 20，司法部宣布，三名墨西哥男子承认在从加拿大向南走私 300 人进入纽约，随后将其转移至中西部。检察官表示，走私者有时会招募他们的客户加入该网络以抵消成本，或者说服他们为潜在的跨境者录制证言视频。美国检察官今年已获得多起认罪协议，这些人利用阿克韦萨尼（Akwesasne）原住民领地将人员走私进入美国。一名加拿大-美国公民且为阿克韦萨尼原住民成员的人员于7月 23 承认，她在组织 2023 年一次失败的走私行动中发挥了作用，该行动导致一个四口罗马尼亚家庭死亡。“虽然大多数令人担忧的非法流动包括芬太尼、枪支、人口走私和走私商品，但我们依然对所有威胁公共安全和国家安全的威胁保持警惕，”美国国土安全部在一份声明中表示。“我们持续的协作确保两国都能有效应对风险，并维持合法贸易和旅行的安全、高效流动。”
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在蒙特利尔以南约一小时的纽约-加拿大边境，三名执行巡逻任务的加拿大皇家骑警在穿过小溪、泥坑和被吹倒的树枝时向总部报到。他们正穿过一段被称为“切割区”（the cut）或“砍伐区”（the slash）的地段。这段边界走廊由两国共同维护，全长约1,300英里，宽度为 20 英尺。只有少数标志牌警告禁止非法越境，远程摄像头则在监测森林两侧的情况。美国和加拿大当局有时会在边界线上非正式地会面聊天，交换他们观察到的趋势信息。但大多数时候，巡逻过程非常安静。Maheu启动了一架无人机以获取空中视角。此前，该小组曾停下来观察同事驾驶直升机在边境附近盘旋。
‘你会对那位母亲感同身受’
加拿大皇家骑警们很放心让移民留在几英里外的树下，因为他们知道同事们已经准备好将其逮捕。出于行动安全考虑，他们拒绝解释最终具体发生了什么。但几小时后，这些移民被拘留。调查人员正试图追踪将他们走私进来的人。瓦利菲尔德（Valleyfield）营房的拘留室依然空着。三名加拿大皇家骑警返回家中与家人团聚。 “在我们的警徽和制服背后，你会对那位只想让女儿或儿子过上更好生活的母亲感同身受，但加拿大已经设有合法入境的途径，”Perreault-Magny说道。“显然，在半夜或正午时分穿过森林或水域入境，并不是合法进入一个国家的正确方式。”
今日美国
Amelia Robinson
哥伦布快报
今日美国网络
在我和朋友们从威尼斯到雅典、历时两周的史诗般的四国奥德赛之旅中，我的哥们儿戴夫一直有个笑话：“你看过一块落满灰尘的旧石头，就等于看过了所有这样的石头。”
很有趣，但当然，这完全不对。这次旅行带我们走访了宫殿、古代遗迹以及在建国之父们构思这个国家之前——或者在任何人会为了谁在《奥德赛》的讲述中扮演海伦而愤怒之前——就已经繁荣了数千年的城镇。
在我们的国家庆祝 250 岁生日的那一天，我们身处离家 5,000 英里之外的地方，凝视着我见过的最落灰、最古老的“石头”。
那天，我被圣托里尼的阿克罗蒂里（Akrotiri of Thera）所震撼。那是一座大约 7,000 年前建立的以女性为中心的城市的遗迹，并在公元前 1600 年左右的一次火山爆发后被废弃。火山灰有助于保存壁画，包括惊人的《阿克罗蒂里拳击少年》，我们后来在雅典的国家考古博物馆看到了这件作品。
我们是在争论古希腊人，还是在争论历史呈现？
身处这些为了寻求理解而层层刷去尘埃的地方，感到一种讽刺，因为考虑到由于试图掩埋依然困扰我们的罪孽，我们的国家正被知识的黑暗所笼罩。
种族主义、厌女症和其他形式的不宽容，正被那些试图抹除或重写近期历史的人所煽动。而且，除了被忽视的丰富的原住民遗产之外，关于美国历史的一切都属于近期历史。
由于这场看似无休止的文化战争，美国在荒诞之事上花费了太多精力。最近，这包括对克里斯托弗·诺兰新版大片《奥德赛》中饰演神话人物的演员的种族和性别感到焦虑。
“整部电影就是一个‘觉醒’（woke）的混乱之作，”一名 Instagram 用户在关于多族裔演员赞达亚（Zendaya）的帖子下写道——请注意，这是在电影上映之前写的。
Blake Fontenay
我有一个惊人的声明，可能会让一些忠实的 Buc-ee’s 顾客在吃海狸坚果（beaver nuggets）时被噎到：它们不过就是加油站而已。 我知道对我所说的话，对于 Buc-ee’s 的支持者来说简直是异端邪说，他们肯定会排队等着痛斥我。 我知道这家总部位于德克萨斯州的便利店连锁店在全国拥有 56 家门店，且更多门店正在规划阶段。 我知道在我家乡佛罗里达州，位于代托纳海滩（Daytona Beach）的 Buc-ee’s 门店吸引的游客比著名的代托纳国际赛车场（Daytona International Speedway）还要多。 我知道社交媒体上有许多地方可以让人们疯狂赞美 Buc-ee’s 充足的加油泵、干净的洗手间、美味的牛胸肉三明治以及各种消费品（其中许多印有该连锁店的吉祥物 Bucky Beaver 的形象）。 我甚至知道在世界杯期间，许多外国游客对 Buc-ee’s 简直痴迷不已。
好的方面
我承认牛胸肉确实相当不错。对于一个大部分时间生活在孟菲斯（Memphis）和纳什维尔（Nashville）、且在烧烤方面极其挑剔的人来说，这已经是非常高的评价了。 而且，一些公路广告牌确实很聪明。 至于其他部分，宣传的力度远超现实。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 7月14日在纽约市举行的《奥德赛》（The Odyssey）首映礼上，从左至右依次是演员查理兹·塞隆（Charlize Theron）、萨曼莎·莫顿（Samantha Morton）、约翰·列古萨莫（John Leguizamo）、汤姆·赫兰德（Tom Holland）、马特·达蒙（Matt Damon）、安妮·海瑟薇（Anne Hathaway）、卢皮塔·尼永奥（Lupita Nyong’o）和赞达亚（Zendaya）。
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饰演雅典娜，而不是由一名纯欧洲血统的女演员饰演。 “看来你没读过这本书，”另一个人反驳道。 今年1月，万亿富翁埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）在推特上发文称，诺兰（Nolan）在起用黑人奥斯卡获奖者卢皮塔·尼永奥饰演特洛伊的海伦时“失去了正直”。随后引发了大量种族主义言论和反驳论点。 这种咬牙切齿的反应——奇怪的是，没有人介意马特·达蒙（饰演奥德修斯）和罗伯特·帕丁森（饰演安提诺斯）显然不是希腊人——并不是关于古希腊人或历史代表性的问题，尽管有时有人这样主张。
希腊神话及古代艺术中存在黑人角色
诺兰的电影改编自一部公元前8世纪或7世纪的史诗，据传作者是荷马（Homer），该诗是为那些与腓尼基人、埃及人以及迦太基人和伊特鲁里亚人等所有人都进行贸易的人而写的。 学者们指出，古希腊人关注文化，但并不像我们今天的社会那样（不幸地）在意肤色或种族。 在希腊神话和其他古希腊艺术中存在黑人角色。以安德罗麦达公主（Princess Andromeda）为例，这位传奇且美丽的 mythological damsel 在……
每个门店拥有数十个加油泵被吹捧为 Buc-ee’s 的优势之一。然而，在我所有去加油站的经历中，我从未需要超过一个加油泵来处理我的业务。
坏的方面
Buc-ee’s 已经变得如此受欢迎，以至于在某些地点加油都要排长队，这似乎违背了设置大量加油泵的初衷。更多的泵理应意味着更少的等待。 当我说旅行中途想要进行一次“快速停靠”（pit stop）时，我是用最纯粹的 NASCAR（纳斯卡赛车）意义上的词义：我想尽快处理完事情并重新上路。Buc-ee’s 门店的庞大规模和布局反而与这一目标背道而驰。 一份报告发现，在 Buc-ee’s 门店的平均“停留时间”超过 20 分钟，大约是其他热门便利店连锁店平均时间的两倍。我无法想象人们为什么需要花这么多时间来决定买哪种口味的软糖或肉干。 说到肉干，这是 Buc-ee’s 过度设计（overkill）的另一个例子。根据我的经验，除非涉及剧烈的户外活动，否则人们食用肉干通常是因为无聊而非真正的饥饿。 因此，Buc-ee’s 提供的波西米亚大蒜味和韩国烧烤味等口味，似乎是在回答一个根本没人问的问题。 那么干净的洗手间怎么说？它们确实很棒。（尽管我最近访问一个 Buc-ee’s 爱好者的 Facebook 页面时发现很有趣，一名评论者因为报告她访问的某个 Buc-ee’s 洗手间不够完美而引起了轩然大波。一些回应相当具有防御性，其中有几个人甚至暗示这可能是某种蓄意破坏行为。） 我的问题是，难道我们不应该期望所有经常出入的公共场所都有干净的洗手间吗？为什么要把本应被视为基础客户服务的东西神圣化？ 说到这个，美国商业改进局（Better Business Bureau）在几个月前给部分 Buc-ee’s 门店评了 F 级，原因是它们未能充分回应客户投诉。 我知道我所说的话对某些人来说很难接受。我的前妻就是一名狂热的 Buc-ee’s 粉丝——以至于如果我们在开车经过一块宣传即将开业门店的广告牌时她正在车里睡觉，我会调低收音机音量并格外安静，以免吵醒她。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 顾客们在 6月 22.，在亚利桑那州古德耶尔（Goodyear, Arizona）举行的 Buc-ee’s 开业典礼上正在结账。MARK HENLE/ THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC/今日美国 NETWORK VIA REUTERS CONNECT
……在绝境中被希腊英雄珀尔修斯（Perseus）救起，是一个来自埃塞俄比亚（Aethiopia，或 Ethiopia，在古希腊语中意为“面色焦黑之人之地”）的非洲人。 学者们表示，该地区代表的是努比亚（Nubia）——即今天的苏丹。 在归于荷马名下的作品中，他将埃塞俄比亚人描述为虔诚、无可指责且受到神灵眷顾的。 尽管遭遇了意料之中的强烈抵制（我敢说，是“黑”色抵制 [blacklash] 吗？），但诺兰这部近三小时的史诗巨作“在上映仅 12 天后，全球票房已突破 $700 million，成为年度第四高票房电影，”《Variety》杂志 July 29 报道。 这在一定程度上证明了公众对“古神”故事的兴趣。虽然他们不再被广泛崇拜，但他们的传奇仍在延续。 在雅典，一块向雅典娜（Athena）致敬的陈旧岩石耸立在以她命名的城市之上，雅典娜是智慧与战争女神，也是《奥德赛》中的重要角色。你无法错过卫城上的帕特农神庙，它是在波斯军队烧毁第一座神庙后在原址上重建的，至今已屹立近 2,500 年。 在我们的访问期间，空气中弥漫着持续修复工作的声音，但这座古代世界的令人敬畏的奇迹，在几十年来第一次几乎没有了脚手架的遮挡。
人们反复地告诉我们，能够毫无阻碍地欣赏这座杰作是多么幸运。我们也深有体会。 这座建筑的历史及其在纪念碑上留下的伤痕，正向公众公开展示以供讨论。 帕特农神庙在漫长的岁月中被毁坏并被重新利用（它曾是一座献给圣母玛利亚的基督教堂，也曾是一座清真寺），但它所唤起历史，在基督取代包括其众王宙斯在内的古神之后，依然是希腊抵抗精神、自豪感和艺术成就的象征。 希腊大部分人口信仰东正教，然而，现在的基督徒征服者们却在保护并颂扬他们异教祖先的历史。 正如我们的导游自豪地所说，在第二次世界大战期间攀登卫城并摘除纳粹旗帜的两名少年，至今仍被视为英雄。在雅典被解放后，第一批被执行的任务之一就是将希腊国旗重新插在这座古老的堡垒之上。
我们必须挖掘真相，研究它，争论并将其传承下去
2019年，时任雅典市长科斯塔斯·巴科亚尼斯（Kostas Bakoyannis）在城市解放75周年纪念活动上发表了关于历史重要性的言论。 据新闻报道，巴科亚尼斯说：“最重要的是，我们绝不能忘记。我们绝不能忘记当时以及之后发生了什么。”“我们必须铭记历史中那些试图让我们分裂、隔绝并反目成仇的部分。……我们忘记了共同的敌人：法西斯主义、不宽容、种族主义以及所有源自法西斯主义的事物。” 他谈论的是纳粹，但这给我们的国家带来了一个教训。 我们不仅不能忘记过去，还必须翻开每一块石头——无论是否布满灰尘——以确保真实的真实历史被讲述。 要成为一个持久的社会，我们必须挖掘真相，研究它，争论并将其传承下去。 如果欧洲那些布满灰尘的古老岩石能在经历了火山、火灾和战争之后，在成为完整建筑数千年之后依然能讲述故事，那么我们也能诚实地面对美国250年历史上即使是阴暗和陈腐的部分。 Amelia Robinson 是《哥伦布派遣报》（The Columbus Dispatch）的评论与社区参与编辑，该专栏最初发表于该报。
直到我们经过出口之后，她才停止。 （而且，我相当确定，这并不是导致我婚姻破裂的原因。这远算不上我婚姻缺陷中最糟糕的一点。） 在某种程度上，我知道抵抗 Buc-ee’s 是徒劳的。Buc-ee’s 计划在佛罗里达州的皮尔斯堡（Fort Pierce）开设一家店，离我以前住的地方不远。虽然这个项目引起了很多兴奋，但它也引发了环境问题，并导致开发场地周边出现了城市蔓延。
无法逃避的
因此，我最近搬到了三小时半路程之外的奥卡拉（Ocala）附近的新家，那里曾经预计会开设该连锁店有史以来规模最大的一家门店。 显然，它不会是最大的，但计划中的那家也不是缩减版。 Buc-ee’s 正变得无处不在。 我的许多朋友和邻居无疑都被“海狸热”所吸引。 所以我不会试图偷走任何人的快乐。考虑到现在的油价，加油的感觉可能就像看牙医一样不愉快。 如果去 Buc-ee’s 能在某种程度上减轻那种痛苦，那就去向那只门牙突出的啮齿动物致敬吧。 只需知道，当你行驶在美国的高速公路上时，还有更多有趣且更真实的地方值得你投入时间和金钱。 如果加油站已经成为一种主要的娱乐形式，我不确定这对我们美国的文化未来意味着什么。 Blake Fontenay 是今日美国 (USA TODAY) 的评论编辑。
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他们说了什么？ 明星金句集
“绝不会同意我的音乐被用来支持你或这个政府。”——诺亚·卡汉 (Noah Kahan) 在一条 Instagram 评论中如此表示，回应唐纳德·特朗普政府在社交媒体发布的一篇包含唐纳德·特朗普总统的帖子中使用了他的歌曲《美国车》(American Cars)。该帖子重点展示了总统 7月 27日访问密歇根州米尔福德市通用汽车工厂时的几张照片和视频。白宫首席副通讯主任凯兰·多尔 (Kaelan Dorr) 在 X 上回应了卡汉的批评，引用了这位格莱美奖提名者另一首歌曲的歌词写道：“［特朗普狂躁综合症］的症状显然包括持有北方的态度。”
生日快乐 今天谁在庆祝生日
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演员苏珊·弗兰纳里 (Susan Flannery) 87岁。歌手 Lobo，83岁。演员杰拉尔丁·卓别林 (Geraldine Chaplin)，82岁。演员迈克尔·比恩 (Michael Biehn)，70岁。演员德克·布洛克 (Dirk Blocker)，69岁。鼓手比尔·贝里 (Bill Berry, R.E.M. 乐队)，68岁。商人马克·库班 (Mark Cuban)，68岁。演员卫斯理·斯奈普斯 (Wesley Snipes)，64岁。音乐人肥臀瘦瘦 (Fatboy Slim)，63岁。作家 J.K. 罗琳 (J.K. Rowling)，61岁。演员迪恩·凯恩 (Dean Cain)，60岁。演员伊芙·贝斯特 (Eve Best)，55岁。歌手扎克·布朗 (Zac Brown, 扎克·布朗乐队)，48岁。演员 B.J. 诺瓦克 (B.J. Novak)，47岁。演员里科·罗德里格斯 (Rico Rodriguez)，28岁。 – 今日美国网络
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金牛座（4月 20日-5月 20日）。社交动态今天可能会突然转变！你的优先事项或未来计划出现混乱了吗？在做出假设之前请先暂停。
双子座（5月 21日-6月 21日）。当双鱼月亮面对天王星时，外部压力可能会让你感到焦虑不安。
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狮子座（7月 23日-8月 22日）。一位朋友可能会说出一些在情感上冲击你的话。你对他们的行为感到惊讶，还是对自己的反应感到惊讶？
处女座（8月 23日-9月 22日）。不可预见的变动可能会干扰人际关系。在双鱼月亮与天王星搏斗时，请对替代方案保持开放。
天秤座（9月 23日-10月 23日）。今天遵循常规可能会让你感到极其艰难。渴望刺激？让好奇心取代挫败感。
天蝎座（10月 24日-11月 21日）。自发性能否帮助你的浪漫氛围？在双鱼月亮激活天王星时，加入惊喜元素。
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流媒体
在 Netflix 的真实犯罪剧《炸弹客》中，雅各布·特伦布雷 (Jacob Tremblay) 饰演青少年时期的数学神童、邮件炸弹客泰德·卡钦斯基（炸弹客）。
《炸弹客》 通过双重叙事 讲述一名杀手的故事
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Jacob Tremblay 可能不是你想到能饰演“炸弹客”的第一人选——那是一个衣衫褴褛的中年杀手，在被捕前多年令当局深感困惑。然而，Tremblay 饰演的并不是那个男人——相反，他扮演的是 16 岁的 泰德·卡钦斯基（炸弹客），一个刚刚开始走上极暗之途的少年。
今日美国 独家抢先预览 Netflix 剧集《Unabomber》（9 月 25 日上线），这是一部以两条交织时间线讲述的非传统真实生活剧。一条线聚焦于 20 世纪 50 年代就读于哈佛大学的天才少年 Ted，他成为了其心理学教授亨利·默里（Henry Murray，由拉塞尔·克劳饰演）虐待性实验的无意识受害者。另一条线则快进到 20 世纪 90 年代中期，围绕一支 FBI 探员团队（包括希琳·伍德利和亚历山大·路德维格）展开，他们正在追捕行踪诡秘的“炸弹客”，并在案件中获得了一个与 Kaczynski 的过去相关的重大线索。
尽管 Tremblay 表示，能同时塑造老年时期的 Ted 将会“非常有意思”，但 19 岁的他说道：“我确实很享受扮演年轻的 Ted，以及对这个国内恐怖分子进行的一种天真的诠释。”
“我扮演的角色根本不知道‘炸弹客’是谁。他完全不知道自己将来会变成什么样的男人。”
这部剧的叙事也契合了 Woodley 的兴趣。饰演 FBI 探员 Joanne Miller 的演员表示：“我一直对人生在做出选择背后的原因和方式感到着迷。”
“了解 Ted 的大学时代，并将其与寻找他的调查过程并列，是我在真实犯罪题材中很少见到的。”
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荷兰弟的 蜘蛛侠 在《新的一天》中 逐渐成熟
汤姆·荷兰（Tom Holland）饰演的蜘蛛侠曾与灭霸作战，经历过“响指”导致的存在消失，失去了他的导师，并为了拯救世界而牺牲了个人关系。然而，正是他最新的这次冒险，展现了他真正地成长了多少。
在《蜘蛛侠：崭新的一天》（Spider-Man: Brand New Day）（分级 PG-13；7月 31 日上映）中，荷兰弟贡献了他饰演彼得·帕克（Peter Parker）以来最令人动容的情感表演，彼得在与一名强大的新敌手周旋的同时，也在与孤独感和自我演化作斗争。如果说之前的蜘蛛侠之作《无路回家》（No Way Home）是对这位蛛网侠电影深厚历史的致敬，那么这部新片则收束了荷兰弟 era, 时期的故事线，编入了大量漫画参考，并为纽约市这位友好的邻家好心人设定了新的现状。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 彼得·帕克（汤姆·荷兰）正在制作他的超级战衣，出自《蜘蛛侠：崭新的一天》。图片由 JAY MAIDMENT/SONY PICTURES 提供
《崭新的一天》接续了《无路回家》结尾的故事线：彼得做出了艰难的选择，请求奇异博士施展一个魔法咒语，让所有人——包括女友 MJ（Zendaya 饰）和 奈德（Jacob Batalon 饰）——都忘记他的存在，以防止多元宇宙的灾难。几年过去了，小蛛势头正盛，击败了包括蝎子（Michael Mando 饰）在内的讨厌反派，大幅降低了大苹果城的犯罪率。然而，彼得感到孤独且挣扎。通过社交媒体，他看着曾经的好友们在麻省理工学院（M.I.T.）就读并继续他们的生活，他希望再次接近他们能唤回他们的记忆。但压在我们的英雄身上的负担不止于此。他被损害管制局（Damage Control）局长比尔·梅茨格（Tramell Tillman 饰）招募，协助该政府机构（其任务是清理超级英雄相关的遗留问题）查明袭击他们的神秘反派之谜。此外，彼得的身体也出现了一些奇怪的现象，随着蛛形纲 DNA 开始接管，他的超能力正逐渐失去控制。《崭新的一天》比之前的那些激昂之作是一部基调更沉重的蜘蛛侠电影。但这个更充实的故事，在阴暗的主题与极佳的幽默感之间取得了平衡，非常符合一个从青少年时代就开始拯救世界、如今正面对成年人问题的英雄。而这些问题很多：导演 德斯汀·丹尼尔·克雷顿（Destin Daniel Cretton）是一位漫威常客，曾执导《尚气与十环传奇》以及剧集《奇迹侠》（Wonder Man），他巧妙地处理了大量子情节，并最终以令人满意的方式将它们结合在一起。他还编入了一些有趣的身体恐怖元素以及附身电影的元素，因为蜘蛛侠最新的威胁可以在人与人之间跳跃并接管他们，以此迷惑彼得，同时执行他们自己的邪恶计划。在之前的电影中，荷兰弟作为漫威电影宇宙的常驻蜘蛛侠，为该系列注入了青春、活泼的精神。
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Kohberger 的申请增加“爱达荷州”的焦虑感
Kalia Richardson
当 Bryan Kohberger 在 2025 年 7 月承认谋杀四名爱达荷大学学生的罪名时，受害者的家属反应不一。Kohberger 对致命刺杀 Kaylee Goncalves（21 岁）、Madison “Maddie” Mogen（21 岁）、Xana Kernodle（20 岁）和 Ethan Chapin（20 岁）的认罪意味着将没有高调的审判，也不会被判处死刑。在量刑当天，Chapin 家族在湖边度过了一天，而 Goncalves 家族则向 Kohberger 发表了尖锐的受害者影响陈述。Kaylee 的妹妹 Alivea Goncalves 在法庭上对他说道：“跟我说话时坐直了。” “我不会给你眼泪。我不会给你颤抖。像你这样的失望之辈在痛苦、恐惧和权力的幻象中茁壮成长。我不会喂养你的野兽。你没有赢；你只是暴露了你是个胆小鬼。你是一个妄想的、可怜的失败者。” 就在受害者家属开始展望未来之际，被判处四个连续终身监禁的 Kohberger 再次让此案浮出水面。他于 7 月 27 日提交了一份请愿书，寻求挑战他的认罪和定罪，声称自己是无辜的，且是在被迫的情况下承认这起四人谋杀案的。他的请愿正值 Netflix 纪录片《爱达荷谋杀案：校园噩梦》（The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare）播出之前，该片通过检察官、家人和朋友的视角详细描述了四人谋杀案发生的那个夜晚。这部三集纪录片（目前在 Netflix 串流播放）是继 Peacock 的《爱达荷学生谋杀案》和 Amazon Prime 的《爱达荷之夜：校园谋杀案》（均于 2025 年 7 月发布）之后，第三个探讨此案的大型纪录片项目。《爱达荷谋杀案》旨在将这些曾引发全国头条关注的谋杀案以及长达数周锁定嫌疑人的努力置于具体背景中。即便在 Kohberger 被定罪并量刑后，受害者的亲人以及此案的关注者仍渴望找到作案动机。以下是我们关于受害者、2022 年 11 月那个致命之夜以及 Kohberger 撤回认罪申请的已知信息。
受害者是谁？
Madison “Maddie” Mogen 是爱达荷大学的一名市场营销专业四年级学生，来自爱达荷州的 Coeur d’Alene。受害者的朋友 Hunter Johnson 此前告诉 今日美国，Mogen “超级细心且外向”。 Kaylee Goncalves 是一名综合研究专业的四年级学生，与 Mogen 拥有姐妹般深厚的友谊。Goncalves 来自爱达荷州的 Rathdrum，计划大学毕业后在州外的一家市场营销公司工作。 Xana Kernodle 曾主修市场营销，她搬进了该公寓作为一名……
电影 新闻与观点 关于 Nyong’o 饰演海伦的争议错失了重点
Patrick Ryan
剧透警告！我们将讨论《奥德赛》（现正在电影院上映）情节的重要细节。如果您尚未观看且不想知道后续发展，请停止阅读。 如果你在寻找一张能够“发动千艘战船”的面孔，选择 Lupita Nyong’o 绝对不会错。 这位奥斯卡获奖者在克里斯托弗·诺兰的三小时史诗片《奥德赛》中饰演双重角色：扮演世界上最美丽的女人特洛伊的海伦，以及她的双胞胎姐妹克吕泰Мне斯特拉。 无可否认，Nyong’o 美得不可思议：她不仅担任过 Lancôme 和 Chanel 的大使，在 Beyoncé 的歌曲 $\langle$Brown Skin Girl$\rangle$ 中也因其美丽而被提及。然而，她被选演一名真正的半神，却引发了社交媒体上一群种族主义者的抗议。 以下是荷马对该角色的描述——以及为什么诺兰选择 Nyong’o 是如此天才之举：
荷马如何描述特洛伊的海伦？
Steve 和 Kristi Goncalves（Kaylee Goncalves 的父母）出现在《爱达荷谋杀案：校园噩梦》中。由 NETFLIX 提供
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Bryan Kohberger，30 岁，2025 年 7 月 23 日在爱达荷州博伊西的量刑听证会上。他被认定在 2022 年刺杀四名爱达荷大学学生的案件中是有罪的。7 月 27 日，他提交了一份请愿书以挑战其认罪声明。
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初级学生，以及日期标记为伊森·查平（Ethan Chapin），一名来自华盛顿州康威的体育、娱乐与旅游管理专业的一年级学生。 “伊森就像一个大 teddy bear（憨厚的人），”朋友彼得·埃尔戈里亚加（Peter Elgorriaga）在纪录片中说道，“在他身边你永远不会感到心烦。” 四名受害者与室友贝瑟尼·芬克（Bethany Funke）和迪伦·莫滕森（Dylan Mortensen）共同居住在爱达荷州莫斯科市的校外住宅中。这座三层建筑于 2023 年 12 月被拆除，对此家属们的反应不一。
事情是如何发生的？
据纪录片中出现的前 FBI 特别探员埃德·雅各布森（Ed Jacobson）称，2022 年 11 月 13 日早晨，莫根（Mogen）和冈萨尔维斯（Goncalves）在三楼的一张床上，两人随后被捅刺。随后，克诺多尔（Kernodle）和其男友查平在二楼卧室内被致命捅刺。雅各布森在纪录片中提到，克诺多尔身上布满了防御性伤口。 “她身上有 50 处以上的捅刺伤，”雅各布森在提到克诺多尔时说道，“她进行了反抗。”
室友芬克和莫滕森
露皮塔·尼永奥（Lupita Nyong’o）在 7 月 8 日的《奥德赛》巴黎首映式上，饰演双重角色。AURORE MARECHAL/GETTY IMAGES
斯巴达国王，但后来（有争议地）被特洛伊王子帕里斯绑架，从而引发了特洛伊战争。阿伽门农（Agamemnon，由本尼·萨夫迪 [Benny Safdie] 饰演）作为美内劳斯的兄弟及克吕泰็ม涅斯特拉的丈夫，协助攻占了特洛伊城并带海伦回家。 在诗篇《奥德赛》中，这个角色被描述为“拥有美丽长发的海伦”，而在《伊利亚特》中，荷马称她既是“海伦，女性中的女王”，又是“白臂的海伦”。但在
阿利维亚·冈萨尔维斯（Alivea Goncalves），凯莉·冈萨尔维斯（Kaylee Goncalves）的妹妹，出现在纪录片中。
两人当时在一楼，直到当天晚些时候才报告此事，此前并未意识到发生了致命犯罪。在对包括冈萨尔维斯的前男友杰克·杜科尔（Jack DuCoeur）在内的嫌疑人进行了数周的审问后，执法部门于 2022 年 12 月 30 日在宾夕法尼亚州的家中逮捕了科伯格（Kohberger）。
他们发现了什么证据？
执法官员在两具受害者尸体旁的一把 Ka-Bar 刀鞘上发现了 DNA 证据。科伯格在数月前在亚马逊（Amazon）上购买了该刀具和刀鞘。 当局还表示，根据监控摄像头的记录，他们识别出一辆白色现代伊兰特（Hyundai Elantra）在凌晨 3:40 和 4:06 之间四次进入犯罪现场，随后在凌晨 4:20 倒车并快速驶离莫斯科社区。官员们追踪了他的手机数据，报告称他的手机在犯罪时段处于离线状态，并在致命事件发生后重新连接到基站。 据数字取证专家海瑟·巴恩哈特（Heather Barnhart）称，科伯格在事件后拍了一张竖起大拇指的自拍。
布莱恩·科伯格（Bryan Kohberger）是谁？
尽管他在网上的曝光度有限，但科伯格在青少年时期曾在网上写道，声称自己“没有情感”且有自杀倾向。朋友们表示，他曾与海洛因成瘾作斗争，并在 2013 年至 2014 年期间接受康复治疗。由于痴迷于连环杀手，他获得了一个硕士
在古希腊语中，“白臂”并不一定意味着皮肤苍白。相反，它旨在暗示某人属于上层阶级且地位高贵，从未在户外从事体力劳动。 尽管有这些模糊的描述，但在艺术、电视和电影中，海伦几乎一直被描绘成白人。在 2003 年的迷你剧《特洛伊海伦》和 2004 年的《特洛伊》中，该角色被描绘成拥有白皙皮肤和金色长发（分别由西耶娜·吉洛里 [Sienna Guillory] 和戴安·克鲁格 [Diane Kruger] 饰演）。与此同时，在 1967 年的恐怖剧《浮士德博士》中，伊丽莎白·泰勒（Elizabeth Taylor）以其标志性的乌黑长发和深色猫眼眼线饰演海伦。
尼永奥是唯一能饰演特洛伊海伦的演员
无论是在红毯上光彩照人，还是在《黑豹》和《12 年奴隶》等电影的大银幕上闪耀，43 岁的 Nyong’o 始终带着一种足以媲美希腊皇室的智慧与沉稳。凭借在《我们》和《寂静之地：第一天》中的惊艳表现，她不断证明自己是同辈中最伟大的女演员之一。
尽管她在《奥德赛》中的戏份很少，但诺兰对特洛伊的海伦感兴趣的程度并不止于一个简单的角色。在对故事所做的几项关键修改中，诺兰给海伦的脸上留下了一道巨大的伤疤，虽然从未解释原因，但被男人们轻描淡写地开成了玩笑。
他在 De Salles 大学获得了犯罪学学位，随后在华盛顿州立大学开始攻读刑事司法和犯罪学的博士课程。警方记录详细指出，Kohberger 曾与教职员发生冲突，并涉嫌恐吓同学，尤其是女学生。
“像 Kohberger 那样残暴对待女性的人，”莉莉·卡拉班（Lilly Karaban）在纪录片中回忆起在犯罪学课上坐在他旁边时的情景时说道，“（他们）讨厌女性，觉得女性具有威胁性。因此，他们将所有愤怒都发泄在她们身上。”
在与一名教授发生争执后，该大学于 2022 年 12 月终止了 Kohberger 的助教职位。
布莱恩·科伯格（Bryan Kohberger）现在在哪里？
当局于 2022 年 12 月 30 日逮捕了 Kohberger。在 2025 年 8 月的谋杀案审判前几周，他达成了一项认罪协议。尽管 Kohberger 承认捅死了四名受害者，但他从未口头陈述过动机，这让受害者的家属和朋友感到非常沮丧。“这就是托儿所，”凯莉的父亲史蒂夫·冈萨尔维斯（Steve Goncalves）在法院门外的新闻发布会上说，“人们，监狱就是托儿所。”
Kohberger 正在服刑四项连续终身监禁，以及一项针对盗窃罪的 10 年监禁。这位前犯罪学学生于 7 月 27 日提交了一项申请，试图挑战其认罪协议和定罪结果。该申请旨在寻求“定罪后救济”，他将在爱达荷州的爱达县地方法院亲自为自己辩护。该申请允许被告在量刑后，以律师协助无效、涉嫌宪法错误和法律错误等原因为由，挑战定罪结果。
Kohberger 在给《纽约时报》的一份声明中，称调查人员的结论是“虚构作品”，并补充说其“错误的假设在审判中从未受到质疑”。“我的实际清白才是事实，而基于虚假承诺和公然误导的认罪协议必须被撤销，”Kohberger 说道。据《时报》报道，Kohberger 拒绝提供证明其清白的证据，或就其认罪协议的困境提供背景信息。
在他提交申请后，爱达荷州总检察长劳尔·拉布拉多（Raul Labrador）向受害者家属表达了慰问。冈萨尔维斯一家在社交媒体帖子中批评了 Kohberger 及其申请，称他是一只“怎么拍也拍不死的蚊子”。
“真正的问题是，如果投入到这个案件中纪念受害者的精力，与试图释放一个有罪之人的精力一样多，那么每个角落都会竖起受害者的雕像 (sic)，”冈萨尔维斯一家在 7 月 27 日的 Facebook 帖子中说道。“无论结果如何，我们家 100% 准备好了。这次来一次真正的审判？来吧！”
elaus. 通过奥德修斯（Matt Damon 饰）、西农（Elliot Page 饰）和雅典娜（Zendaya 饰）这些角色，电影制作人深思熟虑地探讨了暴力的伤亡及其深远的影响。通过给海伦留下一个显眼的疤痕，诺兰展示了即使是地球上最令人向往的女性，也无法免于人类的残暴。
在希腊神话中，海伦和克吕泰涅斯特拉是半姐妹，但诺兰将她们设定为同卵双胞胎。这是一个强有力的调整，意味着海伦的美貌虽然依然出众，但并非完全唯一：为了这一个人而屠杀数千人，真的值得吗？
除了显而易见的魅力外，尼永奥能够传达出海伦和克吕泰涅斯特拉两人内心安静的痛苦和破碎的现实，这正是诺兰在选角时如此敏锐的原因。
“我认为世界上没有其他人能胜任这个角色，”伯恩撒向《今日美国》表示。“我们想到特洛伊的海伦及其美貌，但这关乎内心世界及其丰富程度。她能够将那种尴尬、羞耻、背叛、幸存者的内疚感、悔恨以及所有这一切都呈现在观众面前。我们探讨的是战争的后果，而这正是克里斯真正想要表达的。”
“能够邀请像露皮塔这样的演员，仅凭一个眼神就能传达如此之多——你真的能从她身上感受到这一点，”伯恩撒补充道。“我非常感激由她出演。”
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莫拉尼斯重新戴上《太空球》头盔
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圣迭戈 − 感谢施瓦茨！ 里克·莫拉尼斯（Rick Moranis）回归好莱坞了。 这位 73 岁的《亲爱的，我把孩子缩小了》主演在 7 月 24 日圣迭戈动漫展关于《太空球：新作》（Spaceballs: The New One）的讨论环节中，获得了雷鸣般的起立鼓掌，以及阵阵“里克！里克！里克！”的欢呼声。这部备受期待的喜剧续集标志着他 20 多年来首次回归电影角色。 “我其实并没有退休，我只是在洽谈，”莫拉尼斯在讨论环节中打趣道，并解释说他早在 1989 年就开始与梅尔·布鲁克斯（Mel Brooks）讨论拍摄《太空球》续集的事宜。 “这次机会来得正是时候，”他说道，并补充说在听说比尔·普尔曼（Bill Pullman）将与他的演员儿子刘易斯·普尔曼（Lewis Pullman）一同回归饰演孤星（Lone Starr）后，“我就觉得，就是现在了。时机成熟了，没错。我答应了，这是我做过的最正确的决定。” 莫拉尼斯在登台之前，首先戴着他在 1987 年那部主要恶搞《星球大战：新希望》的喜剧中所佩戴的标志性“黑暗头盔”面具出现在观众席中。除了莫拉尼斯和普尔曼，这部续集还请回了原版主演达芙妮·祖尼加（Daphne Zuniga）饰演维斯帕（Vespa），更不用说 100 岁的布鲁克斯饰演酸奶（Yogurt）了。新加入的演员包括凯基·帕尔默（Keke Palmer）和乔什·盖德（Josh Gad）。 同时担任该片共同编剧的盖德解释说，这部电影的主题是怀旧，而《星球大战》的续集三部曲似乎是主要的恶搞对象之一。 “我们所有人都就‘怀旧’这个词在主题上进行了讨论，”盖德说。“我们热爱回顾过去的电影。我们热爱续集。 “我们热爱延续那些伴随我们成长的故事。但我们开始……”
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导演雅努斯·梅茨（Janus Metz，作品包括《安多》、《博格与麦肯罗》）很享受对年轻时卡钦斯基内心世界的深度挖掘。尽管大多数人了解炸弹客的犯罪历史，但没多少人意识到他曾是一个数学天才，16 岁就进入了哈佛大学，并被默里（Murray）及其助手克里斯蒂安娜·摩根（Christiana Morgan，安娜贝尔·沃利斯 饰）招募，作为心理控制和操纵实验的实验对象。 梅茨表示，这些实验是“由 CIA 资助的，并且是后来演变为 MK-Ultra 实验的最早迹象”。“默里具有诱惑力和魅力，当泰德开始将他视为父亲形象时，他抛弃了自己的亲生父母，并看到了他渴望成为的一切的闪光点——直到实验的真相被残酷地揭开在他面前。” 在电影中，沉默寡言且笨拙的泰德起初在这些实验中被轻视，言语虐待被用来击垮他，最终他自己也变得具有攻击性。特雷姆布莱（Tremblay）指出一个重要场景：泰德回到家与父母发生了激烈的冲突。“他们发现他的成绩下滑，因为他们认为他加入的仅仅是一个哲学俱乐部，但事实并非如此，”特雷姆布莱说。“泰德对他们发火。他向他们尖叫，猛烈抨击，这是一个非常关键的转折点，因为这表明他的受虐经历产生了后果。” 这段时间线塑造了这个人在 1978 到 1995 年间杀害三名人员的心路历程
在《崭新的一天》（Brand New Day）中，这个角色经历了许多事情，并非全部都是好事，而这位英国演员能够将十年扮演彼得的经验提升到一个更有意义的高度。没错，他依然在与忍者、阴暗的执法人员、色彩斑斓的暴徒，以及——是的——绿巨人格斗。但最能引起共鸣的部分在于彼得面对自己的心理健康挣扎和身体问题。（“我不再是高中生了，”彼得在战斗前的拉伸时打趣道。）
荷兰人（Holland）与赞达亚（Zendaya）在银幕上的强大化学反应显然延续到了现实生活中，观看他们两人与巴塔隆（Batalon）所建立的这组好友关系总能让人感到愉悦。这一次赋予《崭新的一天》火花的全新动态是蜘蛛侠与惩罚者（乔·伯恩-
[[IMG_XXXX]] 里克·莫拉尼斯在7月24日圣迭戈动漫展的《太空球》（Spaceballs）演示环节中再次穿上暗黑头盔。“我其实并没有退休，我只是在谈判，”莫拉尼斯在谈到自己的回归时开玩笑说。AMY SUSSMAN/GETTY IMAGES
分析这真正意味着什么，为什么我们热爱它，而且我们认为《太空球》是让我们快速了解过去40年电影界、粉丝电影界以及流行文化中发生的一切的完美载体。”
许多人推测加德（Gad）将饰演巴夫（Barf），即原版《太空球》中已故演员约翰·坎迪（John Candy）的角色。加德确认情况并非如此，尽管他将饰演同一物种的一员。
“这部电影的部分构思是我希望它能成为一封写给约翰 [坎迪] 的情书，”加德说。 “约翰是我最大的偶像之一。我
受伤人数超过20人，且邮件炸弹袭击事件日益复杂。乔安娜·米勒（Joanne Miller）是一个虚构的特工，她在电影中领导搜捕成年泰德的行动，并利用炸弹客宣言中的文字来追踪他。伍德利（Woodley）表示，阅读那份宣言并倾听真实特工讲述关于卡钦斯基案件的故事，“对我理解这些人在调查期间所承受的真正压力最有帮助”。
就他而言，由于卡钦斯基早年生活的许多部分仍是谜团，特雷姆布莱（Tremblay）研究了他在接受调查人员采访的录音中的语音节奏和态度。
“听他说话非常有趣，他同时表现得如此自信、自大且傲慢，”这位演员说。“他是一个住在小木屋里的彻头彻尾的疯子，但他的表达能力却非常好。”
特雷姆布莱是梅茨（Metz）该角色的首选且唯一选择。“雅各布（Jacob）正处于一个非常有趣的阶段，正从一名童星转型并挑战复杂角色，”导演说。“他正处于人生中一个非常关键的塑造阶段，这与泰德在哈佛大学时的情况相似，所以两者在这方面是有联系的。在那个年龄，世界是完全开放的，而且你很容易受到影响你的那些人——成年人——的影响。”
特雷姆布莱在5岁时获得了首个电影角色（《蓝精灵2》），并在9岁时凭借《房间》获得屏幕演员协会奖提名，他确实感到自己与卡钦斯基之间有一种联系。
“我知道在那种环境下，你永远是房间里最年轻的人是什么感觉，”特雷姆布莱说。“显然，我的经历与泰德截然不同。
在一起)一起。“《奥德赛》”让观众品尝到了他们之间纽带的一味，但这部作品则让他们完全沉浸在“好基友”喜剧的氛围中，将咒骂、R级（限制级）的私刑者惩罚者与他那位试图阻止他杀掉所有人的年轻面具朋友形成了鲜明对比。
《怪奇物语》的 standout 演员萨迪·辛克（Sadie Sink）也出演了《Brand New Day》，她扮演的角色最好在观看电影时再揭晓。（资深漫威漫画迷会认识并热爱她。）然而，她以一个能为蜘蛛侠带来巨大冲突与情感连接的角色，与荷兰迪强大的分量感相匹配。就像这里的几乎每一个主角一样，这个神秘的年轻女性将自己与他人隔绝，需要意识到她并非孤身一人。
尽管《Brand New Day》可能不是荷兰迪主演的蜘蛛侠系列电影中最喧闹或最刺激的一部，但它旨在比一般的 MCU（漫威电影宇宙）作品更深邃一点，同时让你陷入其令人满足的蛛网之中。
想让传闻平息：我在这部电影里没演 Barf，好吗？那个角色只能由一个人扮演，而且永远只会由一个人扮演。 “约翰是这部电影的核心，我认为这也是为什么这部电影最终如此感人的部分原因。”
莫拉尼斯（Moranis）表示，在续集的片场他“不得不一直掐自己”，并提到在这么多年后重新戴上头盔感觉“非常奇怪”。 “它开始感觉非常好，我真的开始热爱它了，”他说。“谁知道呢，也许这只是许多作品的开始！”
在我年轻的时候，周围就有非常优秀的人们细心地照顾我。 “我被这部电影吸引的另一个原因是，它传达了一个关于保护……是多么重要的小信息。”
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预告片讽刺《阿凡达》与 《星球大战》续集
讨论会以该片的抢先预览结束，这段视频结合了传统预告片和一段关于影片如何成型的元独白：旁白解释说，之所以能拍这部片，是因为“好莱坞制片厂在随意合并”，亚马逊收购了 MGM 并“打开了资料库”——而且最糟糕的情况下，这部电影“总有一天会被当作资产减值冲销”。 随后是旁白所称的“一系列充斥着未完成视觉效果的片段”，用以预告电影，而这段精彩集锦中还攻击了《星球大战》的续集三部曲： 黑暗头盔（Dark Helmet）与酸奶（Yogurt）决斗并宣布： “不知怎么地， 我 回来了 ... 不知怎么地，”这是在引用《星球大战：天行者崛起》中关于帕尔帕廷回归的那句臭名昭著的台词。 预告片还展示了一个酸奶被冻在碳凝块中的瞬间，导致他被戏称为“冷冻酸奶”（Frozen Yogurt）。 片花以这样一个场景结尾：一个来自《阿凡达》的纳威人走进洗手间，在黑暗头盔旁边一个滑稽巨大的小便池前小便，黑暗头盔转向他并用纳威语说：“我看见你了。” 但这部电影似乎并不将讽刺局限于科幻片，在讨论会期间对漫威（Marvel）的吐槽也很多。在某个时刻，一张图表开玩笑地宣布了建立一个无尽的《太空球》（Spaceballs）续集电影宇宙的计划，这是在模仿漫威经常在 Comic-Con 上规划未来电影的方式。 当一名粉丝询问他们还想主演哪部科幻翻拍片时，加德（Gad）开玩笑地提到了漫威试图由马赫沙拉·阿里（Mahershala Ali）主演《刀锋》（Blade）电影的失败尝试：“我们会拍一部非常诡异的《刀锋》。但也许它终于能拍出来了！” 《太空球：新篇章》将于 2027 年 4 月 23 日上映。
青少年。我们现在生活在一个如此多幼儿在身体和心理上都受到伤害的世界。这确实会对他们的人生以及他们可能变成什么样的人，以及他们最终可能会伤害到谁产生影响。”
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今日美国
今日美国
Kathleen Wong
一次梦幻的夏季欧洲之行比你想象中更容易实现——而且你甚至不需要护照。 根据 KAYAK 的数据，欧洲是今年夏天旅行者的热门选择，人们对克罗地亚的斯普利特和意大利的那不勒斯等风景如画的沿海目的地兴趣大增。 但那些无法进行国际旅行的人，不必放弃在迷人的海边小镇品一杯葡萄酒的梦想。他们只需要看看自己的后花园即可。 美国拥有许多被低估的瑰宝，能提供人们在欧洲度假时所寻求的同样悠闲的氛围和浪漫的美感。最棒的是，你不需要跨越大洋乘坐长途航班。 根据租船平台 Boatsetter 的说法，这里有五个国内目的地，能让你感觉仿佛置身于欧洲，且无需承受国际旅行的麻烦。
罗德岛州，纽波特 (Newport, Rhode Island)
纽波特位于纳拉甘塞特湾的阿奎德内克岛上，以其奢华的镀金时代豪宅而闻名，这些豪宅让人联想起欧洲的宫殿，同时这里还拥有同样令人惊叹的海景和海滩。“在这里，你可以尽情享用令人想起地中海风格的美味海鲜，并参与到这座新英格兰沿海城市浓厚的游艇文化中，”Boatsetter 营销经理 Val Streif 表示。
加利福尼亚州，索尔旺 (Solvang, California)
在加州冲浪小镇圣巴巴拉附近，坐落着迷人的索尔旺村，旅行者在这里仿佛被传送到了丹麦。索尔旺由丹麦裔美国人在 1911 年建立，因其正宗的丹麦风格建筑（包括那些标志性的木制风车）和文化遗产（如供应传统丹麦糕点的面包店），而赢得了“美国丹麦之都”的称号。旅行者可以悠闲地漫步在村庄的四个街区，在酒庄以及该国唯一一家致力于丹麦作家安徒生的博物馆中停留，安徒生创作了如《小美人鱼》等著名童话。
华盛顿州，利文沃斯 (Leavenworth, Washington)
在华盛顿州的利文沃斯小镇，可以找到一次巴伐利亚风情的山地之旅。利文沃斯坐落在级联山脉脚下，通过其巴伐利亚式木结构建筑、德国香肠和炸肉排等德式美食，甚至是以此为名的十月节 (Oktoberfest)，捕捉到了欧洲阿尔卑斯山村的旧世界魅力。虽然该村庄在节日期间会变成冬日仙境，但夏季则可以进行河道漂流、皮划艇和徒步旅行等户外探索。
将创下六项世界纪录
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Nathan Diller
劳拉·帕克斯（Laura Parks）最初参加游轮上的艺术品拍卖会纯粹是为了好玩——以及免费饮品。 帕克斯，56 岁，在 4 月的一次巴哈马航程中，在嘉年华阳光号（Carnival Sunshine）的船舱内收到了该活动的邀请函。“我的想法是，只要能喝到免费的含羞草鸡尾酒，我就参加，”她告诉今日美国（USA TODAY）。“所以，我当时只是在玩，根本没打算举牌竞价之类的事情。” 一名拍卖师走向她，随后她决定买下一幅由迈克尔·戈达德（Michael Goddard）创作的红色玫瑰签名喷墨画布版画，这幅画吸引了她的目光。当天晚些时候在购买预约时间浏览其他作品时，当一名员工向她展示另一幅由同一位艺术家创作的描绘紫色玫瑰和蝴蝶的作品时，她流下了眼泪。她的母亲于 2015 年去世，母亲非常热爱蝴蝶，且最喜欢的颜色是紫色。 “我立刻感到一阵寒意，全身的汗毛都竖起来了，起了一身鸡皮疙瘩，我感觉到她就在我身边，”她说。她将两件艺术品带回亚利桑那州的家中，挂在电视上方，并且还得到了拍卖师免费赠送的两件其他作品。 “每次看到它们，我的脸上都会露出灿烂的笑容，不仅因为我足够幸运能够进行这些度假，前往这些绝美之地并拥有这些奇妙的经历，而且我还能够将其中很大的一部分带回家。” 艺术品通常是游轮室内设计的核心，绘画、雕塑等作品营造了船上的氛围，并有助于传达邮轮公司及船舶的身份标识。但一些运营商还将其
参见第 6B 页 AUCTIONS（拍卖）
右图为劳拉·帕克斯及其母亲埃拉·玛格丽特·马洛里（Ella Margaret Mallory），拍摄于 2011 年。
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向寻找纪念品和免费鸡尾酒的度假游客出售艺术品的活动。
邮轮公司如何策划船上的艺术品？
邮轮公司在船舶艺术品方面采取不同的方法——有些艺术品在客人登船前就已显眼地展示出来。例如，挪威邮轮公司（Norwegian Cruise Line）在许多船只的船体艺术设计上与街头艺术家合作。这包括其最新的船只“挪威月亮号”（Norwegian Luna），船体上由跨学科街头艺术家 ELLE 创作的一件作品装饰着 12 个黄道星座。我在三月份乘坐这艘船时，舱房墙上有一幅蓝色和紫色调的星光壁画，甲板 8 外部则有一个高大的银色月亮雕塑，与该船的主题相呼应。“艺术具有丰富我们的生活、拓宽我们的视野并将我们带入不同心境的力量，就像前往新目的地对我们产生影响一样，”挪威邮轮公司在给《今日美国》的电子邮件中表示。“为了选择船上的艺术品，我们的团队会根据每个空间预设的整体美学方向，寻找那些作品能与设计产生共鸣并补充空间故事的艺术家。”
与此同时，迪士尼邮轮公司（Disney Cruise Line）则利用其标志性的目录。沃尔特迪士尼想象工程公司（Walt Disney Imagineering）的主首席室内设计师卡特里娜·帕拉西（Katrina Palaci）在电子邮件中表示：“艺术品在塑造每艘船的整体美学和个性方面确实发挥着极其重要的作用。我们的客人与迪士尼、漫威、皮克斯和卢卡斯电影公司的故事有着深厚的联系，而整个船队的艺术品则以一种既具沉浸感又具个性化的方式，帮助将这些故事转化为现实。”她说，在设计船只时，团队将艺术品视为“从一开始就是叙事体验的一部分”。在以“迷醉”为主题的“迪士尼愿望号”（Disney Wish）上，后部楼梯的主题是童话城堡，而客人在船的另一端可以找到动物和森林。
帕拉西说，该团队与“动画研究图书馆、沃尔特迪士尼动画工作室、皮克斯、迪士尼出版公司和迪士尼现场娱乐部门的合作伙伴，以及受委创作特殊作品的外部艺术家”进行了合作。另一方面，“迪士尼天命号”（Disney Destiny）的主题是英雄与反派，其大厅内有《黑豹》中特查拉（T’Challa）的塑像，墙上则排列着像玛勒菲森（Maleficent）和灭霸（Thanos）这样臭名昭著的反派插图。“在某些情况下，艺术品甚至支持……”
……为全球研究以及更深入地了解为什么海洋生态系统需要这些动物做出贡献。
PADI 全球首席品牌和会员官克里斯汀·瓦莱特·沃斯（Kristin Valette Wirth）在 4 月份宣布新普查和课程的新闻稿中表示：“鲨鱼和鳐鱼需要更多的关注和更大规模的行动。通过将经典的 PADI 教育与现实世界的参与相结合，我们为全球社区提供了清晰且有意义的方式，来保护他们最关心的物种。这就是冒险、目标和影响力相结合的样子。”
在自然栖息地与鲨鱼共同潜水是一次难忘的经历，并提供了一个爱上这些强大而优雅生物的机会。根据 PADI 的说法，以下是世界上与鲨鱼潜水的最佳地点。
澳大利亚，大堡礁
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没有其他潜水点比大堡礁更有名了，而且这是有原因的。这个海洋生态系统是多种鲨鱼和鳐鱼的家园，包括白鳍礁鲨、黑鳍礁鲨、褐努沙鲨、豹纹鲨和鹰鳐。
“导向服务，帮助客人知道他们已经到达了所在客房的甲板，或者快要到达休息室或餐厅，”Palaci 说道。 迪士尼的邮轮不举办艺术品拍卖会，但它们提供“迪士尼按需艺术”（Disney’s Art on Demand）服务，允许客人在显示可用作品的自助终端上订购，在商品销售点付款，然后将艺术品邮寄到家中。
邮轮艺术品拍卖是如何运作的？
豪华旅行顾问兼 Dream Vacations 分店所有者 Lainey Melnick 表示，“传统的船上拍卖模式最常见于较大的当代和高端海洋邮轮公司，艺术拍卖被作为娱乐项目的一部分提供。” 根据其网站显示，这些拍卖通常由 Park West Gallery 运营，该公司与包括嘉年华邮轮（Carnival Cruise Line）、挪威邮轮（Norwegian）及其他主流品牌在内的多家航线公司合作。如果一艘船设有专门的艺术项目，通常在每次航行期间都会有多次相关活动，包括多日的拍卖会、教育性演讲等，不过具体时间表因航线和航行长度而异。Melnick 表示，在前者中，拍卖师会引导客人完成流程，而乘客可以享用免费的香槟或其他茶点。出价通常通过号牌或其他视觉信号进行。她在电子邮件中表示：“这些活动特意地让初次收藏者也能参与，许多参与者仅仅是因为喜欢了解艺术并观看拍卖过程而参加。” Park West 则表示，他们欢迎经验丰富的买家以及那些可能无法参与陆地拍卖的人。“Park West Gallery 打造了一种世界闻名的娱乐体验，在整个航程中始终存在，不仅让忠实收藏家能够像访问陆地美术馆或展览空间那样浏览画廊和船上的‘艺术空间’，还让航行中的所有客人都能获得同样的艺术和文化机会，”其首席运营官 John Block 在电子邮件中说道。物流运输通常也由对方为客人处理。Parks 表示，Park West 负责了她作品的装裱，并在她离船几周后，这些作品以“极好的包装”送达家中。嘉年华邮轮还与圣裘德儿童研究医院（St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital）合作，艺术拍卖的部分收益将用于儿童癌症研究。Melnick 说道：“另一方面，一些豪华邮轮公司较少关注艺术品销售，而更倾向于在船上营造一种画廊般的氛围。” “豪华品牌的邮轮可能会展出博物馆级别的收藏，由专……”
泰国，甲米
h 运营商：Fast Manta Krabi 甲米是同样美丽的泰国旅游目的地普吉岛的一个更安静的替代选择，这里是潜水者的天堂。 在瑰丽石灰岩岛屿下方的潜点，你会遇到黑鳍礁鲨、竹鲨、豹鲨以及一些鳐鱼品种。
日本，石垣岛
h 运营商：Euro Divers Club Med 歌比良海滩（Kabira Beach） 石垣岛位于冲绳（日本版的夏威夷），以拥有数量最多的曼塔鳐鱼（manta rays）群体之一而闻名。 从 7 月到 10 月，这些雄伟的巨兽占据了海域。 在“曼塔清理站”，潜水员可以见证共生关系的实际运作：曼塔鳐鱼聚集并在礁石上方盘旋，而小鱼则帮它们去除死皮和寄生虫。
斐济
h 运营商：Beqa Adventure Divers 斐济不仅仅是一个美丽的海滩目的地。 它的海域是 8 种鲨鱼的家园，包括虎鲨和牛鲨。 这个岛国在保护海洋生物方面采取了积极措施。 2004, 斐济建立了鲨鱼礁海洋保护区（Shark Reef Marine Reserve），这是该国第一个国家海洋公园和鲨鱼避难所，当地人为此放弃了他们的权利
不会被鸣笛声或交通干扰，因为该岛自 1898 年起就禁止汽车进入。“麦基诺岛没有汽车，这意味着你在这里会走很多路，就像在欧洲一样，”斯特赖夫说。“对于那些需要休息、不想走动的人，这里提供马车，为这个夏季度假胜地增添了一抹浪漫气息。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] Celebrity Cruises 的 Celebrity Solstice 邮轮上待售的艺术品。由 JOSH RIVERA 提供
定制作品、雕塑和装置，旨在提升宾客体验，而非作为待售库存。” 例如，同样属于挪威邮轮控股公司（Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings）的丽晶七海邮轮（Regent Seven Seas Cruises）不提供艺术品拍卖或船上销售计划，但其所有船只上都设有艺术收藏品，由该奢华品牌的艺术总监 Sarah Hall Smith 开发。 “这些收藏涵盖了国际认可的以及新兴艺术家的原作绘画、雕塑、摄影、混合媒介和委约创作的装置，”总裁 Wesley D’Silva 在电子邮件中表示。 “艺术品展示在公共空间、餐厅、休息室和宾客套房中，营造出一个沉浸式环境，让宾客在航行过程中不断发现新作品。” 该邮轮公司的 Explorer Class 拥有巴勃罗·毕加索（Pablo Picasso）和马克·夏加尔（Marc Chagall）的作品，以及唯一一件在海上永久展出的法贝热（Fabergé）彩蛋。公司还将艺术融入其岸上观光活动中，从画廊之旅到博物馆参观。 “艺术是丽基因体验在船上和岸上的延伸，反映了品牌认为旅行与文化本质上是相连的，”D’Silva 说道。
宾客可以在船上购买其他艺术品吗？
有可能。 “在设有拍卖计划的船上，宾客经常会询问他们在画廊以外的地方发现的艺术品，”梅尔尼克说。“艺术工作人员通常可以解释某件特定作品是否可购买，是否可通过未来的拍卖获得，或者是否可以特别订购。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 来自 Blue Ocean Dive Resort 的潜水员在南非德班附近的 Umkomaas 进行诱饵鲨鱼潜水时，与黑鳍鲨一同游泳。 MICHELE SPATARI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
用可持续旅游业的资金来换取捕鱼权。
巴哈马，比米尼
运营商：尼尔·沃森的比米尼潜水中心（Neal Watson’s Bimini Scuba Center） 对于渴望看到锤头鲨的潜水员来说，巴哈马的比米尼是不二之选。这些外形独特的鲨鱼在 11 月至……
但梅尔尼克提醒道，不要假设船上的每件作品都待售。特别是在奢华航线上，艺术品作为永久收藏的一部分是很常见的。
邮轮上的艺术品值得花钱买吗？
这取决于谁在购买。 梅尔尼克表示，除了偶尔出现原作外，船上的艺术品拍卖通常以签名版画、限量版作品等为主。 “定价是否高于或低于岸上画廊，取决于艺术家、版本数量、市场需求和场地，”她说。梅尔尼克建议进行大宗购买的旅行者提前研究艺术家并对比价格。 根据客户的居住地、艺术品的配送地以及购买作品的类型，可能还存在一些税务优势。 “某些进口到美国的艺术品可能会获得优惠的海关待遇，而且在国际水域进行的购买可能不需要缴纳与陆地画廊购买相同的当地销售税，”梅尔尼克说。“然而，买家仍可能根据其配送地址和个人税务情况而欠税。” 帕克斯觉得她的作品“定价非常合理”，她总共支付了约 $2,300，包括装裱和运费。对她而言，这些购买是一种更深层次的投资。 帕克斯从 2022 年开始尝试单人邮轮旅行，以便在多年专注于家庭之后，给自己留出时间。 “在这次最后的航程中，能够提升档次购买艺术品感觉很棒，因为它给我带来了快乐——没有其他理由，仅仅是因为它让我快乐。”
四月。这里不仅能看到这些鲨鱼——柠檬鲨、护士鲨和加勒比礁鲨也出现在这些温暖的热带海域中。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 阿里瓦尔浅滩，南非 (Aliwal Shoal, South Africa)
运营商：阿里瓦尔潜水中心 (Aliwal Dive Centre) 阿里瓦尔浅滩是南非海岸外的一座古老沙丘，是一个充满活力的海洋奇迹之地，且被指定为海洋保护区。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 历史根源。游客可以乘坐马车，探索南卡罗来纳州最古老城市的历史。“在这里乘船是必不可少的，”斯特赖夫 (Streif) 表示。“探索外围的屏障群岛，参加一次租船出海钓鱼，或者在查尔斯顿的租船之旅中，欣赏日落时分在身边嬉戏的海豚。”
阿拉巴马州 塔斯卡卢萨：在塔斯卡卢萨市议会批准资金后，萨班中心将获得其屋顶活动空间；该项资金为原本计划用于梅赛德斯-奔驰露天剧场的 $1.3 百万美元。
阿拉斯加州 朱诺：据 KTOO 报道，美国国家气象局预测，朱诺的自杀盆地（Suicide Basin）冰川预计将在 8 月 8 日至 12 日之间填满，比初步估计的时间稍晚。
亚利桑那州 道格拉斯：美国将从 8 月 24 日起通过道格拉斯的一个入境口岸恢复进口墨西哥牛。
阿肯色州 Fort Smith：在 Kappa Sigma 兄弟会的全国领导力会议期间，阿肯色大学-Fort Smith 分校的 Kappa Sigma 兄弟会分会获得了迄今为止最高的国际认可，被授予“创始人圆桌奖”（Founders’ Circle Award），并获得了多项关于领导力、学术和分会卓越表现的额外荣誉。
加利福尼亚州 萨克拉门托：根据该州的医疗保险市场，Covered California 健康计划预计在 2027 年平均增长 9.9%。
科罗拉多州 Boulder：关于驼鹿是否为科罗拉多州原生种的辩论，在由科罗拉多大学领导的研究论文与落基山国家公园之间陷入了对立。科罗拉多大学博物馆策展人、人类学助理教授 William Taylor 表示，由他领导的新研究显示出明确证据，证明驼鹿在包括科罗拉多州在内的南落基山脉已经存在了至少几个世纪，甚至可能更久，这使得它们成为原生种。落基山国家公园对此表示反对，并坚持其长期持有的观点。
康涅狄格州 斯特拉特福：据 WFSB 报道，在当地采集的蚊子被检测出携带西尼罗河病毒后，官员们报告了斯特拉特福 2026 年首次检测到西尼罗河病毒的情况。
特拉华州 多佛：一名 30 岁的男子因 7 月 17 日在多佛肯特郡法院旁强奸一名正在睡觉的无家可归女性而被逮捕并起诉。
哥伦比亚特区 华盛顿：据 WUSA9 报道，哥伦比亚特区大学将其本科申请截止日期延长至 8 月 7 日，以便为 502 名近期因学费支付问题被除名的霍华德大学新生提供在另一所 HBCU（历史黑人大学）注册的机会。
佛罗里达州 塔拉哈西：胡安·庞塞·德莱昂终于抵达了佛罗里达州的首府。州长 Ron DeSantis 于 7 月 17 日在州议会大厦揭幕了庞塞·德莱昂的新雕像，让这位为佛罗里达命名的人在塔拉哈西占有一席之地。
佐治亚州 泰比岛：据《南方生活》（Southern Living）报道，泰比岛记录的海龟巢穴数量已创历史最高纪录，在筑巢季节尚未结束的情况下就已打破之前的纪录。据《南方生活》报道，截至 7 月 15 日，泰比岛已记录到 49 个海龟巢穴，打破了该岛 2022 年创下的 35 个巢穴的纪录。
夏威夷州 檀香山：据 Hawaii News Now 报道，威基基百年公园（Centennial Park Waikiki）已关闭，工作人员开始一项 $310,000 项目，将公园的链条围栏更换为新型金属围栏，预计公园将在 10 月底重新开放。
爱达荷州 博伊西：据 Idaho Capital Sun 报道，联邦官员宣布，爱达荷州已被选为美国能源部考虑设立新核能生命周期创新校园（Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus）的五个候选州之一。
伊利诺伊州 斯普林菲尔德：州长 JB Pritzker 签署的一项新法律旨在限制伊利诺伊州学校使用手机，以努力“打造无干扰教室”。
印第安纳州 格兰杰：当地的 Pre-K-12 学校格兰杰基督学校（Granger Christian School）在运营 55 年后，将在 2026-27 学年开始前关闭。该校表示，目前正在协助学生及其家庭获取成绩单，以便注册进入其他学校。
亮点：密歇根州
人们 7 月 25 日在底特律重新开放的底特律儿童博物馆内走动。ERIC SEALS/USA TODAY NETWORK
底特律：玩具、面条串项链、历史展览、科学、暴风兵、气球花、面部彩绘等，标志着底特律儿童博物馆在中断 14 年后重新开放。该博物馆成立于 1917 年，目前拥有超过 2.5 million 件历史物品、科学材料和全球瑰宝。它由底特律公立学校社区区拥有，使其成为美国唯一由学区拥有的博物馆之一。在底特律经历破产期间，该博物馆于 2012 年向公众关闭。现在，它将每月向公众开放一次。
堪萨斯州 托皮卡：一件代发自动化平台 AutoDS 将堪萨斯州列为“美国包裹丢失最严重的州之一”。在包裹最容易丢失的州排名中，堪萨斯州排名第 19 位。
肯塔基州 佛罗伦萨：新标志显示，一家宜家 (IKEA) 小型店被挤在一家 Hallmark 商店和一家美甲店之间。但这家深受喜爱的瑞典家具店在开业时并不会是一个缩减版。这是一个 4,200 平方英尺的“计划与订单取货点”，可能会在今年开业。
路易斯安那州 巴吞鲁日：路易斯安那州最甜的作物正遭受一种去年抵达美国的澳大利亚原产昆虫的攻击。牧场粉蚧能迅速破坏或杀死甘蔗，目前已在路易斯安那州的 14 个教区被检测到。路易斯安那州立大学农业中心昆虫学家布莱克·威尔逊表示，目前还没有根除这种害虫的“标准方案”。
缅因州 卡斯蒂恩：据 News Center Maine 报道，缅因海事学院由联邦政府资助的新训练船“缅因州号”抵达卡斯蒂恩，这标志着该校实践性海事教育计划的一个重要里程碑。
马里兰州 大洋城：大洋城的海滩将在五年来首次通过增加新沙进行补沙，马里兰州公共工程委员会已为此项工作批准了 $12.7 million 的资金。该资金将与 $14.3 million 的联邦资金相结合，用于这个价值 $27 million 的项目。
马萨诸塞州 马尔堡：这家医疗设备制造商表示，波士顿科学 (Boston Scientific) 的董事会已批准了一项新的全公司重组计划，旨在降低成本并为公司的未来增长提供更好的定位。
明尼苏达州 圣保罗：该州 IT 机构表示，一场“协同网络攻击”在 7 月 26 日和 7 月 27 日针对明尼苏达州的 30 多个社区水系统。
密西西比州 麦迪逊：麦迪逊最活跃的商业开发商之一正准备在该市繁忙的美国 51 号公路走廊沿线启动另一个项目。布里奇福斯·鲁特莱奇表示，在他重新开发的前 Walgreens 房产后面，一个新的七栋建筑商业开发项目已经在进行中。
密苏里州 杰斐逊城：据 Missouri Independent 报道，新公开的电子邮件显示，密苏里州司库办公室在 4 月份得知其网站上的电子表格无意中泄露了领取私立学校代金券的学生姓名后，淡化了向家庭告知泄露情况的程度，并起草了一份指责其软件承包商的声明。该供应商表示，问题并非由此产生。该新闻机构称，文件本身携带的标记表明，在发布之前，它曾经过一名司库办公室员工的计算机。
内布拉斯加州 林肯：来自内布拉斯加州和爱荷华州的数百名移民正在接受被称为“超级法官”(mega masters) 的大规模听证会审理，主审法官此前与美国移民和海关执法局有联系。超级法官听证会将数十个或数百个移民案件合并到单一程序中。司法部在全国范围内实施此类听证会以减少法院积压，这引起了移民倡导者对正当程序的担忧。
内华达州 里诺：里诺-斯帕克斯 (Reno-Sparks) 的住宅中位价在 6 月份创下新高，其中里诺的价格首次突破 $700,000 大关。
新罕布什尔州 罗切斯特：该市保护委员会投票通过，同意从保护基金中支出最高 $300,000，用于支持将 130 英亩土地纳入保护地役权，以保护该土地及其水源免受未来的开发影响。
新泽西州 普林斯顿：在一次新的全美排名中，新泽西州的五个社区被列为美国最富有的郊区，其中一个城镇首次入榜。根据 MoneyLion 2026 年的美国最富有郊区排名，韦斯特菲尔德 (Westfield)、萨米特 (Summit)、特纳弗莱 (Tenafly) 和里奇伍德 (Ridgewood) 均重返前 50。普林斯顿也获得了一个席位，标志着其首次登上该年度榜单。
新墨西哥州 多尼亚安那县：据州饮用水记录显示，多尼亚安那互助家庭饮用水消费者协会 (Doña Ana Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association) 因未能就铀含量超标通知客户而收到一项饮用水违规处罚。
纽约州 奥尔巴尼：随着该州计划在 8 月底前禁止当地执法机构与美国移民和海关执法局 (ICE) 签署正式合作协议，相关的警告信已发送至纽约州的警察机构。
北卡罗来纳州 卢尔湖：卢尔湖的沃什本码头 (Washburn Marina) 在被飓风海伦 (Hurricane Helene) 摧毁后再次开放。在这个拥有 1,400 人的拉瑟福德县度假旅游城镇中，一个由浮筒组成的“浮动木板道”现在将码头及附近的莫尔斯公园 (Morse Park) 与主休闲海滩连接起来。
北达科他州 谷城：KVRR 报道称，一项审计发现，谷城州立大学在 2024 和 2025, 年未能对该校的文化多样性豁免 (Cultural Diversity Waiver) 和乡村教师支持计划豁免 (Rural Teacher Support Program Waiver) 的资格进行妥善记录、核实和批准，从而引发了加强监督的建议，该大学表示已对此进行了处理。
俄亥俄州 辛辛那提：该市将拨出高达 $2 million，以帮助受近期洪灾影响的房主和企业。
俄勒冈州 德波湾：俄勒冈州公园与娱乐部的德波湾观鲸中心及观赏区将于 Aug. 1 日起关闭维修。
宾夕法尼亚州 约克：一名联邦法官命令宾夕法尼亚州共和服务公司 (Republic Services of Pennsylvania) —— 约克县现代垃圾填埋场 (Modern Landfill) 的运营商 —— 支付 $9.2 million 的民事罚款，原因是该公司通过向克罗茨溪 (Kreutz Creek) 反复排放污染物违反了《清洁水法》。
罗德岛州 普罗维登斯：一名高等法院法官裁定，前众议院议长 K. 约瑟夫·舍卡奇 (K. Joseph Shekarchi) 可以直接从州议会跳槽到州最高法院，无需经过 1 年的“旋转门”等待期。
南卡罗来纳州 斯帕坦堡：一群反对在 NorthMark 计算与云数据中心原址建设一座 450 兆瓦电厂的人士，希望南卡罗来纳州公共服务委员会能就该项目的未来发表意见。斯帕坦堡县关注公民组织 (Concerned Citizens of Spartanburg County) 和南方环境法中心 (Southern Environmental Law Center) 已向委员会请愿，要求根据该州的《公用设施设施选址与环境保护法》审查该开发项目。
南达科他州 皮埃尔：据《南达科他搜索灯》(South Dakota Searchlight) 报道，共和党籍南达科他州参议员汤姆·皮什克 (Tom Pischke) 因涉嫌提交虚假或伪造的选举相关文件而面临重罪指控，已结束其连任竞选。
田纳西州 纳什维尔：Live Nation 知道了 The Truth，而纳什维尔的其余部分很快也会知道。美国证券交易委员会 (SEC) 的申报文件显示，这家娱乐巨头已经在全球范围内持有约 460 个音乐场地的股份，并且即将在这个“音乐之都”增加一个。Oct. 1, Live Nation 将在韦奇伍德-休斯顿 (Wedgewood-Houston) 社区开设 The Truth，这是一个可容纳 4,400 人的三层场馆。
德克萨斯州 埃尔帕索：Meta Platforms 和全球最大的资产管理公司黑岩 (BlackRock) 宣布一项风险投资，将在埃尔帕索开发并运营一个数据中心园区，该项目的开发成本约为 $14 billion。
犹他州 盐湖城：第四巡回法院法官 Kasey Wright 在上任不到两年后宣布辞职，并警告称，压倒性的案件量和每周 50 到 60 小时的工作时间造成了不可持续的工作负担，KSL 报道。
佛蒙特州 蒙特皮埃尔：通过在 2026 年初完成的土地保护项目，佛蒙特州为三处州立森林财产增加了近 400 英亩土地，在保护洪水泛滥区、野生动物栖息地和水资源的同时，扩大了公众的进入权限。根据一项社区公告，Underhill、Granville 和 Roxbury 的这些收购由佛蒙特州森林、公园与娱乐部完成。
弗吉尼亚州 彼得斯堡：一名起诉前民主党助手兼候选人诽谤的前州参议员已撤回诉讼，此前法官裁定他不能传唤已被豁免作证的证人。Joe Morrissey 的决定暂时结束了这起针对阿灵顿县居民 Kevin Saucedo-Broach 的 1.35 百万美元案件。
华盛顿州 西雅图：当局在最新提交的法院记录中表示，在西雅图的一次节日活动中导致 2 名受害者死亡的子弹，似乎并非来自一名在押的 15 岁嫌疑人据称持有的枪支。
西弗吉尼亚州 查尔斯顿：据 WV News 报道，Neighbors Bank 的一项新研究将查尔斯顿列为 2026 年全美最受新购房者欢迎的新兴城市。
威斯康星州 舍博伊根：“美国爱国者号” (The American Patriot) 很快将在舍博伊根完成其夏季航行的倒数第二次停靠，预计明年将再次返回。这艘美国邮轮公司 (American Cruise Lines) 的船将于 8 月 2 日停靠在南码头。
怀俄明州 吉莱特：据《吉莱特新闻记录》(Gillette News Record) 报道，吉莱特学院将获得联邦资金，用于启动新的建筑和化学技术培训项目，并扩大现有课程，以帮助工人为不断增长的核能产业中的工作做好准备。
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现需缴纳 旅游税
Kathleen Wong
根据该市官方网站的消息，爱丁堡（苏格兰）的旅行现在变得稍微昂贵了一些，因为该市于 7 月 24 日成为英国首个对过夜住宿征收旅游税的城市。根据新政策，前往这座苏格兰首府的旅行者将被额外收取其过夜住宿费用的 5%，最高连续征收五晚。2024 年 5 月，苏格兰政府首先通过了《访客征费法案》（Visitor Levy Bill），授予每个城市引入自身旅游税的权力。爱丁堡立法者于 2025 年 1 月正式同意征收旅游税。议会领袖简·米格尔（Jane Meagher）在 7 月 23 日的一份媒体发布稿中表示：“我们知道，这座城市的受欢迎程度是以一定的代价为前提的，因为它给我们的服务以及全年在此生活和工作的人们带来了压力。” “来自过夜访客的这一小额新贡献将有助于改善我们所有人都依赖的服务和公共空间，同时能更好地管理旅游业和重大活动带来的影响。” 该市在 2025 年 1 月的一份媒体发布稿中表示，预计该税项每年将筹集高达 50 million 英镑——按 7 月 26 日的汇率计算，超过 $67 million 美元——用于“投资保护、支持并提升爱丁堡作为居住地和旅游地的全球吸引力”。该税收收入预计将资助各种全市范围的项目，例如通过升级和更换公共垃圾桶来保持街道清洁，通过雇佣更多公园护林员和种植更多树木来投资城市公园，以及修复像利斯剧院（Leith Theatre）这样的遗产和文化场所，以创建一个全年运行的现场音乐空间。苏格兰只是最新一个收取旅游税的欧洲目的地。在过去的几年中，阿姆斯特丹和威尼斯等城市已经引入了类似的费用，以抵消
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在 36 年的时间里，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——连续 5,060 场广播，一次未缺席。他的本垒打解说词已深深融入纽约棒球文化之中。“球飞得高，飞得远，球出界了！”曾是布朗克斯区夏季的声音。但这部收藏书讲述的不止于麦克风后的那个男人。这部由 NorthJersey.com 和 今日美国 体育共同推出的纪念型精装画册，捕捉了斯特林时代的巅峰时刻：那些冠军、那些传奇、那些难以忘怀的精彩瞬间。它通过摄影、故事和幕后点滴，追溯了斯特林的职业生涯以及他所解说的洋基队时代。一切尽在其中。立即预订您的副本。
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5% 的税费仅针对住宿部分收取， 不包括停车费或洗衣等额外服务。 根据官方网站，该税费并非按人头 收取，而是适用于房费。
5% 的税费仅针对住宿部分收取，不包括停车费或洗衣等额外服务。根据官方网站，该税费并非按人头收取，而是适用于房费。 例如，如果您的酒店每晚费用为 100 英镑，则每晚将额外增加 5 英镑的税费。那么，入住五晚的总费用将从 500 英镑增加到 525 英镑。
过度旅游的影响并改善居民的生活质量。紧随爱丁堡的步伐，根据苏格兰访客征税网站，格拉斯哥计划从 2027 年 1 月 1 日起，对住宿征收 5% 的游客税。 以下是旅行者需要了解的关于苏格兰首次实施游客税的相关信息。
谁支付爱丁堡 游客税？
该税费由在爱丁堡过夜的访客支付，而非一日游游客。所有过夜住宿类型均将被征税，无论是酒店、Airbnb、青年旅舍还是露营地。
爱丁堡游客税 是多少？
爱丁堡游客税 如何运作？
企业负责在最终账单中收取游客税，因此旅行者无需自行计算。
六旗大冒险（Six Flags Great Adventure）于 7 月 28 日揭晓了其最新的世界纪录打破者过山车——Bakunawa。该设施计划在 2027 赛季准备就绪。
新泽西州新六旗过山车 将刷新 6 项世界纪录
Michael L. Diamond
Asbury Park Press
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新泽西州杰克逊市（JACKSON, NJ）——六旗大冒险揭开了其最新惊险游乐设施 Bakunawa 的神秘面纱。这是一款自由旋转且无底的过山车，在 2027 赛季开放时将保持 6 项世界纪录。 该游乐设施以菲律宾神话中的传奇海蛇命名，高度将达到 382 英尺，速度最高可达 100 英里/小时，使游客在空中以正向、倒置和侧向方式旋转。 “你将以 90 度的角度直线攀升至 382 英尺高的塔顶，到达顶端后在外部滑行，这看起来既恐怖又惊艳，随后速度减慢，”六旗大冒险公园总裁 Mike Fehnel 表示。“然后，你将以反向再次经历这一切。”
该游乐园于 7 月 28 日向媒体和网红介绍了该设施，其中一些人高举智能手机对活动进行了现场直播。 这座仍在建设中的过山车被命名为“紫色项目”（Project Purple），旨在提高人们对胰腺癌的认识。它在全世界的过山车爱好者中引起了轰动，人们一直好奇杰克逊市的公园将如何创造新的快感。 答案是：该设施将申报为全球最快旋转过山车、最高旋转过山车、最快翻转、最长停顿翻转、首个无底旋转过山车以及首个倒置发射。 “我们从未见过这样的游乐设施，”内容创作者 Ryan Chin（网名 ElToroRyan）说道，他当时正在为自己的 YouTube 频道及其 170,000 名订阅者记录这一天。“倒置发射、旋转列车，这非常独特，完全不同。”
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暂停 Storm队 共同所有者资格
Mitchell Northam
西雅图Storm队的共同所有者Celeste Keaton因在7月28日对两名球迷发表的言论，被WNBA处以罚款并禁赛五场主场比赛。两名知情人士向今日美国体育（USA TODAY Sports）确认了这一决定。
由于未获授权就该事件或处罚公开发表言论，这两名人士要求匿名。此次禁赛是因为违反了联盟的行为标准。目前尚不清楚Keaton将被罚款多少。
西雅图队在周二输给了印第安纳Fever队，被Keaton接触到的两名球迷坐在场边，并举起支持Fever队后卫Sophie Cunningham的标牌。根据照片显示，其中一块标牌写着：“感谢SOPHIE为女孩们发声。”
这两名未具名的球迷在播客主持人Brandi Kruse发布的视频中讲述了与Keaton的所谓互动。这两名球迷穿着XX-XY Athletics的衬衫，该品牌自称是“旨在保护女性体育和空间的品牌”。
“这个年长的女士走到我们面前，起初我们以为她会很友好，她问：‘你们在做什么？’ 接着她说‘耶稣爱每一个人’，”两名球迷在向Kruse描述互动时说道。“……然后她说，‘我希望耶稣能原谅你们所犯的罪孽。’ 随后她告诉我们，我们‘（脏话）疯了’。”
在给今日美国体育（USA TODAY Sports）的一份声明中，Storm队多数股权共同所有者Ginny Gilder表示：“我们意识到其中一名……”
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芝加哥——这个信息本可以被忽略。那个电话本可以不回。
然而，Brendan Sorsby接起了电话并回拨给了Rick Neuheisel。Sorsby的父亲Jamey（前德克萨斯州高中橄榄球教练）也这样做了。
Neuheisel曾因为……一个办公室赌局而成为NCAA的“头号公敌”——那是2003年一场社区竞赛中的NCAA男子篮球锦标赛对阵图，如果放在今天，那些反对赌博的人将会在伪善中游泳。
作为前科罗拉多大学、华盛顿大学及其母校加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的主教练，Neuheisel提醒Sorsby——这位前印第安纳大学、前辛辛那提大学、现被禁止参加大学橄榄球的德克萨斯理工大学预期四分卫——不要变得愤世嫉俗。
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John Leuzzi
俄亥俄州立大学橄榄球教练Ryan Day认为，现在的Julian Sayin与一个赛季前率领 Buckeyes 进攻时的样子不同。
“（Sayin）眼神中透着不同的神情，”Day在7月29日的 Big Ten 媒体日上表示。
上赛季，Sayin率领 Buckeyes 取得了12-2的总战绩，并连续第二次进入大学橄榄球季后赛（College Football Playoff）。在那次赛事中，俄亥俄州立大学在棉花碗赛中输给了迈阿密大学——在将 Big Ten 冠军赛输给最终的全国冠军印第安纳大学后，这次失利导致 Buckeyes 赛季以两连败收场。
“我之前说过，他去年取得了巨大的成功。在他职业生涯首次主场首发中，在面对前五强球队德克萨斯大学的一场重大对决中获胜；在漫天大雪中赢下了我们的宿敌之战（对阵密歇根大学）；但他在年底时没能完成任务。我们都没完成，”Day说。“但当你现在看着他的眼睛，你会发现一个不同的人。”
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“突然之间，人们认为我在大学体育博彩方面是不择手段的，而我在华盛顿大学执教期间其实只是参加了一个篮球投注池，”CBS 体育分析师 Neuheisel 在 7 月 29 日告诉《今日美国》体育版。“我说过，人们往往会倾向于变得非常愤恨，认为有人在针对你。”
“在经历了这一切之后，我可以告诉你，愤恨只会影响你自己。它无法触及任何伤害过你的人，也不会伤害到其他任何人。所以，这件事发生了，你有一个机会去重建并重新开始。将其视为人生的一课，并在你选择从事的任何领域成为一个出色的榜样。”
在 7 月 28 日于西雅图 Climate Pledge Arena 举行的 Fever 与 Storm 的比赛上半场，球迷们举着 Sophie Cunningham 的标语牌。Cunningham 是 Fever 队的后卫。STEVEN BISIG/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT
我们的共同所有者在昨晚的比赛中对两名现场观众发表了言论。我们对该事件的发生表示道歉。每一位观看风暴队比赛的人都应该感到受欢迎，我们致力于营造一个包容的环境，让每一位球迷都能获得尊重。” 由于ESPN的一篇报道，坎宁安引起了关注，报道中引用了这位发烧队球星的话：“我认为我是来传递爱的。但我也认为爱伴随着真相，即诚实。我想保护更衣室里的年轻女孩，或者体育运动中的年轻女孩，她们不应该面对生物学男性。” 在上周被问及这一立场时，坎宁安表示：“我是来传递爱的，但我也在爱生物学女性。我认为有些权利需要被保护。就像我说的，我会坚守这一点。我在这方面的信念永远不会动摇，但我从未说过我讨厌跨性别群体。就像我说的，我认为每个人都有自己的空间。” 在得知基顿被停职后，坎宁安在X上写道：“我的餐桌欢迎所有人！你们可以持有不同意见，但依然保持友善。”她赞扬了
俄亥俄州立大学四分卫朱利安·赛因（Julian Sayin）正进入他的第二个赛季。
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根据戴（Day）的说法，这种增长并不局限于经验。 “你会看到一个不同的身体，”戴说道。
索尔斯比（Sorsby）与今日美国（USA TODAY）体育频道分享的纽海塞尔（Neuheisel）的话，确实提供了关于他未来计划的见解。 “索尔斯比非常出色，他100%认同并希望专注于未来，”纽海塞尔说道，他曾作为UCLA的四分卫以及华盛顿大学的主教练赢得了玫瑰碗。 “他实际上考虑过留在那里（德克萨斯理工大学）并仅仅担任侦察队的四分卫，但他不想成为干扰因素。他只是希望拥有这个机会。” “他希望能够进入（NFL）联合选秀训练营，也许是资深之碗（Senior Bowl），并希望能尽快（在2027年）获得参加NFL训练营的机会。这一切尚待确定。” 纽海塞尔强调，毫无疑问的是，索尔斯比被强迫性赌博“必然”吸引的根本原因。
这两名粉丝的“挺身而出”，并表示她将给他们发送礼物，随后补充说基顿所谓的行为“确实令人尴尬”。 在发烧队击败风暴队之前，西雅图的气候承诺球馆（Climate Pledge Arena）外举行了一场小型集会，数十人表达了对坎宁安的支持，并推广全州倡议IL26-638，该倡议将禁止跨性别学生参加华盛顿州公立学校的女子体育项目。坎宁安在赛后新闻发布会上未接受记者采访。 当发烧队教练斯蒂芬妮·怀特（Stephanie White）被问及此次集会时，一名球队发言人介入并宣读了一份声明，称：“我们的组织和索菲（Sophie）都不知道这次演示，也没有与组织者接触。我们作为一支球队的唯一目标，无论是主场还是客场，都是赢得篮球比赛并让发烧队的球迷终身支持，我们在这一使命上团结一致。” 在比赛前，风暴队资深中锋斯特凡妮·多尔森（Stefanie Dolson）穿了一件写着“跨性别权利即人权”的衬衫。她穿着这件衬衫的照片被发布在西雅图队的官方社交媒体账号上，在X上获得了超过3.7 million次观看。
“他一直很努力，变得更强壮了，更加找到了自己的声音，眼神中也透着自信。我认为他已经为迎接一个伟大的赛季做好了准备。”
在周三与 Big Ten Network 频道的另一场采访中，Day 补充说，随着 Sayin 身体素质的改变，人们能更明显地看到这位前五星招募球员的下肢力量，而他的“脖子看起来也粗了一圈”。
Sayin 从阿拉巴马大学转学至俄亥俄州立大学。上赛季，当俄亥俄州立大学在第 1 周主场迎战夺冠热门德克萨斯大学时，他在这次前五强之战中接受了考验，并与海斯曼奖热门选手 Arch Manning 展开对决，在 Buckeyes 以 14-7 获胜的比赛中投球获得 126 码并贡献一个达阵。
上赛季，他完成了 391 次传球中的 301 次，总计 3,610 码，32 次达阵，8 次被拦截，在海斯曼奖竞选中排名第四，落后于海斯曼奖得主 Fernando Mendoza 1,930 分。在与密歇根大学的“那场比赛”（The Game）中，Sayin 投球获得三个达阵和 233 码，打破了 Buckeyes 四场比赛的……
“我不认为针对 Brendan Sorsby 的抨击一定是指向 Brendan Sorsby 本人，”Neuheisel 说道。“我的意思是，当你可以在手机上投注，可以对好球和坏球投注，几乎可以对任何事情投注时，我们认为会发生什么，对吧？
“Kalshi（预测市场），现在你可以随心所欲地投注。我们认为会发生什么？我们到处可见关于投注的广告，比如，你知道的，首笔 $200（投注金）免费。他们会诱导人们进入。而大学生是主要目标，所以他陷入其中了。他已经承认了这一点，接受了康复治疗，并且正处于重新出发的平台上。”
Neuheisel 推测，表面上针对 Sorsby 的谩骂，潜意识里是对德克萨斯理工大学的一种轻蔑，而该校的足球……
转校生 Josh Hoover 预计将成为印第安纳大学本赛季的首发球员。
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印第安纳大学的持久力，尽管所有证据都表明，只要 Cignetti 掌权且捐赠者保持投入，胡希尔队（Hoosiers）就是经得起考验的。
胡希尔队在取得 16-0 的战绩后，有 8 名球员参加了 NFL 选秀，但他们依然阵容强大。强大到什么程度？最近，在投票选出我的赛季前全大十联盟（all-Big Ten）阵容时，我写下的胡希尔队球员人数比俄亥俄州立大学（Buckeyes）或俄勒冈大学（Ducks）还要多。
当选票统计完成后，在我们的 今日美国 赛季前全大十阵容中，印第安纳大学共有 7 人入选，与俄勒冈大学持平，并超过了俄亥俄州立大学的 4 人。胡希尔队的防守线看起来极其深厚，进攻线依然强健。转会而来的接球手 Nick Marsh 和跑卫 Turbo Richard（球员出色，名字更出彩）解决了技术位置的需求。
关键问题是：从海斯曼奖（Heisman Trophy）得主 Fernando Mendoza 到来自 TCU 的转校生 Josh Hoover，水平下降幅度会有多大？
大十联盟拥有三支全国冠军竞争者
在面对密歇根大学（Wolverines）的连败纪录中。 Sayin 是 今日美国 网络选出的赛季前大十联盟第一阵容成员，他将面临另一个极具挑战性的赛程，包括在第 2 周前往德克萨斯州客场比赛，以及与印第安纳大学、俄勒冈大学和密歇根大学的联盟赛。后两场比赛将在哥伦布市的主场进行。
他带着海斯曼奖的热度进入本赛季，在 BetMGM 的赔率中与迈阿密大学四分卫 Darian Mensah 并列第四，赔率均为 +1100。
Day 概述了 Sayin 发展的下一步。 “如果你问我他最突出的三点，其中一点绝对是他的聪明才智。他能处理大量的信息，能快速处理事情，”Day 在大十网络（Big Ten Network）上说道。“所以我认为只要将他的整体比赛水平提升到下一个阶段，在口袋阵中保持强势并在关键时刻完成传球即可。”
俄亥俄州立大学计划于 9 月 5 日东部时间中午 12 点在俄亥俄体育场对阵鲍尔州立大学（Ball State），开启新赛季。
在“付费参赛”时代，该计划变得就像 Sorsby 在游戏改革中所被描述的那样。 “这种反弹来自于一批非常不喜欢德克萨斯理工大学（Texas Tech）现状的学校。在我看来，你就是在使用巨额资金基本上去买断所有人，因为你有几个家伙，比如 John Sellers 和 Cody Campbell，他们从 Double Eagle Energy 赚了 10 亿美元。
“听着，大学足球长期以来一直有巨额捐赠者。大多数时候是在桌底下的（秘密地）。现在，钱摆在了桌面上。因此出现了一些嫉妒，一些抵制，比如‘我们不跟（理工大学）打’。”
“虽然比赛的正直性确实是一个问题，但对我来说，重点是他被德克萨斯理工大学买走了，而德克萨斯理工大学一直在争取让他参赛。这样就足够了。”
俄勒冈大学将赢得该联盟冠军，我明白。 两者都拥有顶级的首发四分卫，他们已经在 Big Ten 联盟中证明了自己。杰里迈亚·史密斯 (Jeremiah Smith) 和 博·杰克逊 (Bo Jackson) 与 朱利安·塞因 (Julian Sayin) 共同让俄亥俄州立大学拥有三位海斯曼奖的竞争者。俄勒冈大学的防线可能无出其右，正如印第安纳大学的线卫可能同样无出其右。 2026 年的 Big Ten 联盟依然存在“三强”，而且其中不包括密歇根大学。 是俄亥俄州立大学、印第安纳大学和俄勒冈大学。 或者，是印第安纳大学、俄勒冈大学和俄亥俄州立大学。 或者，是俄勒冈大学、俄亥俄州立大学和印第安纳大学。 我们可以争论顺序，但这三支球队构成了 Big Ten 的“刻耳柏罗斯”（三头犬）。我对胡西尔人 (Hoosiers) 研究得越多，就越觉得他们的牙齿可能最锋利。 “我喜欢我们在更衣室里的球员，”西格内蒂 (Cignetti) 最近告诉 ESPN，“过去我们每年都取得了成功，我不认为未来我们不能每年都取得成功。” 我也这么认为。 “为什么要去其他地方？”西格内蒂自言自语道。 他已经回答了这个问题。 没有理由去其他任何地方。 西格内蒂还回答了另一个问题。去年，当我们询问谁是“下一个印第安纳”时，西格内蒂和他的胡西尔人们证明了没有所谓的下一个印第安纳，只有印第安纳本身。这一点至今依然成立。
布莱克·托普迈尔 (Blake Toppmeyer) 是 今日美国 网络的资深国家大学足球专栏作家。电子邮件：BToppmeyer@gannett.com，并在 X 上关注他 @btoppmeyer
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圣母大学体育项目向 SoFi 补丁低头
Tom Noie
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印第安纳州南本德 —— SoFi……那又怎样？ 这是圣母大学体育部门在 7 月 28 日宣布与 SoFi Technologies 达成一项多年协议时的首要反应。SoFi 成为第一个在所有圣母大学（Irish）运动员队服上印有补丁的非运动服装品牌。
在随附的宣传照片中，补丁就出现在传统的蓝色主场足球球衣左侧。很可能这个冬天，篮球球衣和冰球衫也会如此。到了春天，棒球、长曲棍球和垒球也将加入。那些只能看到 Adidas 或 Under Armour 标志的日子，似乎已成为过去。
雅虎体育（Yahoo Sports）报道称，该协议期限为六年，每年金额为 $18 million 到 $20 million，这将使其成为大学体育领域最获利丰厚的协议。很合适，毕竟这是圣母大学。一个圣母大学的消息人士向《论坛报》确认，这将是一个“多年”合作伙伴关系。圣母大学不对具体的财务数字发表评论或予以公布。
我们就假设未来至少六年每年有八位数资金，以此为基准。
大学方面将该协议称为“里程碑式”的，这是一种委婉的说法，实际上是指这是必要的。甚至是强制性的。讽刺的是，SoFi 成了“圣母大学体育部门的官方金融服务合作伙伴”，因为这确实只关乎一件事。
金钱。
也就是说，需要更多的钱。
金钱已经取代了招募，成为每个大学体育项目的生命线。拥有资金的人可以梦想全国冠军。而拥有资金的人还需要更多获取资金的途径。五星级新秀固然很好，但为体育基金再增加 $5 million 才是至关重要的。
十年前，如果想到在今年 7 月的这一天会发生这样的事，似乎会令人发笑。
甚至显得荒谬。
那时？在圣母大学不会这样。
今天？即便是在圣母大学。对于每个大学体育部门来说，这都是开展业务的必要部分。寻找
在激烈的言论季，大十联盟（Big Ten）完胜东南联盟（SEC）
Blake Toppmeyer
尼克·萨班（Nick Saban）发话了，所有人要么摇头，要么翻白眼，或者大笑不止。 而且，让我们直说吧，当萨班最近主张，尽管 SEC 在过去 3 个足球赛季中没有一支球队进入全国冠军赛，但它依然保持着联盟霸权时，我们并没有在随他一起笑。 “首先，谁赢得全国冠军并不能定义谁是最好的联盟，”萨班在 ESPN 上表示，“我认为最好的联盟是由你从顶层到底层拥有多少支强队来定义的。” 这位 GOAT（史上最佳）退休了，现在成了一个推销员。真可悲。 说到底层，有人看过上赛季的阿肯色大学吗？并不好看。 总之，我们竟然要相信一位在赢得 7 次全国冠军的同时，痴迷于追求和维持卓越的教练，现在认为卓越不是由奖杯定义的，而是由你拥有多少支 8-4 的球队定义的？ 抱歉，我不买账。也没人买账。 这就是宣传的特点：要使其有效，必须具有可信度。 一个与 ESPN 相关的 X 账号（SEC 常设的首席宣传员）转发了萨班这段空谈的剪辑，并配上了一个表示怀疑的思考脸表情符号。 简直可以直接加上那个 Ron Burgundy 的 GIF 动图：我不相信你！ 大十联盟不仅在赢得冠军，它还在麦克风前的口舌之战中获胜。 伊利诺伊大学教练布雷特·比勒马（Bret Bielema）被他唯一拥有过的一次 SEC 工作岗位解雇了，但他体现了大十联盟向前看——或者至少是享受当下——而非渴望地凝视后视镜的精神。比勒马在大十联盟媒体日上说，SEC 想要“永远生活在 2005 年”，这成了言论季最经典的金句之一。
圣母大学线卫 Jaylen Sneed (3) 在 4 月 25 日于南本德圣母大学体育场举行的蓝金赛后向球迷挥手。MICHAEL CATERINA/IMAGN IMAGES
——但这种情绪触及了真相。SEC 生活在过去。SEC 的专员、教练们以及负责操纵舆论的萨班，并没有承认大十联盟的接管并将其转化为动力，反而假装这一切没有发生。 实际情况是：大学足球现在的核心围绕着季后赛（Playoff）展开，而自乔治亚大学在除夕夜击败俄亥俄州立大学结束 2022 年以来，SEC 球队在季后赛对阵大十联盟的战绩为 0-4。 格雷格·桑基（Greg Sankey）通常在修辞博弈中表现出色，但两个月前当他坚持认为自己依然领导着“远超其他”的最佳足球联盟时，他的声音听起来扭曲且破碎。作为证据，他引用了其私下审查的指标。 目前还没有消息表明桑基是否也相信大脚怪的存在。 桑基在大十联盟的同行托尼·佩蒂蒂（Tony Petitti）在讲坛之战中通常选择较为低调的语调，但在媒体日上，他找到了自己的声音。 他引用了大十联盟在过去两个赛季中获得的 11 次季后赛胜利，这“是紧随其后的联盟的两倍多”，并且他回应了 SEC 的看法：在某处弄到一些体育地产，贴上一个 logo，兑现那张支票，让体育机器继续运转。 这看起来不对劲，但大学体育中没有什么是对劲的，曾经神圣的一切现在都明码标价。把愤怒留给其他事情吧，比如油价，或者通货膨胀。 大学制服上的广告贴片？不过是普通的商业运作。俄亥俄州立大学在 7 月 27. 完成了与摩根大通（JP Morgan Chase）的交易。圣母大学在 7 月 28 完成了。 阿拉巴马大学？密歇根大学？德克萨斯大学？轮到你们了。伙计们，赶紧把交易谈成吧。 学校们有数百万美元的巨额体育员工薪酬要支付。在圣母大学，足球名单的开支将接近 $50 million，以帮助该校夺得自 1988. 年以来的首个全国冠军。正如你读到的时候，该足球计划继续从过时的 Guglielmino 体育综合体搬迁到隔壁的 Shields 礼堂，后者的最终造价可能会高达近 $200 million。 今天贴球衣贴片，明天又会是什么？
不要以为圣母大学，或者任何在第一级别（Division I）体育赛事最高水平上竞争的高等学府，在球衣广告到此为止就完事了。如果蓝色、白色、绿色或任何他们决定采用的制服右侧的那一小块空间是广告商的黄金地段（即：钱），那么接下来会是什么？
圣母大学体育场内的 FieldTurf 人造草坪冠名将是下一步。在“洛克尼建造之屋”（House that Rockne Built）内部引入广告标牌将紧随其后。每一节比赛都将是“圣母大学橄榄球赛由……为您呈现”。在赫斯伯格图书馆（Hesburgh Library）的“生命之词”（Touchdown Jesus/达阵耶稣）壁画上贴一个国家品牌标志也许会被考虑。开玩笑的，不过在某个地方，肯定有人在想，嗯，你知道……
不。绝对不行。
金色的头盔？同样不可触碰。
这次 SoFi 与圣母大学的合作伙伴关系进一步证明了大学体育就是职业体育。不要再坚持认为并非如此。圣母大学体育主管皮特·贝瓦夸（Pete Bevacqua）仍在重复他关于“学生运动员”和“4 For Forever”的陈词滥调，并解释 SoFi 将如何为未来的学生运动员提供这般这般的那种帮助。他没有说出显而易见的一点——SoFi 将帮助减轻橄榄球计划或篮球计划（是的，没错）或任何其他圣母大学队伍在应对本赛季、下赛季或未来某赛季工资单时的压力。大学体育计划需要这种财务资源。我们离某些学校无法负担橄榄球、篮球或两者兼而有之的局面并不遥远。如果圣母大学橄榄球计划本赛季的工资单接近 $50 million，那么下赛季会是多少？两年后？三年后？干脆直接让学生运动员成为大学雇员，进入集体谈判阶段，快之就快。
当决定向“学生运动员”支付报酬时，大学体育在 2021 年发生了永久性的改变。所谓的支付，是指有些人每赛季获得 $5 million，而另一些人获得 $6 million。我们回不去了。工资单、标志以及随之而来的一切都将长期存在。习惯它们吧。你可以尽情憎恨，但要明白这份合作伙伴协议仅仅是个开始。那个校园里所有与体育相关的东西都有价格。必须赚更多钱。必须支付球员工资。我们距离“圣母大学橄榄球赛由（此处插入广告商）赞助”并不遥远。那一天的到来指日可待，同样地，主教练马库斯·弗里曼（Marcus Freeman）在场边看起来像穿着一件到处贴满广告标志的 NASCAR 赛车服的那一天也将到来。
每个人——以及每样东西——都在出售。每一个大学体育行政管理人员都伸出了手。这就是当今 NBA 的生活。这就是当今 MLB 的生活。在 WNBA 中也是如此。在赛车运动中也是如此。为什么在大学橄榄球中会不同？在大学体育中会不同？我们在 7 月下旬一个慵懒的周二下午得知，事实并非如此。所以，SoFi……那又怎样？
……认为其中层实力优于 Big Ten 联盟的观点。
“认为我们联盟的中层不够强的想法简直是错误的，”佩蒂蒂（Petitti）说道。
如果他想在这件事上死磕，他本可以提到音乐之城碗（Music City bowl）或 ReliaQuest 碗赛的结果，但佩蒂蒂对此不予理会。
Big Ten 现成为“优秀四分卫表现”之聚集地
至于 Big Ten 联盟如何占据主导地位，比莱马（Bielema）给出了显而易见的解释。
“当（转会门户和 NIL/姓名、影像、相似性权益）进入大学橄榄球时，整个世界都改变了，”比莱马说道。
换句话说，只要你给钱，优秀的球员会很乐意在北方的这个联盟中打球。不过，权力的演变比赞助人的资金更深。这也关乎 Big Ten 将四分卫的表现从一个“缺陷”转变为一个“特色”。上赛季没有谁能像印第安纳大学的费尔南多·门多萨（Fernando Mendoza）那样传球更精准，但俄亥俄州立大学的朱利安·赛因（Julian Sayin）和俄勒冈大学的……
丹特·摩尔（Dante Moore）也名列全国最佳四分卫之列。
爱荷华州大学（Iowa）永远不会被公认为四分卫表现的标杆，但在去年 12 月的碗赛胜利中，马克·格罗诺夫斯基（Mark Gronowski）在面对范德比尔特大学（Vanderbilt）的希曼奖亚军迭戈·帕维亚（Diego Pavia）时，表现得毫不逊色。
“正如我们所见，优秀的四分卫表现对于获胜至关重要，”南加州大学（Southern Cal）教练林肯·赖利（Lincoln Riley）说道。“目前这个联盟里有很多非常优秀的四分卫。”
赖利麾下的优秀四分卫杰登·迈亚瓦（Jaiden Maiava）让南加州大学有望首次获得季后赛资格。
针对萨班（Saban）喋喋不休地声称 SEC 在联盟中游和下游水平上占据绝对优势，比莱马（Bielema）在推特上发了两场比分。
伊利诺伊大学 21，南卡罗来纳大学 17，2024。 伊利诺伊大学 30，田纳西大学 28，2025。
获胜依然是最有力的反击。
托普梅耶（Toppmeyer）是今日美国（USA TODAY）网络的资深国家大学足球专栏作家。电子邮件 BToppmeyer@gannett.com，并在 X 上关注 @btoppmeyer
[[IMG_XXXX]] 俄亥俄州立大学教练 瑞安·戴（Ryan Day） 在 2025, 10月 11日 于吉斯纪念体育场（Gies Memorial Stadium） 快马队以 34-16 获胜后 与 伊利诺伊大学 教练布雷特·比莱马（Bret Bielema） 握手。
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沃森在训练营开赛， 首发四分卫之争激烈
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距离常规赛开始已不足八周，克利夫兰布朗队深度名单上的 QB1（首发四分卫）位置依然显示为：待定（TBD）。
布朗队主教练托德·蒙肯在 29 日告诉记者，老将德尚·沃森和第二年球员谢德尔·桑德斯将在训练营中继续竞争首发位置。在春季训练期间，这两名球员都没有给新任主教练留下足够深刻的印象，从而在夏季训练开始时赢得 QB1 之位。
“没有什么真正改变的，”蒙肯说。“我们预计会交替进行。首先，所有四名四分卫都将竞争。但他们不会获得相同的练习次数。显然，我们会像春季那样交替让德尚和谢德尔带领第一阵容。”
布朗队是三支在训练营期间进行首发四分卫之争的球队之一，另外两支是明尼苏达维金人（J.J. 麦卡锡 vs. 凯勒·穆雷）和亚特兰大猎鹰（图亚·塔戈外洛亚 vs. 迈克尔·佩尼克斯二世）。但在亚特兰大（塔戈外洛亚）和明尼苏达（穆雷）这两场四分卫决斗中都有明显的领先者，而克利夫兰的情况则不那么确定。
显而易见的是，布朗队的四分卫之争已缩小到沃森和桑德斯之间。克利夫兰的名单中还有另外两名年轻四分卫——2025 年第三轮选秀的迪伦·加布里埃尔和 2026 年第六轮选秀的泰伦·格林——但蒙肯的言论表明，这两人在今年的训练营中都不会获得第一阵容的练习机会。
“我们必须根据深度名单来分配练习次数，”蒙肯说。“在理想的情况下……我希望第一阵容获得 50%（的次数），第二阵容获得 33%，第三阵容获得 17%，而其他球员则在某些地方填补空缺。你能总是依赖这种情况吗？不能。所以，当你开始看到那些球员出现在第一阵容中，你就可以预见到他们将是我们的首发。”
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夏季最新的热穹顶将在这个周末继续笼罩西部，部分地区将出现今年迄今为止的最高气温。残留水分引起的零星雷阵雨将在落基山脉导致零星的山洪。高温、干雷电和强风将增加新森林火灾的风险。
由于近期暴雨和山洪的影响，东北部将维持较凉爽的天气；一条雨带将于周五从南达科他州、明尼苏达州和威斯康星州移动至本周末的俄亥俄河谷。在这片持续降雨区域的南侧将是一个强雷阵雨区。局部强风暴也将影响佛罗里达州和墨西哥湾沿岸各州，并向西延伸至路易斯安那州，持续到本周末。
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最高温：116° 加利福尼亚州，死亡谷
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布朗队四分卫谢德尔·桑德斯（左）和德尚·沃森在 6 月 10 日的小型训练营中进行训练。
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Monken 还表示，他在做出决定时不会考虑过去的表现，这意味着训练营的表现将对最终决定产生很大影响。他说，除了一个显而易见的必要期限外，他没有选择首发球员的截止日期：即常规赛第 1 周。
“对我来说，最简单的说法——尽管这仍然不能阻止你们询问——就是第一场比赛，”Monken 说。“我们必须在第一场比赛时确定一名首发球员，对吧？最终，我不会决定谁是首发。他们通过自己的表现来决定。他们的表现决定了谁是首发。”
Watson 正处于他 2022 年签署的为期五年、金额为 $230 百万美元且全额担保的合同的最后一年。在 2024 赛季第 7 周之后，他因在比赛中跟腱撕裂，随后在 2025 年 1 月再次撕裂，一直未参加比赛。在三年的时间里，Watson 为布朗队首发 19 场，场均贡献 177.1 码、1 次达阵和 0.6 次拦截。
Sanders 在 2025 年第五轮被选中后，正进入他在 NFL 的第二个赛季，此前他首发了七场比赛。他在八场比赛中传球 1,400 码，有 7 次达阵和 10 次拦截。在这八次出场中，他还被擒杀 23 次，损失 164 码。
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西雅图 82 奥林匹亚 85 斯波坎 92
波特兰 87 塞勒姆 89
博伊西 103
本德 93
伯恩斯 97
爱达荷福尔斯 97
尤里卡 66
里诺 103 埃尔科 103 卡森城 100
萨克拉门托 98
旧金山 72
圣乔治 109
拉斯维加斯 114
弗雷斯诺 106
洛杉矶 92
棕榈泉 118
圣迭戈 80 小岩城 97 凤凰城 116
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费尔班克斯 73
朱诺 65
安克雷奇 69
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最低温： 36° 加州特拉基
西雅图 71 奥林匹亚 71 斯波坎 88
波特兰 75 塞勒姆 75
博伊西 102
本德 87
伯恩斯 93
爱达荷福尔斯 100
尤里卡 69
里诺 104 埃尔科 103 卡森城 102
萨克拉门托 100
旧金山 73
圣乔治 112
拉斯维加斯 117
弗雷斯诺 107
洛杉矶 93
棕榈泉 119
圣迭戈 81 小岩城 93 凤凰城 117
俾斯麦 89
迈尔斯城 100 海伦娜 97
比林格斯 99
快速城 89 皮埃尔 86
杰克逊 霍尔 87
卡斯珀 92
北普拉特 90
北普拉特 90
盐湖城 104
奥马哈 82
夏延 82
丹佛 89 阿斯彭 85
托皮卡 88 威奇托 97 道奇城 95
圣菲 94
旗杆镇 89
俄克拉荷马 城 103
阿尔伯克基 102
拉伯克 102
米德兰- 奥德萨 103
埃尔帕索 109 奥斯汀 100
莫比尔 91 檀香山 89
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圣安东尼奥 99 休斯顿 98
俾斯麦 96
迈尔斯城 107 海伦娜 107
比林格斯 105
快速城 98 皮埃尔 91
杰克逊 霍尔 93
卡斯珀 98
盐湖城 106
奥马哈 85
夏延 88
丹佛 91 阿斯彭 88
托皮卡 85 威奇托 90 道奇城 93
圣菲 88
旗杆镇 92
俄克拉荷马 城 94
阿尔伯克基 93
拉伯克 97
透露患有早期帕金森病
尼克·布林克霍夫 (Nick Brinkerhoff)
格林贝包装工队 (Green Bay Packers) 历史最高冲球纪录保持者阿曼·格林 (Ahman Green) 透露，他被诊断出患有帕金森病。格林在 7 月 29 日参加《Go Long》播客节目期间向泰勒·邓恩 (Tyler Dunne) 透露了这一诊断结果。“去年，我被诊断出患有早发性帕金森病，”格林告诉邓恩。“我在睡觉时脚部会有轻微的抽搐之类的情况。”
“在那个时候之前很久我就知道出问题了。我联系了一些能够接触到的医生，进行了诊断和检测。最后是在 2025 年 1 月，我想应该是那时候完成的测试。”格林补充说，在家人知情之前，他不想公开这一诊断结果。“很长一段时间我没有分享这件事，因为我想让我的孩子们和家人知道，”格林说。“我已经这么做了……我有四个女儿和一个儿子。在告诉朋友、家人以及像你这样的人之前，我先让他们知道了。”
格林指出，营养和净化现在成了他日常生活的一部分，并将其比作给船只或汽车更换机油。他补充说，这有助于他在这个过程中保持正轨并掌控局面。“通过提供信息来帮助我的孩子们，让他们知道情况，但同时告诉他们：‘我掌控着局面。我在控制之中。我不会让这个病控制我。’在药物方面，我一直在服用医生开的药，我确保执行该方案；但在我个人方面，食物和药物同样是我很重要的一部分——确保我能够掌握身体里发生的一切。”
当被问及症状时，这位 49 岁的球员指出，他的短期记忆力极其“糟糕” (trash)，他必须通过重复或记录来提醒自己。其他症状包括睡眠时的抽搐和梦游。格林表达了希望人们能更多地讨论美式足球、头部创伤、受伤与帕金森病之间联系的愿望，同时对他自己的未来保持乐观。
“这件事需要公开化，”格林说。“它应该成为一个经常被提及的话题。而且它并不是终点。”
“对我来说，我抢占了先机。就像任何一个人发现体内有某种癌症一样，我现在处于领先地位。”
格林在 1998 年被西雅图海鹰队 (Seattle Seahawks) 在第三轮选秀中选中后，在 NFL 效力了 12 个赛季。随后他在包装工队效力了 8 个赛季，四次入选职业碗 (Pro Bowl)。他依然是包装工队历史上的冲球之王，共计 8,332 码。
这位跑卫在这次抗争中当然不是孤身一人。格林的前队友布雷特·法夫雷 (Brett Favre) 曾在 2024 年透露其帕金森病的诊断结果。
Marquette 78
Duluth 75
Fargo 85
Mpls-St. Paul 71
Grand Rapids 86
Milwaukee 80 Madison 72
Detroit 89
Sioux Falls 76
Des Moines 78
Lansing 88
Chicago 82 Springfield 77
Columbus 87
Kansas City 87
Indianapolis 85
St. Louis 83
Louisville 88
Jefferson City 88
Knoxville 89
Memphis 92
Nashville 90
Tulsa 101
Birmingham 92 Montgomery 93
Dallas/Ft. Worth 104
Shreveport 98
Jackson 93
Baton Rouge 94
New Orleans 93
Puerto Rico
San Juan 91
Brownsville 98
Marquette 71
Duluth 77
Fargo 88
Mpls-St. Paul 88
Grand Rapids 72
Milwaukee 71 Madison 74
Detroit 80
Sioux Falls 86
Des Moines 83
Lansing 74
Chicago 75 Springfield 75
Columbus 80
Kansas City 82
Indianapolis 79
St. Louis 76
Louisville 85
Jefferson City 75
Knoxville 83
Memphis 88
Nashville 87
Tulsa 90
Birmingham 83 Montgomery 83
Dallas/Ft. Worth 101
阿曼·格林曾效力于海鹰队、包装工队和德州泰坦队，在 12 年的 NFL 职业生涯中共完成 9,205 码冲球。MARK J. REBILAS/IMAGN IMAGES
Augusta 80
Burlington 83 Montpelier 77
Boston 77
Buffalo 84 Albany 82
Hartford 83
Cleveland 87
New York 83
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Philadelphia 88
Harrisburg 88
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Washington 90
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Cincinnati 87
Charleston 86
Richmond 88
Richmond 88
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Raleigh 91 Charlotte 91
哥伦比亚 96
亚特兰大 91
查尔斯顿 92
萨凡纳 94
杰克逊维尔 95
塔拉哈西 90
坦帕 88 迈阿密 94
奥古斯塔 85
伯灵顿 85 蒙彼利埃 82
波士顿 80
布法罗 84 奥尔巴尼 86
哈特福德 85
克利夫兰 83
纽约 85
匹兹堡 85
费城 90
哈里斯堡 89
辛辛那提 77
查尔斯顿 81
哥伦比亚 94
亚特兰大 84
查尔斯顿 91
萨凡纳 91
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奥尔巴尼, 纽约州 82/64pc 86/68pc 阿尔伯克基 102/71t 93/69t 阿马里洛, 德克萨斯州 98/68t 93/65s 安克雷奇, 阿拉斯加州 69/55s 67/54s 大西洋城, 新泽西州 82/70pc 82/71pc 奥古斯塔, 佐治亚州 94/72pc 95/71t 奥斯汀, 德克萨斯州 100/77pc 97/74t 巴吞鲁日, 路易斯安那州 94/79t 92/77t 比林格斯, 蒙大拿州 99/69pc 105/72s 伯明翰, 亚拉巴马州 92/76t 83/74t 俾斯麦, 北达科他州 89/62pc 96/66s 伯伊西, 爱达荷州 103/72s 102/60s 布法罗, 纽约州 84/67pc 84/65t 伯灵顿, 佛蒙特州 83/64c 85/70t 锡达拉皮兹, 艾奥瓦州 77/64r 78/63w 查尔斯顿, 南卡罗来纳州 92/76pc 91/76t 查尔斯顿, 西弗吉尼亚州 86/62s 81/68pc 舍叶奈, 怀俄明州 82/56t 88/57pc 辛辛那提 87/70c 77/68t 克利夫兰 87/71pc 83/68t 哥伦比亚, 南卡罗来纳州 96/75s 94/75t 哥伦布, 俄亥俄州 87/70pc 80/69t 科珀斯克里斯蒂, 德克萨斯州 95/77s 98/78s 代托纳比奇, 佛罗里达州 91/74t 88/75t 德梅因, 艾奥瓦州 78/64t 83/65pc 杜鲁斯, 明尼苏达州 75/60t 77/56pc 达勒姆, 北卡罗来纳州 90/68s 88/71pc 埃尔帕索, 德克萨斯州 109/80s 99/76t 费尔班克斯, 阿拉斯加州 73/49pc 75/55pc 弗拉格斯塔夫,
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高薪的闪电队球员詹姆斯依然“饥渴”
Tyler Dragon
加利福尼亚州 埃尔塞贡多 —— 在当今的 NFL 中，与同一支球队签署三份多年合同的情况极为罕见。而两次成为该位置上薪水最高的球员则更为奇特。洛杉矶闪电队的安全卫德尔温·詹姆斯（Derwin James）意识到自己正处于一个极少数人的顶尖行列。
“我 4 岁起就在院子里为了好玩地开始玩这个游戏。我从未想到（并且）我也无法想象，我能像这样第三次获得如此高额的报酬，”詹姆斯在接受今日美国 体育频道的独家采访时表示。“但我仍在努力，伙计。我依然饥渴，伙计，我还没有满足。”
闪电队在 5 月与詹姆斯签署了第三份合同，这是一份为期三年、价值 $75.6 百万美元的续约合同，使他职业生涯第二次成为 NFL 薪水最高的安全卫。自 2018 年闪电队在选秀中以第 17 顺位选中来自佛罗里达州立大学的他以来，这位拥有九年经验的老将已成为 NFL 中最顶尖的安全卫之一。他曾五次入选全美最佳阵容（All-Pro），其中包括 2018, 年入选第一阵容，并五次入选职业碗（Pro Bowler）。
尽管经历了多次管理层和阵容的更迭，詹姆斯一直是闪电队中一支多功能的防守力量。
吉姆·哈博（Jim Harbaugh）是詹姆斯被选中以来闪电队的第三位全职主教练，他称詹姆斯是他见过的最好的安全卫。
“我称他为国家橄榄球联盟历史上我见过的最好的安全卫。我认为我并没有夸大其词，”哈博去年在评价詹姆斯时说道。“他是我观看过的最不可思议的球员之一。”
‘我是最好的安全卫’
‘场上的超人’
詹姆斯属于新进化的一批可以在全场任何位置活动的安全卫。这群多功能的安全卫包括巴尔的摩的凯尔·汉密尔顿（Kyle Hamilton）、西雅图的尼克·埃曼沃里（Nick Emmanwori）以及詹姆斯，他们在任何一次进攻快照中都可能在球场上的不同位置排阵。
根据 Pro Football Focus 的数据，詹姆斯被追踪到曾在盒式安全卫（box safety）、自由安全卫（free
如果被火花队交易
Mitchell Northam
所有迹象都表明，随着联盟交易截止日期的临近，WNBA 超级巨星 Kelsey Plum 可能会被摆上交易台。
《The Athletic》本周早些时候报道称，这位 31 岁的五次全明星球员不打算在今年休赛期其一年期合同到期后与洛杉矶火花队续约。《洛杉矶时报》也报道称，火花队的计划是在截止日期前交易 Plum。
作为 2021 年年度最佳第六人奖得主，Plum 已证明自己是 WNBA 中最具天赋的得分后卫之一，在火花队的过去两个赛季中，她确立了自己能够支撑起进攻端的地位。尽管今年饱受伤病困扰，Plum 场均仍能贡献职业生涯最高的 23.9 分，在联盟中仅次于她以前的队友——拉斯维加斯王牌队的 A’ja Wilson。
Plum 场均助攻数也达到了职业生涯最高的 6.4 次，在 WNBA 中排名第六。
在加入火花队之前，Plum 曾帮助王牌队夺得两次冠军。在 2022, 年，她获得了全明星赛 MVP 并入选 WNBA 最佳阵容第一队。
在华盛顿大学就读期间，她创下了 NCAA 职业生涯得分纪录，直到后来被 Caitlin Clark 打破。
如果 Plum 确实进入交易市场，应该会有多支球队竞争她的加盟。对许多买家来说，一个障碍将是她高达 $999,999. 的巨额合同。只有少数球队拥有足够的薪金空间来接纳 Plum。
基于此，以下是几个合理的潜在去向：
金州女武神队 (Golden State Valkyries)
女武神队在薪金空间上需要进行最大限度的“体操式”调整才能促成 Plum 的交易，但可以说他们也是最需要她的球队。虽然金州队拥有 WNBA 第三好的战绩，且根据多项指标拥有联盟顶尖的防守，但他们确实需要一名像 Plum 这样级别的得分手。女武神队的投篮命中率排名垫底，场均得分排名第 13，每次进攻得分排名第 12。
不幸的是，女武神队没有薪金空间。为了让 Plum 的交易可行，金州队必须组建一个类似于 Juste Jocyte、Kayla Thornton 以及可能包含几个选秀权的方案。
这样的交易方案对于火花队来说是否有足够的吸引力？
如果在没有保证 Plum 会签署长期合同的情况下，金州队是否愿意付出这么多？
这很难说。
但从纸面上看，为女武神队增加像 Plum 这样的得分手，将使他们看起来像是一个真正的冠军竞争者。
华盛顿神秘人队 (Washington Mystics)
[[IMG_XXXX]] NFL 薪酬最高的安全卫 Derwin James Jr. 表示：“我 4 岁时就在院子里为了好玩开始玩这个游戏。” ISAIAH J. DOWNING/IMAGN IMAGES
安全卫、槽位角卫、宽角卫，甚至在去年还担任了防守线球员。
Harbaugh 将 James 称为一名“六项全能”球员。
“他能覆盖（且）能胜任二线防守的任何位置。我认为最突出的是他能打镍卫 (nickel)、能打 Dime backer，能打角卫，能打深区半场，能打深区中路（且）能进行闪击，”Harbaugh 在上赛季评价 James 时说道。“在那一点上，你不得不把他比作 Willie Mays。他是一个五项全能、六项全能的二线防守球员。他的能力简直不可思议。他无所不能。”
“就像超人穿上盔甲、穿上那套衣服并披上 3. 号球衣时一样。他戴上了帽子。他就是场上的超人。”
考虑到充电队将 James 称为防守的“核心与灵魂”，将他比作 Willie Mays 和超人是非常恰当的。
James 在职业生涯中累积了 684 次擒抱，40 次造成损失的擒抱以及 19 次擒杀，这使得他距离成为第三位达成 600 次擒抱、40 次造成损失的擒抱目标的 NFL 球员仅差一次擒杀。
神奇女巫队（Mystics）目前占据主动地位，有望夺得第八个也是最后一个季后赛席位。索尼娅·西特龙（Sonia Citron）、基基·伊里亚芬（Kiki Iriafen）和沙基拉·奥斯汀（Shakira Austin）正成为联盟中最强的三人组之一。但华盛顿队在多个进攻类目中排名第 12 或更低，包括场均得分、3 分球命中率、每次得分尝试得分以及 3 分球得分占比。毋庸置疑，神奇女巫队需要像普拉姆（Plum）这样一名天赋异禀的进攻型老将。
华盛顿队拥有充足的薪金空间来吸收普拉姆，并且拥有几名年轻球员和选秀权，可以为火花队（Sparks）组合出一个极具吸引力的交易方案。或许一项包含乔治亚·阿穆尔（Georgia Amoore）和 UCLA 出身安吉拉·杜加利奇（Angela Dugalić）的交易能够奏效。
波特兰火队（Portland Fire）
在 WNBA 所有的球队中，火队拥有最充足的可用薪金空间，超过 $2 百万美元。接手普拉姆的合同不会有问题。问题在于，火队是否拥有任何能让火花队感兴趣的筹码来换取普拉姆？
将普拉姆与布里奇特·卡莱顿（Bridget Carleton）搭配，可能会使火队成为联盟中 3 分球投射最危险的球队之一，并或许能在赛季下半场开启一段冲刺，让他们在最后一个季后赛席位的争夺中具有竞争力。
自 2008 年开始记录数据以来，职业生涯前 100 场比赛中就有 20 次擒杀。根据 NFL 研究，在过去五个赛季中，他是后卫组中制造四分卫压力（65 次）和擒杀（15.5 次）次数最多的球员。
“我只是试图每天拼尽全力来提升这一点，”詹姆斯（James）在谈到哈博（Harbaugh）的赞美时说道。“为了证明像他那样的人是对的。这样人们在听到这类评价时就不会感到困惑，心想：‘天哪，他在说什么？他疯了吗？’”
“我希望能够给自己施压，能够走到场上去表现，并认为自己是伟大球员之一。”
詹姆斯是闪电队（Chargers）防线的核心，该防线去年在总防守排名中进入前五，并在 2024 年排名得分防守第一。
“过去几年他的表现，他一直是一名全明星级别的槽位角卫（slot corner）、镍卫（nickel），或者随你怎么称呼，”闪电队防守协调员克里斯·奥莱里（Chris O’Leary）表示。“你想要 11 号德温·詹姆斯（Derwin James）。如果你要衡量他最擅长什么，他在那方面是最强的，
[[IMG_XXXX]] UCLA 棕熊队四分卫 Nico Iamaleava 在玫瑰碗（Rose Bowl）的春季赛中指挥进攻。KIRBY LEE/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT
UCLA 教练揭秘 如何轻易留住四分卫
乔丹·门多萨（Jordan Mendoza）
即便在 UCLA 度过了一个艰难的第一赛季，且第二年迎来新教练，四分卫尼科·伊亚马莱瓦（Nico Iamaleava）也没有离开棕熊队的计划。
人们曾好奇，在 2025 年春季大肆宣传从田纳西大学转校至 UCLA 之后，面对棕熊队 3 胜 9 负（自 2018 年以来最差战绩）的局面，伊亚马莱瓦是否想要重新开始。在棕熊队于 12 月聘请鲍勃·切斯尼（Bob Chesney）之后，他承担的第一项任务就是尝试留住他的四分卫。切斯尼成功了，因为伊亚马莱瓦没有进入转会门户。
在 7 月 29 日的 Big Ten 媒体日上，切斯尼被问及在进入伍德斯特（Westwood）的第一赛季时，他是如何留住这位引起极大争议的信号发射器（四分卫）的。
事实证明，他并不需要做太多的说服工作。
“显然，当我们来到这里时，第一件事就是留住尼科，”切斯尼说。“我认为对于尼科来说——他也可以代表自己发声，但我会给你们补充一点细节——他根本不想去任何地方。这就是他想在的地方，这就是他想打球的地方。”
冲击对方、掌控外线。在我看来，他是世界上最擅长此道的人。”
詹姆斯希望终身效力于闪电队，并渴望被视为伟大的球员之一。他已经相信自己是该位置上的顶尖球员。 “我每次踏上球场时，都觉得自己是 NFL 最佳的安全卫，”詹姆斯说道。 詹姆斯将在 8 月年满 30 岁，他深知目前他所缺失的是球队的成功。作为闪电队的一员，他仅参与过一次季后赛胜利。 在过去的两个赛季中，闪电队每个赛季都赢得了 11 场比赛并获得了季后赛资格，且自 2022 年以来曾三次进入季后赛。 然而，一次史诗级的 27 分崩盘、贾斯汀·赫伯特（Justin Herbert）四次被拦截的糟糕表现以及进攻端的集体失能，毁掉了闪电队最近三次在野卡赛阶段的季后赛出局之行。 “一旦我们挺过第一轮，我觉得我们将无往不利，”詹姆斯说。“伙计，我们会势不可挡的。我觉得每年这支球队都处于极佳的状态，是一支能赢 11 或 12 场比赛的球队。” 洛杉矶是一个被冠军宠坏的、以争冠为导向的城市。道奇队拥有九次世界系列赛冠军并正在追求三连冠，湖人队拥有 17 面 NBA 冠军旗帜（包括 2020, 年的一面），而公羊队赢得了第 56 届超级碗，并且是夺得第 61 届超级碗的绝对热门。 与此同时，闪电队是 12 支从未赢得过超级碗的球队之一。 这就是为什么詹姆斯在进入他在闪电队的第九个赛季时，专注于建立冠军文化，并协助球队完成攀登这项运动巅峰的任务。 “如果我能赢得超级碗，”詹姆斯说。“我已经拿了三次高薪，五次入选职业碗（Pro Bowls），五次入选全美最佳阵容（All-Pros）。我觉得我已经获得了所有个人荣誉。但团队目标……这支球队从未赢得过超级碗。” 在 X 上关注 今日美国 体育频道的 Tyler Dragon @TheTylerDragon
教练补充道，来自南加州以及他的弟弟麦登（Madden）也在队中等因素，在他想要留队的决定中起到了作用。这些因素此前一直被伊阿马莱瓦（Iamaleava）认为是他在报道称与田纳西大学在姓名、形象和肖像权（NIL）问题上产生分歧后，选择转学到加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的原因。 切斯尼（Chesney）表示，在表达留队意愿之后，接下来的阶段是确保他与新任教练组达成共识。现在，重点是帮助他在这次可能是他大学橄榄球生涯的最后一个赛季中迈出下一步。 “我非常喜欢他在领导力方面的成长，”切斯尼说。“看着他成长，掌控局面，并在此时作为领导者大放异彩。在我们投票选出领导委员会时，他被一致投票选为我们橄榄球队的领导者。他以巨大优势领先，这足以说明他日常的行为举止。我们也需要他在周六的比赛中表现得非常、非常出色。” 伊阿马莱瓦上赛季在 11 场比赛中传球码数 1,928 码，完成了 13 次达阵，并有 7 次被拦截；同时他在棕熊队的冲球码数（505）、冲球次数（112）和冲球达阵数（4）均排名第一。 UCLA 将在 9 月 5 日的第一周客场对阵加州大学开启新赛季。
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运动与 正念 助力南卡罗来纳 健康度假村的 个人旅程与 放松身心
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时尚疗法： 记者亲自尝试， 发现其中一些令她感到惊讶。 2D
回头客： 旅行者分享他们为何 反复将度假重点放在健康养生上。 3D
10 best： 读者评选奖项—— 美国健康中心。 4D
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Eve Chen 今日美国
南卡罗来纳州，希尔顿海岛 —— 在我的大家族里，有一个词用来形容当你吃得太饱，以至于必须向后倾斜 45 度坐着的时候。这个词叫“Eve-ing”，这也是我在任何大餐后的自然状态。事实上，我大部分时间都是久坐不动的 —— 工作时在办公桌前吃早餐和午餐，晚上则在沙发上度过。我知道这对我没好处，但正如希尔顿海岛健康中心（Hilton Head Health）的健身经理霍莉·托尔克（Holly Toelke）在我最近入住这家位于南卡罗来纳州的全包式健康度假村期间告诉我的那样，“这会变成一种惯习”。
越来越多的旅行者转向健康目的地，以帮助改善或维持他们的健康状态。根据非营利组织全球健康研究所（Global Wellness Institute）的数据，以及旅游研究专家 PhocusWright 及其姐妹公司 Web in Travel 的分析，健康旅游市场的规模已从 2012 年的 $438 billion 增长到 2024. 年的 $894 billion，增长了一倍多。预计到 2029 年将达到 $1.4 trillion。
当我抵达我的第 1 次健康静修营时，我不知道该期待什么。我想象中这里像是一个康复中心，或者像我参加过的那些宗教静修营，所有人一起按照规定的活动进行。
对于参加希尔顿海岛健康中心的 GLP-1 支持计划或专注于长寿的“蓝色地带体验”（Blue Zones Experience）的客人，这里有专门的研讨会；但大多数情况下，客人们从每日提供的活动清单中自主选择想要做的项目。在没有课程的时候，他们也可以自行使用度假村的设备和设施。
在那里的第一个完整日子里，我选择了一节一小时的水上运动课，一节 45 分钟的瑜伽课，三个总计 2.5 小时的研讨会，以及一小时的烹饪演示。在没有家中那些常规责任和干扰的情况下，我仍然有时间和精力进行一次往返于海滩的 3 英里骑行，以及 30 分钟
在像夏威夷 Bamford Wellness Spa 这样的高压氧舱中，您呼吸的是 100% 的氧气，有助于再生组织并减轻炎症。照片由 ANNE MENKE/1 HOTEL HANALEI BAY 提供
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夏威夷，考艾岛 —— 当我准备步入一个零下 140 华氏度的低温治疗舱时，紧张感油然而生。作为参考，地球上自然环境下最冷的地方是东南极高原的一个无人居住的高地，气温可降至负 133.6 度。h 我被要求戴上护目镜、鞋套、手套和护颈套，并将所有头发塞进无边帽里，否则会被冻僵。我还摘掉了所有首饰，以免冻伤。h 极寒迅速将我包围。我穿着短裤和背心震惊地站在那里，霜气在舱内循环，这就像站在一个高科技但狭小的壁橱里。在跳入柔软浴袍的安全范围之前，我坚持了两分钟。
对于某些人来说，短时间内承受极寒冲击可能看起来很古怪，但它是一种新兴的运动员恢复方法，一些科学证据表明它可以减轻炎症和肌肉酸痛。一项 2023 年针对 41 名参与者的研究发现，四次低温治疗在治疗慢性背痛方面有效。我的低温治疗环节是 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay 提供的新型健康静修方案的一部分，这是一家坐落在考艾岛迷人北岸的可持续奢华度假村，也是 1 Hotel 品牌的旗舰物业。这些旅程不仅仅是去酒店的水疗中心和健身房；它们旨在启动您的健康之旅，以实现长期的生活方式改变。“很多时候，我们的客人们来自喧嚣的都市，他们不知道如何让自己停下来休息，”1 Hotel Hanalei Bay 的水疗总监 Punahle Kualii 说道。“我也一样。... 有时我不知道如何停下来，但当你真正停下来时，你会产生一种真正理解‘放松’部分的感受，并且在回家时能带回一些不同类型的健康策略。”这些于 4 月启动的四晚静修计划旨在通过一套量身定制的、有科学依据的健康疗法以及考艾岛自然美景的启发，让客人们恢复活力。有人会说这座岛屿本身就具有治愈力，而该物业则利用这一点，将自己称为“大自然的健康圣殿”。当它俯瞰着面对大海、点缀着级联瀑布的茂密山脉时，很难对此产生异议。在倦怠感和“末日刷屏”的时代，越来越多的旅行者在旅途中优先考虑身心健康。根据 Kayak 的 2026 年趋势报告，TikTok 上 #wellnesstravel（健康旅行）标签的搜索量激增 150%。在该报告中，66% 的 Z 世代和千禧一代受访者表示，“精神重启”是他们旅行的最大原因，37% 的人渴望水疗或健康护理。以下是在夏威夷体验健康静修的真实情况。
“很多时候， 我们的客人们 来自喧嚣的都市， 他们不知道 如何让自己 停下来休息。”
个性化的健康关注
1 Hotel Hanalei Bay 提供四种类型的健康静修方案，每种方案旨在帮助客人们实现不同的健康目标，并基于四元素：honua（大地），用于提升运动表现；ahi（火），用于恢复活力；wai（水），用于更新自我；以及 makani（风），提供自定义选项。 ahi 静修方案吸引了我的注意，因为其
1 Hotel Hanalei Bay 是位于夏威夷考艾岛的一家奢华健康度假村，为客人们提供全面且个性化的体验，包括健身指导。
专注于提升生命力。虽然我认为自己是一个活跃的人，几乎每天都去冲浪，但我也一直深受慢性睡眠不足和恢复缓慢的困扰。因此，能够获得额外的能量并学习如何更好地照顾身体，对我来说非常有吸引力。
每次静修之旅都始于与水疗经理的一次出发前通话，以讨论个人目标和偏好。以此为基础，度假村会制定一份行程，包括传统水疗护理、基于科学的疗法（如冷冻疗法）、正念体验（如冥想课程）以及健身指导。
抵达后，我立即进行了 DEXA 扫描，以获取我身体成分的初始状态快照。我了解了自己的体脂和肌肉情况，还了解到一些我很少考虑的健康因素，比如骨密度——这对长寿至关重要，因为我们的骨骼会随着年龄增长而衰弱。客人还可以进行 VO2 Max 测试，以了解其心血管健身能力和耐力容量。
在入住期间，我每天与 1 Hotel 的健康团队进行沟通，无论是水疗总监还是身体架构师（他们是认证的私人教练），讨论我每一天后的感受。这些服务是针对我的个人目标和常规量身定制的，例如如何提高冲浪时的平衡能力，以及如何加入更多冥想以改善睡眠。
这种深度的定制化正是旅行者所追求的。在 Booking.com 的 2026 年旅行预测中，71% 的旅行者表示，他们对身体动作分析或个性化的锻炼方案感兴趣，以改善其
在我的静修期间，我体验了四种非接触式疗法，前提是它们能为我的身体充电。为了验证这些疗法的效果，我咨询了加利福尼亚州长寿诊所 Reve Health Institute 的首席医疗官 Annu Navani 博士，以及专注于健康和长寿医学的美国认证内科医生 Leslie Copeland 博士。
我坐了大约 40 分钟，各种维生素和矿物质（如镁和 B12）通过手臂流入体内，旨在为我补水并提供能量。一项 2025 年的学术回顾发现，静脉疗法在吸收方面比口服补充剂具有某些优势，特别是当存在真正的缺乏且操作得当时。Copeland 认为，如果某人脱水或有时差，且需要能量提升，静脉疗法在短期内会有所帮助，但这取决于输注的内容是否符合其需求。在治疗后不久，我感到状态更平衡，并在当晚获得了此次旅行中质量最好的睡眠。
酒店提供两个对比疗法的私人房间，该疗法是在红外线桑拿和冷水浸泡之间交替进行。Navani 表示，血管随热而张开，随冷而收缩，从而产生一种“血管泵效应”，有助于淋巴排毒，减轻肌肉炎症并改善循环和血流。Copeland 同样对对比疗法给出了积极反馈，指出冷水浸泡在降低体温方面比冷冻疗法更有效。“这种对比效果极佳，特别是对于肌肉恢复，如果你进行了高强度锻炼、患有腱炎之类的问题，”她说道。那天我在健身房拼命锻炼后感到酸痛，几乎立即就感到了缓解。一项 2024 年的科学回顾发现对比疗法具有某些益处，但证据有限，且患有心脏病的人可能会产生不良反应。
Navani 表示，在极冷环境中站立两到三分钟会导致血管收缩，这可能有助于减轻炎症和疼痛。一项 2024 年对 28 个随机对照试验的回顾显示，虽然有几项小型研究显示出某些益处，但目前尚不清楚冷冻疗法是否比冰浴更有效。之后，我感到更有活力，这可能是由于内啡肽的释放。Navani 补充道，高血压或心血管疾病患者可能无法耐受冷冻疗法的极低温度。
我没有呼吸空气中通常含有的 21% 氧气，而是在一个像太空舱一样的舱体内坐了大约 45 分钟，通过鼻管吸入了近 100% 的氧气。舱内是有压力的，就像在飞机里一样。纳瓦尼（Navani）警告说，如果有鼻窦充血或感冒，压力变化可能会让人感到不适。根据 2021 年的一项科学回顾，吸入纯氧被发现有助于组织再生和调节炎症反应。它被用于帮助患者治疗伤口以及像自身免疫性疾病这样的病情。“你所有的组织都需要氧气，”科普兰（Copeland）说道。“我们平时不呼吸 100% 的氧气，所以当你从，你知道的，80% 增加到 100% 时，你的修复能力会大幅提升。它能刺激新血管生长、促进胶原蛋白产生、缩短愈合时间并减轻炎症。”她补充说，虽然一次疗程可以帮助缓解长途飞行或高强度锻炼后的疲劳，但定期进行将获得最大收益。这次疗程让我感到有些疲倦，但在接下来的时间里心情也变得更平静了。
我的行程将多种疗法叠加以最大化效果，在进入高压氧舱之前先进行了静脉输液疗法，其理念是这样可以更好地吸收维生素。然而，科普兰表示，治疗顺序对于优化效果可能并没有太大影响。
两位医生还强调，不同的人对治疗的反应不同，提前沟通任何医疗并发症至关重要。
他们在这里学到的东西以及 感受到的体验吸引他们再次光临
Eve Chen 今日美国
南卡罗来纳州，希尔顿海岛 (HILTON HEAD, SC) —— 迪安·普莱斯 (Dean Price) 不知道十年后他是否还能行走。 他在 2018, 年夏天开始意外地失去肌肉，尽管他进行了一系列测试，排除了多发性硬化症和渐冻症 (ALS) 等疾病，但他表示：“西方医学对我没有答案。” 但一名神经科医生告诉他一些改变生活的观点：“‘这真的不重要，任何事情都不重要。无论你 10 年后能否行走，我们都不知道。但重要的是，你要找出你在生活中真正、真正热爱做的事情并去做它，而且现在就去做。’” 这个夏天，他正致力于此，同时继续关注自己的健康。在 6 月，这引导他前往希尔顿海岛健康中心 (Hilton Head Health) 参加了他的第一次健康静修。这是一个位于南卡罗来纳州的全包式健康度假村，今日美国 同样访问了这里。 根据非营利组织全球健康研究所 (Global Wellness Institute) 的数据，以及旅游研究专家 PhocusWright 及其子公司 Web in Travel 的分析，健康旅游在近年来呈爆炸式增长，预计到 2029, 年将成为一个 $1.4 万亿美元的产业。 仅在今年，希尔顿 2026 年趋势报告中，全球超过一半的受访者将“休息与充电”列为他们旅行的首要原因。此外，希尔顿指出，超过三分之一的受访者将改善心理健康视为休闲旅行的主要动力，20% 的人正在寻求专门的“自我时间”。 人们进行健康旅行的个人原因与旅行者本身一样多样。希尔顿海岛健康中心的员工表示，有些客人是为了缓解压力并寻求平衡的帮助而来。其他人则致力于改善身体健康或长寿。还有一些人正在处理生活中的变化，如诊断结果、丧亲之痛或人生里程碑（包括退休）。
重启时刻
“我来到这里，让自己重启，更新精神，感到非常满足，”同样在普莱斯访问期间在那里的拉维娜·乔·迈耶 (LaVina Jo Meyer) 说道。 “我是因为一个女朋友的建议而偶然来到这里的，”她在谈到 2023. 年第一次入住时说道。她已经访问了七次。 在度假村内的甜草客栈 (Sweetgrass Inn) 预订一间单人入住的舒适大床房，希尔顿海岛健康中心的七晚体验起价为 $3,900 以上。价格根据入住时长、年度时间及住宿选择而有所不同。迈耶知道这里的访问并非人人都能负担，但她说这就是她决定如何支配其旅游预算的方式。“让我不断回来的原因是这里是一个健康之地，是一个绝佳的环境。它是”
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健康并对抗时差。 度假村的 Bamford Wellness Spa（遍布所有 1 Hotel 酒店物业）是我此次静修的核心。我还前往酒店合作伙伴 Vitality Kauai（一家当地拥有的现场医疗水疗中心）以及 Anatomy（一家设备齐全的健身中心）参加了一些课程。
是否值得一访？一个坦诚的看法
尽管我的效果并不剧烈，但我确实注意到在静修期间我的心情和运动后的恢复有所改善，回家时感觉整体得到了充电和宠爱。加利福尼亚州长寿诊所 Reve Health Institute 的首席医疗官 AnnuNavani 博士批准了为我制定的治疗方案，因为所有项目都集中在减轻炎症和增加放松上。 “所以这些项目在很大程度上有助于身体的自然恢复和适应机制，”她说道，“它们能让你感到焕发活力。” 对我来说，尝试这四种疗法也是一个很好的入门，以看看它们是否适合我回到家后的生活方式。 Kualii 表示：“当你能够引导客人尝试一些超出他们舒适区的新事物时，我认为这会让体验提升到一个完全不同的水平。” 除了侧重于科学的疗法外，我还通过其他放松体验来完善我的恢复之旅。
[[IMG_XXXX]] LaVina Jo Meyer（左起第三位）表示，在前往 Hilton Head Health 的旅程中，她结交了亲密的朋友。嘉宾 Audrey Coffey、Dean Price、Enzo Caiazzo、Eve Chen 和 Lala Ragimov 之间流露出深厚的情谊。 EVE CHEN/今日美国
“很美。” 她热爱度假村在希尔顿海岛 (Hilton Head Island) 上的地理位置，周围环绕着垂挂着苔藓的树木。她还喜欢 1.5 英里外的海滩，在入住期间她会在那里进行晨走。研究支持在户外绿色空间活动对心理和生理都有益，但对 Meyer 来说，最大的吸引力是度假村本身的体验。 她赞扬了度假村提供支持的教练和员工、健康的顶级餐饮以及一系列每日活动，从皮克球训练、瑜伽课到关于“活在当下”和“告别糖分”的研习班。 “它帮我在脑海中建立了健康的习惯，”她说道，“并不是说我以前不知道这些，而是它们自然而然地落实到了生活中。”
重新承诺的时间
Enzo Caiazzo 在 2015 年首次访问 Hilton Head Health 时有一个明确的目标：减轻体重，而该度假村在这一领域已有近 50 年的专业经验。 在度假村了解到营养的重要性、实践分量控制并关注食物质量后，他说他在一周后就看到了效果。 需要注意的是，并非所有健康目的地都能提供它们所宣传的或客人们所期待的益处。旅行者在计划访问任何目的地之前，应彻底研究并阅读相关评论。 然而，Caiazzo 说：“我对结果非常满意，以至于我在[家里]继续采用同样的方法，而且我坚持得越久，效果就越明显。” 他随后减掉了近 40 磅，并表示他的医生向他表示了祝贺，
[[IMG_XXXX]] 环绕 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay 的考艾岛自然美景激发了该度假村的健康静修项目，并在放松方面发挥了作用。 由 1 HOTEL HANALEI BAY 提供
在水疗中心，我进行了一次直觉草本仪式，这是一种通过当地产品（如夏威夷坚果油和加热的诺能叶——一种被太平洋岛民用于抗氧化功效的热带植物）增强的按摩。我还参加了一次一对一的引导式冥想呼吸练习，以帮助我的大脑慢下来。 为了让您的健康之旅更加轻松，度假村提供了一系列健康食
“这是一个社区。 ……你们在 同一条道路上， 寻找着 某种东西。”
Enzo Caiazzo 关于入住 Hilton Head Health 的吸引力
专注于饮食，包括果昔吧、早晨摆放的新鲜当地水果以及低酒精鸡尾酒。（当然，仍然有甜点和糕点可以尽情享用。） 对我来说，最大的转变是心理上的。在此之前，我从未参加过一次完全以身心健康为中心的旅行，能够专注于自己真是令人心旷神怡。这次静修让我更深入地思考什么是健康——不仅是锻炼，还包括我的长寿、活动能力和正念。我不确定自己是否还会再次进入一个零下 140 度的冷冻治疗舱，但这次静修让我对如何照顾自己有了更开阔的视野，我很高兴能继续这段旅程。 《今日美国》记者 Kathleen Wong 获 1Hotel Hanalei Bay 邀请参加此次活动。《今日美国》保持对内容的编辑控制权。
向他展示了转型前后的血液测试结果。“简直是天壤之别。” Caiazzo 维持了减掉的体重，但他每年至少会回到 Hilton Head Health 一次，以重新坚定决心。他在最近一次访问中遇到了 Price 和 Meyer。 “如果你了解这个项目，迟早会回来的，”他说，“我去过其他地方，但我总是回到这里。”
重新建立联系的时间
Price 今年夏天已经回去了。 “我绝对、完全地热爱那里。它给了我健康的饮食方式，这也是我一直试图解决的一个重要部分——我如何在旅行的同时保持健康饮食？”他赞美了那里的食物、教育和可选的烹饪演示。他还喜欢种类繁多的运动和冥想课程，这些课程在他原本自行练习的基础上进行了提升。“每一天都有我可以尝试且能挑战自己的项目。” 他说，最美妙的部分很大程度上在于那里的人。 Meyer 表示赞同，她说：“感觉在这里我结交了许多非常亲密的朋友。”多年来，她一直与其中几位保持联系。 即便每个人参加静修的原因各不相同，Caiazzo 依然表示：“这是一个社区。……你们走在同一条路上，在寻找某种东西。” 许多在度假村结交好友的客人年复一年地共同返回。Price 认为这是一个极好的主意。 《今日美国》记者 Eve Chen 获 Hilton Head Health 提供进入许可。《今日美国》保持对内容的编辑控制权。
南卡罗来纳州希尔顿海岛 (HILTON HEAD, SC) —— 在南卡罗来纳州的希尔顿海岛健康养生度假村及水疗中心 (Hilton Head Health Wellness Resort & Spa) 一个轻松的课堂里，我与几位其他客人坐在一起，绝不会猜到这里有人正在使用或考虑使用 GLP-1 药物。但我们确实聚集在这里，参加一个关于这些日益普及的药物的入门课程。根据国家卫生统计中心 (National Center for Health Statistics) 2021 年至 2023 年的国家健康与营养检查调查，近 3 分之 4 的 19 岁以上美国人体重超重。其中，超过 40% 的美国成年人被认为属于肥胖。
对于那些难以减轻体重的人来说，GLP-1 药物似乎是一根救命稻草，尤其是看到名人使用 Wegovy 或 Zepbound 等获批用于减重的药物取得显著成效后，以及其他人使用主要用于治疗糖尿病的 Ozempic 和 Mounjaro 等药物后的效果。 但在开始用药、用药期间以及考虑停药之前，有一些重要因素需要考虑，而希尔顿海岛健康中心 (Hilton Head Health) 在一次静修活动中详细分析了所有这些因素，《今日美国》 (USA TODAY) 对此进行了亲身体会。
GLP-1 静修营内部情况
这家全包式健康度假村在近 50 年前开业时，主要以减重为目标。后来，它演变为采用更全面的健康管理方法，但许多客人仍然对减轻体重感兴趣，有些人——包括我班上的几个学生——已经将 GLP-1 药物纳入了他们的减重旅程。 工作人员既不鼓励也不反对使用，将医疗建议留给医生。然而，他们确实会解释这些药物的作用方式、有研究支持的优缺点，以及如果人们决定使用这些药物，“[如何]以能够提供最大长期成功机会的方式服用它们，”希尔顿海岛健康中心的资深健康教育专家鲍勃·赖特 (Bob Wright) 表示。 在一年中的特定周，度假村会举办 GLP-1 支持计划。该计划从我参加的同一个入门课开始，但增加了以下元素： h 个人身体成分和代谢评估。 h 针对炎症、代谢健康和葡萄糖调节的个人生物标志物检测。 h 关于营养、力量和心态的工作坊。 h 团体指导讨论和小组力量训练。 h 全包式住宿和美食餐饮。 h 使用度假村全套设施和项目的权限。
关于 GLP-1 的考虑因素
希尔顿海岛健康中心的健身经理霍莉·托尔克 (Holly Toelke) 鼓励客人尝试不同类型的运动，“因为如果你不知道那是你潜意识里会爱上的东西，那会怎么样呢？” 根据梅奥医学中心 (Mayo Clinic) 的说法，力量训练非常重要，因为肌肉流失可能是 GLP-1 药物的副作用。其他潜在副作用包括胃肠道问题，如胃痛、恶心、腹泻和便秘。 当难以进食时，“稍微放松一点，吃你能耐受的食物，”希尔顿海岛健康中心的注册饮食师、营养师兼认证糖尿病教育专家伊丽莎白·哈金斯 (Elizabeth Huggins) 说道。在其他时间，她建议专注于高质量、全天然、以植物为主的食物。“绝对要摄入那些你经常听到的东西，比如足够的蛋白质、足够的水分、足够的纤维。” 学习正确的饮食方式以及如何与食物建立健康的关系，对于希望停药的 GLP-1 用户来说尤为重要。正如赖特解释的那样，这些药物在生物学和激素水平上抑制食欲，“如果你撤销了激素控制，那么饥饿感就会回来。” 多项研究表明，人们在停止使用 GLP-1 药物后体重会反弹。希尔顿海岛健康中心的行为健康总监安妮·波里埃 (Anne Poirier) 指出，其他人则完全没有减轻体重。“我们并不总是知道
Eve Chen，《今日美国》 (USA TODAY)
营养是希尔顿海岛健康中心（Hilton Head Health）GLP-1支持计划的一个组成部分。一名营养师建议选择高质量、未加工（或极少加工）的食物。照片由 EVE CHEN/今日美国 拍摄
客人们在疗养期间可以随意点餐，唯一的注意事项是 mindful eating（正念饮食）。
GLP-1 激增
根据盖洛普（Gallup）的国家健康与福祉指数，自 2024 年以来，GLP-1 药物的使用量几乎翻了四倍。该指数发现，2026 年大约有 11% 的美国成年人为了减肥而服用此类药物，而 2024 年这一比例为 3%。
建立比药物更持久的习惯
“我们不知道一周结束时的体重会是多少，但我们能够掌控的是我们的行为，”她说。 Poirier 试图帮助 GLP-1 支持计划的参与者将思维从体重秤或外貌转向“我们的身体每天为我们做了什么”，这一原则被称为“身体中立”（body neutrality）。她还帮助他们制定并精简一套适用于家庭的实用行动计划。 无论客人决定如何使用 GLP-1 药物，Hilton Head Health 都希望为他们提供持久的健康工具。 《今日美国》记者 Eve Chen 获得了 Hilton Head Health 提供的准入许可。 《今日美国》保留对内容的编辑控制权。
度假村为客人们提供各种浸泡水和冰茶，供他们在入住期间饮用。 也可以根据要求提供电解质冲剂。
健身是 GLP-1 支持计划的另一个要素。“任何类型的减重，其中一个重要组成部分就是确保你仍然在进行力量加强，”该度假村的健身经理 Holly Toelke 说道。
在南卡罗来纳州的 Hilton Head Health 健康度假村，客人们可以租自行车或步行前往海滩，距离 1 英里多一点且超过半英里。度假村的接驳车每天早晨也提供接送服务。照片由 EVE CHEN/《今日美国》提供
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在跑步机上运动，以及一次漫长而悠闲的晚餐，在那里我结识了几个新朋友，他们让我的经历格外难忘。 什么都不做也很好。我遇到了几位只是在休息的客人。除了工作人员确认客人是否享受其中以及是否拥有所需的一切外，没有人会干涉。 有些活动需要额外付费——例如烹饪课、水疗护理、私人课程和精选出行——但大多数项目都包含在全包价格中。在度假村内的甜草旅馆 (Sweetgrass Inn) 预订一间单人入住的舒适国王房 (Comfort King room) 且体验七晚，起步价仅为 $3,900 多一点。价格根据入住时长、年份时间及住宿选择而有所不同。
动起来
虽然客人可以根据自己的喜好决定活动强度，但希尔顿海岛健康中心 (Hilton Head Health) 提供了一些建议。 其中一项建议是在每餐后进行短暂而悠闲的热力行走，以帮助提高新陈代谢，而不是像我平时那样陷入“食后昏睡” (food coma)。 另一项建议是尝试不同类型的运动和锻炼。我早已知道自己会喜欢瑜伽，但我也很享受鼓健美操 (drum fit) 课——我们在喧闹的音乐节拍下用鼓棒敲击健身球；还有 TRX 力量课，利用自身重量进行阻力训练；以及在海滩上练习太极拳。 “我们每个人都能找到一种自己喜欢的运动方式，我认为这就是这个地方做得非常出色的地方，”希尔顿海岛健康中心的行为健康主管安妮·波耶里埃 (Anne Poirier) 表示。 无论水平如何，教练都会确保每个人都感到得到了支持，并很乐意根据需要提供额外的解释和调整方案。 “这里到访的人员技能和能力各异，”托尔克 (Toelke) 说道，“也许你经历过多次膝盖手术，或者背部有问题；我们提供泳池。我们也为那些可能无法在地面上轻松活动的人提供椅子瑜伽。” 因为每个人都专注于自己的健康之旅，所以当我为上身塑形课选择最轻的自由重量，或者在舞蹈有氧课中跟不上节拍时，没有人对此感到奇怪。 “相反，每个人都会为你加油，因为我们来到这里目的相同：我们想要变得更强，变得更好，并且想要学习，”托尔克说道。
“相反， 每个人都会 为你加油，因为 我们来到这里目的 相同：我们 想要变得更强，我们 想要变得更好，我们 想要学习。”
希尔顿海岛健康中心提供两种类型的住宿：如上图所示的内部甜草旅馆房间，或私人别墅。
记者伊芙·陈 (Eve Chen) 表示，水中运动课程除了对关节更友好外，而且很有趣。
霍莉·托尔克 (Holly Toelke) 南卡罗来纳州希尔顿海岛健康中心 健身经理
健康饮食
用餐时间同样丰富多样。菜单每隔几天更换一次，但始终以新鲜、天然、植物为主的食物为特色。在我入住期间，选择包括早餐的街头玉米牛油果吐司、午餐的金枪鱼 Ahi 寿司碗以及晚餐的大蒜香草牛肉串，且都配有大量蔬菜。 所有食物均由厨师制作且美味可口。 “味道必须好，否则人们不会坚持食用，”希尔顿海岛健康中心的注册饮食师、营养师及认证糖尿病教育专家伊丽莎白·哈金斯 (Elizabeth Huggins) 表示，“在来到这里之前，我一直处于医院环境下，我确实听过‘哦，如果味道好，就把它吐出来’这种话，这很令人难过。或者，‘如果它是健康的，那味道可能像……”
希尔顿海岛健康中心度假村grounds各处点缀着供客人放松或冥想的安静空间。
“纸板，”而这根本不是事实。” 这家度假村让人们能够轻松做出正确的选择，因为这里没有任何糟糕的选项。 饮料的选择通常仅限于水（纯净水、气泡水或浸泡水）、冰茶和热茶、咖啡、浓缩咖啡饮品以及 V8 蔬菜汁。 糖和盐仅在要求时提供，但咖啡站备有甜叶菊和香料。 甜点每周仅提供两次。 在正餐之间，客人们可以随意取用分装好的零食，如新鲜水果和蔬菜、坚果、酸奶、水煮蛋和花生酱鹰嘴豆泥。我非常喜欢后者，因此在回家后立即询问了配方并制作了它。
思想食粮
自我时间
客人们还可以参加关于正念、用自我同情取代自我批评、寻找你的目标（why）以及如何改善睡眠等主题的研讨会，获取“思想食粮”。 Poirier 指出，健康远不止于饮食和运动。她帮助客人将想法、情绪和行为联系起来，并努力让他们在离开后能够继续进步。 “这不是全有或全无的问题。我认为这种全有或全无的心态就是饮食文化，”她说道。“我使用‘大多数时候’这个词。……所以，我大多数时候这样吃，但有时我会吃比萨。如果我们这样做，并利用数量和频率——多久一次以及多少量——我们真的可以让它变得更加可持续。” 她说，运动也是如此。 “我们能否将锻炼与身体形状、尺寸和体重脱钩？因为我们的文化将这两者联系在一起……然后突然之间，锻炼变成了一种‘必须做’或‘应该做’的事情，这有时会影响相关的想法，”她说。她建议不要再信奉旧的“没有痛苦就没有收获”的格言，而是“让我们动起来吧。最好的运动就是你愿意去做的那种。” “这些就是我们在這裡讨论的事情，”她说道。“转变对食物的看法，然后是对比锻炼的看法，最后是对我们自身的看法。”
在五晚的入住期间，我对自己进行了很多思考，以及我希望未来的样子。我希望自己健康、灵活且强壮。 根据美国国家卫生研究院（National Institutes of Health）的数据，人体在 30 岁时自然开始流失肌肉量，此后每十年流失 3%-5%。 “确保保留肌肉量是我们的工作和责任，”Toelke 说道。“这并不意味着我们必须一直健身，而仅仅是加入一项力量训练……任何你能做到的事情。” 深知在那里的时间有限，我尝试在不过度劳累的情况下尽可能多地运动。在所有的锻炼和健康饮食之后，我感觉比过去几年都要好。这让我想要一直保持这种感觉。 回家后，我偶尔会纵容一下，但尽量坚持：坚持大多数食用未加工食品，更仔细地查看营养标签，并多喝水。我还没有参加任何健身课程，但我尝试每天稍微活动一下，并且刚刚买了一条弹力带以继续增强力量。而且并没有出现“Eve-ing”（指作者 Eve 的过度放松期）。 虽然是小步前进，但这是一个开始。 “开始一项常规训练没有所谓的‘正确时间’，”Toelke 说道。“迟到总比不到好。” 今日美国记者 Eve Chen 获得了 Hilton Head Health 的准入支持。 今日美国 对内容保持编辑控制权。
Todd Blanche 可以继续作为代理司法部长领导美国司法部。
Blanche 的提名充满变数
在参议院僵局中 撤回司法部长提名
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唐纳德·特朗普总统在 7 月 30 威胁称，将撤回他对 Todd Blanche 担任美国司法部长的提名，直到明年。此举升级了与参议院共和党人的僵局，后者反对一项拟议中的“反武器化”基金，该基金可能会使他的盟友受益。
这场争端凸显了特朗普对其自身政党控制的国会掌控力的削弱，但这并不影响 Blanche 的任期，他可以继续作为代理司法部长领导司法部。
共和党参议员 John Cornyn 和 Thom Tillis 搁置了 Blanche 的提名，同时寻求书面保证，确保司法部不会设立这项 $1.8 billion 的“反武器化”计划。特朗普的批评者嘲讽该计划是用纳税人的钱奖励支持者的秘密资金。
据一名知情人士透露，Cornyn 和 Tillis 在 7 月 30 傍晚与 Blanche 进行了 45 分钟的会谈，试图挽救确认投票。该人士在要求匿名的条件下表示，双方正在“协作”处理，距离达成协议更近了，且 Blanche 回答了关于其拟议解决方案的问题。
特朗普在社交媒体上表示，他可能会撤回 Blanche 的提名，并在 Cornyn 和 Tillis 离任后的明年再次提名他。特朗普还声称，他终结了这两位参议员的政治生涯。
“Todd Blanche 是一颗巨星，大家都知道！他有潜力成为历史上最伟大的司法部长之一”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 参议员 Thom Tillis（共和党，北卡罗来纳州）在去年因在医疗补助计划削减问题上与总统发生冲突后宣布退休。EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/路透社 参见 BLANCHE，第 3NN 页
解析
Fauci 可能面临指控
该案件将遇到障碍
Andrew Goudsward
华盛顿 —— 安东尼·福西博士（Dr. Anthony Fauci）在拒绝回答参议院关于他处理 COVID-19 疫情的 100 多个问题后，可能面临刑事起诉。这引发了他与共和党议员的对抗，并可能考验国会强制要求作证权的限度。
福西，这位前美国顶尖传染病专家，本周在参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会作证。该委员会的共和党主席、肯塔基州参议员 Rand Paul 是福西的长期对手，他表示将发起投票，将福西移交给国会轻蔑罪处理。
福西曾领导国家过敏和传染病研究所，并成为美国应对疫情的代表人物。他谴责 Paul 的行为，将其描述为一场旨在让他入狱的运动。
以下是关于该争端现状以及福西可能面临后续情况的分析：
什么是国会轻蔑罪？
美国法律规定，任何被传唤出现在国会面前的人，如果拒绝提交文件或回答问题，即构成犯罪。
国会没有权力自行启动刑事起诉，因此它将潜在案件移交给司法部。轻蔑罪的移交必须首先由国会委员会批准，然后由参议院或众议院全员批准。
在这种情况下，针对福西的移交可能需要 60 票多数通过，这将需要民主党的支持。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 参议员 John Cornyn（共和党，德克萨斯州）告诉记者，谈判可能会暂停直到下周。EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/路透社
袭击 引发 苏伊士运河 担忧
Jonathan Saul, Marwa Rashad 和 Ahmad Ghaddar
伦敦——一次无人机袭击造成埃及海域两艘天然气轮船受损，这引发了人们对附近的苏伊士运河及其相关管道的能源安全担忧。自伊朗战争开始以来，该管道一直是沙特阿拉伯石油至关重要的出口路线。尽管伊朗及其胡塞武装盟友一直在攻击通过霍尔木兹海峡和曼德海峡的油轮，但埃及的苏伊士运河和 Sumed 管道一直为沙特红海能源货物提供安全的向北出口路线。虽然还没有任何一方对 7 月 29 日在埃及达米埃塔港（位于靠近地中海的尼罗河三角洲分支机构）发生的油轮袭击事件宣布负责，也没有公开威胁苏伊士运河，但这一关键通道的潜在风险增加了市场的担忧。咨询公司 MST Marquee 的能源研究负责人 Saul Kavonic 表示：“通过红海的航行，即使是通过较长的地中海路线，也可能面临风险，这将威胁到目前可绕过霍尔木兹海峡的每天高达 500 万桶的石油供应。”几乎没有油轮通过波斯湾的霍尔木兹海峡关键通道，而这里此前曾是全球约五分之一石油和液化天然气供应的路线。战争开始后，沙特阿拉伯将其大部分石油改道至红海及其延布终端，但自上周起，胡塞武装的威胁和袭击已导致许多油轮停止使用该路线。根据市场情报公司 Kpler 的数据，越来越多的沙特石油以及其他航运货物正改为向北穿过红海，前往苏伊士和 Sumed 管道。对于亚洲客户而言，这意味着他们必须绕道非洲，而不是通过亚丁湾向南航行。该管道横跨埃及，从红海连接到地中海的 Sidi Kerir 港，其原油装载量从 4 月的 19.52 million 桶上升至 7 月的 28.79 million 桶，而此前胡塞武装在 7 月 20 日曾威胁阻止沙特石油通过曼德海峡出口。MarineTraffic 平台的船舶追踪数据显示，截至 7 月 30 日，在运河地中海端的塞得港锚地周围聚集了约 30 艘船，而本周早些时候约为 20 艘。“我们看到在红海装载后向北行驶的原油/凝析液油轮明显增加，”
参见 SUEZ，第 4NN 页
在成员人数为 100 且党派极度分歧的参议院中。 随后，华盛顿的美国检察官办公室将审核该转交请求，并决定是否在大陪审团面前寻求刑事起诉。该办公室由唐纳德·特朗普总统的亲密盟友 Jeanine Pirro 领导。
检察官需要证明什么？
检察官必须证明 Fauci 蓄意 拒绝 回答
星期五
在数字电子版中，您可以点击美国地图上的任何位置以获取最新的预测、雷达图、MinuteCast® 等信息。 全国天气概况
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最高气温： 115 ℉，加利福尼亚州 Needles 最低气温： 36 ℉，加利福尼亚州 Truckee 降水量： 2.77 英寸，内布拉斯加州 Valentine
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Aberdeen, SD 81/57/s 45 Abilene, TX 103/76/s 37 Accomac, VA 83/66/pc 43 Adrian, MI 89/70/c 75 Akron, OH 85/67/s 75 Alamogordo, NM 108/75/t 53 Alexandria, VA 90/70/s 50 Alliance, OH 85/66/s 75 Amarillo, TX 97/69/t 75 Ames, IA 79/64/r 75 Anderson, SC 91/70/s 58 Appleton, WI 80/66/r 75 Asheville, NC 85/63/s 55 Ashland, OH 86/67/s 75 Athens, GA 92/69/s 51 Augusta, GA 94/72/pc 54 Austin, TX 101/76/pc 75 Bartlesville, OK 101/68/t 60 Battle Creek, MI 85/67/t 75 Bedford, IN 84/67/pc 39 Binghamton, NY 80/61/pc 50 Bluffton, SC 90/81/t 71 Bremerton, WA 84/56/s 37 Brockton, MA 79/62/pc 25 Brownwood, TX 103/74/s 36 Burlington, IA 76/67/r 38 Burlington, NC 89/66/s 51 Burlington, VT 82/65/c 40 Cambridge, OH 87/64/s 45 Camdenton, MO 90/67/t 32 Canandaigua, NY 85/63/pc 50 Canton, OH 86/67/pc 75 Carlsbad, NM 106/76/s 80 Chambersburg, PA 88/64/pc 43 Cherry Hill, NJ 87/69/s 60 Cincinnati, OH 87/70/c 65 Clarksville, TN 88/74/pc 50 Coldwater, MI 85/67/pc 75 Columbus, OH 87/70/pc 64 Corning, NY 85/56/pc 42 Corpus Christi, TX 96/78/s 75 Daytona Beach, FL 90/74/t 75 Deming, NM 106/77/t 55 DeRidder, LA 96/76/t 53 Des Moines, IA 80/64/t 75 Detroit, MI 89/70/c 75 Devils Lake, ND 82/62/c 33 Dover, NH 79/61/sh 25 El Paso, TX 107/79/s 75 Elmira, NY 85/58/pc 36 Erie, PA 83/68/pc 52 Eugene, OR 90/55/s 25
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Anchorage 71
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空气质量指数：0-50, 良；51-100, 中等；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
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最高气温： 121 ℉，伊朗 Omidieh 最低气温： 10 ℉，智利 Balmaceda 降水量： 4.88 英寸，缅甸仰光
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Evansville, IN 84/71/pc 75 Fall River, MA 80/64/pc 25 Farmington, NM 100/70/t 71 Fayetteville, NC 92/70/s 55 Fond du Lac, WI 80/65/r 75 Fort Myers, FL 91/79/t 75 Fort Smith, AR 101/75/t 47 Framingham, MA 80/61/sh 25 Freeport, IL 74/64/r 75 Fremont, OH 88/72/c 64 Fort Collins, CO 92/60/t 75 Gadsden, AL 91/73/pc 46 Gainesville, FL 91/75/t 75 Galesburg, IL 72/66/r 75 Gastonia, NC 89/67/s 71 Glen Rose, TX 104/74/s 37 Gonzales, LA 93/78/t 53 Great Falls, MT 96/59/pc 78 Green Bay, WI 80/64/r 75 Greenville, SC 90/67/s 58 Hackensack, NJ 86/70/pc 60 Hagerstown, MD 88/67/pc 43 Hattiesburg, MS 93/76/t 36 Henderson, KY 84/72/c 75 Hendersonville, NC 83/63/s 55 Herkimer, NY 84/59/pc 28 Hillsdale, MI 86/67/pc 75 Holland, MI 83/67/t 75 Hornell, NY 85/60/pc 42 Houma, LA 92/78/t 53 Howell, MI 89/70/pc 75 Hutchinson, KS 94/66/s 37 Hyannis, MA 76/67/pc 25 Indianapolis, IN 86/69/pc 75 Iowa City, IA 75/66/r 50 Ithaca, NY 83/57/pc 50 Jackson, MS 93/77/t 75 Jackson, TN 90/76/t 40 Jacksonville, FL 93/75/t 75 Jacksonville, NC 90/72/s 55 Kent, OH 84/67/s 75 Kewanee, IL 72/67/r 75 Keyser, WV 88/64/pc 41 Kinston, NC 91/69/s 55 Knoxville, TN 87/70/pc 51 Lafayette, IN 84/67/pc 46 Lafayette, LA 94/78/t 50 Lakeland, FL 87/76/t 75 Lansing, MI 88/67/t 75 Las Cruces, NM 105/74/t 46 Lebanon, PA 88/63/pc 52 Leesburg, FL 86/76/t 75
Cape Town (开普敦) 74/43/pc 79/44/s Caracas (加拉加斯) 90/77/r 90/77/r Casablanca (卡萨布兰卡) 98/71/pc 102/69/s Colombo (科伦坡) 85/80/r 86/77/r Copenhagen (哥本哈根) 72/60/pc 72/56/pc Damascus (大马士革) 104/68/s 108/71/s Dublin (都柏林) 67/48/pc 70/49/pc Geneva (日内瓦) 86/64/t 89/64/t Guatemala City (危地马拉城) 82/64/t 82/62/pc Hanoi (河内) 87/78/r 89/78/r Harare (哈拉雷) 75/44/pc 72/40/pc Havana (哈瓦那) 94/75/t 93/73/pc Helsinki (赫尔辛基) 71/61/t 69/58/pc Hong Kong (香港) 85/79/t 84/78/t Jakarta (雅加达) 92/77/t 91/77/t Jerusalem (耶路撒冷) 91/73/s 93/75/s Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡) 63/37/s 64/40/pc Kabul (喀布尔) 89/68/pc 91/69/pc Khartoum (喀土穆) 104/85/s 103/78/t Kyiv (基辅) 83/63/s 88/64/s Kingston (金斯敦) 93/80/s 91/81/pc
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Calgary (卡尔加里) 87
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Billings (比林格斯) 98
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Rapid City (快速城) 89
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TODAY IN HISTORY (历史上的今天) WEATHER TRIVIA™ (天气趣闻™)
The temperature at Duluth, Minn., reached an all-time high of 106 degrees on July 31, 1936. This is hotter than has ever been recorded at Miami Beach, Fla., where being near the ocean causes high humidity but prevents extreme heat. （明尼苏达州杜鲁斯的温度在 31, 1936 年 7 月达到了 106 度的历史最高点。这比佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩记录过的任何温度都要高，在迈阿密海滩，靠近海洋会导致高湿度，但能防止极端高温。）
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问：美国历史上最严重的干旱是什么时候？
答：20世纪30年代中南部平原的“尘暴”时期。
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指数 受 微软 飙升 推动上涨
Noel Randewich
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华尔街在 7 月 30 日收盘时大幅上涨，芯片股跳涨，而微软在这家科技巨头给出的一份缓解了对人工智能（AI）基础设施巨额支出担忧的出色预测后，创下了 18 年来最大的单日百分比涨幅。微软股价跳涨超过 15%，使其市值增加了 $450 billion，创下华尔街公司历史上单日增幅最大记录。这家科技巨头预测季度销售额和云增长将高于预期。该公司还报告资本支出低于预期，并表示预计在刚刚开始的 2027 财年将继续产生现金流。今年，投资者一直被大型科技公司在 AI 上的巨额支出所惊扰。Alphabet 和特斯拉上周的负现金流报告引发了 AI 相关股票的一轮抛售，由于投资者质疑高估值，芯片股也承压。Meta Platforms 在这家社交媒体巨头报告第二季度自由现金流下降 91% 后暴跌，这表明其昂贵的 AI 建设带来了财务压力。“这些是真正的战场股。投资者无法决定如此巨额的……支出所带来的投资回报率（ROI）是否值得，”Argent Capital Management 的投资组合经理 Jed Ellerbroek 表示。“微软在昨天交出了答卷，也许微软将能够让自己从‘战场’阵营转移到‘值得信赖的 AI 赢家’股票之列，”Ellerbroek 说道。费城半导体指数 (PHLX) 飙升 8.2%，其中美光科技 (Micron Technology) 跳涨 18%，闪迪 (Sandisk) 飙升 26%，超微半导体 (AMD) 上涨 13%。亚马逊上涨 3.9%，苹果下跌 1.4%，两家公司均定于收盘后公布业绩。由于对 AI 巨额支出的担忧，亚马逊的股价今年表现逊于大盘。而未在 AI 上投入巨资的苹果公司最近超过英伟达 (Nvidia) 成为全球市值最高公司，市值约为 $4.9 trillion。标准普尔 500 指数上涨 1.66%，收于 7,437.63 点。纳斯达克指数上涨 2.78% 至 25,122.18 点，而道琼斯工业平均指数上涨 1.19% 至 52,208.06 点。标准普尔 500 指数的 11 个板块指数中有 7 个上涨，其中科技板块领涨，上涨 5.2%，其次是消费者非必需消费品板块上涨 1.6%。7 月 29 日，在美联储维持利率不变后，美股收盘大幅下跌，新任美联储主席凯文·沃什发出的矛盾信号令交易员对借贷成本的走势感到困惑。债券市场依然紧张， 30 年期国债收益率飙升至 19 年来最高水平。根据 CME 的 FedWatch 数据，交易员目前认为美联储 9 月会议加息的可能性仅为 59%，低于一周前的 82%。随着贸易赤字扩大，美国第二季度经济增长放缓。数据显示，经济增长率为 1.5%，低于 2.1% 的增长预期。另一项读数还显示，美国 6 月份的通货膨胀有所放缓。高通 (Qualcomm) 下跌 2.6%，因为这家芯片制造商预测第四季度利润低于预期，并表示来自苹果产品的收入下降速度将快于预期。Fair Isaac 大跌 17%。尽管这家信用评分巨头提高了年度利润和收入预测，但仍低于分析师的预期。星巴克在这家全球最大咖啡连锁店提高年度销售额和利润预测后上涨 1.6%。根据 LSEG I/B/E/S 的数据，分析师平均预期标准普尔 500 指数第二季度汇总收益将比去年同期增长 40%。在整个美国股市中，上涨股票与下跌股票的比例为 2.2 比 1。美国交易所的成交量相对较大，交易量为 18 billion 股，而前 20 个交易日的平均成交量为 17.2 billion 股。
油价
David Shepardson
华盛顿 —— 华特迪士尼公司旗下的 ABC 在 7 月 30 日表示，联邦通信委员会（FCC）威胁要撤销该网络的广播许可，这是针对特朗普政府不喜欢的广播内容而发起的一场前所未有的恐吓行动。
ABC 表示，该特朗普政府机构决定提前审查迪士尼旗下的 8 家 ABC 电视台，这一决定几乎是前所未有的，是对其他媒体公司的警告。
“针对 ABC 的报复是在向全国每家媒体公司发出信号：要么顺应政府对新闻报道应当呈现的样子，要么就付出代价，”ABC 在一份文件中表示，并补充说该机构的目标是让“媒体行业因过于恐惧官方报复而不敢自由地报道新闻”。
FCC 主席布伦丹·卡尔（Brendan Carr）在 7 月 30, 未立即发表评论。他在 4 月下令进行审查，尽管这些电视台的许可续期尚未到期。
Julia Harte
一名将步入歧途的儿子提供步枪并导致其在乔治亚州一所高中杀害四人的男子，于 7 月 30 日被判处 15 年监禁。这是该州首例家长因孩子犯下的群死枪击案而被判定犯有二级谋杀罪的案件。
7 月 28 为巴罗县高等法院的一名法官对 16, 岁的科尔特·格雷（Colt Gray）因 2024 年学校枪击案判处终身监禁且不得假释。两天后，同一位法官将其 55 岁的父亲科林·格雷（Colin Gray）判处监禁，其刑期远低于检察官要求的 80 年。
法官尼古拉斯·普里姆（Nicholas Primm）指出，科林·格雷被定罪的基础指控中没有一项包含强制性监禁时间，同时也承认其疏忽造成了“无法估量的心碎”。
“这里的损失是深远的，”普里姆在听取了几名枪击案遇难者亲属含泪作证后表示，“但我仍然必须区分”
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“史上最伟大的将领，”特朗普在他的 Truth Social 平台上写道。“如果他们不采取正确行动，我不反对暂时撤回托德的名字，并在科宁和蒂利斯离职后再将其恢复。”科宁和蒂利斯的参议员任期将于 1 月初结束。布兰奇作为特朗普的前私人律师，在总统于 4 月解雇帕姆·邦迪后被任命为代理司法部长。
关于布兰奇提名权的僵局，是特朗普与部分参议院共和党人之间日益严重的分歧的最新迹象。共和党面临着在 11 月中期选举中失去参议院 53-47 席位多数地位的可能性，而议会中的一些共和党人已表现出越来越强烈的抵制总统的意愿。
共和党人拒绝了在被拆除的白宫东翼原址上为特朗普筹集舞厅建设资金的努力，并抵制了他要求修改参议院规则以通过其党派色彩浓厚的选民身份证法案——《拯救美国法案》（SAVE America Act）的号召。在特朗普支持挑战者肯·帕克斯顿后，科宁在德克萨斯州的初选连任竞选中失败，他告诉记者，谈判可能要到下周才会重启。
代表北卡罗来纳州的蒂利斯在与特朗普就总统一项全面的减税和支出法案中关于医疗补助（Medicaid）的削减问题产生冲突后，于去年宣布退休。
科宁和蒂利斯一直是公开反对特朗普的代表人物。但科宁在社交媒体上表示，其他参议员也持有同样的担忧。布兰奇还与犹他州共和党参议员约翰·柯蒂斯（John Curtis）会面，试图争取支持。
布兰奇可能不需要获得确认，即可在特朗普总统任期的剩余时间内有效地担任司法部长。只要提名没有被正式拒绝或撤回，代理官员可以在“提名在参议院待定期间”履行职责。并且作为副司法部长，在该职位空缺时，他可以行使司法部长办公室的所有职责。这意味着，只要他处于该职位且上方没有人选，布兰奇很可能可以无限期地掌管司法部。
拟议基金存在争议
计划于 2028 年 10 月开始被审议。
在 4 月之前，FCC 已经超过 50 年没有下令进行提前审查了。
卡尔可能会在 8 月 5 日的最终评论截止日期后决定采取行动。
这些审查指令是在唐纳德·特朗普总统敦促 ABC 解雇深夜节目主持人吉米·坎摩尔（Jimmy Kimmel）的一天后下达的。
ABC 表示，已有超过 150,000 条评论提交，其中 95% 以上支持这些电视台。八个州的众多当地官员和团体也提交了支持这些电视台的信函。
“从一开始，本届政府就明确表示意图惩罚 ABC 的新闻报道，并对 ABC 及其他机构产生寒蝉效应，”ABC 表示。
FCC 表示，此举源于一项为期一年的调查，旨在确定迪士尼的多样性政策是否构成了非法歧视，该公司对此指控予以否认。迪士尼在 7 月 30 日未立即发表评论。
广播电台需要 FCC 许可证才能使用公共波段。虽然撤销许可证的情况极其
[[IMG_XXXX]] 科林·格雷 (Colin Gray) 是最新一位因孩子实施大规模枪击案而被起诉的美国家长。
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……你来自这个恶毒之心的行为，以及科尔特·格雷 (Colt Gray) 所实施的行为。”
科林·格雷是最新一位因孩子实施大规模枪击案而被起诉的美国家长——这是检察官在试图应对美国学校枪击暴力流行之势时采用的一种新兴法律策略。
在科尔特·格雷枪击案发生前几个月，一名在密歇根州枪杀四名同学的青少年的父母，在被判定犯有……罪后，被判处 10 至 15 年监禁。
这项“反武器化”基金是唐纳德·特朗普与司法部之间一项法律和解协议的一部分，旨在解决他针对美国国税局涉嫌处理其税务记录不当而发起的 $10 billion 诉讼。由于国会共和党人的反对，该基金已被搁置。
批评人士表示，尽管这种情况罕见，但失去许可证的前景可能会向广播公司施压，并引发人们对政府干预编辑和节目决策的担忧。网络电视台拥有广泛的宪法第一修正案权利来做出节目决策。
卡尔在 2025, 3 月启动了对迪士尼多样性实践的调查，并表示迪士尼提交的文件在他看来是不充分的。
唐纳德·特朗普曾多次敦促广播公司取消他不喜欢或对他持批评态度的喜剧或新闻节目，并向监管机构施压，要求吊销他认为不公正的广播公司的许可证。
11 月，唐纳德·特朗普要求联邦通信委员会 (FCC) 吊销 ABC 的许可证，此前他批评一名 ABC 新闻记者在询问沙特阿拉伯王储关于 2018 killing of a Washington Post columnist 的问题，他将该问题称为“不驯服”。
在表示 ABC 日间谈话节目《The View》（讨论美国政治）可能受到联邦规则约束（要求广播公司为政治候选人提供平等机会）后，FCC 也在对其进行调查。
屠杀。在那起案件中，陪审团裁定詹妮弗和詹姆斯·克朗布利在家中未妥善保管枪支，且忽视了其儿子精神不安的迹象，罪名成立。
科林·格雷的辩护律师布莱恩·霍布斯在 7 月 30 urged the judge 敦促法官对他客户判处 10 years in prison 和 10 years of probation，理由是密歇根州的那对父母在得知儿子的问题时得到了更多提前通知，并指出格雷是该州首位因孩子参与大规模枪击事件而被起诉的家长。
“我们请求法院不要让乔治亚州在这起首例此类案件中成为全国的特例，因为被告收到的警告较少，而付出的努力更多，”霍布斯说道。
巴罗县地检长布拉德·史密斯驳回了霍布斯关于科林·格雷对其儿子暴力计划几乎没有收到警告的说法，并向法官展示了一个卧室墙壁的复制品，科尔特在上面为 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida 的枪手建立了一个神龛。
史密斯告诉法官，这种风险“每天都在他眼前摆在那里”。
这些人曾表示，过去由于参与 Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol 而遭到联邦政府的不公正针对。
唐纳德·特朗普去年赦免了因在 Jan. 6 riot 中扮演某种角色而被起诉的支持者。
科宁在 7 月 30 told reporters 早些时候告诉记者，他仍在等待司法部正式保证不会实施该基金。
“我不知道他们是否认为可以通过等待让我们撑不住，或者我们会妥协。但我可以向你们保证，我们不会，”科宁告诉记者。
科宁和蒂利斯还反对一项与国税局的协议，该协议将防止对唐纳德·特朗普及其关联人员进行税务审计。
据消息人士透露，唐纳德·特朗普因对邦迪的表现感到沮丧，特别是关于发布与已故金融家及性侵犯杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关文件的处理而将她撤职。唐纳德·特朗普还认为邦迪在起诉他希望面临刑事指控的批评者和对手方面行动不够迅速。
托德·布兰奇可能不需要经过确认，即可在唐纳德·特朗普总统剩余的任期内有效地担任司法部长。
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开罗 —— 唐纳德·特朗普总统在 7 月 30 日表示，调解人与哈马斯领导人在开罗的谈判已达成一项“哈马斯完全解除武装的历史性协议”，他将其描述为结构化的阶段性进程。接近谈判的消息人士在 7 月 30 日早些时候告诉路透社，谈判已取得进展，但协议能否维持尚不确定，因为一名以色列官员表示拟议的条款不能令人满意。
“这项协议是加沙最终由一个新巴勒斯坦政府治理的关键一步，该政府将与和平委员会密切合作以帮助巴勒斯坦人民，”特朗普在社交媒体帖子中说道。
“与此同时，以色列将获得其应有的安全保障，加沙将不再被用作恐怖袭击的基地。”
以色列驻华盛顿大使馆和哈马斯没有立即就特朗普的帖子做出回应。一名哈马斯官员和一名接近开罗谈判的外交官表示，进展将取决于以色列的反应，以及这是否能促成一项广泛协议的达成。
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参议院小组投票推进特朗普提名施瓦茨出任 CDC 负责人
华盛顿 —— 美国参议院卫生委员会在 7 月 30 日投票通过，推进总统唐纳德·特朗普提名的 CDC 局长人选埃里卡·施瓦茨博士（Dr. Erica Schwartz），在多次尝试填补最高卫生职位失败后，这为他的政府赢得了一次罕见的胜利。
参议院卫生、教育、劳工和养老金委员会以 13-10 的投票结果将施瓦茨（特朗普第三次提名的疾病控制与预防中心负责人）提交给全体参议院，民主党参议员蒂姆·凯恩（Tim Kaine）是唯一一名跨党派投票支持的成员。
特朗普在 2025 年撤回了他的第一任 CDC 提名人戴夫·韦尔登（Dave Weldon）以及第一任卫生总署提名人珍妮特·内谢瓦特（Janette Nesheiwat），当时两人均未进入听证阶段。他在 4 月撤回了第二任卫生总署提名人凯西·米恩斯（Casey Means）。
如果获得确认，施瓦茨将成为自苏珊·莫纳雷斯（Susan Monarez）以来首位正式的 CDC 局长。莫纳雷斯是特朗普的第二任提名人，去年在就职不到一个月后，因在疫苗政策上产生分歧被美国卫生与公共服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪解职。
施瓦茨将接管一个面临多重挑战的机构：由于儿童疫苗接种率下降，美国正面临 30 年来最严重的麻疹复发；刚果和乌干达爆发埃博拉疫情；以及近年来美国规模最大的食源性疾病暴发。
美国网络机构警告黑客正将水系统作为目标
美国政府的民用网络防御机构在 7 月 30 日发出警告，称针对维护和控制水及废水系统所用技术的黑客攻击显著增加，并表示此类系统的运营商应尽快将其从互联网中移除。
在此警告发布两天前，明尼苏达州政府 IT 机构表示，该州 30 多个社区水系统在 7 月 26 日和 27 日遭到了“协同网络攻击”。
据《纽约时报》 7 月 30 日报道，审查此事的美国官员和调查人员表示，明尼苏达州袭击事件背后很可能是与伊朗相关的黑客。伊朗政府代表没有立即回应置评请求。
州和地方官员表示，明尼苏达州的袭击并未威胁水质安全，但在某些情况下，部分系统被切断连接，必须手动重置。
移民从摩洛哥涌入西班牙塞塔，军方被召集介入
西班牙，休达 —— 在摩洛哥移民于 7 月 30 日冲破休达市周边的围栏并导致国民卫队（Guardia Civil）警方措手不及后，西班牙政府部署了军事单位，以加强这座北非飞地的警力。
国家电视台 TVE 报道称，已有 2,000 至 3,000 人跨境。路透社未能立即确认该报道。
视频画面显示，数百名移民从摩洛哥一侧游泳或乘坐游泳圈漂浮而来，另一些人则冲破陆地的门禁跑进市区。
当地当局表示，7 月 30 日发现了 9 具尸体，这使得近几个月来试图进入休达而死亡的移民人数增加至 60 人。
政府表示，已有 200 名专业警员和 60 名士兵从西班牙本土抵达，以增强该飞地的常规部队。
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特朗普指名的大使批准件
Gram Slattery 和 Lisandra Paraguassu
巴西，巴西利亚 —— 巴西政府数周以来一直扣押下任美国大使就职所需的正式外交批准，此举激怒了美国官员，并深化了西半球这两个最大民主国家之间的裂痕。
这场争端可能导致华盛顿在巴西 10 月大选前在巴西利亚处于大使空缺状态，这将进一步加剧影响贸易往来并导致内政干预指控的紧张局势。
佛罗里达州众议员、国务卿马可·鲁比奥的亲密盟友丹尼尔·佩雷斯（Daniel Perez）于 6 月 1 日被总统唐纳德·特朗普提名。四名知情人士表示，美国在寻求巴西批准（这一被称为“agrément”的常见外交步骤）之前就进行了提名。
两名要求匿名以描述私人外交对话的官员表示，巴西利亚的官员认为这种遗漏是对礼节的不尊重。佩雷斯的提名目前正等待参议院的全面审核。
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能源分析公司 Vortexa 的乔治·莫里斯（George Morris）表示，他将此归因于胡塞武装的威胁。
Kpler 的数据显示，原油仍通过曼德海峡向南流动，尽管流量仅为本月初的一半左右，其中约 43% 的延布（Yanbu）装载货物向南航行，而 6 月份这一比例为 81%。
尽管许多油轮完全避开了曼德海峡，但包括中国船舶在内的一些船只已获得胡塞武装的通行许可。莫里斯表示，关闭追踪器的油轮数量也在增加。
S&P Global Energy 的大西洋液化天然气负责人艾利·布莱克韦（Aly Blakeway）表示，达米埃塔（Damietta）袭击并不一定意味着对运河有任何立即威胁。布莱克韦说：“市场在现阶段尚未将运河中断因素计入定价。”
苏伊士运河管理局未立即回应置评请求。
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伊朗威胁停止所有中东能源出口，称在美国封锁伊朗油轮期间，该地区不应有任何原油流动。
胡塞武装宣布封锁所有沙特阿拉伯航运——这一类别可能包括任何在延布装载后试图将原油运往地中海的船舶。
双方都已证明运河地带处于其无人机和火箭的攻击范围内，并多次向以色列开火，尽管较远的距离为拦截飞行物提供了更多机会。
Argus 的液化天然气定价负责人马丁·西尼尔（Martin Senior）表示，仅凭这一事实现在就可能推高保险价格。
他说：“鉴于该地区航运和能源基础设施风险增加，保险公司可能会针对苏伊士运河在 [埃及] 袭击后要求更高的额外战争风险保费。”
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与参议院调查相关的问题。 Fauci 可能无法主张其拒绝提供信息是基于法律建议。法官曾禁止特朗普的顾问史蒂夫·班农（Steve Bannon）和彼得·纳瓦罗（Peter Navarro）在面临刑事藐视指控时采用该辩护理由，两人此前因拒绝与调查 2021 年 1 月 6 日美国国会大厦袭击事件的众议院委员会合作而受审。 班农和纳瓦罗均被定罪并入狱。
投票 在 通过 委员会 上 周之后，尽管在巴西批准之前他将无法就任该职。 据两名消息人士透露，近日一些特朗普政府官员对他们认为的巴西方面的“拖延”感到愈发愤怒。其中一人补充道，但未详细说明，如果此事未能解决，政府最早可能会在 7 月 31 日对巴西采取惩罚性行动。 左翼的路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦（Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva）总统政府与鲁比奥（Rubio）领导的国务院长期关系紧张，因为卢拉政府认为美方试图影响拉丁美洲政治以有利于保守派。 相反，特朗普政府指责巴西政府有时审查保守派，或在司法程序中对其采取不利倾向。 当被问及巴西延迟授予 Perez 认可（agrément）一事时，一名国务院发言人表示：“特朗普总统有权决定谁在世界范围内代表美国人民和美国利益。特朗普总统正在其政府内部组建一支‘美国优先’的外交 A 队，这取决于参议院的建议和同意。我们拒绝外国干扰我国内部程序的任何企图。” 两名巴[注：此处原文中断]
7 月 30 日，船只停靠在埃及的达米埃塔港。目前尚无任何一方为 7 月 29 日的袭击事件负责。
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同时指出伊朗并未发出任何具体威胁。 一名海事安全消息人士表示，航运公司已经在重新评估其在苏伊士运河附近埃及地中海港口周围船只的安全安排。 在埃及，这次袭击并不一定被视为苏伊士运河处于风险之中的证据。 “运河全天候受到严密看守和保护，”苏伊士运河管理局前董事会成员瓦埃尔·卡杜尔（Wael Kaddour）表示。 甚至在袭击发生之前，中东原油到达全球市场的路线就已经变得越来越长、复杂且昂贵。 “6 月份，延布（Yanbu）货量约占亚洲海运原油/凝析油进口量的 15%，因此持续的干扰对亚洲炼油厂具有重大影响——经苏伊士运河而非曼德海峡绕行，将使前往东北亚的航行时间增加一倍多，导致抵达时间延迟约一个月，”Morris 说道。 由于其他原因，通过苏伊士运河运输大宗货物也很不便。超大型原油运输船（VLCC）的吃水太深，无法在满载情况下通过苏伊士运河，必须卸载部分原油
如果参议院投票支持移交，且司法部决定寻求起诉，起诉书仍需经大陪审团批准。在特朗普政府期间，华盛顿的大陪审团曾多次拒绝在具有政治色彩的案件中签署起诉书。 如果 Fauci 被起诉，他的律师可能会主张，他行使美国宪法第五修正案赋予的权利，拒绝回答可能使其承担刑事责任的问题，因此不能面临藐视指控。 时任总统乔·拜登（Joe Biden）已赦免了 Fauci 在 2014 年至 2025 年 1 月期间可能犯下的任何罪行。 此次赦免不涵盖拜登[注：此处原文中断]之后发生的任何行为。
巴西官员表示。其中一名官员补充说，在 10 月 4 日巴西大选之前，可能不会授予同意书。巴西外交部在一份声明中表示，不会对此事发表评论，“因为该过程受到《维也纳公约》所确立的保密原则的约束”。佩雷斯在佛罗里达州众议院的办公室未回复电子邮件。
随着卢拉在 10 月的大选中寻求第四个不连续任期，国家主权已成为他关键的号召口号。他的主要对手是参议员弗拉维奥·博尔索纳罗（Flavio Bolsonaro），即前总统雅伊尔·博尔索纳罗之子，后者试图将特朗普描绘成关键盟友。
6 月，尽管巴西政府反对，美国国务院仍将两个巴西有组织犯罪团体指定为恐怖组织。本月，华盛顿以所谓的贸易不公平行为为由，对数项巴西产品征收 25% 的关税。上周，美国宣布由于对强迫劳动问题的担忧，将额外征收 12.5% 的税款。
在 7 月 29 日的一次活动中，卢拉表示巴西已拒绝了两名特朗普政府官员的签证请求，据他称，这些官员计划前往该国“干涉巴西大选”，这证实了上周的一份路透社报告。美国国务院发言人在当时否认了任何关于破坏巴西选举之“计谋”的暗示。
通过 Sumed 管道输送，然后在地中海重新装载。 尽管如此，仍有更多原油可以通过苏伊士运河和 Sumed 管道运输。上周，Sidi Kerir 每日提取 1.4 million 桶原油，而其历史周峰值为每日 2.1 million 桶，Sumed 的容量为 2.5 million 桶。莫里斯表示，未来几周可能有 10 艘超大型油轮（VLCCs）在 Sidi Kerir 装载，主要服务于亚洲炼油厂。
这一能力——以及霍尔木兹海峡和曼德海峡交通的不确定前景——凸显了为什么苏伊士运河在当前危机中如此重要，以及为什么任何针对其运行的威胁都可能产生如此巨大的冲击。
“运河区域内任何地方的袭击都将大幅提高战争风险保险费。这也将实质性地改变该地区的安全性评估，”海事安全集团 Dryad Global 的首席执行官 Corey Ranslem 表示。
“苏伊士运河的中断将几乎立即影响价格。航程延长、运费提高带来的通货膨胀压力将几乎立即传导给消费者，”Kpler 的首席货运分析师 Matthew Wright 表示。
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离开办公室，但这可能会使福西（Fauci）依靠第五修正案进行辩护的能力变得复杂。
法律专家表示，法院尚未决定一名获得总统赦免的证人是否可以拒绝在国会就该赦免所涵盖的行为回答问题。在福西面临审判之前，这个问题可能需要得到解决。
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WASHINGTON −Get ready for some sauerkraut-infused meals. Health and Human Services Secre- tary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will put his cooking skills to the test with celebrity chefs to motivate Americans to eat healthy. Kennedy has launched “The Real Food Show,” a new cooking series, to help translate the new Dietary Guide- lines for Americans into easy, afford- able meals they can prepare at home, he said in an exclusive sit-down inter- view with USA TODAY. An evangelist of fermented food who once carried a personal stash of sauerkraut to restaurants, the HHS secretary said the recipes will feature kimchi, sauerkraut and yogurt.
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As he prepares to try to change Americans’ eating habits, Kennedy also talked about cooking with the family as an antidote to loneliness; his own eating habits (“I’ll eat anything. I don’t have a gag reflex”); his status as a weight loss guru among members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet; and a culinary habit his wife banned while going out to dinner. The new dietary guidelines, un- veiled in January, prioritize protein at every meal, full-fat dairy, vegetables, fruits and whole grains. The slogan “Eat Real Food” accompanying the new guidelines is an oft repeated man- tra among his circle of influencers, in- cluding boxing legend Mike Tyson. “When we published the dietary guidelines, there was immediately sort of a good reaction, but also a little trepidation from the public and from critics saying that this food is a lot more expensive than the ultra-proc- essed food that we’ve been eating,”
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mediately before her hospitalization. Some of Jackie’s longtime fans are calling the new female Jolene (after an adulterous woman made famous by Dolly Parton), and tabloids are covering the new development with the same breathlessness as a celebrity cheating scandal. “Shadow was seen sitting on a tree perch Thursday with another female eagle while his baby mama, Jackie, is recovering in the hospital,” the Califor- nia Post wrote on a Facebook post pro- moting a story about the love triangle. “I don’t know who has got to tell her but I know no eagle named Jolene is
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WASHINGTON – A divided Federal Reserve stayed on the sidelines and left its key interest rate unchanged, despite President Donald Trump’s calls for a cut and some predictions that policymak- ers would respond to elevated inflation with a hike. The federal funds rate, a benchmark for interest rates across the country, re- mains at a range of 3.5% to 3.75%, as it has for the year. Tasked with delivering maximum employment and stable prices, Fed policymakers received mixed signals from economic data ahead of their July 29 meeting. After three months of surging prices and solid job growth, inflation and hiring slowed in June. The Fed often looks through supply shocks such as oil market disruptions tied to the war against Iran that drove gas prices higher in recent months. But some analysts felt leaving rates un- changed would risk the Fed’s credibility, given Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s hard-line stance against infla- tion. The Fed’s statement released along- side the decision echoed the one re- leased in June. Policymakers said eco-
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WASHINGTON – A pause in fighting between the United States and Iran came to a screeching halt after Tehran launched what the Trump administra- tion is calling a “surprise attack” that American forces in the Middle East had only minutes to shoot down. The ballistic missile assault Tuesday, July 28, threatened to reinvigorate a conflict that President Donald Trump has aimed to wind down after months of negotiations. Trump vowed the United States would “beat the (expletive) out of them,” he told Fox News. The latest at- tacks raised fears of a wider war as Sau- di Arabia joined the conflict and Iran seeks to test Trump’s resolve with the midterm elections looming. Trump’s promised retaliatory strikes began at about 8 p.m. ET July 29. U.S. Central Command, the arm of the mil- itary overseeing operations in the Mid- dle East, announced the strikes, calling them “powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces.” “We’re going to be hitting them very hard because it’s our turn to hit them. They know it’s coming,” Trump had told reporters earlier at the White House. Central Command said Tuesday eve- ning that it coordinated with Saudi Ara- bia’s armed forces to jointly attack Irani- an-aligned militants in Iraq responsible for drone attacks on American troops and Saudi energy infrastructure. Iran’s attacks came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Trump at the White House to discuss the war. Netanyahu was still in Washington on Wednesday and met with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Blair House, the guest house in the White House complex where the Israeli leader was staying.
Will latest fighting trigger a wider conflict?
The latest round of fighting and Sau- di Arabia’s participation has triggered fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East. In fact, that already has been hap- pening, said Behnam Ben Taleblu, sen- ior director of the Iran program at the nonpartisan research institute Founda- tion for Defense of Democracies. Tale- blu said the Middle East has been effec-
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nomic activity is expanding at a solid pace, job gains have kept pace with the workforce,andinflationremainselevat- ed. “The Committee will deliver price stability,” the Fed again said. Of the Federal Open Market Commit- tee’s 12 voting members, nine voted in favor of the action. Preferring to raise the target range by a quarter-point, Cleveland Fed President Beth Ham- mack, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari and Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan dissented. Fed policymakers voted to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by a quarter-point three times late in 2025. The most recent move was in December. At Warsh’s news conference after the announcement, he echoed his com- ments to lawmakers in congressional testimony earlier in July, saying he did not view June’s slowdown in inflation as a sign the Fed’s goal to deliver price stability was accomplished. “We understand that five-plus years of inflation above target cannot be cured in nine weeks or by a single month of modest price decreases,” Warsh said. “Our credibility rests on performing our duties and delivering on our responsi- bilities. Americans are right to expect that, because our nation’s prosperity depends on it.” He added he and his colleagues are tracking economic trends, not single re- ports. Hounded by questions about how he
Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces site is damaged by strikes the PMF said were carried out by U.S. and Saudi forces, in Bartella, Iraq on July 29. REUTERS
tively mired in a regional conflict since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. “These are many different cam- paigns and many different battles,” he said. “The Saudis will dip their toe in and out and other actors will dip their toe in and out. The question is, what comes next? How does that threat net- work respond?”
What is Iran’s objective?
The “surprise attack”should not have been a surprise, Taleblu said. The Irani- an regime wants to drag the United States into a protracted war. Iran assumes that “because America is a responsible and restrained power,”it will eventually cut and run, Taleblu said. “But make no mistake, this is a re- gime that knows that Trump is different from any other U.S. presidents that are trying to run the clock on them. And be- cause this president was willing to roll the dice, willing to actually pull the trig- ger against the Islamic Republic, they too are more willing to escalate.”
What happened to the ceasefire?
A weekslong ceasefire between the two countries fell apart in early July when the United States restarted its bombing campaign in response to Irani- an attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Four Americans died in the fighting. Twenty U.S. troop have died during the conflict to date. Trump warned last week that further attacks on commercial vessels would be met with attacks on Iranian bridges and
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plans to deliver on his promise of lower- ing inflation, Warsh said the Fed has no “magic wands.” “I hear from you what I hear more broadly from households and business- es: impatience. ‘Deliver it, already,’ ” Warsh said. “This is not an excuse. This is a fact: This FOMC, this board has been in business for 81⁄2 weeks. ... The impa- tience that household and businesses feel has been going on for 63 months.” He said the Fed has made lower in- flation its expectation, the Federal Open Market Committee has taken account- ability for its elevated level, and it has tools at its disposal to address it. He did not say whether policymakers would raise the benchmark interest rate. “We are on the job. We will deliver. We are focused like a laser on making sure we can do it,” Warsh said. “But the suggestion that we’re going to be able to do it with our magic wands is one I want to disabuse you and everyone else of.”
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Committee members held a “vigor- ous discussion centered on four ques- tions” in the meeting, Warsh said. First, he said, “we talked a lot about the implications of the past five years of high inflation” on current Fed policy. Consumer prices have risen markedly over the past five years. Second, Warsh said, committee dis- cussed “the economic shocks of recent years,” including supply chain strains,
power plants – repeating a threat he has made and subsequently called off. The threat of force against civilian infra- structure, which experts warned could constitute a war crime, has been a go-to negotiating tactic for Trump. The sides have typically returned to talks after his threats.
Why did Saudi Arabia join the strikes?
Saudi Arabia joined the United States in attacking fighters aligned with Iran, the Persian Gulf state’s Min- istry of Defense announced Wednes- day, July 29. Saudi Arabia struck Iran- linked militias based in Iraq, the king- dom said. The strikes mark the Saudis’ entry into the war, in response to attacks from Iranian militants on the kingdom’s oil and gas facilities. The Saudis coordinated their strikes with Central Command, Saudi defense ministry officials said. Central Command confirmed the co- ordinated attacks with Saudi jets, say- ing they targeted “Iran-aligned terror- ists” in the eastern part of Iraq. Accord- ing to military officials, the attacks came in response to Iran-directed attacks on U.S. assets in the region. “The unwarranted attacks against U.S. forces were not successful,”Central Command said in a statement.
What will Trump do now?
Centcom said in a statement July 28 statement that Iran’s Islamic Revolu- tionary Guard Corps and its affiliated proxies “must cease these attacks to
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military conflict, tariffs and invest- ments in artificial intelligence. Third, he said, the committee consid- ered “price increases arising from those shocks” and whether they are ephemer- al or enduring: “Do these changes indi- cate a broader inflationary dynamic, or do we just focus on them because they are under the bright streetlight?” Finally, the group discussed moneta- ry policy tools and strategies at the Fed’s disposal for achieving stable prices.
Trump praises Warsh
On July 27, Trump called Warsh “fan- tastic.” He also accused other Fed board members of being “very political.” The president praised Warsh again after learning the panel held its bench- mark for interest rates steady July 29. “Kevin’s got a board. He’s fantastic. He’s a brilliant guy. Smart,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I know he’d love to see lower interest rates. But he’s got a board. It’s a political board. And they want to keep rates up. We fight through rates.” Charlie Wise, TransUnion’s senior vice president of research and consult- ing, said in a note to USA TODAY that current consumer credit market trends are likely to continue. “Stable interest rates may also pro- vide consumers with greater confidence to move forward with borrowing deci- sions ... that had been postponed amid uncertainty,” he said.
avoid further U.S. military response.” Taleblu said Trump should not attack tunnels and bridges. It may be more wise, Taleblu said, for the United States and its allies to strike paramilitary centers and Iranian mili- tary bases. It also can target Iran’s judiciary, which has continued to execute Iranian protesters. “The president needs to flip the script on the Islamic Republic,” he said. Though it is crucial for Trump to re- spond, Taleblu said, it is also critical that he does not make a rushed deci- sion. “If the president slides back into the posture that existed in the spring, where there’s just threats against civilian in- frastructure, I think that puts him in the worst of all possible worlds.”
What happens next?
The latest rounds of fighting and Trump’s tendency to make and with- draw threats suggest each side is trying to gain leverage in future talks, said Emily Harding, the National Security Council’s Iran director under President George W. Bush. “This is the way that Iran operates. This is how they like to demonstrate that they are going to squeeze every last bit of value out of a negotiation,” said Harding, now director of the Intelli- gence, National Security and Technol- ogy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washing- ton-based think tank that analyzes de- fense issues. Because Trump considers himself a master negotiator and believes he can achieve peace through strength, “he’s going to try to show how strong he can be and thus win concessions,” she said. “It’s also going to be sort of his de- fault: ‘I will keep hitting you until you make concessions.’” Harding warned that the pattern of on-again, off-again fighting could con- tinue through the fall, until after the midterm elections. “I think come mid-November, Trump has very little incentive to hold back, and that’s going to be a moment where he pushes very hard on the military front,” she said. “There’s no incentive for the Iranians to cave at the moment. “I think what this administration misjudged about them is that even the second-tier leadership and the third- tier leadership that we’re stuck with now, they very much have an incentive to preserve the state and to preserve the ideological foundation.”
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Kennedy said ahead of the show. “And that’s not true.” The program, available at hhs.gov/ real-food-show, will showcase how to prepare healthy meals for less than $5 a serving whenever possible, HHS said. The first couple of episodes will feature chefs Andrew Gruel and Robert Irvine. For the first episode with Gruel, Kennedy will cook up a recipe for Crispy Salmon Cakes with Apple, White Bean & Green Salad. Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement has found common ground among a bipartisan group of voters, primarily those known as MAHA Moms, with its promise to combat chronic childhood diseases by reducing environmental toxins, ultra-processed foods and “overmedicalization.”
We have ‘forgotten how to cook’
Kennedy said the show can teach people it can be cheaper and healthier to cook at home. “Fast food is not less expensive,” he said. “That meal costs $12 to $14. People can eat a lot cheaper at home and a lot better food. But many Americans have forgotten how to cook. It’s becoming a lost art.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveils the department’s new dietary guidelines food chart Jan. 8 in Washington.
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Part of the job of Kennedy’s Health and Human Services Department will be “reintroducing” Americans to cook- ing, he said. More than half of all men and almost three-quarters of women regularly cook at home, according to a 2023 study in the peer-reviewed journal Current Developments in Nutrition from the American Society for Nutrition.
A ‘sacred ritual’ to beat isolation
Kennedy said cooking is not just a way to get good nutrition but also a “sa- cred ritual that has been abandoned.” “We have a malaise, an epidemic of isolation in this country,” he said. Addiction, he said, is a disease of isolation and disconnection. “And one of the ways that we can start connecting people again is through that sacred ritual of cooking again, of coming together with your family and creating something that’s beautiful, that’s useful, and sitting down with them and enjoying that.”
about to take Jackie’s spot,” Jackie fan Tracey Michelle of Indiana posted on TikTok. “That is Jackie’s nest and Shad- ow is Jackie’s man.” Other bald eagle lovers take umbrage at the anthropomorphization of the wild birds. They say it’s all a part of nature, and negative characterizations can be disrespectful to creatures that are just following their instincts. Though experts say it’s too early to tell if Jolene is trying to tempt Shadow to mate, the development has bald eagle lovers wondering: How long will he wait?
Is the new female eagle really an interloper?
The female bald eagle hanging out near Jackie and Shadow’s nest is a sub- adult believed to be about 31⁄2 years old, according to Friends of Big Bear Valley, which has been running a nest cam live- streaming the birds of prey since 2015. She’s considered a subadult because bald eagles do not reach maturity until around 5 years old, the age when they typically begin mating and laying eggs. In some cases, eagles begin to lay eggs when they’re 4, the group says. The group believes that the same female had perched near Jackie in 2023 and that Jackie wasn’t acting too territo- rial because it wasn’t nesting season,
The HHS secretary was quick to give credit to his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, as the better cook in their household. Kennedy said that while he cooked two “rudimentary” meals a day, his wife is a “much better cook.” When they have company or when the kids come home, Hines takes over the skillets. “She loves cooking and she loves baking,” he said. “She’s a very, very good cook.” His repertoire consists of eggs, bacon, cheeseburgers and ham- burgers. “I can cook a really good omelet,” Kennedy said, adding that he learned it from Chef Gruel. And then my spe- cialty would be steaks and meat and fish.”
There is a way to eat sauerkraut
Kennedy, known to be an aficionado of fermented foods, was in the habit of taking his own sauerkraut to restau- rants, he said. “I used to carry it with me, but I got too many complaints.” Asked if the complaints came from fellow diners, Kennedy said: “My wife, mainly. It’s hard to carry without spill- ing it. And when you spill it, it causes other problems.” He also does not make his own. “I use store-bought sauerkraut,” he said. Then the HHS secretary described the correct way to eat it. “The way that you’re supposed to eat it is bite for bite,” he said. “You take a bite of the meat, take a bite of the sauerkraut. That is kind of the pre- scribed, perfect way of eating it. You know, I don’t do that perfectly every time that I try.”
Trump Cabinet’s weight loss guru
It’s not just Kennedy who is on the “meats and ferments” diet. Other followers, he said, include Vice Presi- dent JD Vance, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. He said they had all lost weight on the diet. How does it feel to be the Trump Cabinet weight loss guru? “A lot of pressure,” he said, laughing.
‘I will literally eat anything’
Asked about the most exotic food he has eaten, Kennedy said: “I will liter- ally eat anything because I don’t have a gag reflex.” “I love experimenting with foods. When I travel, I’ll eat … street vendors’ cooking.” Though Kennedy might be a carni- vore diet enthusiast, he also has ex- perimented several times with being on a vegan diet. But it never lasted long. “I just had a, a craving, an atavistic craving for protein,” he said. His wife, he joked, would say he lasted all of 24 hours. “I prepped the kitchen and did everything when I could, but I cannot last very long on it,” he said. “I feel hungry all the time.”
A “subadult” female bald eagle has been nicknamed Jolene by longtime eagle-cam fans of Shadow and Jackie.
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according to a Facebook post July 26. “Jackie was not concerned at all about the subadult perching with her,” the post says. “In fact, she continued to preen and seemed very relaxed, though glancing over at the other eagle occa- sionally to keep an eye on it.” No one thought much about the sub- adult again until Jackie’s fight and hos- pitalization. Friends of Big Bear Valley say she probably was one of two sub- adults who got into a fight with Jackie and has now been hanging around the nest. Jackie has been hospitalized ever since at the Ojai Raptor Center, where she received a “life-saving blood trans- fusion”and has been undergoing testing and treatment for a mysterious illness her caregivers believe preceded the fight. She remains in critical condition.
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WASHINGTON – Health and Hu- man Services Secretary Robert F. Ken- nedy Jr. told USA TODAY in an exclu- sive interview that the surveillance of foodborne illness is “working better than it’s ever worked” despite thou- sands becoming ill from outbreaks of explosive diarrhea. Kennedy said outbreaks occur ev- ery summer, and federal authorities have been quick to track them. In September 2018, which Kennedy referenced during the interview, a multistate cyclosporiasis outbreak was declared over after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention was first notified of linked cases that June. On July 13 that year, the retailer linked to the outbreak vol- untarily stopped selling its salad, which was the suspected source of the illness, and a final analysis of the prod- uct was completed by the FDA on July 26. Today, cases of cyclosporiasis, a stomach-churning parasitic infection known for causing explosive diarrhea, have now reached 45 states. Processed lettuce from Mexico has been linked to an outbreak in some of the cases. “We have a surveillance system in place, and it’s working better than it’s ever worked in history,” Kennedy said. He denied that personnel cuts at the CDC hurt disease surveillance. Last year, federal health officials scaled back the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, a pro- gram that has tracked food poisoning infections in the United States for dec- ades. Unlike other foodborne illnesses like E. coli or salmonella, cyclosporia- sis is a parasitic infection that can con- taminate food and water. The CDC said the program, known as FoodNet, would no longer be re- quired to monitor eight of the10 patho- gens it had been tracking, including cyclospora.
Though some have wondered if the new female is one of the offspring produced by Jackie and Shadow, Friends of Big Bear Valley believe it’s unlikely because the age doesn’t line up with any of the couple’s young.
Shadow, ‘wild and free,’ likely will do as he pleases
After the subadult was seen with Shadow in a perch on July 22, the male bird “had a lot to say”about it, Friends of Big Bear Valley posted. The group did not elaborate until she was seen again with him over the course of several days. In another post, the group said Shadow showed some de- fensive behavior toward the subadult while his offspring, Sandy and Luna, were in their nest. But Sandy and Luna haven’t been seen in the area for several days, which could indicate they have “left on their life’s journey,” a milestone in every ea- gle’s life that typically comes about four weeks after they fledge, the group said. If Sandy and Luna have indeed moved on, Shadow probably will be- come less territorial, the group says. Shadow “is a wild and free eagle,” they said. “It is up to Shadow what di- rection he goes.”
The loss of that data could hinder health officials’ ability to track cases, identify the source and stop further transmission, Kalmia Kniel, a professor of microbial food safety at the Univer- sity of Delaware, told USA TODAY. “We have a lot less information to work with,” Kniel said. “I think we’re seeing some of the effects of that now.” Cyclosporiasis is difficult to track be- cause of its two-week incubation peri- od, Kennedy said; in contrast, illness from giardia or cryptosporidium make people sick right away. “A lot of times, by the time people start getting sick, the produce, the guilty produce is gone from the markets and it’s very hard to track down what it was,” Kennedy said. Experts agree outbreaks connected to foodborne illnesses can be difficult to track, and the parasitic nature and long incubation period of cyclosporiasis add to the challenge. “When you have a hard bug to figure out, like cyclospora, it takes a lot longer [to trace]. It takes a lot more time and a lot more legwork,” food safety attorney Bill Marler told USA TODAY. Marler said he expects a lengthy in- vestigation, especially with significant- ly pared-down staff at the CDC and FDA thanks to budget cuts and firings. Kennedy’s comments July 29 came as Michigan health officials reported 10,077 cases of cyclosporiasis, an in- crease of 397 cases since their last up- date a day earlier. Michigan’s health de- partment has reported 160 hospitaliza- tions through July 23, but no deaths. An investigation by the Food and Drug Administration has linked the out- break to iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants sourced from privately held Taylor Farms operations in central Mexico. But authorities were still look- ing for other potential sources given the size of the outbreak. The CDC has received reports of 6,707 laboratory-confirmed domestic cases of cyclosporiasis. The agency said it was aware of more than 11,500 addi- tional cases across 45 states that are not laboratory-confirmed or require further investigation. Contributing: Mary Walrath-Hol- dridge
nearly a decade and have shared eight eaglets. “I highly doubt Shadow is going to find another mate right now because it’s outside of breeding season,” said Jenni- fer Cedarleaf, avian director at the Alas- ka Raptor Center, which has treated up to 150 bald eagles in one year. “But if something happens to Jackie and she doesn’t show up next year, he will find another mate.” From years of observations, Friends of Big Bear Valley say Jackie’s reproduc- tive hormones usually kick in come December. Shadow “generally has a case of the December grumpies” until his hormones kick in at the end of the month or early January, they say. Though most eagles mate for life, Jackie and Shadow already have lived through one love triangle. Jackie’s first mate was known as Mr. B, and the two had two baby eagles in 2018. One of the eaglets died after a 24-hour rainstorm, but the other, named Stormy, survived and left Big Bear that summer. Soon after, a new male came to town, chased off Mr. B and stole Jackie’s heart. That interloper was Shadow. Ever since, the couple have been through it all, from winter storms that dump many inches of snow to ravens raiding their nest and eating their eggs. They have “an incredible bond,” the group says. “But again, Shadow will do what Shadow wants to,” the group reminded fans who may be bracing for potential heartbreak. “We have no say-so in the matter.”
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Joe Biden tells a ghostwriter in ma- terials released by a conservative think tank that he kept classified in- formation from his tenure as vice president. Three hours of audio and 117 pages of transcripts were released by the Oversight Project, a branch of the Her- itage Foundation, on July 27 after the former president dropped a lawsuit seek- ing to block the public release of his conversa- tions with Mark Lewis Zwonitzer, a ghostwrit- er for his memoir. “They didn’t even know I had this,” Biden told Zwonitzer during an October 2016 interview about sensitive foreign pol- icy matters handled by the Obama ad- ministration under which Biden served two terms as vice president. In an audio clip from 2017, Biden told Zwonitzer that he’d found 2009 documents in his house related to strategy in Afghanistan. “I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” Biden said. “I wrote [then-President Barack Obama] a handwritten 40-page memorandum arguing against deploying additional troops to Iraq – I mean, to Afghanistan on the grounds that it wouldn’t matter, that the day we left would be like the day before we arrived.” The release of the audio and tran- scripts came days after Biden’s attor- neys filed a notice of voluntary dis- missal on July 24 in U.S. District Court in Washington. The public release of the material, with the potentially clas- sified information redacted, also came more than a month after a federal judge ruled that hours of audio record- ings tied to Biden’s memoir could be turned over to the Heritage Founda- tion, rejecting his bid to block the dis- closure. U.S. District Judge Dabney Frie- drich said in a June 20 ruling that Bi- den’s privacy interests, while real, are outweighed by the public’s interest in the materials and the government’s obligation under the Freedom of Infor- mation Act to promote transparency. The recordings stem from inter- views Biden gave in 2017 to Zwonitzer for his memoir about the death of his son, Beau Biden. The Department of Justice obtained the materials during Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 in- vestigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur ultimately declined to bring charges against Biden in February 2024, but said the former president had shared classified materials in the con- text of those conversations. Hur said he thought a jury would find Biden to be a sympathetic figure because of his age, 74 at the time, and what Hur has de- scribed as having a “poor memory.” Longtime Biden spokesman TJ Ducklo did not immediately respond to a USA TODAY request for comment but told The Associated Press that the Oversight Project’s release of the ma- terials was politically motivated. “President Biden’s conversations for a book a decade ago that discussed his late son are private, and were pro- vided to the Department of Justice on the express condition they stay that way,” Ducklo said. “Reversing course and making them public is just the lat- est example of this Administration weaponizing the DOJ for political retri- bution.” The audio also details Biden meet- ing with Obama and advising on whether he should run for president in 2016. “He said it’s my decision to run or not. It doesn’t have to do with the field,” Biden recalled. Biden noted that Obama ques- tioned whether he could win the Dem- ocratic nomination over Hillary Clin- ton, with Obama telling him that it would “really be an uphill battle.” “The fact is that he didn’t think it was doable at that time, that I could, that I could actually go out and get the nomination,”Biden said. “That was my read at the time.” Biden ultimately did not run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, deciding to hold off until 2020. Contributing: Anthony Thompson
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Dr. Anthony Fauci’s personal diary has been cited in renewed attacks against the top immunologist who be- came the public face of the nation’s re- sponse to the COVID-19 pandemic. Obtained by subpoena, more than 1,500 pages of the 85-year-old former National Institute of Allergy and Infec- tious Diseases director’s diary are now in the public record. It is rare for pri- vate, personal writings from former govt officials to be obtained by the gov- ernment and released to the public. In this case, Fauci’s diary was created and stored on government servers. The pages, released by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, give insights into Fauci’s thoughts on everything from COVID-19’s origins and the ensu- ing public health responses to his con- tentious relationship with President Donald Trump and Fauci’s own celeb- rity. Paul, who heads the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, had been investi- gating the origins of COVID-19, and the diaries were ultimately turned over by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. They span in sections from 2001 to 2015, as well as from January 2020 – during the early onset of the pandemic – through December 2022. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 7 million people have died globally from COVID-19, including 1.2 million in the United States. Here are four notable topics in Fau- ci’s writings, with direct, unedited quotes from his diary. During a July 29 Senate hearing, Fauci repeatedly in- voked his 5th Amendment constitu- tional right not to incriminate himself.
Origins of COVID-19
In early 2020, his diary entries in- cluded looking into the origins of the then-novel coronavirus, including a belief held by many Republicans that the virus originated at the Wuhan In- stitute of Virology in China, and that American funding helped lead to the virus’ creation. Several studies have said available evidence suggests the virus spilled over naturally from ani- mals to humans. On Jan. 3, 2020, he described “un- usual cases of pneumonia” in Wuhan. He entered almost daily updates on COVID-19, including case counts and entry of travelers. In late January 2020, he described “conspiracy theories” about the virus that created the pandemic and how it was manufactured, and if that manu- factured virus was released intention- ally or unintentionally. He said: “I sug- gest that we get a larger group of qual- ified evolutionary biologists/virolo- gists together under the auspices of a convening body and carefully look at this. We agreed to convene by phone the next day.” In 2021, he said he faced pressure from the right, specifically from Paul. But he said it was “molecularly impos- sible” that funds the United States gave to the Wuhan lab created the vi- rus. In August of that year, he also refer- enced House Republicans who con- tinued to push the idea that a lab leak caused COVID-19, and that the Nation- al Institutes of Health had a role in it, but Fauci said it was “based on no new information or data.” He said the accusations stem from the “Big Lie” about Trump winning the 2020 election, despite his loss in the popular vote and electoral college count, and that Trump was right about China causing the virus, while Fauci helped create the virus. “Next, discredit Fauci and it looks like trump is telling the truth,” he said on Aug. 2, 2021. “It is plain and simple a concerted effort aimed at getting trump reelected and exonerating him from any blame in the complete mess up of his re- sponse to COVID-19.” A 2022 study provided evidence that the coronavirus originated in ani- mals at a seafood market and suggest- ed further study. The World Health Or- ganization issued a report in 2025 say- ing it had more understanding of the virus’ origins, but needed more infor- mation, and China wouldn’t provide it. In 2025, the CIA said it was “more likely” the virus came from a lab than nature, though it said it had “low confi- dence” in its assessment.
President Donald Trump watches as Anthony Fauci answers a question during a coronavirus briefing at the White House in 2020. LEAH MILLIS/REUTERS
School closures
In retrospect, weeks- or even month- slong closures of schools became a flashpoint in the backlash to public health orders trying to contain the spread of COVID-19, even as officials tried to understand more about how people infect one another. In late January 2020, Fauci wrote about Chinese officials closing schools, and he began referencing Americans needing to close schools. On March 15, around the time cities and states began lockdown orders, Fau- ci brought up his conversations with former New York City Mayor Bill de Bla- sio and California Gov. Gavin Newsom about closing schools in both Democrat- ic-controlled jurisdictions. Early in the pandemic, New York City became the nation’s epicenter for the outbreak. A day later, he said he formulated a “more aggressive mitigation” 15-day strategy that included closing schools. Later, in April, he referenced conversa- tions with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, who wanted to keep schools open, but said DeSantis later said he was evaluating the situation. Later, he said he clarified to Mark Meadows, the president’s top aide, that he never said not to open schools, but that a vaccine should be ready when schools are reopened. Still, in early July, Fauci said, “Trump wants to open the schools at all costs. Clearly he does not care about the safety of the chidren.”
In August, he acknowledged the de- fault position should be to reopen schools because of the “psychological effects on children,” as well as children depending on school breakfasts and lunches for meals.
Trump ‘a true embarrassment’ and ‘a very strange guy,’ Fauci wrote
Fauci made several disparaging com- ments about Trump while he was in his first term and afterward. In different passages, Fauci said Trump was “out of control,”a “true embarrassment,”and “a very strange guy.” “Trump getting out of control in pushing to open up the country and get the economy back before election day,” Fauci wrote on May 22, 2020. “He is desparate,” Fauci wrote, with a misspelling. “This is all about re-elec- tion.” In the summer, he wrote about his re- lationship with Trump, in which the president was “Okay” with Fauci, telling reporters their relationship is fine but retweeting posts attacking Fauci. “He is a very strange guy,” Fauci wrote in a July 28, 2020, diary entry. Days before the 2020 election, Fauci said on Oct. 15: “As the election nears, the cases increase and surges are inev- itable as we enter cooler weather. Trump is on the campaign trail spewing nonsense. He is really out of control. A true embarrassment.”
How did Fauci deal with fame?
Fauci served seven American presi- dents while heading the National Insti- tute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, resigning in 2022 after more than four decades. Although a pillar in research, such as with HIV/AIDS, Fauci was un- known to most of the American public until he began appearing in news brief- ings and news network interviews. In his diary, he highlighted several major news stories about him. His en- tries have become fodder for his critics about his self-promotion. Contributing: Joey Garrison and Erin Mansfield
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Friends, family, colleagues and constituents said their goodbyes to Sen. Lindsey Graham in emotional services and with fond remembrances of his humor, magnetism and love of public debate. The South Carolina Republican, who died unexpectedly July 11 at age 71, was honored with a tribute at the Capitol Rotunda and a memorial at the Washington Nation- al Cathedral before being laid to rest at his birth- place in Pickens County, South Carolina. Graham “was a tough cookie, but he was beautiful,” Trump said in his eulogy at the packed cathedral. “He was a force of nature, and I will miss him greatly.”
Bryan Kohberger, the criminal justice grad student who pleaded guilty to the murders of four college students in Idaho in 2022 and received four life sentences, now says he’s innocent. Kohberger, 31, filed what’s known as a “petition for post-conviction relief” and claimed in an interview with The New York Times that he was misled into confessing. “My actual innocence is my truth,” he said. Kohberger’s plea had divided the victims’ families because it allowed him to avoid trial and the death penalty. Responding to his new claims, one of the families called him a “mosquito you just can’t seem to swat.”
Construction is booming, if salary boosts are any indication. Workers who changed jobs in construc- tion have outearned employees in every job sector in almost every month since August 2023, an analysis by human resources and payroll provider ADP shows. In June, pay growth year-over-year for construction job-changers was up 12.9%, indicating electricians, plumbers, carpenters and HVAC pro- fessionals are seeing their career investment pay off. Those unique skills “can be another valuable gateway to making big bucks,” wrote Nela Rich- ardson, chief economist and head of ADP research. “Specialty trades are the ‘it’ career of the year.”
and hikes 10 miles to safety
trekking pole after a fall
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A Montana nurse who survived a freak hiking accident that left him im- paled by his own trekking pole relied on his medical training and determination to slog more than 10 miles to safety, ac- cording to his friend and multiple news reports. David Cifaldi, a wound care clinic nurse and former emergency room nurse, was climbing Granite Peak, Mon- tana’s highest mountain, with two friends July 20 when he slipped on loose rocks during the ascent, according to Fox News and Montana TV station KTMF. The fall caused one of his trekking poles to pierce through his side, leaving the pole lodged in his body. Cifaldi told KTMF the incident was “just kind of a freak thing.” After realizing what happened, Cifal- di said, his medical instincts took over. He assessed his injuries and deter- mined the injury was serious but not immediately life-threatening. “I think my nurse brain clicked on,” Cifaldi said, according to KTMF. “As soon as I was able to self-assess and es- tablish that this was not life-threaten- ing right now, I was pretty convinced I was going to get off that mountain under my own power.”
Cifaldi hikes out with pole still lodged in body
According to a GoFundMe page cre- ated by Cifaldi's friend Jesse Ross, the nurse fell at an elevation of about 11,800 feet after stepping on a loose rock and dropping one of his trekking poles. The pole went through his lat muscle, with about 8 inches of space between the two wounds, Ross wrote on the fundraiser page. Cifaldi reported no major bleed- ing, loss of feeling or signs that a vital area had been struck. Rather than remove the pole, Cifaldi and his friends decided he should at- tempt a self-rescue. The group carefully
A Montana nurse was injured on a hike up Granite Peak, the state’s highest mountain. He hiked down 10 miles to safety.
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turned around and began the difficult descent with the trekking pole still ex- tending from Cifaldi's body. One friend used a satellite commu- nicator to contact search and rescue while another stayed with Cifaldi and monitored his condition. Cifaldi also asked one of his friends to move ahead and warn approaching hikers so they would not unexpectedly encounter him. After roughly 61⁄2 hours of hiking, the group reached the trailhead. Cifaldi had traveled more than 10 miles over rugged terrain before being taken to a hospital.
Doctors remove trekking pole after mountain rescue
Cifaldi was taken about two hours away to an emergency room in Billings, where doctors removed the pole, Ross said. The trekking pole remained lodged in his body for eight to nine hours from the time of the fall until it was re- moved, Ross said. Cifaldi continues to recover at home and hopes to return to caring for patients. As of July 28, the GoFundMe for Cifaldi has raised more than $4,900 of its $8,000 goal. Looking back on the accident, Cifal- di said, he knows the outcome could have been much worse. “I feel very lucky,” he told KTMF. “A couple inches the other way, and this would be a different story.”
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Communities in Doty Island, Wisconsin, clear the wreckage after a tornado tore through the area with winds of up to 165 mph, leaving neighborhoods in ruins.
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Parkinson’s disease
Carly Simon, the baby boomer icon known for ’70s hits like “You’re So Vain,” “Nobody Does It Better,” “Anticipation” and “Mockingbird,” is battling Parkinson’s disease. The singer, 83, confirmed her illness in a statement to USA TODAY and said retreating from public view is part of how she copes with her health struggles: “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.” Her new album, “Comes in Waves,” is out Aug. 14.
Munetaka Murakami
Munetaka Murakami may be just a rookie, but he has already notched a career day. The Japanese-born star first baseman of the Chicago White Sox, 26, collected 6 RBIs and blasted two home runs in a 12-3 rout of the Houston Astros −all on a bobblehead giveaway day in his honor. And it didn’t stop there: Murakami’s parents were there to throw out the game’s first pitch (a bounce from his father, Kimiya, and a perfect arc from his mother, Fumiyo). “It feels amazing,” he said later through an interpreter. “Really super-excited right now.” −Compiled by Robert Abitbol
Perreault-Magny said. “We have a lot of sympathy. There are some criminals who are crossing, but there are some people who want to cross to get a better life. Behind our uniform and badge, we are also human.” It’s a strategy far different from that commonly seen south of the Canadian border, where federal immigration au- thorities spurred on by President Don- ald Trump use aggressive tactics to in- tercept and detain people illegally crossing into the United States or re- maining in the country without permis- sion. U.S. agents have drawn significant criticism for their approach, including for wearing masks and fatally shooting migrants and U.S. citizen protesters. Against that backdrop, the Mounties gave USA TODAY a rare behind-the- scenes look at how they operate. In a pa- trol via boat, unmarked pickups and ATV, Canada’s federal officers demon- strated how they secure their southern border from the consequences of Amer- ican immigration policy, permissive gun laws and demand for illegal drugs, in- cluding fentanyl. They showed a different approach to the mostly women and children they encountered on the world’s longest bor- der: They wear ID and body cameras, but no face coverings. And migrants rarely die at their hands. Mounties in Quebec have no record of ever fatally shooting a migrant, according to a spokeswoman. Since 2000, at least 17 people have died in Canadian immigration detention custody, most of them in provincial jails, according to the advocacy group Human Rights Watch. In contrast, at least 53 people have died in ICE custody since Trump retook the White House in Janu- ary 2025, according to USA TODAY’s immigration enforcement tracker. For years, crossing the border be- tween the two countries was a lot more casual, no passport needed. In many areas, communities were split by the border and people simply walked across without immigration checks. Border controls tightened ahead of the 1976 Montreal Olympics, then again after 9/11 attacks in 2001. Trump clamped down further during his first term, then doubled down upon return- ing to office in 2025. Like their Canadian counterparts, U.S. officials monitor bor- ders with patrol boats, vehicles and re- mote cameras. “There’s no wall, there’s no person with a rifle in a tower, but we are here 24/7,” Perreault-Magny said as his team patrolled the area. Every day, small groups of migrants cross this remote section of the U.S.- Canadian border, moving in both direc- tions. Smugglers move guns north and drugs in both directions. Though most migrants walk through the heavily for- ested area, others try to cross on boats, particularly at the border-spanning Akwesasne Mohawk Indian nation res- ervation. Canadian authorities prioritize ar- resting the smugglers. “Those are the ones we can send to jail or kick out of Canada,” Perreault- Magny said. Though much attention has focused on the Mexican border under Trump, the White House has also made enforce- ment of the Canadian border a priority. The Trump administration has com- plained Canada has failed to secure its side of the 5,525-mile-long border stitching across forests, mountains and the Great Lakes. Border crossings from Canada have dropped substantially under Trump. In 2024, U.S. officials reported nearly 200,000 “encounters” at the northern border. Last year, it dropped to 85,746. Last month, U.S. officials intercepted about 5,000 people crossing illegally. Seventy-four people were caught crossing into Canada from the United States in the first quarter of 2026, ac- cording to Canadian statistics. But the Mounties said they’re now seeing an in- crease in people seeking refuge in Cana- da as Trump toughens American immi- gration enforcement.
Little chance of escape
The migrants gathered under the tree didn’t know it, but the Mounties clocked them even before they crossed the border. Because this border area connecting northern New York state to southern Quebec is so remote, there’s little chance of migrants getting away. Only a few roads cross the area, and the Mounties recognize local farmers’ vehi- cles. The officers also have drones and helicopters equipped to track people hiding in the dark. Eventually, a car or a minivan will creep down the narrow dirt road, ready to collect migrants who have paid at least $1,000 for GPS coordinates and
Sgt. Jonathan Maheu of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police drives an ATV along the boundary line known as “the slash” near the New York state border. The patrols are largely quiet; U.S. and Canadian authorities sometimes unofficially meet at the boundary line to chat. PHOTOS BY TREVOR HUGHES/USA TODAY
guidance on how to get across. Some- times they call a taxi or seek guidance from locals on how to get to Montreal or even Toronto, hundreds of miles away. That’s when the Mounties waiting nearby swoop in.
Haitian migration on the rise
Trump has placed intense focus on the U.S.-Mexican border, deploying the military, expanding his border wall and turning back most people crossing in search of asylum. And as he has tough- ened immigration enforcement domes- tically, including by ending Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thou- sands of long-term residents, including Haitians who fled their homeland. The United States and Canada have a long-standing agreement requiring peo- ple fleeing persecution to request asy- lum in whichever country they first set foot in. A deal between the two countries in March 2023 closed a loophole allow- ing people who snuck across the U.S. border into Canada to seek asylum.
“You wish you could help them better, but that’s definitely not the way we want people to enter our country. Unfortunately, even though I feel for them, we still have a job to do it, and we’ll do it.”
Cpl. Samuel Perreault-Magny
Now, most of those caught crossing illegally into Canada are immediately sent back to the United States, where their asylum claims are typically denied under Trump administration policies. Among the exceptions for asylum- seekers crossing from the United States is one for people who can evade capture for two weeks, which resets the asylum claim clock. Unlike the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S.-Canada border mostly lacks phys- ical barriers. Instead, large portions of it run through expansive forests. In the winter, deep snow accumulates. In the summer, mosquitoes and ticks head for anyone not wearing what the Mounties call “summer perfume” – bug spray. Mounties said they’ve seen an in- crease in the number of criminal organi- zations smuggling people across the border in both directions after the 2023 Canada-U.S. agreement. In some cases, migrants headed south to the United States stay in the same Montreal safe houses as people who have snuck into Canada and are waiting out the 14-day
refugee period. Perreault-Magny said he knows most of the migrants are just looking for a bet- ter life. “You wish you could help them better, but that’s definitely not the way we want people to enter our country,” Perreault-Magny said. “Unfortunately, even though I feel for them, we still have a job to do it, and we’ll do it −don’t get me wrong.” Trump and U.S. immigration officials often describe migrants as an invading force destroying the country from with- in. They name and shame those being deported, in many cases forcing them to pose for pictures. In contrast, their Ca- nadian counterparts treat each migrant with dignity, including by barring jour- nalists from taking photos of them when they are in custody. Perreault-Magny, a father of a tod- dler, said he has seen mothers carrying infants through the woods, their feet wrapped in aluminum foil to stave off the winter cold. He has followed other migrant groups through waist-deep snow for more than seven hours, worried about their safety even as he sought to arrest them.
Human rights groups raise voices
An increasing source of tension be- tween the United States and Canada is the treatment of people seeking asylum. Under the 2023 agreement, people who illegally cross from the United States into Canada for asylum are almost al- ways returned, on the grounds that they will be treated equally by either country. But Amnesty International and other human rights groups argue the United States now routinely violates the hu- man rights of detainees under Trump’s aggressive enforcement. “Every day, people fleeing danger present themselves at the Canadian border, expressing grave fears about what will happen to them if they are re- turned to the U.S.,” said Asma Faizi, president of the Canadian Council for Refugees. Amnesty International and the other groups are suing on behalf of a Hondu- ran family whose members sought asylum in Canada last year after learn- ing the Trump administration had rejected their 2022 asylum claim in Maryland. The family – a couple and their young son – say that the Trump administration canceled their asylum claim without explanation and that to avoid being forced to return to their dangerous home country, they sought sanctuary in Canada. Under the 2023 agreement, the fam- ily members were deported from Cana- da, held in a controversial family immi- gration detention center in Dilley, Texas, for two weeks, then deported to Honduras, where they remain in hiding. Watching how the United States
treats detainees horrifies many Canadi- ans, said Julia Sande, an immigration attorney with Amnesty International. “As policies change, as people are stripped of their status, as this chaos unfolds in the United States, if people no longer feel safe in the United States, of course they’re going to come to Cana- da,” Sande said. “We hear from people concerned all the time about what is happening in the United States. They watch in horror the mass deportation and detention, the intentional cruelty and chaos.”
Border crossing can be deadly
In addition to patrolling the land bor- der, Perreault-Magny and his colleagues monitor the St. Lawrence River, which largely forms the border between the United States and Canada in northern New York. Dotted with small islands, the area is prime territory for smugglers of drugs, guns and people. Recently, Perreault-Magny and his colleague, Sgt. Jonathan Maheu, cruised across the water in their patrol boat at about 35 mph, slowing to inspect passing boats. People would be sur- prised, Maheu said, at how often smug- glers load a boat with people and act as if they aren’t about to cross the border. In 2023, all four members of a Roma- nian family drowned when their boat sank in a winter storm in March. U.S. prosecutors said the family was being smuggled from Canada into the United States via the Akwesasne Mohawk Indi- an reserve. The reserve sits in both Canada and the United States, and the overlapping jurisdictions can make smuggling easier, Maheu said. “Some places, you can toss a bag full of guns across a stream and it’s over the border, or you take a10-minute boat ride and drop off drugs,” he said. American prosecutors also target hu- man trafficking organizations on the Canadian border. On July 20, the Jus- tice Department announced three Mex- ican men pleaded guilty to smuggling hundreds of people south from Canada into New York, then transferring them to the Midwest. The smugglers sometimes recruited their clients into the network to pay off their costs, prosecutors said, or persuaded them to make testimonial videos for prospective border crossers. U.S. prosecutors have secured multi- ple guilty pleas this year from people us- ing the Akwesasne nation territory to smuggle people into the United States. A Canadian-American citizen and mem- ber of the Akwesasne nation pleaded guilty July 23 for her role in organizing the failed 2023 smuggling effort in which the Romanian family of four died. “While most illicit flows of concern include fentanyl, firearms, human smuggling, and contraband goods, we remain vigilant against all threats to public safety and national security,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. “Our ongoing col- laboration ensures both countries can respond effectively to risks and main- tain the secure, efficient flow of legiti- mate trade and travel.”
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On the New York-Canadian border about an hour south of Montreal, the three patrolling Mounties checked in with headquarters as they bounced across streams, mud puddles and downed limbs. They were traveling through a section known as “the cut” or “the slash.” Jointly maintained by both countries for about1,300 miles, it’s a 20- foot-wide corridor marking the bound- ary. Only a few signs warn against illegal border crossing, and remote cameras monitor the forest on both sides. U.S. and Canadian authorities some- times unofficially meet to chat across the boundary line, trading information about trends they have seen. But most of the times, the patrols are quiet. Ma- heu launched a drone for an aerial per- spective. Earlier, the group paused to watch colleagues in a helicopter fly circles close to the border.
‘You feel for that mom’
The Mounties were comfortable with letting the migrants remain under the tree a few miles away, knowing their col- leagues were poised to arrest them. Citing operational security, they de- clined to explain exactly what ultimate- ly happened. But a few hours later, the migrants were in custody. And investi- gators were trying to track down the people who smuggled them in. The bar- racks’ holding cells in Valleyfield re- mained empty. The three Mounties headed home to their families. “Behind our badge and uniform, you feel for that mom that just wants to get her daughter or her boy a better life, but there is stuff in place to come in Canada the legal way,” Perreault-Magny said. “Obviously, coming in the middle of the night or the middle of the day through the woods or through water is not the right way to enter a country legally.”
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My buddy Dave had a running joke during our friend group’s epic four-na- tion odyssey from Venice to Athens over two weeks: “You’ve seen one dusty old rock, you’ve seen them all.” Funny, but, of course, not at all true. The trip took us to palaces, ancient ruins and towns that thrived millennia before this nation was a twinkle in our Founding Fathers’ eyes – or anyone could imagine being mad about who played Helen of Troy in a telling of “The Odyssey.” We were more than 5,000 miles away from home, staring at some of the dusti- est and oldest “rocks” I’ve ever seen, on the day our nation celebrated its 250th birthday. I was awed that day by Akrotiri of Thera (Santorini), the remains of a female-centric city founded roughly 7,000 years ago and abandoned after a volcanic eruption around 1600 BC. Ash helped preserve the frescoes, including the remarkable Akrotiri Boxing Boys, which we later saw at the National Ar- chaeological Museum in Athens.
Are we debating ancient Greeks or historical representation?
It was ironic to be in places where lay- ers and layers of dust have been brushed away in the pursuit of understanding, considering the intellectual darkness enveloping our nation due to the push to bury the sins that still haunt us. Racism, misogyny and other forms of intolerance are being fueled by those at- tempting to erase or rewrite recent his- tory. And aside from the rich and often dismissed legacy of Indigenous people, everything about U.S. history is recent history. As a result of the seemingly endless culture war, far too much energy is spent on the absurd in America. Lately, that includes fretting about the race and gender of actors playing the mythical characters in Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster version of “The Odyssey.” “The whole movie is a woke mess,” one Instagram user wrote – mind you, before the movie was released – on a post about multiracial actress Zendaya
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I have a shocking announcement that may cause some loyal Buc-ee’s cus- tomers to choke on their beaver nuggets: They’re just gas stations. I realize what I’m saying is heresy to Buc-ee’s backers, who’ll be lining up to chew me out. I’m aware that the Texas-based con- venience store chain has 56 locations around the country, with more in the planning stages. I’m aware that in my home state of Florida, the Buc-ee’s location in Dayto- na Beach has been attracting more visi- tors than the famed Daytona Interna- tional Speedway. I’m aware that there are lots of sites on social media where people can go to rave about Buc-ee’s plentiful gas pumps, clean restrooms, tasty brisket sandwiches and consumer goods, many bearing the likeness of the chain’s Bucky Beaver mascot. I’m even aware that during the World Cup, many foreign visitors went a little bonkers for Buc-ee’s.
The good
I’ll concede the brisket is pretty good. For a barbecue snob who’s lived much of his life in Memphis and Nashville, that’s quite an admission. And some of the highway billboards are really clever. As for the rest of it, the hype far ex- ceeds the reality.
At “The Odyssey” premiere in New York City on July 14 are, from left, actors Charlize Theron, Samantha Morton, John Leguizamo, Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o and Zendaya.
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playing Athena, instead of an actress of purely European descent. “Guess you haven’t read the book,” another retorted. In January, trillionaire Elon Musk tweeted that Nolan “lost his integrity” when he cast Lupita Nyong’o, a Black Oscar winner, as Helen of Troy. A lot of racism and counterarguments followed. The teeth-grinding – oddly, no one is all bothered that Matt Damon (Odys- seus) and Robert Pattinson (Antinous) are, demonstrably, not Greek – is not about ancient Greeks or historical rep- resentation, as has sometimes been claimed.
Black characters existed in Greek mythology, ancient art
Nolan’s film is based on an 8th or 7th century BC epic poem attributed to Homer, and written for people who trad- ed with everyone from the Phoenicians and Egyptians to the Carthaginians and the Etruscans. Scholars note that ancient Greeks were concerned about culture, but did not care about skin color or race the way our society, tragically, does today. There were Black characters in Greek mythology and other ancient Greek art. Take Princess Andromeda. The legend- ary, beautiful mythological damsel in
Having dozens and dozens of gas pumps at each location has been touted as one of Buc-ee’s strengths. Yet in all my visits to gas stations, I’ve never once needed more than a single pump to take care of my business.
The bad
Buc-ee’s has become so popular that there are long lines to get gas at some locations, which seems to defeat the purpose of having lots of pumps. More pumps should mean less waiting. When I say I want to make a pit stop while traveling, I mean it in the purest NASCAR sense of the word: I want to get it over with and get back on the road as soon as possible. The sheer size and layout of Buc-ee’s stores work against that goal. One report found the average “dwell time” at a Buc-ee’s store was more than 20 minutes, roughly twice the average of other popular convenience store chains. I can’t imagine why people need that much time to figure out which type of fudge or jerky to buy. Speaking of the jerky, this is another example of Buc-ee’s overkill. In my ex- perience, except in situations where strenuous outdoor activity is involved, jerky is usually consumed more out of boredom than actual hunger. Ergo, Buc-ee’s flavor offerings like Bohemian garlic and Korean barbecue seem like the answers to a question no one was really asking. So what about the clean restrooms? They’re great, really. (Although I did find it amusing to visit one of the Buc- ee’s lovers’ Facebook pages recently, where a commenter stirred up a fuss for reporting that a Buc-ee’s restroom she
distress, saved by the Greek hero Per- seus, was an African from Aethiopia, or Ethiopia (“land of the burnt-faced peo- ple” in ancient Greek). Scholars say the area represented Nubia – modern-day Sudan. In works attributed to him, Homer describes the Aithiopes as pious, blameless and favored by the gods. Despite the predictable backlash (dare I say, “blacklash”?), Nolan’s nearly three-hour saga “has surpassed $700 million at the global box office, be- coming the fourth highest-grossing movie of the year after just 12 days in theaters,” Variety reported July 29. It is partly a testament to the public interest in the stories of the “old gods.” No longer widely worshiped, but their legend continues. In Athens, a dusty old rock paying tribute to Athena, the goddess of wis- dom and warfare and an important character in “The Odyssey,” looms over the city named in her honor. You can’t miss the Parthenon on the Acropolis, built on the site after the Persian army burned the first one down, and still standing nearly 2,500 years later. The sound of ongoing conservation was in the air during our visit, but the awe-inspiring wonder of the ancient world is all but free of scaffolding for the first time in decades.
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had visited was less than immaculate. Some of the responses were pretty de- fensive, including a couple suggesting it might have been an act of sabotage.) My question is, shouldn’t we be ex- pecting clean restrooms in all the public places we frequent? Why treat with mystique what should be considered basic customer service? Speaking of which, the Better Busi- ness Bureau gave some Buc-ee’s stores an F-rating several months ago for fail- ing to adequately respond to customer complaints. I know what I’m saying is hard for some people to hear. My now ex-wife is an ardent Buc-ee’s fan – so much so that if she was sleeping in the car as we drove past a billboard advertising an upcom- ing location, I would turn down the ra- dio and be extra quiet so I wouldn’t wake
We were told repeatedly how lucky we were to see the masterpiece unob- structed. We felt it. The history and the scars it left on the monuments are on display for public discussion. Defaced and repurposed throughout time (it was the site of a Christian church dedicated to the Virgin Mary and a mosque), the Parthenon and the histo- ry it invokes remain a symbol of Greec- e’s resistance, pride and artistic achievement long after Christ replaced the old gods – their King Zeus included. Most of the population of Greece is Greek Orthodox, yet the Christian con- querors now preserve and celebrate the history of their pagan ancestors. As our tour guide proudly said, the two teen boys who climbed the Acropo- lis to take down the Nazi flag during World War II are still celebrated as he- roes. Replanting the Greek flag over the ancient citadel was among the first things done after Athens was liberated.
We must dig for truth, study it, debate and pass it on
In 2019, then-Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis offered remarks about the importance of history during the 75th anniversary of the city’s liberation. “Above all, we must not forget. We must not forget what happened then and afterwards,” Bakoyannis said, ac- cording to news reports. “We must keep in our memory the parts of our history that wanted us to become divided, sep- arated and to turn on ourselves. … We forgot the common enemy. Fascism, in- tolerance, racism and all that stems from fascism.” He was talking about Nazis, but there is a lesson there for our nation. Not only must we not forget our past, we must also turn over every rock – dusty or not – to make sure our true his- tory is told. To be a society that lasts, we must dig for truth, study it, debate and pass it on. If Europe’s dusty old rocks can sur- vive volcanoes, fires and wars to tell sto- ries thousands of years after they were part of fully formed structures, we can confront even the murky and moldy parts of 250 years of American history honestly. Amelia Robinson is the opinion and community engagement editor for The Columbus Dispatch, where this column originally appeared.
her until after we had passed the exit. (And no, that wasn’t what doomed our marriage, I’m fairly certain. That was hardly the worst of my marital shortcomings.) On a certain level, I know resistance to Buc-ee’s is futile. Buc-ee’s is planning a location in Fort Pierce, Florida, not far from where I used to live. While the pro- ject has generated a lot of excitement, it’s also raised environmental issues and attracted urban sprawl around the development site.
The inescapable
So I recently moved three and a half hours away to a new home near Ocala, which was once expected to get the chain’s largest-ever store. It apparently won’t be, but the one that’s planned isn’t going to be a minia- ture version, either. Buc-ee’s is becoming inescapable. Many of my friends and neighbors are no doubt in the sway of beaver fever. So I’m not going to try to steal anyone’s joy. With gas prices being what they are, filling the tank can feel about as pleas- ant as a trip to the dentist. If going to Buc-ee’s somehow makes that experience less painful, pay your homage to the buck-toothed rodent. Just know that as you travel Ameri- ca’s highways, there are more interest- ing and more authentic places where you could be spending your time and money. If gas stations have become a pri- mary form of entertainment, I’m not sure what that says about our cultural future in America. Blake Fontenay is USA TODAY’s com- mentary editor.
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“Would never approve of my music being used in support of you or this administration.” – Noah Kahan in an Instagram comment, responding to the Trump administra- tion using his song “American Cars” in a social media post featuring Presi- dent Donald Trump. The post spot- lighted several images and video of the president during his visit to a General Motors facility in Milford, Michigan, on July 27. Kaelan Dorr, principal deputy communications director for the White House, respon- ded to Kahan’s criticism on X, refer- encing another one of the Grammy nominee’s songs by writing, “Symp- toms of [Trump derangement syn- drome] apparently include having a northern attitude.”
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acob Tremblay might not be the first guy you think of to play the Unabomber, a disheveled, middle-aged killer who baffled authorities for years before being caught. That’s not the man Tremblay inhabits, however – instead he’s a16-year-old Ted Kaczynski who is just beginning to go down a very dark path.
USA TODAY has the exclusive first look at the Netflix drama “Un- abomber” (streaming Sept. 25), an unconventional true-life drama told over two cross-cutting timelines. One focuses on Ted as a teenage prodigy attending Harvard in the 1950s who becomes the unwitting victim of abusive experiments by his psychology professor, Henry Murray (Russell Crowe). The other flashes forward to the mid-1990s and centers on a team of FBI agents (including Shailene Woo- dley and Alexander Ludwig) hunt- ing the elusive Unabomber that gets a significant lead in the case con- nected to Kaczynski’s past. Though it would have been “so in- teresting” to portray Ted in his older
years as well, Tremblay, 19, says, “I did really enjoy playing a young Ted and an innocent take on this domes- tic terrorist.” “I’m playing a character who has no idea who the Unabomber is. He has no idea of the man he’s going to turn into.” The film’s narrative also tied into Woodley’s interests. “I am always fascinated by the whys and the hows behind choices made through- out a life,” says the actress, who plays FBI agent Joanne Miller. “Learning about Ted’s college years juxtaposed with the investigation to find him was something I haven’t seen much before in true crime.”
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Holland’s Spider-Man grows up in ‘New Day’
Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has battled Thanos, gotten blipped out of existence, lost his mentor and sacri- ficed relationships to save the world. It’s his newest adventure, though, that shows how much he’s really grown up. Holland pulls off his most emotion- ally gripping work ever as Peter Park- er, who battles isolation and evolution as well as a powerful new foe in “Spi- der-Man: Brand New Day” (eeeE; rated PG-13; in theaters July 31). If the previous Spider-outing, “No Way Home,” paid homage to a deep history of the web-swinger’s movies, this new film pays off story threads from the Holland era, weaves in a lot of comic- book references, plus sets up a new status quo for New York City’s friendly neighborhood do-gooder.
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“Brand New Day”picks up the story thread that ended “No Way Home,” where Peter makes the hard choice and asked Doctor Strange to cast a magic spell that makes everyone for- get his existence, including girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Bata- lon), to prevent a multiverse catastro- phe. Some years have passed and Spi- dey’s on a roll, beating down pesky baddies including Scorpion (Michael Mando) and reducing the Big Apple’s crime rate by a lot. Peter, however, is lonely and strug- gling. Via social media, he has watched his former pals attend M.I.T. and go on living their lives, and he hopes that getting close to them again will bring back their memories. Yet that’s not the only thing weighing down our hero. He’s recruited by Bill Metzger (Tramell Tillman), director of Damage Control, to help the govern- ment agency tasked to clean up superhero dealings figure out the mystery villain who has been attack- ing them. And Peter’s body also is do- ing some weird stuff, with his super- powers veering out of control as the arachnid DNA begins to take over. “Brand New Day” is a heavier Spi- der-Man movie than the previous rousing entries. But the meatier story, with its dark themes balanced by a great sense of humor, befits a hero who has been saving the day since he was a teenager and is now dealing with more adult problems. And they are plentiful: Director Destin Daniel Cretton, a Marvel regu- lar who has headed up “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” as well as the TV series “Wonder Man,” juggles a slew of subplots that do wind up coming together in a satisfying way. He also weaves in some intrigu- ing body horror plus elements of pos- session films as Spider-Man’s latest menace hops among people and takes them over to confound Peter while also serving their own nefarious agen- da. In previous films, Holland brought a youthful, lively spirit to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as its resident Spidey.
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Kohlberger filing adds to angst in ‘Idaho’
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When Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 to the murder of four University of Idaho students, the vic- tims’ family members had different re- actions. Kohberger’s guilty plea involving the fatal stabbing of Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison “Maddie”Mogen, 21; Xana Ker- nodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, meant no high-profile trial and no death penal- ty. On the day of sentencing, the Cha- pins spent the day on the lake, while the Goncalveses addressed Kohberger with pointed impact statements. “Sit up straight when I talk to you,” Alivea Goncalves, Kaylee’s sister, told him from the courtroom. “I won’t offer you tears. I won’t offer you trembling. Disappointments like you thrive on pain, on fear, and on the illusion of pow- er. And I won’t feed your beast. You didn’t win; you just exposed yourself as the coward you are. You’re a delusional, pathetic loser.” As the victims’ families begin to look ahead, Kohberger, who is serving four consecutive life sentences, resurfaced the case. He filed a petition on July 27, seeking to challenge his guilty plea and conviction, with claims that he is inno- cent and was coerced into confessing to the quadruple killings. His petition lands ahead of the Net- flix documentary, “The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare,” which details the night of the quadruple murder through the perspectives of prosecutors, family and friends. The three-part docuseries (streaming now on Netflix) marks the third large-scale documentary project to address the killings, following Pea- cock’s “The Idaho Student Murders” and Amazon Prime’s “One Night in Ida- ho: The College Murders,” both released in July 2025. “The Idaho Murders” aims to contex- tualize the murders that ricocheted across nationwide headlines and the weeks-long efforts to pinpoint a sus- pect. Even as Kohberger was convicted and sentenced, victims’ loved ones and followers of the case longed to identify a motive. Here is what we know about the vic- tims, the fateful night in November 2022 and Kohberger’s petition to take back his guilty plea.
Who are the victims?
Madison “Maddie” Mogen was a marketing senior at the University of Idaho, from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Hunt- er Johnson, a friend of the victims, pre- viously told USA TODAY that Mogen was “super caring and outgoing.” Kaylee Goncalves, a general studies senior, had a sister-like friendship with Mogen. Goncalves, from Rathdrum, Idaho, had planned to work for an out- of-state marketing firm after college. Xana Kernodle, a former marketing major, moved into the apartment as a
MOVIES NEWS & VIEWS Controversy over Nyong’o as Helen misses the point
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Spoileralert!We’rediscussingimpor- tant details about the plot of “The Odys- sey” (in theaters now). Stop reading if you haven’t seen it yet and don’t want to know what happens. If you’re casting a face that could launch a thousand ships, you can’t go wrong with Lupita Nyong’o. The Oscar winner appears in dual roles in Christopher Nolan’s three-hour epic “The Odyssey,” playing Helen of Troy, the world’s most gorgeous wom- an, and her twin sister, Clytemnestra. There’s no arguing that Nyong’o is impossibly stunning: Not only has she been a Lancôme and Chanel ambassa- dor, but she also was name-checked for her beauty in the Beyoncé song “Brown Skin Girl.”And yet, her casting as a liter- al demigoddess sparked outcry from a racist throng on social media. Here’s what Homer has to say about the character – and why Nolan’s casting of Nyong’o is so genius:
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junior and dated Ethan Chapin, a fresh- man recreation, sport and tourism man- agement student, from Conway, Wash- ington. “Ethan was a big teddy bear,” Peter Elgorriaga, a friend, said in the docu- mentary. “You could never be upset around him.” The four victims lived in the off-cam- pus Moscow, Idaho, home with room- mates Bethany Funke and Dylan Mor- tensen. The three-story house was de- molished in December 2023, receiving mixed reactions from the families.
How did it happen?
On the morning of Nov. 13, 2022, Mo- gen and Goncalves were in a bed togeth- er on the third floor when the two were stabbed, according to Ed Jacobson, a former FBI special agent featured in the docuseries. Then, Kernodle and boy- friend Chapin, in the second-floor bed- room, were fatally stabbed. Jacobson mentioned Kernodle was covered with defensive wounds in the docuseries. “She had over 50 stab wounds on her,” Jacobson said, referring to Kerno- dle. “She put up a fight.” Roommates Funke and Mortensen
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king of Sparta, but was later (conten- tiously) abducted by Trojan prince Par- is, which sparked the Trojan War. Aga- memnon (Benny Safdie), Menelaus’ brother and Clytemnestra’s husband, helped seize the city of Troy and return Helen home. In the poem “The Odyssey,” the char- acter is described as “Helen of the lovely hair,” while in “The Iliad,” Homer says she is both “Helen, queen among wom- en” and “white-armed Helen.” But in
Alivea Goncalves, Kaylee Goncalves’ sister, appears in the documentary.
were on the first floor and didn’t report the incident until later that day, un- aware of the fatal crimes. After weeks of questioning suspects, including Gon- calves’ ex-boyfriend Jack DuCoeur, law enforcement arrested Kohberger on Dec. 30, 2022, at his family home in Pennsylvania.
What evidence did they find?
Law enforcement officials found DNA evidence on a Ka-Bar knife sheath, next to two of the victim’s bodies. Koh- berger purchased the knife and the sheath on Amazon months before. Authorities also said they identified a white Hyundai Elantra that had entered thecrimescenefourtimesbetween3:40 a.m. and 4:06 a.m., according to surveil- lance cameras, before reversing and speeding out of the Moscow neighbor- hood at 4:20 a.m. Officials traced his cell phone data, reporting that his phone went dark during the hours of the crime, and then reconnected to cellular towers after the fatal incident. Kohberger snapped a thumbs-up sel- fie after the incident, according to Heather Barnhart, a digital forensic ex- pert.
Who is Bryan Kohberger?
Although he has a limited online presence, Kohberger wrote online as a teen and claimed to have “no emotion” and felt suicidal. He dealt with a heroin addiction, friends said, and went to re- hab from 2013 to 2014. Becoming fixated on serial killers, he earned a master’s
Homeric Greek, “white-armed”does not necessarily mean one has pale skin. In- stead, it’s meant to suggest that some- oneisupper-classandhigh-status,nev- er having spent time outdoors perform- ing manual labor. Despite these vague descriptions, Helen has almost exclusively been por- trayed as Caucasian in art, TV and film. In the 2003 miniseries “Helen of Troy” and 2004’s “Troy,” the character is de- picted with fair skin and golden blond hair (Sienna Guillory and Diane Kruger, respectively). In the 1967 horror drama “Doctor Faustus,” meanwhile, Elizabeth Taylor dons her signature raven hair and dark cat-eye liner as Helen.
Nyong’o was the only actor who could play Helen of Troy
Whether she’s dazzling on a red car- pet, or lighting up the big screen in films such as “Black Panther” and “12 Years a Slave,” Nyong’o, 43, always has carried herself with an intelligence and poise befitting Greek royalty. With her breath- taking work in “Us” and “A Quiet Place: Day One,” she has continually proven herself as one of the greatest actresses of her generation. And although she has very little screen time in “The Odyssey,” Nolan is interested in Helen of Troy as more than a mere figure. In one of his key changes to the story, Nolan gives Helen a giant scar across her face, which is never ex- plained but lightly joked about by Men-
degree at De Salles University in crimi- nology and began a Ph.D. program studying criminal justice and criminol- ogy at Washington State University. Police records detail that Kohberger had incidents with faculty and allegedly intimidated classmates, particularly female students. “People who brutalize women the way Kohberger did,” Lilly Karaban said in the documentary, recalling sitting next to him in a criminology class. “[They] dislike them, find them threat- ening. So, they take all that anger out on them.” After feuding with a professor, the university terminated Kohberger’s teaching assistant role in December 2022.
Where is Bryan Kohberger now?
Authorities arrested Kohberger on Dec. 30, 2022. He struck a guilty plea deal weeks ahead of his murder trial in August 2025. Although Kohberger ad- mitted to the stabbings of the four vic- tims, he never had to verbalize a motive, frustrating family and friends of the vic- tims. “It’s day care,” Steve Goncalves, Kay- lee’s dad, said in a news conference out- side the courthouse doors. “Prison is day care, people.” Kohberger is serving four consecu- tive life sentences and a 10-year sen- tence for a burglary. The former crimi- nology student filed a petition on July 27 seeking to challenge his guilty plea and conviction. The petition was “for post-conviction relief,” and he’ll be rep- resenting himself in the Ada County District Court in Idaho. The petition per- mits defendants to challenge convic- tions after sentencing for reasons such as ineffective assistance of counsel, al- leged constitutional errors and legal er- rors. Kohberger called investigators’ find- ings a “work of fiction,” adding that its “faulty premises were never challenged at trial,” in a statement to The New York Times. “My actual innocence is my truth, and the plea, hinged on by false promises and blatant disinformation, MUST be withdrawn,” Kohberger said. Kohberger declined to provide evi- dence of his innocence or provide con- text into his guilty plea woes, according to the Times. In the wake of his filing, Idaho Attor- ney General Raul Labrador shared con- dolences with the victims’ families. And the Goncalves family criticized Koh- berger and his petition in a social media post, calling him a “mosquito you just can’t seem to swat.” “The real issue is that if as much en- ergy was put into honoring the victims in this case as trying to set a guilty man free, there would be statutes (sic) of the victims on every corner,” the Goncalves family said in a July 27 Facebook post. “Regardless of how this turns out, our family is100% ready. An actual trial this time? Let’s go!”
elaus. Through the characters of Odysseus (Matt Damon), Sinon (Elliot Page) and Athena (Zendaya), the filmmaker thoughtfully explores the casualties of violence and its far-reaching conse- quences. By giving Helen a conspicuous scar, Nolan shows that even the most coveted woman on the planet is not im- mune to mankind’s brutality. Helen and Clytemnestra are half-sis- ters in Greek mythology, but Nolan makes them identical twins. It’s a pow- erful tweak, meaning Helen’s beauty is still exceptional but also not entirely unique: Was it really worth massacring thousands for this one person? Beyond her obvious allure, Nyong’o is able to communicate the quiet pain and shattering realities of both Helen and Clytemnestra, which is precisely why Nolan was so perceptive in casting her. “I don’t think there’s anyone else in the world who could play that part,” Bernthal told USA TODAY. “We think of Helen of Troy and her beauty, but it’s about the inner life and how rich that is. She’s able to bring the awkwardness and shame and betrayal and survivor’s guilt and remorse and everything. We’re dealing with the repercussions of war, which is what Chris was really trying to get at. “To be able to bring in an actor like Lupita, who can convey so much with just a look – you really felt it in her,” Bernthal adds. “I’m so grateful it was her.”
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Moranis is back under the ‘Spaceballs’ helmet
Brendan Morrow
SAN DIEGO −Thank the Schwartz! Rick Moranis has returned to Holly- wood. The “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” star, 73, received a thunderous standing ova- tion – and chants of “Rick! Rick! Rick!”– on July 24 at the San Diego Comic-Con panel for “Spaceballs: The New One,” the long-awaited comedy sequel that marks his first film role in more than 20 years. “I really wasn’t retired. I was just ne- gotiating,” Moranis quipped during the panel after explaining he had been talk- ing to Mel Brooks about doing a “Space- balls” sequel as far back as 1989. “This came along right at the right time,” he said, adding that after hearing Bill Pullman would return as Lone Starr alongside his actor son, Lewis Pullman, “It just felt like, this is it. It’s time, and yes. I said yes, and it is the best decision I’ve ever made.” Moranis took the stage after first popping up in the audience in his iconic Dark Helmet mask from the 1987 com- edy, which was primarily a spoof of “Star Wars: A New Hope.” On top of Mo- ranis and Pullman, the sequel also brings back original star Daphne Zuniga as Vespa, not to mention Brooks,100, as Yogurt. The new stars include Keke Palmer and Josh Gad. Gad, who also cowrote the film, ex- plained the main theme of the movie is nostalgia, and the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy appears to be one of the primary subjects of parody. “We all sort of talked thematically about this word ‘nostalgia,’ ” Gad said. “We love movies that look back. We love sequels. “We love continuing these stories that we grew up with. But we started to
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Director Janus Metz (“Andor,” “Borg vs. McEnroe”) enjoyed the deep dive into the mind of a young Kaczynski. Though most people know about the Unabomber’s criminal history, not many realize he was a math genius who got into Harvard at 16 and was recruited by Murray and his associate Christiana Morgan (Annabelle Wallis) as a guinea pig for experiments in mind control and manipulation. These were “funded by the CIA and were some of the first traces of what lat- er became the MK-Ultra experiments,” Metz says. “Murray is seductive and charismatic, and as Ted starts to see him as a father figure, he discards his real parents and sees the shimmer of ev- erything he is aspiring to be – until the reality of the experiments is brutally un- veiled to him.” In the movie, the quiet and awkward Ted at first is belittled in these experi- ments, where verbal abuse is used to break him, and he ultimately becomes aggressive himself. Tremblay points out an important scene when Ted goes home and has an angry confrontation with his parents. “They find out that his grades have been suffering because of what they think is just a philosophy club that he had joined, and it wasn’t,”Trem- blay says. “Ted snaps at them. He screams at them, he lashes out, and that was a very pivotal point because it showed that there were consequences to his abuse.” That timeline forms the man who, from 1978 to 1995, killed three people
In “Brand New Day,” the character has experienced a lot, not all of it great, and the British actor is able to take a decade of playing Peter to a more mean- ingful place. Yeah, he’s still throwing down with ninjas, shady law enforce- ment types, colorful hooligans and, yes, the Hulk. But the most relatable stuff comes with Peter facing his own mental health struggles and physical problems. (“I’m not in high school anymore,” Peter quips as he stretches before a fight.) Holland and Zendaya’s strong on- screen chemistry has obviously carried over into real life, and there’s something always joyful about watching what those two and Batalon have built as a group of friends. The new dynamic that gives “Brand New Day”a spark this time is Spidey and the Punisher (Jon Bern-
Rick Moranis dons the Dark Helmet again during the “Spaceballs” presentation at Comic-Con in San Diego on July 24. “I really wasn’t retired, I was just negotiating,” Moranis joked about his comeback. AMY SUSSMAN/GETTY IMAGES
analyze what that really means, why we love it, and we thought ‘Spaceballs’ is the perfect vehicle to catch us up on ev- erything that’s happened in filmdom, and in fan filmdom and pop culture, over the past 40 years.” Many had speculated Gad would be playing Barf, the late John Candy’s char- acter from the original “Spaceballs.”Gad confirmed this is not the case, though he will be playing a member of the same species. “Part of the conceit of this movie was I wanted it to be a love letter to John [Candy],” Gad said. “John is one of my biggest idols. I
and injured more than 20 in increasing- ly sophisticated mail-bombing inci- dents. Joanne Miller is a fictional agent who in the film leads the manhunt for the adult Ted and uses the words in the Unabomber’s manifesto to track him down. Reading that manifesto and lis- tening to real agents’ stories about the Kaczynski case was “the most helpful for me to understand the true weight these people carried during the investi- gation,” Woodley says. For his part, because a lot of Kaczyn- ski’s younger years are a mystery, Trem- blay studied the cadence of his voice and attitude during recordings of him being interviewed by investigators. “That was just fascinating, listening to him speak and how confident and cocky and arrogant he was at the same time,” the actor says. “He was this total lunatic living in a cabin, but he’s just so artic- ulate.” Tremblay was Metz’s first and only choice for the role. “Jacob is in a very in- teresting place, breaking out from being a child actor and taking on complex roles,” the director says. “He is in a very formative stage of life, as was Ted when he was at Harvard, so the two are linked in that sense. The world is wide open at that age, and you are so vulnerable to the people – the grown-ups – that influ- ence you.” Tremblay, who was 5 when he had his first film role (“The Smurfs 2”) and earned a Screen Actors Guild nomina- tion for “Room” at age 9, did feel a con- nection to Kaczynski. “I know what it’s like to be in an envi- ronment where you’re always going to be the youngest in a room,” Tremblay says. “Obviously, my experiences have been completely different from Ted’s.
thal) together. “The Odyssey” let audi- ences enjoy a taste of their bond, but this fully immerses them in buddy- comedy vibes, contrasting the cursing, R-rated vigilante Punisher with his young masked friend who tries to keep him from killing everybody. “Stranger Things” standout Sadie Sink also is in “Brand New Day,” playing a character whom it’s best not to know until watching the movie. (Hardcore Marvel comic fans will know and love her.) Yet she matches Holland’s strong sense of gravitas with a role that’s a great source of conflict and connection for Spidey. Like almost every main char- acter here, this mystery young woman has secluded herself from others and needs to figure out she’s not alone. Though “Brand New Day” might not be the most rambunctious or exciting of Holland’s Spider-flicks, it aims to be a little deeper than the average MCU in- stallment while trapping you in its grat- ifying web.
want to put rumors to rest: I am not playing Barf in this movie, OK? That is a role that is singularly played, and will ever be played, by one person. “John is at the beating heart of this film, and is a part of the reason why, I think, the movie ultimately has so much heart.” Moranis said he “kept having to pinch” himself on the set of the sequel, noting it felt “very strange” to put his helmet back on after all these years. “It started to feel really good, and I really started to love it,” he said. “And who knows, maybe it’s the beginning of many!”
I’ve had wonderful people around me who have taken great care of me since I was young. “Another reason I was drawn to this film is because there’s a bit of a message of how important it is to protect the
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Trailer skewers ‘Avatar,’ ‘Star Wars’ sequels
The panel ended with a sneak peek at the film, a mix of a traditional trailer and a meta monologue about how the film came together: A narrator explains it happened because, “with Hollywood studios merging willy-nilly,” Amazon acquired MGM and “opened the vault”– and worse comes to worst, the movie will “one day be used as a write-off.” What follows was what the narrator describes as a “series of clips riddled with unfinished visual effects” teasing the film, and the sizzle reel included a shot at the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy: Dark Helmet duels with Yogurt and de- clares, “Somehow, I’ve returned ... somehow,” a reference to an infamous line about Palpatine’s return in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” The trailer also shows a moment where Yogurt is frozen in carbonite, leading him to be dubbed “Frozen Yo- gurt.” The footage ended with a scene in which a Na’vi from “Avatar” walks into a bathroom to pee at a comically large uri- nal next to Dark Helmet, who turns to him and says, in Na’vi, “I see you.” But the film doesn’t seem to be lim- iting spoofs to sci-fi, and there was plenty of roasting of Marvel during the panel. At one point, a graphic jokingly announced plans for a cinematic uni- verse of endless “Spaceballs” sequels, a parody of how Marvel frequently lays out its future films at Comic-Con. When a fan asked what other sci-fi remake they would like to star in, Gad joked about Marvel’s failed efforts to launch a “Blade” movie with Mahersha- la Ali: “We’d make a really weird ‘Blade.’ But maybe it would finally get made!” “Spaceballs: The New One”hits thea- ters April 23, 2027.
youth. We live in a world right now where so many young children are being harmed, physically and mentally. It really has consequences to their life and the person that they can turn into and who they might end up hurting as well.”
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Kathleen Wong
A dreamy summertime Euro trip is more in reach than you think – and you don’t even need your passport. Europe is trending among travelers this summer, with an increased interest in picturesque, coastal destinations such as Split, Croatia, and Naples, Italy, according to data from KAYAK. But those who can’t swing an inter- national trip don’t have to give up their dreams of sipping a glass of wine in a charming seaside town. All they have to do is look in their own backyard. The United States is home to an array of underrated gems offering a similarly relaxed ambiance and romantic aes- thetic people seek out in their European getaways. The best part is you don’t need to hop on a long-haul flight across the pond. Here are five domestic destinations that’ll make you feel as if you’re in Europe, without the hassle of interna- tional travel, according to boat-renting platform Boatsetter.
Newport, Rhode Island
Located on Aquidneck Island in Nar- ragansett Bay, Newport is known for its opulent Gilded Age mansions reminis- cent of European palaces, along with its equally stunning ocean views and beaches. “Here you can indulge in deli- cious seafood, reminiscent of the Medi- terranean and engage in the robust yachting culture of this New England coastal city,” said Val Streif, marketing manager at Boatsetter.
Solvang, California
Near the Californian surf town of Santa Barbara is the charming village of Solvang, where travelers are transport- ed to Denmark. Established in 1911 by Danish Americans, Solvang has earned the title of “The Danish Capital of Amer- ica”for its authentic Danish-style archi- tecture – including those iconic wooden windmills – and heritage, like bakeries serving traditional Danish pastries. Travelers can leisurely meander the village’s four blocks, stopping at winer-
ies and the country’s only museum ded- icated to Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote famous fairytales like The Little Mermaid.
Leavenworth, Washington
A Bavarian-inspired mountain trip can be found in Washington’s town of Leavenworth. Nestled at the base of the Cascade Mountains, Leavenworth cap- tures the Old World charm of a Euro- pean alpine village with its wooden Ba- varian architecture, German food like brats and schnitzel, and even its own Oktoberfest. While the village trans- forms into a winter wonderland during the holidays, the summertime allows for outdoor exploration such as river tub- ing, kayaking and hiking.
will set six world records
of art a hit on cruise ships
can find keepsakes
Nathan Diller
Laura Parks originally went to a cruise ship art auction just for fun – and the free drinks. Parks, 56, got an invitation to the event in her stateroom aboard the Car- nival Sunshine on a Bahamas cruise in April. “I was like, anytime I can get a free mimosa, I’m in,” she told USA TO- DAY. “So, I was having fun, never rais- ing my paddle or anything.” An auctioneer approached her, and she decided to buy a signed giclée can- vas print of red roses by Michael Go- dard that caught her eye. Sifting through other pieces at a purchase ap- pointment later that day, she teared up as an employee showed her another piece depicting purple roses and but- terflies by the same artist. Her mother, who died in 2015, loved butterflies, and her favorite color was purple. “I immediately got the chills, where the hair is raised on all your skin, and I had all the goosebumps, and I just felt her presence with me,” she said. She took both artworks home to Arizona, where she hung them above her TV, and got two other pieces the auction- eer threw in free. “Every time I see them, I just get this huge smile on my face that not only am I blessed enough to be able to take these vacations and go to these amaz- ing places and have these amazing ex- periences, but I was able to bring a huge piece of it back home with me.” Artwork is often central to cruise ships’ interior design, with paintings, sculptures and more setting a vibe on- board and helping communicate the cruise line’s and the vessel’s identities. But some operators also make an
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Laura Parks, right, with her mother, Ella Margaret Mallory, in 2011.
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activity of selling art to vacationers seeking keepsakes and complimentary cocktails.
How do cruise lines curate art on their ships?
Cruise lines take varying approaches to ship artwork – with some prominent- ly displayed before guests even board. Norwegian Cruise Line, for example, has partnered with street artists on the hull art for many of its ships. That in- cludes its most recent vessel, Norwe- gian Luna, which is adorned with the 12 zodiac constellations in a piece by mul- tidisciplinary street artist ELLE. When I sailed on the ship in March, there was also a star-spangled mural in shades of blue and purple on my cabin wall and a tall silver moon sculpture outside on Deck 8, in keeping with the ship’s theme. “Art has the power to enrich our lives, broaden our perspectives and transport us to a different frame of mind, similar to how traveling to new destinations im- pacts us,” Norwegian told USA TODAY in an email. “To select the art featured onboard, our team takes direction from the general aesthetic intended for each space and finds artists whose work speaks to the design and complements the story of the space.” Disney Cruise Line, meanwhile, draws on its iconic catalog. “Artwork really plays such an impor- tant role in shaping the overall aesthetic and personality of each ship,” Katrina Palaci, principal interior designer at Walt Disney Imagineering, said in an email. “Our guests have such a deep connection to Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm stories, and the artwork across the fleet helps bring those stories to life in a way that feels both immersive and personal.” When designing its ships, the team considers artwork “part of the storytell- ing experience from the very begin- ning,” she said. On the Disney Wish, which features an “enchantment” motif, the aft stair- cases are themed around fairy-tale cas- tles, while guests can find animals and forests at the ship’s opposite end. The team collaborated with “partners at the Animation Research Library, the Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Dis- ney Publishing, and Disney Live Enter- tainment, as well as external artists commissioned to create special pieces,” Palaci said. The Disney Destiny, on the other hand, has a heroes and villains theme, with a statue of T’Challa from “Black Panther” in its Grand Hall and illustra- tions of infamous villains like Malefi- cent and Thanos lining the walls. “In some cases, the artwork even supports
contributes to global research and a deeper understanding of why marine ecosystems need these animals. “Sharks and rays need more aware- ness and more action at scale,” said Kristin Valette Wirth, chief brand and membership officer for PADI World- wide, in an April news release announc- ing the new census and course. “By combining classic PADI educa- tion with real-world participation, we’re giving the global community clear, meaningful ways to protect the species they care about most. This is what it looks like when adventure, purpose, and impact come together.” Diving with sharks in their natural habitat is an unforgettable experience and offers a chance to fall in love with these powerful yet graceful creatures. Here are the best places in the world to dive with sharks, according to PADI.
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
h Operators: ProDive Cairns and Divers Den There’s no other dive site more fam- ous than the Great Barrier Reef, and for good reason. This marine ecosystem is home to an array of sharks and rays, in- cluding white-tip reef sharks, black-tip reef sharks, tawny nurse sharks, leop- ard sharks and eagle rays.
wayfinding, helping guests know that they’ve arrived at their staterooms deck or that they’re nearing a lounge or res- taurant,” Palaci said. Disney’s ships do not host art auc- tions, but they do offer Disney’s Art on Demand, which allows guests to order via a kiosk displaying available pieces, pay in a merchandise location and have the artwork shipped to their home.
How do cruise art auctions work?
Lainey Melnick, a luxury travel ad- viser and Dream Vacations branch own- er, said the “traditional onboard auction model is most commonly found on larg- er contemporary and premium ocean cruise lines, where art auctions are of- fered as part of the entertainment pro- gram.” Those often are operated by Park West Gallery, which works with a range of lines including Carnival Cruise Line, Norwegian and other major brands, ac- cording to its website. If a ship has a dedicated art program, there are typically multiple related ac- tivities throughout each voyage, includ- ing auctions on multiple days, educa- tional presentations and more, though the schedule can vary by line and cruise length. At the former, auctioneers guide guests through the process while pas- sengers can enjoy complimentary champagne or other refreshments, Mel- nick said. Bids usually are placed via paddle or other visual cues. “The events are intentionally acces- sible to first-time collectors, and many attendees participate simply because they enjoy learning about art and watching the process unfold,” she said in an email. Park West, for its part, welcomes ex- perienced buyers and those who may not have access to auctions on land. “Park West Gallery has built a world- renowned entertainment experience that is a consistent presence throughout the sailings, allowing not only loyal col- lectors to browse galleries and onboard ‘Art Spaces’ as one would have access to a land-based fine art gallery or exhibi- tion space; yet also allowing for all guests on the voyages to have that same artistic and cultural opportunity,” John Block, its chief operating officer, said in an email. Shipping logistics are typically han- dled for guests, as well. Parks said Park West took care of framing her pieces, and they began arriving at her home “packaged extremely well” a couple of weeks after she disembarked. Carnival also partners with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and a por- tion of proceeds from art auctions go to- ward childhood cancer research. “On the other hand, some luxury cruise lines focus less on art sales and more on creating a gallery-like atmos- phere onboard,” Melnick said. “Ships from luxury brands may feature mu- seum-quality collections, commis-
Krabi, Thailand
h Operator: Fast Manta Krabi A quieter alternative to the equally beautiful Thailand destination of Phu- ket, Krabi is a diver’s paradise. At dive sites located below gorgeous limestone islands, you’ll encounter black tip reef sharks, bamboo sharks, leopard sharks and some ray species.
Ishigaki, Japan
h Operator: Euro Divers Club Med Kabira Beach Located in Okinawa, Japan’s version of Hawaii, Ishigaki is renowned for hav- ing one of the biggest populations of manta rays. From July through October, these majestic giants take over the waters. At “manta cleaning stations,” divers can witness a symbiotic relationship in action, as mantas gather and hover over reefs as smaller fish remove dead skin and parasites from them.
Fiji
h Operator: Beqa Adventure Divers Fiji is more than just a gorgeous beach destination. Its waters are home to eight shark species, including tiger and bull sharks. The island nation has taken strides to protect its marine creatures. In 2004, Fiji established the Shark Reef Marine Reserve, the country’s first national marine park and a shark sanc- tuary, with locals giving up their rights
won’t be disturbed by honking or traffic since the island has banned cars since 1898. “The lack of cars on Mackinac means you’ll do a lot of walking here, just like in Europe,” Streif said. “For those needing a break from wandering, horse-drawn carriages are available, adding a romantic energy to this sum-
Art for sale at Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Solstice ship. PROVIDED BY JOSH RIVERA
sioned pieces, sculptures, and installa- tions that are intended to enhance the guest experience rather than serve as inventory for purchase.” For instance, Regent Seven Seas Cruises – which also is part of Norwe- gian Cruise Line Holdings – does not of- fer art auctions or an onboard sales program but has art collections on all its ships developed under the luxury brand’s art director, Sarah Hall Smith. “The collections span original paint- ings, sculpture, photography, mixed media and commissioned installations from internationally recognized and emerging artists,” president Wesley D’Silva said in an email. “Artwork is displayed throughout public spaces, restaurants, lounges and guest suites, creating an immersive en- vironment where guests continually discover new pieces throughout their voyage.” The cruise line’s Explorer Class has works by Pablo Picasso and Marc Cha- gall, along with the only Fabergé egg permanently on view at sea. The com- pany incorporates art into its shore ex- cursions, as well, from gallery tours to museum visits. “Art is an extension of the Regent ex- perience both onboard and ashore, re- flecting the brand’s belief that travel and culture are inherently connected,” D’Silva said.
Can guests buy other art onboard?
Possibly. “On ships with auction programs, guests can often inquire about artwork they discover outside the gallery itself,” Melnick said. “Art staff can typically ex- plain whether a particular piece is avail- able for purchase, available through a future auction, or available as a special
Divers from the Blue Ocean Dive Resort swim with black-tip sharks during a baited shark dive in Umkomaas near Durban, South Africa.
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to fish in exchange for sustainable tour- ism dollars.
Bimini, Bahamas
h Operator: Neal Watson’s Bimini Scuba Center For divers eager to spot a hammer- head shark, look no further than Bimini in the Bahamas. These unique-looking sharks flock to the shallow sand flats of the islands from November through
mer island getaway spot.”
order.” Don’t assume every piece on board is for sale, though, Melnick said. On luxu- ry lines in particular, it’s common for artwork to be part of its permanent col- lection.
Is cruise artwork worth the money?
That depends on who’s buying. Along with occasional original works, onboard art auctions commonly feature signed prints, limited-edition pieces and more, Melnick said. “Whether pricing is higher or lower than a gallery ashore depends on the artist, edition size, market demand, and venue,” she said. Melnick encouraged travelers making a significant purchase to research the artists ahead of time and compare prices. There could also be some tax advan- tages depending on where the customer lives, where they have the art delivered and the type of piece they buy. “Some artwork imported into the United States may qualify for favorable customs treatment, and purchases made in international waters may not be subject to the same local sales taxes as a gallery purchase on land,” Melnick said. “However, buyers may still owe taxes based on their delivery address and per- sonal tax situation.” Parks felt her pieces were “very fairly priced,”and she paid about $2,300 total, including framing and shipping. For her, the purchases were a deeper kind of in- vestment. Parks began taking solo cruises in 2022 as a way to take time for herself after years of focusing so much on her family. “And it was nice to level up on this last cruise and buy art because it brought me joy – no other reason than because it brought me joy.”
April. These aren’t the only sharks you could see here – lemon sharks, nurse sharks and Caribbean reef sharks also in these warm, tropical waters.
Aliwal Shoal, South Africa
h Operator: Aliwal Dive Centre An ancient sand dune off the coast of South Africa, Aliwal Shoal is a vibrant marine wonderland and a designated marine protected area.
al roots. Travelers can ride horse-drawn carriages and explore the history of South Carolina’s oldest city. “Boating here is a must,” Streif said. “Explore the outlying barrier islands, embark on a fishing charter, or see dolphins splash- ing around you at sunset on a Charles- ton boat charter.”
ALABAMA Tuscaloosa: The Saban Center will get its rooftop event space after the Tuscaloosa City Council approved funding, moving $1.3 mil- lion originally intended for the Mer- cedes-Benz Amphitheater.
ALASKA Juneau: The National Weather Service predicts Juneau’s glacial Suicide Basin is now expected to fill between Aug. 8 and 12, a bit later than an initial estimate, KTOO reported.
ARIZONA Douglas: The United States will resume importing Mexican cattle Aug. 24 through a port of entry in Douglas.
ARKANSAS Fort Smith: The Univer- sity of Arkansas-Fort Smith chapter of Kappa Sigma Fraternity earned its highest international recognition to date during the fraternity’s national leadership conference, receiving the Founders’ Circle Award while col- lecting several additional honors for leadership, academics and chapter excellence.
CALIFORNIA Sacramento: Covered California health plans are expected to increase by an average of 9.9% in 2027, according to the state’s health care insurance marketplace.
COLORADO Boulder: Debate on whether moose are native to Colora- do has taken an adversarial twist between a University of Colorado-led research paper and Rocky Mountain National Park. William Taylor, an assistant professor of anthropology and University of Colorado Museum curator, said new research he led shows clear evidence that moose have been in the southern Rocky Mountains, including Colorado, for at least centuries and likely longer, making them native. Rocky Mountain National Park disagrees and is stick- ing to its long-held beliefs.
CONNECTICUT Stratford: Officials reported Stratford’s first West Nile virus detection of 2026 after mosqui- toes collected in the town tested posi- tive for the virus, WFSB reported.
DELAWARE Dover: A 30-year-old man has been arrested and charged with raping a homeless woman who was sleeping next to the Kent County Courthouse in Dover July 17.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing- ton: The University of the District of Columbia extended its undergraduate application deadline to Aug. 7 to give 502 incoming Howard University students who were recently unen- rolled over tuition payment issues an opportunity to enroll at another HBCU, WUSA9 reported.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: Juan Ponce de León finally made it to Florida’s cap- ital. Gov. Ron DeSantis debuted a new statue of Ponce de León in the Capitol July 17, giving the man who named Florida a spot in Tallahassee.
GEORGIA Tybee Island: According to Southern Living, Tybee Island has already recorded its highest number of sea turtle nests ever, surpassing the previous record with weeks still remaining in nesting season. As of July 15, Tybee Island had document- ed 49 sea turtle nests, breaking the island’s previous record of 35 nests set in 2022, according to Southern Living.
HAWAII Honolulu: Centennial Park Waikiki has closed as crews begin a $310,000 project to replace the park’s chain-link fence with new metal fencing, with the park expected to reopen by the end of October, Hawaii News Now reported.
IDAHO Boise: Federal officials an- nounced that Idaho has been selected as one of five states being considered by the U.S. Department of Energy to host a new Nuclear Lifecycle Innova- tion Campus, Idaho Capital Sun re- ported.
ILLINOIS Springfield: A new law signed by Gov. JB Pritzker aims to limit cellphone use in Illinois schools in an effort to “create distraction-free classrooms.”
INDIANA Granger: Local pre-K-12 school Granger Christian School is closing its doors ahead of the 2026- 27 school year after 55 years. The school said it is in the process of helping students and families receive their transcripts to enroll in other schools.
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People walk around the reopened Detroit Children’s Museum in Detroit on July 25. ERIC SEALS/USA TODAY NETWORK
Detroit: Toys, noodle string necklaces, historical exhibits, science, stormtroop- ers, balloon flowers, face paint and more marked the reopening of the Detroit Children’s Museum after a 14-year hiatus. The museum was established in 1917 and now has more than 2.5 million historical objects, science materials and glob- al treasures. It is owned by the Detroit Public Schools Community District, mak- ing it one of the only museums owned by a school district in the United States. The museum closed to the public in 2012 when Detroit was going through bank- ruptcy. It will now be open once a month to the general public.
KANSAS Topeka: AutoDS, a drop shipping automation platform, named Kansas “amongst America’s worst states for missing packages.” Kansas was ranked 19th in states where packages are most likely to go missing.
KENTUCKY Florence: New signs show a mini-IKEA store wedged between a Hallmark store and nail salon. But it’s not going to be a small version of the beloved Swed- ish furniture store when it opens. It’s a 4,200-square-foot “plan and order point with pick-up” location that’s likely opening this year.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana’s sweetest crop is under attack from an Australian native insect that arrived in the United States last year. The pasture mealybug, which can quickly damage or kill sug- arcane, has been detected in 14 Lou- isiana parishes and Louisiana State University AgCenter entomologist Blake Wilson said there is “no play- book” to eradicate the pest.
MAINE Castine: Maine Maritime Academy’s new federally funded training vessel, the State of Maine, arrived in Castine, marking a major milestone for the school’s hands-on maritime education programs, News Center Maine reported.
MARYLAND Ocean City: Ocean City’s beach will get replenished with new sand for the first time in five years with $12.7 million in fund- ing approved by the Maryland Board of Public Works for the job. That funding will be combined with $14.3 million in federal money for the $27 million project.
MASSACHUSETTS Marlborough: Boston Scientific’s board has ap- proved a new company-wide re- structuring plan aimed at cutting costs and to better position the company for future growth, the medical device maker said.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: A “coordinat- ed cyberattack” targeted more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota on July 26 and July 27, the state’s IT agency said.
MISSISSIPPI Madison: One of Mad- ison’s most active commercial de- velopers is preparing to launch an- other project along the city’s busy U.S. 51 corridor. Bridgforth Rutledge said work is already underway on a new seven-building commercial development behind the former Walgreens property he redeveloped.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: Newly released emails show that when the Missouri State Treasurer’s Office learned in April that spreadsheets on its website unintentionally ex- posed the names of students receiv- ing private school vouchers, it downplayed the leak to families and drafted a statement blaming its software contractor, Missouri In- dependent reported. That provider says that is not where the problem started. And the file itself carries markers suggesting it passed through a treasurer’s office employ- ee’s computer before it was pub- lished, according to the news outlet.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Hundreds of immigrants from Nebraska and Iowa are having their cases heard in large-scale hearings known as mega masters in front of judges with pre- vious ties to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A mega master hearing groups dozens or hundreds of immigration cases into a single proceeding. The Depart- ment of Justice implemented such hearings nationwide to reduce court backlogs, drawing due process con- cerns from immigrant advocates.
NEVADA Reno: The median home price in Reno-Sparks hit new heights in June, with Reno breaking through the $700,000 barrier for the first time.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Rochester: The city’s Conservation Commission voted to approve the expenditure of up to $300,000 from the Conserva- tion Fund to support placing 130 acres of land into an easement, protecting the land, and its water sources, from future development.
NEW JERSEY Princeton: Five New Jersey communities were named among the wealthiest suburbs in the United States in a new national ranking, including one town that made the list for the first time. Ac- cording to MoneyLion’s 2026 rank- ing of America’s wealthiest suburbs, Westfield, Summit, Tenafly and Ridgewood all returned to the top 50. Princeton also earned a spot, marking its debut on the annual list.
NEW MEXICO Doña Ana County: The Doña Ana Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association re- ceived a drinking water violation after failing to notify customers about a uranium exceedance, ac- cording to state drinking water rec- ords.
NEW YORK Albany: Warning letters were sent to police agencies in New York with formal cooperation agree- ments between local law enforce- ment agencies and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the state moves toward banning them by the end of August.
NORTH CAROLINA Lake Lure: Lake Lure’s Washburn Marina is open once again, after being destroyed in Hurricane Helene. A “floating boardwalk” on pontoons now con- nects the marina and nearby Morse Park to the main recreation beach in the Rutherford County vacation and tourist town of 1,400.
NORTH DAKOTA Valley City: An audit found that Valley City State University failed to properly docu- ment, verify and approve eligibility for the university’s Cultural Diversi- ty Waiver and the Rural Teacher Support Program Waiver in 2024 and 2025, prompting recommenda- tions for stronger oversight that the university says it has already ad- dressed, KVRR reported.
OHIO Cincinnati: The city will de- vote as much as $2 million to help homeowners and businesses im- pacted by recent floods.
OREGON Depoe Bay: The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department’s Whale Watching Center and viewing area in Depoe Bay will be closed for repairs as soon as Aug. 1.
PENNSYLVANIA York: A federal judge ordered Republic Services of Penn- sylvania, operator of Modern Landfill in York County, to pay a $9.2 million civil penalty for violating the Clean Water Act by repeatedly discharging pollutants into Kreutz Creek.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Former House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi is free to jump directly from the Gen- eral Assembly to the state Supreme Court without sitting out a one-year “revolving door” wait, a Superior Court judge ruled.
SOUTH CAROLINA Spartanburg: A group opposing construction of a 450-megawatt power plant on the site of the NorthMark Compute and Cloud data center is hoping the South Carolina Public Service Commission will weigh in on the future of the project. Concerned Citizens of Spar- tanburg County and the Southern Environmental Law Center have pet- itioned the commission to review the development under the state’s Utility Facility Siting and Environmental Protection Act.
SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Republican South Dakota state Sen. Tom Pischke ended his reelection campaign as he continues to face felony charges for allegedly filing false or forged elec- tion-related documents, South Dako- ta Searchlight reported.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Live Nation knows The Truth, and the rest of Nashville will figure it out soon. The entertainment giant already holds stake in about 460 music venues across the globe, Securities and Ex- change Commission filings show, and it’s about to add another in Music City. On Oct. 1, Live Nation will open The Truth, a three-story venue fit for 4,400 people in the Wedgewood- Houston neighborhood.
TEXAS El Paso: Meta Platforms and the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock announced a venture to develop and operate a data center campus in El Paso, a project that would cost about $14 billion in devel- opment.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Fourth District Judge Kasey Wright announced his resignation after less than two years on the bench, warning that over- whelming caseloads and 50- to 60- hour workweeks have created an unsustainable workload, KSL report- ed.
VERMONT Montpelier: Vermont has added nearly 400 acres to three state forest properties through land con- servation projects completed in early 2026, expanding public access while protecting floodplains, wildlife habi- tat and water resources. The acquisi- tions in Underhill, Granville and Rox- bury were completed by the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, according to a communi- ty announcement.
VIRGINIA Petersburg: A former state senator suing a former Democratic aide and candidate for slander has withdrawn his suit after the judge ruled he could not call witnesses that had been excused from testifying. Joe Morrissey’s decision brought to an end, for now, a $1.35 million case against Arlington County resident Kevin Saucedo-Broach.
WASHINGTON Seattle: The bullets that killed two victims at a Seattle festival did not appear to come from the gun allegedly wielded by a 15-year-old suspect in custody, au- thorities said in newly filed court records.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A new study by Neighbors Bank ranked Charleston as the nation’s top up- and-coming city for new homebuyers in 2026, WV News reported.
WISCONSIN Sheboygan: The Amer- ican Patriot will soon make its sec- ond-to-last stop in Sheboygan for the summer, but it is expected to return next year. The American Cruise Lines ship will dock along South Pier on Aug. 2.
WYOMING Gillette: Gillette College will receive federal funding to launch new construction and chemical tech- nology training programs and expand existing coursework to help prepare workers for jobs in the growing nu- clear energy industry, Gillette News Record reported. From USA TODAY Network and wire reports
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a tourist tax when traveling to Edinburgh
Kathleen Wong
Trips to Edinburgh, Scotland, are now a bit more expensive, as the city became the first in the United Kingdom to implement a tourist tax on overnight stays on July 24, according to the city’s official website. Under the new policy, travelers to the Scottish capital will be charged an additional 5% of their overnight ac- commodations cost for a maximum of five consecutive nights. In May 2024, the Scottish govern- ment first passed the Visitor Levy Bill, granting each city the power to intro- duce their own tourist tax. Edinburgh lawmakers formally agreed to the tour- ist tax in January 2025. “We know that the city’s popularity comes at a cost through the pressure it puts on our services and on the people who live and work here all year round,” said Council Leader Jane Meagher in a July 23 media release. “This small new contribution from overnight visitors will help improve the services and pub- lic spaces we all depend on, while bet- ter managing the effects of tourism and major events.” It’s expected to raise up to 50 million pounds annually – or over $67 million USD,asofJuly26conversionrates–for the city to “invest in protecting, sup- porting and enhancing Edinburgh’s worldwide appeal as a place to live and visit,” the city said in a January 2025 media release. The tax’s revenue is expected to fund various citywide projects such as keeping streets clean by upgrading and replacing public trash bins, investing in city parks by hiring more park rangers and planting more trees, and restoring heritage and cultural locations like the Leith Theatre to create a year-round live music space. Scotland is just the latest European destination to charge a tourist tax. Over the past several years, cities such as Amsterdam and Venice have intro- duced similar fees to offset the negative
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The 5% tax is charged to only the accommodation part of a stay, not extra services like parking fees or laundry. It is also not a per-person fee, but applies to the room rate, according to the official website.
The 5% tax is charged to only the ac- commodation part of a stay, not extra services like parking fees or laundry. It is also not a per-person fee, but applies to the room rate, according to the offi- cial website. For example, if your hotel costs 100 pounds per night, the tax will be an ad- ditional 5 pounds per night. The final cost for a five-night stay will then go from 500 pounds to 525 pounds.
impacts of overtourism and improve the quality of life for its residents. Fol- lowing behind Edinburgh’s lead, Glas- glow is slated to implement its own tourist tax of a 5% charge on accommo- dations starting Jan. 1, 2027, according to Scotland’s visitor levy website. Here’s what travelers should know about Scotland’s first tourist tax.
Who pays the Edinburgh tourist tax?
The tax will be paid by visitors with overnight stays in Edinburgh, not day trippers. It will be charged to all over- night accommodation types, whether at a hotel, Airbnb, hostel or camping site.
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Six Flags Great Adventure unveiled its newest world record breaking roller coaster, Bakunawa, on July 28. It’s scheduled to be ready for the 2027 season.
New Six Flags coaster in NJ will set 6 world records
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JACKSON, NJ – Six Flags Great Ad- venture lifted the curtain on its newest thrill ride, Bakunawa, a free-spinning, floorless coaster that will hold six world records when it opens in the 2027 sea- son. The ride, named after a legendary sea serpent from Philippine mythology, will reach 382 feet high and speeds of up to100 mph, sending guests spinning through the air, upright, inverted and sideways. “You’re going to climb 90 degrees straight up to the top of the 382-foot- tall tower, reaching the top and kind of sliding around the outside, which looks terrifying and amazing at the same time, before losing speed,” said Mike Fehnel, park president for Six Flags Great Adventure. “And then you get to do it all again in reverse.”
The amusement park introduced the ride July 28 to media and influencers, some of whom held their smartphones aloft and live-streamed the event. The coaster, still under construc- tion, was dubbed Project Purple, in a nod to raise awareness for pancreatic cancer. It has generated buzz among coaster enthusiasts worldwide who had wondered how the Jackson park would create a new thrill. The answer: The ride will stake its claim as the world’s fastest spinning coaster, tallest spinning coaster, fastest inversion, longest stall inversion, first floorless spinning coaster and the first upside-down launch. “We have never seen a ride like this,” said Ryan Chin, a content creator known as ElToroRyan, who was on hand documenting the day for his You- Tube channel and its170,000 subscrib- ers. “The upside-down launch, the spinning trains, it’s just very unique. It’s totally different.”
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suspends co-owner of Storm
Mitchell Northam
Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton has been fined and suspended by the WNBA for five home games for comments she made to two fans on July 28, two people with knowledge of the decision confirmed to USA TODAY Sports. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the incident or punishment. The suspen- sion was for a violation of the league’s conduct standards. It wasn’t immedi- ately clear how much Keaton will be fined. Seattle lost Tuesday to the Indiana Fever and the two fans approached by Keaton sat courtside and held up signs in support of Fever guard Sophie Cun- ningham. One of the signs, according to photos, read: “THANK YOU SOPHIE FOR SPEAKING UP FOR GIRLS.” The two fans, who have not been named, recounted the alleged interac- tion with Keaton in a video posted by podcast host Brandi Kruse. The two fans were wearing shirts from XX-XY Athletics, which bills itself as a brand that’s “here to protect women’s sports and spaces.” “This older lady comes up to us, and at first we think she’s going to be nice, and she asks, ‘What are you guys do- ing?’ And then it was like ‘Jesus loves everyone,’ ” the two fans told Kruse of the interaction. “... And she goes, ‘I hope Jesus can forgive you for what sin you’ve done.’ And then she told us we were ‘(expletive) insane.’ ” In a statement to USA TODAY Sports, Storm majority co-owner Gin- ny Gilder said, “We are aware one of
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huddles with Sorsby over 2027 and NFL
John Brice
CHICAGO – The message could have been ignored. The phone call nev- er returned. Instead, Brendan Sorsby picked up the phone and called back Rick Neu- heisel. So did Sorsby’s father, Jamey, a former Texas high school football coach. Neuheisel once was NCAA Public Enemy No.1because of … an office pool – a 2003 NCAA men’s basketball tour- nament bracket in a neighborhood competition that today would have gambling detractors swimming in hypocrisy. A former head coach at Colorado, Washington and his alma mater UCLA, Neuheisel cautioned Sorsby, the ex-In- diana, ex-Cincinnati, presumptive Texas Tech quarterback now barred from college football, from becoming embittered.
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Ohio State football coach Ryan Day doesn’t see the same Julian Sayin who led the Buckeyes offense a season ago. “(Sayin) has a different look in his eye,” Day said July 29 at the Big Ten Media Days. Sayin led the Buckeyes to a12-2 over- all record and a second straight College Football Playoff appearance last season, in which Ohio State would lose to Miami in the Cotton Bowl – a loss that ended the Buckeyes season with a two-game losing skid after dropping the Big Ten ti- tle game to eventual national champion Indiana. “I said before, he had great success last year. He won his first start ever (at) home against Texas in a big top-five matchup, won our rivalry game (against Michigan) in the sideways snow, but then came up short at the end of the year. We all did,” Day said. “But when you look in his eye now, you see a differ- ent person.”
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“All of a sudden people thought I was unscrupulous in betting on college sports, when I had been in a basketball pool while coaching at the University of Washington,” Neuheisel, an analyst with CBS Sports, told USA TODAY Sports on July 29. “I said there will be a tendency to want to be very bitter, to think that somebody had it out for you. “And having lived through this, I can tell you that bitterness only impacts you. It doesn’t get anybody that did you wrong, doesn’t hurt anybody else. So, this happened, you have an opportunity to rebuild and go from here. Call it a life lesson and go be a fantastic role model in whatever it is you choose to do.”
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our co-owners made comments to two fans in attendance at last night’s game. Weapologizethatthishappened.Every- one who attends a Storm game deserves tofeelwelcome,andweremaincommit- ted to creating an inclusive environ- ment where every fan is treated with respect.” Cunningham has drawn attention following an ESPN story that quotes the Fever star saying, “I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.” Asked about that stance last week, Cunningham said, “I’m there to love, but I’m also there to love biological women. And I think there are rights that need to be protected. Like I said, I’m going to stand true to that. I’ll never falter in my beliefs in that, but I have never once said I hated the trans community. Like I said, I think there’s space for everyone.” Upon learning of Keaton’s suspen- sion, Cunningham wrote on X, “Every- one is welcome at my table! You can dis- agree and still be kind.”She commended
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According to Day, the growth isn’t limited to experience. “You see a different body,” Day said.
Sorsby, Neuheisel shared with USA TODAY Sports, did provide insight on his future plans. “Sorsby was fantastic, he’s 100% buying in and wants to just focus ahead,” said Neuheisel, who won a Rose Bowl as UCLA’s quarterback and also as Washington’s head coach. “He actually thought about staying there (at Texas Tech) and just being the scout team quarterback, but he didn’t want to be a distraction. He just wants to have this opportunity. “He’s hoping that he can get into the (NFL) Combine, maybe the Senior Bowl, and hopefully get a chance to be in an NFL camp as soon as possible (in 2027). All that to be determined.” What has no mystery, Neuheisel emphasized, is the root cause of Sorsby’s “inevitable” lure to compulsive gambling.
the two fans for “standing up”and said she’ll be sending them gifts, then add- ed Keaton’s alleged actions were “truly embarrassing.” Before the Fever defeated the Storm, there was a small rally outside of Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle where a few dozen people showed their support for Cunningham and to promote statewide initiative IL26-638, which would bar transgender students from participating in girls sports at Washington public schools. Cunning- ham was not made available to report- ers in the postgame news conference. When Fever coach Stephanie White was asked about the rally, a team spokesperson intervened and read a statement, saying: “Neither our or- ganization nor Sophie had any knowl- edge of this demonstration and no contact with its organizers. Our only goal as a team, whether at home or away, is to win basketball games and make Fever fans for life, and we are united in that mission.” Before the game, veteran Storm center Stefanie Dolson wore a shirt that said, “Trans Rights Are Human Rights.” Photographs of her wearing the shirt were posted to the Seattle team’s official social media accounts and garnered more than 3.7 million views on X.
“He’s worked hard, he’s gotten stronger, he’s found his voice even more, and he’s got a great look in his eye. I think he’s poised for a great season.” In a separate interview with the Big Ten Network desk on Wednesday, Day added that with Sayin changing his body, one can see the former five-star recruit’s lower half more, while his “neck looks a little bigger.” Sayin, who transferred to Ohio State from Alabama, was tested out of the jump last season when Ohio State host- ed preseason favorite Texas in Week 1, a top-five matchup that saw him outduel Heisman Trophy favorite Arch Manning in throwing for 126 yards and a touch- down in the Buckeyes’ 14-7 win. He completed 301 of 391 passes for 3,610 yards and 32 touchdowns with eight interceptions last season while finishing fourth in the Heisman Trophy race, 1,930 points behind Heisman win- ner Fernando Mendoza. Sayin would throw for three touchdowns and 233 yards in “The Game” against Michigan, snapping the Buckeyes’ four-game
“I don’t think the Brendan Sorsby outlash was necessarily pointed at Brendan Sorsby,” Neuheisel said. “I mean, what did we think was going to happen when you can bet on your phone and you can bet on balls and strikes, and you can bet on damn near anything, right? “The Kalshi (predictive markets), now you can bet on anything you want. What did we think was going to hap- pen? We have all these ads about betting and, you know, getting your first $200 free (in bets). They’re going to lure peo- ple in. And the college kids are a primary target, so he got caught up in it. He’s ad- mitted it, he’s rehabbed, and he’s on a platform to go forward.” Neuheiseltheorizedthevitrioldirect- ed at Sorsby – on the surface – had an undercurrent of disdain for Texas Tech, which has seen its football
Transfer Josh Hoover is expected to be the starter this season for Indiana.
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Indiana’s staying power, despite all evidence indicating the Hoosiers are built to last – at least so long as Cignet- ti is in charge and the donors stay engaged. The Hoosiers sent eight players to the NFL draft after going16-0, but they remain loaded. How loaded? Recently, when I cast my preseason all-Big Ten ballot, I wrote down the names of more Hoosiers than Buckeyes or Ducks. When the ballots were tabulated, Indiana finished with seven selections on our USA TODAY preseason all-Big Ten lineup, matching Oregon’s haul and outpacing Ohio State’s four selec- tions. The Hoosiers defense looks stacked. The offensive line remains ro- bust. Transfer wide receiver Nick Marsh and running back Turbo Rich- ard (good player, great name) ad- dressed skill-position needs. The key question: How big will the drop-off be from Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza to TCU transfer Josh Hoover?
Big Ten armed with three national title contenders
losing streak to the Wolverines. Sayin, a USA TODAY Network pre- season first-team All-Big Ten selection, will face another demanding schedule that includes a road trip to Texas in Week 2 and conference games against Indiana, Oregon and Michigan. The latter two will be played at home in Columbus. He enters the season with Heisman buzz, as he is tied with Miami QB Darian Mensah for the fourth-best odds on BetMGM at +1100. Day outlined the next step in Sayin’s development. “If you say, give me the top three things about him, one of the top three things I would say is his intelligence. He can handle high levels of information. He can process things,” Day said on the Big Ten Network. “So I think just taking his whole game to the next level, being strong in the pocket and delivering in big moments.” Ohio State is slated to open up the season at Ohio Stadium on Sept. 5 against Ball State at noon ET.
program become in the pay-for-play era what Sorsby has been painted in gam- ing reform. “The backlash was by a bunch of schools that really don’t like what’s hap- pening at Texas Tech, which to me is you’re using big money to just basically go buy everybody else because you’ve got a couple of fellas, John Sellers and Cody Campbell, who made a billion dol- lars from Double Eagle Energy. “Listen, we’ve had big-money donors for a long time in college football. Most of it was under the table. Now, money is over the table. There’s some jealousy, there’s some outlash, ‘We’re not playing (Tech).’ “And while integrity of the game is certainly an issue, to me, it’s that he got bought by Texas Tech, and Texas Tech was fighting to get him to play. Enough was enough.”
Oregon to win the conference, I get it. Both feature top-of-the-line starting quarterbacks who’ve proved them- selves inside the Big Ten. Jeremiah Smith and Bo Jackson join Julian Sayin to give Ohio State three Heisman hope- fuls. Oregon’s defensive line could be second to none, just as Indiana’s line- backers could be second to none. There remains a big three in the Big Ten for 2026, and it doesn’t include Michigan. It’s Ohio State, Indiana and Oregon. Or, it’s Indiana, Oregon and Ohio State. Or, it’s Oregon, Ohio State and Indi- ana. We can debate the order, but those three form the Big Ten’s Cerberus. The more I examine the Hoosiers, the more I think their teeth could be sharpest. “I like the guys we’ve got in the locker room,” Cignetti told ESPN recently. “We’ve been successful every year in the past, and I don’t see any reason why we can’t be successful every year in the future.” I don’t either. “Why go somewhere else?” Cignetti mused aloud. He already answered that question. There’s no reason to go anywhere else. Cignetti answered another question, too. Last year, when we asked who’s the next Indiana, Cignetti and his Hoosiers showed there is no next Indiana, there’s just Indiana. That’s still true. Blake Toppmeyer is the USA TODAY Network’s senior national college foot- ball columnist. Email: BToppmeyer@ gannett.com and follow him on X @btoppmeyer
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Notre Dame sports sold on SoFi patch
Tom Noie
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SOUTH BEND, IN – SoFi ... so what? That was the first reaction when Notre Dame athletics announced on July 28 a multiyear agreement with SoFi Technologies, which becomes the first non-athletic apparel brand to have its patch on the jersey of every Irish athlet- ics uniform. There it was on the enclosed promo picture, on the left side of the traditional blue home football jersey. Likely, the basketball jerseys and hockey sweaters this winter. Baseball and lacrosse and softball come spring. Those days of see- ing only an Adidas or an Under Armour logo seem so yesterday. Yahoo Sports reported that the agreement is for six years at $18 million to $20 million per year, which would make it the most lucrative in college sports. Fitting. It’s Notre Dame. A Notre Dame source confirmed to the Tribune that it will be a “multiyear” partnership. Notre Dame does not comment on or re- lease specific financial numbers. Let’s say eight figures a year for at least the next six and go from there. The university termed the agreement “landmark,” which is a funny way to say necessary. Mandatory, even. It’s ironic that SoFi becomes the “official financial services partner of Notre Dame Athlet- ics” because this is indeed all about one thing. Money. As in, more of it. Money has replaced recruiting as the lifeblood for every college athletic pro- gram. Those who have it can dream na- tional championship dreams. Those who have it also need more ways to get more of it. Five-star recruits are nice, but another $5 million into the athletic fund is paramount. Ten years ago, the thought of what happened on this July day would have seemed laughable. Ludicrous, even. Then? Not at Notre Dame. Today? Even at Notre Dame. It’s a necessary part of doing business for every college athletic department. Find
Big Ten dunks on SEC in hot talkin’ season
Blake Toppmeyer
Nick Saban spoke, and everyone shook their heads. Or rolled their eyes. Or, they barked in laughter. And, let’s just say we weren’t laugh- ing with Saban when he recently made the case the SEC retains conference su- premacy despite not sending a team to the national championship game in any of the last three football seasons. “First of all, whoever wins the nation- al championship doesn’t define who has the best conference,” Saban said on ESPN. “I think the best conference gets defined by how many good teams you have from top to bottom.” The GOAT retired and became a shill. Sad. Speaking of the bottom, did anyone get a look at Arkansas last season? Not pretty. Anyway, we’re supposed to believe the coach who became obsessed with pursuing and maintaining greatness while winning seven national champi- onships now believes superiority is de- fined not by trophies but by your num- ber of 8-4 teams? Sorry, I don’t buy it. Neither does any- one else. That’s the thing about propaganda: To be effective, it must be believable. An X account affiliated with ESPN, the SEC’s usual propagandist-in-chief, tweeted the clip of Saban’s hot air alongside an emoji of the dubious think- ing face. Might as well have added the Ron Burgundy GIF: I don’t believe you! The Big Ten isn’t just winning cham- pionships. It’s winning at the micro- phone. Illinois coach Bret Bielema got fired from the only SEC job he ever had, but he embodies the Big Ten’s spirit of look- ing forward – or, at least, relishing the moment – rather than gazing longingly into the rearview mirror. Bielema deliv- ered one of the great lines of talkin’ sea- son when he said at Big Ten Media Days the SEC wants “to live in 2005 forever.”
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some athletics real estate somewhere, slap a logo on it, cash that check and keep the athletics machine rolling. It doesn’t look right, but nothing does about college athletics, where every- thing about what was once sacred is for sale. Save the outrage for something else. Like gas prices. Or inflation. Advertising patches on college uni- forms? Just another business day. Ohio State did its deal with JP Morgan Chase on July 27. Notre Dame did its July 28. Alabama? Michigan? Texas? You’re on the clock. Get a deal done, fellas. Schools have massive, multimillion- dollar athletic payrolls to meet. At Notre Dame, the football roster will run nearly $50 million to help the school to its first national title since 1988. As you read, said football program continues to tran- sition from the outdated Guglielmino Athletics Complex next door into Shields Hall, which likely will carry a fi- nal price tag of nearly $200 million. Jerseys patches today, what next tomorrow?
– but the sentiment rang true. The SEC lives in the past. Instead of acknowledg- ing the Big Ten’s takeover and letting it serve as motivation, the SEC’s commis- sioner, coaches and spin-doctor Saban pretend it’s not happening. Here’s what is happening: College football now orbits around the Playoff, and SEC teams are 0-4 against the Big Ten in Playoff games since Georgia beat Ohio State on New Year’s Eve to wrap up 2022. Greg Sankey typically aces the rheto- ric circuit, but he sounded warped and broken when he insisted two months ago he’s still in charge of the best foot- ball conference, “by far.” As proof, he cited metrics he’s reviewed privately. No word yet on whether Sankey be- lieves in Bigfoot, too. Sankey’s Big Ten peer, Tony Petitti, normally opts for a more muted tone in the pulpit battles, but he found his voice at media days. He cited the Big Ten’s11Playoff victo- ries the last two seasons, which is “more than double the next-closest league,” and he responded to the SEC’s
Don’t think Notre Dame, or any other school of higher learning that competes at the highest level of Division I athlet- ics, will stop at jerseys and call it a day. If that little space on the right side of the blue or white or green or whatever color they decide to make the uniform, is prime real estate for advertisers (i.e., money), what’s next? Naming the FieldTurf inside Notre Dame Stadium will be next. Bringing ad- vertising signage inside the House that Rockne Built will follow. Every quarter will be “Notre Dame Football brought to you by ... .” Slapping a national brand logo on the Word of Life (Touchdown Jesus) mural on Hesburgh Library might be considered. Just kidding, though somewhere, somebody is like, well, you know ... No. Just no. The gold helmet? Also untouchable. This SoFi/Notre Dame partnership is added proof that college sports are pro- fessional sports. Stop insisting other- wise. There was Notre Dame athletic di-
argument that its mid-tier is better than the Big Ten’s. “This idea that the middle of our con- ference isn’t hard is just not right,” Petitti said. If he’d wanted to hang on the rim, he could’ve mentioned the results of the Music City or ReliaQuest bowls, but Pet- itti let that slide.
Big Ten now home to ‘good quarterback play’
As to how the Big Ten claimed the pole position, Bielema offered the obvi- ous explanation. “When (transfer portal and NIL) came into college football, the whole world changed,” Bielema said. In other words, good players will hap- pily play in the conference up north if you pay them. The power evolution goes deeper than booster bucks, though. It’s also about the Big Ten turning quarter- back play into a feature instead of a bug. Nobody tossed it better last season than Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza, but Ohio State’s Julian Sayin and Oregon’s
rector Pete Bevacqua still playing the hits with his quotes about the “student- athlete”and “4 For Forever”and explain- ing away about how SoFi will do this and this and that for future student- athletes. He didn’t say the obvious – SoFi will help offset the constant burden of the football program or the basketball pro- grams (yeah, right) or any other Irish outfit from sweating out having to meet this season’s or next season’s or some season’s payroll. College athletic programs need this kind of financial resource. We’re not far off from some school not being able to afford football. Or basketball. Or both. If the Irish football program’s payroll flirts with $50 million this season, what will it be next season? Two years from now? Three? Just get to student-athletes as uni- versity employees, get to collective bar- gaining and get on with it. College sports forever changed in 2021when the decision was made to pay “student-athletes.” Paid as in $5 million per season for some and $6 million for others. We’re not going back. Payrolls and logos and all they entail are here to stay. Get used to them. Hate them all you want but understand that this part- nership agreement is just the start. Everything athletic on that campus has a price. Must make more money. Must meet that player payroll. We’re not far from “Notre Dame Football spon- sored by (insert advertiser here)” That day’s coming, as is the one where head football coach Marcus Freeman looks like he’s wearing a NASCAR jumpsuit on the sideline with advertising logos placed here and there and everywhere. Everybody – and everything – is for sale. Every college athletics administra- tor has their hand out. This is life today in the NBA. This is life today in MLB. In the WNBA. In auto racing. Why should it be different in col- lege football? In college athletics? We learned on a sleepy Tuesday afternoon in late July that it’s not. So, SoFi ... so what?
Dante Moore ranked among the nation’s best quarterbacks, too. Iowa never would be credibly ac- cused of setting the standard for quar- terback play, but Mark Gronowski didn’t look out of place going up against Van- derbilt’s Diego Pavia, the Heisman run- ner-up, in the Hawkeyes’ bowl win last December. “Good quarterback play, as we see, matters a lot in winning,” Southern Cal coach Lincoln Riley said. “And there’s a lot of really good ones in this league right now.” Riley’s own good quarterback, Jaiden Maiava, gives USC a shot at qualifying for the Playoff for the first time. In response to Saban bloviating that the SEC asserts its superiority in the middle and bottom levels of the league, Bielema tweeted two scores. Illinois 21, South Carolina 17, 2024. Illinois 30, Tennessee 28, 2025. Winning remains the best mic drop. Toppmeyer is USA TODAY Network’s senior national college football colum- nist. Email BToppmeyer@gannett.com and follow on X @btoppmeyer
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Watson open camp locked in QB battle
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With fewer than eight weeks to go be- fore the start of the regular season, the QB1spot on the Cleveland Browns depth chart still reads: TBD. Browns head coach Todd Monken told reporters on July 29 that veteran Deshaun Watson and second-year She- deur Sanders will continue their battle for the starting job at training camp. Neither player made enough of an im- pression on their new head coach in the spring to earn the QB1 spot as summer practices begin. “Nothing’s really changed,” Monken said. “We anticipate alternating. First of all, all four quarterbacks are going to compete. They all won’t get equal reps. Obviously, we will alternate, just like we did in the spring, Deshaun and Shedeur with the ones.” The Browns are one of three teams with a starting quarterback battle un- derway during training camp, along with the Minnesota Vikings (J.J. McCar- thy vs. Kyler Murray) and Atlanta Fal- cons (Tua Tagovailoa vs. Michael Penix Jr.). But where both Atlanta (Tagovai- loa) and Minnesota (Murray) have ap- parent leaders in their quarterback duels, there is less certainty in Cleve- land. What is apparent is that the Browns’ QB battle is down to Watson and Sand- ers. Cleveland has two other young quarterbacks on its roster – 2025 third- rounder Dillon Gabriel and 2026 sixth- rounder Taylen Green – but Monken’s comments suggest neither will get first- team reps in training camp this year. “We have to divide the reps up ac- cording to the depth chart,” Monken said. “In a perfect world ... I would prefer the ones get 50% (of reps), the twos get 33%, and the threes get 17%, and some- where the other guys have got to fill in. Can you always count on that? No. So, the more those guys, you start to see them with the ones, you can kind of an- ticipate they’re our starters.”
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Monken also said he isn’t taking into account past performance when making his decision, meaning training camp performance will weigh heavily on the final call. He said he doesn’t have a deadline for choosing a starter outside of the obvious, necessary one: Week 1 of the regular season. “Theeasiestwayformetosaythat– and it still won’t stop you from asking – is the first game,” Monken said. “We’re gonna have to have a starter the first game, right? Ultimately, I’m not going to decide who the starter is. They de- cide by their play. Their play decides who the starter is.” Watson is in the final year of the fully guaranteed, five-year, $230 mil- lion deal he signed in 2022. He hasn’t played since Week 7 of the 2024 sea- son after tearing his Achilles in a game then re-tearing it in January 2025. Watson is averaging 177.1 yards, one touchdown and 0.6 interceptions per game in 19 starts with the Browns over three years. Sanders is entering his second sea- son in the NFL after the 2025 fifth- round pick made seven starts. He threw for 1,400 yards with seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions in eight games. He also took 23 sacks in those eight appearances for 164 lost yards.
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reveals early Parkinson’s
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Ahman Green, the Green Bay Pack- ers all-time leading rusher, revealed he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Green revealed the diagnosis to Ty- ler Dunne during a July 29 appearance on the Go Long Podcast. “Last year, I got diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s,” Green told Dunne. “I had a little bit of the feet twitching when I’m in my sleep and stuff like that. “I knew something was going on long before that. I just got ahold of some doctors that I was able to get in contact with. Get the diagnostics, get the testing. And finally got it tested last, I think it was January of 2025.” Green added that he didn’t want to share the diagnosis publicly until his family was aware of the news. “I didn’t share it for a long time be- cause I wanted to let my kids know, my family,” Green said. “And I did ... I got four daughters and a son. I let them all know first before I told friends, family, somebody like yourself.” Green pointed to nutrition and cleanses are part of his routine now, comparing it to an oil change for a boat or car. He added that helps him stay on track in this process and stay in control. “Helping my kids with the informa- tion, letting them know, but then say, ‘I got the reins. I’m in control. I’m not go- ing to let this control me.’ There is some medicines that I’ve been taking from the doctor’s side of it, so I made sure on my protocol there, but then on my side, my food and my medicine as well is a huge part of my thing – mak- ing sure I stay on top of all the things that are going on with my body.” When asked about symptoms, the 49-year-old noted that his short-term memory is “trash” and he has to re- mind himself of things by repeating it or writing it down. Other symptoms include a twitch in his sleep and sleep- walking. Green expressed a desire for the connection between football, head
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trauma, injuries and Parkinson’s to be discussed more, while remaining opti- mistic about his future. “It needs to be up front,” Green said. “It needs to be a topic that’s always hit. And it’s not the end-all. “To me, I have a jump ahead of it. Just like anybody discovering that they have some type of cancer in their body, I’m ahead of it right now.” Green played 12 seasons in the NFL after being drafted by the Seattle Sea- hawks in the third round in 1998. He went on to play eight seasons with the Packers, making the Pro Bowl four times. He remains the Packers’ all-time leading rusher with 8,332 yards. The running back certainly isn’t alone in this fight either. Green’s former teammate, Brett Favre, revealed his Parkinson’s diagno- sis in 2024.
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Chargers’ well-paid James ‘hungry’
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EL SEGUNDO, CA – Three multiyear contracts with a single team is rare in to- day’s NFL. Becoming the highest-paid player at a position twice is even more of an oddity. Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James is cognizant he’s in rar- efied air. “I started playing this game at 4 years old in the yard for fun. I never thought (and) I could have never imagined I would be paid a third time like this,” James told USA TODAY Sports in an ex- clusive interview. “But I’m still working, man. I’m still hungry, man, and I’m not satisfied.” The Chargers signed James to a third contract in May, a three-year, $75.6 mil- lion extension that made him the NFL’s highest-paid safety for the second time in his career. The nine-year veteran has become one of the preeminent safeties in the NFL since the Chargers drafted him 17th overall in 2018 out of Florida State. He’s a five-time All-Pro selection, including a first-team All-Pro nod in 2018, and a five-time Pro Bowler. James has been a versatile defensive force on the Chargers despite multiple regime and roster changes. Jim Harbaugh, the Chargers third full-time head coach since James was drafted, tabbed James the best safety he’s ever seen. “I’ve called him the best safety I’ve ever seen in the history of the National Football League. I don’t think I’m going out on a limb,” Harbaugh said of James last year. “He is one of the most incred- ible players I’ve ever watched.”
‘I’m the best safety’
‘Superman out there’
James is part of a new evolution of safeties who play all over the field. This versatile group of safeties includes Bal- timore’s Kyle Hamilton, Seattle’s Nick Emmanwori and James, who line up at various spots on the gridiron on any giv- en snap. According to Pro Football Focus, James was tracked at box safety, free
if traded by Sparks
Mitchell Northam
All signs point to WNBA superstar Kelsey Plum being on the trading block as the league’s deadline for deals ap- proaches. The Athletic reported earlier this week that the 31-year-old five-time All- Star does not intend to re-sign with the Los Angeles Sparks this offseason when her one-year contract expires. The Los Angeles Times also reported that the plan is for the Sparks to move Plum be- fore the deadline. A 2021Sixth Player of the Year Award winner, Plum has proved to be one of the most talented scoring guards in the WNBA and over the last two seasons with the Sparks has established herself as someone who can carry an offense. Despite battling some injuries this year, Plum is averaging a career-best 23.9 points per game, which is second in the league to only her former teammate, A’ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces. Plum is also posting a career-best 6.4 assists per game, which is sixth in the WNBA. Before joining the Sparks, Plum helped the Aces win a pair of champi- onships. In 2022, she was the All-Star Game MVP and was named to the All- WNBA first team. In college at Washington, she set the NCAA career scoring record before it was broken by Caitlin Clark. If Plum is indeed on the trade market, there should be several teams vying for her services. One thing that will be a hurdle for many buyers is her hefty con- tract of $999,999. Only so many teams have the cap space to absorb Plum. With that, here’s a few landing spots that make sense:
Golden State Valkyries
The Valkyries are the team that would have to do the most gymnastics with their cap to make a deal for Plum work, but they are arguably the team that needs her the most. While Golden State has the WNBA’s third-best record and – by many metrics – the league’s top defense, it could really use a scorer of Plum’s caliber. The Valkyries are last in field-goal percentage, 13th in points
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safety, slot corner, wide corner and even the defensive line last year. Harbaugh labeled James as a “six- tool” player. “He can cover (and) he can play any position in the secondary. I guess what jumps out the most is he can play nickel, he can play dime backer, he could play corner, he could play in the deep half, he can play in the deep middle (and) he can blitz,” Harbaugh said of James last sea- son. “You have to compare him to Willie Mays at that point. He’s a five-tool, six- tool secondary player. It’s incredible what he can do. He does it all. “It’s like Superman when he puts on the armor, when he puts on that suit and wears that No. 3. He’s donning the cap. He’s a Superman out there.” The Willie Mays and Superman com- parisons are apropos considering the Chargers have labeled James “the heart and soul” of their defense. James has amassed 684 tackles, 40 tackles for loss and19 sacks in his ca- reer, making him one sack shy of being just the third NFL player to reach 600 tackles, 40 tackles for loss and
per game and12th in points per scoring attempt. Unfortunately, the Valkyries have no cap space. To make a deal for Plum work, Golden State will have to assem- ble a package that looks something akin to Juste Jocyte, Kayla Thornton and perhaps a few draft picks. Is that a deal that’s going to be en- ticing enough for the Sparks? Will Golden State be willing to part with that much if there’s no guarantee Plum will sign there long term? It’s hard to know. But on paper, adding a scorer like Plum to the Valkyries would make them look like a legitimate champion- ship contender.
Washington Mystics
The Mystics are in the driver’s seat to grab the eighth and final playoff spot. Sonia Citron, Kiki Iriafen and Shakira Austin are emerging as one of the best trios in the league. But Wash- ington ranks 12th or worst in several offensive categories, including points per game, 3-point percentage, points per scoring attempt and percentage of points from 3-point land. Needless to say, the Mystics could use a gifted of- fensive veteran like Plum. Washington has plenty of cap space to absorb Plum and also has a few young players and draft picks to put together what could be an enticing package for the Sparks. Perhaps a deal that includes Georgia Amoore and UCLA product Angela Dugalić could work.
Portland Fire
The Fire have the most cap space available of any team in the WNBA at over $2 million. Taking in Plum’s con- tract won’t be a problem. The question is, do the Fire have anything that would be of interest to the Sparks in return for Plum? Pairing Plum up with Bridget Carle- ton could make the Fire one of the most dangerous 3-point shooting teams in the league and perhaps kick- start them on a run in the second half of the season that puts them in con- tention for the final playoff spot.
20 sacks within the first 100 games of a career since the data was tracked in 2008. He’s produced the most quarter- back pressures (65) and sacks (15.5) among defensive backs over the last five seasons, according to NFL Research. “I’m just trying to work my butt off every day to uplift that,” James said of Harbaugh’s praise. “To make people like him right. That makes those type of comments where people are not scratching their head, like, ‘Man, what did he say? Is he crazy?’ “I want to be able to put the pressure on myself to be able to go out there and perform and consider myself one of the greats.” James anchored the Chargers de- fense that finished top five in total de- fense last year and was No. 1 in scoring defense in 2024. “What he’s done the last couple years, he’s been an All-Pro slot corner, nickel, however you want to say it,” Chargers defensive coordinator Chris O’Leary said. “You want 11 Derwin James. If you’re going to put a scale to what he’s best at, he’s the best at that,
UCLA Bruins quarterback Nico Iamaleava calls out a play during the spring game at the Rose Bowl. KIRBY LEE/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT UCLA coach reveals how easy it was to keep QB
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Even after a rough first season at UCLA and a new coach coming in for the second year, quarterback Nico Iamaleava had no plans to leave the Bruins. There was wonder if Iamaleava, who had a highly publicized departure from Tennessee to UCLA in spring 2025, would want a fresh start after the Bruins went 3-9, their worst record since 2018. After the Bruins hired Bob Chesney in December, the No.1task he undertook was trying to keep his quar- terback. Chesney succeeded as Iama- leava didn’t enter the transfer portal. Chesney was asked at The Big Ten Media Days on July 29 about how he was able to keep the polarizing signal- caller as he enters his first season in Westwood. It turns out, there wasn’t much con- vincing he had to do. “It started with retaining Nico, obvi- ously, when we got here,” Chesney said. “I think for Nico, and he can speak on, you know, on his own behalf, but I’ll let you know just to add a little color to it, he did not want to go any- where. This is where he wanted to be. This is where he wanted to play.”
blitzing, owning the perimeter. He’s to me the best in the world at doing that.”
James hopes to be a Charger for life and yearns to be considered one of the greats. He already believes he’s the top player at his position. “I don’t take the field not feeling like I’m the best safety in the NFL,” James said. James, who turns 30 in August, knows what eludes him thus far is team success. He’s been part of just one play- off win as a Charger. The Chargers have won 11 games in each of the last two seasons while earn- ing playoff berths and have made three postseason appearances since 2022. But an epic 27-point meltdown, a four- interception performance from Justin Herbert and an offensive no-show have marred the Chargers’ three most recent playoff exits in the wild-card round. “Once we get past that first round, I feel like the sky gonna be the limit for us,” James said. “We’re gonna roll, man. I feel like every year this team is in a prime position, an 11- or 12-win team.” Los Angeles is a championship- driven city spoiled by titles. The Dodg- ers have nine World Series titles and are chasing a three-peat, the Lakers have 17 NBA championship banners, includ- ing one in 2020, while the Rams won Super Bowl 56 and are a prohibitive fa- vorite to capture Super Bowl 61. Meanwhile, the Chargers are one of 12 teams to have never won a Super Bowl. That’s why James enters his ninth season with the Chargers focused on es- tablishing a championship culture and assisting the franchise on a mission to get to the pinnacle of the sport. “If I could win the Super Bowl,”James said. “I’ve been paid three times, I made five Pro Bowls, five All-Pros. I’ve done all the single accolade things, I feel. But the team goal. ... This team has never won a Super Bowl.” Follow USA TODAY Sports’ Tyler Dragon on X @TheTylerDragon
The coach added factors like being from Southern California and his younger brother, Madden, also being on the squad played a role in wanting to stay, which were things Iamaleava had consistently said were reasons he chose to transfer to UCLA after a reported name, image and likeness fallout at Tennessee. With the desire to stay, Chesney said the next phase was making sure he was on the same page with the incoming coaching staff. Now, it’s about helping him take that next step in what could be his final season of college football. “I just love the growth he’s had as a leader,” Chesney said. “To watch him just grow and run with this and flourish at this moment as the leader, he was unanimously voted the leader of our football team when we voted our leader- ship council. He was at the top by a large margin, and that just speaks to the way he carries himself on a day-to-day basis. We’re going to need him to be really, really good on Saturdays as well.” Iamaleava threw for 1,928 yards and 13 touchdowns with seven interceptions in11games last season while leading the Bruins in rushing yards (505), carries (112) and rushing touchdowns (4). UCLA opens the season at California in Week 1 on Sept. 5.
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HILTON HEAD, SC – There’s a term in my extended family for when you’ve eaten so much that you have to sit back at a 45-degree angle. It’s called “Eve-ing,” my natural state after any big meal. h In truth, I’m sedentary most of the time – eating breakfast and lunch at my desk while working, spending evenings on the couch. h I know it’s not good for me, but “it becomes easy living easy,”as Holly Toelke, fitness manager at Hilton Head Health, told me during a recent stay at the all-inclusive wellness resort in South Carolina.
A growing number of travelers have turned to wellness destinations to help improve or maintain their wellbeing. Ac- cording to data from the nonprofit Global Wellness Institute and analysis by travel research experts PhocusWright and its sister company Web in Travel, the well- ness tourism market has more than dou- bled in size from $438 billion in 2012 to $894 billion in 2024. It’s projected to hit $1.4 trillion by 2029. I didn’t know what to expect when I arrived at my first wellness retreat. I imagined a rehab or one of the religious retreats I’d been on, where everyone moves through prescribed activities to- gether. There are specific seminars for guests taking part in Hilton Head Health’s GLP-1 Support program or longevity-focused Blue Zones Experience, but mostly, guests pick and choose what they want to do from a slate of daily offerings. They can also use the resort’s equipment and facilities on their own when classes aren’t in session. On my first full day there, I chose an hour-long aqua exercise class, a 45-min- ute yoga class, three workshops totaling 2.5 hours and an hour-long cooking demonstration. Without the usual re- sponsibilities and distractions of home, I stillhadtimeandenergyfora3-milebike ride to and from the beach, 30 minutes
In hyperbaric chambers, such as the one at Bamford Wellness Spa in Hawaii, you breathe in 100% oxygen, helping to regenerate tissues and decrease inflammation. PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ANNE MENKE/1 HOTEL HANALEI BAY
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KAUAI, Hawaii – The nerves were setting in that I was about to step into a minus 140 degree Fahrenheit cryotherapy chamber. For reference, the naturally coldest place on Earth is an uninhabited high ridge on the East Antarctic Plateau that can drop to negative 133.6 degrees. h I was instructed to put on goggles, booties, gloves and a gaiter, and to tuck all my hair into a beanie otherwise it’d freeze solid. I also removed all my jewelry so it wouldn’t give me frostbite. h The freezing cold quickly surrounded me. I stood there in shock in my shorts and tank top as frost circulated inside the chamber, which was akin to standing in a high-tech but tiny broom closet. I lasted two minutes before leaping to the safety of a fluffy robe.
Getting blasted with extreme cold for a short period of time may seem bizarre to some, but it’s a burgeoning recovery method for athletes, with some scientif- ic evidence suggesting it reduces in- flammation and muscle soreness. A 2023 study of 41participants found four sessions of cryotherapy effective in treating chronic back pain. My cryotherapy session was part of a new wellness retreat offering at 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay, a sustainable luxury resort set along Kauai’s stunning north shore and the 1 Hotel brand’s flagship proper- ty. These trips go beyond just hitting the spa and gym at your hotel; they’re aimed at jump-starting your wellness journey for long-term lifestyle changes. “A lot of times we’re getting guests from the hustle and bustle, and they don’t know how to turn off,” said Puna- hele Kualii, 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay’s spa di- rector. “I’m the same way. ... Sometimes I don’t know how to turn off, but when you do, you get that sense of really un- derstanding that relaxation portion and really going home with some different types of wellness strategies.” Launched in April, the four-night re- treats are designed to revitalize guests through a tailored itinerary of scientif- ically backed wellness therapies and in- spiration from Kauai’s natural beauty. Some would say the island is healing in its own right, and the property takes ad- vantage by calling itself “nature’s well- ness sanctuary.” It’s tough to argue with that when it overlooks the ocean front- ing a lush mountain range decorated with cascading waterfalls. In an era of burnout and doomscroll- ing, more travelers are prioritizing their well-being in their trips, with a 150% surge in #wellnesstravel on TikTok, ac- cording to Kayak’s 2026 trends report. In the report, 66% of Gen Z and millen- nial respondents said a “mental reset”is their biggest reason for traveling, and 37% desire a spa or wellness treat- ments. Here’s what it’s like to experience a wellness retreat in Hawaii.
“A lot of times we’re getting guests from the hustle and bustle, and they don’t know how to turn off.”
Personalized focus on wellness
1 Hotel Hanalei Bay offers four types of wellness retreats, each designed to help guests reach different health goals and based off the four elements: honua, or earth, for athletic performance; ahi, or fire, for revitalization; wai, or water, for renewal; and makani, or wind, the option to build your own. The ahi retreat caught my eye for its
1 Hotel Hanalei Bay, a luxury wellness resort in Kauai, Hawaii, gives guests a well-rounded and personalized experience, including fitness coaching.
focus on improving vitality. While I con- sider myself an active person who surfs almost daily, I also struggle with chron- ically poor sleep and recovery. So having some extra energy and learning how to take better care of my body sounded en- ticing. Every retreat kicks off with a pre-de- parture call with the spa manager to dis- cuss personal goals and preferences. From there, the resort builds an itiner- ary of traditional spa treatments, sci- ence-backed therapies like cryotherapy, mindfulness experiences like medita- tion sessions, and fitness coaching. Upon arrival, I jumped into a DEXA scan to get a snapshot of my body com- position’s starting point. I learned my body fat and muscle but also health fac- tors I rarely think about, like my bone density, which is important for longev- ity because our bones weaken as we age. Guests can also do a VO2 Max test to learn their cardio fitness and endur- ance capacity. Throughout my stay, I had daily check-ins with 1 Hotel’s wellness team, whether the spa director or a body ar- chitect – who are certified personal trainers – to discuss how I was feeling after each day. It was personalized to my own goals and routine, like how to im- prove my balance for surfing and incor- porate more meditation for better sleep. This type of in-depth customization is what travelers are looking for. In Booking.com’s 2026 travel predictions, 71% of travelers said they’re interested in body movement analysis or a person- alized exercise routine to improve their
During my retreat, I experienced four touchless therapies under the premise that they’d recharge my body. To see how effective they are, I spoke with Dr. Annu Navani, chief medical officer for longevity clinic Reve Health Institute in California, and Dr. Leslie Copeland, a board-certified internal medicine doctor specializing in wellness and longevity medicine.
I sat for about 40 minutes while a mix of vitamins and minerals, such as magnesium and B12, flowed into my arm, meant to hydrate and energize me. A 2025 academic review found that IV therapy offers some absorption advantages over oral supplements, especially when there’s a true deficiency and when administered properly. According to Copeland, IV therapy can be helpful in the short term if someone is dehydrated or jet-lagged and needs an energy boost, but it depends on what’s being infused to match their needs. Shortly after mine, I felt more balanced and had the best sleep of my trip that night.
The hotel offers two private rooms for contrast therapy, which is alternating between an infrared sauna and cold plunge. Blood vessels open with heat and close with cold, creating a “vascular pumping effect” that can help with lymphatic drainage, reduce muscle inflammation and improve circulation and blood flow, according to Navani. Copeland also provided positive feedback on contrast therapy, noting that cold plunges are more effective than cryotherapy at lowering body temperature. “The contrast is excellent, especially for recovery muscles, if you had a big workout, tendinitis, things like that,” she said. I had been sore that day after pushing myself at the gym and felt some relief almost immediately. A 2024 scientific review found contrast therapy to have some benefits but limited evidence, and people with existing heart conditions could have adverse reactions.
Standing in extreme cold for two to three minutes can cause vasoconstriction, which may help reduce inflammation and pain, according to Navani. While a few small studies show some benefits, it’s unclear whether cryotherapy is more effective than an ice bath, according to a 2024 review of 28 randomized controlled trials. Afterward, I was more energized, possibly from the release of endorphins. People with high blood pressure or cardiovascular diseases might not be able to tolerate the extreme cold of cryotherapy, Navani added.
Instead of breathing the usual 21% oxygen in the air, I was given nearly 100% oxygen through a nasal cannula while sitting in a spaceship-like pod for about 45 minutes. It was pressurized, like being in an airplane. Navani warned that having sinus congestion or a cold could make the pressure change uncomfortable. Consuming pure oxygen has been found to help regenerate tissues and regulate inflammatory responses, according to a 2021 scientific review. It’s used to help patients heal wounds and conditions like autoimmune diseases. “All your tissues need oxygen,” said Copeland. “We don’t breathe in 100% oxygen, so when you’re going from, you know, 80% to 100%, then it’s a dramatic increase in your ability to repair. It stimulates new blood vessels, collagen production, healing time, decreased inflammation.” While one session can help with recovery after a long flight or a tough workout, going regularly would yield the most benefits, she added. My session left me feeling a bit tired but also calmer for the rest of the day.
My itinerary stacked treatments to maximize benefits, with IV infusion therapy preceding a session in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, on the idea that vitamins are better absorbed. However, Copeland said the order of treatments may not make a big difference in optimizing benefits.
Both doctors also emphasized that people respond differently to treatments, and it’s important to communicate any medical complications in advance.
they feel draw them back, resort guests say
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HILTON HEAD, SC – Dean Price doesn’t know if he’ll still be able to walk in a decade. He started losing muscle unexpect- edly in the summer of 2018, and though he’s undergone a battery of tests ruling out diseases like multiple sclerosis and ALS, he said, “Western medicine has no answer for me.” But a neurologist told him something life-changing: “‘It really doesn’t matter, any of it. Either you’re going to be able to walk10 years from now or you’re not. We don’t know. But what matters is that you figure out what you really, truly love to do in life and you do it, and you do it right now.’” He’s spending his summer doing just that, while continuing to focus on his well-being. In June, that led him to his first wellness retreat at Hilton Head Health, an all-inclusive wellness resort in South Carolina, which USA TODAY also visited. Wellness tourism has exploded in re- cent years and is expected to become a $1.4 trillion industry by 2029, according to data from the nonprofit Global Well- ness Institute and analysis by travel re- search experts PhocusWright and its sister company Web in Travel. This year alone, more than half of the global respondents to Hilton’s 2026 Trends Report identified “rest and re- charge” as their top reason for travel. Additionally, Hilton noted more than a third of respondents cited improving their mental health as a key motivation for leisure travel, and 20% were seeking dedicated “me time.” Personal reasons for wellness travel vary as widely as the travelers them- selves. Hilton Head Health staff say some guests come for stress relief and help finding balance. Others are work- ing on their physical well-being or lon- gevity. Still others are processing life changes like diagnoses, loss or mile- stones, including retirement.
Time to reset
“I’m just very content coming here and resetting myself, renewing my spir- it,” said LaVina Jo Meyer, who was also there during Price’s visit. “I came here serendipitously because of a girlfriend’s suggestion,” she said of her first stay in 2023. She’s visited seven times already. Hilton Head Health stays start at just over $3,900 for a seven-night experi- ence with a single-occupancy Comfort King room at the resort’s on-site Sweet- grass Inn. Pricing varies by length of stay, time of year and choice of accom- modations. Meyer knows visits are not for everyone but said it’s how she’s de- cided to spend her travel budget. “What keeps me coming back is it’s a healthy place. It’s an excellent environment. It’s
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health and combat jet lag. The resort’s Bamford Wellness Spa, found across all 1 Hotel properties, was the anchor to my retreat. I also went to hotel partners Vitality Kauai, a locally owned on-site med spa, and Anatomy, the well-equipped fitness center, for some sessions.
Is it worth a visit? An honest take
Although my results weren’t drastic, I did notice improvements in my mood and post-workout recovery during the retreat and went home feeling overall recharged and pampered. Dr. AnnuNa- vani, chief medical officer for longevity clinic Reve Health Institute in Califor- nia, approved the treatments set up for me, since everything was focused on re- ducing inflammation and increasing re- laxation. “So these, for the most part, help with natural recovery and adaptive mecha- nisms of your body,” she said. “They help you feel rejuvenated.” For me, trying these four therapies was also a good introduction to see if they fit into my lifestyle back home. “When you can help guide the guest to try something new that’s out of their comfort zone, I think that’s where it takes it to a whole different level,” said Kualii. Outside of the science-focused ther- apies, I had other relaxing experiences to round out the restorative part of my
LaVina Jo Meyer, third from left, says she’s made close friends during her trips to Hilton Head Health. Camaraderie shows among guests Audrey Coffey, Dean Price, Enzo Caiazzo, Eve Chen and Lala Ragimov. EVE CHEN/USA TODAY
beautiful.” She loves the resort’s location on Hil- ton Head Island, surrounded by moss- draped trees. She also enjoys the beach 1.5 miles away, where she takes morning walks during her stay. Research sup- ports the mental and physical benefits of spending time in green spaces out- doors, but the biggest draw for Meyer is the experience at the resort itself. She lauded the resort’s supportive instructors and staff, healthy gourmet dining and array of daily activities, ranging from pickleball drills and yoga classes to workshops on living in the moment and breaking up with sugar. “It helped me put in my mind healthy habits,” she said. “Not like I didn’t know what those were before, but they kind of just fell into place.”
Time to recommit
Enzo Caiazzo had a specific goal when he first visited Hilton Head Health in 2015: weight loss, which the resort has specialized in for nearly 50 years. Learning about the importance of nutrition, practicing portion control and focusing on food quality at the resort, he said he saw results after a week. It’s important to note that not all wellness destinations deliver the bene- fits they may tout or guests may expect. And travelers should thoroughly re- search and read reviews on any destina- tion they plan to visit. However, Caiazzo said, “I was so sat- isfied about the results that I continued the same approach [at home], and the more I continued, the more results came.” He went on to lose nearly 40 pounds and said his doctor congratulated him,
The natural beauty of Kauai that surrounds 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay inspired the resort’s wellness retreats and plays a role in the relaxation aspect. PROVIDED BY 1 HOTEL HANALEI BAY
retreat. At the spa, I did an intuitive herbal ritual, which was a massage en- hanced by local products like macad- amia nut oil and heated noni leaves, a tropical plant used by Pacific Islanders for its antioxidant properties. I also had a one-on-one guided meditation of breathing exercises to help my mind slow down. To make your health journey easier, the resort has an array of health-fo-
“It’s a community. … You are on the same path, searching for something.”
Enzo Caiazzo On the draw of staying at Hilton Head Health
cused food and beverage offerings, in- cluding a smoothie bar, fresh local fruit set out in the morning and low-alcohol cocktails. (Of course, there were still desserts and pastries to indulge in.) The biggest shift for me was mental. Before this, I had never been on a trip centered entirely on my well-being, and it was refreshing to focus on myself. The retreat made me think more deeply about what it means to be healthy – not
showing him results from blood tests before and after his transformation. “It’s day and night.” Caiazzo has kept the weight off, but he still goes back to Hilton Head Health at least once a year to recommit. He met Price and Meyer on his latest visit. “If you know this program, sooner or later you come back,” he said. “I’ve been [to] other places, but I always come back here.”
Time to reconnect
Price has already gone back this sum- mer. “I absolutely, totally loved it. It gives me healthy eating, which was a big part of what I was trying to figure out – how do I travel and eat healthy?” he said, ex- tolling the food, education and optional cooking demonstrations. He also en- joyed the myriad exercise and medita- tion classes, which built on what he was already doing on his own. “Every single day there was something available that I could do where I would push myself.” He said a big part of what was so fan- tastic was the people. Meyer agreed, saying, “It feels like I make all these very close friends while I’m here.”She’s kept in touch with sever- al she’s met through the years. Even if they all have different reasons for going on the retreat, Caiazzo said, “It’s a community. … You are on the same path, searching for something.” Many guests who form friendships at the resort return year after year, togeth- er. Price thinks that’s a great idea. USA TODAY reporter Eve Chen was provided access by Hilton Head Health. USA TODAY maintains editorial control of content.
just working out, but my longevity, mo- bility and mindfulness, too. I’m not sure I’ll step into a minus-140 degree cryo- therapy chamber again, but the retreat opened my mind up to a broader view of what it means to take care of myself, and I’m excited to continue the journey. USA TODAY reporter Kathleen Wong received access to this event from1Hotel Hanalei Bay. USA TODAY maintains editorial control of content.
HILTON HEAD, SC – Sitting around a relaxed classroom with a handful of other guests at Hilton Head Health Wellness Resort & Spa in South Carolina, I never would have guessed anyone was on or considering a GLP-1medication. But there we were, gathered for an introductory class on the increasingly popular drugs. h Nearly 3 out of 4 Americans older than age19 are overweight, according to the National Center for Health Statistics’National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2021 through 2023. That includes just more than 40% of U.S. adults who are considered obese.
For people who’ve struggled to lose weight, GLP-1 medications may seem like a lifeline, especially after seeing dra- matic results from celebrities on such drugsasWegovyorZepbound,whichare approved for weight loss, and other peo- ple on drugs including Ozempic and Mounjaro, which primarily treat diabe- tes. But there are important factors to consider before starting the medica- tions, while taking them and when con- sidering discontinuation, all of which Hilton Head Health unpacks in a retreat USA TODAY learned about firsthand.
Inside a GLP-1 retreat
The all-inclusive wellness resort pri- marily was geared toward weight loss when it opened nearly 50 years ago. It has evolved to embrace a more holistic approach to health, but many guests still are interested in losing weight, and some – including several people in my class – already have incorporated GLP-1 medi- cations into their journeys. Staff neither encourage nor discour- ageusage,leavingmedicaladvicetodoc- tors. However, they do explain how the drugs work, research-backed pros and cons, and, if people decide to use the drugs, “[how] to take them in a way that provides the best chance of long-term success,” said Bob Wright, a longtime health educator at Hilton Head Health. Select weeks of the year, the resort holds a GLP-1 Support program. It kicks off with the same introductory class I at- tended, but adds elements including: h Individual body composition and metabolic assessment. h Individual biomarker testing for in- flammation, metabolic health and glu- cose regulation. h Workshops on nutrition, strength and mindset. h Group coaching discussions and small group strength training. h All-inclusive accommodations and gourmet dining. h Access to the resort’s full range of facilities and programming.
What to consider about GLP-1s
Holly Toelke, fitness manager at Hil- ton Head Health, encourages guests to try different types of exercise, “because what happens if you don’t know that it’s something you’re going to potentially fall in love with?” Strength training is important be- cause muscle loss can be a side effect of GLP-1s, according to the Mayo Clinic. Other potential side effects include gastrointestinal issues such as stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea and constipation. When it’s hard to eat, “relax a little, and you eat foods that you can tolerate,” said Elizabeth Huggins, a registered di- etitian, nutritionist and certified diabe- tes educator at Hilton Head Health. The rest of the time, she advises concentrat- ing on quality, whole, plant-forward foods. “Definitely getting the things that you hear all the time, like adequate pro- tein, adequate fluid, adequate fiber.” Learning the right way to eat and how to have a healthy relationship with food is especially important for GLP-1 users who hope to go off the medication. As Wright explains, the drugs suppress ap- petite at the biological, hormonal level, and “if you take away the hormonal con- trol, then that hunger comes back.” Multiple studies have shown that people regain weight after stopping GLP-1 medications. Other people don’t lose any weight at all, notes Anne Poirier, director of behavioral health at Hilton Head Health. “We don’t always know
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Nutrition is one element of the GLP-1 Support program at Hilton Head Health. A dietitian recommends quality, unprocessed (or minimally processed) foods. PHOTOS BY EVE CHEN/USA TODAY
Guests are welcome to order as much food as they want at the retreat, with the only caveat being to eat mindfully.
GLP-1 bump
GLP-1 drug use has nearly quadrupled since 2024, according to Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being Index. It found that roughly 11% of U.S. adults are taking them for weight loss in 2026, up from 3% in 2024.
to build habits that can outlast medication
what the weight’s going to be at the end of a week, but the thing we have control over is our behavior,” she said. Poirier tries to help GLP-1 Support participants shift their thinking away from the scale or appearance and toward “what our body does for us every single day,” a principle known as body neutral- ity. She also helps them craft and narrow a practical action plan for home. Whatever guests decide to do with GLP-1 medications, Hilton Head Health hopes to equip them with lasting tools for wellness. USA TODAY reporter Eve Chen was provided access by Hilton Head Health. USA TODAY maintains editorial control of content.
A variety of infused waters and iced teas are available for guests to sip throughout their stay. Electrolyte packets also are available upon request.
Fitness is another element of the GLP-1 Support program. “A big component of any type of weight loss is to make sure that you still continue strengthening,” says Holly Toelke, fitness manager at the resort.
Guests at the Hilton Head Health wellness resort in South Carolina can ride a rental bike or walk to the beach, which is a little more than a mile and a half away. A resort shuttle also offers rides every morning. PHOTOS BY EVE CHEN/USA TODAY
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on a treadmill and a long, leisurely din- ner where I met the first of several new friends who made my experience extra memorable. Doing nothing is fine, too. I met sever- al guests who just rested. No one keeps tabs, other than staff checking that guests are enjoying themselves and have everything they need. Some activities cost extra – like cook- ing classes, spa treatments, private les- sons and select outings – but most things are included in the all-inclusive pricing, which starts at just over $3,900 for a seven-night experience with a sin- gle-occupancy Comfort King room at the on-site Sweetgrass Inn. Pricing varies by length of stay, time of year and choice of accommodations.
Get moving
While guests may do as much or as lit- tle as they please, Hilton Head Health of- fers a few recommendations. One is to take a short, leisurely ther- mal walk after every meal, to help boost metabolism instead of succumbing to a food coma, like I would normally. Anotherrecommendationistotrydif- ferent types of movement and exercise. I already knew I’d love the yoga, but I also enjoyed a drum fit class where we pounded exercise balls with drumsticks to the beat of boisterous music, a TRX strength class where we used our body weight for resistance, and tai chi on the beach. “We all can find something, some way to move that we enjoy, and that’s what I think this place does so well,” said Anne Poirier, director of behavioral health at Hilton Head Health. Instructors make sure everyone feels supported, no matter their level, and happily offer extra explanations and modifications as needed. “We do have a variation of skills and abilities that do come through here,” Toelke said. “Maybe you’ve had numer- ous knee surgeries or maybe your back; we do offer a pool. We do offer chair yoga for people that maybe can’t move on the floor as easy.” Because everyone is focused on their own wellness journey, no one batted an eye when I chose the lightest possible free weights for an upper body sculpting class or stepped out of time in dance car- dio. “If anything, everybody’s going to cheer you on, because we’re all here for the same purpose of we want to get stronger, we want to get better, we want to learn,” Toelke said.
“If anything, everybody’s going to cheer you on, because we’re all here for the same purpose of we want to get stronger, we want to get better, we want to learn.”
Hilton Head Health offers two types of accommodations: rooms at its on-site Sweetgrass Inn, above, or private villas.
In addition to being easier on joints, aqua exercise classes are fun, reporter Eve Chen says.
Holly Toelke Fitness manager at Hilton Head Health in South Carolina
Eating well
Mealtimes are just as varied. Menus change every few days but always fea- ture fresh, whole, plant-predominant foods. During my stay, options included street corn avocado toast for breakfast, ahi tuna sushi bowls for lunch, and garlic and herb beef kabobs for dinner, all with lots of veggies. Everything was chef-made and tasty. “It’s got to taste good or people aren’t going to keep eating it,” said Elizabeth Huggins, a registered dietitian, nutri- tionist and certified diabetes educator at Hilton Head Health. “Prior to here, I’ve always been in a hospital setting, and I definitely did hear, ‘Oh if it tastes good, spit it out,’ which is sad. Or, ‘If it’s healthy, it’s probably going to taste like
Quiet spaces for guests to relax or meditate are interspersed across the Hilton Head Health resort grounds.
cardboard,’ and that’s not true at all.” The resort makes it easy to make good choices,becausetherearen’tanybadop- tions. Beverage selections are generally lim- ited to water (flat, sparkling or infused), iced and hot tea, coffee, espresso drinks and V8. Sugar and salt are only available by request, but Stevia and spices are kept on hand at the coffee station. Dessert is only offered twice a week. Between meals, guests are welcome to grab pre-portioned snacks like fresh fruit and veggies, nuts, yogurt, hard- boiled eggs and peanut butter hummus. I liked the latter so much, I asked for the recipe and made it as soon as I got home.
Food for thought
Me time
Guests are also offered food for thought in workshops on topics like mindfulness, self-compassion over self- criticism, finding your why and how to get better sleep. Poirier notes wellness is about a lot more than food and exercise. She helps guests connect the dots between thoughts, emotions and behavior and tries to set them up for continued pro- gress when they leave. “It’s not all or nothing. I think that all- or-nothing mindset is diet culture,” she said. “I use the term ‘mostly sometimes.’ ... So, I mostly eat like this, and some- times I have pizza. If we do it that way and we use quantity and frequency – how often and how much – we can really make it much more sustainable.” She says the same goes for move- ment. “Can we divorce exercise from body shape and size and weight? Because our cultures put those two things together ... then all of a sudden, exercise becomes a need to, should do, and that sometimes can impact some of the thoughts around it,” she said. Instead of the old “no pain, no gain”adage, she suggested, “Let’s just move. The best movement is the one you’re going to do.” “Those are kind of the things we talk about here,” she said. “Shifting the per- spectiveoffoodandthentheperspective of exercise and then finally the perspec- tive of ourselves.”
I thought a lot about myself over my five-night stay and what I want my fu- ture to look like. I want to be healthy, ag- ile and strong. Our bodies naturally start losing mus- cle mass at age 30, with a 3%-5% loss ev- ery decade after that, according to the National Institutes of Health. “It is our job and our responsibility to make sure that we keep it on,” Toelke said. “Now that doesn’t mean we have to body build all the time, but just incorpo- rating a strength routine ... anything you can do.” Knowing my time there was limited, I tried to do as much as I could, without overdoing it. Between all the exercise andhealthyeating,IfeltbetterthanIhad inyears.Itmademewanttofeelthatway all the time. Since returning home, I’ve indulged here and there but tried to keep at it: sticking to mostly unprocessed foods, looking more closely at nutrition labels and drinking more water. I haven’t taken any fitness classes, but I’ve tried to move a little every day and just bought a resis- tance band to keep working on my strength. And there has been no “Eve- ing.” Baby steps, but it’s a start. “There’s no right time to start a rou- tine,” Toelke said. “Better late than never.” USA TODAY reporter Eve Chen was provided access by Hilton Head Health. USA TODAY maintains editorial control of content.
Todd Blanche can continue to head the U.S. Justice Department as acting attorney general.
Blanche’s bid in doubt
pull nomination for AG amid Senate standoff
Richard Cowan, David Morgan and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff
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President Donald Trump threatened on July 30 to withdraw until next year his nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as U.S. attorney general, escalat- ing a standoff with Senate Republicans who have objected to a proposed “anti- weaponization” fund that could benefit his allies. The dispute highlights Trump’s weakening grip on a Congress con- trolled by his own party, but it does not affect the tenure of Blanche, who can continue to head the Justice Depart- ment as acting attorney general. Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis have held up Blanche’s nomination while seeking written as- surances that the Justice Department will not set up the $1.8 billion “anti- weaponization” program. Trump critics have derided it as a slush fund to re- ward supporters with taxpayer money. Cornyn and Tillis met with Blanche together for 45 minutes late in the after- noon on July 30 to try to salvage the confirmation vote, according to a per- son familiar with the matter. The per- son, speaking on condition of anonym- ity, said the two sides are working “col- laboratively,”are closer to an agreement and that Blanche answered questions about his proposed resolution. Trump said on social media that he could withdraw Blanche’s nomination and then renominate him next year af- ter Cornyn and Tillis have left office. Trump also claimed credit for ending the careers of the two senators. “Todd Blanche is a STAR, and every- one knows it! He has the potential to go down as one of the Greatest Attorney
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, announced his retirement last year after clashing with the president over Medicaid cuts. EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERS See BLANCHE, Page 3NN
EXPLAINER
would encounter hurdles
Andrew Goudsward
WASHINGTON – Dr. Anthony Fauci could face criminal prosecution after re- fusing to answer more than 100 Senate questions about his handling of the CO- VID-19 pandemic, setting up a confron- tation with Republican lawmakers that could test the limits of congressional power to compel testimony. Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters that negotiations were likely over until next week. EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERS
disease expert, testified this week be- fore the Senate Homeland Security and GovernmentalAffairsCommitteewhose Republican chair, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a longtime Fauci antagonist, has said he will call a vote to refer Fauci for contempt of Congress. Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and became the face of the U.S. pandemic response, has condemned Paul for what he has described as a campaign to have him imprisoned. Here’s a look at where the dispute stands and what could come next with Fauci:
What is contempt of Congress?
U.S. law makes it a crime for anyone summoned to appear before Congress to refuse to hand over documents or an- swer questions. Congress does not have the authority to initiate criminal prosecutions on its own so it instead refers potential cases to the Justice Department. A contempt referral must first be approved by a con- gressional committee and then by the full Senate or House of Representatives. A referral for Fauci in this instance would likely need a 60-vote majority, which would require Democratic sup-
Attack sparks concerns on Suez
energy choke point
Jonathan Saul, Marwa Rashad and Ahmad Ghaddar
LONDON – A drone strike that dam- aged two gas tankers in Egyptian wa- ters has renewed energy security con- cerns about the nearby Suez Canal and a related pipeline, a vital export route for Saudi Arabian oil since the begin- ning of the Iran war. Even as Iran and its Houthi allies have fired on tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, Egypt’s Suez Canal and Sumed pipe- line continued to offer safe, north- bound export routes for Saudi Red Sea energy cargoes. While no party has claimed respon- sibility for the July 29 attack on the tankers at Egypt’s port of Damietta, which is located on a branch of the Nile Delta close to the Mediterranean, or publicly threatened the Suez Canal, the potential risk to the choke point has added to market concerns. “The passage through the Red Sea, even via the longer Mediterranean route, could be put at risk, which threatens up to 5 million barrels per day of oil supply that can currently by- pass the Strait of Hormuz,” said Saul Kavonic, head of energy research at advisory company MST Marquee. Hardly any tankers are passing through the Gulf’s choke point at Hor- muz, previously the route for about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supply. Saudi Arabia rerouted most of its oil to the Red Sea and its Yanbu terminal after the war began, but Houthi threats and attacks since last week have now stopped many tankers using that route. A growing volume of Saudi oil, along with other shipping, has instead been heading north up the Red Sea to- ward Suez and the Sumed pipeline, ac- cording to data from Kpler, a market intelligence company. For Asian customers that means a longer voyage around Africa instead of south via the Gulf of Aden. Crude loadings from the pipeline, which crosses Egypt from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean port of Sidi Kerir, have risen to 28.79 million barrels in July from 19.52 million in April, before the Houthis’ July 20 threat to prevent Saudi oil exiting via Bab el-Mandeb. Around 30 ships have clustered around the Port Said anchorage at the canal’s Mediterranean end compared to around 20 earlier this week, ship- tracking data on the MarineTraffic platform showed on July 30. “We’ve seen a clear increase in crude/condensate tankers heading north after loading in the Red Sea,”
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port in a closely divided 100-member Senate. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Wash- ington then reviews the referral and de- cides whether to seek a criminal indict- ment before a grand jury. The office is run by Jeanine Pirro, a close ally of President Donald Trump.
What will prosecutors have to prove?
Prosecutors would have to prove that Fauci willfully declined to answer
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Indexes lifted by soaring Microsoft
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Wall Street ended sharply higher on July 30, with chip stocks jumping and Microsoft logging its biggest daily per- centage gain in 18 years after the tech- nology giant gave a stellar forecast that eased fears about massive spending on AI infrastructure. Microsoft jumped over 15%, boosting its stock market value by $450 billion, the greatest-ever single-day increase for a company on Wall Street. The tech heavyweight forecast quarterly sales and cloud growth above expectations. It also reported capital expenditures be- low estimates and said it expects to keep generating cash through its fiscal 2027 that has just begun. This year, investors have been spooked by heavy spending on AI at big technology firms. Negative cash-flow reports from Alphabet and Tesla last week sparked a bout of selling in AI- linked stocks, with chip stocks also un- der pressure as investors questioned high valuations. Meta Platforms tumbled after the so- cial media heavyweight reported a 91% drop in second-quarter free cash flow, indicating the financial strain of its costly AI build-out. “These are true battleground stocks. Investors can’t make up their minds whether the ROI on the massive ... spending is going to be worthwhile or not,” said Jed Ellerbroek, portfolio man- ager at Argent Capital Management. “Microsoft delivered yesterday, and maybe Microsoft is going to be able to move itself from the ‘battleground’ camp to be a ‘trusted AI winner’ stock,” Ellerbroek said. The PHLX chip index surged 8.2%, with Micron Technology jumping 18%, Sandisk soaring 26% and Advanced Mi- cro Devices up 13%. Amazon rose 3.9% and Apple dipped 1.4%, with both companies set to report their results after the market’s close. Amazon’s stock has underperformed the broader market this year due to con- cerns about heavy spending on AI. Ap- ple, which has not spent heavily on AI, recently overtook Nvidia to become the world’s most valuable company, with a market value of about $4.9 trillion. The S&P 500 climbed 1.66% to end the session at 7,437.63 points. The Nas- daq gained 2.78% to 25,122.18 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.19% to 52,208.06 points. Seven of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes rose, led by technology, up 5.2%, followed by a 1.6% gain in consumer discretionary. On July 29, U.S. stocks closed sharply lower after the Federal Reserve left in- terest rates unchanged, with mixed messages from new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh leaving traders confused about the path of borrowing costs. Bond markets remained on edge, with the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond surging to its highest level in 19 years. Traders are now only pricing in a 59% chance for a rate hike at the Fed’s September meeting, according to CME’s FedWatch, down from 82% a week ago. U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter as the trade deficit wid- ened. The economy grew at a 1.5% rate, slower than estimates of 2.1% growth, data showed. A separate reading also showed U.S. inflation slowed in June. Qualcomm fell 2.6% after the chip- maker forecast fourth-quarter profit be- low estimates and said revenue from Apple products would decline faster than expected. Fair Isaac slumped 17%. Even though the credit-scoring giant lifted its annual profit and revenue forecasts, they re- mained below analysts’ estimates. Starbucks rose 1.6% after the world’s largest coffee chain raised its annual sales and profit forecasts. Analysts on average expect S&P 500 aggregate second-quarter earnings to jump 40% from a year ago, according to LSEG I/B/E/S. Across the U.S. stock market, ad- vancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by a 2.2-to-1 ratio. Volume on U.S. exchanges was relatively heavy, with 18 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 17.2 billion shares over the previous 20 sessions.
Oil prices
network over news coverage
David Shepardson
WASHINGTON – Walt Disney- owned ABC said on July 30 that the Federal Communications Commis- sion’s threat to revoke the network’s broadcast licenses is part of an unprec- edented campaign of intimidation over broadcast content the Trump admini- stration dislikes. ABC said that the Trump admini- stration agency’s nearly unprecedent- ed decision to order an early license re- view of the eight Disney-owned ABC stations is a warning from the govern- ment to other media companies. “The retaliation against ABC is a sig- nal to every media company in the country: accommodate the admini- stration’s view of what news coverage should look like or pay the price,” ABC said in a filing, adding that the agency’s objective is “a media industry too fear- ful of official reprisal to report the news freely.” FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who did not immediately comment July 30, or- dered the reviews in April, even though the stations’ license renewals were not
sentenced to 15 years in prison
Julia Harte
A man who gave his troubled son the rifle he used to kill four people at a Georgia high school was sentenced on July 30 to 15 years in prison, the culmi- nation of the state’s first case in which a parent was convicted of second-de- gree murder for a mass shooting com- mitted by his child. Colt Gray,16, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on July 28 for the 2024 school shooting by a Barrow County Superior Court judge. Two days later, the same judge sentenced his 55- year-old father, Colin Gray, to far less than the 80 years prosecutors had re- quested. Judge Nicholas Primm noted that none of the charges underlying Colin Gray’s conviction entailed mandatory prison time while acknowledging the “immeasurable heartache” his negli- gence had caused. “The loss here is profound,” Primm said, following tearful testimony by several relatives of those killed in the shooting. “But I still have to distinguish
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Generals of All Time,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd’s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are out of office.” Cornyn and Tillis are due to end their terms in the Senate in early Janu- ary. Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer, was named acting attorney general after the president fired Pam Bondi in April. The stalemate over Blanche’s nomi- nation is the latest sign of a growing rupture between Trump and some Senate Republicans. The party faces the possibility of losing its 53-47 seat majority in the Senate in November’s midterm elections, and some Republi- cans in the chamber have shown an in- creasing willingness to resist the presi- dent. Republicans have turned away ef- forts to fund Trump’s ballroom on the site of the demolished White House East Wing, and resisted his calls to change Senate rules to pass his parti- san voter ID bill, the SAVE America Act. Cornyn, who lost his primary reelec- tion bid in Texas after Trump endorsed challenger Ken Paxton, told reporters that negotiations were likely over until next week. Tillis, who represents North Caroli- na, announced his retirement last year after clashing with Trump over Medi- caid cuts in the president’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill. Cornyn and Tillis have been the public faces of opposition to Trump. But Cornyn said on social media that other senators share their concerns. Blanche has also met with Sen. John
scheduled to be considered until start- ing in October 2028. The FCC had not ordered an early re- view in more than 50 years before April. Carrcoulddecidetotakeactionafter a final comment deadline on Aug. 5. The reviews were ordered a day af- ter President Donald Trump urged ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. ABC said over 150,000 comments have been filed and over 95% support the stations. Numerous local officials and groups in the eight states have filed in support of the stations. “From its earliest days, this admini- stration has made clear its intent to punish ABC for its news coverage and to create a chilling effect on ABC and others,” ABC said. The FCC said the move stemmed from a yearlong investigation into whether Disney’s diversity policies amounted to unlawful discrimination, an allegation the company denies. Dis- ney did not immediately comment on July 30. Broadcast stations need FCC li- censes to use public airwaves. While li- cense revocations are exceptionally
Colin Gray is the latest U.S. parent to be prosecuted for a mass shooting committed by a child.
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your acts from the malignant heart and the acts that Colt Gray committed.” Colin Gray is the latest U.S. parent to be prosecuted for a mass shooting committed by a child – an emerging le- gal strategy employed by prosecutors in a bid to tackle the epidemic of gun violence in U.S. schools. Months before Colt Gray’s shooting, the parents of a Michigan teenager who shot and killed four classmates were sentenced to10 to15 years in pris- on after being convicted for man-
Curtis, R-Utah, to try to shore up sup- port. Blanche likely does not need to be confirmed to effectively serve as Trump’s attorney general for the rest of his term as president. Acting officers can serve in their roles “for the period that the nomination is pending in the Senate,” so long as their nomination is not formally rejected or withdrawn. And as deputy attorney general, he can exercise all duties of the attorney general’s office when that office is va- cant. That means that so long as he is in that position, and there is no one above him, Blanche can likely run the Justice Department indefinitely.
Proposed fund in dispute
The “anti-weaponization” fund, crafted as part of a legal settlement be- tween Trump and the Justice Depart- ment to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over allegedly mishandling his tax rec- ords, was put on hold amid opposition from Republicans in Congress. The fund could benefit Trump allies
rare, critics say the prospect of losing a license can pressure broadcasters and raise concerns about government in- terference in editorial and program- ming decisions. Networks have broad First Amendment rights to make pro- gramming decisions. Carr opened the investigation into Disney’s diversity practices in March 2025, and said Disney submitted docu- ments he viewed as insufficient. Trump has repeatedly urged broad- casters to drop comedy or news pro- grams he dislikes or which have been critical, pressing regulators to revoke licenses of broadcasters he says are unfair. Trump demanded in November that the FCC revoke ABC licenses after he criticized an ABC News correspondent for asking Saudi Arabia’s crown prince about the 2018 killing of a Washington Post columnist, in a question he dubbed “insubordinate.” The FCC is also investigating ABC daytime talk show “The View,” which discusses U.S. politics, after saying it may be subject to federal rules requir- ing broadcasters to provide equal op- portunities to political candidates.
slaughter. In that case, a jury found Jennifer and James Crumbley guilty of not securing guns in their home and of ignoring signs that their son was men- tally disturbed. Colin Gray’s defense attorney Brian Hobbs on July 30 urged the judge to give his client a sentence of 10 years in prison and 10 years of probation, argu- ing the Michigan parents had more ad- vance notice of their son’s problems and noting that Gray was the first par- ent in the state to be charged for a child’s mass shooting. “We would ask the court not to make Georgia the national outlier in this first case of its kind, against a defendant whose warnings came with less and whose efforts were more,” Hobbs said. Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith rejected Hobbs’s claim that Colin Gray had little warning of his son’s violent plans, showing the judge a replica of a bedroom wall on which Colt had created a shrine to the gun- man behind the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The risk was “staring him in the face every day,” Smith told the judge.
who have said they were unfairly tar- geted in the past by the federal govern- ment for their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump last year gave clemency to his supporters who were prosecuted for their roles in the Jan. 6 riot. Cornyn told reporters earlier on July 30 that he was still waiting for the Jus- tice Department to formalize assur- ances that it would not implement the fund. “I don’t know whether they think they can wait us out or we’ll cave. But I can assure you we won’t,” Cornyn told reporters. Cornyn and Tillis also have objec- tions to a deal with the IRS that would prevent tax audits of Trump and his as- sociates. Trump ousted Bondi over his frus- trations with her performance, espe- cially over the release of files relating to the late financier and sex offender Jef- frey Epstein. Trump also felt Bondi was not moving quickly enough to prose- cute critics and adversaries whom he wanted to face criminal charges, ac- cording to sources.
Todd Blanche likely does not need to be confirmed to effectively serve as President Donald Trump’s attorney general for the rest of his term.
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CAIRO – President Donald Trump on July 30 said Cairo talks between media- tors and Hamas leaders have led to a “HISTORIC agreement for the COM- PLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas” in what he described as structured phases. Sources close to the talks told Reu- ters earlier on July 30 that progress was made but it is uncertain if the agree- ment will hold, as an Israeli official had said the proposed terms were not satis- factory. “This agreement is a critical step to- wards Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian government that will work closely with the Board of Peace to help the Palestinian people,” Trump said in a social media post. “At the same time, Israel will have the security it deserves, with Gaza no longer used as a base for terror attacks.” The Israeli Embassy in Washington and Hamas did not immediately re- spond to requests for comment about Trump’s post. A Hamas official and a diplomat close to the Cairo talks said the progress would be tested by Israel’s re- sponse and whether this allowed a broad accord to be reached.
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Senate panel votes to advance Trump’s CDC pick Schwartz
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate health committee voted on July 30 to advance the nomination of President Donald Trump’s pick for CDC director, Dr. Erica Schwartz, handing his admini- stration a rare win after repeated failed attempts to fill top health posts. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee sent Schwartz, Trump’s third pick to run the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- tion, to the full Senate on a 13-10 vote, with Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine the lone member to cross party lines. Trump withdrew his first CDC pick, Dave Weldon, and his first surgeon gen- eral nominee, Janette Nesheiwat, in 2025 before either reached a hearing. He withdrew a second surgeon general pick, Casey Means, in April. If confirmed, Schwartz would be the first permanent CDC director since Su- san Monarez, Trump’s second pick, was fired by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last year after less than a month over a clash on vaccine policy. Schwartz is set to inherit an agency confronting the worst U.S. measles re- surgence in three decades, driven by falling childhood immunization rates; an Ebola outbreak in Congo and Ugan- da; and the largest U.S. foodborne ill- ness outbreak in recent years.
U.S. cyber agency warns hackers are targeting water systems
The U.S. government’s civilian cyber defense agency on July 30 warned of a significant increase in hackers targeting technology used to maintain and con- trol water and wastewater systems, and said operators of such systems should remove them from the internet as soon as possible. The warning comes two days after Minnesota’s state IT agency said more than 30 community water systems in the state were targeted in a “coordinat- ed cyberattack” on July 26 and 27. U.S. officials and investigators re- viewing the matter say it is likely Irani- an-linked hackers are behind the Min- nesota attacks, the New York Times re- ported July 30. Representatives for the Iranian government did not immediate- ly respond to a request for comment. State and local officials have said the Minnesota attacks did not threaten wa- ter safety, but that in some cases certain systems were taken offline and had to be reset manually.
Migrants pour into Spain’s Ceuta from Morocco as military called in
CEUTA, Spain – The Spanish govern- ment deployed military units to rein- force police in the North African enclave of Ceuta after migrants in Morocco broke through fences around the city on July 30, overwhelming the Guardia Civil police force. State television TVE reported that 2,000 to 3,000 people had crossed. Reu- ters was not immediately able to con- firm that report. Video footage showed hundreds of migrants swimming or floating on inner tubes from the Moroccan side, and oth- ers breaking through a gate on land and running into the city. Nine corpses were found on July 30, local authorities said, adding to a toll of 60 migrants who have died attempting to cross into Ceuta in recent months. The government said 200 specialized police officers and 60 troops had arrived from the Spanish mainland to reinforce the enclave’s regular forces. Reuters
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BRASILIA, Brazil – The Brazilian government has for weeks withheld the formal diplomatic approval needed for the next U.S. ambassador to take up his post, angering U.S. officials and deepening a rift between the Western Hemisphere’s two largest democra- cies. The dispute could leave Washington without an ambassador in Brasilia ahead of Brazil’s October election, add- ing to tensions that have affected trade flows and resulted in accusations of in- terference in domestic affairs. Daniel Perez, a Florida state repre- sentative and close ally of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was nominated by President Donald Trump on June1. The nomination occurred before the United States sought Brazil’s approval, a com- mon diplomatic step known as “agré- ment,” said four people familiar with the matter. Officials in Brasilia viewed that omission as a disrespectful breach of protocol, according to two officials who requested anonymity to describe pri- vate diplomatic conversations. Perez’s nomination is awaiting a full Senate
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said George Morris of energy analytics firm Vortexa, attributing this to the Houthi threats. Crude is still flowing south through Bab el-Mandeb, though at around half the volume at the start of the month, the Kpler data showed, with around 43% of Yanbu loadings heading south compared to 81% in June. Although many tankers are avoiding Bab el-Mandeb altogether, some, in- cluding Chinese vessels, have permis- sion from the Houthis to pass. An in- creasing number of tankers are also traveling with their trackers turned off, Morris said. And the Damietta attack does not necessarily imply any immediate threat to the canal, said Aly Blakeway, head of Atlantic LNG at S&P Global En- ergy. “The market isn’t pricing in dis- ruption to the canal at this stage,” Bla- keway said. The Suez Canal Authority did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Long, uncertain route to market
Iran has threatened to stop all Mid- dle Eastern energy exports, saying that no oil should flow from the region while the United States blockades Iranian tankers. The Houthis announced a blockade on all Saudi shipping – a category that may include any vessels seeking to car- ry crude to the Mediterranean after loading at Yanbu. They have also both demonstrated that the canal zone is within the range of their drones and rockets, having re- peatedly fired at Israel, though the long distances involved give more opportu- nity to bring down projectiles. That fact alone may now raise insur- ance prices, said Martin Senior, head of LNG pricing at Argus. “Insurers may also command higher Additional War Risk Premiums for Suez in light of the [Egypt] attack, given the increased risk to shipping and energy infrastructure in the region,” he said,
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questions relevant to a Senate inquiry. Fauci will likely not be able to argue that his refusal was based on legal ad- vice. Judges barred Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro from raising that defense when they faced criminal contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, at- tack on the U.S. Capitol. Both Bannon and Navarro were con- victed and imprisoned.
vote after passing committee last week, though he will not be able to take up the post until Brazil approves. In recent days, some Trump officials have grown increasingly exasperated about what they interpret as Brazil’s slow-walking, according to two of the sources. One of the people added, without elaborating, that the admini- stration may take punitive action against Brazil as soon as July 31 if the matter is not resolved. The administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist, has long had a tense relationship with Ru- bio’s State Department due to what it sees as efforts to influence Latin Amer- ican politics in favor of conservatives. The Trump administration, con- versely, has accused the Brazilian gov- ernment of at times censoring conser- vatives or tilting the scales against them in judicial proceedings. Asked about Brazil’s delay in grant- ing agrément for Perez, a State Depart- ment spokesperson said: “President Trump has the right to determine who represents the American people and interests around the world. President Trump is assembling an America First diplomatic A-team across his admini- stration, subject to the advice and con- sent of the Senate. We reject any effort by foreign countries to interfere in our domestic processes.” Brazil is investigating Perez in keep- ing with standard procedure, two Bra-
Ships are seen docked at Egypt’s port of Damietta on July 30. No party has claimed responsibility for the July 29 attack.
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while noting that Iran had not made any specific threats. Shipping companies were already reevaluating their security arrange- ments for ships around Egypt’s Medi- terranean ports near the Suez Canal, a maritime security source said. In Egypt, the attack is not necessar- ily seen as evidence that Suez is at risk. “The canal is heavily guarded and se- cured around the clock,” said Wael Kaddour, a former Suez Canal Author- ity board member. Even before the attack, Middle East- ern oil was taking an increasingly long, complex and expensive route to reach global markets. “Yanbu cargoes accounted for around 15% of Asia’s seaborne crude/ condensate imports in June, so sus- tained disruption has meaningful im- plications for Asian refiners – routing via Suez instead of Bab el-Mandeb more than doubles voyage times to Northeast Asia, delaying arrivals by roughly a month,” Morris said. Moving large volumes through Suez is awkward for other reasons too. Very Large Crude Carriers, or VLCCs, have too deep a draft to traverse Suez fully laden and have to offload some crude
If the Senate votes to support the re- ferral and the Justice Department de- cides to seek charges, an indictment would still need to be approved by a grand jury. Grand jury panels in Wash- ington have refused to sign off on charges in multiple politically charged cases during the Trump administra- tion. If Fauci is indicted, his lawyers will likely argue that he cannot face con- tempt charges for exercising his right under the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment to refuse to answer ques- tions that could expose him to criminal liability. Then-President Joe Biden pardoned Fauci for any offenses he may have committed from 2014 until January 2025. The pardon does not cover any con- duct that has happened since Biden
zilian officials said. One of them added that agrément will probably not be granted before Brazil’s election Oct. 4. Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it would not comment on the matter “as the process is covered by the principle of confidentiality es- tablished in the Vienna Convention.” Perez’s Florida House office did not respond to an email. National sovereignty has become a key rallying cry for Lula, as he seeks his fourth non-consecutive term in Octo- ber’s election. His main opponent is Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of for- mer President Jair Bolsonaro, who has sought to portray Trump as a key ally. In June, the State Department des- ignated two Brazilian organized crime groups as terrorist organizations, de- spite opposition from the Brazilian government. Washington imposed a 25% tariff this month on several Brazil- ian products, citing what it described as unfair trade practices. Last week, it announced an additional 12.5% levy linked to concerns over forced labor. At an event on July 29, Lula said Brazil had denied visa requests for two Trump administration officials who, according to him, planned to travel to the country “to meddle in Brazil’s elec- tion,” confirming a Reuters report from last week. A U.S. State Department spokesperson at the time rejected any suggestion of a “ploy” to undermine Brazil’s elections.
through the Sumed pipeline before re- loading it in the Mediterranean. Still, more crude could flow through Suez and Sumed. Last week 1.4 million barrels a day of oil were lifted from Sidi Kerir, compared to its historical weekly peak of 2.1 million barrels per day and Sumed’s capacity of 2.5 million barrels. Morris said around 10 VLCCs were likely to load at Sidi Kerir in the coming weeks, mainly serving Asian refiners. That capacity – along with the un- certain outlook for Hormuz and Bab el- Mandeb traffic – underscores why Suez could be so important a route in the current crisis and why any threat to its operations could hit so hard. “An attack anywhere within the ca- nal region would substantially increase war risk insurance premiums. It would also substantially change the security assessment of the region,” said Corey Ranslem, CEO of maritime security group Dryad Global. “Disruption to the Suez Canal would have an almost immediate impact on prices. The inflationary pressure from longer voyages, higher freight, would be translated to the consumers almost immediately,” said Matthew Wright, principal freight analyst at Kpler.
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left office, but it could complicate Fau- ci’s ability to rely on the Fifth Amend- ment defense. Courts have not decided whether a witness who has received a presiden- tial pardon can refuse to answer ques- tions before Congress about the con- duct covered by that pardon, legal ex- perts say. That question would likely need to be resolved before Fauci could face trial.
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