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CLEVELAND (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not restore its old name of the Redskins, which was considered offensive to Native Americans.Trump also said Sunday that he wants Cleveland’s baseball team to revert to its former name, the Indians, saying there was a “big clamoring for this” as well.The Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians have had their current names since the 2022 seasons and both have said they have no plans to change them back.Trump said the Washington football team would be “much more valuable”…
The Los Angeles Chargers and Detroit Lions already have kicked off training camp. Rookies for several other teams have also reported. All veterans across the league are due this week.The NFL season is underway. The road to San Francisco for Super Bowl 60 begins in the grueling summer heat.Some teams have new coaches. A couple of old coaches have new teams. Star players have switched uniforms. There are position battles to determine.And, plenty of storylines to watch.Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles aim for a repeat. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs look to rebound after being…
For years, Olga Khazan, a Virginia-based staff writer at The Atlantic, knew she had a big problem: she hated much of her own personality. “I was constantly worried about everything,” she said. “Just never living in the moment. And I didn’t really like doing anything fun with other people. Just wasn’t my thing.”How might she function at a party? “I would kind of stand off to myself, and honestly, sometimes just, like, read articles on my phone or just basically not engage,” she laughed.Not surprisingly, a lot of folks didn’t want to engage with Khazan, either. “One person called me…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Venus Williams is back on the tennis scene, ready to compete for the first time in more than a year, and while she smiled or laughed frequently Sunday while discussing her return at the DC Open, there was something that would make her even happier: if her younger sister Serena were along for the ride.“I keep saying to my team: The only thing that would make this better is if she was here. Like, we always did everything together, so of course I miss her,” Venus said when asked about a recent video on social media that…
TORONTO (AP) — Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner, 24-time Grand Slam title winner Novak Djokovic and No. 5-ranked Jack Draper all withdrew Sunday from the Masters 1000 tournament in Toronto that starts in a week, citing injuries.The No. 1-ranked Sinner blamed his right elbow, which he hurt in a fall in the fourth round at the All England Club on the way to his first title there and fourth major trophy.He won his first Masters 1000 title in Toronto in 2023.“Winning that title in Toronto two years ago was the start of a really special moment for me, but after speaking…
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Scottie Scheffler began his bid for the third leg of the career Grand Slam on Sunday, taking a four-shot lead into the final round of the British Open at Royal Portrush.The start was ideal. From the first cut of rough, Scheffler hit his approach to the right side of the green on the slope. The ball trickled back and then rolled down to 10 inches from the cup for a tap-in birdie.Scheffler already won the PGA Championship by five shots this year. He won the Masters last year by four shots and the Masters in…
Compute power is a big draw for top talent, but not just in the world of AI.Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife and the cofounder of the couple’s philanthropic organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, spoke about the appeal of massive GPU clusters for biology researchers during a recent episode of Ashlee Vance’s “Core Memory” podcast.”The other thing researchers really care about is access to GPUs,” she said. “You’re not going to make the most of someone if you don’t actually have the GPUs for them to work from.”Chan said, “We have that at CZI,” adding that the organization has roughly 1,000…
All eyes this week have been on a once-little-known tech company called Astronomer.While it’s not been the kind of attention Astronomer would likely have hoped for, it’s been said that all publicity is good publicity, and some public relations experts who spoke to Business Insider said the newfound fame could, ultimately, benefit the firm.The viral moment that catapulted the data company into the global spotlight took place at a Coldplay concert near Boston on Wednesday, when a “kiss cam” appeared to show then-Astronomer CEO Andy Byron embracing the company’s head of human resources, Kristin Cabot.After spotting themselves on the big…
David Gomez, a school resource officer for the Boise County Sheriff’s Office in Idaho, started noticing caffeine pouches last spring. Students were using the pillow-shaped pouches, which can contain more than 200 milligrams of caffeine, alongside nicotine pouches like Zyn.They’ll use them either as a disguise for nicotine pouch usage — caffeine and nicotine pouches often look virtually identical — or a complement to it, Gomez said.“They’ll use the Zyn pouches that they put in their lip, and then they’ll take a caffeine pouch,” he added. “They don’t care what it is they’re putting in their lip.”The use of caffeine…
Recently, I decided to watch The Brutalist — a movie that’s won multiple Academy Awards and has been widely praised by critics — with my wife. I got snacks from the kitchen, snuggled into my recliner, and prepared to be mesmerized by great art. Not even 10 minutes had passed before I reached for my smartphone. No one was calling me. I wasn’t expecting any texts, emails, or alerts. Yet, as the movie played, for reasons unknown even to me, I was staring at the tiny screen in my hand. Relentless phone-checking has become a regular occurrence in my life,…