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DOCTOR NO

Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment a shocking 111 times, denying Americans answers about COVID failures

A defiant Anthony Fauci refused to answer questions from Congress more than 100 times yesterday in a contentious hearing following the release of his pandemic diaries. He dodged queries about the

Wuhan lab, mandatory lockdowns and vaccines alike, saying he was invoking the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination.

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Zo bus vow un'fare' MTA OT mess on Hochul: Bruce

Hedging Sandean

共和党州长候选人 Bruce Blakeman 对现任州长 Hochul 在 MTA 支出飙升的问题上进行了猛烈抨击——但在《邮报》报道了加班费（OT）支出增加后，他表示支持运输机构工会中“勤奋工作的人员”。

身为拿骚县主管的 Blakeman 表示，MTA 预测的预算缺口——预计 2027 年为 $295 million，2028 年为 $507 million ——应当归咎于 Hochul 和 MTA 负责人 Janno Lieber 的管理以及不受控制的支出。

“我们不是收入问题，而是支出问题，”Blakeman 周三在宾夕法尼亚车站的一次新闻发布会上告诉记者，他是乘坐 LIRR 火车抵达该地的。

《邮报》周三的一篇报道显示，MTA 今年有望突破其 2025 年近 $1.5 billion 的加班费记录。

该报道称，近 1,000 名 MTA 员工在 2025 年获得的加班费超过了他们的基本工资。

当 LIRR 工会工人于 5 月举行罢工时，Blakeman 对这些高薪工人表示支持——尽管他们已经获得了丰厚的 4.5% 加薪，其本就可观的六位数基本年薪平均为 $136,000。

Hochul 的竞选代表 Ryan Radulovacki 辩称，Blakeman 支持总统特朗普威胁要扣押用于加速运输的联邦资金。

“Bruce Blakeman 不仅仅是听之任之，他还同意攻击纽约以推动 MAGA 的议程是正确的想法，”Radulovacki 说道。

一个支持 Blakeman 的超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）本周发布的一项民调发现，他仅落后 Hochul 4 个百分点，不过在其他调查中，他的落后幅度较大。

Hannah Fierick

STOP REQUESTED： MTA 负责人 Janno Lieber 敦促纽约人支付车费，因为在免费巴士承诺的刺激下，逃票者激增。

By HALEY BROWN

MTA 负责人 Janno Lieber 将市长 Mamdani 的“免费巴士”承诺归咎于逃票人数的激增，导致 6 月的付费乘车人数骤降 7.7%。

MTA 首席执行官在周三抨击那些在“人人免费乘坐”承诺下而变得胆大妄为的吝啬乘客时，没有点名提到 Mamdani —— 他称付费乘客的减少是“逃票的现实”。

“出现了一种趋势，”Lieber 在一次 MTA 董事会会议后告诉记者。“我并非恶意，但我说所有关于免费巴士的讨论都产生了影响。”Lieber 补充道：“我不是在责备任何人，但我们需要重新建立这一机制。”

MTA 文件显示，2026, 年 1 月、5 月和 6 月的月度付费乘车人数同比下降，2 月至 4 月无可用数据。

1 月份有 1.21 million 次付费工作日乘车，比 2025. 年下降 8.1%。上个月（6月）与 2025, 年 6 月（当时有 1.32 million 次付费乘车）相比骤降 7.7%，而 5 月份则下降了 10.4%。

Lieber 暗示，像 Mamdani 提出的那样承诺免费巴士，有助于使“乘客无需付费”的想法常态化。他敦促乘客支付费用，暗示逃票者不仅仅是那些负担不起 $3 车费的人。

“对于所有前往办公室工作、收入不错，却直接走过巴士司机而没有付费的人……你们只是将成本转嫁给了另一名纳税人。总得有人为那次乘车买单。”

他补充道：“请对这个宝贵的系统承担责任。这是一种公民责任，我们将不得不建立一个通过执法让每个人都理解并感到稍微公平一点的系统。”

Mamdani 将“快速且免费的巴士”作为其竞选的核心部分。

自就职以来，他继续宣传该计划，并引用 2023 年 MTA 的一项试点计划作为成功案例，该计划中机构测试了五条免费路线。

但 MTA 表示，这导致了超过 $16.5 million 的收入损失。Lieber 认为，使巴士免费将过于昂贵，且由州政府控制的 MTA 无法承担该成本。

尽管如此，他尚未直接批评 Mamdani。

根据独立预算办公室（Independent Budget Office）的数据，Mamdani 的免费巴士构想将耗资约 $1.1 billion。MTA 预计 2027 年将出现 $295 million 的赤字，2028, 年为 $507 million，2029 年为 $707 million。

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走！或者 穿尿布

该俱乐部引用了“卫生顾虑”，但费尔德（Feld）主张这些犬只经过了专业美容。

根据诉状，她称尿布的借口是涉嫌歧视的掩护。

她的诉讼称，费尔德“带着她的服务犬参加 NAC 活动大约 20 年，在本文所述的事件之前，从未收到过任何关于这些狗的投诉”。“[这]构成了非法的残疾歧视”。

该俱乐部否认她的主张，并坚称她的毛茸茸朋友两次在奢华的大楼内发生意外。

“在第一次事件中，狗弄脏了俱乐部的财产，对此已有记录。在另一次独立事件中，俱乐部私人会员区域内报告出现了与狗排尿一致的明显恶臭，”该俱乐部在新闻稿中表示。

“国家艺术俱乐部（The National Arts Club）否认费尔德女士毫无根据的主张。”

费尔德的律师拒绝评论。

附加报道：Natalie O'Neill 和 Joyce Cohen

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福奇博士的沉默

STEVEN W. MOSHER

尽管因其 COVID 罪行得到了总统乔·拜登（Joe Biden）的赦免，安东尼·福奇（Anthony Fauci）仍援引宪法第五修正案行使保持沉默的权利。

在由参议员兰德·保罗（Rand Paul）主持的国土安全委员会面前，尽管他免于被起诉，但他拒绝回答任何关于他在大流行政策中所扮演角色的问题。

我想我知道原因。

福奇在所有事情上都错了。从 COVID-19 的实验室起源到中国旅行禁令，从愚蠢的强制佩戴口罩到惩罚性的封锁，他的“遗产”是一个接一个的失误。

他的独裁指令使美国人的处境比原本的情况变得更糟，糟糕得多。

福奇在 1 月的广播采访中最初将武汉病毒描述为“对美国风险非常、非常低”。如果不是福奇在接下来的几个月里做出的一系列令人难以置信的错误判断，事实或许的确如此。

这些错误始于 2020 年初，当时特朗普总统想要实施旅行禁令。福奇博士强烈反对这一举措，坚称“旅行禁令没有效果”。

于是，载有感染乘客的中国飞机继续降落在纽约和其他美国城市。

破坏性的封锁

随着 COVID 在美国开始可预见的传播，福奇突然出现在所有广播频道中，警告冠状病毒具有多强的传染性甚至致命性。

2020 年 3 月，由于被一份预测病毒末日的英国大流行模型惊吓，他建议全国无限期关闭。他支持纽约市的就地避难令以及学校和“非必要”设施的关闭。

错误遗产无需辩护

小型企业。

这些举措剥夺了数千万儿童受教育的机会，导致大约 40 million 人失业，并几乎使美国经济破产。

福西所依赖的模型结果证明是算法垃圾，但这并未阻止这位美国最著名的病毒学家犯下教科书上所有的流行病学错误。

来自老年人口众多的意大利的早期证据表明，虽然新冠肺炎（COVID）仅给年轻人带来轻微感冒，但对老年人可能是致命的。纽约市的长期护理中心令人震惊地证实了这一点，那里的居民成千上万地被装在棺材里运走。

但福西并没有像斯科特·亚特拉斯（Scott Atlas）等专家建议的那样保护脆弱的老年人，反而公开攻击他们的观点是“胡说八道且非常危险”。他的解决方案——一项试图为美国每一个男人、女人和孩子接种疫苗的散弹式努力——导致了无数老年人的死亡，而如果他们被优先对待，其生命本可以被挽救。

从一开始就很明显，儿童死于 COVID-19 的风险实际上为零，远低于他们死于季节性流感的风险（而后者已经很低了）。然而，到 2020, 年 3 月初，福西就在大声呼吁全国关闭学校。

关闭美国的学校并没有挽救生命。但它确实对儿童的学业成绩和心理健康产生了破坏性影响。许多儿童在几乎一年没有学校教育或社交互动的情况下，遭受了严重的学习损失。

最危险的“功能增强”

当然，福齐（Fauci）的“原始大流行之罪”是资助中国实验室。这位国家过敏和传染病研究所的长期负责人是“功能增强”（gain of function）研究的主要支持者和资助者——这种危险的想法认为，可以在实验室中制造并研究致命病毒，以帮助预防下一次大流行。

如果武汉病毒研究所的负责人施正礼博士没有在福齐资助的实验室中学习这些技术，她将无法在自己的实验室中制造冠状病毒。而世界或许就能免于COVID大流行之苦。

无论福齐是否在无意中协助制造了COVID，一旦它从武汉出现，他就让一个糟糕的局面变得糟糕得多。

事实是，即便福齐主观尝试，也不可能在美国造成比这更多不必要的痛苦和死亡。

难怪他不想回答任何问题。

Steven W. Mosher 是《政治不正确的大流行指南》的作者，也是人口研究协会（Population Research Institute）的总裁。

作者：JOSH CHRISTENSON, ALLY GOELZ 和 RYAN KING

华盛顿 —— 安东尼·福齐博士（Dr. Anthony Fauci）作为联邦政府COVID大流行应对措施中无处不在的发言人而家喻户晓，周三在国会山令人震惊地行使了 111 次第五修正案权利——批评者称此举是对美国人的打脸。

在这次全国电视转播的参议院听证会上，福齐，85, 在关于美国历史上最前所未有时期之一的决策制定上，没有提供任何答案或澄清，而那段时期导致 1 million 以上的美国人死亡，更多的人仍在余波中挣扎。

相反，这位国家领先的传染病专家指责参议院国土安全委员会主席兰德·保罗（Rand Paul，共和党-肯塔基州）“执迷于要求起诉我”，并公开了他大流行期间记录的“未经删减的私人日记”。

保罗传唤了前国家过敏和传染病研究所负责人福齐，就美国资助中国武汉（COVID-19 发源地）风险研究的问题，以及他的行为是否导致了“人类历史上最大的人造瘟疫”进行作证。

在一个戏剧性的时刻，保罗将福齐的律师大卫·谢特勒（David Schertler）赶出了听证室，因为他无视主席重复的警告，试图代表该医生发言。

福齐决定重复行使第五修正案，这激怒了希望就官僚机构过度扩张对他进行盘问的共和党参议员。

这也引发了关于前总统乔·拜登在第 46 任总统离任前给福齐提供的全面赦免之限制的疑问，该赦免屏蔽了福齐在 1, 2014, 和 19, 2025 之间可能犯下的罪行。

“打脸”

由保罗领导的共和党人在福齐的日记公布后期待得到答案，尤其是因为他在 2019 到 2021, 期间的私人评论，与其就 COVID 起源以及谁应对大流行封锁负责而发表的公开声明相矛盾。

这场大流行在全球范围内夺走了 7 million 以上人的生命，导致美国学生的测试成绩跌至历史低点，并使美国经济损失数万亿美元。

“显然，你今天的想法是

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爆发

治疗

在参议院的僵局中 111 次请求行使第五修正案

相反的沉默： 周三，安东尼·福齐博士心不在焉地听取国土安全委员会参议员（包括插图中的 Josh Hawley）关于他处理美国应对 COVID-19 大流行及其他问题的提问——他拒绝回答这些问题。

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“蔑视”不可赦免：兰德

兰德·保罗（Rand Paul）参议员周三警告称，安东尼·福西（Anthony Fauci）博士获得乔·拜登（Joe Biden）总统的赦免，并不能使其免于因阻碍国会而受到起诉。

福西在参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会面前使用了 100 次以上的第五修正案权利，称他认为保罗（共和党-肯塔基州）试图陷害他，目的是将其投入监狱。

这位前联邦传染病机构负责人不再受拜登赦免令的保护，因为该赦免令仅免除福西在 Jan. 1, 2014, 和 Jan. 19, 2025 期间可能实施的非法行为。

保罗将委员会投票时间定在 8 月 5 日，以通过一项决议，认定福西因逃避回答问题而蔑视国会。

“你拒绝作证将产生后果，”保罗说道。Emily Goodin

“你竟然认为自己是不容指责的，”伯尼·莫雷诺（Bernie Moreno，共和党-俄亥俄州）参议员说道。随后他请求听众在符合以下情况时起立：“如果你因为称该病毒为‘武汉病毒’或‘中国病毒’而被指责为‘种族主义者’；如果你认为六英尺社交距离规定完全是胡扯……如果你认为口罩政策的推行方式令人愤怒；如果你因为不接种该疫苗而被解雇，包括军方成员在内；如果你认为关闭学校是灾难性的愚蠢。”

包括福克斯新闻（Fox News）主持人劳拉·英格拉汉姆（Laura Ingraham）在内的数人起立。

听证会后，前福克斯新闻气象学家珍妮丝·迪恩（Janice Dean）告诉《邮报》，福西援引第五修正案是给那些悲痛欲绝的家庭“又一次打脸”。迪恩的岳母和岳父是数千名在养老院死于新冠肺炎的老年人之一。

福西曾通过定期的新闻发布会和采访成为大流行期间的公众形象——但在宣誓后他却缄口不言。

“鉴于保罗参议员显然痴迷于要求起诉我，他对我重复发表诽谤性言论，以及最近公开我未删减的个人日记旨在让我难堪和恐吓我，我唯一能得出的结论是，他要求我出席本委员会的唯一原因，就是想让我说出某些话，无论什么话，只要能证明他多次公开承诺的——用他的话说，让我最终‘入狱’——是正确的，”福西在听证会上表示。

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五个最令人震惊的时刻

作者：JOSH CHRISTENSON

1 福西（Fauci）在面对能够挖掘出关于新冠疫情起源以及美国资助中国增强功能研究关键信息的提问时，至少 111 次行使了第五修正案的权利（拒绝回答）。

在另一个令人震惊的例子中，兰德·保罗（Rand Paul）参议员询问福西，中央情报局（CIA）是否曾资助国家过敏和传染病研究所（NIAID）。随后，国土安全委员会主席在听证会中透露，他已获得描述该跨机构支出协议的文件。

他还回避了关于其前高级顾问大卫·莫伦斯（David Morens）的问题，后者在 5 月被指控隐瞒和销毁联邦记录，并对此否认有罪。

“我们的调查显示，你的助手勤勉地报告称她在 2024. 年删除了大量电子邮件。你则作证说你没有删除联邦记录。谁在说谎？”保罗在某个时刻问道。

2 在质询开始半小时多后，经过一段紧张的交锋，保罗要求美国国会警察将福西的律师大卫·谢特勒（David Schertler，右上图）护送出听证会室。

目前尚不清楚谢特勒是否打算宣读他上个月发给保罗的一封信（理查德·布卢门撒尔（Richard Blumenthal，康涅狄格州民主党）参议员在听证会上提到了这封信）——但他多次试图插话，结果被主席喝止。

“我已经说完了，”谢特勒告诉保罗。信中提到保罗多次在公开声明中威胁要将福西入狱。

谢特勒是一位著名的辩护律师，曾代表乔·拜登的医生和前参议员鲍勃·梅嫩德斯（Bob Menendez，新泽西州民主党）。

3 委员会中的几名共和党人利用质询时间对福西的疫情政策进行猛烈抨击。

“在冠状病毒疫情最严重的时期，俄亥俄州有一位母亲决定去参加她儿子的高中足球赛，”伯尼·莫雷诺（Bernie Moreno，俄亥俄州共和党）参议员讲述道。“他们坐

在远处，远离所有人——只有母亲、父亲和几个孩子……在室外。”

“他们被从体育场里拖出来并被逮捕了，”莫雷诺愤怒地说道。“我对自己说，‘我不能坐视不管。’……六年后的今天，我坐在你面前问你，你他妈地以为自己是谁，竟然做出那种事？”

阿什利·穆迪（Ashley Moody，佛罗里达州共和党）参议员将注意力转向了福西新公布的 NIAID 日记，福西承认这些日记是真实的。穆迪指出了日记中的片段，他在其中回忆道，在与时任市长比尔·德布拉西奥（Bill de Blasio）和总统特朗普的对话中，他曾推动实施封锁——尽管他公开否认过这样做。她追问道：“你公开告诉美国人民你没有建议封锁任何地方，这与你自己的日记条目如何自圆其说？”

4 乔什·霍利（Josh Hawley，密苏里州共和党）参议员指责福西利用 NIAID 工作人员争取奖金。

“你利用联邦雇员……为你个人申请并争取现金奖金——现金奖金总额超过 $1 million，”霍利斥责道。

他列举了阿德尔森奖（Adelson Prize）、史密森尼奖（Smithsonian Award）、国家医学科学院奖以及 CDC 基金会奖等。

作为回应，福西援引了其第五修正案的权利。

5 乔尼·恩斯特（Joni Ernst，艾奥瓦州共和党）参议员披露，福西批准在“小鼠研究中使用堕胎胎儿身体部位”。

“由 NIH 资助的冠状病毒研究员拉尔夫·巴里克（Ralph Baric）博士及其在北卡罗来纳大学（UNC）的同事，将来自近 5 个月大堕胎人类胎儿的肝脏、胸腺部分及肺块植入其中，”恩斯特说。“他们将这些部位放入研究用小鼠体内。他们恶心地将其命名为‘BLT-L’小鼠，并写道他们创建了一个‘小鼠体内的堕胎身体部位三明治’。”

在被恩斯特问及是否支持这种研究方法时，福西再次拒绝回答。

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“锤子狂人”已被逮捕 53 次

一次又一次 被释放 . . .

作者：KEVIN SHEEHAN, JOE MARINO 以及 JORGE FITZ-GIBBON

一名被逮捕过 53 次的职业罪犯本周涉嫌将一名 19 岁女性追入一所皇后区犹太学校，由于该州 2020 年的刑事司法改革，他多次被无保释金释放。

Shaleek Brunson，42 岁，周三因在埃尔姆赫斯特（Elmhurst）的皇后区犹太学院（Jewish Institute of Queens）发生的事件而被指控袭击、威胁、盗窃和持有武器，但这些指控均不适用保释金，这意味着他可能再次被直接释放。

警方指控，持有锤子的 Brunson 跟踪了该受害者（一名陌生人），随后该女性在周二上午跑进学校。他在那里与一名安保人员发生冲突，随后被拘留。

Brunson 刚刚在周五于曼哈顿被捕，涉嫌从 Bergdorf Goodman 盗窃价值 $1,300 的物品。在该案中，他被指控犯有重窃罪和持有赃物罪，但在周日的提审中被无保释金释放。

7 月 10 日，他因两天前的一起事件在皇后区被指控轻微盗窃，并被转介至一项替代干预计划，但同样被无保释金释放。

根据法院记录，他此前还面临另一起 4 月份发生在皇后区的轻微盗窃和持有赃物指控。

执法部门消息人士表示，Brunson 还有另外 24 次逮捕记录，目前已被封存。

消息人士称，他过去与布鲁克林 Louis Pink Houses 的一个帮派有联系，且有长期的心理健康相关发病史。

消息人士表示，他的犯罪记录还包括一次 2025 年的抢劫逮捕，具体细节尚未公开。

Brunson 在周二被捕后住院，他在皇后区刑事法院的提审在周三仍处于待定状态。

在这次事件中，警方称 Brunson 在上午 10:50 左右在 Hoffman Drive 和 Woodhaven Boulevard 开始跟踪该女性。

动机未知

据称他跟随她进入室内，并在那里与安保人员发生冲突，导致一名 8 岁男孩被撞到

一周内第二次被捕： 周二，在 Shaleek Brunson（左下及面部照片）涉嫌持锤子（右下，已作为证据封袋）在皇后区追赶一名女性后，警方对其进行看守。

地上并撞到头部，警方表示。

警方尚未透露是什么原因促使他跟踪该女性。

消息人士称该女性并非犹太人，非营利公共安全巡逻组织 Queens Shmira 的一名代表表示，他们可以“确认这次事件并非仇恨犯罪”。

代表该社区的市议员 Phil Wong 周二表示，他很感激没有人受到严重伤害。

“我为受伤的孩子、寻求庇护的……女性以及所有受此次事件影响的人祈祷，”Wong 说道。

Kyle Schnitzer 参与了额外报道

法官给予冲撞寺庙者缓刑

一名将汽车冲入布鲁克林标志性犹太会堂的精神失常男子将在本周内获释，一名联邦法官周三决定——同时，他痛斥检察官基于对该恐怖事件为仇恨犯罪的“误解”而请求更严厉量刑的做法。

布鲁克林联邦法官 Eric Vitaliano 批评美国司法部试图对患有精神疾病的新泽西州居民 Dan Sohail（36 岁）判处 14 个月的监禁，称其目的是为了震慑他人不再实施反犹太主义犯罪。

“这里指控的是财产犯罪，而非仇恨犯罪，”Vitaliano 在 Sohail 的量刑听证会上愤怒地表示。

对于此类指控（初犯财产犯罪）的联邦量刑指南，建议监禁时间约为六个月。

Sohail 在 1 月 28 日因在克朗海茨 (Crown Heights) 的 770 Eastern Parkway（哈巴德-卢巴维奇哈西迪运动总部）发生车祸后被捕，此前已在狱中度过了六个月。

判处已服刑时间加上七天，这意味着 Sohail 很可能在下周的某个时间点获释。

此次车祸造成了 $19,000 的财产损失，Sohail 被命令偿还该款项。Ben Kochman

青少年电动车骑手丧生

警方表示，一名 17 岁的电动自行车骑手在周三早高峰期间，在市政厅附近冲进一辆行驶中的 SUV 而死亡。

当局表示，来自布鲁克林的 Gabriel Nacato 在上午 9 点前正沿着 Centre Street 向北骑行，在繁忙的 Chambers Street 交叉路口附近，他驶离自行车道进入了机动车道。

警方和执法部门消息人士称，就在那时，Nacato 撞上了一辆同向行驶的 2008 年黑色雪佛兰 Tahoe。

接警的急救人员在现场宣布他死亡，该地点距离纽约警局 (NYPD) 总部和下曼哈顿法院仅几个街区。

警方称，Tahoe 的司机是一名 40 岁的女性，她留在现场，未面临任何指控。

消息人士称，在发现这名致命伤的电动车骑手时，他随身携带了一张学校身份证件，且体内未检测出酒精或药物。纽约警局的碰撞调查小组正在调查此事件。

车祸发生在进入繁忙的公民中心区域的布鲁克林大桥出口匝道附近。

Joe Marino 和 Amanda Woods

搜寻地震受害者

周三，救援人员在一次 71 级地震袭击日本南部的一天后，在废墟中紧急搜寻幸存者。此次地震造成至少 13 人死亡，导致数千户家庭停电，并造成该地区道路破裂。

在熊本市附近一家部分坍塌的购物中心废墟中救出了八人，该商场在周二地震发生一小时多后因爆炸而损毁。其中三人死亡。

“还有人在等待救援，这是一场与时间的赛跑，”首相高市早苗 (Sanae Takaichi) 告诉记者。路透社

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Katy 的粉丝将她困在“瓶子”里

Katy Perry 在马耳他的一场演唱会上被她的粉丝们“带偏”了。

在 7 月 22 日担任 Isle of MTV 音乐节压轴表演期间，这位流行巨星经历了一个类似“This Is Spinal Tap”的瞬间：她暂时被困在一个由数千名观众举起的巨大充气水瓶中。

在演唱 2008 年的热门歌曲《I Kissed a Girl》时，Perry 在充气瓶穿过人群时进入其中。然而，这一特技很快变成了混乱，因为粉丝们将她向人群后方移动，而不是向预定方向——即舞台附近的一根巨型吸管方向。

“把我带到那根吸管那里去！”当瓶子继续向错误方向漂移时，Perry 对人群喊道。“快，继续移动！”这位歌手恳求道，“回到舞台去！我的天呐！”

最终，她被移回舞台并继续演唱。

“谢谢你们把我带回来，”她告诉粉丝。Jolie Zenna

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汽水的秘密

如果你下次买的 Coca-Cola 或 Pepsi 罐身多了一些东西，请不要感到惊讶。

全美最大的几家饮料公司正悄悄在包装上添加 QR 码，允许购物者扫描以获取更多关于饮料成分的信息。这些代码并不会取代“营养成分表”标签。

这项由美国饮料协会（American Beverage Association）领导的努力，涵盖了 Coca-Cola Co.、PepsiCo 和 Polar Beverages 的品牌。扫描该代码会将消费者引导至一个名为 Good to Know 的网站，该网站解释了饮料中常见的 140 种以上成分。Adam Silverstein

损失更多的人

作者：RACHEL SACKS

这是一场性别之战。新研究显示，女性在使用 GLP-1 减肥药后减轻的体重磅数比男性更多。

在一项涉及 1,000 名患者的研究中，女性在使用 Mounjaro 药物一年多后，减轻的体重显著高于男性。

研究人员测量了三个年龄组（按性别划分）的总体重减轻百分比：45 岁以下成年人、46 至 59 岁之间的人以及 60 岁及以上的人。

在连续治疗 15 个月后，女性减轻了 15% 的体重，而男性则接近 11%。

研究人员还检查了可能影响减重数量的其他因素。

使用 GLP-1 的女性减重效果优于男性

虽然 45 岁以下的参与者减重比 60 岁以上的人更多（年轻组为 15%，而年长组为 12%），但年龄并非结果最强的预测指标。

女性面临的挑战

除了女性身份外，在不患有 2 型糖尿病、此前从未使用过减肥药且服用较高剂量替泽帕肽（tirzepatide）的人群中，也观察到了更大的减重幅度。

由于肌肉量较低、激素波动以及身体存储脂肪方式的差异等原因，女性在历史上减轻体重的难度一直更大。

然而，其他研究也发现，女性在服用 GLP-1 类药物（包括替泽帕肽和 Ozempic）时，往往比男性减轻更多体重。

在一项针对近 20,000 名服用司美格鲁肽（semaglutide）和度拉格鲁肽（dulaglutide）等药物的人员的荟萃分析中，女性减轻了约 11% 的体重，而男性对应数值约为 7%。

研究人员再次比较了可能影响减重的因素，包括年龄、种族、族裔和身体质量指数（BMI），发现性别是与差异最大相关的因素。

关于为什么女性的结果截然不同，有几种理论。

一种理论集中在女性身体清除血液中药物的速度比男性慢。激素也可能增强 GLP-1 的效果，特别是雌激素，它有助于调节食欲、饱腹感、能量利用和胰岛素敏感性。

而且，Mounjaro 对女性的益处可能不仅限于缩小腰围。

其他研究还发现，服用 GLP-1 药物的女性患乳腺癌的可能性可能较低。

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女士之友： Thirty Seconds to Mars 的主唱在 2020 年 8 月克罗地亚 Obonjan 私人岛上为乐队粉丝举行的健康静修活动中，看起来像个邪教领袖。

Thirty Seconds to Mars

私人岛上的诡异“邪教”静修营

作者：AUDREY ROCK

在贾里德·莱托（Jared Leto）的性侵丑闻爆发前数年——在一部新的BBC纪录片中，四名女性指控这位奥斯卡奖得主在她们青少年时期存在性行为不端——他曾被指控领导一个看似“邪教”的组织。

2020年8月，这位“三十秒对火星”（Thirty Seconds to Mars）乐队的主唱在克罗地亚无人居住的私人岛屿奥邦扬岛（Obonjan）举办了一场名为“火星岛”（Mars Island）的健康静修活动——表面上是面向其乐队粉丝群体（被称为 The Echelon）的。

在这次无酒精的静修活动中，据称参与者们游泳、日光浴、在海滩上散步并练习瑜伽，同时表达他们对这位《达拉斯买家俱乐部》演员及其乐队的崇敬。

但根据 Air Mail 的报道——该媒体在 2025 年发布了关于莱托涉嫌对九名女性实施性行为不端的描述，莱托对此均予以否认——绝大多数为女性的参与者还“与莱托一起穿着卡夫坦长袍，赤脚地冥想、吟诵和休息”。

尽管这位《古驰之梦》影星的乐队将其称为“精神静修”，但该节日的整体氛围引发了人们广泛将其与邪教相类比。

在一段照片中，这位《梦魇》影星（现年 54 岁）被拍到站在悬崖上举起双臂，而他的粉丝站在他下方，同样伸展开双臂，这让猜测达到了顶点。

其他分享到社交媒体的图片显示，粉丝们坐在地板上，听坐在凳子上的莱托对他们讲话。“是的，这是一个邪教，”三十秒对火星乐队在 2019 年发布的一条推文中写道，并加上了标签“#MarsIsland”。

马里布“火星营”

在多张图片中，莱托和他的粉丝在这次沉浸式的三天静修活动中都穿着白色，据称参加此次活动的费用超过 $6,499。

在“火星岛”之前，三十秒对火星乐队曾在 2015 年在加州马里布启动了一个仅限成年人的活动，名为“火星营”（Camp Mars）——这是一个充满篝火、射箭、徒步和音乐的周末粉丝静修营，并在每晚的“火星教堂”演唱会中达到高潮。火星营的最后一次活动是在 2019 年。

尽管这些活动引起了关注，但根据 L'Officiel 的报道，乐队通过“利用记者告诉他们拥有‘邪教般追随者’”这一点，而将自己推向了这种“邪教”形象。

事实上，在一张似乎拍摄于 2019 年火星岛的照片中，莱托被拍到穿着一件写有“这是一个邪教”（This is a Cult）的衬衫。

4 人指控

作者：ADAM SILVERSTEIN

贾里德·莱托被四名女性指控涉嫌性行为不端，她们声称这些行为发生在她们青少年时期。

BBC 报道称，这些指控在新的 BBC 纪录片《贾里德·莱托：好莱坞的黑暗秘密》中得到了详细阐述，源于 2002 年至 2016 年间（当时他处于 30 多岁和 40 多岁）与这位奥斯卡奖得主的涉嫌接触。

这四名女性在涉嫌袭击发生时年龄在 16 岁到 19 岁之间，在纪录片中被标识为“Isabel”、“Alex”、“Clara”和“Etta”，但这并非她们的真实姓名。

“Isabel”指控这位现年 54 岁的《达拉斯买家俱乐部》影星在 2002 年她 17 岁时，在一家汽车旅馆的浴室里对她实施了性侵。

“Clara”指控她在 2006 年 17 岁时在加利福尼亚州与莱托发生了性关系，而该州的法定性同意年龄为 18 岁。

她声称，莱托在谈到该州的性同意年龄时“不屑一顾”。

至于“Alex”，她声称在 2013 年她 19 岁时，在一家酒店房间内意外地与他单独相处，随后这位《自杀小队》演员威胁要对她实施性侵。

“Etta”进一步指控莱托在一年后她 16 岁时对其进行了诱导（groomed），包括多次拨打具有性暗示的电话，并至少在一次场合暗示他们应该发生性关系。

两年后，“Etta”声称她收到了一份旨在防止她讨论两人关系的保密协议，但她拒绝签署。BBC 表示已审阅了该文件。16,

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另外四名女性声称，她们在年轻时收到过来自 Leto 异常且通常带有性意味的电话。

另一名在纪录片中被命名为“Taylor”的女性指控，她在 14 岁时，Leto 在一次签名会上对她的胸部发表性评论后，指示一名安保人员将她带到音乐节的后台。她声称她的母亲与他对质，但他重复了该评论。

“这是 25 年前的事了……他逃脱了惩罚，”一名指控者在纪录片中说道。

BBC 表示，它通过当时接触的朋友和家人，以及照片、信息和其他支持材料，证实了部分女性陈述的数量。

该纪录片还采访了两名多年与 Leto 的乐队“三十秒到火星”（Thirty Seconds to Mars）共事的男性。

他们声称，员工们对这位演员与十几岁女孩的互动感到不适，指称他有时邀请她们去他的后台化妆间或他录音的房子。一名前员工声称：“我认为每个人都觉得年龄差距太大了。”

当被要求就这些新指控发表评论时，Leto 在给 Page Six 的一份声明中表示：“我一生中从未性侵过任何人。这些指控绝对且完全是虚假的。”

这些指控增加了相关主张。

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喜爱青少年的 LETO

BBC 纪录片中女性对演员兼音乐家 Jared Leto 的指控，范围从简单的令人毛骨悚然的行为到恐吓以及无视法定同意年龄。

“ISABEL”

声称她在 17 岁时的 2002 年被 Leto 性侵。

在拉斯维加斯一家“Isabel”工作的商店相遇后，Leto 涉嫌邀请她前往一家“阴暗恶心的汽车旅馆”，在那位《恐慌室》主演涉嫌洗澡时，将她叫进浴室谈话。

“我认为没有交流多少话，他就拉开浴帘开始亲我，” “Isabel” 解释道，并声称 Leto 随后抓住她的手并用它自慰。

“Isabel” 进一步指控，当她告诉 Leto 她想离开时，他披上浴巾并检查房间外是否有人，然后才让她离开。

纪录片指控演员“性行为不端”

“ALEX”

一名模特前任，她指控 Leto 在 2013 年她 19 岁时，在两人意外地在酒店房间单独相处后，威胁要对她进行性侵。

她声称她去伦敦参加了 Leto 乐队的演唱会，随后被他的女性助手邀请参加派对。

“Alex” 指控她谎称自己 17 岁，而当时 41 岁的 Leto 涉嫌回答道：“年龄只是一个数字，而且无论如何我们现在在欧洲。”

派对结束后，“Alex” 涉嫌被 Leto 的一名助手鼓励前往附近的一家酒店。当她到达时，惊讶地发现 Leto 独自一人在“非常昏暗”的房间里。

根据 “Alex” 的说法，Leto 拒绝给她手机充电器或现金以便她回家。随后她询问 Leto 是否可以在房间的长椅上睡觉，但 Leto 涉嫌告诉她，如果她那样做，她醒来时会发现“一个 d-k 在她的 a-...”

在 Leto 涉嫌多次做出该评论后，“Alex” 说她意识到自己“不安全”并逃离了房间。

“Alex” 告诉 BBC，她认为这次酒店遭遇是“精心策划”的。

'CLARA'

她声称在 2006 年的一次 Thirty Seconds to Mars 演唱会上与 Leto 相识，当时她 17 岁，他 34, 岁。据称，该歌手的一名助手为 Leto 获取了她的电话号码。

演唱会后，“Clara”和 Leto 据称回到了他位于加利福尼亚州的家中并发生了性关系，而她的朋友在另一个房间等待。

“他告诉我说，‘我想让你叫我爸爸，’”她在纪录片中声称。“要么假装成一个小女孩，要么是‘我的小女孩’。”

“Clara”声称她当时“非常天真且脆弱”，没有意识到 Leto 的行为是不“正常”的。“只有随着时间的推移，我才越来越意识到那真的很可怕，”她补充道。“Clara”还声称，这位《搏击俱乐部》的明星对关于加利福尼亚州法定同意年龄的对话“不以为意”。

“对他来说这并不是什么大问题，”她指控道，并补充说，“一个 30 多岁且心态正常的男人，不会看着一个青少年然后认为……‘她会是一个完美的伴侣’。”

“Clara”声称她总共访问了 Leto 的家三四次。

这些年来浮出水面的针对 Leto 的指控。

'不断发短信'

去年，洛杉矶 DJ Allie Teilz 在社交媒体上指控 Leto 在她 17 岁时对她实施了袭击，这促使其他女性也提出了类似的指控。

在 2025. 年 6 月由 Air Mail 发布的一篇文章中，有九名女性指控 Leto 存在性行为不端。Leto 否认了这些指控。

《邮报》在 2005 年 9 月报道称，Leto 正在向纽约市 Maritime 酒店的所有青少年模特“搭讪”，并“不断给这些其他 16 和 17 岁的女孩发短信”。

Leto 自 1990 年代以来一直是好莱坞著名的演员，他在 2014 年凭借《达拉斯买家俱乐部》获得奥斯卡最佳男配角奖，最近主演了《宇宙主宰》。

他在 1998, 年于洛杉矶组建了摇滚乐队 Thirty Seconds to Mars，该团体在全球范围内销售了超过 15 million 张专辑。

如果您或您认识的人受到本故事中提到的任何问题的影响，请拨打性侵犯热线 1-800-330-0226。

事态严重： 电影明星 Jared Leto（上图，在 2016 年的《自杀小队》中饰演小丑）正面临女性的性行为不端指控，这些女性表示她们当时是青少年。

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争夺伊朗之战

与伊朗肩并肩： 中国军队展示了据报道将运往伊朗的高科技肩扛式导弹。

作者：CHRIS NESI

在与美国的战争不断升级——目前已进入第六个月——之际，伊朗准备接收来自中国的第一批肩扛式导弹发射器。

这笔价值 $60-$70 million 的交易最早由路透社报道，是该政权自 2 月份战争爆发以来，为增强其短程防空能力所做的最高调的努力之一，也暴露了其在面对美国和以色列的空中轰炸时，无法保卫军事站点和战略基础设施的无能。

消息人士告诉该媒体，根据合同，将在接下来的几周内向德黑兰交付 300 至 400 套单兵便携式防空系统（MANPADS），并配备中国制造的 QW-12 和 FN-16 导弹。

中国迅速淡化了这一交易的消息，其外交部将该报道斥为

战争的沉重“代价”

据知情人士透露，受伊朗支持的胡塞恐怖组织正考虑效仿伊朗在霍尔木兹海峡的收费计划，对航经红海南部海域的船只征收费用。

消息人士告诉路透社，这个总部位于也门的反政府武装组织正寻求通过完全控制巴布曼代以海峡（该海峡连接红海南部与亚丁湾），从而扩大伊朗对该地区油轮运输和全球燃料供应的控制。

据称，该计划是在胡塞官员本月早些时候在停火期间前往伊朗，参加遇刺的最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊（Ayatollah Ali Khamenei）的葬礼之后制定的。Ronny Reyes

“完全毫无根据”，并坚持该国“一直发挥着促进和平、结束冲突的作用。”

伊朗外交部未回应路透社的置评请求。

经过数月的战争，以色列和美国无情地打击了伊朗的导弹、无人机和防空阵地，德黑兰发现自己迫切需要重新武装。

中国制造的导弹发射器的交付将显著增强伊朗的军力，并凸显两国军事关系令人不安的深度。

路透社消息人士称，这些交付将通过巴基斯坦进行。

然而，巴基斯坦军队的公共关系部门否认参与，称：“关于巴基斯坦参与从中国向伊朗供应防空武器的猜测完全是杜撰且虚假的。”

特朗普总统周六宣布，美国将暂停对伊朗的空袭，但告诉记者，如果在谈判中我们不能获得 100% 的要求，全面战争可能会回归。

伊朗官员公开反击美国的压力，而德黑兰内部对于外交还是对抗是最佳前进路径仍存在分歧。

特朗普反击德黑兰

为了应对伊斯兰共和国针对驻扎在约旦的美国军队发起的突然导弹袭击，特朗普总统在周三兑现了他的誓言，要将伊朗“狠狠地痛击一番”（beat the f-king s-t out of）。

“我们将重击他们，”特朗普在周三早些时候的一次简短采访中告诉福克斯新闻首席外交事务记者特雷·英斯特（Trey Yingst）。“他们将遭到教训。”

晚上 8 p.m.，美军采取了行动——美国中央司令部在 X 上宣布，对伊朗发起了一波持续两小时的“密集打击”。

该作战司令部在声明中表示：“中央司令部（CENTCOM）的资产打击了伊朗境内数十个伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）的目标，包括军事指挥中心、导弹和无人机设施、海岸监视与防御阵地以及海上作战能力。”

据伊朗国家媒体报道，在霍尔木兹海峡的格什姆岛（Qeshm）遭受袭击中，至少有两人受伤。

此次最新打击是在美国和沙特阿拉伯于周二在遭遇伏击企图后，已经对伊拉克的亲伊朗恐怖分子发起联合打击之后进行的。

特朗普在任务开始前加倍强调了他的威胁，称现在轮到美国反击了，伊朗需要被狠狠教训一下。

Ryan King and Emily Goodin

Don 与 Bibi 策划下一步行动

以色列高级官员表示，特朗普总统与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡周二重点讨论了周三结束与伊朗战争的“三大”选项，并在一次“冷静”的对话中提出了新想法——例如通过陆路切断伊朗的贸易。

“通常会有更多笑话。总统通常要愉快得多，”一名在场参与讨论的以色列官员周三告诉记者。“这次是一次非常、非常严肃的对话——是理智层面的。”

两国领导人重点关注三条旨在终止伊朗核计划并迫使其重新开放霍尔木兹海峡的战略路线：达成一项良好的协议、收紧围绕德黑兰的经济绞索以及扩大军事行动。

另一位以色列高级官员表示，内塔尼亚胡“没有告诉总统”选择哪一项，也没有就特朗普将采取哪条路径做出决定。

“我们所做工作的价值在于……我认为我们增加了一些新想法，”该人士说道。Caitlin Doornbos

爱国者导弹即将耗尽

据一份报告称，自伊朗战争开始以来，美国已使用了三分之二的爱国者导弹拦截弹，且该地区的无人机和导弹袭击正在进一步消耗这些库存。

战略与国际研究中心（CSIS）智库表示，在战争之前，美国拥有超过 2,700 枚用于爱国者和反弹道 THAAD 系统的导弹。截至周一，供应量已少于 1,000 枚。

尽管美国的拦截率几乎完美，但仍有几次伊朗袭击实现了突破，CSIS 警告称，库存的减少可能会使美国士兵和军事基地面临风险。Ronny Reyes, With Wires

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JOSH FELKER Meta 员工“与青少年发送色情短信”。

Grassley 痛斥 Zuck

在一名曾创建“儿童数字体验”的前公司工程师在镜头前承认试图与一名 13 岁少年发送色情信息后，参议员 Chuck Grassley 要求 Meta 首席执行官 Mark Zuckerberg 给出答复。

担任参议院临时议长的 Grassley（共和党-爱荷华州）在工程经理 Josh Felker 做出令人不安的供述后，向 Facebook 创始人发送了一封严厉的信函。Felker 在 Predator Poachers Long Island 的一次卧底行动中被抓获。

44 岁的 Felker 已被 Facebook 母公司停职。他在一段现已疯传的视频中向该组织承认自己正在诱导并与一名“青少年女孩”（该女孩并不真实存在）发送色情信息，并于 7 月 15 日被逮捕。

“这些指控引发了关于 Meta 内部治理、员工筛选、信任与安全文化以及员工管控的重大问题，”Grassley 在信中写道，并引用了《邮报》关于此次卧底行动的独家报道。

信中补充道：“它们还引发了关于 Meta 在识别、调查和应对员工不当行为方面流程的疑问。” Brandon Cruz

作者：PRISCILLA DeGREGORY 和 GEORGIA WORRELL

马萨诸塞州母亲 Lindsay Clancy 在周三反复抽泣，此时检察官展示了她的三个幼子在被她杀害时穿着的睡衣——随后播放了她的丈夫在回家面对惨剧后拨打的揪心 911 电话，他在电话中一度哀求道：“孩子们在哪里，Lindsay？”

审判的第二天包括丈夫 Patrick Clancy 证词的结束，以及令人心碎的证据，这些证据让法庭陷入死寂，甚至让一名资深记者称其为“在我 43 年职业生涯中听到的真正最糟糕的事情之一”。

Lindsay 申诉精神错乱，并主张自己在杀害孩子时患有产后精神病，且从未得到适当治疗。检察官则称她的行为揭示其是一个精心策划的凶手。

普利茅斯县助理地区检察官 Jennifer Sprague 展示了那些微小的衣物，以及 Clancy 在 2023 年 1 月于波士顿地区家中致命地勒死 5 岁 Cora、3 岁 Dawson 和 8 个月大 Callan 时使用的三根运动弹力带。

与此同时，Clancy 在展示过程中似乎将头转向一边，并用纸巾擦拭眼睛。

Patrick Clancy 惊慌失措的 911 电话也被播放给陪审团——不过，由于法官 William Sullivan 上周批准了 Patrick 关于不对外广播该记录的请求，只有法庭内的人员听到了这段揪心的录音。

“孩子们在哪里？”

可以听到父亲在哀求妻子告诉他孩子们发生了什么。

“孩子们在哪里，Lindsay？”在电话中可以听到 Patrick 这样问她。“你是不是从窗户掉下来了，Lindsay？你摔了吗？你的脖子上有什么东西吗，Lindsay？”

Patrick 办完事回家后发现屋内死一般寂静。他发现他的妻子（一名产科护士）仰面躺在后院里，位于她尝试自杀跳下的二楼卧室窗户下方。她的手腕和脖子被割伤且血迹斑斑。

被杀孩子的睡衣创伤

随后他跑进屋内，在急救人员到达时，发现孩子们在地下室被勒死了。

随后可以听到 Patrick 在尖叫，说他在地下室需要帮助。

“她杀了孩子们！”他在通话中大喊。

当通话录音播放时，Lindsay 明显在抽泣，在被轮椅推出法庭休息时她仍在继续哭泣。

在早些时候 Patrick 的证词中， he 描述了在 24, 2024 年 1 月晚上去餐厅取药和外卖后返回家中的情况。“房子里非常安静，”他说。

Patrick 向地下室喊话但没有人回答，于是他走到楼上，以为孩子们在洗澡——但他仍然没有发现任何人。

他走向他与 Lindsay 的卧室，但门锁住了，他作证说，就在那时“我知道出问题了”。

这位父亲用钥匙打开房间，看到了“到处是血”以及窗户开着。

波音在空军一号 $22B “达勒斯”重建中遭遇波折

波音公司在周二的一次财报电话会议上宣布，在努力交付两架新的空军一号总统专机期间，最近再次遭受了巨大的财务打击。

这家飞机制造商报告称，与这一长期延迟的项目相关地产生了额外的 $280 million 损失——该项目的成本超支目前已超过 $3 billion。

“虽然这项支出令人失望，但我们意识到进度执行对于我们的客户至关重要，因此我们正在相应地进行投资，以维持我们在 2028 年交付飞机的承诺，”波音公司首席执行官 Kelly Ortberg 表示。

他将最新的损失归因于公司决定“增加大量资源以支持两架波音 747, 军用版本的制造和测试计划”，他表示这将“有助于减轻认证和飞行测试期间的潜在风险”。

根据特朗普总统在 2018, 年与波音公司签署的 $3.9 billion 合同条款，该国防承包商负责与该项目相关的所有成本超支。

该公司目前预计在“mid-2028”交付第一架飞机，并在“2029 年中期”交付第二架。

Victor Nava

华盛顿 —— 特朗普总统宣布将投入 $22.5 billion 对达勒斯国际机场进行翻修，包括拆除类似“星球大战”的自动导轨运输系统。

“这是对华盛顿那个设计极其糟糕的达勒斯国际机场的一次迟到已久的翻新和重建，”总统说道。

特朗普长期以来一直贬低这座距离华盛顿 20 英里、陈旧的机场，尤其是那些自动导轨运输系统。

交通部长 Sean Duffy 表示，它们看起来“像是来自《星球大战》……而且速度很慢”。

该项目将通过一系列债券及由航空公司共同支付。

Emily Goodin

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THE RED APPLE

Zo won't keep me out: Bibi

ZO 驳回

作者：MATTHEW FISCHETTI, CARL CAMPANILE, CRAIG McCARTHY 和 CHRIS NESI

以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）周二誓言将于 9 月访问纽约，尽管“散布仇恨”的市长曼达尼（Mamdani）呼吁因其在加沙涉嫌战争罪行而将其逮捕。

在接受福克斯新闻（Fox News）主持人肖恩·汉尼提（Sean Hannity）采访时，当被问及曼达尼上周宣布由于国际刑事法院在 2024 年发布的逮捕令，内塔尼亚胡在“大苹果”城“不受欢迎”一事时，内塔尼亚胡表示：“首先，我要去纽约。”

“我肯定会去那里，”这位以色列总理说道。“我将在那个散布仇恨的民选官员面前讲述真相，他正煽动一群纽约人对抗另一群纽约人。”

内塔尼亚胡特别指责曼达尼将其支持者转而“反对纽约犹太人”。

“我的意思是，我们现在是在 1930 年代吗？”他补充道。“你知道，有这么多仇恨，这么多谎言，而且你知道那个关于国际刑事法院（ICC）的大谎言……那是一个腐败、邪恶的组织。”

曼达尼在 7 月 21 日的一段视频中承认，如果内塔尼亚胡访问纽约，他没有法律权力将其逮捕——但他抨击内塔尼亚胡是一个不受欢迎的“战争罪犯”。Victor Nava

女演员：禁止其参加 9/11 纪念活动

在 9/11 恐怖袭击期间身在纽约市的女演员帕特里夏·希顿（Patricia Heaton）与受害者家属一起，呼吁禁止市长曼达尼参加世贸中心遗址（Ground Zero）的 25 周年纪念仪式。

这位 68 岁的《雷蒙我最爱》（Everybody Loves Raymond）明星在 X 平台上向其 500,000 多名粉丝支持了由 9/11 受害者家属发起的请愿，截至周三，该请愿已征集到近 45,000 个签名。

“继续努力，纽约人，”这位保守派女演员在周一转发 Change.org 的请愿链接时赞赏道。

希顿的帖子中包含一张截图，内容是一位在恐怖袭击中失去兄弟的家属在请愿书上留下的评论。Ella Morrison

市长曼达尼周三对纽约人的担忧不屑一顾，这些人认为他们被州政府新推出的“pied-à-terre”（度假房）税错误地瞄准了——而这位市长此前数月一直声称该税项将仅针对富有的外地人。

关于该市究竟如何确定谁将成为这项新批准税收的征收对象，问题一直围绕不休，但曼达尼和市财政局局长理查德·李（Richard Lee）都无法提供明确的答案。

市长曾多次坚持认为，只有在纽约市拥有第二套房产的富裕业主才会受到该附加税的挤压，但一些全职居民在收到财政局（DOF）发出的通知，称他们“可能”需要承担一份高达五位数的额外税单后，对此表示强烈不满。

在一次无关的新闻发布会上，记者向曼达尼和李追问，财政局在向长期居住的当地人发出可能错误的通知之前，是否应该在审核邮寄名单时更加勤勉。

“我想说的是，财政局确定了可能需要缴纳附加税的房屋，因为我们知道这是针对价值超过 $5 million 的非主要住所征收的附加税，”市长说道，实质上只是重复了新税收的条款。

官僚主义噩梦

“根据法律要求，财政局向房主发送了信息资源，以确保他们了解该税收，了解他们面前的选择，并且如果他们认为该税收不适用于他们，他们有时间能够提起申诉，”他说。

但认为自己被错误收费的纽约人现在必须在 8 月 21 日之前，经历一些人所描述的“官僚主义噩梦”来申诉该决定——并证明财政局是错误的。

当被随后问到“为什么纽约人要承担修复此问题的任务？”时，曼达尼没有回应。他反而选择仅回答该反应的另一部分——

PIED À “什么？”

市长曼达尼对收到度假房税通知但不符合条件的中产阶级房主没有表现出任何同情。这项繁重的第二套房税由州长霍楚尔（Gov. Hochul）通过立法通过。

对错误的度假房通知耸肩以对

当我竞选市长时，我说过我要

porter 的问题，关于财政局 (DOF) 发布的一个可搜索数据库，其中包含了数十万处可能被征税的房产，包括地址和业主姓名。

Mamdani 声称，根据州法律，必须发布该“补充税收名册”。

DOF 负责人 Lee 在解释为何一些普通纽约人的邮箱里会出现巨额税单时，表现也并不理想。

根据奥尔巴尼立法者和州长 Hochul 今年春季批准的立法，该税项旨在应用于价值至少 $5 million 的一至三户家庭住宅，以及价值 $1 million 或以上的合作公寓 (co-ops) 和共管公寓 (condominiums) —— 且这些房产必须是无人居住的非主要居所。

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THE RED APPLE

TARGET PRACTICE

迷宫般的导航

ZACHARY KUSSIN

是的，我是一名曼哈顿的房主，是的，我全职居住在这座城市——而且，是的，我的公寓价值远低于州长 Hochul 和市长 Mamdani 针对“临时寓所”（pied-à-terre）征税的标准。

尽管如此，随着该市发布了可能需要缴纳该税款的房产名单——这些文件包含数十万个姓名和地址，其中很大一部分甚至根本不是第二套住宅——我决定去了解一下，申请所谓的“附加费”之“豁免”在市政府那里到底有多复杂，他们用了这样一个委婉的措辞。

如果你也是必须经历这一过程的房主，我很遗憾。你将被困在分散在多个网站上的许多微管理指令中，而这些网站根本无法回答很多问题。这令人反感且精疲力竭，甚至让你想放弃。

这一切始于一个包含四个提示的问卷调查。

问题包括：“您是否将此房产作为您的主要住所？”以及“该房产是否由有限责任公司（LLC）、合伙企业或公司所有，并由一名或多名共同持有多数权益的个人，或此类个人的直系亲属作为主要住所使用？”中间两个问题则询问租客是否将该房屋作为主要住所，或者是否有直系亲属这样做。

对于在第一个问题中回答“是”的人，根据“房产附加费”网页上的资格指南，该市随后要求提交最近申报的联邦或州税务申报表以证明居住地。如果无法提供税务申报表，网站指出业主必须提供其他居住证明，如驾驶执照。

该市并未立即说明他们需要多长时间做出回应——以及不缴费的处罚是什么。

如果回答者对所有四个问题都回答“否”，这意味着该市将该房屋归类为“临时寓所”，随后该市会引导网站用户在 CityPay 上缴纳税款。当然，事情并非非黑即白。如果房屋处于遗产核准阶段怎么办？如果当地居民住在养老院怎么办？没有任何一个选项可以点击。而对于主要住所的业主居民来说，令人头疼的是：更多的网站和指令。

住宅房屋（如联排别墅和公寓）的豁免申请截止日期为 8 月 21 日，合作公寓（co-ops）的截止日期为 8 月 24 日。即便如此，可能仍不足以让人们整理好所有的网站列表和登录门户。

“可能是因为我们没有关于申请、备案、豁免的更新信息，但我们确实使用了所有可获得的信息来确定居住状态，”Lee 表示。

当被追问为什么纽约人应该承担起纠正市政府混乱的任务时，Lee 令人困惑地回避了，称该部门受限于州法律，要求房产名册每年发布两次供公众查阅。

Mamdani 及其财务部门负责人都无法说明已经发送了多少份通知。但市议会随后表示，该数字为 17,000，高于政府官员此前估计的 10,000 至 13,000 套需缴纳附加费的非主要住宅数量。

商业领袖不再对“危险”的客户 Mamdani 保持友善

NEW York City 的商业领袖们并不倾向于与 Zohran Mamdani 开战 —— 但 On The Money 获悉，他围绕备受争议的“候鸟房”（pied-à-terre）税而搞的最新噱头正迫使他们重新考虑。

本周，这位马克思主义市长公布了被征收该愚蠢税款的纳税人名单。该税款针对的是拥有价值 $5 million 或以上且非主要居所的公寓所有者。这很愚蠢，因为这些富有的州外居民并不使用我们的服务，但尽管如此，他们已经缴纳了大量的州税和市税 —— 事实上占据了绝大部分份额。他们可能会决定改为在博卡（Boca）买房。

这还散发出马克思主义阶级斗争中阴暗且充满仇恨的一面。Mamdani 创建了一份富人的“敌人名单”，他认为这些人应该缴纳更多税款 —— 尽管事实是他们已经缴纳了足够多。

危险的言论

这是列宁和毛泽东的翻版，是一场公开羞辱运动，旨在为他那些 DSA（民主社会主义者）狂热分子支持者提供一些“红肉”（激励之物），而名单上出现的人则必须向市政厅解释为什么他们不应陷入这个漩涡。

在我接触到的那些不愿透露姓名的商界人士看来，这同样很危险。当他们看到关于“名单”的头条新闻时，有些人立刻想到了 Brian Thompson，这位联合健康保险（United Healthcare）的 CEO 涉嫌被一名叫 Luigi Mangione 的激进化疯子杀害。

纽约市最大的商业倡导团体——纽约市伙伴关系（Partnership for New York City）主席 Steve Fulop 在应对商业人士和高收入纽约人被妖魔化的问题上已心力交瘁 —— 事实上，正是这些人缴纳了这里的大部分税款，以资助 Mamdani 正在构建的庞大福利国家。

他一直试图与市长及其团队沟通，但随着“敌人名单”的新闻传出，他似乎在现实面前妥协了：这个市政厅需要的是面对面地对抗，而不是通过哄劝。

因此，Fulop 正在制定一项行动计划。简单来说，这涉及建立支持体系，以选出反对 DSA 的官员。

Fulop 提醒我，Mamdani 围绕这项税收开展的阶级斗争活动的最后一个目标 —— Citadel 投资帝国的亿万富翁掌门人 Ken Griffin，在几个月前一段推销该税收的“诡异”视频中处于中心位置 —— 他能负担得起 24-7 的私人安保。而进入 Mamdani 名单的大多数人可能具备一定经济能力，但远非超级富豪，而现在他们只能自求多福。

“这是一个错误，也是一个危险的先例，”Fulop 说道。“公布姓名和地址，是在极左翼已经将成功本身视为某种需要被惩罚之物的时候，将没有做错任何事情的人单独拎出来。名单上的大多数人无论如何都不是亿万富翁 —— 他们是那些相信纽约市、努力工作并购买了第二套住房的人。这一切的结果就是让人们在自己的城市里感到更不安全，且不被欢迎。”

一位认为 Mamdani 及其激进时尚（radical chic）伙伴将导致党派走向毁灭的主流民主党政治顾问表示，她在商业精英圈的朋友们感到恐惧，而且这种恐惧是理所当然的。“ [Mamdani] 正在为未来的 Luigi 式精神病患者铺路，”她告诉我。

嘿，关注一下这座城市

当然，这一件愚蠢的行为并不是重点；这是一个文化马克思主义和第三世界主义的累积，而这些观点竟然出自一个主要职责应该是教育孩子、清理垃圾和维持街道安全的部门。

有一天，我们 34 岁的市长拒绝谴责左翼的集会口号“全球化起义”（Globalize the Intifada），该口号旨在将以色列从地球上抹去。接下来的日子里，他竟然在沉思是否要以“战争罪”逮捕以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡——也就是在捍卫自己的国家免受哈马斯恐怖分子侵害，并忘记了所谓的“外交豁免权”。

然后是经济马克思主义：他政府搞的杂货店浪费工程（boondoggle）并不能阻止富人去 Whole Foods 购物，但很可能会导致许多家庭式的小杂货店（bodegas）破产。猜猜在这个已经向穷人提供大量补贴的城市里，谁来支付这些补贴？是工人阶级和中产阶级。

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Tyler Hill Camp

呕吐病毒袭击昂贵的儿童营地

作者：KYRA BRESLIN

噢，天哪！ 本夏天花掉数万美元送孩子去夏令营的家长们，本周收到了来自前线的震惊消息——在一种严重的胃肠道病毒席卷这些偏远场所后，波科诺山（Poconos）和卡茨基尔山（Catskills）的几处昂贵寄宿营地陷入混乱，孩子们和辅导员们纷纷奔向厕所。 为了七周的水上滑雪、终身友谊和冠军赛，家庭通常每年每名儿童花费约 $19,000。但没有人为喷射状呕吐制定预算。每个夏天最后两周本应是关于“颜色战争”（color war）的时间——而不是“卫生战争”。 在接受《邮报》（The Post）匿名采访的沮丧家长中，有人指称这次爆发始于宾夕法尼亚州韦恩县一个为期 7 周的营地 Tyler Hill，时间就在 7 月中旬的访客日之后不久。 该营地在 6 月至 8 月期间接纳近 500 名营员，夏季单季费用为 $18,475。 “有人告诉我，营地里大约有一半的人感染了，”一名家长告诉《邮报》，“健康中心的床位都被占满了；连能呕吐的厕所都不够用了。” 没有什么比一场危机更能让东海岸的营地家长们产生共鸣了。 营地电子邮件的截图和短信链传播速度比胃肠道病毒本身还要快。有报道称宿舍陷入混乱，医务室超负荷，一些营员正逃离现场回家恢复。 戏剧性炸弹 但原本可能仅限于家长群组私下低语的内容，现在却演变成了一场全面的寄宿营地丑闻。专门发布营地八卦的匿名 Instagram 账号发布了线索，将这次糟糕的事件变成了可以说这个夏天最大的戏剧冲突。 Tyler Hill 的所有者 Andy Siegel 给家长们发了一封电子邮件，在自己也染病后向他们保证，病情通常在 24 到 36 小时内就会痊愈——但他“不建议亲身体验”。 该营地主任甚至试图在局势中加入一点幽默感，在经历了酷暑、暴雨、加拿大野火烟雾和“腹泻生菜”恐慌后，宣布感觉营地刚刚度过了“2026 年的第五场瘟疫”。 “而且显然，”他写道，“这是一个胃肠道病毒。” 位于附近卡茨基尔山且夏季收费 $18,225 的 Timber Lake 营地告诉家长，其健康中心有 15 名营员和工作人员出现胃肠道症状，少数几名营员也回家休息了 2-3 天。 “起初，考虑到访客日留下的食物量之大，我们认为这只是像往常一样，营员们吃得太撑了，”来自管理者的邮件中这样说道。 然而，随着呕吐现象接踵而至，人们推测病毒可能来自一场篮球跨营邀请赛，因为其他几个营地也报告了爆发情况。 男孩和女孩校区都设立了呕吐站，配备了防护口罩、装备和物资，以处理管理人员委婉描述为“可能出现的任何混乱”的情况。 在位于宾夕法尼亚州 Beach Lake 的另一家男女合校营地 Trail’s End（每季费用 $18,625），家长们告诉《邮报》，在 Tyler Hill 举行的一次长曲棍球比赛后，有 7 名营员出现了呕吐症状。 Tyler Hill、Timber Lake 和 Trail’s End 均未回应《邮报》的置评请求。

高中球队欺凌恐怖事件

宾夕法尼亚州一所高中足球队的10名成员（包括4名教练）在一起残酷的欺凌丑闻中被起诉。一名球员被球鞋践踏，臀部被扫帚柄戳刺，导致该赛季被取消。

蒙哥马利县检察官办公室周三宣布，切尔滕汉高中（Cheltenham High School）的球员和教练涉嫌在2025年的两起独立事件中，在更衣室里袭击了一名15岁的队友。

据检察官称，第一起涉嫌事件由两名球员在2025年8月15日记录，并在秋季学期期间与学生分享。

根据大陪审团的文件，在球队训练后换回便装时，令人震惊的画面显示，几名球员按住他们的十年级队友，而另一名球员使用扫帚柄戳刺该少年的臀部。

在2025年9月3日的第二起事件中，多名证人看到几名球员踢踏或踩踏受害者。

第一起事件中的同一名青少年再次使用扫帚柄戳刺他的臀部。 Zoe Hussain

难以置信的情侣

在德克萨斯州一个公寓小区的泳池旁，一名32岁的女性和一名75岁的男性因涉嫌在儿童面前大声进行性行为而被捕，他们向警方就这场他们声称从未发生过的嬉戏给出了一个荒谬的解释。

据称，Emilie Parma 周日在韦科（Waco）的一个公寓小区里地处 Douglas Faith 上方，“磨蹭并顶撞”，并发出大声的性呻吟。

警方表示，当警察到达时，Faith 承认 Parma 确实在他上方，但他声称他们实际上并没有在进行性行为，因为他植入了“阴茎植入物”。 Patrick Reilly

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WHAT 一个多么胆小且可耻的最终章，安东尼·福西博士（Dr. Anthony Fauci）周三在参议院三次援引第五修正案拒绝作证，尽管他已经拥有了让他免于起诉的总统预先赦免权。

在国会历史上，只有少数几个黑手党头目比他更频繁地援引这一特权。

“在法律顾问的建议下，基于我在宪法第五修正案下的权利，我恭敬地拒绝回答，”这位马基雅维利式的职业官僚在参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会近三小时的听证会上反复说道。

但福西的沉默，比他往常那些狡猾的欺骗更强有力地将他塑造为一个反派。

同样可耻的是那些继续为福西掩护、赞美他，并向其信众隐瞒真相的民主党人及其媒体走卒。真相是，这个人在他的大流行日记中写满了自我吹捧和对名声的崇拜，而对他所造成的人类苦难却冷漠得若遥遥相对。

周三，福西得到了民主党参议员们的赞美安慰，他们称他为英雄，感谢他“对这个国家的贡献”，并同情他成为了右翼阴谋论者的“替罪羊”。

新泽西州参议员安迪·金（Andy Kim）甚至引用了西奥多·罗斯福的“竞技场之士”（Man in the Arena）演讲来美化福西，这位前美国首席传染病专家曾领导国家过敏和传染病研究所数十年。

就像《蒙提派森》（Monty Python）中的黑骑士一样，在被削减成一个血淋淋的树桩后依然好斗，福西的吹捧者们拒绝承认他们已经失去了立足之地。

他们在新冠期间实施审查所造成的破坏，以及他们对福西名声不诚实的粉饰，将使他们身败名裂。然而，面对福西在历史上最致命的人为健康危机之一中扮演共犯的压倒性证据，他们不仅没有反思，反而变本加厉。历史也不会宽待他们。

“承认资助在中国的危险研究是一个错误，”参议员兰德·保罗（Rand Paul，共和党-肯塔基州）说道。他是福西的死敌，领导该委员会，同时也是一名密切研究该病毒及其被设计以伤害人类方式的医学博士。

“承认这项危险研究的风险超过了任何可能的收益。请求原谅，并且

胆小如鼠的“黄热病”病例

承诺帮助我们的政府制定保障措施，以便人为的流行病不再发生。”

滔天之罪

福奇（Fauci）无可辩护。他的罪行太过于骇人。那些被关在校门外的孩子、孤独死去的祖父母、破碎的家庭，都将留在他的良心之债中。

我们希望他入狱，但他不太可能为他的所作所为地付出应得的代价：他将纳税人的资金导向在中国实验室中针对蝙蝠冠状病毒的危险“功能增强”研究，该研究引发了一场导致数百万人死亡的流行病；此外，他还协助策划了随后的掩盖行动及相关的封锁措施。

“他唯一需要做的就是说实话，”保罗（Paul）在听证会后表示，并誓言要以藐视国会的罪名起诉福奇——这与让特朗普的顾问史蒂夫·班农（Steve Bannon）和彼得·纳瓦罗（Peter Navarro）入狱的指控相同。

在 85 岁的高龄，福奇或许能逃避尘世的审判，但他的名声已永远被污名化。引用圣经的话说，福奇这个名字将成为“万民心中的恐怖、警诫和代名词”。

尽管如此，这次听证会带来了某种奇怪的满足感。这是一次迟到太久的公开处决。

看着福奇——他一定是个反社会人格者——僵坐在那里，忍受保罗和参议院同事对他罪行的冷峻地陈述，令人感到一种宣泄。

参议员罗恩·约翰逊（Ron Johnson，共和党-威斯康星州）详细描述了福奇谎言所造成的人类代价。参议员里克·斯科特（Rick Scott，共和党-佛罗里达州）将福奇的遗产总结为：“不是那个将美国从新冠肺炎中拯救出来的男人，而是一个用美国公众对公共卫生机构的信任，换取五分钟的成名时间 [以] 满足自身虚荣心并成为关注中心的男人。”

参议员乔什·霍利（Josh Hawley，共和党-密苏里州）给出了嘲讽的致命一击：“没有什么比行使第五修正权更能体现诚实了，对吧，医生？”他强迫福奇陷入屈辱，使其不得不通过援引第五修正权来拒绝回答，而不是回答他的领带是什么颜色、今天是星期几、以及他面前的地毯是什么颜色。

当保罗将福奇那傲慢的刑事律师大卫·舍特勒（David Schertler）赶出去时，公众旁听席响起了掌声，后者似乎认为可以通过代理来反驳参议员。保罗特意指出，福奇仍有半打律师在场代表他。谁在付钱？

当我们实时目睹福奇的垮台时，我们意识到了这与神话和文学中所有史诗般报应的共鸣。他的日记让我们想到了法国小说《危险关系》中的反派人物——梅特伊侯爵夫人（Marquise de Merteuil），一位贵族寡妇，当她的私信被公开给整个社交界看待时，她的邪恶操纵和真实品格被揭露。这证明了我们所有人都要面对道德的清算。

我们欠下了一笔感激之情，要交给“大巴林顿宣言”的英雄们：杰伊·巴塔查里亚（Jay Bhattacharya）、马丁·库尔多夫（Martin Kulldorff）和苏内特拉·古普塔（Sunetra Gupta）医生。他们在危险之时敢于发声，而福奇曾试图摧毁他们。

马斯克的开放门户

埃隆·马斯克值得称赞，因为他将 X 变成了一个开放的门户，绕过了不诚实的媒体叙事。

我们要特别感谢卫生与公众服务部（HHS）部长罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.），他的坚韧揭露了法奥奇的日记。“我们花了大约八个月的时间，才从 11 个被隔离且隐秘的独立服务器中将这些内容挖掘出来，”他告诉福克斯新闻（Fox News）的劳拉·因格拉姆（Laura Ingraham）。RFK Jr. 在 2021 年出版的畅销书《真实的安东尼·法奥奇》（The Real Anthony Fauci）作为首篇揭露法奥奇的著作，经受住了时间的考验。

在日记中，法奥奇简略地记录了死亡人数，却详尽地描述了他从名人们以及那些伪装成记者的政治操盘手那里获得的赞美；后者在 2020 年期间一直向他发送私信，怂恿他削弱特朗普总统，以此喂养法奥奇的自恋。

他们的名字就在那里，让所有人都能看到他们永恒的耻辱：41 次提到与 CNN 的杰克·塔珀（Jake Tapper）进行支持性的沟通和“建立友谊”的晚餐。同样来自 CNN 的达娜·巴什（Dana Bash）发短信告诉法奥奇，他比共和党众议员吉姆·乔丹（Jim Jordan，来自俄亥俄州）更是一个“更好的人”。ABC 的乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯（George Stephanopoulos）在法奥奇反击特朗普称其为“骗子”的批评后，发短信写道：“谢谢，托尼。太令人印象深刻了。”

斯科特·阿特拉斯博士（Dr. Scott Atlas）是另一位无名英雄，也是法奥奇报复心的受害者。他在特朗普第一任政府期间被启用，旨在挑战副总统迈克·彭斯（Mike Pence）领导下的新冠疫情工作组的群体思维。阿特拉斯惊讶地发现，他是唯一一个引用实际科学数据的人。他反对封锁，主张对老年人进行重点保护，但被视为一个怪人。

“我从未与如此低水平的人共事过，”他后来在谈到法奥奇、德博拉·伯克斯博士（Dr. Deborah Birx）以及时任 CDC 局长罗伯特·雷德菲尔德（Robert Redfield）时说道。

这场大流行的反派和英雄开始变得清晰。最终，性格决定命运。

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面对小姑子/大姑子时的毛绒玩具：地区检察官（DA）

莉“练习锁喉”

作者：KEVIN SHEEHAN 和 JORGE FITZ-GIBBON

一名被指控强奸并杀害其具有大学声部嗓音的小姨子的长岛病态音乐教师，被摄像头拍到在毛绒玩具上练习他随后在恐怖犯罪中使用的锁喉动作，检察官周三表示。纳索县（Nassau County）检察官在解封针对 Horner 的谋杀起诉书时表示，27 岁的 Joseph Horner 在 6 月 28 日实施这场惨剧之前，多次潜入 25 岁的 Victoria Castle 的楼下公寓，以查看其妻之妹的“露骨照片”。

“这名被告看到了一个机会，可以实现他与受害者的性欲望，他承认自 2017 年起就觊觎该女性，”助理地区检察官 Alexander DePalo 在法庭上说道。“视频中可以看到他正在练习他随后将施加在受害者身上的锁喉动作。”

“被告在没有警告且没有挑衅的情况下，从背后袭击了受害者，并将其锁喉，直到她的身体瘫软，”DePalo 说道。“随后被告脱掉了她的衣服并将她移至附近的床上，此时被告强奸了受害者直到完成。”

“然后他在前门台阶上等待警察，冷静且沉着，”检察官说。警察在现场逮捕了 Horner，并将 Castle 紧急送往医院，她在那里被宣布死亡。

Horner 的妻子当时在参加单身派对旅行，周三她在法庭上抽泣，在丈夫请求不认罪时由她的父母安慰。这名被指控的凶手是 Oceanside 学区的一名音乐教师，纳索县法官 Howard Sturm 命令将其羁押且不得保释。

Castle 是石溪大学（Stony Brook University）的一名博士生，她与 Horner 及其妻子住在北马萨佩夸（North Massapequa）北橡树街（North Oak Street）住宅的楼下。检察官表示，这名被指控的

Instagram/Newsroom（红色字样）

ICY： 视频显示 Joseph Horner 正在锁喉一个毛绒玩具，据称他随后用此招数杀害了小姨子 Victoria Castle（插图）。

凶手通过请求她帮他搬一个键盘将她诱骗至死——但实际上却从背后伏击了她，并据称实施了袭击。

诡异的 FaceTime 通话

检察官表示，在据称的袭击发生前仅 15 分钟，Horner 就在毛绒玩具上练习锁喉，并在使 Castle 失去意识后接听了妻子的 FaceTime 通话，表现得像一切正常一样，随后他开始强奸其小姨子。

“在那次通话中，被告表现得好像没什么问题，好像他没有刚刚暴力袭击她的妹妹一样，”纳索县地区检察官 Anne Donnelly 告诉记者。“好像 Victoria 的尸体没有就躺在下方的一层楼里一样。”

检察官还发布了一张照片，显示 Horner 在袭击前涉嫌在客厅里对着一只粉色毛绒玩具练习锁喉。

在一次悲剧性的转折中，在这次病态袭击的三年前，当 Horner 与 Castle 的姐姐结婚后，Castle 曾对她的杀手赞赏有加。

“我的姐姐，我最亲近的人，我混乱中的伙伴，现在嫁给了世界上最美好的人之一，”Castle 在一篇令人心碎的 Facebook 帖子中写道。“我永远爱你们两个。”

Platner 的帖文被删除

《邮报》获悉，新获名的缅因州民主党参议院候选人特洛伊·杰克逊（Troy Jackson）匆忙删除了几乎所有过去在社交媒体上对被指控为强奸犯的格雷厄姆·普拉特纳（Graham Platner）大加赞赏的帖文。

杰克逊曾是一名伐木工，并曾任缅因州参议院议长，他一直坚定地支持普拉特纳，直到本月早些时候，一名前女友公开指控普拉特纳（一名海军陆战队退伍军人兼业余牡蛎养殖者）实施性侵。

根据互联网存档网站 Wayback Machine 的信息，58 岁的杰克逊在指控出现之前，似乎删除了至少 20 条宣传普拉特纳的帖文。

“格雷厄姆·普拉特纳正是苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins）和共和党不知道如何应对的那种民主党人。这就是为什么我在 2 月份支持他，以及我现在依然支持他的原因，”杰克逊在 5 月份于 X 上发布道。

当时杰克逊正在竞选民主党州长提名。在排名选择制初选中获得第三名后，杰克逊与极左翼的联系以及参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders，佛蒙特州民主党人）的背书，使得民主党在普拉特纳本月早些时候退出参议院竞选后，考虑让他接替普拉特纳。Ryan King

Kiser 因未穿救生衣被痛批

妈咪网红埃米莉·凯瑟（Emilie Kiser）在一段视频在社交媒体传播后，被迫道歉并誓言将“做得更好”。视频显示她 16 个月大的儿子在船上没有穿救生衣——而就在一年前，她 3 岁的儿子特里格（Trigg）在自家的游泳池中淹死。

这段视频由凯瑟的朋友兼同行网红马迪·柯蒂斯（Madi Curtis）于本周上传并随后删除。视频画面显示，西奥多·“泰迪”·凯瑟（Theodore 'Teddy' Kiser）在上个月一家人在西班牙度假期间，与父亲布雷迪·凯瑟（Brady Kiser）一同坐在船上，且未穿着救生衣，这引发了网上的强烈抵制。Georgia Worrell

Wells 家属传唤其在线数据

诺兰·韦尔斯（Nolan Wells）的家人已向多家社交媒体公司发出传票，寻求其账号信息和数据，以此作为调查这名 18 岁大学足球员离奇死亡事件的一部分。根据《太阳先驱报》（Sun Herald）获得的法庭文件，周二发出的传票寻求

从韦尔斯的 Snapchat、WhatsApp、TikTok、Meta Platforms 以及位置追踪应用 Life360 账号中获取信息。传票要求这些公司提交所有与韦尔斯账号相关的材料和信息，包括当前和之前的用户名及密码、电子邮件地址、电话号码和显示名称。据《太阳先驱报》报道，家属还要求提供与账号相关的所有 IP 地址以及所有通信记录，包括聊天记录、帖子、故事

和其他信息。韦尔斯的手机已成为死亡调查的关键关注点。他的母亲克里斯汀·旺斯利（Christine Wonsley）表示，当儿子的手机被归还给家人时，他们发现他的两个 Snapchat 账号中没有任何照片或视频，对此感到担忧，称其“可疑”，并担心内容可能已被删除。韦尔斯在 7 月 4 日乘船前往密西西比海岸外的霍恩岛，但再也没和朋友一起回来。Patrick Reilly

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Grounded flights of fancy

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Ye 性骚扰诉讼达成和解

KANYE West 与其前私人助理 Lauren Pisciotta 已就她对他提出的性骚扰诉讼达成和解。Page Six 能够确认此事。根据她的律师周二提交给洛杉矶法院的法庭文件，West 和 Pisciotta 在 7 月 23 日达成了和解。Page Six 昨日获得的这份文件中指出，该和解是“无条件的”，且将在 45 天内提交撤诉申请。进一步的细节未予披露。TMZ 最先报道了这一消息。Pisciotta 在 2024 年 6 月起诉这位名声扫地的说唱歌手，称他向她发送粗俗短信，并指控他将两人锁在房间里并在她身边自慰。West 在 2022 年将其解雇。Page Six 已联系其代表。

针锋相对

GIULIANA Rancic 揭露了她与“冷漠”的前任 Jerry O'Connell 之间那段“令人心碎”的恋情——就在他向 Kelly Ripa 讲述两人分手细节的几天后。Rancic（见上图）指责他在其“Let's Talk Off Camera”访谈中“淡化”了两人的关系。她在昨天的“Bill and Giuliana”播客中表示：“在一年半的时间里——除了那次分手——我们每天 24 小时、每晚都在一起。听他的采访你可能会认为……他是在和一群女孩约会，但事实并非如此。这是一段真正的关系。” 他们的交往时间是从 2003 年到 2004 年。

法庭见！一家夏季费用为 $18,000 的缅因州住宿营地租赁私人飞机，将营员及其父母接送到野外度假胜地。

但他们如果能找几辆黄色校车前往远东北部或许会更好——因为 Page Six 获悉，该营地目前正起诉这家航空公司，指称其未能提供飞机。

Camp Laurel 及其母公司 Coastal Camps Inc. 于周一对 White Plains Aviation Partners（以 Million Air White Plains 名义经营）提起诉讼，称该公司因涉嫌“违约、监管过失 [以及] 不当得利”而欠其至少 $355,000。

Page Six 查阅的法庭文件显示，该营地指控该公司未能履行协议，且在航班取消后未退还资金。

位于贝尔格雷德湖区 Echo Lake 岸边的 Camp Laurel 自称为“顶级美国夏季营地”。它提供 15 个网球场；符合标准的棒球、足球和长曲棍球场；五个标准篮球场；一个轮滑曲棍球场；一个沙滩排球场；一个室内体操中心；以及一个健身中心。

此外还有一个马厩和数英里的林间小道；两个户外马术沙地场；艺术、陶瓷和金属工艺工作室；一个 2,500 平方英尺的舞蹈中心；一个 FM 广播电台；一家电影院；以及一个配备专业设备且拥有全尺寸舞台的剧院。

正如《邮报》此前报道，一些家长为缅因州及其他地区的此类精英营地支付每名儿童超过 $20,000 的费用。随后，他们又在设计师品牌营地装备、礼宾打包服务，甚至租赁私人飞机将孩子送到森林里，花费数千美元。

一些家长告诉《邮报》，他们将这项支出视为一种投资。“这些住宿营地的核心价值在于你可以利用的校友家长网络，”其中一人说道。

Page Six 已联系 Camp Laurel 和 Million Air 寻求评论。

抢购球鞋

球鞋爱好者请注意：Eminem 正在出售其个人收藏的 100 多双鞋。这些鞋全部由这位明星签名，所得款项将捐给 Marshall Mathers 基金会，该基金会旨在帮助弱势青年。Julien's Auctions 将于 8 月 25 日举行拍卖，目前已开启竞价。其中的一大亮点是一双 Eminem x Nike Air Jordan 3 "Slim Shady" PE 宣传球鞋，预计售价高达 $35,000。

偶遇

GALE Brophy 将 Meredith Marks 在 Maison Close Southampton 的早午餐变成了派对，她爬上桌子与脱衣舞表演者一同起舞，宾客们纷纷欢呼……WOODY Allen 与 Soon-Yi Previn 挽手走在 72 街和 2 大道……WEWORK 创始人 Adam Neumann 与获释的以色列人质 Omer Shem Tov 在 Surf Lodge 听以色列艺术家 Adam Ten 和 Mita Gami 表演时，进行包裹特菲林（tefillin）的犹太仪式。

遇见“好色蓝精灵”

一名汉普顿居民在萨格港（Sag Harbor）买点心时，一名陌生人开了一个低俗玩笑，让他感到惊讶——而更让他惊讶的是，那个陌生人竟然恰好在一名著名记者身边。一名消息人士告诉我们，在 Big Olaf 冰淇淋店，一名顾客走出店门时，由于奶油的关系嘴巴是蓝色的，排队的一名男子开玩笑说，这顾客之所以变成那样是因为对一只蓝精灵进行了性行为。虽然我们听说这个玩笑让大家都笑了，但那个嘴巴脏兮兮的男人几乎没注意到，因为他认出了开玩笑的人是谁。“等等，你是 Don Lemon 吗？”他问道。确实如此。当我们就此事打电话给 Lemon（见上图）时，他感到很惊讶，坚称自己没有开这个玩笑，并说：“我没意识到蓝精灵也是受保护群体。”

格莱美奖类别：从 BS 到 BTS

BTS 乐队针对格莱美奖一个极具争议的新类别采取了强硬立场。上个月，录音学院宣布将在 2027 年的颁奖典礼上引入“最佳亚洲流行音乐表演”类别。该奖项旨在“认可源自亚洲市场或在亚洲市场被广泛认可的亚洲流行音乐表演的艺术卓越性……且具有实质性地使用了一种或多种亚洲语言”。但昨天，BTS 的所有 7 名成员 —— Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V 和 Jung Kook —— 在各自的 Instagram Stories 上发布消息，表示他们不会提交申请以备评选。这段韩语信息写道：“我们决定今年不参加格莱美奖。我希望音乐本身能够被听到和喜爱，而不是被地区或语言所区分。”这支在 2020 年成为首个获得格莱美奖项提名的 K-pop 团体，原预计将因其 3 月发行的专辑《Arirang》再次获得提名。格莱美奖 CEO Harvey Mason Jr. 曾表示，包括最佳拉丁歌曲、最佳 R&B 合作、最佳传统流行人声表演和最佳传统民谣专辑在内的新类别，“体现了当今音乐产业的广泛性”。

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请教郊区的智者

GINA Barreca。康涅狄格大学英语文学教授。说话速度比你下巴上冒痘还快。她在诺沃克（Norwalk）的 Woodhall Press 出版了名为《Gina School》的书。副标题：“不在于他们教你什么；而在于你学到什么。” 例如：

“岁月与你的青春相连。或将你推向死亡。记得调时钟。”

“24-karat 黄金很方便。在危急时刻，你总是可以把自己的脑袋当掉。”

“智慧不像月经一样自然而至。也不像找到一种缓解胃酸倒流的产品。它不会随年龄增长而发生。”

“爱上一个只有一只眼睛的男人——你会将其合理化为‘但他从未忘记我的生日’。”

“忘掉‘在生长的土壤中扎根’这种说法吧。你以为你是菊苣吗？”

“视角。心碎了？至少没断腿。”

“充满勇气的生活并不排除充满恐惧的生活。勇敢与恐惧并肩而行。”

“平坦的小腹、紧致的手臂、纤细的大腿让我们感觉更好，而实际上真正需要的只是一杯马丁尼和奶酪零食。”

我们交谈时，她说：“我一直在做自能负担得起心理治疗起就开始做的事——那就是我试图为生存寻找正当理由。”

她说：“这就像是 Erma Bombeck 购物清单背后的笔记。像来自 Ann Landers, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker 的指示，”而且，她说，“还有《Elle》杂志。”

请理解，我不是那种贪心到非要提起这件事的人，但是——她没有把我也包括在内。

纪录片寻找飞机的真相

上升的，必将下降。Ron Howard 和 Brian Grazer 将他们关于波音的新纪录片带到了 Netflix。《Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing》将于 8 月 19. 上映。导演 Rory Kennedy。

就像航空公司现在还不够麻烦似的。有举报人，旧零件，机门在 10,000 英尺高空脱落。听起来颠簸。请系好安全带。

家庭团聚

另一方面：Mouths “报道” Eric Roberts 未被邀请参加女儿 Emma 与 Cody John 的婚礼，因为妹妹 Julia 不希望他出现在那里。别信这些胡扯。

Eric：“不是真的。从来就不是真的。我们很好。就像人们一样，我们有分歧，但我们非常喜欢并尊重彼此。”

现在：回到你之前在做的任何重要事情上吧。

家常料理

住在康涅狄格州？格林威治（Greenwich）附近？那就费一番功夫去找找首席建筑师 Jordan Saper。除了搭建豪宅，他的副业是烹饪。在等待天花板晾干时，这位承包商/建筑师还可以准备晚餐。例如在一次合同中，他砌了一面墙，但在抹灰的同时，还用他自带的食物准备了餐点——一加仑自制西班牙冷汤和烟熏肋排。

不过，如果你只是在做一个廉价的附属建筑，就别抱怨。他可能只带一块牛胸肉过来。

有个演员带着他的狗走进餐厅。领班把菜单交给了演员。演员说：“我不是一个人来的。是两人的服务。” 当服务员把账单呈给他时，那家伙大喊道：“你疯了吗？你什么都不明白吗？我是他的客人！”

孩子们，这绝对只有在纽约才会发生。

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我对 Epstein 的玩笑非常不妥：律师

凯瑟琳·鲁姆勒（Kathryn Ruemmler）曾是高盛（Goldman Sachs）的高级律师，并在前总统巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）任内担任白宫法律顾问。她向众议院立法者承认，在 2016 年的一次电子邮件交流中，她就杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）因招募未成年人从事卖淫而被定罪一事与其开了玩笑。

RUEMMLER

鲁姆勒在司法部公开了她与该性犯罪者的广泛交流记录后，于今年从高盛辞职。根据周三公布的 7 月 15 日证词记录，她告诉众议院监督委员会，那个玩笑——“史上最好的按摩，但不是你那种按摩”——是“极其不妥”的。

“我当然知道他已承认两项与卖淫相关的罪名，并且……那些行为涉及色情按摩，”鲁姆勒承认。

“所以我当时是在随口开玩笑，现在坐在 2026, 年的这里看来，这确实极其不妥，但那是关于他此前犯罪记录的玩笑，”她继续说道。

55, 岁的鲁姆勒解释说，这次“史上最好的按摩”发生在曼哈顿的半岛酒店（The Peninsula），此前爱泼斯坦赠送了她在该五星级酒店的“半天水疗体验”。

“我希望我从未与那个人打过交道，”她补充道。Victor Nava

麦克斯韦“不予赦免”

参议院周三一致同意，性贩子吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦（Ghislaine Maxwell）不应获得总统赦免或宽恕。

该决议由参议员杰基·罗森（Jacky Rosen，内华达州民主党人）提出，旨在防止总统向麦克斯韦授予“赦免、减刑或任何其他形式的行政宽恕”。麦克斯韦是已故恋童癖杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的共犯及其偶尔的女友。

该决议不具约束力，但向特朗普政府发出了信号，表明参议院共和党人和民主党人都反对宽恕 64, 岁的麦克斯韦。她在 2021 年底被定罪后，目前正在服 20 年联邦监狱刑期。

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AI 增长规模惊人，超越麦当劳与星巴克

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人工智能巨头 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 目前创造的现金流已超过麦当劳（McDonald’s）或星巴克（Starbucks）——AI 热潮使传统的美国企业巨头显得相形见绌。

据 Axios 报道，Claude AI 工具的制造商 Anthropic 预计在明年将获得 710 亿美元（$71 billion）的收入，而 OpenAI 的年收入预计将达到 490 亿美元（$49 billion）。

根据一项采用 AI 投资研究平台 Funda 数据的研究显示，星巴克在同一时期的预计营收为 372 亿美元（$37.2 billion），而麦当劳的巨无霸汉堡和薯条销售额预计为 296 亿美元（$29.6 billion）。

数据表明，AI 领域最大的两个品牌预计创造的收入，几乎与麦当劳、星巴克以及 Taco Bell 和 KFC 的母公司 Yum Brands 的总和相当。

数据揭示了美国企业界 AI 支出热潮的规模之巨——公司们正投入数千亿美元来使业务现代化并将 AI 融入其工作流程。

根据该公司自身的数据，成立于仅五年前的 Anthropic 已筹集超过 1000 亿美元（$100 billion），且截至 5 月其估值为 9650 亿美元（$965 billion）。

快速增长

据路透社报道，该公司已在金融、医疗保健和技术领域获得了主要商业客户，同时扩大了与 Amazon Web Services 和 Google Cloud 等云服务供应商的现有合作关系。

OpenAI 最近也扩大了其 ChatGPT 企业版计划，并与寻求 AI 驱动的生产力软件的企业签署了协议。

星巴克和麦当劳的历史都可以追溯到几十年前，两家公司在全球拥有超过 80,000 家门店。但这在企业采用 AI 技术的惊人速度面前似乎显得微不足道。With Wires

勇敢的梭鱼女孩

一名少女在前往特克斯和凯科斯群岛的生日旅行期间被梭鱼咬伤，现需要进行手术。

据 KHOU11 TV 报道，克莱尔·麦克唐纳尔 (Claire Macdonel) 在庆祝 13 岁生日几天后，在浅水区做倒立时，这只掠食性海水鱼突然将牙齿深深地地刺入了她的手中。

“我从手上抬起头，就看到到处都是血。血液顺着我的整条手臂流下来，简直就像恐怖电影一样，”她说道。

克莱尔表示，这次 ordeal 并没有让她被吓到而放弃成为一名海洋生物学家的梦想。

“仅仅因为被咬了一次，并不会改变我热爱动物并想要研究它们的想法，”克莱尔说道，她给那条鱼起名叫苏齐 (Suzie)。

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构建 ABA 的未来：THE PERFECT CHILD ABA 如何赋能新一代临床医生

每个孩子都应该拥有茁壮成长的机会。对于在自闭症独特挑战中寻找出路的家庭来说，寻找合适的支持是一段充满希望与进步的旅程。目前大约每 31 名儿童中就有 1 人被诊断为自闭症，因此，对高质量、基于证据的应用行为分析 (ABA) 疗法的需求比以往任何时候都更加至关重要。这项疗法的核心是认证行为分析师 (BCBAs)，他们是负责评估、规划和监督客户护理的执照临床医生。然而，这种不断增长的需求正受到全国范围内 BCBA 严重短缺的限制，导致许多家庭难以获得必要的护理。

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由于 BCBA 是负责监督客户护理的关键且经过高度训练的主管，目前的短缺造成了严重的瓶颈。任何 ABA 实践的支柱都是其注册行为技术员 (RBTs) 和行为技术员 (BTs)，他们依赖这些专家的监督来提供家庭所依赖的直接日常服务。然而，从 RBT 晋升为 BCBA 需要经过一条严苛的路径，包括研究生院学习以及 1,500 到 2,000 小时的实地工作要求。对于许多人来说，如果没有合适的支持结构，这条路径可能令人畏缩。

The Perfect Child ABA 的晋升计划旨在通过提供一个全面的、独特的支持生态系统来消除这些障碍，该系统远远超出了标准的实地工作时间。在计划主任 Valisa "Vee" Williams 的指导下，该计划提供：

• 结构化指导： 为应对委员会认证的复杂性提供专项指导。
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通过对人才的投资，The Perfect Child ABA 创造了质量的涟漪效应。当临床医生的成长得到支持时，会培养出更强大、更凝聚的临床

团队。这种投资直接转化为为所服务的儿童和家庭提供更好的护理连续性，因为那些已经了解并热爱这些家庭的治疗师，正是接任领导角色的人。

The Perfect Child ABA 的人员主管 Chris Padovano 解释说，这一举措源于双重必要性：在维持高标准护理的同时培养现有人才。

“由于全国范围内对 BCBA 的需求很高，且 The Perfect Child ABA 致力于继续为有需要的家庭提供卓越服务，我们需要寻找新方法来扩大我们的 BCBA 人才储备。这个晋升计划使我们能够回馈我们优秀的 RBT 团队，并继续为我们的员工和家庭提供积极的体验。”

这种影响可以通过参与该计划的临床医生的故事来更好地理解。对于像 Alondra Jefferson 这样的 RBT 来说，该计划已成为职业转型的催化剂。“晋升计划（Advancement Program）为我的专业成长提供了我所需的指导、监督和资源，”Jefferson 分享道。“得知我有一个支持我发展的结构化计划，使得追求 BCBA 认证变得既可行又值得。”

最终，公司的成功是通过其服务儿童的进步以及临床团队的实力来衡量的。创始人 Simcha Bendet 认为，公司的增长与治疗师的福祉和成功紧密相连。

“我们从家庭那里收到的极好评价和由衷反馈，反映了我们治疗师的奉献精神和同情心。他们确实是 The Perfect Child ABA 的核心与灵魂。为他们提供专业成长和职业晋升的机会，是我们对他们在我们服务的儿童和家庭生活中所创造的巨大改变而表达感谢的方式。”

自成立以来，The Perfect Child ABA 一直专注于服务 18 个月至 26 岁的儿童和青少年。通过优先考虑便捷性的居家和社区服务，The Perfect Child ABA 提供了晚上和周末的选择，更重要的是，无需排队等候。

随着晋升计划的不断演进，它证明了当一个组织选择投资其最伟大的资产——员工时，能够实现什么样的目标。通过将 BCBA 短缺的挑战转化为 RBT 职业晋升的机会，The Perfect Child ABA 不仅在建立未来的领导者人才库，而且还确保他们支持的儿童和社区在未来多年内都能获得最高质量的护理。

欲了解更多关于 The Perfect Child ABA 及其提供服务的信息，或探索如何在您自己的职业生涯中采取下一步行动，请访问 tpcaba.com/advancement 了解详情。

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瞬间获得缓解

中年期静修： 女性正在通过提供此类专业护理计划的度假村，寻求缓解潮热等更年期症状的方法。

治疗更年期的奢华假期

作者：RACHEL KHONA

对于一名正与潮热作斗争的女性来说，酷热的迈阿密似乎并不是一个显而易见的度假目的地选择。

但那些试图从中年期激素带来的极其不体面的混乱中寻求缓解的更年期女性，现在愿意收拾好他们的行李箱——没错，即使是去佛罗里达州——以寻求答案和个性化的护理。

不必再默默忍受。现在，在迈阿密海滩的 Carillon Wellness Resort 等地，更年期护理配有浴袍、海景和一套计划。

更年期和围绝经期曾被视为笑谈或低声议论的话题，但近年来，由于哈莉·贝里 (Halle Berry)、娜奥美·沃茨 (Naomi Watts) 和德鲁·巴里摩尔 (Drew Barrymore) 等明星的坦诚交流，这些已成为热门话题。

女性不再将更-

更年期视为某种身体秘密的背叛。她们更公开地讨论身体的变化——并期待得到实际的答案。

糟糕的消息是，传统的医学培训经常忽视更年期。因此，当女性向医生寻求解决潮热、脑雾和疲劳等症状的方案时，得到的答案往往不尽人意。

“大多数医学院和住院医师培训计划并不要求 [更年期教育],” 泌尿外科医生、性健康专家、MUMD Sexual Medicine Beverly Hills 创始人兼数字医疗公司 VULVAi（旨在构建盆底健康基础设施）的首席执行官 Maria Uloko 博士说道。“因此，我们有整个医师群体不知道如何诊断、治疗甚至寻找这些症状。”

通过增加一份宠爱，豪华酒店和度假村正

寻求填补这一空白。

更年期静修并没有统一的模板。一些计划倾向于临床，另一些则更侧重于水疗，许多则介于两者之间。

通过度假村预订

在 Carillon Miami Wellness Resort，Inner Glow 绝经期与围绝经期静养计划的起价为 $3,500（四晚），包括通过 The Biostation 进行的诊断测试、激素咨询和定制治疗方案。

此外，还提供一项旨在解决中年健康相关常见问题的体能评估，以及水疗循环、按摩、红光疗法、静脉输液、面部护理、体能评估、biocell 充电疗程以及与 biostation 团队成员的咨询等设施服务。

与一些基于固定团体日期的静养计划不同，Inner Glow 是一个为期 5 天 4 晚的个性化项目，客人可以通过度假村预订。

Carillon Miami Wellness Resort 的水疗与健康运营副总裁 Tammy Pahel 告诉《邮报》，该计划的诞生源于客人们已经在请求的内容：“他们会问类似‘你们有针对这个症状的方案吗？’或者‘我正经历这个症状，你们有能帮上忙的吗？’”

位于马萨诸塞州莱诺克斯的 Canyon Ranch 同样采用了综合方法，推出了 M/Power 绝经期与围绝经期静养计划，起价为 $5,500（三晚）。这些计划包括女性激素检查、DEXA 身体成分和骨密度分析、虚拟医生咨询、团体项目和餐饮——此外还可以参加每日健康活动，如水疗、CR 活力恢复、团体健身课和全方位美容沙龙。

为了提供一种临床色彩稍淡的体验，位于图森的 Miraval Arizona 每晚起价 $799，提供可定制的女性健康计划，重点关注性健康、绝经期教育、盆底肌 strengthening 和睡眠改善，课程包括“理解绝经期”和“绝经期更好的睡眠”。

“这是一个不仅让我们思考如何度过这个阶段，而且让我们思考如何在日常生活中寻找快乐和喜悦的机会，”Miraval 的综合健康专家兼性教育者 Lyndi Rivers 此前告诉《邮报》，“在生命这个阶段，我们需要对自己进行近乎激进的自我关怀，同时在整个过程中对自己多一些仁慈和同情。”

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父亲在车祸导致儿子死亡前正浏览亚马逊

一名爱达荷州父亲被指控在其 7 岁儿子死于车祸前不久，曾起草 Instagram 动态、查看手机照片并浏览亚马逊，目前他面临过失杀人指控。

据《爱达荷州政务报》（Idaho Statesman）引用法院文件报道，Austin Summers，31 岁，在驾驶一辆 GMC Sierra 卡车时，于去年 11 月 25 日在爱达荷州峡谷县的 I-84 公路上，涉嫌追尾了一辆因机械问题停滞的 2013 福特 F450。

Summers 的长子 Graham 当时坐在前排乘客座，不幸丧生，其父亲于上周二被指控过失杀人。

据称，来自 Meridian 的 Summers 在 65 mph 的限速区域内，以 73 至 75 mph 的速度撞上了那辆福特车，而前车当时仅在最右侧车道以 7 mph 的速度行驶。

他的另外两个孩子在车祸时分别 3 岁和 5 岁，当时坐在卡车后座，未受伤。

调查人员表示，他们随后发现 Summers 在下午 2:45 到 3:02 之间一直在使用手机，距离碰撞发生仅几分钟。

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给弗拉德比个中指

应用大亨在俄罗斯面临指控

作者：CHRIS BRADFORD

俄罗斯周三指控 Telegram 创始人 Pavel Durov 资助恐怖主义，而该即时通讯应用则通过分享一张这位亿万富翁竖中指的照片予以回击。

据 Euronews 报道，41 岁的 Durov 已被列入国际通缉名单；随着俄罗斯当局限制 Telegram，如果他被定罪，将面临最高终身监禁。

莫斯科安全部门指责 Telegram 没有删除据称被“乌克兰情报机构、恐怖组织和极端组织积极用于在俄罗斯准备和协调破坏与恐怖活动、大规模谋杀及网络诈骗”的频道或机器人。

俄罗斯总统 Vladimir Putin 的政权声称，Telegram 所谓的缺乏行动已导致“大量人员伤亡”。

乌克兰安全部门也被指控利用 Telegram 上一个受欢迎的约会聊天机器人来诱骗并招募俄罗斯人进行“破坏和恐怖活动”。

自 2025 年 7 月以来，俄罗斯各地已有约 46 名年龄在 12 至 22 岁之间的用户被拘留。

Durov 出生于前苏联，在 2006 年创立了模仿 Facebook 的社交媒体应用 VKontakte，随后在 2014 年离开俄罗斯。他目前居住在迪拜。

今年早些时候，他宣布俄罗斯当局已对他展开刑事调查。他指责对方编造借口限制对 Telegram 的访问，将其作为“镇压隐私权和言论自由”企图的一部分。

自 2025 年 8 月起，俄罗斯限制了对 Telegram 的访问，并且自 1 月以来，已对该应用处以约 $1.26 billion 的罚款，而该公司拒绝支付。

当局发出处罚的原因是该应用据称未能删除在俄罗斯被禁的内容。

莫斯科一直致力于采取多管齐下的措施来控制互联网。

在乌克兰战争进入第 5 年之际，当局警告称外国应用对战场产生影响。俄罗斯采用了限制性法律，封禁不合规的网站和平台，并专注于改进监控和操纵在线流量的技术。

社交媒体平台 Facebook、Instagram 和 X 已被封禁；Signal 和 Viber 已被拦截；WhatsApp 则受到限制。

Durov 在 2024 年于巴黎被捕，原因是涉嫌 Telegram 被用于贩毒和传播儿童性虐待图像。去年 3 月，他表示已返回迪拜。 With Wires

拉斯维加斯好友杀人案判刑 5 年

一名痴迷枪支的拉斯维加斯女性曾表示希望“用真枪射击人们并逍遥法外”，她因在一次即兴拍照过程中杀害其朋友而被判处 5 年至终身监禁。

据 Court TV 报道，在周二的宣判过程中，21 岁的 Allyssandra Blea 俯首低头，此前她承认在导致 23 岁 Mark Gaughan 死亡的案件中犯有一级绑架罪和过失致死罪。

2025 年 8 月 23, 2025，Blea 在拉斯维加斯大道附近向 Gaughan 开了一枪，击中其颈部导致其死亡。

该媒体报道称，在杀人事件发生前，两人在一名共同朋友的家中喝了数小时的伏特加并吸食了大麻。

Blea 将在内华达州惩教署设施中服刑，最低 5 年，最高终身监禁。 Richard Pollina

Sally Brompton 日常星座运势

在 SALLYBROMPTON.COM 探索更多关于您自己以及未来的信息

狮子座 (7月 24-8月 23)

您想要掌控局面的欲望可能被昨天的满月削弱了，但在接下来的 48 小时左右，您可以并且必须重新确立您的权威。周围的人不会对此感到不满，因为他们迫切需要一个领导者。

处女座 (8月 24-9月 23)

本周的满月将继续扰乱您的日程并导致您更改计划，但这没什么大不了的，到明天这个时候，最糟糕的时期就将过去。保持冷静，拒绝让任何事情影响您，即使是面对非常愚蠢的人。

天秤座 (9月 24-10月 23)

您有时可能有点过于随和，这存在一种风险，即您可能会让朋友和家人在应该受到批评的事情上侥幸逃脱。如果您现在不采取严厉措施，以后将很难这样做。

天蝎座 (10月 24-11月 22)

目前您生活中的某些方面似乎有点失衡，这在很大程度上要归功于昨天的满月，但在现在到周末之间，情况将会趋于平稳。您不需要强行解决问题，只需耐心等待。

射手座 (11月 23 - 12月 21)

您的职业地位今天将成为关注焦点，但随着金星移经您星盘的事业区域，您可以确信雇主和同事会喜欢他们所看到的。您不费吹灰之力的才华将给他们留下深刻印象。

摩羯座 (12月 22 - 1月 20)

一种旧的做事方式将在接下来的几天内结束，几乎立即被一种新方式所取代。不要试图 clings 到过去，因为未来对您来说将更加令人兴奋。

水瓶座 (1月 21 - 2月 19)

世界可能是一个竞争激烈的场所，但您不必将其视为一场持续的战斗。今天星象传递的信息是，在与他人的交往中，您需要更加随和，因为大多数人其实和您一样。

双鱼座 (2月 20-3月 20)

最近几周您的生活中出现了一些重大干扰，但没有一个大到需要您更改长期计划的程度。今天请将让自己喘口气作为首要任务，等待世界重新恢复清晰。

白羊座 (3月 21-4月 20)

有人在没有正当理由的情况下采取阻挠行为，这对您来说可能毫无意义，但这种情况正是逻辑在事件中不起作用的时刻之一。接受他们无法被说服的事实，并在没有他们的协助下完成您必须做的事。

金牛座 (4月 21-5月 21)

您从来不是那种逃避麻烦的人，但您可以看到一位朋友或爱人正试图这样做，而且他们显然需要一些帮助。向他们解释为什么必须面对现实。

双子座 (5月 22-6月 21)

行动选择有限这一事实可能会令人沮丧，但这也可能是有帮助的，因为它将迫使您专注于比其他任何事情都更重要的一件事。您确实有逃避必须完成之事的倾向。

巨蟹座 (6月 22-7月 23)

确定您的 1 号优先事项，并在现在到周末之间专注于它。水星进入您的星座让您很容易看到应该走的路径，但每迈出一步都需要付出艰苦的努力。

周四生日

既然已经走上了一条特定的道路，您就必须走到底。您过去经常因为失去兴趣而放弃一个充满希望的计划，但这不再是一个选项。如果您想成为赢家，今年您必须对自己狠心。

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KAOHLY HER 市长的“小香肠”短信。

明尼苏达州政治人物受性骚扰调查

明尼苏达州的一位民主党市长因涉嫌向工作人员发送短信（其中一条涉及获得“一次美好的 wiener 体验”）而正受到性骚扰调查。

圣保罗首位女市长 Kaohly Her 在上任仅 6 个月后便遭到调查。此前，警察局长 Axel Henry 于 4 月 1 日向市检察官提交了正式申诉，指称她向城市工作人员发送了“不恰当且确实违法的短信”。

根据 KSTP 获得的申诉书，在一段令人不安的短信记录中，53 岁的 Her 祝愿一名工作人员“Weiner 星期三快乐”。

“希望今天 6 点能和你们一起吃 [热狗表情符号]，”短信继续写道。

虽然“weiner”一词可以指热狗，但它也具有性暗示。

市长办公室表示，不会对“正在进行的调查”发表评论。

Chris Bradford

土耳其考虑库尔德反叛分子问题

总统 Tayyip Erdogan 周三表示，关于解散被禁的库尔德工人党武装组织的立法将在“未来几天内”提交议会。

PKK 曾对土耳其国家进行长达数十年的反叛活动，并被安卡拉及其西方盟友指定为恐怖组织。在被监禁的领导人 Abdullah Ocalan 的呼吁之后，该组织决定在 2025 年 5 月解除武装并解散。路透社

车内发现“打开的酒瓶”

作者：EDWARD LEWIS

关于前达拉斯牛仔队四分卫 Tony Romo 因酒驾（OWI）被捕的更多细节正在揭晓，包括一项新指控：他在被警察拦截后，车内发现了一个打开的酒类容器。

密尔沃基县治安官办公室向《邮报》提供了警员在 Romo 7 月 23 日于威斯康星州被捕后立即对他开出的三份传票副本，其中一份称这位 CBS NFL 分析师的黑色 Jeep 车辆副驾驶位置上有一个“打开的酒精饮料瓶”。

根据传票，一名副警长在 Romo 的车辆被拖走并进行物品清单盘点时发现了该物品。

文件指出，Romo 因涉嫌“在机动车内持有打开的酒精饮料-驾驶员”违规行为面临 $267 的罚款。

Romo 被贴上的第二份传票是关于“在右侧不安全超车”。警方在文件中写道，他在“高峰时段交通中，在标记的右侧应急车道内行驶以超越 1 lane 和 2 lane 的车辆”，随后他“横穿标记的三角隔离带（gore）”到达目的地。

负责逮捕的警员在传票中写道，当解释拦截原因时，Romo “对于什么是隔离带（gore）表示疑问”。

文件称，这位前运动员因该涉嫌违规行为面临 $235 的罚款。

“看望祖父母”

Romo 收到最后一份传票是关于“影响下操作”（酒驾），根据传票副本，该违规行为处以 $1,066 的罚款。

法院记录显示，Romo 随后还因“逮捕后拒绝接受酒精检测”被起诉。

根据周二向《邮报》公开的执法记录仪画面，Romo 告诉警察，他刚从高尔夫球场回来，正准备“去看望奶奶和爷爷”，然后他

ROMO 酒精之旅：警察称

被拦停。

在被拘留期间，一名警员告诉他，他们怀疑他状态不佳，因为他的眼睛“发红且无神”，且身上散发出“酒精饮料的气味”。

Romo 在警察局接受了多次现场清醒度测试，他在所有测试中的表现似乎都很差。他还拒绝接受呼吸测试，告诉其中一名警员：“我听所有律师说永远不要那样做。所以，我们不会那样做。”

这位 2014 年 NFL 全明星球员目前尚未就此次事件公开发表评论，其出庭日期定在 9 月 21 日。

elewis@nypost.com

家中纸箱内发现婴儿尸体

法国一名丈夫在与妻子争吵后，在自家的纸箱中发现了五具“正在腐烂”的婴儿尸体——而该妻子在前一天刚刚在家中分娩。

据《美国太阳报》（The US Sun）报道，这名 32 岁的女性因法律原因无法透露身份，周一在位于历史名镇奥朗日（Orange）的家中与丈夫就纸箱内的物品发生争执。

她刚刚在家中产下一名健康的男婴，在争吵过程中开始抱怨腹痛。随后她被送往医院，此时她的丈夫有了这项令人毛骨悚然的发现。

据《太阳报》援引一名调查消息人士的话称：“在妻子被送往医院后，丈夫留在原地，查看了他们争执的那些纸箱——就在那时，他发现了五名死婴。”

装有遗骸的纸箱位于住宅的二楼，全部塞在一个大的塑料袋中。

据当地媒体《巴黎人报》（Le Parisien）报道，丈夫对此感到十分沮丧，因为在妻子三次否认怀孕后，他直到最近才知道她怀孕了。

一名接近调查的消息人士告诉《巴黎人报》，丈夫将该袋子带到医院，医院随后将这一恐怖发现报给了警方。

一名法医病理学家确认遗骸为五名婴儿——预计将进行进一步的尸检。

丈夫表示他对妻子的怀孕一无所知，随后被释放。Ella Morrison

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仅靠国家无法在网络上保护未成年人

安全科技

法律？他们在开什么玩笑？

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RIKKI SCHLOTT

纽约州已采取行动保护儿童免受成瘾性社交媒体平台的侵害，并于周二宣布《儿童安全法》（SAFE for Kids Act）已定稿，将于明年年初生效。

该法律承诺将阻止社交媒体公司通过算法向儿童推送个性化内容，以及在深夜向他们发送通知。但任何希望这将成为万能解决方案的家长都应重新考虑。

全美各地实施的类似立法已被法院拦截，而澳大利亚和英国等其他国家的社交媒体法律已经证明，孩子们寻找绕过限制的方法之快，超过了法律更新的速度。

也许《儿童安全法》能防止一些前青春期少年在凌晨 2 点被 Instagram 唤醒，但家长们请注意：立法者无法成为孩子的在线监护人。守住底线取决于家庭、教育者和社区。

本周，州长 Hochul 和州总检察长 Letitia James 宣布了《儿童安全法》——即“停止成瘾性推送剥削”（Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation）的缩写——的最终版本，并确认该法将于 1 月 25 日生效。

新法将防止符合条件的社交媒体公司向未成年人提供由算法个性化的推送内容，并禁止他们在午夜至 6 a.m. 之间向儿童发送通知。

根据该法律，纽约州的儿童只有在父母同意的情况下才能更改默认设置。该法将通过民事处罚和年龄验证流程（如政府身份证验证、面部年龄估算及官方记录核查）来强制执行。

批评者警告称，年龄验证意味着每个人的网络自由度降低，且要求用户证明身份可能会危及成年人在没有政府监管的情况下在线并匿名发言的权利。

值得称赞的是，纽约州的法律试图通过给予平台选择“零知识”年龄验证系统的选项来平息担忧。这类系统采用加密技术，除了用户的成年/未成年状态外，不会与第三方共享信息。

即便如此，该法律仍显脆弱。包括加利福尼亚州和阿肯色州在内的其他州曾试图实施类似的通知宵禁，但均被法院拦截，法院认为这些规定违宪。

全球范围内试图禁止未成年人使用社交媒体的类似法律表明，无论立法者如何试图在孩子与其应用程序之间建立屏障，孩子们总能找到规避的方法。

海外的不足

根据政府自己的报告，当澳大利亚在 2025 年底禁止未成年人使用社交媒体时，许多孩子简单地创建了新账户，请求他人帮助绕过限制，下载 VPN 来更改地理位置数据，使用年长者的身份证，甚至化妆以欺骗年龄验证障碍。

一项针对澳大利亚父母的 YouGov 调查发现，27% 的受访者报告称他们的孩子正转向其他监管较少的替代平台，这意味着该法律可能会将他们推向互联网“西部荒野”中更可疑的区域——而这仅仅是那些知道孩子在网上究竟在做什么的父母。

同年，当英国对色情和危险网络内容实施年龄检查时，来自 Proton 的 VPN 下载量增长了 1,200%。

英国政府自己的调查发现，截至本月，40% 的 11 至 17 岁青少年已经绕过了年龄检查。

当然，对孩子的社交媒体限制确实能让部分孩子远离网络。但在纽约，肯定会有孩子下载 VPN，使用父母的账户登录平台，并涌向不受监管的网站以获取他们想要的内容。

这并不是因为纽约的立法者不关心孩子的利益，而是因为在保护孩子免受网络伤害的斗争中，奥尔巴尼（Albany）永远无法替代家庭和社区的作用。

父母、家庭、学校和社区成员需要采取行动。

平心而论，他们一直在努力：全国各地的学校一直在实施从铃响到铃响（bell-to-bell）的手机禁令。越来越多的父母让孩子在达到能够负责任地浏览内容的年龄之前不要接触社交媒体。翻盖手机和功能机正迎来一个时刻。甚至孩子们自己也在表达想要“断网”的愿望。

诸如赌博、色情、宗教极端化或校园枪击案宣言等具有腐蚀性的内容在网上悄无声息地传播，但政府永远无法替代基层干预——父母也不应指望政府成为他们的救世主。

“杀人”

父亲在法庭上 冷漠

纽约州伊丽莎白镇（ELIZABETHTOWN, NY）—— 涉嫌杀人之父卢西亚诺·弗拉托林（Luciano Frattolin）周三在法庭上毫无表情地坐着，当时州政府播放了他的录像，他在录像中继续声称他的女儿被绑架了——即便在警方调查人员审讯他，要求他坦白关于其 9 岁女儿惨遭杀害的真相之后，他依然如此。

45 岁的弗拉托林茫然地盯着两名调查员，在警方面试中，对方反复要求他承认他涉嫌对女儿梅琳娜·弗拉托林（Melina Frattolin）所做的事——即便此前他已被出示了在蒂康德罗加（Ticonderoga）距离 87 号州际公路 8 英里外的帕拉贡溪（Paragon Brook）沿岸，其女儿被泥土覆盖的尸体照片。

他因该女孩 2025 年 7 月 19 日的死亡而在埃塞克斯县（Essex County）接受审判。

在 2025 年 7 月 20 日的录音中，弗拉托林告诉州警调查员艾希莉·马克斯（Ashlee Marks）：“我们两个都回到了车里，”尽管他被告知，他的女儿在几小时前已被发现死亡，并被安置在进入阿第伦达克（Adirondack）荒野徒步路径约 10 分钟后的一棵树下。

警方通过弗拉托林手机的数据找到了她的尸体，该手机上还附有一个可追踪的 Apple AirTag。

预计审判将于周四恢复。

Vaughn Golden

“战争罪”

指控马里

国际特赦组织周三呼吁对一起事件进行战争罪调查，该组织将此描述为在 7 月 18 日的一次伏击后，武装团体成员即决处决了至少 19 名马里士兵。

根据马里武装部队、阿扎瓦德解放阵线（Azawad Liberation Front）以及与基地组织有关的团体“伊斯兰和穆斯林支持团体”（Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin）的声明，此次袭击发生在马里北部的阿内菲斯（Anefis）镇与高（Gao）市之间。

联合国人权事务高级专员办事处也已呼吁对该事件进行调查。路透社

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给孩子的“免费”资金

联邦奖学金

作者：CARL CAMPANILE

根据周二发布的一份报告，全国公立、私立或特许学校的近 52 million 名学生可能有资格获得联邦“自由”奖学金，其中包括纽约州的 2.7 million 多名学生。

31 个州（涵盖 31 million 名学生）已选择加入“教育自由税收抵免”计划，包括纽约州——尽管教师工会对此表示反对，他们声称该税收抵免是一项私有化或“代金券”方案，将导致学生从公立学校大量流失。

学校选择组织“美国儿童联盟”（American Federation for Children）在其分析中表示，大多数民主党执政州尚未加入该计划，包括加利福尼亚州，那里有近 6 million 名学生将从中受益。

近 21 million 名学生所在的州尚未签署该计划，该计划将于明年生效。

面向天主教学校和犹太教学校（yeshivas）私立学校学生的奖学金可用于抵扣学费。

倡导者表示，公立学校学生可以使用这些奖学金进行辅导、参加课后项目或支付交通费用。

根据法律，各州州长必须“选择加入”，学生才能获得财务奖学金。

这是纽约州天主教会议（New York State Catholic Conference）和 Teach NY Coalition 的首要任务/

arship Fund（奖学金基金），该基金为就读于纽约总教区运营的天主教学校的学生提供财务援助。

寻求今年秋天连任第二任期的民主党人霍楚尔（Hochul）州长选择了加入该计划。

报告指出，被认为是 2028, 年民主党总统竞争者的加州州长加文·纽森（Gavin Newsom）目前尚未选择加入。

“潜在的帮助”

霍楚尔的一名发言人在周二表示：“霍楚尔支持联邦税收抵免奖学金及其对纽约学生和学校提供潜在帮助的可能性。”

根据去年由特朗普总统批准的由共和党主导的预算法案中的计划，个人纳税人向非营利奖学金授予组织捐款，每年可获得最高 $1,700 的联邦税收抵免（按 1:1 抵扣）。

随后，这些组织利用捐款向学生提供财务援助。

美国儿童联盟首席执行官汤米·舒尔茨（Tommy Schultz）表示：“每位州长都需要选择加入，这样所有人都能从中受益。”

“对于那些迅速采取行动选择加入的州长和州，谢谢你们；而对于仍在考虑是否加入的州长，你们在等待什么？”舒尔茨说道。

他接着说：“你们州里的数百万儿童和家庭正在等待通过税收抵免来支持他们的教育资源。”

AFC 的分析称，约 90% 的学生将符合该计划的资格，因为收入高达当地收入 300% 的家庭均符合条件。

具有影响力的纽约州联合教师工会（New York State United Teachers）声称，税收抵免奖学金将损害公立学校。

NYSUT 在最近的一份声明中表示：“学校代金券将公共税收资金转而用于支付私立学校的学费。”

正统联合会（Orthodox Union），他们主张支持犹太教学校（yeshivas）或犹太学校。

例如，此类捐款可以流向内城奖学金基金（Inner-City Schol-

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“邪恶继母”拒绝认罪协议

被指控将继子囚禁在恶劣环境下数十年的康涅狄格州“恐怖之屋”母亲拒绝了一项仅判处 10 年监禁的认罪协议——与此同时，受害者的生母痛批涉嫌虐待者的律师表现得像个“表演马”。

在周三于沃特伯里举行的 90 秒法庭听证会上，检察官重申了一项提议：对 57 岁的 Kimberly Sullivan 判处 30 年监禁，在服刑 20 年后暂停执行。

法官 Corinne Klatt 通过建议 Sullivan 服刑 30 年，但在 10 年后暂停执行，从而使该协议更具吸引力。

Sullivan 的律师 Ioannis Kaloidis 表示她没有罪。

Sullivan 被指控在其沃特伯里的家中，将她现在 33 岁的继子锁在一个肮脏的房间里，这种情况从他大约 10 岁起就开始了，仅在做家务时才允许他出来。

生母 Tracy Vallerand 痛斥检察官提供如此宽松的认罪协议，并将 Kaloidis 比作情境喜剧《比维斯与巴特海德》中的“比维斯”。

Vallerand 在儿子 6 个月大时将其交给父亲 Kraigg Sullivan 和 Kimberly。

Reuven Fenton 和 Zoe Hussain

奶奶挺身相救

据报道，一位最近自学游泳的 71 岁奶奶跳入中国的一条河中救起一名溺水男子，随后将这次大胆的救援轻描淡写为“没什么大不了的”。

据《南华早报》报道，7 月 13 日，Liu Defang 正在安徽省寿县的一条河边与朋友聊天时，听到有人喊“有人掉水里了”。

该媒体报道称，视频记录了一名男子爬上桥栏杆，随后跳入河中试图自杀。 Zoe Hussain

死亡威胁 vs “MAHA”影响者

身处险境： “文化药剂师”播客主持人 Alex Clark 将这些威胁归咎于笼罩在左翼之上的“暗杀文化”。

作者：VICTOR NAVA

保守派健康与养生影响者 Alex Clark 在最新一集的《Pod Force One》节目中透露，她仅仅因为敦促美国人食用更好的食物，就接到了铺天盖地的死亡威胁。

作为 Turning Point USA “文化药剂师”播客的主持人，Clark 将左翼笼罩的“暗杀文化”视为原因之一，称在 Charlie Kirk 被谋杀后，针对她生命的威胁激增。

“我无法向你们描述自从 Charlie 被杀后我收到了多少死亡威胁，”Clark 告诉《Pod Force One》客座主持人 Lydia Moynihan。“更疯狂的是，其中有几个绝对来自左翼，但很多其实来自 Candace Owens 的粉丝。”

这位“让美国再次健康” (Make America Healthy Again) 的影响者感叹，由于这些威胁，她在访问大学校园时需要“24/7 全天候安保”——尽管她仅仅是在谈论健康与养生。

“基于我的 Turning Point 巡演类型，我对左翼来说其实并不是那么大的威胁，但现在我无论去哪里都必须配备武装安保，”她说。“有人问我：‘你想开始穿防弹背心吗？’我谈论的是食用天然食物……这些事情在五年前、七年前我刚被雇佣时，对我来说是不可想象的。”

Clark 称，在美国成为一名基督保守主义者是一个“非常可怕的时期”。

“我不知道在历史上，在美国公开地成为一名保守主义者和基督徒是否曾经如此艰难，”她在《Pod Force One》中表示，她认为如果你是“一个戴着 MAGA 帽子走在街上的保守主义者，你身上就有一个巨大的目标，这非常可怕。”

Clark 吸引了大量保守派女性追随者，她还被问到是如何赢得这么多女性支持的——而这些女性在历史上更倾向于政治左翼。

接触女性

“所以，我认为从历史上看，接触女性的方式一直是通过文化，而左翼……他们主导了流行文化，所以我认为这条途径确实属于左翼，”她解释道。

“而我们真正拥有的是在育儿、健康、饮食和家庭方面介入的机会；我认为这些是保守派运动可以真正掌控的，我们能够通过这些接触女性。”

谈到 MAHA 运动时，克拉克透露，“衣物中的化学物质”将在未来一年成为关注健康的选民关注的一个重大问题。

“我非常热衷的一件事是，我认为 2026，记住我的话，2026 年真的是杀虫剂之年。我认为 2027，对于 MAHA 选民来说，将是衣物化学物质之年，”她说。

“我认为我们正开始看到天然纤维和有机棉服装的趋势开始转变，以及一场针对聚酯纤维的巨大战争。”

克拉克指出，美国的服装化学品法律“自 1940 年代以来就未曾更新”，而且随着“湿疹和皮肤敏感症的增加”，更多的美国人应该意识到法律条文中那些过时的法律。

她认为，整治衣物中的化学物质是“FDA 可以宣布我们将开始在美国执行的一件简单的事情”。

无政府主义者“围攻”威斯康星州首府

在持枪连环重罪犯 Corey Ruiz 被警方枪毙一周后，Black Lives Matter 和 Antifa 抗议者封锁了威斯康星州麦迪逊市中心的两个时尚街区——他们竖起的路障与臭名昭著的 2020 年西雅图“国会山自治区”（CHAZ）相似。

而作为州议会大厦和威斯康星大学主校区所在地的麦迪逊市，则通过提供移动厕所和其他资源来协助他们。

邻居们已经忍无可忍，在接受 WMTV 15 新闻采访时表示，他们感到被迅速扩张的抗议区“困住”了。

“我觉得抗议已经演变成一场非常不尊重人的占领，旨在通过惩罚‘Willy Street’（商业区）来应对此次事件，”一名当地人告诉该媒体。

Ruiz 被枪击的画面被镜头捕捉到，已成为一个全国性的争议点，因为当地 BLM 激进分子利用这次杀戮事件，引发了此后每晚都动荡不安的州首府中央商业区抗议活动。

监狱记录显示，Ruiz 是拉丁裔而非黑人——尽管法院记录将他列为非裔美国人。

据当局称，他最近刚从监狱获释，在被击毙前几秒钟用刀刺伤了一名警察。

Chris Nesi

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NBC “入侵者”被取消保释

据称闯入 NBC《今日》（Today）节目现场并向主持人 Craig Melvin 抛出种族歧视词汇的疯子，在违反了早前的缓刑条款后，现将被长期羁押在 Rikers 岛——法院周三审理此案。

Andrew Truelove，41 岁，在曼哈顿最高法院的一次简短听证会上被命令不准保释。

在做出这一裁决前，Truelove 被指控于 7 月 16 日闯入 30 Rockefeller Center 的非授权区域，要求知道深受喜爱的主播 Al Roker 所在地，随后遇到 Melvin 并称呼其为 N-word。

在周三的听证会上，法官 Gregory Carro 听取了相关辩论，即这次逮捕违反了 Truelove 仅在一个月前因刑事破坏罪被判刑时设定的条件。Kyle Schnitzer 和 Steven Hirsch

“终点站”案例：ICE 加强在机场的驱逐行动

作者：CHRIS NESI

你再也不能在机舱内自由活动了。

在有报告称美国运输安全管理局 (TSA) 正在与移民官员共享乘客数据之后，美国移民和海关执法局 (ICE) 已开始在全美各地的机场逮捕签证过期的外国国民。

据 ABC News 引用国土安全部 (DHS) 的文件称，至少有 27 人来自十几个国家，在通过美国机场旅行时被捕。

“DHS 扭转了拜登时代那项可怕的政策，该政策允许非法入境我国的外国人地毯式地在全国飞行。在特朗普总统的领导下，DHS 将不再容忍这种情况，”DHS 表示。

“本届政府正勤勉工作，以确保非法入境我国的外国人不再能够乘坐飞机，除非是离开我国进行自我驱逐。”

当然，机场要求乘客提供个人详细信息才能登机——这为 ICE 探员提供了精准锁定非法移民并将其逮捕的绝佳机会。

反特朗普法律组织“美国监督”(American Oversight) 周二发布了一份文件，概述了 ICE 与运输安全管理局之间的一项数据共享协议。

该文件签署于 2025 年 5 月，以非具体措辞描述称，TSA 将向 ICE 提供该机构将收集并保留的某些乘客数据要素。

然而，文件中指明具体共享数据的附录部分几乎被全部涂黑。

广泛的影响

此次扩大执法力度标志着 DHS 开辟了新战线，因为该部门正仓促努力以达成政府每天数千人的逮捕配额。

具体在哪些机场进行了逮捕尚不明确，但已有报告称在洛杉矶、拉斯维加斯、纳什维尔、丹佛和旧金山的机场发生了 ICE 逮捕事件。

一些逮捕现场的视频在社交媒体上流传，其中包括周一在洛杉矶国际机场 (LAX) 逮捕的 Phu Nguyen，他是一名出生于越南的澳大利亚公民，其签证于 2015 年过期。

另一段广泛传播的视频显示，ICE 官员在丹佛机场逮捕了 27 岁的厄瓜多尔女性 Chantal Morales Rojas，她居住在奥克兰，当时正准备搭乘航班回国。

ICE 告诉《丹佛邮报》，Rojas 的签证已于 2025 年 1 月过期，因此非法留在该国。

尽管逮捕行动直到最近才升级，但 ICE 在美国机场的据点已经存在一年多。

狱警成为“爱情的囚徒”

据联邦当局称，一名女性惩教官在一家新泽西州联邦监狱中被发现与一名男性囚犯亲热。她的囚犯情人甚至付费让其他囚犯在他们幽会时充当哨兵，而这段肮脏的私情甚至导致过一次怀孕惊魂。

据 NJ.com 报道，周一，联邦调查局 (FBI) 在监狱内向堡迪克斯联邦惩教机构 (Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix) 的狱警 Jordan Pensak 送达了刑事传票，指控她于 1 月 8 日与该囚犯发生了性行为。

联邦起诉书指控，从 2024 年开始，Pensak 多次在监狱的一间办公室里与一名囚犯发生性关系。

据 Philly Voice 引用传票报道，Pensak 在短信中暗示自己有丈夫，她与被囚禁的情人交换了 100 多个露骨的性爱信息、照片和视频。 Ella Morrison

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犹太哀悼之日引发的暴力事件

希伯来历五月（Av）的第九天，即“提莎比阿夫”（Tisha B'Av），是犹太历法中最黑暗的一天。犹太人通过坐在地板上、禁食以及回顾塑造了犹太历史的灾难来纪念这一天：耶路撒冷圣殿的被毁、十字军东征、西班牙驱逐事件以及大屠杀。

这个节日提醒人们，犹太故事中太多的章节是用泪水书写的。但今年，我们最黑暗的一天变得更加黑暗了。

“提莎比阿夫”纪念的是过去的悲剧，但上周，过去变成了现在。在曼哈顿上西区我领导的犹太中心（The Jewish Center）犹太会堂度过早晨后，戴着犹太小圆帽（yarmulke）的摩西·格伦豪斯（Moshe Grunhaus）开始步行回家。他才走了不到 200 英尺，就被一名大喊“真主至大”（Allahu Akbar）的男子刺伤。伊斯兰恐怖分子经常用这句话来宣布其杀人意图。

涉嫌袭击的人很快被逮捕。曼哈顿地区检察官在指控被告袭击和企图谋杀之外，还指控其犯有仇恨罪。感谢上帝，摩西在袭击中幸存，预计将完全康复。但对于一个在这个城市生活了许多代、却日益感到被诽谤、被孤立且不安全的社区来说，这几乎没有什么安慰。

在记忆中，这还是第一次，美国的犹太生活开始让人感觉像在欧洲的犹太生活：武装守卫、防弹玻璃、安全检查站，以及时刻担心昨天的言论会变成今天的袭击。

上周在西 86 街发生的事情并非偶然。当公职人员反复将犹太社区视为以色列政府行为的替代目标时，身份显而易见的纽约犹太人发现自己越来越多地处于攻击目标之中。曼达尼（Mamdani）显然错了，他假装可以在不贬低支持者（具体而言是犹太人）的情况下批评以色列，并反对以色列作为一个犹太国家的生存。

我的会众问我，他们的孩子在公共场合是否应该戴普通的帽子而不是犹太小圆帽。

愤怒：本周抗议者认为，在摩西·格伦豪斯在上西区被刺后，曼达尼应对煽动反犹暴力承担责任。

我的牙科保健员最近告诉我，她 10 岁的孙子从公立学校回家后问他的母亲：“为什么我们必须是犹太人？”

言论很重要。它们建立了道德边界。它们塑造了人们认为什么是可以说的，并最终塑造了人们认为什么是可以做的。市长称以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）为战争罪犯；他错误地指责以色列实施种族灭绝；他声称这是一个种族隔离国家；他还使用了诸如“怪物”之类的词来描述其支持者。

这种妖魔化的鼓噪帮助营造了一种氛围，使得仇犹者感到日益大胆。上周的袭击是一个冷峻的提醒：鲁莽的政治表演会诱使不法之徒将仇恨言论转化为实际的仇恨犯罪。

讽刺至极，令人心痛。拉比们著名的教导是，犹太人的第二圣殿之所以被毁，是因为“sin at chin”（无端之恨）。

邻里之间不再友善。文明让位于蔑视。人们不再将彼此视为同类，而是将对方视为敌人、对手和怀疑的对象。

这一教训依然具有痛心的现实意义。社会被摧毁不仅是因为外部敌人；当蔑视变得时尚，当分歧硬化为妖魔化，当邻居变成漫画般的刻板印象时，社会就会从内部被削弱。

暴力很少始于武器。它始于言论。

对于犹太社区来说，“提莎比阿夫”一直关乎记忆。我们讲述自己的悲剧，并不是因为我们喜欢沉溺于痛苦，而是因为记忆创造了道德义务。

这提醒我们，煽动性的言论能如此迅速地演变为偏见，偏见能如此迅速地堕落为非人化，而非人化又能如此迅速地爆发为暴力。

现在，市长正利用他的平台来煽动我们本应超越的这种分裂。他呼吁纽约人在内塔尼亚胡 9 月访问纽约时对他进行抗议。

在保护那些成为此类抗议所激发的情绪目标的纽约犹太人方面，他是否表现出了同样的紧迫感？任何市长的首要职责都是保障其公民的安全。执着于外国领导人的政策，而未能应对纽约街头日益高涨的反犹主义，这构成了市长职权的失职，并冒着危及更多犹太人生命的风险。

在当下的时刻，有良知的人不仅要谴责反犹主义，还要在更多暴力发生之前，公开反对危及犹太人的言论。让我们在明年的 Tisha B'Av（犹太禁食日）变得更加阴暗之前，将道德清晰的光芒照向我们的整个城市。

Yosie Levine 是纽约市犹太中心（The Jewish Center）的拉比。

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民主党人：把戏剧表演留给好莱坞

美国娱乐业“光辉的残酷竞争”精神“使美国成为世界的文化中心和国内经济增长的引擎”，但由 12 名蓝色州总检察长发起的旨在“阻止派拉蒙 Skydance 收购华纳兄弟探索 (Warner Bros. Discovery)”的诉讼，通过虚假的反垄断指控“使这一切陷入风险”，阿里·埃马纽埃尔 (Ari Emanuel) 在《华尔街日报》上警告道。在他们那“垃圾”的反垄断案件中，总检察长们“假装亚马逊 MGM、A24 和 Lionsgate 不存在”，尽管这些公司的电影今年已经获得了数十亿美元的票房。合并后公司拥有的“27% 的故事片票房份额”不会“实质性地削弱竞争”；事实上，该交易使得新公司“承诺每年至少发行 30 部院线电影”。“伤害并非始于总检察长赢得诉讼之时，”而是在资金开始“投入到法律费用而非制作”时就已经开始了。“让好莱坞的创意工作者们回到互相撕咬的状态吧 . . . 这才是我们最擅长的事。”

保守派：民主党人失去了常识

埃隆·马斯克 (Elon Musk) 在最近的一次采访中，对“美国与欧洲、共和党人与民主党人、『普通人』与主流媒体之间日益扩大的鸿沟提供了强有力的诊断”，《今日美国》(USA Today) 的尼科尔·罗素 (Nicole Russell) 评论道。采访者声称马斯克“不仅支持民粹主义右翼，还支持极右翼——事实上是极其边缘的政党”；他回答道：“不，我支持普通人。你所谓的极右翼，是错误的。”罗素继续写道：他挑战提问者“考虑 10 到 15 年前，奥巴马和克林顿在移民和其他问题上持有与今天特朗普相同的观点，而这些观点现在被‘疯狂的左翼’贴上极右翼的标签”。在政府的每一个层级，“民主党人曾经认同的常识性观点现在都被视为边缘观点”，并且：“右翼与左翼之间的深渊”被“媒体挖掘得更深”。

自由意志主义者：从一开始就有太多的选举失效

《Reason》杂志的埃里克·波姆 (Eric Boehm) 抱怨道，今年大约 150 个众议员席位竞选“没有实质性的竞争”，在那些超安全的红州或蓝州选区，现任议员在“初选中无人竞争后，几乎保证了另一个两年的任期”——这导致超过 84 million 美国人“实际上被剥夺了投票权”。加利福尼亚州、华盛顿州和夏威夷州现在实行“开放的、所有候选人参加的初选”，使其 63 个众议员席位中只有五个没有竞争者。是的，这通常意味着“来自同一政党的两名候选人进入”普选，但这比看着超过三分之一的候选人在选举开始前就获胜要好得多。“美国人应该拥抱任何旨在提高选举竞争力的想法。”

历史学家：DSA 的接管是受邀而来的

伊丽莎白·沃伦 (Elizabeth Warren)

维克多·戴维斯·汉森 (Victor Davis Hanson) 在《American Greatness》中主张，社会主义者对“民主党的接管”并非由对“负担能力”的担忧所引发，而“仅仅是……民主党贵族内部激进主义的逻辑顶峰”，包括“伊丽莎白·沃伦、卡玛拉·哈里斯和哈基姆·杰弗里斯”。“主流民主党人”在过去二十年里传播了几乎每一种“武器化的骗局和全国性的歇斯底里”。当“三名企图暗杀的人在距离杀死特朗普足够近的地方”时，“民主党”的机构是否平息了局面？他们是否“至少假装谴责”针对移民海关执法局 (ICE) 的暴力行为？不，社会主义者“并没有劫持该党”；他们是“由年长的民主党人产生并培育的”，仅仅增加了反犹主义。“美国很快将看到这种疯狂的结果如何。”

城市主义者：租金冻结面临真实风险

针对租金指导委员会为了“履行市长的竞选承诺”而投票决定“冻结租金”，一群“受影响的业主”已起诉要求“撤销”该 0% 的涨幅，City Journal 的 John Ketcham 指出。一次基于政治动机的投票“可能构成对正当程序的违反”。法律要求 RGB 在审议时必须“权衡某些经济因素的证据”，然而“RGB 面前的证据——基于委员会自己的研究——并不支持”此次冻结，因为研究发现房东的支出在去年增长了 5.3%。此外，多名委员会成员具有记录在案的“反业主偏见历史”，这也支持“认定 RGB 的决定是武断且反复无常的”。

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令人不齿的沉默

美国理应在联邦政府和 COVID 方面得到答案——但在周三的参议院国土安全委员会听证会上没有得到任何答案，因为 Anthony Fauci 博士选择在四个小时内行使第五修正案权利 111 次。

令人愤怒的是：第五修正案赋予了不自认其罪的权利，而 Fauci 却因乔·拜登总统的全面赦免而免于刑事指控。

这位国家长期担任的传染病主管在疫情期间关闭学校和企业负有重大责任，强迫幼儿佩戴口罩，并向大批美国人强加了令人质疑的疫苗接种令。

Fauci 是否后悔其中任何一项，尤其是当他在缺乏有力科学证据证明此类举措确实合理的情况下，如此自信地建议采取这些行动时？

为什么他将纳税人的资金引导至中国的“功能获得性”实验，从而创造出针对人类的病毒？

为什么他多次就这些资金决定撒谎，并利用其官方权力伪造科学共识，声称 COVID 病毒是自然演化的？

最重要的是：下次我们能做些什么来确保这种情况不再发生？

“我将行使宪法第五修正案赋予我的权利，拒绝回答您的问题，”这是 Fauci 唯一的话。

主席 Paul 将采取行动，因其拖延战术而判定 Fauci 藐视议会，而这正是正确的。

正如参议员 Josh Hawley 所指出的，“最高法院一个多世纪以来一直很明确。Brown vs. Walker, 1896：‘当他被赦免后，他不能再依赖其特权。’”因此，唯一能让 Fauci 陷入法律麻烦的是他现在犯下某种新罪行，例如在宣誓后撒谎。也许他的律师认为他无法克制自己不去撒谎？

甚至在被问及星期几以及领带颜色时，他也拒绝回答。

Fauci 彻底嘲弄了第五修正案，就像他那专制的疫情政策粗暴地践踏了许多其他宪法权利一样。参议院有明确的责任判定他藐视议会，并采取所有相关的实际惩戒措施。

特朗普给他的伊朗战争批评者的礼物

特朗普总统的敌人希望美国人认为他在伊朗战争中毫无头绪——而他自己的话很容易让他们推销这一主张。

比如当他说他暂停袭击是因为伊朗人看起来真的很想谈谈时——然而伊朗军队从未停止袭击其邻国（我们的盟友）以及我们的基地，导致我们的士兵死亡。

他在德黑兰向约旦的美国军队发射导弹后誓言要让其严重受创，这完全合情合理，但紧接着他又在同一口气中说谈判将继续。

有时他自己的人也会发出令人困惑的消息，比如上周末泄露的关于美国拦截弹库存不足的消息，以及这就是为什么我们在周五晚些时候暂停轰炸的原因。哈？更强有力地摧毁伊朗的导弹和无人机发射场，才是减少我们使用 THAAD 和爱国者 (Pa-triot) 拦截弹的最佳方式：如果敌人无法发射导弹，你就无需拦截。

在经历了多轮暂停与恢复之后，显而易见的是，伊朗将美国的任何克制都解读为软弱。

而当沙特阿拉伯加入美国对伊朗支持的伊拉克民兵组织的袭击时，德黑兰才需要担心：所有迹象都表明伊朗的攻击正在加强针对它的联盟，这发送了最有效的信号。还有你关于乌克兰袭击一艘在里海之间往返于伊朗的俄罗斯船只的报道。

伊朗的策略——目前胡塞武装也加入了这场经济战——显然认为对美国经济的担忧是特朗普暂停行动的原因。如果这真的是问题所在，总统应该明确说明，否则他给美国公众带来的困惑比给敌人带来的还要多。

纽约市学校拒绝学习的内容

纽约市公立学校已完全退回到被质疑的“社会晋级”（social promotion）做法——无论如何都让学生升入下一个年级——尽管越来越多的证据表明这是一个严重的错误。

去年，教育部学校在 3 到 8 年级中仅留级了 0.4% 的学生——尽管有 40% 的学生未能在州级测试中达到熟练标准，且 3% 的学生未达到晋级的最低要求。

留级学生的数量自 2014 年以来大幅下降，当时市长比尔·德布拉西奥 (Bill de Blasio) 开始允许学校依赖“综合”衡量标准而非标准化考试成绩。大约在同一时间，密西西比州开始采取完全相反的方法——这成了巨大成功的一部分。

在 2013 年，该州通过了《基于识字的晋级法案》（Literacy-Based Promotion Act），结束了社会晋级，并要求三年级学生在升入四年级之前必须展示阅读熟练度。学校在孩子有留级风险时通知家长，并制定阅读计划帮助他们赶上进度。

结果不言而喻：如今，密西西比州的四年级学生的阅读水平几乎领先于纽约市的同龄学生一整个学年，尽管该市每名学生的支出是其三倍；这个“木兰花之州”现在在教授黑人儿童阅读方面领先全国。

底线是：纽约市负责教育政策的人员根本拒绝采取显而易见的步骤来确保我们的孩子学会阅读。

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Zo 的“吃掉富人”击杀名单：为什么要开你邻居的盒？

• 你可能在那份富裕业主数据库中找不到 Mamdani 市长及其父母的名字，因为他们昂贵的第二套房在乌干达（“Dox'terZo 的击杀名单”，7 月 28）。

你绝对听不到我们那位被宠坏的富家子弟马克思主义市长的任何抱怨，他最喜欢抢夺他人的钱财。

Gary Mottola 布鲁克林

• 为您的文章点赞 —— Mamdani 市长对选民财产权的蔑视早已显而易见，但谁能想到他也如此轻视他们的隐私权？公开任何房屋所有者的税务状态可能服务于什么样的公共目的？

James Evans 马萨诸塞州，伍斯特

• Mamdani 现在在纽约市政治史上犯下了最愚蠢的行为，他通过揭露潜在的居民目标，为他本人以及那名对抗性的州长所支持的新“第二套房税”提供便利。

议题： 市政府列出了所有可能适用新度假房税（pied-à-terre tax）的房屋所有者的姓名和地址。

Mamdani 市长

通过公开提供该税收将针对的人员姓名和地址，他使所有人面临被嘲笑以及潜在身体伤害的风险，包括被仇恨激进分子袭击甚至谋杀。这种行为在共产主义国家可能行得通，但在美国，我们不会这样对待邻居。

Rich Klitzberg 新泽西州，普林斯顿

• Zohran 肯定已经超越了 Tony Soprano —— 通过发布一份相当于针对纽约富人的击杀名单，他使数千人陷入险境。

犹太人并不是纽约唯一不安全的群体。现在，任何拥有精美公寓并认为支付高昂税款就足够的人都加入了这个群体 —— 在 Mamdani 的世界里并非如此。

JJ Levine 佛罗里达州，迈阿密海滩

• 既然市长的愿望是在他的“吃掉富人”活动中印出他将征税的纽约人的名字，我觉得他应该把母亲的名字也列入敌对名单，因为她曾在曼哈顿拥有一套价值 $2 million 的房子。

Jeff Cooperman 佛罗里达州，兰多湖

• 市长是一个危险且充满仇恨的人，因为他列出了所有“富裕”业主的姓名，让他的支持者去搜寻。他表现得像斯大林，因为他本身就是个共产主义者。

John Stanolevich 法拉盛

Don 虐待记者的机会

• 在白宫记者晚餐会上，特朗普总统像个疲惫的老人，在早期的演讲中打瞌睡，而且一点也不幽默（见 7 月 27 日的“Don 肋下的‘记者们’”，"Journas" on the Don ribs）。

他没能把几个笑话讲好，因为他根本不知道怎么讲。他还发表了一场极其平凡且乏味的演讲，又回到了那些陈词滥调：舞厅、美国在伊朗的战争以及“我好可怜”。简直荒谬！Hank DePerro 曼哈顿

• 特朗普拥有了人生中一次绝佳的机会，面对一屋子媒体猎犬。他们是被吸引的观众，或者更准确地说，是被俘虏的观众，遭受了一波又一波的言语攻击。不过，这也是他们自找的。

总统明确表示，尽管他不同意媒体的许多观点，但他依然非常尊重这个行业，并期待明年再次参加。对于那些在场的人来说，这是一个精疲力竭的夜晚，我不确定记者协会是否也有同样的感觉。Ronald Frank 新泽西州，西奥兰治

议题： 特朗普总统在周五晚上白宫记者晚餐会上的言论。

• 在上周末白宫记者晚餐会上糟糕的表现之后，除了总统本人，每个人都应该很清楚——我们这位跛脚鸭领导人在单口喜剧方面没有任何前途。

Bob Ory，芝加哥

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海湾盟友们等不及了

这种时断时续的战争代价

特朗普总统表示，他有“充足的时间”与伊朗进行谈判。这对华盛顿特区来说可行，因为那里距离霍尔木兹海峡有 7,000 英里。但如果你在迪拜，这个距离就缩短到不足 50 英里。

虽然美国能够承受一场远离其边境的持久战，以削弱伊朗的军事能力，但这种低强度的对抗对于六个海湾阿拉伯国家来说代价极高。伊朗对机场和发电厂等民用基础设施的袭击，以及通过霍尔木兹海峡出口石油的不确定命运，造成了毁灭性的经济影响。对于海湾国家而言，这场战争越快结束越好。

因此，如果美国想要通过施压强迫伊朗让步，那么华盛顿必须运用更大的军事力量。海湾国家最不想经历的，就是目前这种时断时续的战争。

要让海湾经济反弹，美国的一致性（这在如今已十分匮乏）是一个必要条件。在始于 2 月底的这场战争期间，这些国家一直承受着伊朗持续的袭击。与战争第一阶段中的美国合作伙伴以色列不同，海湾国家没有加入战斗的意愿或手段。

那么，美国是否必须克制对伊朗的轰炸，以便德黑兰的近邻能免于遭受其愤怒？如果不能，华盛顿能否采取任何措施为他们提供更多保护？

这场最初被所有六个海湾国家反对的战争已进行近六个月，伊朗的袭击让他们毫无疑问地认识到，该政权对其安全构成了最直接且最致命的威胁。但这种认识并未促成一个统一的针对伊朗的海湾政策。

有些国家的态度比其他国家更强硬。但战争带来的经济压力、伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的封锁，以及现在红海更广泛区域日益紧张的局势，迫使他们所有人得出结论：目前这种“非战非和”的局面是不可持续的。

在鹰派中，阿拉伯联合酋长国是最激进的声音。在伊朗用弹道导弹猛击阿布扎比之后，阿联酋与伊朗断交，驱逐伊朗侨民并冻结伊朗银行账户。

加大力度：沙特阿拉伯参与了美国对伊拉克境内一个与伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）相关场地的袭击。

巴林——美国第五舰队和美国海军中央司令部的所在地——也是德黑兰的坚决反对者。在最近的战斗中，伊朗军队袭击了巴林的民用和军事设施。巴林则采取反击，打击了伊朗目标。而倾向于中立且历史上与伊朗关系良好的其余海湾国家也未能幸免。伊朗通过袭击科威特的主要国际机场以及海水淡化厂、发电站和海上石油钻井平台，将科威特卷入了冲突。

至于卡塔尔和阿曼，尽管德黑兰在两国领土上发动袭击，但两国仍继续安抚那些穆拉（宗教领袖）。

沙特阿拉伯也采取了类似的非对抗姿态，尽管在本周伊朗袭击美国军队后，沙特参与了美国对伊拉克境内伊朗相关场地的袭击。

在美国审议战争的下一步行动时，考虑到我们在海湾地区密切的商业和军事联系，需要将这些不同的立场考虑在内。

这些国家中可能没有哪个会直接反对美国进一步的军事进攻，特别是如果这样做能结束伊朗对石油运输的扼制。相反，美国的撤退将向德黑兰发出信号，表明其是该地区的主要权力中心，这将损害我们的海湾阿拉伯盟友。

坦率地说，没有办法阻止伊朗报复海湾国家。因此，问题在于这些国家准备承受多少额外的痛苦。

只要伊斯兰共和国仍然是一个威胁，海湾国家就必须在以下几种选择之间做出抉择：绥靖政策，这将巩固伊朗作为该地区主导力量的地位；遏制政策，这意味着要依赖一个对无限期承诺持谨慎态度的美国；或者对抗，这将要求他们加强自身的国防，甚至获取核武器。

一个更好的选择是，通过敦促特朗普履行他对伊朗统治者的最新警告，立即解决这个问题。因为无论他们是否愿意，只要该政权存在，最终所有海湾国家都面临风险。

Hussain Abdul-Hussain 是民主防御基金会（Foundation for the Defense of Democracies）的研究员。

纯粹的无知在推动 DSA 的议程

美国民主社会主义者 (Democratic Socialists of America, DSA) 不喜欢被称作共产主义者，尽管许多成员可能会认同左翼影响力人物 Hasan Piker 的观点，他说：“我对共产主义作为最终目标的设定没有异议。”

然而，无论该组织如何定义自己，其议程显然是革命性的。其计划中要求，除其他事项外，还包括废除美国参议院，并使行政部门和最高法院隶属于众议院。

像许多革命机构一样，DSA 扮演着“党中之党”的角色，并且日益代表着民主党年轻一代的势力。与该组织一致的当选官员，如 Zohran Mamdani 和 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez，看起来像是该党的未来。

然而，DSA 的想法极其陈旧——事实上，如此陈旧，以至于它们在 1787 年就被约翰·亚当斯 (John Adams) 驳斥了。那一年，他开始出版一部名为《为美利坚合众国宪法辩护》(A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America) 的多卷本著作。

书中使用了复数形式的“宪法”(constitutions)，因为亚当斯当时还没有看到那年于费城起草的新美国宪法。他实际上是在捍卫州宪法，以对抗那些坚持认为宪法应该更加激进的法国知识分子。

那距离法国大革命爆发仅两年之差，而那场革命随后带来了所有的杀戮与混乱。

今天 DSA 策划者的那些古老法国版本，谴责两院制立法机构的原因与现在 Mamdani 和 AOC 的追随者们如出一辙：他们所谓的“民主”要求将权力集中在一个单一机构中。没有制衡，没有平衡，当然也没有联邦制——整个国家将被人格化为一个全能的单一立法机构。

亚当斯曾是第一批呼吁脱离英国独立的美国革命领导者之一，他并非大众自治的敌人。但纯粹的民主将与任何其他类型的中央集权专制一样糟糕——因此他捍卫各州的“混合”宪法，几乎所有这些宪法都设有独立的立法上议院和下议院，并将立法、行政和司法权力分开。

联邦宪法是基于相同的原则起草的——并将这些原则与州政府和国家政府之间的权力划分相结合。

回顾过去 239 年宪法的运作情况，并将其与革命时期的法国在 proto-DSA 类型的人开始得势后陷入的混乱与血腥进行对比，便能看出谁是对的。但 DSA 不满足于幻想终结资本主义，还想终结宪政主义。

像俄罗斯布尔什维克那样的革命政党，经常持有这类异想天开的目标；其重点不在于实现这些目标，而在于破坏任何已存在的事物。

DSA 的第一步是使民主党激进化，使得此前被认为极其离谱的想法（如通过增加大法官人数来控制最高法院）在与民主社会主义纲领相比之下显得温和。废除参议院在政治上或许是不可能的，但使其失去合法性是一种削弱中央集权障碍的方法——不仅仅是参议院本身（它为所有州，无论大小，提供平等代表权），而且是联邦制本身的原则。

为什么北达科他州应该拥有自己的政府？什么赋予了爱达荷州的人民治理自己领土的权利？

加利福尼亚州拥有全美数量最多的共和党人，但因为他们生活在一个实际运作起来像庞大一党制国家的环境中，他们不仅缺乏足够的代表权，而且他们所拥有的代表权可能会被民主党多数派夺走——正如目前由于州长 Gavin Newsom 所倡导的国会选区划分不公（gerrymandering）而发生的情况。

DSA 想要让整个国家变得像加州一样，而且更糟。这就是他们所谓的民主——社会主义版本。这也是革命时期的法国版本，且它是极不符合美国精神的。然而，它就像一块磁铁，正将民主党强力地向左拉。

众所周知，民主社会主义者美国 (DSA) 拥有数量极不相称的高学历但低薪或失业的成员。就像上个世纪的马克思主义者或再前一个世纪的法国哲学家一样，他们足够精明，让你觉得他们知道自己在说什么——前提是你还没了解到他们的想法在实践中被证明是多么灾难性的。

但美国的教育并没有教授太多关于共产主义的恐怖或法国恐怖统治的内容。激进分子很早就占领了教育体制，现在他们正在为他们在公众中培养的无知而收获政治回报。

根据卡托研究所 (Cato Institute) 最近的民调，Z世代（14 到 29 岁之间的美国人）支持社会主义而非资本主义的比例为 53% 对 45%，尽管“民主社会主义者”这一标签的民调结果不那么理想。

然而，尽管名称中带有“民主”二字，但 DSA 并不需要大多数人的支持就能带来糟糕的革命性变革：当大多数人意识不到其危险时，一小部分积极分子的力量就足够了。

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宝马（BMW）正计划裁员 8,000 人，成为最新一家警告中国市场销量暴跌将影响国内就业的德国汽车制造商。宝马报告称，由于在中国销售的车辆减少了 30%，第二季度销售额下降了 5%。

Flaring up

美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）表示，其上周报告的旋孢子菌（cyclospora）疫情目前已有 93 例，高于一周前的 72 例。该疫情与一种尚未确定的产品有关。而一次规模更大的疫情则被认为与切碎的冰山生菜有关。

Chipotle cheer

尽管承认旋孢子菌影响了 7 月份的销售额，但 Chipotle 表示仍提高了全年同店销售额预期，带动股价上涨。第二季度销售额增长 9.3%，超过 $3 billion。

Delta's bet

达美航空（Delta Air Lines）表示，将通过与 DraftKings 合作在航班上提供体育预测游戏，但不允许赌博。该游戏将面向 21 岁及以上乘客开放，玩家可赢取达美航空礼品卡。

Time to order

三明治连锁店 Jersey Mike's 将于周四以 $8 billion 的估值上市。该股票将在纽约证券交易所（NYSE）交易。

Sources: Reuters, Dow Jones, AP

WARSH-CASE RESULT

Split Fed holds rates with a lean to increase

By TAYLOR HERZLICH

美联储周三维持利率不变，这是凯文·沃什（Kevin Warsh）担任主席后的第二次会议 —— 但委员会的投票结果显示出分歧日益增加，因为有三名政策制定者希望加息。

在一次 9-3 的投票中，尽管达拉斯联储主席 Lorie Logan、克利夫兰联储主席 Beth Hammack 和明尼阿波利斯联储主席 Neel Kashkari 出于对通胀的担忧试图将利率提高 0.25 个百分点，但央行官员们仍将关键利率维持在 3.5% 至 3.75% 的区间。

“我要求一场激烈的家庭争吵，而我确实得到了，”于 5 月接替杰罗姆·鲍威尔（Jerome Powell）担任主席的沃什在周三的新闻发布会上说道。

他多次强调委员会降低物价的誓言，甚至表示“我们将毫不犹豫地采取行动” —— 这最初导致 9 月会议加息的概率飙升至 70% 以上。

Blame game

但在新闻发布会的其余时间里，沃什拒绝回答他计划如何降低通胀或何时准备加息，这导致交易员们对这种强硬的抗通胀立场不以为然。

他还似乎将顽固的高通胀归咎于他的前任，称：“这不是借口，而是事实。本委员会已经运行了八个半星期。家庭和企业[对降低通胀]感到不耐烦的情况已经持续了 63 个月。”

在股市收盘前，9 月加息的概率

Downer

任何希望降息的人在周三都感到失望，因为由 Kevin Warsh 领导的美联储选择维持资金成本不变——其中三名成员甚至希望提高关键数值。

道琼斯工业平均指数

我要求一场激烈的家庭争吵，而我确实得到了。

— 美联储主席 Kevin Warsh

为 53.3% —— 较前一日略有下降，且与维持利率持平几乎处于五五之势。

与此同时，Warsh 认为国债收益率的波动——尽管联邦基金利率没有变动，但自美联储上次会议以来收益率有所上升 —— 迹象表明他有限的前瞻性指引已经在发挥作用。

“市场参与者正在学会关注球赛本身，而不是裁判，”他说道。

在他的新闻发布会期间，股市出现了剧烈波动，最终在交易员将更高的债券收益率视为美联储在抗击通货膨胀中落后的信号后大幅下跌。

道琼斯工业平均指数下跌 1,153 点，或 2%，而标普 500 指数和纳斯达克指数分别下跌 1.5% 和 1.7%。

Northlight Asset Management 的首席投资官 Chris Zaccarelli 表示，周三的决定可以被视为一次“鹰派维持”，因为 Warsh 强调价格稳定并淡化了就业风险。

但他写道，如果“接下来的数据表明通货膨胀正在放缓，那么美联储有可能在全年保持利率不变 —— 鉴于我们去年看到的数值较高，今年更容易达到或超过这些数值（例如，同比比较变得更容易），这种情况很有可能发生”。

Logan、Hammack 和 Kashkari 最近都警告称，持续的通货膨胀将导致更高的利率。美联储理事 Christopher Waller 也发出了类似警告，尽管他在周三投票维持利率不变。

在伊朗战争严重破坏全球能源供应、推高成本并导致通货膨胀率超过 4% 后，包括 Warsh 在内的一些美联储官员呼吁将重点放在降低通货膨胀上，这通常表明倾向于加息。

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在美联储投票维持利率不变后，由于对通货膨胀的担忧，以及在与伊朗持久战的恐惧中油价飙升约 6%，股市在周三大幅下跌。

道琼斯工业平均指数大跌 1,153 点，或 2.2%，而标普 500 指数和纳斯达克指数分别下跌 1.5% 和 1.7%。

这是道琼斯指数一年多来最糟糕的一天。

美联储主席 Kevin Warsh 拒绝回答他今后将如何降低通货膨胀 —— 这符合他反对美联储发表过于冗长声明的哲学 —— 这导致一些交易员怀疑美联储是否能及时采取行动，以防止未来出现严重的物价痛点。

对潜在 AI 泡沫日益增加的恐惧，以及对中国技术正在追赶美国竞争对手的担忧，也继续给股市带来压力。美国芯片制造商如 AMD、Nvidia 和 Broadcom 分别下跌 6%、4% 和 3%。

在特朗普总统誓言对伊朗一夜之间突然发起的针对美国在约旦军队的导弹袭击进行报复后，投资者也感到惊恐。

由于担心中东冲突扩大可能会恶化已经处于历史性的能源供应中断，布伦特原油价格飙升 6.6% 至每桶 $90.65，而西德克萨斯中质原油上涨 5.4% 至 $84.66。Taylor Herzlich

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EV Luce 提升法拉利销量

据《金融时报》周三援引消息人士报道，由于来自中国的强劲需求，法拉利已达到了其首款电动汽车的年度销售目标。

该报称，这家豪华跑车制造商今年的 Luce 车型销售目标略低于 500 辆，而自该车 5 月 25 日上市以来，这一配额在不到两个月的时间内就已填满。

这家意大利公司的新闻办公室拒绝置评。

法拉利此前表示，将在周四发布半年业绩报告时，就 Luce 的市场反响提供更新信息。

售价 $626,285 的 Luce（右图）是一款四门五座的家庭用车。由于其不同寻常且极具争议的外观，该车招致了大量负面评价，其设计在很大程度上是由前苹果设计师 Jony Ive 和 Marc Newson 完成的。

上个月，法拉利的一位高管表示，该车非传统的外观在很大程度上是由空气动力学要求决定的，在被理解之前需要被“消化”。

在车辆揭幕前接受《华尔街日报》采访时，法拉利董事长 John Elkann 承认，该车

是对法拉利过去的突破，旨在解决现代高端电动汽车的缺陷。

“这绝对是一款未来的车型，”Elkann 说道。路透社

DoorDash 计划在无人机领域发力

多年来，DoorDash 通过自行车快递员、司机和无人机操作员，将从卷饼到感冒药的在线订单快速送到客户家中。现在，这家配送服务商正亲自涉足无人机业务。

DoorDash 周三表示，该公司已获得美国联邦航空管理局的一项关键认证，可以使用自研无人机进行商业配送。该公司正在开发无人机，以及协调订单取货和配送所需的地面基础设施和数字化系统。

此举使这家总部位于旧金山、为餐厅和商店提供配送服务的公司直接进入了新兴的航空配送市场。

为了通过飞越交通拥堵来加快糖果或婴儿配方奶粉等小件商品的配送速度，亚马逊和沃尔玛等零售商在过去几年中已向部分客户推出了该选项。

过去四年中，DoorDash 通过与 Alphabet 旗下单位 Wing 和 Flytrex 等无人机运营商合作，在美国部分地区提供无人机配送。但迄今为止，该公司尚未制造自己的无人机。

DoorDash 表示，计划继续维持这些合作伙伴关系。道琼斯

战争给 P&G 带来损失

宝洁（Procter & Gamble）对其新财年给出了低迷的预期，因为它预计将因与伊朗战争相关的成本增加而遭受 $1 billion 的损失。

这家 Crest 牙膏和 Pantene 洗发水制造商在最新季度的利润也有所下降，因为成本增加和销售疲软拖累了其底线。

与许多面向消费者的公司一样，P&G 正在应对价格敏感的购物者以及燃料和其他供应成本上升的双重压力。

销售额增长 2% 至 $21.2 billion。道琼斯

“出局”的钻石公司

财团仅为宝石巨头戴比尔斯出价 10 亿美元

作者：ARIEL ZILBER

钻石可能是女孩最好的朋友，但对于戴比尔斯（De Beers）来说，这门生意已经不像以前那样赚钱了。

据报道，这家曾经的钻石垄断企业正在考虑一个财团提出的 $1 billion 收购要约——这与戴比尔斯此前约 $18 billion 的估值峰值相比大幅缩水。

据彭博新闻社周三报道，这家英国跨国公司正与一个名为全球钻石财团（Global Diamond Consortium）的团体进行出售谈判，该团体由戴比尔斯前首席执行官 Gareth Penny 领导。

据该媒体报道，持续的钻石危机导致戴比尔斯的估值在 2 月份时已暴跌至约 $2.3 billion。

消息人士告诉，现在全球钻石财团仅愿为矿业公司英美资源（Anglo American）目前持有的多数股权支付 $1 billion。

高估值并非永恒

彭博社（Bloomberg）。该财团将预付 $750 million，其余资金将在随后转移。

彭博社指出，近年来钻石行业受到了多种因素的打击。在 COVID 疫情期间的销售繁荣之后，自然钻石的关键市场——中国的奢侈品消费骤降。

合成钻石的普及度上升，婚礼网站 The Knot 发现，2023 年近一半的订婚戒指采用的是实验室培育钻石。全球范围内对天然钻石的需求大幅下降。

彭博社报道称，近期的贸易紧张局势和地缘政治动荡进一步恶化了局面。英美资源（Anglo American）和全球钻石财团（Global Diamond Consortium）均拒绝就此事向该媒体发表评论。

“这一估值……反映了钻石行业的现状，以及人们认为目前的挑战是长期的而非周期性的信念，”追踪钻石行业的 Rapaport 集团高级分析师 Joshua Freedman 告诉《邮报》（The Post）。

他补充道：“值得注意的是，竞标者正在为这笔交易寻求外部资金，因此这取决于外部各方是否认为 De Beers 具有足够的价值。”

维多利亚时代的帝国主义者塞西尔·罗兹（Cecil Rhodes）于 1888. 创立了 De Beers。此后不久，该公司在好坏两方面几乎成为了钻石业务的代名词。

Lisa Fickenscher 参与报道

甜头：星巴克销售额上升

在咖啡连锁店报告同店销售额连续第四次增长，并表示最新季度证明其转型计划正在发挥作用后，星巴克（Starbucks）的股价在周三盘后交易中上涨了 7% 以上。

得益于交易量和平均客单价的增加，星巴克在北美的销售额处于领先地位，并抵消了国际销售额 34% 的跌幅。

首席执行官 Brian Niccol 表示，公司依赖于新产品，如新颖的含糖饮料和限时供应的项目（如 S'mores 饮料），这些产品在 Z 世代客户中产生了“特别好”的反响。

总体而言，星巴克第三财季的同店销售额增长了 7.9%，远高于分析师预期的 5.7% 增长。总销售额轻微下降 1.4% 至 $9.32 billion，但仍高于预期。道琼斯（Dow Jones）

FTC 的远程医疗诉讼

联邦贸易委员会（FTC）起诉 Hims & Hers Health，指控这家远程医疗公司在承诺保护患者隐私的情况下，与第三方广告平台共享用户信息。

FTC 与犹他州和加利福尼亚州共同指控 Hims & Hers 在计费和取消实践方面欺骗用户，在患者与医生会面前就收取费用，并增加了取消订阅的难度。

Hims & Hers 对该诉讼表示异议，并称将针对这些指控进行辩护。

股价在周三下跌了 15%。根据诉讼，Hims & Hers 与 Meta 和 Snap 等广告商共享了部分客户名单以及访问者在其网站上的行为，尽管该公司声称其服务维护消费者的隐私。道琼斯（Dow Jones）

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SATYA NADELLA 客户“信心”。

M'soft floating on Alr

微软报告称云服务增长强劲，且付费 AI 订阅用户数量增加，而投资者仍专注于这家科技巨头在数据中心上的支出是否会有回报。

在截至 6 月的季度中，微软的营收增长 18% 至 $90 billion，这表明该公司的 AI 营收增长正在加速，且将继续在数据中心上进行投入。

净利润增长 31% 至 $35.8 billion。该结果超过了华尔街的预期。

“今年，Azure 的营收首次突破 $100 billion，而 Microsoft 365 Copilot 的付费席位超过 30 million，这反映了客户对我们驱动其 AI 转型所寄予的信心，”首席执行官 Satya Nadella 在一份声明中表示。

Azure 仍然是投资者最密切关注的指标之一，用于衡量整体 AI 需求。

微软股价今年以来下跌约 18%，但在盘后交易中上涨 7%。道琼斯 (Dow Jones)

Musk & ad biz settle

埃隆·马斯克 (Elon Musk) 的 X 和世界广告主联合会周三表示，他们已就一起诉讼达成和解，该诉讼涉及一项据称针对该社交媒体平台的广告商抵制行动，该行动与现已解散的全球负责任媒体联盟 (Global Alliance for Responsible Media) 相关。

在此之前的 3 月，一名法官驳回了 X 提起的一项反垄断诉讼，该诉讼还将玛氏 (Mars)、CVS Health 等公司列为被告。路透社 (Reuters)

Keep out!

US bans Xi bots on security fears

作者：MARC VARTABEDIAN

特朗普政府正禁止中国机器人，旨在遏制国家安全风险并帮助国内 AI 产业继续增长。

联邦通信委员会 (FCC) 将从中国进口的新型人形和四足机器人——以及允许设备连接到美国电网的相关功率逆变器——列为禁项。这些产品不再允许在美国进口、营销或销售。

“先进的机器人设备收集的数据可能会被恶意行为者利用，用于监视美国人，增强外国情报机构的能力，或远程控制这些机器人，”白宫在周二的一份声明中表示。

中国生产了世界上绝大多数的人形机器人——这是华盛顿与中国国家主席习近平在人工智能军备竞赛中的最新闪点之一。

Race to improve

分析师表示，得益于其大规模制造能力，中国在 AI 消费应用和 AI 赋能硬件方面已经建立了领先地位。

如今，这些机器人可以执行有限的基础任务，例如在商店迎接顾客或简单的家务（如叠衣服）。

技术专家正竞相提高人形机器人的能力，相信有一天这些机器人将出现在家庭、学校、工作场所和工厂的每一个角落。

此次打击源于白宫召集的跨部门机构周一发布的一项国家安全认定，该机构得出结论认为，连接互联网的机器人可能会使美国人面临数据隐私和网络安全风险。

“先进的机器人设备收集的数据可能会被恶意行为者利用，用于监视美国人，增强外国情报机构的能力，或远程控制这些机器人，”白宫表示。

在另一份声明中，FCC 警告称，这些机器“可能会造成供应链漏洞，从而破坏美国经济和国家安全，并可能产生威胁美国关键基础设施的网络安全风险”。

根据 Yorkville Ives 的合伙人兼高级董事总经理 Dan Ives 的说法，人形机器人可能会成为 AI 繁荣中最大的市场机会之一。

“这是物理 AI 的金鹅，”他上个月告诉 CNBC。

ZUCK OPEN UP AI

分散权力

作者：TAYLOR HERZLICH

Meta 首席执行官马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）抨击了 AI 在少数几家强大公司手中“集中化”的现象，并对可能禁止中国 AI 模型的做法表示反对，他称赞开放获取这项新技术是解锁繁荣的一种方式。

在《华尔街日报》的一篇评论文章中，扎克伯格表示，他惊讶于围绕 AI 的讨论中竟有如此之多地“充斥着末日论”，并认为人类“很幸运能生活在历史上一个如此不可思议的时刻”。

“我不明白，为什么任何相信 AI 将消除大多数工作以及人类大部分相关性的人，会急于构建那样一个未来，”扎克伯格写道，这显然是在讽刺那些警告大规模失业的 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的高管。

“认为 AI 如此危险，以至于唯一安全的路径是权力的极端集中，这种观念似乎才危险，”他补充道。“从历史上看，希望一个绝对权力在足够开明的情况下会仁慈地供养人类，并没有导致安全或积极的结果。”

据报道，特朗普政府正在敲定一项行政命令，要求科技巨头在 OpenAI 发生黑客攻击事件以及一个超强大的新 Anthropic 模型引发网络安全担忧后，对新 AI 模型提交为期 30 天的自愿审查期。

他在《日报》的评论文章中承认，“有一些我们需要深思的新问题”，但他坚持认为，“在所有这些方面，分发该技术似乎创造的价值远大于带来的损害。”

“我认为，如果说‘嘿，我们想审查东西’——无论是什么——30 或 60 天，这听起来可能没那么长，”他说。“但这个领域的发展如此之快，实际上这是一个相当有意义的时间段。”

噢，人性

据报道，在一名白宫高级技术官员指责中国的 Moonshot AI 窃取 Anthropic 的技术以帮助创建其最新的 Kimi K3 版本后，美国政府官员也在考虑限制美国公司访问中国 AI 模型。

周二，FCC 宣布由于国家安全风险，禁止中国的人形机器人。

但扎克伯格表示，他怀疑“禁止来自不同国家的开源模型是否能产生成效”，并主张决策者应该专注于加速国内的 AI 进步。

他公司的首席 AI 科学家赵盛佳（Shengjia Zhao）与 Anthropic、OpenAI、Google 及其他顶尖科技公司的高管在周二的一封信中共同敦促美国政府帮助制定“旨在刻意控制自动化 AI 发展前沿所必需”的保障措施。

另外，Meta 报告其第二季度营收达到创纪录的 $60.8 亿，但表示其 AI 建设的最低支出将增加 $5 亿。

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离开 Gotham app 转投 DAZN

作者：CHRISTIAN ARNOLD

MSG 和 YES 网络的流媒体主战场将从 Gotham Sports App 迁移至 DAZN，这一里程碑式协议将于今年秋季起在这家总部位于伦敦的平台实施。

MSG Networks 和 YES Network 在周三上午发布的一份联合声明中宣布，该协议将把洋基队、尼克斯队、游骑兵队、岛民队、篮网队、恶魔队和剑客队的比赛直播流迁移至新平台。

此外，MSG、MSG Sportsnet 和 YES Network 的 24/7 全天候频道以及点播内容都将在 DAZN 上提供流媒体传输。

这些流媒体将向各网络相应覆盖区域内的订阅用户开放；而那些已经通过电视套餐订阅了其中任何一家区域体育网络的用户的，将继续通过 DAZN 获取流媒体访问权限，无需额外付费。

目前尚未公布具体价格，但一名 YES Network 的发言人告诉《邮报》，DAZN 协议下的定价和产品将与 YES 和 Gotham 在该应用启动时提供的当前捆绑方案保持一致。

Gotham Sports App 的月度计划向当地体育迷收取 $34.99，年度订阅费用为 $299.99，此外还针对 MSG Networks 的单场观看、YES Network 的单日观看以及各独立网络的月度和年度计划提供更便宜的选项。

该发言人表示，用户无需注册 DAZN 订阅即可访问任何 MSG 或 YES 内容，但如果用户愿意，也可以额外增加 DAZN 订阅。

这一变化意味着这两家区域体育网络都将脱离 Gotham Sports，而后者曾是 MSG 和 YES 之间的一次协作，旨在通过一个直接面向消费者的流媒体方案将其体育产品捆绑在一起。

在产品自 2024 年秋季推出以来便饱受批评后，放弃 Gotham 应用的举动引发了当地部分体育迷的兴奋之情。用户一直对该应用的各种问题表示不满。

“为什么他们要取消 Gotham Sports 应用？这是一个设计精良且性能出色的应用……”一名用户在周三公告发布后在 X 上写道。

“我们在征服之战中获胜了。人民取得了胜利，”另一名用户写道。

“我用的是 DIRECTV Stream。我很少使用 Gotham 应用。它经常出故障，”第三个人在社交媒体上解释道。

周三的公告并未具体说明切换到 DAZN 的具体日期，除了提到这一迁移将在 2026-27 赛季的 NBA 和 NHL 期间进行之外，未提供其他详情。

YES 发言人还确认，洋基队的球迷在当前的棒球赛季期间无需更换应用。

随着各网络准备迁移至 DAZN，已经订阅 Gotham Sports App 的当地体育迷在访问内容时不会面临任何中断。

“我们的 Gotham Sports App 在所有观看指标和订阅数量方面都拥有巨大的动力，”YES Network 总裁兼 CEO Jon Litner 告诉《体育商业杂志》（Sports Business Journal）。“但当我们展望未来时，我们始终在进行战略思考……[并且]我们希望确保我们的产品能够持续进化。”

“在这种情况下，我们有机会与一家在数字流媒体市场中拥有可靠记录且真正的全球领先公司结盟。真正让我们觉得有吸引力的是，DAZN 拥有一支极其出色的管理团队。”

DAZN 近年来一直在进军美国市场，并在 2025 年担任世俱杯的独家全球转播平台。

据 SBJ 报道，DAZN 与 MSG 的谈判始于大约五个月前，随后扩大到包括 YES 在内。该媒体报道称，DAZN 即将获得下赛季 NBA 灰狼队、骑士队、步行者队、马刺队和灰熊队的完整独家本地转播权，以及与魔术队以及潜在的 Partners 达成的直接面向消费者的协议。

“DAZN 是一个在全球范围内运营的顶级流媒体平台，我们非常高兴能为球迷提供在这一先进平台上观看 MSG Networks 内容的机会，”MSG 内容与营销主管 Kevin Marotta 在一份声明中表示。

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Analysis by Vic Cangialosi

Lock of the Day Preside (4th) Lock Record: 7 for 14 (50%) Meet Record: 36/151 $242.58

1 1 miles; $100,000; mdn; 3up(f) 雨天，四到五英寸的降雨迫使周三在 Saratoga 的赛程取消。如果周四开赛，所有比赛都将在泥地赛道进行。原定于今天第 8 场比赛的 Gless Falls 将改为在周日进行。在首场比赛中，你应该选 GOTTA GUN RUNNER。在此距离经历宽幅跑法后获得第 3 名，表现不错。Prat 骑乘；佩戴眼罩。相比于初次参赛的 UNLOCK THE VALUE (Klarovich/Brown/Franco/Rock Your World) 更佳的选择。SUTED CONNECTORS 超过了疲惫的马匹，在 37-1 的赔率下初赛获得第 5 名（共 12 匹）。由于 Clement 赋予了 Tonaliat 另外一个分节（furlong），这里的价格会更低。MTO THE UNKNOWN 在被削弱的最热门选手中排名第 2。

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Run Flat,111	P Chandra	8-xx	Goberdhan	20-1
2 Suited Connectors(1),121	R Santana, Jr	5-xx	Clement	5-2
3 Into the Unknown(1),121	C Elliott	2-2-3	Sells	3-1
4 Unlock the Value(M),121	M Franco	4-xx	C Brown	2-1
5 Gotta Gun Runner(1),121	F Prat	3-7-5	Abreu	5-2
6 Ready Rosie Jane(1),126	K Davis	8-9-6	Zito	12-1

2 5 1/2 fur; $115,000; mdn; 2YO 两岁马将接在双赛之后。FIRE MARSHAL 已有一场比赛经验。在 9 匹马中跑第 5 名。值得期待。Irad 为 Maker 骑乘。重复选择 AUTOSPELL (Pletcher/Prat/Karkoville)。GAYNOR (C Englehart/Johnny V/Vekoma)。TOP THRILLER (McPeeck/1 Ortiz/Vekoma) 和 HONEST WON (Gargan/Carmouche/Honest Mischief) 将迎来职业生涯首秀。

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Autospell,123	F Prat	4-xx	Pletcher	3-1
2 Honest Won,123	K Carmouche	4-xx	Gargan	4-1
3 Scramjet,123	M Franco	4-xx	Rice	8-1
4 Top Thriller,123	J Ortiz	4-xx	McPeeck	6-1
5 Gaynor,123	J Velazquez	4-xx	Englehart	10-1
6 Fire Marshal,123	J Ortiz, Jr	5-xx	Maker	2-1
7 Solo Stryker,123	C Elliott	4-xx	Friedman	20-1
8 Smooth Authority,123	E Zayas	4-xx	Giddings	10-1
9 Bet On Zion,123	R Gutierrez	7-xx	Rodriguez	20-1
10 Never Before,123	J Alvarado	8-xx	Englehart	15-1
11 Minuccio,123	J Lezcano	4-xx	Hennig	8-1
12 Midnight Raider,123	Rider TBA	4-xx	Friedman	12-1

3 7 fur; $68,000; clm($55,000); 3up 选择 PLAYING TRICKS。在获得中游第 5 名后，为 Chad Brown 降低级别并缩短距离。在 7 分节距离的唯一一次启动中获胜。BEDARD 在最近两场中获得亚军，最近一次在印第安纳州。为 Brad Cox 从长距离转为短距离冲刺，但两次获胜都是在跑 2 圈的情况下实现的。Irad 接手骑乘。BARB 为 Maker 从草地转到泥地。在 Prat 的骑乘下，上次泥地赛以微弱优势获胜。在此短距离中 0 胜 3 场。SHATTUCK 在最近 3 场比赛中表现为第 3 名。

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Schlomo(1),126	E Zayas	3-7-3	Kantarmaci	20-1
2 Bedard(1),126	J Ortiz, Jr	2-2-6	Cox	9-5
3 Barbi(1),126	F Prat	10-1-2	Maker	5-2
4 Shattuck(1),126	R Santana, Jr	3-3-3	Sharp	8-1
5 Playing Tricks(1),126	M Franco	5-6-1	C Brown	2-1
6 Perfect Force(1),126	J Ortiz	5-3-6	Asmussen	6-1

4 1 1/3 miles; $115,000; mdn; 3up Churchill 的赛道很湿滑，而 PRESIDE 并不在意。以快速冲刺获得第 2 名，仅落后 1/2 马身。增加距离后将顺利胜出。Irad 为 Asmussen 为其骑乘。COLLADO HUECO 在 Aqueduct 首秀中获得接近的第 4 名。像 Preside 一样，他可能会从增加距离中获益。BATTLE 的首秀没那么令人振奋。在起跑波折后，以 26-1 的赔率获得遥远的第 6 名。Carmouche 继续为 Gargan 骑乘。HADRANS WALL 在全部 3 场比赛中均排名第 2；其中两次是在此距离。而 PRESIDENTIAL POWER 在拉长到此距离后，表现大幅提升获得第 2 名。

今日推荐

没有草地。没有泥地。没有比赛。周三没有投注。大雨迫使比赛取消。如果周四比赛，我们将投注 $30 投注 Preside 在第 4 场比赛中获胜。— Vic Cangialosi

赌注让 WNBA 球星陷入困境

作者：JOSEPH STASZEWSKI

只能指望 WNBA 自己制造一场涉及两名顶尖球星的潜在赌博丑闻了。

该联盟的官方 X 账号发布——随后删除——了一段视频，内容是 Wings 球星 Paige Bueckers 和 Dream 球员 Angel Reese 在周三晚上比赛的全明星周末练习期间进行了一次显然金额为 $400 的友好赌注，这是两队休赛后的首次对阵，亚特兰大以 82-81 险胜达拉斯。

视频的配文是：“Paige Bueckers 谈论她与 Angel Reese 在全明星周末就今晚对决所下的赌注。”

这段被社交媒体侦探保存并转发的视频显示，Reese 拿着几张百元面值的钞票，两人似乎就该赌注达成了一致。视频中还剪入了一段镜头，一名在相机后的人在比赛日提醒面带尴尬微笑的 Bueckers 关于这次赌注的事情。

“在全明星周末，你和 Angel 对这场比赛打了赌，对吧？”拍摄者问她。

“我们打了？”Bueckers 在赌注视频开始前反问。

在职业和大学运动员体育博彩受到高度审查的时期，这段视频可能会给 WNBA 及其身陷困境的总裁 Cathy Engelbert 带来不小的麻烦，尽管这更多是一次在高薪运动员之间可能会悄悄进行的友好赌注。WNBA 的集体谈判协议 (CBA) 中有一项赌博条款。

在第 5(c) 节中规定：“任何球员经总裁听证后被认定在任何 WNBA 赛事的结果、比分或任何其他方面（直接或间接）参与赌博，或提供或企图赌博资金或任何有价值之物，应由总裁全权决定，处以罚款、停赛，和/或解雇并取消其与 WNBA 的进一步关联。”

Engelbert 也不太可能因此禁赛 Reese 或 Bueckers 这两名联盟最大的球星。尽管如此，根据法律条文，两人违反了 WNBA 的规定，可能会面临后果，最初将视频发布到联盟账号的人也同样如此。

星期四 Yonkers 参赛名单

开赛时间：6:45 p.m. 第一场：一英里速步；$18,000；声称赛 (claiming) 1 St Steves Spirit (Yungras) 8-3-1 6-1 2 Over The Horizon (Bhellard) 2-1-2 8-5 3 All My Livin (Bartlett) 8-3-5 3-1 4 Letonah(Hitsamowry) (Bartlett) 1-5-8 3-1 5 Hot Cam (Marston) 5-8-1 20-1 6 Themas(Antoinette) (Szeron) 8-6-2 20-1 7 Shore Not Beach (Dube) 8-8-7 20-1 8 Hunk The Hunk (Stratton) 3-7-1 20-1 第二场：一英里速步；$18,000；条件赛 (cond) 1 Idealinfun (Asiegelman) 1-1-1 7-2 2 Pine Bush Maga (Bartlett) 6-6-3 12-1 3 Cannery Row (Szeron) 4-5-7 15-1 4 Sunburst (Ckelly) 4-4-3 20-1 5 Kissin Joe (Bhellard) 6-2-5 8-1 6 Big City Daisy (Yungras) 2-2-8 4-1

7 Fight Not Flight (Bartlett) 1-1-4 8-5 8 Spirit Of Pearl A (Stratton) 2-1-8 6-1 第三场：一英里慢步；$43,000；邀请赛 (invitational) 1 All Of Muscles (Szeron) 2-4-1 6-1 2 Sir Pinocchio (Bartlett) 3-7-2 5-2 3 Astenid (Ckelly) 3-4-2 5-1 4 Green Pastures (Bartlett) 5-3-3 8-1 5 Ketoprojo's (Yungras) 2-1-1 1-1 第四场：一英里慢步；$43,000；邀请赛 (invitational) 1 Hi Omaya (Huang) 3-4-7 20-1 2 Ma Isabelle (Plachance) 1-6-5 5-1 3 BayBreeze(Hanover(BHoll) 7-1-6 9-2 4 Hot Flash Kinny (Ckelly) 3-1-7 3-1 5 Monibay(Happyns (Gogrs) 1-3-3 6-1 6 R Lady 6 (Bartlett) 6-5-2 7-2 7 Always A Story (Stratton) 6-1-2 4-1 第五场：一英里慢步；$22,000；声称赛 (claiming)

1 Sunday Shoes (Ckelly) 6-5-1 3-1 2 Stacking Green (Szeron) 3-3-2 8-1 3 Chef Rocco (Bhellard) 2-1-2 9-2 4 Willy Walton (Marston) 1-2-5 7-2 5 Smoking Jet (Dube) 6-7-5 20-1 6 Bellissimo Face S (Bartlett) 2-1-3 2-1 7 Crazyland (Yungras) 1-8-3 20-1 8 Whiskey Peddler (Bartlett) 4-6-5 20-1 第六场：一英里慢步；$28,000；条件赛 (cond) 1 Dribbling Bi (Dube) 4-3-3 7-2 2 Mississippi Storm (Bhellard) 1-6-6 2-1 3 The Brodster (Bartlett) 7-7-3 5-2 4 Canners Man (Asiegelman) 2-4-9 12-1 5 P L Oscar (Ckelly) 8-6-2 20-1 6 Ritson (Stratton) 4-5-3 12-1 7 Frank Leahy (Bartlett) 1-2-2 9-2 第七场：一英里速步；$28,000；声称赛 (claiming)

1 Heaven On High N (Bartlett) 2-2-2 2-1 2 Yonkido N (Marston) 5-4-4 5-1 3 C-Bet Hanover (Stratton) 1-7-2 8-1 4 Alls Classic A (Bhellard) 4-7-4 7-2 5 Peace Out Posse (Bartlett) 8-3-5 8-1 6 Ever M (Ckelly) 3-1-1 9-2 7 Rolling With Sam (Yungras) 3-7-3 20-1 8 Mind Hunter (Szeron) 4-6-2 20-1 第八场：一英里慢步；$28,000；条件赛 (cond) 1 Torrone (Bhellard) 5-3-1 9-2 2 Massive Desire (Yungras) 3-8-2 4-1 3 High Speed Swan (Bartlett) 4-1-3 2-1 4 Blockchain (Bartlett) 2-8-6 3-1 5 Wheelzabiain (Stratton) 7-1-1 20-1 6 Seven Layer (Asiegelman) 3-1-1 6-1 7 My Man Peter (Szeron) 2-1-1 20-1 第九场：一英里慢步；$22,000；声称赛 (claiming)

1 Beacon Beach (Asiegelman) 7-1-7 9-2 2 Aquarius Face S (Bartlett) 4-6-6 5-1 3 Tally The Tab (Dube) 3-5-1 20-1 4 Voss Blue Chip (Ckelly) 5-1-1 12-1 5 Kays In Charge (Yungras) 1-2-1 3-1 6 B Nicking (Szeron) 1-6-2 8-1 7 Radio Lab (Bartlett) 5-1-7 20-1 8 Sea Can (Stratton) 2-4-7 20-1 第十场：一英里速步；$15,000；声称赛 (claiming) 1 GreatSomewhere (Lachince) 6-5-6 6-1 2 Dismas (Marston) 5-3-5 7-2 3 J B Gram (Bartlett) 4-3-3 2-1 4 Minotaur (Yungras) 7-5-6 5-2 5 Saranac Blue Chip (Ckelly) 8-5-7 15-1 6 Social Theories (Asiegelman) 5-8-1 20-1 7 Well That's Marky (Hollard) 7-5-5 20-1 8 Maximus Red A (Stratton) 5-2-4 20-1

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NHL：Celebrini 成为最高薪球员

鲨鱼队超级巨星 Macklin Celebrini 签署了一份为期五年、价值 $94 million 的续约合同，这将使他成为 NHL 中薪水最高的球员。在签署这份将其与鲨鱼队的合约锁定至 2031-32 赛季的合同之前，Celebrini 的三年 $2,925 million 入门级合同还剩一年。

NCAA：Carter 被禁赛两场

田纳西大学大四线卫 Arion Carter 将缺席本赛季的前两场比赛，原因是 NCAA 的一项禁令，该禁令与一名经纪人在选秀前过程中支付 $427 的机票费用前往 NFL 训练设施有关。

顶级对决

期待洛杉矶击败水手队

作者：ERICH RICHTER

两支世界系列赛的热门球队将在周四晚上结束他们的三场系列赛。

尽管赢得了本系列赛的第一场比赛，但水手队今年的表现令人失望——本赛季胜率略低于 .500——并且在周四对阵道奇队的比赛中被设定为 +128 的劣势方。

水手队在周四晚上派出其明星投手之一，Bryce Miller (4-5, 2.75 ERA) 将对阵 Roki Sasaki (4-5, 4.71 ERA)。

虽然 Sasaki 看起来是这次投手对决中的弱项，但事实上他正处于其短暂的 MLB 职业生涯中可以说最好的一段时期。

这位 24 岁的球员上周五在对阵大都会队的比赛中投了七局仅失一分，并在其中一次职业生涯最佳的先发登板中三振了九名击球手。

有一些传闻称，更换尺寸的手套是他状态反弹的原因，因为道奇队此前认为他在透露投球意图。

在他过去的 3 次先发中，他在 18 1/2 局中仅失 4 分（1.93 ERA）。

与此同时，Miller 陷入了挣扎，甚至在他先发后期的球速有所下降，这或许表明水手队这位身材魁梧的先发投手出现了疲劳，而且他自 2024 年以来一直未能完全恢复健康。

在过去 3 次先发之前，Miller 曾是西雅图最好的投手，而在最近这 3 次先发中，他在 16 局中失了 11 分（5.94 ERA），并且在上次出场时未能三振任何一名击球手。

基于此，我支持周四的道奇队，投注道奇队在让分盘上胜出 -1.5，同时我也看好道奇队在周四比赛的前五局中总得分超过 2.5。

Sasaki 的三振数道具盘尚未公布，但在他过去八次先发中的七次里，开盘价为 5.5，因此尽管上次三振了九人，我们认为将从这里开始。

目标是 Sasaki 三振总数的“大”，并尝试投注三振数超过 7.5 以获取更高赔率。

投注建议：道奇队 -1.5 (+135, BetMGM) 洛杉矶在前五局得分超过 2.5 (-110, Caesars)；Sasaki 三振数“大”

明智投注 (BET SMART)

不要质疑萨姆： 萨姆·达诺尔德 (Sam Darnold) 以 28/1 的赔率成为 NFL 传球码数领先者的廉价选择，尤其是他在赢得超级碗之后，而一些赔率更高的四分卫正处于伤愈状态或缺乏经验。

作者：马利克·史密斯 (MALIK SMITH)

2025 赛季是海鹰队四分卫萨姆·达诺尔德的救赎之年。在去年开始前，人们对他是否能在四分卫位置上维持高水平表现仍持怀疑态度。

在喷气机队和黑豹队失败，随后成为 49 人队的替补之后，他在 2024 年效力于维京人的唯一一个赛季中，终于在 27 岁时迎来了突破之年。但那个赛季在他季后赛表现显得力不从心并寻找另一支新球队时结束。

在海鹰队，达诺尔德终于兑现了让他成为 2018 年 NFL 选秀总第 3 顺位秀的潜力。西雅图的防守非常出色，但达诺尔德在夺得超级碗冠军的过程中不仅仅是随之而行，他才是那个掌控局面的核心。

尽管在过去两个赛季中职业生涯实现了成功转型，但博彩公司仍然不将达诺尔德视为联盟顶尖的传球手之一。

本赛季达诺尔德获得 NFL 传球码数领先的赔率为 28/1。根据博彩公司的数据，有 14 名球员在传球码数领先赔率上比他更有优势。赔率榜单顶端的三位热门人选都符合逻辑：贾里德·戈夫 (Jared Goff) 连续三个赛季的传球码数排名第二，乔·伯罗 (Joe Burrow) 在 2024 年以近 5,000 码的传球码数领跑 NFL，而达克·普雷斯科特 (Dak Prescott) 在过去四个健康的赛季中传球码数均超过 4,000 码。

但在达诺尔德之前的球员名单中还包括：在 12 月撕裂前十字韧带的帕特里克·马霍姆斯 (Patrick Mahomes)；在 1 月骨折踝关节的博·尼克斯 (Bo Nix)；以及二年级四分卫泰勒·肖 (Tyler Shough)。

上赛季，肖场均传球码数为 216.7 码，而达诺尔德为 238.1 码。

因此，两名在上一赛季末遭受毁灭性伤病、可能会受到限制的球员，以及一名 26 岁的二年级四分卫肖（虽有潜力但很大程度上未经证明），其赔率竟然比达诺尔德更好。基于数据来看，这似乎偏差很大。

2024 年在维京人队期间，达诺尔德以超过 4,300 码的传球码数排名第五，传球尝试次数排名第八。上赛季，达诺尔德再次传球超过 4,000 码，尽管传球尝试次数排名第 15，但在该类别中仍排名第五。

两名不同的教练和两支不同的球队，但达诺尔德取得了相似的结果，这让我确信，另一位新的进攻协调员对他来说不会需要太多的适应时间。

此外，海鹰队拥有极强的接球武器来接接达诺尔德的传球，这对他很有帮助。贾克逊·史密斯-恩吉巴 (Jaxon Smith-Njigba) 上赛季以超过 1,700 码的接球码数领跑联盟，这是 NFL 历史上单赛季接球码数第八高。

库珀·库普 (Cooper Kupp) 回归担任他们的 2 号接球手，并在季后赛中证明，即使步入 30 多岁，他依然能成为一名有影响力球员。

他们还通过赛季中从圣徒队交易得到了拉希德·沙希德 (Rashid Shaheed)。由于沙希德的速度以及达诺尔德投掷精准深球的能力，沙希德可能会成为他们进攻端的 X 因素。

在赢得超级碗之后，我预计达诺尔德将拥有极高的自信心，并接续上赛季的状态。在 28/1 的赔率下，我将在赛季前将其作为一项价值投资，押注他成为联盟顶尖的传球手。

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救命！(SEND HELP!)

追求冠军的自由人队必须在截止日期前采取行动以支援 Stewart 及其队友

洛杉矶 —— Breanna Stewart 过于优秀，以至于自由人队不能在交易截止日之前地地不前。

她依然是 WNBA 中两名最顶尖的球员之一，如果纽约队的整体防守能够提升，她甚至可能成为首个年度最佳防守球员的黑马候选人。

到目前为止，她过于频繁地被要求承担起带领这支饱受伤病困扰的纽约队的重担。

可靠的助手 Sabrina Ionescu 最近找回了状态。Jonquel Jones 在上半场打出了全明星级别的表现。

但自由人队还没有成为他们希望成为的那支令人畏惧的球队。他们的战绩是 16-12，距离第一名落后 6 1/2 个胜场。

Stewart 在周二赢得了 29 分并贡献了 7 次助攻，Ionescu 贡献了 27 分、7 个篮板和 6 次助攻，帮助纽约队在全明星赛后的首场比赛中以 113-109 击败火花队。

这是一次漂亮的胜利 —— 事实上，这是球队的三连胜。

但这并不意味着总经理 Jonathan Kolb 晚上可以睡个安稳觉。

Kolb 需要在周日的交易截止日期前积极沟通，因为如果过去一个月揭示了什么，那就是这支曾经看似拥有钛合金装甲的阵容中存在的漏洞 —— 尤其是侧翼和前场位置。

这并非出于恐慌。对于艰难的 7 月做出反应并非过激，在 7 月期间，自由人队大部分时间缺失了 Leonie Fiebich 和 Satou Sabally。

Kolb 需要诚实地审视阵容并回答这个问题：自由人队是否拥有赢得冠军足够的实力？

只要 Stewart 维持目前的水平，自由人队就需要全力投入现在。而目前，纽约队似乎距离强化其冠军愿景仅差一名或两名球员。

伤病影响了球队的前景。

Fiebich 缺席留下的空缺尤为令人担忧。

本月自由人队的防守在 15 支球队中排名第 14。他们在 7 月每场比赛失分高达 95.8 分，几乎是联盟最高。

当然，让这一切变得更复杂的是 Sabally 不确定的状态，她是纽约队在休赛期最大的引援。

Sabally 已经进入脑震荡协议五周。球队还没有提供关于她的任何实质性更新。她没有参加训练，也没有在最近的任何客场之旅中随队出征。

教练 Chris DeMarco 此前表示她已开始恢复训练，但未提供具体细节。

脑震荡很棘手，且这是 Sabally 在不到一年时间内的第二次脑震荡。上次头部受伤使——

周四 自由人队 对阵 太阳神队

她在大部分休赛期中处于边缘位置。恢复过程通常不是线性的，有状态好时，也有状态差时。

不幸的现实是，自由人队不能指望最理想的情况。

Sabally 的回归并非必然。即使她通过了协议，自由人队也不能假设她能立即恢复到球队所需要的状态。

自由人队拥有交易筹码。他们拥有自己的未来选秀权。Raquel Carrera 是一名具有高潜力的球员，但她是否真的准备好在季后赛期间帮助自由人队？

Betnijah Laney-Hamilton 似乎是最可能的交易对象，因为她已经连续四场比赛被健康排除在名单之外。她将在下一个休赛期成为非限制性自由球员。

Rebecca Allen, Rebekah Gardner 和 Marine Johannès 都有相应的价值。只要回报值得，即使交易 Sabally 也不应被排除在可能性之外。

这是 DeMarco 执教的第一季。尽管如此，任何未能夺冠的结果都将令人失望。这是自由人队为自己设定的标准。

自由人队的窗口期现在已经开启，而这样的机会往往在遗憾中关闭。在 Stewart 依然处于顶尖水平时，他们承担不起让这种情况发生的代价。

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自信的 Fauthoux 为后场带来急需的助力

By MADELINE KENNEY

洛杉矶 —— 在周二第四节末段，火花队后卫 Erica Wheeler 在 Liberty 发展球员 Marine Fauthoux 准备在罚球线上投篮时，似乎对她说了些什么。

Fauthoux 露出了微笑并两罚全中，在还剩 32.7 秒时让 Liberty 取得了 7 分的领先优势。

让这成为未来对手的一个教训。

“你对我说话越多，我就越自信，”Fauthoux 在 Liberty 以 113-109 获胜后告诉《邮报》。

LIBERTY 笔记

“所以我很高兴她对我说话，因为我确定我能投进。”

事实上她确实做到了。周二对 Fauthoux 来说又是一次稳健的发挥，在过去的三场比赛中，她有两场得分达到了两位数。

Fauthoux 在第四节拿到了她职业生涯最高 13 分中的 10 分。

Fauthoux 的到来正值她的法国后卫队友 Pauline Astier 似乎遇到了“新秀之墙”。

Astier 在赛季前半段曾是一个亮点，但自 7 月 12 日以来还没有得分达到 10 分。她之前表示，由于这是她第一次全年参赛，她非常期待全明星赛的休息期，以便获得一次急需的喘息机会。

在 Astier 陷入低谷之际，Fauthoux 已悄然成为后场轮换中的重要部分。

然而，作为一名发展球员，她在被分配的 12 场比赛中出场了 7 场。如果 Liberty 希望长期留住她并在季后赛中使用她，他们必须将她的合同转换为标准合同，并至少放弃一名球员以腾出空间。

Rebekah Gardner 对 Fauthoux 印象深刻，后者在赛季开始时一直在康复膝盖伤势。

“她已经为机会做好了准备，并且表现出色，”Gardner 说。“你看过她在海外的比赛吗？她就是那样打球的。所以，看到她进入 WNBA 并且即便作为一名可能无法像其他人那样获得相同训练次数和节奏的发展球员，也能立刻进入状态，这令人兴奋。我觉得她就这样进来并做到了这一点，真的很棒。”

Gardner 带领 Liberty 的替补席以 41-19 胜过火花队的替补。这是纽约替补席在单场比赛中得分最高的一次，也是自赛季第二场比赛以来最高的分数。

由于伤病，Liberty 的阵容深度在本赛季受到了考验。Gardner 表示，像周二这样的夜晚对球队的整体信心意义重大。

“这类比赛将对我们未来的发展有所帮助……让替补球员获得这种经验，”她说。“我们总是谈论替补 [以及] 我们做得越好，首发球员也会越轻松。”

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LIV 即将达成九位数救命协议以维持巡回赛

作者：MARK CANNIZZARO

LIV Golf 尚未死亡。

尽管有报道称 LIV Golf 处于生命维持状态，且似乎在做最后的喘息，但《邮报》获悉，其灭亡并不像人们认为的那样迫在眉睫。

消息人士告诉《邮报》，今年被沙特阿拉伯公共投资基金（PIF）撤资的 LIV，正处于争取新投资者的关键时刻，以确保该巡回赛能生存到 2027 年及以后。

由于 PIF 在 4 月宣布在 2026 赛季之后将不再资助 LIV，巡回赛首席执行官 Scott O'Neil 一直在极力寻求外部资金支持以维持其存在。

据信 O'Neil 一直在寻求 $250 million 和 $300 million 之间的资金以维持运转。而且，根据要求匿名的消息人士称，他已经找到了。

据消息人士透露，LIV Golf 已收到“多家蓝筹投资公司的书面承诺，这些公司将作为锚定投资者来支持该联赛”的未来发展。

潜在的“锚定”投资者“已提交合格的条款清单（term sheets）”，这将“支持组建一个具有充足资金支持的融资财团，以资助” LIV Golf 所称的 “LIV 2.0”。

消息人士称，LIV 还吸引了其他希望与这些锚定投资者共同参与的投资者。

周三被联系到时，O'Neil 以及 LIV 的任何代表均未发表评论。

但据信下周在新泽西州特朗普贝德明斯特（Trump Bedminster）举行的 LIV 活动期间将举行一些高层会议，参会人员将包括 O'Neil 和 LIV 球员。

消息人士表示，预计交易将在“ 9 月的某个时候”最终敲定。

虽然 LIV 似乎找到了财务支撑，但目前尚不清楚该巡回赛在 '27 年向前推进时将呈现何种面貌。此前有讨论称将更加强调团队高尔夫，但这仍有待观察。

在条款清单中概述的拟议结构下，LIV 球员将持有该联赛的多数股权，该联赛计划继续在五大洲举办赛事。

据消息人士称，球员们一直在参与此过程，包括与投资者会面。Bryson DeChambeau 及其他知名 LIV 球员在帮助争取投资者方面表现得非常公开。

2026 年 LIV Golf 的赛程中仍有三场赛事——下周在新泽西州举行的 LIV Golf New York，8 月 20-23, 和 LIV Golf Indianapolis，以及 8 月 27-30 举行的赛季团队决赛 LIV Golf Michigan。

虽然新泽西州和印第安纳波利斯的赛事将如期举行，但根据多份报道，密歇根州的决赛将不会举行。密歇根州赛场甚至还没有开始任何建设工作。

新生命： Bryson DeChambeau 和其他 LIV 高尔夫球手一直在帮助争取投资者，以挽救这个反叛联赛。Getty Images

LIV Golf 拒绝就密歇根州赛事的状况发表评论，并表示最早也要到下周才会发布公告。

LIV 刚刚在英国度过了成功的一周，其在 JCB 高尔夫乡村俱乐部举行的赛事在四天内吸引了约 50,000 名球迷，而澳大利亚选手 Lucas Herbert 在英国公开赛表现强劲几天后夺冠。

在接受了 PIF 报道支出 $5 billion、看似无上限的五年资助后，LIV 一直依赖外部私人投资来生存。

这些资金由 O'Neil 寻求，他在过去的三个月的大部分时间里一直与私募股权公司和富有的投资者进行谈判，试图组建一个能够拯救这个初创巡回赛的方案。

现在，看来 O'Neil 和 LIV 终于找到了救命稻草。

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本周，《泰晤士报》(The Times of London) 发布的一份重磅报告震惊了足球界，随后国际足联 (FIFA) 证实，该运动的全球管理机构正试图将世界杯私有化。

本报将分析该提案的含义、各方反应以及其实现的可能性。

提案内容是什么？

国际足联（FIFA）主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino）希望允许私人投资者购买世界杯的股份。这将导致一家名为“FIFA Forward Enterprises”（FFE）的公司成立，用于运营国际足联的商业运作；而国际足联本身——在瑞士拥有非营利组织身份——将继续作为足球管理机构以及 FFE 的大股东。

据报道，由约书亚·库什纳（Joshua Kushner）经营的 Thrive Capital 预计将领导该投资者团体。约书亚的兄弟贾里德（Jared）是总统的特别和平特使兼女婿。此外，《伦敦时报》将阿波罗全球管理公司（Apollo Global Management）也列为潜在投资者，其首席执行官马克·罗文（Marc Rowan）既是特朗普和平委员会的成员，也是一名主要的竞选捐赠者。摩根大通（J.P. Morgan）则担任国际足联的财务顾问。

在给会员协会的一封信中，因凡蒂诺表示必须在 9 月 19. 日前做出决定。信中称，通过该提案需要大多数支持，尽管该组织的自身规则规定，修改国际足联章程需要 75% 的支持。

因凡蒂诺还表示，通过私人资本的注入，会员将获得总计 $10 billion 的资金，相当于每个协会约 $40 million。如果没有这笔资金，总额将为 $2.7 billion。

如果提案被通过意味着什么？

主要的担忧是，向国际足联注入私人资本将创造一种激励机制，导致出现诸如世界杯不必要的扩张、将比赛周期从每四年一次改为每两年一次，或者仅在商业利益最大化的国家举办——即美国以及拥有巨额资本的中东国家，如沙特阿拉伯、卡塔尔和阿联酋。

所有这些情况也可能适用于俱乐部世界杯。在去年夏天美国启动了 32 支球队参加的比赛后，国际足联已经讨论过将其扩张。

来自《伦敦时报》的报道还指出，因凡蒂诺如果今年晚些时候再次当选（这在很大程度上只是形式，因为他没有竞争对手），其国际足联主席任期将在 2031 年届满。在 2031 年之后，他将成为 FFE 的专员，并领取类似于罗杰·古德尔（Roger Goodell）的薪水。

国际足联是否能继续保持为

国际足联的私人融资计划引发广泛愤怒

非营利组织，以及欧盟将对此做出何种反应，目前尚不清楚。

反应如何？

用一个词形容，就是：严厉。据报道，欧洲足球协会联盟（UEFA）将于周四举行紧急会议，讨论威胁抵制世界杯的想法。代表亚洲和北美的相应机构 AFC 和 CONCACAF 都发表声明，对在构思阶段未被咨询表示愤怒，不过两者都没有走到完全否决的地步。

一系列代表俱乐部、球员和支持者的组织也谴责了这一想法，英国首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）同样表达了反对。

因凡蒂诺在信中提出的财务激励被描述为一种贿赂形式，而要求在 9 月中旬前做出决定的要求被视为一种压力手段。与特朗普总统圈子的联系也被视为一种冒犯，尤其是反对声音最大的欧洲人。

代表非洲各协会的 CAF 暂未发表批评，表示将在下周举行执行委员会会议以评估该想法。

代表南美洲和大洋洲的联合会 CONMEBOL 和 OFC 尚未公开表态。

为什么反应如此负面？

要真正剖析这一点，需要一堂关于足球作为工人阶级象征之作用的社会学课，特别是在英国以及整个欧洲。

由于我们这里没有空间展开讨论，

我们将它简化为：因为这被视为国际足联这个组织以及因凡蒂诺这个个人的一次公开敛财行为，而他们本身就有这样的名声。

该提议会实施吗？如果会，原因是什么？

这可能取决于反对声有多大，以及抵制的威胁有多严重。球迷的强烈抵制击垮了欧洲超级联赛（European Super League）——这是大俱乐部在 2021 年试图脱离国内联赛并组建自己的赛事的一次尝试——在这里也可能起到类似的作用。

更紧迫的是，如果像英格兰、德国、法国和西班牙这些将共同举办 2030 年世界杯的主要欧洲国家提出真实的抵制威胁并准备付诸行动，很难相信国际足联（FIFA）会冒风险在没有它们参与的情况下举办世界杯。欧洲国家已经采用了同样的策略，以确保俄罗斯因入侵乌克兰而不仅被排除在世界杯之外，还被排除在奥运会和国际冰球联合会（IIHF）锦标赛等其他国际赛事之外。

至于是否有足够的票数通过，很难想象不会通过。国际足联在赋予所有成员国平等投票权方面，运作方式非常像联合国。因此，该提议所代表的巨额资金注入本身可能就足以在投票时获得其 211 个成员国（想想非洲、加勒比地区、亚洲）中的大多数支持。

如果每个人都这么讨厌詹尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino），为什么他还在掌权？

理解这一动态对于理解国际足联以及因凡蒂诺在公众形象极其糟糕的情况下仍能保住职位的能力至关重要。因凡蒂诺确保照顾到较小、较贫穷的国家——国际足联表示，自他 2016 年当选以来，其会员协会的分配基金增长了八倍——这使他能够维持大多数支持。与他的前任、因腐败丑闻而下台的塞普·布拉特（Sepp Blatter）相比，因凡蒂诺在很大程度上对其所做的事情保持公开。尽管许多人也将他描述为腐败，但这给了他一种布拉特时期的国际足联所缺乏的合法性外壳。

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“第六场”永远不会像它的近亲“第七场”那样具有深远的意义。第七场意味着奇迹。第七场意味着戏剧性，贯穿每一个局，每一分钟。第七场意味着对于双方参赛者都可能产生严重的后果。第七场是 Aaron Boone 和 Bill Mazeroski，是 Stefan Matteau 和 Clyde Frazier。第七场是背水一战，要么生存，要么毁灭。

第六场完全没有这些特质。从定义上讲，它不具备高潮性。

而且，在几乎所有的情况下，事实的确如此。

唯独在 1986 年纽约大都会队（New York Mets）的语境下除外。

“当你想到我们的球队时，”

“你首先想到的就是第六场，”Keith Hernandez不久前告诉我，“然后你想到的是：‘喔，等等，你在说哪一场第六场？’”

大都会队在 ’86 赛季赢了 108 场棒球赛；追溯到 1869 年，只有其他 9 支球队赢球数超过此数。他们以 21½ 场的优势赢得了国家联盟东区冠军。

他们在 4 月下旬横扫红雀队四场比赛后夺得第一名，并在赛季最后的 167 天里一直保持这一位置。直到 8 月下旬，他们从未连续输掉超过三场比赛。

“今年我们不仅会赢，”经理 Davey Johnson 春季在圣彼得堡时曾说过，“而且我们将主宰比赛。”

大都会队支撑住了这份自豪，他们经常攥紧拳头准备出击，始终对自己拥有极强的信念。但与近期纽约另一支棒球巨头——1998 年赢得 114 场的洋基队不同——那些 ’86 年大都会队的标志性特质不一定是对比赛的主宰和极端的自信，尽管他们确实拥有这些。而是他们的胆识，他们的活力，以及在想象中最为刺眼的聚光灯下的表现。

他们曾一度非常接近被贴上棒球史上最差的“表现不佳者”标签（如果你选择委婉一点的话），或者被认为是史上最大的“关键时刻掉链子者”（如果你不在意礼貌的话）。而相反，他们的名声恰恰截然不同：在灾难的边缘，他们成为了棒球勇气与韧性的典范。这一切仅仅是因为两场比赛。

这一切仅仅是因为两场相隔 10 天、相距 1,653 英里的第六场比赛。这两场比赛诡异地相似，它们像是关于在棒球战火中保持优雅并试图击退同样优秀的对手的四章研究。两场比赛的结果都承载着整个赛季的希望——一场在理论上，一场在现实中。

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国家联盟冠军赛（NLCS）的第 6 场对于大都会队来说，从技术上讲并不是一场淘汰赛。但在 1986 年 10 月 15, 1986, 的太空穹顶体育馆里，没有任何一个人相信如果大都会队输掉第 6 场，他们能在第 7 场获胜。因为第 7 场意味着要面对迈克·斯科特（Mike Scott）——在 1986 年 10 月，他不仅是地球上最出色的投手，而且深深地植入了了大都会击球手们的脑海中，让他们坚信斯科特的分指-

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速球除了拥有极其恐怖的旋转率外，还带有侧向偏移。

“没人明说，” 罗恩·达林（Ron Darling）在 2010 年表示，“但我们都隐约觉得，如果在第 6 场不能搞定比赛，我们可能会陷入麻烦。”

10 月 25 日的世界系列赛第 6 场则不那么模糊，至少对大都会队而言是这样。他们在谢亚球场丢掉了第 1 场和第 2 场，尽管他们在芬威球场三场比赛中赢了两场，但红袜队回到皇后区时，距离结束其 68 年的冠军荒仅差一场胜利。如果需要，他们还有一个机会。而大都会队没有。

第一部分：大麻烦将至

鲍勃·奥杰达（Bob Ojeda）全年的表现都非常出色，但在国家联盟冠军赛第 6 场于休斯顿的比赛中，他很快就陷入了早期的困境。菲尔·加纳（Phil Garner）、格伦·戴维斯（Glenn Davis）和何塞·克鲁斯（Jose Cruz）都打入了得分，而当哈尔·莱尼尔（Hal Lanier）在 3-0 落后时莫名其妙地要求采取自杀式挤压战术，导致奥杰达在第一局几乎崩溃时，太空牛仔队正准备乘胜追击。当艾伦·阿什比（Alan Ashby）错过一次触击球时，凯文·巴斯（Kevin Bass）陷入了绝境，大都会队才得以化解更大的灾难。

之后奥杰达稳定了下来。但鲍勃·克内珀（Bob Knepper）表现得极其出色，在 8 局比赛中仅允许 2 次安打并完成了 6 次三振。大都会队似乎准备顺从地放弃第 6 场，并在第 7 场地陷入斯科特的掌控之下。

十天后，奥杰达——这次在休息三天后出战——再次在早期陷入苦战。杜威·埃文斯（Dewey Evans）和马蒂·巴雷特（Marty Barrett）在前两局各打入一分，而罗杰·克莱门斯（Roger Clemens）——那年美国联盟版本的斯科特——正毫不费力地横扫大都会队，在四个无安打局中完成了 6 次三振。红袜队以 2-0 领先。谢亚球场距离绝望仅一步之遥。

第二部分：答案

在仍以 3-0 落后太空牛仔队的情况下，约翰逊在第九局首名打者位派伦·戴克斯特拉（Len Dykstra）替里克·阿吉莱拉（Rick Aguilera）出场击球，尽管戴维几乎从不让戴克斯特拉在面对左投手时击球——这让戴克斯特拉非常懊恼。戴克斯特拉迅速击出了一个飞球，出杆时看起来很常规，但球一直飞，一直飞，直到飞过中外野手比利·哈彻（Billy Hatcher）的头顶，形成了一次三垒安打。穆基·威尔逊（Mookie Wilson）随后击出一记轻快的直线球，大概以 1.5 毫米之差避开了比尔·多兰（Bill Doran）的手套，打入一分并获得单打，随后又经过一次出局，基思·赫尔南德兹（Keith Hernandez）击出了一记穿过空隙的双击安打。现在比分是 3-2，当赫尔南德兹到达二垒时，他发出的一声呐喊和两次挥拳庆祝得到了家乡每一位大都会球迷的共鸣。克内珀被换下了。戴夫·史密斯（Dave Smith）立即显得不稳，他让加里·卡特（Gary Carter）和达里尔·斯特劳贝里（Darryl Strawberry）——后者刚刚击出一个巨大的、仅在界外线外的上层看台本垒打——保送上垒，导致满垒。雷·奈特（Ray Knight）做到了他在整个 1986 年一直做的事——他击出了一个向右外野的飞球，扳平了比分并使比赛进入延长赛。

一周半后，大都会队终于在第五局通过奈特的一次打入一分的单打和丹尼·希普（Danny Heep）的一个双杀地面球扳平比分，从克莱门斯那里拿到了 2 分。随后，在红袜队于第七局取得 3-2 领先（得益于奈特的一次传球失误）之后，大都会队在第八局通过卡尔文·希拉尔迪（Calvin Schiraldi）予以回应（根据你相信谁的不同，克莱门斯要么是因为水泡请求下场，要么是被主教练约翰·麦克纳马拉换下的）。

大都会队在第九局制造了威胁，但当霍华德·约翰逊（Howard Johnson）在两人在垒且无人出局的情况下无法完成触击球时，他被三振出局，希拉尔迪化险为夷。

PART 3: 糟糕

大都会队局接局地比赛，他们深知只要一次挥棒失误就可能导致灾难，但在第 14 局上半，当 Wally Backman 在一个出局的情况下将 Darryl Strawberry 送回本垒时，他们终于突破了 Aurelio Lopez —— “烟雾先生” (Señor Smoke) 的防线。大都会队本应增加更多得分，但 Lopez 解决了 Johnson 和 Mookie Wilson，使跑者被留在二、三垒。

这在第 14 局下半被证明是巨大的影响，当时 Hatcher 击中了 Jesse Orosco 的一颗快速球（记住这一点），并将其击向左外野界外杆：4-4, 到第 15 局。

10 天后在谢伊球场 (Shea)，Dave Henderson 给予了更沉重的一击，当他在第 10 局先头击球时，将 Aguilera 投出的第二球击飞过左外野墙，全场陷入沉寂。三个击球手之后，Marty Barrett 将 Wade Boggs 送回本垒，红袜队获得了一分保险。大都会队处于被淘汰的边缘，仅剩三个出局数，且以 5-3 落后。

PART 4: 我的天哪 $@&#!!!!

“感觉 Astrodome 球场的观众在整整四个小时里都站了起来，”Knight 这样描述那超现实的氛围。随着比赛进入第五个小时，大都会队终于在第 16 局掌控了局面。或者看起来是这样。Strawberry 以二垒安打开局，Knight 将其送回本垒。在两次暴投之后，Knight 得分使比分变为 6-4. Dykstra 击出了一支打入分安打，比分变为 7-4.

Orosco 已经投了两个局（在 Roger McDowell 投了五局之后），看起来精疲力竭。他确实精疲力竭了。太空人队趁势而上。一次保送和四次单打，比分变为 7-6, 两个出局，跑者在第一和第二垒。Bass 击球。Hernandez 叫了暂停，在投手丘举行会议，并发表了在大都会队历史上相当于《葛底斯堡演说》的讲话。

“Jesse，”Hernandez 说，“如果你再投一颗快速球，我们就要打起来了。”

在全满计数下，Orosco 让 Bass 挥空了。用的是一颗滑球。而且是一颗非常刁钻的球。

大都会队幸存了下来……却在 10 天后发现自己处于最糟糕的边缘。Backman 和 Hernandez 在第 10 局下半开始时接连飞球出局。那一刻，谢伊球场的记分牌要么是抢跑了，要么是启动了棒球史上最伟大的反向咒语，闪烁着：

“恭喜波士顿红袜队，1986 年世界冠军。”

厌恶的 Hernandez 回到经理办公室开了一瓶啤酒，思考球队的罪孽（他长期承认后悔这么做）。在电视上，他看到 Carter 击出单打。他看到 Kevin Mitchell 击出单打。他看到 Knight 击出单打，并开始准备回到楼上的休息区，然后意识到了一件重要的事情。

“这张椅子上的安打更多。”他留了下来。

他像所有人一样，看到了 13 次截然不同的投球，任何一次都可能结束比赛、赛季以及大都会队的冠军梦。在第 13 次投球中，Bob “蒸汽机” (Steamer) Stanley 将球投在了 Wilson 的脚边，球弹开了，Mitchell 跑回本垒打平了比分。

两球之后，Wilson 击出了一记轻飘飘的滚地球，波士顿一垒手 Bill Buckner 跛着左脚去接球。他赶到了那里。但他始终没能把手套放低。

“大都会队赢了！”Bob Murphy 在楼上的 WHN-AM 电台直播室大声喊道，“他们赢了！”

结语

众所周知，大都会队在从休斯顿回程的飞机上搞得一团糟——而更出名的是，当弗兰克·卡申（Frank Cashen）向约翰逊出示一张 $10,000 的损害赔偿账单时，约翰逊在球员们面前将其撕碎，令球员们欣喜若狂。在所有 7, 个加把 innings 期间，曼哈顿基本上处于停摆状态。

在麦迪逊广场花园，比利·乔尔（Billy Joel）——这是他两年多来首次在该地演出——一直等到奥罗斯科（Orosco）三振巴斯（Bass）后才登台，并且他没有以《You May Be Right》或《Big Shot》开场，而是让观众先唱完《Take Me Out to the Ballgame》。

10 天后，大都会队仍有工作要完成，但从奈特（Knight）跑回本垒得分赢得比赛的那一刻起，对于所有相关人员来说，那感觉就像是走个形式。大都会队在第 7 场比赛中让红袜队领先了 3 分，但即便如此，在记忆中，对于 1986 年的大都会队来说，第 7 场比赛只是个事后想法，几乎只是个脚注。

毕竟，他们已经挺过了第 6. 场。而且是两场。

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康复中的 Holmes 所有选项均在考虑中

作者：MIKE PUMA

克莱·霍尔姆斯（Clay Holmes）的下一次先发可能会在小联盟、在大都会队，或者在另一支大联盟球队。

随着交易截止日期在周一到来，这名右投手在接近从伤病名单回归之际，所有选项依然在考虑之中。

CLAY HOLMES

安迪·格林（Andy Green）。“显然，任何人都可以计算一下，看看我们在 [周二起] 五天后处于什么位置，那时离截止日期之前就是周日了，”格林在大都会队在双赛的第一场 3-2 击败勇士队前说道；他们在晚场比赛中 1-0 负于亚特兰大。“围绕这一点需要做一个决定。”

霍尔姆斯和弗雷迪·佩拉尔塔（Freddy Peralta）是大都会队预计会被交易的主要先发投手。霍尔姆斯今年在 9 次先发中投出了 2.39 ERA,，他可以在本赛季结束后选择退出合同。

METS NOTES

► Francisco Alvarez 自 7 月 3 日起在 15 场比赛中 OPS 为 .981，此时双赛晚场比赛刚刚开始。Alvarez 在第一场比赛的第五局击出了一支打点双击，打破了 0-0 的平局，随后在第二场比赛中作为指定击球手 0-for-3。 “在过去的一个月里，我坐在这个位置上观察到，他的击球表现非常好，”格林说。“我看到一个人在自信地挥棒。他击球的力量极少有人能及。球速很快。很有力量——今天他在空隙处击出了一记强力安打。”

► Carson Benge 在第七局的打点双击让大都会队在第一场比赛中取得了 3-2 的领先。这是 Benge 本赛季在第七局或更晚阶段第四次击出领先打点，使他在该类别中并列 MLB 第四。

► 在进入晚场比赛前，大都会投手的 ERA 为 3.09，这是全明星赛后 MLB 的第三低水平。牛棚的 2.23 ERA 是国家联盟最低，也是大联盟第三低。

作者：BRIAN COSTELLO

喷气机队总经理达伦·穆盖（Darren Mougey）周三在训练营第一天与媒体交谈，谈到了几个不同的主题。

人们一直在讨论亚伦·格伦（Aaron Glenn）在执职第二年发生了怎样的变化。穆盖也处于他的第二个赛季，并表示在喷气机队大楼里工作一年对他有所帮助。

“进入第二年，舒适感更高了，”穆盖说。“我与 AG 的关系变得更加牢固且更好。我们每天都有对话。我们的同步程度更高了；和任何人在一起共事一段时间都会产生这种效果。我认为我们对自己都有很高的期望——包括球员、教练，也包括我自己。”

穆盖如何定义一个成功的赛季？

“我们想赢，”穆盖说。“我想看到这些小伙子在每一天都竞争并变得更好。从今天的训练营开始，一直持续到整个赛季。”

穆盖在这个休赛期与跑卫布里斯·霍尔（Breece Hall）和后卫乔·蒂普曼（Joe Tippmann）完成了合同延长。他听起来并不像是在努力尝试

Mougey 在第二年与 Glenn 的“同步程度更高”

喷气机笔记 (JETS NOTES)

续签任何其他球员。“我认为我们现在处于一个不错的状态，但我会始终将合同事务留在内部处理，”Mougey 说道。

人们还预期，喷气机队在赛季开始前可能会通过交易或签约增加一名资深备份四分卫。Mougey 强调，他非常期待看到 Cade Klubnik、Bailey Zappe 和 Brady Cook 竞争 Geno Smith 的备份位置。

“我不会讨论假设的情况，”Mougey 说道。“我只是很兴奋能看到 Cade 在训练营期间获得练习机会，并观察整个小组——Bailey、Brady 和 Geno——在这里获得练习机会、成长并继续进步，我们将继续关注整体局势……这对于[任何]位置都一样。”

► Mougey 和 Glenn 都没有就 Smith 最近几个月与佛罗里达州警方的冲突发表太多评论。

“我对未来的发展感到兴奋，很高兴这件事已经成为了过去，”Mougey 说道。“它已经成为了过去，我对休赛期和训练营期间的持续成长感到兴奋。”

Glenn 称赞 Smith 承担了责任。

“我认为他在意识方面做得非常好，”Glenn 说道。“首先，他意识到我们在 OTA（球员自愿参加的非强制性训练）期间以及 OTA 结束后建立了很大的势头。天呐，干扰发生了。我知道他很讨厌自己成为了其中的一部分。关键在于，这已经成为了过去。它已经成为了过去，我们都在向前看。他跟我谈过了，也跟一些队友谈过了。我们 100 percent 支持他，并且我们正在向前迈进。”

参赛者可能会有变动。© 2026 USTA。照片致谢：© Getty Images & USTA。

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四分卫 Dart 期待与 OBJ 建立联系

作者：PAUL SCHWARTZ

西弗吉尼亚州，硫磺泉 (WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va.) — 自 Jaxson Dart 上次与媒体交谈以来，巨头队增加了一名拥有世界级履历的球员，在尝试通过十多年前让他开启 NFL 生涯的球队实现东山再起之际，他还有很多需要证明。

Odell Beckham Jr. 正是这名球员，而 Dart 现在有一名昔日的明星外接手可以开始在场内外结识。Beckham，33, 在 2025 年完全没有参赛。

巨人队笔记 (GIANTS NOTES)

“我对‘O’绝对感到兴奋，”达特 (Dart) 在格林布赖尔 (The Greenbrier) 的首次训练营练习后于周三表示。“我认为关键在于，你永远不知道一个人在经历了那段休整时间后回归时会如何反应。”

“我认为他能够给队友注入能量的能力——你可能会认为，在很多次重大回归中，这关乎个人本身，但他真正关注的是队友，是周围的人。到目前为止，我很喜欢他在这里。他是个很棒的人，是一个出色的领导者。他经历过了最高峰和最低谷的极致体验，我认为能够更多地与他沟通，从他那里获得见解，而且他显然也是一名非常优秀的球员，这对我们的球队来说至关重要。”

► 总经理乔·舍恩 (Joe Schoen) 不仅在经历了连续两个赛季 3-14 和 4-13 的动荡——以及他的好友、前巨人队主教练布莱恩·达博尔 (Brian Daboll) 被解雇——之后幸存下来，而且还得到了球队所有者给予的相当程度的职位保障。在 NFL 选秀之后，舍恩签署了一份多年期合同延期——据信为四年——以便在未来与约翰·哈博 (John Harbaugh) 合作。

“非常感谢玛拉 (Mara) 家族和蒂施 (Tisch) 家族给予的续约，”舍恩说道。“非常感激，并期待这个赛季。”

“教练和我将共同努力，尝试组建我们能组建的最强阵容，并出去赢得比赛。再次强调，无论你的合同期限有多长，这永远是年复一年。所以，我们只需尽力而为，尝试为 2026 年在赛场上打造一支最强的球队。”

作者：保罗·施瓦茨 (PAUL SCHWARTZ)

西弗吉尼亚州，怀特萨尔弗泉 (WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va.) —— 布莱恩·伯恩斯 (Brian Burns) 在谈到约翰·哈博在球队会议上的举止时，用“强度” (intensity) 一词来描述他的新主教练。

伯恩斯在何时以及如何看到哈博的这种强度？

“每次他开口说话的时候，”伯恩斯说道，随即露出了微笑并笑了起来。“这就是他的人格，他忍不住。无论如何他都有那种强度。我应该说，是热情，而不是强度。”

在描述哈博时，这两个词都很贴切。

这位 63 岁的教练从事带队参加训练营的工作已近二十年，但周三发生的事情是一个新的转折。哈博在担任乌鸦队主教练 18 年后，现在正执掌一支不同的球队，因为巨人队给了他一份为期五年、价值 $100 million 的合同，旨在将失败转变为胜利。

他的新工作伴随着一个

高强度新教练在执掌巨人队第 1 天获得了“相当酷”的引入

这是一个额外的变数，因为巨人队设施正在进行持续的装修，这意味着他们今年夏天必须出外训练。这些装修和扩建计划在 Harbaugh 接手这项工作之前就已制定。

当巨人队在周二晚上抵达 Greenbrier 度假村时，Harbaugh 注意到了体育性能中心周围所有的蓝色、红色和白色标志、牌匾和广告牌。在他准备好为巨人队执掌首次训练营练习时，这触动了他。

“我的意思是，看到这些颜色和标志很酷，”Harbaugh 说道。“一旦你进入训练场，你就只是在工作，对吧？但

乘坐巴士驶入时，也许会有感觉。当你下飞机开车前往设施，看到所有的标志之类的。这就是巨人队。那是一个相当酷的时刻。”

Harbaugh 让他的球队进行了一次高能量的 90 分钟训练。NFL 球员协会对于主教练在一年中的这个时间点能做什么和不能做什么有相关准则，这意味着前几天是非护具练习，且每次练习的时长每天只能小幅增加。

第 1 天已结束。“我对此非常满意，”Harbaugh 说道。“我认为我们的状态很精准。大家很有决心。没有人是以一种随随便便的态度进入的。每个人的精神状态都很好。但更重要的是，他们专注且决心要有一个良好的开端。从他们在设施报到、在我们在东卢瑟福的基地进行体能测试等环节开始，到我们来到这里，再到今天，我一直看到了这一点。所以，我期待这种情况能继续下去。”

训练营的第一次球队会议在歌曲《Take Me Home, Country Roads》中拉开帷幕，这是约翰·丹佛（John Denver）为西弗吉尼亚州创作的赞歌。

“很多球员知道歌词，”Harbaugh 说道。“我知道歌词。”

随着训练营进入状态，唱歌会减少，而跑步和艰苦训练会增加。

“他非常明确地告知了他的期望，”Burns 说道。“他期望你努力工作。他期望你像个职业球员一样，准时出现，做好准备。他不是一个接受借口的人。他理解会有意外发生，但他不想给太多的宽容。”

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Enagbare 对防守线组的成长充满信心

作者：GRACE McCARRON

周三，在喷气机队设施举行的第一天训练中，现场气氛积极。球队希望开启一个全新的、更成功的篇章，这种愿望显而易见。

对于“绿帮”（Gang Green）而言，防守线是一个全新的领域。球队在自由球员市场上签入了老将 Joseph Ossai 和 Kingsley Enagbare，并在 4 月的选秀中以第 2 顺位选中了 David Bailey。

Enagbare 职业生涯的前四个赛季在格林湾度过，该队近年来一直是季后赛常客。在 Enagbare 在职期间，包装工队的战绩为 37-30-1。

而喷气机队在同一时期的战绩如何？22-46。

“我了解我的位置组，我们有几个年轻人，所以我试图将我过去四年获得的见解分享给这些小伙子。在我的四年时间里，我几乎每年都进入了季后赛，所以我拥有相当丰富的季后赛经验，”Enagbare 周三表示。“我知道从第 1 周到第 17 周需要付出什么……季后赛的强度如何变化，以及如何维持身体状态、照顾好身体等等。”

“这是一个漫长的赛季，而且实际上现在就开始了。老实说，它从 OTA（非强制训练营）就开始了。”

Bailey 的潜在影响是这支喷气机队最令人好奇的元素之一。Enagbare 对这位新秀的表现已经感到惊讶。

“他将会非常出色。他将拥有一个很长很长的职业生涯，”Enagbare 说道。“那家伙的前途不可限量。他真的无所不能。他能阻止跑球，也能冲击四分卫。他的潜力是没有上限的。”

总的来说，Enagbare 在谈到他的新位置组时流露出自信。

“我今天告诉伙计们，我们的整体水平取决于最弱的一环，也就是说，如果我们的最弱环节点依然是一个极其强悍的家伙（bad, bad MF），那么我们的整个小组将成为一个让人恐惧的强悍群体，”Enagbare 说道。“铁磨铁。我认为我们将拥有一个优秀的团队。”

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Wilson 梦想在赛季末依然能参加具有决定意义的比赛

VEAVING MAGAZINE

作者：BRIAN COSTELLO

现在才 7 月，但如果你问 Garrett Wilson 关于本赛季的目标，他的心思已经飞到了 12 月。

“就是打有意义的比赛，”这位喷气机队的宽接球手在周三说道。“我必须在球队中尽到我的职责。无论他们对我有什么期待，我必须做到。如果他们对我期待更多，我也必须做到并发挥好我的作用。我相信我们已经准备好了所有关键环节，这将让我们在 12 月能打上那些有意义的比赛，这是我长期以来的梦想——在至关重要的时刻在顶尖水平上比赛。”

对于即将进入在队第五个赛季的 Wilson 来说，这是他一直难以触及的目标。喷气机队在他新秀赛季期间曾短暂具有竞争力，但随后输掉了最后六场比赛。自那时起，他们就再也没有接近季后赛的可能。

对于 26 岁的 Wilson 而言，个人方面取得了诸多成功，但球队在他前四个赛季的战绩分别为 7-10, 7-10, 5-12 和 3-14。

尽管经历了这么多失败，Wilson 仍希望 2026 年情况能有所改变。

“我觉得这将是一个特殊的年份，”Wilson 说。

Wilson 刚刚经历了职业生涯中最令人失望的一个赛季。他在该赛季第六场比赛中膝盖受伤，在出战 7 场比赛后被宣布赛季报销。这是 Wilson 在喷气机队首次缺席比赛，Wilson 表示，这也是他整个足球生涯中第一次长时间缺阵。

在场边观看让 Wilson 在本赛季极度渴望回归。

“这种感觉从上赛季第 8 周就开始酝酿了，”Wilson 说。“结果我缺席了那个赛季剩下的所有比赛。这真的是我人生中第一次错过如此大段的比赛时间。突然之间，这让你用不同的眼光看待事情。并不是说我曾经把这项运动视为理所当然，但当你像那样缺席时，你就会迫不及待地想要回来再次尝试。这就是我现在的感受。我们又有一个机会，一个特殊的机遇来扭转局面。我对本赛季能够实现这一点感到前所未有的兴奋。”

Wilson 正在与另一位四分卫合作。这在 Wilson 的职业生涯中是一个熟悉的剧本，从职业生涯早期的 Zach Wilson，到未来的名人堂成员 Aaron Rodgers，以及去年与大学队友 Justin Fields 重聚。这些组合都没有成功。喷气机队现在希望 Geno Smith 能成为答案。

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Frank Reich 将成为 Wilson 合作的第五位不同的进攻协调员。Wilson 在春季训练期间对 Reich 的体系赞赏有加，并提到该体系给了他很大的调整自由度。喷气机队教练 Aaron Glenn 认为 Reich 的体系与 Wilson 是完美匹配。

“Garrett 感觉很好，状态看起来也不错，”Glenn 说。“我和 Garrett 在休赛期进行了多次沟通。我想说的是，他已经迫不及待了，尤其是考虑到我们目前的进攻类型，以及 Frank 打算如何利用所有球员的方式。我知道你们听过 Frank 谈论这件事，也知道你们听球员们谈到，球员们如何在运用本能的同时保持纪律性。我认为这恰恰符合 Garrett 的长处。我期待他能发挥出来。”

Wilson 在前三个赛季的接球码数都超过了 1,000 码，但在去年因伤缩短的赛季中下降到了 395 码。如果喷气机队的进攻能运转起来，Wilson 应该能重回 1,000 码大关。但 Wilson 希望这些码数出现在冲击季后赛的过程中，而不是在更多毫无意义的比赛中。

“今年感觉不一样，”Wilson 说。“我不想谈太多，就是感觉不一样。”

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新血。 新能量。 新叙事。

这些能否转化为 2026 年喷气机队的新结果（即：获胜）？

这是总经理 Darren Mougey 和主教练 Aaron Glenn 寄予希望的事情。两人都在喷气机队（Jets）担任这些职务的第二个赛季，而在这个休赛期，球队的阵容和教练组都经历了剧烈的变动。

在核心回归球员中，包括接球手 Garrett Wilson，跑卫 Breece Hall 和 Braelon Allen，后卫 Joe Tippmann，紧端锋 Jeremy Ruckert，防守端锋 Will McDonald IV 以及截锋 Olu Fashanu 和 Armand Membou。

而他们通过在绿白军团不同年限的经验所了解的唯一事情就是失败。没有人曾经经历过 NFL 的一个获胜赛季，或者参加过一场季后赛。

正因如此，休赛期引入经历过胜利的新球员必须成为喷气机队的一个关键转折点。

这就是喷气机队希望通过引进资深线卫 Demario Davis（3 个季后赛赛季）、安全卫 Minkah Fitzpatrick（4 个）、防守线球员 David Onyemata（4 个）和 Kingsley Enagbare（3 个）、角卫 Nahshon Wright（2 个）、接球手 Tim Patrick（2 个）以及四分卫 Geno Smith（1 个），来真正改变这支长期陷入失败泥潭（连续 10 个失败赛季）的球队方向。

这些球员每一个人都经历过 Wilson、Hall、Allen、Tippmann、Ruckert、McDonald、Fashanu 和 Membou 等人未曾经历过的事情：参加季后赛。

Wilson 本人地感觉到，由于引入了新球员，这支球队已经有了不同的能量。

“像‘Double D’ [Demario Davis] 这样的人进入了球队，进攻端有 Geno 和 Tim Patrick，”Wilson 周三表示，“这些人与我们过去的失误没有关联，正因为如此，他们带来了一种获胜的心态和获胜的能量。”

“作为队里的年轻球员，我们正试图抓住这一点，更好地了解在那个水平上获胜需要什么，因为他们之前已经做到了。”

没有心理负担是一件大事。我以前在喷气机队见过类似的剧本：长期的失败赛季渗透到相关球员的心理中，从而毁掉了他们。

我曾目睹 90 年代喷气机队的优秀球员，如 Mo Lewis、James Hasty、Rob Moore、Brad Baxter、Marvin Wash-

众中之王： Kingsley Enagbare 职业生涯曾三次进入季后赛，这比他的许多喷气机队队友多出三倍——他希望在加入“绿帮”（Gang Green）后能分享这种经验。

ington、Erik McMillan、Brian Washington 以及其他许多人被心理负担所累，在不断的失败中精神崩溃。

人们希望，通过增加经历过胜利的球员，能帮助 Wilson、Hall、Tippmann、Fashanu 等回归的核心球员突破临界点，让他们品尝到胜利的滋味。

“我希望喷气机队的球迷能为这支球队感到自豪，自豪地戴着喷气机队的帽子，穿着喷气机队的 T 恤，穿着绿白色的球衣，”Fitzpatrick 周三表示，“我在泽西州 [Old Bridge] 长大，所以我知道很多喷气机队球迷的感受。他们热爱这支球队，但我们过去几年没有取得太多成功。”

当 Enagbare 周三被问到这次休赛期是什么激励他加入喷气机队时，他说：“就是有机会改变叙事，创建一种获胜文化，并让联盟畏惧我们。”

Enagbare 提到了防守线室里的年轻球员，他的目标是“试图向他们提供我过去四年中获得的洞察力”。

“我在四年的职业生涯中就有 [三] 年进入了季后赛，所以我有相当丰富的季后赛经验，”他说，“我知道从第 1 周到第 17 周需要什么，进入季后赛后强度如何变化，以及如何在漫长的赛季中照顾好身体。”

“这是一个漫长的赛季，而且基本上现在就开始了。”

毫无疑问，在休赛期升级阵容时，从更成功的组织中引进球员是 Mougey 计划的一部分。

“我相信这会有所帮助，”总经理周三表示。“我很期待看到它，期待看到一些刚到这里的新人们在训练营期间逐渐成型和塑造，并观察我们的一些资深球员——包括一直在这里的球员以及我们引进的新老将——在如何领导这些年轻人方面不断进化。”

威尔逊在周三听起来如此兴奋，仿佛他迫不及待地想要让比赛立即开始。

“我相信我们已经具备了必要的条件，能让我们在 12 月打出有意义的足球比赛——这是我长期以来一直梦想实现的事情，”他说道。“今年确实感觉不同。并不是说在其他年份我没感觉到什么，而是这一组球员更特别。我们在球队会议室里进行的一些特定对话已经铺平了道路。”

“现在，作为球员，我们的任务就是在赛季的这个阶段每天努力提升，这样当真正的赛季到来时，我们已经准备好在周日出战了。”

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自然之瞥 (A LEEK OF NATURE)

危险的深区接球手回归给球迷带来希望，但 Nabers 仍需要时间才能恢复到 100%

TU 训练日

深度冲击

接球手 Braxton Berrios 接住了 Jameis Winston 的一次深传球，突破防线完成了一次大场面达阵。Berrios 是一名身高 5 英尺 9 英寸的槽位接球手，他更以在中场的接球能力而闻名。

拜托了，JEVÓN

在一次 7 对 7 练习期间，被干扰的球直接飘到了安全卫 Jevón Holland 手中，这本该是一次简单的拦截。然而，Holland 掉了球。这次你没能制造失误。

吸引我的目光

格林布赖尔体育性能中心（Greenbrier Sports Performance Center）两块纯净天然草坪周围环绕着阿勒格尼山脉，构成了一幅如画的风景。这里与巨人队通常举行训练营的那个像新泽西停车场一样的地方完全不同。

伤病报告

紧端锋 (TE) Thomas Fidone II 和防守截锋 (DL) Sam Roberts 在训练营开始前及时从“身体无法参赛” (PUP) 名单中移除。... 宽接手 (WR) Darius Slayton 因治疗运动疝气而缺席了春季训练，他在击败角卫 (CB) Paulson Adebo 获得大幅码数时看起来状态良好。

— Paul Schwartz

作者：PAUL SCHWARTZ

西弗吉尼亚州，白硫磺泉（WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WVa.）— 在第 1 天，Malik Nabers 出现了。给纽约巨人队带来他们在 2026 年训练营的首场胜利吧。

这位明星宽接手在场上，所有人也都注意到了。

“我的意思是，他就是 Leek，”四分卫 Jaxson Dart 周三说道，“就这样。每当他在场上时，每个人都知道他在哪里。”

Nabers 的出现为进攻组、整个球队以及粉丝群注入了一剂积极的强心针，他们屏息期待他能恢复到 2024 年新秀赛季所展现出的状态，那次表现证明了他作为当年 NFL 选秀总第 6 顺位被选中是实至名归的。他在上赛季仅参加了四场比赛，随后因右膝前十字韧带撕裂而赛季报销，而右侧半月板部分撕裂使得这次严重伤势进一步加重。

现在宣布 Nabers 完全康复还为时过早，因为他还没有。至少现在还没有。他在进入训练营前能够避开“身体无法参赛”名单，这令人鼓舞。在格林布赖尔（The Greenbrier）的第一天练习中，Nabers 在个人接球训练期间与队友在一起，并在没有防守球员在场的“空场”时段与进攻组共同训练。他进行了走位，完成了切入，在地面上支撑脚以改变方向，并完成了接球。随后，当球队其余成员进入强度更高的练习环节时，他回到了室内。

“太棒了，”主教练 John Harbaugh 说道，“你看到他了。他正处于一个康复过程中。我认为他看起来不错。”

目前来看，表现不错就足够了。

总经理 Joe Schoen 表示，Nabers 比大多数球员报到得更早，并且在训练营开始前的几天里能够进行奔跑和切入动作。康复过程不会操之过急。如果 Nabers 感觉良好，每天将增加体能目标；如果他出现轻微退步，训练量将相应减轻。

“医疗团队为他制定了非常好的计划，”Schoen 说道，“而且正如我一直说的，我们要听取患者的意见。所以，我们将观察他的反应。只要一切按计划进行……希望他能准备好，我们会看看结果如何。但现在不做预测，因为我们还有很长的路要走，训练营还有很长时间。”

Nabers 必须全面进入状态的截止日期是 9 月 13 日，即对阵牛仔队的常规赛揭幕战。现在还不到 8 月。在这件事上，时间似乎站在巨人队这一边。

巨人队在那个位置上有其他可考虑的选项，但只有一个 Malik Nabers。他们在自由球员市场早期签下了 Darnell Mooney 和 Calvin Austin III，随后又签下了三名老将——Odell Beckham Jr.、JuJu Smith-Schuster 和 Braxton Berrios。他们在选秀中通过交易提升顺位得到了 Malachi Fields。Darius Slayton 回归进入其第 8 年。可靠的 Isaiah Hodgins 也回来了。在名单中剩余的 6 个名额竞争中将会有激烈的对抗。

但在明星光环方面，谁应该成为领头羊则没有竞争，必须是 Nabers。

“他绝对有一种气场，”Dart 说道，“他在场上有一种令人振奋的氛围，看到他在那里就让我高兴，让每个人都高兴。对他个人而言，他取得了许多积极进展，所以我们将继续让他缓慢融入。他在面对康复挑战时做得非常出色。我对他的信心绝对十足。”

“他为进攻组带来了完全不同的元素。”

Nabers 在新秀赛季接到了 109 次传球，总码数达 1,204 码，但在上赛季第 4 周受伤离场，恰逢 Dart 的 NFL 首秀。在接下来的 11 场首发中，Dart 失去了他最动态的武器。

“去年，我实际上只有四分之一周的时间能和他一起进行练习，”Dart 说道。“所以，只要我们能够互相沟通、对话、观看录像——这些我们已经做了很多。在他在 100 percent 康复之前尝试获得这些练习机会，我认为这将有助于把我们的关系塑造成为我们想要的模样。他对这项运动非常痴迷，而且正以正确的方式对待它。”

外部线卫 Brian Burns 称 Nabers 为“动态”，并补充说他会提醒这位刚满 23 岁的球员，确保不要匆忙重返赛场。Nabers 在春季需要进行第二次手术以清理一些疤痕组织，这让他稍微set back了一段时间。

“我的意思是，也许他会进展很快，也许不会，随便吧，”Harbaugh 说道。“我认为你不能给它定一个精确的时间表。我觉得你只能看进展如何，因为我们希望他处于最佳状态。所以，当他准备好处于最佳状态时，他就会处于最佳状态。”

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目光转向： 周三在训练营中，Malik Nabers 跑位练习，他在上赛季第 4 周撕裂前十字韧带（ACL）和外侧半月板后重返球场。Corey Sipkin (2)

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WVa. —— John Harbaugh 时代的第一次训练结束了，赤裸上身的 Jaxson Dart 正在向 Malik Nabers 投球。

这位巨人队的年轻特许权四分卫有机会瞄准这位电光火石的“关键先生”（Go-To Guy）——他在新秀年仅与对方在场上共过 23 次进攻机会——这让 Dart 的心、Harbaugh 的心以及所有巨人队球迷的心在 5 月中歌唱，并允许他们所有人做梦，做个大梦。在风景优美的阿勒格尼山脉环绕的巨人队“梦想之场”上，Nabers 在个人训练的奔跑、切入和接球动作看起来非常良好。

可以称之为 Malik 的一小步……伴随着对巨人族（Giantskind）一次巨幅飞跃的希望……直到对阵牛仔队的揭幕夜。

这不再是“不可能的梦想”。

Nabers 一直在虔诚地努力，以从上赛季第 4 周在 Dart 2025 年首次首发时遭受的前十字韧带撕裂和外侧半月板撕裂中回归。

一个健康的 Nabers 对 Dart 来说改变了一切，就像年轻的 Odell Beckham Jr. 为 Eli Manning 改变了很多一样。

一个健康的 Nabers 将单枪匹马且剧烈地改变进攻端的面貌，以及纽约巨人队的自信心和前景。

因为在 Nabers 强力压制对方二线卫的情况下，Dart 将拥有不止一次的机会来实现那个二年级的飞跃。

Harbaugh 和 Lamar Jackson 之前没有这样一名可能让他们更上一层楼的“顶级接球手”。

“他身上绝对有一种气场，”Dart 说。“他在场上有一种令人振奋的光芒。这让我很高兴。”

Nabers 配合“霸凌球”（Bullyball）地面进攻？祝防守协调员好运。

“他是 Leek。每当他在场上，”Dart 说，“每个人都知道他在哪里。”

现在，Dart 正在建立巨人队所希望并祈祷的，与 Nabers 在场内场外持久的关系。

再看一眼： 在与 Malik Nabers 仅进行了 23 次比赛进攻机会后，Jaxson Dart 终于得到了一个期待已久的机会，开始重建他与 1 号接球手的场上关系。Corey Sipkin

Dart终于找回了他的精英接球手

“在他在恢复到100%之前，尝试增加一些训练次数，我认为这将有助于塑造我们希望建立的协作关系，”Dart说道。“他对这场比赛充满执念，而且他正以正确的方式全力以赴。”

当Dart在密西西比大学（Ole Miss）将自己打造成为首轮秀时，Nabers（109-1, 204-7 TDs）则在为丹尼尔·琼斯（Daniel Jones）、德鲁·洛克（Drew Lock）和汤米·德维托（Tommy DeVito）尽其所能。

“我在大学里和他交手过两次，”Dart说。“我看过他的新秀年。他的比赛中几乎没有什么缺陷。我认为他在各方面都非常出色。”

我问Dart是否能指出让Nabers成为精英球员的一点。

他本可以说他多么难以被擒抱，他如何知道如何摆脱防守，他如何在争抢球时拼抢，他的接球半径，他的运动天赋带来的自信，以及在大多数情况下，他的接球能力。

“我认为是他的心态，”Dart说。“他就是一个猛将（dawg）。在他所做的一切事情中，他都是一个极致的竞争者，哪怕是在更衣室里打乒乓球。他痴迷于竞争。他想要赢，他想成为最好的。”

“这些人就是你想要留在身边的人。”

NU Steve Serby 这些正是哈博（Harbaugh）想要留在身边的人。巨人队不会催促Nabers。

记住，球队和名人堂成员雷·弗拉赫蒂（Ray Flaherty）的家人允许他作为一名新秀穿着已经退役的1号球衣。

“我们会根据每天遇到的实际情况来决定，”Harbaugh说。“也许他会进步很快，也许不会，无论如何。我认为你无法准确地设定一个时间表。我认为只要观察进程即可，因为我们希望他处于最佳状态。所以，当他准备好处于最佳状态时，他就会达到最佳状态。”

Nabers最近在他的Instagram上发布道：“我已经走出黑暗，而且我现在真的非常愤怒（REAL REAL MAD）！！至于Harbaugh？他距离他的超级碗冠军已经过去14年了。”

“他骨子里有一种不服输的劲头（chip on his shoulder），”Dart说。“我很期待看到随着时间的推移，他的气质将如何继续成长。”

作为首发球员战绩为4-8的Dart同样如此。“因为我们去年过得并不好，”他说。“我迫不及待迎接即将到来的这一年。整个休赛期我一直在等待与队友们重新聚首。”

他在等待卡姆·斯卡特博（Cam Skattebo），后者在进入训练场时发出了标志性的“Woooo!”一声大喊，且状态良好。贝克汉姆（Beckham）在他的复出尝试中动作地也很流畅。

但最重要的是，Dart一直在等待马利克·纳伯斯（Malik Nabers）。在2025年NFL选秀后不久，我询问了前密西西比大学教练莱恩·基芬（Lane Kiffin）关于Dart和Nabers的情况。“在未来的很长一段时间里，他们将是一对惊人的搭档，”Kiffin说。也许那个时刻终究很快就会到来。

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这次交易截止日期的“大白鲸”（极稀有目标）可能是梅森·米勒（Mason Miller）或塔里克·斯库巴尔（Tarik Skubal）。或者——请听我说——可能是一个能改变局面的右击手。

就稀有程度而言，他们可能不是T-206 Honus Wagner棒球卡。但在目前的市场中，他们很难寻觅，而且这还是在过去一周的伤病将几位备受关注的球员——奥克兰运动队的谢亚·兰格利尔斯（Shea Langeliers）、巨人队的凯西·施密特（Casey Schmitt）和红队的斯宾塞·斯特尔（Spencer Steer）——排除在名单之外之前。

稀有即价值，因此你可以想象这类球员的价格会很高，这或许能帮助大都会队即使是针对路易斯·罗伯特（Luis Robert Jr.）的到期合同，以及火热了一个多月的泰隆·泰勒（Tyrone Taylor）获取一些价值。

考虑到柯蒂斯·米德（Curtis Mead）在3月下旬被白袜队指定让渡（DFA），随后在一次看似毫无意义的交易中被送到了国民队。但对于华盛顿队来说，这位曾经备受看好的新秀爆发了，击出了17支全垒打，OPS为.852，其中对左投击出了7支全垒打，OPS为.897。因此，尽管米德在MLB的其他正面记录很少且在3月被DFA，华盛顿队最近仍能将他转化为一名年轻的先发投手康内利·厄利（Connelly Early），后者在21场大联盟先发中拥有3.24的ERA。

由于这可能是一件被诅咒的物品，米德在为红袜队出战的第一场比赛中就骨折了左腕，因此他有可能在本赛季接下来的时间里无法复出了。

在这个时间点，几乎每个竞争球队的共同点是，他们都在寻求比赛后段的牛棚帮助以及一名右手击手。例如，洋基队就属于这一类，且具体需要一名右手击球的捕手——此外还需要另一名右手击手。

今年洋基队右手击手的打数排名第三低（所有统计数据截至周二）——而处于竞争地位的守护者队则最低。实际上，洋基队右手击手的 OPS 排名第三高，但由于亚伦·贾奇（Aaron Judge）和吉安卡洛·斯坦顿（Giancarlo Stanton）仍处于长期缺阵状态，且阿梅德·罗萨里奥（Amed Rosario）在签约时所承担的“右打对左投”角色中表现挣扎，洋基队正渴望获得右手击手。

随着双城队提升其竞争地位并公开坚持自己是在买入而非卖出，洋基队获得右手击球捕手瑞安·杰弗斯（Ryan Jeffers）的机会可能在变小。除非 Cubs 决定利用卡森·凯利（Carson Kelly）来换取投手，或者科罗拉多队的亨特·古德曼（Hunter Goodman）确实可以交易，否则洋基队可能不得不降低目标，例如选择 A's 的左右开弓击手乔纳·海姆（Jonah Heim，今年对阵左投的 OPS 为 .838）。

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贸易机密

全力挥击： Curtis Mead（见下文）提供了一个很好的例子（以及一个警示故事），说明在当前市场中，球队通过出售优秀右击者可以获得什么样的回报。鉴于此，像 Jo Adell 这样顶尖的右击者可能很快就会转移到竞争球队。Getty Images (2)

这将增加在其他地方寻找右击手的必要性，因为双城市队的 Byron Buxton 再次进入了伤病名单（髋部），且从未表示过他愿意放弃其不可交易条款。太空人队也在全力冲刺，因此 Isaac Paredes 和 Jeremy Peña 无法交易。

Taylor、天使队的 Jo Adell、堪萨斯城的 Lane Thomas 以及多伦多的 George Springer（他拥有完整的不可交易条款）据称是可以交易的。洋基队长期以来一直看好华盛顿的中外野手 Jacob Young，他以出色的防守著称，但可能不在交易范围内。对于处于营业状态的马林鱼队，是否会讨论关于崛起的外野手 Heriberto Hernández（而对于 Otto Lopez 和左右开弓的 Xavier Edwards，即便只是为了获得考虑，其价格也被认为是非常高的）。巴尔的摩是否会出售处于合同最后一年（walk-year）的 Taylor Ward？

洋基队在这些领域寻找目标绝非孤例。例如，处于竞争状态的费城人队、水手队和勇士队中，有三支球队的右击者 OPS 总和处于最低的四名之列——大都会队是该组中的另一支球队。

而且这些“鱼”更难捕捉。考虑到目前只有 62 名右击者达到了打击率头衔的资格，这将是自 2015. 以来最少的一次。在达到打击率头衔资格且 OPS+ 达到联盟平均水平 (100) 或更高的右击者数量

已从 2022 年的 61 人下降到 55 人，再到 52 人，到 2025 年再次下降到 52 人，而今年则为 39 人，这将是自 1982, 年的 36 人以来最低的水平，那不仅是美国联盟引入指定击球手 (DH) 的前一年，而且当时只有 24 支球队。

右击者对阵左投的 OPS 为 .731，且过去三年该类别的数值一直处于 1992. 以来最低的五名之列。为什么？业内

知道这是一个问题，但没有统一的原因。一位棒球运营主管表示：“（大多数右投所采用的）滑球 (slider) 和扫球 (sweeper) 趋势可能是球队以特定方式构建阵容的原因。右击者更难进入大联盟。他们似乎需要更多的时间。‘右击-右投’的角内野手配置正在消失。我通常不希望我们的选秀在第五轮之后才出现 R/R 角内野配置。”

此外，自 2020, 年起，救援投手必须面对至少三名打者，这导致了左投对左打的救援专家从比赛中消失，现在左投救援投手必须能够解决右击者。

无论原因如何，强大的右击者在减少——而此时此刻对他们的渴望依然强烈。

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带着使命的男人

左投在双赛分胜负中找回状态，此时交易截止日期将至

作者：MIKE PUMA

Sean Manaea 的投球状态看起来就像是一个想要离开皇后区并进入季后赛争夺战的人。

在上周面对道奇队且贡献了本赛季最佳先发表现并令对手沮丧之后，这位左投在周三再次面对另一支排名第一的球队，并取得了相似的结果。

在Citi Field举行的一场双赛的第一场比赛中，大都会队以 3-2 击败勇者队，Manaea 在六局中仅失两分。而在夜场比赛中，大都会队在面对 Chris Sale 和勇者队牛棚时仅击出两支安打，以 1-0 告负。

最近这两次先发无疑是 Manaea 的巅峰状态——正是大都会队整个赛季一直在等待的版本。随着周一交易截止日期的临近，这种势头正愈发强烈。

“我是大都会队的一员，我很开心能在这里，”Manaea 说道。“关于[交易截止日期]我无能为力，所以我并不担心。”

问题在于 34 岁的 Manaea 在下赛季前仍有约 $33 million 的欠薪，这将成为多大的障碍。但如果 Manaea 过去两场先发能提供任何迹象，他可能已经找回了在上一赛前为他赢得一份三年 $75 million 合同的状态。

上周五对阵道奇队时，Manaea 在六局中仅失一分自责分。他将

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一场零封局面维持到了第六局，随后 Matt Olson 击出了一支两分全垒打。

“我只看到了自信和信念，”临时经理 Andy Green 在评价 Manaea 最近的爆发时说道，并指出该投手的球速有所提升。“我看到一个人一直在进攻。如果那场比赛的走势稍有不同，投满七或八[局]是完全可能的。我没有看到他疲惫。他面对几个顶尖打者时陷入劣势并为此付出了代价，但比赛的其他时间他完全掌控了局面。”

Freddy Peralta 和 Clay Holmes 可能是周一前被交易掉的大都会队轮值成员。两人在本赛季结束后都将成为自由球员，且都是经过实战检验的臂膀，但 Peralta 本赛季 4.99 的 ERA 对大都会队并没有帮助。Holmes 自五月以来因治疗腓骨骨折而未为球队出赛，但在两场小联盟康复赛后已接近准备就绪。

变数是 Manaea，他在 2024 年大都会队冲向国联冠军赛（NLCS）的浪潮中成为了球队王牌。在去年陷入低谷后，他本赛季从牛棚开始，并逐渐找回状态。

“Sean 想成为球队的苦力，”Green 说道。“他想承担起投球的任务。他想在比赛中投得更深。他想节省牛棚。这些都是极好的品质，当他的球速处于那个范围 [91-92 mph] 且真正信任自己时，他每晚都能胜任。”

第五局中，Francisco Alvarez 向左外野击出的长打二垒安打产生了本场比赛的第一分。Tyrone Taylor 在该局开局时获得保送，随后 Alvarez 贡献了本赛季的第 27 员打点。紧接着 A.J. Ewing 的牺牲飞球让 Brett Baty 得分，后者在该局击出了单打。

Manaea 终于在第六局失分，当时 Olson 击出了一支两分全垒打将比分扳平为 2-2。Drake Baldwin 在该局开局击出二垒安打，随后 Olson 将球击出右中外野围墙，完成本赛季的第 28 支全垒打。

Carson Benge 在第七局的打点二垒安打让大都会队取得了 3-2 的领先。Ewing 和 Francisco Lindor 都在反击开始时获得保送。

随着这次出赛，Manaea 的 ERA 下降至 4.42。在这次比赛中，他投了 89 球，允许五次安打、两次保送、一次击球员，并完成了四次三振。

“整个今年付出了很多努力，”Manaea 说道。“最终对手是谁并不重要，我只是觉得自己在机械动作和球路方面状态不错。”

Christian Scott 在夜场比赛的六局中允许五次安打和一分自责分，完成了七次三振和一次保送。这位右投的 ERA 下降至 2.99。

Olson 在第六局的打点单打为勇者队贡献了唯一的一分。

Scott 的这次出赛是他本赛季首次完成六局投球。

“我觉得这赛季我有几次机会能拿到六场胜绩，但最终没能实现，”斯科特（Scott）说道。“希望下一次能拿到七场。”

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下一场比赛：对阵 马林鱼

周四，7:10 p.m.，SNY, WHSQ (880 AM)

右投 (RHP) Nolan McLean

2026 赛季数据： 7-7, 3.32 ERA

对阵 MIA 职业生涯记录： 1-0, 1.80 ERA

上次登板： 周六 对阵 LAD； 6 IP, 7 H, 2 ER

球种分析

33% 伸卡球 (Sinker)

20% 四缝线快速球 (4-Seamer)

15% 横扫曲球 (Sweeper)

右投 (RHP) Eury Pérez

2026 赛季数据： 5-8, 3.56 ERA

对阵 NYM 职业生涯记录： 1-3, 6.46 ERA

上次登板： 周六 对阵 SD； 7 IP, 7 H, 3 ER

球种分析

42% 四缝线快速球 (4-Seamer)

15% 滑球 (Slider)

14% 横扫曲球 (Sweeper)

后续 赛程

周五：对阵 马林鱼，7:10 p.m.，PIX11, WHSQ 右投 (RHP) Freddy Peralta vs. 右投 (RHP) Janson Junk

周六：对阵 马林鱼，4:10 p.m.，SNY, WHSQ 左投 (LHP) Zac Thornton vs. 右投 (RHP) Tyler Phillips

伤病报告

■ Juan Soto 因周六被列入伤病名单（左小腿拉伤），将缺阵至 9 月。Soto 在 4 月曾因右小腿拉伤缺席了近三周。

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作者：MARK W. SANCHEZ

目前有 23 支球队处于季后赛名额之内或落后 5 1/2 场比赛以内，这意味着有 23 支球队都会欢迎 Luke Weaver 加入他们的牛棚。

随着交易传闻和报道四处飞散，并被贴在“我的 Instagram 首页或者我不读的报纸上”，Weaver 笑着说道。这位经过实战检验的投手继续证明他能够在压力下投球。

Weaver 正在提高自己的交易价值——以及他对大都会队的价值（大都会队无需交易他）——在这一阶段，关于他近期未来的不确定性似乎在他站在投手丘上时并不重要。

“过去确实困难得多，”Weaver 在周三大都会队在 Citi Field 以 3-2 赢得对阵勇士队的双重赛首场比赛、并投出另一个无失分局后，谈到如何应对不确定性时说道。“但遗憾也幸运的是，我已经经历了许多次这类情况的波动——这些经验可以依赖，无论是在休赛期还是赛季中，无论好坏。所以我觉得这让我很平静。”

Weaver 在 9 个大联盟赛季的部分时间里曾为 7 支球队效力，被交易过 2 次，被指定转让（DFA）过 2 次。在第二次被 DFA 后，他被洋基队签走，洋基队将他转变为一名救火投手，见证了他的崛起，并在上个休赛期见证了他与大都会队签署了一份为期两年、价值 $22 million 的合约。

因此，这位 32 岁的球员经历过这一切，这在他于挑战时刻大放异彩时显而易见。自 5 月以来，他出战了 29 场比赛，仅失 1 分自责分。

他也对他目前所处的位置感到满意，这一点很重要，因为大都会队没有义务像对待处于合同最后一年（walk-year）的牛棚投手 Brooks Raley 和 A.J. Minter（后者在 1-0 输掉的夜场比赛中投出了一个无失分局）那样必须交易他。

经历过，做过： Luke Weaver 在 9 个 MLB 赛季的部分时间里曾为 7 支球队效力，因此他习惯了被交易。这位救火投手表示，他与妻子很享受在皇后区的时间，尽管他们在心理上对交易已有“一定程度的准备”。

Weaver 下赛季将获得 $11 million 薪水，他可能会成为 2027 年大都会队这支志在竞争的球队的一员。

他说，他“绝对”享受在大都会队的生活，并指出了他建立的人际关系和更衣室文化。

“每天来到这里都是一种真正的快乐，即使是在一个没有达到我们预期那样获胜的环境中，”Weaver 在将自己的防御率（ERA）降至 1.88（在第八局仅被击出一次安打并完成一次三振）后说道。“我认为 [失败球队的更衣室] 在某些情况下有时会是一个令人恐惧的环境，但对我来说我从未有过那种感觉。我认为在没赢球的比赛后会感到失望。赢球很棒，但你也希望每天走进门时所带来的状态能保持一致，而这里确实以一种非常积极的方式匹配了这一点，这证明了这里的人员素质。”

Weaver 表示，他与妻子对交易在“心理上已有一定程度的准备”，“但我们绝不是已经一只脚踏出了大门”。他提到大都会队并不打算开始重建，并希望很快能赢球。

这使得一名证明自己能帮助球队获胜的投手的未来变得复杂。

“Luke 非常出色，且对我们非常有价值，不仅是这个赛季的剩余时间，还有下一个赛季，”临时经理 Andy Green 说道。“没人知道接下来的几天会如何发展。”

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陷入低谷的 Polanco 在获胜之日触底

作者：MARK W. SANCHEZ

在一个休息区里，上演的是那种将被人们铭记数十年的一垒位置火炬传递——从一位老将巨星到年轻接班人的无缝过渡。

而在另一个休息区里，上演的则是那种火炬被失手掉在地上并点燃整个场地的火炬传递。

随着 Matt Olson 自然而然地接替了 Freddie Freeman 的位置，并在为亚特兰大队比赛时观察并击出全垒打，Jorge Polanco 看起来再次不像 Pete Alonso。

因为他的合约签到了明年，Polanco 仍有时间赢得球队及其球迷的喜爱，但目前每场比赛、每次打席，都在让 David Stearns 在休赛期做出的关键决定之一显得糟糕一些。

Polanco 的低迷在周三下午继续，他 0-for-3 且有 3 次三振。或许最能说明问题的是，在最终大都会队 3-2 击败勇者队、赢得在 Citi Field 双赛首场比赛的局面中，他选择了牺牲触击而非全力挥棒。

在经历了手腕和脚踝问题、在伤病名单上停留近三个月后回归，Polanco 在进入夜场比赛前 4-for-41 (.098)，仅有 3 支单打和 1 支双打。在他过去 9 场比赛中的 8 场里，每场至少有一次三振，在这一时段内，他在 29 次打席中被三振 13 次。他的挥棒风格并不像 Alonso。

这些打席全部是以指定打击身份出场，由于患有跟腱黏液囊炎，这位 33 岁的球员无法在场上防守。他的防守表现也不像 Alonso。

在第七局面对前大都会队球员 Danny Young 的最后一次打席中，在满垒的情况下，Polanco 挥空了一个横扫球，并听到响亮的嘘声——即便是在他的球队夺回领先权的半局之后——一直回到了休息区。球迷们也没有像对待 Alonso 那样对待他。

Andy Green 表示，在伤病名单回归后的第 12 场比赛中，Polanco 仍在寻找击球时机，并提醒记者 Polanco 职业生涯一直以来是什么样的球员。

“他在去年的季后赛中击中了 [Tarik] Skubal 的两支全垒打，”代理经理在谈到 Polanco 在与水手队进行的美联分区系列赛第二场那次难忘的表现时说道，“他强得离谱。但他目前还没能找到右投或左投的击球时机或节奏。”

“显然他全年都在与伤病作斗争，所以我们知道，他距离状态回归只差一次挥棒。我们都希望那次挥棒快点到来。”

考虑到预计的下滑和防守顾虑，大都会队允许 Alonso 以 5 年 $155 million 的价格加盟巴尔的摩是可以理解的。但他们用一名有伤病史且几乎没有一垒经验的老内野手来替代他，则更令人费解，而且至少在第一年，这一举措产生了反效果。Polanco 既不健康也不高效，而他们的 B 计划 Mark Vientos 同样如此。

Polanco 距离成为季后赛英雄、击出 26 支全垒打且 OPS 为 .821 的时期仅过去一年。如果健康状况好转，他有时间反弹。

但考虑到他在皇后区的遭遇，以及他在第六局的打席——在 Jared Young 击出领先单打后，他随后采取了牺牲触击，这种举动在今天的比赛中很少见，对于一个能够造成伤害的强打者来说更是罕见。Young 最终未能跑回本垒得分——他的自信心可能也需要反弹。

一名大都会队官员表示，赛后 Polanco 没有接受采访，因为他在训练室里有太多事情要处理。

交易与博弈？

Sean Manaea 在周三在 Citi Field 对阵 Braves 的双赛首场比赛中，投球六局失了两分。这位左投手目前的表现确实正处于正确的时间点，但时间将证明，到明年为止欠他的 3300 万美元对于一支争冠球队来说是否过高的代价。

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• ■ Carlos Rodón（左肘炎症）周三进行了两局模拟投球，大约 30 次投球，他正继续增强状态，有望在 8 月底回归。
• ■ Aaron Judge（右肋骨压力性骨折）与洋基队一同在芝加哥，但目前还没有确定他进行下一轮成像检查的具体日期。

即将到来

客场对阵 White Sox 周四, 2:10 p.m., YES, WFAN (660 AM, 101.9 FM)

左投 Ryan Weathers

2026 赛季数据： 4-7, 4.25 ERA 职业生涯对阵 CWS： 0-0, 1.42 ERA 上次先发： 周六，客场对阵 PHI： 5.2 IP, 6 H, 1 ER

球种分布

26% 25% 20% 四缝线 变速球 横向滑球

右投 Sean Burke

2026 赛季数据： 7-5, 3.19 ERA 职业生涯对阵 NYY： 1-0, 1.23 ERA 上次先发： 周六，主场对阵 HOU： 6 IP, 2 ER, 10 K

球种分布

37% 21% 18% 四缝线 曲球 滑球

后续赛程

周五：客场对阵 Cubs, 2:20 p.m., YES, WFAN 待定 vs. 待定 周六：客场对阵 Cubs, 7:15 p.m., Fox, WFAN 待定 vs. 左投 David Peterson

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洋基队先在第八局、后在第11局丢掉领先优势 —— 痛失比赛给白袜队

作者：GREG JOYCE

芝加哥 —— 长期以来，牛棚被预期为洋基队在交易截止日期前需要解决的领域，但在前往该日期的过程中，他们的救援投手群成了一个令人愉快的惊喜。

然而，在距离截止日期还有 5 天时，一个过度劳累的组群经历了一个糟糕的夜晚 —— 当他们距离获胜仅差一个出局数时，Ali Sánchez 的一个极其糟糕的决定使情况进一步恶化。

在一场有三名最佳洋基救援投手因近期工作量问题无法出战的比赛中，牛棚在第八局丢掉 3 分的领先优势，在第 11 局丢掉 1 分的领先优势，随后在第 12 局中，由于 Ryan Yarbrough 给了对方一个再见安打，导致在周三晚上 Rate Field 遭受 6-5 的惨败于白袜队。

Paul Blackburn 在第八局连续两次投球被击出两支本垒打，将 4-1 的领先优势变成了平局。最后一击发生在 4 局之后，当时牛棚中最后一名可用球员 Yarbrough 允许 Edgar Quero 击出一支轻飘飘的安打，球落在 Trent Grisham 面前，而 Grisham 当时的守备位置似乎比需要的更深。

在此过程中，洋基队浪费了得分机会，包括在第 12 局上半场一次出局时满垒，却未能将任何球员送回本垒。

但这场失利最令人心碎的部分发生在第 11 局下半场，在 Anthony Volpe 的牺牲飞球让洋基队 5-4 领先之后，Camilo Doval 登场并在后方出色的防守支持下迅速拿下了两个出局数。洋基队距离获胜仅差一个出局数，此时 Munetaka Murakami 位于三垒，

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这时 Sánchez 试图通过回传接杀（back-pick）将其出局。然而，他的传球在 Ryan McMahon 面前弹跳而过 —— McMahon 当时向二垒移动，但在该回合中跑向三垒 —— 从而让 Murakami 跑回本垒扳平比分。

“我和 McMahon 觉得他回垒的速度有点慢，”Sánchez 说。“只是传球失误了。”

Sánchez 在第 10 局 Austin Wells 被代跑后进入比赛，他表示如果能重新来过，他会再次尝试这次传球，Aaron Boone 也对此表示认同。

“只需要执行好传球，”Boone 说。“这就是简单的传接球。我们是大联盟球员，我们不会出岔子。显然，一个选项是[直接]持球，但这归根结底是我们必须把传接球做得更好。”

洋基队 (61-47) 本赛季在加时赛中的战绩目前为 1-7，在美东区争夺榜首的竞争中落后光芒队 2 1/2 场。他们将尝试在周四赢得对阵白袜队 (56-51) 的四场系列赛。

由于阵容无法迅速拉开分差，近期打了太多比分接近的比赛，洋基队不得不要求牛棚承担很多。在周三，这意味着在 David Bednar、Brent Headrick 和 Angel Chivilli 连续两天投球（且 Bednar 在过去 5 场中投了 4 场）之后，他们无法出战。

Cam Schlittler 为洋基队带来了强劲的开局，在进入第七局前保持了一场仅允许一次安打的零封，随后失去掌控力，在一次出局且领先 4-1 的情况下退场 —— 洋基队的所有 4 分都出现在第一局，其中 3 分来自 Spencer Jones 的本垒打。

Fernando Cruz 接替 Schlittler 并解决了两名跑者，但随后在第八局给对方提供了一个领先安打（leadoff double）。

一个出局数之后，Blackburn 登场面对对方的顶端打击顺序，原本这将是一个五个出局数的救火任务。这名救援投手近期表现如此之好，自 5 月 16 日以来的最后 25 场比赛中，自责分率仅为 0.92，但周三他没能再次做到。他向 Sam Antonacci 投出了一颗 1-1 计数、位于球区上方的快速球，被后者猛击至右外野，击出了一支两分本垒打，使白袜队追至 4-3。

Murakami 接着上场，捕捉到了一颗刚好在球区下方的一投曲球，将其击入左外野看台，扳平了比分。

“老实说，我觉得我的投球发挥得不错，”布莱克本（Blackburn）说。“对方那些球员也很出色。这很糟糕。你只能继续前行，继续投好你的球。今晚确实让这里的每个人失望了，但[周四]回来要拿下一场胜利。”

布莱克本随后投完了一个零封的第九局，接着蒂姆·希尔（Tim Hill）在第10局也做到了同样的一点，尽管他的一次暴投导致自动跑者在无人出局的情况下到达三垒。

但最终，这仍不足以让洋基队免于遭受一场沉重的失利。

“我认为我们进行了一场激烈的战斗，”施利特勒（Schlittler）说。“出现了一些心理失误，但这就是棒球。这是比赛的一部分。” gjoyce@nypost.com

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芝加哥 —— 在一项几乎所有事情都可以量化为某种指标的运动中，捕手对投球团队的影响可能是无法衡量的。

当然，有接球framing统计数据，但这仅仅是一部分。还有赛前的比赛计划，学习对方 13 名击球手的所有信息，以及更多关于捕手自己团队中 13 名投手的了解，知道何时调用什么样的球种，以及如何引导他们的投手度过某个夜晚九局比赛中的起伏。

因此，当资深投手格里特·科尔（Gerrit Cole）和马克斯·弗里德（Max Fried）谈到奥斯汀·威尔斯（Austin Wells）和阿里·桑切斯（Ali Sánchez）（以及本赛季早期的J.C. Escarra）对洋基投球团队的价值时，你可能只能相信他们的话。该投球团队在周三之前拥有大联盟中最低的防御率 (3.40)。

“在防止失分方面，他们值得很多赞赏，”科尔说道。他在周二晚上对阵白袜队投完六局无失分后，主动提到了这些捕手。“显然我们拥有优秀的投手，但他们在后方为我们做了大量的准备工作，做出了许多正确的决策，并帮我们脱离困境。总的来说，这是一次良好的团队协作。”

“接球是一项非常困难的工作，尤其是在如今的比赛中，你必须研究并准确掌握面对击球手的比赛计划，同时还要为投手制定比赛计划，”弗里德说。“我们非常重视比赛计划并确保我们做好了充分准备。他们一直做得非常出色。……我们在棒球界拥有最低的防御率，这在很大程度上归功于他们。”

这并不是说洋基队在交易截止日不应该引进一名捕手；他们在那个位置以及其他几个位置显然需要进攻方面的帮助。但需要提醒的是，洋基队面临的情况并非简单地

接捕手与投手阵营的联系是巨大加分项

仅仅因为他能更好地挥棒，就引入任何能弄到手的接捕手来接替 Wells。

洋基队的支柱——以及他们 10 月成功路线图的关键——是其轮值投手，因此他们必须小心，避免采取任何可能破坏该领域良好势头的行动。

但目前尚不清楚，在拥有 Wells 和 Sánchez 这两位联盟顶尖接球框架（framing）能力选手的情况下，未来几天实际上会有什么样的接捕手可用。最常与洋基队联系在一起的名字是双城队的 Ryan Jeffers，他是一名出色的框架手，并且与洋基队接捕手指导 Tanner Swanson 有过一些交集。但双城队总经理 Jeremy Zoll 周二告诉记者，他的球队计划在买入——截至周三，他们距离美联最后一个外卡席位仅差半场。这是否只是在摆姿态，可能取决于洋基队为他提供什么条件。

还有落基山的接捕手 Hunter Goodman，但由于他的进攻能力远比防守能力出名，且仍有数年的控制期，可能根本不会被交易。据《邮报》的 Jon Heyman 报道，他们还关注了金莺队左右开弓的接捕手 Adley Rutschman，尽管这位高水平的框架手目前因左腕炎症处于伤病名单（IL）中。

接下来的接捕手层级在进攻端有所下降，不过要下降到 Wells 的水平还有很大的距离。Wells 在周三之前是本赛季大联盟中最糟糕的击球手之一——打击率 .162，OPS .534，而这还是在他之前 11 场比赛中打出打击率 .250 和 OPS .954，并在周三经历了一个 0-for-4 的夜晚之后的结果。

右打的 Sánchez 在有限的样本量中，特别是在面对左投手时表现出色——在 28 次打席中打击率 .333，OPS .876——尽管洋基队仍在尝试寻找能与 Wells 搭配的升级方案。

“我知道他们为了能有高质量的打席而非常努力，他们正在努力完善比赛的这一面，”Fried 说道。“但他们一直做得非常好。”

“这是一个有点残酷的位置，”Cole 补充道。“在攻守两端地扮演角色，无论是身体上还是心理上都充满挑战。所以我们尽可能地给予这些球员关怀。”

出色的 Schlittler 留下了一些遗憾

作者：GREG JOYCE

芝加哥 —— 在周三晚上的大部分时间里，Cam Schlittler 都是不可击败的。

但这位洋基队的右投手在一次原本极佳的先发登板以糟糕的方式结束，并最终在 Rate Field 以 6-5 惨败给白袜队的 12 局比赛后，心中留下了一丝苦涩。

在进入第七局之前，Schlittler 仅允许一名跑者上垒（第四局的一次折棒安打），此时洋基队以 4-0 领先，随后他以满球数保送了村上宗久。他的下一球是一记 98 mph 的沉球，击中了 Miguel Vargas 的手，又过了一个出局数后，Andrew Benintendi 击出了一记沿着右场线的二垒安打，为白袜队得分，并结束了 Schlittler 的登板之夜。

“我认为那次保送很令人沮丧，”Schlittler 在谈到他三场先发中的第一次四球保送时说道。“试图向 Vargas 压近，结果击中了他。所以他们并不是真正地赢得了分，而是我把机会送给他们的。很沮丧。但有时事情就是这样。”

Schlittler 此次三振了八人，并展示了一个更强劲、更锐利的曲球并利用其占据优势，但他也对自己面对 Benintendi 时的用球选择感到后悔，Gerrit Cole 在休息区就此事与他进行了交谈。

“在面对 Benintendi 时摇掉了（拒绝了）一次投球，没能执行好，”Schlittler 说。“如果用 Wells 建议的球，大概会有更多操作空间。那是我的责任。”

► 在过去的几年里，Aaron Boone 强烈要求洋基队收购某些球员，包括 David Bednar 和 Alex Verdugo，两人最终都进入了他的名单。

随着另一个交易截止日期的临近，这位洋基队经理再次向管理层表达他的看法，心中已经有了几个候选名单。

“噢，是的，”他笑着说，当然不愿透露具体名单。

但 Boone 一直与总经理 Brian Cashman 及其助手保持联系，在洋基队试图在周一截止日期前理清哪些球队在出售、哪些球员实际可交易的各种不确定性时，偶尔提供一些“想法”。

“归根结底，管理层为此已经努力工作了数周，甚至数年，在这个过程中你会评估其他组织，评估自己的组织，以便在潜在机会出现时准备好行动，”Boone 说。“他们都在那里 [坦帕] 准备好大干一场，如果有机会出现，就果断出手。”

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在 Emmy Rossum 和 Liz Meriwether 的 Hulu 新剧《Furious》中，女性们不仅仅是在愤怒，她们还在寻求反击。

在《Furious》中，Rossum 饰演 FBI 探员 Alice Black，她曾是一名纽约市警局（NYPD）侦探，目前正在追踪一名专门猎杀权势男性的女性连环杀手（由 Lola Petticrew 饰演）。在 Petticrew 饰演的角色一方，是驱动其杀戮 spree 的积压愤怒；而在 Rossum 饰演的角色一方，则是一段创伤，使她能够挖掘那部分愤怒的储备并追捕嫌疑人。简而言之，这些女性愤怒至极，并且正采取实际行动。

“愤怒是一件很有趣的事情，因为它在社会中确实可能是危险且无益的，尤其是对 Alice 的工作而言。她需要让自己远离那种燥热，但她拥有强大的驱动力。但我认为，她其实没有意识到自己愤怒的程度，并且正开始接纳并理解这种愤怒是如何在一种她起初并未察觉的方式中主导并引领她的，”

Rossum 在告诉 DECIDER 关于如何将这种强烈情感注入表演时说道。“我认为愤怒可能名声不佳，但它背后蕴含着巨大的能量，它可以成为一种连接，也可以激励一场运动。”

虽然对于任何称职的编剧来说，将愤怒作为剧集切入点似乎是非常自然的选择，但这对于以喜剧作品著称的 Meriwether 来说，可能会让人感到困惑。这位《New Girl》和《Single Parents》的创作者在之前的许多项目中可能没有太多撰写纯粹愤怒的经验，但她将其描述为一次释放（尽管略有困难）的体验，让她能够捕捉角色中人性的一面。

“我是一名喜剧编剧；我的意思是，在拍这部剧之前，我主要写的是喜剧。我认为作为一个写喜剧的人，我非常擅长转移注意力。我想我有时利用喜剧来逃避像愤怒这样的情绪，所以写这部剧很有意思，因为我必须在剧本页面上对愤怒感到更自在。甚至不是在现实生活中，而是在撰写愤怒的

场景和情节时。这对我来说既有趣又不舒服，是以一种积极的方式，”Meriwether 说道。Meriwether 表示，在创作过程中，记住愤怒和狂怒不能在真空中存在，以及每个角色都必须经历人性的完整光谱，这确实有所帮助。它还

这部剧。如果答案仅仅是‘让我们一起愤怒吧’，那它就不能成为优秀的电视节目。它在某种程度上探索了愤怒的感觉，以及它是如何困住你的，它是如何让人感觉如此快快，但最终却并不舒适。希望它能挖掘成为受害者的体验，以及这其中是多么复杂混乱，并可能导致一个人走向许多不同的道路，”Meriwether 说道。对于 Rossum 来说，这也让她的角色能将 Petticrew 饰演的角色视为不仅仅是一个走在复仇路上的被抛弃女人或冷酷的杀手。看到一个被伤害和利用的女性在寻求正义——也就是那种‘DIY式’的因果报应——甚至可能让她探索自己如何也能为一件未受惩罚的罪行找到一种补偿感。

“这些女性之间的联系，以及她们之间那种无形的姐妹情之线，当我们意识到她们的相似之处多于不同之处时，这种力量是非常强大的，”Rossum 说道。“事实上，Alice 将开始思考，这个杀手所追求的复仇是否在唤醒她内心深处，以及她为自己而静默追求的正义。”《Furious》的前三集目前正在 Hulu 上线。新剧集于周一发布。

使得该项目能够从一场“黑寡妇式”的猫鼠游戏，转变为一个关于创伤以及任何不处理身体、情感和心理创伤的人可能遭遇的各种情况的故事。“我认为剧中包含很多愤怒，但这并不是唯一的——”

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Fauci invokes
Fifth Amendment
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times, denying
Americans answers
about COVID failures

A defiant Anthony Fauci refused to answer questions from Congress more than 100 times yesterday in a contentious hearing following the release of his pandemic diaries. He dodged queries about the

Wuhan lab, mandatory lockdowns and vaccines alike, saying he was invoking the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination.

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Zo bus vow un'fare' MTA OT mess on Hochul: Bruce

Hedging Sandean

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman railed against incumbent Gov. Hochul over soaring MTA spending — but said he stood by the 'hardworking people' in the transit agency's labor unions after a Post report on rising OT spending.

Blakeman, the Nassau County exec, said the MTA's forecasted budget gaps — estimated at $295 million in 2027 and $507 million in 2028 — should be blamed on Hochul and MTA boss Janno Lieber's management and unchecked spending.

'We don't have a revenue problem; we've got a spending problem,' Blakeman told reporters at a press conference in Penn Station Wednesday, where he arrived via an LIRR train.

A Post report Wednesday showed the MTA is on track this year to blow past its 2025 OT record of nearly $1.5 billion.

The report said nearly 1,000 MTA workers raked in more OT in 2025 than their base salaries.

Blakeman stood by the high-earning LIRR union workers when they went on strike in May — despite being offered a generous 4.5% raise to their already lucrative six-figure base salaries averaging $136,000 per year.

Hochul campaign rep Ryan Radulovacki argued Blakeman was supportive of President Trump's threat to withhold federal funds for faster transit.

'Bruce Blakeman did more than let it happen, he agreed that attacking New York to push MAGA's agenda was the right idea,' Radulovacki said.

A poll released this week by a pro-Blakeman super PAC found him trailing Hochul by only 4 percentage points, though he trails by larger margins in other surveys.

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STOP REQUESTED: MTA chief Janno Lieber urged New Yorkers to pay their fares amid a surge of freeloaders spurred by free-bus pledges.

By HALEY BROWN

MTA boss Janno Lieber blamed Mayor Mamdani's 'free bus' promises for a spike in fare evasion that sent paid ridership plummeting by 7.7% in June.

The MTA CEO didn't mention Mamdani by name Wednesday as he railed against cheapskate riders emboldened by promises of free rides for everyone — calling the decline in paying straphangers 'the reality of fare evasion.'

'There's a trend that broke out,' Lieber told reporters after an MTA board meeting. 'With malice towards none, I say all of the talk of free buses, it has an impact. 'I'm not blaming anyone,' Lieber added. 'But we need to re-establish this.'

MTA documents showed paid monthly ridership down year-over-year for January, May and June in 2026, with no data available for February through April.

In January there were 1.21 million paid weekday rides, down 8.1% from 2025. It plummeted 7.7% last month compared to June 2025, when there were 1.32 million paid riders, — while May saw a 10.4% decline.

Lieber suggested that free-bus promises, like those made by Mamdani, helped normalize the idea that riders don't need to pay. He

urged riders to pay up, implying fare jumpers weren't just folks who couldn't afford the $3 ride.

'For all the people who are on their way to office jobs, who are making a good income, who walk by the bus driver and don't pay . . . you're just passing along the cost to another taxpayer. Somebody's going to have to pay for that ride.'

He added, 'Take responsibility for this precious system. It's a civic responsibility and we're going to have to create a system which feels a little fairer with enforcement to make sure that everybody understands it.'

Mamdani made 'fast and

free buses' a central part of his campaign.

Since taking office, he has continued to tout the plan, citing a 2023 MTA pilot program that saw the agency test out five free routes as a success story.

But the MTA said it cost more than $16.5 million in lost revenue. Lieber has argued that making buses free would be too expensive and that the state-controlled MTA cannot absorb the cost.

Still, he has stopped short of criticizing Mamdani directly.

Mamdani's free-bus idea would cost around $1.1 billion, according to the Independent Budget Office. The MTA has projected deficits of $295 million in 2027, $507 million in 2028, and $707 million in 2029.

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'Once'

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Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard died tragically in a motorcycle crash on Wednesday morning. He was 56.

Hansard, who starred in and won the Oscar for best original song for "Falling Slowly" in the indie film "Once," died in a single-vehicle crash in County Dublin just before 4:30 a.m., according to the Irish Times.

"With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard," the singer's management said in a statement. "We are still dealing with the shock of it all, so we kindly ask that the privacy of Glen's family, colleagues and friends is respected at this difficult time."

Hansard, a married father of one, began his career busking on his native Dublin's streets before finding success with influential Irish band The Frames in 1990. He was half of folk duo The Swell Season with Marketa Irglova, his co-star in 2007's "Once."

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Heiress suit over club's pup 'pamper' rule

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The club cited "sanitation concerns," but Feld contended the pooches had been professionally groomed.

She called the diaper excuse a

cover for alleged discrimination, according to the lawsuit.

Feld "has attended NAC events for approximately 20 years with her service dogs and,

prior to the events described herein, had never received any complaint concerning the dogs," her suit claims. "[It] constituted unlawful disability discrimination."

The club denies her claims and contends her furry friends twice had accidents inside the posh building.

"In the first incident, the dogs soiled club property, which was documented. In a separate incident, detectable noxious orders consistent with the dogs having urinated were reported in the club's private member spaces," the club stated in a press release.

"The National Arts Club denies Ms. Feld's meritless claims."

Feld's lawyer declined to comment.

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DR. FAUCI'S SILENT

STEVEN W. MOSHER

DESPITE being pardoned by President Joe Biden for his COVID crimes, Anthony Fauci pleaded his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.

He refused to answer a single question about his role in pandemic policy before the Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, despite being immune from prosecution.

I think I know why.

Fauci was wrong about everything. From the lab origin of COVID-19 to the China travel ban, from foolish mandatory facemasks to punishing lockdowns, his 'legacy' is one misstep after another.

His authoritarian edicts made things worse, much worse, for Americans than they otherwise would have been.

Fauci had initially dismissed the Wuhan virus in January radio interviews as 'a very, very low risk to the United States.' So it might have been, except for the incredible series of wrong calls that Fauci made in the months following.

These began early in 2020, when President Trump wanted to impose a travel ban. Dr. Fauci vigorously objected to the move, insisting that 'travel bans don't work.'

And so planes from China carrying infected passengers continued to land in New York and other American cities.

Damaging lockdowns

As COVID began its predictable spread in the US, Fauci was suddenly everywhere on the airwaves warning about how contagious and even lethal the coronavirus was.

In March 2020, panicked by a pandemic model from the UK that predicted a viral apocalypse, he recommended that the entire country be shut down indefinitely. He backed a shelter-in-place order for New York City and the closure of schools and 'nonessential'

No defense for legacy of mistakes

small businesses.

These moves denied tens of millions of children an education, put roughly 40 million people out of work and nearly bankrupted the US economy.

The model that Fauci relied upon turned out to be algorithmic garbage, but that didn't stop America's most famous virologist from committing every epidemiological sin in the book.

There was early evidence from geriatric Italy that, while COVID merely gave the young the sniffles, it could be deadly to the elderly. This was shockingly confirmed by New York City's long-term-care centers, whose residents were carted out in coffins by the thousands.

But instead of protecting the vulnerable elderly, as experts like Scott Atlas recommended, Fauci publicly attacked their ideas as 'nonsense and very dangerous.' His solution — a scattershot effort to vaccinate every man, woman and child in America — cost the lives of countless elderly whose lives could have been saved if they had been given priority.

It was clear from the outset that the risk of children dying from COVID-19 was effectively zero, far lower than their risk of dying from the seasonal flu, which is tiny. Yet by early March 2020, Fauci was loudly calling for nationwide school closures.

Closing America's schools did not save lives. But it did have a destructive effect on the

academic performance and the emotional health of children. Many children suffered severe learning losses as they went a year with virtually no schooling or social interaction at all.

Most dangerous 'gain'

Fauci's 'original pandemic sin,' of course, was funding Chinese labs. The long-time head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was the chief cheerleader and funder of 'gain of function' research — the dangerous idea that deadly viruses could be created and studied in the lab to help prevent the next pandemic.

Had the head of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Dr. Shi Zhengli, not been taught these techniques in Fauci-funded labs, she wouldn't have been able to create coronaviruses in her lab. And the world might have been spared the COVID pandemic.

Whether Fauci inadvertently helped to create COVID or not, once it had emerged from Wuhan, he made a bad situation much, much worse.

The truth is, Fauci couldn't have caused any more unnecessary suffering and death in America if he had tried to.

No wonder he doesn't want to answer any questions.

Steven W. Mosher is the author of 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics' and the president of the Population Research Institute.

By JOSH CHRISTENSON, ALLY GOELZ and RYAN KING

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, who became a household name as the ubiquitous mouthpiece of the federal COVID pandemic response, invoked the Fifth Amendment a stunning 111 times Wednesday on Capitol Hill — in what critics are calling a slap in the face to Americans.

During the nationally televised Senate hearing, Fauci, 85, provided zero answers or clarity on his decision-making during one of the most unprecedented times in US history, which left more than 1 million Americans dead and more still reeling from the aftermath.

Instead, the country's leading infectious-disease expert called out Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for an 'obsession with calling for my prosecution' and releasing an 'unredacted personal diary' he kept during the pandemic.

Paul subpoenaed Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to testify on US funding of risky research in Wuhan, China, where COVID-19 originated, and whether his actions led to 'the largest man-made plague in human history.'

In one dramatic moment, Paul ejected Fauci's attorney David Schertler from the hearing room

for ignoring the chairman's repeated warnings not to speak on behalf of the doctor.

Fauci's decision to repeatedly invoke the Fifth Amendment enraged Republican senators who had hoped to grill him about bureaucratic overreach.

It also prompted questions about the limits of former President Joe Biden's sweeping pardon of Fauci before the 46th president left office, which shielded Fauci from possible crimes committed between Jan. 1, 2014, and Jan. 19, 2025.

'Slap in the face'

Republicans led by Paul had expected answers after the publication of Fauci's diary, especially as his private comments, from 2019 to 2021, contradicted public statements he made about COVID's origins and who was responsible for the pandemic lockdowns.

The pandemic claimed the lives of more than 7 million people globally, drove American students' test scores to record lows and cost the US economy trillions.

'Clearly, what you think today is

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Pleads Fifth 111 times in Senate stonewall

QUIET THE CONTRARY: Dr. Anthony Fauci idly listens Wednesday to questions — which he declined to answer — from senators on the Homeland Security Committee, including Josh Hawley (inset), about his handling of the American response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other issues.

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'Contempt' beyond pardon: Rand

Dr. Anthony Fauci's pardon from President Joe Biden won't save him from prosecution for obstructing Congress, Sen. Rand Paul warned Wednesday.

Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, saying he believed Paul (R-Ky.) was trying to entrap him with the goal of throwing him in jail.

The former federal infectious-disease agency chief is no longer protected by Biden's pardon, which only excuses potential illegal acts committed by Fauci between Jan. 1, 2014, and Jan. 19, 2025.

Paul set a committee vote of Aug. 5 to pass a resolution holding Fauci in contempt of Congress for dodging the questions.

"There will be repercussions to your refusal to testify," Paul said. Emily Goodin

that somehow you're above reproach," said Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), before asking audience members to stand up if they were called "racist for calling the virus a 'Wuhan virus' or the 'China virus'; if you thought the six-foot rule was total crap ... if you thought it was outrageous the way the mask policy was rolled out; if you were fired from your job for not taking that vaccine, including members of the military; if you thought closing schools was catastrophically stupid."

Several stood, including Fox

News host Laura Ingraham.

After the hearing, former Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean told The Post that Fauci's invocations of the Fifth Amendment were "another slap in the face" to grieving families. Dean's mother-and father-in-law were among the thousands of seniors who died of COVID in nursing homes.

Fauci was the public face of the pandemic with regular press briefings and interviews — but he clammed up under oath.

"Given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with calling for my

prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, 'behind bars,'" Fauci said at the hearing.

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Five most shocking moments

By JOSH CHRISTENSON

1 Fauci took the Fifth at least 111 times to questions that would have teased out critical information about the origins of the COVID pandemic and US funding for gain-of-function research in China.

In another startling example, Sen. Rand Paul asked Fauci whether the CIA had ever funded NIAID, before the Homeland Security committee chairman revealed later in the hearing that he had obtained documents describing the interagency spending agreement.

He also dodged questions about his former senior adviser David Morens, who pleaded not guilty in May to concealing and destroying federal records.

"Our investigation reveals your assistant diligently reported that she deleted tons of emails in 2024. You testified that you did not delete federal records. Who's telling the truth?" Paul asked at one point.

2 Paul had US Capitol Police escort Fauci's attorney, David Schertler (top right), out of the hearing room following a tense exchange a little more than a half-hour into questioning.

It's unclear if Schertler intended to read from a letter he sent to Paul last month, which was referenced in the hearing by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) — but he repeatedly tried to interject only to be shouted down by the chairman.

"I've said my piece," Schertler told Paul. The letter noted many public statements by Paul threatening to jail Fauci.

Schertler, a prominent defense attorney, has represented Joe Biden's doctor and ex-Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).

3 Several Republicans on the committee used their questioning time to tear into Fauci for pandemic policies.

"There was a mom in Ohio during the depth of the coronavirus pandemic, decided to go to our high school football game for her son," Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) recounted. "They sat

alone, far from everybody else — just a mom, a dad, a few kids ... outside.

"They were dragged out of that stadium and arrested," Moreno fumed. "I said to myself, 'I cannot stand idly on the side and watch this happen.' ... Here I am sitting in front of you six years later saying, who the f-k do you think you were for doing that?"

Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.) drew attention to Fauci's newly released NIAID diaries, which he acknowledged were authentic, noting passages in which he recalled pushing for lockdowns in conversations with then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and President Trump — despite publicly denying he did so. She pressed, "How do you square telling the American people publicly that you didn't recommend locking anything down with your own diary entry?"

4 Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) accused Fauci of using NIAID staff to solicit prize money.

"You were using federal employees ... to apply for and solicit cash prizes for you personally — cash prizes totaling over $1 million," Hawley scolded.

He cited the Adelson Prize, Smithsonian Award, the National Academy of Medicine's award and the CDC Foundation's award, among others.

Fauci, in response, invoked his Fifth Amendment right.

5 Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) revealed that Fauci approved the use of "aborted baby body parts in mice research."

"NIH-funded coronavirus researcher Dr. Ralph Baric and his colleagues at UNC put parts of livers, thymus and chunks of human fetal lung that they got from aborted, almost 5-month-old human babies," Ernst said. "They put those parts in their research mice. They disgustingly named them 'BLT-L' mice, and wrote they had created a 'sandwich of aborted body parts in the mice.'"

Asked by Ernst if he supported this research method, Fauci again declined to answer.

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'Hammer nut's had 53 arrests

Set free again and again . . .

By KEVIN SHEEHAN, JOE MARINO and JORGE FITZ-GIBBON

A career criminal with 53 busts who allegedly chased a 19-year-old woman into a Queens Jewish school this week has repeatedly been cut loose without bail because of the state's 2020 criminal-justice reforms.

Shaleek Brunson, 42, was hit Wednesday with assault, menacing, burglary and weapons charges for the incident at the Jewish Institute of Queens in Elmhurst, but none of those raps is bail-eligible, meaning he could just be cut loose again.

Police allege a hammer-wielding Brunson followed the victim, a stranger, before she ran into the school Tuesday morning. He scuffled with a security guard there before he was taken into custody.

Brunson had just been arrested Friday in Manhattan in the theft of $1,300 of items from Bergdorf Goodman. In that case, he was charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property but released without bail at his arraignment Sunday.

On July 10, he was charged with petty larceny in Queens for an in-

cident two days earlier, and referred to an alternative intervention program, but also released without bail.

He was already facing charges of petty larceny and possession of stolen property from another Queens incident in April, according to court records.

Brunson had an additional two dozen busts that have since been sealed, law-enforcement sources said.

Sources said he has past ties to a gang from the Louis Pink Houses in Brooklyn and a long history of mental-health-related episodes.

Sources said his rap sheet also includes a 2025 robbery arrest, the details of which weren't available.

Brunson was hospitalized after his arrest Tuesday, and his arraignment in Queens Criminal Court remained pending Wednesday.

In that incident, cops said Brunson started following the woman at Hoffman Drive and Woodhaven Boulevard at around 10:50 a.m.

Motive unknown

He allegedly followed her inside, where he got into a struggle with the guard, resulting in an 8-year-old boy being knocked to

2ND BUST IN A WEEK: Police stand guard over Shaleek Brunson (below left and in mugshot) Tuesday after he allegedly held a hammer (below right, bagged as evidence) while chasing a woman in Queens.

the ground and hitting his head, police said.

Cops have not revealed what prompted him to follow the woman.

Sources said the woman is not Jewish and a rep for Queens Shmira, a nonprofit public safety patrol, said they could "confirm that this incident was not a hate crime."

City Councilman Phil Wong, who represents the neighborhood, said Tuesday that he was grateful no one was seriously hurt.

"I am praying for the injured child, the . . . woman who sought refuge and everyone impacted by this incident," Wong said.

Additional reporting by Kyle Schnitzer

Judge gives temple rammer break

A disturbed man who rammed his car into an iconic Brooklyn synagogue will get out of lockup within the week, a federal judge decided Wednesday — as he slammed prosecutors for requesting a harsher sentence based on a "misunderstanding" that

the terrifying episode was a hate crime.

Brooklyn federal Judge Eric Vitaliano ripped the US Department of Justice for seeking a 14-month sentence for mentally ill New Jersey resident Dan Sohail, 36, as a supposed deterrent to others from committing

antisemitic crimes.

"A property crime is what was charged here. Not a hate crime," Vitaliano railed during Sohail's sentencing hearing.

Federal sentencing guidelines for such a charge, a first-offense property crime, land at around six

months in prison.

Sohail has already spent six months in jail after being arrested Jan. 28 in the aftermath of the crash at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.

The sentence of time served, plus seven days, means Sohail will likely be released from custody at some point in the next week.

The crash caused $19,000 in property damage, which Sohail was ordered to pay back. Ben Kochman

Teen e-biker killed

A 17-year-old e-bike rider died when he rammed into a moving SUV near City Hall during Wednesday's morning rush, police said.

Gabriel Nacato, of Brooklyn, was pedaling north-bound on Centre Street near the busy Chambers Street intersection just before 9 a.m. when he veered out of the bike lane and into the vehicular lane, authorities said.

That's when Nacato slammed into the 2008 black Chevrolet Tahoe heading in the same direction, cops and law-enforcement sources said.

Responding EMS workers pronounced him dead at the scene, which is also blocks from NYPD headquarters and the lower Manhattan courthouses.

The driver of the Tahoe, a 40-year-old woman, stayed at the scene and wasn't facing any charges, cops said.

The mortally wounded e-biker was carrying a school ID when he was discovered, and had no alcohol or drugs in his system, the sources said. The NYPD's Collision Investigation Squad was probing the incident.

The crash happened steps from the Brooklyn Bridge exit ramp into the buzzing Civic Center area.

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Search for quake vics

Rescuers frantically searched for survivors Wednesday, a day after a 71-magnitude earthquake shook southern Japan, killing at least 13 people, knocking out power to thousands of homes and rupturing roads across the region.

Eight people were pulled from the rubble of a partially collapsed shopping mall near the city of Kumamoto that was torn apart by an explosion just over an hour after Tuesday's earthquake. Of them, three died.

"There are people waiting to be rescued, and this is a race against time," Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told reporters. Reuters

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Katy's fans have her all bottled up

Katy Perry got carried away — by her fans — during a concert on Malta.

In a "Spinal Tap"-esque moment, the pop star was temporarily stranded inside a giant inflatable water bottle lifted by thousands of people in the audience during her headlining Isle of MTV music festival performance on July 22.

While singing her 2008 hit "I Kissed a Girl," Perry entered the inflatable as it passed through the crowd. The stunt quickly turned into chaos, however, as fans moved her toward the back of the crowd, instead of the intended direction of a giant straw near the stage.

"Get me to that straw!" Perry yelled to the

crowd as the bottle continued to drift in the wrong direction. "Come on, keep it going!" the singer pleaded. "Go back to the stage! Oh, my God!"

Eventually, she was moved to the stage and continued the concert.

"Thank you for getting me back," she told fans. Jolie Zenna

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Secrets of soda

Don't be surprised if your next Coke or Pepsi comes with something extra on the can.

The nation's biggest beverage companies are quietly adding QR codes to their packaging, allowing shoppers to scan for more information about the ingredients in their drinks. The codes do not replace Nutrition Facts labels.

The effort, led by the American Beverage Association, includes brands from the Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo and Polar Beverages. Scanning the code takes consumers to a website called Good to Know, which explains more than 140 ingredients commonly found in beverages. Adam Silverstein

THE BIGGER LOSERS

By RACHEL SACKS

It's a battle of the sexes. Women lose more pounds on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs than men, new research shows.

In a study of 1,000 patients, women lost significantly more weight than men after using the drug Mounjaro for more than a year.

Researchers measured the percentage of total body weight lost across three age groups, split by gender: adults under 45, those between 46 and 59 and those 60 and older.

After 15 months of continuous treatment, women had lost 15% of their body weight, compared with nearly 11% for men.

Researchers also examined other factors that could affect the amount of weight lost.

Women on GLP-1s shed more than men

While participants under 45 did lose more weight than those over 60 — 15% in the younger group compared with 12% — age was not the strongest predictor of results.

Women challenged

In addition to being female, greater weight loss was seen in people who didn't have Type 2 diabetes, had never used a weight-loss medication before and took a higher dose of tirzepatide.

Women have historically had a

tougher time losing weight due to lower muscle mass, hormonal shifts and differences in how the body stores fat, among other reasons.

However, other studies have also found that women tend to lose more weight than men on GLP-1s, the class of medications that includes tirzepatide and Ozempic.

In a meta-analysis of nearly 20,000 people taking drugs such as semaglutide and dulaglutide, women lost about 11% of their body weight, compared with about 7% for their male counterparts.

Once again, the researchers compared factors that could influence weight loss, including age, race, ethnicity and body mass index, and found that gender was the factor associated with the largest difference.

There are a few theories as to why women appear to have vastly different results.

One centers on how women's bodies clear the drug from the bloodstream more slowly than men's. Hormones may also enhance GLP-1 effects, particularly estrogen, which helps regulate appetite, fullness, energy use and insulin sensitivity.

And the benefits of Mounjaro for women may extend beyond shrinking waistlines.

Other studies have also found that women taking GLP-1 drugs may be less likely to develop breast cancer.

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LADIES MAN: The Thirty Seconds to Mars singer looks the part of cult leader in August 2020 at a wellness retreat for the band's fans on the private island of Obonjan, Croatia.

Thirty Seconds to Mars

Weird 'cult' retreat on private isle

By AUDREY ROCK

Years before Jared Leto's sexual-assault scandal — which has culminated in four women accusing the Oscar winner of sexual improprieties while they were teens in a new BBC documentary — he was also accused of heading a seeming 'cult.'

In August 2020, the Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman headed up a wellness retreat at 'Mars Island' — ostensibly for members of his band's fan base, which is dubbed The Echelon — on the private, uninhabited island of Obonjan, Croatia.

At the alcohol-free retreat, attendees were said to have swam, sunbathed, walked on the beach and practiced yoga, all while celebrating their regard for the 'Dallas Buyers Club' actor and his band.

But according to Air Mail — which in 2025 published accounts of sexual improprieties allegedly committed by Leto toward nine women, all of which he denied — the mostly female attendees also 'meditated, chanted and lounged barefoot in caftans alongside Leto.'

Though the 'House of Gucci' star's band called it a 'spiritual retreat,' the overall vibe of the festival drew widespread comparisons to a cult.

Speculation reached a high after the 'Requiem for a

Dream' star, now 54, was spotted in a photo standing on a cliff with his arms raised — his fans standing below him, with their arms also outstretched.

Other images shared to social media showed fans sitting on the floor listening to Leto, seated on a stool, speak to them. 'Yes, this is a cult,' a 2019 tweet posted by Thirty Seconds to Mars read, adding the hashtag, '#MarsIsland.'

Malibu 'Camp Mars'

In multiple images, both Leto and his fans wore white as they navigated the immersive three-day retreat, which was said to have cost over $6,499 to attend.

Prior to Mars Island, Thirty Seconds to Mars also launched an adults-only event in Malibu, Calif., in 2015 dubbed 'Camp Mars' — a weekend fan retreat filled with campfires, archery, hiking and music that culminated in nightly 'Church of Mars' concerts. Camp Mars had its final event in 2019.

Although the events have raised eyebrows, according to L'Officiel, the band had leaned into the 'cult' image by 'playing on journalists telling them that they have a 'cult following.'

In fact, Leto was spotted in an image, seemingly taken at Mars Island in 2019, wearing a shirt reading 'This is a Cult.'

4 ACCUSE

By ADAM SILVERSTEIN

Jared Leto has been accused of sexual misconduct by four women who allege the acts took place when they were teenagers.

The allegations are detailed in the new BBC documentary 'Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret' and stem from alleged encounters with the Oscar winner between 2002 and 2016, when he was in his 30s and 40s, the BBC reported.

The four women, who were between the ages of 16 and 19 at the time of the alleged assaults, are identified in the documentary as 'Isabel,' 'Alex,' 'Clara' and 'Etta,' though those are not their real names.

'Isabel' alleged that the 'Dallas Buyers Club' star, now 54, sexually assaulted her in a motel bathroom when she was 17 in 2002.

'Clara' alleged she had sex with Leto in 2006 when she was 17 in California, where the age of consent is 18.

She claimed Leto 'shrugged off' a conversation about the state's age of consent.

As for 'Alex,' she claimed the 'Suicide Squad' actor threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19 after she was unexpectedly left alone with him in a hotel room in 2013.

'Etta' further alleged Leto groomed her a year later, when she was 16, by making repeated sexually explicit phone calls and suggesting on at least one occasion that they should have sex.

Two years later, 'Etta' claimed she had received a nondisclosure agreement intended to prevent her from discussing their relationship, but she refused to sign it. The BBC said it reviewed the document.

Backstage with band

Four other women alleged they received unusual and often sexually explicit phone calls from Leto when they were younger.

Another woman, who was named 'Taylor' in the documentary, alleged Leto instructed a security guard to take her backstage at a music festival when she was 14 after making a sexual comment about her chest during an autograph signing. She claimed her mom confronted him, but he repeated the remark.

'This was 25 years ago ... he has gotten away with it,' one accuser said in the documentary.

The BBC said it corroborated a

Actor 'sexual misconduct' alleged in doc

'ALEX'

A former model, she alleged that Leto threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19 after she was unexpectedly left alone with him in a hotel room in 2013.

She claimed she went to Leto's band's concert in London and then was invited to an after-party by his female assistant.

'Alex' alleged that she lied that she was 17, to which Leto, then 41, allegedly replied, 'Age is just a member, and anyway we're in Europe.'

After the party, 'Alex' was allegedly encouraged to go to a nearby hotel by one of Leto's

assistants. When she arrived, she was surprised to see Leto alone in the 'really dark' room.

Leto, according to 'Alex,' refused to give her a phone charger or cash so she could get home. She then asked Leto if she could sleep on the chaise longue in the room, but Leto allegedly told her if she did that she'd wake up 'with a d-k in her a-...'

After Leto allegedly made that comment multiple times, 'Alex' said she realized she 'was not safe' and fled the room.

'Alex' told the BBC she thinks the hotel encounter was 'all planned out.'

number of the women's accounts through friends and family members they spoke to at the time, as well as photographs, messages and other supporting material.

The documentary also features two men who worked with Leto's band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, for years.

They claimed staff was uncomfortable with the actor's interactions with teenage girls, al-

leging he sometimes invited them backstage to his dressing room or to the house where he was recording. 'I think everyone thought the age gap was way too big,' one former staffer claimed.

When asked for comment on the new claims, Leto told Page Six in a statement, 'I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false.'

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TEEN-LOVIN' LETO

Accusations against actor and musician Jared Leto by women in a BBC documentary range from simply creepy behavior to intimidation and ignoring the age of consent.

'ISABEL'

Claimed she was sexually assaulted by Leto in 2002 when she was 17.

After meeting at a Las Vegas store where "Isabel" was working, Leto allegedly invited her over to a "dingy gross motel," where the "Panic Room" star allegedly called her into the bathroom to talk while he showered.

"I don't think there was many words exchanged and he opened the shower curtain and started kissing me," "Isabel" explained, claiming Leto then grabbed her hand and used it to masturbate himself.

"Isabel" further alleged that when she told Leto she wanted to leave, he put on a towel and checked outside the room to see if anyone was around before letting her go.

'CLARA'

Claims she was 17 when she met Leto, then 34, in 2006 at one of his Thirty Seconds to Mars concerts. One of the singer's associates allegedly got her phone number for Leto.

After the concert, "Clara" and Leto allegedly went back to his house in California and had sex while her friend waited in another room.

"He told me, 'I would like you to call me daddy,'" she claimed in the documentary. "And it was either pretend to be a little girl or 'my little girl.''

"Clara" claimed she was "so naive and vulnerable" in the moment and didn't realize that Leto's behavior was not "normal." "It was only as time went on that I realized more and more how scary that really was," she added. "Clara" also claimed that the "Fight Club" star "shrugged off" a conversation about California's age of consent.

"It wasn't a huge concern for him," she alleged, adding, "There is no well-adjusted man in his 30s who's going to look at a teenager and think . . . 'she would be a great partner.''

"Clara" claimed she visited Leto's home three or four times total.

that have surfaced against Leto over the years.

'Constantly texting'

Last year, Los Angeles DJ Allie Teilz alleged on social media that Leto assaulted her when she was 17, prompting other women to come forward with similar claims.

Nine women accused Leto of sexual impropriety in an article

published by Air Mail in June 2025. Leto denied the allegations.

The Post reported in September 2005 that Leto was "hitting on all" the teen models at New York City's Maritime Hotel and "constantly texting these other 16- and 17-year-old girls."

Leto has been a prominent Hollywood actor since the 1990s, winning an Academy Award as supporting actor for "Dallas

Buyers Club" in 2014 and most recently starring in "Masters of the Universe."

He formed the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars in LA in 1998, and the group has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide.

If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.

GETTING SERIOUS: Movie star Jared Leto, who starred in 2016's "Suicide Squad" as the Joker (above), is facing allegations of sexual misconduct by women who said they were teens at the time.

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THE BATTLE FOR IRAN

SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH IRAN: Chinese troops show off high-tech shoulder-fired missiles like those reportedly headed to Iran.

By CHRIS NESI

Iran is poised to receive its first shipment of shoulder-fired missile launchers from China amid the escalating war with the US — which is now in its sixth month.

The $60-$70 million deal, first reported by Reuters, is one of the regime's most high-profile efforts to boost its short-range air defenses since war broke out in February, laying bare its inability to defend military sites and strategic infrastructure against aerial bombardments by the US and Israel.

The contract will see between 300 and 400 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), complete with Chinese-made QW-12 and FN-16 missiles, delivered to Tehran in the coming weeks, sources told the outlet.

China was quick to downplay news of the deal, its foreign ministry dismissing the report as

Heavy 'toll' of war

The Iran-backed Houthi terror group is considering copying Iran's Strait of Hormuz toll scheme and imposing fees on ships sailing through the southern Red Sea, according to people with knowledge on the matter.

The Yemen-based rebel group is looking to extend Iran's control on tanker traffic and global fuel supplies in the

region by seizing full control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which links the southern Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden, sources told Reuters.

The plan was allegedly put together after Houthi officials traveled to Iran earlier this month during the cease-fire to attend the funeral of slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ronny Reyes

'completely groundless' and insisting the nation 'has consistently played a role in promoting peace and ending the conflict.'

Iran's foreign ministry did not respond to Reuters' request for comment.

After months of war, which has seen Israel and the US relentlessly pummel Iran's missile, drone and air-defense sites, Tehran finds itself badly in need of rearming.

The delivery of Chinese-made

missile launchers would significantly boost Iran's military, and highlight the unnerving depth of the nations' military ties.

Reuters sources said the deliveries will be routed through Pakistan.

However, Pakistan's military public relations wing denied any involvement, saying, 'Speculations of Pakistan being involved in supply of air defense weapons to Iran from China are absolutely concocted and false.'

President Trump on Saturday announced the US would pause airstrikes against Iran, but told reporters full-scale war could return 'if we don't get 100% of what we want' in the negotiations.

Iranian officials have publicly pushed back against US pressure while divisions persist inside Tehran over whether diplomacy or confrontation is the best path forward.

Trump strikes back at Tehran

President Trump made good on his vow Wednesday to 'beat the f-king s-t out of' Iran in response to a surprise missile attack by the Islamic Republic targeting US troops stationed in Jordan.

'We'll be hitting them hard,' Trump told Fox News chief foreign affairs correspondent Trey Yingst in a brief interview early Wednesday. 'They're going to get a beating.'

At 8 p.m., US forces followed through — launching 'a heavy wave of strikes against Iran' lasting two

hours, US Central Command announced on X.

'CENTCOM assets struck dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran, including military command centers, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defense sites, and maritime capabilities,' the combatant command said in a statement.

At least two people were injured in attacks on the island of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian

state media.

The latest strikes came after the US and Saudi Arabia already launched joint strikes on Iran-aligned terrorists in Iraq Tuesday following the attempted ambush.

Trump had doubled down on his threat ahead of the mission, saying it was the US's turn to strike back and that Iran needed to be smacked around a bit.

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Don, Bibi plot next moves

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday focused on 'big three' options for ending the war with Iran on Wednesday, coming up with new ideas — such as cutting off Iran's trade by ground — in a 'clinical' conversation, senior Israeli officials said.

'There are usually a lot more jokes. The president is usually a lot more jovial,' one Israeli official who was in the room for the discussion told reporters on Wednesday. 'This was a very, very serious conversation — cerebral.'

The leaders focused on three lines of strategy to end Iran's nuclear program and push it to reopen the Strait of Hormuz: getting a good deal, tightening the economic noose around Tehran and expanding the military campaign.

Netanyahu 'did not tell the president' which to choose, and no decisions were made on which path Trump would take, a separate senior Israeli official said.

'The value of what we did ... is I think we added some new ideas,' the person said. Caitlin Doornbos

Running out of Patriots

The US has used up two-thirds of its Patriot missile interceptors since the Iran war started, and the drone and missile strikes in the region are further depleting them, according to a report.

Prior to the war, the US had more than 2,700 missiles for the Patriot and anti-ballistic THAAD systems. As of Monday, the supply is fewer than 1,000, the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank said.

While America's interception rate has been nearly perfect, several Iranian attacks have broken through, with the CSIS warning that diminishing stockpiles may put US soldiers and military bases at risk. Ronny Reyes, With Wires

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JOSH FELKER Meta worker "sexted teen."

Grassley reams out Zuck

Sen. Chuck Grassley is demanding answers from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg after a former company engineer who created "digital experiences for kids" admitted on camera he tried to sext a 13-year-old.

Grassley (R-Iowa), who serves as the Senate's president pro tempore, sent a scathing letter to the Facebook founder after the disturbing confession of engineering manager Josh Felker, who was caught in an undercover sting by Predator Poachers Long Island.

Felker, 44, who was placed on leave from the Facebook parent company, was arrested on July 15 after admitting to the group in a now-viral video that he was grooming and sexting a "teen girl" — who doesn't exist.

"These allegations raise significant questions regarding Meta's internal governance, employee screening, trust and safety culture, and controls for employees," Grassley wrote in the letter, referencing The Post's exclusive reporting on the sting.

"They also raise questions about Meta's processes for identifying, investigating, and responding to employee misconduct," the letter added. Brandon Cruz

By PRISCILLA DeGREGORY and GEORGIA WORRELL

Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy sobbed repeatedly Wednesday as prosecutors showed the PJs that her three young children wearing when she killed them — and then played the harrowing 911 call her husband made after coming home to tragedy, begging her at one point, "Where are the kids, Lindsay?"

The second day of the trial included the end of husband Patrick Clancy's testimony, as well as gut-wrenching evidence that stunned the courtroom into silence and had even a veteran journalist calling it "truly one of the worst things I've heard in my 43-year career."

Lindsay is pleading insanity and arguing she was suffering postpartum psychosis, for which she never got adequate treatment, when she killed her kids. Prosecutors say her actions betray a calculated killer.

Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague presented the tiny clothing as well as three exercise bands Clancy used to fatally strangle 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan at their Boston area home in January 2023.

Clancy, meanwhile, appeared to turn her head away from cameras and dab her eyes with a tissue during the display.

Patrick Clancy's frantic 911 call was also played for the jury — though only the people in the courtroom heard the harrowing recording after Judge William Sullivan approved Patrick's request for it to not be broadcast to the public last week.

'Where are the kids?'

The father could be heard pleading with his wife to tell him what happened to their children.

"Where are the kids, Lindsay?" Patrick could be heard asking her during the call. "Did you fall out the window, Lindsay? Did you fall? Is there something on your neck, Lindsay?"

Patrick had come home from running errands to find the house deathly quiet. He discovered his wife, a labor-and-delivery nurse, on her back in their backyard, below the second-floor bedroom window from which she threw herself in a suicide attempt. Her wrists and neck were cut and bloodied.

SLAIN KIDS' PJS TRAUMA

He then ran inside to find the children strangled in the basement as first responders were arriving.

Patrick could then be heard screaming and saying he needed help in the basement.

"She killed the kids!" he yelled during the call.

Lindsay was sobbing audibly as the call was played and continued

to cry as she was wheeled out of the courtroom for a break.

Earlier during Patrick's testimony, he described returning after picking up a medication and take-out at a restaurant on the evening of Jan. 24, 2024. "The house was really quiet," he said.

Patrick called down to the basement and no one answered, so he

went upstairs thinking the kids were being bathed — but he still didn't find anyone.

He went to his and Lindsay's bedroom but the door was locked, which was when "I knew something was wrong," he testified.

The dad unlocked the room with a key and saw "blood everywhere" and the window open.

Boeing bumpy skies on Air Force One $22B 'Dull'es rebuild

Boeing announced during an earnings call Tuesday it recently took another massive financial hit as it works to deliver two new Air Force One presidential planes.

The aircraft maker reported an additional $280 million loss related to the long-delayed project —

for which cost overruns now exceed $3 billion.

"While the charge is disappointing, we recognize how critical schedule performance is to our customer and we are investing accordingly to maintain our commitment to deliver the airplane in 2028," Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said.

He attributed the latest loss to the company's decision to "add significant resources to support the build and test schedule" of the two military versions of the Boeing 747, which he said would "help mitigate potential risk during certification and flight test."

Under the terms of the

$3.9 billion contract President Trump inked with Boeing in 2018, the defense contractor is responsible for all cost overruns related to the project.

The company now expects to deliver the first aircraft in "mid-2028" and the second by "mid-2029."

Victor Nava

WASHINGTON — President Trump announced a $22.5 billion overhaul of Dulles International Airport, including the removal of "Star Wars"-like people movers.

"[It's] long overdue renovation and reconstruction of Washington's really horribly-thought-of Dulles International Airport," the president said.

Trump has long disparaged the dated airport 20 miles from DC, particularly the people movers.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said they look "like it's from Star Wars . . . and they're slow."

The project will be paid for through a series of bonds and by the airlines.

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Zo won't keep me out: Bibi

ZO DISMISSES

By MATTHEW FISCHETTI,
CARL CAMPANILE, CRAIG
McCARTHY and CHRIS NESI

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday vowed to visit New York in September despite 'hate-spewing' Mayor Mamdani's call for his arrest for alleged war crimes in Gaza.

'First of all, I'm going to New York,' Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, when asked about Mamdani declaring last week that Netanyahu's 'not welcome' in the Big Apple because of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in 2024.

'I'm definitely going there,' the Israeli prime minister said. 'I'm going to speak the truth in front of this hate-spewing elected official who's pitting one group of New Yorkers against the others.'

Netanyahu specifically accused Mamdani of turning his supporters 'against New York Jews.'

'I mean, what are we in the 1930s?' he added. 'You know, so much hate, so many lies, and you know the big lie is about the ICC... that's a corrupt, evil organization.'

Mamdani in a July 21 video admitted he doesn't have the legal authority to arrest Netanyahu should he visit New York — but slammed him as an unwelcome 'war criminal.' Victor Nava

Actress: Ban Mam on 9/11

Actress Patricia Heaton, who was in New York City during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, joined families of the victims in calling for Mayor Mamdani to be banned from the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero.

The 'Everybody Loves Raymond' star, 68, backed the petition organized by families of 9/11 victims, which has amassed almost 45,000 signatures as of Wednesday, to her more than 500,000 followers on X.

'Keep it going New Yorkers,' the conservative actress applauded on Monday, while reposting the Change.org petition link.

Heaton's post included a screenshot of a comment left on the petition by a family member who lost their brother in the terror attacks. Ella Morrison

Mayor Mamdani blew off concerns Wednesday from New Yorkers who argue they're being wrongly targeted by the state's new pied-à-terre tax — which Hizzoner claimed for months would only hit wealthy out-of-towners.

Questions have been swirling about how exactly the city determined who would be subject to the newly approved tax, though neither Mamdani nor city Department of Finance Commissioner Richard Lee could provide straight answers.

The mayor had repeatedly insisted only rich owners of secondary homes in New York City would get squeezed by the surcharge, but some full-time residents have cried foul after the DOF mailed them a notice that they 'may' be on the hook for an additional five-figure tax bill.

At an unrelated press conference, reporters pressed Mamdani and Lee on whether the DOF should have been more diligent in vetting its mailing list before sending out potentially erroneous notices to longtime locals.

'What I would say is the Department of Finance identified homes that may be subject to the surcharge, as we know this is a surcharge on nonprimary residences that are worth more than $5 million,' the mayor said, essentially just reiterating the terms of the new tax.

Bureaucratic nightmare

'As required by the law, the Department of Finance sent informational resources to homeowners to ensure that they understood the tax, that they understood the options before them, and also if they did not believe it to apply to them, that they had the time in order to be able to appeal,' he said.

But New Yorkers who believe they are being wrongly charged now have to go through what some have described as a bureaucratic nightmare to appeal the decision — and prove the DOF wrong — by Aug. 21.

Mamdani did not respond when asked later 'why should New Yorkers be tasked with fixing this?' He instead choose to only address another part of that re-

PIED À 'WHAT?'

Mayor Mamdani showed no sympathy for ineligible middle-class homeowners hit with pied-à-terre tax notices. The onerous second-home tax was passed into law by Gov. Hochul.

Shrugs at bad pied notices

When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to

porter's question, about a searchable database the DOF posted of hundreds of thousands of properties, including the addresses and owners' names, that could be subject to the tax.

Posting the 'supplemental tax roll' was required under state law, Mamdani claimed.

DOF leader Lee didn't fare much better in offering an explanation as to how massive tax bills

landed in the mailboxes of some everyday New Yorkers.

The tax is meant to apply to one- to three-family homes worth at least $5 million and co-ops and condominiums valued at $1 million or more — that are unoccupied, nonprimary residences, according to legislation approved by Albany lawmakers and Gov. Hochul this spring.

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TARGET PRACTICE

Maze to navigate

ZACHARY KUSSIN

Yes, I am a Manhattan homeowner and, yes, I live in the city full-time — and, yes, my condo is worth a fraction of what will be subject to Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax.

Still, with the city's release of the list of properties potentially subject to the levy — documents that totaled hundreds of thousands of names and addresses, a good number of which aren't even second homes — I decided to find out how complicated the city makes it to apply for an "exemption" to the "surcharge," as they so euphemistically phrase it.

If you're a homeowner who has to go through this, I'm sorry. You're going to be tied up in a number of micromanaged directions spread across multiple websites that don't answer many questions at all. It's off-putting and exhausting to the point of making you want to give up.

It all begins with a four-prompt questionnaire.

Among the questions: "Do you use this property as your primary residence?" and "Is the property owned by an LLC, partnership, or corporation and used as a primary residence by one or more individuals who collectively hold a majority interest, or the immediate family mem-

ber of such individuals?" The middle two questions ask whether a renter uses this home as a primary residence, or if an immediate family member does.

For those who answer yes for that first question, the city — according to the eligibility guide on the "property surcharge" webpage — then requires submission of the most recently filed federal or state tax return to show proof of residence. If there are no tax returns available, the site notes the owner will have to provide other proof of residence, like a driver's license.

The city provides no immediate indication as to how long it will take them to respond — or what the penalties are for not paying up.

If a respondent answers no to all four questions, meaning the city classifies the home as a pied-à-terre, the city then directs the site users to pay the tax on CityPay. Of course, it's not all black and white. What if the home is in probate? What if a local is living in a nursing home? None of those options is available to click. And here's the headache for primary homeowning residents: more and more websites and directions.

Exemption applications are due on Aug. 21 for residential homes — such as townhouses and condos — and Aug. 24 for co-ops. Even that may not be enough time to keep the list of websites and log-in portals organized.

"It could have been that we don't have updated information on the applications, filings, the exemptions, but we did use all the available information that we had in order to determine the residency status," Lee said.

When pressed on why New Yorkers should be saddled with the task of fixing the city's mix-up, Lee confusingly deflected, saying the department

had its hands tied by state law requiring property rolls be released twice a year for public inspection.

Neither Mamdani nor his finance department head could say how many notices had been sent out. But City Hall later said the number was 17,000, more than the 10,000-13,000 nonprimary residences that government officials had estimated would be subject to the surcharge.

Biz leader's done being nice with 'dangerous' customer Mamdani

NEW York City business leaders aren't inclined to go to war with Zohran Mamdani — but his latest stunt surrounding the controversial pied-à-terre tax is forcing them to reconsider, On The Money has learned.

This week, our Marxist mayor released the names of taxpayers being subjected to his idiotic levy on owners of apartments worth $5 million or more that are not their primary residences. It's idiotic because these wealthy out-of-state residents don't use our services but nevertheless already pay plenty of state and city taxes — the lion's share in fact. They might decide to buy a place in Boca instead.

It also reeks of the dark and hate-fueled side of Marxist class warfare. Mamdani has created an "enemies list" of rich people he thinks should be paying more taxes — despite the fact they're paying plenty.

Dangerous rhetoric

It's a taste of Lenin and Mao, a public shaming exercise to give his base of DSA loons some red meat while people whose names appear must explain to City Hall why they shouldn't fall into this vortex.

It's also dangerous, according to the business people I spoke to who don't want their names published. When they saw the headlines about "the list," some instantly thought about Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO who was murdered al-

legedly by a radicalized nut named Luigi Mangione.

Steve Fulop, president of the city's largest business advocacy group, the Partnership for New York City, has been at his wit's end dealing with the demonization of business people and upper-income New Yorkers — who pay most of the taxes here to fund the expansive welfare state Mamdani is constructing.

He's been trying to engage with the mayor and his people, but with the "enemies list" news, he seemed literally resigned to the fact that this is a City Hall that needs to be confronted rather than cajoled.

Accordingly, Fulop is putting together a plan for action. Let's just say it involves building support to elect office holders who will oppose the DSA.

Fulop reminds me that the last target of Mamdani's class warfare campaign surrounding this tax — Ken Griffin, the billionaire head of the Citadel investment empire who was front and center in a "creepy" Mamdani video touting the tax a few months back — can afford 24-7 private security. Most of those who made Mamdani's list may have some means, but they are far from super-rich, and now they're on their own.

"This is a mistake, and a dangerous precedent," Fulop said. "Publishing names and addresses singles out people who have done nothing wrong, at a moment when the far left already treats success itself as something to be punished. Most of the people on that list aren't billionaires

by any stretch — they're people that believed in NYC, worked hard and bought a second home. All this does is make people feel less safe in their own city and less welcome in it."

One mainstream Democratic political adviser who believes Mamdani and his radical chic pals will lead the party to ruin says her friends in the business elite are scared and rightfully so. "[Mamdani] is paving the way for a future Luigi psychopath," she told me.

Hey, focus on the city

Of course, this one act of stupidity isn't really the point; it's an accumulation of cultural Marxism and Third-Worldism that emanates from an office that is supposed to be in charge primarily of educating kids, picking up garbage and keeping the streets safe.

One day, our 34-year-old mayor is refusing to disavow the leftist rallying call "Globalize the Intifada" that aims to eliminate Israel from the face of the earth. The next, he's musing about arresting Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for "war crimes" a k a defending his country against Hamas terrorists and forgetting about something known as "diplomatic immunity."

Then there's the economic Marxism: His government grocery store boondoggle won't stop rich people from shopping at Whole Foods, but it will likely put a lot of mom-and-pop bodegas out of business. Guess who pays for the subsidies in a city that already doles out lots to the poor? The working and middle class.

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Tyler Hill Camp

Vomit bug hits pricey kids camps

By KYRA BRESLIN

Oh, bar! Parents who shelled out tens of thousands of dollars to send their children to camp this summer received shocking news from the front this week — several pricey sleepaway spots in the Poconos and Catskills were spiraling after a nasty stomach bug swept through the secluded sites, sending kiddies and counselors legging it to the latrines. Families routinely spend roughly $19,000 per child, per year, for seven weeks of waterskiing, lifelong friendships and championship games. But nobody budgets for projectile vomiting. The final two weeks each summer are supposed to be about color war — not sanitation wars. Frustrated parents who spoke to The Post anonymously, allege the outbreak began at Tyler Hill, a 7-week-long camp in Wayne County, Pa., shortly after visiting

day in mid-July. The camp, which is home to nearly 500 campers from June to August charges $18,475 for a summer season. “I’ve been told somewhere in the realm of half the camp has gotten it,” one parent told The Post. “They ran out of beds in the health center; they ran out of toilets to throw up in.” Nothing bonds East Coast camp parents quite like a crisis. Screenshots of camp emails and text chains circulated faster than the stomach bug itself. Reports of bunkhouses being thrown into chaos. Infirmaries oversubscribed. And some campers are fleeing the scene to recover back at home. Drama bomb But what might normally have stayed confined to whispered parent group chats has instead exploded into a full-blown sleepaway-camp scandal. Anonymous Insta-

gram accounts devoted to camp gossip have posted tips, turning the ugly event into arguably the biggest drama of the summer. Andy Siegel, the owner of Tyler Hill, sent an email to parents, assuring them that the illness had generally run its course within 24 to 36 hours after he fell ill himself — but would “not recommend firsthand research.” The camp’s director even tried to inject a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor into the situation by declaring it felt like the camp had survived “the fifth plague of 2026,” after battling heat, rain, Canadian wildfire smoke and the diarrhea lettuce scare. “And apparently,” he wrote, “it was a stomach bug.” Timber Lake Camp, located in the nearby Catskills and charges $18,225 for the summer, told parents their Health Center has had 15 campers and staff with gastrointestinal symptoms and a handful of campers who have also gone home

for 2-3 days. “At first, given the volume of food that was left here from Visiting Day, we thought it to be just a matter of campers gorging themselves, as usual,” the email from the directors said. However, as vomit ensued, it was surmised that the bug likely came from a basketball intercamp invitational, with several other camps reporting outbreaks. Puking stations on both the boys and girls campuses have been set up with protective masks, gear, and supplies to deal with what administrators delicately described as “any messes which may arise.” At Trail’s End, another co-ed camp located in Beach Lake, Pa., that costs $18,625 per season, parents told The Post that following a lacrosse tournament at Tyler Hill, 7 campers came down with the pukes. Tyler Hill, Timber Lake, and Trail’s End did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.

HS team hazing horror

Ten members of a Pennsylvania high school football team, including four coaches, have been charged in a brutal hazing scandal that led to the cancellation of the season after a player was stomped with cleats and prodded in the buttocks with a broomstick.

The players and coaches from the Cheltenham High School allegedly assaulted a 15-year-old teammate in the locker room in two separate incidents in 2025, the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

The first alleged incident was recorded by two players on Aug. 15, 2025, and shared with students during the fall semester, according to prosecutors.

While the team changed into street clothes after practice, the shocking footage showed several players holding their sophomore teammate down while another player used a broomstick to poke at the boy’s buttocks, according to a grand jury filing.

Multiple witnesses saw several players kicking or stopping on the victim during a second incident on Sept. 3, 2025.

The same juvenile from the first incident again used a broomstick to poke at his butt. Zoe Hussain

Couple hard to believe

A 32-year-old woman and a 75-year-old man who were busted for allegedly having loud sex in front of children at an apartment complex pool in Texas gave cops a ridiculous explanation for the romp they claimed never happened.

Emilie Parma was allegedly on top of Douglas Faith, “grinding and thrusting” and making loud sexual moans at a Waco apartment complex Sunday.

When cops arrived, Faith confessed that Parma was on top of him but claimed they were not actually having sex because he has a “penile implant,” police said. Patrick Reilly

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WHAT a cowardly and shameful final chapter for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the Fifth III times in the Senate Wednesday even though he has a pre-emptive presidential pardon that gives him immunity from prosecution.

In the history of Congress, only a couple of mob bosses have invoked the privilege more.

"On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights, under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution," the Machiavellian career bureaucrat said over and over in the nearly three-hour hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

But Fauci's silence rendered him a villain more powerfully than his usual sly deceptions.

Shameful, too, were the Democrats and their media handmaidens who continue to run cover for Fauci, singing his praises, and denying their flock the truth about a man who filled his pandemic diary with self-praise and celebrity worship while remaining callously aloof from the human suffering he had caused.

Fauci on Wednesday was comforted by the praise of Democrat senators who hailed him as a hero, thanked him for his "service to this nation" and sympathized with him as a "scapegoat" of right-wing conspiracy theorists.

New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim even quoted Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" speech to valorize Fauci, the former top US infectious-disease expert who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for decades.

Like the Black Knight in "Monty Python," still pugnacious after being reduced to a bloody stump, the Fauci puffers refuse to see they have no leg left to stand on.

The damage their censorship did during COVID, and their dishonest glossing of Fauci's reputation, damns them. Yet instead of self-reflection in the face of overwhelming evidence of Fauci's complicity in one of the deadliest man-made health crises in history, they double down. History will not be kind to them, either.

"Admit it was a mistake to fund dangerous research in China," said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the Fauci nemesis who leads the committee and is also a medical doctor who has closely studied the virus and the way it was engineered to hurt humans.

"Admit that the risk of this dangerous research exceeded any possible benefits. Ask forgiveness, and

Cowardly case of yellow fever

pledge to help our government devise safeguards, so a man-made epidemic never happens again."

Monstrous sins

There is no defending Fauci. His sins are too monstrous. The children locked out of school, the grandparents who died alone, the families torn apart, remain on his conscience.

We would wish him jail, yet he is unlikely to receive the punishment he has earned for directing tax dollars toward the dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in a Chinese lab that unleashed a pandemic that killed millions, and for the coverup and associated lockdown he helped orchestrate.

"All he had to do was tell the truth," Paul said after the hearing, vowing to hold Fauci in contempt

of Congress — the same charge that sent Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro to jail.

At 85, Fauci may escape earthly justice, but his legacy is forever fouled, and the name Fauci will become "a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples," to quote the Bible.

Still, the hearing proved oddly satisfying. It was a long overdue public defenestration.

To watch Fauci, sociopath that he must be, sit there rigidly enduring a cold recitation of his sins from Paul and Senate colleagues was cathartic.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) detailed the human cost of Fauci's lies. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) summed up Fauci's legacy "not as the man who saved America from COVID, but as a man who destroyed the public trust in America's public health institutions in

exchange for five minutes of fame [to] fuel your own ego and be the center of attention."

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered the mocking coup de grace: "Nothing says honesty like taking the Fifth, huh, Doc?" and forced Fauci into the humiliation of pleading the Fifth rather than answering what color his tie is, what day it is, what color is the carpet in front of him.

The public gallery applauded when Paul threw out Fauci's arrogant criminal lawyer, David Schertler, who seemed to think he could rebut the senators by proxy. Paul made a point of saying Fauci had a half a dozen lawyers still there to represent him. Who is paying?

As we watch Fauci's downfall in real time, we recognize the echo of all the epic comeuppances of mythology and literature. His diary reminds us of the villainess of the

French novel "Dangerous Liaisons," the Marquise de Merteuil, an aristocratic widow whose evil manipulations and true character are exposed when her private letters are released for all society to see. It's confirmation that there is a moral accounting for us all.

We owe a debt of gratitude to the Great Barrington Declaration heroes, Doctors Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff and Sunetra Gupta, who spoke up when it was dangerous and whom Fauci tried to destroy.

Musk's open portal

Elon Musk deserves mention for turning X into an open portal that bypassed the dishonest media narrative.

We owe particular thanks to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose doggedness unearthed Fauci's diary. "It took us about eight months to dig these out of 11 separate servers where they had been sequestered and secreted," he told Laura Ingraham on Fox News. RFK Jr.'s 2021 bestseller "The Real Anthony Fauci," the first exposé on Fauci, has stood the test of time.

In his diaries, Fauci cursorily recorded death tolls alongside lavish details of the praise he received from celebrities and from political operatives posing as journalists who sent him private messages throughout 2020 egging him on to undermine President Trump, feeding Fauci's narcissism.

Their names are there for all to see their eternal shame: 41 mentions of supportive check-ins and "friendship building" dinners with Jake Tapper of CNN. Dana Bash, also of CNN, texted Fauci that he was a "better man" than Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). George Stephanopoulos of ABC texted "thank you, Tony. So impressive," after Fauci clapped back at Trump's criticism of him as a "fraud."

Dr. Scott Atlas is another unsung hero and victim of Fauci's vindictiveness. Brought in late by Trump in his first administration to challenge the COVID-19 Task Force groupthink under VP Mike Pence. Atlas was surprised to find he was the only one citing actual scientific data. He argued against the lockdowns and for focused protection of the elderly, but he was treated as a crank.

"I've never worked with such low-level people," he later said of Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and then-CDC Director Robert Redfield.

The villains and heroes of the pandemic are starting to come into focus. In the end, character is destiny.

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Stuffed animal before sis-in-law: DA

LI 'SLAY CHOKE' PRACTICE

By KEVIN SHEEHAN and JORGE FITZ-GIBBON

A sick Long Island music teacher accused of raping and killing his college-voiced sister-in-law was caught on camera practicing the chokehold he would use in the grisly crime on a stuffed animal, prosecutors said Wednesday. Joseph Horner, 27, repeatedly broke into the downstairs apartment of 25-year-old Victoria Castle to check out 'explicit photos' of his wife's sister before carrying out the gruesome June 28 attack, Nassau County prosecutors said as they unsealed a murder indictment against Horner.

'This defendant saw an opportunity to follow through on his sexual desires to be with the victim, a woman he admitted to lusting over since 2017,' Assistant District Attorney Alexander DePalo said in court. 'He is seen on video practicing the chokehold that he would place her in.

'The defendant, without warning and unprovoked, attacked the

victim from behind and placed her in the same chokehold until her body went limp,' DePalo said. 'The defendant then removed her clothes and moved her to a nearby bed, at which time the defendant raped the victim until he completed.

'Then he waited for the police on the front door-step, calm and collected,' the prosecutor said. Police arrested Horner at the scene and rushed Castle to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Horner's wife, who had been away on a bachelorette trip at the time, sat in court sobbing Wednesday, comforted by her parents as her husband pleaded not guilty. The accused killer, a music teacher in the Oceanside School District, was ordered held without bail by Nassau County Judge Howard Sturm.

Castle, a doctoral student at Stony Brook University, lived downstairs from Horner and her sister in the North Oak Street home in North Massapequa. Prosecutors said the accused

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ICY: Joseph Horner is seen on video choking a stuffed animal, a move he allegedly then used to kill sister-in-law Victoria Castle (inset).

killer lured her to her death by asking her to help him move a keyboard — but instead ambushed her from behind and allegedly carried out the attack.

Eerie FaceTime call

Just 15 minutes before the alleged attack, Horner practiced the chokehold on a stuffed animal and took a FaceTime call from his wife after rendering Castle unconscious, acting as if everything was normal before he proceeded to rape his sister-in-law, prosecutors said.

'During that call, the defendant acted as if nothing was wrong, as if he hadn't just violently attacked

her sister,' Nassau County DA Anne Donnelly told reporters. 'As if Victoria's body wasn't lying motionless just a floor below.'

Prosecutors also released a photo of Horner allegedly practicing the chokehold on a pink stuffed animal in his living room before the attack.

In a tragic twist, Castle beamed over her killer after he married her sister, three years before the sick attack.

'My sister, my person, my partner in chaos, is now married to one of the most wonderful people in the world,' Castle wrote in a haunting Facebook post. 'I love you both forever.'

Platner posts scrubbed

Newly minted Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson frantically deleted almost all of his past social media posts heaping praise on accused rapist Graham Platner, The Post has learned.

Jackson, a former lumberjack and onetime Maine Senate president, was a staunch Platner backer until a former girlfriend publicly accused Platner, a Marine veteran and dilettante oyster farmer, of sexual assault earlier this month.

In all, the 58-year-old Jackson appears to have scrubbed at least 20 posts boosting Platner before the allegations emerged, based on information from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

'Graham Platner is exactly the sort of Democrat that Susan Collins and the Republican Party don't know how to handle. It's why I endorsed him back in February, and it's why I support him now,' Jackson posted on X in May.

Jackson was then vying for the Democratic nomination for governor. After finishing third in the ranked-choice voting primary, Jackson's ties to the far left and endorsement by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led Democrats to eye him as a replacement for Platner after he dropped out of the Senate race earlier this month. Ryan King

Kiser rip for life-vest nix

Mommy influencer Emilie Kiser has been forced to apologize and vowed to 'do better' after a video circulated social media showing her 16-month-old son on a boat without a life jacket — one year after her 3-year-old son Trigg drowned in their family pool.

The clip — uploaded and subsequently deleted by Kiser's friend and fellow influencer Madi Curtis this week — drew intense backlash online after it appeared to show Theodore 'Teddy' Kiser sitting without a life jacket alongside his father, Brady Kiser, on a boat during a family vacation in Spain last month. Georgia Worrell

Wells family subpoena his online data

Nolan Wells' family has issued subpoenas to several social media companies seeking his account information and data as part of the investigation into the 18-year-old college football player's mysterious death. The subpoenas, issued Tuesday, seek information

from Wells' accounts on Snapchat, WhatsApp, TikTok, Meta Platforms and the location-tracking app Life360, according to court documents obtained by the Sun Herald. The subpoenas request the companies turn over all materials and information

related to Wells' accounts, including current and prior user names and passwords, email addresses, phone numbers and display names. The family also demanded all IP addresses associated with the accounts and all communications, including chats, posts, stories,

and other information, according to the Sun Herald. Wells' cellphone has become a key concern in the probe into his death. His mom, Christine Wonsley, said that when her son's phone was returned to the family, they had concerns after finding no pic-

tures or videos on his two Snapchat accounts, calling it 'suspicious' and triggering fears that content may have been deleted. Wells had boated to Horn Island off the Mississippi Coast on the Fourth of July but never came back with his friends. Patrick Reilly

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Page Six®

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Ye sex suit settled

KANYE West and his former personal assistant Lauren Pisciotta have reached a settlement over her sexual harassment lawsuit against him. Page Six can confirm. West and Pisciotta settled the suit on July 23, according to court docs her lawyers submitted to a Los Angeles court Tuesday. The filing, obtained by Page Six yesterday, states the settlement is "unconditional" and a request for dismissal will be filed within 45 days. Further details were not disclosed. TMZ was the first to report the news. Pisciotta sued the disgraced rapper in June 2024, claiming he sent her vulgar texts and allegedly locked them in a room together and masturbated next to her. West fired her in 2022. Page Six has reached out to his reps.

Sparring partner

GIULIANA Rancic spilled on her "traumatizing" romance with her "cold" ex Jerry O'Connell — days after he dished about their breakup to Kelly Ripa. Rancic (above) accused him of "downplaying" their relationship in his "Let's Talk Off Camera" interview. "For a year and a half — except for the one breakup — we were together 24/7 every day, every night," she said on her "Bill and Giuliana" podcast yesterday. "You could listen to his interview and think ... he was dating a bunch of girls, but no. It was a real relationship." They dated from 2003 to 2004.

AISLE seat you in court! An $18,000-a-summer Maine sleepaway camp chartered private jets to ferry campers and their parents to the wilderness retreat.

But they might have been better off rounding up some yellow buses for the ride to the far Northeast — because Page Six has learned that the camp is now suing the air company for allegedly failing to provide the planes.

Camp Laurel and its parent company, Coastal Camps Inc., filed suit against White Plains Aviation Partners, which does business as Million Air White Plains, on Monday, claiming that the firm owes it at least $355,000 for alleged "breach of contract, negli-

gent supervision [and] unjust enrichment."

Court papers reviewed by Page Six show the camp alleges the company failed to honor its agreements, and didn't return the money after the flights fell through.

Camp Laurel, on the banks of Echo Lake in the Belgrade Lakes region, bills itself as a "premiere American summer camp." It offers 15 tennis courts; regulation-size fields for baseball, soccer and lacrosse; five regulation basketball courts; a roller hockey arena; a beach volleyball court; an indoor gymnastics center; and a fitness center.

There's also a stable and miles of woodland trails; two outdoor equestrian sand arenas; studios for art, ceramics and metalsmithing; a

2,500-square-foot dance center; a FM radio station; a movie theater; and a professionally equipped theater with a full-sized stage.

As The Post previously reported, some parents shell out more than $20,000 per child for such elite camps in Maine and beyond. They then spend thousands more on designer camp gear, concierge packing services and even private jet charters to ferry their kids to the woods.

Some parents told The Post they viewed the expense as an investment. "The crown jewel of these sleepaway camps is the alumni parent network that you can tap into," one said.

Page Six has reached out to Camp Laurel and Million Air for comment.

Getting your kicks

ATTENTION sneakerheads: Eminem is selling over 100 pairs of shoes from his personal collection. The kicks are all signed by the star and will be sold to benefit the Marshall Mathers Foundation, which helps disadvantaged youth. Julien's Auctions is putting on the sale on Aug. 25, and bidding has opened. One highlight is a pair of Eminem x Nike Air Jordan 3 "Slim Shady" PE promo sneakers, estimated to go for up to $35,000.

Sightings

GALE Brophy turning Meredith Marks' brunch at Maison Close Southampton into a party, climbing onto the tables to dance alongside burlesque performers as guests cheered ... WOODY Allen and Soon-Yi Previn walking arm-in-arm on 72nd and 2nd ... WEWORK founder Adam Neumann and freed Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov performing the Jewish ritual of wrapping tefillin during a performance by Israeli artists Adam Ten and Mita Gami at Surf Lodge.

Meet Handsy Smurf

A Hamptonite was surprised when a stranger made an off-color joke while grabbing a treat in Sag Harbor — and even more surprised when the stranger happened to be next to a famed journalist. A source tells us that at Big Olaf Ice Cream, a customer walked out with a blue mouth from frosting, and a guy in line made a crack about the customer ending up in that state by performing a sexual act on a Smurf. While we hear the joke made everyone laugh, the messy man barely took notice of it because he recognized who was next to the jokester. "Wait, are you Don Lemon?" he said. Indeed he was. Lemon (above) was surprised when we called him about it, insisting he didn't make the joke and saying, "I didn't realize Smurfs were a protected class."

Grammys category BS to BTS

THE band BTS is taking a bold stand against the Grammys over a controversial new category. Last month, the Recording Academy announced the Best Asian Pop Music Performance category will be introduced at the 2027 ceremony. It "recognizes artistic excellence in Asian pop music performances originating from or widely recognized within Asian markets ... with meaningful use of one or more Asian languages." But yesterday, all seven BTS members — Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jung Kook — posted on their individual Instagram Stories they're not submitting themselves for consideration. "We have decided not to enter the Grammys this year," the message reads in Korean. "I hope music itself can be heard and loved rather than being distinguished by region or language." The boy band, which in 2020 became the first K-pop act to receive a Grammy nomination, was expected to be nominated again for their March album, "Arirang." Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. had said the new categories — including Best Latin Song, Best R&B Collaboration, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance and Best Traditional Folk Album — "speak to the breadth of today's music industry."

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GINA Barreca. University of Connecticut English lit prof. Talks faster than a zit pops on your chin. Her book, published by Woodhall Press in Norwalk, is "Gina School." Subhead: "Not what they teach you; it's what you learn." Like:

"Years connect back to

your youth. Or move you along towards death. Remember to change the clocks."

"24-karat gold's handy. In a pinch you could always pawn your own head."

"Wisdom's not like getting your period. Or finding a product that helps acid reflux. Doesn't happen with age."

"Falling for a guy with only one eye — you'll rationalize 'But he never forgets my birthday.'"

"Forget growing where you're planted. What are you, an endive?"

"Perspective. Broken heart? At least it's not a broken leg."

"Life infused with courage doesn't rule out life

laced with fear. Brave and scared walk arm-in-arm."

"Flat tummy, toned arms, thin thighs make us feel better when all it really takes is a martini and cheese snacks."

We spoke and she said: "I'm doing what I've done since I could afford to pay for therapy — and that was my attempt to find justification for existence."

And she said: "This is like notes behind Erma Bombeck's shopping list. Like instructions from Ann Landers, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker," and, she said, "Elle magazine."

Understand, I'm not the greedy type to bring it up or anything, but — me, she didn't include.

Doc looks for the plane truth

WHAT goes up, must come down. Ron Howard and Brian Grazer brought their new doc on Boeing to Netflix. "Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing" takes off Aug. 19. Director Rory Kennedy.

Like airlines haven't enough problems now. It's whistleblowers, old parts, doors fly off at 10,000 feet. Sounds bumpy. Fasten your seat belt.

Family union

ON the other side: Mouths "report" Eric Roberts uninvited to daughter Emma's wedding to Cody John because sister Julia didn't want him there. Don't believe the BS.

Eric: "Not true. Never was true. We're fine. We have disagreements as people do, but we like and respect each other very much."

Now: back to whatever important thing you were doing.

Home cooked

LIVE in Connecticut? Around Greenwich? Then schlep about to find master builder Jordan Saper. Besides throwing together mansions, his side hustle is he cooks. While waiting for your ceiling to dry, this contractor/architect can also throw together dinner. Like with one contract he put up a wall, but while plastering also threw together with vittles he personally brought along — a gallon of home-made gazpacho and smoked ribs.

However, if you're only doing a cheapo annex, don't bitch. He might only arrive with a brisket.

THIS actor walked into the restaurant with his dog. The maitre handed the actor the menu. Actor: "I'm not alone. It's service for two." When the waiter presented him with the check the guy yelled: "You nuts? Don't you understand anything? I'm his guest!"

Only in New York, kids, for sure, only in New York.

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My joke to Ep in poor taste: att'y

Kathryn Ruemmler, a former top lawyer at Goldman Sachs and White House counsel under ex-President Barack Obama, admitted to House lawmakers that she joked with Jeffrey Epstein about his conviction of soliciting a minor for prostitution in a 2016 email exchange.

RUEMMLER

Ruemmler, who resigned from Goldman Sachs this year after her extensive communications with the sex fiend were released by the Justice Department, told the House Oversight Committee the joke — “Best massage ever, but not your kind of massage” — was made in “extraordinarily poor taste,” according to a transcript of her July 15 testimony released Wednesday.

“I certainly knew that he had pled guilty to two prostitution-related offenses and . . . that conduct involved sexualized massages,” Ruemmler acknowledged.

“So what I was making here was an offhanded joke that, certainly sitting here in 2026, is in extraordinarily poor taste, but it was a joke about his prior criminal history,” she continued.

Ruemmler, 55, explained that the “best massage ever” took place at The Peninsula in Manhattan, after Epstein gifted her “a half spa day” at the five-star hotel.

“I wish I never dealt with the guy,” she added. Victor Nava

‘No pardon’ for Maxwell

The Senate unanimously agreed on Wednesday that sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell should not be allowed a presidential pardon or clemency.

The resolution was introduced by Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) to prevent the president from granting “a pardon, commutation, or any other form of executive clemency” to Maxwell, the accomplice and occasional girlfriend of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The resolution is not binding, but signals to the Trump administration that Senate Republicans and Democrats oppose clemency for Maxwell, 64, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence after being convicted in late 2021.

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AI GAIN SUPER SIZED Tops McD, S’bucks

By ANTHONY BLAIR

Do you want AIs with that?

Artificial intelligence giants Anthropic and OpenAI are now generating more cash than McDonald’s or Starbucks — as the AI boom dwarfs traditional American corporate giants.

Anthropic — maker of the Claude AI tool — is on track to bring in $71 billion in the next year, with OpenAI expected to have $49 billion in annual revenue, Axios reported.

Starbucks is forecast to generate $37.2 billion in the same time period, and McDonald’s is set to sell $29.6 billion worth of Big Macs and fries, according to a study that took data from AI investment research platform Funda.

The data shows that AI’s two largest brands are expected to generate almost as much revenue as McDonald’s, Starbucks, and Taco Bell and KFC parent company Yum Brands combined.

The data shows just how colossal the AI spending boom is across corporate America — as companies

invest hundreds of billions to modernize their operations and build AI into their workflow.

Anthropic, which was founded only five years ago, has raised more than $100 billion, and was valued at $965 billion as of May, according to the company’s own figures.

Growing fast

The company has secured major commercial customers across finance, healthcare and technology, while growing existing partnerships with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, Reuters reported.

OpenAI also recently expanded its ChatGPT Enterprise program, as well as signing agreements with businesses seeking AI-powered productivity software.

Starbucks and McDonald’s both trace their history back decades, and have more than 80,000 worldwide locations between them. But that appears to be no match for the astonishing speed at which businesses have adopted AI technologies. With Wires

Brave barracuda girl

A teen girl needs surgery after she was bitten by a barracuda during her birthday trip to Turks and Caicos.

Claire Macdonel was doing a handstand in shallow water just days after her 13th birthday when the predatory saltwater fish suddenly sank its teeth into her hand, KHOU11 TV reported.

“I just looked up from my hand, and I just saw blood

everywhere. It was running through my whole arm, and it was just like a horror movie,” she said.

Claire said the ordeal has not frightened her into giving up her dream of becoming a marine biologist.

“Just because one bite happened, it doesn’t change that I love animals and want to study them,” said Claire, who named the fish Suzie.

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MIDLIFE RETREAT: Women are finding relief from menopause symptoms like hot flashes at resorts with programs that specialize in such care.

Luxury vacations for treating menopause

By RACHEL KHONA

Sweltering Miami might not seem like the obvious choice of a vacation destination for a woman battling hot flashes.

But menopausal women on the hunt for some relief from the deeply unglamorous chaos of midlife hormones are now willing to pack their roller bags — yes, even for a trip to Florida — to get some answers and personalized care.

Forget white-knuckling it in silence. Now, at places like Carillon Wellness Resort in Miami Beach, menopause comes with a robe, an ocean view and a plan.

Once relegated to jokes and hushed whispers, menopause and perimenopause have become hot topics in recent years thanks in part to honest conversations from stars like Halle Berry, Naomi Watts and Drew Barrymore.

Women are done treating men-

menopause like some secret bodily betrayal. They are talking about the shift in their bodies more openly — and expecting actual answers.

The bad news is that menopause is often overlooked in traditional medical training. So when women come to their doctors looking for solutions to symptoms like hot flashes, brain fog and fatigue, the answers they receive frequently fall short.

“Most medical schools and residency programs do not require [menopause education],” said Dr. Maria Uloko, a urologist, sexual health specialist, founder of MUMD Sexual Medicine Beverly Hills and CEO of VULVAi, a digital healthcare company building the infrastructure of pelvic health. “So we have an entire physician workforce that does not know how to diagnose, treat or even look for these symptoms.”

With an extra dose of pampering, luxury hotels and resorts are

looking to fill the gap.

There is no single template for a menopause retreat. Some programs lean clinical, others are more spa-driven, and many fall somewhere in between.

Booked through resort

At Carillon Miami Wellness Resort, the Inner Glow menopause and perimenopause retreat starts at $3,500 for four nights and includes diagnostic testing, hormonal consultations and customized treatment plans through The Biostation.

There’s also a fitness assessment designed to address common concerns associated with midlife health, plus amenities like a hydrotherapy circuit, massages, red light therapy, IV infusions, facials, a fitness assessment, biocell recharger session and a consult with a member of the biostation team.

Unlike some retreats built around set group dates, Inner Glow is a five-day, four-night individualized program that guests can book through the resort.

Tammy Pahel, vice president of spa and wellness operations at Carillon Miami Wellness Resort, told The Post that the genesis of the program came out of what guests were already requesting: “They were asking things like, ‘Do you have anything for this symptom?’ Or, ‘I’m experiencing this symptom. Do you have something that can help?’”

Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Mass., also takes a comprehensive approach with its M/Power menopause and perimenopause retreats, starting at $5,500 for three nights. They include a women’s hormone panel, DEXA body composition and bone density analysis, virtual physician consultation, group programming, and meals — plus access to daily wellness

activities like hydrotherapy, CR vitality recovery, group fitness classes and a full salon.

For a slightly less clinical experience, Miraval Arizona in Tucson starts at $799 per night and offers customizable women’s wellness programming focused on sexual health, menopause education, pelvic floor strengthening and sleep improvement, with classes like “Making Sense of Menopause” and “Better Sleep in Menopause.”

“It’s an opportunity to tune into not only how we survive this stage, but also how we can find pleasure and joy in our day to day lives,” Lyndi Rivers, an integrative wellness expert and sexuality educator at Miraval, previously told The Post. “This is the stage of life in which we need to get almost fierce about our own self care, as well as adding in a lot of kindness and compassion towards ourselves throughout the journey.”

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Dad browsing on Amazon just before crash killed son

An Idaho father allegedly drafted an Instagram story, looked at cellphone pictures and browsed Amazon moments before his 7-year-old son was killed in a car crash, as he faces man-

slaughter charges.

Austin Summers, 31, was driving a GMC Sierra truck when he allegedly rear-ended a 2013 Ford F450 that was experiencing mechanical problems on I-84 in

Canyon County, Idaho, on Nov. 25 last year, the Idaho Statesman reported, citing court documents.

Summers’ eldest son, Graham, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, was

killed, and the dad was charged with manslaughter last Tuesday.

Summers, of Meridian, allegedly plowed into the Ford at a speed of between 73 and 75 mph in a 65-mph

zone, while the car in front was traveling at just 7 mph in the far right lane.

His other two children, whose ages were 3 and 5 at the time of the crash, were sitting in the back of the

truck and were uninjured.

Investigators say they later found Summers had been using his phone between 2:45 p.m. and 3:02 p.m., minutes before the collision.

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Giving Vlad the finger

App mogul faces rap in Russia

By CHRIS BRADFORD

Russia on Wednesday charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism, and the messaging app fired back by sharing a photo of the multibillionaire giving the middle finger.

Durov, 41, was placed on an international wanted list and faces up to life in prison if he's convicted as Russian authorities restrict Telegram, Euronews reported.

Moscow security services have accused Telegram of not taking down channels or bots allegedly "actively used by Ukrainian intelligence agencies, terrorist, and extremist organizations to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage and terrorism, mass murder, and cyberfraud" in Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime claims Telegram's supposed lack of action has resulted in "numerous human casualties."

Ukrainian security services have also been accused of using a popular dating chatbot on Telegram to lure and recruit Russians for "sabotage and terrorist activities."

Some 46 users, from 12 to 22 years old, have been detained

across Russia since July 2025.

Durov, who was born in the former Soviet Union, founded VKontakte, a Facebook-inspired social media app, in 2006 before leaving Russia in 2014. He currently lives in Dubai.

Earlier this year, he announced that Russian authorities had opened a criminal investigation against him. He has accused them of fabricating pretexts to restrict

access to Telegram as part of an attempt to "suppress the right to privacy and free speech."

Since August 2025, Russia has restricted Telegram access, and since January, has fined the app around $1.26 billion, which the company has refused to pay.

Authorities issued penalties because the app allegedly failed to remove content banned in Russia.

Moscow has engaged in multi-pronged efforts to rein in the internet.

Authorities have warned about the impact of foreign apps on the battlefield amid the war in Ukraine, now in its fifth year. Russia has adopted restrictive laws, banned websites and platforms that don't comply and focused on improving technology to monitor and manipulate online traffic.

Social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and X have been banned; Signal and Viber have been blocked; and WhatsApp has been restricted.

Durov was arrested in Paris in 2024 over allegations Telegram was being used for drug trafficking and distributing child sex abuse images. Last March, he said he had returned to Dubai. With Wires

5 years in Vegas pal slay

The gun-obsessed Las Vegas woman who expressed a desire to "shoot people with real guns and get away with it" has been sentenced to five years to life for killing her friend during an impromptu photo shoot.

Allyssandra Blea, 21, was seen with her head stooped during Tuesday's sentencing after she pleaded guilty to first-degree kidnapping and involuntary manslaughter for the death of 23-year-old Mark Gaughan, Court TV reported.

Blea fired one shot at Gaughan, which hit him in the neck and killed him, near the Las Vegas Strip on Aug. 23, 2025.

The pair had been drinking vodka and smoking marijuana for hours at the home of a mutual friend leading up to the killing, the outlet reported.

Blea will serve a minimum of five years and a maximum of life in a Nevada Department of Corrections facility. Richard Pollina

Sally Brompton Daily Horoscope

DISCOVER MORE ABOUT YOURSELF AND WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS AT SALLYBROMPTON.COM

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)

Your desire to be in control of events may have been undermined by yesterday's full moon, but over the next 48 hours or so, you can and you must reassert your authority. The people around you won't resent it because they desperately need a leader.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)

This week's full moon will continue to disrupt your schedule and cause you to change your plans, but it's no big deal and by this time tomorrow, the worst will be past. Stay calm and refuse to let anything get to you, even very stupid people.

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)

You can be a bit easygoing at times, and there is a danger you could let friends and family members get away with stuff they should really be criticized for. If you don't crack the whip now, it will be much harder to do so later on.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)

Something in your life seems a bit unbalanced at the moment, thanks in no small part to yesterday's full moon, but it will even itself out between now and the weekend. You don't have to force the issue, you just have to be patient.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)

Your professional standing will be under the spotlight today, but with Venus moving through the career area of your chart, you can be sure that employers and workmates will like what they see. Your effortless brilliance will seriously impress them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)

An old way of doing things will come to an end over the next few days, to be almost

immediately replaced by a new way. Don't try to hold on to the past, because the future is going to be so much more exciting for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19)

The world may be a competitive place, but you don't have to treat it like an ongoing battle. The message of the stars today is that you need to be more laidback in your dealings with other people, most of whom are just like you.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)

There have been some major disruptions in your life in recent weeks but none of them were so enormous that you had to change your long-term plans. Make it your priority today to catch your breath while the world comes back into focus.

ARIES (March 21-April 20)

It may make no sense to you that someone is being obstructive for no good reason, but this is one of those occasions when logic has no part to play in events. Accept that they are beyond persuasion and do what you must do without them.

TAURUS (April 21-May 21)

You have never been the sort to run away from your troubles but you can see that a friend or loved one is trying to do just that and they could obviously do with some assistance. Explain to them why they must face up to the truth.

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)

The fact that your options for action are limited may be

frustrating, but it could also be helpful in that it will force you to focus on the one thing that matters more than anything else. You do have a tendency to avoid what needs to be done.

CANCER (June 22-July 23)

Identify your No. 1 priority and focus on it between now and the weekend. Mercury in your sign makes it easy for you to see the path you should be taking, but putting one foot in front of the other will take some serious effort.

BIRTHDAY THURSDAY

Having started down a certain path, you must go all the way. Too often you have given up on a promising plan because you lost interest, but that is no longer an option. If you want to be a winner, you must be ruthless with yourself this year.

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KAOHLY HER Mayor's "weiner" texts.

Sex probe into Minny politician

A Democratic mayor in Minnesota is being investigated for sexual harassment after she allegedly sent text messages to staffers — including one about getting a "good weinering."

Kaohly Her, the first female mayor of Saint Paul, is being probed just six months into her term after the police chief, Axel Henry, filed a formal complaint with the city attorney on April 1, alleging that she sent "inappropriate, and indeed, unlawful text messages" to city staffers.

In one disturbing chain of texts, Her, 53, wished a staffer "Happy Weiner Wednesday," according to the complaint obtained by KSTP.

"Wish I was having a [hot-dog emoji] with you all on 6 today," the text continued.

While the term "weiner" can refer to a hot dog, it also has sexual connotations.

The mayor's office said it wouldn't comment on an "active investigation."

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Turkey mulls Kurd rebels

President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that legislation related to the disbandment of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party militant group would be submitted to parliament "in the coming days."

The PKK, which waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state and is designated a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies, decided in May 2025 to disarm and disband, after an appeal from its jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan. Reuters

'Open alcohol bottle' found in car

By EDWARD LEWIS

More details about ex-Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo's OWI arrest are coming to light, including a new allegation that an open container of booze was found in his car after he was stopped by cops.

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office released to The Post copies of three citations its officers hit Romo with in the immediate aftermath of his July 23 arrest in Wisconsin, and one of them claimed the CBS NFL analyst had an "open bottle of an alcoholic beverage" located on the passenger side of his black Jeep.

A deputy discovered the item when they were taking inventory of Romo's car as it was being towed, according to the citation.

The document stated Romo is facing a $267 fine for the alleged "possess open intoxicants in MV-driver" offense.

The second citation Romo was tagged with was for "unsafe passing on right." Police wrote in the document that he drove "in the marked right distress lane to pass vehicles in lanes 1 and 2 during rush hour traffic" before he "cut across the marked gore" to get to where he wanted to go.

Romo "was in question on what a gore was when I explained the reason for the stop," his arresting officer wrote in the citation.

The ex-jock is facing a fine of $235 for the alleged offense, the document stated.

'Visiting grandparents'

The last citation Romo was given was for "operating while under the influence," an offense that, according to a copy of the citation, carries a $1,066 fine.

Court records show Romo was additionally later cited for "refuse to take test for intoxication after arrest."

Romo, according to body cam footage released to The Post on Tuesday, told cops that he had been coming from a golf course and was on his way "to visit grandma and grandpa" before he

ROMO A BOOZE TRAVELER: COP

was pulled over.

During his detainment, an officer told him they suspected him of being impaired because he had "red glassy eyes" and an "odor of an intoxicating alcoholic beverage" emanating from his person.

Romo was put through multiple field sobriety tests at a police station, and he appeared to perform poorly on all of them. He also refused to take a breath test, telling one of the officers, "I've heard from all the lawyers don't ever do

that. So, we're not going to do that."

The 2014 NFL All-Pro player, who's still yet to publicly comment on the incident, has been given a court date of Sept. 21.

elewis@nypost.com

Baby corpses found in boxes at home

A husband in France discovered the bodies of five "decomposing" babies hidden inside cardboard boxes at his house following an argument with his wife — who had just given birth at home the previous day.

The woman, 32, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was allegedly arguing with her husband over

the contents in the boxes at their home in the historic town of Orange on Monday, The US Sun reported.

She had just given birth at home to a healthy baby boy and started complaining about abdominal pain during the argument. She was then taken to hospital when her husband made the gruesome discovery.

"The husband stayed behind when she was taken to hospital, and looked inside the cardboard boxes they had been arguing over — that's when he found the five dead babies," an investigating source said, according to the Sun.

The boxes containing the remains, which were located on the second floor of

the home, were all stuffed in a large plastic bag.

The husband had been upset that he only recently learned about his wife's pregnancy after she had denied being pregnant three times, according to local outlet Le Parisien.

The husband took the bag to the hospital, which reported the horrifying find

to police, a source close to the investigation told Le Parisien.

A forensic pathologist confirmed that the remains were of five infants — with further autopsies expected to be carried out.

The husband said he knew nothing of her pregnancies, and was subsequently released. Ella Morrison

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State alone can't guard minors online

Safe tech

law? Who are they kidding?

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RIKKI SCHLOTT

NEW YORK state has moved to protect kids from addictive social media platforms, announcing on Tuesday that the SAFE for Kids Act has been finalized and will go into effect early next year.

The law promises to stop social media companies from feeding kids personalized content via algorithms and sending them notifications deep into the night. But any parents hoping this will be a fix-all should think again.

Similar legislation implemented around the country has been blocked by courts, and social media laws in other countries like Australia and the United Kingdom have proven that kids find ways around restrictions faster than the law can keep up.

Maybe the SAFE for Kids Act will keep some tweens from being woken up by Instagram at 2 a.m., but parents beware: Lawmakers can't be kids' online chaperones. It's up to family, educators and community to hold the line.

This week, Gov. Hochul and state Attorney General Letitia James announced the finalized version of

the SAFE for Kids Act — short for 'Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation' — and confirmed it will go into effect on Jan. 25.

The new law would prevent qualifying social media companies from presenting minors with an algorithmically personalized feed and would also bar them from delivering children notifications between midnight and 6 a.m.

New York kids can only overrule the default setting if a parent consents, according to the law, which will be enforceable by civil penalties and age-verification processes, like government ID verification, facial-age estimation and checks against official records.

Critics have warned that age verification means that everyone is less free online, and that requiring users to prove their identities can jeopardize adults' right to go online and speak anonymously without government oversight.

New York's law, to its credit, has attempted to placate concerns by giving platforms the option to choose 'zero-knowledge' age-verification systems, which are cryptographic and don't share information with third parties except for a user's adult/minor status.

Even still, the law is vulnerable. Other states, including California and Arkansas, have tried to implement similar notification

curfews, only to be blocked by courts, who deemed the regulations unconstitutional.

Similar laws attempting to ban minors from social media across the world have shown that wherever legislators have stood between kids and their apps, the kids find a way to circumvent them.

Shortfalls abroad

When Australia banned minors from social media in late 2025, many kids simply made new accounts, asked for help with bypassing restrictions, downloaded VPNs to change their geolocation data, used an older person's ID and even put on makeup to trick age-verification barriers, according to the government's own report.

A YouGov survey of Australian parents found that 27% reported their kids were switching over to alternative, less regulated platforms, meaning the law may have sent them to sketchier parts of the internet's Wild West — and those are just the parents who know what their kids are really doing online.

When Britain enforced age checks for pornography and dangerous online material that same year, VPN downloads from Proton rose 1,200%.

The UK government's own investigation found that 40% of 11- to

17-year-olds had circumvented age checks, as of this month.

Of course, social media restrictions on kids do keep some of them offline. But here in New York, there will surely be kids downloading VPNs, using parents' accounts to get on platforms and flocking to unregulated websites to access the content they're after.

That's not because New York lawmakers don't have kids' interests at heart, but because Albany will never be able to stand in for family and community in the battle to keep kids safe from online harm.

Parents, families, schools and community members need to step up.

To give them their due, they have been trying: Schools around the country have been implementing bell-to-bell cellphone bans. More and more parents are keeping their kids off social media until they're old enough to scroll responsibly. Flip phones and dumb phones are having a moment. Even kids themselves are expressing a desire to unplug.

Corrosive material such as gambling, pornography, religious radicalization or school shooter manifestos spread insidiously online, but the government can never be a stand-in for grassroots interventions — and parents shouldn't count on them to be their saviors.

'Killer'

dad icy in court

ELIZABETHTOWN, NY — Alleged killer dad Luciano Frattolin sat emotionless in court Wednesday as the state played video of his continued claims that his daughter had been abducted — even after police investigators grilled him to come clean about the grisly murder of his 9-year-old.

Frattolin, 45, stared blankly at two investigators asking him repeatedly in the police interviews to fess up to what he allegedly did his daughter, Melina Frattolin — even after he'd been shown photos of her body covered in mud along Paragon Brook, eight miles off Interstate 87 in Ticonderoga.

He is on trial in Essex County in the girl's July 19, 2025, death.

'We both came back to the car,' Frattolin told State Police investigator Ashlee Marks in the July 20, 2025, recordings, despite being told his daughter had already been found dead hours earlier and placed under a tree about 10 minutes into the Adirondack wilderness down a hiking trail.

Police were led to her body by data from Frattolin's cellphone, which also had a trackable Apple air tag attached to it.

The trial is expected to resume Thursday.

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'War crimes'

call over Mali

Amnesty International on Wednesday called for a war crimes investigation into what it described as the summary killings of at least 19 Malian soldiers by members of armed groups after an ambush on July 18.

The attack occurred in northern Mali between the town of Anefis and the city of Gao, according to statements from Mali's armed forces, the Azawad Liberation Front, and the al Qaeda-linked group Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin.

The UN human rights office has also called for an investigation into the incident. Reuters

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'FREE' MONEY FOR KIDS

Fed scholarships

By CARL CAMPANILE

Nearly 52 million students nationwide in public, private or charter schools could be eligible for federal "freedom" scholarships, including more than 2.7 million students in New York state, according to a report released Tuesday.

Thirty-one states, covering 31 million students, have opted into the "Education Freedom Tax Credit" program, including New York — despite opposition from teachers unions, which claim the tax credit is a privatization or "voucher" scheme that will spur an exodus from public schools.

Most Democratic states have yet to opt into the program, including California, where nearly 6 million students would benefit, said school choice group the American Federation for Children in its analysis.

Nearly 21 million students are in states that have not signed up for the program, which kicks in next year.

The scholarships for private school students in Catholic schools and yeshivas can be used to defray tuition costs.

Public school students can use the scholarships for tutoring, after-school programs or to cover transportation costs, advocates said.

Under the law, governors from each state have to "opt in" for students to obtain financial scholarships.

It was the top priority of the New York State Catholic Conference and the Teach NY Coalition/

arship Fund, which provides financial aid to students who enroll in Catholic schools run by the Archdiocese of New York.

Gov. Hochul, a Democrat seeking re-election to a second term this fall, opted into the program.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, considered a Democratic contender for president in 2028, has not opted in, as of yet, the report noted.

'Potential to help'

"Hochul is supportive of the federal tax credit scholarship and its potential to help New York students and schools," a Hochul spokesperson said Tuesday.

Under the program included in the Republican-led budget bill approved by President Trump last year, individual taxpayers make donations to nonprofit scholarship-granting organizations and receive a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit of up to $1,700 per year.

The groups then use the donations to provide financial aid to students.

Tommy Schultz, CEO of the American Federation for Children, said, "Every governor needs to opt in so that all of them can benefit."

"For governors and states who have taken swift action to opt in, thank you, and for governors still considering opting in, what are you waiting for?" Schultz said.

"Children and families in your states, by the millions, are waiting for the educational resources that will support them through the tax credit," he went on.

The AFC analysis said about 90% of students would qualify for the program since households earning up to 300% of area income are eligible.

The influential New York State United Teachers union claims the tax credit scholarship will hurt public schools.

"A school voucher redirects public tax dollars to pay for private school tuition," NYSUT said in a recent statement.

Orthodox Union, which advocate for yeshivas or Jewish schools.

For example, such donations could go to the Inner-City Schol-

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'Wicked stepma' plea nix

The Connecticut "house of horrors" mom accused of imprisoning her stepson in foul conditions for decades rejected a plea deal to serve only 10 years in prison — as the victim's biological mother blasted the alleged abuser's attorney for acting like a show pony.

Prosecutors reiterated an offer that Kimberly Sullivan, 57, be sentenced to 30 years behind bars, suspended after 20 years served, during a 90-second court hearing in Waterbury on Wednesday.

Judge Corinne Klatt sweetened the deal by suggesting Sullivan serve 30 years, with the sentence suspended after 10 years.

Sullivan's lawyer, Ioannis Kaloidis, said she's innocent.

Sullivan is accused of keeping her stepson, now 33, locked in a filthy room in their Waterbury home beginning when he was around 10, letting him out for chores.

Biological mother Tracy Vallerand blasted prosecutors for offering the cushy plea deal and referred to Kaloidis as "Beavis" of the sitcom "Beavis and Butthead."

Vallerand gave up her son when he was 6 months old to his father, Kraigg Sullivan, and Kimberly.

Reuven Fenton and Zoe Hussain

Granny to the rescue

A 71-year-old grandmother who recently taught herself how to swim jumped into a river in China to save a man drowning — and then brushed off her daring rescue as "not a big deal," according to reports.

Liu Defang was chatting with friends near a river in Suixi county in Anhui province on July 13 when she heard someone shout "someone has fallen into the water," the South China Morning Post reported.

Video captured a man climbing onto the bridge's railing before plunging into the river in an attempt to drown himself, the outlet reported. Zoe Hussain

Death threats vs. 'MAHA' influencer

LIVING IN PERIL: Alex Clark, host of the "Culture Apothecary" podcast, blames the threats on the "assassination culture" gripping the left.

By VICTOR NAVA

Conservative health and wellness influencer Alex Clark revealed in the latest episode of "Pod Force One" that she's been inundated with death threats for simply urging Americans to eat better food.

Clark, host of Turning Point USA's "Culture Apothecary" podcast, blamed the "assassination culture" gripping the left as part of the reason threats against her life have surged in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder.

"I could not tell you since Charlie was killed the amount of death threats I've received," Clark told "Pod Force One" guest host Lydia Moynihan. "And what's even crazier is a few of those have definitely been from the left, but a lot of them have been from Candace Owens fans."

The Make America Healthy

Again influencer lamented she needs "24/7 security" when she visits college campuses — despite simply talking about health and wellness — because of the threats.

"I'm not really that big of a threat to the left, just based on my type of Turning Point tours, but now I have to have armed security everywhere I go," she said. "I was asked, 'Do you want to start wearing a bulletproof vest?' I'm talking about eating real food... This is stuff five years ago, seven years ago, when I first got hired, this would have been inconceivable to me."

Clark called it "a really scary time" to be a Christian conservative in the US.

"I don't know that in history it's ever been harder to be openly conservative and openly Christian in the United States of America," she told "Pod Force One," arguing that if you're "a conservative walking around in a MAGA hat,

you have such a massive target on you, and it's very scary."

Clark, who has developed a massive conservative female following, was also asked about how she's been able to win over so many women — who historically lean more toward the political left.

Reaching women

"So, I think historically the way to reach women has always been through culture, and the left ... they dominate pop culture, so I think that avenue really belongs to the left," she explained.

"And what we really have is the opportunity to step in when it comes to parenting and health and food and family; those are things that I think the conservative movement can really own, and we can reach women through."

In terms of the MAHA movement, Clark teased that "chemi-

cals in our clothing" will be a big issue for health-conscious voters in the coming year.

"The thing is that I'm super-passionate about, I think that 2026, mark my words, 2026 has really been the year of pesticides. I think 2027, when it comes to MAHA voters, is going to be the year of chemicals in our clothing," she said.

"I think we are starting to see the very beginning tide changing here on natural fiber and organic cotton clothing, and a big huge war on polyester."

Clark noted that clothing-chemical laws in the US "have not been updated since the 1940s" and that with "the rise of eczema and skin sensitivities," more Americans should be aware of the outdated laws on the books.

She argued that taking on chemicals in clothes is "an easy thing that the FDA could say that we are going to start doing in America."

Anarchist 'siege' of Wisconsin capital

Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters have blockaded two trendy blocks in downtown Madison, Wis., a week after armed serial felon Corey Ruiz was fatally shot by police — erecting barricades similar to the infamous 2020 Seattle "Capitol Hill Autonomous

Zone" (CHAZ).

And the city of Madison — home to the state capitol and the main campus of the University of Wisconsin — is helping them by providing portable toilets and other resources.

Neighbors have had enough, telling WMTV 15

News they feel "trapped" by the rapidly expanding protest zone.

"I feel the protest has turned into a very disrespectful occupation focused on punishing [the] 'Willy Street' [business district] for the incident," one local told the outlet.

Ruiz's caught-on-camera shooting has become a national flashpoint as local BLM activists have seized on the killing, sparking protests that have roiled the state capital's central business district on a nightly basis ever since.

Prison records show that

Ruiz was Hispanic, and not black — though court records listed him as African-American.

He had recently been released from prison, and had knifed a cop moments before he was fatally shot, according to authorities.

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Bail nix for NBC 'invader'

The nut who allegedly stormed the set of NBC's 'Today' Show and hurled a racial slur at host Craig Melvin is now set for an extended stay at Rikers Island — after he violated the terms of his earlier probation, a court heard Wednesday.

Andrew Truelove, 41, was ordered held without bail during a brief hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The ruling came after Truelove was accused July 16 of barging into an unauthorized area of 30 Rockefeller Center, demanding to know the whereabouts of beloved anchor Al Roker before encountering Melvin and calling him the N-word.

During Wednesday's hearing, Justice Gregory Carro heard arguments that the arrest had violated the conditions set as part of Truelove's sentencing on a criminal-mischief rap just a month earlier. Kyle Schnitzer and Steven Hirsch

'Terminal' cases ICE ramps up deports at airports

By CHRIS NESI

You're no longer free to move about the cabin.

ICE has begun arresting foreign nationals who have overstayed their visas when they check into airports around the US — following reports that the TSA is sharing passenger data with immigration officers.

At least 27 people from over a dozen countries have been arrested while traveling through US airports, according to ABC News, citing Department of Homeland Security documents.

'DHS reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country. Under President Trump, DHS

will no longer tolerate this,' DHS said.

'This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport.'

Airports, of course, require flyers to share their personal details in order to get on planes — giving ICE agents clear opportunities to target illegal migrants for arrest.

Anti-Trump legal group American Oversight on Tuesday released a document outlining a data-sharing agreement between ICE and the Transportation Security Administration.

The document, signed in May 2025, describes in non-specific terms that

TSA will provide ICE with certain passenger data elements which the agency will collect and retain.

However, the appendices in the document identifying the precise data being shared were all but completely redacted.

Broad reach

The expanded enforcement effort marks the opening of a new front for the DHS as it scrambles to meet administration arrest quotas numbering in the thousands per day.

The exact airports where arrests have been made was not immediately clear, but there have been reports of ICE arrests at airports in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Nashville, Denver and San Francisco.

Footage of some of the arrests have been making the rounds on social media, including the apprehension of Phu Nguyen, an Australian citizen born in Vietnam, on a visa that expired in 2015, at LAX on Monday.

Another widely circulated video shows ICE officers arresting Chantal Morales Rojas, 27, an Ecuadorian woman living in Oakland, about to board a flight home from Denver Airport.

ICE told the Denver Post that Rojas' visa had expired in January 2025 and was therefore in the country illegally.

Although the arrests have only recently ramped up, ICE has had a toehold at US airports for more than a year.

Guard was prisoner of love

A female corrections officer was caught canoodling with a male inmate at a New Jersey federal prison after her jailbird lover paid other prisoners to stand lookout during their trysts, and even had a pregnancy scare from the sordid affair, according to feds.

Jordan Pensak, a guard at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix, was slapped with a criminal summons by the FBI at the prison Monday and charged for a Jan. 8 sex act with the inmate, NJ.com reported.

Starting in 2024, Pensak had sex with an inmate several times in an office at the prison, the federal charge against her alleges.

Pensak, who hinted at having a husband in texts, and her imprisoned lover exchanged over 100 sexually explicit messages, photos and videos, the Philly Voice reported, citing the summons. Ella Morrison

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Darkest Days

Zo-sparked violence on Jewish day of sorrow

THE ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, "Tisha B'Av," is the darkest day on the Jewish calendar. Jews observe it by sitting on the floor, fasting and rehearsing the calamities that have shaped Jewish history: the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Crusades, the Spanish Expulsion and the Holocaust.

The holiday is a reminder that too many chapters of the Jewish story have been written in tears. But this year, our darkest day became even darker.

Tisha B'Av commemorates the tragedies of the past, but last week, the past became the present. After spending the morning at The Jewish Center, the synagogue I lead on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Moshe Grunhaus, wearing a yarmulke, started to walk home. He barely made it 200 feet when he was stabbed by a man who shouted, "Allahu Akbar," the words with which Islamist terrorists have all too often announced their murderous intent.

The alleged assailant was quickly apprehended. In addition to charging the defendant with assault and attempted murder, the Manhattan district attorney charged him with a hate crime. Thank God, Moshe survived the attack and is expected to make a full recovery. But that's scant consolation for a community that increasingly feels vilified, isolated and unsafe in the city it has called home for many generations.

For the first time in memory, Jewish life in America is beginning to feel like Jewish life in Europe: armed guards, bullet-proof glass, security checkpoints and the constant fear that yesterday's rhetoric will become today's assault.

What happened last week on West 86th Street didn't happen in a vacuum. When public officials repeatedly cast the Jewish community as a stand-in for the actions of the Israeli government, visibly Jewish New Yorkers increasingly find themselves in the crosshairs. Mamdani is patently wrong to pretend he can criticize Israel, and oppose its very existence as a Jewish state, without demeaning its supporters — specifically, Jews.

My congregants have asked me whether their children ought to wear caps rather than yarmulkes

Outraged: Protesters this week held Mamdani responsible for fueling antisemitic violence after Moshe Grunhaus was stabbed on the UWS.

in public. My dental hygienist recently told me her 10-year-old grandson came home from public school and asked his mother, "Why do we have to be Jewish?"

Words matter. They establish moral boundaries. They shape what people believe is acceptable to say, and, eventually, what people believe is acceptable to do. The mayor has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal; he's falsely accused Israel of committing genocide; he's alleged that it's an apartheid state; and he's used words like "monsters" to describe its backers.

This drumbeat of demonization has helped create a climate in which Jew-haters feel increasingly emboldened. Last week's attack was a sobering reminder that reckless political theater invites bad actors to translate hateful rhetoric into actual hate crimes.

The irony could not be more painful. The rabbis famously taught that the Jews' Second Temple was destroyed because of sin at chin, baseless hatred.

Neighbors stopped being neighborly. Civility gave way to contempt. Instead of seeing one another as fellow human beings, people instead saw enemies, rivals and objects of suspicion.

That lesson remains painfully relevant. Societies are undone not only by external enemies; they are weakened from within when contempt becomes fashionable, when disagreement hardens into demonization and when neigh-

bors become caricatures.

Violence rarely begins with weapons. It begins with words.

For the Jewish community, Tisha B'Av has always been about memory. We recount our tragedies not because we relish dwelling on suffering, but because memory creates moral obligation.

It reminds us how quickly incendiary words can become prejudice, how quickly prejudice can devolve into dehumanization and how quickly dehumanization can erupt into violence.

Now the mayor is using his platform to foment the very fractiousness we're meant to rise above. He's called for New Yorkers to protest Netanyahu's presence when he visits New York in September.

Has he shown equal urgency in protecting the Jewish New Yorkers who become the targets of the passions such protests inflame? The first obligation of any mayor is the safety of his citizens. Fixating on the policies of a foreign leader while failing to confront rising antisemitism on the streets of New York constitutes mayoral malpractice and risks endangering more Jewish lives.

Our moment demands that people of conscience not only condemn antisemitism but also speak out against rhetoric that endangers Jews — before more violence occurs. Let's shine the light of moral clarity across our city before next year's Tisha B'Av grows even darker.

Yosie Levine is the rabbi at The Jewish Center in New York City.

FAST TAKES

Democrat: Leave the Theatrics to Hollywood

The US entertainment industry's "gloriously cutthroat" spirit "makes America the cultural center of the world and a domestic economic growth engine," but the suit by a dozen blue-state attorneys general to "block the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance puts it all at risk" with bogus antitrust claims, warns Ari Emanuel at The Wall Street Journal. In their the "trash" antitrust case, the AGs "pretend Amazon MGM, A24 and Lionsgate don't exist" though their films have grossed billion already this year. The merged firm's "27% share of feature-film box office" won't "substantially lessen competition"; indeed, the deal leaves the new company "committed to at least 30 theatrical releases a year." "The harm doesn't begin when the attorneys general win their suit," it began when money started to pour "into legal fees rather than productions." "Let Hollywood creatives get back to trying to rip each other's heads off . . . it's what we're best at."

Conservative: Dems Outgrew Common Sense

Elon Musk in a recent interview offered "a powerful diagnosis of the growing gulf between America and Europe, Republicans and Democrats, 'normal people' and the mainstream media," remarks USA Today's Nicole Russell. The interviewer claimed Musk "supports not just the populist right but the far right — in fact, very fringe parties"; he replied, "No, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely." Russell continues: He dared his questioner "to consider that 10 to 15 years ago, Obama and Clinton held the same views on immigration and other issues that Trump holds today, views the 'lunatic left' now brands far right." At every level of government, "commonsense ideas Democrats once agreed on are now dismissed as fringe" and: "The chasm between right and left" is "dug deeper by the media."

Libertarian: Too Many Elex Over From the Start

Some 150 House races this year "had no meaningful competition," gripes Reason's Eric Boehm, with incumbents "all but guaranteed another two years in office after running unopposed in their primaries" in districts that are super-safe red or blue seats — leaving more than 84 million Americans "effectively disenfranchised." California, Washington and Hawaii now have "open, all-candidate primaries," leaving only five of their 63 House seats uncontested. Yes, that often means "two candidates from the same party advancing" to the general, but it beats watching more than one-third of candidates win before the election even starts. "Americans should be embracing any and all ideas that aim to make elections more competitive."

Historian: DSA Takeover Was By Invitation

Elizabeth Warren

The socialist "takeover of the Democratic Party" wasn't sparked by concerns about "affordability," but "was merely the logical culmination of . . . radicalism within the Democratic aristocracy," including "Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Hakeem Jeffries," contends Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness. "Mainstream Democrats" spread nearly every "weaponized scam and national hysteria in the last two decades." Did the "Democratic" apparat calm the waters, when "three would-be assassins got close enough to killing Trump?" Did they "at least pretend to deplore the violence" against ICE? No, socialists "did not hijack the party;" they "were spawned and nurtured by aged Democrats," adding only antisemitism. "America will soon see how this insanity works out."

Urbanist: Rent Freeze at Real Risk

In response to the Rent Guidelines Board vote "to fulfill the mayor's campaign promise" of a "rent freeze," a group of "affected property owners" have sued "to nullify" that 0% hike, notes City Journal's John Ketcham. A politically-motivated vote "could constitute a violation of due process." The law requires the RGB to "weigh evidence of certain economic factors" in its deliberations, yet the "evidence before the RGB — based upon the board's own research — does not support" the freeze, since it found landlords' expenses up 5.3% in the last year. Plus, multiple board members have well-documented "histories of anti-owner bias," also supporting "a finding that the RGB's decision was arbitrary and capricious."

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A Contemptible Silence

America deserves answers about the feds and COVID — but got none of them from Wednesday's Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, because Dr. Anthony Fauci chose to take the Fifth for four hours, 111 times.

Outrageous: The Fifth Amendment grants a right to not incriminate yourself, yet Fauci is immune to criminal charges thanks to President Joe Biden's blanket pardon.

The nation's longtime infectious-diseases czar bore major responsibility for closing schools and businesses during the pandemic, forcing toddlers to wear masks and imposing dubious vaccine mandates on whole classes of Americans.

Does Fauci regret any of it, especially when he so confidently advised these moves despite a lack of compelling scientific evidence that such moves made any real sense?

Why did he direct taxpayer funds to Chinese "gain-of-function" experiments that created viruses targeted at humans?

Why did he lie repeatedly about those funding decisions and use his official powers to fake a scientific consensus that the

COVID virus developed naturally?

Above all: What can we do next time to make sure this doesn't happen again?

"I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions," was all Fauci had to say.

Chairman Paul will move to hold Fauci in contempt for his stonewalling, and rightly so.

As Sen. Josh Hawley noted, "The Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more. Brown vs. Walker, 1896: 'When he has been pardoned, he may not stand upon his privilege.'" So the only thing that could land Fauci in legal trouble is if commits some new crime now, such as lying under oath. Maybe his lawyers think he can't stop himself from lying?

He refused to answer even when asked the day of the week and the color of his tie.

Fauci made a complete mockery of the Fifth Amendment, just as his tyrannical pandemic policies ran roughshod over a host of other constitutional rights. The Senate has a clear duty to hold him in contempt, and with all practical penalties that can entail.

Trump's Gift to His Iran-War Critics

President Trump's enemies want Americans to think he has no idea what he's doing in the Iran war — and his own words can make it easy for them to sell that claim.

Like when he says he's pausing strikes because the Iranians really seem to want to talk — yet Iran's military never stops striking its neighbors (our allies) and our bases, killing our troops.

It makes perfect sense that he vows serious hurt after Tehran shot missiles at US forces in Jordan, but then he says in the same breath that negotiations will continue.

Sometimes his own people put out a confusing line, like last weekend's leaks about how US stocks of interceptors were running low, and that's why we paused bombing late Friday. Huh? Taking out Iran's missile and drone launch sites more robustly is the best way to reduce our use of THAAD and Pa-

triot interceptors: You don't have to stop missiles the enemy can't launch.

After multiple rounds of pause-and-resume, it's unmistakable that Iran reads any US restraint as weakness.

Whereas Tehran needs to worry when Saudi Arabia joined US strikes on Iran's pet Iraqi militias: Every sign that Iran's attacks are bolstering the alliance against it sends the best possible signal. And you on Ukraine for hitting a Russian vessel ferrying to and from Iran via the Caspian Sea.

The Iranian strategy — which now has the Houthis joining in the economic warfare — sure seems to assume that concern for the US economy is what explains Trump's pauses. If that really is the issue, the prez should say so clearly, because otherwise he's confusing the American public more than he is the enemy.

What NYC's Schools Refuse Learn

New York City public schools have fallen completely back to the discredited practice of "social promotion" — moving students on to the next grade no matter what — even as the evidence grows that it's a terrible mistake.

Last year, Department of Education schools held back just 0.4% of students in grades 3 through 8 — though 40% failed to meet proficiency standards on state tests, and 3% didn't meet the most minimal requirements for promotion.

The number of students held back has plummeted since 2014, when Mayor Bill de Blasio started letting schools rely on "holistic" measures instead of standardized test scores. About the same time, Mississippi started taking the exact opposite approach

— part of a huge success.

In 2013, the state passed the Literacy-Based Promotion Act, which ended social promotion and required third graders to show reading proficiency before advancing to fourth grade. Schools notify families when a child is at risk of being held back and create a reading plan to help them catch up.

The results speak for themselves: Today, Mississippi's fourth graders read nearly a full school year ahead of their NYC peers, though the city spends three times as much per pupil; the Magnolia State now leads the nation in teaching black kids to read.

Bottom line: The folks running education policy in New York City simply refuse to take the obvious steps to ensure our kids learn to read.

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Zo's 'Eat the Rich' Hit List: Why Doxx Your Neighbors?

• You probably won't find the names of Mayor Mamdani and his parents on that database of wealthy property owners because their expensive second home is in Uganda ("Dox'terZo's hit list," July 28).

You won't hear a word of complaint about that out of the mouth of our spoiled rich-kid Marxist mayor, who loves to grab other people's money.

Gary Mottola Brooklyn

• Kudos for your article — Mayor Mamdani's disdain for the property rights of his constituents has been quite evident, but who knew he held such contempt for their rights to privacy, as well? What possible public purpose could be served by the doxxing of any homeowner's tax status?

James Evans Worcester, Mass.

• Mamdani has now committed the dumbest act in the history of New York City politics by exposing resident potential targets for a new "second home tax" that he and the re-

THE ISSUE: The city lists names and addresses of all homeowners who may fall under the new pied-à-terre tax.

Mayor Mamdani

pugnant governor favor. By publicly providing the names and addresses of people the tax will target, he exposes them all to ridicule and potential physical harm, including assaults or even murder, by hateful radicals. This act may fly in commie countries, but in America we don't do that to our neighbors.

Rich Klitzberg Princeton, NJ

• Zohran has surely outdone Tony Soprano — by publishing what amounts

to a hit list on wealthy New Yorkers, he has put thousands in jeopardy.

Jews aren't the only unsafe group in New York. They're now joined by anyone who has a nice apartment and thought that paying exorbitant taxes would be enough — not so in Mamdani's world.

JJ Levine Miami Beach, Fla.

• Being that the mayor's desire is to print the names of New Yorkers he will tax on his "Eat the Rich" campaign, I feel that he should include his mother's name on his enemies list, as she owned a $2 million home in Manhattan. Jeff Cooperman Land O' Lakes, Fla.

• The mayor is a dangerous and hateful person for listing all the names of "wealthy" property owners for his base to go seek out. He's acting like Stalin because he's a communist himself.

John Stanolevich Flushing

Don's Chance To Torture Journas

• At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Trump was a tired old man, dozing off during the early speeches and he was not funny at all ("Journas" on the Don ribs," July 27).

He couldn't deliver a few of the jokes because he doesn't know how to tell them. He also gave a very mundane and boring speech, reverting to the usual nonsense: the ballroom, America's war in Iran and "woe is me." Ridiculous! Hank DePerro Manhattan

• Trump had the opportu-

THE ISSUE: President Trump's remarks at Friday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner.

nity of a lifetime with a room filled with media hunches. They were a captivated audience or rather, a captive audience, subjected to an onslaught of verbal assaults. Then again, they had it coming.

The president made it perfectly clear that while he disagreed with much of the media, he nonetheless had much respect for the industry and looked forward to returning next year. After a grueling evening for those in at-

tendance, I'm not sure that the Correspondents' Association felt the same way. Ronald Frank West Orange, NJ

• After his dismal performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this past weekend, it should be obvious to everyone — except the president, of course — that our lame-duck leader has no future in stand-up comedy.

Bob Ory, Chicago

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Gulf Allies Can't Wait

On-again, off-again war's cost

PRESIDENT Trump says he has "plenty of time" for talks with Iran. That works because Washington, DC, is 7,000 miles away from the Strait of Hormuz. But if you are in Dubai, the distance drops down to less than 50 miles.

While America can afford a protracted war far from its borders to degrade Iran's military capabilities, such low-intensity confrontation comes at a high cost for the six Gulf Arab nations. Iranian strikes on civilian infrastructure like airports and power plants along with the uncertain fate of oil exported through the Strait of Hormuz has had a devastating economic impact. For the Gulf countries, this war cannot end too soon.

If America wants to twist Iran's arm to force it to concede, therefore, then Washington must apply greater military force. The last thing Gulf countries want to live through is the current on-again, off-again war.

For Gulf economies to rebound, American consistency, which is in short supply these days, is a necessary condition. Throughout the war that began at the end of Febru-

ary, these countries have been on the receiving end of sustained Iranian attacks. Unlike Israel, the US's partner in the first phase of the war, the Gulf states don't possess the will or the means to join the fight.

Must the United States then curb its bombing of Iran so Tehran's immediate neighbors are spared from its wrath? And if not, can Washington do anything to provide them with more protection?

Nearly six months into a war that all six Gulf states initially opposed, Iran's attacks have left them in no doubt that the regime poses the most direct and deadliest threat to their security. That realization hasn't resulted in a unified Gulf policy toward Iran.

Some states are more hawkish than others. But the economic strain brought about by the war, by Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and now by the growing tensions in the broader Red Sea, has forced all of them to conclude that the current situation of "no war, no peace" isn't tenable.

Among the hawks, the United Arab Emirates stands out as the most strident voice. After the Ira-

Stepping up: Saudi Arabia joined in a US strike on an IRGC-linked site in Iraq.

nians pounded Abu Dhabi with ballistic missiles, the UAE broke diplomatic ties with Iran, deported Iranian expatriates and froze Iranian bank accounts.

Bahrain — which hosts the US Fifth Fleet and US Naval Forces Central Command — is also a staunch opponent of Tehran. During the recent fighting, Iranian forces attacked civilian and military installations in Bahrain. Bahrain struck Iranian targets in response. Nor have the remaining Gulf

countries, which tend toward neutrality and have historically had good relations with Iran, been spared. Iran pulled Kuwait into the fray by targeting its main international airport, along with desalination plants, power stations and offshore oil rigs.

When it comes to Qatar and Oman, both have continued to appease the mullahs despite attacks on their soil by Tehran.

Saudi Arabia has adopted a similarly non-confrontational posture,

although it joined in US attacks on Iranian-linked sites in Iraq this week after they targeted US forces.

As the US deliberates on the next steps in the war, it will need to take into account these different positions, given our close commercial and military ties in the Gulf.

None of these countries is likely to oppose a further US military offensive outright, particularly if it ends Iran's stranglehold on the passage of oil. Conversely, a US pullback will send a signal to Tehran that it is the main power in that region, to the detriment of our Gulf Arab allies.

To be blunt, there is no way of preventing Iran from retaliating against the Gulf states. The question, therefore, is how much more pain these states are prepared to absorb.

As long as the Islamic Republic remains a threat, the Gulf States have to choose between appeasement, which will cement Iran as the dominant power in the region, containment, which means relying on a United States that is wary of indefinite commitments, or confrontation, which will require them to step up their own defense and even acquire nuclear weapons.

A better option is to resolve the problem now by urging Trump to follow through on his latest warnings to Iran's rulers. Because whether they like it or not, as long as the regime survives, ultimately all the Gulf states are at risk.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain is a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

SHEER IGNORANCE FUELS DSA AGENDA

THE Democratic Socialists of America don't like being called Communists, though many members might echo the sentiment of leftist influencer Hasan Piker when he says, "I don't have an issue with an end goal of communism."

Yet however the group self-identifies, its agenda is openly revolutionary. Its plans call for, among other things, abolishing the US Senate and making the executive branch and the Supreme Court subservient to the House of Representatives.

Like many a revolutionary organ, the DSA acts as a party within a party, and it increasingly represents the youth wing of the Democrats. Elected officials aligned with the group, like Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, look to be the future of the party.

Yet the DSA's ideas are remarkably old-fashioned — so old, in fact, they were refuted by John Adams in 1787. That was the year he began publishing a multi-volume work called "A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America."

The book refers to "constitutions," plural, because Adams hadn't seen the new US Constitution drawn up in Philadelphia that year. He was actually defending the state constitutions against French intellectuals who insisted they should be more radical.

That was just two years before the out-

break of the French Revolution, with all the murder and mayhem it would bring.

The old French versions of today's DSA schemers condemned bicameral legislatures for the same reason Mamdani and AOC's fans do now: Their idea of "democracy" called for centralizing power in a single body. No checks, no balances and certainly no federalism — the whole nation was to be personified in an omnipotent unitary legislature.

Adams, who'd been one of the first American revolutionary leaders to call for independence from Britain, was no enemy of popular self-government. But pure democracy would be as bad as any other kind of centralized despotism — so he defended the "mixed" constitutions of the states, almost all of which had separate upper and lower legislative chambers and divided legislative, executive and judicial power.

The federal Constitution was drawn up on the same principles — and combined with them with a division of powers between the states and national government.

A glance at how the Constitution has performed for the last 239 years, compared to the chaos and bloodshed that engulfed revolutionary France once the proto-DSA types started getting their way there, shows

who was right. But the DSA, not content with dreaming of an end to capitalism, wants to end constitutionalism as well.

Revolutionary parties, like Russia's Bolsheviks, have often had such farfetched goals; the point isn't to achieve them so much as it is to wreck whatever already exists.

The DSA's first step is to radicalize the Democratic Party, making previously outrageous ideas like packing the Supreme Court seem mild by comparison to the

Democratic Socialist program. Abolishing the Senate may be politically impossible, but delegitimizing it is a way to de-legitimize obstacles to centralized power —

not just the Senate itself, with its equal representation for all states, large or small, but the very principle of federalism.

Why should North Dakota have a government of its own? What gives the people of Idaho a right to govern their own territory?

California has the largest absolute number of Republicans in the country, but because they live in what operates as a massive one-party state, they not only lack adequate representation, but what representation they have can be snatched away by the Democratic majority — as is happening now thanks to the congressional gerrymandering championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

DSA wants to make the whole country like California, only worse. That's its idea of democracy — the socialist version. It's the revolutionary French version as well, and it's as un-American as anything can be. Yet it's a magnet pulling the Democratic party hard to the left.

Notoriously, the DSA has a disproportionate number of highly educated but low-paid or unemployed members. Like the Marxists of the last century or the French philosophies of the century before that, they're sophisticated enough to seem like they know what they're talking about, if you haven't learned how disastrous their ideas have proved to be in practice.

But US education doesn't teach much about the horrors of Communism or France's Reign of Terror. Radicals occupied the educational establishment early on, and now they're reaping political rewards for the ignorance they've fostered in the public.

According to recent Cato Institute polling, Generation Z (Americans between ages 14 and 29) favors socialism over capitalism 53% to 45%, though the "Democratic Socialist" label polls less well.

Despite having "democratic" in its name, however, the DSA doesn't need majority support to bring about revolutionary change for the worse: A motivated minority is enough when the majority is unaware of its danger.

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"So you think Minnie's glasses account for her remarkable plays?" Cy the Cynic asked me.

Minnie Bottoms wears old bifocals that make her mix up kings and jacks, often to her opponents' dismay.

"She's an expert disguised as a little old lady," Cy fumed. "Ever seen a discovery play on defense?"

Cy had played at four spades. Minnie, West, led a heart: six, jack, ace. Cy led a trump to the queen and back to his king. Minnie took the ace.

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"We set her straight," the Cynic said, "but East had signaled with the eight of clubs. I was stuck in dummy. When I led a heart, East won and led a club, and Minnie won and gave East a ruff."

Minnie's play let her see how to proceed. If East signaled low on the first club, Minnie would try for two heart tricks.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS

BMW 8K ax

BMW is looking to shed 8,000 jobs, becoming the latest German automaker to warn that plunging sales in China will hit employment at home. BMW reported second-quarter sales fell 5% as it sold 30% fewer vehicles in China.

Flaring up

The Food and Drug Administration said a cyclospora outbreak it reported last week now has 93 cases, up from 72 a week ago. The outbreak is linked to a not-yet-identified product. A larger outbreak has been linked to shredded iceberg lettuce.

Chipotle cheer

While admitting that cyclospora hurt July sales, Chipotle said it still raised its full-year same-store sales outlook, sending shares higher. Second-quarter sales increased 9.3% to more than $3 billion.

Delta's bet

Delta Air Lines said it will offer a sports prediction game on flights in a partnership with DraftKings, but won't allow gambling. The game will be open to passengers aged 21 and older and allow players to win Delta gift cards.

Time to order

Sandwich chain Jersey Mike's is set to go public Thursday at an $8 billion valuation. The stock will trade on the NYSE.

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WARSH-CASE RESULT

Split Fed holds rates with a lean to increase

By TAYLOR HERZLICH

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday held interest rates steady in Kevin Warsh's second meeting as chairman — but the committee's vote revealed growing dissent as three policymakers wanted to hike rates instead.

In a 9-3 vote, the central bankers kept rates in the key 3.5% to 3.75% range even as Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan, Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack and Minneapolis' Neel Kashkari tried to raise rates by a quarter point over concerns around inflation.

"I asked for a good family fight and I got one," Warsh, who took over as chairman from Jerome Powell in May, said during a Wednesday press conference.

He repeatedly emphasized the committee's vow to get prices lower, even saying "we will not hesitate to act" — which initially sent the odds of an interest-rate hike at September's meeting soaring to more than 70%.

Blame game

But throughout the remainder of the press conference, Warsh refused to answer how he planned to lower inflation or when he would be ready to raise rates, prompting traders to shrug off that strong, anti-inflation stance.

He also appeared to blame stubbornly high inflation on his predecessor, saying: "This is not an excuse, this is a fact. This board has been in business for eight and a half weeks. The impatience that households and businesses feel [for lower inflation] has been going on for 63 months."

Before the stock market closed, the odds of a rate hike in September

Downer

Anyone hoping for an interest-rate cut had to be disappointed Wednesday when the Fed, headed by Kevin Warsh, chose to leave the cost of money unchanged — with three members even wanting to up the key figure.

Dow Jones Industrial Average

I asked for a good family fight and I got one.

— Fed Chair Kevin Warsh

were 53.3% — slightly down from the previous day and a virtual coin toss with a hold on rates.

Meanwhile, Warsh argued that movement in Treasury yields — which have moved higher since the Fed's last meeting, despite no movement in the federal funds rate — is a sign that his limited forward guidance is already working.

"Market participants are learning to play the ball, not the referee," he said.

Stocks saw wild swings during his press conference, eventually plummeting after traders took higher bond yields as a sign that the Fed is falling behind in the fight

against inflation.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1,153 points, or 2%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq slumped 1.5% and 1.7%, respectively.

Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Northlight Asset Management, said Wednesday's decision could be considered a "hawkish hold" since Warsh emphasized price stability and downplayed risks to employment.

But it's possible the Fed could be on hold for the entire year if "the upcoming data shows that inflation is moderating — and this is likely given the high values we saw last year, which will be easier to meet or

beat this year (e.g. the year-over-year comparisons become easier)," he wrote.

Logan, Hammack and Kashkari all recently warned that persistent inflation would lead to higher rates. Fed Governor Christopher Waller issued a similar warning, though he voted to hold rates steady Wednesday.

After the war in Iran severely disrupted global energy supplies, raising costs and sending inflation above 4%, some Fed officials — including Warsh — have called for a focus on lowering inflation, which typically indicates a bias toward raising rates.

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Oil spike helps grease skids for marts

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Stocks plummeted Wednesday on worries about inflation in the wake of the Federal Reserve's vote keeping interest rates steady — and as oil spiked about 6% amid fears of a protracted war with Iran.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1,153 points,

or 2.2%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell 1.5% and 1.7%, respectively.

It was the Dow's worst day in more than a year.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh refused to answer how he would lower inflation down the road — in keeping with his philosophy of opposing

overly loquacious Fed pronouncements — prompting some traders to wonder whether the Fed will act in time to prevent major price pain in the future.

Mounting fears around a potential AI bubble and concerns that China's technology is catching up to US ri-

ivals also continued to weigh on stocks. Stateside chipmakers like AMD, Nvidia and Broadcom sank 6%, 4% and 3%, respectively.

Investors were also spooked after President Trump vowed to retaliate for Iran's surprise overnight missile attacks targeting US

troops in Jordan.

Brent crude oil prices surged 6.6% to $90.65 a barrel while West Texas Intermediate crude jumped 5.4% to $84.66 on concerns that a broadening Middle East conflict could worsen an already historic energy-supply disruption. Taylor Herzlich

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EV Luce lifts Ferrari sales

Ferrari has hit its annual sales target for its first-ever electric vehicle on the back of strong demand from China, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing sources.

The luxury sports-car maker aimed to sell just under 500 units of the Luce model this year, and that quota was filled in less than two months since the car's May 25 launch, the newspaper said.

The Italian company's press of-

fice declined to comment.

Ferrari previously said it would give an update on the market reception for the Luce on Thursday, as it presents its half-year results.

The $626,285 Luce (right) is a four-door, five-seat family car that has attracted a slew of negative reviews due to its unusual and polarizing looks, largely the work of former Apple designers Jony Ive and Marc Newson.

Last month, a senior Ferrari executive said the car's unconventional appearance was largely dictated by aerodynamic requirements and needed to be "digested" before it can be understood.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal before the car's unveiling, Ferrari Chairman John Elkann acknowledged that the vehi-

cle was a break from Ferrari's past that aims to address the pitfalls of modern high-end EVs.

"It is definitely a car of the future," Elkann said. Reuters

DoorDash plans to drone on

DoorDash for years has rushed online orders from burritos to cold medicine to customers' homes via bike couriers, drivers and drone operators. Now the delivery provider is getting into the drone business itself.

DoorDash on Wednesday said it secured a key certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to make commercial deliveries using its own drones. The company is developing the unmanned aircraft, along with the ground infrastructure and digital systems needed to coordinate order pickup and delivery.

The move takes the San Francisco company, which delivers orders from restaurants and stores, directly into the emerging market for aerial deliveries.

Retailers like Amazon and Walmart have rolled out the option to some customers over the past several years in a bid to speed up the delivery of small items, such as candy or baby formula, by flying over traffic.

DoorDash has offered drone delivery in some areas of the US for the past four years through partnerships with drone operators such as Wing, a unit of Alphabet, and Flytrex. But to date, the company hasn't manufactured its own drones.

DoorDash said it plans to continue those partnerships. Dow Jones

War takes toll on P&G

Procter & Gamble gave a soft outlook for its new fiscal year, as it expects to take a $1 billion hit from higher costs related to the Iran war.

The maker of Crest toothpaste and Pantene shampoo also logged a lower profit in its latest quarter, as higher costs and sluggish sales weighed on its bottom line.

Like many consumer-facing companies, P&G is navigating a combination of price-sensitive shoppers and higher costs for fuel and other supplies.

Sales rose 2% to $21.2 billion. Dow Jones

'Out' diamond firm

Group offers only $1B for gem giant De Beers

By ARIEL ZILBER

Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but the business just ain't what it used to be for De Beers.

The onetime diamond monopoly is reportedly looking at a $1 billion offer from a consortium that wants to take it over — a huge reduction from De Beers' previous peak valuation of around $18 billion.

The British multinational is in sale talks with a group called Global Diamond Consortium, led by ex-De Beers CEO Gareth Penny, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday.

An ongoing diamond crisis has seen De Beers' valuation plummet to around $2.3 billion as of February, according to the outlet.

Now Global Diamond Consortium wants to pay just $1 billion for the majority stake currently held by mining company Anglo American, sources told

High valuation not forever

Bloomberg. The consortium would pay $750 million upfront, with the rest of the dough transferred later.

Recent years have seen the diamond industry hammered by a variety of

factors, Bloomberg noted. After a sales boom during the COVID pandemic, luxury spending in China, a key market for natural diamonds, plummeted.

Synthetic diamonds rose in popularity, with wed-

ding site The Knot finding that nearly half of engagement stones in 2023 were lab-grown diamonds. Demand for the genuine article nosedived worldwide.

Recent trade tensions and geopolitical tumult-

have only worsened the situation, Bloomberg reported. Both Anglo American and Global Diamond Consortium declined to comment to the outlet.

"The valuation ... reflects the state of the diamond industry and the belief that the current challenges are long-term and not cyclical," Joshua Freedman, senior analyst for the Rapaport Group, which covers the diamond industry, told The Post.

"It's worth noting that the bidders are seeking outside funding for the deal, so it is dependent on external parties seeing enough value in De Beers," he added.

Victorian imperialist Cecil Rhodes founded De Beers in 1888. Since not long after, the company has been virtually synonymous with the diamond business, for good and ill.

Additional reporting by Lisa Fickenscher

Sweet: S'bucks sales up

Shares of Starbucks rallied more than 7% in extended trading Wednesday after the coffee chain reported its fourth straight increase in same-store sales and said that the latest quarter was proof that its turnaround plan is working.

Starbucks' sales in North America led the way and offset a 34% drop in international sales, thanks to an increase in transactions and in the average ticket.

CEO Brian Niccol said the company leaned on new products like novelty sugary drinks and limited-offer items like S'mores beverages that resonated "particularly well" with Gen Z customers, he added.

Overall, Starbucks' fiscal third-quarter same-store sales rose 7.9%, well above analysts' estimates of a 5.7% increase. Total sales ticked down 1.4% to $9.32 billion, but still beat estimates. Dow Jones

FTC's telehealth lawsuit

The Federal Trade Commission sued Hims & Hers Health, alleging the telehealth company shared users' information with third-party advertising platforms, despite pledging to protect patient privacy.

The FTC, joined by Utah and California, also alleges Hims & Hers deceived users about its billing and cancellation practices, charging patients before they met with providers and making it diffi-

cult to cancel subscriptions.

Hims & Hers disputed the lawsuit and said it would defend itself against the claims.

Shares declined 15% Wednesday. According to the suit, Hims & Hers shared lists of certain customers, and the actions of visitors on its website, with advertisers such as Meta and Snap, although it claimed its service maintains consumers' privacy. Dow Jones

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Microsoft reported robust cloud growth and a boost in the number of paid AI subscribers, as investors remain fixated on whether the tech giant's data-center spending will pay off.

Microsoft's revenue grew 18% to $90 billion in the quarter ended in June, a sign that the company's AI revenue growth is accelerating and it will continue to spend on data centers.

Net income increased 31% to $35.8 billion. The result beat Wall Street's expectations.

"This year, Azure revenue surpassed $100 billion for the first time, and Microsoft 365 Copilot reached over 30 million paid seats, reflecting the confidence customers are placing in us to power their AI transformation," CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement.

Azure remains one of the numbers investors watch most closely as a read on general AI demand.

Shares of Microsoft, which are down about 18% so far this year, were up 7% in after-hours trading. Dow Jones

Musk & ad biz settle

Elon Musk's X and the World Federation of Advertisers said Wednesday they had settled litigation over an alleged advertiser boycott of the social media platform linked to the now-defunct Global Alliance for Responsible Media.

The announcement follows a March ruling in which a judge dismissed X's antitrust lawsuit that also named Mars, CVS Health and others. Reuters

Keep out!

US bans Xi bots on security fears

By MARC VARTABEDIAN

The Trump administration is banning Chinese robots in an effort to stem national security risks and help the domestic AI industry continue to grow.

The Federal Communications Commission listed imports of new humanoid and quadruped robots from China — along with connected power inverters, which let the devices connect to the US grid — as verboten. They can no longer be imported, marketed or sold in the US.

"Advanced robotic devices collect data that could be leveraged by malign actors to surveil Americans, enhance the capabilities of foreign intelligence services, or to remotely commandeer the robots," the White House said a Tuesday statement.

China produces the vast majority of the world's humanoid robots — one

of the latest flashpoints in the artificial intelligence arms race between Washington and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Race to improve

Analysts say China has built a lead in AI consumer applications and AI-enabled hardware thanks to its mass-manufacturing capabilities.

Today, the bots can perform limited basic tasks like greeting customers at a store or simple home chores like folding laundry.

Technologists are racing to improve humanoid robot capabilities, believing one day the bots will be everywhere in homes, schools, workplaces and factories.

The crackdown stems from a national security determination issued Monday by a White House-convened interagency body, which concluded that internet-connected robots

could expose Americans to data privacy and cybersecurity risks.

"Advanced robotic devices collect data that could be leveraged by malign actors to surveil Americans, enhance the capabilities of foreign intelligence services, or to remotely commandeer the robots," the White House said.

In a separate statement, the FCC warned that the machines "could create supply chain vulnerabilities that could disrupt US economic and national security and could create a cybersecurity risk that threatened American critical infrastructure."

Humanoid robots could become one of the biggest market opportunities in the AI boom, according to Dan Ives, partner and senior managing director at Yorkville Ives.

"This is the golden goose for physical AI," he told CNBC last month.

ZUCK OPEN UP AI

Decentralize power

By TAYLOR HERZLICH

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg blasted the "centralization" of AI in the hands of a few powerful companies and voiced opposition to potential bans on Chinese AI models as he hailed open access to the new tech as a way to unlock prosperity.

Writing in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Zuckerberg said he is surprised by how much of the discourse around AI "is so filled with doom," arguing that humans are "fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history."

"I don't understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity's relevance would rush to build that future," wrote Zuckerberg, in an apparent swipe at OpenAI and Anthropic execs who have warned of mass job displacement.

"The notion that AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems dangerous," he added. "Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened hasn't led to safe or positive outcomes."

The Trump administration is reportedly finalizing an executive order calling on tech giants to submit to a voluntary 30-day review period on new AI models after an OpenAI hacking incident and an ultra-powerful new Anthropic model raised cybersecurity concerns.

In his Journal op-ed, Zuckerberg acknowledged that "There are new issues that we need to think through," but insisted that "distributing

the technology seems like it is creating more value than harm by quite a margin on all these fronts."

"I think saying, 'Hey, we want to review stuff for' — whatever it is — 30 or 60 days, it may not sound like that much," he said. "But the field is moving so quickly, that actually is quite a meaningful amount of time."

Oh, the humanity

US government officials are reportedly also considering restricting American companies from accessing Chinese AI models, after a top White House tech official accused China's Moonshot AI of stealing from Anthropic to help create its latest Kimi K3 release.

On Tuesday, the FCC announced a new ban on Chinese humanoid robots over national security risks.

But Zuckerberg said he doubted "banning open-source models from different countries is going to be productive," arguing that policymakers should instead focus on accelerating AI advancements at home.

His company's chief AI scientist, Shengjia Zhao, joined executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and other top tech companies in a Tuesday letter urging the US government to help develop safeguards "needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development."

Separately, Meta reported record revenue of $60.8 billion for the second quarter, but said minimum spending on its AI buildout will increase by $5 billion.

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MSG, YES both

leaving Gotham app for DAZN

By CHRISTIAN ARNOLD

MSG and YES networks are ditching the Gotham Sports App and moving to DAZN as their streaming home beginning this fall in a landmark deal for the London-based platform.

The agreement, announced Wednesday morning in a joint release by MSG Networks and YES Network, will move live streaming coverage of the Yankees, Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, Nets, Devils and Sabres games.

Additionally, 24/7 feeds of MSG, MSG Sportsnet and YES Network will be available to stream on DAZN, as well as on-demand content.

The streams will be available to subscribers within the networks' respective coverage area, and those who already subscribe to either regional sports network as part of their TV package will continue to have streaming access via DAZN at no added cost.

No prices were announced, but a YES Network spokesperson told The Post that the pricing and products under the DAZN deal will be consistent with the current bundled offerings by YES and Gotham on the app at launch.

Gotham Sports App monthly plan costs area sports fans $34.99 and an annual subscription is $299.99, with cheaper options for single-game viewing on MSG Networks, day viewing for YES Network, and monthly and annual plans for the individual networks.

Users will not need to sign up for a DAZN subscription to access any MSG or YES content, but users can add on a DAZN subscription if they choose, the spokesperson said.

The change means that both regional sports networks will be moving away from Gotham Sports, which had been a collaboration between MSG and YES to bundle their sports offerings together in a direct-to-consumer streaming offering.

The move away from the Gotham app is one that drew some excitement from sports fans in the area, after the product received criticism since its launch in the fall of 2024. Users have complained about various issues with the app.

"Why would they get rid of the Gotham Sports app? It's such a well-designed and performing app..." one user wrote on X following the announcement Wednesday.

"We are victorious in our conquest. The people have prevailed," another user wrote.

"I have DIRECTV Stream. I rarely use the Gotham app. It's very glitchy," a third person explained on social media.

Wednesday's announcement did not specifically say when the switch to DAZN would take place or provide details other than to say the move will come during the 2026-27 NBA and NHL seasons.

Yankees fans will not have to switch apps during the current baseball season, the YES spokesperson also confirmed.

Area sports fans who already subscribe to the Gotham Sports App will not face any interruption to their access to content as the networks prepare to migrate to DAZN.

"We have great momentum with our Gotham Sports App and all of our viewing metrics and subscription numbers," Jon Litner, president and CEO of the YES Network, told Sports Business Journal. "But as we sort of look out into the future, we are always thinking strategically ... [and] we want to make sure that we continue to evolve our product."

"In this case, we have the opportunity to align ourselves with a company that is truly a global leader with a proven track record in digital streaming, in the digital streaming marketplace. And so really what made this attractive to us, it starts with the fact that DAZN has an exceptionally talented management team."

DAZN has been making inroads into the U.S. market in recent years, and in 2025 served as the exclusive global broadcast home for the Club World Cup.

Talks started between DAZN and MSG around five months ago and eventually expanded to include YES, SBJ reported. The outlet reported that DAZN was close to gaining full exclusive local broadcast rights next season for the NBA's Timberwolves, Cavaliers, Pacers, Spurs and Grizzlies, along with a direct-to-consumer deal with the Magic and potentially the Partners.

"DAZN is a premier streaming platform that operates all over the world and we couldn't be happier to offer our fans this opportunity to watch MSG Networks content on their state-of-the-art platform," MSG content and marketing exec Kevin Marotta said in a statement.

carnold@nypost.com

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NEW YORK POST ACTION

Post Time: 1:10 p.m. scangialos@nypost.com

Saratoga

Analysis by Vic Cangialosi

Lock of the Day Preside (4th) Lock Record: 7 for 14 (50%) Meet Record: 36/151 $242.58

1 1 miles; $100,000; mdn; 3up(f) Rain, four to five inches of it, forced a cancellation of Wednesday's card at Saratoga. If they run on Thursday all races will be on the dirt. The Gless Falls scheduled to be today's 8th race, will instead be run on Sunday. You GOTTA GUN RUNNER in the opener. Did well to finish 3rd after a wide trip at this distance. Prat on; blinkers on. Choice over the debuting UNLOCK THE VALUE (Klarovich/Brown/Franco/Rock Your World). SUTED CONNECTORS passed tired horses and debuted 5th of 12 at 37-1. Shorter price here as Clement gives the Tonaliat fifty another furlong. MTO THE UNKNOWN was 2nd in front of the compromised top pick.

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Run Flat,111	P Chandra	8-xx	Goberdhan	20-1
2 Suited Connectors(1),121	R Santana, Jr	5-xx	Clement	5-2
3 Into the Unknown(1),121	C Elliott	2-2-3	Sells	3-1
4 Unlock the Value(M),121	M Franco	4-xx	C Brown	2-1
5 Gotta Gun Runner(1),121	F Prat	3-7-5	Abreu	5-2
6 Ready Rosie Jane(1),126	K Davis	8-9-6	Zito	12-1

2 5 1/2 fur; $115,000; mdn; 2YO Two-year-olds to backend the double. FIRE MARSHAL has a race under him. Ran home 5th of 9. One to build on. Irad rides for Maker. Reprint AUTOSPELL (Pletcher/Prat/Karkoville). GAYNOR (C Englehart/Johnny V/Vekoma). TOP THRILLER (McPeeck/1 Ortiz/Vekoma) and HONEST WON (Gargan/Carmouche/Honest Mischief) make career debuts.

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Autospell,123	F Prat	4-xx	Pletcher	3-1
2 Honest Won,123	K Carmouche	4-xx	Gargan	4-1
3 Scramjet,123	M Franco	4-xx	Rice	8-1
4 Top Thriller,123	J Ortiz	4-xx	McPeeck	6-1
5 Gaynor,123	J Velazquez	4-xx	Englehart	10-1
6 Fire Marshal,123	J Ortiz, Jr	5-xx	Maker	2-1
7 Solo Stryker,123	C Elliott	4-xx	Friedman	20-1
8 Smooth Authority,123	E Zayas	4-xx	Giddings	10-1
9 Bet On Zion,123	R Gutierrez	7-xx	Rodriguez	20-1
10 Never Before,123	J Alvarado	8-xx	Englehart	15-1
11 Minuccio,123	J Lezcano	4-xx	Hennig	8-1
12 Midnight Raider,123	Rider TBA	4-xx	Friedman	12-1

3 7 fur; $68,000; clm($55,000); 3up No'n PLAYING TRICKS. Moves lower and runs shorter for Chad Brown after a midpack 5th. Won lone start at 7 furlongs. BEDARD Runnerup last pair. latest at Indiana. Route to sprint for Brad Cox but both wins were earned making 2 turns. Irad picks up the mount. BARB Turf to dirt for Maker. Won narrowly last dirt start under Prat. 0 for 3 at this shorter distance. SHATTUCK showed 3rd last 3 starts.

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Schlomo(1),126	E Zayas	3-7-3	Kantarmaci	20-1
2 Bedard(1),126	J Ortiz, Jr	2-2-6	Cox	9-5
3 Barbi(1),126	F Prat	10-1-2	Maker	5-2
4 Shattuck(1),126	R Santana, Jr	3-3-3	Sharp	8-1
5 Playing Tricks(1),126	M Franco	5-6-1	C Brown	2-1
6 Perfect Force(1),126	J Ortiz	5-3-6	Asmussen	6-1

4 1 1/3 miles; $115,000; mdn; 3up Slippy track at Churchill and PRESIDE didn't mind. Raced home a fast closing 2nd, a 1/2 length short. Graduates getting more ground. Irad picks him up for Asmussen. COLLADO HUECO finished a close 4th debuting at Aqueduct. Like Preside he may benefit getting more ground. BATTLE Debut was less inspiring. A distant 6th at 26-1 after a troubled start. Carmouche stays on for Gargan. HADRANS WALL has been 2nd best all 3 starts; twice at this distance. And PRESIDENTIAL POWER was a much improved 2nd stretching to this distance.

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Hadrian's Wall(1),121	M Franco	2-2-2	C Brown	3-1
2 Storming(1),121	L Saez	8-xx	Gargan	30-1
3 Sir Duke(1),121	R Santana, Jr	4-3-4	Kantarmaci	12-1
4 Presidential Power(1),121	J Ortiz	2-6-4	Pletcher	5-1
5 Preside(1),121	J Ortiz, Jr	2-6-4	Asmussen	7-5
6 Collado Hueco(1),121	F Prat	4-xx	C Brown	5-2
7 Battle(1),121	K Carmouche	6-xx	Gargan	20-1

5 1 1/16 miles; $60,000; clm($25,000); 4up The REYNOLDS CHANNEL is 0 for 4 on turf to the surface switch won't hurt. Shakes lower for Amelia Green after a pair of 4th place finishes. Winner racing for 50k at the Big 4 last winter. LATE CALL is 1 for 16 over the last 2 years, primarily on grass. Neck short at this distance last out. Has 2 dirt wins. Irad rides for Kantarmaci. FORTUNE SELLER has a better record on dirt as well. 1 turf wins; 3 dirt wins; but 5th of 7 last out. J Ortiz a good sign.

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Reynolds Channel(1),121	J Rodriguez	4-4-6	Green	9-2
2 Fortune Seller(1),121	J Ortiz	5-9-5	Rice	7-2
3 Life and Light(1),121	K Carmouche	6-4-3	Pringle	12-1
4 Right to Win(RE)(1),121	J Velazquez	9-1-3	Robson	6-1
5 Lou(1),121	C Elliott	7-8-8	Mann	20-1
6 Outtawatombury(1),121	K Davis	8-7-3	Donk	30-1
7 Late Call(1),121	J Ortiz, Jr	3-6-3	Kantarmaci	2-1
8 Classic Creation(1),121	D Davis	4-4-5	Terranova II	5-1
9 Ambition(1),121	M Franco	4-5-2	Kantarmaci	12-1
10 Black Powder(1),121	Rider TBA	1-5-1	Kantarmaci	4-1
11 Peek(1),121	Rider TBA	1-7-2	Rodriguez	8-1
12 Sturdy(1),121	M Franco	1-5-1	B Brown	5-2
13 Hey Toby(1),121	Rider TBA	6-4-2	Charlerie	15-1
14 Three Technique(1),121	E Zayas	2-4-7	Kantarmaci	8-1
15 Determined(1),121	Rider TBA	5-2-4	Kantarmaci	10-1
16 Sara's Shaman(1),121	Rider TBA	3-4-6	Kantarmaci	6-1

6 6 fur; $65,000; clm($30,000); 4up DID BILLY Turf to dirt for Rudy Rodriguez. Length short last dirt start. Won wins to win in February. Saez plays catch in 1/4 you can. Joe Sharp's RUN CLASSIC is the M/L favorite but he's 0 for 7 over the last 2 years. Moves lower after finishing 4th at Churchill. Irad rides. PRINCIP was a flat 5th racing 7 panels. Railed from well back to score racing 6 1/2 furlongs in June at 12-1 under Castellano. Capable. PAIR OF SOCKS is now 4 for 9 at this distance after turning in 2nd.

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Big Hat Willie(1),123	J Rodriguez	6-5-4	Shivmangal	12-1
2 Run Classic(1),121	J Ortiz, Jr	4-4-3	Sharp	9-5
3 Pair of Socks(1),123	M Franco	2-3-2	Rice	2-1
4 Kid Billy(1),123	L Saez	11-3-2	Rodriguez	6-1
5 Factually Correct(1),123	K Carmouche	3-7-1	Samoundar	9-2
6 Princip(1),123	J Castellano	5-1-3	Potts	10-1
7 Slim Slow Sider(1),121	S Gonzalez	2-6-8	Padilla	10-1

7 6 1/2 fur; $78,000; alw; 3up(f) Rice over Rice. Linda's PRINCESS NY has reported home 2nd best last 3 starts. Only 1/4 shy at this distance. Rice also saddles ADRIAN who was 3rd behind top pick in May. She's 1 for 11. The win at Churchill back in 2024. MISS ELLARY is 2 for 25. Led, gave way racing a route. Runnerup previous 7 starts, including a race at this distance.

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Sprout (1) (Bartlett)	1-1-4	8-5	1 Sunday Shoes (Ckelly)	6-5-1
2 Sprout (1) (Bartlett)	1-1-4	8-5	2 Stacking Green (Szeron)	3-3-2
3 All My Livin (Bartlett)	1-1-4	8-5	3 Chef Rocco (Bhellard)	2-1-2
4 Letonah(Hitsamowry) (Bartlett)	1-1-4	8-5	4 Willy Walton (Marston)	1-2-5
5 Hot Cam (Marston)	1-1-4	8-5	5 Smoking Jet (Dube)	6-7-5
6 Themas(Antoinette) (Szeron)	1-1-4	8-5	6 Bellissimo Face S (Bartlett)	2-1-3
7 Shore Not Beach (Dube)	1-1-4	8-5	7 Crazyland (Yungras)	1-8-3
8 Hunk The Hunk (Stratton)	1-1-4	8-5	8 Whiskey Peddler (Bartlett)	4-6-5
SECOND: Mile pace; $18,000; cond			SIXTH: Mile trot; $28,000; cond
1 Idealinfun (Asiegelman)	1-1-1	7-2	1 Dribbling Bi (Dube)	4-3-3
2 Pine Bush Maga (Bartlett)	1-1-1	7-2	2 Mississippi Storm (Bhellard)	1-6-6
3 Cannery Row (Szeron)	1-1-1	7-2	3 The Brodster (Bartlett)	7-7-3
4 Sunburst (Ckelly)	1-1-1	7-2	4 Canners Man (Asiegelman)	2-4-9
5 Kissin Joe (Bhellard)	1-1-1	7-2	5 P L Oscar (Ckelly)	8-6-2
6 Big City Daisy (Yungras)	1-1-1	7-2	6 Ritson (Stratton)	4-5-3
			7 Frank Leahy (Bartlett)	1-2-2
			SEVENTH: Mile pace; $28,000; claiming

1 Accelerated News(1),126	C Elliott	7-1-5	Giddings	9-2
2 Vino Frizzante(1),126	J Rodriguez	3-6-6	Potts	15-1
3 Meg's Foxy Grey(1),126	F Prat	6-5-4	Nevin	8-1
4 Miss Ellary(1),126	T Gaffalone	6-2-2	Robson	9-2
5 Princess Ny(1),126	J Lezcano	2-2-2	Rice	5-2
6 Adrian(1),126	M Franco	4-3-4	Rice	4-1
7 Madeline's Promise(1),126	J Alvarado	3-6-2	Romans	10-1
8 Majestic Return(1),126	R Santana, Jr	4-4-2	D Alesandro	5-1

8 1 1/2 miles(T); $250,000; Glens Falls; 4up(f) The Glens Falls will be run on Sunday.

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Survive(RE),120	F Prat	4-xx	Boughey	4-1
2 Storm Miami(RE),120	J Velazquez	4-2-4	Green	12-1
3 Massarrel,120	M Franco	1-4-8	Walsh	20-1
4 Gezora(FR),124	J Alvarado	8-2-1	Mott	2-1
5 Speed Shopper,122	J Ortiz, Jr	7-1-3	Walden	5-1
6 Venencia(FR),120	V Cheminau	2-6-6	Joseph	20-1
7 Bellezza(RE),124	J Rodriguez	3-6-6	Clement	8-1
8 Favorite Memory(GB),120	J Ortiz	6-xx	DeVaux	10-1
9 Lady Firefoot,120	R Santana, Jr	6-4-5	Schauer	30-1
10 Dona Costa(CHI),122	T Gaffalone	1-6-7	Joseph	8-1
11 Alluring Angel(GB),120	K Carmouche	2-8-7	Mott	12-1
12 BernieKashcharge,124	Rider TBA	1-5-2	Schettino	4-5

9 5 1/2 fur; $58,000; clm($40,000); 3up Sticking with ABSOLUTELY HOT even though he is 0 for 1 on dirt. Competes moving lower for Dale Romans. Gets Alvarado back, who was at the wheel for his grass win. SEEKERS HOPE MTO, so he's in. Neck short last sprint start. TAMINO is 1 of 5 on dirt and didn't appreciate the mud last out. Better at this lower level. Carmouche on the Kentucky invader.

PN Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1 Absolutely Hot(1),126	J Alvarado	5-10-1	Romans	5-1
2 Night(1),126	E Zayas	6-1-5	Lewis	9-2
3 Tamino(1),126	K Carmouche	5-3-3	LaRose	4-1
4 Moment's Notice(1),126	J Ortiz, Jr	4-7-2	Sharp	8-1
5 Out of the Fog(1),126	R Santana, Jr	1-7-7	Antonucci	15-1
6 Stratoy(corporation)(1),122	S Gonzalez	8-4-12	Arriaga	20-1
7 Slay Sadie Slay(1),122	J Ortiz	3-5-5	R Dutrow	6-1
8 Dille(1),122	M Franco	8-7-1	Morley	6-1
9 Hong Kong Phooey(1),122	F Prat	4-7-4	Rodriguez	8-1
10 Heart(1),122	K Davis	8-6-4	Ward	8-1
11 Nash Potatoes(1),126	L Saez	5-5-2	Sweezy	12-1
12 Sreek's Hope(1),126	M Franco	7-7-5	Rice	5-2
13 Leo's Reward(1),126	D Davis	8-3-6	Donk	9-2

PLAY OF THE DAY

No turf. No dirt. No races. No bets Wednesday. Buckets of rain forced a cancellation. If they race Thursday, we will play $30 to win on Preside in Race 4. — Vic Cangialosi

Wager has WNBA stars in hot water

By JOSEPH STASZEWSKI

Leave it to the WNBA to create a potential gambling scandal of its own making involving two of its most high-profile stars.

The league's official X account posted — and since deleted — a video of Wings star Paige Bueckers and Dream standout Angel Reese making a friendly wager of apparently $400 during All-Star weekend practice for Wednesday night's game, the teams' first since the break where Atlanta nipped Dallas 82-81.

The caption of the video reads: "Paige Bueckers on the bet she made with Angel Reese at All-Star Weekend on tonight's matchup."

The video, which was saved and reposted by social media sleuths, shows Reese holding a couple of hundred-dollar bills as they appear to agree to the wager. It's spliced in with someone behind the camera reminding an awkwardly smiling Bueckers of the bet on game day.

"At All-Star Weekend, you and Angel made a bet on this game, is that right?" the camera person asks her.

"We did?" Bueckers retorts before the video of the bet begins.

The video could become quite the problem for the WNBA and embattled commissioner Cathy Engelbert during a time of high scrutiny of sports betting by pro and college athletes, though this was more of a friendly wager that might quietly go on among highly paid athletes. The WNBA's CBA has a gambling clause.

It's stated in Section 5(c) that: "Any player found by the Commissioner after a hearing to have been guilty of wagering (directly or indirectly), or of offering or attempting to wager, money or anything of value on the outcome, score, or any other aspect of any WNBA Competition shall, in the sole discretion of the Commissioner, be subject to a fine, suspension, and/or dismissal and disqualification from any further association with the WNBA."

Engelbert is unlikely to ban Reese or Bueckers, two of the league's biggest stars, for this. Still, the two, by letter of the law, broke a WNBA rule and could face repercussions, along with whoever posted the video to the league's account in the first place.

Yonkers entries for Thursday

Post Time: 6:45 p.m. FIRST: Mile pace; $18,000; claiming 1 St Steves Spirit (Yungras) 8-3-1 6-1 2 Over The Horizon (Bhellard) 2-1-2 8-5 3 All My Livin (Bartlett) 8-3-5 3-1 4 Letonah(Hitsamowry) (Bartlett) 1-5-8 3-1 5 Hot Cam (Marston) 5-8-1 20-1 6 Themas(Antoinette) (Szeron) 8-6-2 20-1 7 Shore Not Beach (Dube) 8-8-7 20-1 8 Hunk The Hunk (Stratton) 3-7-1 20-1 SECOND: Mile pace; $18,000; cond 1 Idealinfun (Asiegelman) 1-1-1 7-2 2 Pine Bush Maga (Bartlett) 6-6-3 12-1 3 Cannery Row (Szeron) 4-5-7 15-1 4 Sunburst (Ckelly) 4-4-3 20-1 5 Kissin Joe (Bhellard) 6-2-5 8-1 6 Big City Daisy (Yungras) 2-2-8 4-1

7 Fight Not Flight (Bartlett) 1-1-4 8-5 8 Spirit Of Pearl A (Stratton) 2-1-8 6-1 THIRD: Mile trot; $43,000; invitational 1 All Of Muscles (Szeron) 2-4-1 6-1 2 Sir Pinocchio (Bartlett) 3-7-2 5-2 3 Astenid (Ckelly) 3-4-2 5-1 4 Green Pastures (Bartlett) 5-3-3 8-1 5 Ketoprojo's (Yungras) 2-1-1 1-1 FOURTH: Mile trot; $43,000; invitational 1 Hi Omaya (Huang) 3-4-7 20-1 2 Ma Isabelle (Plachance) 1-6-5 5-1 3 BayBreeze(Hanover(BHoll) 7-1-6 9-2 4 Hot Flash Kinny (Ckelly) 3-1-7 3-1 5 Monibay(Happyns (Gogrs) 1-3-3 6-1 6 R Lady 6 (Bartlett) 6-5-2 7-2 7 Always A Story (Stratton) 6-1-2 4-1 FIFTH: Mile trot; $22,000; claiming

1 Sunday Shoes (Ckelly) 6-5-1 3-1 2 Stacking Green (Szeron) 3-3-2 8-1 3 Chef Rocco (Bhellard) 2-1-2 9-2 4 Willy Walton (Marston) 1-2-5 7-2 5 Smoking Jet (Dube) 6-7-5 20-1 6 Bellissimo Face S (Bartlett) 2-1-3 2-1 7 Crazyland (Yungras) 1-8-3 20-1 8 Whiskey Peddler (Bartlett) 4-6-5 20-1 SIXTH: Mile trot; $28,000; cond 1 Dribbling Bi (Dube) 4-3-3 7-2 2 Mississippi Storm (Bhellard) 1-6-6 2-1 3 The Brodster (Bartlett) 7-7-3 5-2 4 Canners Man (Asiegelman) 2-4-9 12-1 5 P L Oscar (Ckelly) 8-6-2 20-1 6 Ritson (Stratton) 4-5-3 12-1 7 Frank Leahy (Bartlett) 1-2-2 9-2 SEVENTH: Mile pace; $28,000; claiming

1 Heaven On High N (Bartlett) 2-2-2 2-1 2 Yonkido N (Marston) 5-4-4 5-1 3 C-Bet Hanover (Stratton) 1-7-2 8-1 4 Alls Classic A (Bhellard) 4-7-4 7-2 5 Peace Out Posse (Bartlett) 8-3-5 8-1 6 Ever M (Ckelly) 3-1-1 9-2 7 Rolling With Sam (Yungras) 3-7-3 20-1 8 Mind Hunter (Szeron) 4-6-2 20-1 EIGHTH: Mile trot; $28,000; cond 1 Torrone (Bhellard) 5-3-1 9-2 2 Massive Desire (Yungras) 3-8-2 4-1 3 High Speed Swan (Bartlett) 4-1-3 2-1 4 Blockchain (Bartlett) 2-8-6 3-1 5 Wheelzabiain (Stratton) 7-1-1 20-1 6 Seven Layer (Asiegelman) 3-1-1 6-1 7 My Man Peter (Szeron) 2-1-1 20-1 NINTH: Mile trot; $22,000; claiming

1 Beacon Beach (Asiegelman) 7-1-7 9-2 2 Aquarius Face S (Bartlett) 4-6-6 5-1 3 Tally The Tab (Dube) 3-5-1 20-1 4 Voss Blue Chip (Ckelly) 5-1-1 12-1 5 Kays In Charge (Yungras) 1-2-1 3-1 6 B Nicking (Szeron) 1-6-2 8-1 7 Radio Lab (Bartlett) 5-1-7 20-1 8 Sea Can (Stratton) 2-4-7 20-1 TENTH: Mile pace; $15,000; claiming 1 GreatSomewhere (Lachince) 6-5-6 6-1 2 Dismas (Marston) 5-3-5 7-2 3 J B Gram (Bartlett) 4-3-3 2-1 4 Minotaur (Yungras) 7-5-6 5-2 5 Saranac Blue Chip (Ckelly) 8-5-7 15-1 6 Social Theories (Asiegelman) 5-8-1 20-1 7 Well That's Marky (Hollard) 7-5-5 20-1 8 Maximus Red A (Stratton) 5-2-4 20-1

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AL Standings

East	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Tampa Bay	63	44	.589	—	—	7-3	W-1	39-16	24-28
Yankees	61	47	.565	2½	+6	7-3	L-1	26-23	35-24
Boston	56	51	.523	7	+1½	7-3	W-1	25-29	31-22
Baltimore	53	56	.486	11	2½	5-5	W-1	29-27	24-29
Toronto	50	59	.459	14	5½	4-6	W-1	26-30	24-29
Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Chicago	56	51	.523	—	—	5-5	W-1	31-21	23-30
Cleveland	56	54	.509	1½	—	4-6	W-1	27-26	29-28
Minnesota	54	55	.495	3	1½	5-5	L-1	29-27	25-28
Detroit	51	58	.468	6	4½	5-5	L-1	30-27	21-31
Kansas City	46	63	.422	11	9½	6-4	W-1	26-27	20-36
West	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Texas	55	53	.509	—	—	5-5	L-1	28-25	27-28
Houston	55	55	.500	1	1	8-2	W-3	26-27	29-28
Seattle	53	56	.486	2½	2½	4-6	L-1	30-23	23-33
Athletics	45	63	.417	10	10	3-7	L-1	21-32	24-31
Los Angeles	42	67	.385	13½	13½	4-6	L-3	24-31	18-36

*WGB: Games behind third-place team in wild-card race

Wednesday

White Sox 6, Yankees 5, 12 inn.
Toronto 5, Washington 2
Baltimore 10, Detroit 9, 12 inn.
Tampa Bay 3, Texas 0
Kansas City 4, Minnesota 0
Cleveland 6, Cincinnati 1
Houston 7, L.A. Angels 4

L.A. Dodgers 4, Seattle 2

Boston 4, Athletics 2, 10 inn. Thursday

Yankees at White Sox, 2:10
Texas at Tampa Bay, 12:10
Kansas City at Minnesota, 1:40
Boston at Athletics, 9:40
Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10

NL Standings

East	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Atlanta	63	45	.583	—	—	6-4	W-1	32-20	31-25
Philadelphia	57	52	.523	6½	—	2-8	L-3	28-27	29-25
Miami	55	54	.505	8½	2	3-7	W-3	34-23	21-31
Washington	55	54	.505	8½	2	6-4	L-1	23-34	32-20
Mets	46	63	.422	17½	11	5-5	L-1	24-31	22-32
Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Milwaukee	67	41	.620	—	—	6-4	L-1	36-20	31-21
Chicago	61	47	.565	6	+4½	6-4	L-1	30-22	31-25
Pittsburgh	55	54	.505	12½	2	4-6	L-2	29-28	26-26
St. Louis	54	54	.500	13	2½	3-7	W-1	28-31	26-23
Cincinnati	50	57	.467	16½	6	6-4	L-1	23-30	27-27
West	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Los Angeles	68	40	.630	—	—	6-4	W-1	32-20	36-20
Arizona	57	52	.523	11½	—	6-4	W-2	31-22	26-30
San Diego	55	53	.509	13	1½	7-3	W-5	29-24	26-29
San Francisco	46	62	.426	22	10½	4-6	W-1	26-27	20-35
Colorado	42	67	.385	26½	15	3-7	L-4	24-29	18-38

*WGB: Games behind third-place team in wild-card race

Wednesday

Mets 3, Atlanta 2, 1st game
Atlanta 1, Mets 0, 2nd game
Miami 8, Philadelphia 6
Arizona 3, Pittsburgh 0
Toronto 5, Washington 2
San Diego 3, Colorado 1
San Francisco 16, Milwaukee 3
Cleveland 6, Cincinnati 1

St. Louis 3, Cubs 2, 10 inn.

L.A. Dodgers 4, Seattle 2

Thursday

Miami at Mets, 7:10
Cubs at St. Louis, 2:15
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10
Washington at Atlanta, 7:15
San Francisco at San Diego, 9:40
Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10

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White Sox 6, Yankees 5, 12 inn.

Yankees	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Grisham cf	5	0	0	0	1	2	213
Rice dh	5	1	1	0	1	2	271
J. Dominguez rf	4	1	0	0	1	1	233
Sanchez c	1	1	0	0	0	0	250
Goldschmidt 1b	5	1	2	1	0	1	258
Jones rf	4	1	2	3	0	2	226
Volpe ph ss	0	0	0	1	0	0	250
Chisholm 2b	5	0	1	0	0	2	223
McMahon 3b	5	0	1	0	0	0	210
Caballero ss rf	5	0	2	0	0	0	239
Wells c	4	0	0	0	0	1	159
Schuemann pr lf	1	0	0	0	0	0	209
Totals	44	5	9	5	3	11
Chicago	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Antinacci cf	4	1	1	2	0	1	278
Grichuk ph lf	1	0	0	0	0	0	247
Murakami 1b	4	3	1	1	1	2	240
Vargas 3b	4	0	1	0	0	0	242
C. Montgomery ss	3	0	0	0	1	2	220
Acuba pr cs	1	0	0	0	0	0	245
Beninterdi dh	4	0	1	1	0	0	241
Perera pr dh	0	0	0	0	0	0	222
B. Montgomery rf	4	0	0	0	1	2	250
Peters cf	5	1	0	0	0	2	272
Meidroth 2b	4	1	1	0	0	0	275
Rome c	2	0	0	0	0	2	135
Quero ph c	3	0	1	1	0	0	184
Totals	39	6	6	5	4	12
Yankees	000 000 000 010	—	5	9	1
Chicago	000 000 130 011	—	6	6	1

Yankees 400 000 000 010 — 5 9 1

Chicago 000 000 130 011 — 6 6 1

One out when winning run scored. E:

Sanchez 1d, Rome 1b. LOB: New York 1b.

Chicago 8. 2B: Rice (19), Caballero (12), Beninterdi (17), Meidroth (20). HR: Jones (3), off Martin: Antonacci (8), off Blackburn:

Murakami (21), off Blackburn, RBIs: Goldschmidt (44), Jones 3 (11), Volpe (19), Beninterdi (54), Antonacci 2 (32), Murakami

(49), Quero (16). SB: Chisholm (30), Caballero (24). SF: Volpe. S: Meidroth. Runners left in scoring position: New York 6 (McMahon 2,

Sanchez 2, J. Dominguez, Rice), Chicago 4 (Peters 3, Murakami). RESP: New York 3 for

16: Chicago 3 for 13.

Yankees IP H RER BB SO NP ERA

Schittler 6.1 2 1 1 1 8 93 2.04

Cruz, H, 17 1 0 1 1 0 1 15 2.58

Blackburn, 1.2 2 2 2 1 2 24 2.15

BS, 1-3 Hill 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 12 4.20

Doval, BS, 1-5 1.0 0 0 0 2 0 17 4.54

Yalough, L-2 0.1 1 1 0 0 0 2 4.60

Chicago IP H RER BB SO NP ERA

Martin 6.0 5 4 4 2 6 108 3.62

Murphy 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 19 4.39

Richards 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 14 3.55 Taylor 2.1 0 1 0 0 1 26 2.47

Hudson 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 2.96 Hicks, W, 1-1 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 29 3.19

Totals 31 2 6 3 1 3 4 31,694 (40,241).

T: 3:43. A: 31,694 (40,241).

Padres 3, Rockies 1

Colorado AB R H BI BB SO Avg

McCarthy rf-cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 293

Carripp cf-ss 2 0 0 0 1 1 296

Goodman dh 3 0 0 0 1 2 254 Rundfeld 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 293

Castro 3b 4 1 1 0 0 3 259 Castro 3b 4 1 1 0 0 3 259 Fremman 2b 3 0 1 0 0 0 253

Julien ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 213 Monskif 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 279

Tovar ss 2 0 0 0 0 2 198 Johnston ph-rf 2 0 0 0 0 1 286

Sullivan c 3 0 2 1 0 1 228

Totals 32 1 6 1 2 14

San Diego AB R H BI BB SO Avg

Talis 3 0 1 0 1 1 286 Cronenworth 2b 3 1 1 0 0 0 213

Machado 3b 4 1 1 0 0 1 216 France 1b 3 1 1 0 0 0 285

Merrill cf 3 0 1 1 0 0 236 Rengifo lf 3 0 0 1 0 0 231

Bowen rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 148 Bowen rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 148

Sheets dh 2 0 0 1 0 0 215 Bogartts ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 218

Ferrin c 3 0 1 0 0 0 168

Totals 27 3 6 3 1 3 1 3

Colorado 000 000 100 — 1 6 0

San Diego 000 300 00x — 3 6 1

E: Bogartts (7). LOB: Colorado 7, San Diego

4. 2B: Talis (21). RBIs: Sullivan (16), Merrill (48), Rengifo (27), Sheets (43). SF: Sheets. S:

Cronenworth. Runners left in scoring position: Colorado 2 (Castro, McCarthy);

San Diego 1 (France, Bogartts, Sheets).

RISP: Colorado 1 for S: San Diego 1 for S.

Colorado IP H RER BB SO NP ERA

Hughes, L-0-3 0 6 3 1 2 76 3.33 Bernardino 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 11 2.62

Agnes 2.0 0 0 0 0 1 20 6.22

San Diego IP H RER BB SO NP ERA

Hart 2.2 2 0 0 1 3 37 4.87

Canning, W, 2-9 3.0 1 0 0 0 4 40 6.65

Peralta, H, 4 0.2 2 1 1 0 1 11 3.17 Rodriguez, H, 7 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 9 2.33

Estrada, H, 7.0 0 0 0 1 3 22 3.32

Miller, S, 28-28 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 15 0.79

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

T: 2:33. A: 40,714 (40,222).

Mets 3, Braves 2, 1st Game

Mets 3, Braves 2, 1st Game

Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg

Acuba rf 3 0 0 0 1 1 248

Baldwin dh 4 1 2 0 0 0 279

Olson 1b 4 0 0 0 0 268 Allois 2b 4 0 1 0 0 296

Harris cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 260

Dubbin 3 0 0 0 0 0 260 Julien ph 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Riley 3b 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 245 Bayer 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Palanco dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273 Jones 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 273

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Blue Jays 5, Nationals 2

Toronto	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Pilango If	5	0	2	0	0	1	260
Straw pr-lf	0	1	0	0	0	0	218
Lake r-f	3	0	0	0	2	1	292
Okamoto 1b	5	2	3	2	0	0	231
Springer dh	4	1	1	1	2	2	234
Kirk c	5	0	2	0	0	1	231
Varsho cf	5	0	2	1	0	0	247
Clement 3b	5	0	1	0	0	0	294
Gimenez ss	4	0	0	0	0	0	228
Schneider 2b	3	1	1	0	1	0	150
Urias 2b	0	0	0	0	0	0	214
Totals	39	5	12	5	4	5

Washington	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Wood rf	4	1	2	0	1	0	271
Garcia 1b	4	0	1	1	0	0	281
House 1b	3	0	0	0	0	1	236
Tena ph-2b	0	0	0	0	1	0	243
Abrams dh	3	1	0	0	1	1	292
Ford c	3	0	0	0	1	0	200
Life If	4	0	1	0	0	1	245
Young cf	2	0	1	1	1	0	237
Vivas 2b-3b	4	0	1	0	0	1	240
Nudez ss	4	0	0	0	0	1	244
Totals	31	2	6	2	5	5

Toronto	000 001 130 - 5 12 0
Washington	000 100 010 - 2 6 1

E: Nealmo (12). LOB: Toronto 12, Washington 6. 2B: Varsho (19), Clement (27), Schneider (6), Okamoto (14), Young (14), Wood (26). RBIs: Clement (35), Varsho (26), Okamoto 2 (68), Springer (34), Young (38), Garcia (74). SB: Straw 6b. CS: Okamoto (1). 8: Young. RISP: Toronto 5 for 13, Washington 2 for 5. DP: Toronto 1 (Gimenez, Okamoto); Washington 1 (Ford, Vivas, Ford).

Toronto	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Urteil	4.2	4.2	4	0	0	3	2	81.4
Kranick	1.0	1	1	1	0	0	0	171.57
Yoon	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11.2
Ribalta, L.0-2	1.0	3	1	1	0	1	0	21.3
Schultz	0.2	4	3	3	0	1	0	32.6
Williams	1.1	0	0	0	0	1	0	15.0

T: 2:59. A: 20,044 (41,376).

Marlins 6, Phillies 6

Philadelphia	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Turner dh	5	1	2	1	0	0	243
Stolt 2b	2	1	1	2	2	0	254
Harper 1b	4	1	1	1	0	2	252
Bohm 3b	4	0	1	1	0	0	225
Realmuto c	3	1	0	0	1	1	225
Marsh If	4	0	1	0	0	1	280
De La Cruz rf	3	0	0	1	0	2	571
Crawford cf	3	1	2	0	1	1	257
Sosa ss	4	1	1	0	0	0	208
Totals	32	6	9	6	4	7

Miami	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Lopez ss	5	1	2	2	0	0	329
Hernández If	4	1	1	2	0	0	241
Wells 1b	3	0	0	0	1	0	279
Edwards 2b	3	0	1	2	1	0	291
Sanoja 1b	3	0	1	0	1	0	265
Stewers dh	3	1	0	0	1	2	232
Ruit rf	4	2	2	0	0	2	254
Navarro c	2	1	0	0	0	1	143
Conine ph	1	1	1	2	0	0	277
Mack c	0	0	0	0	0	0	277
Marsee cf	2	1	0	0	1	1	197
Totals	30	8	8	8	5	6

Philadelphia	002 130 000 - 6 9 1
Miami	000 030 32x - 8 8 0

E: Realmuto (7). LOB: Philadelphia 4, Miami 5. 2B: Stott (21), Bays (9), Sanoja (21). 3B: Harper (1). HB: Turner (15), off Gastic, Hernandez (16), off Luzardo, Conine (9), off Bowlan. RBIs: Stott 2 (40), De La Cruz (2), Turner (42), Harper (64), Bohm (59), Lopez 2 (50), Hernandez 2 (43), Edwards 2 (39), Conine 2 (30). SB: Edwards (18). CS: Sanoja (3). SF: De La Cruz. 5: Marsee. RISP: Philadelphia 2 for 5; Miami 3 for 8.

Philadelphia	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Lucardo	6.1	6	6	6	3	5	100	3.57
Jensen, 85, 9-1	6.2	1	0	0	1	0	17	5.51
Bowlan, L.2-1	1.0	1	2	2	1	1	18	3.11

Miami	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Gusto	5.0	9	6	6	2	3	79	5.31
Fulton	2.0	0	0	0	2	1	26	4.50
Zuber, W.1-1	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	14	4.76
Fairbanks, S.	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	13	6.75

T: 2:29. A: 14,350 (37,446).

Giants 16, Brewers 3

Milwaukee	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Turang 2b	5	0	2	2	0	1	271
Chicardi If	5	0	0	0	0	0	274
Bauers 1b	5	1	2	0	0	0	267
Yeldo dh	2	0	1	6	2	0	241
Ortiz 3b	4	0	0	0	0	0	237
Sánchez	4	0	0	0	0	2	214
Mitchell cf	4	0	0	1	0	2	266
Lara rf	4	1	1	0	0	0	286
Hamilton 3b	2	1	1	0	0	0	242
Vaughn ph-3b-p	0	0	0	0	1	0	309
Pratt ss	3	0	1	0	1	2	284
Totals	34	3	8	3	4	7

San Francisco	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Arroze 2b	5	1	4	2	0	0	331
Basabo ph-2b	1	0	0	0	0	1	280
Eldridge 1b	5	2	0	1	1	1	250
Ramos 1f	5	1	4	1	1	0	267
Severs dh	4	0	0	0	1	2	243
Cavanaugh ph-0h	1	0	1	1	0	0	261
Lee rf	6	1	2	3	0	0	302
Adames ss	3	2	1	0	1	0	228
Susac c	4	3	2	4	1	0	256
McCray cf	2	0	0	0	0	1	154
Rodriguez ph	0	1	0	0	1	0	240
Gilbert cf	1	1	1	0	1	0	237
Koss 3b	5	3	2	2	0	0	261
Totals	42	16	17	15	7	5

Milwaukee	001 100 100 - 3 8 3
San Francisco	939 997 134 - 18 17 1

E: Mitchell (2), Sánchez (2), Adames (15). LOB: Milwaukee 9, San Francisco 10. 2B: Lara (5), Lee (12). 3B: Bauers (2). HR: Susac (1), off Pannone; Susac (2), off Vaughn. RBIs: Turang 2 (66), Mitchell (49), Susac 4 (19), Koss (1), Arroze 2 (43), Ramos 3 (34), Lee 7 (40), Eldridge (26), Cavanaugh (15). SB: Ramos 2 (2), Hamilton (20), Arroze (10). CS: Ramos (1). RISP: Milwaukee 2 for 14; San Francisco 9 for 18. DP: San Francisco 2 (Adames, Arroze, Eldridge; Arroze, Adames, Eldridge).
Milwaukee	IP
Pannock, L.0-3 3-2	3 2 2 2 2 56.6 00
Patrick	2.0 2 2 2 2 1 47.5 59
Ashty	0.1 3 5 4 1 1 24.3 86
Wilson	1.2 6 3 3 0 0 35.4 87
Vaughn	1.0 3 3 3 1 1 29.7 58

San Francisco	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Webb, W.6-7-6.0	5	2	2	1	4	96	3.93
Hentges	1.0	2	1	1	2	1	24.2	82
Kilian	1.0	1	0	0	1	1	18.4	46
Wren	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	14.3	19

T: 3:03. A: 35,399 (41,915).

Rays 3, Rangers 0

Texas	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Longford dh	4	0	0	0	0	1	278
Duran 3b	4	0	0	0	0	0	271
Nimmo rf	4	0	1	0	0	1	268
Burger 1b	4	0	1	0	0	0	238
Lopez ss	3	0	0	0	1	0	303
Cauley cf-2b	3	0	1	0	0	2	256
Osuna If	3	0	0	0	0	0	257
Foscue 2b	2	0	0	0	0	1	264
Carter ph-cf	1	0	0	0	0	1	303
E.Diaz c	2	0	1	0	0	0	250
Pederson ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	253
Wynns c	0	0	0	0	0	0	098
Totals	31	0	4	0	1	8

Tampa Bay	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
P.Diaz dh	3	1	1	1	0	0	301
Aranda 1b	4	1	1	0	0	2	284
Camimero 3b	3	0	0	0	0	1	283
Wlade rf	3	1	1	2	0	1	258
Mesa rf	0	0	0	0	0	0	223
DeLucia rf	3	0	0	0	0	1	258
Simpson If	3	0	0	0	0	1	290
Williamson 2b	2	0	0	0	0	2	250
Fortes c	3	0	0	0	0	0	277
Walls ss	3	0	0	0	0	1	218
Totals	27	3	3	3	1	9

Texas	000 000 000 - 0 4 0
Tampa Bay	300 000 006 - 3 3 0

LOB: Texas 5, Tampa Bay 2. 2B: Cauley (3), E.Diaz (8), Burger (16), Nimmo (26), Aranda (18). HR: Y.Diaz (15), off Gore; Wlade (9), off Gore. RBIs: Y.Diaz (62), Wlade 2 (15). RISP: Texas 0 for 7; Tampa Bay 1 for 2.

Texas	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Jones, L.6-9	7.0	3	3	0	9	95	4.27
Peoples	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	19.1

Tampa Bay	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Legumina	1.2	1	0	0	0	0	24.3	80
Gymor, W.7-14.2	2	0	0	0	1	4	71.4	37
Chavinger, H.1-3	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	9	3.41
Kelly, H.21	1.0	0	0	0	0	3	11.2	17
Baker, S.29-321.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	20.1	52

T: 2:17. A: 14,200 (25,025).

Diamondbacks 3, Pirates 0

Arizona	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Carroll rf	4	1	1	0	0	0	251
Perdomo st	4	0	0	0	0	1	228
Moreno c	3	2	1	2	1	1	308
Marthe df	4	0	1	0	0	0	253
Kepler If	4	0	2	1	0	1	250
Arenado 3b	4	0	0	0	0	2	244
Tawa 3b	4	0	0	0	0	1	217
Varga 2b	2	0	1	0	1	0	275
Barrera cf	3	0	0	0	0	0	187
Totals	32	3	6	3	2	6

Pittsburgh	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Goozzies 3b	4	0	1	0	0	1	1.274
Lowe 2b	4	0	1	0	0	2	253
Reynolds If	3	0	1	0	1	1	270
Valdez rf	3	0	0	0	1	0	278
O'Hearn 1b	4	0	0	0	0	0	274
Osuna dh	3	0	0	0	0	0	202
Triolo ss	3	0	2	0	0	0	245
J.Garcia cf	3	0	0	0	0	0	184
Davis c	3	0	0	0	0	1	171
Totals	30	0	5	0	2	4

Cleveland	000 040 200 - 6 12 0
Cincinnati	000 001 000 - 1 6 2
E: De La Cruz (10), Lichoson (1). LOB: Cleveland 14, Cincinnati 10. 2B: Arias (3), Rocchio (17). HR: Manzardo (13), off Petty.

RBIs: Bazzana (34), Manzardo 2 (38), Arias (11), Bailey (20), Kwan (19), Marte (14). SB: Arroyo (1), DeLauter (6), Habim (7). SF: Bailey, Kwan. RISP: Cleveland 3 for 14; Cincinnati 1 for 10.

Cleveland	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Cantillo	4.0	4.0	0	0	1	8	89.3	48
Holderman	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	12.1	71
Aleman	0.1	2	1	1	0	1	10.1	93
Sabrowski, W.4-2	0.2	0	0	0	0	2	8.3	48
Festa	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	16.4	50
Gaddis	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	14.2	78
Smith	1.0	0	0	2	2	25.2	52

Cincinnati	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Ginger, L.5-10	4.1	6	4	0	4	3	100	4.35
Ferquson	6.2	0	0	0	0	0	7	3.47
Petty	1.1	4	2	2	1	1	32	4.50
Garcia	1.2	1	0	0	1	1	27	2.45
Fisherson	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	10	4.78

T: 2:56. A: 17,084 (43,891).

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The POST Line

Schedule

Jan. 22-24 — Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai (Stewart Cink)

Feb. 13-15 — Chubb Classic (David Toms)

March 6-8 — James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational (Zach Johnson)

March 20-22 — Colquard Classic (Steven Aker)

MLB Thursday
Favorite	Money Line	Underdog
Yankees	-108-114	WHITE SOX
METS	$108-135	Marlins
Rangers	$101-124	RAYS
TWINS	$116-136	Royals
Red Sox	$134-158	ATHLETICS
Cubs	-104-118	CARDINALS
Pirates	-104-112	REDS
BRAVES	$120-142	Nationals
PADRES	$106-124	Giants
DODGERS	$125-157	Mariners
Home team in CAPS

TBT Tournament
Thursday- Las Vegas Championship
Favorite	PTS (O/U)	Underdog
Davis Steel	3.5 (145.5)	The Mecca
game held in Las Vegas

WNBA Thursday
Favorite	PTS (O/U)	Underdog
ACES	4.5 (181.5)	Liberty
Lynx	11.5 (186.5)	TEMPO
SKY	3.5 (174.5)	Sun

NFL-Preseason
Thursday, August 6
Favorite	PTS (O/U)	Underdog
Panthers	1.5 (36.5)	Cardinals
game held in Canton, OH

CFL Thursday
Favorite	PTS (O/U)	Underdog
BLUE BOMBERS	7.5 (54.5)	Lions
Friday
Alouettes	7 (60.5)	REDBLACKS
Saturday
Stampeders	5.5 (60.5)	TIGER-CATS
ELKS	1.5 (60.5)	Roughriders

SPORTS SHORTS

SOCCER: Gotham FC earns road win

Midge Purce scored in the third minute off an assist from Jaelin Howell and Gotham FC went on to earn a 1-0 victory over Bay FC in an NWSL match held in San Jose, Calif.

Shelby Hogan made three saves as Gotham FC (10-3-4, 34 points) moved into first place ahead of the Washington Spirit.

● In Charlotte, N.C., Son Heung-min scored two goals in a three-minute span in the first half off assists from Carles Gil to propel the MLS All-Stars past the Liga MX All-Stars 4-3 in the MLS All-Star Game.

MLB: Skubal foiled in Detroit

Colton Cowser hit a tie-breaking single in the 12th inning, capping the Orioles rally from a seven-run deficit to beat the Tigers 10-9 and spoil Tarik Skubal's possible farewell to Detroit.

Fans gave Skubal, a hot target ahead of Monday's trade deadline, several standing ovations as he took a shutout into the seventh inning, but Baltimore pounced on the Tigers bullpen.

● In Miami, Griffin Conine delivered a go-ahead pinch-hit homer in the eighth and the Marlins rallied to beat the Phillies 8-6.

● In St. Louis, Iván Herrera had a two-run double with one out in the 10th inning to give the Cardinals a 3-2 comeback victory over the Cubs.

● In St. Petersburg, Fla., Yandy Díaz and Ryan Vlade homered in the first inning and five pitchers combined for a four-hitter as the Rays beat the Rangers 3-0.

● In Washington, Trey Yesavage allowed one run in 6 3/4 innings and the Blue Jays defeated the Nationals 5-2.

● In San Francisco, Luis Arraez had four of San Francisco's 17 hits, Daniel

Susac hit his first two homers in the majors and the Giants routed the Brewers 16-3.

● In Cincinnati, Kyle Manzardo homered and drove in two runs, and the Guardians beat the Reds 6-1 to claim the season series from their in-state rivals.

NFL: Browns give Delpit $48M deal

Grant Delpit has agreed to a three-year extension with the Cleveland Browns, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The safety's extension is worth $48 million, including $35 million guaranteed.

● Taysom Hill's run in New Orleans is over. The longtime Saints fan favorite announced he would not return to the franchise after nine seasons, though it doesn't appear he's ready to hang up his cleats.

Hill, who turns 36 in August, finished his New Orleans tenure with 2,551 rushing yards, 2,426 passing yards and 1,034 receiving yards.

● The Falcons quarterback competition will have to wait another day after coach Kevin Stefanski said Tua Tagovailoa sustained a minor injury, and he'll be back "sooner rather than later."

NHL: Celebrini becomes richest player

Sharks superstar Macklin Celebrini signed a five-year, $94 million contract extension that will make him the highest-paid player in the NHL. Celebrini had one year remaining on his three-year, $2,925 million entry-level contract before signing the deal that keeps him locked up with the Sharks through the 2031-32 season.

NCAA: Carter suspended two games

Tennessee senior linebacker Arion Carter will miss the first two games of the season because of an NCAA suspension tied to an agent paying for a $427 flight to an NFL training facility during the predraft process.

TOP PLAY

Count on LA to clock Mariners

By ERICH RICHTER

Two preseason World Series favorites will finish their three-game set Thursday night.

Despite winning the opening game of this series, the Mariners have been a disappointment this year — sitting just under .500 for the season — and have opened as +128 underdogs for Thursday's game against the Dodgers.

The Mariners send one of their starring pitchers to the mound Thursday night as Bryce Miller (4-5, 2.75 ERA) gets the ball opposite Roki Sasaki (4-5, 4.71 ERA).

While Sasaki looks to be the weak link of this pitching matchup, he's actually on arguably the best stretch of his short MLB career.

The 24-year-old just twirled seven innings of one-run ball against the Mets last Friday, where he struck out nine batters in one of the best starts of his young career.

There are some stories floating around that a new-sized glove is to credit for his turnaround, as the Dodgers believed he was tipping his pitches.

In his past three starts, he's allowed just four earned runs in 18 1/2 innings (1.93 ERA).

Meanwhile, Miller has struggled and even had some lowered velocity late in his starts, perhaps pointing to some fatigue setting in for the Mariners' bulking starter who hasn't been fully healthy since 2024.

Miller had been Seattle's best pitcher prior to his past three starts, where he's allowed 11 earned runs in 16 innings (5.94 ERA), and he failed to strike out a batter last time out.

For that reason, I'm backing the Dodgers on Thursday, with a bet on the Dodgers to win -1.5 on the run line, and I also like a bet on the Dodgers Over 2.5 total runs in the first five innings of Thursday's contest.

Sasaki's strikeout total prop is not yet released, though it's opened at 5.5 in seven of his past eight starts, so we'll figure it starts there despite striking out nine last time.

Target over on Sasaki's strikeout total and take a stab at over 7.5 strikeouts at some bigger odds.

THE PLAYS: Dodgers -1.5 (+135, BetMGM) Over 2.5 runs scored by Los Angeles in the first five innings (-110, Caesars); Sasaki Over strikeouts

Pitching Form

		(Game time)	2026		'25 vs OPP		CAREER		LAST 3 STARTS
			W-L	ERA	*REC	W-L	ERA	vs OPP	W-L	IP	ERA
Yankees	Weathers (L)		4-7	4.25	10-10	0-0	1.42	0-0	1-0	15.2	4.02
White Sox	Burke (R)	(2:10pm)	7-5	3.19	8-9	1-0	1.23	1-0	2-1	19.2	1.37
Marlins	Perez (R)		5-8	3.56	8-10	1-0	1.42	1-3	0-2	19.0	2.37
Metz	McLean (R)	(7:10pm)	7-7	3.32	9-12	1-0	1.80	1-0	1-2	18.0	1.00
Mariners	Miller (R)		4-5	2.75	4-7	0-1	9.00	0-1	0-3	16.0	6.19
Dodgers	Sasaki (R)	(10:10pm)	4-5	4.71	10-8	—	—	0-0	1-0	18.2	1.93
Rangers	Eovaldi (R)		10-8	4.05	12-8	0-0	0.00	9-6	1-1	17.0	4.24
Rays	McClanahan (L)	(12:10pm)	9-6	3.09	11-8	0-0	0.00	1-0	2-1	16.1	3.31
Royals	Cameron (L)		5-8	4.93	5-14	2-0	0.82	3-0	1-2	17.0	6.88
Twins	Ober (R)	(1:40pm)	7-3	4.56	9-6	0-0	0.00	1-5	1-0	14.1	4.40
Red Sox	Gray (R)		12-2	2.78	14-5	0-1	10.50	2-1	2-1	17.0	3.71
Athletics	TBD	(9:40pm)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Cubs	Imanaga (L)		7-8	3.72	10-11	0-2	6.30	2-3	2-1	18.0	0.50
Cardinals	Pallante (R)	(2:15pm)	11-6	3.77	12-8	1-0	4.15	1-4	1-1	17.1	4.67
Pirates	Ramirez (R)		6-3	3.21	0-0	1-0	1.93	0.00	0-0	0.0	0.00
Reds	Lowder (R)	(7:10pm)	3-7	5.61	6-9	0-1	54.00	1-1	0-2	12.0	12.00
Nationals	Irvin (R)		2-4	5.23	6-5	1-1	2.70	3-3	1-0	12.0	5.25
Braves	Holmes (R)	(7:15pm)	6-4	3.79	13-6	0-1	3.60	0-1	1-0	15.0	3.60
Giants	Ray (L)		9-6	3.16	12-8	2-1	2.75	7-7	1-0	15.0	1.20
Padres	TBD	(9:40pm)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

• REC: Won-lost record of pitcher's team in games he has started.

STITCHES

Weathers great in Windy City

In just two weeks "The Odyssey" has grossed an estimated $640 million. Impressive. Right, Dr. Fauci? "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based on my rights under the Fifth Amendment."

NFL training camps are opening this week. Think the Jets and Giants will be competitive this year, Dr. Fauci? "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based on my rights under the Fifth Amendment."

The injury-depleted Yanks are in Chicago. Ryan Weathers has allowed three runs in his past 17 road innings. The White

Sox's Sean Burke has given up eight runs in his past 44 innings. We saw the Mariners' George Kirby give up seven runs Monday. Who do you like, Dr. Fauci? "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based on my rights under the Fifth Amendment." $50 on the Yanks.

-$

Back-to-back debacles. K.C. gave up runs in the ninth inning and lost on Tuesday. The Cubs gave up three runs in the 10th inning and lost to the Cards 3-2. Down -386 pardonmeboys.

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Home Team Lineups		HOME	AWAY
	TODAY July 30	FRI July 31	SAT Aug. 1	SUN Aug. 2	MON Aug. 3
	White Sox 2:10 YES 660 AM 101.9 FM	Cubs 2:20 YES 660 AM 101.9 FM	Cubs 7:15 FOX 660 AM 101.9 FM	Cubs 2:20 YES 660 AM 101.9 FM	St. Louis 7:05 YES 660 AM 101.9 FM
	Miami 7:10 SNY 880 AM	Miami 7:10 PIX11 880 AM	Miami 4:10 SNY 880 AM	Miami 1:40 SNY 880 AM	NO GAME
	Las Vegas 10:00 Prime Video	NO GAME	Phoenix 3:00 ABC	NO GAME	Seattle 7:00 My9
Saturday		Friday	Saturday
	Orlando City SC 7:30 Apple TV	Toronto FC 7:30 Apple TV		Houston Dash 8:00 NWSL+

Today's Sports on the Air

MLB BASEBALL
2 p.m.	Royals at Twins (joined in progress)	MLBN
2:10 p.m.	Yankees at White Sox	YES, 660 AM, 101.9 FM
7 p.m.	Nationals at Braves	ESPN
7:10 p.m.	Marlins at Mets	SNY, 880 AM
10 p.m.	Mariners at Dodgers	MLBN
WNBA BASKETBALL
8 p.m.	Lynx at Tempo	Prime Video
10 p.m.	Liberty at Aces	Prime Video
GOLF
8 a.m.	LPGA Tour: AIG Women's Open, 1st Round	USA
3 p.m.	PGA Tour: Rocket Classic, 1st Round	Golf
6 p.m.	Korn Ferry Tour: Utah Championship, 1st Round	Golf
4 a.m. (Fri.)	LPGA Tour: AIG Women's Open, 2nd Round	Golf
TBT BASKETBALL
7 p.m.	Las Vegas Championship: Davis Steel vs. The Mecca	FS1
MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
6:30 p.m.	Richmond Flying Squirrels at Somerset Patriots	YES
MEN'S SOCCER
7:30 p.m.	Club Friendly: Sunderland vs. Leeds United	ESPN2
8:50 p.m.	CONCACAF U-20 Championship Group Stage: Mexico vs. Guatemala	FS2
TENNIS
11 a.m.	ATP/WTA Washington D.C.: Early Rounds	Tennis
10 p.m.	ATP Los Cabos: Quarterfinals	Tennis
JOCSE RACING
8 a.m.	Qatar Sussex Stakes	FS2
1 p.m.	Saratoga Live	FS2
4 p.m.	FanDuel Racing	MSQSN
SWIMMING
9 p.m.	USAS: 2026 Toyota National Championships	NBCSN
MEN'S RUGBY
5:55 a.m. (Fri.)	NRL: Canterbury-Bankstown at Melbourne	FS2

NFL

Favorites to win 2026 awards

MVP	ODDS	COACH OF YEAR	ODDS
Josh Allen	+650	John Harbaugh	+600
Lamar Jackson	+850	Jesse Minter	+750
Joe Burrow	+900	Joe Brady	11/1
Patrick Mahomes	10/1	Robert Saleh	12/1
Justin Herbert	12/1	Kellen Moore	12/1
Dak Prescott	14/1	Mike McCarthy	14/1
Drake Maye	14/1	Kevin Stefanski	15/1
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF YEAR		OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF YEAR	ODDS
Jahnyr Gibbs	+650	Myles Garrett	+400
Bijan Robinson	+850	Will Anderson Jr.	+700
Ja'Marr Chase	10/1	Aidan Hutchinson	+900
Christian McCaffrey	12/1	Maxx Crosby	11/1
Puka Nacua	12/1	Nick Bosa	14/1
Jaxon Smith-Njigba	15/1	Nik Bonitto	14/1
Saqun Barkley	15/1	T.J. Watt	18/1

ODDS & ENDS

NFL Favorites to win AFC Championship
TEAM	ODDS
Ravens	+500
Bills	+500
Chiefs	+750
Chargers	+800
Patriots	+850
Texans	+900
Broncos	10/1
Bengals	10/1
Jaguars	13/1
Colts	25/1
Steelers	35/1
Titans	66/1
Raiders	66/1
Browns	80/1
Jets	125/1
Dolphins	150/1

Favorites to win NFC Championship
TEAM	ODDS
Rams	+300
Seahawks	+550
Lions	+900
49ers	+900
Packers	10/1
Eagles	10/1
Cowboys	12/1
Bears	13/1
Vikings	22/1
Buccaneers	25/1
Commanders	30/1
Giants	35/1
Falcons	40/1
Saints	45/1
Panthers	50/1
Cardinals	200/1

Favorites to be AFC No. 1 seed
TEAM	ODDS
Ravens	+400
Bills	+500
Patriots	+800
Bengals	+800
Chiefs	+800
Chargers	+900
Texans	+900
Broncos	10/1
Jaguars	15/1
Colts	25/1
Steelers	25/1
Titans	66/1
Raiders	100/1
Jets	100/1
Browns	100/1
Dolphins	150/1

Favorites to be NFC No. 1 seed
TEAM	ODDS
Rams	+280
Seahawks	+575
Lions	+750
Eagles	+850
49ers	+850
Packers	10/1
Bears	12/1
Cowboys	15/1
Vikings	22/1
Buccaneers	25/1
Commanders	30/1
Saints	40/1
Falcons	40/1
Panthers	40/1
Giants	50/1
Cardinals	300/1

BET SMART

DON'T BE SKEPTICAL OF SAM: Sam Darnold is a bargain at 28/1 to lead the NFL in passing yards, especially since he's coming off a Super Bowl victory and several of the quarterbacks with better odds are coming off injuries or are inexperienced.

By MALIK SMITH

The 2025 season was one of redemption for Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold. Going into the start of last year, skepticism remained about his ability to play at a high level at the quarterback position.

After failing with the Jets and Panthers, then becoming a backup with the 49ers, he finally had a breakout season at age 27 in his lone campaign with the Vikings in 2024. But that season ended with him looking overmatched in the playoffs and searching for yet another new team.

With the Seahawks, Darnold finally fulfilled the promise that made him the No. 3 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. Seattle's defense was amazing, but Darnold wasn't just along for the ride en route to a Super Bowl win, he was driving the bus.

Despite his successful career turn over the past two seasons, sportsbooks still don't view Darnold as one of the league's top passers.

Darnold is 28/1 to lead the NFL in passing yards this season. According to the books, 14 players have better odds to lead the league in passing yards. The three favorites at the top of the odds board all make sense. Jared Goff has finished second in passing yards for three straight seasons, Joe Burrow led the NFL with nearly 5,000 passing yards in 2024, and Dak Prescott has topped 4,000 yards in his past four healthy seasons.

But the list of players ahead of Darnold also includes Patrick Mahomes, who tore his ACL in December; Bo Nix, who broke his ankle in January; and sophomore quarterback Tyler Shough,

who averaged 216.7 passing yards per game to Darnold's 238.1 last season.

So two players who could be limited after suffering devastating injuries late last season and a 26-year-old second-year quarterback in Shough, who has upside but is largely unproven, have better odds than Darnold. That seems way off based on the numbers.

With the Vikings in 2024, Darnold finished fifth with over 4,300 passing yards on the eighth-most attempts. Darnold again threw for over 4,000 yards last season and finished fifth in that category despite ranking 15th in passing attempts.

Two different coaches and teams but similar results for Darnold, which gives me confidence that another new offensive coordinator won't be too much of an adjustment for him.

It also helps that the Seahawks have amazing receiving weapons to catch Darnold's passes. Jaxon Smith-Njigba led the league with over 1,700 receiving yards last season, the eighth most in a single season in NFL history.

Cooper Kupp is back as their No. 2 receiver and proved in the postseason that he can still be an impact player as he gets deeper into his 30s.

They also returned Rashid Shaheed after landing him via trade from the Saints midseason. Shaheed could be the X factor for their offense because of his speed and Darnold's ability to throw accurate deep balls.

Coming off a Super Bowl win, I expect Darnold to have supreme confidence and pick up where he left off last season. At 28/1 odds, I'll jump on him to be the top passer in the league as a value play before the season.

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Title-chasing Libs must act before deadline to aid Stewart and Co.

LOS ANGELES — Breanna Stewart is too good for the Liberty to stand still at the trade deadline.

She remains one of the two best players in the WNBA and could even be a dark horse candidate for her first Defensive Player of the Year and if New York's overall team defense improves.

Too often, she's been asked to shoulder the burden of carrying the injury-plagued New York team up to this point.

Trusty sidekick Sabrina Ionescu has recently rediscovered her flow. Jonquel Jones had an All-Star-worthy first half.

But the Liberty aren't the feared team they hoped to become. They're 16-12 and 6 1/2 games out of first place.

Stewart scored 29 points with seven assists Tuesday, and Ionescu contributed 27 points, seven rebounds and six assists to help New York hold off the Sparks 113-109 in the team's first game after the All-Star break.

It was a fine win — the team's third straight, in fact.

But that doesn't mean general manager Jonathan Kolb should be sleeping soundly at night.

Kolb needs to work the phones until Sunday's trade deadline because if the past month highlighted anything, it's the holes — particularly at wing and in the frontcourt — within a roster that once seemed built with titanium armor.

This isn't about panic. It's not an overreaction to a rough July, during which the Liberty have been mostly without Leonie Fiebich and Satou Sabally.

Kolb needs to take an honest look at the roster and answer the question: Do the Liberty have enough to win a championship?

As long as Stewart plays at her current level, the Liberty need to go all in on the present. And right now, New York seems to be a player or

two away from fortifying its championship aspirations.

Injuries have impacted the team's outlook.

The void left by Fiebich's absence is particularly alarming.

The Liberty's defense ranks 14th out of 15 teams this month. They're conceding a nearly league-high 95.8 points per game in July too.

Complicating all of this, of course, is the uncertain status of Sabally, who was New York's biggest offseason acquisition.

Sabally has been in concussion protocol for five weeks. The team hasn't offered any substantial update on her. She hasn't practiced or joined the Liberty on any of their recent road trips.

Coach Chris DeMarco previously said she had started the reconditioning process but offered no details of what that entailed.

Concussions are tricky, and this is Sabally's second one in less than a year. The last head injury side-

Thursday LIBERTY AT ACES

lined her for most of the off-season. The recovery process often isn't linear. There are good days and bad days.

The unfortunate reality is that the Liberty can't count on a best-case scenario.

Sabally's return isn't inevitable. If she clears protocol, the Liberty can't assume she'll immediately resemble the player they need her to be.

The Liberty have trade assets. They own their future draft picks. Raquel Carrera is a high-upside player, but is she realistically ready to help the Liberty come playoff time?

Betnijah Laney-Hamilton appears to be the likeliest trade candidate as she's racked up four consecutive healthy scratches. She'll be an unrestricted free agent next offseason.

Rebecca Allen, Rebekah Gardner and Marine Johannès all have a price. Even moving Sabally shouldn't be out of the realm of possibility as long as the return is worthwhile.

This is DeMarco's first season at the helm. Still, anything short of a title is a disappointment. That's the standard the Liberty set for themselves.

The Liberty's window is open now and too often these openings shut with regret. They can't afford to let that happen with Stewart still elite.

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Confident Fauthoux giving backcourt needed boost

By MADELINE KENNEY

LOS ANGELES — Sparks guard Erica Wheeler appeared to say something to Liberty developmental player Marine Fauthoux as she got set at the free-throw line late in Tuesday's fourth quarter.

Fauthoux flashed a smile and sank both free throws to give the Liberty a seven-point lead with 32.7 seconds left.

Let that be a lesson for future opponents.

"More you talk to me, the more I'm confident," Fauthoux told The Post following the Liberty's 113-109 win.

LIBERTY NOTES

"So I was so happy she talked to me because I was sure I will make it."

Indeed she did. Tuesday was yet another solid outing for Fauthoux, who's reached double-figure scoring in two of the past three games.

Fauthoux scored 10 of her career-high 13 points in

the fourth quarter.

Fauthoux's arrival comes as her fellow French guard Pauline Astier has seemed to hit the rookie wall.

Astier, who had been a bright spot in the first half of the season, hasn't scored 10 points since July 12. She previously said she was looking forward to the All-Star break to get a much-needed breather as this is her first time playing year-round.

With Astier in a bit of a funk, Fauthoux has quietly become an important part

of the backcourt rotation.

However, she's played in seven of her allotted 12 games as a developmental player. If the Liberty want to keep her for the long haul and have her available in the playoffs, they'd have to convert her to a standard contract and part with at least one player to make room.

Rebekah Gardner has been impressed with Fauthoux, who was rehabbing from a knee injury to start the season.

"She's been ready for her opportunities and showing

out," Gardner said. "Have you seen her play overseas? This is how she plays. So it's exciting to see her come into the WNBA and step right into it even as a developmental player where you're maybe not always getting the same reps and rhythm as everybody else. I feel like it's pretty awesome that she just came in and done that."

Gardner led the Liberty's bench in outscoring the Sparks' reserves 41-19. It's the most points New

York's bench scored in an outing since the second game of the season.

The Liberty's depth has been tested this season because of injuries. A night like Tuesday can mean a lot for the team's overall confidence, Gardner said.

"These types of games are what will help us later on down the line ... where the bench is getting that experience," she said. "We always talk about the bench [and] the better we do, the easier it is for the starters too."

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LIV closing on nine-figure lifeline to preserve tour

By MARK CANNIZZARO

LIV Golf is not dead yet.

With reports of LIV Golf on life support and seemingly taking its final few breaths, The Post has learned its demise is not as imminent as it was believed to be.

Sources have told The Post that LIV, which had its Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF) money pulled this year, is on the cusp of landing new investors to keep the tour alive into 2027 and beyond.

Since the PIF announced in April it would no longer fund LIV beyond the 2026 season, tour CEO Scott O'Neil has feverishly been seeking outside financial backing to keep it in existence.

O'Neil is believed to have been seeking between $250 million and $300 million to stay afloat. And, according to sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity, he's found it.

According to sources, LIV Golf has received "multiple written commitments from blue-chip investment firms that would serve

as anchor investors to support the league" going forward.

The prospective "anchor" investors "have submitted qualified term sheets" that would "support the formation of a financing syndicate with sufficient backing to capitalize" what LIV Golf is calling "LIV 2.0."

LIV has also attracted interest from additional investors looking to participate alongside those anchor investors, according to the sources.

When reached Wednesday, neither O'Neil nor any representatives from LIV would comment.

But there are believed to be some high-level meetings scheduled to take place next week at the LIV event at Trump Bedminster in New Jersey, meetings that will include O'Neil and LIV players.

The sources said the expectation is that a deal will be finalized "sometime in September."

While LIV has seemingly found its financial footing, it's unclear how the tour will look in '27 as it moves forward. There

has been talk of a heavier emphasis on team golf, but that remains to be seen.

Under the proposed structure outlined in the term sheet, LIV players will own a majority stake in the league, which is planning to continue conducting events on five continents.

The players, according to the sources, are continuing to engage in the process, including meeting with investors. Bryson DeChambeau, among other prominent LIV players, has been very public about his involvement in helping to procure investors.

There are three events still on the 2026 LIV Golf schedule — LIV Golf New York next week in New Jersey, LIV Golf Indianapolis on Aug. 20-23, and LIV Golf Michigan, which is the season team finale, Aug. 27-30.

While the New Jersey and Indianapolis events are set to take place, the finale in Michigan, according to multiple reports, will not. No build-out for the event has even begun at the Michigan course.

NEW LIFE: Bryson DeChambeau and other LIV golfers have been helping to procure investors to save the rebel league. Getty Images

LIV Golf has declined comment on the status of the Michigan event, indicating that no announcement would be made until next week at the earliest.

LIV is coming off a successful week in the UK with its event at the JCB Golf and Country Club drawing some 50,000 fans across four days while Aussie Lucas Herbert won just days after making a strong run at the British Open.

After five years of seemingly unlimited funding from PIF,

which has spent a reported $5 billion, LIV has been counting on outside private investments to stay alive.

Those have been sought by O'Neil, who's spent the better part of the past three months holding talks with private equity firms and wealthy investors in an effort to put together a package that could rescue the fledgling tour.

Now, it seems O'Neil and LIV have finally found a lifeline.

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By ETHAN SEARS

The soccer world was rocked this week by a bombshell report from The Times of London, later confirmed by FIFA, that the sport's global governing body is attempting to privatize the World Cup.

The Post works through what the proposal means, the reaction to it and whether it might happen.

What is being proposed?

FIFA president Gianni Infantino wants to allow private investors to buy shares in the World Cup. That would in turn lead to a company, FIFA Forward Enterprises, being formed to run FIFA's commercial operations, though FIFA itself — which has nonprofit status in Switzerland — would continue both as the governing body of soccer and a majority shareholder in FFE.

Thrive Capital, which is run by Joshua Kushner — whose brother, Jared, is the president's special peace envoy and son-in-law — is reportedly expected to lead the investor group. Apollo Global Management, whose CEO Marc Rowan is both on Trump's Board of Peace and a major campaign contributor, has also been linked as a potential investor by The Times of London. J.P. Morgan is acting as FIFA's financial adviser.

In a letter sent to member associations, Infantino said a decision must be made by Sept. 19. The letter said that majority support is needed for adoption, though the organization's own rules say 75 percent support is needed to change FIFA bylaws.

Infantino also said that, with the private capital infusion, members would receive a total of $10 billion in funding, which would equate to about $40 million per association. Without it, that total would be $2.7 billion.

What would it mean if the proposal were adopted?

The main concern is that infusing private capital into FIFA would create an incentive structure that leads to outcomes such as needless expansion of the World Cup, playing the competition every two years as opposed to every four, or hosting it only in countries with the best commercial benefits — i.e., the U.S. and Middle Eastern nations with significant capital such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE.

All of that might also apply to the Club World Cup, which FIFA has already talked about expanding after the 32-team competition was launched in the U.S. last summer.

Reporting from The Times of London also indicates that Infantino, who will be term-limited as FIFA's president in 2031 if re-elected later this year — largely a formality, as he's running unopposed — would become the commissioner of FFE on a Roger Goodell-like salary after 2031.

Whether FIFA could remain a

FIFA's plan for private financing draws ire of many

nonprofit, or what the reaction would be from the European Union, are unclear as of now.

What is the reaction?

In a word, scathing. UEFA, the body of European football associations, will reportedly hold a crisis meeting Thursday in which the idea of threatening a World Cup boycott will be discussed. AFC and CONCACAF, the equivalent bodies for Asia and North America, have both released statements expressing anger that they weren't consulted over the idea, though neither went as far as disavowing it altogether.

A series of organizations representing clubs, players and supporters have also condemned the idea, as has British Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

The financial incentives laid out in Infantino's letter have been described as a form of bribery, with the demand to make a decision by mid-September seen as a pressure tactic. The links to President Trump's orbit are also viewed with offense, particularly by the Europeans whose op-

position has been loudest.

CAF, which represents Africa's federations, held off criticism, saying it will hold an executive committee next week to evaluate the idea.

CONMEBOL and OFC, the confederations representing South America and Oceania, have yet to say anything publicly.

Why has the reaction been so negative?

To truly unpack that would require a sociology class on soccer's role as a symbol of the working class, particularly in Britain but throughout Europe as a whole.

Since we don't have the space for that here,

we'll make it more simple: because it's seen as an open cash-grab on the part of an organization, FIFA, and an individual, Infantino, with a reputation for such.

Will the proposal happen, and if so, why?

That likely depends on how loud the backlash and how serious the threat of a boycott is. Fan backlash killed the European Super League — an attempt by large clubs to break away from domestic leagues and form their own competition in 2021 — and could play a similar role here.

More pressing, if major European nations such as England, Germany, France and Spain — which will co-host the 2030 World Cup — make genuine boycott threats and are ready to follow through, it's hard to believe FIFA would risk a World Cup without their participation. European countries have

used the same tactic to ensure that Russia remains kicked out of not only the World Cup but other international competitions such as the Olympics and IIHF championships, over its invasion of Ukraine.

As for whether the votes are there to pass it, it is extremely hard to imagine they are not. FIFA operates much like the United Nations insofar as giving all of its members equal voting power. So the massive cash infusion represented by this proposal is likely enough on its own to get a majority of its 211 countries — think Africa, the Caribbean, Asia — on board, should a vote take place.

If everyone hates Gianni Infantino so much, why is he still in charge?

Understanding that dynamic is crucial to understanding both FIFA and Infantino's ability to retain his job despite a brutally poor public image. Infantino has made sure to take care of smaller, poorer countries — FIFA has said the distribution fund for its member associations has grown eightfold since he was elected in 2016 — allowing him to retain majority support. Compared to Sepp Blatter, his predecessor who was brought down by corruption scandals, Infantino has also been largely open about what he's doing. Though many have described him as corrupt, too, that has given it a patina of legitimacy which Blatter's FIFA lacked.

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WINNING PAIR

“GAME 6” will never have the same implications that its first cousin, “Game 7,” does. Game 7 means wonder. Game 7 means drama, across every inning, every minute. Game 7 means potential dire consequences for both participants. Game 7 is Aaron Boone and Bill Mazeroski, Stefan Matteau and Clyde Frazier. Game 7 is do or die, survive or perish.

Game 6 has none of those things. It is, by definition, non-climactic.

And, in almost every circumstance, it is.

Just not in the context of the 1986 New York Mets.

“When you think of our team,

the first thing you think about is Game 6,” Keith Hernandez told me not long ago. “And the second thing you think of is: ‘Whoa, wait, which Game 6 are you talking about?’”

The Mets won 108 baseball games during the ’86 season; only nine other teams have ever won more going back to 1869. They won the NL East by 21½ games.

They took over first place when they swept four from the Cardinals in late April and stayed there the final 167 days of the season. Until late August they never lost more than three games in a row.

“Not only will we win this year,” manager Davey Johnson had said in the spring in St. Petersburg, “but we’re going to dominate.”

The Mets backed up that boast, often with their fists cocked and ready, always with a supreme belief in themselves. But unlike the other New York baseball juggernaut of recent vintage — the 114-win Yankees of 1998 — the call signal of those ’86 Mets isn’t necessarily their dominance and supreme self-

confidence, although they had that in great supply. It was their nerve, and their verve, and their performance under the most glaring spotlight imaginable.

They were that close to being labeled the worst underachievers in baseball history (if you choose to be kind about it) or the biggest chokers ever (if you don’t care about manners). And instead, their reputation is exactly the opposite: On the verge of catastrophe, they became a model of baseball courage and resilience. All because of two games.

All because of two Game 6s, played 10 days apart, played 1,653 miles apart. Both of those games were eerily similar, four-chapter

studies in grace under baseball fire while trying to fend off equally accomplished opponents. All with the entirety of a season resting on the outcome — one theoretically, one literally.

PROLOGUE: The Stakes

Game 6 of the NLCS wasn’t technically an elimination game for the Mets. But there wasn’t a soul anywhere in the Astrodome that Oct. 15, 1986, who believed the Mets would win Game 7 if they lost Game 6, because Game 7 meant Mike Scott, who wasn’t just the best pitcher on the planet in October 1986, he was embedded deep inside the heads of Mets hitters, convinced Scott’s split-

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finger fastball had more than just a wicked spin rate on its side.

"Nobody said as much," Ron Darling said in 2010, "but we all sort of figured we might be in trouble if we didn't take care of business in Game 6."

Game 6 of the World Series on Oct. 25 was less ambiguous, at least as far as the Mets were concerned. They'd blown Games 1 and 2 at Shea, and though they did take two out of three at Fenway Park, the Sox returned to Queens one game shy of ending their 68-year title drought. They had a game to play with, if necessary. The Mets did not.

PART 1: Big Trouble Afoot

Bob Ojeda had been brilliant all year, but he quickly found early trouble in Houston in Game 6 of the NLCS. Phil Garner, Glenn Da-

vis and Jose Cruz all drove in runs, and the Astros were primed for more when Hal Lanier inexplicably called for a suicide squeeze up 3-0 and Ojeda near collapse in the first inning. Kevin Bass was hung out to dry when Alan Ashby missed the bunt, and the Mets escaped more calamity.

Ojeda settled down after that. But Bob Knepper was masterful, and across eight innings he allowed just two hits and struck out six. The Mets seemed ready to meekly surrender Game 6 and fall under Scott's yoke for Game 7.

Ten days later Ojeda — this time working on three days' rest — struggled early again. Dewey Evans and Marty Barrett drove in a run apiece in the first two innings, and Roger Clemens — the AL's version of Scott that year — was mowing down the Mets ef-

fortlessly, striking out six across four hitless innings. The Sox led 2-0. Shea felt a few ticks away from despair.

PART 2: The Answers

Still down 3-0 to the Astros, Johnson sent Len Dykstra up to pinch hit for Rick Aguilera leading off the ninth, even though Davey hardly ever let Dykstra hit against lefties — much to Dykstra's chagrin. Dykstra promptly hit a fly ball that seemed routine off the bat but kept carrying and carrying until it flew over Billy Hatcher's head in center for a triple. Mookie Wilson followed with a soft liner that avoided Bill Doran's glove by maybe a millimeter and a half for an RBI single, and an out later Keith Hernandez delivered a double into the gap. It was 3-2 now, and when Her-

nandez reached second he emitted a yell and a double fist pump that was aed by every Mets fan back home. Knepper was done. Dave Smith looked instantly shaky, walking Gary Carter and Darryl Strawberry — who'd hit a mammoth upper-deck shot just foul — to load the bases. Ray Knight did what he did all of 1986 — he lofted a fly ball to right that tied the game and sent it to extra innings.

A week and a half later, the Mets finally reached Clemens for two runs in the fifth on a Knight RBI single and a Danny Heep double-play grounder that tied the game. Then, after the Sox took a 3-2 lead in the seventh (helped by a throwing error by Knight), the Mets answered off Calvin Schiraldi in the eighth (after Clemens either begged out of the game due to a blister, or manager John McNamara pulled him, depending on whom you believe).

The Mets threatened in the ninth, but when Howard Johnson couldn't lay down a bunt with two on and nobody out, he struck out and Schiraldi survived.

PART 3: Uh-Oh

The Mets played inning after inning knowing they were one swing from disaster but broke through against Aurelio Lopez — "Señor Smoke" — in the top of the 14th when Wally Backman drove in Darryl Strawberry with one out. The Mets should have added more, but Lopez retired Johnson and Mookie Wilson stranding runners at second and third.

That proved enormous in the bottom of the 14th when Hatcher got around on a Jesse Orosco fastball (remember that) and smoked it off the left field fair pole: 4-4, to the 15th.

At Shea 10 days later, Dave Henderson delivered an even graver kick to the solar plexus, silencing the ballpark when he drilled the second pitch he saw from Aguilera leading off the 10th over the left field wall. Three batters later, Marty Barrett drove in Wade Boggs, and the Sox had an insurance run. The Mets stood three outs from extinction, down 5-3.

PART 4: HOLY $@&#!!!!

"It felt like the Astrodome was on its feet for four solid hours," was how Knight described the surreal atmosphere. And as the game inched into its fifth hour, the Mets, at last, seized control in the 16th inning. Or so it seemed. Strawberry led off with a double and Knight drove him in. Two wild pitches later, Knight scored to make it 6-4. Dykstra added an RBI single and it was 7-4.

Orosco, with two innings already under his belt (after Roger McDowell had thrown five) looked exhausted. He was exhausted. The Astros pounced. A walk and four singles, and it was 7-6, two outs, and men on first and

second. Bass was up. Hernandez called time, held a meeting at the mound and issued what amounts to the Gettysburg Address in the annals of Mets history.

"Jesse," Hernandez said, "if you throw one more fastball, we're fighting."

On a full count, Orosco whiffed Bass. On a slider. And a nasty one.

The Mets had survived ... only to find themselves on the worst ledge possible 10 days later. Backman and Hernandez flied out to start the bottom of the 10th. The Shea scoreboard, in that moment, either jumped the gun or initiated the greatest reverse jinx in baseball history, flashing:

"CONGRATULATIONS BOSTON RED SOX, 1986 WORLD CHAMPIONS."

Hernandez, disgusted, retreated to the manager's office to pop open a beer and ponder his team's sins (a move for which he has long admitted regret). On TV he watched Carter single. He watched Kevin Mitchell single. He watched Knight single, and started to make a move back upstairs to the dugout before realizing something important.

"This chair has more hits in it." He stayed.

He saw, as everyone did, 13 different pitches that could have ended the game, the season, and the Mets' bid for glory. On the 13th, Bob "Steamer" Stanley threw a ball at Wilson's feet, and it skipped away, and Mitchell scored the tying run.

Two pitches later, Wilson hit a drizzling ground ball that Boston first baseman Bill Buckner limped to his left to field. He got there. But he never got his glove down.

"The Mets win!" Bob Murphy shouted upstairs, in the WHN-AM radio booth. "They win!"

EPILOGUE

The Mets famously wrecked the team plane on the flight home from Houston — and even more famously, when Frank Cashen presented a $10,000 bill for damages to Johnson, Johnson ripped it up in front of his players to their eternal delight. Manhattan essentially froze for all seven extra innings.

At Madison Square Garden, Billy Joel — playing his first show there in over two years — held off taking the stage until Orosco struck out Bass, and instead of leading off with "You May Be Right" or "Big Shot," he let the audience work its way through "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" instead.

The Mets still had work ahead of them 10 days later, but from the moment Knight crossed the plate with the winning run, that felt to all concerned like a formality. The Mets spotted the Sox a three-run lead in Game 7, but even with that, in the mind's eye, Game 7 was an afterthought, almost a footnote, for the 1986 Mets.

After all, they'd already survived Game 6. Two of them.

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All options in play for rehabbing Holmes

By MIKE PUMA

Clay Holmes' next start could be in the minor leagues, for the Mets or for another major league team.

All options remain in play for the right-hander as he nears his return from the injured list, with the trade deadline arriving Monday.

CLAY HOLMES

Andy Green. "Obviously anybody can count out and see where we are five days [from Tuesday] and it's Sunday before the deadline," Green said before the Mets beat the Braves 3-2 in Game 1 of a doubleheader; they fell to Atlanta 1-0 in the nightcap. "There is a decision to be made around that."

Holmes and Freddy Peralta are the Mets' primary starting pitchers that figure to be dealt. Holmes, who has pitched

METS NOTES

to a 2.39 ERA in nine starts this year, can opt out of his contract after this season.

► Francisco Alvarez had a .981 OPS in 15 games since July 3 as play began in the doubleheader nightcap. Alvarez delivered an RBI double in the fifth inning to break a scoreless tie in Game 1 before going 0-for-3 as the designated hitter in Game 2. "Since I have sat in this seat over the last month, he's had really good at-bats," Green said. "I see someone who swings with confidence. He impacts the ball like very few guys in the game. It comes off hot. There's power — a huge hit in the gap for us today."

► Carson Benge's RBI double in the seventh inning gave the Mets a 3-2 lead in Game 1. It was the fourth go-ahead RBI for Benge this season in the seventh inning or later, which tied him for fourth in MLB in that category.

► Mets pitchers had compiled a 3.09 ERA, the third-lowest mark in MLB since the All-Star break, heading into the nightcap. The bullpen's 2.23 ERA was the lowest in the National League and third lowest in the major leagues.

By BRIAN COSTELLO

Jets general manager Darren Mougey spoke to the media Wednesday on the first day of training camp and hit on a few different topics.

There has been a lot of talk about how Aaron Glenn has changed in his second year on the job. Mougey is also in his second season and said having a year in the Jets building has helped him.

"There's a better comfort level going into Year 2," Mougey said. "My relationship with AG has only gotten stronger and better. We have dialogue every day. We're just much more in sync; time on task with anybody does that for you. I think we all have high expectations for ourselves — that's players, that's coaches, myself included."

How would Mougey define a successful season?

"We want to win," Mougey said. "I want to see these guys compete and get better every single day. That's starting today throughout training camp and throughout the season."

Mougey got contract extensions done this offseason with running back Breece Hall and guard Joe Tippmann. He did not sound like he is working to

Mougey 'more in sync' with Glenn in Year 2

JETS NOTES

extend any other players. "I think we're in a good spot right now, but I'll always keep contract stuff in-house," Mougey said.

There also is an expectation that the Jets could add a veteran backup quarterback before the season through either a trade or a signing. Mougey emphasized that he is eager to see Cade Klubnik, Bailey Zappe and Brady Cook compete to back up Geno Smith.

"I won't get into the hypotheticals," Mougey said. "I'm just excited to see Cade get his reps during training camp and watch the whole group, Bailey and Brady, and Geno, get their reps and develop and continue to improve while they're here and we'll keep an eye on the landscape ... that's no different for [any] position."

► Neither Mougey or Glenn had much to say about Smith's run-ins with the Florida police over the last few months.

"I'm excited about what's moving forward, glad that's behind us," Mougey said. "It is behind us and I'm excited for the continued growth through the offseason and training camp."

Glenn credited Smith with being accountable.

"I think he did a really good job of the awareness part of it," Glenn said. "First, understanding that we built a lot of momentum in OTAs and coming out of OTAs. Man, the distraction happened. I know that he hated that he was a part of that. The thing about it is it's behind him. It's behind him and we're all moving forward. He talked to me. He talked to some of his teammates. We're with him 100 percent and we're moving forward."

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QB Dart excited to connect with OBJ

By PAUL SCHWARTZ

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Since Jaxson Dart last spoke with the media, the Giants added a player with an all-world résumé and plenty to prove as he attempts a comeback with the team that gave him his NFL start more than a decade ago.

Odell Beckham Jr. is that player, and Dart now has a former star wide receiver to get to know on and off the field. Beckham, 33, did not play at all in 2025.

GIANTS NOTES

"I'm definitely excited about 'O,' " Dart said Wednesday after the first training camp practice at The Greenbrier. "I think the big thing is you never know how somebody's going to respond from having that time off coming back.

"I think that his ability to pour into his teammates — and you would think a lot of times when there's a big comeback that it's about the individual himself, but he's really just about the teammates, the guys around him. I've loved having him here so far. He's just a great guy. He's a great leader. He's had the ultimate experience of the highs and the lows, and I think that the more that you're able to communicate with him, get perspectives from him, with him also being, obviously, a really good player, is huge for our team."

► General manager Joe Schoen not only survived the tumult of back-to-back seasons of 3-14 and 4-13 — plus the firing of his good friend, former Giants head coach Brian Daboll — but he also received a significant amount of job security from team ownership. Following the NFL draft, Schoen signed a multiyear contract extension — believed to be four years — to partner with John Harbaugh moving forward.

"Very thankful to the Mara and the Tisch families for the extension," Schoen said. "Just grateful and looking forward to the season.

"Coach and I are going to work together and try to put together the best roster we can and go out and win games. And again, it doesn't matter how long you have on your contract, it's always going to be year to year. So, you just go out and do the best we can and try to put the best team on the field for 2026."

By PAUL SCHWARTZ

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Brian Burns was talking about the way John Harbaugh comports himself in team meetings and came up with "intensity" as a way to describe his new head coach.

When and how does Burns see that intensity in Harbaugh?

"Every time he opens his mouth," Burns said, breaking into a smile and laugh. "That's who he is, he can't help it. He's got that intensity regardless. Enthusiasm I should say, not intensity."

Both are apt characterizations when it comes to Harbaugh.

The 63-year-old has been at this for nearly two decades, taking a team into training camp, but what transpired Wednesday was a new twist. Harbaugh, after 18 years as the Ravens head coach, is now running a different team after the Giants gave him a five-year, $100 million contract to turn losing into winning.

His new job arrived with an

High-intensity new coach gets 'pretty cool' intro to running Giants on Day 1

added wrinkle, as ongoing renovations at the Giants facility meant they had to hit the road for camp this summer. These renovations and expansions were planned well before Harbaugh got the job.

As the Giants pulled up to The Greenbrier resort Tuesday night, Harbaugh noticed all the blue, red and white signs, placards and billboards around the Sports Performance Center. That got to him as he readied himself for his first camp practice running the show for the Giants.

"I mean, it's cool seeing the colors and the logo," Harbaugh said. "Once you're out there at practice, you're just working, right? But

driving in on the buses, maybe. When you drive up to the facility off the plane and you see all the signage and all that. It's Giants. That was a pretty cool moment."

Harbaugh put his team through a high-energy, 90-minute session. There are NFL Players Association guidelines for what a head coach can and cannot do this time of year, meaning the first few days are non-padded practices, and the duration of each practice can increase in small increments each day.

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go-lucky coming in. Everybody was in good spirits. But more than that, they were focused and determined to get off to a good start. I saw that from when they reported over there at the facility, did the conditioning test and all that back at our place in East Rutherford, and then here when we got here, and then today. So, I expect that to continue."

The first team meeting of camp opened up with the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads," the John Denver anthem for West Virginia.

"A lot of the guys knew the words," Harbaugh said. "I knew the words."

There will be less singing and more running and grinding as camp gets cooking.

"He makes it very clear what he expects," Burns said. "He expects you to work. He expects you to be a pro, show up on time, prepared. He's not a man for excuses. He understands stuff happens, but he ain't trying to give too much of that."

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Enagbare confident D-line set to grow

By GRACE McCARRON

There was a positive air around the Jets facility Wednesday for Day 1 of practice. The team's desire to begin writing a new, more successful chapter was evident.

One area of newness for Gang Green is on the defensive line. The team brought in veterans Joseph Ossai and Kingsley Enagbare in free agency and drafted David Bailey with the No. 2 pick in April's draft.

Enagbare spent his first four pro seasons with Green Bay, a perennial playoff team in recent years. The Packers' record over Enagbare's tenure was 37-30-1.

The Jets' record over that period? 22-46.

"I know my room, we got a few younger guys, so trying to give the boys the insight that I got over the last four years. I pretty much made the playoffs throughout my four years, so I have a decent amount of play-off experience," Enagbare said Wednesday. "I know what it takes from Week 1 to Week 17 ... how the playoff intensity changes and how to maintain your body, take care of your body, stuff like that.

"It's a long season, and it pretty much starts now. It starts in OTAs, honestly."

Bailey's potential impact is one of the most intriguing elements of this Jets team. Enagbare already has been amazed by what he's seen from the rookie.

"He's going to be phenomenal. He's going to have a long, long career," Enagbare said. "The sky's the limit for that dude. He can literally do it all. He can stop the run. He can rush the passer. Sky's the limit for him."

Overall, Enagbare exuded confidence when talking about his new room.

"I told the guys today we're only going to be as good as our weakest link, meaning if our weakest link is a bad, bad MF, our group is going to be a bad MF and people's going to fear that," Enagbare said. "Iron sharpen iron. I think we're gonna have a good group."

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Wilson dreams of playing in games that still matter at end of the season

VEAVING MAGAZINE

By BRIAN COSTELLO

It's only July, but if you ask Garrett Wilson about his goals for this season, his mind goes to December.

"Just playing meaningful football," the Jets wide receiver said Wednesday. "I've got to hold my end with this team. Whatever they expect out of me, I've got to do that. If they expect a little more out of me, I've got to do that and play my role. I believe we've got the pieces in place, and that will get us to playing that meaningful football in December, which I've dreamed of doing for a long time, playing on that high level when it means a lot."

That's something that has been elusive for Wilson, who is entering his fifth season with the team. The Jets contended briefly during his rookie season but lost their final six games. They have not come close to sniffing the playoffs since then.

For the 26-year-old Wilson, there has been plenty of individual success, but the team has gone 7-10, 7-10, 5-12 and 3-14 in his first four seasons.

Despite all that losing, Wilson is hopeful things are going to change in 2026.

"I have a feeling it's going to be a special year," Wilson said.

Wilson is coming off the most

disappointing season of his career. He injured his knee in the sixth game of the season and was shut down after playing seven games. It was the first time Wilson missed any time with the Jets, and Wilson said it's the first extended time he's missed in his entire football career.

Watching from the sideline left Wilson hungering to return this season.

"It's been brewing since Week 8 of last season," Wilson said. "I ended up missing the rest of that season. It's really the first time I've missed significant time in my life. All of a sudden, it makes you look at things differently. Not that

I ever took this game for granted, but when you miss time like that, you just can't wait to get back and have another shot at it. That's how I'm feeling right now. We've got another opportunity, a special opportunity, to turn this thing around. I'm as excited as I've ever been to do it this season."

Wilson is working with yet another quarterback. That has been a familiar storyline in Wilson's career, from his pairing with Zach Wilson early in his career to future Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers and reuniting with his college teammate Justin Fields last year. None of the pairings worked. The Jets now hope Geno Smith can be the answer.

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Frank Reich will become Wilson's fifth different play-caller as well. Wilson spoke glowingly of Reich's system in the spring and how much freedom it gives him to adjust. Jets coach Aaron Glenn believes Reich's system is a perfect fit for Wilson.

"Garrett's feeling good and he looks good," Glenn said. "Me and Garrett had a number of conversations in the offseason. I will say this, he's champing at the bit, especially with the type of offense that we have and especially the way that Frank is going to utilize all those guys. I know you guys heard Frank talk about this and I know you heard the players talk

about this about how the players are able to use their instincts but be disciplined while they're using it. I think that fits exactly what Garrett can do well. I'm looking forward to him doing that."

Wilson had more than 1,000 yards receiving in his first three seasons before falling to 395 last year in the injury-shortened year. Wilson should return to the 1,000-yard mark if the Jets offense clicks. But Wilson wants those yards to come in a playoff push, not in more meaningless games.

"It feels different this year," Wilson said. "I don't want to talk about it too much. It just does."

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NEW blood. New energy. New narrative.

Will these translate into new results for the 2026 Jets (see: winning)?

This is something general manager Darren Mougey and head coach Aaron Glenn, both in their second season in those posts with the Jets, are counting on after an offseason of rampant change — both on the roster and coaching staff.

Among the core returning players are receiver Garrett Wilson, running backs Breece Hall and Braelon Allen, guard Joe Tippmann, tight end Jeremy Ruckert, defensive end Will McDonald IV and tackles Olu Fashanu and Armand Membou.

And all they know from their varying years of experience wearing the green and white is losing. None has ever been part of a winning season in the NFL or a single playoff game.

This is where the offseason influx of new players who've experienced winning must become a critical turning point for the Jets.

This is where the Jets hope the acquisitions of veteran linebacker Demario Davis (three playoff seasons), safety Minkah Fitzpatrick (four), defensive lineman David Onyemata (four) and Kingsley Enagbare (three), cornerback Nahshon Wright (two), receiver Tim Patrick (two) and quarterback Geno Smith (one) truly do change the direction of the franchise that's been mired in losing for far too long (10 consecutive losing seasons).

Every one of those players has experienced something the likes of Wilson, Hall, Allen, Tippmann, Ruckert, McDonald, Fashanu and Membou have not: playing in the postseason.

Wilson, for one, feels a different energy already with this team because of the new players who were brought in.

"It's guys like 'Double D' [Demario Davis] in the building and Geno on the offensive side and Tim Patrick," Wilson said Wednesday. "These guys have no past association with the blunders we've had, and because of that, they're bringing a winning mindset, a winning energy."

"As younger players on the team, we're trying to latch onto that and get a better idea of what it takes to win at that level because they've done it before."

No baggage is a big deal here. I've seen this movie before with the Jets when long stretches of losing seasons seeped into the psyches of the players involved in them and it ruined them.

I watched quality players like Mo Lewis, James Hasty, Rob Moore, Brad Baxter, Marvin Wash-

KING' AMONG MEN: Kingsley Enagbare has been to the postseason three times in his career, which is three times more than many of his Jets teammates — an experience he hopes to share now that he has joined Gang Green.

ington, Erik McMillan, Brian Washington and many others on Jets teams in the '90s get weighed down by the baggage and become mentally beaten down by the constant losing.

The hope is that with the addition of players who've experienced winning, it helps push the returning

core players like Wilson, Hall, Tippmann, Fashanu and the others over the line so they get a taste of winning.

"I want Jets fans to be proud of the team, proud to wear

Jets hats, Jets T-shirts, the green and white," Fitzpatrick said Wednesday. "I grew up in Jersey [Old Bridge], so I know how a lot of Jets fans feel. They love the team, but we haven't had a lot of success the last few years."

When Enagbare was asked Wednesday what motivated him to join the Jets this offseason, he said, "Just the opportunity to change the narrative, create a winning culture and have the league fear us."

Enagbare referred to the younger guys in the defensive line room, and his goal is "trying to give them the insight I've gotten over the last four years."

"I've made the playoffs in [three] of my four years, so I've got a decent amount of playoff experience," he said. "I know

what it takes from Week 1 through Week 17, how the intensity changes going into the playoffs and how to take care of your body through a long season.

"It's a long season, and it pretty much starts now."

Surely, acquiring players from more successful organizations was a part of Mougey's plan when he upgraded the roster in the offseason.

"I believe it can help," the GM said Wednesday. "I'm excited to watch it, excited to watch some of the young guys who just got here take shape and mold throughout training camp, and watch some of our veteran players, both the ones who've been here and the new veterans we brought in, evolve in how they lead these young guys."

Wilson sounded so excited Wednesday it seemed like he was jumping out of his skin to get the games started.

"I believe we've got the pieces in place to get us playing meaningful football in December — something I've dreamed of doing for a long time," he said. "It does feel different this year. Not that I didn't feel something in other years, but it's more this group. Certain conversations we've had in the team room have set the table right.

"Now it's our job as players to go out and get better every day at this point in the season, so that when the real season comes, we're ready to play on Sunday."

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A LEEK OF NATURE

Dangerous wideout returns to give fans hope, but Nabers still needs some time to get back to 100%

TU TRAINING DAY

DEEP IMPACT

WR Braxton Berrios hauled in a deep pass from Jameis Winston, getting behind the defense for a big-play touchdown. Berrios, a 5-foot-9 slot receiver, is known more for his pass-catching ability over the middle.

C'MON JEVÓN

The tipped pass floated directly into the hands of safety Jevón Holland for what should have been an easy interception in a 7-on-7 period. Holland, though, dropped the ball. No turnover for you.

CAUGHT MY EYE

The Allegheny Mountains encircling the two pristine grass fields at the Greenbrier Sports Performance Center make for a picturesque setting. It looks nothing like the New Jersey parking lot experience where the Giants normally hold camp.

INJURY REPORT

TE Thomas Fidone II and DL Sam Roberts came off the physically unable to perform list in time for the start of camp. ... WR Darius Slayton, who missed spring work recovering from a sports hernia, looked fine as he beat CB Paulson Adebo for a big gain.

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By PAUL SCHWARTZ

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WVa. — On Day 1, Malik Nabers was out there. Give the Giants their first victory of training camp, 2026.

The star wide receiver was out there, and everyone noticed.

"I mean it's Leek," quarterback Jaxson Dart said Wednesday. "That's it. Every time he's on the field everybody knows where he's at."

Where Nabers was at provided a jolt of positivity for an offense, a team and fan base breathlessly waiting for him to return to the form he put on display as a rookie in 2024, a showing that justified his lofty standing as the No. 6 overall pick in the NFL draft that year. He played in only four games last season before going down and out with a torn right anterior cruciate ligament, a significant injury made more serious with the addition of a partially torn right lateral meniscus.

It is too soon to declare Nabers fully back because he is not. Not yet, anyway. He was able to avoid the physically unable to perform list heading into training camp and that was encouraging. On the first day of practice at The Greenbrier, Nabers was out there with his teammates during the individual receiver drills and also worked with the offense during "on air" periods, when no players on defense were on the field. He took his steps, made

his cuts, planted his foot in the ground to change directions and made his catches. Then he went inside while the rest of the team proceeded with the more strenuous parts of practice.

"It was great," head coach John Harbaugh said. "You saw him. He's got a process going. I thought he looked good."

For now, looking good will suffice.

General manager Joe Schoen said Nabers reported earlier than the majority of the team and that he was able to run and cut in the days leading up to camp. There will be no rushing the process. If Nabers feels good, physical goals will be added each day. If he experiences a slight setback, the workload will ease off.

"The medical staff has a really good plan for him," Schoen said. "And we're going to, as I always say, listen to the patients. So, we're going to see how he reacts. As long as everything goes as planned ... hopefully he'll be ready and we'll see how it plays out. But no predictions right now, just because we have a long way to go, still a lot of camp."

The deadline for Nabers to be all systems go is Sept. 13, the regular-season opener against the Cowboys. It is not August yet. Time appears to be on the Giants' side with this one.

There are options for the Giants to consider at the position,

but there is only one Malik Nabers. They signed Darnell Mooney and Calvin Austin III early in free agency and three more veterans — Odell Beckham Jr., JuJu Smith-Schuster and Braxton Berrios — later. They traded up in the draft to get Malachi Fields. Darius Slayton returns for year No. 8. Reliable Isaiah Hodgins is back. There will be plenty of competition for the available six spots on the roster.

There is no competition for who the leader of the pack needs to be, as far as star power. It needs to be Nabers.

"He definitely has a presence about him," Dart said. "There's an aura that he has on the field that is exhilarating, it makes me happy, it makes everybody happy just to see him out there. Just for him, he's had a lot of positives so we're just going to continue to get him in slowly. He's doing a great job with how he's attacking his recovery. I got all the confidence in the world in him."

"He brings a completely different element to an offense."

Nabers caught 109 passes for 1,204 yards as a rookie but was lost in Week 4 last season, going down and out in Dart's first NFL start. Dart was robbed of his most dynamic weapon for his next 11 starts.

"I had a quarter and one week, really, of reps with him

last year," Dart said. "So any time we're able to just have communication with each other, have dialogue, watch tape, which we've done a lot. Trying to get those reps before he's 100 percent, I think that will help mold our relationship into what we want it to be. He's obsessed with this game and he's attacking it the right way."

Outside linebacker Brian Burns called Nabers "dynamic" and added he will caution the just-turned 23-year-old to make sure he is not rushing back into the action. Nabers needed a second procedure in the spring, to clean up some scar tissue, and that set him back a bit.

"I mean, maybe he'll get way ahead, maybe he won't, whatever," Harbaugh said. "You can't really put a timetable on it exactly, I don't think. I think you just see where it goes because we want him to be at his best. So, when he's ready to be at his best, he'll be at his best."

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TURNING HEADS: Malik Nabers runs a route in training camp Wednesday, as he made his return to the field after tearing his ACL and lateral meniscus in Week 4 of last season. Corey Sipkin (2)

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WVa. — The first practice of the John Harbaugh Era had ended, and there was a bare-chested Jaxson Dart tossing footballs to Malik Nabers.

The vision of the young Giants franchise quarterback having the chance to target the electric Go-To Guy he had on the field with him as a rookie for a mere 23 snaps makes Dart's heart, and Harbaugh's heart, and the hearts of all Giants fans, sing with

May, and allows all of them to dream, and dream big. Nabers looked just fine running and cutting and catching in individual drills on a Giants field of dreams flanked by the scenic Allegheny Mountains.

Call it one small step for Malik ... with hope for one Giant leap for Giantskind ... to opening night against the Cowboys.

That is no longer The Impossible Dream.

Nabers has worked religiously to fashion this comeback from his torn ACL and lateral meniscus tear suffered Week 4 last season in Dart's first 2025 start.

A healthy Nabers changes everything for Dart, the way that the young Odell Beckham Jr. changed plenty for Eli Manning.

A healthy Nabers single-handedly and dramatically changes the complexion of the offense, and the swagger and prospects of the New York Football Giants.

Because Dart will have more than a puncher's chance to make that second-year leap with Nabers imposing his will on secondaries.

Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson didn't have The Elite Wide Receiver who might have put them over the top.

"He definitely has a presence about him," Dart said. "There's an aura that he has on the field that is exhilarating. It makes me happy."

Nabers complementing a Bullyball ground assault? Good luck to defensive coordinators.

"It's Leek. Every time he's on the field," Dart said, "everybody knows where he's at."

Now Dart builds what the Giants hope and pray will be a lasting relationship on the field and off with Nabers.

TAKE 2: After taking just 23 in-game snaps with Malik Nabers, Jaxson Dart got a long-awaited opportunity to start rebuilding his on-field relationship with his No. 1 wideout. Corey Sipkin

Dart finally gets his elite receiver back

"Trying to get those reps before he's 100 percent, and I think that that will help mold our relationship into what we want it to be," Dart said. "He's obsessed with this game, and he's attacking it the right way."

While Dart was transforming himself into a first-round pick at Ole Miss, Nabers (109-1, 204-7 TDs) was doing what he could for Daniel Jones and Drew Lock and Tommy DeVito.

"I played him twice in college," Dart said. "I saw his rookie year. There's not many flaws that show up in his game. I think that he's really good at everything."

I asked Dart if he could pinpoint one thing that makes Nabers elite.

He could have mentioned how tough he is to tackle, how he knows how to get open, how he fights for contested catches, his catch radius, his athletic arrogance and, more often than not, his hands.

"I think his mindset," Dart said. "He's just a dawg. He's an ultimate competitor in everything that he does, whether it's playing ping-pong in the locker room. He's obsessed with competition. He wants to win. He wants to be the best."

"Those are guys that you want to be around."

NU Steve Serby Those are the guys Harbaugh wants around him. The Giants won't rush Nabers.

The franchise and the family of Hall of Famer Ray Flaherty allowed him as a rookie to wear the No. 1 jersey that had been retired, remember.

"We'll meet the circumstances where we find them every single day," Harbaugh said. "Maybe he'll get way ahead, maybe he won't, whatever. You can't really put a timetable on it exactly, I don't think. I think you just see where it goes because we want him to be at his best. So, when he's ready to be at his best, he'll be at his best."

Nabers recently posted on his Instagram: "I done made it out the dark and I'm REAL REAL MAD!! And Harbaugh? He's 14 years removed from his Super Bowl championship."

"He's got a chip on his shoulder," Dart said. "I'm interested to see how his demeanor continues to grow as we go forward."

Dart, 4-8 as a starter, has one as well. "Because we didn't have a good year last year," he said. "I can't wait for this upcoming year. This whole offseason I've just been waiting to get back with the guys."

He was waiting for Cam Skattebo, who bellowed his trademark "Woooo!" when he hit the practice field and looked good. Beckham also was moving well in his comeback try.

But most of all, Dart has been waiting for Malik Nabers. Shortly after the 2025 NFL Draft, I asked former Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin about Dart and Nabers. "They'll be an amazing pair for a long time to come," Kiffin said. Maybe that time comes soon after all.

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THE WHITE whale of this trade deadline might be Mason Miller or Tarik Skubal. Or — stick with me — it could be a difference-making righty hitter.

They might not be the T-206 Honus Wagner baseball card for rarity. But they are hard to find in this marketplace, and that was before injuries in the past week took a few players of interest — the A's Shea Langeliers, the Giants' Casey Schmitt and the Reds' Spencer Steer — off the board.

What is rare is valuable, and so you can imagine the prices being high for this genre, which might help the Mets acquire some value for even the expiring contracts of Luis Robert Jr. and the really hot for a month-plus Tyrone Taylor.

Consider that Curtis Mead was designated for assignment by the White Sox in late March and was dealt in a seemingly nothing trade to the Nationals. But for Washington, the once well-regarded prospect broke out with 17 homers and a .852 OPS, including seven homers and a .897 OPS against lefties. So despite little other positive MLB track record for Mead and the March DFA, Washington recently was able to turn him into a young starter, Connelly Early, who had a 3.24 ERA in 21 major league starts.

This being a potentially hexed item, Mead fractured his left wrist in his first game with the Red Sox, and so it is possible he is done for the rest of the season.

The commonality among nearly every contender at this time of year is they are looking for late-game bullpen help and a righty hitter. The Yankees, for example, fall into that category and specifically want a righty-hitting catcher — and then another righty bat on top of that.

The Yankees had the third-fewest plate appearances by righty hitters this year (all stats through Tuesday) — the contending Guardians had the fewest. The Yankees actually had the third-best OPS by righty hitters, but with Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton still amid a long-term absence and Amed Rosario struggling in the right-vs.-left role for which he was signed, the Yanks are hungering for righty bats.

As the Twins improve their contending status and insist publicly they are buying, not selling, the chances for the Yankees to land righty-hitting catcher Ryan Jeffers could be dimming. Unless the Cubs decide to use Carson Kelly as a vehicle to get pitching or Colorado's Hunter Goodman is really available, the Yankees may have to shoot a lot lower like the A's switch-hitting Jonah Heim (.838 OPS this year against southpaws).

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TRADE CONFIDENTIAL

SWING AWAY: Curtis Mead (below) offers a good example (and a cautionary tale) of the kind of return selling teams can get for good right-handed hitters in the current market. Given that, top righties like Jo Adell could soon be on the move to contenders. Getty Images (2)

That would amplify the need to find a righty bat elsewhere because the Twins' Byron Buxton just went on the IL (hip) yet again and has never said he would waive his no-trade clause. The Astros are also going for it, so Isaac Paredes and Jeremy Peña are unavailable.

Taylor, the Angels' Jo Adell, Kansas City's Lane Thomas and Toronto's George Springer (who has a full no-trade clause) are known to be available. The Yankees have long liked Washington center fielder Jacob Young, who notably brings excellent defense but probably is off limits. Would the open-for-business Marlins discuss rising outfielder Heriberto Hernández (the prices for Otto Lopez and switch-hitter Xavier Edwards are viewed as substantial to even get consideration). Will Baltimore sell with walk-year Taylor Ward?

And the Yankees are far from alone in fishing in these waters. For example, the contending Phillies, Mariners and Braves had three of the four lowest OPS totals by righty hitters — the Mets were the other team in that group.

And the fish are harder to land. Consider that currently there are just 62 righty hitters qualified for the batting title, which would be the fewest since 2015. The number of righties qualified for the batting title with an OPS+ of league average (100) or better

had dropped from 61 in 2022 to 55 to 52 to 52 again in 2025 and 39 this year, which would be the lowest since 36 in 1982, which not only was a year before the AL installed the DH but also was a time when there were just 24 teams.

The OPS of righty hitters vs. lefty pitching was .731 and the past three years in this category have been among the five lowest since 1992. Why? The industry

knows this is a problem without having a unified reason. One head of baseball operations said, "The slider and sweeper trend [from the majority righty pitching] could be a reason that teams are building lineups a certain way. Righties are tougher to break into the majors. They take more time it seems. The righty-hitting, righty-throwing corner profile is dying out. I don't want our drafts to have a R/R corner profile until after the fifth round usually."

Also, since 2020, relievers must face three batters minimum and that has evolved the left-on-left relief specialist out of the game, and now southpaw relievers must be able to get righty hitters out.

Whatever the reasons, there are fewer strong righty batters — while the hunger for them at this time of year remains intense.

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MAN' ON A MISSION

Lefty turns back clock in twin-bill split as deadline nears

By MIKE PUMA

Sean Manaea is pitching like somebody who wants out of Queens and into a playoff race.

After frustrating the Dodgers last week in his best start of the season, the left-hander returned to face another first-place team Wednesday and produced a similar result.

Manaea allowed two runs over six innings in the Mets' 3-2 victory over the Braves in the first game of a doubleheader at Citi Field. The Mets managed only two hits against Chris Sale and the Braves bullpen in a 1-0 loss in the nightcap.

These past two starts were certainly peak Manaea — the version the Mets have awaited all season. The crescendo builds as Monday's trade deadline approaches.

"I'm a Met and I'm happy to be here," Manaea said. "There is nothing I can do about [the trade deadline] so I am not worried about it."

At issue is how much of an obstacle the roughly $33 million that the 34-year-old Manaea is still owed through next season presents. But if Manaea's past two starts are any indication, he may have rediscovered the form that earned him a three-year, $75 million contract before last season.

Manaea allowed one earned run over six innings against the Dodgers last Friday. He carried a

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shutout into the sixth inning on this day before Matt Olson delivered a two-run homer.

"I just see confidence and conviction," interim manager Andy Green said of Manaea's recent surge, noting the pitcher's uptick in velocity. "I see someone who is on the attack the entire time. Had that game spun a little bit differently it would have been a situation where going seven or eight [innings] was entirely possible. I didn't see him tiring. He fell behind a couple of really good hitters and paid the price for it there,

but the rest of the game he was in total control."

Freddy Peralta and Clay Holmes are the likely members of the Mets starting rotation to be dealt by Monday. Both are headed to free agency after this season and are battle-tested arms, but Peralta's 4.99 ERA this season isn't helping the Mets. Holmes hasn't pitched for the team since May while rehabbing a fractured fibula, but is close to ready following two minor league rehab starts.

The wild card is Manaea, who emerged as the Mets ace during their 2024 surge to the NLCS. After slumping last year he began this season in the bullpen and gradually regained steam.

"Sean wants to be a horse for the team," Green said. "He wants to take the baseball. He wants to go deep into games. He wants to save the bullpen. All amazing attributes and when he's sitting at that velocity range [91-92 mph] and really trusting himself, he's capable every night."

Francisco Alvarez's rope double to left field in the fifth produced the game's first run. Tyrone Taylor drew a walk leading off the inning before Alvarez delivered for his 27th RBI this season. A.J. Ewing's ensuing sacrifice fly scored Brett Baty, who singled in the inning.

Manaea finally dented in the sixth, when Olson smashed a two-run homer to tie it 2-2. Drake Baldwin doubled leading off the inning before Olson cleared the fence in right-center for his 28th homer this season.

Carson Benge's RBI double in the seventh gave the Mets a 3-2 lead. Ewing and Francisco Lindor both walked to begin the rally.

Manaea's ERA dropped to 4.42 with his latest outing, in which he allowed five hits and two walks with a hit batter and four strikeouts over 89 pitches.

"There's been a lot of hard work put in this whole year," Manaea said. "Ultimately the opponent doesn't matter, but I just feel good with where I'm at mechanically and pitch-wise."

Christian Scott allowed one earned run on five hits over six innings in the nightcap with seven strikeouts and one walk. The right-hander's ERA dropped to 2.99.

Olson's RBI single in the sixth gave the Braves their only run.

Scott's outing was his first this season in which he completed six innings.

"I felt I have had a couple opportunities to go six this season, but at the end I wasn't able," Scott said. "Hopefully the next one is seven."

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ON DECK: vs. Marlins

Thursday, 7:10 p.m., SNY, WHSQ (880 AM)

RHP Nolan McLean

2026 stats: 7-7, 3.32 ERA

Career vs. MIA: 1-0, 1.80 ERA

Last start: Sat. vs. LAD; 6 IP, 7 H, 2 ER

PITCH BREAKDOWN

33% Sinker

20% 4-Seamer

15% Sweeper

RHP Eury Pérez

2026 stats: 5-8, 3.56 ERA

Career vs. NYM: 1-3, 6.46 ERA

Last start: Sat. vs. SD; 7 IP, 7 H, 3 ER

PITCH BREAKDOWN

42% 4-Seamer

15% Slider

14% Sweeper

UP NEXT

FRIDAY: vs. Marlins, 7:10 p.m., PIX11, WHSQ RHP Freddy Peralta vs. RHP Janson Junk

SATURDAY: vs. Marlins, 4:10 p.m., SNY, WHSQ LHP Zac Thornton vs. RHP Tyler Phillips

INJURY REPORT

■ Juan Soto will be sidelined until September after landing on the injured list Saturday with a left calf strain. Soto missed nearly three weeks in April with a right calf strain.

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There are 23 teams either in a playoff spot or within 5 1/2 games of one, which means there are 23 teams that would welcome Luke Weaver to their bullpen.

With trade rumors and reports swirling and plastered “on the front page of my Instagram or my newspaper that I don’t read,” Weaver said to laughs, a battle-tested pitcher continued to show that he can pitch through pressure.

Weaver is enhancing his trade value — and his value to the Mets, who do not have to trade him — during a stretch in which the toss-up reality of his immediate future does not seem to matter to him on the mound.

“It [was] certainly a lot harder in the past,” Weaver said about dealing with the uncertainty after firing another scoreless inning in a 3-2, doubleheader-opening victory over the Braves at Citi Field on Wednesday. “But unfortunately and fortunately, I’ve had a lot of experience through different waves of these circumstances — experience to lean into, offseason, in season, for good, for bad. So I think that gives me peace.”

Weaver has pitched for seven teams in parts of nine major league seasons, been traded twice and designated for assignment twice. After his second DFA he was claimed by the Yankees, who converted him to a reliever, watched him soar and last offseason watched him sign a two-year, $22 million pact with the Mets.

So the 32-year-old has been here, which is apparent as he flourishes during a challenging moment. Since May, he has pitched in 29 games and allowed one earned run.

He also is happy with where he literally is, which matters because the Mets are not obligated to trade him like they are with walk-year bullpen arms in Brooks Raley and A.J. Minter (who himself threw a scoreless inning in the 1-0 nightcap loss).

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT: Luke Weaver has pitched for seven teams in parts of nine MLB seasons, so he’s used to being moved. The reliever said he and his wife are enjoying their time in Queens, even if they’re “mentally prepared to an extent” for a trade.

Weaver, due $11 million next season, could be a part of a 2027 Mets team that will want to compete.

He is “absolutely” enjoying life with the Mets, he said, pointing to the relationships he has formed and the clubhouse culture.

“It’s been a real joy to come in every day, even in an environment that isn’t winning like we had hoped,” Weaver said after lowering his ERA to 1.88 with a one-hit, one-strikeout eighth inning. “I think [losing clubhouses] can be a very dreaded environment from time to time in certain situations, but to me I’ve never had that. I think it’s disappointing after games when you’re not winning. The winning is great, but you also want the consistency of what you bring on a daily basis when you walk in

through the door, and that has definitely matched that in such a positive way, and it’s a testament to the people they have here.”

Weaver said he and his wife are “mentally prepared to an extent” for a trade, “but we’re also not by any means one foot out the door.” He referenced the fact the Mets are not about to embark upon a rebuild and will want to win soon.

Which complicates the future of a pitcher who is showing he can help them win.

“Luke’s really good [and] valuable to us not just this season, the remainder, but also the next season,” interim manager Andy Green said. “Nobody knows how the next few days are going to go.”

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Struggling Polanco reaches new low in win

By MARK W. SANCHEZ

In one dugout was the kind of first base torch-passing that will be referenced for decades, a seamless transition from an aging star to a younger version.

In the other dugout was the kind of first base torch-passing that sees the torch get fumbled to the ground and sets the whole place on fire.

With Matt Olson, who assumed the position of Freddie Freeman so naturally, watching and homering for Atlanta, Jorge Polanco again did not look much like Pete Alonso.

Because he is signed through next year, Polanco still has time to endear himself to his team and the team’s fans, but with each game and each at-bat right now he is making one of David Stearns’ key offseason decisions look a bit worse.

Polanco’s struggles continued Wednesday afternoon, when he went 0-for-3 with three strikeouts and, perhaps most tell-

ingly, opted for a sacrifice bunt rather than swinging away in what became a 3-2 Mets win over the Braves in the opening end of a doubleheader at Citi Field.

Since returning from nearly three months on the injured list with both wrist and ankle issues, Polanco entered the nightcap 4-for-41 (.098) with three singles and a double. He had logged at least one strikeout in eight of his past nine games, a stretch in which he was punched out 13 times in 29 at-bats. He has not swung like Alonso.

Every one of those at-bats has come as the designated hitter, the 33-year-old unable to play the field because of his Achilles bursitis. He has not played defense like Alonso.

In his final at-bat, with the bases loaded in the seventh inning against former Met Danny Young, Polanco swung through a sweeper and heard loud boos — even following a frame in which his team took the lead —

all the way to the dugout. The fans, too, are not treating him like Alonso.

Andy Green said Polanco is still searching for his timing after his 12th game back from the IL — and reminded reporters of the type of player Polanco has been in his career.

“He squared up [Tarik] Skubal for two home runs in the postseason last year,” the interim manager said of Polanco’s memorable Game 2 of the ALDS with the Mariners. “He is ridiculously good. And he hasn’t been able to find his timing or rhythm right-handed [or] left-handed.”

“He’s obviously dealt with injuries all year, so he’s someone that we know we’re one swing away. We’d all like that swing to get here.”

That the Mets allowed Alonso to walk to Baltimore for five years and $155 million is defensible considering a projected downturn and defensive concerns. That they replaced

him with an older infielder with a history of injuries and virtually no experience at first was more curious and, at least in Year 1, has backfired. Polanco has not been healthy or productive, and neither has their Plan B in Mark Vientos.

Polanco is a year removed from establishing himself as a postseason hero and homering 26 times with an .821 OPS. With better health, he has time to rebound.

But his confidence, too, might need to rebound, considering his greetings in Queens and considering his sixth-inning at-bat, when he followed a leadoff single from Jared Young with a sacrifice bunt, a move seldom seen in today’s game and rarely from a slugger capable of inflicting damage. Young did not come around to score.

After the game, Polanco was not made available for an interview because he had too much to do in the training room, a Mets official said.

WHEELING AND DEALING?

Sean Manaea allowed two runs over six innings in the opening game of a twin bill against the Braves on Wednesday at Citi Field. The left is certainly pitching well at the right time, but time will tell if the $33 million owed through next year is too high a price for a contender to pay for his services.

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Yanks blow lead — first in eighth, then in 11th — to drop painful game to Chisox

By GREG JOYCE

CHICAGO — The bullpen was long expected to be an area the Yankees would need to address by the trade deadline, but on the way there, their relief corps became a pleasant surprise.

Five days away from the deadline, though, an overworked group had a rough night — compounded by a brutal decision from Ali Sánchez when they were one out away from winning it anyway.

In a game where three of the best Yankees relievers were unavailable because of recent workload concerns, the bullpen blew a three-run lead in the eighth, a one-run lead in the 11th and then lost it in the 12th as Ryan Yarbrough gave up a walk-off single for a crushing 6-5 loss to the White Sox on Wednesday night at Rate Field.

Paul Blackburn gave up a pair of home runs on back-to-back pitches in the eighth inning, turning a 4-1 lead into a tie game. The final blow came four innings later, when Yarbrough, the last man available in the bullpen, allowed a bloop single to Edgar Quero that fell in front of Trent Grisham, who appeared to be playing deeper than he needed to.

And along the way, the Yankees wasted chances to score, including loading the bases with one out in the top of the 12th and not being able to push anything across.

But the most agonizing part of the loss came in the bottom of the 11th, after Anthony Volpe's sacrifice fly had put the Yankees ahead 5-4, and Camilo Doval entered to get two quick outs with some terrific defense behind him. The Yankees were one out away from the win, with Munetaka Murakami at third,

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when Sánchez tried to back-pick him. Instead, his throw bounced past Ryan McMahon — who was shifted toward second but ran to third on the play — allowing Murakami to run home to tie the game.

"Me and McMahon felt he was getting a little slow back to the base," Sánchez said. "Just made a bad throw."

Sánchez, who had entered the game in the 10th after Austin Wells was pinch run for, indicated he would attempt the throw again if he could do it all over, which Aaron Boone echoed.

"Just got to execute the throw," Boone said. "Just playing catch. We're big leaguers, we're not going to do things. Obviously an option's [to] hold it, but it comes down to we got to play catch better."

The Yankees (61-47), who are now 1-7 in extra-inning games this season, fell to 2 1/2 games back of the Rays for first place in the AL East. They will try to still win the four-game series against the White Sox (56-51) on Thursday.

Playing so many close games of late in large part because of the lineup's inability to blow things open, the Yankees have had to ask a lot of their bullpen. On Wednesday, that meant not having David Bednar, Brent Headrick and Angel Chivilli available after each had thrown on back-to-back days (and Bednar four of the last five).

Cam Schlittler got the Yankees off to a strong start, carrying a one-hit shutout into the seventh inning before losing his command and exiting with one out and a 4-1 lead — with all four Yankees runs coming

in the first inning, three on a Spencer Jones home run.

Fernando Cruz relieved Schlittler and stranded both runners, but then gave up a leadoff double in the eighth.

One out later, Blackburn entered for the top of the order and what would have been a five-out save. The reliever had been so good of late, pitching to a 0.92 ERA over his last 25 games since May 16, but could not do it again Wednesday. He threw a 1-1 fastball at the top of the zone to Sam Antonacci, who crushed it to right field for a two-run shot that pulled the White Sox within 4-3.

Murakami came up next and pounced on a first-pitch curveball just below the zone, sending it into the left field seats to tie the game.

"Honestly, I felt like I made my pitches," Blackburn said. "Those guys are good too. It sucks. You just got to keep going, keep making your pitches. Definitely let everyone down in here tonight, but come back [Thursday] and get a win."

Blackburn went on to throw a scoreless ninth before Tim Hill did the same in the 10th, even after his wild pitch allowed the automatic runner to reach third with no outs.

But in the end, it was still not enough to spare the Yankees a gut-punch loss.

"I thought we had a good battle," Schlittler said. "Some mental mistakes, but that's baseball. It's part of the game." gjoyce@nypost.com

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CHICAGO — In a sport where just about everything can be bottled up into a metric of some kind, a catcher's impact on his pitching staff may be impossible to measure.

There are framing stats, sure, but that is only part of it. There is the game planning ahead of time, learning everything about the opposing team's 13 hitters and even more about the 13 pitchers on the catcher's own staff, knowing what pitch to call when, and how to guide their pitcher through the ups and downs of nine innings on a given night.

So perhaps you will just have to take Gerrit Cole and Max Fried at their word when the veteran pitchers talk about the value of Austin Wells and Ali Sánchez (plus J.C. Escarra earlier this season) on the Yankees pitching staff, which entered Wednesday with the lowest ERA (3.40) in the majors.

"They deserve a lot of credit for the run prevention," said Cole, who brought up the catchers unprompted after throwing six shutout innings against the White Sox on Tuesday night. "Obviously we have good pitchers, but they're back there doing a lot of prep for us and making a lot of the right calls and getting us out of jams. It's been a good team effort overall."

"Catching is a very difficult thing, especially in this game today where you have to study and know exactly the game plan for the hitters that you're facing, but also game plan for the pitcher," Fried said. "We put a lot of emphasis on game planning and making sure that we're really prepared. They've been doing a really great job. ... We've had the lowest ERA in baseball, and a big part of that is them."

This is not to say that the Yankees should not acquire a catcher at the trade deadline; they clearly need offensive help at that position, plus a few others. But it is a caveat that the situation the Yankees face is not as simple as just

Catchers' link to staff a big plus

bringing in any catcher they can get their hands on to take over for Wells simply because he can swing the bat better.

The backbone of the Yankees — and the key to their roadmap for October success — is their rotation, and they will have to be careful about doing anything that would potentially disrupt the good thing they have going in that area.

But it remains to be seen what kind of catchers — with two of the top framers in the game in Wells and Sánchez — will actually be available in the coming days. The name most often linked to the Yankees is the Twins' Ryan Jeffers, who is a solid framer and has some history with Yankees catching director Tanner Swanson. But Twins GM Jeremy Zoll told reporters Tuesday that his club planned on buying — entering Wednesday just a half-game out of the final AL wild card. Whether that is just posturing or not may depend on what the Yankees offer for him.

There is Rockies catcher Hunter Goodman, but he is known much more for his offense than his defense, and with multiple years of control left, may not be dealt at all. They have also checked in on Orioles switch-hitting catcher Adley Rutschman, The Post' Jon Heyman reported, though the high-level framer is

currently on the IL with left wrist inflammation.

And then there is some offensive drop-off into the next tier of catchers, though there is plenty of drop-off to get to Wells, who entered Wednesday as one of the worst hitters in the major leagues this season — batting .162 with a .534 OPS, and that is even after batting .250 with a .954 OPS over his last 11 games before an 0-for-4 night Wednesday.

The right-handed-hitting Sánchez has produced against lefties in particular in a limited sample size — batting .333 with an .876 OPS in 28 plate appearances — though the Yankees are still trying to see if they can find an upgrade to pair with Wells.

"I know they work their butts off being able to take good at-bats and they're working to be able to round out that side of the game," Fried said. "But they've been doing an unbelievable job."

"It's a bit of an unforgiving position," added Cole. "It's physically challenging, mentally challenging, as well, playing both sides of the ball. So we like to love on those guys as much as we can."

Stellar Schlittler leaves some traffic

By GREG JOYCE

CHICAGO — For most of Wednesday night, Cam Schlittler was unhitable.

But the Yankees right-hander was left with a sour taste in his mouth after an otherwise terrific start ended poorly on the way to a brutal 6-5, 12-inning loss to the White Sox at Rate Field.

Schlittler had allowed just one baserunner — a broken-bat single in the fourth inning — entering the seventh, with the Yankees leading 4-0, before he walked Munetaka Murakami on a full count. His next pitch was a 98 mph sinker that hit Miguel Vargas on the hands, and one out later, Andrew Benintendi roped a double

down the right-field line to score the White Sox's first run and end Schlittler's night.

"I think the walk there is frustrating," Schlittler said of his first free pass in three starts. "Tried to go in on Vargas, hit him. So they didn't really earn it, I just kind of gave it to them. Frustrating. But it's how it goes sometimes."

Schlittler, who struck out eight and unveiled a harder, biting curveball that he used to his advantage, was also left regretting a pitch selection to Benintendi, which Gerrit Cole had a conversation with him about in the dugout.

"Shook [off] a pitch to Benintendi, didn't execute it," Schlittler said. "Probably had more wiggle room with the pitch Wells called. That's on me."

► In the last few years, Aaron Boone has pounded the table for the Yankees to acquire certain players, including David Bednar and Alex Verdugo, both of whom ended up on his roster.

As another trade deadline nears, the Yankees manager is making his opinion known to the front office again with a few names in mind.

"Oh yeah," he said with a grin, of course unwilling to disclose what those names were.

But Boone is keeping in touch with general manager Brian Cashman and his lieutenants, offering an occasional "thought bubble" as the Yankees try to wade through the uncertainty of which teams are selling and which players are actually available ahead of Monday's deadline.

"At the end of the day, the front office has been working hard at this for certainly weeks, but it's even years in the making where you're evaluating other organizations, evaluating your own organization so you're prepared to move when something potentially comes up," Boone said. "They're all down there [in Tampa] ready to do their thing and if something presents itself, then you strike."

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Emmy Rossum and Liz Meriwether want you to get angry watching 'Furious'

By HOPE SLOOP

In Emmy Rossum and Liz Meriwether's new Hulu series, "Furious," the women aren't just getting mad; they're getting even.

In "Furious," Rossum stars as FBI Agent Alice Black, a former NYPD detective tracking down a female serial killer (Lola Petticrew) who is going after high-powered men. On the side of Petticrew's character, there's the pent-up anger that is driving her murder spree, but on the side of Rossum's character, there is a trauma that enables her to tap into that reserve of wrath and hunt down her suspect. In short, these women are mad as hell and are actually doing something about it.

"Rage is an interesting thing because it can certainly be dangerous in society and is not helpful, especially for Alice in her job. She needs to be very removed from that heat, but she has a lot of drive. But I think that she's really unaware of the level of her own rage and is really kind of starting to embrace and understand how it's governing her and leading her in a way that she's not aware of at first,"

Rossum told DECIDER of channeling that strong emotion into this performance. "I think that rage probably gets a bad rep, but there's a lot of energy behind it and it can be a connector, and it can galvanize a movement."

While rage seems like a perfectly natural jumping-off point for any writer worth their salt to base a show around, it could be perceived as a head-scratcher for Meriwether, who is best known for her work in comedy. The "New Girl" and "Single Parents" creator may not have had much experience writing pure ire in many of her other projects, but she describes it as a liberating (if not slightly difficult) experience in capturing another side of humanity in her characters.

"I'm a comedy writer; I mean, before this show, I kind of mostly had written comedy and I think as somebody who writes comedy, I am a very good deflector. I think I use comedy sometimes to deflect from feeling feelings like anger, so it was interesting writing this show because I had to get a little bit more comfortable with anger on the page. Not even in real life, but like writing angry

this show. If the answer was just, 'Let's all get angry together,' it wouldn't make for good television. It sort of explores the feeling of anger and then also explores how it can trap you, how it can feel so good, but then ultimately not feel good in the end. It's hopefully digging into the experience of being a victim and just how complicated and messy that can be and lead to a lot of different roads that someone can go down," Meriwether said. For Rossum, it also allows for her own character to see Petticrew's as much more than just a scorned woman on a path for vengeance or some heartless killer. Seeing one

woman who has been harmed and taken advantage of go after justice — the DIY karmic kind, that is — might even allow for her to explore how she, too, can find a sense of retribution for a crime that has gone unpunished.

"The connection between these women and the kind of invisible thread between them of sisterhood, how we realize that they're more similar than they are different, it's very powerful," Rossum said. "In fact, Alice will start to wonder if the quest for vengeance that this killer is on is not stirring something within her and the justice that she quietly seeks for herself." The first three episodes of "Furious" are now streaming on Hulu. New episodes are released on Mondays.

scenes and things. That was interesting and uncomfortable for me in a good way," Meriwether said. Meriwether said that it did help while writing the show to remember, however, that anger and rage cannot exist in a vacuum, and that every character has to experience the full breadth of humanity. It also

allows the project to transition from a black-widow cat-and-mouse game to a narrative about trauma and the wide array of things that can happen to any person who lets their physical, emotional, and psychological wounds go untreated. "I think there is a lot of rage in the show, but it's not the only thing in

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HALL	198	200	(6:00) She's Making a List (2025)			Haul Out the Holly (2022, Comedy)		Lacey Chabert. G		Golden		Golden
HGTV	64	98	Crashers	Ugliest House in America		Ugliest House in America		My Rental		Hunters		Hunters
HIST	40	47	Secrets (R)	Secrets Declassified (R)		Secrets Declassified (R)		Secrets Declassified		(10:03) Ancient Aliens		(11:05) Ancient Aliens (R)
ID	23	171	Evil Here	Evil Lives Here		Married to Evil		A Killer Among Friends		Game Day Murders		Murder Under the Friday
LIFE	62	45	(6:00) NCIS	NCIS: Endgame		NCIS: Power Down		NCIS: Child's Play		(10:03) NCIS: Faith		(11:03) NCIS: Ignition
MeTV	33	33	MAS*H	MAS*H	MAS*H	Andy		Loves Ray.		Loves Ray.		Golden
MSG	27	87	(6:00) MMA	NY Giants	NY Giants	NY Giants Town		NY Knicks 2026 Championship Parade Replay.
MSG Plus	48	88	(6:00) FanDuel Racing					NHL Hockey: New Jersey Devils at Boston Bruins.				Stanley Pup (R)
MSNOW	14	23	Air Melber	The Weeknight		All in with Chris Hayes		The Briefing Jen Psaki		Lawrence O'Donnell		The 11th Hour with Ali
MTV	20	53	Radiculous	Jersey Shore: Family (R)		Jersey Shore: Family		Jersey Shore: No Longer		(10:01) Next Friday (2000, Comedy)		Ice Cube. R ★★★
NATGEO	65	162	Treasures	Treasure Greece (R)		Treasure Greece (R)		Lost Treasures Greece		Lost Treasures Greece		Treasure Greece (R)
NICK	6	121	SpongeBob	The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) PG ★★★				Friends		Band		Band
OWN	173	180	Family	Funniest Home Videos		Funniest Home Videos		What's Love Got to Do with It? (1993, Drama)		Angela Bassett. ★★★		First-Time
PARMT	36	56	(6:00) Pitch Perfect (2012, Comedy)			Anna Kendrick. (8:40) Pitch Perfect 2 (2015, Comedy)		Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson. PG-13 ★★★				Pitch Perf
SNY	26	60	Pre Game	MLB Baseball: Miami Marlins at New York Mets from Citi Field. Live.				Post Game		Sports		Sports
SYFY	17	48	Twister ★★★	Red (2010, Action) Bruce Willis. PG-13 ★★★				Red 2 (2013, Action) Bruce Willis. PG-13 ★★★
TBS	8	39	Band	Band	Band	Band		Band		Jokers (R)		Jokers (R)
TCM	82	41	(6:15) The Cincinnati Kid (1965, Drama)			Easy to Love (1934) Genevieve Tobin.		(9:45) Flipper (1963, Family) Chuck Connors. G ★★★				Everglades
TLC	52	28	Day (R)	90 Day: Last (R)		90 Day: The Last Resort		Little Singles		Jay & Pamela (R)		Baylen Out Loud (R)
TNT	3	37	Rush Hour (1998, Action) Jackie Chan.			All Elite Wrestling: Collision				Rush Hour 2 (2001, Action) Jackie Chan. PG-13 ★★★
TVLAND	85	34	Andy	Loves Ray.	Loves Ray.	Loves Ray.		Loves Raymond: Liars		Loves Ray.		Queens
USA	16	38	(6:00) SVU	Law & Order: SVU		Cast Away (2000, Drama) Tom Hanks. PG-13 ★★★						Cast Away (2000) ★★★
VH1	19	52	Wife/Kids	Wife/Kids	Wife/Kids	Boomerang (1992, Comedy) Eddie Murphy. R ★★						Maid in Manhattan (2002)
WE	59	42	(6:00) NCIS	NCIS: Doppelganger		NCIS: The Meat Puzzle		NCIS: Witness		NCIS: Caught on Tape		NCIS: Pop Life
YES	53	89	Minor League Baseball Live.					Homegrown		MLB Baseball: New York Yankees at Chicago White Sox. Replay.
HBO	511	301	Dragon (R)	(7:00) Ocean's 8 (2018, Action) Sandra Bullock. ★★★				The Man Will Burn		The Man Will Burn (R)		House of the Dragon (R)
MAX	531	371	Pac Rim 2	(7:04) Happy Death Day (2017, Horror)				The House (2017, Comedy) Will Ferrell.		Red Riding Hood (2011, Fantasy) Amanda Seyfried.
MGM Plus	595	39	The Saint (1997, Adventure) Val Kilmer.					The Fast and the Furious (2001) ★★★		(9:50) Face/Off (1997, Action) John Travolta, Nicolas Cage. R ★★★
PARSHO	551	321	(5:50) Hacksaw Ridge (2016, Drama) R					Ghost in the Shell (2017, Action) Scarlett Johansson.		The Chi: The Last Dance		Kiss the Girls (1997) R ★★★

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