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这 5 支 NFL 球队在 2026 年可能会更具活力

闪电队和酋长队是本赛季值得关注的球队之列。见“体育”版

论坛观点：帕顿将永远在我们心中

读者分享他们对这位乡村音乐女王最深刻的记忆。见“观点”版

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喜剧演员谈成名：“一切都一样”

莉安娜·摩根分享了关于名人粉丝以及在她同名网飞 (Netflix) 喜剧 Season 2 中出演的 A 级客串演员的故事。见“生活”版

美国人团结起来对抗大科技公司

AI、数据中心、Flock 监控摄像头遭遇抵制

Christopher Cann 今日美国 (USA TODAY)

技术正日益将美国人凝聚在一起。只不过方式与我们曾经设想的不同。

大约四分之一个世纪前，8 in 10 美国人表示，他们预期新千年将迎来“科学与技术的胜利”。当时，大多数成年人表示他们对计算机和互联网持积极看法。

而现在，美国人日益团结起来，共同反对快速发展的技术及其背后的公司。邻居们集结起来反对数据中心。毕业典礼上的群众对人工智能发出嘘声。此外，48 个州针对 Meta 公司平台危害儿童的指控提起诉讼，导致其 Facebook 和 Instagram 平台达成了一项具有里程碑意义的 180 亿美元和解协议。

活动人士布兰迪·普莱斯在 8 月 18 日孟菲斯一次关于数据中心的市议会会议上，举牌反对 AI。 STU BOYD II / USA TODAY NETWORK

民调显示，2026, 公众对美国最大科技公司及其尖端产品的评价跌至多年来最低点。美国人表示，对于一个由 AI 主导的未来，他们感到担忧多于兴奋。

“美国人正聚集在一起就某事达成共识，但原因完全不同，”美国大学国会与总统研究中心主任托马斯·卡恩表示。“动机虽然不同，但担忧是一样的——在全国范围内，我们看到政治家们正在对此做出回应。”

这种抵制情绪呈现出显著的跨党派特征。对硅谷计划的抵制正在形成一个由自由派和保守派组成的独特联盟，涵盖了从农村社区到大城市的群体。这一现象也体现在公开反对数据中心和高科技监控的民选官员身上，包括佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯、佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯、纽约州众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯以及德克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特。

这种愤怒有时会导致威胁和暴力。4 月，一名男子向 OpenAI 首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼的家中投掷了莫洛托夫鸡尾酒。投票支持数据中心的当地官员收到了死亡威胁。8 月，田纳西州的一位县委员表示，Flock Safety 的首席执行官——该公司维护着一个庞大的

见“科技之战”，第 4A 页

亚瑟·费迪南德，84, 在纽约州布法罗附近的家中与临终关怀工作人员尼科尔·戈尔丁交谈。在副作用变得难以忍受后，他停止了化疗并进入居家临终关怀。STEPHEN R. POWELL 为今日美国 (USA TODAY) 拍摄

姑息治疗

临终关怀让剩余的时间（无论长短）发挥最大价值

Michael Collins 今日美国

当来自临终关怀机构的妮可·戈尔丁（Nicole Golding）到达时，詹姆斯·布雷思韦特（James Braithwaite）正等在自家门口。• 他知道自己快死了，但感觉终点尚未临近。• “今天感觉怎么样？”戈尔丁问道，布雷思韦特引导她坐在餐厅的桌边。• 79岁的布雷思韦特患有胃癌晚期。他坚称自己感觉良好。• 他只要有机会就依然会出门。依然对着儿子放在楼下的卡拉OK机大声唱詹姆斯·泰勒（James Taylor）的歌。他仍然能拿起橄榄球将其抛向空中。• 在布法罗郊区这条安静的林荫道上，他穿着海军蓝短裤和 Polo 衫，谈兴浓厚，看起来不像戈尔丁在常规检查中见到的大多数患者。

詹姆斯·布雷思韦特，来自纽约州布法罗，在被诊断为胃癌晚期后，于 4 月进入居家临终关怀。MICHAEL COLLINS / 今日美国

现在他患了癌症并面临必然的死亡，詹姆斯·布雷思韦特明白了什么才是最重要的：他说，重要的不是你如何离开这个世界，而是你如何生活。

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“当我们使用‘临终关怀’（hospice）这个词时，人们想到的是最后几周，想到的是吗啡滴注，想到的是死亡。立即死亡，”负责布雷思韦特病例团队的执业护士兼主管戈尔丁说道。

对于许多临终关怀患者来说，死亡既非立即也非迅速。身体会在准备好时停止运转。有时这需要几周或几个月。在极少数情况下，需要数年。

布雷思韦特在得知 15 年前以为已经治愈的癌症复发后，于 4 月通过布法罗临终关怀与姑息治疗中心（Buffalo Hospice & Palliative Care）加入了居家临终关怀。这一次，无法阻止它了。

医生说他可能还能活六个月，也许一年。

“今天就是那一天吗？”他每天早晨醒来时会这样想。

在那之前，他打算继续生活。

见 临终关怀（HOSPICE），第 6A 页

用户涌向以信鸽速度发送文本的应用程序

慢速消息吸引追求简约技术的粉丝

Greta Cross 今日美国

既然可以发送信鸽，为什么还要发短信？

今年 4 月，两款允许用户以信鸽速度发送消息的移动应用程序在应用商店上线。尽管 Roost Social 和 Carrier Pidge 这两款应用之间没有任何关联，但随着用户寻求一种更慢的沟通方式，它们已经积累了相当规模的用户群。

从核心来看，Roost 和 Carrier Pidge 是一样的——可以将其想象为传统的蜗牛

见 消息传递（MESSAGING），第 2A 页

古巴开放，启动经济改革

变革在来自美国的压力中展开

Rick Jervis 今日美国 (USA TODAY)

哈瓦那 —— 古巴正准备放宽对其共产主义经济最严格的一些控制，允许私营公司直接与外国企业贸易，赋予外国投资者在雇佣工人方面更大的自由，并扩大他们在岛上开发房地产的能力。

这些预计最早于本周开始生效的变革，将使近期宣布的改革方案成为法律。在特朗普政府通过石油封锁和经济制裁使该国陷入窒息之际，这可能意味着古巴经济的一次重大开放。

古巴对外贸易与外国投资部副部长卡洛斯·路易斯·豪尔赫·门德斯（Carlos Luis Jorge Méndez）在哈瓦那接受《今日美国》独家采访时表示，这些措施是6月份批准的176项经济改革中最具影响力的措施之一。他表示，这代表了一种持久的转变，而非另一次针对私营企业的临时实验。

“这强化了古巴正在开放的观点，”门德斯在接受《今日美国》的一次广泛采访中说道，采访内容涵盖了美古谈判的状态以及近期美国制裁对古巴私营部门的影响。“这是一个真实的过程；这是认真的。这不是一个计谋。”

古巴正准备允许私营公司与外国企业贸易。此举正值该国在制裁下遭受苦难之际。 NORLYS PEREZ / 路透社

卡洛斯·路易斯·豪尔赫·门德斯 古巴对外贸易与外国投资部副部长

过程；这是认真的。这不是一个计谋。”

这些改革在6月份首次公布时，得到了部分分析人士以及美国和古巴企业家的称赞。美国政府则称其为掩饰之举。

古巴如何将这些改革转化为持久的法律仍然是一个关键问题。

美国-古巴贸易与经济委员会（U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council）主席约翰·卡武利奇（John Kavulich）表示，古巴的修正案和改革承诺是该岛私营部门应当前进的“良好轨迹”。该贸易团体自1994年以来一直与古巴打交道。

但他表示，古巴需要修改宪法才能使这些改革永久化。此前在与巴拉克·奥巴马总统政府缓和关系期间实施的经济改革，后来被古巴领导人撤销。

卡武利奇说，古巴政府“将日益发现，它对古巴私营部门相关的政策、法规和法令做出越多改变……关于这些改变可持续性的疑问就会越多”。“古巴的宪法需要进行调整——而且留给调整的时间不多了。”

在美古紧张局势升级的背景下，古巴采取措施向外国投资开放经济。两国之间的直接谈判似乎陷入停滞。根据《今日美国》7月的一次独家采访，美国一直在寻找与古巴沟通的对话者，并向前古巴总统劳尔·卡斯特罗的孙子劳尔·吉列尔莫·罗德里格斯·卡斯特罗（Raul Guillermo Rodríguez Castro）发出了接触信号。

与此同时，在特朗普政府加强制裁和实施石油封锁之后，古巴面临着日益加深的人道主义危机，后者对该岛投射了自1962年古巴导弹危机以来未见的军事威胁。国务卿马可·鲁比奥（Marco Rubio）于8月20日宣布了新一轮制裁。

“每当他们创造一种新机制试图摆脱绞索时，我们就将其封死，”鲁比奥告诉Axios。

门德斯证实，两国已中断谈判，直到他们能找到共同点。

“我们维持我们的立场，并愿意继续对话，”他说。

据门德斯称，预计本周宣布或立法实施的其他古巴经济措施包括：

• 古巴私营公司将能够直接处理进出口业务，无需经过国家机构，并可进口其选择的任何商品（部分例外情况除外）。

• 古巴将取消古巴法律中的一项规定，该规定要求外国投资者必须通过国家机构雇佣工人。

• 政府将扩大外国人在古巴开发房地产的权利。

门德斯呼应了罗德里格斯·卡斯特罗的说法，表示这个共产主义国家已准备好与美国进行谈判，进一步向外国投资开放经济，并允许私营部门繁荣发展，而这正是美国历届政府在过去几十年中一直寻求的目标。

门德斯表示，所有改革措施应在年底前成为法律。

“我们正在进行的这些变革正在深刻地改变国民经济的运行方式，以至于它们将很难被逆转，”门德斯说道。

麻省理工学院因汞化合物问题关闭场地

BrieAnna J. Frank 今日美国

据称一名研究生制造了一种未经授权且具有高度毒性的化学化合物，导致麻省理工学院的一栋建筑预计将至少关闭至 8 月 30 日。

该校 8 月 29 日的声明称，这名未公开身份的学生自行前往急诊室就医，并表示其在 8 月 26 日合成了二甲基汞。根据美国职业安全与健康管理局（OSHA）的数据，该化合物不足 0.1 毫升即为“严重毒性剂量”。

根据新罕布什尔州该校的记录，达特茅斯学院教授凯伦·韦特汉恩（Karen Wetterhahn）在 1997 年因在手套上洒了“几滴”二甲基汞而去世。在泄漏数月后，她出现了健康问题，随后被发现是急性汞中毒的影响。

校方表示，该麻省理工学院学生在初步血液检测中未显示出汞暴露迹象。8 月 29 日的声明还提到，更新后的信息使二甲基汞是否被合成“存疑”。

校方表示，该学生正处于医疗监护之下，而 18 号楼由于“出于极度谨慎而继续进行专业除污工作”仍保持关闭状态。

麻省理工学院表示，该学生宿舍公共区域的高接触表面已由专业人员清理，其个人单元的除污工作正在进行中。该建筑未采取限制措施。

8 月 26 日在学生及其受影响工作区附近的人员已获得基准检测机会。校方表示，官员们认为“发生二次或三次暴露的风险极低”，且不建议当天不在该学生实验室空间内的人员进行检测。

今日美国对第一修正案议题的报道由自由论坛（Freedom Forum）与新闻资金合作伙伴（Journalism Funding Partners）协作资助。资助方不提供编辑建议。

消息传递

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邮件，但它是数字化的（且带有鸟类）。

在其中一款应用上创建账户时，用户需要输入自己的位置。随后，用户撰写一条消息并发送给同样拥有该应用的朋友。消息的发送速度等同于一只鸟从一个朋友飞到另一个朋友所需的时间（或足够接近真实速度），且为实时发送。

这两款应用同时推出，但平台创建者告诉《今日美国》（USA TODAY），他们此前并不知晓对方的存在。

Carrier Pidge 仅提供鸽子，在应用中的飞行速度为 110 mph（英里 / 小时）。（根据诺森伯兰国家公园的数据，鸽子的实际飞行速度为 50-60 mph）。Roost 则提供了多种鸟类和其他动物供用户选择，包括飞行速度为 51 的绿头鸭、49.5 的原鸽以及移动速度为 1 的红耳龟。

除了发送消息，Roost 还提供可让用户升级动物的小游戏，以及一个能随机连接全球用户的笔友功能。

来自纽约的 31, 岁男子洛根·门德尔松（Logan Mendelsohn）表示，Roost 的创意大约产生于 11 年前，当时他与一群大学好友在一起。

他告诉《今日美国》：“我们当时在欧洲背包旅行，我开玩笑说：‘嘿，我们应该做个应用，给家里的朋友发信鸽，如果消息得花超长时间才能送到，那就太有趣了。’”

他说，当时他及其朋友没有开发应用的经验，但这个小组一直惦记着这个想法。

2025, 年 5 月，在 Ticketmaster 担任高级产品经理的门德尔松开始尝试开发，并将这个想法发布在 TikTok 上。他对自己收到的喜爱程度感到惊讶。

一名 TikTok 用户在早期的视频下评论道：“作为一个热爱搞怪应用且偶尔观鸟的人，我太需要这个应用了。”

在一年时间里，门德尔松完善了概念并开始编写代码。门德尔松表示，该应用于 4 月 30, 日在 Apple App Store 上线。

对于来自布鲁克林的 29, 岁男子诺亚·伊罗比诺（Noah Iarrobino）来说，创建 Carrier Pidge 的过程则快得多。“有一天晚上我正坐在沙发上，这个主意突然蹦了出来，”软件工程师伊罗比诺告诉《今日美国》。“我脑子里挥之不去，就在那天晚上，我开始构建这个项目。开发过程中我一直带着灿烂的笑容，不停地笑。”

诺亚·伊罗比诺在 X 上关于他创建的移动应用 Carrier Pidge 的帖子转发。由诺亚·伊罗比诺提供

伊罗比诺表示，他在 4 月初有了这个想法，到 4 月 18, 日，该应用就已在 Apple App Store 上线。很大程度上，人工智能助力了这一快速周转。

两款应用均得到了 AI 的帮助

伊罗比诺表示，他首先使用 AI 聊天机器人来敲定想法，然后要求 生成一个可以上传到 Claude Code 以创建应用的文件。根据 Claude 官网， Code 是于 2025, 年 2 月发布的 编程助手，能够阅读代码、编辑文件、运行命令并与用户的开发工具集成。伊罗比诺说， Code 编写了 Carrier Pidge 的“很大一部分”内容。

门德尔松在开发 Roost 时也使用了 。

这位开发者表示，他编写了 Roost 的初始代码，但在应用发布后，他一直使用 Code 来解决缺陷。

门德尔松说，最初他在应用中使用了 生成的艺术图，但在应用发布后，他遭到了广泛的抵制。随着应用的走红，门德尔松表示他正寻求用真人创作的元素来替换这些艺术图。为了实现这一目标，门德尔松在 Roost 应用中发起了一项艺术家挑战赛，用户可以提交各种动物的艺术作品，随后由其他用户投票决定。

两位创建者均表示，尽管这两款应用极其相似，但它们及时的发布具有重要意义。两人在应用发布后进行了交流，并一致认为他们的项目为不同的用户提供了不同的体验。

国家公园管理局支持特朗普的拱门计划，尽管存在担忧

6月28日，在华盛顿特区国家广场举行的美国大州博览会期间，一座总统唐纳德·特朗普提议的250英尺“凯旋门”的小型复制品在雨中伫立。ELIZABETH FRANTZ / 路透社

250英尺高的拱门将产生“不利影响”

Jeanine Santucci

今日美国

尽管国家公园管理局（NPS）发现，总统唐纳德·特朗普提议建造的一座巨型拱门将对华盛顿其他纪念碑和历史遗迹的景观产生负面影响，但该局仍支持这一计划。

8月28日发布的一份报告称，NPS将努力减轻或尽量减少损害，但这座被称为“凯旋门”的计划拱门将通过“致敬美国的建国原则，来庆祝美国独立250周年”。

报告称，在计划地点（即阿灵顿纪念桥与乔治·华盛顿纪念公园路在阿灵顿国家公墓入口前交汇处）建造这座250英尺高的拱门，将“与其作为仪式门户以及庆祝勇气、牺牲和美国遗产的‘英雄大道’的既定角色相一致”。

什么是凯旋门

该拱门计划建在阿灵顿公墓入口附近，位于波托马克河对岸的林肯纪念堂对面。尽管人们对其计划的250英尺高度表示担忧——这一高度将超过林肯纪念堂，并接近国会大厦288英尺的高度——但NPS否决了建造较小结构的方案。报告称，250英尺代表了美国建国250周年。

该拱门将是一个由花岗岩覆盖的钢筋混凝土结构，中心有一个带翼的人物形象和两只鹰。报告称，一个观景台将让游客能够俯瞰周围的地标。

这座拱门是特朗普主导的多个旨在给华盛顿景观留下个人印记的项目之一。这些项目还包括改造林肯纪念堂的反思池，以及在白宫旁建造一座新的舞厅，并在行政官邸外建设一个花岗岩直升机停机坪。

其他纪念碑和遗迹将受到怎样的影响？

根据NPS的报告，数十个地点将受到不利影响。这些影响主要与破坏这些地点的景观或从这些地点看到的视野有关，而非对建筑结构本身的影响。

报告称，当一个项目可能“直接或间接地改变历史财产的任何特征……从而削弱该财产在位置、设计、环境、材料、工艺、氛围或关联方面的完整性”时，即被认定为产生不利影响。

报告指出，受影响的财产将包括纪念圆环（Memorial Circle）、阿灵顿纪念桥、纪念大道、阿灵顿国家公墓、阿灵顿故居以及林肯纪念堂走廊。其他数十座纪念碑或遗迹也将受到影响。

NPS否决了缩小规模或移动拱门位置的替代方案。例如，报告称，将拱门建小反而会遮挡林肯纪念堂的景观，而不是将其框在其中。将其移至其他地方则会违背初衷：该拱门就是为该位置而规划的。

但报告表示，NPS将致力于减轻或尽量减少负面影响。其计划采取措施尽量减少拱门施工带来的干扰，修复纪念大道及桥梁沿线的其他建筑，并制作教育材料。

报告称：“NPS意识到，所选位置导致了该工程产生不利影响，因为纪念圆环是高度敏感的历史和纪念景观的一部分。然而，从保护角度来看，使纪念圆环变得敏感的相同特征，也使其成为该工程在历史上最合适的位置。”

《星条旗报》被解雇员工起诉五角大楼

軍方及赫格塞斯被指控实施审查

BrieAnna J. Frank

今日美国 (USA TODAY)

军方报纸《星条旗报》（Stars and Stripes）被解雇的工作人员起诉五角大楼，就其被解雇一事提出诉讼，指控军方采取了“极端的审查手段”，违反了宪法第一修正案。

该联邦诉讼于 8 月 27 日向哥伦比亚特区美国地方法院提起。就在此前不到一周，该报前总编辑埃里克·斯拉文（Erik Slavin）在接受 CBS 新闻采访时表示，军方的审查将“构成一条红线”，随后他告诉新闻机构，自己因“不服从命令”而被解雇。他坚持认为，该报“必须保持编辑独立”。

五角大楼还解雇了出版人马克斯·莱德雷尔（Max Lederer）和中东记者劳拉·科特（Lara Korte）。

诉讼指控五角大楼试图解雇这些员工，是因为他们“以私人公民身份发声，支持新闻界报道军事行动的自由及其接触所有军人的需求，且是对他们发表关于美国“亚伯拉罕·林肯号”号航空母舰在中东延长执行任务期间状况恶化的新闻报道而采取的报复行为”。

这三人由民主捍卫者基金（Democracy Defenders Fund）、良好政府律师协会（Lawyers for Good Government）、政府问责项目（Government Accountability Project）以及耶鲁大学媒体自由与信息获取诊所代表。

战争部和部长皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth），以及五角大楼首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔（Sean Parnell）和赫格塞斯的公共事务首席副助理安德鲁·布雷（Andrew Brey）被列为被告。

起诉书请求法院宣布这些解雇行为根据第一修正案和《行政程序法》是非法的，并禁止五角大楼继续执行解雇决定。

《星条旗报》的网站称，其约一半的资金来自战争部，且在“编辑上独立”并“受第一修正案原则管辖”。在总统唐纳德·特朗普的第二个任期内，五角大楼一直被指控违反这些原则，目前仍有与该部门在 2025 年实施的新闻政策以及因认为存在“觉醒主义”而从其学校中移除数百本书籍相关的诉讼在审。

战争部长皮特·赫格塞斯涉及一起关于解雇《星条旗报》工作人员的诉讼。ANNA MONEYMAKER / GETTY IMAGES

五角大楼拒绝就该诉讼发表评论。

诉状：出版人选择退休而非解雇员工

该诉状指控五角大楼自2025年1月以来“升级了对《星条旗》独立性的攻击”。

诉状引用了帕内尔（Parnell）1月份在X上发布的一篇帖子，其中称五角大楼将使该报“现代化”，并将其内容“重新聚焦，远离那些损耗士气的‘觉醒’干扰”。诉状称，在同一天，五角大楼“据称在没有通知或提供公众评论机会的情况下，废除了保护《星条旗》编辑独立性的《星条旗条例》”。

诉状称，随后在3月份的一份备忘录中，“对编辑室的运作和内容施加了前所未有的限制”。这些变更包括停止使用电讯稿和停止刊登漫画。

诉状称，帕内尔和布雷（Brey）随后指责莱德勒（Lederer）“据称未能执行3月份的备忘录”。

斯拉文（Slavin）和科特（Korte）均获得了以个人身份参加CBS新闻采访的批准。该采访于6月26日在《星条旗》编辑室拍摄，并于7月 5. 播出。在采访中，科特表示她为这家报纸工作，“而不是为五角大楼，不是为任何政府，也不是为任何政策制定者工作”。

据称，帕内尔在7月5日的一封电子邮件中询问莱德勒对该报道的看法，而莱德勒为斯拉文和科特辩护。诉状称，莱德勒当月的季度进度审查报告指出，“（绩效）计划中最重要的元素是对美国总统政策的忠实执行”，并批评了其所谓的莱德勒“机构控制力的丧失”。

根据诉状，该审查报告称：“《星条旗》团队的反抗直接反映了马克斯（Max）领导能力的失败。”

在报纸于8月 11, 发表了一篇关于报道的“亚伯拉罕·林肯号”号航空母舰问题的故事后，布雷据称向莱德勒发送了电子邮件，指示他向斯拉文和科特发出离职通知，“明确基于他们向CBS发表的言论”。

诉状称，莱德勒以澄清问题以及担心拟定的离职措辞中未包含要求的30天通知期作为回应。布雷重申了指令，而莱德勒选择退休而非执行该指令。

他在8月 18 发给员工的电子邮件中宣布退休，信中称，“现在已经很清楚，我的领导哲学以及我对《星条旗》价值和使命的理解，与国防部长对该组织的规划在根本方面存在分歧。”他原定的最后工作日为9月30日。

但诉状称，他与斯拉文、科特在8月 21 均收到了离职通知，要求他们在五个工作日内做出回应。

根据诉状，在发出离职通知的同一天，五角大楼发布了一项指南，称《星条旗》的内容“不得对军事准备状态和安全产生直接、实质且立即的负面影响”。这包括“煽动或产生紧迫非法行为的内容”，或披露“可预见地被对手利用”的非公开信息。

诉状称，原告预计五角大楼将于8月 28 将其解雇，“基于上述事件经过以及迄今为止程序的异常”。

《今日美国》（USA TODAY）对第一修正案议题的报道由自由论坛（Freedom Forum）与新闻资助伙伴（Journalism Funding Partners）协作资助。资助方不提供编辑建议。

路易斯安那州一名 8 岁儿童被变形虫杀死

淡水中发现“食脑”感染

Sara Moniuszko 今日美国

一名来自路易斯安那州的 8 岁女孩最近在游泳后死于食脑变形虫。现在，许多家庭在担心这件事是否也会发生在自己的亲人身上。

来自拉斯顿（Ruston）的莉莉安·斯马特（Lillian Smart）于 8 月 22 日去世。她的家人在“爱莉莉安”（Love for Lillian）脸书页面的公开帖子中写道，“她大脑受到的损伤过于严重，她的小身体无法从中恢复。”

路易斯安那州卫生部 8 月 19 日报告称，已确认感染了福氏耐格里变形虫（Naegleria fowleri），这种变形虫通常被称为食脑变形虫，她可能是在克莱本湖（Lake Claiborne）游泳时感染的。这种感染几乎总是致命的。

福氏耐格里变形虫分布在哪里？

福氏耐格里变形虫常见于全美国温暖的淡水湖泊、河流、运河和池塘中。它不存在于盐水中，也不存在于维护良好且经过氯化处理的泳池中。

这种变形虫经常被称为“食脑”，因为它会导致一种名为原发性变形虫性脑膜脑炎（PAM）的致命感染，该病会破坏脑组织。

如何感染食脑变形虫？

当含有变形虫的水冲入鼻腔并到达大脑时，人可能会患上原发性变形虫性脑膜脑炎。如果被吞下，福氏耐格里变形虫无法感染人体，且不会在人与人之间传播。

根据美国疾控中心（CDC）的数据，食脑变形虫每年导致死亡的美国人通常少于 10 人。在 1962 年至 2024 年期间美国记录的 167 例病例中，仅确认了 4 名幸存者。

发表在《科学》（Science）杂志上的一篇研究文章称：“福氏耐格里变形虫是无害的池塘居民——除非它进入了人类游泳者的鼻腔。一旦进入内部，变形虫就可以沿着鼻腔内的神经纤维，通过颅骨上的微小开口爬行，直到到达大脑。”

目前尚不清楚这些通常以细菌为食且原本无害的生物为何会表现出这种行为——但这可能与它们喜欢爬进狭窄空间以寻找食物有关。

马萨诸塞大学达特茅斯分校的细胞生物学家卡特里娜·维勒（Katrina Velle）告诉《科学》杂志：“当变形虫进入你的上鼻窦时，这确实只是一种不幸的情况。它们只是在做它们进化而来的事情——寻找细菌可能存在的角落和缝隙。”

根据美国疾病控制与预防中心（Centers for Disease Control and Prevention）的数据，食脑变形虫每年导致死亡的美国人通常少于 10 人。在 1962 年至 2024 年期间美国记录的 167 例病例中，仅确认了 4 名幸存者。

2025 年 7 月，一名男孩在南卡罗来纳州的一个湖中游泳后死于食脑变形虫。

如何预防食脑变形虫？

虽然在夏季可能无法完全避免水上活动，但有一些方法可以降低感染这种致命疾病的风险：

• 在跳入淡水之前，佩戴鼻夹或捏住鼻子。
• 避免在浅水中挖掘，因为变形虫更有可能生活在那里。
• 在温泉中保持头部在水面上。

贡献者：Janet Loehrke, Christopher Cann 和 George Petras, 今日美国；Greg Hilburn, Julie Garisto, T. Sudore 和 C.A. Bridge, 今日美国网络

特朗普：将向FCC举报《新闻会面》的韦尔克

他指责NBC主持人存在“蓄意的不准确”

Jay Stahl 今日美国

总统唐纳德·特朗普表示，由于克里斯汀·韦尔克（Kristen Welker）在报道他中期选举前的背书情况时存在问题，他将向美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）举报这位《新闻会面》（Meet the Press）的主持人。

“克里斯汀·韦尔克，这位曾经伟大的《新闻会面》中不受欢迎的‘女主人’——现在该节目被认为是《虚假新闻会面》（Meet the Fake Press）——刚刚声称唐纳德·特朗普在候选人背书方面‘结果不一’，而达琳·格雷厄姆（Darline Graham）和迈克·马泽伊（Mike Mazzei）最近的胜利，使得美国参议院的背书成功率达到100%，美国众议院的成功率达到98%，”特朗普在8月30日的一篇Truth Social帖子中写道。

今日美国已联系NBC寻求评论。

特朗普补充道：“由于这种蓄意的不准确，她将被举报

NBC新闻的克里斯汀·韦尔克在7月31日在俄克拉荷马市举行的全国州长协会会议上主持“共同基础”环节。

今日美国网络 经由路透社连接

至FCC以寻求谴责或惩罚。不幸的是，她不是唯一一个。”

尽管特朗普发布了该帖子，但FCC在法律上并没有太多权力对韦尔克个人采取行动，但他的言论升级了他对这位记者的批评。

6月初，特朗普在与韦尔克进行的一次《新闻会面》采访中，在经历了一番紧张的交锋后突然离场，从而成为新闻头条。当时，这位NBC主播对总统关于加利福尼亚州选举安全的言论提出了反驳。

批评者称FCC已变得日益政治化

FCC向单个广播电台发放许可，而非像NBC和ABC这样的国家网络。该机构的网站称，第一修正案和1934年《通信法》均禁止其审查广播内容，且其“在监督节目内容方面的作用非常有限”。

迪士尼和ABC在8月18日的一项诉讼中起诉该机构，称其针对该网络开展了违宪的“报复性活动”。

批评者表示，在特朗普的第二个任期内，在布伦丹·卡尔（Brendan Carr）的领导下，FCC已变得日益政治化。特朗普在Truth Social的帖子中提到了卡尔，并写道“新闻界是我们国家的耻辱”。

尽管其网站此前将FCC描述为“由国会监督的独立美国政府机构”，但卡尔在12月的一次参议院听证会上表示，由于总统有权解雇委员，FCC“从正式意义上讲并不是一个独立机构”。截至8月30日，FCC网站将其描述为“由国会监督的美国政府机构”。

特朗普在2026年的背书记录确实很强，但他也支持的一些候选人在最近的初选中落败。

在怀俄明州，领导该州公共教育部门的梅根·德根费尔德（Megan Degenfelder）在共和党州长初选中落败。佛罗里达州众议员科里·米尔斯（Cory Mills）失去了连任机会，田纳西州众议员、具有争议的众议院成员安迪·奥格尔斯（Andy Ogles）同样落败。在明尼苏达州，特朗普的长期盟友、MyPillow创始人迈克·林德尔（Mike Lindell）也在共和党州长初选中落败。

撰稿贡献：Emily Condon

科技之战

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AI驱动的监控摄像头网络，应该因叛国罪而被绞死。

科技巨头们为自己的产品辩护，并在很大程度上将这些担忧视为夸大其词或误导。一些高管和政府官员表示，如果允许外国对手在AI开发方面超越美国，可能会危及国家安全。另一些人则认为，限制措施可能会剥夺世界拥有乌托邦未来的机会。

“也许凭借10吉瓦的算力，AI可以找到治愈癌症的方法。或者凭借10吉瓦的算力，AI可以找到为地球上的每个学生提供定制化辅导的方法，”奥特曼去年在他的博客上写道。“如果我们受限于算力，我们将不得不选择优先考虑哪一项；没有人想做这个选择，所以让我们开始建设吧。”

抗议者在7月27, 举起“停止建设数据中心”的标语，当天唐纳德·特朗普总统在密歇根州米尔福德的通用汽车证明场发表讲话。CARLOS OSORIO / 路透社

数据中心抵制浪潮成为主流

在过去的一年里，数据中心从一个鲜为人知的话题变成了能够重塑选举结果的政治导火索。

这些庞大的设施容纳了数千台高性能计算机以及数据存储系统和网络设备，目前正以历史性的速度建设，以满足AI和云计算的需求。问题在于：美国人不想要它们。

今年发布的一项盖洛普（Gallup）调查发现，大约71%的美国成年人反对在他们所在的地区建设数据中心，其中48%的人表示强烈反对。

包括唐纳德·特朗普总统在内的行业倡导者表示，数据中心是AI era, 的必要基础设施，能够支持技术创新，创造高薪就业机会，并为当地社区带来税收。但在全国范围内，反对者们挤满了市议会会议，对水资源和电力资源的压力，以及噪音和污染给社区带来的干扰表达愤怒。

许多政治人物要么利用这种愤怒，要么急于让自己免受日益增长的愤怒之波及。

“人们真的他妈的讨厌数据中心，”密歇根州进步派民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）在7月的一次竞选活动中说道。几天后，德克萨斯州和宾夕法尼亚州的州长——两人去年都曾赞扬数据中心项目——宣布对这些计算中心实施新的限制。

根据研究数据中心的研究机构Data Center Watch的数据，在2026, 的前三个月里，当地的反对意见已阻碍或延迟了至少75个数据中心项目，价值约1300 亿美元 billion。尽管如此，仍有超过1,500个数据中心处于开发阶段。

在已有或拟建数据中心的地区，居民告诉《今日美国》（USA TODAY）网络，他们的担忧范围广泛，从房产价值暴跌到电费上涨，以及缺乏公开通知。

来自孟菲斯的拉尼姆·伊玛姆（Raneem Imam）最近参加了一次市议会会议，支持暂停建设新数据中心。她告诉《商业呼吁报》（The Commercial Appeal，属于《今日美国》网络），她感到“非常没有话语权”，并且有一种挥之不去的被大型科技公司“肆意践踏”的感觉。（埃隆·马斯克的SpaceX在孟菲斯运营着三个数据中心，并于近期宣布了第四个的计划。）

在新泽西州的小镇曼彻斯特，安妮·卡哈兰（Anne Cahalane）是一群要求同样禁止大型计算中心的当地居民之一。

“那是我们这里最不需要的东西，”她告诉《亚斯伯里帕克新闻报》（Asbury Park Press，属于《今日美国》网络）。她称最近的一项数据中心提案是“鲁莽且危险的”。

旨在阻止 Flock 的运动

美国人与科技公司之间战争的最新前线是以自动车牌识别仪为形式的斗争。

尽管有几家公司生产这种监控技术，但规模最大的是 Flock Safety，该公司在 49 个州维护着一个由 120,000 台 AI 驱动的摄像头组成的网络。

与旧款监控摄像头不同， 将其设备捕捉到的信息传输到一个可搜索的数据库中，执法部门无需搜查令即可访问。该公司表示，其摄像头每月扫描 200 亿美元 辆汽车。

首席执行官加勒特·兰利（Garrett Langley）和许多警方官员表示，这些摄像头为执法部门提供了至关重要的打击犯罪工具，有助于寻找失踪人员、追回被盗车辆以及追踪嫌疑人，包括在 2025 年布朗大学大规模枪击案等备受关注的犯罪事件中。 表示，其摄像头每年帮助解决 700,000 起犯罪案件。

但近几个月来，由于对隐私、大规模监控和警察渎职的担忧，人们对这项技术的愤怒情绪爆发。在有关移民当局访问 数据、警员滥用网络跟踪女性，以及因误读导致无辜者被持枪威胁的报道出现后，抵制情绪进一步升级。

活动人士和居民集结起来反对这项技术，他们高喊口号并举着写有“安全并非监控”和“滚出 （Get the Out）”的标语。这种抵制还引发了诉讼以及一系列私刑行为，导致全国数十台 摄像头被砍断、被开车碾压或被射击。这场骚乱甚至引起了总统的关注，他表示自己对此事的立场“正在审查中”。

根据 DeFlock 组织收集的数据，今年全国约有 100 个司法管辖区暂停或取消了与 的合同。该公司表示，与 合作的司法管辖区数量远超取消协议的数量。

尽管如此，压力促使兰利宣布了一系列旨在遏制警察滥用的措施。在接受《今日美国》（USA TODAY）采访时，兰利表示， 将要求所有执法机构采用一套审计系统，以标记异常的搜索行为。他还表示，与进行中的案件无关的数据将保留 7 天，而非 30 天。

但与数据中心的情况一样，两党当选官员都利用美国人的愤怒，公开反对这项技术。

在德克萨斯州竞选连任的共和党众议员基思·塞尔夫（Keith Self）在 X 上发帖称：“‘老大哥’在孤星之州没有立足之地。”密苏里州共和党参议员乔什·霍利（Josh Hawley）宣布对该公司展开国会调查。而来自佛蒙特州的民主党人桑德斯则承诺将引入立法以约束这项技术。

“如果你在学校送孩子， 知道。如果你去看医生， 知道，”桑德斯在 X 上发帖称，“我们必须团结起来，阻止 和 AI 大规模监控。”

对AI驱动未来的不详警告

对数据中心和Flock监控摄像头的愤怒，伴随着美国人对AI及其背后强大公司的态度转冷而至。

皮尤研究中心（Pew Research）的一项调查发现，52%的美国人表示，对于AI在日常生活中的增加使用，他们感到担忧多于兴奋，高于2021年的37%。对于采用该技术程度最高的人群——Z世代而言，仅有 1 in 10 表示兴奋多于担忧。

对AI的焦虑主要集中在潜在的大规模失业上，而科技公司的高管们本身也对此发出过警告。

奥特曼预测将出现一次“艰难的经济转型”，Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代（Dario Amodei）则表示，AI可能会在五年内抹除一半的所有入门级白领工作。

最近，微软创始人比尔·盖茨警告称，“许多工作将永远消失”，且AI可能会成为“最糟糕的不公正来源”。

路透社报道，Meta撤回了通过AI大幅削减员工人数的全面计划。

与此同时，美国人正对许多人所谓的“AI垃圾”（AI slop）感到厌倦，这是一个描述由人工智能生成的低质量内容的术语。这种抵制情绪促使包括LinkedIn和Spotify在内的几家公司清理其平台上的数字废料。

随着美国人对AI的看法转向负面，他们对大科技公司的看法也随之改变。

YouGov在7月份的一项民调发现，7 in 10 成年人认为科技公司拥有过大的权力。虽然大多数受访者表示近期使用过AI，但只有不到 1 in 5 表示信任科技公司能够管理该技术的开发与部署。

芝加哥大学研究人工智能的社会学助理教授伯纳德·科赫（Bernard Koch）表示，对AI影响人们生活的担忧，可能正助长着针对数据中心和Flock摄像头的骚动。

“这些东西是人们对大科技公司、监控资本主义以及AI自动化取代工作的厌恶的替代体现，”他说，“它们是强有力的象征。”

马里兰大学研究美国政治发展的副教授大卫·卡罗尔（David Karol）同意部分激烈情绪可能与对科技公司的敌意有关，但他表示这些问题在很大程度上仍是局部关注点。

“它们相关，但我不会说大多数担忧是关于对AI的抽象态度，”卡罗尔说。

“我认为那是故事的一部分，但我想还存在具体的担忧。”

一场统一的争端

在全国各地，对不断进步的技术的抵制情绪正将一个独特且出人意料的联盟凝聚在一起。

在北卡罗来纳州的亨德森维尔，终身保守主义者奥斯汀·罗兹（Austin Rhodes）与他的进步主义邻居蒂尔南·特纳（Tiernan Turner）联手，共同发声反对 Flock 监控摄像头。

“这件事最美妙的地方在于……它不是一个左翼或右翼的问题，”身为浆果和牛农的罗兹告诉《亨德森维尔时报-新闻》（Hendersonville Times-News，隶属于今日美国网络）。

“在这样一个分裂的文化中，如果你能触动一个让左翼和右翼都能产生共鸣的弦，那么你显然[真的]触到了痛点。”

他们的努力随后得到了亨德森县进步主义活动团体 PERSIST 的支持，该团体最著名的行动是组织针对特朗普政府的“不要国王”（No Kings）抗议活动。

“这件事的非党派色彩让我感到惊讶，”当地进步主义活动人士霍莉·牛顿（Holly Newton）告诉《时报-新闻》。她说，Flock 摄像头让她与那些她“通常在几乎所有事情上都持有异议”的人们走到了一起。

对数据中心的反对同样具有跨党派特征。

特雷西·莱因（Tracee Laing）是一群组织者中的一员，他们正在收集居民签名，试图禁止在俄亥俄州利金县（位于哥伦布市东侧）建设超大规模数据中心。

“我发起过很多请愿，而这一次真正得到了跨党派的支持，”莱因告诉《纽瓦克倡导者》（The Newark Advocate，隶属于今日美国网络）。“无论你属于哪个党派都无关紧要。人们看到了并正在经历数据中心带来的所有负面影响，因此他们愿意签名，”莱因说道。

随着越来越多的社区反对这些技术，专家预计随后将出现一波监管浪潮。

“现在还处于早期阶段，”美国大学讲师卡恩（Kahn）表示。“但我们已经看到了反应，而且我认为这种反应只会变得更加激烈。”

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“安大略”之名的起源可追溯至17世纪

在唐纳德·特朗普总统于8月27.签署一项行政命令时，屏幕上显示了一幅将安大略湖标注为“美国湖”的地图。ANDREW HARNIK / GETTY IMAGES

费尔南多·塞万提斯（Fernando Cervantes Jr.）

今日美国

唐纳德·特朗普总统签署了一项行政命令，指示其政府将安大略湖（Lake Ontario）更名为美国湖（Lake America），这标志着近期针对美国境内及周边各种地标和水体更名行动的最新举措。

此举发生在美国与加拿大之间迅速升级的贸易战背景之下。特朗普于8月27,在椭圆形办公室签署了该命令，要求内政部和美国地理名称委员会在30天内正式完成此次更名。

“如果你仔细想想，我们有一个湾，一个湖；现在我们只需要一个海洋，”特朗普说道，“所以也许我们得把大西洋和 / 或太平洋的名字也改了。”

特朗普提议更改安大略湖的名称并非首次有人更改该水体的名称。该湖位于北部的加拿大安大略省与南部的纽约州之间的边界上。在17世纪，随着法国探险家引入其他名称，它曾被称为圣路易斯湖（Lac de St. Louis）。

尽管安大略湖构成了多伦多的海岸线，但白宫幕僚秘书本·莫斯（Ben Moss）表示，该湖的大部分水量（包括其最深部分）位于美国领土内。

“这将反映出这是一个美国湖，”莫斯说。

根据五大湖国家博物馆的数据，安大略湖是五大湖中表面积最小的，面积约为7,340平方英里。它同时也是五大湖中体积第二小的，蓄水量约为393立方英里。

此外，该湖形成于数千年前最后一次冰期冰川雕刻出五大湖盆地之时，是划船、钓鱼、观鸟和游泳的首选目的地，岸边分布着公园和海滩。

安大略：一个湖泊与一个省份

根据五大湖素养中心（Center for Great Lakes Literacy）的说法，安大略湖的名字可以追溯到17世纪，源自原住民易洛魁部落的词汇“Ontari'io”，意为“闪光之水之湖”。

该中心表示：“原住民长期以来一直是安大略湖（Niigani-gichigami）的守护者，他们帮助确保湖泊赋予生命的资源能够像对待家人一样丰富且得到照顾。”

“Niigani-gichigami”这个词是安尼什纳贝语（Anishinaabemowin / 奥吉布瓦语）中对安大略湖的称呼。

根据加拿大政府的记录，“安大略”（Ontario）这个名称最早出现于1641,年，当时它被“用于描述五大湖最东端北岸的一片陆地”。

在特朗普签署命令之前，加拿大工业部长梅拉妮·乔利（Mélanie Joly）表示：“我们永远会称它为安大略湖。就这么简单。我们为我们的五大湖感到自豪。”

特朗普的命令仅适用于美国政府。加拿大无需采用新名称，且加拿大官员已表示将继续将该湖称为安大略湖。

为什么美国和加拿大在反复拉锯？

美国和加拿大目前正处于一场贸易战之中，这场战争是由特朗普在政府对部分加拿大进口商品征收 50% 关税时重新点燃的。他还威胁要在明年 1 月将美国对所有从加拿大进口的汽车、卡车、汽车零部件和钢铁的关税翻倍——此举也将使该税率提高至 50%。

“几十年来，加拿大一直在‘敲诈’美国，”特朗普在 8 月 25 日发布的一篇 Truth Social 帖子中写道。“我与许多国家打交道，加拿大无疑是最困难且最不讲道理的。他们觉得自己有特权，但他们不是一个州，而且将不再享有特权！”

作为回应，加拿大总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）宣布将实施等额的反制关税，定于 9 月 8. 生效。他表示，关税将集中在包括钢铁、乳制品、家用电器、农业设备、纸浆和造纸以及电子产品在内的行业。

在 8 月 22 日的一次新闻发布会上，卡尼表示，美国提出的条款“不符合经济规律，不公平，且损害了加拿大的净利益”。他补充道：“简而言之，他们要求过多，而提供的太少。”

撰稿人：乔伊·加里森（Joey Garrison）和瑞秋·巴伯（Rachel Barber）

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华盛顿 —— 在美国中央情报局（CIA）局长约翰·拉特克利夫（John Ratcliffe）访问莫斯科并据报道警告俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京不得攻击北约之后，唐纳德·特朗普总统排除了俄罗斯袭击北约领土的可能性。

“我与他进行了良好的谈话。他不会攻击北约领土，”特朗普 8 月 27 日在椭圆形办公室谈到普京时表示。

特朗普拒绝透露他是否指示拉特克利夫在访问期间向普京传达不得攻击北约的警告。“我不想对此发表评论，但他们不会攻击，”特朗普说。

拉特克利夫的这次访问与《华尔街日报》的一篇报道不谋而合，该报道引用了泄露的美国情报，暗示俄罗斯可能计划测试北约国家的决心。美国是北约成员国，如果北约宪章中的共同防御条款被启动，美国将有义务帮助防御受攻击的国家。

特朗普 8 月 26 日表示，拉特克利夫这次未公开的俄罗斯之行是“半例行性”的，在外界猜测这位情报首脑前往俄罗斯首都是有紧急原因的情况下，他淡化了此次访问的重要性。

电台主持人格伦·贝克（Glenn Beck）就拉特克利夫 8 月 25 日的行程询问了特朗普，称有“传闻”认为普京可能会威胁一个北约国家，或者这次行程是为了告诉莫斯科我们对伊朗制裁是“认真的”。

“以上都不是，”特朗普说，并补充道这次行程“某种程度上是半例行性的。我很遗憾让人们失望了。”

《华尔街日报》和 CBS 新闻随后报道称，拉特克利夫的行程是为了警告俄罗斯不得发动攻击。

在接受贝克的采访时，特朗普转而谈到了尝试结束乌克兰战争，这是他自去年重返办公室以来一直追求但尚未成功的目标。特朗普表示，拉特克利夫的这次行程（这是他首次已知访问莫斯科）“可能会产生一些结果”。他说：“我们正在非常努力地推动这场战争结束。”

临终关怀

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临终关怀工作者妮可·戈尔丁（Nicole Golding）与癌症患者帕特里夏·布拉罗（Patricia Bullaro）交谈，布拉罗接受临终关怀护理已两年多。布拉罗表示，她没想到死亡会花这么长时间。STEPHEN R. POWELL 为《今日美国》拍摄

死亡可能会违背时间线和预期

戈尔丁知道人们在听到“临终关怀”时的想法：患者进入该计划，然后很快就会死去。

但这对每个人来说并非如此。

根据美国国立卫生研究院下属的国家医学图书馆发布的一项2014年研究，多达 1 in 5 的临终关怀患者在病情突然好转时会被出院。有些患者在临终关怀中心停留的时间如此之长，以至于他们离开了该计划——他们“毕业”了。

如果医生证明患者的预期寿命在六个月或以下，联邦医疗保险（Medicare）将覆盖临终关怀费用。只要患者的病情继续恶化，医生每两个月可以延长一次该期限。

戈尔丁表示，这是临终关怀中讨论不足的部分：像布雷思韦特（Braithwaite）这样的患者，虽然被诊断出患有绝症，但身体状况仍然足够好，能够充分利用剩余的每一分每一秒。

吉米·卡特总统于2024年12月29日去世，享年100岁。在被诊断出癌症扩散至大脑后，他在临终关怀护理中度过了22个月。卡特中心在一份声明中写道，卡特进入临终关怀是为了“在家里与家人共度最后的时光”。他的家人表示，很高兴他的决定“在全国范围内引发了如此多关于这一重要话题的家庭讨论”。

戈尔丁希望更多的人在被诊断出绝症后能立即加入临终关怀计划。临终关怀可以通过管理疼痛和症状，让他们在剩余的时光里感到舒适。

同样重要的是，临终关怀还提供情感支持，例如针对被护理压力消磨的家属提供悲伤辅导、喘息服务和丧亲服务。

戈尔丁从事临终关怀工作的时间足够长——超过十年——因此她通常能判断出患者何时接近死亡。他们会睡眠时间增加，进食量减少，直到他们厌倦了抗争，准备离去。

但有些患者违背了时间线和预期——他们继续生存了下来。

这些人正是她希望让世界了解的人。

等待死亡

帕特里夏·布拉罗（Patricia Bullaro）在得知自己即将死去时，想要两件事：被人们记住，以及在家里死去。

于是，她写了一本关于自己生活的书，并进入了居家临终关怀护理。

那是两年前的事了。她没想到死亡会耗时这么久。

布拉罗患有胰腺癌并已转移至肝脏，自2024年6月5日起，她已在临终关怀中度过了两年。她已无法行走，只能躺在紧贴客厅窗户的医院病床上观察外面的世界。邻居们在街上遛狗，松鼠在前院嬉戏，孩子们骑着自行车飞驰而过，他们俏皮的闲谈提醒着她，生活仍在继续，从未中断。

在房间天蓝色的墙壁之内，布拉罗等待着不可避免的结局。她看电视，或者用电子平板电脑玩游戏。她最喜欢的是麻将，一种匹配瓷块的益智游戏。有时，她会从床边放着的包装盒里取出蜡笔——就在她的玫瑰经念珠旁边——用明亮活泼的色彩填满涂色本里的线条。

“我今天状态不错。有点焦虑，但除此之外，我还好，”她在5月中旬一个阳光明媚的早晨接受戈尔丁（Golding）探访时说道。

69岁的布拉罗在患病前是一名护士，在被诊断出癌症时，她认为自己最多还能活两三个月。由于她患有多种其他健康问题：充血性心力衰竭、肾衰竭、糖尿病和病理性肥胖，治疗并非可行选项。

但她在临终关怀中待了这么久，有时她甚至怀疑自己是否真的患有癌症，是否真的在走向死亡。

“每天我醒来时，感觉就像是：好吧，我又多活了一天，”她说。

“你确实打破了很多概率，”戈尔丁表示赞同。

她也有糟糕的日子。她曾一度陷入严重的谵妄状态。她认不出她的儿子罗恩（Ron），罗恩是她的主要护理者，与她同住。她以为自己在养老院里，还以为自己在衣橱里看到了奇怪的男人。

戈尔丁说，她的谵妄可能是药物的副作用。在临终关怀团队调整部分药物后，认知障碍消失了。布拉罗每天要服用多达20种药物——“简直是把整个药店搬来了，”她开玩笑说。

她也有美好的日子。在那些日子里，罗恩可以用医疗升降机将她扶出床，把她安置在轮椅上，沿着无障碍坡道推到院子里，让她沐浴在阳光下，感受阳光亲吻她的脸庞。

她好奇终点何时才会最终到来，好奇自己为何能活这么久，以及在没有她的情况下，她的孩子和孙辈们的生活会变成什么样。

她写下了自己的生活故事，这样有一天当她离世后，他们翻开书页，她依然在那里。这本书名为《被回应的祈祷：我的生活故事》（Answered Prayers: My Life Stories），书中充满了家庭照片和她最喜欢的食谱——罗宋汤、波兰饺子以及prazuha（一种土豆和波兰香肠的菜肴）。她打印了七本，给她的每个孩子和孙辈各一本。

罗恩·布拉罗为了让母亲的记忆永存，提出了另一个想法，这种不寻常的请求是戈尔丁及其团队经常遇到的。他想要一段母亲心跳的录音。他们帮他实现了。

他还拥有一张母亲心脏的静态照片，那是从她的超声心动图中截取的。他计划将其装裱起来。

现在，即便在心脏停止跳动很久之后，家人依然能够看到她的心脏，并听到它跳动的声音。

日复一日地面对死亡

戈尔丁在七年级时就知道自己想成为一名护士。

当死亡触及家人时，她意识到自己想在临终关怀领域工作。她的丈夫的叔叔年仅 43 岁就被诊断出患有脑肿瘤，并在 2003 年左右进入居家临终关怀，当时戈尔丁正在护理学校就读。临终关怀团队帮助他及其家人准备面对死亡的方式令戈尔丁深受触动；而他的妻子在照顾两个年幼孩子的同时，直到最后时刻都掌控着他的护理工作，这一点也让她深受触动。

“我看到了她通过让他留在家里并保持舒适而能给予他的礼物，”她说，“我看到了这种影响。”

这次经历引导她走向了临终关怀职业。“我感觉到了一些东西，”她说。但“那时我不知道这意味着什么。”

现在她明白了：照顾临终患者，在他们面对终结时安慰他们及其家人，在他们最后一次呼吸时握住他们的手，并在死后处理遗体。她说，这是一种荣幸。

人们经常问她是如何做到的。她每天早晨如何起床，如何在这种知道自己日复一日、周复一周必须面对死亡的情况下去工作。

她不确定自己是否知道答案。有些病例令人心碎，比如一名因遗传性神经肌肉疾病去世的 24 岁女性，她与戈尔丁女儿同岁。另一个病例是一名 42 岁的癌症患者，体重已下降到仅 67 磅。

“很难想象一个成年人只有 67 磅重，”她摇着头，难以置信地说道。

戈尔丁与她的患者关系亲近。她希望他们信任她，知道她在意他们。但她说，必须有界限。如果没有界限，这份工作会吞噬她。在之前的一份工作中，“我下午在想患者，周末在想患者，参加葬礼，参加守灵仪式。”

她做出了一些改变。她不再接诊住在她所在邮政编码区或她成长地附近城镇的患者。当你认识那个家庭时，看着一个人死去会变得更加复杂。

她远离社交媒体。在 Facebook 或 Instagram 上搜索患者，查看他们在患病和死亡之前的生活状态，会产生情感依附，让这份本就困难的工作变得更加艰难。

“当我接诊这些患者时，我看到的是疾病，看到的是痛苦，”她说，“但我也看到我们让人们感觉好多了。那才是我真正坚守的东西，而不是悲伤。”

尽管如此，有时这份工作依然过于沉重，死亡会冲破她的界限。

“我们都是人类，”她说，“有时我们也会哭。”

“我再也受不了了”

在家里，在杂乱但舒适的客厅里，亚瑟·费迪南德（Arthur Ferdinand）在自己心爱之物的环绕中度过最后的日子。

壁炉旁的一个塑料箱里装满了他的心头好：NASCAR海报、赛车节目单、旧照片。费迪南德是一名退休机械师，他是个不折不扣的赛车迷，曾去过14个赛道，并在距离布法罗市中心仅几英里的兰开斯特赛车场（Lancaster Motorplex）的维修区团队工作了20年。

另一个塑料容器就在他经常休息的那把灰色安乐椅触手可及的地方，里面放着他的零食储备：Hostess Ding Dongs巧克力蛋糕、小蛋糕、肉桂卷，以及双层夹心的奥利奥。

84岁的费迪南德在化疗后恢复了味觉，现在终于可以满足他对甜食的渴望。

“天哪，那真的太难熬了。没嗅觉，没味觉。我再也受不了了，”他说道，声音颤抖，泪水在脸上划过。

戈尔丁（Golding）递给他一张纸巾。他轻轻地擦了擦眼睛。

费迪南德患有急性髓系白血病，这是一种生长迅速的血液和骨髓癌。在确诊之前，他就意识到身体出了问题。当时他正用除草机在院子里干活，仅仅过了10分钟就感到精疲力竭，不得不坐下来休息。

医生告诉他，最好的情况也只有两到四个月，因此他在二月份进入了居家临终关怀。现在，他大部分时间都待在这个光线昏暗、略显潮湿的房间里，等待死亡的到来。他以前经常在院子里忙前忙后，但现在他把大部分户外工具都给了女婿。

“我知道我再也不会用到它们了，”他说。

他还是留了几件，以防万一他突然想摆弄一下，或者万一邻居需要他帮帮忙，看看为什么她的割草机运行不正常。

费迪南德每天早晨起床时都会想到死亡。仅仅是谈到这件事，泪水就再次流了下来。

“我想在睡眠中死去，”他说，局促地摆弄着米色外衬衫的纽扣。

他知道，这已经超出了他的掌控。

学会接纳死亡

年轻时，布雷斯韦特和他的伙伴们经常好奇死亡会是什么样子。

如今，布雷斯韦特身患癌症并面临必然的死亡，他明白了什么才是最重要的：他说，重点不在于你如何离开这个世界，而在于你如何生活。

布雷斯韦特丧妻11年，目前与儿子和女儿同住。当他的妻子发现自己患癌时，她做了一件布雷斯韦特认为非同寻常的事：她给60位亲密好友打电话，告诉她们自己快要死了。作为家中一直扮演安慰者角色的人，她希望在对方的悲痛中给予他们慰藉。

“那是一次，”布雷斯韦特回忆道，“令人惊叹的经历。对我来说，对她来说也是。”

他如今的哲学是：体面地生活，并将你在地球上短暂时光中所积累的所有知识传给孩子。但有些事情是你无法帮别人准备好的。

“你没法告诉他们如何接纳死亡，”他坐在餐厅的桌边，面对着戈尔丁和他的儿子比尔说道。

布雷斯韦特深吸了一口气。

“我不确定自己是否已经接纳了它，”他说。

“我们会尽一切努力让你继续坚持下去，”戈尔丁告诉他，并从随身携带的黑色诊疗包中取出听诊器。

戈尔丁听诊了他的心脏和肺部。随后她感到满意，拉下他的白色袜子，检查脚踝是否有肿胀。她将注意力转向他左小腿上的一处伤口，那是最近一次跌倒留下的痕迹。她为伤口进行了处理，并贴上了粘性绷带。

临终关怀（Hospice）给布雷斯韦特带来了慰藉。在其他医生那里，他感到自己被边缘化了，仿佛决定都是在没有征求他意见的情况下做出的。

“他会对医生哭泣并感到沮丧，”他的儿子说，“因为他觉得自己在医疗团队中没有参与感。”

临终关怀中心的人们则不同：他们愿意倾听。

随着一个小时的诊疗接近尾声，戈尔丁收拾好东西准备去看下一位病人。布雷斯韦特说，能有一个人“仅仅是和你聊天并给你建议”，这让他感到很欣慰。

他陷入了沉默，似乎陷入了沉思。

“我们都在你身边，”他的儿子说。

他伸出手，轻轻触碰父亲的手臂。

后记：亚瑟·费迪南于6月10日凌晨12:30去世。他在家中，在家人的陪伴下离世，正如他所愿。

论坛

读者之声 多莉·帕顿

全心全意

多莉为我们创造了一个更美好世界的模板

想到多莉·帕顿，脑海中首先浮现的词是“纯净”。她似乎完全没有能力冒犯他人，或对任何人发表负面评论，甚至没有产生过恨意。她似乎只能看到人们身上的闪光点，并感到自己有责任为让世界变得更好而尽一份力，而不仅仅是对问题抱怨。

我们之中有谁能自称从未树敌，或者至少从未激怒过某人？但我深信她从未这样做过。

这对我们的世界来说是一个巨大的损失，但随着未来几天新闻报道和追思活动的继续，她留给我们的离别礼物之一，或许是唤醒我们所有人，思考如何将我们的思想和行动转向一种更充满爱与奉献的生活。她确实为我们地奠定了模板。

—— 芭布·布莱克，北卡罗来纳州

永远是我们的“山区芭比”

在阿巴拉契亚的山丘中长大，多莉一直是我们生活中不可或缺的一部分。在我的记忆中，每隔一个周末，我们就会前往田纳西州的鸽子锻造镇（Pigeon Forge）参观多莉伍德（Dollywood）——在沿着蓝岭公园大道（Blue Ridge Parkway）行驶的全程中，我们都会大声唱着她的乡村金曲。

抵达后，我们会去点唱机枢纽（Jukebox Junction）乘坐“摇滚公路”（Rockin' Roadway），去工匠谷（Craftsman's Valley）乘坐“田纳西龙卷风”（Tennessee Tornado），并且一次又一次地光顾“由贫至富”（Rags to Riches）剧院，一遍遍聆听多莉的人生故事，听她唱《多彩的外套》（Coat of Many Colors）和《苹果酒》（Applejack）等歌曲。

我的母亲本身也是一名歌手，她是多莉最忠实的粉丝；而我和姐姐则被多莉的曲调、名言和故事所包围，以至于我们别无选择，只能追随她的脚步！我在衣橱里为她设立了一个小祭坛，这样每天早晨都能看到她，甚至在我们的婚礼上还放了一个她的纸板立牌（她太忙了没能来……可以理解）。

她的音乐、她的慷慨（多莉·帕顿想象力图书馆）、她的积极心态，以及她不仅为乡村歌手而且为整个阿巴拉契亚地区开启机遇的能力——我们的“山区芭比”，这个水钻世界中的钻石，将被深深地怀念。

—— 莎拉·盖林，纽约

我们将永远爱你，多莉

多莉是一个传奇人物。她不仅仅是一位乡村音乐之星或名人；她是真正的人性与善良的典范。她是黑暗中的光芒，是人类希望的灯塔。

我从小就和母亲一起听多莉·帕顿的歌，这些年来我带女儿去了多百次多莉伍德。我们一直非常珍惜在游行期间能亲眼见到多莉·帕顿的时光。

我们将永远爱你并思念你，多莉。 —— 斯科特·安德森，北卡罗来纳州

即便在逝世后，多莉依然将我们团结在一起

多莉代表了美国。她让我为自己来自阿巴拉契亚的山谷而感到自豪。那些我认为政治观点令人厌恶的人，以及那些认为我的观点同样厌恶的人，在向这位将爱置于首位的人致敬时，达成了一致。没有人能取代她。

—— 肯尼斯·鲍林，加利福尼亚州

天堂里一定会有个乡村酒吧

没有什么词语可以描述这次打击有多么沉重。多莉真的是独一无二的。这个世界将永远不再一样。愿唯一的多莉·帕顿女士在天堂安息。如此多的人将深深地思念你。上帝现在真的拥有了他的乡村酒吧天使们。

罗伯特·杨，俄亥俄州

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“多莉会怎么做？”

在我的记忆中，多莉一直是我心中的偶像。但突然之间，“偶像”这个词显得不足以形容她。她更像是我从未见过但不知为何一直陪伴在身边的姑婆。她提醒我要更加努力，爱得更深，学会自嘲，永远不要让任何人将善良误认为愚蠢。

欢迎来到论坛——读者观点空间

在《今日美国》，我们致力于为全美国提供新闻产品。在这个充满争吵和回声室效应的时代，“论坛”是一个进行尊重且深思熟虑对话的空间。请扫描二维码或访问 usatoday.com / forum 查看即将讨论的话题。发送电子邮件至 forum@usatoday.com 加入对话。

并且永远、永远不要为我的出身感到羞耻。

我的家里到处都是她的身影。艺术品、小饰品，墙上和架子上挂着她微笑的面孔。她的声音经常从我们的扬声器中传出，以至于任何认识我的人都不可能对我此时的悲痛感到惊讶。

她擅长自嘲，因为没有人能把多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）当作笑柄——除非她已经先把自己变成了一个更好的笑话。

她积累了巨大的财富，然后将其中巨额的部分用于帮助他人。她把书送到孩子们手中。在许多损失更小的人还犹豫不决时，她就站出来支持酷儿群体。她投资于自己的家乡，而不是将阿巴拉契亚（Appalachia）视为一个她侥幸逃离的地方。她资助了挽救生命的疫苗研究。

她写了《I Will Always Love You》，也写了《Dumb Blonde》。宝贝，这就是多样性。

而且对我来说，也许最重要的一点是，她似乎从未想过为了被严肃对待而让自己变得卑微。

我的书桌上方贴着一张贴纸，上面简单地写着：“多莉会怎么做？”（What Would Dolly Do?）

在艰难的会议中，我看过它。在听到性别歧视言论后，我看过它。在我感到沮丧并非常想脱口而出脑海中第一个念头时，我看过它。多莉会怎么做？大概会微笑。然后用如此甜美的语气让你认清自己的位置，以至于你需要花10分钟才能意识到发生了什么。这就是她给我留下的蓝图的一部分。

多莉没有把阿巴拉契亚当作笑话或可耻的出身故事。她大声地热爱这个地方。她向世界展示了这里的幽默、美丽、贫困、矛盾、音乐和人民。她成为了世界上最著名的女性之一，却从未需要伪装成来自其他地方。

对于一个试图弄清楚世界会接受自己哪些部分的阿巴拉契亚孩子来说，这对我至关重要。

我将永远爱你，多莉。阿巴拉契亚之女王。蝴蝶之友。词曲作者、慈善家、倡导者、偶像，绝对的力量。我希望在某个地方，以某种方式，你现在正飞在那些蝴蝶之中。

米歇尔·格拉斯蒂（Michelle Grasty），北卡罗来纳州，阿什维尔

发现你是谁，并坚定地成为那样的人

多莉给了我们所有人许可，让我们可以毫无愧疚地成为我们想要成为的人，但同时，她又用她最珍贵的阿巴拉契亚方式，礼貌地提醒我们要带着善良与优雅地去做。

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您最喜欢的商场停车位现在可能需要付费了

免费停车？这里不行

杰西卡·盖恩 (Jessica Guynn) 今日美国

抢到一个绝佳的停车位过去靠的是运气或决心，而现在则需要一张信用卡。

全国各地的购物中心正在将最靠近主入口和美食广场的停车位围起来，以赚取额外的收入。

“从什么时候起，在柳溪购物中心（Willowbrook Mall）停车得付钱了？”一名沮丧的 TikTok 用户问道。

在新泽西州韦恩市的这家购物中心，大多数停车位是免费的。但在“优先”区域——即购物中心前方备受追捧的 119 个车位之一——停车现在需要付费。

指示牌引导购物者扫描二维码或向一个五位数的号码发送短信，首小时支付 $2.45，之后每小时支付 $2。每日上限为 $10.45。

类似的停车安排已在肯塔基州路易斯维尔的圣马修斯购物中心（Mall St. Matthews）、加利福尼亚州贝克斯菲尔德的谷广场购物中心（Valley Plaza Mall）、洛杉矶的北岭时尚中心（Northridge Fashion Center）以及马里兰州的哥伦比亚购物中心（The Mall in Columbia）推出。这些购物中心均由总部位于芝加哥的购物中心运营商 GGP 经营，该公司在其网站上宣称，美国有一半的人口居住在距离其购物中心一小时车程的范围内。

发言人林赛·卡恩（Lindsay Kahn）表示，在 GGP 拥有的 95 处物业中，共有 23 家购物中心在全国范围内提供“优先”停车服务。

卡恩告诉《今日美国》，预留车位为那些愿意付费的人提供了便利，并解决了客户最常见的痛点：寻找快速、便捷的停车位。

“优先停车旨在为那些希望无需寻找车位而获得便利的人提供服务，”卡恩在的一份声明中表示，“无论顾客是进行快速购物、希望快速进出，还是为了餐厅预约而停车，该计划都是一项便捷的配套服务。”

她说，购物者有充足的选择。卡恩表示，在柳溪购物中心，有 7,770 多个车位是免费的；此外，GGP 将优先停车收入的 $10% 捐赠给当地慈善机构。

参见“购物中心停车”，第 2B 页

2020 年 11 月 27 日，田纳西州克拉克斯维尔的州长广场购物中心（Governor's Square Mall）停车场停满了车辆。TONY CENTONZE / USA TODAY NETWORK

Meta 和解协议资金将拨交给各州

公司在和解中不会向任何个人支付款项

梅琳娜·汗 (Melina Khan)

今日美国

Meta 已同意支付数十亿美元的和解金，以解决关于其社交媒体平台儿童安全的指控。

但这笔钱不会交给个人用户。

这家拥有 Facebook 和 Instagram 等平台的公司于 8 月 26 日宣布，在加利福尼亚州针对 29 个州总检察长提出的指控进行联邦审理期间，双方达成了协议。该协议包括向各州支付超过 $16 亿美元的款项，但 预计总额将达到 $18 亿美元。

作为该和解协议（尚需法院批准）的一部分， 同意对其平台的青少年用户做出调整。

以下是相关须知，包括资金的去向：

谁将获得 和解金？

同意在和解中支付的数十亿美元将拨交给各个州，而非用户。

根据和解协议和 发布的消息，各州可以将这笔资金用于资助青少年网络安全计划。例如，各州可以将资金用于以下方面：

• 危机干预服务，例如扩大和运营 988 自杀与危机生命线以及基于短信的青少年危机热线。

● 课后或夏季项目。

• 青少年心理健康计划。

• 聘请数字素养顾问。

● 为医疗服务提供者提供关于交互式媒体使用和身体意象障碍（body dysmorphia）的培训。

表示，款项将在 10 年内分年度分期支付。

将对 Instagram 和 Facebook 进行调整。参见使用限制

作为和解协议的一部分， 同意为其 18 岁以下用户实施平台变更。在等待法院批准期间，部分变更包括以下内容：

详见第 2B 页的“和解协议”

Meta 与许多州官员达成的和解协议将要求其针对 18 岁以下的用户实施变更。IMEN BEN YOUSSEF, HANS LUCAS / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

没有养育成本，就没问题？研究称并非如此

无子女美国人对储蓄的担忧更多

Medora Lee

USA TODAY

父母们经常抱怨在养育子女成本与退休储蓄之间取得平衡有多么困难，但一项新调查显示，他们对退休储蓄的信心比没有孩子的美国人更高。

根据保险公司 Allianz Life 旗下 Allianz Center for the Future of Retirement 发布的 2026 Annual Retirement Study，略高于一半（52%）的无子女美国人表示他们对退休储蓄有信心，低于表示同样看法的有子女成年人的比例（72%）。

Allianz 在 1 月份对 1,000 名 25 岁及以上的人员进行民意调查后发现，10 个无子女美国人中有 7 个（71%）担心生活成本的上升将使他们无法享受退休生活。这一比例高于表示有此担忧的有子女人群的 $64。

这些发现挑战了这样一种假设，即由于不需要承担养育孩子的成本，无子女的美国人可以更轻松地储蓄。金融比较网站 LendingTree 表示，自 2023, 开始追踪以来，2026, 将一个孩子抚养到 18 岁的成本首次突破 $300,000。至关重要的一点是，这还不包括大学费用，大学费用平均每年约为 $38,000，四年共计另加 $152,000。

“没有孩子的人在财务上信心较低且更担心退休，这看起来可能违背直觉，”Allianz Life 消费者洞察副总裁 Kelly LaVigne 在新闻稿中表示。“但没有孩子——以及随之而来的开支——并不自动意味着你有一个储蓄计划。”

为什么无子女美国人的储蓄可能较少？

金融专家表示，没有孩子的美国人可能并不那么专注于预算制定和退休规划，或者通常对未来的关注度较低。她说：“为人父母往往会迫使人们就金钱问题进行艰难的对话。如果没有这个催化剂，太多的美国人可能会在没有策略的情况下继续生活。”

数据显示，大多数无子女美国人（62%）没有书面财务计划，而有孩子的群体中这一比例为 42%。

而且，无子女美国人的数量预计将增加。美国人口普查局在 2021 发布的一份报告中称，2018, 55 岁及以上的成年人中，有超过 1500 万 人没有孩子，约占该人群的 16.5%。与此同时，从 2018 到 2023, 表示自己不太可能

商场停车

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生活中免费的事物越来越少，停车也不例外

人们常说生活中最美好的事物是免费的。而如今，免费的事物越来越少。

附加费、附加税、补充费用、服务费、隐藏费用、增项——无论你怎么称呼它们，附加费用无处不在，从航空行李到额外的调味品，再到加油站的充气服务。甚至曾经随手机附赠的充电器和耳机，现在也改为单独销售。

免费的商场停车位是最新一个濒临灭绝的免费福利。对于一些注重预算的消费者来说，这是压死骆驼的最后一根稻草，就像是为了花更多钱而必须先支付的一笔入场费。正如一名 Reddit 用户所言：“付钱给我们，这样我们才能拿走你的钱。”杰·里德（Jay Reed）在他 YouTube 频道的一个热门视频中捕捉到了这种集体愤怒：“他们现在开始在商场收停车费了，人们快要疯了。”

商场长期以来一直将停车作为竞争优势，建设大规模的沥青停车网，以吸引依赖汽车的购物者远离那些设有计费路边停车位的市中心。CALVIN MATTHEIS / USA TODAY NETWORK 文件

“在当今的经济环境下，当你谈到人们现在因为每件事都被推向崩溃边缘时，这就是资本主义的另一个层级，”里德说。“人们想要发展自己的业务。但总得有一条底线。”

“这就是我们如今所处的世界”

尽管消费者会逐渐适应，但为曾经免费的服务付费通常在初期会遭到抵制。

“他们为了榨干你身上每一分钱简直疯了，甚至在商场停车都要收费，”另一名 TikTok 用户在拒绝支付停车费后，与儿子一起走在特拉华州纽瓦克克里斯蒂安娜商场（Christiana Mall）的停车场里评论道。“这就是我们如今所处的世界。”

在佐治亚州邓伍迪的周边商场（Perimeter Mall），另一位购物者拒绝支付几美元以停在离入口更近的地方。“我查了价格，两小时只要 $5，但这不是重点，”她说。“你们这是在试图坑我。”

"这么多该死的停车位，"一名 TikTok 用户在观察亚特兰大坎伯兰商场（Cumberland Mall）前方大片空置的“优先”车位时说道。"我不得不把车停在商场后面，因为现在在商场停车得付钱？"有些购物者并不在意。克里斯塔·阿尔迪托（Crista Ardito）在前往柳溪商场（Willowbrook Mall）的一家餐厅与朋友用餐途中告诉 CBS 纽约新闻，支付 $4.45 是值得的。

“我们两个都懒，而且都饿了，”她说。

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• 默认每日两小时的时间限制，青少年只有在获得父母许可后才能关闭。

为什么购物中心开始收取停车费

长期以来，购物中心一直将停车便利作为竞争优势，通过建设大规模的沥青停车场，吸引依赖汽车的购物者远离那些设有计费路边停车位的市中心。

购物中心文化在 20 世纪 80 年代曾备受推崇，甚至出现在《购物中心狂人》（Mallrats）和《岭蒙特高中快节奏生活》（Fast Times at Ridgemont High）等好莱坞大片中。在经历了一段低谷期（尤其是在 COVID-19 疫情期间）后，如今随着青少年再次涌入，购物中心正迎来复兴。大多数购物中心的停车依然是免费的，尤其是在郊区。经济研究表明，许多运营商通过提供免费停车——或低于实际成本的停车费——来诱导更多购物者光顾。但对于美国机构而言，这种“亏本赚吆喝”的策略累积起来的损失相当可观，且不仅限于购物中心。

《高等教育纪事报》（The Chronicle of Higher Education）报道称，廉价或免费的校园停车是一个巨大的财务负担。每年，每 1,000 个车位中，中位数水平的大学在露天停车场上损失近 $400,000，在停车库上损失超过 $1.200 万。

因此，一些购物中心开始尝试收取停车费，以弥补部分损失或赚取少量额外现金。

而另一些购物中心——尤其是位于拥挤市区那些——则早已如此操作。

- 一种“夜间模式”，在午夜至凌晨 6 点之间屏蔽 Meta 应用的功能。

- 一种“学校模式”，在上午 8 点至下午 3 点之间默认静音通知。

- 帖子上的点赞数和反应数将默认隐藏。

为什么购物中心收费停车如此具有争议

以纽约布鲁克林的 Kings Plaza Mall 为例，该商场于 1970. 年开业。在 20 世纪 80 年代，当它开始收取 50 美分的停车费以支付安保和设施改进费用时，曾引起过一阵骚动。但随后的抵制和抗议逐渐消散，如今购物者在那里停车每天最高需支付 $11。

加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉的 Westfield Valley Fair Mall 在 2022 年开始收费，以阻止通勤者、旅行者以及其他并非为了购物而停车的人占用所有车位。

而“付费升级停车位”则是一个更新的变体。

在新泽西州伊丽莎白市的 Mills at Jersey Gardens，虽然有充足的免费停车位，但商场最近为那些希望离入口仅几步之遥的人推出了付费的“前排停车”。GlobalData Retail 董事总经理尼尔·桑德斯（Neil Saunders）告诉《今日美国》（USA TODAY）：“从购物中心所有者的角度来看，对黄金车位收费是一种产生少量增量收入的方式。也可以说这是为追求极致便利的人提供服务。然而，这一政策使观点两极分化。一些消费者认可这种服务，而另一些人则认为这有点厚颜无耻，认为所有停车都应该是免费的。”

“抢钱”抗议挫败计划

一些愤怒的购物者表示，他们将——

• 除 Meta 现有的禁止青少年使用整形手术滤镜的政策外，还将禁止青少年使用极端妆容滤镜。

在的一份声明中，Meta 首席法务官 CJ Mahoney 呼吁其他社交媒体平台采取类似的变更。“作为一名家长，我为 Meta 在保护儿童方面一直以来所做的工作，以及这项具有开创性的新协议感到自豪，”Mahoney 表示。

加利福尼亚州总检察长 Rob Bonta 在一份声明中表示，该和解协议“将降低社交媒体对我们孩子的危险性，并为孩子们及其家庭带来巨大的改变”。

（接前文）……只是把钱花在其他地方。其他人则有更简单的解决方案。一名 Facebook 评论者说：“亚马逊（Amazon），免费停车。”

尽管如此，购物者抗议所谓“抢钱”行为而发起的激烈抵制，已挫败了一些停车计划。

位于费城东南方向、新泽西州的 Deptford Mall 在 2025 年因购物者的抵制和当地压力，取消了其 $10 “高级停车”计划。

Deptford Mall 将最靠近主门以及紧邻残障驾驶员、孕妇和受伤退伍军人车位的约 40 到 50 个车位设为高级车位。但购物者对此表示不满，镇长也提出了异议，最终商场运营商同意逐步取消该计划。

今年 2 月，位于伊利诺伊州罗斯蒙特的芝加哥时尚奥特莱斯（Fashion Outlets of Chicago）开始收取停车费，以防止人们将车库用作芝加哥奥黑尔国际机场或附近活动的停车点。

根据新政策，购物者可获得一小时免费停车，之后费用跳升至 1 到 3 小时 $13，3 到 12 小时 $20，每日最高限额为 $50。在商场消费至少 $100 的购物者可获得最高三小时的停车验证。

随后客流量下降，零售租户开始抱怨。该商场在 8 月改变了做法。商场所有者 Macerich 的一名发言人告诉 NBC 5 Chicago：“我们听取了社区和零售商的反馈。”

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根据非营利组织皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）对 2,500 多名成年人的调查，决定永远不生育孩子的人比例从 37% 上升至 47%。

研究显示，约 3 分之 5 的无子女成年人（61%）表示，他们现在甚至无法考虑为退休储蓄，而有子女的人中，表示同样情况的比例为 53%。无子女者表示，他们目前仅在努力应对日常开支，这对退休生活而言并非好兆头。安联保险（Allianz）表示，约三分之二的无子女美国人担心无法负担长期护理，54% 的人表示，上涨的住房成本可能会限制他们为退休储蓄的能力。

许多无子女的美国人也没有制定应对丧失行为能力或死亡的计划。一项针对 600 多名成年人的 Childfree Trust 调查显示，仅有 $19.9 的无子女成年人拥有遗嘱，而普通人群的这一比例为 $32。超过 $70 的无子女成年人报告称，他们完全没有完成任何法律规划文件，包括遗嘱、信托和授权书（POA）。

为无子女人士提供财务和遗产规划的 Childfree Trust 首席执行官 Jay Zigmont 表示，规划通常假设美国人有近亲。“人们制定遗嘱是因为他们有孩子，”他说，但实际上每个人都应该有一份。

单身美国人的情况如何？

单身人士在退休储蓄方面也面临更多困难。美国人口普查局生育与家庭统计部门的调查统计员布里塔尼·金（Brittany King）在2022年写道，60%从未结婚的美国人没有任何退休储蓄。

部分原因可能是某些人所称的“单身税”。

“单身人士在整个生命周期中一直受到惩罚，”现居新泽西州中部、成年后大部分时间处于单身状态的76岁女性玛丽琳·沃特斯（Marilyn Waters）说道。尽管她在孩子们7岁和10岁起就独自抚养他们长大，“在抚养他们期间，我能够通过以单身户主身份报税来获益，（但）这仍然不如已婚夫妇共同报税那样有利。”

根据《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic）2013年的一项分析，单身税并非税法中字面意义上的税收，但如果将整个职业生涯中的税收、住房、保险和退休储蓄计算在内，单身人士在生命周期内可能多支出高达100万美元。

金融专家表示，单身税的一些例子包括必须支付100%的租金、抵押贷款和公用事业费用，而不能与伴侣分担。单身报税者的税收抵免也较少（包括出售住宅的资本利得），且其适用的税率档位可能会使他们在收入低于共同报税的已婚夫妇时，就被推入更高的边际税率。

Homes.com的首席住宅经济学家布拉德·凯斯（Brad Case）在一篇博客文章中写道，即使收入与夫妇相同，单身人士买房的成本也可能更高。他表示，这被戏称为“单身买家税”，因为抵押贷款融资部分基于收入在长期内能够持续不中断的可能性。贷款方和借款方都关注抵押贷款在面对工作变动、经济放缓、疾病和其他干扰时是否能保持可负担性。

2024年8月7日，在威斯康星州欧克莱尔，一名女性穿着一件印有“无子猫女”字样的T恤，参加副总统兼民主党总统候选人卡玛拉·哈里斯及其竞选搭档明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·沃尔兹的竞选活动。KEVIN MOHATT / 路透社

“两份收入提供了冗余，”凯斯说，“一份收入则没有。即使总收入相同，这种区别依然存在。”

他说，如果夫妇中的一个人失去收入，可以通过调整通常仍能偿还抵押贷款，从而降低违约概率，并增加贷款方和借款方的信心。而对于单身人士，风险集中在单一的工资单上，可能迅速导致抵押贷款违约以及其他艰难的选择。

“在住房方面，赚到同样的金额并不等同于处于平等地位，”凯斯说，“关键不仅在于你有多少收入，而在于你拥有多少种收入来源。”

美国人可以采取什么措施来增加储蓄？

拉维格（LaVigne）表示，所有美国人——而不仅仅是没有孩子或单身的人——都应该制定计划。

“无论你是否有孩子，写下一套财务战略是你为未来保障所能做的最有力的事情之一，”她说，“而且这是一个你可以控制的变量。”

50★州

阿拉巴马州 塔斯卡卢萨：儿童动手博物馆（The Children's Hands-On Museum）已关闭，准备搬迁至未来的萨班中心（Saban Center）并更名为 Ignite。该博物馆的长期所在地已被挂牌出售。

阿拉斯加州 朱诺：据 KTOO 报道，东南阿拉斯加区域健康联盟（Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium）最近宣布其新的门登霍尔谷药房（Mendenhall Valley Pharmacy）开业，该药房将作为一家调剂药房运行。

亚利桑那州 皮纳尔县：环保组织和一个原住民部落正起诉联邦政府，原因是加利尤罗山脉（Galiuro Mountains）的一项铜矿勘探项目，他们称该项目将威胁到濒危野生动物，包括一种行踪诡秘的猫头鹰。

阿肯色州 史密斯堡：阿肯色州能源与环境部表示，C&S Chemicals 公司在 5 月发生化学品泄漏，导致近 78,000 加仑的酸性硫酸铝流出该公司史密斯堡厂区之前，并未在州环境监管机构办理任何许可证、执照、登记或其他备案。

加利福尼亚州 萨克拉门托：根据加州公共政策研究所（Public Policy Institute of California）最近的一项分析，加利福尼亚州居民拥有住房的年龄比美国其他地区更晚。该非营利机构发现，在加州，半数居民成为房主的年龄是 47, 岁。而在全国范围内，这一里程碑是在 36 岁时实现的。

科罗拉多州 堡科林斯：拉里默县（Larimer County）为野外消防员、潜水及搜救队以及其他县应急服务人员建立了一个全新且升级的中心。新的拉里默县应急服务大楼于 8 月 21 日举行了正式开业庆典。

康涅狄格州 弗农：据 WFSB 报道，所有弗农学校的巴士现在都安装了摄像头，用于抓拍非法超越停靠巴士的驾驶员。

特拉华州 新城堡县：心理健康治疗中心 Mission for Michael 对 3,044 名家长进行了调查，以确定学校通勤压力最大的地段，以及导致这些困难的因素，以及每日的匆忙如何影响家长的心理健康。在涵盖的 128 条路线中，特拉华州有三条被列为最令人沮丧的路线。派克溪（Pike Creek）在全国名单中排名第 29 位。多佛的 Highland Acres 排名第 102. 位。特拉华州最后一条被提及的通勤路线是米德尔敦的 Willow Grove Mill，排名第 105 位。

哥伦比亚特区 华盛顿：据 WUSA9 报道，美国司法部（DOJ）表示，发现乔治华盛顿大学医学院在 2024 和 2025 届学生的录取决定中非法考虑了种族因素，指控其在面对资质相当的白人和亚裔候选人时，更倾向于黑人和西班牙裔申请人。

佛罗里达州 西棕榈滩：西棕榈滩的领导层正计划深度开发半咸水的佛罗里达含水层（Floridan Aquifer）以获取更多饮用水，旨在使该市的水源多样化，摆脱目前对地表水的依赖。

佐治亚州 亚特兰大：联邦检察官表示，一名亚特兰大女性因一项从亚马逊窃取近 1000万美元 的诈骗计划，被判处 16 年以上联邦监禁。

夏威夷州 瓦希亚瓦：据 Hawaii News Now 报道，太阳能驱动的 Honu Hub 废水处理系统正在进行测试。这是一种紧凑的离网技术，旨在为化粪池提供一种更经济的替代方案，并帮助解决夏威夷长期存在的废水污染危机。

爱达荷州 杰罗姆：据 KTVB7 报道，由于社区对隐私、数据安全以及该技术潜在滥用的担忧，杰罗姆市和林肯县已放弃计划中或正在实施的 Flock 车牌识别摄像头项目。

伊利诺伊州 斯普林菲尔德：伊利诺伊州将通过三项新签署的法律，扩大对家庭暴力和性侵幸存者的保护，这些法律涉及保护令、高风险亲密伴侣暴力评估以及法医医学检查的获取。

印第安纳州 卡梅尔：官员们认为，一座在历史性洪水期间被冲毁的卡梅尔桥可以在 2027 年底前完成更换——早于最初的估计——并希望成本控制在 1000万美元 以下。

亮点：缅因州

第一巴黎教堂评估委员会成员斯科特·史蒂文斯（左）和牧师埃里克·杜皮（Eric Dupee）正在领导一项翻修教堂尖顶的项目，该尖顶将被拆除以便完成修复工作。DEB CRAM / 今日美国网络

约克：由于一项旨在确保这座标志性建筑在未来多年保持完好的维修项目，约克村（York Village）的背景景观在未来一年将缺失第一巴黎教堂的尖顶。据担任项目经理的教堂评估委员会成员斯科特·史蒂文斯称，这座尖顶可追溯至18世纪，目前正在进行修缮，以使其保持自1882年大规模翻新后的历史原貌。维修工作将涉及将尖顶从约克村上方的原位拆除。史蒂文斯表示，该工程计划在冬季某个时间点开始，可能会持续到2027年夏末。

爱荷华州 德梅因：在对市中心职业足球场进行了七年的规划后，德梅因市表示，其与项目开发商克劳斯集团（Krause Group）就旨在帮助分担项目成本的相邻开发项目进行的谈判已经结束。

堪萨斯州 萨利纳：在接受了迪尔企业（Diehl Enterprises）$200 万的投标方案后，萨利纳市将尽快更换一段略长于一英里的水主干管。该项目是该市一项旨在更换175英里铸铁管线的多年期大型计划的一部分。

肯塔基州 路易斯维尔：根据一份新闻稿，前NFL四分卫科林·卡佩尼克（Colin Kaepernick）被评为穆罕默德·阿里中心2026年度人道主义奖获得者。

路易斯安那州 巴吞鲁日：为了确定年轻人面临障碍最多的领域以及哪个州的高风险青少年数量最高，WalletHub分析了各州在脱节青年、劳动力参与率和青年贫困率等方面的因素。在WalletHub的研究中，路易斯安那州的高风险青少年数量排名第一，教育和就业排名第二，健康状况排名第10。

马里兰州 安纳波利斯：据WBAL报道，New Village Academy（一所专注于实习和社区学习的免学费公立特许高中）已在安纳波利斯购物中心（Annapolis Mall）内一个翻新的原Lord & Taylor空间内开业。

马萨诸塞州 波士顿：马萨诸塞州将向18家气候技术公司提供$27.200 万的税收激励。根据一项社区公告，这笔资金由希利-德里斯科尔（Healey-Driscoll）政府宣布，将通过马萨诸塞州清洁能源中心的气候技术税收激励计划进行发放。

密歇根州 底特律：美国最古老且规模最大的年度穆斯林集会之一将在12年来首次回到底特律市中心。预计在劳动节周末，将有超过20,000人参加在亨廷顿广场（Huntington Place）举行的北美伊斯兰协会大会。

明尼苏达州 明尼阿波利斯：据Minnesota Reformer报道，由于学区会计错误，明尼阿波利斯公立学校在2025-26学年损失了$4.100 万的州和联邦特殊教育援助金，这引发了人们对该学区陷入困境的财务部门的质疑，该部门多年来一直处于人员不足且使用过时技术的状态。

密西西比州 牛津：普林斯顿评论（Princeton Review）的一项新排名将全美不到400所学院列为全国最佳。密西西比州仅有一所大学入选。普林斯顿评论将位于牛津的密西西比大学列为美国最佳学院之一。

密苏里州 斯普林菲尔德：密苏里州立大学商学院将开始领导层过渡，因为院长大卫·迈纳特（David Meinert）宣布计划于Dec. 31, 退休，结束在该大学近37年的服务。

蒙大拿州 劳雷尔：据KBZK报道，一名黄石县法官发布禁令，在进一步的环境审查完成之前，禁止建设拟议中的劳雷尔法医精神健康中心。

内布拉斯加州 库斯特县：据 KNOP 报道，州和地方领导人参加了库斯特县的一场奠基仪式，该设施为首创，旨在将牛粪转化为可用于能源市场的可再生天然气。

内华达州 里诺：圣玛丽区域医疗中心（Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center）的护士将加入由三个州的工会成员共同发起的为期一天的罢工，抗议患者安全问题并要求公平的合同。根据全美护士联合会（National Nurses United）的消息，里诺圣玛丽医疗中心的注册护士计划于 9 月 3, 上午 6:45 至 9 月 4, 上午 6:44 进行罢工。

新罕布什尔州 康科德：新罕布什尔大学调查中心的一项新民调显示，新罕布什尔州美国众议员克里斯·帕帕斯（Chris Pappas）在民主党参议院初选中领先科学家卡里什玛·曼祖尔（Karishma Manzur）的优势已经缩小。民调发现，如果 9 月 8 日的选举在今天举行，47% 的潜在民主党选民将投票给帕帕斯，而 34% 将投票给曼祖尔。他 13 个百分点的领先优势较 6 月份领先 24 个百分点时几乎缩减了一半。

新泽西州 凯姆登县：到 10 月中旬，亚马逊将在凯姆登县和格洛斯特县的部分地区开始无人机配送。根据曼图亚警察局分享的一张地图，拟议的配送区域将包括穆利卡山（Mullica Hill）、曼图亚镇（Mantua Township）、德普特福德镇（Deptford Township）以及宾夕法尼亚州的部分地区。

新墨西哥州 圣特蕾莎：在新墨西哥州最高法院解除暂缓执行后，圣特蕾莎一个备受争议的数据中心园区的空气质量许可程序将由另一名独立听证官监督。

纽约州 奥尔巴尼：根据 WalletHub 的数据，纽约州是一个相当适合生育孩子的地方，在最佳州名单中排名前 20。纽约州在 51 个评级对象中排名第 16。

北卡罗来纳州 亨德森维尔：蓝岭健康（Blue Ridge Health）计划在亨德森维尔建造一座新的医疗大楼。该大楼将用于安置亨德森维尔家庭医学住院医师培训项目，该项目由 UNC Health Pardee 与山地地区健康教育中心合作运行。

北达科他州 俾斯麦：据 KFYR 报道，在俾斯麦首次检测到白蜡僵褐天牛（一种杀死白蜡树的入侵昆虫），促使伯利县被列入隔离区，限制白蜡木及其他受监管材料的移动。

俄亥俄州 韦恩县：灵感之丘营地（Inspiration Hills Camp）获得了韦恩县社区基金会 $40,000 的资助，用于资助一个新的中央教育展馆，该展馆将支持在该营地 200 英亩土地上开展的扩展青少年和教育项目。

俄克拉荷马州 俄克拉荷马市：一名正与俄克拉荷马市洽谈争取 300万美元 用于修复标志性金顶（Gold Dome）的塔尔萨音乐场馆运营商威胁称，在市议会拒绝其增加容量的请求后，将拆除位于威奇托的一座历史剧院。

俄勒冈州 塞勒姆：市议会在 8 月 24 日决定将关于创建拟议的北滨水区城市更新区的投票推迟到以后日期，此前议会表达了担忧并听取了公众证词。

宾夕法尼亚州 多伊尔斯敦：在多伊尔斯敦自治市建造一个面向残障成年人的包容性市场和住房的计划在审批过程中获得了首个绿灯。

罗德岛州 普罗维登斯：罗德岛基金会正向数十家非营利组织发放超过 $5.400 万 的资助，并表示这些资金将帮助罗德岛居民解决医疗保健、住房和职业培训等“关键需求”。此次拨款是该基金会在其五年行动计划下发放的第三轮资助。

南卡罗来纳州 辛普森维尔：格林维尔技术学院于 8 月 20 日庆祝其耗资 3200万美元 的新焊接与自动化卓越中心开业。官员表示，这座位于辛普森维尔、面积 44,000 平方英尺的设施拥有全美首个 AI 焊接实验室，被誉为东南部最大的焊接校园，也是全美第二大。

南达科他州 皮埃尔：据南达科他州 Searchlight 报道，一份来自国家非营利组织的报告显示，南达科他州的监狱在准备囚犯出狱方面面临困难，且旨在帮助他们在外界生活的支持系统往往不足。

田纳西州 纳什维尔：根据 ConsumerAffairs 的一项新研究，田纳西州是美国南部儿童看护费用最昂贵的州之一。在全国范围内，田纳西州在儿童看护费用最昂贵的州中排名第 29 位，处于中游水平。

德克萨斯州 埃尔帕索：8 月初，埃尔帕索马拉松（Marathon）炼油厂的一次设备故障导致排放的污染物远超此前报告的数值。马拉松公司提交给德克萨斯州环境质量委员会的一份新报告称，Aug. 4 的故障导致 31,100 磅的 33 种不同污染物排放。

犹他州 盐湖城：据 KSL 报道，市府官员正考虑将具有历史意义的“盐湖城-县大楼”（Salt Lake City-County Building）更名为“盐湖城市政厅”（Salt Lake City Hall），以减少公众的混淆。

佛蒙特州 伯灵顿：尽管伯灵顿是一座城市，但它入选了 CNN 的美国最佳城镇名单。该新闻机构发布了一份 2026, 美国最值得访问的最佳城镇和社区名单，伯灵顿被选为具有小镇氛围的 10 个社区之一，在名单中排名 No. 6。

弗吉尼亚州 钦科蒂格：钦科蒂格马群中的一匹马被检测出患有沼泽癌（Swamp cancer），这种疾病对马类可能是致命的，这促使负责照顾马群的钦科蒂格志愿消防队“盐水牛仔”（Saltwater Cowboys）迅速采取行动。

华盛顿州 斯诺霍米什：据 KING5 报道，两只新的黑熊幼崽已抵达 PAWS 野生动物康复中心接受专业护理，随后将被送回野外，使其护理的熊总数达到五只。

西弗吉尼亚州 亨廷顿：据 WV News 报道，马歇尔大学基金会报告称，2026 财年的新捐赠和承诺金额为 $35.900 万。

威斯康星州 麦迪逊：立法者投票批准对该州的食品援助计划进行审计，同时审查对反贫困非营利组织的监管以及该州的建筑计划。虽然一些民主党人与共和党人一起签署同意对建筑计划进行审计以及对该州与社区行动机构合作情况的调查，但启动 FoodShare 审计的投票则是按党派路线进行的。

怀俄明州 吉莱特：据 Gillette News Record 报道，怀俄明州社区学院委员会的一项调查发现，吉莱特学院未能达到多项绩效目标，包括毕业生就业安置、兼职学生留存率、学生坚持率以及当地毕业生的入学率。

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铭记

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零点 精神

25 年的韧性

折扣即将结束

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二十五年前，世界在同一个早晨发生了改变。

2001年9月11日，平凡的人们成为了英雄。消防员们爬进燃烧的大楼。陌生人搀扶着陌生人走下数十层楼梯。整个国家在电视机前震惊地坐着，随后站起身来投入工作。

《零点精神：25年的韧性》（GROUND ZERO SPIRIT: 25 Years of Resilience）通过定义那一天的影像和声音，重新审视那一天。但这本书并未止步于废墟。它记录了从悲痛到重建的漫长道路：纪念馆、恢复的社区、仍在为健康而奋斗的第一响应者，以及在余波中成长的一代人。

我们曾身在何处。我们失去了什么。我们走了多远。

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超级变革者

2026年可能更具爆发力的五支NFL大场面球队

Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz

今日美国

NFL中的爆发性进攻可能缺乏共同的来源，甚至没有一个统一的定义。但显然，它们仍然是每位战术策划者愿望清单上的首选。

用于衡量大幅推进的精确码数界限——通常跑球为10-12码，传球为16-20码——在不同来源之间可能有所不同。然而，显而易见的是，对于那些在长距离推进中必须依赖绝对精准度的进攻端来说，大场面进攻仍然是增强进攻威力的最有效方式之一。在西雅图海鹰队和新英格兰爱国者队凭借增强的进攻爆发力一路杀入第60届超级碗之后，显然有更多有志于竞争的球队希望在本赛季走上同样的繁荣之路。

虽然爆发性进攻曾经与深球传球划等号，但在NFL不断变化的格局中，情况未必如此。随着多支球队的进攻倾向于使用更重的人员配置和更高的跑球率，许多球队可以通过深耕地面进攻变得更加充满活力。

基于此，以下是今年秋天呈现出更强爆发力趋势的五支进攻端：

详见第4℃页“爆发力”（EXPLOSIVE）

顶部：四分卫帕特里克·马霍姆斯（Patrick Mahomes）应能从进攻协调员埃里克·比米米（Eric Biemiemy）的回归以及跑卫肯尼斯·沃克三世（Kenneth Walker III）的加入中获益。底部：闪电队接球手拉德·麦康基（Ladd McConkey）对聘请迈克·麦丹尼尔（Mike McDaniel）担任进攻协调员感到兴奋。“是的，我认为他将为我们创造更多爆发机会。他将推动跑球和传球的运转。两者将相辅相成。”照片由路透社 IMAGN IMAGES 提供

大学橄榄球 第0周胜者与败者

卡罗来纳与比利奇脱困

保罗·迈尔伯格 (Paul Myerberg)

今日美国 (USA TODAY)

比利奇需要这场胜利。

现年 74 岁的比利奇在北卡罗来纳大学（UNC）开启他的第二年执教生涯时，正处于大学橄榄球界最不稳定的位置之一。这释放了一个信号：在纽英格兰爱国者队的执教生涯以惨淡收场后，这位六次超级碗冠军教练已经正式失去了他的竞争力。

在面对足球碗分部（FBS）最艰难的赛程之一时，直到赛季深入，我们才能完整评估比利奇和北卡大学自上赛季以来取得了怎样的进步。但北卡焦油黑人队（Tar Heels）在爱尔兰以 15-10 赢得的一场虽然并不好看的胜利，为比利奇稳住了局面，并在经历了另一个充满戏剧性的休赛期后，为其任期提供了必须的助力。

在去年的揭幕战中，北卡焦油黑人队在主场被 TCU 队淹没，他们在取得全场首分之后，连续丢掉 41 分，最终以 48-14 告负。

这支 TCU 队在失去了多年首发四分卫乔什·胡弗（Josh Hoover）并转投印第安纳大学后，显然存在四分卫问题。再加上缺乏顶尖的技巧型人才，号角蛙队（Horned Frogs）可能难以达到参加碗赛的资格。

有一点很明显：TCU 队通过犯下 11 次违例，在第三档和第四档进攻中合计仅 21 次成功 8 次，平均每次冲球仅 2.7 码，每次传球尝试仅 5.5 码，这样是无法与 Big 12 联盟中的顶尖球队竞争的。

尽管号角蛙队问题明显，但北卡大学可能展示了比利奇时代的赢球蓝图——通过依赖资深四分卫比利·爱德华兹二世（Billy Edwards Jr.）的低失误表现，以及一支拥有三次擒杀和六次损失码擒抱（其中许多由大二球员泽维尔·刘易斯完成）的才华横溢的防守前线，来赢得这种低分且胶着的比赛。

对于北卡焦油黑人队和比利奇来说，胜利才是唯一重要的事情。在 10 月下半月——在对阵排名第 23 的克莱姆森大学、排名第 5 的圣母大学、匹兹堡大学和杜克大学的比赛之后——我们将知道这种复古的 NFL 式模式能否将北卡大学送入季后赛，并挽救比利奇受损的名声。

比利奇、弗吉尼亚大学和 TCU 领跑第 0 周的最大赢家与输家名单：

赢家：比利奇

就在过去一个月里，北卡大学让总经理迈克尔·隆巴迪（Michael Lombardi）无限期休假，并且在防守协调员史蒂文·比利奇（Steven Belichick）因未公开的医疗状况而缺阵的情况下，被迫继续推进。对于这支全美最具戏剧性的球队（除了莱恩·基芬目前所在的任何地方）来说，这是最近发生的两次波折。北卡大学的每一次胜利，无论比分如何或比赛是否精彩，都能将关注点从比利奇混乱的球队管理中转移开。

弗吉尼亚大学

去年的 ACC 亚军展现了一定的持久力，在以 34-8 惨胜被预测为 ACC 竞争者的北卡州立大学时占据了上风。弗吉尼亚大学将 CJ 贝利（CJ Bailey）限制在 23 次传球仅 84 码

参见第 4℃ 页 第 0 周

凭借 15-10 的胜利，北卡罗来纳大学橄榄球教练比利奇在 8 月 29 日于都柏林见证了他的焦油黑人队雪耻去年的 48-14 失利。

NFL 赢家与输家

季前赛结束，仍有待解答的问题

杰登·丹尼尔斯（Jayden Daniels）和达克·普雷斯科特（Dak Prescott）是竞争激烈的 NFC 东区两支敌对球队的四分卫。GREG FIUME / GETTY IMAGES

内特·戴维斯 (Nate Davis)

今日美国 (USA TODAY)

NFL 的季前赛——谢天谢地——终于结束了。

联盟夏季的 49 场表演赛于 8 月 29 日落下帷幕，在纳什维尔日产体育场举行的最后一场季前赛中，芝加哥熊队以 24-15 击败了田纳西泰坦队。

从这几十场不计入积分榜的比赛中，我们学到了多少？尤其是考虑到一些球队在 8 月的比赛中完全保护他们的顶尖球员，不让他们上场。可以说学到的不多——而且别忘了，那些更强的球队（比如比尔·贝利切克率领的新英格兰爱国者队）有时拥有某种奢侈的特权，可以在 9 月份继续延续季前赛的某些习惯，以便在实战中解决问题。

尽管如此，在过去的三周里，得出一些结论和观察是自然的，而这些结论是奇迹、幻象还是值得铭记的，我们很快就会知道。因此，在试图从平庸之作中分辨出值得关注的内容时，以下是您的 2026 年季前赛赢家与输家：

赢家

达拉斯牛仔队

大 D（达拉斯）上一次在 8 月份感受到如此真实的超级碗氛围是什么时候？杰里·琼斯并没有准备交易掉他的最佳球员？没有潜伏的合同纠纷。没有毁灭性的伤病。经过重组的防守线似乎已准备充分，能够减轻本应是联盟最强进攻线之一的压力。极具天赋的替补四分卫乔·米尔顿三世（Joe Milton III）本月表现极其出色。牛仔队甚至在后期补强了一些不错的球员，即前超级碗 MVP 冯·米勒（Von Miller）和刚收购的进攻截锋布罗德里克·琼斯（Broderick Jones）。达拉斯可能不是夺冠热门，因为他们身处一个包含卫冕冠军西雅图海鹰队和洛杉矶公羊队的联盟分部，而后者是超级碗 61. 夺冠的推定热门。但自 1995 赛季以来就没能进入 NFC 冠军赛的牛仔队，本身就是一个清晰且现实的威胁。

帕特里克·马霍姆斯

他本月没有参加任何比赛，但这位三届超级碗 MVP 预计将在 9 月 14 日的堪萨斯城酋长队周一晚间揭幕战中首发——就在膝盖严重撕裂导致马霍姆斯 2025 赛季提前结束的整整九个月之后。下一个问题是：这位年度最佳回归球员的头号热门，能否在酋长王朝经历灾难性的 '25 赛季后，带领球队实现反弹？

博·尼克斯

他率领的丹佛野马队在上赛季将马霍姆斯的酋长队从长期占据的 AFC 西区宝座上拉了下来——即便马霍姆斯能撑完那个赛季，结果也会如此——并且在丹佛于分区赛击败布法罗后，如果不是尼克斯的脚踝在最后时刻骨折，他们本可能击败所有人，夺得超级碗 60 冠军……但在经历多次手术后，尼克斯似乎已经准备好回归，这支球队也是如此。

跑卫

底特律狮队的贾米尔·吉布斯（Jahmyr Gibbs）、亚特兰大猎鹰队的比詹·罗宾逊（Bijan Robinson）和印第安纳波利斯小马队的乔纳森·泰勒（Jonathan Taylor）所在的这个位置在近年来一直被视为理所当然——尤其是在财务方面——他们现在都签署了应得的续约合同，使他们成为 NFL 历史上首批年均薪酬至少为 2200万美元 的跑卫。

洛杉矶公羊队

他们会是 2026 年的 NFC 冠军吗？凭借替补球员的努力，他们赢下了全部三场季前赛，没有遭受重大伤病，并且似乎准备好迎接一个比近期任何一年都承载更高期望的赛季，尤其是对于一支在前一年功亏一篑的球队来说。而且想想当亚伦·唐纳德（Aaron Donald）准备回归时，他的状态将多么出色。

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布法罗比尔队

他们会成为 2026 年的 AFC 冠军吗？他们拥有新任主教练（乔·布雷迪）、新球场、新的一号接球手（DJ·摩尔），而且看来焕发了新的生机。四分卫乔什·艾伦及其队友在本月的训练营中表现出色，这位 2024 年的 MVP 在季前赛的短暂亮相中似乎已经进入了赛季中期的最佳状态。在预计竞争激烈的 AFC 中——布雷迪是该分区七位首年执教的主教练之一——布法罗队的突破伦巴迪奖杯的前景看起来与任何球队一样乐观。

德肖恩·斯特里布林

今年早些时候，当旧金山 49 人队在选秀第 2 轮首位选中这位外接手时，他并没有获得太多关注。但在训练营和两场季前赛中大放异彩后，斯特里布林成了硅谷以及全国各地的幻想足球选秀中的宠儿。而且 49 人队肯定需要他，因为资深外接手迈克·埃文斯和克里斯蒂安·柯克在整个夏天大部分时间都在与伤病作斗争，而里基·皮尔索尔（膝盖）已经赛季报销。对于一支在这个夏天需要亮点地球队来说，斯特里布林确实做到了。

新秀四分卫

拉斯维加斯突袭者的费尔南多·门多萨、公羊队的泰·辛普森、亚利桑那红雀队的卡森·贝克、匹兹堡钢人队的德鲁·阿拉尔以及纽约喷气机的凯德·克鲁布尼克，是今年前四轮选中的唯一几位四分卫，他们所有人都——大致上——在季前赛开局阶段表现得极其强劲。无论如何，早期的表现确实达到了预期潜力。

谢杜尔·桑德斯

他赢得克利夫兰布朗队的 QB1 之争了吗？基于我们本月在场上看到的表现？大概是的。基于组织逻辑？绝对是的……如果布朗队遵循这种逻辑的话。基于球迷的感受？绝对——他妈的——是的……无论如何。目前的赌注是，在第 3 周对阵卡罗来纳黑豹队的主场揭幕战中，桑德斯仍将接手第一次进攻。

失败者

德肖恩·沃森

在经历多次跟腱手术后，他在近两年来的首次亮相中，如果说他看起来没有状态下滑，那么他绝对看起来不像一名球队核心四分卫，也不像一个在进入其足以拖垮球队的合同最后一年时，在克利夫兰仍有可行未来的球员……当然，这些并不是未知的问题。但事实是，沃森在被布朗队球迷嘘后，显然还没有经历必要的个人成长，以便在讲台上表现得更加谨慎？令人遗憾。但无论组织的理由是什么，他在第 1 周以及大概第 2. 周仍是 QB1。但目前的赌注是，桑德斯会比预期更早地获得他应得的机会。

新秀四分卫

除了辛普森——他本赛季大概被定为公羊队的 QB3——其他人在令人鼓舞的首次亮相后，情况基本都走下坡路了，贝克在名人堂之战中全国瞩目地表现出色后，肋骨受伤导致他失去了季前赛剩余的时间。这没关系。除了门多萨，这些年轻人的预期都应该有所降低，而且即使是门多萨，在资深球员柯克·考辛斯在今年夏天突袭者训练营中获得大部分一队出场机会后，预计本赛季至少有一段时间需要坐在替补席上观察。

“这就是 NFL。球场的另一侧有怪物，你必须快速把球传出去，”门多萨在一次表现不稳定的季前赛收官战后说道。“它教会你，你必须准时出球，而且容错率较低。所以我认为在这种压力和窘迫中获得经验是非常棒的，因为钻石是在压力下形成的。”

门多萨可能会成为自 2018. 年的贝克·梅菲尔德以来，首位以状元身份被选中但赛季开始时坐在替补席上的四分卫。突袭者的做法完全没有问题——等待钻石是值得的。

NFC南区

亚特兰大的四分卫迈克尔·佩尼克斯二世（Michael Penix Jr.）和外线卫贾隆·沃克（Jalon Walker）。线卫尼克·斯考顿（Nic Scourton）、接球手克里斯·布拉泽尔二世（Chris Brazzell II）以及进攻截锋泰勒·莫顿（Taylor Moton）和伊基·埃克沃努（Ickey Ekwonu）。新奥尔良的新秀接球手乔丹·泰森（Jordyn Tyson）和防守线球员布莱恩·布雷西（Bryan Bresee）。坦帕的接球手埃梅卡·埃格布卡（Emeka Egbuka）。这个长期难以达到平均水平的分区已经遭受了相当多次的沉重打击，这将进一步降低整体预期，尤其是在赛季开始之初。

图亚·塔戈瓦伊洛亚 (Tua Tagovailoa)

周五返回迈阿密时被海豚队球迷嘘了——再次强调，这只是季前赛。太难了。尽管佩尼克斯的健康状况不足以对他发起挑战，但到目前为止，他仍无法正式锁定猎鹰队的首发四分卫（QB1）之位。太糟糕了。在亚特兰大签署的是一份一年期合同，如果他不能迅速扭转近期的下滑趋势，值得思考的是，他在NFL中还能签署多少份这样的合同。

布兰登·艾尤克 (Brandon Aiyuk)

令人惊讶的是，这位接球手仍然在旧金山的预备 / 离队名单中苦苦挣扎——这纯粹证明了艾尤克不愿，或者可能无法掌控自己的职业生涯并规划一条新路径……按照这个速度，这条路径可能永远不会出现。希望他能够掌控局面，重新点燃曾经充满希望的职业生涯。

华盛顿指挥官队

无论是在比赛还是训练中，他们破烂不堪的进攻线似乎无法保护四分卫杰登·丹尼尔斯（Jayden Daniels）。长期以来，丹尼尔斯一直不得不面对一种认知（这种认知在2025年被再次煽动），即他因在场上采取轻率的冒险行为而难以保护好自己。对于一支正在安装新进攻体系且将在9月面对老鹰队、牛仔队和海鹰队的球队来说，这是一个令人担忧的信号。

J.J. 麦卡锡 (J.J. McCarthy)

两年前选秀的第10顺位，明尼苏达维京人队这位23岁的四分卫在季前赛揭幕战之前，就正式在球队的四分卫竞争中输给了凯勒·马雷（Kyler Murray），后者正凭一份一年期合同在双子城效力。几周后，在卡森·温茨（Carson Wentz）和年轻人马克斯·布罗斯默（Max Brosmer）都在替补名单中竞争的情况下，麦卡锡的名单席位究竟有多安全尚不明确——他在新秀年因膝伤缺阵，随后在2025赛季勉强支撑。考虑到选中麦卡锡的总经理奎西·阿多福-门萨（Kwesi Adofo-Mensah）已被撤职，这位原本被视为球队门面的球员看来永远无法实现这一目标。

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南加大必须根除那个挥之不去的坏习惯

乔丹·门多萨 (Jordan Mendoza)

他在南加大（USC）第三个赛季中所展现出的成熟度。

南加大特洛伊人队教练林肯·赖利（Lincoln Riley）对他 8月29日揭幕战的表现感到满意，但同时也表示“第四节的表现没有达到我们的标准”。 KIRBY LEE / IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS

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洛杉矶 —— 在林肯·赖利的执教下，南加大大学（Southern Cal）所呈现的特质，在 2026 赛季揭幕战战胜圣何塞州立大学的比赛中得到了最典型的体现。

在比赛的大部分时间里，你能够明白为什么特洛伊人队始终处于全美关注的中心，并且有机会成为大学橄榄球季后赛（College Football Playoff）的竞争者。

但在比赛结束时，它又提醒了你为什么该队尚未实现这一目标。

排名第 14 的南加大在第 0, 周经历了一场令人又爱又恨的比赛，在酷热的洛杉矶纪念体育场内以 42-26 击败了圣何塞州立大学。

如果这个比分看起来比你预想的结果要接近，那是由于事实确实如此。

到第三节结束时，南加大以 35-3 领先，并派上新球员以观察他们在比赛中的表现。但他们并没有贡献太多。

在最后的 15 分钟里，圣何塞州立大学通过 117 码的进攻得分 22 分，这不仅让他们覆盖了让分盘，而且在这一场“两面派”的比赛中给赖利留下了不愉快的感觉。

“场上有很多非常精彩的橄榄球表现。三方配合默契，在前三节中完全主导了比赛，”赖利说道，“但第四节的表现没有达到我们的标准。”

尽管对手是特洛伊人队的替补球员，但这又是南加大未能完成收割的另一个例子。无论是赛季末的失利、代价高昂的失误，还是单纯的管理不善，总有些因素在阻碍特洛伊人队最终锁定胜局并进入季后赛。

在第一场比赛中的影响虽然很小，且全天大部分时间表现出色，但这应该作为一个警告：如果南加大想要避免再次错过 12 支球队组成的季后赛名单，就必须改掉这个毛病。

南加大队需要修复什么？

首先是要确保无论场上是谁，节奏都不能中断。

在整个休赛期，赖利一直强调球队的深度是其有望成为一支特殊队伍的原因。虽然许多新球员证明了这一点，但看起来这种深度主要局限于 1A 和 1B 级别的球员，替补球员的表现则出现了剧烈下滑。

“我们起用了许多不同的球员，”赖利说，“很多球员得到了机会，但其中有几位球员的表现并未达到我们的预期。”

赖利和球员们都表示，球队在比赛中“松了劲”。当特洛伊人队领先 32 分，且体育场内的观众在胜局已定且为了避暑而开始大规模离场时，球队开始进入“滑行”状态。

高温持续不减，但特洛伊人队的势头却减弱了。

“当你开始得分很多并稍微放松时，情况就可能恶化，”防守截锋吉德·阿巴西里（Jide Abasiri）说道，“这就是我们需要改进的地方。”

更让人心情复杂的是，问题出现在防守端，而这长期以来一直是赖利执教球队的问题，且原本以为在新的防守协调员加里·帕特森（Gary Patterson）的带领下，这次不会成为问题。赖利表示，防守组本应该将圣何塞州立大学的得分限制在个位数。

尽管收尾不佳，但杰登·马亚瓦与爆发的新生证明了南加州大学具备顶尖实力

南加州大学（USC）仍有许多需要改进的地方，但不能忽视其在比赛前45分钟所展现出的出色状态。

南加州大学在开场进攻中便一路推进并得分，从而在整场比赛中始终保持领先，其进攻端几乎可以随心所欲地发起攻击。

这一切都始于资深四分卫杰登·马亚瓦（Jayden Maiava），他凭借一场卓越的表现，证明了自己为何能成为南加州大学成功的关键。

他完成了29次传球中的25次，传球码数286码，并贡献了两次达阵，其中包含一段连续14次传球成功的记录。此外，他还通过地面推进贡献了一次得分。86%的传球准确率创下了这位大四球员的职业生涯新高，展现出了其意识和

然而，真正抢尽风头的是经验尚浅的接球手特伦特·莫斯利（Trent Mosley）。这位大一新生表现亮眼，全场最高，接球7次，获得118码并贡献一次达阵，是四名得分的新生之一。

“这么多大一新生能够首发并产生影响，这绝对是一个令人印象深刻的数据，”中锋托比亚斯·雷蒙德（Tobias Raymond）表示，“有些球员在场上的表现确实非常出色。”

这场比赛还标志着跑卫韦蒙德·乔丹（Waymond Jordan）和金·米勒（King Miller）首次共同出战，他们造成了巨大破坏，证明了自己能成为全美最强的双人组之一，两人合计冲球111码，其中米勒承担了大部分持球次数。南加州大学全队冲球总计164码。

防守端依然出彩

诚然，防守端在比赛末段崩溃了，但在前三个节次中，其表现显得势不可挡。

特洛伊人队在当天的大部分时间里确实有效地限制了斯巴达人队，使其难以制造威胁。圣何塞州立大学的前五次完整进攻中，有四次以弃踢结束（包括三次三次进攻未获码弃踢），以及一次进攻失败交球。

赖利（Riley）对这次发生在红区内的进攻失败交球感到尤为自豪。

在第四节之前，圣何塞州立大学两次进入红区仅获得3分，这让许多人相信这将是南加州大学自2024年最后一次零封对手以来最出色的防守表现。

因此，尽管南加州大学在离开体育场时心中感到苦涩，但不能完全忘记当天大部分时间里的甜蜜，并希望下次离开赛场时能保持这种状态。

“我客观对待这件事。你不能用第四节表现不足来掩盖问题，但也不能假装我们没有在前三个节次中主导比赛，”赖利说道。

“这绝对称不上完美，但确实相当不错。”

纳斯卡杯系列赛（NASCAR CUP SERIES）

瑞安·普里斯在加时赛中冲入季后赛争冠赛

8月29日，瑞安·普里斯在赢得可口可乐零糖 400 赛后庆祝，成功获得季后赛争冠赛（Chase）的入场券。CHRIS GRAYTHEN / GETTY IMAGES

米切尔·诺瑟姆 (Mitchell Northam)

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在两圈的加时赛决战临近之际，瑞安·普里斯 (Ryan Preece) 的车队孤注一掷，在燃油不足的情况下进行了豪赌。

8月29日，在比赛还剩六圈时，卡森·霍塞瓦尔 (Carson Hocevar) 发生事故导致出赛黄旗。此时，No. 60 车队意识到命运掌握在自己手中。他们在代托纳国际赛道上让这辆 RFK Racing 福特赛车继续留在赛道上，以维持第二名的位置。如果普里斯能赢得这场夜赛，他将在积分上超越谢恩·范·吉斯伯根 (Shane van Gisbergen)，从而进入季后赛争冠赛（Chase）。

当安全车离开赛道，进入高速加时赛时，领先集团开始了激烈的推挤。就在普里斯在最后一圈升至第一名时，赞恩·史密斯 (Zane Smith) 发生打滑，并卷入了场中数辆赛车。在他身后碎片飞溅、浓烟四起之时，当最后一次黄旗挥出时，普里斯远在丹尼尔·苏亚雷斯 (Daniel Suarez) 之前，从而被宣布为这场 NASCAR 杯系列赛常规赛收官战——可口可乐零糖 400 赛中出人意料的获胜者。

这次胜利不仅让普里斯进入了争冠赛——让这位来自康涅狄格州的 35 岁车手首次获得季后赛资格——而且这也是他在 NASCAR 最高级别杯系列赛中七个赛季以来的首次胜利。

简单来说：这场豪赌赢了。

就在结果确认的一瞬间，普里斯在无线电中发出了原始的呐喊，他的维修站团队开始兴奋地跳了起来。他在起终点线附近通过烧胎庆祝。

“我现在简直无言以对。那些伙计，那个 60 号团队，我们是战士，当你把我们逼到绝路时，我们会猛烈反击，”普里斯在直道上告诉 NBC。

“两年前，有很多‘键盘侠’说我一无是处。好吧，我们今晚把他们的屁股踢得啪啪响。我是一名赛车手，我知道如何提升速度。”

“致 RFK 的每一位男士和女士，感谢你们给我一艘火箭，让我今夜能飞向月球。”

NASCAR 的季后赛争冠赛名单已定。在周六晚上的代托纳，布巴·华莱士 (Bubba Wallace)、奥斯汀·辛德里克 (Austin Cindric) 和普里斯抢占了最后三个名额，而范·吉斯伯根在获得第28名后被挡在入围线之外。

“一个晚上不能概括我们一年的表现。我想是我们做得还不够好，”今年在索诺玛和沃特金斯格伦路赛中获胜的范·吉斯伯根说道。“能如此接近（入围）很酷。遗憾的是我们没能进去……我为能在椭圆赛道上与队友相媲美而感到自豪。我认为我今年有所进步。但是的，显然你希望进入争冠赛。”

普里斯在比赛开始前落后范·吉斯伯根 31 分。在凯尔·拉森 (Kyle Larson)、克里斯·布舍尔 (Chris Buescher) 和普里斯在冲向终点线时滑过草地期间，范·吉斯伯根赢得了第一阶段，将领先普里斯的优势扩大到 38. 分。但在第二阶段，普里斯以第二名完赛，而范·吉斯伯根则在前 10, 名之外，普里斯将分差缩小至 29, 分。

当尘埃落定，普里斯凭借这场胜利在积分上领先范·吉斯伯根 17 分。

“我明天要去喝点啤酒，和我的家人朋友们好好庆祝一下，”普里斯说。“我们赢了代托纳。”

从下周末在达林顿举行的顶级赛事“南方 500, ”开始，争冠赛参赛名单顺序如下：丹尼·汉姆林 (Denny Hamlin)、瑞安·布莱尼 (Ryan Blaney)、泰勒·雷迪克 (Tyler Reddick)、泰·吉布斯 (Ty Gibbs)、蔡斯·布里斯科 (Chase Briscoe)、克里斯托弗·贝尔 (Christopher Bell)、蔡斯·埃利奥特 (Chase Elliott)、凯尔·拉森 (Kyle Larson)、乔伊·洛加诺 (Joey Logano)、克里斯托弗·布舍尔 (Christopher Buescher)、丹尼尔·苏亚雷斯 (Daniel Suarez)、卡森·霍塞瓦尔 (Carson Hocevar)、威廉·拜伦 (William Byron)、布巴·华莱士 (Bubba Wallace)、奥斯汀·辛德里克 (Austin Cindric) 和瑞安·普里斯 (Ryan Preece)。

值得注意的是，普里斯现在成为 NASCAR 历史上第 42 位在所有三个国家巡回系列赛中都至少获得一次胜利的车手。他在第二级别的 O'Reilly Auto Parts 系列赛中获得过两次胜利，并在 Craftsman 卡车系列赛中获得过两次胜利。

Preece 也是自 2018 年以来，第五位在代托纳夏季赛中取得职业生涯首场杯赛胜利的车手。

“我为自己走到今天的方式感到自豪，因为我是以尊重他人且坚持自我方式实现的，”Preece 表示，“如果我是在街头打架，我的指关节现在肯定已经血肉模糊了。”

在比赛的其他位置，Suarez 在 Preece 之后获得第二名，Red-dick 位列第三。Michael McDowell 获得第四名，Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 获得第五名。Josh Berry 驾驶 Wood Brothers 队的 21 号福特赛车获得第九名，将其连续前十名的纪录延长至五场比赛。下赛季，现任 O'Reilly 系列赛冠军 Jesse Love 将接替他在该赛车中的位置，这意味着 Berry 在 2027 年将没有杯赛席位。

Cole Custer 驾驶 Haas Factory Team 的 41 号雪佛兰赛车获得第 10 名，这是他今年的最佳成绩。

Austin Hill 刚刚与 Richard Childress Racing 签署协议，下赛季将全职驾驶 33 号雪佛兰赛车参加杯赛；他在当晚领跑圈数最多，共 27 圈。Hill 在前两个阶段均进入前 10 名，但由于在比赛最后阶段的燃油进站策略未能奏效，最终仅获得第 27 名。

Harrison Burton 曾在 2024 年赢得这场比赛，但目前在 O'Reilly 系列赛中比赛。由于 Riley Herbst 仍感受到车队所称的上周末在新罕布什尔州事故后的“持续影响”，Burton 代替 Herbst 驾驶 23XI Racing 的 35 号丰田赛车，并取得了稳健的第 12 名成绩。

这场比赛标志着 NASCAR 首次在大规模跟车赛道（drafting tracks）的比赛中部署新的竞争方案，通过降低马力并修剪扰流板，旨在创造更多超车机会。

“我觉得有点不同。是剧烈的不同吗？不是，但我认为比赛本身的感觉变了。我没有像以前的比赛那样被锁定在一条车道上，”常规赛冠军 Hamlin 表示，“我没有感觉到像三排车并排堵死一样哪儿都去不了。看起来我们可以三车并排跑大约 12 圈，然后操控性就成了关键因素。车手们无法很好地维持在内线。这绝对让你必须做出选择。总的来说，我对 NASCAR 所做的改变感到满意。”

车手和车迷将在 10 月 25 日的塔拉代加赛（Chase 系列赛的第八场比赛）中再次审视这一方案。

第 0 周

接第 1℃ 页

尝试并仅允许对方获得一次超过 14 码的推进，同时让转会而来的四分卫博·普里布拉（Beau Pribula）在其首秀中承担了大部分工作。他通过 15 次携带跑球获得 110 码，传球 11 次中成功 9 次，获得 155 码并贡献两次得分。北卡罗来纳州立大学在过去六年中有五年至少赢得了八场比赛——如果狼群队在 2026 年再次展现出这种状态，弗吉尼亚大学将成为一支危险的球队。

北达科他州立大学

足球冠军分级赛（FCS）历史上最伟大的王朝——实际上也是第一分区历史上最具统治力的球队——在球队的 FBS 首秀中以 33-7 令人印象深刻的胜利击败了杰克逊维尔州立大学，延续了其强势表现。斗鸡队并非易与之辈：自 2023 年加入 FBS 以来，JSU 取得了 27-14 的战绩，并在前教练里奇·罗德里格斯（Rich Rodriguez）的带领下赢得了 2024 年美国大学足球联盟（Conference USA）的冠军。野牛队通过将斗鸡队通常高效的跑球进攻限制在 31 次携带跑球仅 85 码来掌控局面，而他们自己则在地面推进中获得 209 码，总计获得 373 码。显然，北达科他州立大学有能力在 2026 年竞争并赢得山西联盟（Mountain West）的冠军。

南加州大学

排名第 14 的特洛伊人队在对阵圣何塞州立大学的比赛中，直到下半场一直处于领先地位，但在最终以 42-26 获胜的比赛中，主要由第二阵容组成的防守线在第四节丢了 23 分。这次后期的崩盘将给新任防守协调员加里·帕特森（Gary Patterson）在本周及之后提供大量改进空间，因为南加州大学正寻求将数十名备受赞誉的新人融入 2026 年的阵容。尽管像四分卫杰登·迈亚瓦（Jayden Maiava，29 次传球成功 25 次，获得 286 码和两次达阵）这样的留队球员在帮助弥补经验差距，但无法彻底封杀斯巴达人队的表现，加深了人们的认知，即特洛伊人队缺乏经过验证的深度和经验丰富的替补球员最终将导致其失败。

爆发力

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他们上赛季的状态：

洛杉矶闪电队

在战术体系的年度剧变方面，可能没有比闪电队从格雷格·罗曼（Greg Roman）主导的进攻转向迈克·麦克丹尼尔（Mike McDaniel）执掌的进攻更剧烈的案例了。

在与长期信任的助手罗曼分道扬镳时，吉姆·哈博（Jim Harbaugh）承认需要一个“新的开始”。在任职仅几个月后，麦克丹尼尔已经在重塑进攻端，将曾经缓慢的进攻体系全面提速。

“是的，我认为他将为我们创造更多爆发性进攻的机会，”外接手拉德·麦康基（Ladd McConkey）在8月初接受NFL Network采访时表示，“他将推动跑球和传球游戏的协同发展。两者将相辅相成。所以我对此感到非常兴奋。”

对于贾斯汀·赫伯特（Justin Herbert）而言，麦克丹尼尔的方法意味着优先考虑比以往更快地将球传出，这位四分卫在休赛期调整了脚步，以创造更多接球后推进码数（YAC）的机会。然而，跑球游戏可能是真正实现突破的地方。尽管闪电队去年完成了14次20码以上的冲球，但麦克丹尼尔在阵容配置明显更差的迈阿密海豚队中就诱导出了16次此类推进。通过大量加入误导战术和开球前移动，可能会完全释放奥马里翁·汉普顿（Omarion Hampton）和基顿·米切尔（Keaton Mitchell）的潜力，这两人都证明了只要有突破口，他们完全有能力完成长距离推进。

然而，前线可能会酝酿一个大问题。在两端进攻截锋拉肖恩·斯莱特（Rashawn Slater）和乔·奥尔特（Joe Alt）因赛季报销的伤病导致闪电队进攻崩溃一年后，洛杉矶的内线现在显得极其脆弱。中锋泰勒·比亚达什（Tyler Biadasz）被签下以起到稳定作用，但他在训练营中遭遇的赛季报销膝伤，促使第二轮新秀杰克·斯劳特（Jake Slaughter）从五个竞争首发左后卫位置的人选中转岗至中锋。在一个拥有克里斯·琼斯（Chris Jones）和扎克·艾伦（Zach Allen）这类内线破坏者的分区中，如果进攻线崩溃，闪电队可能会看到大量潜在的爆发性进攻被化解。

堪萨斯城酋长队

为了让球队重新找回

8月29日，在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔的斯科特体育场对阵北卡罗来纳州立大学的比赛中，弗吉尼亚大学四分卫博·普里布拉（Beau Pribula）在11次传球尝试中完成了9次，传球码数为155码，并贡献了两个达阵。GREG ATKINS / IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS

输家 德克萨斯基督教大学 (TCU)

去年揭幕战给人的感觉是北卡罗来纳大学很弱，而TCU大概是一支能赢9场的球队，事实也确实如此。但2026年的这场揭幕战则呈现出截然不同的局面。在教练桑尼·戴克斯（Sonny Dykes）麾下的长角蛙队战术要求四分卫具备高水平表现，但目前尚不清楚他能否从哈佛大学转学生杰登·克雷格（Jaden Craig）身上获得这种能力，后者在每球尝试5.5码的情况下传球码数为175码。这是TCU自在那场65-7的大屠杀中仅获得152码以来，单场比赛传球码数最少的一次，对手是

一些往日的爆发力，重新请回埃里克·比尼米（Eric Bieniemy）担任进攻协调员是一个恰当的举措。

比尼米此前担任该职位的时期与球队在2018年至2022年的进攻巅峰期相吻合，在那段时间里，球队通过拉开场地让对手措手不及，且在得分或场均码数方面的排名从未低于第六。在他离开后的三年里，随着进攻变得更加循序渐进，创造更多大码数进攻成为了堪萨斯城每年休赛期的口号。然而，在经历了上赛季6-11的崩盘之后，这现在可能已成为一项强制性指令。

帕特里克·马霍姆斯（Patrick Mahomes）经常在防线头顶撕开传球的日子可能不会回来了，因为酋长队低水准的接球群以及对手广泛采用的双高安全卫阵型（two-high shells）将继续严重限制其空中进攻。然而，跑卫肯尼斯·沃克三世（Kenneth Walker III）的加入可能会为该团队带来变革性的影响。

在球队跑卫的收益连续多年下降后，酋长队的地面进攻在上赛季终于触底。堪萨斯城在采用中心开球（under center）战术时仅是敷衍了事，球队的意图在很大程度上被对手洞悉。由于全赛季仅有3次20码以上的推进，且其中只有一次是由跑卫完成，这在全联盟处于最低水平，导致马霍姆斯在作为跑者和整体进攻催化剂时，不得不承担起更加不成比例的重担。

因此，酋长队被沃克吸引也就不足为奇了。这位超级碗60赛的MVP凭借其突破速度，驱动了依赖大动作得分的海鹰队进攻。沃克目前年仅25岁，且单赛季最高携带次数从未超过228次，他可以承担比以往更重要的角色，并依然能让堪萨斯城变得更具动态竞争力。

偶尔穿插一次长距离奔跑可以缓解马霍姆斯的许多困境。缺乏持续的威胁给进攻端的第三档效率带来了沉重打击，堪萨斯城的转化率（37.44%）在2025年骤降至NFL第22位，而在此之前的七个赛季中，该指标每年都排名顶端。沃克预计还将在复兴掩护传球（screen game）和假跑真传（play-action）战术中发挥重要作用，酋长队此前在这两个领域曾是联盟的标准制定者，但此后大幅下滑。

明尼苏达维京人队

在迅速结束四分卫竞争并任命凯勒·马雷（Kyler Murray）为首发之后，维京人队再次确认了他们致力于开辟新路线的决心，此前在 J.J. 麦卡锡（J.J. McCarthy）执掌球队的上赛季，他们迷失了方向。

在 2024, 年，萨姆·达诺德（Sam Darnold）激励全队创造了全联盟第二多的 20 码以上传球（64 次），那么这种爆发性进攻是否能再次如此轻松地实现？对于在过去三个赛季中有两个赛季深受伤病困扰的马雷来说，这将是一个很难逾越的门槛。这位兼具跑动与传球威胁的四分卫以及凯文·奥康奈尔（Kevin O'Connell）可能仍需付出巨大努力，才能弥合他们各自在战术舒适区之间的鸿沟，而且马雷可能不再是他在身体巅峰时期那样能够打破既定战术框架的顶尖高手。

但话又说回来，他或许不需要达到那种程度。奥康奈尔显然对一套系统充满信心，这套系统已被证明只要交给一名合格的执行者就能产生极高产出。此前，麦卡锡经常因为传球过慢或失准而浪费贾斯汀·杰弗逊（Justin Jefferson）和乔丹·艾迪森（Jordan Addison）的机会，而传球精准度的提升可能会让明尼苏达队的接球手在边线传球中大放异彩。

由于去年的首发进攻线在伤病满营的情况下仅共同出场 83 次，维京人队的技术位置球员现在应该拥有更多的操作时间和空间。虽然经过调整的跑球进攻在夏季表现不稳，仍处于完善过程中，但随着新任助理主教练弗兰克·史密斯（Frank Smith）引入更多适合跑卫风格的宽区地带（wide-zone）战术，乔丹·梅森（Jordan Mason）可能会获得更多大幅度的推进码数。

北卡罗来纳州立大学

至于北卡罗来纳州立大学是否会在今年实现出人意料的飞跃并进入季后赛混战：不，不是。至少在被骑士队压制之后，目前的初步判断是如此。骑士队强迫他们出现了两次失误，码数多出近 250 码，且控球时间超过 38 分钟。狼群队接下来将面对里士满队，随后将迎来在范德比尔特大学以及在主场对阵阿巴拉契亚州立大学、路易斯维尔大学和维克森林大学的关键赛程。

2022 赛季大学橄榄球季后赛冠军赛中的乔治亚。

新奥尔良圣徒队

在凯伦·摩尔担任主教练的第一年里，大部分时间他的快节奏进攻似乎都无法找到节奏。圣徒队不仅受到跑球进攻的困扰——其场均每carry码数（3.7）在所有球队中排名倒数第二，而且其传球进攻的20码以上连接次数在所有进攻端中同样排名倒数第二。

但到赛季末，情况明显有所好转。在圣徒队最后4-1的收官阶段，这支人员短缺的进攻线场均得分24.8分，比球队全赛季的平均水平高出近一个达阵。很大一部分进步可以追溯到赛季中旬泰勒·肖（Tyler Shough）成为首发四分卫，他最终成为了NFL年度最佳进攻新秀的亚军。在圣徒队跨越20码或以上的8次进攻达阵中，有6次发生在他在中锋位置上接替斯宾塞·拉特勒（Spencer Rattler）之后。

随着跑卫特拉维斯·埃蒂安（Travis Etienne Jr.）和进攻后卫大卫·爱德华兹（David Edwards）在休赛期的签约，新奥尔良队在几乎每个阶段都应该变得更具威胁。

UNLV

在下半场开始几分钟后，内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校（UNLV）以21-14领先孟菲斯队，但无法抵挡孟菲斯老虎队的防守线，后者最终以27-21获胜，这场胜利在未来可能会产生重要影响。目前看来，在新任主教练查尔斯·哈夫（Charles Huff）的带领下，孟菲斯队前景乐观，哈夫此前在南密西西比大学的一年时间里完成了重大转型。展望11月，在12支球队的参赛规模中，这一结果可以作为一项证据，支持让这位美国联盟（American）冠军而非山西会议（Mountain West）的获胜者获得大学橄榄球季后赛（College Football Playoff）的入场券。

埃蒂安与阿尔文·卡马拉（Alvin Kamara）之间新的后场时间共享，在后者上赛季场均每次触球仅获得职业生涯最低的4.0码后，提供了急需的持久力。地面进攻中任何稳定的存在都可能为肖创造额外的深场机会。首轮秀乔丹·泰森（Jordyn Tyson）、四轮秀布莱斯·兰斯（Bryce Lance）和六轮秀巴里翁·布朗（Barion Brown）的入选，反映了球队致力于在核心目标克里斯·奥拉夫（Chris Olave）之外建立纵向威胁。

不过，这方面的任何进展可能都需要时间才能显现。由于泰森（腿筋）和卡马拉（内侧副韧带扭伤）分别在从伤病中恢复，进攻线可能直到9月深处才能恢复全员状态。

丹佛野马队

对季前赛回归的兴奋之情应当始终保持克制。尽管如此，野马队的早期表现提供了一个诱人的预告，揭示了丹佛队可能会如何引入一个缺失已久的维度。

在季前赛第二周对阵格林贝包装工队的比赛中，尼克斯（Nix）在缝隙路线中找到了休赛期通过交易引进的杰伦·沃德尔（Jaylen Waddle），完成了一次35码的接球并奔跑。三次进攻后，尼克斯与第二年跑卫RJ·哈维（RJ Harvey）通过轮转路线完成了一次21码的达阵。

对于保留了去年AFC冠军赛核心阵容但仍在寻求突破的丹佛队来说，这种火花是非常独特的。在作为首发的前两年里，尼克斯让野马队在大多数进攻统计类别中处于中游水平。但进攻推进往往是循序渐进的行军，很少有人能打破那种普遍的停滞感。

这时沃德尔登场了，在进入第六个赛季之际，他仍然是联盟顶尖的速度型球员之一。首年进攻协调员兼战术调用者戴维斯·韦伯（Davis Webb）对这个极具动态的目标非常着迷，以至于他说沃德尔将“在除了进攻线以外的任何位置上打球”。创造性的使用肯定会最大化这名接球手的产出，并允许他作为肖恩·佩顿（Sean Payton）钟爱的“小丑（joker）”角色的轻量版来制造错位优势。但他在球场中部的中距离和深区可能会带来最大的回报，而这些领域正是尼克斯仍有相当大成长空间的区域。

如果丹佛队能更稳定地让防守方失去平衡，并保持由J.K.多宾斯（J.K. Dobbins）领导的稳定冲球进攻，那么突破完全在触手可及之内。

奈廷格尔的笔记本

MLB全明星再次擅离职守，职业生涯危在旦夕

现在是 2,208-1。他们在第九局领先的情况下输掉了 11 场比赛，为 MLB 之最。

亚利桑那响尾蛇队内野手兼中外野手凯特尔·马特（Ketel Marte）在 2024 年和 2025 年获得了白银强棒奖。

鲍勃·奈廷盖尔（Bob Nightengale） 今日美国

凯特尔·马特两周前擅离了亚利桑那响尾蛇队，至今尚未在蔡斯球场露面。预计他将于 8 月 31 日走进俱乐部，向队友道歉，面对媒体，然后尝试挽救球队的赛季。

他让组织蒙羞，激怒了俱乐部内部的一派势力，并损害了管理层和经理托雷·洛武洛（Torey Lovullo）的信誉。然而，他掌握着最终的权力。

如果马特表现出色，且响尾蛇队获得季后赛资格，他可能会保住洛武洛的职位，并让棒球运营总裁迈克·哈森（Mike Hazen）免于被解雇。

如果他表现挣扎，响尾蛇队可能会在九年内第八次错过季后赛，届时没有人能安全脱身。马特拥有这种权力，这要归功于响尾蛇队多年来对他纵容的态度。

现在，他们的职业生涯可能取决于他。

响尾蛇队本可以在几年前就制止马特的行为，但他们总是视而不见。他们本可以在去年冬天以及过去好几次机会将其交易，但相反，他们提供了两次合同延期，认为这会改变局面。

结果，他反而让响尾蛇队看起来像傀儡。

想来就来。客场比赛时带上哥们。骚扰酒店安保。让哥们在俱乐部餐厅和队友一起用餐，令队友感到沮丧。并且在自己想打球的时候才打球。

这就是“马特规则”。

一套规则适用于他，另一套规则适用于其他 25 名球员。

“我从未见过这种情况，”一名响尾蛇队球员告诉《今日美国》体育版。

如果你不惩罚马特，你怎么能对任何在球队会议上迟到的球员处以罚款？如果你在处理地滚球时选择慢跑而非冲向一垒，你怎么能被换下场？如果你在身体完全健康的情况下想请假一天，谁能阻止你？

响尾蛇队认为，如果他们报复马特，或者在过去两年他每次擅离职守时，除了将其短暂列入限制名单外采取更严厉的惩罚，他们将会失去他。

因此，他们选择迁就他，纵容他，并向全世界宣称他们多么热爱他。

“让凯特尔成为如此卓越球员的原因之一，就是他按照自己的节奏行事，”洛武洛说道。

然而，通过坐视不管并任由他为所欲为，马特摧毁了组织的形象和声誉，而且凭借 10-and-5 权利，他现在拥有了最终的控制权。

响尾蛇队现在甚至在没有他许可的情况下无法将其交易。

他计划在周一对阵费城费城人队时回归，整个棒球界都将关注这场戏剧，好奇响尾蛇队是否会表现得像一切都被原谅了一样。

前响尾蛇队投手格雷格·斯温德尔（Greg Swindell）上周在推特上写道：“响尾蛇队不应该容忍马特正在发生的事情。响尾蛇队不应该允许他回来。”

哦，他会回来的，而且很可能会表现得像什么都没发生过一样。

• 几位球队官员表示，他们收到通知，原定于 12 月在圣迭戈举行的冬季会议的大联盟部分可能会被取消，但 MLB 表示尚未做出决定。除非发生像 2021 年那样的锁定，否则不会发布正式公告。

• 前休斯顿太空人队总经理詹姆斯·克利克（James Click）自 2023 年起担任多伦多蓝鸟队棒球战略副总裁，目前已成为运动家队空缺职位的有力竞争者。

• 虽然没有人知道 2027 赛季的未来，但上周一名老板、一名俱乐部总裁和一名资深球员分别预测，赛季可能会在 5 月开赛，而关于关键经济问题的真正谈判将在 4 月份错过工资支票时发生。

• 尽管底特律老虎队经理 A.J. 欣奇在太空人队组织中仍深受喜爱，且与老板吉姆·克雷恩关系密切，但他目前没有兴趣填补对方的总经理（GM）空缺。他在上赛季末获得了老虎队的续约合同，希望继续担任现职。预计太空人队将聘请一名具有深厚分析背景的总经理。

• 查德·特雷西目前可能是波士顿红袜队的临时经理，但一旦赛季结束，这一职位可能会变为永久。他接手了一支毫无起色的球队，并将其转化为一支强大的季后赛竞争者，将在十月成为一股强力力量。红袜队也意识到，如果他们延迟续约，他将成为最炙手可热的经理自由球员——仅次于他的前任亚历克斯·科拉。

• 从未有人连续三次获得年度最佳经理奖，但密尔沃基酿酒人队的帕特·墨菲可能会改变这一局面。

酿酒人队被 MLB 赞助的博彩网站预测今年将赢得 84 场比赛，但他们再次在 MLB 中拥有最佳战绩，并有望赢得队史纪录的 100 场胜利。67 岁的墨菲是棒球界最严厉的纪律执行者，他敢于在比赛中途、在投球计数中途撤下球员，或在媒体面前公开批评球员。

在他最近的一次纪律执行中，他因新秀库珀·普拉特缺乏拼劲而将其撤下，这也正是酿酒人队在整个联盟中赢得最高尊重的原因。

“我们在这里比赛有一套标准和协议，”酿酒人队老将克里斯蒂安·耶利奇告诉记者。“我们都知道。……你必须成为某种类型的球员才能为墨菲效力，才能在这里比赛。你必须在心理和身体上都足够强韧。”

墨菲表示：“我并不是想扮演一个‘强硬角色’（Johnny Hardass）。……如果你试图完成一件困难的事情，必然会有痛苦，必然会有牺牲，当然也会有分歧。你必须尽最大努力制定出可信的、真实的且对球员最有利的标准。”

• 对于亚特兰大王牌克里斯·赛尔来说，现在唯一的问题是，以他目前的投球状态，进入库珀斯敦（名人堂）时会戴什么样的帽子。他目前取得了 13-9 的战绩，防御率（ERA）为 2.06，并与酿酒人队王牌雅各布·米西奥罗夫斯基竞争国家联盟赛扬奖。赛尔在 37 岁 150 天时，在以 0, 11-strikeout gem 对阵道奇队的精彩比赛中，成为了 1900 年以来第六位在该年龄或更高年龄实现完封且至少 10 次三振且零保送的投手。上一次达成此成就的是名人堂成员兰迪·约翰逊，时间在 2004 年。

• 芝加哥白袜队在赛季的大部分时间里一直处于美国联盟中区的顶端，但那个看起来比实际更大的物体是克利夫兰守护者队。根据 MLB 研究员莎拉·朗斯的说法，守护者队在九月 / 十月的 .605 胜率是 2013 年以来美国联盟中最高的。

• 很难相信洋基队先发投手卡姆·施利特在第一个完整赛季中，就追平了队史单场比赛仅允许 1 分或 0 分的最多先发次数纪录，该纪录上次由罗恩·吉德里在 1978 年达成。他可能也将与吉德里一样成为赛扬奖得主，且在赢得该奖项的概率上，他与蓝鸟队王牌迪伦·西处于共同热门地位。

• 旧金山巨人队在对阵辛辛那提红人队之前，其历史上在第九局领先六分或更多时，战绩为 2,208-0。他们

• 酿酒人队先发投手洛根·亨德森在先发前习惯在野外草地上赤脚行走，并在下午前往投手丘视察，这可能开启了一项新趋势。该球员目前已连续 19 场先发未允许对方得分超过 3 分，追平了扎克·格林克在 MLB 历史上职业生涯开局的最长纪录。在此期间，他的战绩为 12-2，防御率 2.30，而酿酒人队在 19 场比赛中取得了 16-3 的战绩。“这让我心境平和，”他在接受《密尔沃基哨兵报》采访谈到赤脚行走时说道，“你会感受到很多情绪。”

• 沃克·詹金斯（Walker Jenkins）是明尼苏达双城队的顶级新秀，他于8月 28, 完成了大联盟首秀，其职业道德近乎传奇。2023, 年在塔格特球场（Target Field）举行完首次新闻发布会后，当詹金斯前往佛罗里达州迈尔斯堡时，他询问抵达球队春训设施后是否可以进行挥棒练习。当时已过午夜。他练习了 45 分钟。“我认为没有人会比我更热爱这项运动，也没有人能像我这样在其中获得更多乐趣，”詹金斯告诉《明尼苏达星论坛报》（The Minnesota Star-Tribune）。“当你热爱某件事时，你就想成为其中最优秀的人。”

• 圣迭戈教徒队的先发投手达比修有（Yu Darvish），在本赛季自愿进入限制名单而放弃了 1500万美元，目前他已开始进行牛棚投球训练，以观察自己是否能在 2027. 回归。他的合同还剩下两年和 3000万美元。

• 各球队将在今年冬天再次尝试从迈阿密马林鱼队手中争取桑迪·阿尔坎塔拉（Sandy Alcantara）。他近期的表现极其出色，自 7月 4, 以来，其防御率（ERA）为 1.99，且在全部 10 次先发中每场都投满至少6局。

• 今年最顶级的自由球员签约之一属于教徒队，他们在这个春天仅以 $1.3500 万 的小联盟合同签下了一垒手泰·弗朗斯（Ty France）。自从成为球队的常规一垒手以来，他的打击率为 .321，击出 12 支本垒打，OPS 为 .958，在大联盟中排名第四。

• 芝加哥小熊队确实擅长举办重聚派对，8月 29 次最新活动是为了纪念他们作为国家联盟球队的150周年。他们公布了“小熊队历史最佳阵容”，超过 20 名球员出席，其中包括萨米·索萨（Sammy Sosa）；他们在克拉克街和亚迪森街的拐角处为“创始人之钟”举行了揭幕仪式；将乔恩·莱斯特（Jon Lester）、乔迪·戴维斯（Jody Davis）和前播报员文斯·劳埃德（Vince Lloyd）入选名人堂；甚至在几个回合的时间里，仅以 $1.50. 的价格销售百威啤酒。

• 东部时间周五下午12:45，一个棒球奇迹发生了。光芒队终于将拥有一个新的主场。

希尔斯伯勒县委员会批准了为光芒队在坦帕建设一座价值 23 亿美元 billion 球场的资金，该球场将于 2029 年启用。

光芒队不会前往蒙特利尔、夏洛特、罗利、纳什维尔或奥兰多。他们终于有了家。

既然光芒队和运动家队的球场问题终于得到解决，可以期待 2032, 年进行扩军，盐湖城和纳什维尔仍然是最热门的候选地。

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Loui.< / >< / ><><>杰克逊维尔州立< / ><>19.5< / ><>52.5< / ><>东肯塔基< / >< / ><><>路易斯安那州立大学 (LSU)< / ><>10.5< / ><>51< / ><>克莱姆森< / >< / ><><>密西西比州立< / ><>28.5< / ><>55.5< / ><>路易斯-门罗< / >< / ><><>弗吉尼亚理工< / ><>50.5< / ><>57.5< / ><>VMI< / >< / ><><>密歇根< / ><>27.5< / ><>47.5< / ><>西密歇根< / >< / ><><>路易斯安那理工< / ><>41.5< / ><>52.5< / ><>西北州立< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达< / ><>26.5< / ><>59.5< / ><>佛罗里达大西洋< / >< / ><><>杨百年前大学 (BYU)< / ><>47.5< / ><>54.5< / ><>犹他理工< / >< / ><><>马里兰< / ><>45.5< / ><>56.5< / ><>汉普顿< / >< / ><><>西北< / ><>12.5< / ><>46.5< / ><>南达科他州立< / >< / ><><>路易斯安那< / ><>20.5< / ><>48.5< / ><>拉马尔< / >< / ><><>亚利桑那< / ><>31.5< / ><>56.5< / ><>北

亚利桑那< / >< / ><><>圣迭戈州立< / ><>40.5< / ><>57.5< / ><>波特兰州立< / >< / ><><>亚利桑那州立< / ><>41.5< / ><>52.5< / ><>摩根州立< / >< / ><><>新墨西哥< / ><>10.5< / ><>46.5< / ><>中密歇根< / >< / ><><>萨克拉门托州立< / ><>35.5< / ><>56.5< / ><>密西西比谷州立< / >< / ><><>内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校 (unlv)< / ><>3< / ><>58.5< / ><>夏威夷< / >< / ><><>加州大学洛杉矶分校 (ucla)< / ><>1.5< / ><>53.5< / ><>加利福尼亚< / >< / ><><>西肯塔基< / ><>2.5< / ><>53< / ><>内华达< / >< / table>

MLB

美国联盟

东区< / td>< / tr><><>< / ><>胜< / ><>负< / ><>胜率< / ><>落后< / >< / ><><>坦帕湾< / ><>81< / ><>54< / ><>.600< / ><>—< / >< / ><><>纽约洋基< / ><>77< / ><>59< / ><>.566< / ><> $4\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>波士顿< / ><>74< / ><>62< / ><>.544< / ><> $7\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>巴尔的摩< / ><>67< / ><>69< / ><>.493< / ><> $14\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>多伦多< / ><>67< / ><>70< / ><>.489< / ><>15< / >< / table>

中区

<><>< / ><>胜< / ><>负< / ><>胜率< / ><>落后< / >< / ><><>芝加哥白袜< / ><>72< / ><>63< / ><>.533< / ><>—< / >< / ><><>克利夫兰< / ><>68< / ><>.500< / ><> $4\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>明尼苏达< / ><>64< / ><>72< / ><>.471< / ><> $8\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>底特律< / ><>63< / ><>72< / ><>.467< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>堪萨斯城< / ><>62< / ><>75< / ><>.453< / ><>11< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>胜< / ><>负< / ><>胜率< / ><>落后< / >< / ><><>休斯顿< / ><>68< / ><>.500< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>德克萨斯< / ><>66< / ><>70< / ><>.485< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>西雅图< / ><>64< / ><>72< / ><>.471< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>奥克兰运动家< / ><>53< / ><>83< / ><>.390< / ><>15< / >< / ><><>洛杉矶天使< / ><>52< / ><>84< / ><>.382< / ><>16< / >< / table>

西区 国家联盟

东区

中区

<>< colspan="5">中区< / >< / ><><>< / ><>胜< / ><>负< / ><>胜率< / ><>落后< / >< / ><><>密尔沃基< / ><>85< / ><>51< / ><>.625< / ><>—< / >< / ><><>芝加哥小熊< / ><>77< / ><>59< / ><>.566< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>圣路易斯< / ><>68< / ><>69< / ><>.496< / ><> $17\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>匹兹堡< / ><>66< / ><>71< / ><>.482< / ><> $19\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>辛辛那提< / ><>64< / ><>72< / ><>.471< / ><>21< / >< / table>

西区

周六比分

第一场：波士顿 6, 纽约扬基 0 底特律 2, 洛杉矶道奇 1 芝加哥白袜 3, 明尼苏达 2 匹兹堡 6, 圣路易斯 2 芝加哥小熊 17, 辛辛那提 5 多伦多 4, 西雅图 3 华盛顿 5, 迈阿密 4, 10局 亚利桑那 7, 旧金山 1 亚特兰大 2, 科罗拉多 1 坦帕湾 7, 圣迭戈 6 堪萨斯城 8, 克利夫兰 3 纽约大都会 6, 休斯顿 2 密尔沃基 5, 德克萨斯 3 第二场：纽约扬基 9, 波士顿 2 巴尔的摩 5, 奥克兰运动家 3 旧金山 7, 亚利桑那 2 费城 4, 洛杉矶天使 2, 10局

周日赛程 迈阿密 客场 对阵 华盛顿 科罗拉多 客场 对阵 亚特兰大 波士顿 客场 对阵 纽约扬基 西雅图 客场 对阵 多伦多 洛杉矶道奇 客场 对阵 底特律 圣迭戈 客场 对阵 坦帕湾 堪萨斯城 客场 对阵 克利夫兰 芝加哥白袜 客场 对阵 明尼苏达 德克萨斯 客场 对阵 密尔沃基 匹兹堡 客场 对阵 圣路易斯 休斯顿 客场 对阵 纽约大都会 巴尔的摩 客场 对阵 奥克兰运动家 费城 客场 对阵 洛杉矶天使 辛辛那提 客场 对阵 芝加哥小熊

周一赛程 旧金山 客场 对阵 亚特兰大，下午 6:05 圣迭戈 客场 对阵 辛辛那提，下午 6:40 纽约大都会 客场 对阵 坦帕湾，下午 6:40 迈阿密 客场 对阵 华盛顿，下午 6:45 西雅图 客场 对阵 波士顿，下午 6:45 底特律 客场 对阵 明尼苏达，下午 7:40 密尔沃基 客场 对阵 芝加哥小熊，下午 7:40 奥克兰运动家 客场 对阵 德克萨斯，下午 8:05 芝加哥白袜 客场 对阵 休斯顿，下午 8:10 巴尔的摩 客场 对阵 科罗拉多，下午 8:40 纽约扬基 客场 对阵 洛杉矶天使，下午 9:38 费城 客场 对阵 亚利桑那，下午 9:40

周二赛程 圣迭戈 客场 对阵 辛辛那提，下午 6:40 纽约大都会 客场 对阵 坦帕湾，下午 6:40 多伦多 客场 对阵 克利夫兰，下午 6:40 旧金山 客场 对阵 匹兹堡，下午 6:40 亚特兰大 客场 对阵 华盛顿，下午 6:45 西雅图 客场 对阵 波士顿，下午 6:45 底特律 客场 对阵 明尼苏达，下午 7:40 迈阿密 客场 对阵 堪萨斯城，下午 7:40 密尔沃基 客场 对阵 芝加哥小熊，下午 7:40 奥克兰运动家 客场 对阵 德克萨斯，下午 8:05 芝加哥白袜 客场 对阵 休斯顿，下午 8:10 巴尔的摩 客场 对阵 科罗拉多，下午 8:40 纽约扬基 客场 对阵 洛杉矶天使，下午 9:38 费城 客场 对阵 亚利桑那，下午 9:40 圣路易斯 客场 对阵 洛杉矶道奇，下午 10:10

NFL

季前赛第三周

周四比分 布法罗 28, 匹兹堡 27 克利夫兰 37, 新英格兰 13 旧金山 18, 拉斯维加斯 12 洛杉矶公羊 20, 洛杉矶闪电 18

周五比分

巴尔的摩 41, 华盛顿 3 亚特兰大 17, 迈阿密 12 卡罗来纳 16, 休斯顿 13 杰克逊维尔 19, 坦帕湾 0 纽约巨人 23, 纽约喷气机 6 辛辛那提 30, 费城 13 西雅图 9, 堪萨斯城 9 格林贝 42, 亚利桑那 38 新奥尔良 27, 达拉斯 24 丹佛 34, 明尼苏达 6

周六比分 底特律 25, 印第安纳波利斯 16 芝加哥 24, 田纳西 15

足球

英格兰足球超级联赛

< / td><>场次< / ><>胜< / ><>平< / ><>负< / ><>进球< / ><>失球< / ><>积分< / >< / tr><><>曼彻斯特城< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>6< / ><>2< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>赫尔城< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>切尔西< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>5< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>布伦特福德< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>纽卡斯尔< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>埃弗顿< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>利兹联< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>布莱顿< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>4< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>曼联< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>阿森纳< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>桑德兰< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>伊普斯维奇镇< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>6< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>利物浦< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>伯恩茅斯< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>诺丁汉森林< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>富勒姆< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>阿斯顿维拉< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>考文垂城< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>水晶宫< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>托特纳姆< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>0< / >< / table>

注：胜一场得三分，平一场得一分。

周五比分 水晶宫 1, 曼彻斯特城 4 周六比分 利物浦 2, 诺丁汉森林 2 考文垂城 0, 赫尔城 1 伯恩茅斯 1, 埃弗顿 1 托特纳姆 0, 纽卡斯尔联 2 周日比分 利兹联 1, 布伦特福德 1 切尔西 4, 布莱顿 & 霍夫阿尔比恩 3 桑德兰 1, 富勒姆 0 伊普斯维奇镇 2, 曼彻斯特联 5 周一比赛 阿森纳 客场 对阵 阿斯顿维拉，下午 3 点 NAC

东部联盟

< / td><>胜< / ><>负< / ><>平< / ><>积分< / ><>进球< / ><>失球< / >< / tr><><>纳什维尔< / ><>16< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>52< / ><>47< / ><>17< / >< / ><><>迈阿密国际< / ><>12< / ><>4< / ><>6< / ><>42< / ><>56< / ><>41< / >< / ><><>芝加哥< / ><>11< / ><>6< / ><>4< / ><>37< / ><>39< / ><>28< / >< / ><><>夏洛特< / ><>10< / ><>7< / ><>5< / ><>35< / ><>40< / ><>32< / >< / ><><>新英格兰< / ><>10< / ><>7< / ><>4< / ><>34< / ><>33< / ><>26< / >< / ><><>辛辛那提< / ><>8< / ><>7< / ><>31< / ><>49< / ><>51< / >< / ><><>纽约城< / ><>7< / ><>8< / ><>7< / ><>28< / ><>36< / ><>31< / >< / ><><>纽约红牛< / ><>7< / ><>10< / ><>5< / ><>26< / ><>32< / ><>46< / >< / ><><>奥兰多城< / ><>7< / ><>11< / ><>4< / ><>25< / ><>37< / ><>54< / >< / ><><>多伦多< / ><>5< / ><>7< / ><>10< / ><>25< / ><>32< / ><>38< / >< / ><><>华盛顿特区联< / ><>5< / ><>7< / ><>10< / ><>25< / ><>28< / ><>36< / >< / ><><>费城< / ><>6< / ><>10< / ><>6< / ><>24< / ><>34< / ><>39< / >< / ><><>亚特兰大< / ><>6< / ><>13< / ><>3< / ><>21< / ><>25< / ><>38< / >< / ><><>蒙特利尔< / ><>5< / ><>11< / ><>6< / ><>21< / ><>30< / ><>46< / >< / ><><>哥伦布< / ><>5< / ><>11< / ><>5< / ><>20< / ><>30< / ><>36< / >< / table>

西部联盟

<><>< / ><>胜< / ><>负< / ><>平< / ><>积分< / ><>进球< / ><>失球< / >< / ><><>温哥华< / ><>13< / ><>4< / ><>43< / ><>48< / ><>18< / >< / ><><>休斯顿< / ><>12< / ><>7< / ><>3< / ><>39< / ><>30< / ><>26< / >< / ><><>洛杉矶FC< / ><>10< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>36< / ><>22< / >< / ><><>圣何塞< / ><>10< / ><>8< / ><>4< / ><>34< / ><>39< / ><>33< / >< / ><><>达拉斯< / ><>9< / ><>6< / ><>33< / ><>38< / ><>34< / >< / ><><>圣路易斯< / ><>9< / ><>6< / ><>33< / ><>30< / ><>27< / >< / ><><>科罗拉多< / ><>10< / ><>11< / ><>1< / ><>31< / ><>28< / >< / ><><>圣迭戈FC< / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>30< / ><>40< / ><>33< / >< / ><><>明尼苏达< / ><>7< / ><>8< / ><>29< / ><>30< / ><>32< / >< / ><><>盐湖城< / ><>8< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>28< / ><>34< / ><>33< / >< / ><><>波特兰< / ><>8< / ><>10< / ><>4< / ><>28< / ><>39< / >< / ><><>西雅图< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>5< / ><>26< / ><>24< / ><>29< / >< / ><><>洛杉矶银河< / ><>6< / ><>9< / ><>8< / ><>26< / ><>28< / ><>35< / >< / ><><>奥斯汀FC< / ><>6< / ><>10< / ><>6< / ><>24< / ><>28< / ><>41< / >< / ><><>堪萨斯城< / ><>4< / ><>15< / ><>3< / ><>15< / ><>20< / ><>54< / >< / table>

注：胜得三分，平得一分。

周六比分

西雅图 2, 芝加哥 2

纽约红牛 1, 费城 3 多伦多 FC 1, 纽约城 FC 1 迈阿密国际 CF 7, 蒙特利尔 CF 1 华盛顿特区联 0, 洛杉矶 0 亚特兰大 0, 夏洛特 2 休斯顿 0, 圣何塞 0 纳什维尔 4, 辛辛那提 0 明尼苏达 3, 奥兰多城 3 堪萨斯城 0, 温哥华 3 科罗拉多 1, 皇家盐湖城 0 圣迭戈 3, 洛杉矶银河 1 波特兰 1, 奥斯汀 2 周日赛事 新英格兰 对阵 哥伦布 达拉斯 对阵 圣路易斯

周五赛事

纳什维尔 对阵 纽约城 ，晚上 7:30

NWSL

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注：胜得三分，平一

周六比分 堪萨斯城 3, 北卡罗来纳 2 犹他 2, 奥兰多 1 丹佛 6, 芝加哥 1 周日赛事 湾区 对阵 华盛顿 休斯顿 对阵 西雅图 周一赛事 天使之城 对阵 波士顿，晚上 8 点

WNBA

东部赛区 利昂内尔·梅西在8月29日迈阿密国际在迈阿密Nu体育场以7-1击败蒙特利尔CF的比赛中，在打入四个进球之一后庆祝。这位阿根廷超级巨星目前以本赛季18个进球领跑MLS。克林特·马蒂斯在2000年创下了单场五球的MLS纪录。

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西部赛区

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注：x- 已锁定季后赛席位；cx- 已锁定季后赛席位并赢得专员杯；e- 已被淘汰出季后赛。 周六比分 纽约自由人 85, 芝加哥 66 菲尼克斯 101, 多伦多 69 周日比赛 明尼苏达 对阵 亚特兰大 洛杉矶火花 对阵 西雅图 金州 对阵 波特兰 康涅狄格 对阵 达拉斯

CFL

东部赛区

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西部赛区

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周五比分

温尼伯 44, 蒙特利尔 28 周六比分 卡尔加里 28, 汉密尔顿 23 萨斯喀彻温 28, 多伦多 24 周日比赛 BC 对阵 渥太华

自行车赛

西班牙自行车赛 (Vuelta a España)

Vazenda a España 第9赛段：从比利亚霍约萨到艾塔纳山 (Alto de Aitana)，187.4 公里。

赛段获胜者

风向：北风。风速：2km / h。路线概况：山地。终点概况：山地。 赛段获胜者

1. Enric Mas (西班牙) Movistar 队 5:10:40
2. Oscar Onley (英国) Netcompany INEOS “
3. P. Roglic (斯洛文尼亚) RB – BORA – hansgrohe +12
4. Felix Gall (奥地利) Decathlon CMA CGM +18
5. Cristián Rodríguez (西班牙) XDS Astana +20
6. Mattias Skjelmose (丹麦) Lidl – Trek “
7. Jarno Widar (比利时) Lotto Intermarché +25
8. Harold Tejada (哥伦比亚) XDS Astana 队 +33

CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

9. R. Carapaz (厄瓜多尔) EF Ed. – EasyPost +54
10. Santiago Buitrago (哥伦比亚) B. Victorious +1:41

11. S. Kuss (美国) Visma – Lease a Bike +1:44 总成绩领先者

12. Enric Mas (西班牙) Movistar 28:34:03

13. P. Roglic (斯洛文尼亚) RB – BORA - hansgrohe +1:18
14. Felix Gall (奥地利) Decathlon CMA CGM +1:39
15. O. Onley (英国) Netcompany INEOS +2:20
16. R. Carapaz (厄瓜多尔) EF Ed. – EasyPost +3:26
17. Mattias Skjelmose (丹麦) Lidl – Trek +3:55
18. Sepp Kuss (美国) Visma – Lease a Bike +4:09 登山王

积分领先者

1. Santiago Buitrago (哥伦比亚) Bah. Victorious 29
2. Enric Mas (西班牙) Movistar 24
3. Andreas Leknessund (挪威) Uno-X Mob. 19
4. Wout van Aert (比利时) Visma – Lease a Bike 16

5. Lorenzo Fortunato (意大利) XDS Astana 13 积分领先者

6. W.van Aert (比利时) Visma – Lease a Bike 124

7. M.Brennan (英国) Visma – Lease a Bike 67
8. Alessandro Romele (意大利) XDS Astana 59
9. Mads Pedersen (丹麦) Lidl – Trek 58

10. Ethan Hayter (英国) Soudal Quick-Step 57 分类

11. Decathlon CMA CGM (法国) 85:59:01

12. Netcompany INEOS (英国) +42:30
13. Visma – Lease a Bike (荷兰) +49:34
14. XDS Astana (哈萨克斯坦) +50:12
15. EF Education – EasyPost (美国) +51:56
16. Groupama – FDJ United (法国) +52:36
17. Movistar (FSP) +56:55

7. Movistar (西班牙) +56:55 8. Bahrain Victorious (RPN) +1:

8. Bahrain Victorious (巴林) +1:02:50
9. UAE Emirates - XRG (阿联酋) +1:13:24
10. Soudal Quick-Step (比利时) +1:21:20

11. Lidl - Trek (德国) +1:34:09

12. RB – BORA - hansgrohe (德国) +1:37:44

13. NSN Cycling (瑞士) +1:38:29
14. Burgos Burpellet BH (西班牙) +1:41:26
15. Tudor Pro Cycling (瑞士) +1:43:54
16. Pinarello – Q36.5 Pro Cycling (瑞士) +1:51:17
17. Uno-X Mobility (挪威) +1:59:21
18. Equipo Kern Pharma (西班牙) +2:01:51
19. Lotto Intermarché (比利时) +2:09:30
20. Jayco AIUla (澳大利亚) +2:11:28

21. Cofidis (法国) +2:21:26

青年组分类

1. O. Onley (英国) Netcompany INEOS 28:36:23
2. Jakob Omrzel (斯洛文尼亚) Bah. Victorious +5:45
3. Jarno Widar (比利时) Lotto Intermarché +7:14
4. L. Bisiaux (法国) Decathlon CMA CGM +11:31
5. MatT Riccitello (美国) Dec. CMA CGM +13:16

交易

美国职业橄榄球大联盟 (NFL)

亚特兰大猎鹰队 – 角卫 Clark Phillips III 被交易至芝加哥熊队，换取防守截锋 Gervon Dexter Sr. 及选秀权。防守截锋 Gervon Dexter Sr. 被交易，换取角卫 Clark Phillips III 及 2027 年选秀权。 布法罗比尔队 – 中锋 Sedrick Von Pran Granger

布法罗比尔队 – 中锋 Sedrick Van Pran-Granger 被交易至印第安纳波利斯小马队，换取 2027 年第六轮选秀权。

芝加哥熊队 – 防守截锋 Gervon Dexter Sr. 被交易至亚特兰大猎鹰队，换取角卫 Clark Phillips III 及 2027 年选秀权。角卫 Clark Phillips III 被交易，换取防守截锋 Gervon Dexter Sr. 及选秀权。

杰克逊维尔美洲豹队 – 紧端锋 Hunter Long 被交易至亚利桑那红雀队，换取 2028 年第六轮选秀权。

匹兹堡钢人队 – 截锋 Broderick Jones 被交易至达拉斯牛仔队，换取 2027 年第三轮和第六轮选秀权。

大学橄榄球

周六比分

东部 罗伯特莫里斯 28, 瓦格纳 7 加州大学戴维斯分校 31, 波特兰州立大学 24 弗吉尼亚大学 34, 北卡罗来纳州立大学 8 利哈伊大学 35, 圣十字学院 10 布赖恩特大学 24, 斯通希尔学院 6 诺福克大学 56, 温斯顿-塞勒姆州立大学 0 汉普顿大学 45, 弗吉尼亚-林奇堡大学 0 摩根州立大学 17, 北卡罗来纳 A&T 大学 7 里士满大学 35, 巴克内尔大学 14 西卡罗来纳大学 45, 东肯塔基大学 21 霍华德大学 31, 亚拉巴马 A&M 大学 24 东南部 亚拉巴马大学 30, 南方大学 17 坎贝尔大学 49, 东田纳西州立大学 37 南卡罗来纳大学 87, 萨凡纳大学 0 沃福德学院 42, 柠檬堡军事学院 14 佛罗里达大学 34, 新墨西哥大学 17 阿肯色-派恩布拉夫大学 35, 莫尔豪斯学院 15 田纳西理工大学 38, 蒙茅斯大学 14 北亚拉巴马大学 22, 萨姆福德大学 10 斯蒂芬 F. 奥斯汀州立大学 38, 麦克尼斯州立大学 27 佛罗里达 A&M 大学 20, 奥尔巴尼大学 7 格兰布林州立大学 49, 克拉克亚特兰大大学 7 阿尔科恩州立大学 56, 迈尔斯学院 7 默瑟大学 23, 东德克萨斯 A&M 大学 15 杰克逊州立大学 26, 田纳西大学 24 中西部 代顿大学 43, 费尔蒙特州立大学 20 巴特勒大学 27, 乔治敦大学 (肯塔基州) 23 南达科他州立大学 59, 中康涅狄格州立大学 20 瓦尔帕莱索大学 59, 劳伦斯理工大学 13 北达科他州立大学 33, 杰克逊维尔大学 7 东密苏里州立大学 23, 印第安纳大学 21 东密歇根大学 28, 萨克拉门托州立大学 17 南达科他州立大学 70, 斯特森大学 7 伊利诺伊大学 76, 圣弗朗西斯大学 (伊利诺伊州) 0 西部 北卡罗来纳大学 15, 德克萨斯基督教大学 10 南加州大学 42, 圣何塞州立大学 26 北亚利桑那大学 34, 东华盛顿大学 27 爱达荷大学 38, 弗吉尼亚军事学院 10 斯坦福大学 37, 夏威夷大学 27 德克萨斯南方大学 42, 北卡罗来纳中央大学 30 拉马尔大学 21, 阿比林基督教大学 14 德克萨斯大学-圣安东尼奥 (UIW) 76, 潘汉德尔大学 14

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今天，从内布拉斯加州到纽约州将出现午后雷阵雨。在爱荷华州、明尼苏达州和威斯康星州持续到夜间的任何雷阵雨都可能产生局部破坏性的阵风。覆盖俄亥俄河谷的高压将导致从德克萨斯州到中大西洋地区的极端高温和高湿度，不过东南部出现的阵雨可能会限制下午的气温。

在国家的另一侧，落基山脉一带的雷阵雨（部分为强雷雨）可能会带来局部破坏性的阵风和山洪。

内华达州、北加利福尼亚州和俄勒冈州将出现干燥且有风的天气，这将导致火灾风险升高，而一场风暴将在夜间移入西北地区，给该地区带来降雨。

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最高气温：115° 加利福尼亚州，埃尔森特罗 最低气温：33° 俄勒冈州，莱克维尤

周一 零星雷阵雨 92 / 74 周二 大多晴朗 96 / 74 周三 间歇晴朗 96 / 74

周一 零星雷阵雨 90 / 72 周二 部分晴朗，炎热 98 / 74 周三 炎热，潮湿 98 / 75

美国城市今日及周二天气

俄亥俄州，阿克伦< / td><>86 / 70pc< / ><>89 / 73pc< / >< / tr><><>纽约州，奥尔巴尼< / ><>79 / 67t< / ><>79 / 67t< / >< / ><><>阿尔伯克基< / ><>92 / 67t< / ><>90 / 67t< / >< / ><><>宾夕法尼亚州，艾伦敦< / ><>81 / 67pc< / ><>86 / 70t< / >< / ><><>德克萨斯州，阿马里洛< / ><>98 / 69s< / ><>97 / 72s< / >< / ><><>加利福尼亚州，安纳海姆< / ><>89 / 66pc< / ><>89 / 64s< / >< / ><><>阿拉斯加州，安克雷奇< / ><>57 / 42pc< / ><>59 / 43s< / >< / ><><>科罗拉多州，阿斯彭< / ><>69 / 50t< / ><>72 / 46t< / >< / ><><>新泽西州，大西洋城< / ><>81 / 74sh< / ><>87 / 76℃< / >< / ><><>佐治亚州，奥古斯塔< / ><>92 / 69t< / ><>96 / 72t< / >< / ><><>德克萨斯州，奥斯汀< / ><>98 / 74s< / ><>100 / 76s< / >< / ><><>加利福尼亚州，贝克斯菲尔德< / ><>95 / 60s< / ><>88 / 60s< / >< / ><><>路易斯安那州，巴吞鲁日< / ><>90 / 75t< / ><>92 / 73t< / >< / ><><>蒙大拿州，比林斯< / ><>82 / 56s< / ><>84 / 59pc< / >< / ><><>阿拉巴马州，伯明翰< / ><>93 / 73pc< / ><>96 / 74pc< / >< / ><><>北达科他州，俾斯麦< / ><>86 / 51s< / ><>78 / 56pc< / >< / ><><>爱达荷州，博伊西< / ><>89 / 66s< / ><>85 / 59pc< / >< / ><><>纽约州，布法罗< / ><>76 / 70sh< / ><>82 / 69t< / >< / ><><>佛蒙特州，伯灵顿< / ><>78 / 60pc< / ><>73 / 65r< / >< / ><><>爱荷华州，锡达拉皮兹< / ><>89 / 71t< / ><>91 / 69t< / >< / ><><>南卡罗来纳州，查尔斯顿< / ><>87 / 74t< / ><>91 / 75t< / >< / ><><>西弗吉尼亚州，查尔斯顿< / ><>92 / 69s< / ><>93 / 69s< / >< / ><><>怀俄明州，夏延< / ><>79 / 57t< / ><>80 / 56s< / >< / table>

周二 雷阵雨 72 / 64 周三 下雨 72 / 67

周一 零星雷阵雨 86 / 78 周二 零星雷阵雨 89 / 77 周三 雷阵雨 91 / 77

周一 部分晴朗 94 / 73 周二 晴朗，温暖 96 / 74 周三 非常炎热 98 / 74

周一 阵雨 80 / 70 周二 下午雷阵雨 85 / 72 周三 雷阵雨 81 / 72

<><>< / ><>今日< / ><>周二< / >< / ><><>辛辛那提< / ><>93 / 71s< / ><>94 / 71s< / >< / ><><>克利夫兰< / ><>85 / 73pc< / ><>87 / 74pc< / >< / ><><>科罗拉多斯普林斯< / ><>81 / 58t< / ><>84 / 60t< / >< / ><><>南卡罗来纳州，哥伦比亚< / ><>93 / 72t< / ><>95 / 73s< / >< / ><><>俄亥俄州，哥伦布< / ><>90 / 71℃< / ><>93 / 71pc< / >< / ><><>德克萨斯州，科珀斯克里斯蒂< / ><>98 / 77t< / ><>98 / 78s< / >< / ><><>俄亥俄州，代顿< / ><>90 / 71pc< / ><>92 / 72s< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州，代托纳比奇< / ><>87 / 76t< / ><>88 / 77t< / >< / ><><>爱荷华州，德梅因< / ><>91 / 73t< / ><>95 / 73pc< / >< / ><><>明尼苏达州，杜鲁斯< / ><>80 / 58pc< / ><>82 / 58pc< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州，达勒姆< / ><>95 / 71s< / ><>98 / 72s< / >< / ><><>德克萨斯州，埃尔帕索< / ><>99 / 76s< / ><>99 / 76pc< / >< / ><><>阿拉斯加州，费尔班克斯< / ><>52 / 39℃< / ><>52 / 38℃< / >< / ><><>亚利桑那州，弗拉格斯塔夫< / ><>68 / 50t< / ><>73 / 51t< / >< / ><><>北达科他州，法戈< / ><>86 / 56s< / ><>85 / 60pc< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州，迈尔斯堡< / ><>93 / 76t< / ><>89 / 77t< / >< / ><><>阿肯色州，史密斯堡< / ><>103 / 76s< / ><>102 / 77s< / >< / ><><>印第安纳州，韦恩堡< / ><>89 / 69h< / ><>91 / 69s< / >< / ><><>加利福尼亚州，弗雷斯诺< / ><>94 / 58s< / ><>84 / 58s< / >< / ><><>密歇根州，大急流城< / ><>84 / 70sh< / ><>87 / 71t< / >< / ><><>威斯康星州，格林贝< / ><>88 / 65t< / ><>89 / 67t< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州，格林斯伯勒< / ><>93 / 72pc< / ><>95 / 74s< / >< / ><><>南卡罗来纳州，格林维尔< / ><>93 / 70pc< / ><>96 / 71s< / >< / ><><>宾夕法尼亚州，哈里斯堡< / ><>84 / 70pc< / ><>93 / 71pc< / >< / table>

周一 阵雨 约 90 / 75 周二 零星雷阵雨 91 / 75 周三 炎热，潮湿 95 / 74 AQI 中等

奥兰多

周一 雷阵雨 89 / 76 周二 雷阵雨 88 / 76 周三 雷阵雨 90 / 77

周一 - 晴朗，炎热 101 / 80 周二 - 晴朗，炎热 99 / 80 周三 - 晴朗，炎热 99 / 79 AQI 中等

费城

周一 下午阵雨 86 / 73 周二 潮湿 94 / 74 周三 零星雷阵雨 93 / 73

丹佛

周一 雷阵雨 85 / 60 周二 大多晴 84 / 61 周三 大多晴 88 / 59 AQI 中等

< / td><>今日< / ><>周二< / >< / tr><><>康涅狄格州 哈特福德< / ><>82 / 67sh< / ><>78 / 64t< / >< / ><><>印第安纳波利斯< / ><>92 / 71pc< / ><>95 / 73s< / >< / ><><>纽约州 伊斯利普< / ><>79 / 70sh< / ><>83 / 71t< / >< / ><><>密西西比州 杰克逊< / ><>95 / 74pc< / ><>96 / 75t< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州 杰克逊维尔< / ><>86 / 74t< / ><>88 / 75t< / >< / ><><>密苏里州 杰斐逊城< / ><>99 / 72pc< / ><>97 / 75s< / >< / ><><>堪萨斯城< / ><>99 / 74t< / ><>101 / 78s< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州 基韦斯特< / ><>90 / 83r< / ><>90 / 82t< / >< / ><><>田纳西州 诺克斯维尔< / ><>92 / 71s< / ><>95 / 72pc< / >< / ><><>德克萨斯州 拉雷多< / ><>106 / 79s< / ><>106 / 79s< / >< / ><><>肯塔基州 莱辛顿< / ><>93 / 72s< / ><>95 / 73s< / >< / ><><>内布拉斯加州 林肯< / ><>92 / 69t< / ><>96 / 72pc< / >< / ><><>阿肯色州 小石城< / ><>98 / 76s< / ><>98 / 76s< / >< / ><><>加利福尼亚州 隆比奇< / ><>86 / 67pc< / ><>83 / 67s< / >< / ><><>肯塔基州 路易斯维尔< / ><>95 / 75s< / ><>98 / 77s< / >< / ><><>德克萨斯州 拉伯克< / ><>96 / 73s< / ><>96 / 72s< / >< / ><><>威斯康星州 麦迪逊< / ><>88 / 69t< / ><>87 / 70t< / >< / ><><>新罕布什尔州 曼彻斯特< / ><>82 / 62s< / ><>71 / 61t< / >< / ><><>田纳西州 孟菲斯< / ><>97 / 79s< / ><>98 / 79pc< / >< / ><><>密尔沃基< / ><>90 / 74t< / ><>86 / 72t< / >< / ><><>阿拉巴马州 莫比尔< / ><>90 / 74t< / ><>90 / 73t< / >< / ><><>加利福尼亚州 莫德斯托< / ><>86 / 55s< / ><>79 / 57s< / >< / ><><>阿拉巴马州 蒙哥马利< / ><>95 / 73t< / ><>95 / 73t< / >< / ><><>南卡罗来纳州 默特尔比奇< / ><>87 / 73t< / ><>89 / 74t< / >< / table>

凤凰城

周一 零星雷阵雨 95 / 80 周二 零星雷阵雨 103 / 85 周三 非常温暖 104 / 84 AQI 中等

86 / 72 周二 炎热，潮湿 88 / 72 周三 零星雷阵雨 96 / 72

盐湖城

周一 零星雷阵雨 83 / 63 周二 零星雷阵雨 85 / 67 周三 有风 84 / 59

<><>< / ><>今日< / ><>周二< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州 纳格斯海德< / ><>84 / 73s< / ><>88 / 75pc< / >< / ><><>田纳西州 纳什维尔< / ><>95 / 73s< / ><>98 / 76pc< / >< / ><><>新泽西州 纽瓦克< / ><>80 / 72sh< / ><>87 / 74t< / >< / ><><>康涅狄格州 纽黑文< / ><>78 / 69sh< / ><>80 / 70t< / >< / ><><>弗吉尼亚州 诺福克< / ><>92 / 75s< / ><>94 / 76pc< / >< / ><><>加利福尼亚州 奥克兰< / ><>68 / 59pc< / ><>71 / 59pc< / >< / ><><>俄克拉荷马城< / ><>101 / 73s< / ><>100 / 74s< / >< / ><><>内布拉斯加州 奥马哈< / ><>92 / 71t< / ><>95 / 73pc< / >< / ><><>加利福尼亚州 棕榈泉< / ><>105 / 78s< / ><>103 / 80s< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州 彭萨科拉< / ><>88 / 76t< / ><>89 / 75t< / >< / ><><>南达科他州 皮埃尔< / ><>86 / 62pc< / ><>81 / 62t< / >< / ><><>匹兹堡< / ><>85 / 72pc< / ><>90 / 72t< / >< / ><><>缅因州 波特兰< / ><>76 / 59s< / ><>68 / 59r< / >< / ><><>俄勒冈州 波特兰< / ><>84 / 60pc< / ><>75 / 59pc< / >< / ><><>罗德岛州 普罗维登斯< / ><>79 / 66sh< / ><>74 / 64t< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州 罗利< / ><>94 / 74pc< / ><>97 / 75pc< / >< / ><><>南达科他州 快速城< / ><>91 / 60pc< / ><>83 / 59t< / >< / ><><>内华达州 里诺< / ><>87 / 58s< / ><>79 / 51s< / >< / ><><>弗吉尼亚州 里士满< / ><>94 / 74pc< / ><>98 / 74s< / >< / ><><>纽约州 罗切斯特< / ><>74 / 68t< / ><>81 / 68t< / >< / ><><>加利福尼亚州 萨克拉门托< / ><>81 / 57s< / ><>76 / 55pc< / >< / ><><>圣安东尼奥< / ><>99 / 78s< / ><>100 / 76s< / >< / ><><>加利福尼亚州 圣何塞< / ><>73 / 60pc< / ><>74 / 59pc< / >< / ><><>新墨西哥州 圣菲< / ><>88 / 59t< / ><>84 / 56t< / >< / table>

周一 阵雨 约 89 / 76 周二 下午阵雨 89 / 77 周三 少量阵雨 90 / 76

周一 零星雷阵雨 96 / 78 周二 雷阵雨 87 / 77 周三 零星雷阵雨 92 / 78

周一 潮湿 81 / 69

周一 潮湿 81 / 69 周二 大多晴 80 / 68 周三 大多晴 79 / 68 AQI 中等

周一 有风 70 / 60 周二 阵雨 约 71 / 57 周三 有风 73 / 58

AQI 良

< / td><>今日< / ><>周二< / >< / tr><><>佛罗里达州，萨拉索塔< / ><>91 / 76t< / ><>87 / 75t< / >< / ><><>佐治亚州，萨凡纳< / ><>90 / 74t< / ><>91 / 74t< / >< / ><><>亚利桑那州，斯科茨代尔< / ><>94 / 77t< / ><>99 / 80t< / >< / ><><>路易斯安那州，什里夫波特< / ><>98 / 77pc< / ><>99 / 76pc< / >< / ><><>南达科他州，苏瀑< / ><>90 / 63pc< / ><>87 / 66t< / >< / ><><>印第安纳州，南本德< / ><>90 / 72pc< / ><>91 / 71pc< / >< / ><><>华盛顿州，斯波坎< / ><>80 / 56pc< / ><>85 / 54pc< / >< / ><><>密苏里州，斯普林菲尔德< / ><>101 / 73s< / ><>98 / 76s< / >< / ><><>伊利诺伊州，斯普林菲尔德< / ><>95 / 71pc< / ><>98 / 73s< / >< / ><><>圣路易斯< / ><>99 / 76pc< / ><>101 / 79pc< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州，圣彼得堡< / ><>92 / 76t< / ><>90 / 76t< / >< / ><><>纽约州，锡拉丘兹< / ><>77 / 68t< / ><>81 / 68t< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州，塔拉哈西< / ><>94 / 75t< / ><>92 / 74t< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州，坦帕< / ><>91 / 77t< / ><>90 / 79t< / >< / ><><>俄亥俄州，托莱多< / ><>88 / 72pc< / ><>91 / 71pc< / >< / ><><>堪萨斯州，托皮卡< / ><>101 / 75t< / ><>100 / 76s< / >< / ><><>亚利桑那州，图森< / ><>89 / 71t< / ><>94 / 72t< / >< / ><><>密西西比州，图珀洛< / ><>94 / 73pc< / ><>98 / 74pc< / >< / ><><>俄克拉荷马州，塔尔萨< / ><>102 / 78s< / ><>102 / 78s< / >< / ><><>弗吉尼亚州，弗吉尼亚海滩< / ><>88 / 75s< / ><>91 / 77pc< / >< / ><><>堪萨斯州，威奇托< / ><>104 / 75s< / ><>102 / 74s< / >< / ><><>特拉华州，威尔明顿< / ><>85 / 70pc< / ><>92 / 73pc< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州，温斯顿-塞勒姆< / ><>92 / 72s< / ><>95 / 73s< / >< / ><><>马萨诸塞州，伍斯特< / ><>78 / 63s< / ><>69 / 60t< / >< / table>

拉斯维加斯

周一 大多晴 99 / 76 周二 大多晴 98 / 78 周三 多云 96 / 75 AOL 良

洛杉矶

周一 有阳光 87 / 66 周二 大多晴 84 / 64 周三 大多晴 85 / 66

周一 部分晴 76 / 55 周二 天气转晴 74 / 57 周三 有雨，较凉 66 / 53 AQI 良

周一 零星雷阵雨 92 / 76 周二 非常炎热 98 / 79 周三 非常炎热 99 / 77 AQI 中等

世界城市

<><>< / ><>今日< / ><>周二< / >< / ><><>北京< / ><>87 / 63s< / ><>86 / 61s< / >< / ><><>布宜诺斯艾利斯< / ><>64 / 51s< / ><>62 / 53pc< / >< / ><><>墨西哥，坎昆< / ><>94 / 76t< / ><>95 / 75r< / >< / ><><>阿联酋，迪拜< / ><>107 / 90s< / ><>106 / 92s< / >< / ><><>法兰克福< / ><>73 / 55sh< / ><>75 / 53pc< / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>87 / 79sh< / ><>88 / 79r< / >< / ><><>伊斯坦布尔< / ><>85 / 70s< / ><>86 / 70s< / >< / ><><>耶路撒冷< / ><>84 / 67s< / ><>87 / 69s< / >< / ><><>约翰内斯堡< / ><>74 / 50h< / ><>78 / 51h< / >< / ><><>伦敦< / ><>72 / 53pc< / ><>73 / 57pc< / >< / ><><>墨西哥城< / ><>76 / 57sh< / ><>74 / 58r< / >< / ><><>蒙特利尔< / ><>75 / 59s< / ><>71 / 63r< / >< / ><><>莫斯科< / ><>73 / 57pc< / ><>77 / 60℃< / >< / ><><>印度，孟买< / ><>89 / 81r< / ><>87 / 80r< / >< / ><><>巴黎< / ><>75 / 57r< / ><>74 / 55pc< / >< / ><><>里约热内卢< / ><>81 / 74pc< / ><>80 / 68r< / >< / ><><>罗马< / ><>91 / 67s< / ><>91 / 66s< / >< / ><><>首尔< / ><>75 / 72sh< / ><>82 / 73sh< / >< / ><><>新加坡< / ><>91 / 81t< / ><>92 / 81sh< / >< / ><><>悉尼< / ><>71 / 52pc< / ><>81 / 62s< / >< / ><><>多伦多< / ><>73 / 68sh< / ><>84 / 70t< / >< / ><><>东京< / ><>86 / 76℃< / ><>89 / 77pc< / >< / table>

“还会有下一个”

卡尔·拉韦奇告别 ESPN 解说席及少棒世界系列赛

卡尔·拉韦奇自 1993 年起在 ESPN 担任主播和播报员。BRETT DAVIS / IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT

Stephen Borelli 今日美国

宾夕法尼亚州南威廉斯波特 —— 对于卡尔·拉韦奇来说，这一切始于马萨诸塞州尼德姆，在晚餐前后的时间里，他在球场和球场上与朋友们一起玩他所谓的“乱跑体育”。

“人们常问我，‘你是怎么进入广播行业的？’”拉韦奇说。“很多人进入这个行业是因为他们观看比赛并想要模仿播报员。我从来不是那样。我那时一直在外面跑来跑去。”

这一切将在这里画上句号（至少目前如此），在这个风景如画的环境中，12 岁的孩子们在拉韦奇已经解说了 21 年的赛事中做着几乎同样的事情。

“ESPN 对我非常好，”他告诉《今日美国》体育版。“我有机会在二十年间报道大联盟世界系列赛，长期解说大学世界系列赛，以及少棒世界系列赛。所以我见证了每一个层级，而且我总是说少棒赛是我最喜欢的赛事，因为其中蕴含着太多的快乐。这就是体育的乐趣，也是它原本的目的。”

“这是与你一起长大、一起上学的伙伴们一起比赛。这是体育精神，不是生死之战，没有人会被解雇。没有人会因为没能完成一次关键球而被辞退。在那个年龄，你仍在学习，仍处于易受影响的阶段。”

拉韦奇现在 61 岁，在通过广播将体育赛事带入全球无数家庭的客厅、书房和电子设备中 33 年之后，他预计周日在 ABC 播出的内华达州与库拉索之间的少棒冠军赛将是他与该网络的最后一场比赛。他是上个月 ESPN 裁员计划的一部分。

“考虑到我所获得的机会，报道过的赛事，以及与一项运动如此紧密的联系，想到我 1993 年进入 ESPN，而现在坐在 2026 年这里，显然得在其他地方寻找工作，如果我没有这些经历，我作为一名雇员将远没有那么有吸引力，”他说。“我从这么多人身上学到了很多，与优秀的队友们共事。”

拉韦奇与我们谈到了他的职业生涯，并分享了他对青少年体育的看法，作为一名播报员和父亲，他对此产生了浓厚的兴趣。

无论是作为播报员还是家长，“真实”都最为重要

Ravech 表示，他一直努力让自己在屏幕前和在现实生活中保持一致。

“真实是任何播报员最重要的特质，”他说。“我从来不是那种靠演戏（shtick）的人，我认为人们欣赏这一点。……我们就像是正餐的调味品。牛排才是人们想吃的主菜。对我来说，一名现场播报员的角色和目标就是如此。这份工作给了我与人们互动、结识人们、报道我所热爱的比赛的机会，让我尊重参与其中的每一个人。我永远不会对任何人过于评判，因为你会在面对投手更换时意识到，无论是少棒联盟、大学还是美国职业棒球大联盟，（教练）比我和球迷更了解他们的球员。”

而作为一名观察孩子比赛的家长，要克制自己不去影响故事的发展，任务就变得更艰巨了。我们总想参与教练的决策，并且当他们做出不利于我们孩子的决定时，我们会质疑他们——有时是大声地质疑。

当然，也有例外，但许多教练在成长过程中会逐渐了解他们的球队，如果你给他们机会，他们与你孩子的互动可能会改变孩子的一生。

Ravech 有两个儿子，Sam（31岁）和 Max（26岁）。Sam 继承了他的衣钵，进入了播报行业。在他的办公室里，有一张他与 Max 在少棒联盟世界系列赛上的照片，当时他的小儿子只有 8 或 9 岁。

“Sam 本周早些时候来看我，Max 打算周末过来，”Ravech 说。“我很感激他们能来。他们问：‘我们要来吗，你想让我们来吗？’我的第一反应是你不需要这么做。他们已经看过我做电视节目了，但我意识到，共同分享这极有可能是最后一次少棒联盟世界系列赛，这对他们来说很有意义。他们知道这对我也很有意义。”

他非常珍惜那段回忆：当他主持《棒球之夜》（Baseball Tonight）且孩子们还小的时候，他的节目直到东部时间晚上 10 点才开始。而他们的少棒比赛通常在 6 或 7 点开始。他会在康涅狄格州演播室的制作会议结束后离开，这样依然能赶上他们的棒球和足球比赛。

在周末，他能参加他们的每一场比赛。

“我没有通过他们来寻求替代性的满足感，因为我小时候也参加体育运动，”他说，“但天哪，我非常尊重并热爱父母在观看孩子表现时所拥有的那份热爱与自豪。我只想提醒他们，不要通过孩子来生活。这是孩子自己的旅程。让他们体验自己的旅程，让他们做出选择，不要仅仅因为你曾经参加过某项运动就强迫他们参加。他们足够聪明，在 9、10、11 岁时就能让你知道，比如，哇，我能看出 Max 真的很喜欢长曲棍球。Max 真的很喜欢足球。Max 可能不喜欢棒球或篮球。那是他们自己的选择。”

“我喜欢看到那些心态和想法都正确地父母。”

在更衣室与电视演播室之外寻找社群

在纽约州宾汉姆顿和宾夕法尼亚州哈里斯堡担任电视记者和主播起步，随后于1993年加入ESPN后，Ravech逐渐爱上了体育运动的俱乐部文化。

“在我从事的这份工作中，最伟大的方面之一，大概就是当你进入俱乐部后，能看到孩子们、年轻人和成年男性是如何相处的，以及他们愿意接纳差异、愿意克服语言障碍、愿意接纳某些人会有状态低迷的日子，并且认为这没关系，我们会激励他们，”他说道。“我认为，作为男性家长，我们在这种关于男性的精神方面可以做得更好。”

他最初担任的是深夜时段的《SportsCenter》主播，共同主持人包括Craig Kilborn、Steve Levy、Mike Tirico、Gary Miller和Linda Cohn。为了服务西海岸观众，他在东部时间凌晨2点或2点30分工作。他从同事间的情谊中获得动力，但后来意识到，当他在演播室里时，他把与观众的关系视为了理所当然。

“你身处一个封闭的空间，里面有三个摄像师、两个分析师和一个研究员，仅此而已，”他说。“因此，房间内的亲密感让你觉得你是在吸引、在与、在为这些人表演。在那么长的时间里，你从未考虑到实际上有数百万人正在观看。”

随着职业生涯的发展，他开始在全国各地以及澳大利亚、苏格兰、韩国等地旅行，并意识到“这是一个由难以置信的经历组成的超级市场，而我真正热爱与这些人一起做我热爱的事情。”

自从今年夏天ESPN进行高调裁员以来，对他而言，这一切形成了一个圆环。ESPN总裁Jimmy Pitaro在《今日美国》体育版获得的一份全员备忘录中表示，大部分裁员是由于收购NFL Network而导致的。

“我认为这件事的突然性，以及它发生的方式，震惊了很多人，”Ravech说。“我也很惊讶，但再次强调，这就是这个行业的本质，它在不断变化。对于那些愿意通过短信、电子邮件、社交媒体，或者当然是面对面与我联系的人，我深受感动，并心怀巨大的感激之情。”

“我收到了一些来自出乎意料的人的惊人电话和语音留言。这真的很暖心。我希望我的儿子们能看到这些评论，这不仅仅关乎你的播报能力，更关乎你作为一个人的品质。”

在8月23日于威廉斯波特鲍曼球场举行的MLB少棒经典赛期间，勇士队的Chris Sale和酿酒人队的Garrett Mitchell在直播中向Ravech传达了信息，用他的话来说，就是“我知道这很痛苦，但谢谢你”。

“他们愿意给一个他们仅通过屏幕、电视、手机或iPad才变得‘亲近’的人以慰藉，这种想法真的很美妙，”他说。

在举办少棒世界系列赛的拉马德体育场，这个周末让一切回到了原点。这让人们回想起在康涅狄格州布里斯托尔那个方方正正的演播室里的日子，那时他觉得身边只有同事。

“每次我离开拉马德体育场，都有人拥抱我、拍照，并说‘以后不会一样了’，以及他们会多么想念我，”他说。“我的妻子，值得称赞的是，她对我说：‘听着，接受这些赞美并倾听他们的话没关系，因为这些人是真心的。’这些事情我之前从未想过，但我也从未想到这一切会在2026年结束。我原以为在未来的很多年里我都会回来。”

坚持长远目光，方能赢得尊重

拉韦奇（Ravech）主持一个名为《休息区秘闻》（Dirt From The Dugout）的播客，在节目中与体育界人士讨论青少年体育问题。他非常关注孩子们在13岁之前不应过早地在单一体育项目中专业化，并认为年幼时成为球星并不意味着在15岁时依然如此。

“我认为很多年长者喜欢通过孩子们来体验另一种人生，”他说。“而且我认为他们试图用自己的经历来寄希望于青少年体育的现状和未来能像他们当年打球时那样纯粹，但显然事实并非如此。”

“我认为家长们陷入了进退两难的境地。我不一定认为这是他们的错，但我认为他们被‘如果你想让孩子在青少年体育之后还能继续打球，就必须加入这些旅行球队和选拔队’这种说法给洗脑了。”

“我想反驳这一点。我见过足够多从小就极具天赋的孩子。如果你足够优秀，那些优秀的球队自然会找到你。现在，有人会争辩说，‘更好的方式是加入这些旅行球队。’对我来说，在12岁之前，你应该和朋友一起玩，和同学一起玩，和邻居一起玩。”

“如果你剥夺了青少年体育的乐趣，你可能会在孩子成长过程中毒害他们的心态，而你绝对不想那样做。要确保运动是有趣的。”

拉韦奇小时候打棒球和网球，高中期间打篮球和足球。他那时会“匆匆吃完晚餐”，然后立刻回去运动。

他一直想参与少棒世界系列赛（Little League World Series），因为与朋友、孩子或孙辈一起观看比赛，能激发关于体育最美好部分的讨论。

他说，他可以更多地参与到青少年体育中，作为一名传递者，告知家长们我们应该采取什么样的态度。我们不必总是如此严肃。

“体育中吸引我的所有特质，比现在职业和大学水平上发生的一些事情更吸引我，这就是为什么我一直热爱来到威廉斯波特（Williamsport）看看这些孩子在做什么，”他说。“而且最美妙的部分在于，这是一个使用棒球这种国际语言的国际性赛事。”

拉韦奇打算在周日最后一次沉浸在这一切之中，然后再决定接下来的打算。

“我还没过多考虑，”他说。“现在还太早，而且坦白说，我内心的一部分——至少在短期内——很认同这样一个想法：你已经连续工作了33年，而且在后半段确实一直在到处奔波。所以，不用去机场的想法对我很有吸引力。”

“但与之相对的是，我将无法见到吉米·戴克斯（Jimmy Dykes）、凯尔·彼得森（Kyle Peterson）或克里斯·伯克（Chris Burke）——我只是随机举几个名字，但重点是不在他们身边了。……我会想念我爱的人和我热爱的工作，但我期待能休息一小会儿。未来还会有接下来的计划。”

史蒂夫·博雷利（Steve Borelli），又名“史蒂夫教练”（Coach Steve），自1999年起担任《今日美国》（USA TODAY）的编辑和作者。他高中打棒球，大学参加赛艇，并花了10年时间执教两个儿子的棒球和篮球队。他与妻子科琳（Colleen）现在是两名棒球运动员（一名大学生，一名高中生）的体育家长。他的“史蒂夫教练”专栏每周发布在 usatoday.com / sports。

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鲁珀特·格林特将再次拿起他的魔杖。这位 38 岁的《哈利·波特》明星将从 2027 年 2 月 2 日起，在百老汇剧作《哈利·波特与被诅咒的孩子》中重新饰演电影角色罗恩·韦斯莱，演出期为 17 周。该剧的故事发生在系列最后一本书《哈利·波特与死亡圣器》事件 19 年之后。“罗恩·韦斯莱从我 11 岁起就是我的一部分，我迫不及待地想在人生的这个阶段再次见到他，”格林特在声明中表示，并补充说，“现在我们都成为了父亲，再次扮演罗恩”是一个“圆满”的时刻。

今天是谁的生日？

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作曲家保罗·温特（Paul Winter） 87 岁。创作歌手范·莫里森（Van Morrison） 81 岁。小提琴手伊扎克·帕尔曼（Itzhak Perlman） 81 岁。演员理查德·基尔（Richard Gere） 77 岁。检察官玛西亚·克拉克（Marcia Clark） 73 岁。模特兼演员卡罗琳·“图拉”·科西（Caroline "Tula" Cossey） 72 岁。鼓手吉娜·肖克（Gina Schock，来自 The Go-Go's 乐队） 69 岁。歌手兼吉他手格伦·蒂尔布鲁克（Glenn Tilbrook，来自 Squeeze 乐队） 69 岁。歌手黛比·吉布森（Debbie Gibson） 56 岁。喜剧演员克里斯·塔克（Chris Tucker） 55 岁。演员萨拉·拉米雷斯（Sara Ramirez） 51 岁。设计师劳拉·穆利维（Laura Mulleavy） 46 岁。

- 今日美国网络（USA TODAY Network）

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流媒体

莉安娜·摩根完成了网飞（Netflix）剧集《莉安娜》（Leanne，现正播出）的第二季拍摄，剧集开篇是她的角色在担心自己年满60岁。图片提供：PATRICK MCELHENNEY / NETFLIX © 2026

莉安娜·摩根的大梦想正在实现

Erin Jensen 今日美国

莉安娜·摩根的星途持续攀升。但在她的同名情景喜剧在网飞（Netflix）推出第二季的两天前，这位说话像枫糖浆瓶一样甜美的喜剧演员坚持认为，自从获得如今的知名度以来，“没有什么改变”。• “查克·摩根不会让我们买任何东西，”她在接受《今日美国》采访时谈到她那位在单口喜剧表演中经常被提及的、以节俭著称的丈夫。“我还是去超市，去Costco。我还在洗衣服。我热爱洗衣服。我觉得一切都一样，真的。”

大约25年来，60岁的摩根在抚养三个孩子的同时，在喜剧俱乐部、企业活动和筹款活动中坚持表演，一点点积累成功。在她57岁时，情景喜剧大师查克·洛尔访问了她位于田纳西州的家，并向她推介了一部剧集。他受到了摩根关于一个朋友经历离婚并重新进入约会市场的段子启发，该段子被收录在她2023年发布的首个网飞（Netflix）特辑《我是每个女人》（I'm Every Woman）中。

“我曾梦想远大，但我从未想到会这么大，”摩根说。

《莉安娜》第一季于2025年7月首播。此后，摩根完成了第二季共10集的拍摄（现正播出）；被《好莱坞报道》评为娱乐界最具影响力的100位女性之一；发布了第二个网飞（Netflix）特辑，第三个也在筹备中；并开启了“我们的一生”（The Time of Our Lives）巡演，该巡演将持续到1月。

“我以前连12张票都卖不出去，现在我是在体育馆演出，这太疯狂了，”摩根说。

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在现正播出的《莉安娜》第二季中，卡罗尔（Kristen Johnston，左起）、玛格丽特妈妈（Celia Weston）、约翰爸爸（Blake Clark）和摩根一起开车出行。“莉安娜的很多部分就是我，”摩根说。 图片提供：NETFLIX © 2026

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哈里·斯泰尔斯在“花园”派对上绽放光彩

Melissa Ruggieri 今日美国

纽约 —— 哈里·斯泰尔斯（Harry Styles）一直代表着自豪的个性。

他也以穿着羽毛披肩和亮片装而闻名。

因此，这位真诚的流行巨星在麦迪逊广场花园（Madison Square Garden）充满活力的《Together, Together》驻场首演接近尾声时，自然地抽出了一些时间向几天前（8月 25 日）去世的多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）致敬。

在一次关于他对他粉丝和乐队的感激之情的真诚谈话之后（永远要为那些花时间感谢舞台工作人员的艺术家鼓掌），斯泰尔斯感谢了影响他的音乐家们，他举起手臂做了一个半敬礼的动作，说道：“我们爱你，多莉。”

但现场并没有尝试翻唱歌曲，也没有关于帕顿遗产的长篇大论。相反，斯泰尔斯退到阴影中，让帕顿那充满情感的颤音在场馆内回荡，随着《I Will Always Love You》的响起，唤起了所有人的情感共鸣。

这次致敬与斯泰尔斯的《Sign of the Times》形成了凄美的呼应，那是他近十年前突破性的个人热门单曲，至今仍是他作品集中的一个沉思之锚。

哈里·斯泰尔斯在麦迪逊广场花园的首场演出中尽情律动，他将在那里一直演出到万圣节，共计 30 场演出。 图片提供：ANTHONY PHAM 为 HARRY STYLES 拍摄

斯泰尔斯调整舞台设计

但在之前的 90 分钟里，32 岁的斯泰尔斯凭借一种组合将观众吸引得死死的：一方面是驱动当前专辑《Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally》的催眠节拍（这张专辑充满了稳定的重击感，现场聆听效果最佳），另一方面则是他其他三张个人专辑中更具流行色彩的曲目。

8月 26 日的这场演出标志着斯泰尔斯在这个著名场馆举行的 30 场售罄演唱会中的第一场。当他用充满感情的眼神扫视观众时，他并没有忽略这一成就，并开玩笑说纽约最棒的地方在于“你可以在深夜的任何时间买到一片披萨”。

斯泰尔斯已经是仅有的三位在麦迪逊广场花园顶棚悬挂永久横幅的艺术家之一（另外两位是比利·乔尔和Phish乐队）。他在 2022 年在该场馆完成 15 场《Love on Tour》巡演后获得了这一殊荣。

这些纽约演出是他《Together, Together》巡演中唯一的美国场次，斯泰尔斯及其团队巧妙地修改了曾在阿姆斯特丹、伦敦和墨西哥城令人惊叹的体育场制作方案。

他们从最初的舞台设计中吸取了教训。最初的设计是一个庞然大物，拥有平行的伸展台，初衷是为了让粉丝能够自由地在抬高的平台下方走动。然而，高度导致了视线受阻，因此很快采取了修改措施。

在巡演的场馆版本中，斯泰尔斯和他那配合默契的乐队（由深受粉丝喜爱的鼓手莎拉·琼斯领衔）位于一个椭圆形的中心。

但斯泰尔斯充分利用了

见 STYLES，第 2D 页

电影

《郊狼对阵 Acme》终于排上日程

布莱恩·特鲁伊特 (Brian Truitt)

今日美国 (USA TODAY)

在《郊狼对阵 Acme》中，郊狼 Wile E. Coyote 得到了律师凯文·艾弗里 (Kevin Avery，由威尔·福特 Will Forte 饰演) 及其侄女佩奇 (Paige，由拉娜·康多 Lana Condor 饰演) 的帮助。图片由 KETCHUP ENTERTAINMENT 提供。

新的《乐一通》(Looney Tunes) 电影《郊狼对阵 》中出现了一批熟悉的面孔和名字：当然有郊狼 Wile E. Coyote，他的老对手路跑鸟 (Road Runner)，以及兔八哥 (Bugs Bunny)、猪小弟 (Porky Pig) 和达菲鸭 (Daffy Duck) 等众多标志性角色。

而那个即使是资深粉丝可能也没预料到会回归的人物是谁？卡通版的彼得·洛尔 (Peter Lorre)。

洛尔不仅是老派《乐一通》帮会的一员——他曾是一个真实的人物，一名出演过《马耳他之鹰》和《卡萨布兰卡》等经典电影的性格演员，并在 20 世纪 40 和 50 年代的卡通短片中以动画形象出现。洛尔出现在（现已上映的）《郊狼对阵 》中，是这部电影全明星怀旧之旅的一部分——而当这部电影在三年前被搁置作为税务抵减时，这次旅程几乎未能实现。

这是一个类似于《谁陷害了兔子罗杰》的真人 / 动画结合项目，《郊狼对阵 》围绕着那个爱出心机且沉默寡言的主角展开，几十年来，他一直徒劳地使用着由强大的 公司制造的缺陷装置。Wile E. 雇佣了新墨西哥州专门打诉讼官司的律师凯文·艾弗里 (Kevin Avery，由威尔·福特 Will Forte 饰演) 来起诉 公司，而该公司的头目大公鸡 (Foghorn Leghorn) 则带着他自己的常驻法律顾问——凯文的老对手巴迪·克雷恩 (Buddy Crane，由约翰·塞纳 John Cena 饰演) 在法庭上与他们对峙。

导演戴夫·格林 (Dave Green) 表示，《郊狼对阵 》部分基于 1990 年《纽约客》的一篇幽默文章，探讨 Wile E. 在面对这家臭名昭著的设备制造商时是否具有法律依据；这部电影受《兔子罗杰》的影响，同样也受到了《少数几个好男人》、《艾琳·布罗科维奇》和《内部人士》的影响。“当你回顾《兔子罗杰》时，那部电影绝对的奇迹在于它既聪明又愚蠢。你看到的是通过黑色电影的镜头讲述的卡通狂热，正是这种成分的平衡使其奏效。所以我们确实试图继承这些灵感的火炬。”

就像 Wile E. 一样，《郊狼对阵 》的电影制作人们可能也需要一名优秀的律师。华纳兄弟 (Warner Bros.) 像扔下那个著名的铁砧一样给每个人带来了打击，并在 2023 年 11 月将这部已完成的电影封存，将其作为一项削减成本的措施。这引发了公众的抵制，好莱坞人士支持其发行，去年该片被 Ketchup Entertainment 收购并发行。

饰演凯文的实习生兼侄女佩奇的拉娜·康多 (Lana Condor) 当时在日本，她收到了她称之为“绝对毁灭性”的消息，得知电影被搁置了。“我当时很难理解这件事，”她说。福特也承认，在听到这个消息时，他感觉自己像是在“情感过山车”上：“这让人困惑，而且太疯狂了。”

另一方面，塞纳则表现得淡定，因为他从 20 多年的职业摔角生涯中获得了这种视角。“你的片段可能会被剪掉，你的时间可能会被缩减，你的对手可能会更换，预期在真正成真、在直播之前一直在变，”他说。“所以我想我也经历过这种事：不要把这一切视为理所当然。”

《郊狼对阵 》的上映不仅是这部电影的一次振奋人心的回归，也是《乐一通》团队的一次重大重新亮相。虽然米老鼠及其伙伴拥有多个主题公园，皮克斯角色有各种系列电影，但自从五年前由勒布朗·詹姆斯主演的续集《空中大灌篮：新传奇》之后，兔八哥和他的伙伴们在流行文化前沿一直相对低调。

在某种程度上，他们一直处于弱势。格林说，当《乐一通》及其姊妹篇《欢乐旋律》(Merrie Melodies) 系列在 20 世纪 30 年代开始时，它们被设计成迪士尼《傻曲》(Silly Symphonies) 的“对照点”。“与街对面迪士尼所做的事情相比，它们是更便宜、更前卫、更具颠覆性、更不敬的‘恶毒继子’。它们是那个时代的《辛普森一家》。”

导演表示，他在 20 世纪 90 年代初成长，当时《乐一通》（Looney Tunes）的短片“塑造了我的幽默感”。福特在 70 年代还是个孩子时绝对是个粉丝，他记得看到自己与这些角色同台时感到“非常激动”。“他们是一群好伙伴。我能和他们一起出演这部电影？这简直太酷了。”

《郊狼对阵 Acme》（Coyote vs. Acme）也触动了塞纳的内心，他小时候在新英格兰的一个小镇观看《乐一通》帮的动画片。“如果你对这部作品有某种情结，你会被我们加入的一些业内梗（inside baseball）所打动，”他说。“但如果你是第一次观看，你只需要暂时放下质疑，像其他人一样享受这场旅程。”

康多在女孩时代由父母和祖父母接触到《乐一通》，在拍摄这部电影的过程中，她更加爱上了这些角色，并且很想看看她的侄子和侄女们对此会有什么反应。

“让怀旧情结保持活力，将那些曾给广大群体带来欢乐与希望、且经受住时间考验的事物重新推向艺术的前沿，是我们应该坚持去做的事情，”康多说道。

她提到了歪歪（Wile E.），称其为“一个简单地永不言弃的角色”。

“是的，我们经常听到‘不要放弃，不要放弃’这类话。但单就这一点来说，这就是一个如此强大且重要的信息，而一个该死的郊狼教会了我们这一点。”

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“然后是电视节目部分——尽管这很困难，而且我必须学习很多东西，现在依然在学习——但我感觉是对的。我觉得我就在应该在的地方。我很感激。但这比我梦到过的任何事情都要更宏大、更甜蜜。”

摩根还与格伦·鲍威尔（Glen Powell）共同出演了由贾德·阿帕托（Judd Apatow）执导、将于 2 月在影院上映的电影《回归之王》（The Comeback King）。关于鲍威尔，她说他“是你能梦到的最迷人、最甜蜜、最接地气、最珍贵的人”。

“（阿帕托）说：‘莉安娜，我会帮你准备这一个小时的演出。我可以为你开场，’”摩根说。“我心想：‘给我开场？贾德·阿帕托！’”

摩根说，每天她都惊讶于自己能被如此知名的人关注。

“有人告诉我，玛丽亚·凯莉在看我和里斯·威瑟斯彭一起演的那部电影（《诚挚邀请您》）时在笑，”摩根说。“在纽约给我做头发的那个人认识她的化妆师，对方说：‘告诉莉安娜，玛丽亚是她的忠实粉丝。’我当时就惊呆了：‘什么？！’我曾在夜店里随着玛丽亚的音乐跳舞，做一些不该做的事。但我简直不敢相信。你能相信吗？玛丽亚·凯莉！”

“我不想变老”：摩根对衰老的担忧

《莉安娜》（Leanne）第 2 季开篇，女主角在丈夫比尔·墨菲（Bill Murphy，由瑞安·斯泰尔斯饰演）出轨且两人分居近一年后，开始担心自己即将年满 60 岁。她预约了一位整形外科医生进行咨询，询问是否可以进行一点“刷新”。

摩根表示，她也会思考衰老问题，并考虑是否要进行手术。

“我每天都在想：‘我应该做个眼部手术吗？这看起来太可怕了。我的脖子怎么办？’”她说。“然后我想：‘不。’接着我又想：‘我应该做吗？’我每天都会想到关于衰老的事情。……我的小孩子刚才在帮我连接（采访视频聊天），我想：‘噢，我不想变老，而且我不知道怎么操作这些东西。’”

“莉安娜的很多特质就是我，”她说。“我 10 月就 61 岁了，但我感觉很好。看看发生了什么！我有了自己的电视节目！”

莉安娜·摩根希望如果《莉安娜》获得第三季续订，能更多地看到饰演她角色男友的蒂姆·戴利。 图片提供：PATRICK MCELHENNEY / NETFLIX © 2026

摩根于 5 月 7 日在洛杉矶好莱坞碗球场参加由“网飞是个笑话节”呈现的“星光之夜”。摄影：EMMA MCINTYRE / GETTY IMAGES

莉安娜·摩根希望蒂姆·戴利在《莉安娜》中增加戏份

由蒂姆·戴利饰演的莉安娜那英俊的 FBI 男友安德鲁在第 2 季中的出场次数减少了，这给了莉安娜一个独立探索生活的机会。

“我爱我的小蒂姆·戴利，亲爱的。我简直想把他吃掉，”摩根说。“在第一季中，我们从未让她在照顾完家里所有人之后，能真正地做她自己，成为她应该成为的人。所以我认为（戴利饰演的角色在第 2 季减少出场）是一件好事。但是，是的，我想我的男朋友回来。”

摩根表示，如果网飞订购第三季，拍摄将于 1 月恢复。

“但在 30 天内我不会知道结果。在这 30 天里，我会焦虑地搓手，在房间里踱步，”她说。“但如果没能续订也没关系，我已经玩得很开心了。但如果续订了，我也会非常高兴。”

泰恩·戴利与莱妮·威尔逊出演《莉安娜》第二季

戴利的妹妹、艾美奖获奖演员泰恩·戴利在剧集的最新一集中客串出演。

“她在第一季的时候来看过录制，”摩根说。“我们当时都对她心生敬畏。所以我敢打赌，他们一定问过：‘您愿意回来参加这个节目吗？’然后她同意了。”

摩根说，她与莱妮·威尔逊是朋友，两人曾在《家庭问答》（Family Feud）节目中互为对手。在 2025年9月11日播出的那一集中，摩根及其家人击败了威尔逊的队伍。

“她一直没能释怀，”摩根开玩笑说。“后来她因为某些大动作来到洛杉矶，”于是受邀来到片场。“她顺道过来，他们邀请她——把她带进房间，大概是恳求她出演——结果她登场了，表现得非常自然。”

在这一集中，威尔逊、摩根以及她在剧中的姐姐卡罗尔（克里斯汀·约翰斯顿饰）简短地合唱了 NSYNC 的热门歌曲《Bye Bye Bye》。

“我们觉得自己站在她身边唱歌就像两个傻瓜，”摩根透露。“但我们唱得非常开心。只要有跳舞和唱歌，我就能乐在其中。”

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圆形的舞台布置犹如一个色彩斑斓的 Crayola 蜡笔盒。在《Music for a Sushi Restaurant》愉悦的号角声中，他四处跳跃；而在演唱《Adore You》时，他则拿着有线麦克风随节奏律动。

一个光环屏幕悬浮在舞台上方，让观众能近距离观察 Styles 满是汗珠的胡茬，尤其是在他弹奏键盘、用蜜糖般嗓音演绎《Carla's Song》期间，以及在旋律优美的《Coming Up Roses》中——这首歌有一句出彩的歌词：“就今晚，让我们去追逐宿醉”。

巡演不负其名

无论是在国际场次观看过此次巡演，还是在网上关注过片段的粉丝，可能都非常欣赏 决定在不同场次中调整曲目单的做法。

《Golden》、《Fine Line》、《Italian Girls》和《Treat People With Kindness》被剔除。取而代之的是快节奏的《Kiwi》、白光脉动的完整版《Satellite》，以及受到热烈欢迎的《Carolina》和《Cinema》。

当 没有在展现那种毫不费力的魅力、像迪斯科排舞者一样扭动，或是在旋律活泼的《As It Was》中兴奋地绕场奔跑时，他会在演唱《Cinema》期间尝试操作混音台，尽情展现其对电子流行乐的偏好。

在演出接近两小时接近尾声时， 再次操作控制台，以电子方式引导起震撼屋顶的《Aperture》那强有力的律动。

当《KATTDO》在三月发行时， 经常谈到俱乐部文化的影响，以及那种欢乐且包容的氛围如何改变了他的分子结构。

这种精神正是“Together, Together”巡演的主导力量， 在对深爱他的粉丝表达赞赏时承认了这一点。

“你们这些年来建立的这个令人难以置信的社区——我深有体会。能成为其中的一小部分是多么荣幸，”他说。“它远比我个人重要得多。”

随后， 敦促观众将他们在演出中分享的爱带到世界上——就像多莉（Dolly）希望的那样。

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“多莉姑姑”在《汉娜·蒙塔娜》中影响深远

帕顿负责了《汉娜》的20周年特别节目

Kalia Richardson

迈莉·赛勒斯的教母多莉·帕顿与迈莉及比利·雷·赛勒斯共同出现在《汉娜·蒙塔娜》中。她在该迪士尼频道剧集中出演了三集。由 BYRON COHEN / DISNEY CHANNEL 提供

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多莉·帕顿拥有数十年的职业生涯，其标志是人们传唱的乡村经典歌曲、镶钻的服装以及慈善事业。但2000年代的迪士尼频道粉丝们更熟悉她的身份——多莉姑姑：在《汉娜·蒙塔娜》中，她是迈莉·斯图尔特（迈莉·赛勒斯 饰）宠溺的教母。

这位演唱过《9 to 5》的歌手在与癌症私下抗争后，于8月25日去世，享年80岁。她在该剧四季的播出期间共出演了三集，饰演的角色以其善良、风趣的习语和恰到好处的约会建议，帮助迈莉·斯图尔特在应对作为流行歌星汉娜·蒙塔娜的双重生活时成长。

帕顿是一位曾11次获得格莱美奖的艺术家，她还在《汉娜·蒙塔娜》的剧集中贡献了她带有乡音的高音，与她在现实生活中的教女赛勒斯共同演唱了《Who Said》和《True Friend》等曲目。甚至包括《I Will Always Loathe You》在内的剧集标题，也向帕顿卓越的音乐作品集致敬。

除了歌声，帕顿在剧集中还展示了她迷人的风格，穿着豹纹七分裤、闪亮牛仔夹克和粉色羽毛大衣。赛勒斯饰演的角色在第一季中甚至承认，她的汉娜·蒙塔娜造型就是模仿这位音乐巨星的。

她的存在影响深远，为《汉娜·蒙塔娜》以及在客厅观看的数百万粉丝带来了欢乐、笑声和智慧。对于该剧的共同创作者巴里·奥布莱恩来说，她在片场内外让每个人都感受到了被爱，并激励了许多人。

“多莉·帕顿是对《汉娜·蒙塔娜》的一份不可思议的馈赠，就像她对这个世界的馈赠一样，”奥布莱恩在给今日美国的一份声明中表示。“作为迈莉·斯图尔特的教母多莉姑姑，她为剧中的每一个瞬间带来了如此真挚的爱与温暖。这非常合适，因为她在现实生活中也是迈莉的教母！”

《汉娜》主演们缅怀帕顿

在帕顿去世后，33岁的麦莉·赛勒斯向她的教母致敬，并提到她们最后一次交谈围绕着“音乐与蜕变”展开。

“失去多莉姑姑的感觉，已经超出了可以用语言分享的范畴，”她在Instagram上发布的一篇帖子中写道，并配了一张帕顿的旧照。“我们最神圣的时刻是私密的，它们将永远留在舞台背后，掩盖在光鲜之下，留在我们心中。但我知道，多莉一定会希望我感受这一切，为此写首歌，然后继续前行，保持坚强。”

该剧还由她的父亲比利·雷·赛勒斯饰演麦莉·斯图尔特的父亲罗比，以及艾米莉·奥斯门特和米切尔·穆索饰演麦莉·斯图尔特的挚友莉莉和奥利弗。在一次致敬帖中，比利·雷·赛勒斯表达了他的爱。

“在1992年，我永远不会忘记走进她的化妆间，为所有那些声称我与她有染的小报报道道歉，”他在Instagram的一篇帖子中说道。“以多莉典型的风格，她只是看着我，眨了眨眼说：‘亲爱的，这种垃圾能卖唱片！’”

除了小报的疯狂，他还回忆起她最近分享的一条关于她多么爱他的信息。“我将永远以同样的方式爱她……全心全意地爱……而且永远如此，”他补充道。

34岁的奥斯门特回忆起帕顿的慷慨与善良。

“即使在14岁时，我就知道能有这样独特的机会与如此神奇的人共事是多么特别，”奥斯门特在给《今日美国》的一份声明中表示。“我们都应该试着变得更像多莉一点。”

同样，饰演麦莉哥哥的杰森·厄尔斯在社交媒体上发布了一张回顾照片，表达了对多莉姑姑的感激与欣赏，并补充道：“我将永远珍惜与她共处的短暂时光。”

饰演麦莉·斯图尔特追求者之一杰克的科迪·林利，在第1季第16集《好极了，多莉小姐》中也与帕顿有共同戏份，在该集中，多莉姑姑和麦莉·斯图尔特秘密行动，试图从杰克那里取回一段录像带。林利仍然记得这位已故巨星向他演示如何演奏披头士乐队一首1968年的经典曲目时的情景。

“每次她来到片场，都能让整个房间亮起来，”36岁的林利在给《今日美国》的一份声明中表示。“她非常慷慨，我永远不会忘记她教我用吉他弹奏《黑鸟》（Blackbird）的情景。”

“她让你觉得自己很特别，我将永远珍惜与她共处的时光。我希望人们能记住她与周围每个人分享的快乐与善良。我爱你，多莉。”

在第一季中，《汉娜·蒙塔娜》平均吸引了超过300 万观众，其中大多数年龄在6至14岁之间，并获得了四项儿童节目艾美奖提名。

这部剧还助力麦莉·赛勒斯开启了音乐人职业生涯，制作了多张白金销售的原声带，并举办了一场名为“两个世界的最佳”的领衔巡演，总收入超过5400万美元。

在2006年至2011年的剧集播出后，麦莉·赛勒斯将“乡村音乐女王”视为播种者，促成了《汉娜·蒙塔娜》20周年特别节目的诞生。

她说她从帕顿那里学到了一个“糟糕的习惯”，即在某样东西还不存在之前就对其进行宣传——而这正是赛勒斯所做的，她在官方确认以及随后的2026年3月发布之前，就在粉丝和新闻机构中制造了热度。

在这一小时长的《汉娜·蒙塔娜20周年特别节目》中，赛勒斯向这位乡村音乐传奇致敬，朗读了帕顿在庆祝该剧15周年时寄来的一封信。

这位演唱《乔琳》（Jolene）的歌手与赛勒斯拥有一个18世纪的共同亲属，并且与赛勒斯的父母比利·雷和蒂什·赛勒斯-珀塞尔有着数十年的友谊。

“无论是在《汉娜·蒙塔娜》中，还是在汤普森站，我始终为你能称呼我为多莉姑姑而感到自豪，”信中写道，此处指的是田纳西州的一个小镇。

从直升机救援到间谍特技，帕顿为《汉娜·蒙塔娜》注入了一种母亲般的本能，提醒观众，无论你是否过着双重生活，都要活出一种无需道歉的生活方式。

对于《汉娜·蒙塔娜》（Hannah Montana）的共同创作者兼执行制片人迈克尔·波耶斯（Michael Poryes）而言，帕顿在担任客串演员时展现出了自信、优雅与魅力，即便在镜头之外也是如此。

“我记得当我们询问她是否需要任何东西时，她说：‘亲爱的，我只需要一个厕所和一个衣橱，’”波耶斯告诉《今日美国》（USA TODAY）。

“她单纯是不想给人添麻烦。简直太令人惊叹了。她不仅是一个偶像，更是一位可爱的女士。”

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尼泊尔警方和国家灾害风险减轻与管理局的一支队伍在 8 月 30 日尼泊尔努瓦科特区特里舒利发生山洪后，从一家被淤泥覆盖的银行中抢救资金和文件。 照片：ARUN SANKAR / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

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无人机视角显示，8 月 30 日尼泊尔努瓦科特区德维加特在致命的山洪和泥石流之后，利库河旁受损的建筑和房屋被泥土覆盖。

Saurabh Sharma, Devjyot Ghoshal and Sarita Chaganti Singh 路透社

尼泊尔加德满都 —— 在一道由水、泥沙和岩石组成的巨浪冲下喜马拉雅山谷（该山谷位于尼泊尔与中国边境），导致数百人丧生三个月前，两国专家和官员在加德满都举行会晤，讨论此类灾难的风险。

在 5 月 27 日于尼泊尔首都举行的会议上，来自尼泊尔的 10 名官员和来自中国的约十几名官员，包括

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官员。

根据尼泊尔官员准备的议程，双方讨论了加强合作，以监测和应对洪水、天气以及与冰川相关的危害，涉及灾难发生的西藏地区。

与会者呼吁采取共同的风险减轻措施，包括冰川湖普查和危险地图绘制。

但两名尼泊尔官员告诉路透社，会议结束后，他们从中国方面获得的关于冰川风险和水位的信息没有他们预期的那么多，他们担心数据共享不足可能会削弱他们预测和准备重大灾难的能力。

“我们实际上希望从他们那里获得，且现在仍然希望获得的是，如果冰川有早期变动，或者该区域周围有早期变动，我们希望能够尽早获知，”参加了 5 月会议的尼泊尔洪水预报部门水文学家 Sauhardra Joshi 表示。

没有官员或专家将此次自然灾害归咎于任何一方。尼泊尔官员表示，当务之急是深化与中国的合作。

中国外交部未回应置评请求。

在会议上，中方表示

欧洲银行家担忧更多动荡

美联储的保证不足以缓解紧张局势

Balazs Koranyi, Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir 路透社

怀俄明州杰克逊霍尔 —— 知情人士透露，欧洲央行行长们在与美国同行结束年度度假会晤后，并未感到全球合作的长期准则依然完好，并担心与华盛顿之间本就紧张的关系未来将出现更多动荡。

美联储政策制定者上周竭力缓解其同行的担忧，承诺将履行所有承诺。

但在堪萨斯城美联储年度杰克逊霍尔经济研讨会场边，六名以上的官员表示，鉴于央行与政府之间的分离，他们无法保证总统唐纳德·特朗普不会突然改变政策。

这些要求匿名的官员表示，美国财政部近期为了支撑日元以及降低美国长期借贷成本而采取的干预措施尤其令人担忧，因为这预示着未来将有更多干预以及对准则的背离。

“财政部与我们的国际同行保持着密切且持续的沟通，但我们不对这些讨论的运作细节发表评论。”

美国官员

在8月1日的日元交易后，美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Bessent）确认财政部已出售欧元以换取日元，并表示他向该地区的央行保证，此举“仅仅是资源的重新分配”。

8月28日，他表示用于购买日元的外汇资产来自财政部的汇率稳定基金（Exchange Stabilization Fund）。

但消息人士称，欧洲官员尤其不满美国没有按照惯例提前告知他们欧元出售是此次交易的一部分。

“这令人愤怒，”其中一人说道，“你总是应该拿起电话提前打招呼。这向我传递的信息是，美国想做什么就做什么。”

其他人则较为宽容，认为此次交易非常罕见，可能是一个无心之失。

欧洲中央银行和美联储的发言人拒绝置评。

一名美国官员表示，美日——

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中东冲突

官员称美军打击2个伊朗发射架

Kanishka Singh 和 Phil Stewart 路透社

华盛顿 —— 一名美国官员表示，美军于8月30日打击了位于伊朗拉拉克岛（Larak island）的2个伊朗发射架，这是自7月下旬以来已知的美军首次对伊朗发动袭击。

一名福克斯新闻（Fox News）记者在8月30日引用一名美国消息人士称，伊朗通过攻击驻扎在约旦的美军予以回应。该记者的X帖子称，几乎所有飞来的导弹“到目前为止已被拦截”，并指出目前尚未产生重大影响。Axios报道称，向美军基地发射的伊朗武器为弹道导弹。

关于最初的美军袭击，该美国官员表示：“我可以确认，今天早些时候，美军打击了拉拉克岛上的2个伊朗发射架。据观察，伊斯兰革命卫队部队正准备向霍尔木兹海峡发射携带水雷的火箭弹。”

据伊朗国家媒体报道，伊朗革命卫队表示，此次袭击造成数名士兵和公民伤亡，德黑兰将对此予以“回应和惩罚”。

伊朗半官方的塔斯尼姆通讯社（Tasnim news agency）报道称，美国在岛上进行了无人机袭击。

总统唐纳德·特朗普上周表示，霍尔木兹海峡国际水域的所有水雷已被引爆或清除，且伊朗已被告知，任何放置新水雷的船只或小艇都将被摧毁。

已知最后一次美军袭击伊朗是在7月下旬。随着战争在近几周陷入僵局，华盛顿威胁要对支持伊朗的国家实施代价高昂的制裁。美国和以色列曾在2月28日袭击伊朗，而伊朗则以袭击以色列及设有美军基地的海湾国家作为回应。

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全国概况

今天，美国中西部、五大湖区和东南部部分地区将出现下午雷阵雨。与此同时，落基山脉地区的雷阵雨有时会非常剧烈，带来山洪和局部破坏性阵风。随着高压系统的稳定，从大平原到俄亥俄河谷的地区将出现极端高温和高湿度。

周日极端天气

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飓风卡罗尔（Hurricane Carol）在 Aug. 31, 1954. 上午在新泽西州海岸附近向北咆哮而至。它是当年袭击新英格兰地区的三个飓风中的第一个，导致该地区 60 人死亡。

历史上的今天

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问：是否曾经出现过没有大西洋飓风的季节？

答：是的，在 1907 年和 1914 年。

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< / td><>最高 / 最低 / 天气< / ><>空气质量< / >< / tr><><>印第安纳州埃文斯维尔< / ><>96 / 73 / s< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>马萨诸塞州福尔里弗< / ><>79 / 66 / sh< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>新墨西哥州法明顿< / ><>73 / 55 / t< / ><>43< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州费耶特维尔< / ><>92 / 73 / t< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>威斯康星州丰迪拉克< / ><>89 / 68 / t< / ><>48< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州迈尔斯堡< / ><>92 / 76 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>阿肯色州史密斯堡< / ><>103 / 74 / s< / ><>57< / >< / ><><>马萨诸塞州弗雷明汉< / ><>80 / 64 / s< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>伊利诺伊州弗里波特< / ><>90 / 70 / t< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>俄亥俄州弗里蒙特< / ><>90 / 72 / pc< / ><>47< / >< / ><><>科罗拉多州福特柯林斯< / ><>84 / 59 / t< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>阿拉巴马州加兹登< / ><>92 / 68 / s< / ><>40< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔< / ><>90 / 73 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>伊利诺伊州盖尔斯堡< / ><>92 / 72 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州加斯托尼亚< / ><>93 / 69 / pc< / ><>71< / >< / ><><>德克萨斯州格伦罗斯< / ><>101 / 73 / s< / ><>53< / >< / ><><>路易斯安那州冈萨雷斯< / ><>87 / 76 / t< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>蒙大拿州大瀑布城< / ><>78 / 48 / s< / ><>38< / >< / ><><>威斯康星州格林湾< / ><>90 / 66 / t< / ><>60< / >< / ><><>南卡罗来纳州格林维尔< / ><>92 / 69 / pc< / ><>51< / >< / ><><>新泽西州哈肯萨克< / ><>80 / 70 / sh< / ><>54< / >< / ><><>马里兰州哈格斯敦< / ><>88 / 71 / pc< / ><>53< / >< / ><><>密西西比州哈蒂斯堡< / ><>93 / 72 / t< / ><>22< / >< / ><><>肯塔基州亨德森< / ><>95 / 68 / s< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州亨德森维尔< / ><>87 / 65 / c< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>纽约州赫基默< / ><>77 / 65 / t< / ><>26< / >< / ><><>密歇根州希尔斯代尔< / ><>87 / 69 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>密歇根州荷兰市< / ><>84 / 71 / c< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>纽约州霍内尔< / ><>76 / 66 / sh< / ><>30< / >< / ><><>路易斯安那州胡马< / ><>85 / 76 / t< / ><>39< / >< / ><><>密歇根州豪威尔< / ><>86 / 71 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>堪萨斯州哈钦森< / ><>103 / 73 / s< / ><>48< / >< / ><><>马萨诸塞州海亚尼斯< / ><>76 / 66 / s< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>印第安纳州印第安纳波利斯< / ><>93 / 72 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>爱荷华州爱荷华城< / ><>92 / 72 / t< / ><>67< / >< / ><><>纽约州伊萨卡< / ><>72 / 65 / t< / ><>45< / >< / ><><>密西西比州杰克逊< / ><>95 / 74 / pc< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>田纳西州杰克逊< / ><>96 / 71 / s< / ><>36< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔< / ><>88 / 74 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州杰克逊维尔< / ><>90 / 73 / t< / ><>45< / >< / ><><>俄亥俄州肯特< / ><>86 / 69 / pc< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>伊利诺伊州基瓦尼< / ><>92 / 71 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>西弗吉尼亚州凯瑟< / ><>90 / 69 / t< / ><>53< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州金斯顿< / ><>92 / 72 / t< / ><>45< / >< / ><><>田纳西州诺克斯维尔< / ><>92 / 71 / s< / ><>54< / >< / ><><>印第安纳州拉斐特< / ><>90 / 71 / pc< / ><>45< / >< / ><><>路易斯安那州拉斐特< / ><>90 / 76 / t< / ><>44< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州莱克兰< / ><>92 / 75 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>密歇根州兰辛< / ><>87 / 71 / sh< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>新墨西哥州拉斯克鲁塞斯< / ><>97 / 69 / s< / ><>46< / >< / ><><>宾夕法尼亚州黎巴嫩< / ><>84 / 68 / pc< / ><>57< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州利斯堡< / ><>89 / 75 / t< / ><>25< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>最高 / 最低 / 天气< / ><>AFP质量< / >< / ><><>宾夕法尼亚州莱维敦< / ><>82 / 69 / pc< / ><>55< / >< / ><><>伊利诺伊州林肯< / ><>96 / 70 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>肯塔基州路易斯维尔< / ><>95 / 74 / s< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>德克萨斯州拉伯克< / ><>97 / 71 / s< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>威斯康星州马尼托沃克< / ><>88 / 69 / t< / ><>65< / >< / ><><>俄亥俄州曼斯菲尔德< / ><>88 / 72 / pc< / ><>51< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳州马歇尔< / ><>86 / 64 / t< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>威斯康星州马什菲尔德< / ><>90 / 61 / t< / ><>39< / >< / ><><>俄亥俄州马西隆< / ><>87 / 70 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>弗吉尼亚州麦克莱恩< / ><>92 / 72 / s< / ><>58< / >< / ><><>佛罗里达州墨尔本< / ><>88 / 77 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>田纳西州孟菲斯< / ><>97 / 79 / s< / ><>101< / >< / ><><>纽约州米德尔敦< / ><>76 / 65 / sh< / ><>40< / >< / ><><>马萨诸塞州米尔福德< / ><>79 / 64 / s< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>密尔沃基。

WI< / td> 87 / 72 / t< / ><>75< / >< / tr> <>门罗, MI< / ><>88 / 71 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>门罗, LA< / ><>97 / 75 / pc< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>蒙哥马利, AL< / ><>94 / 72 / t< / ><>23< / >< / ><><>门西, IN< / ><>90 / 71 / c< / ><>54< / >< / ><><>默弗里斯伯勒, TN< / ><>94 / 69 / s< / ><>53< / >< / ><><>那不勒斯, FL< / ><>92 / 77 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>纳什维尔, TN< / ><>96 / 72 / s< / ><>53< / >< / ><><>海王星, NJ< / ><>78 / 70 / pc< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>新贝德福德, MA< / ><>79 / 64 / sh< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>新伯恩, NC< / ><>90 / 72 / t< / ><>45< / >< / ><><>新费城, OH< / ><>87 / 69 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>纽瓦克, OH< / ><>89 / 67 / pc< / ><>67< / >< / ><><>牛顿, NJ< / ><>77 / 65 / sh< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>纽约, NY< / ><>79 / 71 / sh< / ><>54< / >< / ><><>诺里奇,

CT< / ><>79 / 66 / sh< / ><>51< / >< / ><><>奥卡拉, FL< / ><>90 / 74 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>俄克拉荷马城, OK< / ><>100 / 72 / s< / ><>90< / >< / ><><>奥佩卢萨斯, LA< / ><>91 / 74 / t< / ><>44< / >< / ><><>奥什科什, WI< / ><>88 / 69 / t< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>棕榈滩, FL< / ><>89 / 80 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>棕榈泉, CA< / ><>102 / 76 / s< / ><>48< / >< / ><><>巴拿马城, FL< / ><>89 / 75 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>佩金, IL< / ><>95 / 72 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>彭萨科拉, FL< / ><>88 / 76 / t< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>皮奥里亚, IL< / ><>93 / 73 / pc< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>彼得斯堡, VA< / ><>96 / 71 / s< / ><>51< / >< / ><><>菲尼克斯, AZ< / ><>97 / 80 / t< / ><>61< / >< / ><><>波特休伦, MI< / ><>86 / 69 / c< / ><>40< / >< / ><><>朴茨茅斯, NH< / ><>76 / 64 / s< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>波基普西,

NY< / ><>80 / 68 / sh< / ><>40< / >< / ><><>普罗维登斯, RI< / ><>79 / 67 / sh< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>普韦布洛, CO< / ><>89 / 61 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>昆西, MA< / ><>77 / 65 / s< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>雷丁, CA< / ><>91 / 53 / s< / ><>40< / >< / ><><>雷诺, NV< / ><>88 / 57 / s< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>拉文纳, OH< / ><>86 / 69 / pc< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>里士满, IN< / ><>91 / 68 / c< / ><>77< / >< / table>

• 表示可能出现交通延误

<><>< / ><>最高 / 最低 / 天气< / ><>空气质量< / >< / ><><>● 罗切斯特, NY< / ><>75 / 68 / t< / ><>34< / >< / ><><>罗克福德, IL< / ><>87 / 71 / t< / ><>75< / >< / ><><>鲁伊多索, NM< / ><>86 / 60 / pc< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>塞勒姆, OR< / ><>84 / 54 / pc< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>萨利纳, KS< / ><>104 / 75 / t< / ><>49< / >< / ><><>萨利纳斯, CA< / ><>69 / 57 / pc< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>● 索尔兹伯里, MD< / ><>90 / 73 / sh< / ><>61< / >< / ><><>圣安杰洛, TX< / ><>99 / 73 / s< / ><>44< / >< / ><><>● 萨拉索塔, FL< / ><>91 / 76 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>萨凡纳, GA< / ><>88 / 74 / t< / ><>20< / >< / ><><>谢博伊根, WI< / ><>88 / 69 / t< / ><>64< / >< / ><><>谢尔比, NC< / ><>93 / 68 / pc< / ><>51< / >< / ><><>谢尔曼, TX< / ><>100 / 77 / s< / ><>62< / >< / ><><>什里夫波特, LA< / ><>99 / 76 / pc< / ><>64< / >< / ><><>● 银城。

NM< / td> 89 / 63 / t< / ><>46< / >< / tr> <>苏福尔斯, 南达科他州< / ><>89 / 65 / pc< / ><>37< / >< / ><><>萨默塞特, 宾夕法尼亚州< / ><>82 / 68 / t< / ><>60< / >< / ><><>萨默维尔, 新泽西州< / ><>80 / 65 / pc< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>南本德, 印第安纳州< / ><>87 / 72 / < / ><>75< / >< / ><><>斯巴坦堡, 南卡罗来纳州< / ><>92 / 69 / < / ><>51< / >< / ><><>斯普林菲尔德, 伊利诺伊州< / ><>95 / 74 / < / ><>75< / >< / ><><>斯普林菲尔德, 密苏里州< / ><>99 / 74 / s< / ><>86< / >< / ><><>圣奥古斯丁, 佛罗里达州< / ><>87 / 76 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>圣克劳德, 明尼苏达州< / ><>87 / 56 / < / ><>25< / >< / ><><>● 圣乔治, 犹他州< / ><>86 / 68 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>斯汤顿, 弗吉尼亚州< / ><>89 / 65 / s< / ><>45< / >< / ><><>● 史蒂文斯点, 威斯康星州< / ><>93 / 64 / t< / ><>45< / >< / ><><>斯托克顿, 加利福尼亚州< / ><>84 / 54 / s< / ><>34< / >< / ><><>斯特劳兹堡, 宾夕法尼亚州< / ><>78 / 65 / sh< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>● 斯图尔特,

佛罗里达州< / ><>88 / 76 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>斯特吉斯, 密歇根州< / ><>88 / 70 / < / ><>75< / >< / ><><>● 塔拉哈西, 佛罗里达州< / ><>91 / 74 / t< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>● 蒂博多, 路易斯安那州< / ><>85 / 75 / t< / ><>39< / >< / ><><>托皮卡, 堪萨斯州< / ><>100 / 74 / t< / ><>68< / >< / ><><>塔斯卡卢萨, 亚拉巴马州< / ><>94 / 73 / < / ><>51< / >< / ><><>尤蒂卡, 纽约州< / ><>77 / 65 / t< / ><>26< / >< / ><><>文图拉, 加利福尼亚州< / ><>72 / 60 / < / ><>50< / >< / ><><>维克多维尔, 加利福尼亚州< / ><>92 / 58 / s< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>● 维兰, 新泽西州< / ><>85 / 70 / sh< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>维萨利亚, 加利福尼亚州< / ><>93 / 55 / s< / ><>49< / >< / ><><>● 华盛顿, 特区< / ><>92 / 76 / s< / ><>58< / >< / ><><>沃特敦, 南达科他州< / ><>84 / 59 / < / ><>52< / >< / ><><>● 沃索, 威斯康星州< / ><>90 / 63 / t< / ><>44< / >< / ><><>韦恩斯伯勒, 宾夕法尼亚州< / ><>87 / 70 / < / ><>53< / >< / ><><>怀特普莱恩斯,

纽约州< / ><>78 / 69 / sh< / ><>67< / >< / ><><>威奇托福尔斯, 德克萨斯州< / ><>101 / 73 / s< / ><>70< / >< / ><><>● 威尔明顿, 特拉华州< / ><>85 / 71 / < / ><>61< / >< / ><><>威尔明顿, 北卡罗来纳州< / ><>88 / 72 / t< / ><>45< / >< / ><><>● 威斯康辛 {Rapids}, 威斯康星州< / ><>93 / 63 / t< / ><>44< / >< / ><><>伍斯特, 俄亥俄州< / ><>87 / 69 / < / ><>75< / >< / ><><>伍斯特, 马萨诸塞州< / ><>77 / 64 / s< / ><>25< / >< / ><><>约克, 宾夕法尼亚州< / ><>85 / 69 / < / ><>57< / >< / table>

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

国际城市

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• 表示周一可能出现交通延误

< / td><>周一最高 / 最低 / 天气< / ><>周二最高 / 最低 / 天气< / >< / tr><><>开普敦< / ><>64 / 47 / s< / ><>68 / 50 / c< / >< / ><><>加拉加斯< / ><>92 / 78 / r< / ><>92 / 77 / r< / >< / ><><>卡萨布兰卡< / ><>89 / 66 / s< / ><>86 / 69 / s< / >< / ><><>科伦坡< / ><>89 / 80 / r< / ><>90 / 79 / r< / >< / ><><>哥本哈根< / ><>66 / 57 / sh< / ><>68 / 56 / sh< / >< / ><><>大马士革< / ><>92 / 67 / s< / ><>96 / 66 / s< / >< / ><><>都柏林< / ><>64 / 53 / pc< / ><>68 / 59 / sh< / >< / ><><>日内瓦< / ><>78 / 52 / s< / ><>79 / 54 / sh< / >< / ><><>危地马拉城< / ><>83 / 64 / t< / ><>82 / 63 / c< / >< / ><><>河内< / ><>94 / 82 / r< / ><>99 / 77 / r< / >< / ><><>哈拉雷< / ><>80 / 56 / pc< / ><>80 / 53 / < / >< / ><><>哈瓦那< / ><>92 / 75 / r< / ><>92 / 75 / t< / >< / ><><>赫尔辛基< / ><>65 / 59 / c< / ><>66 / 56 / < / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>87 / 79 / sh< / ><>88 / 79 / r< / >< / ><><>雅加达< / ><>92 / 77 / t< / ><>93 / 77 / t< / >< / ><><>耶路撒冷< / ><>83 / 66 / s< / ><>86 / 69 / s< / >< / ><><>约翰内斯堡< / ><>75 / 50 / < / ><>77 / 51 / < / >< / ><><>喀布尔< / ><>92 / 65 / < / ><>90 / 65 / < / >< / ><><>喀土穆< / ><>102 / 82 / < / ><>102 / 84 / s< / >< / ><><>基辅< / ><>86 / 64 / t< / ><>84 / 58 / < / >< / ><><>金斯顿< / ><>94 / 81 / t< / ><>93 / 81 / t< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>周一最高 / 最低 / 天气< / ><>周二最高 / 最低 / 天气< / >< / ><><>拉巴斯< / ><>67 / 32 / s< / ><>64 / 37 / s< / >< / ><><>拉各斯< / ><>86 / 77 / r< / ><>87 / 77 / t< / >< / ><><>利马< / ><>76 / 69 / < / ><>76 / 68 / < / >< / ><><>里斯本< / ><>80 / 63 / s< / ><>79 / 63 / s< / >< / ><><>伦敦< / ><>72 / 53 / < / ><>73 / 57 / < / >< / ><><>马德里< / ><>93 / 63 / s< / ><>95 / 62 / s< / >< / ><><>马尼拉< / ><>90 / 80 / r< / ><>92 / 80 / r< / >< / ><><>墨西哥城< / ><>75 / 57 / sh< / ><>75 / 58 / r< / >< / ><><>米兰< / ><>92 / 69 / s< / ><>89 / 70 / t< / >< / ><><>蒙巴萨< / ><>85 / 71 / r< / ><>85 / 71 / r< / >< / ><><>蒙得维的亚< / ><>65 / 49 / < / ><>62 / 44 / c< / >< / ><><>蒙特利尔< / ><>75 / 57 / s< / ><>74 / 63 / r< / >< / ><><>莫斯科< / ><>73 / 56 / < / ><>77 / 61 / c< / >< / ><><>内罗比< / ><>75 / 56 / c< / ><>77 / 58 / < / >< / ><><>新德里< / ><>96 / 82 / < / ><>94 / 79 / r< / >< / ><><>巴拿马城< / ><>86 / 76 / r< / ><>86 / 74 / r< / >< / ><><>巴黎< / ><>74 / 57 / r< / ><>75 / 54 / < / >< / ><><>太子港< / ><>96 / 75 / r< / ><>91 / 73 / r< / >< / ><><>里约热内卢< / ><>79 / 73 / < / ><>81 / 68 / r< / >< / ><><>利雅得< / ><>114 / 88 / s< / ><>111 / 86 / s< / >< / ><><>罗马< / ><>91 / 68 / s< / ><>92 / 67 / s< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>周一最高 / 最低 / 天气< / ><>周二最高 / 最低 / 天气< / >< / ><><>圣何塞< / ><>85 / 68 / r< / ><>84 / 69 / r< / >< / ><><>圣萨尔瓦多< / ><>90 / 70 / r< / ><>87 / 70 / t< / >< / ><><>圣地亚哥< / ><>69 / 42 / < / ><>72 / 47 / < / >< / ><><>圣保罗< / ><>83 / 65 / < / ><>69 / 54 / r< / >< / ><><>萨拉热窝< / ><>93 / 61 / < / ><>86 / 58 / t< / >< / ><><>上海< / ><>93 / 79 / r< / ><>89 / 77 / sh< / >< / ><><>新加坡< / ><>92 / 82 / t< / ><>91 / 80 / sh< / >< / ><><>斯德哥尔摩< / ><>67 / 51 / < / ><>68 / 52 / < / >< / ><><>悉尼< / ><>70 / 52 / < / ><>80 / 63 / s< / >< / ><><>台北< / ><>91 / 79 / t< / ><>88 / 78 / sh< / >< / ><><>特古西加尔帕< / ><>91 / 69 / t< / ><>90 / 67 / t< / >< / ><><>德黑兰< / ><>100 / 74 / < / ><>96 / 70 / < / >< / ><><>东京< / ><>85 / 76 / c< / ><>88 / 77 / < / >< / ><><>多伦多< / ><>73 / 69 / sh< / ><>84 / 70 / t< / >< / ><><>突尼斯< / ><>99 / 77 / < / ><>98 / 76 / < / >< / ><><>温哥华< / ><>70 / 57 / c< / ><>71 / 57 / < / >< / ><><>维也纳< / ><>84 / 62 / sh< / ><>80 / 58 / r< / >< / ><><>华沙< / ><>78 / 61 / sh< / ><>70 / 57 / t< / >< / ><><>埃里温< / ><>75 / 58 / t< / ><>76 / 58 / s< / >< / ><><>萨格勒布< / ><>94 / 64 / t< / ><>84 / 59 / t< / >< / ><><>苏黎世< / ><>77 / 53 / s< / ><>78 / 51 / sh< / >< / table>

天气(W)：s-晴，pc-局部多云，c-多云，sh-阵雨，t-雷阵雨，r-雨，sf-小雪，sn-雪，i-冰。

分析

伊朗战争推高美国运输燃料附加费，同时也增加行业利润

莉莎·贝尔特莱恩 (Lisa Baertlein) 路透社

美国铁路公司是唯一被要求向联邦监管机构报告燃料成本和附加费收入的运输供应商，这为观察自伊朗战争爆发以来这些费用产生的影响提供了一个罕见的窗口。BING GUAN / 路透社资料图

洛杉矶 —— 美国零售商、制造商和小企业在运输货物时正支付高昂的燃料附加费，这不仅是因为美国与以色列针对伊朗的战争推高了燃料成本，还因为部分承运商正从这些费用中获利。

这些费用已成为整个供应链中日益增长的紧张源头，客户认为某些公司利用这些费用来增加利润，而非仅仅是为了弥补上涨的燃料成本。最终，这些额外成本可能会转嫁给早已厌倦通货膨胀的消费者。

铁路运营商联合太平洋公司（Union Pacific）表示，燃料附加费为其带来了数千万美元的利润，同时也为 UPS 带来了小幅的收益增长。在最明确的公开案例中，联合太平洋公司在第二季度收取的燃料附加费收入比其支付的燃料成本多出 $91.1 百万美元，从而使利润增加了 $83.2 百万美元，或每股 14 美分。

联合太平洋公司的结果远超竞争对手，这引发了人们对燃料回收费正在产生利润的担忧。

该公司在的一份声明中表示：“最终，燃料附加费是我们与客户协商的整体成本的一部分，也是客户在选择联合太平洋公司及其提供的服务时会考虑的因素。”

美国铁路公司是唯一被要求向联邦监管机构报告燃料成本和附加费收入的运输供应商，这为观察自 2 月 28 日伊朗战争爆发以来这些费用产生的影响提供了一个罕见的窗口。

燃料附加费旨在抵消更高的能源成本，但客户长期以来一直认为，这些费用可能会与实际燃料成本脱节并增加利润。

UPS 和联邦快递（FedEx）近年来稳步提高了燃料附加费的规模。

发票审计公司 AFS Logistics 的首席分析官明舒·贝茨（Mingshu Bates）在谈到不断增长的附加费率时表示：“成本考量的最初部分似乎在执行过程中丢失了。”

2021 年 8 月，当平均柴油价格为每加仑 $3.35 时，UPS 对发往家庭和企业的日常包裹在基础运费之上加收了约 9% 的燃料费。根据一项分析，如今 UPS 的该附加费率为 24.25%，而联邦快递（FedEx）为 23.75%

“成本考量中的原始部分几乎在传递过程中丢失了。”

明舒·贝茨 (Mingshu Bates)

发票审计公司 AFS Logistics 的首席分析官

sis by AFS Logistics。

UPS 和联邦快递 (FedEx) 因在市场上的主导地位而常被描述为双头垄断，由于两者的燃油附加费大致相似，客户几乎没有讨价还价的空间。

UPS 首席财务官布莱恩·戴克斯 (Brian Dykes) 表示，在最近一个季度中，燃油附加费的收取对合并营业利润的净影响“微小”。联邦快递首席客户官布里·卡雷尔 (Brie Carere) 表示，这些费用“并非我们调整后营业收入的主要驱动因素”。

两家公司都没有解释为什么附加费百分比会如此剧烈地上升。

相比之下，受到严格监管的美国邮政 (USPS) 在 4 月 26 日征收了首次附加费：大多数包裹的费率为 8%。

这一问题不仅限于美国铁路和包裹递送公司。与战争相关的中断和更高的燃料成本已波及全球航运网络，使得一些承运商能够征收紧急附加费并提高费率，从而引发了关于危机驱动的费用已成为利润来源的抱怨。

燃油附加费也支撑了像马士基 (A.P. Moller-Maersk) 这样的集装箱航运公司的利润。

这家丹麦承运商报告的第二季度剔除特定项目的利润为 30 亿美元 billion，比分析师预期的多出近 10 亿美元 billion，且高于去年同期的 23 亿美元 billion。

马士基针对其约 70% 通过长期合同运输的货物征收了紧急附加费并进行了其他调整，以覆盖更高的燃料成本。高管们表示，剩余现货市场货运费率的激增推动了该季度的利润。该公司没有直接回应燃油附加费对利润的影响。

首席执行官文森特·克莱克 (Vincent Clerc) 在 8 月的业绩电话会议上表示，数字化投资帮助公司比竞争对手更快地提高费率，他将这种能力称为一种“竞争优势”。马士基拒绝进一步阐述。

供应链数据提供商 VesselBot 的一项分析显示，今年海运燃料成本上涨约 30% 时，集装箱航运燃油附加费激增了高达 75%，在 2025 年紧跟燃料价格之后，两者出现了剧烈的脱钩。

Politico报道：美国农业部因预算削减搁置环孢子菌研究项目

路透社

Politico在8月30日报道称，特朗普政府正在关闭美国农业部（USDA）三个研究环孢子菌（cyclospora）的项目中的两个。环孢子菌是一种食源性寄生虫，今年夏天已导致数千名美国人患病。

报道称，这两个项目在今年早些时候被国会取消了资金，而第三个项目作为美国农业部更广泛重组的一部分，预计将在未来几个月从马里兰州搬迁至爱荷华州。

Politico援引知情人士和内部文件报道称，尽管第三个项目仍有资金支持，但所有研究该寄生虫的科学家都拒绝搬迁至爱荷华州。

路透社目前无法立即核实该报道。

一名美国农业部发言人表示：“没有任何研究被中断，研究将继续进行，不会受到干扰”，同时将资金削减的问题指向国会。

该发言人在一份电子邮件声明中表示，国会在《农业拨款法案》中未为2026财年拨给在华盛顿市外贝尔茨维尔农业研究中心开展的两个研究项目提供资金，并补充说，农业研究局（ARS）正与研究负责人合作，以确保这些项目的有序过渡。

报道称，研究包括环孢子菌在内的食源性寄生虫的科学家们正选择退休或离开美国农业部农业研究局，而不是搬迁或被重新分配到其他项目。

路透社本周早些时候报道，美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）已在48个州以及哥伦比亚特区记录了超过17,000例确诊的环孢子菌病病例，使其成为美国近代史上规模最大的食源性疾病爆发事件之一。

CDC表示，至少还有11,844例额外病例可能需要进一步调查和分析。

历史上的今天

今天是8月 31. 在这一天：

12: 未来的罗马皇帝和暴君盖乌斯·尤利乌斯·凯撒·日耳曼尼库斯（Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus），即更广为人知的卡利古拉（Caligula），出生于安提乌姆。他在德国的父亲的士兵们给了他这个绰号，意思是“小靴子”，因为他当时穿着一套微小的士兵制服到处走动。

1842: 记者、女权主义者和民权活动家约瑟芬·圣皮埃尔·鲁芬（Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin）出生于波士顿。她编辑了 Women's Era, 这是第一份由黑人女性创办并面向黑人女性出版的报纸。她还创立了 Women's Era Club 为具有社会活动能力的黑人女性服务，以及全国非裔美国女性联合会。

1897: 托马斯·爱迪生获得了其Kinetograph电影摄影机的专利。该设备每秒拍摄30张照片，没有声音。他在六年前就提交了专利申请，并且已经拍摄了许多短篇无声电影。

1909: 化学家保罗·埃尔利希（Paul Ehrlich）测试了现在被公认为第一种化学疗法药物的药物，他将团队研发的第606号化合物——砷凡那明（arsphenamine）注射到一只感染了梅毒溃疡的兔子体内。疾病在一天内消失，溃疡在一个月内痊愈。

1935: 富兰克林·D·罗斯福总统签署了一系列孤立主义法案中的第一部，试图使美国远离国际冲突。《中立法案》禁止向处于战争状态的外国出口“武器、弹药和战争工具”，并要求美国武器制造商申请出口许可证。

1939: 第一期《漫威漫画》（Marvel Comics No. 1）出版，登场角色包括霹雳火（Human Torch）、潜水者（Sub-Mariner）和伟大的卡扎（Ka-Zar the Great），由此开启了一个漫画帝国。整整七十年后的这一天，华特迪士尼公司宣布以 42.4 亿美元 billion收购漫威娱乐。

1992: 在爱达荷州鲁比岭（Ruby Ridge）持续11天的对峙结束，自称白人至上主义者的兰迪·韦弗（Randy Weaver）向联邦调查局（FBI）和美国法警投降。在围攻期间，他的妻子、儿子以及一名法警被枪杀。

1994年：爱尔兰共和军在北爱尔兰经历了25年的武装斗争后，宣布首次停火。1997年：戴安娜王妃在巴黎的一场车祸中去世，年仅36岁。她的男友多迪·法耶兹和司机亨利·保罗也一同遇难。一名法国法官将责任归咎于保罗，称其在饮酒且服用处方药；而英国的死因研讯则认为保罗以及在后方追逐的狗仔队均负有责任。

- 今日美国（USA TODAY）网络

下周华尔街展望

就业报告与博通财报成为接下来的挑战

刘易斯·克劳斯科普夫 (Lewis Krauskopf)

路透社

纽约 —— 下周对美国劳动力市场的最新审视，以及半导体公司博通 (Broadcom) 的季度财报，将考验一场已将股市推至接近历史高点的反弹行情。

标准普尔500指数录得周涨幅，使该基准指数距离其8月13日的历史最高点仅剩略高于1%的差距。AI风向标及市场巨头英伟达 (Nvidia) 在8月26日发布的一份极其出色的季度报告提振了股市情绪，而此前本月上涨的国债收益率曾打击了市场信心。

投资者正关注将于9月4日公布的美国每月就业报告，以及就业数据是否会为美联储在未来几个月内的利率计划提供线索。

“随着我们越来越接近9月的（美联储）会议，每一项数据发布都将被放在显微镜下审视，因为这可能会影响美联储最终的决定，”Glenmede投资策略副总裁迈克尔·雷诺兹 (Michael Reynolds) 表示。在美联储新任主席凯文·沃什 (Kevin Warsh) 8月28日的演讲之后，投资者增加了对央行将加息的押注。

随着8月接近尾声，标准普尔500指数今年以来累计上涨超过12%。由AI基础设施建设的大规模支出所驱动的强劲企业利润增长，正推动着美国股市这场近四年的牛市。

随着美国夏季结束，市场表现相对平静。Cboe波动率指数在年度低点附近徘徊，本周的每日市场交易量远低于2026年的平均水平。

包括就业数据在内的几项即将到来的事件可能会动摇资产价格。根据路透社截至8月28日的一项调查，8月份的就业人数预计将增加58,000个，失业率为4.1%。7月份的报告显示劳动力市场意外走弱，就业人数减少了23,000个。

“上一次的就业报告让市场和投资者产生了一点迟疑，”PNC资产管理集团首席投资官阿曼达·阿加蒂 (Amanda Agati) 表示。

不过，阿加蒂表示她怀疑劳动力市场是否出现了崩溃，并补充说她将寻找“是对我们在上份报告中看到的趋势的确认，还是可能回升到前几个月的水平”。

就业数据还可能表明美联储是否可能提高利率。上周的数据显示，通胀率继续远高于美国央行2%的年度目标。

加息给股票表现带来了多项挑战，包括提高消费者和企业的借贷成本。

8月28日晚些时候的联邦基金期货显示，9月下次会议加息的可能性为57%，投资者担心一份显示就业人数大幅增加且工资快速增长的强劲就业报告可能会增加此类押注。

“股市希望看到的是一个能让美联储有能力维持利率不变的持续数值，”西北互助财富管理公司 (Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management) 股票首席投资组合经理马特·斯塔基 (Matt Stucky) 表示。下周的其他经济数据还包括制造业和服务业活动报告。供应管理协会 (Institute for Supply Management) 此前的月度读数显示，美国制造业活动增加至四年多来的最高水平。

在竞争对手半导体公司英伟达的业绩推高股指之后，市值最近约为1.7万亿美元的博通将于9月2日发布的财报也将成为焦点。英伟达预测其下一财年的营收将大幅增长70%。对于这家通常不发布此类预测的AI风向标公司来说，这是一次罕见的披露。

“我们只是想知道博通是否能提供同样程度的可见度，”斯塔基说。

雷诺兹表示，财报季展示了“非常强劲的核心盈利能力”。“如果在下周的最后几份报告中我们能继续看到这一点，我认为这对今年剩余时间的走势将是非常积极的。”

尼泊尔开始为身份不明的遇难者进行集体埋葬

武装警察部队的警员在Aug. 30.将尸体运往尼泊尔奇特旺（Chitwan）德夫加特（Devghat）集体埋葬地的坑穴中，该地用于安置死于致命山洪和泥石流的遇难者。NAVESH CHITRAKAR / 路透社

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尼泊尔奇特旺——以森林和河流著称的风景名胜区奇特旺区，现已成为数百名身份不明遇难者的集体埋葬地。几天前，一场洪流席卷了喜马拉雅地区，导致这些遇难者的尸体被冲走。

在平原地区，距离Aug. 26,灾难袭击的拉斯瓦（Rasuwa）受灾山谷近124英里处，当局已在奇特旺的德夫加特森林中挖掘了数百个坟墓。

“我们别无选择，不得不采取这一步骤。我们担心尸体迅速分解会对公共卫生造成风险，”奇特旺巴拉特普尔（Baratpur）首席区官员加内什·亚里亚尔（Ganesh Aryal）表示。

随着搜救队伍继续从河流和碎片堆中打捞遇难者，当局于Aug. 29在森林中埋葬了96具身份不明的尸体，并计划在Aug. 30,埋葬另外100多具。

在由冰川崩塌引发的山洪席卷尼泊尔与中国边境沿线山谷并造成灾难性破坏后，据报道约有750人死亡，3,000多人失踪。

约100名救援人员、警察和其他官员正在协助记录死者信息，拍摄遗骸照片，帮助亲属进行身份确认，并准备埋葬尸体。

当局表示，每个埋葬地点都经过仔细记录，在地面上方和下方均放置了识别标记，并记录了精确的位置数据。

尼泊尔当局采集了身份不明死者的DNA样本，以便在日后通过家属申诉、官方记录或基因检测确认身份后，能够定位并挖掘遗骸。

印度已经派遣了一支法医团队，将与尼泊尔同行合作，支持DNA样本的分析工作。尼泊尔也正在与一个来自中国的团队进行沟通。

在巴拉特普尔医院，从大门口就能闻到尸体分解的恶臭。在临时停尸房附近，约50名警察和医院工作人员正在处理回收的尸体，其中大多数人仅佩戴基础的外科口罩。

约125具尸体躺在室内的地板上，许多尸体在洪水中浸泡数日后已出现严重的分解迹象，这使得一个设计容量为50具尸体的停尸房不堪重负。

“尸体腐烂得很快，”负责监管该灾区几处处理死者设施之一的督察阿尼尔·塔帕（Anil Thapa）说道。

“在目前回收的尸体中，超过一半已经无法辨认，”塔帕告诉路透社，“许多人已经没有可见的面容。”

约1,000英尺外，奇特旺博览中心成为了寻找失踪亲人的悲痛家属的聚集点。

200多人聚集在一个大厅外，预计那里将展示回收尸体的照片以进行视觉识别。家属们等待着有机会在回收者中认出挚爱之人。

几个家庭表示，他们在前一天就已经到达，但仍未被允许进入大厅。

尼泊尔

Aug. 26.，尼泊尔努瓦科特（Nuwakot）区特里舒利（Trishuli）发生山洪后，一名幸存者被重型机械运往更安全的地方。NAVESH CHITRAKAR / 路透社

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他们没有签署协议以满足尼泊尔要求的授权，并要求进一步讨论，另一位尼泊尔政府水文学家比诺德·帕拉朱利（Binod Parajuli）表示。

中国驻尼泊尔大使馆在Aug. 29于X平台发表的一份声明中表示，北京和加德满都就该问题保持密切联系，并在5月的会议上就促进跨境灾害信息共享取得了“实质性进展”。

官员们表示，尼泊尔去年也提出了类似的担忧，但专家和官员提醒，他们所描述的进展缓慢并非此次最新灾难的主要因素。根据最新统计，此次灾难中，冰川崩塌引发了灾难性的泥石流，导致两国近 800 人死亡，3,000 多人失踪。

针对部分尼泊尔社交媒体用户指责中国未能提供充分预警的批评，中国大使馆表示，中国及国际专家在监测偏远的喜马拉雅地区危险时面临着重大挑战。

大使馆称，中国团队已“及时”与尼泊尔分享了重要信息。

在去年的会议上，尼泊尔对同一地区的洪水表示担忧，该洪水是由西藏一个冰川湖突然泄水引发的，导致尼泊尔至少 9 人死亡，十余人失踪。

“当中方看到西藏地区有强降水预报时，他们会向我们提供该预报和相关观测数据，”帕拉朱利说。但“对于雪崩、水位、山体滑坡等极端事件则没有。”

帕拉朱利表示，中国一个月前开始通过微信和电子邮件分享西藏的强降雨预报。

在灾难发生前 12 天，中国世界气象中心在给尼泊尔官员的电子邮件中告知，预计 8 月 14 至 19 该地区将出现季风低压。

中国警告称：“尼泊尔大部分地区可能会出现增强的降雨，我们希望引起贵方对次生和连锁灾害潜在风险的注意，包括但不限于山体滑坡和山洪。”

中国大使馆表示，中国一直在分享相关信息，包括对上周灾难产生的碎片湖的监测数据。

关于数据共享的讨论凸显了在该地区进行监测、预报和提供预警的复杂性。在该地区，包括中国和印度在内的地缘政治竞争对手控制着偏远的山区，那里拥有大量冰雪，俯瞰着人口稠密的南亚平原。

总部位于华盛顿的斯蒂姆森中心（Stimson Center）智库高级研究员、环境人类学家奥斯汀·洛德（Austin Lord）认为，8 月 26, 的灾难是由一个监测相对不足的区域的冰川崩塌引发的，双边合作的缺乏并非尼泊尔应对措施中的关键因素。

“但这并不是为了原谅目前确实缺乏一个完善系统的客观事实。尼泊尔和中国之间的交流非常有限，”洛德说道，他所在的团队正支持尼泊尔政府进行灾害和气候风险管理。

“总体而言，中国科学家的监测能力和资源远高于尼泊尔方面。”

帕拉朱利表示，洪流到达尼泊尔所需的时间证明了预警系统的价值。

根据一段已成为此次灾难标志性画面的监控视频，尼泊尔时间 8 月 26 上午 8:32 左右，当人们试图逃离时，洪水冲破了西藏的一个边境口岸。

26 分钟后，帕拉朱利接到了尼泊尔国家减灾与管理当局负责人的电话，提醒他特里舒利河（Trishuli river）发生了洪水。帕拉朱利的团队发现，一个边境监测站自上午 8:40 以来就未传输任何数据。

他说：“我们随后尝试联系下游监测站，但下游监测站也无法上传数据，”这让团队怀疑这些设备已被冲走。

帕拉朱利表示，在联系尼泊尔当地当局确认洪水后，他的团队在上午 9:13 向手机用户发送了公开警报。

根据尼泊尔政府的评估，这场洪水从尼泊尔-中国边境向下游肆虐 104 英里，携带了约 20 亿加元 立方英尺的水量（约为正常流量的一半以上），导致至少 4 个监测站被摧毁。

据史汀森中心（Stimson Center）称，汹涌的洪水冲走了巨石并将大型建筑卷入溢流之中，导致19座桥梁和约25英里的公路受损，并使尼泊尔超过10%的发电能力瘫痪。

“那不是水。那是直接向我们袭来的巨大泥流，”位于边境下游约15英里的图普切村（Tupche village）居民凯沙夫·普拉萨德·巴拉尔（Keshav Prasad Baral）说道，“我试图抓住我妻子的手，但她被泥流冲走了。”

根据尼泊尔当局的初步评估，当部分冰川断裂并坠入谷底时，引发了高速山洪。

兴都库什-喜马拉雅地区（Hindu Kush Himalayas）涵盖了从阿富汗到缅甸的数亿人口，拥有极地以外全球最大规模的冰量，其中超过63,700座冰川覆盖了近22,000平方英里（面积几乎与克罗地亚相当），储存了高达1,400立方英里的冰。

帕拉朱利（Parajuli）表示，尼泊尔当局将寻求与中国合作，开展研究并建立监测雪崩和冰川湖泄水的系统——这些是山地社区面临的主要风险。

他表示，其部门将向中国提出一项数据共享协议，以获取更频繁的降水量和河流水位信息，而不仅仅是高降水量预报。

他说，尼泊尔将寻求每10分钟获取一次数据，以便“我们能够警告民众，拯救我们的民众”。

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此次干预是为了应对日元的无序波动，并支持全球金融市场的稳定。

“这并非针对任何人，”该官员表示。“财政部与我们的国际同行保持着密切且持续的沟通，但我们不对这些讨论的操作细节发表评论。”

消息人士还表示，贝森特增加长期债券回购的计划——这些交易可能需要通过发行更多短期债券来融资——同样令欧洲央行行长们感到担忧。因为与购买日元一样，这表明现任政府愿意采取非常规措施来限制借贷成本。

“这些干预通常只能提供暂时性的缓解，”第二位消息人士说。“但他们显然很担心。那么接下来会发生什么？他们是否会向美联储施压，要求其开始在市场上购买债券？”

虽然美联储是美国唯一的货币政策制定机构，且在设计上其使命独立于选出的政府，但消息人士称，特朗普已经表明他愿意采取极端手段来实现自己的意愿。

他们的担忧是，这可能会引发远超美国范围的市场动荡。

美国官员对此回应称，重复之前的声明，增加长期债券回购旨在为财政部获得高质量回购报价的长期板块提供更大的流动性。

“这不属于货币政策，也不是为了给利率设定上限，”该官员表示。

然而，在 8 月 27 日，一名美国财政部官员曾告诉记者，财政部“确实专注于降低长期收益率”，因为这些收益率已经高于该部门认为的“公允价值”。

一些消息人士表示，欧洲方面的另一个担忧是，政治干预最终可能会涉及美联储向全球最大央行提供的美元流动性后备支持，而这被认为是全球金融稳定的基石。

这些货币互换额度（Swap lines）确保全球商业银行能够获得美元，尤其是在金融压力时期。

美联储每年更新这一机制，前提是它确实维护了美国的利益和市场，因为在全球市场动荡时刻，海外银行否则将被迫抛售美国债券。

“但理性在这一届政府中并不总是占据主导，”第三位消息人士说。“当他们与最亲密的盟友实施报复性贸易政策时，特朗普可能会直接说：‘嘿，他们在坑我们’，然后货币互换额度可能会一夜之间消失。”

消息人士表示，目前还没有任何迹象表明这些后备支持处于危险之中，他们仍然预计这些机制将保持不变。货币互换额度由联邦公开市场委员会授权，并由美联储独立操作，而非由政府操作。

“有关美联储机制和互换额度安排的决定权在美联储，”财政部官员表示。“财政部关于日元操作或债务回购的所有公告均未暗示其他情况。”

该官员补充说，贝森特期待在未来几天于北卡罗来纳州阿什维尔与 G20 财长和央行行长讨论金融稳定问题，寻求进一步推进政府关于孤立伊朗、促进增长和减少全球失衡的议程。

消息人士称，美联储主席凯文·沃什在就职仅一个月后便前往欧洲，并竭力与当地官员建立良好关系，留下了总体积极的印象。

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Americans unite in fight vs. Big Tech

AI, data centers, Flock cams hit with backlash

Christopher Cann USA TODAY

Technology is increasingly bringing Americans together. Just not the way we once envisioned.

About a quarter century ago, 8 in 10 Americans said they anticipated that the new millennium would usher in “the triumph of science and technology.” At the time, most adults said they had a positive view of computers and the internet.

Now Americans are increasingly united against rapidly advancing technologies and the companies behind them. Neighbors have rallied against data centers. Crowds at commencements booed artificial intelligence. And a lawsuit brought by 48 states against Meta over claims that its Facebook and Instagram platforms endangered children led to a landmark \$18 billion settlement.

Activist Brandy Price holds a sign in opposition to AI during a city council meeting about data centers in Memphis on Aug. 18. STU BOYD II/USA TODAY NETWORK

Public opinion of the nation's largest technology companies and their sophisticated products dropped to multiyear lows in 2026, polls show. And Americans say they are more concerned than excited about a future dominated by AI.

“Americans are coming together to agree on something, but for totally different reasons,” said Thomas Kahn, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. “The motivations are different, but the concern is the same – and nationally we’re seeing politicians respond to it.”

The backlash has been strikingly bipartisan. Pushback against the initiatives of Silicon Valley is forming a unique coalition of liberals and conservatives from rural communities to large cities. This is mirrored by the elected officials speaking out against data centers and high-tech surveillance, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

The vitriol at times has led to threats and violence. In April, a man threw a Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Local officials who have voted in favor of data centers have received death threats. And in August, a county commissioner in Tennessee said the CEO of Flock Safety, which maintains a vast

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Arthur Ferdinand, 84, talks with hospice worker Nicole Golding in his home near Buffalo, New York. He stopped chemo and entered home hospice after the side effects became unbearable. STEPHEN R. POWELL FOR USA TODAY

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Hospice makes most of time left, be it long or short

Michael Collins USA TODAY

James Braithwaite is waiting by the door of his home when Nicole Golding arrives from hospice. • He knows he's dying. But it doesn't feel like the end is near. • "How are you doing today?" Golding asks as he leads her to a seat at his dining room table. • Braithwaite, 79, has end-stage stomach cancer. He swears he feels fine. • He still gets out of the house whenever he can. Still belts out James Taylor songs to the karaoke machine his son keeps downstairs. He's still able to pick up a football and toss it in the air. • He doesn't look like most of the other patients Golding sees on her routine check-ins, chatty in his navy shorts and polo on this quiet tree-lined street in suburban Buffalo.

James Braithwaite, of Buffalo, New York, entered home hospice in April after he was diagnosed with end-stage stomach cancer. MICHAEL COLLINS/USA TODAY

Now that he has cancer and is facing certain death, James Braithwaite understands what matters most: It's not how you leave this life, he says, but how you live it.

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"When we use the word ‘hospice,’ people think final weeks, they think morphine drips, they think death. Immediate death," says Golding, a nurse practitioner and supervisor on the team assigned to Braithwaite's case.

For many hospice patients, death is neither immediate nor quick. The body shuts down when it's ready. Sometimes that takes weeks or months. In rare cases, it takes years.

Braithwaite enrolled in home hospice in April through Buffalo Hospice & Palliative Care after he learned the cancer he thought he had beaten 15 years ago came back. This time, there is no stopping it.

Doctors said he could live six months. Maybe a year.

“Is today the day?” he wonders when he wakes up in the morning.

Until then, he intends to go on living.

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Users flock to apps sending texts at carrier pigeons' pace

Slow messaging appeals to fans of simpler tech

Greta Cross USA TODAY

Why send a text when you could send a carrier pigeon?

Two mobile apps that allow users to send messages at the rate of carrier pigeons were released to app stores in April. Though the apps Roost Social and Carrier Pidge have no affiliation with one another, they've grown sizable audiences as users seek a slower style of communication.

At their core, Roost and Carrier Pidge are the same – think traditional snail

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Cuba opens up, begins economic reforms

Changes come amid pressure from the U.S.

Rick Jervis USA TODAY

HAVANA – Cuba is preparing to loosen some of the tightest controls over its communist economy, allowing private companies to trade directly with foreign businesses, giving foreign investors greater freedom to hire workers and expanding their ability to develop real estate on the island.

The changes, expected to begin taking effect as early as this week, would make recently announced reforms into law. And it could amount to a significant opening of Cuba's economy at a time when the Trump administration is choking the country with an oil blockade and economic sanctions.

Carlos Luis Jorge Méndez, Cuba's deputy minister of foreign trade and foreign investment, told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview in Havana that the measures are among the most consequential of 176 economic reforms approved in June. He said they represent a lasting shift rather than another temporary experiment with private enterprise.

"This reinforces the idea that Cuba is opening up," Méndez said in a wide-ranging interview with USA TODAY that included the status of U.S.-Cuba talks and the effect of recent U.S. sanctions on Cuba's private sector. "This is a real "This reinforces the idea that Cuba is opening up. This is a real process; this is for real. This isn't a ploy."

Cuba is preparing to allow private companies to trade with foreign businesses. The move comes as the country is suffering under sanctions. NORLYS PEREZ/REUTERS

Carlos Luis Jorge Méndez Cuba's deputy minister of foreign trade and foreign investment

process; this is for real. This isn't a ploy."

When first announced in June, the reforms were applauded by some analysts and U.S. and Cuban entrepreneurs. The U.S. government called it window dressing.

How Cuba turns the reforms into lasting law remains a key question.

Cuba's amendments and promises of reform are a “good trajectory” to where the island’s private sector should be headed, said John Kavulich, president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, a trade group that has been dealing with Cuba since 1994.

But Cuba would need to amend its constitution to make the reforms permanent, he said. Previous economic reforms, during a rapprochement with the administration of President Barack Obama, were later rolled back by Cuban leaders.

The Cuban government “will increasingly discover the more changes it makes to policies, regulations, and statutes relating to the private sector in Cuba ... the more questions will be created about the sustainability of those changes,” Kavulich said. “The constitution of Cuba will need to be adjusted – and there is not much time to do it.”

The moves to open Cuba's economy to foreign investment come amid heightened tensions between the United States and Cuba. Direct talks between the two countries appear stalled. The United States had been looking for an interlocutor with Cuba and made overtures with Raul Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, grandson of former Cuban president Raul Castro, according to an exclusive USA TODAY interview in July.

Meanwhile, Cuba faces a deepening humanitarian crisis in the wake of increased sanctions and an oil blockade from the Trump administration, which has projected a military threat against the island unseen since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a new round of sanctions Aug. 20.

“Every time they create a new mechanism in which they try to get out of the noose, we just close it off,” Rubio told Axios.

Méndez confirmed the two countries broke off talks until they could find common ground.

“We maintain our position and are willing to continue the dialogue,” he said.

According to Méndez, other Cuban economic measures expected to be announced or made law this week include:

- Private Cuban companies will be able to handle imports and exports directly without going through a state agency and import whatever they choose, with some exceptions.

- Cuba will eliminate a provision in Cuban law that requires foreign investors to hire workers through a state agency.

- The government will expand foreigners' rights to develop real estate in Cuba.

Méndez echoed Rodríguez Castro, saying the communist country is ready to negotiate with the U.S., further open its economy to foreign investment and allow the private sector to flourish, something U.S. administrations have sought through the decades.

All the reforms should be law by the end of the year, Méndez said.

"There are transformations we are making that are changing the way the national economy behaves so profoundly that they will be very difficult to reverse," Méndez said.

MIT site closed over mercury compound

BrieAnna J. Frank USA TODAY

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology building was expected to remain closed at least through Aug. 30 after a graduate student was said to have created an unauthorized, highly toxic chemical compound.

The school's Aug. 29 statement said the student, who was not publicly identified, self-reported to an emergency room and said they had synthesized dimethyl mercury on Aug. 26. Less than 0.1 milliliters of the compound is a “severely toxic dose,” according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Dartmouth College professor Karen Wetterhahn died in 1997 after spilling “a few drops” of dimethyl mercury on her glove, according to the New Hampshire school. She developed health problems months after the spill that were discovered to be effects of acute mercury poisoning.

The MIT student showed no sign of mercury exposure in an initial blood test, the school said. The Aug. 29 statement also said updated information “calls into question” whether dimethyl mercury was synthesized.

The school said the student was under medical supervision and that Building 18 remained closed as “specialized decontamination efforts continue out of an abundance of caution.”

High-touch surfaces in common areas of the student's residence hall were professionally cleaned, and decontamination of their individual unit was ongoing, MIT said. No restrictions were placed on the building.

Individuals who were near the student and affected workspace on Aug. 26 were offered baseline testing. Officials believe there is “very low risk of secondary or tertiary exposures” and do not recommend testing for individuals who were not in the student’s lab space that day, the school said.

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mail but digital (and with birds).

When creating an account on one of the apps, users input their location. Users then craft a message and send it to a friend who also has the app. Messages are sent at the speed that it would take a bird to fly the distance from one friend to another (or close enough to the real speed), in real time.

The two apps launched at the same time, but the creators of the platforms told USA TODAY they didn't know about one another.

Carrier Pidge only offers pigeons, which travel at 110 mph in the app. (Pigeons actually fly at 50-60 mph, according to Northumberland National Park). Roost offers a breadth of birds and other animals users can choose from, including a mallard that travels at 51 mph, a rock dove that travels at 49.5 mph and a red-eared slider turtle that travels at 1 mph.

In addition to messages, Roost offers mini-games users can play to level up their animals and a pen pal feature that randomly connects users across the globe.

Logan Mendelsohn, 31, of New York, said the idea for Roost came about 11 years ago with a group of college friends.

“We were backpacking Europe, and I made a joke about, ‘Hey, we should make an app to send carrier pigeons to our friends back home, and it would be so funny if it took a super long time to get there,’” he told USA TODAY.

At the time, Mendelsohn and his friends didn't have the experience to develop an app, he said, but the group always returned to the idea.

In May 2025, Mendelsohn, who is a senior product manager at Ticketmaster, began tinkering and posted the idea to TikTok. He was surprised by how many people liked it.

"As a person who loves silly apps but also does the occasional birding, I need this app bad," a TikTok user commented on one of the early videos.

Over the course of a year, Mendelsohn fleshed out the concept and began coding. The app was released in the Apple App Store on April 30, Mendelsohn said.

For Noah Iarrobino, 29, of Brooklyn, the process to create Carrier Pidge was quicker. “I was just sitting on my couch one night and the idea just came to me,” Iarrobino, a software engineer, told USA TODAY. “I just couldn’t get the idea out of my head and that night, I just started building the project. I just had a big smile on, just laughing the whole time while developing it."

A repost of Noah Larrobino's post on X about Carrier Pidge, the mobile app he created. PROVIDED BY NOAH LARROBINO

Iarrobino said he had the idea for the app in early April and by April 18, the app was on the Apple App Store. Largely, artificial intelligence aided in this turnaround.

Both apps got help from AI

To start, Iarrobino said he used an AI chatbot to hash out his idea before asking the AI to generate a file he could upload to Claude Code to create the app. Released in February 2025, Claude Code is an AI coding assistant that can read code, edit files, run commands and integrate with a user's development tools, according to the Claude website. Iarrobino said Claude Code wrote "a lot" of Carrier Pidge.

Mendelsohn also used AI for Roost.

The developer said he wrote the initial code for Roost, but since its release, he's used Claude Code to work out kinks.

Initially, Mendelsohn said he used AI-generated artwork in the app, but upon the app's release, he received widespread backlash. Since the app has taken off, Mendelsohn said he is looking to replace the artwork with elements made by real people. To facilitate this,

Mendelsohn started an artist challenge in the Roost app where users can submit artwork for various animals, which is then voted on by other users.

Though the apps are wildly similar, their timely releases are consequential, both creators said. The two have talked since the release of their apps and agree their projects offer different experiences to different users.

In-app purchases to keep afloat

Both apps are free to download but feature in-app purchases. Upon creating an account, Roost users select four animals to start their “rookery.” Users can buy more animals for between 99 cents and \$9.99.

Mendelsohn said implementing in-app purchases was necessary because keeping Roost afloat is costly. In July, he spent more than \$10,000 on Roost, according to a Google Cloud billing statement shared with USA TODAY. As of Aug. 18, Roost had already cost Mendelsohn more than \$7,600.

When launching Carrier Pidge, users are only provided one pigeon per conversation with another user. This pigeon is sent back and forth and in some cases, a pigeon may die while en route – a 0.2% chance, the app states). If a pigeon dies, a user must purchase another for 99 cents.

Why users flock to these apps

As of Aug. 18, Roost boasted more than 700,000 users and Carrier Pidge had 76,000 users, their respective creators say.

The popularity isn't surprising, as younger audiences turn toward simplified technology. Gen Zers are buying "dumb phones," millennials are installing rotary landlines and tech companies like Brick are looking to actually help cut down people's screen time.

When talking to Roost users about why they enjoy the app, Mendelsohn said the common thread is intentional communication. The lack of an endless scrolling feed and noisy notifications are also perks, he said.

Iarrobino said, “I think people are getting tired of technology being so integrated into our lives, especially a couple years past COVID. People want to get outside, people want to get off of their phones. I think slow messaging kind of helps with that.”

Where to download the apps

Roost is available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. As of Aug. 30, Carrier Pidge is only available in the Apple App Store.

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Park Service backs Trump's arch plan despite concerns

A smaller replica of President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot "Triumphal Arch" stands in the rain during The Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on June 28. ELIZABETH FRANTZ/REUTERS

At 250 feet, arch would cause ‘adverse effects’

Jeanine Santucci

USA TODAY

The National Park Service supports plans to build a massive arch proposed by President Donald Trump despite finding that it would negatively affect the views of other monuments and historic sites in Washington.

A report released Aug. 28 said that the NPS would endeavor to mitigate or minimize the harms, but that the planned archway, dubbed the “Triumphal Arch,” would “celebrate 250 years of American independence by honoring America’s founding principles.”

Constructing the 250-foot arch in its planned spot, where Arlington Memorial Bridge and George Washington Memorial Parkway intersect in front of the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery, would be “consistent with the avenue’s established role as a ceremonial gateway and ‘Avenue of Heroes’ celebrating valor, sacrifice, and American heritage,” the report said.

What is the Triumphal Arch

The arch is planned for the spot near the entrance to Arlington Cemetery, across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial. Despite concerns about its planned height of 250 feet, which would exceed the height of the Lincoln Memorial and come close to the height of the Capitol at 288 feet, the NPS dismissed plans for a smaller structure. The 250 feet is representative of America's 250th anniversary, the report said.

The arch will be a reinforced concrete structure clad in granite, with a central winged figure and two eagles. An observation deck will give visitors a view of surrounding landmarks, the report said.

The arch is one of multiple projects spearheaded by Trump to leave his mark on Washington's landscape. They include the remodeling of the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial and the building of a new ballroom attached to the White House, along with a granite helipad outside the executive mansion.

How will other monuments and sites be affected?

According to the NPS report, dozens of sites will have adverse effects. The impacts mostly have to do with disrupting the views of or from the locations, rather than impacts on the structures.

Adverse effects are found when a project may “alter, directly or indirectly, any of the characteristics of a historic property … in a manner that would diminish the integrity of the property’s location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, or association,” according to the report.

The affected properties would include Memorial Circle, Arlington Memorial Bridge, Memorial Avenue, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington House and the Lincoln Memorial corridor, the report said. Dozens of other monuments or sites would see impacts.

The NPS dismissed alternative plans that would have scaled down or moved the arch. Making the arch smaller, for example, would block views of the Lincoln Memorial rather than frame it. Moving it elsewhere would defeat the point, the report said: The arch was planned for the location.

But it said it would work to mitigate or minimize the negative impacts. It plans to take steps to minimize the disruption of the arch's construction, rehabilitate the other architecture along Memorial Avenue and the bridge, and create educational materials.

"The NPS recognizes that the selected location contributes to the undertaking's adverse effects because Memorial Circle is part of a highly sensitive historic and commemorative landscape," it said. "However, the same characteristics that make Memorial Circle sensitive from a preservation perspective are also the characteristics that make it the historically appropriate location for the undertaking."

Fired Stars and Stripes staffers sue Pentagon

Military, Hegseth are accused of censorship

BrieAnna J. Frank

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The fired staff members of the military newspaper Stars and Stripes sued the Pentagon over their dismissals, accusing the military of “extraordinary censorship efforts” in violation of the First Amendment.

The federal lawsuit, filed Aug. 27 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes less than a week after the newspaper's former editor-in-chief, Erik Slavin, told news outlets he was dismissed for insubordination after a CBS News interview in which he said censorship by the military would “constitute a red line.” He maintained that the newspaper “must remain editorially independent.”

The Pentagon also fired publisher Max Lederer and Middle East reporter Lara Korte.

The lawsuit accuses the Pentagon of attempting to fire the staffers “for speaking up as private citizens in support of the press’s freedom to cover military operations, its need to reach all servicepersons and in retaliation for their publication of a news report on deteriorating conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln during its extended tour of duty in the Mid-East.”

The trio are being represented by Democracy Defenders Fund, Lawyers for Good Government, the Government Accountability Project and the Yale School Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic.

The Department of War and Secretary Pete Hegseth, along with chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell and Andrew Brey, Hegseth's principal deputy assistant for public affairs, are listed as defendants.

The complaint asked the court to declare the firings unlawful under the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedures Act and bar the Pentagon from proceeding with the terminations.

Stars and Stripes' website says about half of its funding comes from the War Department and that it is “editorially independent” and “governed by the principles of the First Amendment.” The Pentagon has been accused of violating those principles throughout President Donald Trump’s second term, with ongoing lawsuits related to the press policy it implemented in 2025 and the removal of hundreds of books from its schools over perceived “wokeness.”

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is party to a lawsuit over the dismissal of staffers with the newspaper Stars and Stripes. ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGES

The Pentagon declined to comment on the lawsuit.

Complaint: Publisher chose to retire instead of firing staff

The complaint accused the Pentagon of “escalating attacks on Stripes’ independence” since January 2025.

It referenced Parnell's X post in January that said the Pentagon would “modernize” the newspaper and “refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale.” On the same day, the lawsuit said, the Pentagon “purportedly repealed the Stripes Regulations protecting Stripes’ editorial independence without notice or opportunity for public comment.”

That was followed by a March memo that “imposed unprecedented restrictions on newsroom operations and content,” the complaint said. Among the changes were an end to the use of wire stories and publication of cartoons.

Parnell and Brey later accused Lederer of “purportedly failing to implement the March memo,” the complaint said.

Both Slavin and Korte received approval to participate in their personal capacities in the CBS News interview, which was filmed at Stars and Stripes' newsroom June 26 and aired July 5. In the interview, Korte said she worked for the newspaper and "not for the Pentagon, not for any administration, not for any policymaker."

Parnell allegedly asked Lederer what he thought about the piece in a July 5 email, and Lederer defended Slavin and

Korte. Lederer's quarterly progress review that month said the “most important element of the (performance) plan is the faithful administration of POTUS policies,” the complaint said, and criticized what it described as Lederer's “loss of institutional control.”

"The Stripes teams' revolt is a direct reflection of Max's failed leadership," the review said, according to the complaint.

After the newspaper published a story about reported problems on the USS Abraham Lincoln on Aug. 11, Brey allegedly emailed Lederer and directed him to issue separation notices to Slavin and Korte “based expressly on their statements to CBS.”

Lederer responded with clarifying questions and concern that the proposed separation language did not include a required 30-day notice, the complaint said. Brey reiterated the directive, and Lederer opted to retire instead of doing so.

He announced his retirement to staff in an email Aug. 18 that said it "has become clear that my philosophy of leadership, and my understanding of the value and mission of Stars and Stripes, differ in fundamental ways from the direction the leader of the Department of Defense has for the organization." His planned last day was Sept. 30.

But he, along with Slavin and Korte, were each given separation notices Aug. 21 that gave them five business days to respond, the complaint said.

On the same day the separation notices were issued, according to the complaint, the Pentagon issued guidance that said Stars and Stripes' content "must not have a direct, material and immediate negative impact on military readiness and safety." That included "content that incites or produces imminent lawless action" or reveals nonpublic information that "could be foreseeably exploited by an adversary."

The complaint said the plaintiffs expected the Pentagon to terminate them Aug. 28 “based on the foregoing course of events and the irregularity of the process to date.”

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Louisiana 8-year-old killed by amoeba

‘Brain-eating’ infection found in fresh water

Sara Moniuszko USA TODAY

An 8-year-old Louisiana girl recently died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming. Now, families are left wondering whether this could happen to their loved ones.

Lillian Smart of Ruston died Aug. 22, her family said in a public Facebook post on the “Love for Lillian” page, writing that the “injuries to her brain were too severe for her little body to recover from.”

The Louisiana Department of Health reported Aug. 19 that it had confirmed Naegleria fowleri, often referred to as a brain-eating amoeba, which she probably contracted while she was swimming in Lake Claiborne. The infection is almost always fatal.

Where is Naegleria fowleri found?

Naegleria fowleri is commonly found in warm freshwater lakes, rivers, canals and ponds throughout the United States. It is not found in saltwater or in properly maintained and chlorinated pools.

The amoeba often is referred to as brain-eating because it can cause a deadly infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, which destroys brain tissue.

How do you contract a brain-eating amoeba?

Someone can develop primary amebic meningoencephalitis when water containing the amoeba rushes up the nose and reaches the brain. Naegleria fowleri can't infect people if swallowed and isn't spread from person to person.

The brain-eating amoeba usually kills fewer than 10 Americans each year. Only four survivors have been identified out of 167 cases that have been recorded in the United States from 1962 to 2024, according to the CDC.

“Naegleria fowleri is a harmless pond dweller – unless it ends up in the nose of a human swimmer,” according to a research article published in Science. “Once inside, the amoeba can crawl along nerve fibers in the nasal cavity and through little openings in the skull until it reaches the brain.”

It has been unclear why these otherwise harmless organisms, which normally feed on bacteria, exhibit this behavior – but it may have something to do with them loving to crawl into narrow spaces in an effort to find food.

"It's really just an unfortunate circumstance when the amoebae get into your upper sinuses," Katrina Velle, a cell biologist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, told Science. "They're just doing what they've evolved to do – looking for nooks and crannies where their bacteria should be."

The brain-eating amoeba usually kills fewer than 10 Americans each year. Only four survivors have been identified out of 167 cases that have been recorded in the United States from 1962 to 2024, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In July 2025, a boy died from the brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a lake in South Carolina.

How can you protect yourself from brain-eating amoebas?

Though it may not be possible to totally avoid water activities during the summer, there are some ways to reduce your risk of contracting the deadly infection:

- Wear a nose clip or hold your nose before jumping into freshwater.

- Avoid digging in shallow water, because that's where the amoeba is more likely to live.

- Keep your head above water in hot springs.

Contributing: Janet Loehrke, Christopher Cann and George Petras, USA TODAY; Greg Hilburn, Julie Garisto, T. Sudore and C.A. Bridge, USA TODAY Network

Trump: Welker of ‘Meet the Press’ will be reported to FCC

He cites ‘purposeful inaccuracy’ by NBC host

Jay Stahl USA TODAY

President Donald Trump said “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker will be reported to the Federal Communications Commission over her coverage of his endorsements ahead of the midterm elections.

“Kristen Welker, the Unpopular ‘Hostess’ of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has ‘mixed results’ on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Aug. 30.

USA TODAY has reached out to NBC for comment.

Trump added: “Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported

NBC News' Kristen Welker moderates "Common Ground" at the The National Governors Association meeting July 31 in Oklahoma City.

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to the FCC for rebuke or punishment. Unfortunately, she is not the only one."

Despite Trump's post, the FCC doesn't have much legal power to take action against Welker as an individual, but his comments escalate his criticism

of the journalist.

In early June, Trump made headlines when he abruptly exited a “Meet the Press” interview with Welker after a tense back-and-forth, when the NBC anchor pushed back on the president’s comments about California election security.

FCC has become increasingly political, critics say

The FCC licenses individual broadcast stations, not national networks such as NBC and ABC. The agency's website says both the First Amendment and Communications Act of 1934 prohibit it from censoring broadcast content and that its “role in overseeing program content is very limited.”

Disney and ABC sued the agency over what they called an unconstitutional “retaliatory campaign” against the network in an Aug. 18 lawsuit.

Critics say the FCC has become increasingly political during Trump's second term under the leadership of Brendan Carr, who Trump referenced in the Truth Social post as he wrote that “The Press is a Disgrace to our Nation.”

Though its website had previously described the FCC as an “independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress,” Carr said in a December Senate hearing that the FCC was “not an independent agency formally speaking” because of the president’s power to fire commissioners. As of Aug. 30, the FCC website described it as a “U.S. government agency overseen by Congress.”

Trump does have a strong 2026 endorsement record, but some candidates he supported lost recent primaries.

In Wyoming, Megan Degenfelder, who leads the state's department of public instruction, lost a Republican primary for governor. Florida Rep. Cory Mills lost his reelection bid as did Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, a controversial House member. In Minnesota, longtime Trump ally and MyPillow founder Mike Lindell also lost a GOP primary for governor.

Contributing: Emily Condon

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network of AI-powered surveillance cameras, should be hanged for treason.

Tech titans have defended their products and largely brushed off concerns as overblown or misguided. Some executives and government officials say allowing foreign adversaries to outpace the United States in AI development could jeopardize national security. Others argue restrictions could rob the world of a utopian future.

“Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. Or with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to provide customized tutoring to every student on earth,” Altman wrote on his blog last year. “If we are limited by compute, we’ll have to choose which one to prioritize; no one wants to make that choice, so let’s go build.”

Protesters hold up “Stop data centers” signs on July 27, the day of President Donald Trump’s speech at the General Motors Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan. CARLOS OSORIO/REUTERS

Data center backlash goes mainstream

Over the past year, data centers went from a little-discussed topic to a political lightning rod capable of reshaping elections.

These gargantuan facilities, which house thousands of powerful computers as well as data storage systems and networking equipment, are being built at a historic rate to meet the demand for AI and cloud computing. The problem: Americans don't want them.

A Gallup survey released this year found roughly 71% of U.S. adults oppose building data centers in their area, including 48% who said they strongly oppose them.

Industry advocates, including President Donald Trump, say data centers are essential infrastructure for the AI era, supporting technological innovation, creating high-paying jobs and generating tax revenue for local communities. But across the country, opponents have packed city council meetings to express fury about the strain on water and electricity resources, as well as the disruption to communities with noise and pollution.

Many politicians have either seized on the outrage or scrambled to shield themselves from the growing anger.

"People really effing hate data centers," Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, said at a campaign event in July. Days later, the governors of Texas and Pennsylvania – both of whom celebrated data center projects last year – announced new restrictions on the computing hubs.

In the first three months of 2026, local opposition has blocked or delayed at least 75 data center projects worth roughly \$130 billion, according to Data Center Watch, a research firm that studies data centers. Still, more than 1,500 data centers are under development.

Residents in areas with functioning or proposed data centers told the USA TODAY Network they had a range of concerns, from plummeting property values to rising electricity bills to a lack of public notice.

Raneem Imam of Memphis recently attended a city council meeting to support a moratorium on new data centers. She told The Commercial Appeal, part of the USA TODAY Network, she was “feeling very voiceless” and had a lingering sense of being “walked all over” by large tech companies. (Elon Musk’s SpaceX) operates three data centers in Memphis and recently announced plans for a fourth.)

In the small town of Manchester, New Jersey, Anne Cahalane was among a group of local residents demanding a similar ban on large computing hubs.

“That’s the last thing we need here,” she told the Asbury Park Press, part of the USA TODAY Network. She called a recent data center proposal “reckless and dangerous.”

Movement aims to stop Flock

The latest front in Americans' war on tech has taken the form of automated license plate readers.

Though several companies produce the surveillance technology, the largest is Flock Safety, which maintains a network of 120,000 AI-powered cameras across 49 states.

Unlike older surveillance cameras, Flock transfers information captured by its devices into a searchable database that authorities can access without a warrant. The company says its cameras scan 20 billion vehicles every month.

Flock CEO Garrett Langley and many police officials say the cameras provide law enforcement with an essential crime-fighting tool that has helped find missing people, recover stolen vehicles and track down suspects, including in high-profile crimes such as the 2025 mass shooting at Brown University. Flock says its cameras help solve 700,000 crimes each year.

But outrage over the technology has erupted in recent months amid concerns about privacy, mass surveillance and police misconduct. The backlash intensified after reports of immigration authorities accessing Flock data, officers abusing the network to stalk women, and misreads that led to innocent people held at gunpoint.

Activists and residents have rallied against the technology, chanting and holding signs reading “Safety is not surveillance” and “Get the Flock Out.” The backlash also prompted lawsuits and a string of vigilantism that has seen people cut down, run over or shoot dozens of Flock cameras nationwide. The uproar has even drawn the attention of the president, who said his stance on the matter is “under review.”

This year, about 100 jurisdictions nationwide have paused or canceled their contracts with Flock, according to data collected by the group DeFlock. The company has said the number of jurisdictions partnering with Flock far outpaces the number canceling their

agreements.

Still, the pushback led Langley to announce a slew of measures aimed at curbing police misuse. In an interview with USA TODAY, Langley said Flock will require all law enforcement agencies to adopt an audit system that flags abnormal search behavior. He also said data unrelated to an ongoing case will be retained for seven days instead of 30.

But as with data centers, elected officials of both parties have come out against the technology, seizing on Americans' fury.

Republican Rep. Keith Self, who is running for reelection in Texas, posted on X, “Big Brother has NO place in the Lone Star State.” Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri announced a congressional investigation into the company. And Sanders, D-Vermont, pledged to introduce legislation to rein in the technology.

"If you are dropping your kids off at school, Flock knows. If you are going to a doctor, Flock knows," Sanders posted on X. "We must come together to stop Flock and AI mass surveillance."

Ominous warnings about an AI-powered future

Anger at data centers and Flock cameras comes as Americans sour on AI and the powerful companies behind it.

A survey from Pew Research found that 52% of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about increased use of AI in daily life, up from 37% in 2021. For Gen-Z, which has adopted the technology more than any other age group, only 1 in 10 say they're more excited than concerned.

Anxiety about AI largely centers on the potential for mass job loss, a scenario tech executives themselves have warned about.

Altman forecasts a “difficult economic transition,” and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years.

More recently, Microsoft founder Bill Gates warned that “many jobs will disappear forever” and that AI could become the “worst source of injustice.”

And Meta walked back sweeping plans to reduce its workforce through AI, Reuters reported.

Americans, meanwhile, are growing tired of what many call “AI slop,” a term describing low-quality content generated by artificial intelligence. The pushback prompted several companies, including LinkedIn and Spotify, to purge their platforms of the digital waste.

As Americans' views on AI turn negative, so have their view of Big Tech.

A YouGov Poll in July found that 7 in 10 adults believe technology companies have too much power. And while most respondents said they had recently used AI, fewer than 1 in 5 said they trust tech companies to manage the development and deployment of the technology.

Bernard Koch, an assistant sociology professor at the University of Chicago who researches artificial intelligence, said worries about AI's impact on people's lives are probably fueling the uproar over data centers and Flock cameras.

“This stuff is a proxy for people’s distaste for Big Tech, surveillance capitalism, AI automation of jobs,” he said. “They’re potent symbols.”

David Karol, an associate professor at the University of Maryland who studies American political development, agreed that some of the vitriol could be related to hostility toward tech companies but said the issues remain largely a local concern.

“They are related, but I wouldn’t say most of the concern is about abstract attitudes about AI,” Karol said.

"I think that's part of the story, but I think there's also specific concerns."

A unifying dispute

Across the country, pushback against ever-advancing technologies is bringing together a unique and unlikely coalition.

In Hendersonville, North Carolina, lifelong conservative Austin Rhodes teamed up with his progressive neighbor Tiernan Turner to speak out against Flock cameras.

"The beautiful thing about it ... is that it's not a left or right issue," Rhodes, a berry and cattle farmer, told the Hendersonville Times-News, part of the USA TODAY Network.

"If you've struck a chord that resonates with the left and the right, in a divisive culture, you've obviously [really] struck a chord."

Their efforts have since been backed by the progressive activist group PERSIST of Henderson County, which is best known for its role in organizing “No Kings” protests against the Trump administration.

“It’s been amazing to me how non-partisan this is,” Holly Newton, a local progressive activist, told the TimesNews. She said Flock cameras have brought her together with people she would “typically disagree with on pretty much everything.”

Opposition to data centers is similarly bipartisan.

Tracee Laing is among a group of organizers who have collected signatures from residents in an effort to ban hyperscale data centers in Licking County, Ohio, just east of Columbus.

"I've circulated a lot of petitions, and this is the one that really has bipartisan support," Laing told The Newark Advocate, part of the USA TODAY Network. "It doesn't matter what party you are a member of. People see and are experiencing all the downsides of the data centers, and they are willing to sign," Laing said.

As more communities oppose these technologies, experts anticipate a flurry of regulations will follow.

“It’s still early in the game,” said Kahn, the American University lecturer. “But we are already seeing a reaction, and I think the reaction is only going to get more intense.”

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Origin of ‘Ontario’ dates to the 17th century

A map labeling Lake Ontario as “Lake America” is displayed as President Donald Trump signs an executive order Aug. 27. ANDREW HARNIK/GETTY IMAGES

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing his administration to change Lake Ontario to Lake America, marking the latest move to change the names of various landmarks and bodies of water in and around the United States.

The move comes amid a rapidly escalating trade war with Canada. The order, which Trump signed in the Oval Office on Aug. 27, directs the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to formalize the change within 30 days.

"If you think about it, we have a gulf, and we have a lake; now all we need is an ocean," Trump said. "So maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific."

Trump's proposed change to the name of Lake Ontario would not be the first time someone changed the name of the body of water, which sits on the border between the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and New York to the south. In the 17th century, as French explorers introduced other names for the lake: It was once referred to as Lac de St. Louis, or Lake St. Louis.

Although Lake Ontario forms the shoreline of Toronto, White House staff secretary Ben Moss said most of the lake's volume, including its deepest parts, is in U.S. territory.

"This will reflect that this is an American lake," Moss said.

Lake Ontario is the smallest of the five Great Lakes by surface area, covering about 7,340 square miles. It also is also the second-smallest Great Lake by volume, holding about 393 cubic miles of water, according to the National Museum of the Great Lakes.

Additionally, the lake, formed thousands of years ago as glaciers carved the

Great Lakes basin during the last ice age, is a prime destination for boating, fishing, bird-watching and swimming, with parks and beaches along its shores.

Ontario, a lake and province

Lake Ontario's name, which goes back to the 17th century, comes from the native Iroquois tribe's word Ontari'io, meaning "lake of shining waters," according to the Center for Great Lakes Literacy.

“Indigenous peoples have long been stewards of Lake Ontario (Niigani-gichigami), and they help ensure the lake’s life-giving resources remain abundant and cared for much like family,” the center said.

The word Niigani-gichigami is the "Indigenous peoples have long been stewards of Lake Ontario (Niigani-gichigami), and they help ensure the lake's life-giving resources remain abundant and cared for much like family." The Center for Great Lakes Literacy

Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) word for Lake Ontario.

According to the Government of Canada, the earliest recording of the name

Ontario was in 1641, when it was “used to describe a mass of land on the north shore of the easternmost part of the Great Lakes.”

In advance of Trump's order, Mélanie Joly, Canada's minister of industry, said: "We'll always call it Lake Ontario. Period. We're proud of our Great Lakes."

Trump's order applies only to the U.S. government. Canada is not required to adopt the new name, and Canadian officials have said they will continue to refer to the lake as Lake Ontario.

Why are the U.S. and Canada going back and forth?

The United States and Canada are currently in a trade war that Trump reignited when his administration imposed 50% tariffs on select Canadian imports. He also threatened to double U.S. tariffs on all cars, trucks, automotive parts and steel imported from Canada next January – a move that would also raise that rate to 50%.

“Canada has been ‘Ripping Off’ the U.S.A. for decades,” Trump wrote in an Aug. 25 post on Truth Social. “I deal with many countries, and Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable. They feel entitled, but they are not a State, and will be entitled no longer!”

In response, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs set to take effect on Sept. 8. He said the tariffs will be concentrated in sectors including steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper and electronics.

During an Aug. 22 news conference, Carney said the United States' proposed terms were “uneconomic, unfair, and undermined the net benefits for Canada. “In short, they asked too much, and they offered too little,” he added.

Contributing: Joey Garrison and Rachel Barber

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Trump reportedly warns against Russian attack on NATO

CIA director's visit to Moscow draws attention

Francesca Chambers and Zac Anderson USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump ruled out a Russian assault on NATO territory after his CIA director, John Ratcliffe, visited Moscow and reportedly warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against attacking the alliance.

"I've had good talks with him. He's not going to be attacking a NATO territory," Trump said of Putin on Aug. 27 in the Oval Office.

Trump declined to say whether he directed Ratcliffe to deliver a warning to Putin during the visit to not attack NATO. "I don't want to comment on that, but they're not going to attack," Trump said.

The visit by Ratcliffe dovetailed with Wall Street Journal reporting on leaked U.S. intelligence that suggested Russia could be planning to test the resolve of NATO nations. The United States is a

NATO member and would be obligated to help defend attacked countries if the mutual-defense portion of the alliance's charter were invoked.

Trump said Aug. 26 that Ratcliffe's unannounced trip to Russia was “semi-routine,” downplaying the visit amid speculation that the spy chief had an urgent reason to make an appearance in Russia’s capital.

Radio host Glenn Beck quizzed Trump about Ratcliffe's Aug. 25 trip, saying there were “rumors” that Putin could threaten a NATO country or that the trip was about telling Moscow “we’re serious” about Iran sanctions.

“None of the above,” Trump said, adding the trip was “sort of semi-routine. I hate to disappoint people.”

The Wall Street Journal and CBS News later reported that Ratcliffe's trip was to warn Russia against an attack.

In the interview with Beck, Trump instead talked about trying to end the Ukraine war, a goal he has pursued without success since returning to office last year. Trump said “something may come out” of Ratcliffe’s trip, his first known visit to Moscow. “We’re working very hard to get that war ended,” he said.

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Hospice worker Nicole Golding talks with cancer patient Patricia Bullaro, who has been in hospice care for more than two years. Bullaro says she didn't know it would take this long to die. STEPHEN R. POWELL FOR USA TODAY

Death can defy timelines and expectations

Golding knows what people think when they hear “hospice”: Patients enter, then quickly die.

But that's not true for everyone.

As many as 1 in 5 hospice patients are discharged when they suddenly improve, according to a 2014 study published by the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health. Some patients remain in hospice for so long that they leave the program – they “graduate.”

Medicare covers hospice if a doctor certifies the patient has six months or less to live. Doctors can extend that time every two months, as long as the patient's condition continues to decline.

This is the part of hospice Golding says isn't talked about enough: patients like Braithwaite, newly diagnosed with a terminal illness but still well enough to squeeze every ounce of life out of whatever time they have left.

President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100, spent 22 months in hospice care after he was diagnosed with cancer that spread to his brain. Carter entered hospice “to spend his remaining time at home with his family,” the Carter Center wrote in a statement. His family said it was pleased his decision “has sparked so many family discussions across the country on an important subject.”

Golding wishes more people would enroll in hospice as soon as they're diagnosed with a terminal illness. Hospice can make them comfortable in whatever time they have left by managing their pain and symptoms.

Just as important, hospice offers emotional support, such as grief counseling, respite care and bereavement services for family members worn down by the demands of caregiving.

Golding has worked in hospice care long enough – for more than a decade – that she can usually tell when a patient is close to death. They sleep more and eat less, until they're tired of fighting and ready to go.

But some patients defy timelines and expectations – and keep on living.

These are the people she wants the world to know about.

Waiting to die

Patricia Bullaro wanted two things when she found out she was dying: to be remembered. And to die at home.

So she wrote a book about her life. And entered home hospice care.

That was two years ago. She didn't know it would take this long to die.

Bullaro, who has pancreatic cancer that spread to her liver, has been in hospice for two years, since June 5, 2024. No longer able to walk, she watches the outside world from a hospital bed pushed up against her living room window. Neighbors walk their dog down the street. Squirrels frolic in her front yard. Kids zip by on bikes, their playful banter a reminder that life marches on. Without interruption.

From within the sky-blue walls of her room, Bullaro waits for the inevitable. She watches TV or plays games on her electronic tablet. Her favorite is mah-jong, a tile-matching puzzle game. Sometimes she pulls crayons out of a package she keeps beside her bed, next to her rosary, and fills the lines in a coloring book with bright, lively hues.

"I'm having a good day. A little anxious, but other than that, I'm OK," she tells Golding during a visit on a sunny morning in mid-May.

Bullaro, 69, who was a nurse before she fell ill, figured she had two or three months at most when she was diagnosed with cancer. Treatment wasn't an option because she has so many other health problems: congestive heart failure, kidney failure, diabetes and morbid obesity.

But she has been in hospice so long, she has wondered at times if she really has cancer. If she's really dying.

“Every day I wake up, and it’s like, OK, I got another day,” she says.

"You have defied a lot of the odds," Golding agrees.

She has rough days. She had severe delirium for a while. She didn't recognize her son, Ron, her primary caregiver, who lives with her. She thought she was in a nursing home. She thought she kept seeing strange men in her closet.

Her delirium was probably a side effect of her medication, Golding says. The dementia went away after her hospice team changed some of her medications. Bullaro takes as many as 20 medications – “the whole pharmacy,” she jokes.

She has good days, too. Days when Ron can get her out of bed in a medical lift, put her in a wheelchair and roll her down the accessible ramp, out to her yard, where she soaks up the sun and feels it kiss her face.

She wonders when the end will finally come. Why she has lived this long. And what her children and grandchildren's lives will be like without her.

She wrote down her life story so that someday, when she's gone, they can open the pages, and she'll be there. The book, "Answered Prayers: My Life Stories," is filled with family photos and favorite recipes – Borscht, pierogi and prazuha, a potato and Polish sausage dish. She had seven copies printed, one for each of her children and grandchildren.

Ron Bullaro had another idea to keep her memory alive, the kind of unusual request that Golding and her team are used to getting. He wanted a recording of his mother's heartbeat. They helped him get it.

He also has a still photograph of his mother's heart that was taken from one of her echocardiograms. He plans to frame it.

Now the family will be able to see her heart and hear it ticking, long after it has stopped.

Dealing with death daily

Golding knew in the seventh grade that she wanted to be a nurse.

She knew she wanted to work in hospice when death hit home. Her husband's uncle, just 43, was diagnosed with a brain tumor and entered home hospice around 2003, while Golding was in nursing school. Golding was moved by how the hospice team helped him and the family prepare for his death. By how his wife took charge of his care, while tending to their two small children, right to the end.

"I got to see the gift she was able to give him by keeping him home and keeping them comfortable," she says. "I saw the impact."

The experience helped steer her toward a hospice career. “I felt something,” she says. But “I didn’t know what

it meant then."

Now she does: to care for dying patients, to comfort them and their families as they face the end, to hold their hand as they take their final breaths, to prepare the body after death. It's a privilege, she says.

People often ask how she does it. How she gets out of bed every morning, how she goes to work knowing she will have to deal with death, day after day, week after week.

She's not sure she knows the answer. Some cases are gut-wrenching, like a 24-year-old woman who died from a genetic neuromuscular disease. She was the same age as Golding's daughter. Another was a 42-year-old cancer patient whose weight had dropped to just 67 pounds.

"It's hard to even imagine an adult weighing 67 pounds," she says, shaking her head in disbelief.

Golding gets close to her patients. She wants them to trust her, to know she cares. But there must be boundaries, she says. Without them, the work would consume her. In a previous job, “I was thinking about patients in the afternoon, thinking about patients on the weekend, going to funerals, going to wakes.”

She made some changes. She no longer sees patients who live in her ZIP code or the town nearby where she grew up. Watching someone die gets more complicated when you know the family.

She stays off social media. Looking up patients on Facebook or Instagram, seeing what their lives were like before sickness and death, can create emotional attachments that make a difficult job even harder.

"When I'm seeing these patients, I see the sickness. And I see the suffering," she says. "But I've seen us make people feel so much better. That's the stuff I really cling to. Not the sadness."

Still there are times when the job is too much, when death barrels past her boundaries.

“We’re all human,” she says. “Sometimes we do cry.”

'I couldn't take it no more'

At home, in the comfort of his cluttered living room, Arthur Ferdinand is spending his final days surrounded by the things he loves.

A plastic bin, next to a fireplace, is filled with some of his favorite memorabilia: NASCAR posters, racing programs, old photos. A retired mechanic, Ferdinand is such a racing junkie that he has been to 14 tracks and worked for 20 years in the pit crew at Lancaster Motorplex, just a few miles from downtown Buffalo.

Another plastic container, this one within arm's reach of the gray easy chair where he often rests, holds his stash of snacks: Hostess Ding Dongs, cakes, cinnamon buns, Oreos with the Double Stuf filling.

Ferdinand, 84, can indulge his sweet tooth now that his sense of taste has returned after chemotherapy.

“Boy, that is terribly tough to deal with. No smell. No taste. I couldn't take it no more,” he says, his voice cracking, tears streaking down his face.

Golding hands him a tissue. He gently dabs his eyes.

Ferdinand has acute myeloblastic leukemia, a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. He knew something was wrong before he was diagnosed. He was working in his yard with a weed whacker and became so exhausted after just 10 minutes that he had to sit down.

Doctors gave him two to four months at best, so he entered home hospice in February. Now he stays mostly indoors, in this dimly lit, slightly humid room, waiting to die. He used to putter around in his yard, but he gave most of his outdoor tools to his son-in-law.

“I know I was not going to use them no more,” he says.

He did keep a few, just in case he gets the urge to tinker. In case a neighbor needs him to figure out why her lawnmower isn't running the way it should.

Ferdinand thinks about death every morning when he gets up. The tears flow again just talking about it.

"I'd like to die in my sleep," he says, fidgeting awkwardly with the buttons of his beige overshirt.

He knows that's beyond his control.

Learning to accept death

When he was younger, Braithwaite and his buddies used to wonder what it would be like to die.

Now that he has cancer and is facing certain death, Braithwaite understands what matters most: It's not how you leave this life, he says, but how you live it.

Braithwaite, a widower of 11 years, lives with his son and daughter. When his wife found out she had cancer, she did something Braithwaite thought extraordinary: She called 60 of her close friends and told them she was dying. Always the consoler in the family, she wanted to comfort them in their grief.

“It was,” Braithwaite recalls, “an amazing experience. For me. For her.”

His philosophy these days: Live with dignity and bequeath your children all the knowledge you've accumulated during your short time on Earth. But there are some things you can't prepare someone for.

“You can’t tell them how to accept death,” he says, sitting at his dining room table, across from Golding and his son, Bill.

Braithwaite takes a breath.

"I'm not sure that I'm accepting it," he says.

"We'll do everything we can to keep you going," Golding tells him, pulling a stethoscope from the black bag she carries with her on visits.

Golding listens to his heart, his lungs. Satisfied, she pulls down his white socks and feels for swelling in his ankles. She turns her attention to a cut on his left shin, a souvenir from a recent fall. She dresses the wound and covers it with an adhesive bandage.

Hospice has been a comfort to Braithwaite. With other doctors, he felt pushed aside, as if decisions were made without his say.

“He would cry and be upset at the doctors,” his son says, “because he didn't feel like he was part of the team.”

The people at hospice are different: They listen.

As their hourlong session comes to an end, Golding packs up to see her next patient. It's a relief, Braithwaite says, to have somebody "just to talk to you and counsel you."

He grows quiet and seems lost in thought.

“We’re all here with you,” his son says.

He reaches out and gently touches his father's arm.

Epilogue: Arthur Ferdinand died June 10 at 12:30 am. He died at home, surrounded by his family, just as he wanted.

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Dolly left us a template for a better world

The word that springs to mind thinking about Dolly Parton is “pure.” She seemed totally incapable of offending another human, or speaking negatively about anyone, or even having a hateful thought. She seemed to see only the good in people, and to feel an obligation to do her part to make the world better, not just complain about its problems.

Who among us can claim to have never made an enemy or at least angered someone? But I'm convinced she never did.

A huge loss for our world, but maybe one of her parting gifts, as the news coverage and remembrances continue in the coming days, might be an awakening of how we all might shift our thoughts and actions toward a more loving and giving existence. She sure did lay out the template for us.

— Barb Blake, North Carolina

Forever our Backwoods Barbie

Growing up in the hills of Appalachia, Dolly was an ever-present fixture in our lives. For as long as I can remember, we would head to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, every other weekend to visit Dollywood – belting her country hits the whole way up the Blue Ridge Parkway.

When we arrived, we'd ride the Rockin' Roadway at Jukebox Junction and the Tennessee Tornado in Craftsman's Valley, and repeatedly visit the Rags to Riches theater to hear Dolly's life story over and over and hear songs like "Coat of Many Colors" and "Applejack."

My mom, a singer herself, was her biggest fan, and my sister and I were so inundated with Dolly's tunes, sayings and stories that we had no choice but to follow suit! I keep a shrine to her in my closet, so I see her every morning, and even had a cardboard cutout of her at our wedding (she was too busy to come ... understandable).

Her music, her generosity (Dolly Parton's Imagination Library), her positive outlook, her ability to open doors for not only country singers but all of Appalachia – our Backwoods Barbie, diamond in a rhinestone world, will be so missed.

— Sarah Gehring, New York

We will always love you, Dolly

Dolly was larger than life. She was so much more than just a country music star or a celebrity; she was an example of true humanity and goodness. She was a light in the darkness and a beacon of hope for humanity.

I grew up listening to Dolly Parton with my mom, and I took my daughter to Dollywood more than a hundred times over the years. We always cherished the times we got to see Dolly Parton in person during her parades.

We will always love and miss you, Dolly. — Scott Anderson, North Carolina

Even in death, Dolly unites us

Dolly meant America. She makes me proud that I came out of an Appalachian hollow. Those whose politics I think are disgusting and those who think mine are, too, are united in honoring someone who put love first. No one can replace her.

— Kenneth Bowling, California

There'll sure be a honky tonk in heaven

There are no words to describe how devastating this is. Dolly was truly, truly one of a kind. This world will never be the same. Rest in heavenly peace, the one and only Miss Dolly Parton. You are going to be missed by so, so many people. God truly has his honky tonk angels now.

Robert Young, Ohio

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'What Would Dolly Do?'

Dolly had been an idol of mine for as long as I can remember. But “idol” suddenly felt insufficient. She was more like the great aunt I never met but somehow always had. The one reminding me to push a little harder, love a little deeper, laugh at myself, never let anyone mistake kindness for stupidity,

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and never, ever be ashamed of where I come from.

My house is full of her. Art, little trinkets, her face smiling down from walls and shelves. Her voice pours out of our speakers regularly enough that nobody who knows me could possibly be surprised by my grief.

She was quick with self-effacing wit because nobody was ever going to make Dolly Parton the butt of a joke she hadn't already made better herself.

She built enormous wealth and then spent enormous amounts of it helping other people. She put books into children's hands. She stood up for queer people before plenty of people with far less to lose were willing to. She invested in the place she came from instead of treating Appalachia as somewhere she'd escaped. She helped fund vaccine research that saved lives.

She wrote, “I Will Always Love You.” She also wrote “Dumb Blonde.” Range, baby.

And maybe most important to me, she never seemed interested in becoming smaller in order to be taken seriously.

There is a sticker above my desk that says, simply, "What Would Dolly Do?"

I've looked at it during difficult meetings. I've looked at it after hearing something sexist. I've looked at it when I've been frustrated and wanted very badly to say the first thing that came into my head. What would Dolly do? Probably smile. And then put you in your place so sweetly you'd need 10 minutes to realize it had happened. That was part of the blueprint she gave me.

Dolly didn't treat Appalachia like a punchline or a shameful origin story. She loved this place loudly. She showed the rest of the world its humor, its beauty, its poverty, its contradictions, its music, its people. She became one of the most famous women alive and never needed to pretend she came from somewhere else.

For an Appalachian kid trying to figure out what parts of herself the world would accept, that mattered to me.

I will always love you, Dolly. Queen of Appalachia. Lover of butterflies. Songwriter, philanthropist, advocate, icon, absolute force. I hope somewhere, somehow, you're flying among those butterflies now.

Michelle Grasty, Asheville, North Carolina

Find out who you are and do it on purpose

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Your favorite mall parking spot may now come at a price

Free parking? Not here

Jessica Guynn USA TODAY

Scoring a great parking spot used to take luck or determination. Now it takes a credit card.

Shopping malls across the country are roping off parking spaces closest to main entrances and food courts to make a few extra bucks.

“Since when do you have to pay to park at the Willowbrook Mall?” asked one frustrated TikToker.

Most parking spaces at the mall in Wayne, New Jersey, are free of charge. But parking in the “preferred” section – one of the coveted 119 spots at the front of the mall – now comes with a price tag.

Signs instruct shoppers to scan a QR code or send a text message to a five-digit number to shell out \$2.45 for the first hour and \$2 for every hour after that. The cap is \$10.45 a day.

Similar parking arrangements have rolled out at Mall St. Matthews in Louisville, Kentucky, the Valley Plaza Mall in Bakersfield, California, the Northridge Fashion Center in Los Angeles and The Mall in Columbia in Maryland – each operated by GGP, a Chicago-based mall operator that boasts on its website that half of the U.S. population lives within an hour of one of its shopping centers.

In all, 23 malls out of more than 95 GGP properties offer “preferred” parking across the country, spokesperson Lindsay Kahn says.

Kahn told USA TODAY the reserved spots offer convenience for those willing to pay for it and address the most common customer pain point: finding quick, convenient parking.

“Preferred Parking is intended for those who want the convenience to not look for a spot,” Khan said in a statement. “Whether guests are making a quick shopping trip, looking to get in and out or parking for a restaurant reservation, the program is an amenity for convenience.”

Shoppers have plenty of options, she said. At Willowbrook, more than 7,770 spots are free of charge, Khan said; what's more, GGP donates $10\%$ of the proceeds from preferred parking to a local charity.

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Cars fill the Governor's Square Mall parking lot in Clarksville, Tennessee, on Nov. 27, 2020. TONY CENTONZE/USA TODAY NETWORK

Funds in Meta deal will go to states

Company won't pay any individuals in settlement

Melina Khan

USA TODAY

Meta has agreed to pay billions of dollars in a settlement to resolve claims about child safety on its social media platforms.

But the money isn't going to individual users.

The company, which owns platforms like Facebook and Instagram, announced on Aug. 26 that it reached the agreement amid a federal trial in California over claims brought by attorneys general in 29 states. It includes more than \$16 billion in payouts to states, but Meta estimates the total will reach \$18 billion.

As part of the settlement, which is subject to court approval, Meta agreed to make changes for teenage users of its platforms.

Here's what to know, including where the money goes:

Who gets money from Meta settlement?

The billions of dollars Meta agreed to pay out in the settlement will be going to individual states, not users.

According to the settlement agreement and a release from Meta, states can use the money to fund youth online safety initiatives. For example, states could use the money for the following:

- Crisis intervention services, such as the expansion and operation of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and text-based youth crisis lines.

● After-school or summer programs.

- Youth mental health programming.

- Hiring digital literacy counselors.

● Training for medical providers on interactive media use and body dysmorphia.

Meta said payments will be distributed in annual installments over a 10-year period.

Meta to make changes to Instagram, Facebook. See usage restrictions

As part of the settlement, Meta agreed to implement changes to its platforms for users under 18. Pending court approval, some of the changes include the following:

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Meta's settlement agreement with officials in many states will require it to implement changes for users younger than 18. IMEN BEN YOUSSEF, HANS LUCAS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

No parenting costs, no issues? Study says not quite

Childless Americans have more savings concerns

Medora Lee

USA TODAY

Parents often complain about how hard it is to balance the cost of child-rearing with saving for retirement, but a new survey shows they're feeling better about retirement savings than childless Americans.

Just more than half (52%) of Americans without children said they were confident about saving for retirement, lower than the 72% of adults with children who said the same, according to the 2026 Annual Retirement Study from the Allianz Center for the Future of Retirement, part of insurer Allianz Life.

Seven of 10 (71%) childless Americans worried that the rising cost of living will prevent them from enjoying retirement, Allianz found after polling 1,000 people ages 25 and older in January. That's more than the $64\%$ with children who said they worried about that.

The findings challenge assumptions that child-free Americans can save more easily because they don't have to bear the costs of raising a child. In 2026, the cost of raising a child to 18 years topped \$300,000 for the first time since LendingTree began tracking it in 2023, the financial comparison site said. Crucially, that doesn't include the cost of college, which averages about \$38,000 a year, or another \$152,000 over four years.

"It may seem counterintuitive that people without kids are less financially confident and more worried about retirement," Kelly LaVigne, vice president of consumer insights at Allianz Life, said in a news release. "But not having children – and the expenses that come with kids – doesn't automatically mean you have a plan to save."

Why might childless Americans have less savings?

Americans without kids may not be as focused on budgeting and planning for retirement or generally may be less focused on the future, financial experts said. “Parenthood often forces tough conversations about money,” she said. “Without that catalyst, too many Americans may be moving forward without a strategy.”

Most childless Americans (62%) don't have a written financial plan, compared with 42% of those with kids, data shows.

And the number of childless Americans is expected to rise. More than 15 million adults ages 55 and older, or about 16.5% of the population, were childless in 2018, a U.S. Census Bureau report released in 2021 said. Meanwhile, from 2018 to 2023, the share of adults under 50 who said they were unlikely to

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Fewer things in life are free, parking included

They say the best things in life are free. These days, fewer are.

Upcharges, surcharges, supplemental charges, service fees, hidden fees, add-ons – no matter what you call them, tacked-on fees are everywhere, from airline baggage to extra condiments to gas station air. Even the chargers and earphones that used to come with a cell phone are now sold separately.

Free mall parking is the latest complimentary perk on the verge of extinction. For some budget-conscious consumers, it's the final straw, like a cover charge just to spend more money. Or as one Redditor put it: "Pay us so we can take your money." Jay Reed captured the collective exasperation in a popular video on his YouTube channel: "They're Now Charging To Park At Malls And People Are LOSING IT."

Malls have long used parking as a competitive advantage, building massive asphalt grids to lure car-bound shoppers away from downtown city centers with metered street parking. CALVIN MATTHEIS/USA TODAY NETWORK FILE

“In today’s economy, when you talk about people being pushed and tipped over the edge for everything right now, this is yet another level of capitalism,” Reed said. “People want to grow their business. But there should be a line somewhere in the sand.”

'It's the world we're in these days'

Though consumers adjust, paying for something that used to be on the house often meets early resistance.

“They are getting real crazy with milking every dime they can get out of you, even to park at the mall,” commented another TikToker while walking with his son across the parking lot of the Christiana Mall in Newark, Delaware, after refusing to pay to park there. “It’s the world we’re in these days.”

At the Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody, Georgia, another shopper refused to fork over a few dollars to park closer. “I looked up the price and it’s only \$5 for two hours, but that’s not the point,” she said. “Y’all trying to cheat me.”

"All these darn parking spots," said a TikToker surveying a vast expanse of vacant "preferred" spaces at the front of the Cumberland Mall in Atlanta. "I had to park at the back of the mall because you have to pay to park at the mall now?" Some shoppers don't mind. Crista Ardito, on her way to eat with a friend at a Willowbrook Mall restaurant, told CBS News New York the \$4.45 was worth it.

“We’re both lazy and we’re both hungry,” she said.

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- A default two-hour daily time limit that teens can only turn off with a parent's permission.

Why shopping malls charge for parking

Malls have long used parking as a competitive advantage, building massive asphalt grids to lure car-bound shoppers away from downtown city centers with metered street parking.

Mall culture was so celebrated in the 1980s that it was featured in major Hollywood movies like “Mallrats” and “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” After falling on hard times, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, malls today are in a renaissance as teens mob them once more. Most mall parking is still free, especially in suburbia. Economic studies show many operators dangle free parking – or parking priced below what it actually costs – to entice more shoppers. But the loss leader can add up for American institutions – and not just malls.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that cheap or free campus parking is a major financial drain. Annually, the median college loses nearly \$400,000 on surface lots and more than \$1.2 million on garages per 1,000 spaces.

So shopping malls have begun to experiment with paid parking to recoup some of those losses or to make a little extra cash.

Others – especially in congested urban areas – have been doing it for a long time.

- A “night mode” that blocks features on Meta’s apps between midnight and 6 a.m.

- A “school mode” that will mute notifications by default between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.

- The number of likes and reactions on posts will be hidden by default.

Why paid mall parking is so controversial

Take Kings Plaza Mall in Brooklyn, New York, which opened in 1970. It caused a ruckus in the 1980s when it started charging 50 cents for parking to cover security and improvements. But the pushbacks and protests gradually dissipated, and today shoppers pay up to \$11 a day to park there.

Westfield Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara, California, began charging in 2022 to discourage commuters, travelers and other people who were not parking there to shop from commandeering all the spots.

The pay-to-upgrade your parking spot is a newer twist.

At Mills at Jersey Gardens in Elizabeth, New Jersey, there's ample free parking, but the mall recently introduced paid "upfront parking" for those who want to be a short stride from the entrances. "From a mall owners' perspective, charging for prime parking is a way of generating a bit of incremental revenue. It's also arguably offering a service to those that want maximum convenience," Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, told USA TODAY. "However, the policy polarizes opinion. Some consumers value such a service, others think it's a bit of cheek and that all parking should be free."

'Cash grab' protests foil plans

Some annoyed shoppers say they will

- In addition to Meta's existing policy to block teens from using cosmetic surgery filters, it will also block teens from using extreme makeup filters.

In a statement, Meta Chief Legal Officer CJ Mahoney called on other social media platforms to institute similar changes. "As a parent, I'm proud of both just spend their money elsewhere. Others have a simpler solution. "Amazon," one Facebook commenter said. "Free parking."

Still, noisy boycotts to protest what shoppers say is a “cash grab” have foiled some parking schemes.

Deptford Mall in New Jersey, just southeast of Philadelphia, canceled its \$10 “premier parking” program in 2025 after shopper backlash and local pressure.

The Deptford Mall set aside about 40 to 50 spaces closest to the main doors and next to spots for disabled drivers, expectant mothers and combat-wounded veterans, designating them premium spots. But shoppers complained, as did the township's mayor, and the mall operator agreed to phase out the program.

In February, the Fashion Outlets of Chicago in Rosemont, Illinois, instituted parking fees to stop people from using the garage for Chicago O'Hare International Airport or nearby event parking.

Under the new policy, shoppers received one hour of complimentary parking before rates jumped to \$13 for one to three hours, \$20 for three to 12 hours and a \$50 daily maximum. Shoppers who spent at least \$100 at the mall received a parking validation for up to three hours.

Foot traffic fell and retail tenants complained. The mall reversed course in August. “We listened to feedback from the community and our retailers,” a spokesperson for the mall’s owner, Macerich, told NBC 5 Chicago.

the work Meta has done to protect kids historically, and of this new ground-breaking agreement," Mahoney said.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement the settlement “will make social media less dangerous for our kids and make a world of a difference for children and their families.”

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ever have children rose to 47% from 37%, according to a survey of more than 2,500 adults by the nonprofit Pew Research Center.

About 3 in 5 adults without children (61%) said they can't even think about saving for retirement right now, compared with 53% with children who said the same, the study said. Those without kids said they're just trying to take care of day-to-day expenses, which doesn't bode well for retirement. About two-thirds of childless Americans worried about affording long-term care, and 54% said increasing housing costs might limit their ability to save for retirement, Allianz said.

Many childless Americans also don't have plans in case of incapacity or death. Only $19.9\%$ of childless adults have a will, compared with $32\%$ of the general population, a Childfree Trust survey of more than 600 adults showed. More than $70\%$ of childless adults report they haven't completed any legal planning documents at all, including wills, trusts and power of attorney (POA).

Planning usually assumes Americans have a next of kin, said Jay Zigmont, chief executive of Childfree Trust, which offers financial and estate planning for people without children. "People have wills because they have kids," he said, but everyone really should have one.

What about single Americans?

Singles also have a harder time with retirement savings. Sixty percent of never-married Americans have no retirement savings, Brittany King, survey statistician in the Census Bureau's Fertility and Family Statistics Branch, wrote in 2022.

Part of the reason may be what some call the “singles tax.”

Single people “have been penalized their entire lives,” said Marilyn Waters, 76, who lives in central New Jersey and has been single “for most of my adult life.” Although she raised two children on her own, starting when they were 7 and 10 years old, “I was able to benefit from filing as single head of household while raising them, (but) it still wasn’t as good as joint filing by married couples.”

The singles tax isn't literally a tax in the tax code, but it could cost singles up to \$1 million more over a lifetime when including taxes, housing, insurance and retirement savings over a career, according to a 2013 analysis by The Atlantic.

Some examples of the singles tax include having to pay 100% of rent, mortgages and utility costs rather than splitting them with a partner. Single filers also have fewer tax deductions, including capital gains on the sale of a residence, and their own tax brackets that can push them into higher marginal rates at lower incomes than married couples filing jointly, financial experts said.

Even buying a home could cost more for a single person earning the same amount as a couple, wrote Brad Case, chief residential economist at Homes.com, in a blog post. It's nicknamed the "single-buyer tax" because mortgage financing is partly based on the likelihood that income will continue uninterrupted over long periods, he said. Lenders, and borrowers, care whether a mortgage can remain affordable through job changes, slowdowns, illnesses and other disruptions.

A woman wears a T-shirt reading “Childless Cat Lady” ahead of a campaign event for Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Aug. 7, 2024. KEVIN MOHATT/REUTERS

“Two incomes provide redundancy,” Case said. “One income does not. That distinction remains even when total income is the same.”

If one person in a couple loses income, adjustments can be made and the mortgage can often still be paid, reducing the probability of default and increasing confidence for both the lender and the borrower. For a single person, the risk is concentrated in a single paycheck and can quickly lead to mortgage default and other hard choices, he said.

“In housing, earning the same amount isn’t the same as standing on equal footing,” Case said. “What matters isn’t just how much income you have but how many ways you have it.”

What can Americans do to save more?

All Americans, not just those without children or who are single, should make a plan, LaVigne said.

“Regardless of whether you have kids or not, writing down a financial strategy is one of the most powerful things you can do for your future security,” she said. “And it’s a variable you can control.”

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ALABAMA Tuscaloosa: The Children's Hands-On Museum has closed its doors as it prepares to relocate to the future Saban Center and rebrand as Ignite. The museum's longtime home has been listed for sale.

ALASKA Juneau: The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium recently announced the opening of its new Mendenhall Valley Pharmacy, which will serve as a compounding pharmacy, KTOO reported.

ARIZONA Pinal County: Environmental groups and an Indigenous tribe are suing the federal government over a copper exploration venture in the Galiuro Mountains that they say will threaten imperiled wildlife, including an elusive owl species.

ARKANSAS Fort Smith: C&S Chemicals had no permits, licenses, registrations, or other filings with state environmental regulators before a May chemical spill sent nearly 78,000 gallons of acidified aluminum sulfate off the company's Fort Smith property, the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment said.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento: Home-ownership in California comes later in life than in the rest of the nation, according to a recent analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California. In California, the age at which half of residents become homeowners is 47, the nonprofit found. Nationally, that milestone is reached at age 36.

COLORADO Fort Collins: Larimer County has a new and improved hub for wildland firefighters, dive and search and rescue teams, and other county emergency services crews. The new Larimer County Emergency Services building celebrated its official opening Aug. 21.

CONNECTICUT Vernon: All Vernon school buses are now equipped with cameras to catch drivers who illegally pass stopped buses, WFSB reported.

DELAWARE New Castle County: A Mission for Michael, a mental health treatment center, surveyed 3,044 parents to identify where school commutes are the most stressful, alongside the factors making those difficult and how the daily rush can affect parents' mental well-being. Out of the 128 routes featured, three in Delaware were highlighted as some of the most frustrating. Pike Creek claimed No. 29 on the national list. Highland Acres in Dover ranked No. 102. The last Delaware commute featured was Willow Grove Mill in Middletown, at No. 105.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: The U.S. Justice Department said it found George Washington University Medical School unlawfully considered race in admissions decisions for its 2024 and 2025 classes, alleging it favored Black and Hispanic applicants over similarly qualified White and Asian candidates, WUSA9 reported.

FLORIDA West Palm Beach: West Palm Beach leaders are making plans to tap deep into the brackish Floridan Aquifer for more drinking water, an effort to diversify the city's water supply away from the surface water it relies on today.

GEORGIA Atlanta: An Atlanta woman has been sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison for a fraud scheme that stole nearly \$10 million from Amazon, federal prosecutors said.

HAWAII Wahiawa: Testing is underway on the solar-powered Honu Hub wastewater treatment system, a compact off-grid technology designed to provide a more affordable alternative to cesspools and help address Hawaii's long-running wastewater pollution crisis, Hawaii News Now reported.

IDAHO Jerome: The city of Jerome and Lincoln County have abandoned planned or active Flock license plate reader camera programs following community concerns over privacy, data security and potential misuse of the technology, KTVB7 reported.

ILLINOIS Springfield: Illinois will expand protections for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault under three newly signed laws that address orders of protection, high-risk intimate partner violence assessments and access to forensic medical exams.

INDIANA Carmel: Officials believe a Carmel bridge that was washed out in historic flooding can be replaced by the end of 2027 – sooner than initially estimated – and hope that it will cost under \$10 million.

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Scott Stevens, left, of the First Parish Church Board of Assessors, and pastor Eric Dupee are leading a project to renovate the church's steeple, which will be removed so restoration can be completed. DEB CRAM/USA TODAY NETWORK

York: The steeple at First Parish Church will be missing from the backdrop of York Village in the coming year due to a repair project intended to keep the iconic structure intact for years to come. The steeple, which goes back to the 1700s, is getting a fix-up to preserve the historic structure as it was since its major renovation in 1882, according to Scott Stevens, a member of the church's Board of Assessors who is serving as project manager. The repairs will involve taking the steeple down from its place above York Village. The work is slated to take place sometime in the winter and possibly last into late summer 2027, Stevens said.

IOWA Des Moines: After seven years of planning for a downtown pro soccer stadium, the city of Des Moines says its negotiations with project developer Krause Group over adjacent development that would help cover the project's cost are over.

KANSAS Salina: Just over one mile of water main lines in Salina is set to be replaced as soon as possible after a \$2 million bid was accepted for Diehl Enterprises to complete the project. The project is part of a larger, multiyear endeavor by the city to replace 175 miles of cast iron lines.

KENTUCKY Louisville: Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been named the Muhammad Ali Center's 2026 Humanitarian of the Year, according to a news release.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: In order to determine where young adults face the most obstacles, and which state has the highest amount of at-risk youth, WalletHub analyzed states across factors like disconnected youth, labor force participation and youth poverty rate. Louisiana ranks first for the most at-risk youth in WalletHub's study, ranking second for education and employment and 10th for health.

MARYLAND Annapolis: New Village Academy, a tuition-free public charter high school focused on internships and community-based learning, has opened inside Annapolis Mall in a renovated former Lord & Taylor space, WBAL reported.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Massachusetts will provide \$27.2 million in tax incentives to 18 climatetech companies. The funding was announced by the Healey-Driscoll Administration and will be distributed through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center's Climatetech Tax Incentives Program, according to a community announcement.

MICHIGAN Detroit: One of the oldest and largest annual Muslim gatherings in the United States is coming to downtown Detroit for the first time in a dozen years, with more than 20,000 expected to attend the convention of the Islamic Society of North America over Labor Day weekend at Huntington Place.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Minneapolis Public Schools lost out on \$4.1 million in state and federal special education aid during the 2025-26 school year due to a district accounting mistake, raising questions about the district's beleaguered finance office, which has been understaffed and working with outdated technology for years, Minnesota Reformer reported.

MISSISSIPPI Oxford: A new Princeton Review ranking highlights fewer than 400 colleges nationwide as the best in the nation. Just one Mississippi university made the cut. The Princeton Review listed the University of Mississippi in Oxford as one of the best U.S. colleges.

MISSOURI Springfield: Missouri State University's College of Business will begin a leadership transition after Dean David Meinert announced plans to retire Dec. 31, concluding nearly 37 years of service at the university.

MONTANA Laurel: A Yellowstone County judge issued an injunction blocking construction of a proposed Laurel forensic mental health center until further environmental review is completed, KBZK reported.

NEBRASKA Custer County: State and local leaders joined a groundbreaking in Custer County for a first-of-its-kind facility that will turn cattle manure into renewable natural gas for energy markets, KNOP reported.

NEVADA Reno: Nurses at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center will be joining a one-day strike held by fellow union members across three states over patient safety and fair contracts. Registered nurses at Saint Mary's in Reno plan to go on strike from 6:45 a.m., Sept. 3, to 6:44 a.m., Sept. 4, according to the National Nurses United union.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: New Hampshire U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas' lead over scientist Karishma Manzur in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate has narrowed, a new poll from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center revealed. The poll found that if the Sept. 8 election were held today, 47% of likely Democratic voters would vote for Pappas while 34% would vote for Manzur. His lead of 13 points has nearly been cut in half from June, when he led by 24 points.

NEW JERSEY Camden County: Come mid-October, Amazon will begin drone deliveries in select parts of Camden and Gloucester counties. According to a map shared by the Mantua Police Department, the proposed delivery area will include towns like Mullica Hill, Mantua Township, Deptford Township and parts of Pennsylvania.

NEW MEXICO Santa Teresa: The air quality permit proceedings for a controversial data center campus in Santa Teresa will be overseen by another independent hearing officer when the New Mexico Supreme Court lifts a stay.

NEW YORK Albany: According to WalletHub, New York is a pretty decent place to have a baby, as it ranked among the top 20 best states on the list. New York ranked No. 16 out of 51.

NORTH CAROLINA Hendersonville: Blue Ridge Health plans to build a new medical building in Hendersonville. The building is set to house the Hendersonville Family Medicine Residency Program, run in partnership with UNC Health Pardee and the Mountain Area Health Education Center.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that kills ash trees, has been detected in Bismarck for the first time, prompting Burleigh County to be placed under a quarantine restricting the movement of ash wood and other regulated materials, KFYR reported.

OHIO Wayne County: Inspiration Hills Camp has received a \$40,000 grant from the Wayne County Community Foundation to help fund a new Central Education Pavilion that will support expanded youth and educational programming on the camp's 200-acre property.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The Tulsa music venue operator in talks with Oklahoma City to get \$3 million to restore the iconic Gold Dome is threatening to demolish a historic theater in Wichita after the city rejected his request to increase its capacity.

OREGON Salem: City Council moved Aug. 24 to punt a vote to a later date on creating the proposed North Waterfront Urban Renewal Area after expressing concerns and hearing public testimony.

PENNSYLVANIA Doylestown: Plans to build an inclusive marketplace and housing for adults with disabilities in Doylestown Borough received its first greenlight in the approvals process.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The Rhode Island Foundation is awarding more than \$5.4 million in grants to dozens of nonprofit organizations, saying the funds will help Rhode Islanders with “crucial needs” such as health care, housing and job training. The funding marks the third round of grants the foundation has awarded under its Five Year Action Plan.

SOUTH CAROLINA Simpsonville: Greenville Technical College celebrated on Aug. 20 the opening of its new \$32 million Center for Welding and Automation Excellence. The 44,000-square-foot Simpsonville facility is home to the first AI welding lab in the country and is touted as the largest welding campus in the Southeast and the second largest in the country, officials said.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: South Dakota prisons struggle to prepare inmates for release, and the support systems meant to help them on the outside often fall short, according to a report from a national nonprofit, South Dakota Searchlight reported.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Tennessee is one of the most expensive Southern states for child care, according to a new study by ConsumerAffairs. Nationally, Tennessee ranks in the middle, as the 29th most expensive state for child care.

TEXAS El Paso: An equipment breakdown at the El Paso Marathon oil refinery in early August resulted in the release of much more pollution than previously reported. The breakdown on Aug. 4 resulted in the release of 31,100 pounds of 33 different pollutants, a new report Marathon submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said.

UTAH Salt Lake City: City officials are considering renaming the historic Salt Lake City-County Building to Salt Lake City Hall to reduce public confusion, KSL reported.

VERMONT Burlington: Burlington made CNN's best towns in the United States list, even though Burlington is a city. The news outlet made a list of the best towns and communities in the United States to visit in 2026, and one of the chosen 10 communities with a small-town atmosphere was Burlington, ranking No. 6 on the list.

VIRGINIA Chincoteague: Swamp cancer, which can be deadly for horses, has been detected in one member of the Chincoteague herd, prompting the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company's Saltwater Cowboys who care for them to take swift action.

WASHINGTON Snohomish: Two new black bear cubs have arrived at PAWS' wildlife rehabilitation center to receive specialized care before being returned to the wild, bringing the total number of bears in its care to five, KING5 reported.

WEST VIRGINIA Huntington: The Marshall University Foundation reported \$35.9 million in new gifts and commitments for fiscal year 2026, WV News reported.

WISCONSIN Madison: Lawmakers voted to approve an audit of the state's food aid program, along with a look at oversight of anti-poverty non-profits and the state's building program. While some Democrats joined Republicans in signing off on the building program audit and the probe into the state's work with community action agencies, the vote to initiate a FoodShare audit came on party lines.

WYOMING Gillette: A Wyoming Community College Commission survey found Gillette College fell short of several performance goals, including graduate job placement, part-time student retention, student persistence and enrollment of local graduates, Gillette News Record reported.

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Five big-play NFL teams that could be more explosive in 2026

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Explosive plays in the NFL might lack a common source or even a universal definition. But it's clear that they remain near the top of every play-caller's wish list.

The exact yardage cutoffs – typically 10-12 for runs and 16-20 for passes – used to measure chunk gains can vary between sources. What's clear, however, is that those big plays remain one of the most effective ways to supercharge an offense that otherwise might have to rely on unwavering precision throughout long drives. And after the Seattle Seahawks and New England

Patriots rode their heightened offensive explosiveness all the way to Super Bowl 60, several more aspiring contenders are surely looking to follow the same path to prosperity this season.

But while explosive plays might once have been synonymous with throwing the ball deep downfield, that's not necessarily the case in the NFL's ever-shifting landscape. As several attacks tilt toward heavier personnel and higher run rates, many teams could become more electric by rooting themselves in the ground game.

With that in mind, here are five offenses trending toward being more explosive this fall than

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TOP: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes should benefit with the return of offensive coordinator Eric Biemiemy and the addition of running back Kenneth Walker III. BOTTOM: Chargers receiver Ladd McConkey is excited by the hiring of Mike McDaniel as offensive coordinator. "Yeah, I think he's just going to set us up for a lot more explosives. He's going to get the run game, pass game going. They're going to marry off each other." PHOTOS BY IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS

COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK 0 WINNERS AND LOSERS

Carolina, Belichick escape

Paul Myerberg

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Bill Belichick needed this one.

That the 74-year-old Belichick came into his second year at North Carolina on one of the hottest seats in college football was a signal that the six-time Super Bowl winner had officially lost his fastball after a dismal end to his run with the New England Patriots.

A full accounting of how far Belichick and UNC have come since last season won't be complete until deeper into one of the toughest schedules in the Football Bowl Subdivision. But the Tar Heels' often ugly 15-10 win against TCU in Ireland rights the ship for Belichick and gives his tenure a must-have boost after another drama-filled offseason.

The Tar Heels were swamped at home by TCU in last year's opener, scoring the game's first points before giving up 41 in a row and losing 48-14.

This TCU team has clear quarter-back issues after losing multiple-year starter Josh Hoover to Indiana. Combined with a lack of elite skill talent, the Horned Frogs might struggle to reach bowl eligibility.

One thing that's obvious: TCU is not going to contend with the best teams in the Big 12 by committing 11 penalties, going a combined 8 of 21 on third and fourth downs, averaging just 2.7 yards per carry and only 5.5 yards per pass attempt.

Despite the Horned Frogs' obvious issues, UNC might have displayed a Belichick-era blueprint for winning close, low-scoring games by leaning on low-error play from veteran quarterback Billy Edwards Jr. and a talented defensive front that had three sacks and six tackles for loss, many by sophomore Xavier Lewis.

For the Tar Heels and Belichick, the win is all that matters. We'll know by the second half of October – after games against No. 23 Clemson, No. 5 Notre Dame, Pitt and Duke – whether this throwback, NFL-style model can get UNC into the postseason and salvage Belichick's diminished reputation.

Belichick, Virginia and TCU lead the Week 0 biggest winners and losers:

Winners Bill Belichick

Just in the past month, UNC has placed general manager Michael Lombardi on indefinite leave and been forced to move forward with defensive coordinator Steven Belichick sidelined with an undisclosed medical condition. Those are the two most recent twists and turns for what has been one of the most drama-filled programs in the country this side of wherever Lane Kiffin is at the moment. Every UNC win, regardless of the score or beauty points, shifts the focus away from Belichick's messy program.

Virginia

Last year's ACC runner-up showed some staying power by pushing projected ACC contender NC State around in a bruising 34-8 win. Virginia held CJ Bailey to just 84 yards on 23 pass

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With a 15-10 win, North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick watched his Tar Heels avenge last year's 48-14 loss to TCU on Aug. 29 in Dublin. LASZLO GECZO/IMAGN IMAGES

NFL WINNERS, LOSERS

Questions still to be answered as preseason ends

Jayden Daniels and Dak Prescott quarterback two of the rivals in a stacked NFC East Division. GREG FIUME/GETTY IMAGES

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The NFL preseason is – mercifully over.

The league's 49-game summer exhibition slate wrapped Aug. 29 with the Chicago Bears defeating the Tennessee Titans 24-15 in the final preseason game to be played in Nashville's Nissan Stadium.

How much did we learn from these dozens of games that don't count in the standings, particularly since some teams shield all their best players from in-game August reps entirely? Arguably not much – and, don't forget, the better teams (think the Bill Belichick New England Patriots) sometimes have the luxury of extending some of their preseason proclivities into September as they work the kinks out.

Still, it was natural to glean some takeaways and observations over the past three weeks, and we'll know soon enough whether they were miraculous, mirages or even memorable. So, while trying to discern the noteworthy from the nothingburgers, here are your 2026 preseason winners and losers:

WINNERS

Dallas Cowboys

When was the last time August Super Bowl vibes in Big D felt this legit? Jerry Jones isn't preparing to deal away his best player? There are no simmering contract disputes. No devastating injuries. A revamped defense seems sufficiently prepped to relieve some of the load on what should be one of the league's best offenses. Wildly talented backup QB Joe Milton III played wildly well this month. The Cowboys even belatedly picked up some nice pieces, namely former Super Bowl MVP Von Miller and just acquired OT Broderick Jones. Dallas may not be the favorite to win it all, mired in a conference that includes the reigning champion Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams, presumptive favorites to win Super Bowl 61. But the Cowboys, who haven't even reached the NFC championship game since the 1995 season, are a clear and present danger themselves.

Patrick Mahomes

He didn't play in a game this month, but the three-time Super Bowl MVP is expected to start the Kansas City Chiefs' Monday night opener on Sept. 14 – exactly nine months after a shredded knee ended Mahomes' 2025 season. Next question: Can the prohibitive favorite to be Comeback Player of the Year spark a K.C. comeback after the dynasty's disastrous '25 campaign?

Bo Nix

His Denver Broncos knocked Mahomes' Chiefs off their long-held AFC West perch last season – and it would have happened even if Mahomes had survived the season – and might have knocked off everyone else on the way to a Super Bowl 60 crown ... had Nix's ankle not cracked at the end of Denver's divisional round playoff victory over Buffalo. But, after multiple surgeries, Nix also appears ready to go, and so does this squad.

Running backs

The Detroit Lions' Jahmyr Gibbs, Atlanta Falcons' Bijan Robinson and Indianapolis Colts' Jonathan Taylor, who play a position that's been taken for granted – especially financially – in recent years, all signed deserved extensions that made them the first backs in NFL history with contracts that average at least \$22 million in compensation annually.

Los Angeles Rams

Your 2026 NFC champions? They won all three of their preseason games – thanks entirely to backup players – didn't suffer any major injuries and seem ready to embark on a season weighted with heavier expectations than any in recent memory, especially for a team that fell short the year before. And just think how fresh Aaron Donald will be when he's ready to return.

Buffalo Bills

Your 2026 AFC champions? They have a new head coach (Joe Brady), new stadium, new WR1 (DJ Moore) and, seemingly, a new lease on life. QB Josh Allen and company looked awesome in camp this month, and the 2024 MVP appeared to be in midseason form during his preseason cameo. In what projects as a wide-open AFC – Brady is one of seven first-year HCs in the conference – Buffalo seems as well positioned as anyone for a Lombardi breakthrough.

De'Zhaun Stribling

He wasn't getting the love when the San Francisco 49ers made the wideout the first pick of Round 2 in the draft earlier this year. But after showing out in training camp and two preseason games, Stribling is a darling in Silicon Valley and in fantasy drafts across the country. And the Niners will surely need him with veteran WRs Mike Evans and Cristian Kirk battling injuries most of the summer and Ricky Pearsall (knee) already out for the season. For a team that needed a bright spot this summer, Stribling certainly delivered.

Rookie quarterbacks

The Las Vegas Raiders' Fernando Mendoza, Rams' Ty Simpson, Arizona Cardinals' Carson Beck, Pittsburgh Steelers' Drew Allar and New York Jets' Cade Klubnik, the only QBs drafted in the first four rounds this year, all – generally – bolted from the preseason gate like gangbusters. For whatever it's worth, the early production lived up to the potential.

Shedeur Sanders

Did he win the Cleveland Browns' QB1 battle? Based on what we saw on the field this month? Probably. Based on organizational logic? Definitely ... if only the Browns adhered to such things. Based on who the fans feel? Abso-fricking-lutely ... FWIW. The bet here is that Sanders is still taking the first snap for the Browns' home opener against the Carolina Panthers in Week 3.

LOSERS

Deshaun Watson

If he didn't look shot in his first appearances in nearly two years since undergoing multiple Achilles surgeries, then he certainly didn't look anything like a franchise quarterback nor one that has a viable future in Cleveland as he enters the final year of his franchise-debilitating contract ... not that these were unknown issues. But the fact that Watson apparently hasn't undergone the requisite personal growth to be more circumspect at the podium after being booed by Browns fans? Sad. But, whatever the organization's reasons, he's QB1 in Week 1 and probably Week 2. But the bet here is that Sanders gets his deserved shot at the job much sooner than later.

Rookie quarterbacks

With the exception of Simpson – who's probably ticketed to be the Rams' QB3 this season – it pretty much went south for all of them after their encouraging debuts, Beck's rib injury costing him the remainder of the preseason after he played so well in front of the country during the Hall of Fame Game. And that's fine. Aside from Mendoza, expectations should be tempered for all of these youngsters, and even Mendoza is expected to sit and watch for at least a chunk of this season after veteran Kirk Cousins got most of the first-team snaps in Raiders camp this summer.

“It’s the NFL. There are monsters on the other side of the ball, and you need to get the ball out quick,” Mendoza said after a spotty preseason finale. “It teaches you, you need to play on time, and there’s less margin for error. So I think it’s a great experience having that heat and duress because diamonds are built under pressure.”

Mendoza will likely be the first QB drafted No. 1 overall to start the season on the bench since Baker Mayfield in 2018. And nothing at all wrong with the Raiders' approach – it's worth waiting for diamonds.

NFC South

QB Michael Penix Jr. and OLB Jalon Walker in Atlanta. LB Nic Scourton, WR Chris Brazzell II and OTs Taylor Moton and Ickey Ekwonu. Rookie WR Jordyn Tyson and DL Bryan Bresee in New Orleans. WR Emeka Egbuka in Tampa. A division that perennially struggles to reach average has already taken quite a few body blows that will further lower collective expectations, particularly at the start of the season.

Tua Tagovailoa

Booed by Dolphins fans during his return to Miami – again, this is preseason

– Friday. Tough. Unable to, thus far, officially lock up the Falcons QB1 job even though Penix hasn't been healthy enough to challenge him. Rough. Playing on a one-year contract in Atlanta, it's already worth wondering how many more Tagovailoa will sign in the NFL if he can't quickly reverse his recent trajectory.

Brandon Aiyuk

Amazingly, the wide receiver is still festering on San Francisco's reserve/left squad list – purely a testament to Aiyuk's unwillingness, maybe incapability, to take control of his career and chart a new path ... one that may never materialize at this rate. Here's hoping he's able to take the reins and rekindle a once-promising career.

Washington Commanders

Whether in games or practices, their tattered offensive line has appeared incapable of protecting QB Jayden Daniels, who's long had to fight the perception, stoked anew in 2025, that he struggles to protect himself by taking imprudent on-field risks. A worrisome sign for a team installing a new offense and set to face the Eagles, Cowboys and Seahawks in September.

J.J. McCarthy

The 10th overall pick of the draft just two years ago, the Minnesota Vikings' 23-year-old quarterback didn't even make it to the preseason opener before officially losing the team's quarterback competition to Kyler Murray, who's in the Twin Cities on a one-year deal. A few weeks later, it's not clear how safe the roster spot of McCarthy – he missed his rookie year with a knee injury before muddling through the 2025 campaign – is with Carson Wentz and youngster Max Brosmer in the backup mix. And given the GM who picked McCarthy, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, has already been deposed, it appears increasingly likely that this would-be face of the franchise never will be.

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USC Trojans coach Lincoln Riley liked what he saw in the opener Aug. 29 but also said “fourth quarter, not up to our standards.” KIRBY LEE/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS

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LOS ANGELES – There may have been no perfect display of what Southern Cal has exemplified under Lincoln Riley than the 2026 season-opening win over San Jose State.

For the majority of the game, you saw why the Trojans are always in the national conversation and have a shot at being a College Football Playoff contender.

But at the end, it reminded you of why it has yet to do so.

No. 14 USC had a game it loved and hated in Week 0, defeating San Jose State 42-26 inside a scorching Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

If the score seems closer than you'd figure the result would be, that's because it was.

By the end of the third quarter, USC was up 35-3 and sending in newcomers to see what they could do in a game. They didn't provide much.

In the final 15 minutes, San Jose State scored 22 points with 117 yards of offense to not only cover the spread, but leave a sour taste in the mouth of Riley in a “tale of two games.”

“A lot of really good football out there. All three sides playing complementary, really dominated the game there through three quarters,” Riley said. “Fourth quarter, not up to our standards.”

Even though it was against Trojans reserves, it's another example of USC not finishing the job. Whether it's a late season loss, a costly turnover or just mismanagement, there's always something preventing the Trojans from closing the deal to reach the playoff.

The implications in Game No. 1 were small, and the majority of the day was great, but it should serve as a warning: USC needs to cut it out if it wants to avoid another missed appearance in the 12-team field.

What does USC team need to fix?

It starts off with not skipping a beat, regardless of who is on the field.

All offseason, Riley highlighted his team's depth as to why it has the chance to be a special squad. While plenty of newcomers proved that, it looked like the depth was mostly limited to just the 1A and 1B players, with a dramatic drop-off in the backups.

"We played a bunch of different guys," Riley said. "Bunch of guys got our opportunities, and we had several that did not play the way that we anticipated."

Riley and players all said the team took their foot off the gas pedal. It started to coast when the Trojans were up by 32 points and the Coliseum started to empty out more than what it already was, with a win in hand and time for fans to get out of the excessive heat.

The high temperatures persisted, the Trojans didn't.

"When you start scoring a bunch of points and start letting up a little bit, that's when things can go south," said defensive tackle Jide Abasiri. "That's just something we gotta get better with."

What worsens the mixed feelings is the issues came on the defensive side, something that has long been an issue on Riley's teams and figuring not to be an issue this time around with new defensive coordinator Gary Patterson. Riley said the defense deserved to hold San Jose State to single digits.

Despite ending, USC shows why it can be elite with Jayden Maiava and explosive freshmen

There's plenty to work on for USC, but you can't dismiss how good it looked for 45 minutes.

USC went right down the field and scored on its opening drive for the wire-to-wire win, and the offense was attacking just about any way it wanted.

It all started with Jayden Maiava, the veteran quarterback showing why he can be the key to USC's success with an exceptional outing.

He went 25-for-29 for 286 yards and two touchdowns, including a stretch of 14 straight completions. He also added a score on the ground. The $86\%$ passing accuracy was a career best for the senior, displaying the awareness and

What stole the show though was someone with little experience in receiver Trent Mosley. The freshman shined with a game-high seven catches for 118 yards and a touchdown, one of four freshmen who scored.

“It’s definitely like a really impressive stat that we’ve got so many freshmen that are starting and making an impact,” said center Tobias Raymond. “There’s some guys that did really good stuff out there.”

The game also marked the first time running backs Waymond Jordan and King Miller played together, and they did damage and showed they can be one of the best duos in the country, combining for 111 rushing yards, with Miller earning the majority of the carries. USC as a whole ran for 164 yards.

Defense still shines

Yes, the defense did fall apart at the end, but for three quarters it looked relentless.

The Trojans really kept the Spartans in check from generating much for most of the day. San Jose State's first five full drives were four punts, including three 3-and-outs, and a turnover on downs.

Riley was particularly proud of the turnover on downs, which came inside the red zone.

Before the fourth quarter, San Jose State's two red-zone appearances resulted in three points, which had many believing it would be USC's best defensive performance since its last shutout in 2024.

So even though USC leaves the stadium with a bitter taste in its mouth, it can't entirely forget how sweet it was for most of the day, and hoping it can remain that way the next time it walks off a field.

"I take it for what it is. You don't hide behind the fact that the fourth quarter wasn't good enough, and also not gonna pretend like we didn't dominate the game for three quarters," Riley said.

"It certainly wasn't flawless, but it was pretty damn good."

NASCAR CUP SERIES

Ryan Preece drives into Chase in overtime

Ryan Preece celebrates Aug. 29 after winning the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona and making the outline for the playoff Chase. CHRIS GRAYTHEN/GETTY IMAGES

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Ryan Preece's team pushed all their chips into the middle of the table, gambling with low fuel as a two-lap overtime shootout approached.

After Carson Hocevar wrecked to bring out a caution flag with six laps to go Aug. 29, the No. 60 team knew it controlled its own destiny. They kept their RFK Racing Ford on the track at Daytona International Speedway to maintain their second-place position. If Preece won the night race, he would eclipse Shane van Gisbergen in points and make the postseason Chase.

Pushing and shoving near the front of the pack ensued when the pace car left the track for a high-speed overtime. Just as Preece moved into first place on the final lap, Zane Smith spun out and collected several cars in the field. With debris flying and smoke rising behind him, Preece was well in front of Daniel Suarez when the caution flag came out for the final time, declaring Preece an improbable winner of the Coke Zero Sugar 400 in the regular-season finale of NASCAR's Cup Series.

Not only did the victory put Preece in the Chase – giving the 35-year-old from Connecticut his first postseason berth – but it was also his first Cup Series win in seven seasons at NASCAR's top level.

Simply put: The gamble paid off.

Just as the result was confirmed, Preece let out a primal scream on his radio and his pit crew started jumping up and down. He burned out near the start-finish line in celebration.

"I'm just speechless right now. Those guys, that 60 group, we're fighters, and when you put our backs against the wall, we swing hard," Preece told NBC on the front stretch.

"Two years ago there was a lot of keyboard warriors saying I was nothing. Well, we just kicked their butts tonight. I'm a racer, I know what it takes to build speed.

"To every man and woman at RFK, thank-you for giving me a rocket ship so I could go to the moon tonight."

NASCAR's postseason Chase is set. On Saturday night at Daytona, Bubba Wallace, Austin Cindric and Preece clinched the final three spots with van Gisbergen left on the outside of the cutline after a 28th-place finish.

"One night doesn't sum up our year. I guess we haven't been good enough," said van Gisbergen, who won road course races this year at Sonoma and Watkins Glen. "It's been cool to be close. Shame we're not in it. ... I'm proud that I've been able to match my teammates on the ovals. I think I've stepped up this year. But yeah, obviously you want to be in that Chase."

Preece entered the night trailing van Gisbergen by 31 points. Van Gisbergen won the opening stage as Kyle Larson, Chris Buescher and Preece slid across the grass coming to the finish line, boosting his lead over Preece to 38. But Preece made up ground in the second stage by finishing second with van Gisbergen outside the top 10, trimming the deficit to 29 points.

When the dust settled, Preece cleared van Gisbergen by 17 points with the victory.

"I'm going to drink some beer tomorrow, have a good time with my family and my friends," Preece said. "We won Daytona."

Beginning next weekend at Darlington for the crown jewel Southern 500, the Chase field is as follows, in order: Denny Hamlin, Ryan Blaney, Tyler Reddick, Ty Gibbs, Chase Briscoe, Christopher Bell, Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson, Joey Logano, Christopher Buescher, Daniel Suarez, Carson Hocevar, William Byron, Bubba Wallace, Austin Cindric and Ryan Preece.

Of note, Preece is now the 42nd driver in the history of NASCAR to have at least one victory in all three national touring series. He has two wins in the second-tier O'Reilly Auto Parts Series and two victories in the Craftsman Truck Series.

Preece is also the fifth driver since 2018 to notch their first career Cup Series win in Daytona's summer race.

"I'm proud of the way I've gotten here because I've done it with respect and I've done it my way," Preece said. "If I was in a street fight, my knuckles would be pretty torn up right now."

Elsewhere in the race, Suarez finished second behind Preece while Red-dick was third. Michael McDowell finished fourth and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was fifth. Josh Berry extended his streak of top-10 finishes to five races by placing ninth in the No. 21 Ford for Wood Brothers. He will be replaced in that ride next season by reigning O'Reilly Series champion Jesse Love, leaving Berry without a Cup Series ride for 2027.

Cole Custer finished 10th, marking his best finish of the year in the No. 41 Chevrolet for Haas Factory Team.

Austin Hill, who just signed a deal with Richard Childress Racing to be in the No. 33 Chevrolet full-time in the Cup Series next season, led the most laps on the night with 27. Hill finished in the top 10 in the first two stages but settled for a 27th-place finish after a pit stop strategy for fuel didn't pan out in the final stretch of the race.

Harrison Burton, who won this race in 2024 but is now racing in the O'Reilly Series, filled in for Riley Herbst in the No. 35 Toyota for 23XI Racing after Herbst was still feeling what the team called “lingering effects” from his wreck at New Hampshire last weekend. Burton secured a solid 12th-place finish.

This race marked the first in which NASCAR deployed a new competition package for its races on large drafting tracks, reducing horsepower and trimming spoilers in an effort to create more passing opportunities.

"I thought it was a little different. Was it dramatically different? No, but I thought the racing itself felt different. I didn't as locked into one lane as what I had in races past," said Hamlin, the regular-season champion. "I didn't feel like it was log-jammed three-by-three where you couldn't go anywhere. It seemed like we could run three-wide for about 12 laps and then handling became a factor. Guys couldn't hold the bottom as well. It definitely made you make choices. Overall, I was happy with the changes NASCAR made."

Drivers and fans alike will get another look at this package on Oct. 25 at Talladega, the eighth race in the Chase.

Week 0

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attempts and allowed just one gain of more than 14 yards while letting transfer quarterback Beau Pribula do most of the work in his program debut. He ran for 110 yards on 15 carries and went 9 of 11 passing for 155 yards and two scores. NC State has won at least eight games in five of the past six years – if that's who the Wolfpack are again in 2026, Virginia will be a dangerous team.

North Dakota State

The greatest dynasty in Football Championship Subdivision history – the most dominant in Division I history, really – picked up where it left off with an impressive 33-7 win against Jacksonville State in the program's FBS debut. The Gamecocks are no pushover: JSU had gone 27-14 since joining the FBS in 2023 and won the 2024 Conference USA crown under former coach Rich Rodriguez. The Bison got things started by holding the Gamecocks' normally productive running game to 85 yards on 31 carries while going for 209 yards on the ground themselves and 373 yards overall. It seems obvious that NDSU can compete for and win the Mountain West in 2026.

Southern Cal

The No. 14 Trojans were cruising heading through the second half against San Jose State before the mostly second-team defense gave up 23 points in the fourth quarter of an eventual 42-26 win. That late collapse will give new defensive coordinator Gary Patterson plenty to work with this week and beyond as USC looks to blend dozens of highly touted newcomers into the 2026 roster. Even as holdovers such as quarterback Jayden Maiava (25 of 29 for 286 yards and two touchdowns) are helping to bridge the gap in experience, the inability to slam the door on the Spartans feeds into the perception that the Trojans' lack of proven depth and an experienced reserves will eventually be their downfall.

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they were last season:

Los Angeles Chargers

There might not be a more stark case of year-to-year schematic whiplash than the Chargers pivoting from a Greg Roman-orchestrated offense to a Mike McDaniel-helmed one.

In splitting with one of his longtime trusted assistants in Roman, Jim Harbaugh acknowledged a need for a “fresh start.” Just a few months into his tenure, McDaniel is already reshaping the attack, kicking everyone from the once-plodding attack into high gear.

"Yeah, I think he's just going to set us up for a lot more explosives," wide receiver Ladd McConkey said in an NFL Network interview earlier in August. "He's going to get the run game, pass game going. They're going to marry off each other. So I'm super excited about that."

For Justin Herbert, McDaniel's approach has meant prioritizing getting the ball out quicker than he did previously, with the quarterback adjusting his footwork during that offseason to facilitate more yards-after-catch opportunities. The run game, however, might be where things really take off. Although the Chargers ripped off 14 carries of 20-plus yards last year, McDaniel coaxed 16 such gains out of a substantially worse-positioned Miami Dolphins roster. Peppering in plenty of misdirection and pre-snap motion could fully unleash Omarion Hampton and Keaton Mitchell, both of whom have proved fully capable of going the distance when given a crease.

A major problem could be brewing up front, however. One year after season-ending injuries to bookend offensive tackles Rashawn Slater and Joe Alt cratered the Bolts' attack, Los Angeles is looking significantly vulnerable on the interior line. Center Tyler Biadasz was signed as a steadying force, but his season-ending knee injury in training camp prompted second-round rookie Jake Slaughter to shift over from a five-way competition for the starting left guard spot. In a division that features interior game-wreckers in Chris Jones and Zach Allen, the Chargers could see a good number of potentially explosive plays defused if the line gives way.

Kansas City Chiefs

For a team intent on reclaiming some

Virginia quarterback Beau Pribula completed 9 of 11 pass attempts for 155 yards and two TDs on Aug. 29 against NC State at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. GREG ATKINS/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS

Losers TCU

The vibe coming out of last year's opener was that North Carolina was weak and TCU was probably about a nine-win team, which was the case in the end. This 2026 opener paints a very different picture. The Horned Frogs' scheme under coach Sonny Dykes demands high-level quarterback play, but it remains to be seen whether he can get that from Harvard transfer Jaden Craig, who threw for 175 yards on 5.5 yards per attempt. That's the fewest passing yards in a game for TCU since putting up 152 yards in the 65-7 bloodbath against

semblance of its bygone explosiveness, bringing back Eric Bieniemy as offensive coordinator was a fitting move.

Bieniemy's previous stint in the role coincided with the franchise's offensive peak from 2018 to 2022, a stretch in which it flummoxed opponents by stretching the field and never ranking worse than sixth in scoring or yards per game. With the offense becoming more methodical in the three years since his departure, generating more big plays has been an annual offseason rallying cry for Kansas City. After last season's 6-11 unraveling, however, it might now be a full-on mandate.

The days of Patrick Mahomes routinely ripping passes over the top of a defense likely won't return, with the Chiefs' subpar receiving corps and opponents' rampant use of two-high shells continuing to significantly box in the aerial attack. Yet the addition of running back Kenneth Walker III might prove transformative for the group.

After years of declining returns from the team's running backs, the Chiefs ground game finally bottomed out last season. Kansas City only had a perfunctory presence operating from under center, with the team's intentions largely telegraphed. And with a league-low three carries of 20-plus yards on the season, and only one coming from a running back, Mahomes was left to shoulder an even more disproportionate burden as both a runner and overall offensive catalyst.

It's little wonder, then, that the Chiefs were drawn to Walker. The Super Bowl 60 MVP powered a Seahawks attack dependent on big plays with his breakaway speed. Still only 25 and having never logged more than 228 carries in a season, Walker can take on a more sizable role than he's accustomed to and still make Kansas City more dynamic.

Mixing in the occasional long run could alleviate plenty of difficulties for Mahomes. The lack of a consistent threat took a heavy toll on the offense's third-down efficiency, with Kansas City seeing its conversion rate (37.44%) plummeted to 22nd in the NFL in 2025 after annually ranking near the top in the previous seven seasons. Walker also figures to hold a prominent role in reviving the screen game and play-action looks, two areas in which the Chiefs were formerly the league's standard setters but have since fallen off considerably.

Minnesota Vikings

In moving quickly to wrap up their quarterback competition and name Kyler Murray their starter, the Vikings reaffirmed their dedication to chart a new

Georgia in the College Football Playoff title game in the 2022 season.

NC State

To the question of whether this is the year NC State makes that unexpected leap into the playoff mix: No. No, it's not. At least that's the immediate read after getting smothered by the Cavaliers, who forced a pair of turnovers, had almost 250 more yards and held the ball for more than 38 minutes. The Wolfpack next face Richmond before a crucial run of games at Vanderbilt and back home for Appalachian State, Louisville and Wake Forest.

course after losing their way last season with J.J. McCarthy at the helm.

Will the explosive plays filter through as easily as they did in 2024, when Sam Darnold ignited the group to the second-most passes of 20-plus yards (64)? That will be a tough bar for Murray, who has been waylaid by injuries for two of the last three seasons, to clear. Both the dual-threat quarterback and Kevin O'Connell likely still have significant work to do to close the chasm between their respective schematic comfort zones, and Murray might no longer be the out-of-structure virtuoso he was in his athletic prime.

Then again, he might not need to be. O'Connell clearly has abundant faith in a system that's proved prolific when left to even a capable triggerman. After McCarthy so often squandered opportunities for Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison by being either late or errant with his throws, a boost in precision could allow Minnesota's pass catchers to flourish with strikes to the sidelines.

The Vikings' skill position players should also have more time and room to operate after last year's starting offensive line played just 83 snaps together amid widespread injuries. And while the revamped run game remains a work in progress through uneven summer performances, Jordan Mason could rip off more chunk gains as new assistant head coach Frank Smith ushers in more wide-zone looks that suit the running back's style of play.

New Orleans Saints

For most of Kellen Moore's first year as a head coach, his up-tempo attack couldn't seem to find a rhythm. Not only were the Saints hampered by a run game that averaged the second-fewest yards per carry (3.7) of any team, but the passing attack posted the second-fewest 20-yard connections of any offense.

But things looked decidedly on the upswing by the end of the season. During New Orleans' 4-1 finishing stretch, the shorthanded offense averaged 24.8 points per game – nearly a full touchdown better than the team's season-long mark. A good deal of the progress traces back to the installation of Tyler Shough, the eventual NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year runner-up, as the starting quarterback near midseason. Six of the Saints' eight offensive touchdowns spanning 20 yards or more came after he took over for Spencer Rattler behind center.

With running back Travis Etienne Jr. and offensive guard David Edwards signing in the offseason, New Orleans should be more dangerous in almost ev-

UNLV

UNLV led Memphis 21-14 a few minutes into the second half but could not hold up to the Tigers defensive line, which sparked a 27-21 win that may end up being meaningful down the line. For now, Memphis looks in good hands under new head coach Charles Huff, who recently completed a major turnaround in his one season at Southern Mississippi. Thinking ahead to November, this result could serve as one piece of evidence for giving the American champion a College Football Playoff berth over the winner of the Mountain West in the 12-team field.

ery phase. The new backfield timeshare between Etienne and Alvin Kamara offers some much-needed staying power after the latter ballcarrier averaged a career-low 4.0 yards per touch last season. Having any consistent presence in the ground game could open up additional downfield opportunities for Shough. The selections of first-rounder Jordyn Tyson, fourth-rounder Bryce Lance and sixth-rounder Barion Brown reflect the team's commitment to establishing vertical threats beyond go-to target Chris Olave.

Any progress on this front might be slow to materialize, though. The offense might not be at full strength until well into September as Tyson (hamstring) and Kamara (medial collateral ligament sprain) recover from their respective injuries.

Denver Broncos

Excitement over preseason returns should always be tempered. Nevertheless, the Broncos' early showings offered a tantalizing preview of how Denver might introduce a long-absent facet.

Against the Green Bay Packers in the second week of the exhibition slate, Nix found offseason trade acquisition Jaylen Waddle down the seam for a 35-yard catch-and-run. Three plays later, Nix connected with second-year running back RJ Harvey on a wheel route for a 21-yard touchdown.

That spark was distinct for Denver that returned the core of last year's AFC championship game group but still is in search of the next level. Through his first two years as a starter, Nix has kept the Broncos squarely in the middle of the pack in most offensive statistical categories. But the drives have often been methodical marches, with few figures breaking through the pervasive sense of stagnation.

Enter Waddle, who remains one of the league's premier speed merchants entering his sixth season. First-year offensive coordinator and play-caller Davis Webb is so enchanted with the dynamic target that he said Waddle will "play everywhere except the offensive line." Creative usage will surely maximize the receiver's output and allow him to create mismatches as a flyweight version of Sean Payton's beloved "joker" role. But his greatest dividends might come in the intermediate and deep middle of the field, areas where Nix still has considerable room for growth.

If Denver can more consistently keep defenses off balance and maintain a steady rushing attack led by J.K. Dobbins, a breakthrough is entirely within reach.

NIGHTENGALE'S NOTEBOOK

MLB All-Star goes AWOL again as careers on line

are now 2,208-1. They have lost 11 games with a lead in the ninth, most in MLB.

Diamondbacks infielder-center fielder Ketel Marte won Silver Slugger awards in 2024 and 2025. MARK J. REBILAS/IMAGN IMAGES

Bob Nightengale USA TODAY

Ketel Marte, who abandoned the Arizona Diamondbacks two weeks ago and has yet to show his face at Chase Field, is expected to walk through the clubhouse Aug. 31, apologize to his teammates, address the media and then try to save the team's season.

He has embarrassed the organization, infuriated a faction of the clubhouse and damaged the credibility of the front office and manager Torey Lovullo. Yet he has the ultimate power.

If Marte performs well, and the D-backs earn a playoff berth, he could save Lovullo's job and spare Mike Hazen, president of baseball operations.

If he struggles, the D-backs likely might miss the postseason again for the eighth time in nine years, and no one is safe. Marte has that kind of power, thanks to the Diamondbacks enabling him over the years.

Now, their careers may depend on him.

The Diamondbacks could have stopped Marte's behavior years ago but always looked the other way. They could have traded him last winter and several times in the past but instead gave him two contract extensions, believing that would change things.

He instead has made the Diamond-backs look like puppets.

Show up when you want. Bring your buddies on the road. Agitate hotel security. Frustrate teammates with your buddies eating alongside them in the clubhouse dining room. And play when you desire.

It's the Marte Rules.

One rule for him, one for the 25 other players.

"I've never seen anything like it," one Diamondbacks player told USA TODAY Sports.

If you're not going to discipline Marte, how are you going to fine any player who shows up late for a team meeting? If you want to jog to first base instead of running out ground balls, how can you be pulled out of the game? You want to take a day off when you're perfectly healthy, who can stop you?

The Diamondbacks believe that if they retaliate against Marte, or discipline him beyond brief stints on the restricted list when he went AWOL each of the past two years, they will lose him.

So, they instead choose to coddle him, indulge him and tell the world how much they love him.

"One of the things that makes Ketel such an extraordinary player is that he goes to the beat of his own drum," Lovullo said.

Well, by sitting back and letting him carry him on, Marte has ravaged the organization's image and reputation, and with 10-and-5 rights, he now has the ultimate control.

The Diamondbacks can't even trade him now without his permission.

He's scheduled to return Monday against the Philadelphia Phillies, and all eyes in baseball will be watching the drama, curious to see if the D-backs just act like all is forgiven.

Former D-backs pitcher Greg Swindell tweeted last week: "D-backs should not put up with what' going on with Marte. D-backs should not allow him back."

Oh, he'll be back, and likely carrying on like nothing happened.

- Several team officials say they have been advised the major league portion of the winter meetings in December in San Diego likely will be canceled, but MLB said no decision has been made. An official announcement won't be made unless there's a lockout, just like in 2021.

- Former Houston Astros general manager James Click, vice president of baseball strategy with the Toronto Blue Jays since 2023, has emerged as a serious candidate for the Athletics' opening.

- While no one knows the future of the 2027 season, one owner, one club president and one veteran player each predicted last week the season will likely open in May, with the real bargaining on key economic issues happening when paychecks are missed in April.

- While Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch still is beloved in the Astros organization and has a strong relationship with owner Jim Crane, he has no interest at this time of filling their GM vacancy. He received a contract extension from the Tigers at the end of last season and wants to remain in the role. The Astros are expected to hire a GM with a strong analytics background.

- Chad Tracy may be the interim Boston Red Sox manager, but that could become permanent once the season ends. He took a team that was going nowhere and morphed into a powerful playoff contender that will be a force in October. The Red Sox also realize that if they wait too long before extending him, he'll be the hottest managerial free agent – behind only his predecessor, Alex Cora.

- No one has ever won three consecutive Manager of the Year awards, but Pat Murphy of the Milwaukee Brewers could change that.

The Brewers, who were predicted to win 84 games this year by MLB sponsored gambling sites, again have the best record in MLB and are on pace to win a franchise-record 100 games. Murphy, 67, is baseball's toughest disciplinarian, unafraid to yank players in the middle of the game, in the middle of counts, or call out players in the media.

He removed rookie Cooper Pratt for lack of hustle in his latest example of discipline and why the Brewers have the utmost respect across the game.

“We have a standard and an agreement for how we play here,” Brewers veteran Christian Yelich told reporters. “We all know it. ... You have to be a certain kind of player to play for Murph and to play here. You have to be mentally tough and physically tough.”

Says Murphy: “I’m not trying to be Johnny Hardass. ... If you’re trying to accomplish something difficult, there’s going to be pain, there’s going to be sacrifice, and there’s certainly going to be disagreement. You got to do your best to put standards that are believable, are authentic, and are best for the player.”

- The only question now for Atlanta ace Chris Sale is what cap he wears in Cooperstown with the way he keeps pitching, going 13-9 with a 2.06 ERA and giving Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski a run for the National League Cy Young award. Sale, at 37 years and 150 days, became the sixth pitcher since 1900 at that age or older to pitch a shutout with at least 10 strikeouts and no walks in his 1-0, 11-strikeout gem against the Dodgers. The last to do it was Hall of Famer Randy Johnson in 2004.

- The Chicago White have been living in the penthouse of the American League Central most of the season, but that object appearing larger than it appears is the Cleveland Guardians. The Guardians' .605 winning percentage in September/October is the best in the American League since 2013, according to MLB researcher Sarah Langs.

- Hard to believe that Yankees starter Cam Schlittler, in his first full season, tied the franchise record for most starts of permitting one or no runs in a game, last accomplished by Ron Guidry in 1978. He also may be joining Guidry as a Cy Young award winner and is no worse than a co-favorite to win the award with Blue Jays ace Dylan Cease.

- The San Francisco Giants were 2,208-0 in their history when leading by six or more runs in the ninth inning before playing the Cincinnati Reds. They

- Brewers starter Logan Henderson, who walks barefoot in the outfield grass and takes a visit to the mound in the afternoon before his starts, may have started a new trend. The dude has now gone 19 starts without permitting more than three runs, tying Zack Greinke for the longest streak to begin a career in MLB history. He's 12-2 with a 2.30 ERA during the streak, with the Brewers going 16-3 in the 19 games. "It grounds me," he tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel of his barefoot walks. "There's a lot of emotions you feel."

- Walker Jenkins, the Minnesota Twins' top prospect who made his major league debut Aug. 28, has almost a mythical work ethic. When Jenkins traveled to Fort Myers, Florida, after his introductory press conference at Target Field in 2023, he asked if he could take swings once he arrived at the team's spring training facility. It was after midnight. He hit for 45 minutes. "I don't think there is anybody who is going to go out there and love the game more than I am, and have more fun doing it," Jenkins told The Minnesota Star-Tribune. "When you love something, you want to be the best at it."

- San Diego Padres starter Yu Darvish, who forfeited his \$15 million this season when he voluntarily went on the restricted list, has begun throwing bullpen sessions to see if he can return in 2027. He still has two years and \$30 million remaining on his contract.

- Teams will try again to pry Sandy Alcantara from the Miami Marlins this winter. He has been sensational of late, yielding a 1.99 ERA since July 4, pitching at least six innings in all 10 starts.

- One of the top free agent signings of the year belongs to the Padres, who grabbed first baseman Ty France for just \$1.35 million on a minor league deal this spring. He is hitting .321 with 12 homers and a .958 OPS since becoming their everyday first baseman, fourth best in the big leagues.

- The Chicago Cubs sure know how to throw reunion parties, with the latest Aug. 29 commemorating their 150th anniversary as a National League franchise. They announced their all-Cubs' team with more than 20 players in attendance, including Sammy Sosa, had the dedication of a Founders' Clock at the corner of Clark and Addison, inducted Jon Lester, Jody Davis and former broadcaster Vince Lloyd into their Hall of Fame and even sold Budweiser beer for a couple of innings for just \$1.50.

- It was at 12:45 p.m. ET Friday that a baseball miracle occurred. The Rays will finally have a new home.

The Hillsborough County Commission approved the funding for a \$2.3 billion ballpark in Tampa for the Rays that will open in 2029.

The Rays aren't going to Montreal, Charlotte, Raleigh, Nashville or Orlando. They finally have a home.

And now that the Rays and Athletics' stadium woes are finally resolved, look for expansion coming in 2032, with Salt Lake City and Nashville still the heavy favorites.

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ODDS

College football

Thursday FAVORITE

FAVORITE	LINE	O/U	UNDERDOG
RUTGERS	29.5	53	Massachusetts
UCF	42.5	59.5	Beth-Cookman
WAKE FOREST	24	48.5	Akron
DELAWARE	28.5	55.5	Merrimack
BUFFALO	24.5	48.5	Albany
KENNESAW ST	22.5	51.5	West Georgia
MISSOURI	54.5	60.5	Ark-Pine Bluff
GA TECH	6.5	50.5	Colorado
MINNESOTA	42.5	51.5	Eastern Illinois
ILLINOIS	28.5	56.5	uab
UTAH	33.5	56.5	Idaho

Friday
FAVORITE	LINE	O/U	UNDERDOG
EASTERN MICH	3.5	54.5	San Jose State
PURDUE	35.5	56.5	Indiana State
GEORGIA STATE	28.5	63.5	NC A&T
OKLAHOMA	41.5	50.5	utep
KANSAS	38.5	53.5	liu
MICHIGAN ST	10	49.5	Toledo
Miami (FL)	24.5	47.5	STANFORD
USC	23	51.5	Fresno State

Saturday
FAVORITE	LINE	O/U	UNDERDOG
ALABAMA	28.5	54	East Carolina
INDIANA	40.5	55.5	North Texas
ARMWEST PT	36.5	51.5	Bryant
HOUSTON	20.5	51	Oregon
WEST VIRGINIA	21.5	56.5	Coastal Carolina
SYRACUSE	32.5	55.5	New Hampshire
NEBRASKA	23.5	47.5	Ohio
CONNECTICUT	19.5	58.5	Lafayette
JAMES MADISON	6.5	52.5	Liberty
BOWLING GREEN	2.5	47.5	Tarleton State
PITTSBURGH	16.5	49.5	Miami (OH)
OHIO STATE	50.5	56.5	Ball State
S CAROLINA	36.5	53.5	Kent State
KENTUCKY	23.5	62.5	Youngstown St
IOWA STATE	29.5	53.5	SE Missouri St
AIR FORCE	28.5	57.5	Duquesne
TEMPLE	10.5	51.5	Rhode Island
GEORGIA	45.5	55.5	Tennessee State
CHARLOTTE	17.5	46.5	Citadel
NAVY	30.5	53.5	Towson
DUKE	9.5	51	Tulane
AUBURN	7	59	Baylor
TENNESSEE	46.5	66.5	Furman
TEXAS	30.5	60	Texas State
CINCINNATI	7.5	51.5	Boston College
OREGON	24.5	51.5	Boise State
PENN STATE	24.5	54.5	Marshall
APPALACHIAN ST	18.5	53.5	Maine
N DAKOTA ST	39.5	57.5	Fordham
Oklahoma State	14.5	50	TULSA
ARKANSAS	40.5	63.5	North Alabama
IOWA	31.5	45.5	Northern Illinois
UTSA	28.5	59.5	UT Rio Gr. Valley
SOUTHERN MISS	21	50.5	Alcorn State
COLORADO ST	3.5	47.5	Wyoming
OLD DOMINION	41.5	55.5	Norfolk State
MEMPHIS	8.5	55	Arkansas State
RICE	22.5	47.5	Hou. Christian
SOUTH FLORIDA	13.5	54	fiu
TEXAS A&M	41	52.5	Missouri State
VANDERBILT	30.5	61.5	Austin Peay
TEXAS TECH	42.5	59.5	Abilene Christian
KANSAS STATE	40.5	55.5	Nicholls
UTAH STATE	11.5	62.5	Idaho State
GA SOUTHERN	25.5	51.5	Charleston Sou.
MIDDLE TENN.	20.5	59.5	Murray State
TROY	16.5	53.5	Sam Houston
S ALABAMA	12.5	52.5	S-eastern Loui.
JAXVILLE STATE	19.5	52.5	Eastern KY
LSU	10.5	51	Clemson
MISSISSIPPI ST	28.5	55.5	Louis-Monroe
VIRGINIA TECH	50.5	57.5	vmi
MICHIGAN	27.5	47.5	Western Mich.
LOUISIANA TECH	41.5	52.5	Northwestern St
FLORIDA	26.5	59.5	Florida Atlantic
BYU	47.5	54.5	Utah Tech
MARYLAND	45.5	56.5	Hampton
NORTHWESTERN	12.5	46.5	South Dakota St
LOUISIANA	20.5	48.5	Lamar
ARIZONA	31.5	56.5	Northern Arizona
SAN DIEGO ST	40.5	57.5	Portland State
ARIZONA STATE	41.5	52.5	Morgan State
NEW MEXICO	10.5	46.5	Central Michigan
SAC STATE	35.5	56.5	Mississippi V. St
unlv	3	58.5	HAWAII
ucla	1.5	53.5	CALIFORNIA
Western KY	2.5	53	NEVADA

MLB

AMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division
	W	L	Pct	GB
Tampa Bay	81	54	.600	—
N.Y. Yankees	77	59	.566	$4\frac{1}{2}$
Boston	74	62	.544	$7\frac{1}{2}$
Baltimore	67	69	.493	$14\frac{1}{2}$
Toronto	67	70	.489	15

Central Division

	W	L	Pct	GB
Chi. White Sox	72	63	.533	—
Cleveland	68	68	.500	$4\frac{1}{2}$
Minnesota	64	72	.471	$8\frac{1}{2}$
Detroit	63	72	.467	9
Kansas City	62	75	.453	11

	W	L	Pct	GB
Houston	68	68	.500	-
Texas	66	70	.485	2
Seattle	64	72	.471	4
Athletics	53	83	.390	15
L.A. Angels	52	84	.382	16

West Division
NATIONAL LEAGUE

East Division

	W	L	Pct	GB
Atlanta	81	55	.596	-
Philadelphia	76	60	.559	5
Miami	68	68	.500	13
Washington	65	73	.471	17
N.Y. Mets	61	75	.449	20

Central Division

Central Division
	W	L	Pct	GB
Milwaukee	85	51	.625	—
Chicago Cubs	77	59	.566	8
St. Louis	68	69	.496	$17\frac{1}{2}$
Pittsburgh	66	71	.482	$19\frac{1}{2}$
Cincinnati	64	72	.471	21

West Division

	W	L	Pct	GB
L.A. Dodgers	81	55	.596	—
San Diego	72	64	.529	9
Arizona	73	65	.529	9
San Francisco	56	81	.409	$25\frac{1}{2}$
Colorado	52	84	.382	29

Saturday's Scores

Game 1: Boston 6, N.Y. Yankees 0
Detroit 2, L.A. Dodgers 1
Chi. White Sox 3, Minnesota 2
Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 2
Chicago Cubs 17, Cincinnati 5
Toronto 4, Seattle 3
Washington 5, Miami 4, 10 innings
Arizona 7, San Francisco 1
Atlanta 2, Colorado 1
Tampa Bay 7, San Diego 6
Kansas City 8, Cleveland 3
N.Y. Mets 6, Houston 2
Milwaukee 5, Texas 3
Game 2: N.Y. Yankees 9, Boston 2
Baltimore 5, Athletics 3
San Francisco 7, Arizona 2
Philadelphia 4, L.A. Angels 2, 10 innings
Sunday's Games
Miami at Washington
Colorado at Atlanta
Boston at N.Y. Yankees
Seattle at Toronto
L.A. Dodgers at Detroit
San Diego at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Cleveland
Chi. White Sox at Minnesota
Texas at Milwaukee
Pittsburgh at St. Louis
Houston at N.Y. Mets
Baltimore at Athletics
Philadelphia at L.A. Angels
Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs
Monday's Games
San Francisco at Atlanta, 6:05 p.m.
San Diego at Cincinnati, 6:40 p.m.
N.Y. Mets at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.
Miami at Washington, 6:45 p.m.
Seattle at Boston, 6:45 p.m.
Detroit at Minnesota, 7:40 p.m.
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 7:40 p.m.
Athletics at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
Chi. White Sox at Houston, 8:10 p.m.
Baltimore at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels, 9:38 p.m.
Philadelphia at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
Tuesday's Games
San Diego at Cincinnati, 6:40 p.m.
N.Y. Mets at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.
Toronto at Cleveland, 6:40 p.m.
San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m.
Atlanta at Washington, 6:45 p.m.
Seattle at Boston, 6:45 p.m.
Detroit at Minnesota, 7:40 p.m.
Miami at Kansas City, 7:40 p.m.
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 7:40 p.m.
Athletics at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
Chi. White Sox at Houston, 8:10 p.m.
Baltimore at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels, 9:38 p.m.
Philadelphia at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

NFL

Preseason Week 3

Thursday's Scores Buffalo 28, Pittsburgh 27 Cleveland 37, New England 13 San Francisco 18, Las Vegas 12 L.A. Rams 20, L.A. Chargers 18

Friday's Scores

Baltimore 41, Washington 3
Atlanta 17, Miami 12
Carolina 16, Houston 13
Jacksonville 19, Tampa Bay 0
N.Y. Giants 23, N.Y. Jets 6
Cincinnati 30, Philadelphia 13
Seattle 9, Kansas City 9
Green Bay 42, Arizona 38
New Orleans 27, Dallas 24
Denver 34, Minnesota 6
Saturday's Scores
Detroit 25, Indianapolis 16
Chicago 24, Tennessee 15

SOCCER

English Premier League

	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Manchester City	2	2	0	0	6	2	6
Hull City	2	2	0	0	3	0	6
Chelsea	2	2	0	0	7	5	6
Brentford	2	1	1	0	4	1	4
Newcastle	2	1	1	0	4	2	4
Everton	2	1	1	0	3	1	4
Leeds United	2	1	1	0	2	1	4
Brighton	2	1	0	1	7	4	3
Man United	2	1	0	1	5	4	3
Arsenal	1	1	0	0	3	0	3
Sunderland	2	1	0	1	2	2	3
Ipswich Town	2	1	0	1	4	6	3
Liverpool	2	0	2	0	4	4	2
Bournemouth	2	0	1	1	2	3	1
Nott'm Forest	2	0	1	1	3	3	1
Fulham	2	0	0	2	2	4	0
Aston Villa	1	0	0	1	0	4	0
Coventry City	2	0	0	2	0	4	0
Crystal Palace	2	0	0	2	1	6	0
Tottenham	2	0	0	2	0	5	0

Note: Three points for win, one point for tie.

Friday's Score Crystal Palace 1, Manchester City 4 Saturday's Scores Liverpool 2, Nottingham Forest 2 Coventry City 0, Hull City 1 Bournemouth 1, Everton 1 Tottenham 0, Newcastle United 2 Sunday's Scores Leeds United 1, Brentford 1 Chelsea 4, Brighton & Hove Albion 3 Sunderland 1, Fulham 0 Ipswich Town 2, Manchester United 5 Monday's Game Arsenal at Aston Villa, 3 p.m. NAC

EASTERN CONFERENCE

	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
Nashville	16	2	4	52	47	17
Inter Miami CF	12	4	6	42	56	41
Chicago	11	6	4	37	39	28
Charlotte FC	10	7	5	35	40	32
New England	10	7	4	34	33	26
Cincinnati	8	7	7	31	49	51
NY City FC	7	8	7	28	36	31
NY Red Bulls	7	10	5	26	32	46
Orlando City	7	11	4	25	37	54
Toronto FC	5	7	10	25	32	38
D.C. United	5	7	10	25	28	36
Philadelphia	6	10	6	24	34	39
Atlanta	6	13	3	21	25	38
CF Montreal	5	11	6	21	30	46
Columbus	5	11	5	20	30	36

WESTERN CONFERENCE

	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
Vancouver	13	4	4	43	48	18
Houston	12	7	3	39	30	26
Los Angeles FC	10	7	6	36	36	22
San Jose	10	8	4	34	39	33
FC Dallas	9	6	6	33	38	34
Saint Louis	9	6	6	33	30	27
Colorado	10	11	1	31	31	28
San Diego FC	8	8	6	30	40	33
Minnesota	7	7	8	29	30	32
Real Salt Lake	8	9	4	28	34	33
Portland	8	10	4	28	39	39
Seattle	7	9	5	26	24	29
LA Galaxy	6	9	8	26	28	35
Austin FC	6	10	6	24	28	41
Sporting KC	4	15	3	15	20	54

Note: Three points for win, one point for tie.

Saturday's Scor

Seattle 2, Chicago 2

NY Red Bulls 1, Philadelphia 3
Toronto FC 1, NY City FC 1
Inter Miami CF 7, CF Montreal 1
D.C. United 0, Los Angeles FC 0
Atlanta 0, Charlotte FC 2
Houston 0, San Jose 0
Nashville 4, Cincinnati 0
Minnesota 3, Orlando City 3
Sporting KC 0, Vancouver 3
Colorado 1, Real Salt Lake 0
San Diego FC 3, LA Galaxy 1
Portland 1, Austin FC 2
Sunday's Games
New England at Columbus
FC Dallas at Saint Louis

Friday's Game

Nashville at NY City FC, 7:30 p.m.

NWSL

NWSL
	W	L	D	Pts	GF	GA
Gotham	13	3	6	45	27	14
Utah	12	7	3	39	39	28
San Diego	12	7	3	39	32	25
Portland	11	6	5	38	36	30
Washington	11	6	4	37	30	19
North Carolina	11	8	3	36	40	33
Kansas City	10	8	4	34	35	31
Seattle	8	8	4	28	25	26
Denver	7	8	6	27	31	27
Angel City	7	8	5	26	27	22
Houston	7	9	5	26	28	29
Orlando	8	12	2	26	25	33
Louisville	7	13	2	23	34	43
Bay	6	10	4	22	21	27
Boston	5	11	5	20	24	34
Chicago	5	16	1	16	13	47

Note: Three points for win, one p Saturday's Scores Kansas City 3, North Carolina 2 Utah 2, Orlando 1 Denver 6, Chicago 1 Sunday's Games Bay at Washington Houston at Seattle Monday's Game Angel City at Boston, 8 p.m.

WNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE
Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring one of his four goals Aug. 29 in Inter Miami's 7-1 victory against CF Montreal at Nu Stadium in Miami. The Argentinian superstar now leads MLS with 18 goals this season. Clint Mathis holds the MLS record with five goals in a game in 2000.

	W	L	Pct	GB
x-Indiana	26	14	.650	—
x-Atlanta	25	14	.641	$1\frac{1}{2}$
cx-N.Y. Liberty	24	16	.600	2
x-Washington	24	16	.600	2
e-Chicago	15	25	.375	11
e-Toronto	11	29	.275	15
e-Connecticut	10	29	.256	$15\frac{1}{2}$

WESTERN CONFERENCE

	W	L	Pct	GB
x-Minnesota	31	8	.795	—
x-Golden State	28	11	.718	3
x-Las Vegas	27	13	.675	$4\frac{1}{2}$
x-Dallas	23	16	.590	8
e-Portland	16	23	.410	15
e-L.A. Sparks	14	25	.359	17
e-Phoenix	14	26	.350	$17\frac{1}{2}$
e-Seattle	8	31	.205	23

Note: x- clinched playoff berth; cx- clinched playoff berth and won Commissioner's Cup; e- eliminated from playoffs.
Saturday's Scores
N.Y. Liberty 85, Chicago 66
Phoenix 101, Toronto 69
Sunday's Games
Minnesota at Atlanta
L.A. Sparks at Seattle
Golden State at Portland
Connecticut at Dallas

CFL

EAST DIVISION

EAST DIVISION
	W	L	Pct	PF	PA
Montreal	9	2	.818	395	307
Toronto	5	6	.455	328	339
Hamilton	4	8	.333	280	347
Ottawa	0	10	.000	223	368

WEST DIVISION

WEST DIVISION
	W	L	Pct	PF	PA
Edmonton	8	3	.727	323	279
Saskatchewan	7	4	.636	337	295
Winnipeg	6	5	.545	300	314
BC	5	5	.500	274	267
Calgary	5	6	.455	406	350

Friday's Score

Winnipeg 44, Montreal 28
Saturday's Scores
Calgary 28, Hamilton 23
Saskatchewan 28, Toronto 24
Sunday's Game
BC vs. Ottawa

CYCLING

Vuelta a España

Vazenda a España Stage 9 Villajoyosa to Alto de Aitana, 187.4 km.

Stage winners

Wind direction: N. Wind speed: 2km/h. Route profile: mountain. Finish profile: mountain. Stage winners

1. Enric Mas (ESP) Movistar Team 5:10:40
2. Oscar Onley (GBR) Netcompany INEOS “
3. P. Roglic (SLO) RB – BORA – hansgrohe +12
4. Felix Gall (AUT) Decathlon CMA CGM +18
5. Cristián Rodríguez (ESP) XDS Astana +20
6. Mattias Skjelmose (DEN) Lidl – Trek “
7. Jarno Widar (BEL) Lotto Intermarché +25
8. Harold Tejada (COL) XDS Astana Team +33

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9. R. Carapaz (ECU) EF Ed. – EasyPost +54
10. Santiago Buitrago (COL) B. Victorious +1:41

11. S. Kuss (USA) Visma – Lease a Bike +1:44 Overall leaders

12. Enric Mas (ESP) Movistar Team 28:34:03

13. P. Roglic (SLO) RB – BORA - hansgrohe +1:18
14. Felix Gall (AUT) Decathlon CMA CGM +1:39
15. O. Onley (GBR) Netcompany INEOS +2:20
16. R. Carapaz (ECU) EF Ed. – EasyPost +3:26
17. Mattias Skjelmose (DEN) Lidl – Trek +3:55
18. Sepp Kuss (USA) Visma – Lease a Bike +4:09 King of the Mountains

Points leaders

1. Santiago Buitrago (COL) Bah. Victorious 29
2. Enric Mas (ESP) Movistar Team 24
3. Andreas Leknessund (NOR) Uno-X Mob. 19
4. Wout van Aert (BEL) Visma – Lease a Bike 16

5. Lorenzo Fortunato (ITA) XDS Astana 13 Points leaders

6. W.van Aert (BEL) Visma – Lease a Bike 124

7. M.Brennan (GBR) Visma – Lease a Bike 67
8. Alessandro Romele (ITA) XDS Astana 59
9. Mads Pedersen (DEN) Lidl – Trek 58

10. Ethan Hayter (GBR) Soudal Quick-Step 57 Team classification

11. Decathlon CMA CGM Team (FRA) 85:59:01

12. Netcompany INEOS (GBR) +42:30
13. Team Visma – Lease a Bike (NED) +49:34
14. XDS Astana Team (KAZ) +50:12
15. EF Education – EasyPost (USA) +51:56
16. Groupama – FDJ United (FRA) +52:36
17. Movistar Team (FSP) +56:55

7. Movistar Team (ESP) +56:55 8. Bahrain Victorious (RPN) +1:

8. Bahrain Victorious (BRN) +1:02:50
9. UAE Team Emirates - XRG (UAE) +1:13:24
10. Soudal Quick-Step (BEL) +1:21:20

11. Lidl - Trek (GER) +1:34:09

12. RB – BORA - hansgrohe (GER) +1:37:44

13. NSN Cycling Team (SUI) +1:38:29
14. Burgos Burpellet BH (ESP) +1:41:26
15. Tudor Pro Cycling Team (SUI) +1:43:54
16. Pinarello – Q36.5 Pro Cycling (SUI) +1:51:17
17. Uno-X Mobility (NOR) +1:59:21
18. Equipo Kern Pharma (ESP) +2:01:51
19. Lotto Intermarché (BEL) +2:09:30
20. Team Jayco AIUla (AUS) +2:11:28

21. Cofidis (FRA) +2:21:26

Youth classification

1. O. Onley (GBR) Netcompany INEOS 28:36:23
2. Jakob Omrzel (SLO) Bah. Victorious +5:45
3. Jarno Widar (BEL) Lotto Intermarché +7:14
4. L. Bisiaux (FRA) Decathlon CMA CGM +11:31
5. MatT Riccitello (USA) Dec. CMA CGM +13:16

DEALS

National Football League

ATLANTA FALCONS – CB Clark Phillips III traded to Chicago Bears w/ pick for DT Gervon Dexter Sr.. DT Gervon Dexter Sr. traded for CB Clark Phillips III and 2027 pick. BUFFALO BILLS – C Sedrick Von Pran Granger

BUFFALO BILLS – C Sedrick Van Pran-Granger traded to Indianapolis Colts w/ pick for 2027 sixth-round draft pick.

CHICAGO BEARS – DT Gervon Dexter Sr. traded to Atlanta Falcons for CB Clark Phillips III and 2027 pick. CB Clark Phillips III traded w/ pick for DT Gervon Dexter Sr..

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS – TE Hunter Long traded to Arizona Cardinals w/ pick for 2028 sixth-round draft pick.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS – T Broderick Jones traded to Dallas Cowboys w/ pick for 2027 3rd- and 6th-rond picks.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Saturday's Scores

East Robert Morris 28, Wagner 7 UC Davis 31, Portland State 24 Virginia 34, North Carolina State 8 Lehigh 35, Holy Cross 10 Bryant 24, Stonehill 6 Norfolk State 56, Winston-Salem State 0 Hampton 45, Virginia-Lynchburg 0 Morgan State 17, North Carolina A&T 7 Richmond 35, Bucknell 14 Western Carolina 45, Eastern Kentucky 21 Howard 31, Alabama A&M 24 Southeast Alabama State 30, Southern University 17 Campbell 49, ETSU 37 South Carolina State 87, Savannah State 0 Wofford 42, Citadel 14 Florida State 34, New Mexico State 17 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 35, Morehouse 15 Tennessee Tech 38, Monmouth 14 North Alabama 22, Samford 10 Stephen F. Austin 38, McNeese 27 Florida A&M 20, Albany State 7 Grambling State 49, Clark Atlanta 7 Alcorn State 56, Miles 7 Mercer 23, East Texas A&M 15 Jackson State 26, Tennessee State 24 Midwest Dayton 43, Fairmont State 20 Butler 27, Georgetown (KY) 23 South Dakota 59, Central Connecticut St. 20 Valparaiso 59, Lawrence Tech 13 North Dakota State 33, Jacksonville State 7 Southeast Missouri State 23, Indiana State 21 Eastern Michigan 28, Sacramento State 17 South Dakota State 70, Stetson 7 Illinois State 76, St. Francis (IL) 0 West North Carolina 15, TCU 10 USC 42, San Jose State 26 Northern Arizona 34, Eastern Washington 27 Idaho State 38, VMI 10 Stanford 37, Hawaii 27 Texas Southern 42, North Carolina Central 30 Lamar 21, Abilene Christian 14 UIW 76, Panhandle State 14

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TODAY'S FORECAST

Afternoon thunderstorms will pop up from Nebraska through New York today. Any thunderstorms that continue into the night across Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin will be capable of producing locally damaging wind gusts. High pressure spanning the Ohio Valley will promote excessive heat and humidity from Texas to the mid-Atlantic, though pop-up thunderstorms in the Southeast may limit temperatures during the afternoon.

On the other side of the nation, thunderstorms, some heavy, across the Rockies may bring locally damaging wind gusts and flash flooding.

Dry and breezy conditions will result in an elevated fire risk in Nevada, Northern California and Oregon, while a storm will move into the Northwest at night, spreading rain across the area.

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EXTREMES

HOTTEST: 115° El Centro, Calif. COLDEST: 33° Lakeview, Ore.

MON Stray t-storm 92/74 TUE Mostly sunny 96/74 WED Sunny spells 96/74

MON Stray t-shower 90/72 TUE Some sun, hot 98/74 WED Hot, humid 98/75

U.S. CITIES TODAY TUE

Akron, Ohio	86/70pc	89/73pc
Albany, N.Y.	79/67t	79/67t
Albuquerque	92/67t	90/67t
Allentown, Pa.	81/67pc	86/70t
Amarillo, Texas	98/69s	97/72s
Anaheim, Calif.	89/66pc	89/64s
Anchorage, Alaska	57/42pc	59/43s
Aspen, Colo.	69/50t	72/46t
Atlantic City, N.J.	81/74sh	87/76c
Augusta, Ga.	92/69t	96/72t
Austin, Texas	98/74s	100/76s
Bakersfield, Calif.	95/60s	88/60s
Baton Rouge, La.	90/75t	92/73t
Billings, Mont.	82/56s	84/59pc
Birmingham, Ala.	93/73pc	96/74pc
Bismarck, N.D.	86/51s	78/56pc
Boise, Idaho	89/66s	85/59pc
Buffalo, N.Y.	76/70sh	82/69t
Burlington, Vt.	78/60pc	73/65r
Cedar Rapids, Iowa	89/71t	91/69t
Charleston, S.C.	87/74t	91/75t
Charleston, W.Va.	92/69s	93/69s
Cheyenne, Wyo.	79/57t	80/56s

TUE T-storms 72/64 WED Rain 72/67

MON Stray t-storm 86/78 TUE Stray t-storm 89/77 WED T-storms 91/77

MON Party sunny 94/73 TUE Sunny, warm 96/74 WED Very hot 98/74

MON Showers 80/70 TUE A.P.M. t-storm 85/72 WED T-storm 81/72

	TODAY	TUE
Cincinnati	93/71s	94/71s
Cleveland	85/73pc	87/74pc
Colorado Springs	81/58t	84/60t
Columbia, S.C.	93/72t	95/73s
Columbus, Ohio	90/71c	93/71pc
Corpus Christi, Texas	98/77t	98/78s
Dayton, Ohio	90/71pc	92/72s
Daytona Beach, Fla.	87/76t	88/77t
Des Moines, Iowa	91/73t	95/73pc
Duluth, Minn.	80/58pc	82/58pc
Durham, N.C.	95/71s	98/72s
El Paso, Texas	99/76s	99/76pc
Fairbanks, Alaska	52/39c	52/38c
Flagstaff, Ariz.	68/50t	73/51t
Fargo, N.D.	86/56s	85/60pc
Fort Myers, Fla.	93/76t	89/77t
Fort Smith, Ark.	103/76s	102/77s
Fort Wayne, Ind.	89/69h	91/69s
Fresno, Calif.	94/58s	84/58s
Grand Rapids, Mich.	84/70sh	87/71t
Green Bay, Wis.	88/65t	89/67t
Greensboro, N.C.	93/72pc	95/74s
Greenville, S.C.	93/70pc	96/71s
Harrisburg, Pa.	84/70pc	93/71pc

MON Showers around 90/75 TUE Stray t-storm 91/75 WED Hot, humid 95/74 AQI Moderate

ORLANDO

MON T-storm 89/76 TUE T-storm 88/76 WED T-storms 90/77

MON - Sunny, hot 101/80 TUE - Sunny, hot 99/80 WED - Sunny, hot 99/79 AQI Moderate

PHILADELPHIA

MON A P.M. shower 86/73 TUE Humid 94/74 WED Stray t-storm 93/73

DENVER

MON T-storms 85/60 TUE Mostly sunny 84/61 WED Mostly sunny 88/59 AQI Moderate

	TODAY	TUE
Hartford, Conn.	82/67sh	78/64t
Indianapolis	92/71pc	95/73s
Islip, N.Y.	79/70sh	83/71t
Jackson, Miss.	95/74pc	96/75t
Jacksonville, Fla.	86/74t	88/75t
Jefferson City, Mo.	99/72pc	97/75s
Kansas City	99/74t	101/78s
Key West, Fla.	90/83r	90/82t
Knoxville, Tenn.	92/71s	95/72pc
Laredo, Texas	106/79s	106/79s
Lexington, Ky.	93/72s	95/73s
Lincoln, Neb.	92/69t	96/72pc
Little Rock, Ark.	98/76s	98/76s
Long Beach, Calif.	86/67pc	83/67s
Louisville, Ky.	95/75s	98/77s
Lubbock, Texas	96/73s	96/72s
Madison, Wis.	88/69t	87/70t
Manchester, N.H.	82/62s	71/61t
Memphis, Tenn.	97/79s	98/79pc
Milwaukee	90/74t	86/72t
Mobile, Ala.	90/74t	90/73t
Modesto, Calif.	86/55s	79/57s
Montgomery, Ala.	95/73t	95/73t
Myrtle Beach, S.C.	87/73t	89/74t

PHOENIX

MON Stray t-storm 95/80 TUE Stray t-storm 103/85 WED Very warm 104/84 AQI Moderate

86/72 TUE Hot, humid 88/72 WED Stray t-storm 96/72 AQI Moderate

SALT LAKE CITY

MON Stray t-storm 83/63 TUE Stray t-storm 85/67 WED Breezy 84/59

	TODAY	TUE
Nags Head, N.C.	84/73s	88/75pc
Nashville, Tenn.	95/73s	98/76pc
Newark, N.J.	80/72sh	87/74t
New Haven, Conn.	78/69sh	80/70t
Norfolk, Va.	92/75s	94/76pc
Oakland, Calif.	68/59pc	71/59pc
Oklahoma City	101/73s	100/74s
Omaha, Neb.	92/71t	95/73pc
Palm Springs, Calif.	105/78s	103/80s
Pensacola, Fla.	88/76t	89/75t
Pierre, S.D.	86/62pc	81/62t
Pittsburgh	85/72pc	90/72t
Portland, Maine	76/59s	68/59r
Portland, Ore.	84/60pc	75/59pc
Providence, R.I.	79/66sh	74/64t
Raleigh, N.C.	94/74pc	97/75pc
Rapid City, S.D.	91/60pc	83/59t
Reno, Nev.	87/58s	79/51s
Richmond, Va.	94/74pc	98/74s
Rochester, N.Y.	74/68t	81/68t
Sacramento, Calif.	81/57s	76/55pc
San Antonio	99/78s	100/76s
San Jose, Calif.	73/60pc	74/59pc
Santa Fe, N.M.	88/59t	84/56t

MON Showers around 89/76
TUE A P.M. shower 89/77
WED A few showers 90/76

MON Stray t-storm 96/78 TUE T-storms 87/77 WED Stray t-storm 92/78 AQI Moderate

MON Humid 81/69

MON Humid 81/69 TUE Mostly sunny 80/68 WED Mostly sunny 79/68 AQI Moderate

MON Breezy 70/60 TUE Showers around 71/57 WED Breezy 73/58

AQI Good

	TODAY	TUE
Sarasota, Fla.	91/76t	87/75t
Savannah, Ga.	90/74t	91/74t
Scottsdale, Ariz.	94/77t	99/80t
Shreveport, La.	98/77pc	99/76pc
Sioux Falls, S.D.	90/63pc	87/66t
South Bend, Ind.	90/72pc	91/71pc
Spokane, Wash.	80/56pc	85/54pc
Springfield, Mo.	101/73s	98/76s
Springfield, Ill.	95/71pc	98/73s
St. Louis	99/76pc	101/79pc
St. Petersburg, Fla.	92/76t	90/76t
Syracuse, N.Y.	77/68t	81/68t
Tallahassee, Fla.	94/75t	92/74t
Tampa, Fla.	91/77t	90/79t
Toledo, Ohio	88/72pc	91/71pc
Topeka, Kan.	101/75t	100/76s
Tucson, Ariz.	89/71t	94/72t
Tupelo, Miss.	94/73pc	98/74pc
Tulsa, Okla.	102/78s	102/78s
Virginia Beach, Va.	88/75s	91/77pc
Wichita, Kan.	104/75s	102/74s
Wilmington, Del.	85/70pc	92/73pc
Winston-Salem, N.C.	92/72s	95/73s
Worcester, Mass.	78/63s	69/60t

LAS VEGAS

MON Mostly sunny 99/76
TUE Mostly sunny 98/78
WED Clouding up 96/75
AOL Good

LOS ANGELES

MON Some sun 87/66 TUE Mostly sunny 84/64 WED Mostly sunny 85/66

MON Partly sunny 76/55 TUE Clearing 74/57 WED Rain, cooler 66/53 AQI Good

MON Stray t-shower 92/76 TUE Very hot 98/79 WED Very hot 99/77 AQI Moderate

WORLD CITIES

	TODAY	TUE
Beijing	87/63s	86/61s
Buenos Aires	64/51s	62/53pc
Cancun, Mexico	94/76t	95/75r
Dubai, UAE	107/90s	106/92s
Frankfurt	73/55sh	75/53pc
Hong Kong	87/79sh	88/79r
Istanbul	85/70s	86/70s
Jerusalem	84/67s	87/69s
Johannesburg	74/50h	78/51h
London	72/53pc	73/57pc
Mexico City	76/57sh	74/58r
Montreal	75/59s	71/63r
Moscow	73/57pc	77/60c
Mumbai, India	89/81r	87/80r
Paris	75/57r	74/55pc
Rio de Janeiro	81/74pc	80/68r
Rome	91/67s	91/66s
Seoul	75/72sh	82/73sh
Singapore	91/81t	92/81sh
Sydney	71/52pc	81/62s
Toronto	73/68sh	84/70t
Tokyo	86/76c	89/77pc

'There will be a next'

Karl Ravech says goodbye to ESPN booth, Little League World Series

Karl Ravech has worked as an anchor and broadcaster for ESPN since 1993. BRETT DAVIS/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT

Stephen Borelli USA TODAY

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, PA – It all started for Karl Ravech in Needham, Massachusetts, before and after dinner, on fields and courts with friends, playing what he calls “runaround sports.”

“I get asked, ‘How’d you get into broadcasting?’ ” Ravech says. “And a lot of people got into broadcasting because they watched the event and wanted to emulate a broadcaster. That was never me. I was outside running around.”

It will end, at least for now, in this picturesque setting where 12-year-olds are doing pretty much the same thing at an event Ravech has called for 21 years.

“ESPN treated me really well,” he tells USA TODAY Sports. “I got a chance to cover the major league World Series for two decades, College World Series I’ve called for a long time, and Little League World Series. So I see it at every level, and I always say Little League is my favorite event because there’s just so much joy associated. It’s the fun of the sport, which is what it’s intended to be.

"It's playing with your pals that you grew up with, you go to school with. It's sportsmanship, it's not do or die, nobody's gonna get fired. Nobody's gonna get let go because they didn't make a play. You're still learning, you're still impressionable at that age."

Ravech is now 61, and after 33 years of entering living rooms and dens and devices around the world broadcasting sports, he expects Sunday's Little League championship game between Nevada and Curaçao on ABC will be his last with the network. He was part of ESPN's layoffs last month.

“Given the opportunities that I’ve had, to cover the events that I’ve had, to be so associated with a sport, the idea that I got to ESPN in 1993 and I’m sitting here in 2026, and apparently looking for work elsewhere, I’m not nearly as attractive as an employee if I didn’t have all the experiences,” he says. “I just learned so much about so many people, worked with incredible teammates.”

Ravech spoke with us about his career and shared his thoughts on youth sports, which he has developed a passion for as a broadcaster and dad.

Authenticity is ‘most important,’ as a broadcaster and as a parent

Ravech says he has always tried to be the same person as he is on your screen.

"Authenticity is the most important characteristic of any broadcaster," he says. "I've never been a shtick person, and I think people appreciate that side of it. ... We're condiments to the meal. A steak is what you're coming to eat. And that's the role and goal to me of a play-by-play guy. This thing has afforded me the opportunity to just interact with people, to meet people, to cover a game that I love, respect the people that are involved in it, never be too judgmental about anybody because you learn when it comes to a pitching change, whether it's Little League baseball, college or Major League Baseball, (coaches) know their players a lot better than I do and the fans do."

The task gets trickier to restrict yourself from influencing the story as a parent observing your kid play. We want to be part of coaches' decision-making and we challenge them – sometimes loudly - when they make decisions that don't benefit our child.

There are exceptions, of course, but many coaches grow to learn their teams, and their interactions with your kids can be life altering if you give them a chance.

Ravech has two sons, Sam, 31, and Max, 26. Sam has followed him into broadcasting. In his office, he has a picture of Max and him at the Little League World Series when his younger son was 8 or 9.

“Sam came up to visit earlier this week and Max is coming up over the weekend to be here,” Ravech says. “So I’m grateful they’re coming up. They said, ‘Should we come, would you like us to come?’ My first reaction is you don’t need to do that. They’ve seen me do the TV thing, but I realized to share in what very well may be the last Little League World Series, it means something to them. They know it means something to me.”

He treasures how when he hosted “Baseball Tonight” and they were boys, his program didn’t start until 10 p.m. ET. Their Little League games often started at 6 or 7. He would leave the studio after the production meeting in the Connecticut studios and still make their baseball and soccer games.

He could make every one of them on the weekends.

“I didn’t live vicariously through them because I played sports as a youngster,” he says, “but boy, I respect and love the love and the pride that parents have watching their kids perform. I would just guard them against living their life through their kids. This is their journey. Let them experience their journey, let them make choices, don’t force them into a sport just because you played it. They’re smart enough to let you know when they’re 9, 10, 11 like, wow, I can see Max really likes lacrosse. Max really likes soccer. Max may not like baseball or basketball. That’s on them.

"I love seeing parents that have their heart and their head in the right place."

Finding community in locker room, and outside television studio

As he started out as a television reporter and anchor in Binghamton, New York, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and then moved to ESPN in 1993, Ravech grew to love the clubhouse culture of sports.

“That’s probably one of the great aspects of being in the job that I’ve been in is when you get to see the way that kids, young adults, and grown men get along once you’re inside a clubhouse, and their willingness to accept the differences, their willingness to deal with language barriers, their willingness to accept some guys have bad days, and that’s OK and we’re gonna lift them up,” he says. “That spirit about men, I think, we can do a better job of as male parents.”

He started out as an overnight “SportsCenter” anchor, with co-hosts like Craig Kilborn, Steve Levy, Mike Tirico, Gary Miller and Linda Cohn. He did it at 2 or 2:30 a.m. ET to serve the West Coast. He fed off the camaraderie of his colleagues but would come to realize he was taking the relationship with his audience for granted when he was in the studio.

“You’re inside a box with three camera people, two analysts, a researcher, and that’s it,” he says. “So, the intimacy of the room is sort of who you think you’re appealing to, talking to, performing to. You never consider the millions of people over that length of time that are actually watching.”

He started to realize, as his career went on and he got out to travel all over the country and to Australia, Scotland, South Korea and other places, that “it is a full supermarket of unbelievable experiences with people that I truly love doing exactly what I love.”

It's come full circle for him since ESPN's high-profile layoffs this summer. ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro said in an all-staff memo, obtained by USA

TODAY Sports, that most of the job cuts are a result of its acquisition of the NFL Network.

"I think the suddenness of it, the way that it went down, shocked a lot of people," Ravech says. "It surprised me, but again, it's the nature of the business, which is ever-changing, and I've been incredibly touched and have an enormous amount of gratitude for those people who have been willing to reach out, whether it's via text, email, social media or certainly here in person.

"I've gotten some amazing phone calls and voicemails from people that I didn't expect to get it from. So it's really heartwarming. I hope my boys look at the comments and it's not just about your broadcasting ability. It's about who you are as a person."

During the MLB Little League Classic on Aug. 23 at Bowman Field in Williamsport, the Braves' Chris Sale and Brewers' Garrett Mitchell offered on-air messages that told Ravech, in his words, "I know this is painful, but thank-you."

"The idea that they're willing to kind of put their arm around somebody, who they become, I guess, intimate with only through a screen, on a TV or a phone or an iPad, is really wonderful," he says.

The weekend has come full circle at Lamade Stadium, which hosts the Little League World Series. It traces back to those days in the boxy studio in Bristol, Connecticut, when it felt like he was only with his colleagues.

“Every time I’ve left Lamade Stadium, there are people who are hugging me and taking pictures and saying, ‘It’s not gonna be the same,’ and how much they’re gonna miss me,” he says. “My wife, to her credit has said, ‘Look, it’s OK to take your flowers and listen to what they’re saying, ’cause these people sincerely mean it.’ None of that stuff ever occurred to me, but I also never thought it would be over in 2026. I thought I’d be coming back for years to come.”

You play the long game, and you earn respect

Ravech has a podcast called Dirt From The Dugout in which he discusses youth sports issues with sports figures. He is passionate about kids not specializing in sports before age 13, and how being a star when you're really young doesn't necessitate you'll be one when you're 15.

"I think a lot of the older folks love to kind of live vicariously through them," he says. "And I think they sort of use their experiences as a way to hope that the present and future for youth sports is as pure as it was when they played, and clearly that's not the case.

"I think the parents are caught between a rock and a hard place. I don't necessarily think it's their fault, but I think that they're drinking the Kool-Aid on 'you have to get involved in these travel teams and select teams if you want your child to maybe play beyond youth sports.'

"I would argue that's not the case. I've seen enough kids start at a young age being really good athletes. And if you're that good, those good teams will find you. Now, the argument's gonna be, well, 'The better way to create it is to get involved with these travel teams.' To me, you should play with your friends, you should play with your schoolmates, you should play with your neighbors until you're 12.

"If you take the joy out of youth sports, you can conceivably poison a kid's mind as they grow older and you just never want to do that. Make sure it's fun."

Ravech played baseball and tennis as a kid, then basketball and soccer through high school. He would “slam dinner down” and go back out and play sports.

He has wanted to be a part of the Little League World Series because watching it, with a friend, a child or grandchild, stimulates stories about the best parts of sports.

He says he could involve himself in youth sports more as a messenger about the tone we need to take with it as parents. We don't always have to be so serious.

"All of the things that appeal to me about sports, more so than some of the stuff going on now at the professional and collegiate level, is why I would always love to come to Williamsport to see what these kids are doing," he says. "And the beautiful part is that this is an international event with the international language of baseball."

Ravech was going to soak it all in one last time Sunday before he decides what he will do next.

"I haven't given too much thought to it," he says. "It's a little fresh, and I'll be honest with you, there's a part of me that, at least in the short term, can get behind the idea of you've just worked 33 straight years and you ended up, certainly, on the latter half, traveling all over the place. So, the idea of not seeing an airport appeals to me.

"But it's contrasted by the idea of not seeing Jimmy Dykes or a Kyle Peterson and Chris Burke, and I'm limiting it just 'cause I'm kind of randomly throwing names out, but not being around them. ... I'll miss the people I love and the work that I love, but I'm looking forward to a little break. There will be a next."

Steve Borelli, aka Coach Steve, has been an editor and writer with USA TODAY since 1999. He played baseball in high school, rowed in college and spent 10 years coaching his two sons' baseball and basketball teams. He and his wife, Colleen, are now sports parents to a college and high school baseball player. His Coach Steve column is posted weekly at usatoday.com/sports

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Leanne Morgan's big dreams are coming true

Erin Jensen USA TODAY

Leanne Morgan's star continues to ascend. But two days before her titular sitcom unveiled Season 2 on Netflix, the comedian, who drips sweetness from her mouth like a maple syrup bottle, insists “nothing’s changed” since achieving her newfound level of fame. • “Chuck Morgan’s not going let us buy anything,” she tells USA TODAY of her famously frugal husband, often mentioned in her stand-up act. “I am going to the grocery store. I go to Costco. I’m still doing my laundry. I love doing laundry. I feel like everything’s the same. I really do.”

For about 25 years, Morgan, 60, chipped away at success, performing consistently in comedy clubs, corporate events and fundraisers while raising three children. When she was 57, sitcom sage Chuck Lorre visited her Tennessee home and pitched a series. He was inspired by Morgan's bit about a friend going through a divorce and returning to the dating pool, which is included in her first Netflix special, "I'm Every Woman," released in 2023.

“I dreamed big, but I never knew it was going to be this big,” Morgan says.

Season 1 of “Leanne” premiered in July 2025. Since then, Morgan has completed a second 10-episode installment (now streaming); was named one of The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment; released a second Netflix special, with a third on the way; and embarked on The Time of Our Lives Tour, which continues through January.

"I couldn't sell 12 tickets, and now I'm doing arenas, and that's crazy," Morgan says.

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Harry Styles blossoms at his Garden party

Melissa Ruggieri USA TODAY

NEW YORK – Harry Styles has always represented proud individuality.

He also has been known to rock a feather boa and sequins.

So of course the earnest pop superstar took a few moments toward the end of his lively Together, Together residency debut at Madison Square Garden to pay tribute to Dolly Parton, who died days earlier on Aug. 25.

After a sincere discourse about his appreciation of his fans and band (always applaud an artist who takes time to applaud his stage crew), Styles thanked the musicians who have influenced him, raised his arm in a semi-salute and said, "We love you, Dolly."

But there would be no attempt at a cover song or speechifying about Parton's legacy. Instead, Styles stepped into the shadows to allow Parton's emotion-soaked warble to blast through the arena as "I Will Always Love You" evoked all the feels.

The homage paired poignantly with Styles' "Sign of the Times," his breakthrough solo hit from nearly a decade ago that remains a ruminative anchor of his catalog.

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Styles shakes up the staging

But for the previous 90 minutes, Styles, 32, riveted with a combination of the hypnotic beats that power the current “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” an album overflowing with steady thumps best appreciated live, and the poppier tracks from his three other solo albums.

The Aug. 26 show marked the first of 30 sold-out concerts Styles will play at the famous venue. The accomplishment did not escape him as he gazed across the audience with emotion-filled eyes and joked that the best thing about New York is “you can get a slice of pizza any time of night.”

Styles already is one of only three artists to earn a permanent banner hanging from the rafters of MSG (Billy Joel and Phish are the others). He achieved the distinction in 2022 after his 15-show Love on Tour run at the venue.

These New York shows are the only U.S. dates on his Together, Together tour, and Styles and his team adroitly modified the stadium production that dazzled Amsterdam, London and Mexico City.

Lessons were learned from the original staging, a behemoth with parallel catwalks designed with good intentions to allow fans the freedom to roam beneath the raised platforms. Instead, the height caused obstructed sight lines, and modifications were quickly employed.

For the arena version of the tour, Styles and his airtight band, led by fan-favorite drummer Sarah Jones, are situated in the center of an oval.

But Styles took full advantage of the

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At last, ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ is on the docket

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The new Looney Tunes movie “Coyote vs. Acme” features a bunch of familiar faces and names: Wile E. Coyote, of course, his old nemesis the Road Runner, plus icons Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, among many others.

The one returning guy even hardcore fans might not expect? Cartoon Peter Lorre.

Lorre isn't just a member of the old-school Looney Tunes gang – he was a real dude, a character actor from such classic films as “The Maltese Falcon” and “Casablanca” who also made animated appearances in 1940s and '50s cartoon shorts. Lorre being in “Coyote vs. Acme” (now in theaters) is part of the movie's all-star nostalgia trip – one that almost didn't come to pass when the film was shelved as a tax write-off three years ago.

A live-action/animation project akin to “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?,” “Coyote vs. Acme” centers on the scheming and silent title character who has fruitlessly been using defective contraptions made by the powerful Acme corporation for several decades now. Wile E. hires ambulance-chasing New Mexico attorney Kevin Avery (Will Forte) to sue Acme, and the company’s head honcho, Foghorn Leghorn, meets them in court with his own resident counsel, Kevin’s old rival Buddy Crane (John Cena).

Based in part on a 1990 New Yorker humor article exploring whether Wile E. had a legal leg to stand on against the infamous gadget manufacturer, “Coyote vs. Acme” is as influenced by “Roger Rabbit” as “A Few Good Men,” “Erin Brockovich” and “The Insider,” says director Dave Green. “When you look back at ‘Roger Rabbit,’ the absolute miracle of that film is that it’s equally smart and stupid. You’ve got cartoon-mania that is told through the lens of a film noir, and it’s that balance of ingredients that makes it work. So we really try to carry the torch of those inspirations.”

Like Wile E., the filmmakers of "Coyote vs. Acme" probably could have used a good lawyer. Warner Bros.

dropped the proverbial anvil on everybody's heads and put the completed film on ice as a cost-cutting measure in November 2023. It sparked a public backlash, people in Hollywood championed its release, and last year the film was acquired for release by Ketchup Entertainment.

Lana Condor, who plays Kevin's intern/niece Paige, was in Japan when she received what she calls the “absolutely devastating” news that the movie had been shelved. “I had a really hard time understanding that,” she says. Forte also acknowledges feeling as though he were on “an emotional roller coaster” when he heard the news: “It was confusing, and it was nuts.”

Cena, on the other hand, took it in stride because of the perspective he gained from 20-plus years as a pro wrestler. “Your segment can get cut, your time can get cut, your opponent can change, expectations change until it’s real, until it’s live,” he says. “So I guess maybe I’ve lived that: Don’t take this for granted.”

The release of "Coyote vs. Acme" isn't just a rousing comeback for the movie, it also is a major reintroduction of the Looney Tunes crew. Though Mickey Mouse and Co. have multiple theme parks and Pixar characters have various franchise movies, Bugs and his buddies have been relatively quiet on the pop-culture front since the LeBron James-starring sequel "Space Jam: A New Legacy" five years ago.

They've always been the underdog in a way. When Looney Tunes and its companion "Merrie Melodies" series started in the 1930s, they were designed to be "the counterpoint" to Disney's "Silly Symphonies," Green says. "They were the cheaper, edgier, more subversive, more irreverent wicked stepchild to what Disney was doing across the street. They were 'The Simpsons' of the time."

Growing up in the early 1990s, Looney Tunes shorts “informed my sense of humor,” the director says. Forte was definitely a fan as a kid in the ’70s and remembers being “very emotional” seeing himself alongside these characters. “They’re a bunch of buddies. I get to be in this movie with them? It was the cool-

est."

"Coyote vs. Acme" also struck a soft spot for Cena, who watched the Looney Tunes gang as a child in small-town New England. "If you have any history, you're gonna be impressed with some of the inside baseball we put in there," he says. "But if you're a first-time viewer, you're going to suspend disbelief and go on the ride, just like anybody else."

Condor, whose parents and grandparents introduced her to Looney Tunes when she was a girl, fell in love with the characters more making the movie and is curious to see her nieces and nephews' reactions to it.

“Keeping nostalgia alive and keeping the things that brought huge communities joy and hope, and lasted throughout the test of time, is something that we should keep bringing to the forefront of our art,” Condor says.

She points to Wile E., “a character that just simply never gives up.”

“Yes, we hear it all the time: ‘Don’t give up, don’t give up.’ But that alone is such a powerful, important message, and a freaking coyote taught us that.”

Morgan

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“And then the television part – even though it’s hard and I had to learn a lot, and I’m still learning a lot – it feels right to me. It feels like I’m where I’m supposed to be. I’m thankful. But it’s just bigger and sweeter than anything I ever dreamed of.”

Morgan also acted with Glen Powell – "the yummiest, sweetest, most down-to-earth, precious person that you would ever even dream of," she says – in "The Comeback King," directed by Judd Apatow, in theaters in February.

“[Apatow] said, ‘Leanne, I’ll help you with this hour. I could go open for you,’ ” Morgan says. “I go, ‘Open for me?’ Judd Apatow!”

Morgan says every day she's amazed that she's on the radar of such well-knowns.

"Somebody told me that Mariah Carey was watching me on the movie that I did with Reese Witherspoon ['You're Cordially Invited'] and was laughing," Morgan says. "The guy that does my hair in New York knows her makeup artist, and she said, 'Tell Leanne that Mariah is a big fan.' And I went, 'What?!' I have danced to Mariah in a club, doing things I shouldn't have been doing. But I could not even believe it. Can you believe that? Mariah Carey!"

'I don't want to get old': Morgan's concerns about aging

Season 2 of “Leanne” opens with its leading lady, who separated from her husband, Bill Murphy (Ryan Stiles), nearly one year ago after his affair, worrying about turning 60. She schedules a consultation with a plastic surgeon to inquire about a little refresh.

Morgan says she also thinks about aging and wonders about procedures.

“Every day I think: ‘Should I get my eyes done? This is awful creepy looking. What about my neck?’” she says. “And then I think, ‘No.’ And then I think, ‘Should I?’ I go every day thinking something about aging. ... My baby child was here helping me get on [video chat for the interview], and I think, ‘Oh, I don’t want to get old, and I don’t know how to work anything.’”

“So much of Leanne is me,” she says. “I’ll be 61 in October, but I feel good. And look at what’s happened! I’ve got a television show!”

Leanne Morgan would like to see more of Tim Daly, who plays her character's boyfriend, if "Leanne" is renewed for a third season.
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Leanne Morgan wants more of Tim Daly on 'Leanne'

Andrew, Leanne's hunky FBI boyfriend played by Tim Daly, appears less in Season 2, which gives Leanne an opportunity to explore life on her own.

"I love my little Tim Daly, honey. I could eat his lips off," Morgan says. "We never, in the first season, let her be her and be who she's supposed to be after taking care of everybody else in her family. So I do think that was a good thing [for Daly's character to appear less in Season 2]. But yes, I want my boyfriend back."

If Netflix orders a third season, Morgan says, filming will resume in January.

“But I won’t know for 30 days. I’ll wring my hands and walk the floors for 30 days,” she says. “But if it doesn’t happen, it’s OK, I’ve had a ball. But if it does happen, I’d be tickled, too.”

Tyne Daly and Lainey Wilson appear in 'Leanne' Season 2

Daly's sister, Emmy Award-winning actress Tyne Daly, makes a cameo in the show's latest installment.

“She came to see a taping in the first season,” Morgan says. “And we all were in awe of her. So I bet they said, ‘Would you ever come back and do this?’ And she agreed to do it.”

Morgan and Lainey Wilson are friends, she says, and former opponents on “Family Feud.” Morgan and her brood beat Wilson’s team in the episode that aired on Sept. 11, 2025.

“And she’s never gotten over it,” Morgan jokes. “And then she came out to LA doing some big something” and was invited to the set. “She came by and they asked her – they got her in a room and probably, begged her – and then so she came on and was a natural.”

During the episode, Wilson, Morgan and her on-screen sister, Carol (Kristen Johnston), briefly belt out NSYNC's hit "Bye Bye Bye."

“We felt like ding-dongs singing up next to her,” Morgan reveals. “We had a ball doing that. Anytime there’s dancing, singing, I have a good time.”

Styles

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circular staging that alighted in a Crayola box of colors as he skedaddled around during the blissful horn bleats of “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” and grooved with a corded microphone during “Adore You.”

A halo screen hovered over the stage and offered close looks at Styles' sweat-flecked stubble, particularly during the honey-voiced "Carla's Song," which he played behind a keyboard, and the stringed beauty that is "Coming Up Roses" with its standout lyric "just for tonight, let's go hangover chasing."

Tour stays true to its name

Fans who either saw the tour at an international date or followed clips online likely relished Styles' decision to shake up the set list from the other shows.

Gone were “Golden,” “Fine Line,” “Italian Girls” and “Treat People With Kindness.” In were the frenetic “Kiwi,” a white-lights-pulsing full version of “Satellite” and the rapturously received “Carolina” and “Cinema.”

Styles, when not being effortlessly charming, wiggling like a disco line dancer or giddily lapping the stage for the melodically vibrant “As It Was,” indulged his electro-pop leanings as he dabbled behind a mixing board during “Cinema.”

As the show wound to its close after almost two hours, Styles again worked the boards, electronically conducting the throbbing powerline of a roof-shaking “Aperture.”

When “KATTDO” was released in March, Styles spoke often about the influence of the club scene and its convivial and welcoming vibe that changed his molecules.

That spirit is the guiding force of the Together, Together Tour, which Styles acknowledged with praise for his loving fans.

"This incredible community you guys have built over the years – that is not lost on me. What an honor it is to be a small part of it," he said. "It's so much bigger than me."

With that, Styles urged the crowd to take the love they share at his shows into the world – just like Dolly would have wanted.

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ACROSS 1 Mario Kart character with a mushroomlike head 5 __ Evolution (powerful Pokemon form) 9 Scorches 14 Just chillin' 15 Leap for Alysa Liu 16 Measurement of gold purity 17 Easy to understand 20 Payment to the IRS 21 Other, in Spanish 22 "Gotcha" 23 "Let me fix myself up before guests arrive" 26 Good ones are considered polite 28 Very serious 29 ____ Coladice (board game) 30 "Fine by me!" 31 Like Druidry and Wicca 33 Video segments 38 Particle physics concept 40 Prefix for "present" and "vore" 43 She liked a bad apple 44 Like a bad apple 45 Weaving devices 47 Fashion designer Saab 49 Alcohol made from rice 50 Silent ____ (parties with headphone-wearing dancers) 52 ____ car smell 54 Forest or coral reef 57 Hajj religion 62 Where you might keep snowboards and winter coats in July 65 Vulgar 66 DEA investigator 67 Elide 68 Mama in the Mamas & the Papas Answers: Call 1-900-988-8300,

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69 Machines in casinos 70 Aesthetic with black clothing

DOWN 1 "Quite so" 2 Poem of celebration 3 Lacking follow-through 4 Slander 5 At most 6 Convention center gatherings 7 Hanukkah coins 8 Causing worry 9 Precursor to reggae 10 Make dinner at home 11 Came to light 12 Less common 13 They're real eye sores 18 Off the hook 19 Bread often served with saag paneer 23 "The Pitt" actress Briones 24 "Greetings, fellow cow" 25 Drum set essential

27 Cheese-topped chip 29 Comic Con event 32 “_ it your best shot!” 34 “I say we go for it!” 35 Crumb 36 Class that might have circle time 37 “Auld Lang _” 38 Smartphone inser 39 It may grow up an branch out? 40 Antiquated 41 “You’re accusing me?!” 42 Absentees 46 Japanese noodle often served cold 48 Whole 51 Omens 53 Successor to the GameCube 55 Color in peacock feathers 56 Hairstyle for Angela Davis 58 Toil

59 Luxurious prom rental
60 Butting heads
61 "We only use $10\%$ of our brains," e.g.
62 Utah's capital (Abbr.)
63 Coffee alternative that's actually more likely to stain teeth
64 Trig ratio

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			9	2	5	8	7
		4			8	2	5
			7	4	1		6
4	7			5	9		1	8
	5			7			9
6	2		1	8			4	7
	6		5	3	4
	3	5	8			4
	4	8	6	9	2

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Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 (no repeats).

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1. Each row and column must contain the numbers 1 through 4 without repeating.

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Across Down 1. 8455243 1. 8455464 4. 5626 2. 532 5. 296 3. 47246 7. 693 6. 7373 9. 327 8. 9326 11. 3363763 10. 793

Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x2 box contains the numbers 1 through 6 (no repeats).

3. Freebies: fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

5	3	6	4	9	8	7	2	1
7	8	2	3	5	1	4	9	6
9	4	1	7	6	2	3	8	5
3	5	9	2	7	6	1	4	8
8	1	7	9	3	4	5	6	2
2	6	4	1	8	5	9	3	7
6	9	3	8	1	7	2	5	4
1	2	8	5	4	9	6	7	3
4	7	5	6	2	3	8	1	9

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2		3	6	4	5
6		4	3
	4		2	3
	6	2		5
		1	5		3
5	3	6	1		4

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2. The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

Find and Circle:
Three school subjects	□□□
Three seasons	□□□
Three eight-letter words	□□□
Three U.S. states	□□□
Three musical instruments	□□□

Friday's answer: LEMMING LEOPARD LLAMA LEMUR LION / BACON LETTUCE TOMATO / PENGUIN VULTURE OSTRICH / TWENTY THIRTY / EAST

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DMTDBTRSENIE

AUGHIOASCTRIM

VRJPTSELTEPM

EDSSNWQJIRSU

NOIAOREGONIS

HHKJSCIENCEP

2	5	1	4	6	3
3	6	4	5	2	1
5	4	6	1	3	2
1	2	3	6	5	4
4	3	5	2	1	6
6	1	2	3	4	5

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1. Nearby vicinity
2. Start of a phone number
3. Urgent warning
4. Indian Ocean inlet
5. Type of pinniped
6. 1994 animated film (with "The")
7. Skull Island monster

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Friday's Answer: "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin

7 LITTLE WORDS

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Find the 7 words to match the 7 clues. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of letters in each solution. Each letter combination can be used only once, but all letter combinations will be necessary to complete the puzzle.

CLUES	SOLUTIONS
1 not just (6)	____
2 frolicking (7)	____
3 understand by doing (10)	____
4 ablaze (7)	____
5 dress-up outfit (7)	____
6 most intelligent (8)	____
7 fishy pizza topping (9)	____

FRIDAY'S Jumbles: VERGE UNCLE MEDLEY VERBAL Answer: After repeated attacks on their hives, the honey-producing insects were — "BEE-LEAGUERED"
Friday's Answers: 1. TOTES 2. HABITS 3. CAREER 4. CONNECTICUT 5. CROQUET 6. OPALESCENT 7. SAMPRAS 8/29

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Enter the missing numbers from 1 to 16 without repetitions so that the sum of the four numbers in each row and column is the same as the corresponding circled number.

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ACROSS 1 Woolly creature 5 Froth 9 Cottage cheese morsel 13 Jacob's brother 14 Hearsay 16 — Minor 17 Shock 18 Poetic Muse 19 Portable shelter 20 Smooth and glossy 22 Cornhusker State 24 Sheep 25 Spring 26 Notched, as a knife 31 E.B.'s mouse 35 Pub drink 36 Saltpeter 38 Permit 39 "— that touch liquor ..." 41 Lid 43 Duration 44 Doughnut shape 46 Gold Rush's forty- — 48 Pollinating insect 49 Supplies 51 Spot 53 Arab ruler 55 Valuable rock

56 Silhouettes
60 Negligent
64 Hindu queen
65 Eschew
67 Swimming destination
68 Affirm
69 Put the ball in play
70 Lab burner
71 Mud
72 Wanton look
73 Coarse file

DOWN 1 Minus 2 Wine city in Italy 3 Handle roughly 4 Underground shelter 5 Feverish 6 “— Town” 7 “— — for All Seasons” 8 Roadside inn 9 Stone-hurling weapon 10 Employs 11 Skating area 12 Information 15 Flowing garments 21 Actor — McGregor 23 Pro — 26 Epsom — 27 George or T.S.

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28 Printer's proof
29 English school
30 Satan
32 Excuse
33 Tragic lover
34 Young person
37 "— 911!"
40 Foolproof
42 Simple flute
45 Partly (Prefix)
47 Hard to get
50 "— Marner"
52 Moderate
54 Take delight
56 Baby buggy

57 Sitar great — Shankar
58 Nonpareil
59 Achy
61 Jot
62 “— of Anarchy”
63 Strike
66 “— told every little star ...”

DOLLY PARTON 1946-2026

'Aunt Dolly' loomed large on 'Hannah Montana'

Parton was responsible for 'Hannah' 20th anniversary special

Kalia Richardson

Miley Cyrus' godmother, Dolly Parton appears with Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus in "Hannah Montana." She appeared in three episodes of the Disney Channel series. PROVIDED BY BYRON COHEN/DISNEY CHANNEL

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Dolly Parton led a decades-long career marked by sing-along country classics, diamond-encrusted attire and philanthropic efforts. But Disney Channel fans in the 2000s knew her as Aunt Dolly: the doting godmother of Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus) on “Hannah Montana.”

The “9 to 5” singer, who died Aug. 25 at age 80 after a private battle with cancer, appeared in three episodes across the show’s four-season run, playing a character whose kindness, witty idioms and well-timed dating advice helped shape Miley Stewart as she navigated her double life as pop star Hannah Montana.

Parton, an 11-time Grammy-winning artist, also lent her twang-laced soprano on episodes of “Hannah Montana,” harmonizing with Cyrus, her real-life goddaughter, on such tracks as “Who Said” and “True Friend.” Even episode titles, including “I Will Always Loathe You,” made nods to Parton’s remarkable discography.

Beyond her vocals, Parton flaunted her glamorous style in the series, with leopard-print capris, bedazzled denim jackets and pink-feathered coats. Cyrus' character even acknowledged in the first season that she modeled her Hannah Montana look after the music star.

Her presence loomed large, bringing joy, laughter and wisdom to “Hannah Montana” and to millions of fans who watched in their living rooms. To the show’s cocreator Barry O’Brien, she made everyone feel loved on and off set and inspired many.

“Dolly Parton was an incredible gift to ‘Hannah Montana,’ just as she was to the world,” O’Brien tells USA TODAY in a statement. “As Aunt Dolly, Miley Stewart’s godmother, she brought such genuine love and warmth to every moment in the show. Which was fitting, since she was Miley’s godmother in real life as well!”

'Hannah' stars remember Parton

Following Parton's death, Miley Cyrus, 33, paid tribute to her godmother, noting that their last conversation revolved around “music and metamorphosis.”

"The feeling of losing my Aunt Dolly is beyond what feels right to share," she wrote in an Instagram post, featuring a throwback image of Parton. "Our most sacred moments were private and they'll stay there behind the stage, beneath the glamour & between our hearts. What I KNOW is Dolly would want me to feel it, write a song about it, and then continue on and be strong."

The series also starred her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, as Miley Stewart's father, Robby, as well as Emily Osment and Mitchell Musso as Miley Stewart's close friends Lilly and Oliver. In a tribute post, Billy Ray Cyrus shared his love.

"In 1992, I'll never forget walking into her dressing room to apologize for all the tabloid stories which claimed I was having an affair with her," he said in an Instagram post. "In true Dolly fashion, she just looked at me, winked and said, 'Honey, this trash sells records!'"

Beyond tabloid hysteria, he also recalled a message she recently shared about how much she loved him. “I will always love her in the same way .... with my whole heart ... and I always will,” he added.

Osment, 34, recalls Parton's generosity and kindness.

“Even at 14, I knew how special it was to have the unique opportunity to work with someone so magical,” Osment tells USA TODAY in a statement. “We should all try to be a little more like Dolly.”

Similarly, Jason Earles, who played Miley's brother, posted a flashback photo on social media, expressing his gratitude and appreciation for Aunt Dolly, adding, "I'll always cherish the little time I got to spend with her."

Cody Linley, who played one of Miley Stewart's suitors, Jake, also spent screen time with Parton in Season 1, Episode 16, "Good Golly, Miss Dolly," where Aunt Dolly and Miley Stewart go undercover to retrieve a videotape from Jake. Linley still remembers when the late star showed him how to play a 1968 classic from The Beatles.

“Dolly lit up the room every time she came on set,” Linley, 36, tells USA TODAY in a statement. “She was so generous, and I’ll never forget her teaching me how to play ‘Blackbird’ on guitar.”

“She made you feel special, and I’ll always cherish the time I got to spend with her. I hope people remember the joy and kindness she shared with everyone around her. I love you, Dolly.”

In its first season, “Hannah Montana” drew an average of more than 3 million viewers, with most ages 6 to 14, and received four Emmy nominations for children’s program.

It also helped launch Miley Cyrus' career as a musician, producing multiple platinum-selling soundtracks and a headlining Best of Both Worlds Tour, which grossed more than \$54 million.

Following the show's run from 2006 to 2011, Miley Cyrus credited the “Queen of Country” for planting the seeds for the 20th anniversary special of “Hannah Montana.”

She said she picked up a “terrible habit” from Parton of promoting something before it exists – and that’s what Cyrus did, stirring up buzz among fans and news outlets, before its official confirmation and subsequent March 2026 release.

In the hour-long “Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special,” Cyrus paid tribute to the country music legend, reading a letter Parton sent in celebration of the show’s 15th anniversary.

The “Jolene” singer shared an 18th-century relative with Cyrus and had a decades-long friendship with her parents, Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus-Purcell.

"I am always proud to be your Aunt Dolly, whether it's on Hannah Montana or at Thompson Station," the note read, referring to a town in Tennessee.

From helicopter rescue rides to spy stunts, Parton brought a motherly instinct to “Hannah Montana” that reminded viewers, whether you led a double life or not, to live an unapologetic lifestyle.

To Michael Poryes, a cocreator and executive producer on “Hannah Montana,” Parton approached her guest star role with sass, class and charm, even when the cameras weren’t rolling.

“I remember when we asked her if there was anything at all she needed. She said, ‘Darlin’, all I need is a toilet and a closet,” Poyes tells USA TODAY.

“She simply didn’t want to be a bother. Just wow. An icon and, more than that, a lovely lady.”

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Nepal sought more data before flooding

A team of Nepal police and National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority retrieves money and documents from a bank covered in sludge in the aftermath of flash floods at Trishuli in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Aug. 30. PHOTOS BY ARUN SANKAR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Recent disaster highlights worsening risks in region

A drone view shows damaged buildings and houses covered in mud next to the Likhu River following deadly flash floods and mudslides, in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, on Aug. 30.

Saurabh Sharma, Devjyot Ghoshal and Sarita Chaganti Singh REUTERS

KATHMANDU, Nepal – Three months before a wall of water, mud and rock killed hundreds when it hurtled down a Himalayan valley bordering Nepal and China, experts and officials from both countries met in Kathmandu to discuss the risk of such disasters.

At the May 27 meeting in Nepal's capital, 10 officials from Nepal and about a dozen from China, including the

Inside Nepal begins mass burials of unidentified flood victims as families seek missing. 4NN

cials.

Tibet region where the disaster struck, discussed strengthening cooperation to monitor and respond to floods, weather and glacier-related hazards, according to an agenda prepared by Nepali offi-

The participants called for joint risk-reduction measures, including inventories of glacial lakes and hazard mapping.

But two Nepali officials told Reuters they did not receive as much information as they wanted from China on glacier risks and water levels after the meeting and they feared insufficient data sharing could hamper their ability to anticipate and prepare for major disas-

ters.

“What we actually wanted from them, and still want, is if there are early movements of glaciers and early movements around that area, we would want to know a bit early,” said Sauhardra Joshi, a hydrologist at Nepal’s Flood Forecasting Division, who was in the May meeting.

No officials or experts have blamed either side for the natural disaster. Nepali officials say the priority is to deepen cooperation with China.

China's foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment.

At the meeting, the Chinese said

Europe's bankers fear more turbulence

Fed reassurances not enough to ease tensions

Balazs Koranyi, Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir REUTERS

JACKSON HOLE, WY – Europe's central bankers are leaving an annual getaway with their U.S. counterparts far from reassured that long-standing norms in global cooperation remain intact and worried that more turmoil is ahead for an already testy relationship with Washington, sources familiar with the discussion said.

Federal Reserve policymakers went out of their way to ease their counterparts' concerns last week, promising to honor all of their commitments.

But, given the separation between the central bank and the administration, they could offer no guarantees against sudden policy shifts by President Donald Trump, more than half a dozen officials on the sidelines of the Kansas City Fed's annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium said.

Recent U.S. Treasury interventions to prop up the Japanese yen and to lower longer-term U.S. borrowing costs were particularly concerning as they foreshadowed more intervention and breaks with norms, the officials, who asked not to be named, said.

"Treasury maintains close and ongoing communication with our international

counterparts, but we do not comment on the operational details of those

discussions."

U.S. official

After the Aug. 1 yen transaction, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed that the Treasury had sold euros for the Japanese currency and said he reassured central banks in the region that the move was “just a reallocation of resources.”

On Aug. 28, he said that the foreign exchange assets to buy yen came from the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund.

But European officials were especially annoyed the United States did not give them a customary heads-up that euro sales were part of the transaction, the sources said.

“That was infuriating,” one of them said. “You always pick up the phone and give heads-up. The message to me is that the U.S. does whatever it wants.”

Others were more forgiving and said the transaction was so unusual that it may have been an honest oversight.

Spokespeople for the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve declined to comment.

A U.S. official said the U.S.-Japan

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CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST

U.S. forces strike 2 Iranian launchers, official says

Kanishka Singh and Phil Stewart REUTERS

WASHINGTON – U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Iran's Larak island on Aug. 30, a U.S. official said, marking the first known American strikes on Iran since late July.

Iran responded by attacking U.S. forces stationed in Jordan, according to a Fox News reporter on Aug. 30, citing a U.S. source. Nearly all incoming missiles “have been intercepted at this point,” the reporter’s X post said, noting that there had been no significant impact so far. The Iranian weapons launched at the U.S. base were ballistic missiles, Axios reported.

Of the initial U.S. strikes, the U.S. official said, "I can confirm that earlier today U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into Strait of Hormuz."

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the attack killed and wounded several soldiers and citizens and would be met with a “response and punishment” from Tehran, Iranian state media reported.

Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported the United States carried out a drone strike on the island.

President Donald Trump said last week that all mines had been detonated or removed from the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran has been told that any ship or boat placing new mines will be destroyed.

The last known U.S. strikes on Iran were in late July as the war has reached a stalemate in recent weeks with Washington threatening to impose costly sanctions on countries that support Iran. The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28 and Iran responded with its own strikes on Israel and Gulf states that host U.S. bases.

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NATIONAL SUMMARY

Afternoon thunderstorms will develop across portions of the Midwest, Great Lakes and the Southeast today. Meanwhile, thunderstorms across the Rockies can be heavy at times, bringing flash flooding and locally damaging wind gusts. Excessive heat and humidity will build from the Plains to the Ohio Valley as high pressure settles in.

SUNDAY EXTREMES

NATIONAL (for the 48 contiguous states)

High:	109 at Imperial, CA
Low:	30 at Truckee, CA
Precip:	2.37" at Brooksville, FL

NATIONAL CITIES MONDAY

INTERNATIONAL (excludes Antarctica)

High:	123 at Basrah, Iraq
Low:	20 at Labaznaya, Russia
Precip:	5.82" at Honiara, Solomon Islands

Hurricane Carol roared northward just off the New Jersey coast during the morning of Aug. 31, 1954. It was the first of three hurricanes to hit New England that year and left 60 people dead in the region.

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A: Yes, in 1907 and 1914

	High/low/W	Air Quality
Aberdeen, SD	83/54/s	47
Abilene, TX	101/76/s	47
Accomac, VA	89/72/sh	48
Adrian, MI	87/70/c	75
Akron, OH	87/71/pc	75
Alamogordo, NM	101/72/s	47
Alexandria, VA	92/72/s	58
Alliance, OH	85/69/pc	75
Amarillo, TX	98/68/s	75
Ames, IA	92/70/t	75
Anderson, SC	94/71/pc	51
Appleton, WI	91/71/t	55
Asheville, NC	88/66/t	50
Ashland, OH	87/72/pc	75
Athens, GA	93/71/pc	41
Augusta, GA	92/70/pc	45
Austin, TX	100/74/s	75
Bartlesville, OK	103/70/s	80
Battle Creek, MI	88/72/pc	75
Bedford, IN	91/70/s	50
Binghamton, NY	71/66/t	45
Bluffton, SC	87/75/t	19
Bremerton, WA	76/51/pc	40
Brockton, MA	78/64/s	25
Brownwood, TX	100/71/s	47
Burlington, IA	94/73/pc	53
Burlington, NC	92/69/pc	50
Burlington, VT	77/59/pc	45
Cambridge, OH	88/70/pc	55
Camdenton, MO	101/74/s	53
Canandaigua, NY	74/67/t	45
Canton, OH	87/70/pc	75
Carlsbad, NM	100/73/s	67
Chambersburg, PA	87/70/pc	53
Cherry Hill, NJ	83/70/pc	55
Cincinnati, OH	92/71/s	80
Clarksville, TN	96/72/s	51
Coldwater, MI	88/69/pc	75
Columbus, OH	92/72/c	67
Corning, NY	75/64/sh	32
Corpus Christi, TX	98/77/pc	75
Daytona Beach, FL	88/76/t	25
Deming, NM	97/69/t	50
DeRidder, LA	94/76/pc	50
Des Moines, IA	93/73/t	75
Detroit, MI	89/72/c	75
Devils Lake, ND	77/56/s	38
Dover, NH	77/60/s	25
El Paso, TX	99/75/s	75
Elmira, NY	76/65/sh	31
Erie, PA	82/73/c	56
Eugene, OR	84/56/s	25

	High/low/W	Air Quality
Evansville, IN	96/73/s	75
Fall River, MA	79/66/sh	25
Farmington, NM	73/55/t	43
Fayetteville, NC	92/73/t	50
Fond du Lac, WI	89/68/t	48
Fort Myers, FL	92/76/t	25
Fort Smith, AR	103/74/s	57
Framingham, MA	80/64/s	25
Freeport, IL	90/70/t	75
Fremont, OH	90/72/pc	47
Fort Collins, CO	84/59/t	75
Gadsden, AL	92/68/s	40
Gainesville, FL	90/73/t	25
Galesburg, IL	92/72/pc	75
Gastonia, NC	93/69/pc	71
Glen Rose, TX	101/73/s	53
Gonzales, LA	87/76/t	50
Great Falls, MT	78/48/s	38
Green Bay, WI	90/66/t	60
Greenville, SC	92/69/pc	51
Hackensack, NJ	80/70/sh	54
Hagerstown, MD	88/71/pc	53
Hattiesburg, MS	93/72/t	22
Henderson, KY	95/68/s	75
Hendersonville, NC	87/65/c	50
Herkimer, NY	77/65/t	26
Hillsdale, MI	87/69/pc	75
Holland, MI	84/71/c	75
Hornell, NY	76/66/sh	30
Houma, LA	85/76/t	39
Howell, MI	86/71/pc	75
Hutchinson, KS	103/73/s	48
Hyannis, MA	76/66/s	25
Indianapolis, IN	93/72/pc	75
Iowa City, IA	92/72/t	67
Ithaca, NY	72/65/t	45
Jackson, MS	95/74/pc	50
Jackson, TN	96/71/s	36
Jacksonville, FL	88/74/t	25
Jacksonville, NC	90/73/t	45
Kent, OH	86/69/pc	25
Kewanee, IL	92/71/pc	75
Keyser, WV	90/69/t	53
Kinston, NC	92/72/t	45
Knoxville, TN	92/71/s	54
Lafayette, IN	90/71/pc	45
Lafayette, LA	90/76/t	44
Lakeland, FL	92/75/t	25
Lansing, MI	87/71/sh	75
Las Cruces, NM	97/69/s	46
Lebanon, PA	84/68/pc	57
Leesburg, FL	89/75/t	25

	High/low/W	AFP Quality
Levittown, PA	82/69/pc	55
Lincoln, IL	96/70/pc	75
Louisville, KY	95/74/s	75
Lubbock, TX	97/71/s	25
Manitowoc, WI	88/69/t	65
Mansfield, OH	88/72/pc	51
Marshall, NC	86/64/t	50
Marshfield, WI	90/61/t	39
Massillon, OH	87/70/pc	75
McLean, VA	92/72/s	58
Melbourne, FL	88/77/t	25
Memphis, TN	97/79/s	101
Middletown, NY	76/65/sh	40
Milford, MA	79/64/s	25
Milwaukee, WI	87/72/t	75
Monroe, MI	88/71/pc	75
Monroe, LA	97/75/pc	50
Montgomery, AL	94/72/t	23
Muncie, IN	90/71/c	54
Murfreesboro, TN	94/69/s	53
Naples, FL	92/77/t	25
Nashville, TN	96/72/s	53
Neptune, NJ	78/70/pc	50
New Bedford, MA	79/64/sh	25
New Bern, NC	90/72/t	45
New Philadelphia, OH	87/69/pc	75
Newark, OH	89/67/pc	67
Newton, NJ	77/65/sh	50
New York, NY	79/71/sh	54
Norwich, CT	79/66/sh	51
Ocala, FL	90/74/t	25
Oklahoma City, OK	100/72/s	90
Opelousas, LA	91/74/t	44
Oshkosh, WI	88/69/t	50
Palm Beach, FL	89/80/t	25
Palm Springs, CA	102/76/s	48
Panama City, FL	89/75/t	25
Pekin, IL	95/72/pc	75
Pensacola, FL	88/76/t	75
Peoria, IL	93/73/pc	75
Petersburg, VA	96/71/s	51
Phoenix, AZ	97/80/t	61
Port Huron, MI	86/69/c	40
Portsmouth, NH	76/64/s	25
Poughkeepsie, NY	80/68/sh	40
Providence, RI	79/67/sh	50
Pueblo, CO	89/61/t	25
Quincy, MA	77/65/s	25
Redding, CA	91/53/s	40
Reno, NV	88/57/s	25
Ravenna, OH	86/69/pc	25
Richmond, IN	91/68/c	77

• Denotes possible travel delays

	High/low/W	Air Quality
● Rochester, NY	75/68/t	34
Rockford, IL	87/71/t	75
Ruidoso, NM	86/60/pc	50
Salem, OR	84/54/pc	50
Salina, KS	104/75/t	49
Salinas, CA	69/57/pc	25
● Salisbury, MD	90/73/sh	61
San Angelo, TX	99/73/s	44
● Sarasota, FL	91/76/t	25
Savannah, GA	88/74/t	20
Sheboygan, WI	88/69/t	64
Shelby, NC	93/68/pc	51
Sherman, TX	100/77/s	62
Shreveport, LA	99/76/pc	64
● Silver City, NM	89/63/t	46
Sioux Falls, SD	89/65/pc	37
Somerset, PA	82/68/t	60
Somerville, NJ	80/65/pc	50
South Bend, IN	87/72/pc	75
Spartanburg, SC	92/69/pc	51
Springfield, IL	95/74/pc	75
Springfield, MO	99/74/s	86
St. Augustine, FL	87/76/t	25
St. Cloud, MN	87/56/pc	25
● St. George, UT	86/68/t	25
Staunton, VA	89/65/s	45
● Stevens Point, WI	93/64/t	45
Stockton, CA	84/54/s	34
Stroudsburg, PA	78/65/sh	50
● Stuart, FL	88/76/t	25
Sturgis, MI	88/70/pc	75
● Tallahassee, FL	91/74/t	25
● Thibodaux, LA	85/75/t	39
Topeka, KS	100/74/t	68
Tuscaloosa, AL	94/73/pc	51
Utica, NY	77/65/t	26
Ventura, CA	72/60/pc	50
Victorville, CA	92/58/s	50
● Vineland, NJ	85/70/sh	50
Visalia, CA	93/55/s	49
● Washington, DC	92/76/s	58
Watertown, SD	84/59/pc	52
● Wausau, WI	90/63/t	44
Waynesboro, PA	87/70/pc	53
White Plains, NY	78/69/sh	67
Wichita Falls, TX	101/73/s	70
● Wilmington, DE	85/71/pc	61
Wilmington, NC	88/72/t	45
● Wisconsin Rapids, WI	93/63/t	44
Wooster, OH	87/69/pc	75
Worcester, MA	77/64/s	25
York, PA	85/69/pc	57

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INTERNATIONAL CITIES

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Acapulco	89/78/t	91/79/pc
Addis Ababa	69/55/sh	72/55/r
Algiers	92/75/pc	92/75/c
Amman	87/68/s	91/71/s
Amsterdam	66/61/sh	68/56/pc
Ankara	85/59/s	87/60/s
Asuncion	73/60/r	72/55/r
Athens	92/74/s	94/77/s
Auckland	62/54/pc	60/54/sh
Baghdad	103/80/pc	105/82/s
Bangkok	88/79/sh	93/81/t
Beijing	88/64/s	87/62/s
Beirut	89/77/s	88/78/s
Belgrade	97/68/s	86/61/s
Berlin	78/58/t	74/54/pc
Bogota	69/47/r	68/48/sh
Brussels	70/58/sh	70/54/pc
Bucharest	91/61/s	91/68/s
Budapest	92/65/s	83/56/s
Buenos Aires	62/51/s	62/53/pc
Cairo	93/77/pc	95/76/pc

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	MondayHigh/low/W	TuesdayHigh/low/W
Cape Town	64/47/s	68/50/c
Caracas	92/78/r	92/77/r
Casablanca	89/66/s	86/69/s
Colombo	89/80/r	90/79/r
Copenhagen	66/57/sh	68/56/sh
Damascus	92/67/s	96/66/s
Dublin	64/53/pc	68/59/sh
Geneva	78/52/s	79/54/sh
Guatemala City	83/64/t	82/63/c
Hanoi	94/82/r	99/77/r
Harare	80/56/pc	80/53/pc
Havana	92/75/r	92/75/t
Helsinki	65/59/c	66/56/pc
Hong Kong	87/79/sh	88/79/r
Jakarta	92/77/t	93/77/t
Jerusalem	83/66/s	86/69/s
Johannesburg	75/50/pc	77/51/pc
Kabul	92/65/pc	90/65/pc
Khartoum	102/82/pc	102/84/s
Kyiv	86/64/t	84/58/pc
Kingston	94/81/t	93/81/t

	MondayHigh/low/W	TuesdayHigh/low/W
La Paz	67/32/s	64/37/s
Lagos	86/77/r	87/77/t
Lima	76/69/pc	76/68/pc
Lisbon	80/63/s	79/63/s
London	72/53/pc	73/57/pc
Madrid	93/63/s	95/62/s
Manila	90/80/r	92/80/r
Mexico City	75/57/sh	75/58/r
Milan	92/69/s	89/70/t
Mombasa	85/71/r	85/71/r
Montevideo	65/49/pc	62/44/c
Montreal	75/57/s	74/63/r
Moscow	73/56/pc	77/61/c
Nairobi	75/56/c	77/58/pc
New Delhi	96/82/pc	94/79/r
Panama City	86/76/r	86/74/r
Paris	74/57/r	75/54/pc
Port-au-Prince	96/75/r	91/73/r
Rio de Janeiro	79/73/pc	81/68/r
Riyadh	114/88/s	111/86/s
Rome	91/68/s	92/67/s

	MondayHigh/low/W	TuesdayHigh/low/W
San Jose	85/68/r	84/69/r
San Salvador	90/70/r	87/70/t
Santiago	69/42/pc	72/47/pc
Sao Paulo	83/65/pc	69/54/r
Sarajevo	93/61/pc	86/58/t
Shanghai	93/79/r	89/77/sh
Singapore	92/82/t	91/80/sh
Stockholm	67/51/pc	68/52/pc
Sydney	70/52/pc	80/63/s
Taipei	91/79/t	88/78/sh
Tegucigalpa	91/69/t	90/67/t
Tehran	100/74/pc	96/70/pc
Tokyo	85/76/c	88/77/pc
Toronto	73/69/sh	84/70/t
Tunis	99/77/pc	98/76/pc
Vancouver	70/57/c	71/57/pc
Vienna	84/62/sh	80/58/r
Warsaw	78/61/sh	70/57/t
Yerevan	75/58/t	76/58/s
Zagreb	94/64/t	84/59/t
Zurich	77/53/s	78/51/sh

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ANALYSIS

Iran war drives U.S. transport fuel surcharges, but also industry profits

Lisa Baertlein REUTERS

U.S. railroads are the only transportation providers required to report fuel costs and surcharge revenue to federal regulators, offering a rare window into the impact of the charges since the Iran war began. BING GUAN/REUTERS FILE

LOS ANGELES – U.S. retailers, manufacturers and small businesses are paying hefty fuel surcharges to ship their goods, not only as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran boosts fuel costs but also as some shippers profit from the fees.

The charges have become a growing source of tension across supply chains, with customers arguing that some companies are using them to boost profits rather than simply recover higher fuel costs. Ultimately, those extra costs can be passed on to inflation-weary consumers.

The surcharges have generated tens of millions of dollars in profit for railroad operator Union Pacific and provided a modest earnings boost for UPS, the companies said. In the clearest publicly available example, Union Pacific collected \$91.1 million more in fuel surcharge revenue than it paid for fuel during the second quarter, boosting profits by \$83.2 million, or 14 cents per share.

Union Pacific's result far outpaced rivals, spurring concerns that fuel recovery charges are generating profit.

“Ultimately, fuel surcharges are a component of the overall cost we negotiate with customers and something they take into consideration when choosing Union Pacific and the service we provide,” the company said in a statement.

U.S. railroads are the only transportation providers required to report fuel costs and surcharge revenue to federal regulators, offering a rare window into the impact of the charges since the Iran war began on Feb. 28.

Fuel surcharges are designed to offset higher energy costs, but customers have long argued they can become disconnected from the actual cost of fuel and boost profits.

UPS and FedEx have steadily increased the size of their fuel surcharges in recent years.

"The original part of the cost consideration almost seems to be lost in translation," said Mingshu Bates, chief analytics officer at invoice auditing firm AFS Logistics, referring to the growing surcharge rates.

When the average diesel price was \$3.35 a gallon in August 2021, UPS added a fuel charge of about 9% to the base shipping rate for the everyday packages shipped to homes and businesses. That surcharge is 24.25% today for UPS and 23.75% for FedEx, according to an analy-

"The original part of the cost consideration almost seems to be lost in

translation."

Mingshu Bates

Chief analytics officer at invoice auditing firm AFS Logistics

sis by AFS Logistics.

UPS and FedEx, often described as a duopoly because of their dominance of the market, offer customers little room to push back because their fuel surcharges are broadly similar.

UPS Chief Financial Officer Brian Dykes said fuel surcharge collections had a “modest” net impact on consolidated operating profit in the latest quarter. Brie Carere, chief customer officer at FedEx, said they were “not a material driver of our adjusted operating income.”

Neither company explained why the surcharge percentages have risen so sharply.

For contrast, the heavily regulated United States Postal Service imposed its first surcharge on April 26: 8% on most packages.

The issue extends beyond U.S. railroads and parcel delivery firms. War-related disruption and higher fuel costs have rippled through global shipping networks, allowing some carriers to impose emergency surcharges and raise rates, fueling complaints that crisis-driven fees have become a profit source.

Fuel surcharges have also supported profits at container ship companies such as A.P. Moller-Maersk.

The Danish carrier reported second-quarter profit excluding items of \$3 billion, almost \$1 billion more than analysts expected and up from \$2.3 billion the year earlier.

Maersk imposed emergency surcharges and made other adjustments to cover higher fuel costs for the roughly 70% of cargo it moves under longer-term contracts. A rate surge on the remaining spot market shipments drove profit in the quarter, executives said. The company did not directly address the impact of fuel surcharges on profits.

Chief Executive Vincent Clerc in an August earnings call said digital investments helped the company raise rates more quickly than rivals, an ability he called a “competitive advantage.” Maersk declined to elaborate further.

An analysis by supply chain data provider VesselBot showed that when marine fuel costs jumped about 30% this year, container shipping fuel surcharges surged by as much as 75%, decoupling dramatically after closely tracking fuel prices in 2025.

USDA cyclospora research projects shelved amid cuts, Politico reports

REUTERS

The Trump administration is shuttering two of the three U.S. Department of Agriculture research projects studying cyclospora, a foodborne parasite that has sickened thousands of Americans this summer, Politico reported on Aug. 30.

The two projects were defunded by Congress earlier this year, while the third is due to be moved in coming months from Maryland to Iowa as part of a broader USDA reorganization, according to the report.

Although the third project remains funded, all scientists working on the parasite have declined to relocate to Iowa, Politico reported, citing people familiar with the plans and internal documents.

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

“None of the research has been disrupted, and research will continue without disruption,” a USDA spokesperson said, while pointing to Congress over the funding cuts.

Congress did not appropriate funding for the two research projects that were being undertaken at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center outside Washington for the 2026 fiscal year in the Agriculture Appropriations Act, the spokesperson said in an emailed statement, adding that the Agricultural Research Service is working with research leaders to ensure an orderly transition of the pro- grams.

Scientists researching foodborne parasites, including cyclospora, are retiring or leaving the USDA's ARS rather than relocating or being reassigned to other projects, the report said.

Reuters reported earlier this week that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had recorded more than 17,000 confirmed cyclosporiasis cases across 48 states plus the District of Columbia, making it one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in recent U.S. history.

At least 11,844 additional cases may require further investigation and analysis, the CDC said.

TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Aug. 31. On this date in:

12: The future Roman emperor and despot Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, better known as Caligula, was born in Antium. His father's soldiers in Germany gave him his nickname, which means "bootikins," because he paraded around in a wee soldier's uniform.

1842: Journalist, suffragist and civil rights activist Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was born in Boston. She edited Women's Era, the first newspaper published by and for Black women. She also founded the Women's Era Club for socially active Black women and the National Federation of Afro-American Women.

1897: Thomas Edison received a patent for his Kinetograph moving-picture camera. It took 30 pictures per second, without sound. He had filed for the patent six years earlier and already made numerous short silent films.

1909: Chemist Paul Ehrlich tested what is now recognized as the first chemotherapy drug, injecting arsphenamine, his team's 606th compound, into a rabbit that had been infected with syphilitic ulcers. The illness was gone within a day and the ulcers within a month.

1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the first of a series of isolationist acts attempting to keep the United States out of international conflicts. The Neutrality Act forbade the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” to foreign countries at war and required U.S. arms manufacturers to apply for export licenses.

1939: Marvel Comics No. 1 was published, featuring Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner and Ka-Zar the Great, and launching a comics empire. Seventy years later to the day, the Walt Disney Company announced it was buying Marvel Entertainment for \$4.24 billion.

1992: The 11-day standoff in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, ended as self-declared White supremacist Randy Weaver surrendered to the FBI and U.S. marshals. His wife, his son and a marshal had been shot dead during the siege.

1994: The Irish Republican Army declared its first ceasefire after 25 years of armed struggle in Northern Ireland. 1997: Princess Diana died at 36 in a car crash in Paris. Her boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed, and driver, Henri Paul, died as well. A French judge blamed Paul, who had been drinking and had taken prescription drugs; a British inquest blamed both Paul and the paparazzi who were giving chase.

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WALL ST WEEK AHEAD

Jobs report, Broadcom results pose next hurdles

Lewis Krauskopf

REUTERS

NEW YORK – A fresh look at the U.S. labor market in the coming week along with quarterly results from semiconductor company Broadcom will test a market rally that has lifted stocks near record highs.

The S&P 500 posted a weekly gain, putting the benchmark index slightly more than 1% away from its Aug. 13 all-time high. A blowout quarterly report on Aug. 26 from AI bellwether and market behemoth Nvidia boosted sentiment for stocks, which had been dented earlier in the month by rising Treasury yields.

Investors were focused on the monthly U.S. employment report, due on Sept. 4, and on whether the jobs data would offer hints about the U.S. Federal Reserve's plans for interest rates in coming months.

"As we're starting to get closer to that September [Fed] meeting, each data print is going to be under the microscope as it may inform what the Fed ultimately does," said Michael Reynolds, vice president of investment strategy at Glenmede. Following a speech by new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh on Aug. 28, investors increased bets that the central bank would hike rates.

With August coming to a close, the S&P 500 was last up more than 12% for the year. Strong corporate profit growth driven by massive spending on the AI infrastructure buildout is fueling the nearly four-year-old bull run in U.S. equities.

Markets have been relatively calm as summer ends in the United States. The Cboe Volatility Index hovered near its low point for the year, and daily market trading volume this week was well below its 2026 average.

Several upcoming events could shake assets, including the jobs data. Employment for August was expected to have climbed by 58,000 jobs, with the unemployment rate at 4.1%, according to a Reuters poll as of Aug. 28. The July report showed a surprise labor-market weakening, with employment declining by 23,000 jobs.

"The last jobs report gave the market and investors a little bit of pause," said Amanda Agati, chief investment officer of PNC Asset Management Group.

However, Agati said she doubted there was a breakdown in the labor market, adding she would be looking for “either confirmation of that trend that we saw in the last report, or maybe a bounce back to prior months.”

The jobs data could also indicate whether the Fed is likely to raise interest rates. Data last week showed inflation continued to run well above the U.S. central bank's $2\%$ annual target.

Rate hikes pose several challenges for equity performance, including by raising borrowing costs for consumers and companies.

Fed funds futures late on Aug. 28 suggested a 57% chance of a hike at the next meeting in September, and investors were wary that a hot jobs report showing a big jump in employment and sharp wage growth could increase such bets.

“What the stock market wants to see is a continued number that gives the Fed the ability to remain on hold,” said Matt Stucky, chief portfolio manager, equities, at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management. Other economic data in the coming week included reports on manufacturing and services sector activity. The prior monthly reading from the Institute for Supply Management showed U.S. manufacturing activity increased to the highest level in more than four years.

The Sept. 2 earnings report from Broadcom, whose market value was last about \$1.7 trillion, will also be in focus, after rival semiconductor company Nvidia's results lifted equity indexes. Nvidia forecast a whopping 70% jump in revenue for its next fiscal year. It was a rare disclosure for the AI bellwether, which typically does not issue such projections.

“We’re just wondering whether or not Broadcom offers the same type of visibility,” Stucky said.

The reporting season has demonstrated “really robust core earnings power,” Reynolds said. “If we continue to see that with the last few reports in the next week, I think that’s really constructive for what the rest of the year looks like.”

Nepal begins mass burials of unidentified victims

Armed Police Force officers work on transporting bodies to the pit at Devghat mass burial site for victims of deadly flash floods and mudslides in Chitwan, Nepal, on Aug. 30. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Sahana Bajracharya REUTERS

CHITWAN, Nepal – Nepal's scenic Chitwan district, known for its forests and rivers, has become the site of mass burials for hundreds of unidentified victims whose bodies were swept away by the torrent that devastated the Himalayan region days ago.

In the plains, nearly 124 miles from the flood-ravaged valleys of Rasuwa where the disaster struck on Aug. 26, authorities have dug hundreds of graves in Chitwan's Devghat forest.

“We were left with no other option and had to take this step. Our concern was the risk to public health posed by the rapid decomposition of the bodies,” said Ganesh Aryal, chief district officer of Baratpur, Chitwan.

Authorities buried 96 unidentified bodies in the forest on Aug. 29 and planned to bury more than 100 others on Aug. 30, as recovery teams continue to retrieve victims from rivers and piles of debris.

About 750 people have been killed and more than 3,000 are reported missing after a flash flood triggered by a glacial collapse swept through valleys along Nepal's border with China, causing catastrophic damage.

Around 100 rescue workers, police officers and other officials were helping to document the dead, photographing remains, helping relatives with identification and preparing bodies for burial.

Authorities said every burial site was carefully recorded, with identification markers placed both above and below ground and precise location data logged.

DNA samples were collected from the unidentified dead by the Nepali authorities, allowing them to locate and ex-hume remains if victims are identified later through family claims, official records or genetic testing.

India has already sent a forensic team that will be working with their Nepali counterparts to support the analysis of DNA samples. Nepal is also liaising with a team from China.

At Bharatpur Hospital, the stench of decomposition began at the gate, near a temporary morgue where around 50 police officers and hospital workers handled recovered bodies, most wearing only basic surgical masks.

About 125 bodies lay inside on the floor, with many showing advanced decomposition after days in floodwaters, overwhelming a mortuary designed to handle 50 bodies.

"The bodies are decaying fast," said Inspector Anil Thapa, who is overseeing one of several facilities handling the dead in the disaster-stricken district.

"Of the bodies we have recovered so far, more than half are beyond recognition," Thapa told Reuters. "Many have no visible faces."

About 1,000 feet away, the Chitwan Expo Centre has become the focal point for grieving families searching for missing relatives.

More than 200 people gathered out side a hall where photographs of recovered bodies were expected to be displayed to allow visual identification. Families waited for a chance to identify loved ones among those recovered.

Several families said they had arrived the previous day but had still not been allowed inside the hall.

Nepal

A survivor is transported to a safer place in heavy machinery following a flash flood at Trishuli in Nuwakot district, Nepal, on Aug. 26. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

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they did not have the mandate to sign an agreement to meet Nepal's requests, asking for further discussions, said Binod Parajuli, another Nepal government hydrologist.

China's embassy in Nepal said in a statement on X on Aug. 29 that Beijing and Kathmandu had kept in close contact on the issue and had made “substantial progress” at the meeting in May on promoting cross-border disaster information sharing.

Nepal raised similar concerns last year, officials said, though experts and officials cautioned that what they describe as slow progress was not a significant factor in the latest disaster, in which a glacier collapse unleashed a catastrophic mudslide that has killed nearly 800 people in both countries and left more than 3,000 missing, by the latest count.

Rejecting criticism from some Nepali social media users that China had failed to provide adequate warning, the Chinese embassy said Chinese and international experts faced significant challenges monitoring hazards in the remote Himalayan region.

Chinese teams had shared important information with Nepal “in a timely manner,” it said.

At last year's meeting, Nepal raised concerns about a flood in the same area, triggered by the sudden release of water from a glacial lake in Tibet that killed at least nine in Nepal and left more than a dozen missing.

"When the Chinese side sees a heavy precipitation forecast in the Tibet area, then they provide us that forecast and those observations," Parajuli said. But "not for avalanche and water level, land-slides, extreme events."

China began sharing forecasts of heavy rain in Tibet over China's WeChat messaging app and email a month ago, Parajuli said.

Twelve days before the disaster, China's World Meteorological Centre told Nepali officials in an email that a monsoon depression was forecast for the area from Aug. 14 to 19.

“Enhanced rainfall is likely across much of Nepal, and we wish to draw your attention to the potential for secondary and cascading hazards, including but not limited to landslides and flash floods,” China warned.

The Chinese embassy said China has been sharing information including monitoring data on a lake formed by debris from last week's calamity.

The discussions over data-sharing underline the complexity of monitoring, forecasting and providing early warning in a region where regional geopolitical rivals – including China and India – control remote mountainous areas holding vast quantities of ice and snow that loom over densely populated South Asian plains.

The Aug. 26 catastrophe was sparked by the collapse of the glacier in a relatively unmonitored area, and a lack of bilateral cooperation was not a significant factor in Nepal's response, according to environmental anthropologist Austin Lord, senior fellow at the Washington-based Stimson Center think

tank.

“That’s not to forgive the fact that there isn’t really a well-articulated system. And there is very limited exchange between Nepal and China,” said Lord, who is part of a team supporting Nepal’s government on disaster and climate risk management.

“Chinese scientists have a much greater capacity, have much greater resources for monitoring than those on the Nepal side overall.”

The time that the torrent took to reach Nepal shows the value of early-warning systems, Parajuli said.

Around 8:32 a.m. Nepal time on Aug. 26, the deluge blasted through a border crossing in Tibet as people attempted to flee, according to surveillance footage that has become a defining image of the disaster.

Twenty-six minutes later, Parajuli got a call from the chief of Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, alerting him to a flood on the Trishuli river. Parajuli's team found that a border monitoring station had not transmitted any data since 8:40 a.m.

“We also then tried to contact downstream stations, but downstream stations also couldn't post the data,” leaving the team to suspect those devices had been washed away, he said.

After contacting local Nepali authorities to confirm the flooding, Parajuli said, his team sent a public alert to mobile phone users at 9:13 a.m.

At least four monitoring stations were destroyed by the flood that rampaged 104 miles downstream from the Nepal-China border, carrying some 2 billion cubic feet of water, more than half as much as normal, according to a Nepali government assessment.

Surging floodwaters, which dislodged giant boulders and pulled large buildings into the overflow, damaged 19 bridges and some 25 miles of highway, and knocked out more than $10\%$ of Nepal's power-generation capacity, according to the Stimson Center.

“It wasn’t water. It was a huge gush of mud coming straight at us,” said Keshav Prasad Baral of Tupche village, about 15 miles downstream of the border. “I tried to grab my wife’s hand, but she was swept away by the mud.”

When part of the glacier broke away, crashing to the valley floor, it unleashed high-speed flash floods, according to preliminary assessments by Nepali authorities.

The Hindu Kush Himalayas, home to hundreds of millions of people from Afghanistan to Myanmar, contain the world's largest volume of ice outside the poles, with more than 63,700 glaciers covering nearly 22,000 square miles, almost the size of Croatia, and storing up to 1,400 cubic miles of ice.

Nepal's authorities will seek to work with China to conduct research and build systems to monitor avalanches and the release of water from glacial lakes – major risks for mountain communities, Parajuli said.

He said his department will propose a data-sharing agreement with China for more frequent information on precipitation and river levels, not just high-precipitation forecasts.

Nepal will seek data every 10 minutes so that “we can warn our people, save our people,” he said.

Bankers

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intervention was undertaken to counter disorderly movements in the yen and to support stability in global financial markets.

“It was not directed at anyone else,” the official said. “Treasury maintains close and ongoing communication with our international counterparts, but we do not comment on the operational details of those discussions.”

The sources also said that Bessent's plan to increase buybacks of longer-dated bonds – transactions that may need to be financed by issuance of more shorter-term maturities – was also a concern to European central bankers because, like the yen purchase, it indicates the administration was willing to take unusual measures to cap borrowing costs.

"These interventions normally offer just temporary relief," a second source said. “But they are clearly worried. So what is next? Will they put pressure on the Fed to start buying bonds on the market?”

While the Fed is the sole U.S. monetary policymaking body, independent in that mission by design from the elected administration, the sources said Trump has shown he is willing to go to extraordinary lengths to get his will across.

Their concern was that this could then set off upheaval in markets that would go far beyond the United States.

The U.S. official responded by repeating earlier statements that the increased long-end bond buybacks were aimed at providing greater liquidity in longer-dated sectors where Treasury gets high-quality buyback offers.

“They are not monetary policy or an effort to impose a cap on interest rates,” the official said.

On Aug. 27, however, a U.S. Treasury official had told reporters the Treasury was “really focused on bringing those long-end yields lower” because they had risen above what the department viewed as "fair value."

Another of the Europeans' worries was that political meddling could eventually involve the dollar liquidity backstops provided by the Fed to the world's biggest central banks, considered a cornerstone of global financial stability, some of the sources said.

These swap lines ensure that commercial banks around the world retain their access to U.S. dollars, especially in moments of financial stress.

The Fed renews this facility year after year on the premise that it actually safeguards U.S. interests and markets, since overseas banks in moments of global market upheaval could otherwise be forced to dump U.S. bonds.

“But rationality doesn’t always prevail with this administration,” a third source said. “When they run retaliatory trade policies with their closest allies, Trump could just say, ‘Hey, they’re ripping us off’ and the swap lines could be gone overnight.”

The sources said there has not been even a hint that these backstops are in danger, and they still expected them to remain unchanged. The swap lines are authorized by the Federal Open Market Committee and operated exclusively by the Fed, not the administration.

“Decisions concerning Federal Reserve facilities and swap-line arrangements rest with the Federal Reserve,” the Treasury official said. “Nothing Treasury has announced regarding either yen operations or debt buybacks suggests otherwise.”

The official added that Bessent looked forward to discussing financial stability issues with G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in the coming days in Asheville, North Carolina, seeking to further press the administration's agenda on isolating Iran, fostering growth and reducing global imbalances.

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh traveled to Europe just over a month into his job and went out of his way to foster good relations with officials there, leaving a predominantly positive impression, the sources said.

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• [MINERU-VLM] Successfully extracted via MinerU VLM (batch: 22984eae-ebd1-4fc3-8252-d464a819c7c5)

Non-model Checks

• WARNING: missing numeric tokens from source: 10000, 1152, 1766, 20005, 40202, 409, 507.1.5.2, 529, 76000
• WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: Abilene Christian, Abraham Lincoln, Across Down, Activist Brandy Price, Actor Richard Gere, Actor Sara Ramirez, Administrative Procedures Act, Advertising Dept, After Carson Hocevar, Agricultural Research Service
• WARNING: source dates, money, or percentage tokens may be missing

Model QA

经过严格审核，本次翻译存在多处严重缺陷，包括数字量级错误、严重的OCR乱码残留以及关键段落漏译。

以下是详细审核报告：

═══ 审核结果 ═══

1. 数字与事实错误 (BLOCKING)

• 金额量级错误：译文中提到 Meta 达成“180 亿美元”和解协议。
• 核查：原文为 landmark $18 billion settlement。虽然数字一致，但需注意在金融新闻中，任何量级偏差均为致命错误。此处翻译正确，但请注意后续数字审计。
• 单位翻译错误：在尼泊尔洪水段落，译文写到“携带了约 20 亿加元 立方英尺的水量”。
• 核查：原文为 about 2 billion cubic feet of water。译者将 billion 误认为货币单位 加元（可能是受前文贸易战或加拿大相关内容干扰），导致物理量级变成了货币量级。
• 级别：[BLOCKING]

2. 完整性与漏译 (BLOCKING)

• 低中文密度区域完全失效：
• 译文中完全缺失了“积分领先者”（Points Leaders）、“青年组分类”（Youth Classification）以及“车队排名”（Movistar, Bahrain Victorious 等）的所有数据表格。
• 核查：这些内容在“低中文密度区域”中明确标注，且属于体育新闻的核心数据。虽然系统过滤非新闻版面，但此类赛事排名属于新闻正文数据，不应被过滤。
• 级别：[BLOCKING]

3. 残留英文与 OCR 乱码 (BLOCKING/WARNING)

• 严重乱码残留：在体育比分/表格区域，出现了大量未处理的 HTML 标签和乱码，例如：
• 利夫兰< / ><>68< / ><>.500< / ><> $4\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>明尼苏达...
• <>< colspan="5">中区< / >< / ><><>< / ><>胜< / ><>负...
• 这种输出直接导致该部分内容不可读，属于严重的交付质量问题。
• 级别：[BLOCKING]
• 未翻译英文：
• “8 in 10 美国人” $\rightarrow$ 应翻译为“八成美国人”或“每10名美国人中有8名”。
• 级别：[WARNING]

4. 幻觉核查 (HALLUCINATION CHECK)

• 核查项：译文中提到的“20 亿加元 立方英尺”。
• 步骤1：标题索引无匹配。
• 步骤2：抽样原文为 2 billion cubic feet。
• 结论：判定为翻译幻觉/误译（将数量词误认为货币）。

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═══ 总结清单 ═══

严重级别	问题描述	位置
[BLOCKING]	量级/单位错误：将 2 billion cubic feet 译为 20 亿加元 立方英尺	尼泊尔洪水段落
[BLOCKING]	严重乱码：正文出现大量 < / ><> 等 HTML 标签，导致数据不可读	体育比分/表格区域
[BLOCKING]	关键漏译：缺失所有自行车赛积分、青年组及车队排名数据	低中文密度区域
[WARNING]	残留英文：8 in 10 未翻译	AI/大科技公司段落

审核结论：存在阻塞性问题（Blocking Issues Found）。译文无法交付，需重新翻译并清理 OCR 标签。

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═══ 自愈质检微创修复记录（Self-Healing Audit Trail）═══

• 成功修复分块 #1（共修复 3 处问题）
• 成功修复分块 #97（共修复 1 处问题）
• 成功修复分块 #2（共修复 2 处问题）