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  • USA TODAY / 建筑业 / 数据中心建设热潮导致工人短缺:数据中心热潮加剧建筑工人短缺,且年长员工离职导致行业中位年龄下降,给劳动力市场带来压力。
  • 肯塔基州州长敦促麦康奈尔口头更新近况 / 贝舍尔的信函 / 贝舍尔的信函要求参议员保持透明:肯塔基州州长Andy Beshear敦促因跌倒住院43天的参议员麦康奈尔口头更新健康状况,否则应辞职。
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汽车评论:Genesis G80 时尚且驾驶乐趣十足

这款中型豪华轿车拥有极其奢华的内饰和大胆的驾驶动态。见 Money 栏目

走进火人节:“高温和风沙能将你摧毁”

HBO 纪录片《人将燃烧》(The Man Will Burn)详细讲述了黑人参与者的视角。见 Life 栏目

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英国公开赛庆祝成长 5 十年

高尔夫球手回顾女子锦标赛的历史,这项赛事在 50 年前仅由五名职业选手参加。见 Sports 栏目

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从左至右:SHERRI STENHAVIER,摄影 WARREN LITTLE/SETTY MAGES;LAURA DAVIES,摄影 ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP VIA SETTY MAGES;RATTY SHEEHAN,摄影 SCOTT HALLEMAN/SETTY MAGES

“他们确实是伟大的英雄”

关于在伊朗战争中丧生的 20 名美国人的故事

Chris Kenning 和 Ramon Padilla USA TODAY

Mia Gonzales-Swinton 站在多佛空军基地的停机坪上,心中充满了悲伤,将她 4 岁的女儿紧紧地抱在身前。

她用手指轻抚 Aleta 的头发。衣着整洁的军队仪仗队将四个覆盖着国旗的转运箱从一架货机中抬出。唐纳德·特朗普总统站在附近。可以听到另一名悲痛的家属在哭泣。Gonzales-Swinton 的女儿抬头看向她的母亲。

“那个箱子里是我爸爸吗?”她问道。

30 岁的 Michael Swinton 中士,Mia 的丈夫,她的战友,两人在巴林部署期间相识相爱,如今已去世。这个男人喜欢钓鱼,修理家里的一切,并承担起爬山的重任,以便她能离开军队抚养孩子。这个男人最爱他的妻子和两个孩子。

“我仍然不敢相信离开的真的是他,”她告诉 USA TODAY。

Swinton 是 7 月 22 日那天被接回家的四名美国军人之一,他在伊朗战争中丧生,军方称此过程为“庄重的转运”。与他一同归来的还有:一名 19 岁的德克萨斯州二等兵,距离她高中毕业仅有一年之遥;一名 30 岁的纽约人,她曾希望军队能帮助她看世界;以及一名 25 岁的军官,他原计划回家后与未婚妻结婚。

根据军方的公告,这些最新的美国军人——自与伊朗敌对行动开始以来,死于敌对行动、意外或未知原因的人员——使总数达到了 20 人。五角大楼还列出 400 多名士兵在“史诗愤怒行动”(Operation Epic Fury)期间受伤。

特朗普在二月份对伊朗发动攻击,称该国正在研发核武器。在停火协议崩溃后,战争最近再次升级。

“他们确实是伟大的英雄,”

参见 伊朗战争伤亡 (IRAN WAR TOLL),第 4A 页

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7 月 22 日,在特拉华州多佛空军基地进行遗体庄重转运期间,士兵们抬着陆军中士 Michael Swinton 的转运箱。EVAN VUCO/REUTERS

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7 月 28 日,人们在美国国会大厦向林赛·格雷厄姆参议员表达敬意。在国会大厦圆厅举行的感人追思会令一些亲属和立法者流下泪来。摄影 JACK GRUSSO/USA TODAY

格雷厄姆获追悼

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这位资深参议员于 7 月 11 日因主动脉夹层去世。追悼仪式将分两天进行。

南卡罗来纳州参议员林赛·格雷厄姆(Lindsey Graham)在众议院和参议院中担任核心人物 31 年,并在外交政策方面具有重要影响力。7 月 28 日,世界各国领导人、同事和朋友聚集在华盛顿特区向他表达敬意。这位 71 岁的共和党人于 7 月 11 日去世,在国会大厦圆厅举行的感人仪式上,人们纪念他在公共辩论中的坚韧以及他的幽默感。葬礼服务将于 7 月 29 日在南卡罗来纳州举行。

欲了解更多关于格雷厄姆追悼服务的报道,请访问 constoday.com。

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一项新调查显示,建筑行业中更换工作的人员在过去近三年中一直高于其他所有行业。BENJAMIN CHAMBER/JUSA TODAY NETWORK

建筑工人很认可:该行业在薪资涨幅方面排名 No. 1

Medora Lee

USA TODAY

说到薪资涨幅,今年的“热门”职业是建筑业。

根据人力资源和薪资服务提供商 ADP 对薪资交易数据的分析,自 2023 年 8 月以来,建筑业的跳槽者每月在薪资增幅上均超过所有其他部门,仅在 2026 年 2 月和 3 月除外,当时自然资源领域跳槽者的薪资出现了暂时性飙升。该分析涵盖了 12 个月内超过 14.8 million 名员工。

ADP 表示,6 月份,建筑业跳槽者的薪资同比增长了 12.9%,超过了所有其他行业。该月建筑业跳槽者的薪资中位数为超过 $59,100,而所有跳槽者的薪资中位数为 $43,200。

在许多美国人

见 CONSTRUCTION,第 2A 页

夏令时对犹太教来说是个问题吗?

有些人担心永久实行夏令时会影响祷告

Marc Ramirez

USA TODAY

每天早晨在上班或上学前,正统派犹太教徒会进行每日三次祷告中的第一次,无论是独自进行还是在犹太会堂集会。男性披上仪式披肩并佩戴皮革祷告盒,祷告的时间不是由时钟决定,而是由太阳升起决定。

“早晨的时间越晚,祷告发生的时间就越晚,”代表正统派犹太教徒的组织 Agudath Israel of America 的政府事务国家总监 A.D. Motzen 拉比说道。

因此他表示,许多正统派犹太教徒对拟议立法使夏令时永久化的前景感到担忧。

由佛罗里达州共和党众议员 Vom Brahasan 提出的 2025 年《阳光保护法》(Sunshine Protection Act of 2025)将使大多数州永久实行夏令时,这意味着大多数美国人

见 PRAYER,第 2A 页

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正处于挣扎之中并质疑大学教育的价格,而分析显示,专业贸易也可以获利丰厚。

“今年到目前为止获得薪资最大涨幅的人群是建筑行业的跳槽者,这证明投资专业贸易技能可以是赚大钱的另一个宝贵途径,”ADP 研究负责人兼首席顾问 Nela Richardson 写道。“在薪资方面,专业贸易是年度第 1 名的职业。”

为什么建筑业薪资上涨?并不复杂

ADP 表示,这是一个简单的供需问题。

自 2014 年起,建筑业的招聘增长已超过整体就业增长。劳工统计局的数据显示,从 2014 年到 2024 年,在大型贸易、运输和公用事业类别(包括零售工人及其货车司机)之外,建筑业的就业增长最为强劲。

Richardson 表示,即便有这些就业增长,建筑业仍需要更多工人。结果,“由于劳动力池有限,(建筑)工人在跳槽时有能力要求大幅提高薪资。”

数据中心建设热潮导致工人短缺

ADP 表示,在数据中心热潮中,新入职人员的匮乏加剧了建筑工人的短缺。

ADP 的数据显示,资深员工多年来支撑着建筑业。自 2020 年 1 月以来,电工、管道工、木匠和 HVAC 专业人员的中位年龄下降了多达 5 年,而 12. 名员工的中位年龄仅下降了 2 年。ADP 表示,中位年龄的下降是因为年长者正在离开这个行业,这给该行业带来了更大的压力。

“投资专业贸易技能可能是赚大钱的另一个宝贵途径。

在薪资方面,专业贸易是年度第一职业。”

Nela Richardson ADP 研究首席经济学家兼负责人

此外,根据美国建筑师协会(American Institute of Architects)的说法,尽管数据中心在建筑业中所占比例可能不足 2%,但这些项目具有巨大的“帽子效应”,带动了对住宅和基础设施劳动力需求的增长。5 月,非党派智库布鲁金斯(Brookings)估计,在五到六年内,数据中心促使当地建筑业就业机会增加了 8%。

建筑工人的未来如何?

ADP 表示:“建筑业的招聘热潮及其薪资上涨可能会继续,并且将出现更多针对想要进入该行业人员的学徒计划和贸易课程。”

Richardson 表示:“建筑工人需求量很大,甚至行业外的私营公司也在设立学徒制和培训计划以填补人才缺口。已有初步证据表明,这些努力正在吸引新工人。建筑业新雇员(即过去三个月内被聘用的人员)的百分比一直在上升。”

ADP 数据显示,从 2019 到 2025 年,新雇员占就业人数的 1.6%。今年到目前为止,该行业新雇员的份额增长了一个完整的百分点,达到 4.6%。

肯塔基州州长敦促麦康奈尔口头更新近况

贝舍尔的信函要求参议员保持透明

Melina Khan

USA TODAY

在麦康奈尔因跌倒住院六周后,肯塔基州州长 Andy Beshear 发出新请求,希望麦康奈尔能口头更新其身体状况。

在 7 月 27 日给麦康奈尔的信中,贝舍尔呼吁这位肯塔基州共和党人“直接且口头地面对肯塔基州人民,并提供你具备履职能力的证明,否则请辞职”。

贝舍尔写道:“在你住院的消息传出后已经过去了 43 天。在这段时间里,你没有投过一次票,没有参与任何官方活动,除了两张照片和相应的声明外,你应当要求与你的肯塔基州选民或参议员沟通。”

这位民主党州长还表示,他将该信函的副本发送给了南达科他州(South Dakota)的 8- 参议员 John Thune,要求参议院多数党领袖在麦康奈尔不提供更新信息的情况下进一步调查。

此前,麦康奈尔的办公室发布了一张新照片和一份关于其治疗情况的简报,透露他仍在康复设施中接受“密集的物理治疗”。

他的办公室表示,84 岁的麦康奈尔在 6 月 14 日早晨经历一次跌倒并导致短暂失去意识后住院。

USA TODAY 已联系麦康奈尔的办公室,就贝舍尔的信函寻求评论。

Beshear 要求 McConnell 做出回应

关于 McConnell 医生的信函更新,Beshear 主张该信“并未讨论你的实际情况,包括你是否能够说话、推理或履行你作为参议员的职责”。

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官员们发布了这张日期为 2026 年 7 月 26 日的照片,照片中是来自肯塔基州(Kentucky)的参议员 Mitch McConnell (8-Kentucky) 及其妻子 Elaine Chan。 此前由国会议员。主治医师办公室(OFFICE OF THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN)

“我理解任何人对隐私的渴望,但当你竞选公职并担任一个州两名美国参议员之一时,你自愿放弃了很大一部分个人隐私。这就是协议,我们在竞选时都知道这一点,”他写道。

由于缺乏关于其情况的信息,McConnell 面临着两党要求透明度的呼吁。上周,代表 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortin 告诉记者,McConnell 应该提供健康更新或辞职。

Beshear 还提到了在 McConnell 缺席期间国会山发生的“重要事件”。这位参议员已经缺席了参议院的三打十几次点名投票,包括关于年度国防政策法案和结束蓝色战争(blue war)等关键措施的投票。

“Shortacks 只是要求你诚实,”Beshear 说道。

这并非该州长首次推动透明度以及针对 McConnell 在参议院缺席的情况:7 月 8 日,Beshear 同样向该参议员发送了一封信函要求更新情况,因为选民们“日益关注你的当前健康状况、福祉以及在美国参议院担任公职的能力”。

McConnell 办公室发布更新:‘期待’回归

McConnell 的办公室在 7 月 27 日的一份更新中表示,医生尚未从医学上许可该参议员返回工作岗位,或离开他接受治疗的康复设施。

他始终,我相信,“是你持续且不懈的动力,期待很快回到参议院和肯塔基州,”McConnell 在更新中说道。

为主治医师办公室(The Office of the Attending Physician,为国会议员提供医疗援助)在更新中也发布了一份声明,称医生们每天都在对 McConnell 进行治疗。

声明称,McConnell 童年时期患小儿麻痹症带来的终身影响仍然是“影响其行动能力的一个重要因素”。

“自从出院以来,他一直保持着艰苦的物理治疗和康复课程,包括每天多次旨在保持足够能力并降低未来跌倒风险的训练,”该办公室表示。

作为更新的一部分,McConnell 还发布了一张日期为 7 月 26 日的新照片,照片中他与妻子 Elaine Chan 在一起。

贡献者:Zachary Schermale

祈祷

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将不再需要“向前调快”或“向后调慢”。人们不再需要每年两次地调整他们的时钟、手表和计时器。

该法案在众议院以 509-527 的压倒性票数通过后,目前已提交至美国参议院。它得到了总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的支持,他称季节性的时钟变更“极其荒谬”。

正统犹太教联盟(Orthodox Union,该国支持正统犹太教的组织)的拉比乔什·约瑟夫(Josh Joseph)表示,犹太教的许多实践都与历法相关,更具体地说是与日出和日落相关,他说,这些事件决定了早晚祷告的时间以及安息日(Shabbat)和节日的开始与结束时间。

“许多犹太人在早晨聚集在犹太会堂进行晨祷,”该组织执行副总裁兼首席运营官约瑟夫说。“如果日出被推后,他们的仪式就必须延迟一小时才能开始。”

他说,在冬季月份,这将对许多人的开启一天产生负面影响,增加了准时到达工作场所或学校的难度——特别是在中西部和山区各州,在某些地方,日出时间在很长一段时间内将被推迟到上午 8 点之后,从而破坏了虔诚犹太社区的一项基本宗教实践。

“祷告及其随之而来的仪式时间将被打乱——这反过来将危及他们的祷告履行、犹太会堂的出勤情况,并导致上班迟到,”在发给国会办公室的一封信中,Agadeth Israel 如此写道。“犹太教的宗教活动和职业生活将被深刻地颠覆。”

该组织(目前正敦促参议员反对或修改该法案)编制的一份图表列出了美国各城市

以及如果该法律通过,它们将如何受到影响。

“加利福尼亚州受影响最小,但去到印第安那州或密歇根州,现实最为残酷,”莫托(Mottau)说。“在大多数正统犹太人居住的地方,(日出)时间将在 6 点之后。在洛杉矶,一年中只有 10 天如此——但在印第安那州的南本德,一年中接近 150 天如此。”

他说,在这 70 天中,南本德的地平线直到 9 点之后才会出现阳光。在蒙大拿州的海伦娜,上午 9 点后的日出一年中会出现 10 天;在爱达荷州的博伊西,为 4,6,而在北达科他州的俾斯麦,为 70。

“这一改变将严重干扰犹太人的晨间仪式,因为这些仪式需要自然光线的到来,”南本德希伯来正统会堂的 Bob to Yosef Cholin Damager 在一封反对该立法的信中写道。“如此之晚的日出将使祷告时间与典型的学校和医疗机构的开始时间不兼容,给我们的许多高效社区成员带来不必要的负担。”

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Kolberger 就爱达荷州学生谋杀案提出质疑

Thas Nguyen

USA TODAY

法院记录显示,被判定在 2022 年谋杀四名爱达荷州大学生的人员 Brent Kolberger 已提交请愿书,寻求对其有罪答辩和定罪提出挑战。

31 岁的 Kolberger 于 7月 27 日在爱达荷州 Ada 县地方法院提交了一份“定罪后救济请愿书”。此类请愿允许被告在量刑后,基于包括律师援助无效以及其他主张的法律或宪法错误等理由,对定罪提出挑战。

法院记录表明 Kolberger 正在为自己辩护。

Kolberger 在接受《纽约时报》采访时公开披露了该请愿书,他在采访中声称自己是清白的,且在承认这些高关注度杀人案时受到了误导。据《时报》报道,他拒绝讨论支持其清白主张的证据,或详细阐述他对答辩程序的担忧。

他在 7月 26 日给该报的一份声明中表示:“由于一份破碎的答辩而加速传导,审判从未向公众提供有助于获得解脱的清晰度,且除非撤销该答辩,否则正义将依然处于极度的误判状态……我实际的清白是我的真相,而那份基于虚假承诺和 blatant 虚假信息的答辩,必须被撤销。”

去年,Kolberger 对 2022 年 11 月在爱达荷州莫斯科市一处校外住宅中谋杀爱达荷大学学生 Madison Magee (21 岁)、Kaylee Consacres (22 岁)、Xana Kennedy (20 岁) 和 Ethan Olyson (20 岁) 的行为认罪。他被判处四次终身监禁且不得假释,以及因盗窃罪被判处 10 年监禁。

2022 年爱达荷州杀人案发生了什么?

检察官表示,Kolberger 闯入了受害者位于爱达荷大学校园附近的一处社交住宅,并在 2022 年 11 月 31 日将四名学生刺死。这些谋杀案震惊了莫斯科镇,在调查人员搜寻嫌疑人数周,令社区处于紧张状态后,当局于 2022 年 12 月 30 日在宾夕法尼亚州逮捕了 Kolberger。

据检察官称,通过在一名受害者尸体附近发现的刀鞘上的 DNA 证据,以及手机数据和其车辆行驶轨迹的监控影像,Kolberger 与该犯罪活动联系在一起。

在杀人案发生时,Kolberger 是附近华盛顿州立大学刑事司法专业的博士生。USA TODAY 去年审阅的警方记录显示,Kolberger 在大学期间的行为曾引发一系列投诉,包括指控他恐吓同学以及让女学生感到“不安全”。

Kolberger 在 7 月达成了一项答辩协议,并对受害者家属表示,因为该协议让他避免了死刑和高关注度的审判。

尽管 Kolberger 在答辩听证会上承认了杀人责任,但他从未公开解释动机。他在给《时报》的声明中,称调查人员对杀人案的描述为“apopic 叙述”和“虚构作品”,并主张其“高调承诺在审判中从未受到质疑”。

爱达荷州受害者家属批评 Kolberger 的无辜主张

针对 Kolberger 的申请,爱达荷州总检察长 Raúl Labrador 表示,他的办公室“准备好采取任何必要措施,以确保正义得到充分执行”。

“我对 Madison、Kaylee、Xana 和 Ethan 的家属表示深切同情,他们已经承受了难以想象的损失,而现在必须面对今天这个令人深感痛苦的消息,”Labrador 在 X 的一份声明中说道。

Executive 家族也批评了《泰晤士报》为 Kolberger 提供了分享其无辜主张的平台。在 7 月 27 日的一份声明中,该家族将 Kolberger 描述为一名 “nonsanto you just can’t seem to wear”。

贡献者:Christopher Coen, Jeannie Santucci 和 Niles Vancey-Bragg。

Comey 寻求撤销海贝壳案件,理由是言论自由

Aydia Bagchi

USA TODAY

前 FBI 局长 James Comey 正在请求一名联邦法官撤销一起备受争议的刑事案件。该案件指控他在社交媒体上发布一张海贝壳图片,威胁要伤害或杀死总统 Donald Trump,Comey 称该案件是企图压制他对总统批评的违宪行为。

此案的核心是 Comey 在 2020 年 5 月在社交媒体上发布的一张形状为 “At 47” 的海贝壳图片。根据 Mercant-Wedette,他请求“抛弃”或“摆脱”此案。Trump 是第 47 任总统。

在一些 Trump 支持者将该帖子解读为针对总统的威胁后,Comey 在几小时内删除了该帖。他在一个新帖子中表示,他“没有意识到有些人将这些数字与暴力联系在一起”,并且他反对“任何形式的暴力”。在 Trump 的前私人辩护律师 Todd Blanche 当月就任代理司法部长后,司法部于去年 4 月对 Comey 提起起诉。

在 7 月 27, Comey 的法律团队在撤诉请求中表示,如果针对他的案件获准继续,这将诱使未来的相关人员继续针对反对总统的政治敌人。

“强制 Comey 为一份反对总统的声明承担责任——即便他最终被宣判无罪——其本身就是对言论自由的违宪惩罚,”Comey 的法律团队在提交给法院的文件中写道。

一名发言人在给 USA TODAY 的声明中强调,该部门已通过北卡罗来纳州联邦大陪审团获得起诉。该发言人表示,Comey 和所有被告一样,将在法庭上获得辩护机会,而司法部透露该案件的更多细节对检方或 Comey 而言都不公平。

这是司法部自 Trump 在 2021 年 9 月公开要求起诉 Comey 以来,对他发起的第二起案件。

第一起案件指控 Comey 向国会撒谎,该案在 11 月被撤销,法官裁定提起指控的检察官任命不合法。司法部已就该裁决提出上诉。

最近针对 Comey 的指控引发了广泛批评,包括来自保守派法律人士的批评,他们认为如果起诉成功,意味着政府可能会将广泛的政治言论定为犯罪。

Trump 与 Comey 之间的紧张关系已持续多年。2017 年,Trump 解雇了时任 FBI 局长的 Comey。当时,该局正在调查 20th Trump 竞选团队与俄罗斯政府之间可能的接触。在随后的几年里,Comey 成了总统的批评者。

在 7 月 27 提交的文件中,Comey 的法律团队写道,“the 47” 是一个表达反对总统的“知名政治口号”。

根据法院文件,“事实上,互联网上已经售出了数千件带有这一口号的商品,且至今仍可购买,但在 Comey 先生发布帖子前的几个月里,该口号在全国各地的抗议活动中不断出现。”

2022 年,保守派评论员 Jack Proctor 在社交媒体上发布了 “Mr. 46”,指的是总统 Joe Biden。

在 4 月的 “CBS Mornings” 节目中,当被问及司法部是否会对 Proctor 提起指控时,Blanche 表示他不知道该帖是否被调查。关于这一点,“你不能将上次发生的情况与这次发生的情况进行比较。”

塞拉俱乐部称百年古树被砍伐以给边境墙让路

Michael Lorie

USA TODAY

当地活动人士表示,7月27日,在美墨边境,一批被认为拥有 100 年以上树龄的树木被砍伐,以给唐纳德·特朗普总统的边境墙让路。

塞拉俱乐部(Sierra Club)在该州的边境项目协调员埃里克·梅萨(Erick Meza)表示,这些棉白杨树在亚利桑那州卢西贝尔(Lucibel)的边境地区已经屹立了一个多世纪。这些巨大的树木长期以来一直是稀有物种的家园,也是邻居们聚集的阴凉之地。

据梅萨称,尽管当地人反对,且树上筑巢有法律保护的鸟类,但在没有环境监测的情况下,这些树木被砍伐了。

“这是一个非常独特的情况,因为在整个边境没有其他地方像这样,”梅萨告诉 USA TODAY。“这些树如此巨大,它们的根系延伸到了墨西哥,而墨西哥树木的枝叶则延伸到了美国,创造了一个相连的生态系统。”

国土安全部官员没有回应 USA TODAY 的置评请求。但在一封发给梅萨并由其分享给 USA TODAY 的6月信函中,一名前巡逻官员写道,这些树木将被移除,因为它们无法被迁移。

围绕亚利桑那棉白杨树的争端,是特朗普边境墙面临的来自边境社区和环保人士抵制的最新案例。政府在一些国家最偏远但生态独特的地区建设屏障的举动,即使在共和党势力深厚的德克萨斯州也引发了愤怒。

圣克鲁斯县警长办公室表示,至少有一人在与抗议破坏亚利桑那棉白杨树相关的活动中被捕。该人员被指控非法入侵。

塞拉俱乐部官员分享了推土机在边境附近砍伐树木的照片。这些树可以生长到 200 英尺高,宽近 50 英尺。

梅萨说,现场仍有一棵棉白杨在伫立,周围是抗议其被破坏的人们。

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凯特·斯科特(Kate Scott)在亚利桑那州卢西贝尔的一棵棉白杨树脚下敲鼓,这棵树将被砍伐以修建边境墙。KBEICCA MOBACHI/路透社

塞拉俱乐部是由自然主义者约翰·缪尔(John Muir)在世纪之交成立的一个环保组织。它已成长为美国最卓越的环保组织之一,其活动涵盖了从 1960 年代争取不让大峡谷被淹没,到 2020 年在巴拉克·奥巴马总统的白宫前抗议,以防止基石 XL 管道(Keystone XL Pipeline)的建设。

为什么 1993 推土机砍伐了这些树?

“这些树被砍伐是因为它们‘不能’被迁移。”美国边境巡逻队的官员米歇尔·“谢莉”·巴恩斯(Michelle “Shelly” Barnes)在 6 月给梅萨的信中写道。

USA TODAY 已联系边境巡逻队就这封信发表评论,信中称这些树木“位于罗斯福保留地(Roosevelt Reservation)内,将被移除以建设边境墙”。

罗斯福保留地是一条 60 英尺宽的边境地带,由联邦政府在 1960 年代初期设立,旨在打击走私。

反对计划破坏棉白杨树的当地人表示,这片树林世世代代以来一直是人们聚集的地方。

“这里有点像那个小山谷的心脏,”卢西贝尔居民劳里·巴特勒(Laurie Butler)在 6 月份棉白杨树明显处于边境墙路径上时,告诉当地新闻中心 AZPM。

处于平衡中的稀有生态系统

这些棉白杨树处于一个生态系统的核心,这里是美洲豹、稀有鸟类和其他野生动物的家园。

美国鱼类和野生动物管理局将该地区列为美国境内仅有的美洲豹栖息地之一。

特朗普寻求邮寄选票方面的帮助

他根据法规向最高法院提起上诉

Maureen Groppo

USA TODAY

华盛顿 – 7月 27 日,特朗普政府请求最高法院允许总统唐纳德·特朗普在今年秋季的统一选举之前,在全国范围内收紧邮寄选票的规则,因为他试图加强联邦对投票的控制。

在下级法院阻止该政府制定一份联邦合格选民名单,并限制在近一半的州内仅向该名单上的人员发送邮寄选票后,特朗普提交了这项紧急上诉。

6月,波士顿的一名联邦法官表示,特朗普3月签署的一项行政命令的关键部分违宪,裁定这些组成部分在挑战该命令的 23 个州中不能在今年执行。

7月,一家上诉法院驳回了政府的论点,即由于该行政命令尚未完全实施,因此删除这些州是允许的。

总部位于波士顿的美国巡回上诉法院表示,这些变更已经给各州带来了压力,如果被允许在11月选举中生效,“将播种混乱并威胁到许多合格选民的投票权”。

但司法部告诉最高法院,通过特朗普的行政命令尤其令人谴责,因为相关机构在回避讨论如何(或者是否)执行该命令。

政府律师写道,下级法院“预先认定,无论机构选择做什么,都必然是非法的”。

最高法院要求挑战该命令的各州在 8月 3 日之前对政府的上诉作出回应。

参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer, 19 纽约州)表示,特朗普的行政命令“不过是以另一种名义进行的选民压制”。他表示,法院“必须拒绝这种企图,因为这是一次权力攫取”。

邮寄选票成为关键中期选举前的核心争端

关于缺席选票规则的争论是 2020 年中期选举的关键背景,这次选举将决定哪个政党控制国会。民主党可以通过在众议院和参议院中反转少数几个席位来取得控制权。

自COVID-19大流行期间达到顶峰以来,邮寄投票有所增加。但在 2024 年选举中,仍有近 80% 的选民以这种方式投票。

民主党人比共和党人更倾向于通过邮寄投票。

特朗普本人也曾通过邮寄投票,但他主张缺席选票经常存在欺诈。他指示美国国土安全部强制要求各州咨询 2020-21 年符合投票资格的美国公民。

美国总统现在被命令仅向每个州批准的邮寄选票名单上的选民发送选票。

司法部必须优先调查并起诉那些将联邦选票交给被认为不具备投票资格的人员的州和地方选举官员。

各州管理联邦选举

上诉法院表示,特朗普的行政命令“指示联邦官员在各州如何管理选举方面进行前所未有的参与”。

根据宪法,各州被赋予管理联邦选举的角色。但自从失去 2020 年的席位保障法案以来,特朗普一直要求加强联邦控制。他继续推动这一虚假主张,称他败选是因为广泛的选民欺诈。

特朗普提出了立法建议,要求选民在投票站提供身份证件,并在注册时提供公民身份证明,这是一项更广泛法案的一部分,该法案在国会中停滞不前。

此外,法官们阻止了另一项行政命令,该命令将要求潜在选民出示证明其公民身份的文件以便注册投票。


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特朗普在前往多佛(Dover)前对记者谈到牺牲的士兵时表示:“他们所有人都非常强烈地表示,我们不能让伊朗拥有核武器,所以我们将纪念他们。”

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Nicole M. Amor 主事

Nicole M. Amor 主事,39 岁,此前曾被部署到中东:

“这位明尼苏达州白熊湖(White Bear Lake)的居民于 2005 年加入国民警卫队,担任自动化后勤专家,负责监督部队供应。她于 2006 年转入陆军预备役。2019 年,她在科威特和伊拉克服役。”

在她最近的一次科威特部署中,她被分配到 10'nd Stataimment Command(注:原文如此),该部门提供食物、燃料、水、弹药、运输设备和其他物资。

这位两个孩子的母亲在一次 A.U. 的三击行动中被杀时,距离回家仅剩几天。她的丈夫 Joey Amor 告诉美联社:“我就在科威特。”Nicole Amor 喜欢与她就读四年级的女儿一起收集和骑行。

“她几乎就要回家了,”他说。“你去科威特时不会想到会发生什么,而她却成为了首批受害者之一——这太令人心碎了。”

他告诉英国媒体,在袭击发生前不久她还与丈夫交谈过,“她只是没有回应早晨,”他说。

Curtis J. Angst 上尉

来自俄亥俄州威明顿(Wilmington)的 Curtis J. Angst 上尉,30 岁,最初于 2010 年加入俄亥俄州空军国民警卫队,担任车辆维修技术员。

但他通过获得辛辛那提大学的航空航天工程学位转向了航空职业,成为一名军官,并随后担任 KC-135 Stratehanker 飞行员。

Angst 是第 166 空中加油中队的飞行员,该中队隶属于第 12nd 空中加油联队,驻地为哥伦布市的 Rickenbacker 空军国民警卫队基地。据 USA TODAY 网络的成员《哥伦布快报》(The Columbus Dispatch)报道,他负责在全球范围内执行加油任务以及医疗和货运任务。

3 月 12 日,一架 KC-135 加油机在伊拉克西部的友方领空坠毁,导致 6 人死亡,他也在其中。

美国中央司令部确认,这次事故并非由“史诗纯净行动”(Operation Epic Pury)期间的敌方或友方火力引起。据 Defense One 报道,此次坠机发生在两架类似的波音 KC-135 Stratehakers 之间可能发生的事故之后,其中第二架飞机安全着陆。

Angst 的家人在坠机三天后,即 3 月 15 日在社交媒体的一份声明中,将这位威明顿原住民描述为过着一种“由服务、慷慨和对人们真诚热爱所定义”的生活。

在不值班时,他热爱旅行、户外活动和音乐。他的妻子 Mary 在世。

他的讣告中写道:“认识 Curtis 的人都记得他沉稳的善良以及他无论走到哪里都随身携带的快乐。他总是准备在照顾自己之前先帮助他人。他持久的微笑和瞬间就能辨认出的笑声让人们感到被欢迎、被重视,并成为更大整体的一部分。”

Sgt. Declan J. Coady

Sgt. Declan J. Coady 的父母在某个周日晚上于爱荷华州的家中得知,他们的儿子在 3 月 1 日那次导致 Sgt. Nicole Amor 死亡的同一场袭击中丧生。

该士兵的父亲 Andrew 告诉《得梅因记录报》(The Des Moines Register),Coady 最后一次与他通话是在前一天,当时他在科威特的基地。

“他告诉我们他很安全,”他说道。

Coady, 20, 是德雷克大学(Drake University)的大二学生,也是一名来自西得梅因的陆军预备役人员,他在大学期间加入了陆军预备役。

Declan 热爱游戏、去健身房,以及与家人共度时光。他喜欢与家人一起露营和徒步旅行。自 2023 年起,他作为一名信息技术专家在陆军预备役服役。

他的父亲表示,因为他参加了后备军训练团(ROTC),他本可以免于部署,但他接受了 2025, 8 月前往科威特的部署。

“这就是他有多热爱这份事业,”Andrew Coady 说道。

他家人发起的一个 GoYouMe 页面称他“不仅仅是一名士兵——他是一个儿子,一个家庭成员,一个朋友,以及认识他的人生活中的一道光。他以荣誉、勇气和奉献精神服务于国家,体现了身着军装的最高意义。”

Maj. Serffly Davius

Maj. Serffly Davius, 46, 于 2004 年加入空军,并于 2010 年转入纽约州国民警卫队。他曾在 2010 年 10 月在科威特服役。

在平民生活中,根据纽约州国民警卫队的消息,居住在纽约市皇后区的 Davius 是一名纽约市警察局成员,于 2014, 年加入警队。

Davius 被分配到第 42 步兵师的营总部,该部队于 2025 年夏季部署到科威特。他在师总部担任数据系统工程官,负责计算机和通信网络安全。

国民警卫队表示,他在科威特 Bushing 营驻守期间,于 3 月 6 日因不明确但非战斗原因死亡。纽约市警察局在社交媒体帖子中表示,他是死于一次医疗突发事件。

他留下了妻子和 6 个孩子。

根据 WTEB-TV 报道,纽约市市长 Zoltan Muradani 和警察局长 Jessica Tracy 在一份联合声明中写道:“他的职业生涯是以服务为定义的——服务于他的国家和纽约市。”

Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards

Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards 在其直升机坠入安第斯海后,于 7 月 1 日被宣布死亡。

据美国海军学会(U.S. Naval Institute)报道,尽管其他三名水兵获救,但海军在搜寻 Edwards 四天后停止了搜索。

Edwards 是俄勒冈州奥克兰人,自 2023 年 7 月起指挥“NightSlipper”直升机中队。

代理海军部长 Hung Cao 在社交媒体帖中写道:“我们深切哀悼 Commander Gabe Edwards 的损失——他是第 5, 直升机海战中队(HSC 5)的一名海军科学指挥官,也是一名加强了我们舰队并激励了其领导者的领导者。”

根据该学会的消息,Edwards 于 2008 年开始担任直升机飞行员,此前曾在多个直升机海战中队服役。他还曾在海军特种作战第 4 组服役。

他留下了妻子 Rebecca 和两个孩子。KGW-TV 在对他母亲的采访中报道他的年龄为 42。

“对于那些与他并肩作战的人来说,他是一位受人尊敬的领导者和导师。对于我们的家庭,他是我一生挚爱,是孩子们心中非凡的父亲,也是我们家的基石。他最大的快乐永远是他的家人,”Rebecca Edwards 在海军发布的公告中说道。

1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan

陆军中尉 Tyler James Feehan 的母亲 Shari Feehan 和她身为陆军退伍军人的丈夫,迫不及待地想让他们那爱冒险的 25 岁儿子(他们称他为“Tivo”)完成在约旦的军事部署。

他即将获得商业硕士学位,并计划就读法学院。但他的母亲告诉《今日美国》(USA TODAY),他计划首先在意大利与他的未婚妻——他生命中的挚爱——结婚。

她说,由于伊朗战争,他最初定于 7 月 17, 左右结束的部署被延长了。她说,在伊朗对约旦 Muwaffaq Saiki 空军基地进行导弹和无人机袭击后,他在 7 月 18, 她说,去世。

“我们的心碎了,”Feehan 在一条短信中说道,并补充说她为儿子的服役感到自豪。

Tyler Feehan 的父亲 Stephen 在军队中服役了 25 年——他的儿子继承了他的脚步。

根据陆军的声明,他于 2019 年首次参军,当时他居住在夏威夷的 Dwa Beach,担任一名战斗工程师。

Feehan 在 2024. 年春季完成了南犹他大学的 ROTC 军事训练计划。根据五角大楼发布的消息,他被分配到陆军第 32 空防导弹司令部的一个单位,驻地在北卡罗来纳州费也特维尔的布拉格堡 (Fort Bragg)。

“在短短 25 年里,Tyler 经历的生活比大多数人一生所经历的还要多。他不懈地追求冒险,无论是前往珠峰大本营,还是徒步穿越法国进入西班牙的圣雅各之路,”Shari 和 Stephen Feehan 在给《今日美国》的消息中写道。

他们说,他还热爱指导士兵,在每次机会中分享他对金融的热爱并推广教育的价值。这对父母表示,他们将在国内设立一项奖学金。

“我们的唯一请求是:在纪念 Tyler 时,人们能停下来看看这个国家仍然拥有的美好,而不是那些将人们分开的事物,”他们说道。

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales

二等兵 Isabella Gonzales 在德克萨斯州卡罗尔顿 (Carrollton) 的一些高中朋友口中被称为“Ins”,他们分享了她在舞会和保龄球馆大笑和摆姿势的照片。

她为加入军队而感到自豪,这一点从她穿着希伯伦高中 (Hebron High) 的蓝色毕业礼袍上方披的美国陆军披肩中可见一斑,该校位于达拉斯正北方向。

“在去年春天从希伯伦高中毕业后, she 响应号召加入美国陆军。她在服役中献出了生命,我们学区对她的失去感到心碎,”刘易斯维尔独立学区 (Lewisville Independent School District) 在一份声明中表示。

根据五角大楼的消息,她被分配到德国 Andean 的第 10 陆军防空导弹司令部,第 57 防空炮兵团,喷气营。

在伊朗战争期间部署在约旦 Muwaffaq Saiki 空军基地时,她是 7 月 17 伊朗袭击中遇难的人员之一。

“我们都非常震惊,因为她太年轻了,”她的朋友 Valerie Bodirgues 告诉 WTAA-TV,“我从未想过这种情况会发生在她身上。绝对不可能。”

德克萨斯州州长 Gregg Abbott 赞扬了她的勇气和牺牲,并在声明中指出她“只有 19 岁”。

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Capt. Cody A. Khork

Cody A. Khork 上尉在很小的时候就被军队吸引,并在军队中服役超过 25 年。

据五角大楼称,来自佛罗里达州温特海文 (Winter Haven) 的 Khork,35 岁,于 2009 年加入国民警卫队,担任火力方向专家,负责协助指挥火炮。

2014 年,他成为陆军预备役的一名军事警察。这些年间,他曾被部署到沙特阿拉伯、古巴关塔那摩湾和波兰。

他是 3 月 11 日在科威特遭遇袭击中丧生的人员之一。

他的家人在一份声明中写道,Khork 加入了陆军预备役,并参加了佛罗里达南方学院 (Florida Southern College) 的 ROTC 项目。他热爱炮兵,并拥有政治学学位。

“这种承诺塑造了他的生命历程,反映了始终是他人生核心的深厚责任感,”他的母亲 Deana Burhans、编辑 James Khork 和继母 Sherry Khork 在声明中写道。

他们将他描述为“聚会的灵魂人物,以其极具感染力的精神、慷慨的心肠以及对他一同服役的战友和所有认识他的人的深切关怀而闻名”。

他的家人说,他还“找到了他一生的挚爱”。

Maj. John 'Alex' Klimner

John 'Alex' Klimner 少校,33 岁,是在 3 月 12 日一架 KC-135 加油机坠毁事故中遇难的机组人员之一。

据美国今日 (USA TO) 1243 网络的成员蒙哥马利(阿拉巴马州)广告报 (Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser) 报道,这位空军飞行员及奥本大学毕业生留下了他的妻子和三个年幼的孩子——一对 7 个月大的双胞胎和一个 2 岁大的儿子。

亲友将 Klimner 描述为一个总是愿意向他人伸出援手的人。

Klimner 是在坠机事故中丧生的服役人员之一,他被分配到麦克迪尔空军基地 (MacDill Air Force Base) 的第 6 空中加油联队。阿拉巴马州州长 Kay Ivey 表示,该飞行员驻地在伯明翰。

Capt. Seth R. Koval

来自俄亥俄州斯坦威克斯 (Stanwicks) 的 Seth R. Koval 上尉,38 岁,同样在 3 月 12 日坠毁的 60 班次中。

Koval 是一名 KC-135 教练飞行员,被分配到俄亥俄州哥伦布市比肯巴克空军国民警卫队基地 (Bickenbacker Air National Guard Base) 的第 12 空中加油联队第 166 空中加油中队。

“Seth 是我们见过的最慷慨和最善良的人之一。他是最完美的丈夫和父亲。他的妻子和儿子都非常怀念他,他也深爱着他们两人,”一个为该家庭筹款的活动中写道。

Koval 的军队生涯始于 2016 年,当时他在印第安纳州空军国民警卫队的第 122 战斗机联队服役。在 2018 年从普渡大学毕业并获得航空运营学士学位后,他于 2017 年转入俄亥俄州空军国民警卫队。

据俄亥俄州副将部门 (Ohio Adjutant General's Department) 称,Koval 于 2018 年通过第 122 空中加油联队获得委任,并于 2014, 2020, 2022, 2023 和 2026 年被部署,共计 443 个作战小时。

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Robert Marzan

根据陆军预备役的消息,来自弗吉尼亚州 Speedytsville 的 3 级首席准尉 Robert Marzan,5,被分配到位于爱荷华州德梅因市的第 183 大陆管辖区司令部,他在科威特 Shoalha 港的一次无人机系统袭击中丧生。

他于 1990 年在加利福尼亚州萨克拉门托首次入伍,随后于 1994, 转入陆军预备役,并在 1978. 成为一名数据操作准尉。他于 1996 年在克罗地亚和波斯尼亚服役,并于 2009 至 2020 期间在埃及和科威特服役。

“我们向那些为了保卫我们的自然而无畏地、竭尽全力地服役的牺牲英雄致敬。他们所做出的牺牲,以及他们家人所承受的牺牲,将永远被铭记,”陆军预备役局长兼美国陆军预备役司令部司令 Robert Harker 中将在一份声明中写道。

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总统 Donald Trump,创作者,在特拉华州多佛市,当军方成员搬运陆军中士 Angel S. Rampersad 的转移灵柩时敬礼。据信她死于 7 月 17 次敌军袭击。 EVELYN HOUSTEN/NEWS/THE

在五角大楼宣布死讯后不久,加利福尼亚州州长 Gavin Newson 称他为“scenargoons 加利福尼亚人,他对我们国家的贡献以荣誉和分心为标志”。

Maj. Jeffrey R. O'Brien

军方表示,来自爱荷华州 Waukee 的 45, 岁 Jeffrey R. O'Brien 少校于 2012, 在陆军预备役中成为一名通信兵团军官。他被分配到第 183 维持司令部,并于 3 月 1 日在科威特 Shoalha 港的袭击中丧生。

O'Reilly 的姨妈 Mary Melchert 在 Facebook 上发帖称,他在大学学习计算机工程,已经在陆军预备役中服役了 17 年。

“他留下了一个妻子和三个孩子‘像真实的一样... 怎么会真实... 他是你所认识的最甜蜜的蓝眼睛、金发农场孩子。他已经如此被思念’,”她写道。

军方当局表示,O'Brien 此前曾在 2009, 部署到科威特。

爱荷华州州长 Kim Reynolds 对他以及另一名在战争中丧生的爱荷华州士兵表示哀悼。

“代表一个心怀感激的州,Kevin 和我向这些家庭表达我们的祈祷和吊唁,我们请求所有爱荷华州人坚定地支持我们牺牲的士兵以及那些爱他们的人,”她说。

Staff Sgt. Benjamin Pennington

五角大楼将 36, 岁的 Benjamin Pennington 中士列为在铁战(Iron war)中丧生的第七名美国军人。据 12 名军方官员称,原籍肯塔基州 Glendale 的 Pennington 在 3 月 1 日沙特阿拉伯 Prince Sultan 空军基地遭受伊朗袭击后,因伤势过重去世。他被分配到位于科罗拉多州 Fort Carson 的第 1 空间营。

“Pennington 中士是一位敬业且经验丰富的非委任军官,他以力量、专业精神和责任感领导,”第 1 空间旅旅长 Michael P. Dyer 上校在一份声明中说。

Pennington 于 2017, 作为单位供应专家入伍美国陆军,并于 2023. 加入美国陆军空间与导弹防御司令部下属的第 1 空间旅。他被追授为参谋海权(staff seapower)。

肯塔基州州长 Andy Brubaker 在社交媒体发帖中写道,Pennington 是一个在为国服务中“牺牲了一切的英雄”:“请加入 Britain 和我,在这个困难时期为他的家人和我们的肯塔基同胞祈祷。”

Tech Sgt. Ashley R. Pruitt

来自肯塔基州 Bactristown 的 34 岁中士 Ashley R. Pruitt 是在一起关于 KC-135 加油机事故中丧生的六名军人之一。

根据她的讣告,她加入了路易斯维尔大学的 ROTC 并在 2017 年入伍美国空军,担任加油机操作员。

她被分配到佛罗里达州麦克迪尔空军基地的第 6 空中加油联队。

空军表示,她的工作包括审查机组人员的准备情况、培训和飞行操作,同时指导加油机操作员进行空中加油程序。

她的讣告写道:“Pruitt 被广泛认为是一位坚毅、真正的自然力量且光彩照人的女性——一个能点亮她进入的任何房间的人。她的决心,加上她在塑造自我时的真诚,使她赢得了超越其军衔的信任和尊重。”

她的丈夫 Greg Pruitt,以及一名女儿和继母在世。

肯塔基州第一代表 Rent Calkins 在社交媒体上写道:“一名普通人永远感激 77nd Sgt. Pruitt 的牺牲。我和其他人都在为她的家人和亲人祈祷。”

Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad

来自纽约州 Olente Park 的 28 岁中士 Angel S. Rampersad 此前被列为失踪,五角大楼现在认为她在 7 月 17 日 Mowat-faq 机场空军基地的敌军袭击中丧生。

她被分配到驻德国 Ambach 的第 10 陆军防空与导弹防御司令部,第 52 防空炮兵旅,第 37 防空炮兵团,第 1 营。

纽约州州长 Kathy Hochul 在 X 上发帖称,纽约州正在悼念“两名男性中其中一人的损失”。

此前曾与 Rampersad 在夏威夷共同服役的 30 岁 Eugene Thompson 告诉《纽约邮报》,他认识的她充满魅力、热爱冒险,并将军队视为看世界的途径。

“我一直在我脑海中想象她在最后时刻经历了什么,每次这都让我心碎,因为我知道那是她不应该承受的,”Thompson 说道。

Maj. Ariana Savino

Ariana Savino 少校是亚拉巴马州伯明翰 Summer Smith Field 国民警卫队基地第 99 空中加油中队的现役操作首席飞行员。

来自华盛顿州 Covington 的 31 岁 Savino 在 2017 年通过中华盛顿大学的空军预备役军官训练团获得了现役委任。

根据麦克迪尔空军基地的说法,她在 2020 年毕业成为一名战斗系统军官,随后担任飞行指挥官并成为一名 KC-135 飞行员。

Savino 累计飞行了 140 个战斗小时,分别作为战斗系统操作员驾驶 E-9C 联合监视目标攻击无线电系统,以及作为飞行员驾驶 KC-135。

她在 3 月 12 日坠毁的加油机上。

一个旨在帮助她的家人并建立一项支持拉丁裔女性航空业的补贴基金的筹款活动中写道:“她是一位可靠的领导者,知道如何照顾她的空军战友;一位专注的朋友,对他人的奉献者,是 Serbia 和 Zorec 的挚友,以及对她的两只狗 Zorec 和 Fyezi(它们是她的整个世界)充满爱的主人。”

退役空军中校 Ernesto Noguera 在给《西雅图时报》的一份声明中写道,Savino 在去世前几天发给朋友的最后一条信息是 “WIFRAAA”,这是一次 2018 年波多黎各旅行的梗。

Sgt. Devin Seibel

Sgt. Devin Seibel,26 岁,来自德克萨斯州罗宾逊,于 5 月 11 日在第 83 空军基地去世。

根据五角大楼的消息,来自德克萨斯州罗宾逊的 Sgt. Devin,26 岁,在一次与训练相关的事故中去世。

Seibel 是一名战斗医疗兵,被分配到科罗拉多州卡森堡第 4 Courant 航空旅第 2 营的空中救护公司。一名英国士兵 James Freeman 下士在英国军方称之为“image”的南部军事训练活动事故中也一同去世。

根据《军事时报》报道,Seibel 于 2017 年 5 月入伍,此前曾在 2020 年至 2022 年期间部署至 Af-ghammas。

“科罗拉多州对 Devin Seibel 中士为我国安全与保障所提供的献身服务表示深切感谢。我们的祈祷与在科罗拉多斯普林斯的 Seibel 家属,以及 Devin 在服役中的兄弟姐妹们同在,”科罗拉多州州长 Jared Polis 在一份声明中说道。

Master Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons

根据美国空军的消息,Master Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons,28 岁,是一名加油机操作员,也是 Bickenbacker 空军国民警卫队基地的第 166 空中加油中队成员。

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Sgt. Michael E. Swinton

Sgt. Michael E. Swinton,30 岁,于 2017 年加入陆军,担任防空预警系统操作员。

据军方称,他被分配到美国陆军太空和导弹防御司令部,驻 stationed 于北卡罗来纳州布拉格堡。他后来担任爱国者火力控制大使操作员。他的家人表示,他有一个妻子和两个孩子。

“Swinton 中士是一名经验丰富的士官,他对自己的工作以及周围的人充满自豪,”第 32 AAMDC 指挥官 John L. Dawber 准将说。

五角大楼表示,他于 7 月 19 日在伊拉克 83 地区的一个美国小队在一次对专用无人机的受控爆破中丧生。该城市大约在伊朗边界以西 500 英里处。

Swinton 的母亲 Talalad Swinton Anshum 在给《今日美国》(USA TODAY) 的一份声明中表示,她的儿子拥有“极具感染力的笑声和能给他人带来欢乐的幽默感”。

“Michael 最大的爱就是他的家庭。他的妻子 Mia 和两个美丽的孩子是他世界的中心,”她说。

他的妻子 Jamadi 'Mia' Gonsalves Swinton 在一个旨在帮助家庭开支的在线筹款活动中称他为“一个惊人的男人和一名卓越的领导者”,以及“一个深切关怀周围每个人的不可思议的丈夫和父亲”。

Master Sgt. Noah L. Tietjens

Noah L. Tietjens,42 岁,内布拉斯加州贝尔维尤居民,于 2006 年作为一名 document 加入陆军预备役。

他此前曾在 2019 年和 2020 年部署到科威特,获得的勋章包括一枚带有战役之星的伊拉克战役奖章和一条海外服役丝带。

在一次伊朗袭击击中科威特 Shoalha 港口时,他也是牺牲的六名士兵之一。

“只是想让大家知道,我们的儿子 Noah Tietjens 昨天在科威特牺牲了,”Gerda's 作者 Tietjens 在 Facebook 上发帖称。“我们只需要一些时间来消化这一切。”

一个 6xFundNet 活动称,他的去世留下了“但献身的妻子和他不可思议的儿子 Dylan。Noah 是一个勇敢、自律且对家庭拥有坚定之爱的人。他以荣誉热爱并服务,以力量、正直和沉稳的领导力引导生活。最重要的是,他是一位深情投入的丈夫和父亲。Dylan 是他最大的骄傲。”

在内布拉斯加州,Martial Arts International 的所有者在网上发布消息称,Tietjens 在健身房被人们称为“Noah 先生,一位献身的丈夫和父亲,一位受人尊敬的黑 80th 菲律宾格斗术和跆拳道专家,以及一位将自己的时间、纪律和领导力传授给他人的一名教员”。

贡献者:Erin Mansfield, CISA TODAY, 以及 CISA TODAY 网络工作人员


64 | 星期三 2026 年 7 月 29 日 | USA TODAY

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最高法院将权衡武器相关规定

半自动步枪被置于历史背景中

Maureen Grypes

USA TODAY

华盛顿 —— 四项法规是今年最高法院关注的重点。在接下来的最高法院季度中,该议题将再次成为焦点。

这一次,重点将放在包括 AR-01 在内的半自动步枪上。

最高法院在 2022 年的一项里程碑式裁决中表示,现代枪支法规如果想要通过宪法审查,不能与历史上的武器法规相去太远。

尽管最高法院在两年后似乎在后撤这一极具争议的测试,但保守派主导的法院在 6 月做出的两项关于第二修正案的裁决表明,该测试依然稳固 —— 这可能会对即将到来的关于半自动步枪的裁决产生影响。

今年,最高法院推翻了限制在公共场所携带枪支地点的财务强度。它还在一项一致通过的裁决中判定,一项禁止常规药物使用者持有枪支的法律过于宽泛。在这两个案件中,最高法院的多数意见认为,这两项限制都无法在 1700 年代和 1800 年代的法律中找到支持。

“看起来法院在将第二修正案应用于当前枪支法律时,将接受相对较低的类比,”UCLA 法学院教授、《枪光:美国关于持枪权之战》(Gunlight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America)一书的作者 Adam Winkler 说道。他补充道,“但现在情况似乎并非如此。”

在 2022 年的裁决中,最高法院表示,一项枪支法规必须“与本国枪支监管的历史传统一致”。

一次“9-0 的痛击”

该方法的重大考验将在今年秋天到来,届时最高法院将辩论州和地方政府是否可以禁止持有如 AR-01 这样的半自动步枪,以应对大规模枪击事件。

美国枪主协会(Gun Owners of America)联邦事务总监 Aidan Johnston 对法院 2024 年在 United States v. Askim 案中维持禁止家庭虐待者拥有枪支法律的裁决持乐观态度,认为那是一个特例。

“在 Askim 案之后,枪支权利活动人士的情况看起来比较糟糕,但当你看到一次 9-0 的痛击时,情况就好多了,”Johnston 在谈到法院最近一致反对联邦政府广泛禁止大麻使用者拥有枪支的裁决时说道。

尽管大法官 Sottany Brown Jackson 抱怨历史传统并非“不可沉没”且应当被废除,但法院的三位自由派大法官仍加入了该意见。

枪支预防组织同样对该测试持批评态度,但仍看到可以用它来解决

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2025 年,在俄勒冈州塞勒姆的 Peachtons 工厂,一名员工持有 AR-1's,一种 22 口径的半自动步枪。EDWARDSICK TODAY NETWORK

现代现实情况的迹象。

枪支暴力预防倡导团体 Bray's 的首席法律官 Douglas Letter 表示,最近的裁决中没有任何内容破坏法院之前的裁决,即国家在历史上限制危险且不寻常的武器 —— 并且可以继续这样做。

“显然,关于这条线应该划在哪里存在分歧,”Letter 说道。“我们认为绝对应该这样划线,从而使攻击性武器禁令……符合宪法。”

具有里程碑意义的第二修正案裁决

在法官于 2008 年裁定第二修正案保护个人出于传统合法目的拥有枪支的权利之后,法院一直在界定哪些行为是被允许的。

在该里程碑式决定出台两年后,法院又做出裁定,认为第二修正案同样适用于州政府和地方政府——而后者正是大多数枪支监管条例的来源。

而在 2022, 法院在“纽约州步枪和手枪协会诉布伦斯案”(New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruns)中创建了“历史传统”测试。

但 2024, 法院表示可以禁止家庭暴力实施者拥有枪支。专门研究第二修正案的圣母大学法学院(Notre Dame Law School)副教授海莉·普罗克特(Haley Proctor)表示,法院裁定仅需要一个“历史类比”而非一个“历史测试”。

“这一决定让许多人推测,法院正在退回布伦斯案中那样苛刻的测试,”普罗克特写道。“当涉及像避开暴力男友这类普遍认可的措施时,法院似乎不会对政府提供的历史证据过于挑剔。”

一位专家表示,历史类比可能会令人困惑

尽管如此,在 6 月的裁决中,历史测试得到了强有力的应用。

“我们看到的是法官们在某种程度上地前后摇摆,试图让这个布伦斯的历史与传统测试适用于所有出现的枪支权利和监管范围,”芝加哥大学法学教授丹尼尔·米勒(Daniel Miller)说道。

米勒同意杰克逊(Jackson)的批评,即与分析一项限制是否针对现代政策目标而量身定制相比,该测试未能实现其承诺,即使其更易于应用,并进一步限制法官达成其预期结果的能力。

此外,他表示,布伦斯案中关于历史类比的讨论可能会让观察者感到莫名其妙。

“当他们做出裁决并询问诸如‘现代喷气式飞机更像马,还是更像马车,或者更像船?’这样的问题时,我认为关注此事的人只会感到有些困惑,”米勒说。

国父们的饮酒习惯

例如,在关于经常使用大麻是否会导致某人失去拥有枪支资格的案件中,大法官尼尔·戈萨奇(Neil Gorsuch)强调了约翰·亚当斯(John Adams)、乔治·华盛顿(George Washington)、詹姆斯·麦迪逊(James Madison)和托马斯·杰斐逊(Thomas Jefferson)消耗了多少酒精。

“如果习惯性酗酒法适用于那些仅仅是经常饮酒的人,许多著名的早期美国人可能会面临麻烦,”戈萨奇在否决将旧法律作为现代使用正当理由时写道。

杜克大学法学院枪支法中心(Center for Firearms Law at Duke University School Law)联合创始人约瑟夫·布洛克(Joseph Blocker)表示,虽然在解释宪法时历史始终很重要,但枪支管制辩论双方的人可能会对某些裁决中历史细节的详尽程度感到惊讶。

他说,阅读国父们每日的饮酒习惯可能很有趣,“但在大多数人认为的宪法内涵与此之间存在脱节。”

“如果联邦法律禁止受控物质习惯性使用者的持枪权是否符合宪法,竟然取决于詹姆斯·麦迪逊只喝了半品脱威士忌而不是一整品脱,那将是非常荒谬的,”他说。“这是一种非常奇怪的法律思考方式。在我看来,这要求大法官承担过多的责任——在某些情况下,确实超出了其能力范围。”

下级法院裁决分歧

将历史测试应用于对 AR-01 的禁令可能会具有挑战性,因为这些武器比美国人在通过第二修正案时使用的枪械要强大得多。

“从 1791 年到 19 世纪中期,普遍使用的枪械是单发、Google-Load 枪械,”总部位于芝加哥的第 7 巡回上诉法院(70x1.5. Circuit Court of Appeals)的一个分歧小组在 7 月份维持伊利诺伊州对某些半自动步枪和高容量弹匣的禁令时表示。“配备大容量弹匣的 AR-01 与其历史前身大相径庭。”

与其他维持类似禁令的上诉法院一样,第 7 巡回法院的法官表示,这些法律可以由关于枪械职责的历史规则提供支持。由于之前的 large التدريس(特别是血腥和恐怖的伤害),许多州立法机构禁止了它们或征收 probitters 税,第 7 巡回法院小组在其 2-1 的裁决中说道。但几天后,另一个上诉法院裁定新泽西州的 assault weaponism 禁令违宪。

鲍伊刀是否类似于 AR-15?

总部位于费城的美国第 3 巡回上诉法院在一次 10-5 的投票中表示,鲍伊刀的限制不能作为历史依据。

法院表示,没有证据表明鲍伊刀在受到限制之前被普遍用于合法目的。相比之下,法院称,美国目前约有 24 million 把 AR-15 及类似的运动武器在流通。

多数派认为,“即使半自动步枪在某些犯罪中被不成比例地使用,但这可能仍仅占这些武器绝大多数合法使用的极小一部分。”

“枪械界的 iPhone”

杜克大学法学院的 Blocker 表示,很难看出最高法院如何在 AR-01 案件中让双方各获部分胜利,且法官在他们的裁决中以及关于经常 see pot 的枪主问题上达成一致。

在那份意见书中,Gorsuch 将该裁决描述为一个狭义的裁决,未触及对毒品成瘾者或被认为持有枪械过于危险的人员的禁枪令。

即将到来的 AR-01 案件还面临一个挑战,即这些武器在国家辩论中具有显著的地位。在公众心目中,它们与大规模枪击事件联系在一起。但它们深受守法枪主的欢迎。

“在这场辩论的许多方面,这些武器已经变得与身份认同紧密结合,”Blocker 说道。

Trump 就在 SAVE Act 命运问题上向 Thune 施压

总统表示参议院应在法案通过前保持在职

Joey Garrison 和 Zachary Schermels USA TODAY

华盛顿 —— 总统唐纳德·特朗普呼吁参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩(John Thune)保持参议院开会状态,且在参议院共和党人通过他的投票直到秋季之前,不允许议员们休暑假。

特朗普在 7 月 27 日发布的一篇 Truth Social 帖子中提出了这一要求,此前总统一直在向图恩施加越来越大的压力,以寻找在参议院通过长期停滞的《拯救美国法案》(SAVE America Act)的方法。该法案将要求在联邦选举中投票时提供公民身份证明和选民身份证件,同时在 2026 年统一选举前大幅削减邮寄投票。

“约翰·图恩不应允许美国参议院‘禁止恐怖’直到它通过《安全美国法案》(The Safe America Act),或者更好的是,终止那个捣乱者(TERMINATE THE FLEASER),这样共和党人就可以迅速通过他们梦寐以求的一切,”特朗普在帖子中说道。

参议院定于 8 月 7 日开始休会,并于 7 月 14 日返回华盛顿。

图恩在特朗普发布社交媒体帖子后对记者表示,他不排除取消参议院休会的可能性,但他暗示,只有在通过《拯救美-

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‘如果有人能向我证明……我们如何得到这个答案,我完全支持,’南达科他州共和党参议员约翰·图恩说道。动物与科学会议 (ANIMALS & SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS)

国法案》有现实路径时,他才会这样做。

‘如果有人能向我证明我们如何获得一个结果,如何获得一个成效,如何得到这个答案,我完全支持,’图恩说道。‘但如果我们打算在这里进行无休止的法定人数点名,我不知道这是否符合任何人的最大利益。’

图恩表示,他上次与特朗普交谈是在大约 10 天前。

这段时间里,两人之间的紧张关系不断升级。白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特(Karoline Leavitt)上周表示,在参议院就该立法功能运作期间,特朗普对图恩的“耐心即将耗尽”。

特朗普在 7 月 22, 于乔治亚州的一次演讲中,敦促他的支持者就该立法联系图恩。“每个人都打电话给参议院的约翰·图恩 —— 他是共和党的领袖 —— 并告诉他让这些东西获得批准,”总统说。

特朗普表示他与图恩有“良好关系”

特朗普表示他与共和党参议院领袖有“良好关系”。“他只需要完成他的工作,”总统在 7 月 27 日告诉记者。

当被问及是否希望更换图恩的领袖位置时,特朗普说:“我还没考虑过这件事。”

特朗普多次呼吁参议院共和党人废除冗长议事(filibuster),即参议院的 6th 投票门槛,以便共和党人在他们控制的 100 个席位中以简单多数通过《拯救美国法案》- 67。然而,拟议的法案似乎即使在没有冗长议事的情况下也没有足够的支持通过。

所有参议院民主党人都对该法案表示反对。此外,一些共和党人 —— 缅因州的苏珊·柯林斯(Susan Collins)、肯塔基州的米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)、阿拉斯加州的丽莎·马科夫斯基(Lisa Markowski)和北卡罗来纳州的汤姆·蒂芬(Thom Tiffin) —— 在 6 月份的一项动议中投票反对将该立法纳入共和党的预算方案。

共和党人并不支持终止议事阻挠,图恩表示

图恩暗示,参议院共和党人中对于取消通过《SAVE法案》所需议事阻挠(filibuster)的反对意见更为激烈,他向记者继续表示,特朗普自己的立法团队在一组 20 名共和党参议员中发现了约 35 个反对票,这些人反对终止议事阻挠以及参议院的“新滑块”流程(New slip process),特朗普将要取消该流程,且参议员将不再对其所在州的司法提名持有虚拟否决权。

“这不是一个开放式问题,这是一个事实。而且事实不会改变,”图恩说。“现在,如果他能改变事实,并开始说服其中一些参议员,那么我们可以进行不同的对话。”

为了绕过参议院的议事阻挠,众议院共和党人在 7 月 22 日批准了一项 950 亿美元($95 billion)的预算框架,该框架得到了众议院议长迈克·约翰逊的支持,其中包含《拯救美国法案》(SAVE America Act)的部分元素。约翰逊的目标是通过一个被称为“预算协调”(reconciliation)的预算流程来通过该框架,这将仅需要参议院的简单多数支持。

然而,参议院议事员可能会否决将投票制度改革作为预算法案通过的尝试。而且,包含《SAVE法案》组件的协调法案是否能在参议院达到 10 票的门槛尚不清楚。

尽管如此,特朗普上周在出发参加 8 月休会前,呼吁参议院通过该预算决议,他在 Truth Social 上表示:“我们准备好与参议院肩并肩合作,为美国人民完成这件事!”


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非公民投票报告显示系统有效

Chris Brennan USA TODAY

关于选举以及目前美国政治人物所报告的选民欺诈,存在两种截然不同的观点。

一种较为温和的观点——由唐纳德·特朗普总统在每个机会上都宣扬但缺乏证据支持——认为,选民欺诈在我国十分猖獗,尤其是那些被指控投票的非公民。

另一种更广泛的观点——基于实际证据——认为,选民欺诈和非公民投票是罕见事件,我们的选举基础设施旨在发现并消除这些行为,并在必要时进行起诉。

来自新泽西州的消息证明了第二种观点,尽管那些支持特朗普指控的人试图将其劫持,将其作为其未经证实之主张的证据。

新泽西州并未掩盖计算机故障

新泽西州州长 Mikie Sherrill(去年秋天当选的民主党人)在 7 月 21 日宣布,预计在 2023 和 2024 年将有多达 6,600 名非公民在其州投票,这源于一次计算机软件错误,尽管实际投票人数少于 400 人。

Sherrill 及其工作人员并未试图掩盖或掩饰这一故障。他们发现了它,公开宣布了它,并且正在更换导致该问题的供应商。

州长也预见到了事情的发展方向。

总统一直在向国会中的共和党人施压,要求通过他所谓的《拯救美国法案》(SAVE America Act),他将其描述为对选举诚信至关重要——但实际上这只是一个违宪的权力夺取行为,将允许特朗普挑选选民,而不是让选民在 11 月的中期选举中挑选谁在国会代表他们。

Sherrill 在 7 月 22 的一篇社交媒体帖子中表示,特朗普正试图“为了政治利益地操纵选举”,并且“在选举诚信问题上毫无信誉”,理由是他十多年来一直致力于“削弱美国人对我们选举的信心”。

她指出,总统是通过在不喜欢结果时谎报结果、试图推翻 2020 年选举结果,以及在他第二任期内取消联邦选举安全工作的资金来达成这一目的的。

关于非公民在美国投票的真相是:自 1920 年代起,非公民在联邦选举中投票就是非法的,国会并在 30 年前将其定为联邦犯罪。

根据国家州议会会议(National Conference of State Legislatures)的数据,有 12 个州允许非美国公民的合法居民在某些地方选举中投票。

任何以任何方式与政府打交道的美国人都知道错误在所难免。这也适用于选举及其运作方式。特朗普及其在国会的共和党盟友会让你相信这些错误是有意的。但这类问题在“红州”中同样会出现。

我在 2017 年得知此事,那是特朗普赢得我的家乡宾夕法尼亚州并确保其总统首任期的一年之后。

非居民向宾州提醒错误

当时费城最高级别的共和党选举官员 Al Schmidt 发现,宾夕法尼亚州交通部供寻求驾照的合法非居民使用的计算机自助终端存在一个漏洞,该漏洞还允许他们注册投票。

许多此类非居民(自 1972 年起超过 1,000 人)自行发现了这个问题并试图取消他们的选民登记,但后来发现(此处原文缺失/不完整)。因此,特朗普声称偷偷潜入我们选举的人,恰恰是那些帮助指出选民登记问题的人。

该问题得到了解决。Schmidt 现在是宾夕法尼亚州州务卿,在一名民主党州长的领导下监督选举,两人均属……(此处原文不完整)。

这就是总统在试图夺取我们选举控制权时所掩盖的背景。但背景就在那里。

一个“致力于选举诚信”的保守派团体——公共利益法律基金会(Public Interest Legal Foundation)在 2020 年的一份报告中发现,在佛罗里达州棕榈滩县,即使在这些人自认为是非公民之后,至少仍有 19 名非公民被登记投票。那么,谁在这个县登记投票了?特朗普。

红州正在发生什么

看看红州(共和党主导州)的情况,就可见非公民投票是多么罕见:

  • 在佐治亚州,共和党州务卿在 2024 年的一次审计中发现,在 9.2 million 名登记选民中,有 20 名非公民登记了投票,其中 9 人投票。

  • 在犹他州,一项从 2025 年 4 月到 2026 年 5 月进行的“全面公民身份审查”发现,在超过 2 million 名登记选民中,有 27 名非公民登记投票。

  • 在堪萨斯州,一家联邦上诉法院在 2020 年报道了一项由州总检察长 Tim Koland 推动的法律,该法律要求登记投票时需提供公民身份证明。法官在裁决中发现,在 19 年间,最多只有 67 名非公民试图在堪萨斯州登记投票,且仅有 39 人成功,他们称这为该问题的“极其微小的证据”。

如果 Koland 的名字听起来很耳熟,那是因为他是“选举诚信委员会”的共同主席。该委员会由特朗普在其第一任期的第一年发起,但由于其举动过于激进,在八个月后就被解散了。

这就是事情一贯的走向。特朗普及其盟友通过毫无根据的指控或关于选举诚信的睁眼说瞎话来制造恐慌。

但如果你寻找事实,你就会发现总统的许多主张实际上是怎样的。

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ICE 使得交通拦截比以往任何时候都更致命,国土安全部对此心知肚明

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7 月 7 日在休斯顿,一名移民与海关执法局(ICE)特工在一次可能旨在针对其他人的行动中,枪杀了司机 Lorenzo Salgado Araujo。

不到一周后,在缅因州的 Biddeford,一名 ICE 官员在一次尝试拦截车辆的过程中枪杀了 Jonah Sebastian Doriai Guerrero,而他也并非预定目标。

这两起枪击事件仍在调查中,均未产生执法记录仪画面,且它们共同说明了移民执法如何深刻地影响到那些远在特工名单之外的人们。

这些案例还揭露了一个更广泛的问责问题。国土安全部跟踪执法事件,但其统计数据排除了许多在工作过程中被特工威胁、用枪指点、喷洒胡椒喷雾或限制行动的人员。现在,FBI 将不再调查与 ICE 及其他联邦官员的冲突。

正如《纽约时报》报道,在 2013, 一项指控将大幅限制对移民特工的执法审查。

ICE 执法人员在短短 5 天内逮捕了 10,000 人

尽管特朗普政府已从美国城市中那些吸引眼球的 ICE 突击行动中退缩,但其移民打击行动仍在继续。据美联社报道,联邦执法人员在 6 月底的短短 5 天内逮捕了 10,000 人。

孟菲斯展示了这种季度末的情况。自 1 月以来,那里近一半的 ICE 逮捕对象为没有定罪记录的人员。

MALGO 和 ProPublica 发现,从 10 月到 2 月,由联邦领导的孟菲斯安全特遣队(Memphis Safe Task Force)逮捕了 800 多名移民。

其中,仅有 17 或 27s(原文如此)因暴力犯罪指控或逮捕令而被拘留。

这些逮捕行动中约有 4 分之 5始于交通拦截。

简而言之,这不是一场大规模搜捕。它

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7 月 14 日在缅因州比德福德为 Johan Sebastian Doria Guerrero 举行的纪念活动,该 25 岁男子在车内被一名移民海关执法局(ICE)执法人员枪杀导致死亡的一天后。DOE CMA/CSE/CS/STON/NE/USA TODAY NETWORK VIA EDITBIG

是将移民执法融入到了常规警务中。

这种转变使得交通拦截的安全性和问责制变得日益关键。

在德克萨斯州和缅因州的最终枪击事件后,ICE 执法人员被告知在等待进一步培训期间,暂停全国范围内的大多数车辆拦截,除非涉及严重的犯罪目标。

唐纳德·特朗普总统在第二天撤销了这一暂停,表示交通拦截应继续进行。

但这次反转并未解决 ICE 暂停的原因:其领导层看到了足够的风险,从而决定重新评估真相。

在任何一次接触中使用武力是否合理是一个重要问题。这将取决于每个人的行为以及驾驶员(如果存在的话)构成的威胁。试图攻击执法人员的人——ICE 指控在休斯顿的 Salgado Araujo 这样做——构成了不同的危险。

在 7 月 13 日波特兰附近发生的最终枪击事件中,该 ICE 警员向其前妻为其行为进行了辩护。“我问他为什么这么做,”她告诉《时报》,“他说,‘那家伙试图打我。’”

新闻报道可以揭示特定接触事件发生了什么。许多其他事件则未见报道。只有综合数据才能显示此类事件发生的频率。不幸的是,国土安全部(DHS)的记录中没有充分评估这些事件所需的细节。

缺失的记录掩盖了不当行为

自 2022 年 5 月以来,国土安全部 (DHS) 发布了全部门范围内的武力使用接触数据。但它统计的是事件,而非每一个人或每一次武力的应用。

政府问责局 (Government Accountability Office) 指出,一次事件可能涉及多名警员、多人以及多次武力使用事件。

如果三名特工在逮捕过程中用胡椒喷雾喷了 30 人,DHS 仅报告为一起事件。其他九个人在记录中消失了,以及关于他们是否为目标、涉嫌阻碍还是旁观者的信息也随之消失。

记录缺失使得不当行为更难被检测到。就在政府移除其他问责工具的同时,这一盲点正在扩大。

2025 年,司法部关闭了国家执法问责数据库,该数据库包含涉及 4,000 多名警员的纪律处分结果和其他记录。

其所有名单中近四分之一来自海关和边境保护局 (CBP),这反映了 CBP 和 ICE 在移民执法激增期间发挥的协调作用。

失去这一共享记录,使得识别有不当行为历史的警员变得更加困难。

一项健全的联邦政策,旨在保护公众在移民行动期间免受无意伤害,应包含三个关键组成部分:

  • 关于联邦执法人员采取的步骤和接触次数、每一个受到威胁或被施加武力的人员,以及该武力是否涉及肢体战术、化学药剂、持枪指向或明确威胁的全面报告。

  • 启动和结束常规车辆拦截的明确规则,并由执法记录仪要求、视频片段保存以及指示被拦截人员是否为预定目标的记录提供支持。

  • 每当联邦特工向非行动目标指枪、使用胡椒喷雾或限制其行动时,进行州级不当行为审查,并在不泄露敏感战术的情况下公开调查结果。

恢复联邦不当行为存储库将提供额外的问责层级。

这些规则将在显示谁受到了伤害以及原因的同时,保护敏感行动。

在无意候选人引起广泛关注的环境下,这些措施还可以在保护无辜者的同时恢复公众信任。

合法的执法需要一份美国公众可以审查和验证的记录。统计每一个人。保存证据。提供观察权。点名责任人。

Thaddeus L. Johnson 曾是一名警察,现为刑事司法委员会和佐治亚州立大学研究员。他的妻子 Nicholas N. Johnson 是奥古斯塔大学教育研究与研究的助理教授。

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福特汽车公司 (Ford Motor Co.) 的玩具店规模扩大了许多。• 通过为品牌标志性车型 Bronco、Maverick、Mustang 和 F-150(更多车型在规划中)提供广泛的配件选项,Ford Custom Garage 鼓励车主使用令人眼花缭乱的贴花、轮毂、内饰、减震器和发动机性能部件来定制他们的新车——而这一切都处于原厂保修的覆盖之下。告别售后市场,迎接福特经销商配置器。• 这种 DIY 盛宴不仅承认了 46% 的福特新车买家会为他们的车型配置配件,而且还顺应了福特将自身重新定义为“激情车辆”制造商的趋势。福特不再致力于填满每一个细分市场,而是像一个高端品牌一样,力求激发客户的热情。“ [我们] 正在退出‘无聊车’业务,进入‘标志性车辆’业务,”首席执行官 Jim Farley 在 2024. 年告诉《CAR》杂志。目前福特展厅中最便宜的车型是售价 $30,000 的 Maverick。

可以将其比作保时捷 (Porsche),后者为其汽车创建了单点菜单,车主可以根据个人口味进行定制。

“有些车辆我们希望确保能吸引广泛的受众,但我们始终知道存在个性化的口味,”福特赛车零件规划主管 Ryan Lang 表示。“每个人都是独特的。我们希望引起这些个体客户的共鸣……并为他们提供更多他们所寻找的东西。[我们] 为他们提供了通过经销商保修安全地将车辆提升到更高水平的选择。”

在爱尔兰山 (Irish Hills) 的密歇根国际赛车场 400 英亩园区内经历了一整天橡胶轮胎的轰鸣之后,以下为您下一辆福特梦想巡航车 (Ford Dream Cruiser) 最热门配件的亮点。

Mustang FP800S。FP800B 套件将一台 $48,795 的 Mustang GT 置于

见 FORD,第 2B 页

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底特律新闻汽车专栏作家 Henry Payne 在密歇根国际赛车场试驾了配备 Ford Custom Garage 的 Mustang FP800S。照片由 HENRY PAYNE/USA TODAY NETWORK 提供

丰田 RAV4 评论

热门混动丰田 SUV 续航里程出色

Keith Laing

USA TODAY

随着驾驶者愈发重视燃油效率,丰田 RAV4 依然是畅销车型,而 2026 款仅提供混动版本。

我驾驶 2026 款丰田 RAV4 的混动版本行驶了一周,以验证它是否实至名归地获得了 Kelley Blue Book 的“紧凑型 SUV 最佳购买奖”以及《Green Car Journal》授予的 2026 年“年度绿色汽车奖”。

我测试的丰田 RAV4 GR Sport 车型是这款极受欢迎的双排 SUV 插电混动版本的最高配置,起售价为 $48,500.。无需充电的入门级混动配置起售价略低于 $32,000.。插电混动车型的起售价为 $41,500.。最近我也测试了丰田的其他电动车型,包括丰田 bZ 和雷克萨斯 RZ,以及 Chev-

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丰田 RAV4 GR Sport 插电式混合动力车的起售价略低于 $50,000.。KEITH LANNS/USA TODAY

-rolot Blazer EV 和马自达 CX-50 混动版。

丰田 RAV4 插电混动版凭借其标准配置、极具竞争力的定价以及日常实用性脱颖而出。以下是我在驾驶这款丰田最畅销双排 crossover SUV 一周后的心得。

2026 款丰田 RAV4 混动版有哪些亮点?

2026 款丰田 RAV4 凭借独特的外观和内饰设计,在同级别竞争对手中脱颖而出。作为一款家庭用车,它还具有强大的价值主张(常规混动基础车型起售价略高于 $32,000.),这使其在排名列表中名列前茅。根据 Cox Automotive 的数据,目前新车的平均成本接近 $50,000,。

在为期一周的测试中,丰田 RAV4 混动版的内饰和货运区域在满足日常驾驶需求方面显得十分宽敞。我也很喜欢 RAV4 的大尺寸信息娱乐屏幕以及 Android Auto 和 Apple CarPlay 的连接功能。

2026 款丰田 RAV4 混动版驾驶感受如何?

2026 款丰田 RAV4 提供平顺、安静且舒适的行驶体验,同时作为混动车,它还具有强劲的燃油经济性。其操控性能良好,加速足够快,能让日常驾驶保持趣味。

日常驾驶者可能会很容易忘记自己开的是一辆混动车,直到他们意识到在城市和高速公路综合驾驶中的平均油耗超过 36 mpg。RAV4 的插电版本在全电行驶模式下可提供 54 英里的续航里程。

RAV4 混动版配备了一台 2.5 升混动发动机。丰田表示,其最高可提供 32A 的净综合马力。

这款混动 SUV 的预计城市驾驶油耗为 40 mpg,高速公路油耗为 33 mpg。我们的 GR Sport 配置测试

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2026 款 Genesis G80 采用 2.5 升 subnabuged 双缸发动机,可产生惊人的 300 马力,这对驾驶爱好者来说非常理想。Genesis 还提供一台 5.5 升双涡轮增压 V6 发动机,拥有 375 马力,对于一辆中型车来说,这是令人心惊胆战的动力。

G80 拥有跑车般的性能,但其内饰显然才是这场戏的主角。

内饰、科技与舒适度:内部体验如何?

这款 Genesis 中型豪华轿车标准配置了昂贵的高质量高级人造革座椅。前排和后排外侧座椅均带有加热功能,部分配置的前排座椅还具备按摩功能。

仪表盘采用皮革包裹,车厢内采用了哑光饰面的木材装饰。

2026 款 Genesis G80 是否符合您的生活方式?

G80 可舒适地容纳五人。它长 197.6 英寸,宽 75.8 英寸(不含后视镜),高 357 英寸。

Genesis G80 的后排腿部空间为 38.7 英寸。它拥有 33.1 立方英尺的货运空间,对于小家庭和通勤者来说足够使用。

Genesis 的这款豪华车最适合长途通勤者以及看重先进科技和高端座舱的专业人士。

定价、价值与竞争对手:2026 款 Genesis G80 值得购买吗?

2026 款 Genesis G80 起售价为 $58,450.。它提供五种配置,包括我所测试的 1.5 Prestige Black AWD。

2026 Genesis G80 配置版本

  • • G80 2.5T AWD: $98,450
  • • G80 2.5T Advanced AWD: $64,060
  • • G80 2.5T Sport Prestige AWD: $69,950
  • • G80 3.5T Sport Prestige AWD: $78,350

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2026款 Genesis G80。PROSTAGE OF GENDER。

• G80 3.5T Prestige Black AWD: $79,350

G80 因其顶级的品质而物有所值。高端配置可能会让部分驾驶者觉得价格过高,但 Genesis 的配置等级区分足够细致,使得买家拥有充足的选择。并非每位驾驶者都会选择 Prestige Black AWD 版本,但对于想要体验 G80 最佳技术、功能和驾驶体验的汽车爱好者来说,它是物有所值的。

Genesis 的这款中型豪华车与 BMW 5 系和梅赛德斯-奔驰 E 级等竞争对手相竞争。在这三者中,G80 拥有最强大的基础发动机。BMW 的中型豪华车在转向响应和驾驶参与感方面是最佳选择。梅赛德斯-奔驰 E 级在内饰品质和技术方面胜过其对手。

最终结论:为什么应该购买 2026款 Genesis G80?

2026款 Genesis G80 是为通勤者和拥有小家庭、追求精致轿车且希望拥有出色加速感和操控性的驾驶者而设计的。它是一款挑战该细分市场中一些最具影响力的品牌名称的豪华车。

如果您在寻找一款外观低调且内饰奢华的豪华车,G80 是一个稳妥的选择。其安静的内部空间营造出沉浸感,后排座椅让乘客感觉像是在 V.I.P 区域。我很享受 Prestige Black 配置版本的强大引擎。

G80 与 G90 一样,以可承受的价格提供了顶级的驾驶和所有权体验。BMW 和梅赛德斯-奔驰请注意,Genesis 正在撼动中型和全尺寸豪华车市场的排名。

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2026款 Toyota RAV4 G80 Sport 插电式混合动力车配备了皮革加热方向盘。KEITH LANA/USA TODAY

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该车在无需为电池充电的情况下,单次油箱充满油即可行驶超过 500 mpg。

2026款 Toyota RAV4 混合动力车是否适合您的生活方式?

Toyota RAV4 混合动力车的长度为 382 英寸,高度为 65.4 英寸,宽度为 74 英寸(不含后视镜)。所测试的 G8 Sport 配置车型在第二排座椅后提供 37.8 立方英尺的货物空间,我认为这对于行李和杂货十分足够。

2026款 RAV4 混合动力车值得购买吗?

Toyota RAV4 混合动力车在税前和额外费用之前的起售价仅略高于 $18,000,考虑到大多数现代新车的价格,对于一款混合动力跨界 SUV 来说,这个价格似乎很低。标准版 RAV4 混合动力车有六种配置可选,插电式混合动力车有四种配置可选。

插电式选项从基础款 3E(起售价 $4,000)到我测试的顶配 G8 Sport 不等。G8 Sport 混合动力版起售价为 $48,000,配备了 20 英寸黑色合金轮毂、高性能夏季轮胎、红色制动卡钳、标准全轮驱动以及众多便利性和安全功能。

我很喜欢经过升级的 G8 Sport,但如果我想获得最高的性价比,可能会选择稍微便宜一些的中间版本 Woodland 或 XRE 配置。RAV4 的插电式混合动力 Woodland 版本起售价仅为 $45,300;XRE 的零售价超过 $42,000。

Toyota RAV4 在竞争激烈的混合动力 SUV 细分市场中与 Kia Sportage、Hyundai Tucson、Manila CX-50、Honda CB-V 和 Volvo XC60 等竞争对手的车型展开竞争。

谁应该购买 2026 Toyota RAV4?

如果您需要一辆运动型混合动力 SUV,且要求具备出色的里程数并能搭载最多五人,那么您应该购买 2026 Toyota RAV4。

我测试的 G8 Sport 车型配备了一个 22.9-inch 的触摸屏信息娱乐系统,支持 Apple CarPlay、Android Auto 和蓝牙连接。它拥有全景监视器,并配备了 Toyota Safety Sense 4.0,其中包含的安全功能有:带行人检测的 Pro 碰撞系统、全速范围动态雷达巡航控制、带 Blowing Assist 的车道偏离警报、车道循迹辅助、道路标志辅助、Antenatal、远光灯以及主动驾驶辅助。

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一辆 2026 Ram 1500 Tradesman 的电源插座,其配备了 On Board Power System,该功能可将皮卡车变为发电机。

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Ram 皮卡车可以变成发电机

Liam Hapleys

DETROIT FAIR POND USA TODAY NETWORK

如今,皮卡车——尤其是底特律三巨头 (Detroit Three) 生产的车型——能为车轮提供巨大的动力。但一些底特律卡车也能为圆锯、露营设备或……微波炉等设备提供大量电力。

由 USA TODAY Network 旗下底特律自由新闻 (Detroit Free Press) 最近测试的 Ram 1500 On Board Power System,基本上允许一辆中型皮卡兼任发电机。其工作原理很简单:卡车货箱中有一个电力连接装置,带有两个插口。启动卡车,在发动机运行的情况下,插入您需要供电的设备即可。电源接线板同样适用,只要功率需求低于发电机的最大输出。Ram 提供多种电力配置,其中 1500 车型最高可提供 3 千瓦功率,而重型 Ram 皮卡最高可提供 2.4 千瓦。Ram 的推销点在于,蓝领工人经常随身携带移动发电机为工作站供电,或者依赖更大、更昂贵的车辆来供电。有了 On Board Power System,就不需要拖着发电机走,因为它已经内置在卡车中。

该功能适用于所有 Ram 1500 配置级别,价格为 $990。

福特汽车公司 (Ford Motor Co.) 和通用汽车 (General Motors) 在其卡车中也提供类似功能,价格区间大致相同。福特在 2021, 年首次发布了其 Pro Power General 功能,此后销售的产品范围从可比的 2-kilowatts 电力系统到 9.6-kilowatts 方案(可为房屋或餐车供电数小时),后者搭载在该品牌现已停产的 TV 皮卡 Lightning 上。

自由新闻在底特律的一个酷暑日,使用 On Board Power System 成功测试了一台微波炉、一盏灯和一个风扇。

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一种类固醇饮食,拥有 480 匹马力和 615 匹马力,而标准 V-8 为 400 和 400。那是,嗯,仅仅是 $327,960 的 Mustang G470 e-potock 的日常,并且比 $104K 的 795 匹马力 Mustang Dark Horse SC 少花不少钱。

WACHSIGGE 我在 3,000 RPM 时松开离合器,在 Milt 的围场中留下了橡胶印,FP800 的扭矩压倒性地作用于后轮。

人们可以选择单独配置 $83,500 的 Whipple 机械增压器……但该订单可升级至完整的 $18,500 FP800 套件(不含安装人工费),其中包括升级的后半轴,以应对增加的 50% 扭力。该套件还配备了升级的弹簧、减震器和避震,使前部刚度增加了 25%。

当我驾驶我的 Mustang FP800S 在内场赛道上穿梭时,这一点显而易见。我利用巨大的 V-8 扭矩快速加速—— 5.0 升 Toyota 引擎在轰鸣——但更强的底盘意味着我在进入弯道时并没有感到惊恐。转向稳定,精准到位!

但请稍等,还有更多。

买家还可以选择主动磁控减震器,因此您拥有三种驾驶模式来管理侧向刚度:NORMAL(标准)、SPORT(运动)、TRACK(赛道)。车主除了 FP800S 标志性的彩色鼻孔/轮毂外,还可以选择碳纤维配件,如后翼。

在 GT, Dark Horse, Dark Horse SC 和 G70 车型(更不用说售后市场:Shelby, Roush 和 RTR 车型)的世界里,您一定希望自己的定制车脱颖而出。

Ford F-250. 相比之下,我更喜欢为福特轻型卡车提供的 700 匹马力、$80,250 的纯机械增压选项。

这款 Whipple 机械增压器适用于任何 V-8 动力车型,是终极的潜行性能配件。在 Dream Cruise 的红绿灯前,保时捷车主在被甩开之前不会意识到发生了什么——只能看到这辆机械增压卡车诡异地消失在远方。

然而,与卡车的 FP800S 套件类似,F-1054 3GE 的 $26,875 FP700S 套件带来了大量提升。想象一下,在任何 6.0 升 Toyota V-8 装备的 F-50 车型上安装可调降低悬挂、轮毂、轮胎、freider 徽章、贴花和前分流器。

“WOOOOW” 当我在底特律全速踩油门进行一次 0-60 mph 跑时,那巨大的轰鸣声归功于额外的 Custom Garage 排气配件。怎么说?它掩盖了机械增压器的尖叫。机械增压器在,电动马达出。

Maverick W300T2. 不甘心让大哥 F 系列独享所有乐趣,Maverick 皮卡也有 Custom Garage 的方案。

这款紧凑型皮卡已经大获成功,从混合动力省油版到 Lobo 街头版。Lobo 的 2.0 升 turbo-4 发动机拥有 250 匹马力,并凭借从 Focus R8 钢炮上借鉴的双后差速锁具备漂移能力。

R700T2 套件(7 代表 turbo)为任何 2.0 升 turbo-4 动力的 Mar 车型提供 Maverick 的运动悬挂。此外,得益于安装在发动机上的 Mustang Endooset 涡轮增压器,还额外增加了 50 匹马力(总计 500 匹)。

Long 表示:“R700T2 是基于……像 Fiesta ST 和 Focus ST 以及 R8 这样的项目,它们为实惠的入门级车辆增加了个性、特质和性能。我们希望在现代车辆上恢复这种特质。在 Maverick 的世界里,很少有能创造出人们在 Focus ST 中真正喜爱的这种性能特性的产品!”

我驾驶装备了 R700T2 的 Maverick Lobo 和 X2T 车型在 802-hucking 自动交叉赛道卡车赛道上驰骋,体验极佳。$5,000 的 R700T2 套件在静态展示时也外观出众,这得益于可调前分流器、轮毂和贴花,与金属件下方的中冷器、排气和悬挂升级相得益彰。

Bronco。 这款越野性能车已经是客户的最爱,拥有如基础版等附加选项:其车型包比我拥有的库存更多——包括 Vines, Big Bend, Black Diamond, Outer Bands, Barlands, Wildtank, Heritage Edition, 60th Anniversary Edition, Strupps Edition, Raptor。Custom Garage 通过丰富的定制包进一步增加了选择:Sizzster Bronze, Matte Black, Dark Trail Series Titanium Gray, Coastal,以及我最喜欢的 OBV(Off-Road Vehicle 的缩写)。

后者呼应了售后改装时代的性能,例如 Vaughn Gillon Jr. 的 RTR (Bready to Rock) 装配,它已经提供了由经销商交付、享有保修且酷炫的礼包,比如 82.6,995 的 Bronco RTR ROVR 升级版。而成本较低的 OVR 礼包则提供了类似的性能,包括 35 英寸轮胎、2 英寸悬挂提升、升级版 Fox 减震器、底盘护板和钢制保险杠。

对于那些追求更多性能的人,Custom Garage 的升级将为 Bronco 增加 38 匹马力。


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ALASKA Juneau: 据 KTGO 报道,阿拉斯加大学 Scottish 与明尼苏达州的 Mitchell Hamline 法学院合作,允许学生通过混合和加速项目在阿拉斯加获得法学学位,从而减少了迁出该州的需求。

ARKANAEA Andeown: 据 KABA 报道,司法部已提出一项和解方案,要求 Dimitar's Andeown 纸浆厂支付 150 万美元($1.5 million)的罚金,并至少花费 250 万美元($2.5 million)用于污染控制和监测升级,以解决涉嫌违反《清洁空气法》及州空气污染规定的问题。

CALIFORNIA Sacramento: 很快,将有 600 多家数据经纪商被要求开始处理加利福尼亚州居民通过该州新隐私平台申请删除其个人信息的请求。

COLORADO Denver: 科罗拉多州公园和野生动物部门表示,正在调查科罗拉多州西北部一起不明原因的狼只死亡事件。

CONNECTICUT Mystic: Mystic 水族馆的科学家将于 7 月 29, 开启前往东北峡谷和民主海洋国家纪念地的研究考察,研究大西洋受保护程度最高且探索最少的地区之一的海洋生物和海洋状况。

DELANDER Washington: Brandy-away Zoe 在 7 月 23 日的剪彩仪式上揭幕了其新的混合物种展区“Hidden Falls”,让游客首次领略该栖息地及其五种常驻动物物种。

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: 据 WVLAV 报道,在华盛顿纪念碑附近最近修复的地标建筑中发现混凝土块脱落,官员们正在调查国家广场上德美友谊花园喷泉的损坏情况。

FLORIDA Miami: 根据经济分析局最新的区域购买力对比数据,迈阿密地区的生存成本已超过纽约。

GEORGIA Columbia County: 谷歌即将进驻哥伦比亚县。该县委员会和经济发展局共同宣布,这家帮助塑造人们使用计算机技术方式的巨型跨国公司“将成为位于 Appling 和 Hudson 之间 White Oak 科技园哥伦比亚县中心的唯一最终用户和运营商”。

HAVANA Honolulu: 据 Hawaii News News 报道,一座面积为 8,000 平方英尺、此前由普莉西拉·普雷斯利(Priscilla Presley)和丽莎·玛丽·普雷斯利(Lisa Marie Presley)拥有的住宅已挂牌出售,售价为 1750 万美元($17.5 million)。

IDAHO St. Michael: 据 KTVRT 报道,一名墨西哥钓鱼者在 St. Maries 河捕捉到一条 3.5 磅的 Westolene 割喉鳟鱼后,创下了新的认证州记录。

ILLINOIS Springfield: 由 HSHB St. John's 基金会提供的一款新型无障碍轮椅将帮助 Iungamua 县的老年人和残疾人前往 Springfield 地区的医疗预约地点和其他目的地。

MIDDLE Indianapolis: 两名印第安纳州国会议员正式要求印第安纳大学解雇一名副教授兼喜剧演员,该人员曾向林赛·格雷厄姆(Lindsey Graham)之前的参议院办公室递送了一个写有“congratulatotoxo”字样的奶油蛋糕。

IOWA Des Moines: 州长 Kim Reynolds 宣布,爱荷华州将为寄养家庭中父母或符合条件的亲属已故的儿童预留联邦幸存者福利,而不再使用这笔资金支付其看护费用。这一改变将允许该州将寄养儿童的社会保障幸存者福利存入专用账户,供其在年满 18, 岁时用于教育、住房和其他目的,而不是将资金用于寄养护理成本。

KANSAS Topeka: 交通部长 Calvin Reed 表示,Polk Quincy 跨线桥建设项目进展顺利,其中一段可能会在年底前开放。

重点报道:亚利桑那州

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北亚利桑那大学生态学家 Clara Aslan 鉴定出一株健康的天堂平原仙人掌。ON ENVER USA TODAY NETWORK

科科尼诺县: 去年 7 月,当白鼠尾草之火(White Sage Fire)席卷凯拉什高原时,Clara Aslan 和她的学生们紧张地关注着卫星更新,因为火焰正向他们的监测点逼近。一株罕见的、部分被掩埋的仙人掌正处于火线的直接路径上。近三个月后,Aslan 回到火灾现场评估损害。部分天堂平原仙人掌幸存了下来。在一项新研究中,Aslan 及其团队将在火灾后长达三年的时间内监测天堂平原仙人掌的恢复情况。他们担心该植物是否仍能维持传粉者,并进而产生新的后代。重启其生命周期还面临着另一个可能比火灾更艰巨的挑战:干旱。

肯塔基州 路易斯维尔: 在学校成立近 10 年后,W.E.B. Dalton 学院拥有了自己的大楼。这座 845 million 的建筑拥有一个工程实验室、一间烹饪教室和 88 million 的体育设施。

路易斯安那州 巴吞鲁日: 根据“为了更好的路易斯安那领导者”(Leaders for a better Louisiana)发布的一项新迁徙分析,路易斯安那州的人口在 2024 年首次实现增长,结束了自 2017, 以来的六年下降趋势,原因是离开该州的居民减少了。

缅因州 曼菲尔德: 据 WMTW 报道,在一次检查发现重大安全隐患后,Benny Eagle 学区正在更换五所学校的操场设备。

马里兰州 巴尔的摩: 据 NRAL 报道,州长 Wes Moore 宣布向 30 个县的 44 个组织提供近 $8 million 的 Neumbhills 拨款,以扩大资金获取渠道,并在受“食物沙漠”影响的社区提供健康食品。

马萨诸塞州 华盛顿山: John F. Loisner 将 Bush Bush Falls 评为该州(Bay State)最美的瀑布,因其复杂且崎岖的美感,以及目前能够适应各种技能水平的登山者。

密歇根州 欧克兰县: 五大湖水务局(Great Lakes Water Authority)计划投资 8 million 替换半个世纪之久的管道,并对欧克兰县 Nile Road 沿线的供水系统进行现代化改造,该地区在过去七年内发生了四次重大爆管事故。

明尼苏达州 Minneapolis: 据 KABRD 报道,明尼阿波利斯 VA 医学中心开设了一家期待已久的女性健康中心,将在一个私密的、专注于女性的设施中提供专门的基础医疗、专科服务和心理健康护理。

密西西比州 杰克逊: 随着机场管理部门开始寻找开发商对设施进行全面改造,杰克逊-Mediger Wiley Evers 国际机场可能会迎来一座新航站楼。

密苏里州 斯普林菲尔德: Children's Mercy with Mercy 在斯普林菲尔德成立了一个患者家庭咨询委员会,旨在帮助塑造儿科服务,并改善家庭在就近寻求专科护理时的体验。根据一项社区公告,在首次会议中,成员们已开始向参与该合作伙伴关系的领导者和提供者提供反馈。

蒙塔纳州 大瀑布城: 据《蒙塔纳自由新闻》(Montana Free Press)报道,市政府最近批准了蒙塔纳州奇佩瓦印第安人小壳部落(Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana)提出的 Good Medicine 住房开发计划,为建设一个包含 20 单元公寓、双相住宅和单户住宅的社区铺平道路,旨在扩大部落成员及更广泛社区的住房机会。

内布拉斯加州 林肯: 据《内布拉斯加审查报》(Nebraska Examiner)报道,在内布拉斯加州卫生与人类服务部发布的最新数据显示,内布拉斯加州的 SNAP 注册人数在过去一年中下降了近 17% 后,倡导者们发出了警告。

内华达州 卡森市: 内华达州众议员 Dina Titus 正针对在该州唯一一项在 美国土地管理局 (U.S. Bureau of Land Management) 评分中获批的数据中心项目所享有的州税收减免采取行动。据 Nevada Current 报道,该争议性提案位于 Water City District 之外 3 英里处。据该新闻机构报道,Titus 在给州长 Joe Lombardo 的信中,请求州长暂停所有在联邦管理土地上建设的数据中心项目的税收减免,直到州议会明年有机会考虑监管此类项目的法律。

新罕布什尔州 汉普顿: 根据新罕布什尔州交通部的数据,跨越 Hampton; headwood Harbor 的 Neil Underwood 桥替代建设工程目前预算在控且进度正常,交通很快将恢复通行。

新泽西州 特伦顿: Wallethala 的一项新研究将新泽西州的学校系统在全美排名第三位。

新墨西哥州 圣特蕾莎: 当局表示,两名涉案的房屋斗争指南员在一名女性死亡后被判处监禁,该女性被刑事化以维持现状,并被遗弃在新墨西哥州沙漠的高温中死亡。

纽约州 奥尔巴尼: 最新数据显示,由于通货膨胀超过了许多居民的收入,且他们始终面临全国最高的税收,纽约州的生存成本正令居民感到压力沉重。公民预算委员会 (Citizens Budget Commission) 的 "Competitive NYS" 仪表盘数据显示,在 2023, 该州政府和地方政府的人均税收收入高于任何其他州。

北卡罗来纳州 马歇尔: 该镇已向州政府提交申请,以填补 100 million 用于将历史法院翻修为文化活动中心。

北达科他州 麦多拉: 据 North Dakota Monitor 报道,西奥多·罗斯福总统图书馆已筹集超过 $500 million,在 2024, KABU 于 7 月 4, 开馆后仅几周,就超过了 $450 million 的筹款目标。

俄亥俄州 哥伦布市: 一个以史前鱼类、黄油牛、本土野生动物以及代表全部 88 个俄亥俄州县的景点为特色的超现实展览,在 2026 年俄亥俄州博览会之前于 7 月 25 日正式开幕。州长 Mike DeWine、第一夫人 Fran DeWine 以及俄亥俄博览中心与州博览会负责人为新的俄亥俄儿童 تخصص 剪彩,该设施被视为博览会场馆转型升级的核心。

俄克拉荷马州 俄克拉荷马市: 建筑许可证显示,Fun City Adventure Park(一家在全国设有多个地点的室内娱乐中心)计划在市内开业,但具体日期尚未确认。

俄勒冈州 奥罗拉: 县委员决定,奥罗拉 hazeford 农场一个备受争议的废物倾倒喷气口可以重新开放。委员们表示,该运营活动包括一个铺设好的平台,通过税收购买以接收来自工业真空挖掘(或 vector bends)的废物,这属于合法的农场用途。

宾夕法尼亚州 费城: 根据个人财务资源 Wallethala 的一份新报告,Bockelly Lowe 和 Dietely Affection 市是全美压力最大人群的聚集地之一。费城在 Wallethala 的 "美国压力最大和最小的城市" 研究中排名第七,并且是中大西洋地区仅有的两个进入前 20 名的城市之一。

罗德岛州 普罗维登斯: 罗德岛教师与医疗专业人员联合会支持州长 Dan McRae,为寻求连任的州长提供了关键的有组织劳工支持。该工会还支持 Jay Khamsyocrowong 竞选副州长,支持 Keith Hoffmann 竞选总检察长。

南卡罗来纳州 安德森: 一次网络安全攻击迫使 Added 关闭部分办公室并修改患者服务,因为这家总部位于安德森的医疗系统正致力于从恶意软件造成的网络中断中恢复。

南达科他州 缅因州: 南达科他州成为第六个获得美国教育部“将教育归还给各州”(Returning Education to the States)豁免的州,这使得该州在 2028 年之前能够将超过 80 million 的联邦资金整合用于州级活动。

田纳西州 米灵顿: 田纳西浸信会儿童之家计划通过一个 $20 million 项目来改善其在米灵顿的设施,其中包括其规模更大的自由基金会项目(Free Foundation Project)的一部分新住房。

德克萨斯州 奥斯汀: 在德克萨斯州重新审视社区学院如何通过引导更多学生毕业来获得州政府资金奖励三年后,包括州立学校在内。但这些学院缺少他们计划收到的数百万资金,因为他们的成功超出了立法者的预算。据《德克萨斯论坛报》(Texas Tribune)报道。德克萨斯州高等教育协调委员会官员调整了资金公式,削减了在学校教育高需求学生时触发额外资金的激励措施。该媒体报道称,学院现在在引导低收入学生和成年学习者毕业方面获得的奖金将有所减少。

犹他州 圣乔治: 迪克西技术学院(Dixie Technical College)收到了一笔 $930,000 的 Lowe's 基金会资助,用于扩大电力、HVAC(暖通空调)和管道培训计划,旨在满足由人口快速增长和基础设施建设带来的劳动力需求,据 KSL 报道。

佛蒙特州 蒙皮利埃: 新罕布什尔大学历史中心的一项新民调发现,随着菲尔·斯科特(Phil Scott)州长进入他的第六次选举,其支持率继续下降。该民调发现,46% 的佛蒙特州居民认可斯科特在州长职位上的表现,这是该中心自 2022 年开始对佛蒙特州进行调查以来的最低值。

弗吉尼亚州 韦恩斯伯勒: 在 7 月 21, 来到韦恩斯伯勒高中讨论诺斯罗普·格鲁曼(Northrop Grimman)的 32 位发言者中,只有一位表示支持该设施。弗吉尼亚州环境质量部举行此次听证会是为了就该公司申请新设施的州运营许可证征求公众意见。

华盛顿州 西雅图: 据 KAMIO News 报道,随着该市从前一年的国际游客下降中恢复,Visit Seattle 预测 2026 年加拿大游客的增长率为 22%。

西弗吉尼亚州 萨默维尔: 美国农业部宣布投资 $175 million 支持 Minute Hamilton 医疗系统的建设和扩建项目,旨在改善农村医疗服务的可及性并升级医疗设施,据 WV News 报道。

威斯康星州 密尔沃基: 由于社区需求较高,位于密尔沃基的公共特许学校 Yorbaa 高中计划开设第二个校区。该组织的公告称,人们对该校将提供的个性化教学方法有很高需求。

怀俄明州 黄石国家公园: 黄石国家公园的一名 San Juhing 在孩子们及时引导后,从一个停车房中获救。这起 7 月 19 日的事件发生在不久前,当时一个 house 冲向并撞击了一名 65 岁的男子进入车内,导致其在国家公园内受重伤。来自 USA TODAY 网络及各方报道。


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2026年最佳电动SUV,由特斯拉、Rivian和起亚领衔

Charles Singh Nathville Tennessean USA TODAY NUTRIORS

一些最受欢迎的汽车制造商,如丰田、福特、特斯拉等,正在为美国汽车市场生产性能出色的电动SUV。最佳的电动SUV应当是那些实用、易于更换且性价比高的车型。

我们在 2026 年为 USA TODAY Cars 测试了几款汽油、混合动力和电动 SUV,包括最畅销的车型。以下是我们目前评选出的 2026 年最佳电动 SUV 顶尖之选。

最佳小型电动SUV:2026 Nissan Leaf

日产完全重新设计了 Leaf 系列,将其转变为 2026 车型年份的一款负担得起的电动小型 SUV。Nissan Leaf 是市场上最实惠的新电动汽车之一,具有很强的价值主张。

2026 Nissan Leaf 的起售价为 $29,990。它拥有 300 英里的续航里程,对于这个价格来说非常出色。Leaf 还配备了内置的 NACS(即北美充电标准)端口,用于直流快充。

最佳小型电动SUV:2026 Tesla Model Y

特斯拉的 Model Y 紧凑型电动 SUV 之所以成为美国最受欢迎的电动汽车是有原因的。Model Y 是一款在销售清单上满足许多驾驶者所有需求的车型,它正在帮助数千名买家在 2026 年从汽油车转向电动汽车。2026 Tesla Model Y 在税前及额外费用前的起售价为 $30,990。它拥有 321 英里的标准续航里程,且在高速公路上的表现毫不逊色。Model Y 拥有实用的座舱和货运空间,并可以使用特斯拉超级充电桩快速充电。

最佳中型电动SUV:2026 Kia EV9

Kia EV9 借鉴了其汽油版兄弟车型——广受欢迎的 Kia Tellunits 的若干设计

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特斯拉 Model Y 是美国最受欢迎的电动汽车。由 TESLA 提供

元素。它空间宽敞,配备了大量出色的标准技术,并且在更高功率的配置版本中提供更长的续航里程。

Kia 的 2026 EV9 起售价为 $54,900。它拥有 230 英里的标准续航里程,并标配内置 NACS 端口。Car and Motor 将 EV9 评为该细分市场中的最佳车型,因为其实现了“风格与实用性的结合”。

最佳全尺寸电动SUV:2026 Rivian RIS

Rivian 也许正在生产一款更小、更实惠的新 SUV,但对于那些愿意忽略其高昂起售价的人来说,它的首款电动 SUV 依然极具竞争力。我们测试了 2026 Rivian RIS,它无疑是驾驶者在 $500,000 以下能买到的最快的电动汽车之一。Quad Motor 配置版本在 2.5 秒内即可从 0 加速到 60 mph。

2026 Rivian RIS 的起售价为 $83,990。它拥有 329 英里的标准续航里程。RIS 是一款配备可调节空气悬挂的越野机器。

它的速度快且能力强,令人惊叹。此外,Rivian 的软件创造了独特的驾驶体验,允许你自定义行程中的一切,从底盘高度到运动模式。

Rivian 的全尺寸家庭 SUV 可能并不便宜,但其独特的功能和规格使其对许多驾驶者来说物有所值。

Jeep 和 Ram,Stellantis 的两大顶级品牌在人事变动中迎来新 CEO

Liam Rappleye 底特律自由新闻 (Detroit Free Press) USA TODAY NUTRIORS

Ram 和 Jeep 都在迎接新的执行领导者。久负盛名的 Jeep CEO Bob Brodershof 在被诊断出患有癌症后将卸任,而 Ram 离任的 CEO Tim Kuniskis 则将专注于 Stellantis 公司内一个更重要的岗位。

Brodershof 的继任者将是 Brandon Coté,他是一位在梅赛德斯-奔驰 (Mercedes-Benz)、阿斯顿-马丁 (Aston Martin) 以及数个汽车分析团队拥有经验的汽车高管。引领 Ram 销售复苏的 Kuniskis 将由 Matt VanDyke 接替,后者曾在福特汽车公司 (Ford Motor Co.) 担任过多种职务,共计 14 年,包括首席营销官以及福特零售营销与管理部门 FordDirect 的 CEO。

根据其 LinkedIn 个人资料,自 2022 年起,VanDyke 领导了一家名为 Shift Digital 的独立汽车营销公司。

Brodershof 在被 Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa 任命后自 2025 年 2 月起领导 Jeep。他在 LinkedIn 的一篇帖子中分享道,他被诊断出患有癌症,将在新高管接任期间请病假。

“最近,我的生活发生了意外的转折,我被诊断出患有癌症,”Brodershof 写道。“但虽然如此,它带来了清晰的认识,以及关于优先级、视角和谦卑的教训。有一个视角已无法被忽视:有时最伟大的领导力行为就是知道何时将团队的需求置于个人之上。”

Brodershof 在领导 Jeep 期间,该公司更新了其产品阵容,推出了几项巧妙的营销方案,并发布了一款全新的电动越野车。Brodershof 和 Stellantis 都表示,在他病假回归后,将在 Stellantis 担任一个新的领导职务。

“我完全打算以更强、更健康的姿态回归,并真正迎接接下来的任何挑战。我非常感谢 Stellantis 在给我必要康复时间的同时为我保留职位,”Brodershof 写道。

另一方面,Kuniskis 既没有离开 Stellantis,也没有接手一个新工作。

事实上,VanDyke 和 Coté 都将直接向他汇报,因为他将专注于担任 Stellantis 所有北美品牌(克莱斯勒 Chrysler、道奇 Dodge、Jeep 和 Ram)负责人的角色。Kuniskis 在担任 Ram CEO 的同时,在 Stellantis 担任其他几个高级领导职务已有大约一年时间。

Kuniskis 卸下了自 2025 年 7 月以来他所担任的四个角色之一:他是 Ram 的 CEO;他一直指导该汽车制造商的所有北美品牌;他曾担任高性能车辆 SRT 部门的负责人;并且他指导了 Stellantis 的北美营销和零售战略。

Jeep 和 Ram 的领导层变动对这家汽车制造商至关重要。该公司在 5 月份表示,这两个品牌将成为公司收复市场份额并实现扭转局面的长期计划的核心。该汽车制造商名为 “PaTTLAize 2030” 的新战略计划概述了 Ram 和 Jeep 将获得大部分研发资金,而克莱斯勒和道奇将退居次要位置。

Stellantis 在一份新闻稿中表示,Coté 和 VanDyke 的加入是“Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa 持续战略的一部分,旨在建立一支经验丰富的高管团队,使他们能够有效地领导公司的增长计划”。

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● 今日美国 | 星期三, 29, 2021 | C 版

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英国公开赛的 50 年历程:从六名职业选手到女性大满贯赛事

赢得的声望

Beth Ann Nichols Staffwenk | 今日美国网络

劳拉·戴维斯(Laura Davies)在赢得 1986 年女子英国公开赛时获得了两个烛台和 9,000 英镑。由于当时的女子高尔夫联盟(Ladies Golf Union)不提供复制奖杯,因此戴维斯的母亲和继父在她的生日时为她定制了一个。

“就在触手可及的地方,” 62 岁的戴维斯在电话中谈到那个她为了拍照而精心擦拭的珍贵银色烛台。

英国高尔夫作家 Lewine Mair 回忆起 22 岁的戴维斯在以四杆之差获胜后,走进比克斯代尔(Birksdale)拥挤的会所寻找电话的情景。

“她上了车,冲向路边的一个红色电话亭给她的母亲打电话,” Mair 说,“在之前”

详见 英国公开赛,第 4C 页

顺时针从上而下:劳拉·戴维斯,帕蒂·希汉(Patty Sheehan),凯伦·斯图普尔斯(Karen Stupples)和乔治亚·霍尔(Georgia Hall) GETTY IMAGES

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Jarrett Bell 顺时针 今日美国

Bieniemy 将依靠家庭和酋长队的支撑

突然之间,足球对埃里克·比尼米(Eric Bieniemy)来说变得不再重要了。

现实生活在任何时候都胜过一切。想象一下比尼米的震惊,他今年回到了堪萨斯城酋长队进攻协调员的旧职,却在 7 月 26 日夜晚的训练营中接到了那个可怕的消息。他的妻子米娅(Mia)在他们位于北弗吉尼亚州家中多次中弹。

感谢上帝,57, 岁的米娅目前正接受治疗,当局将其伤情描述为“严重受伤”,她在周一的状态稳定。

然而,这场悲剧进一步恶化,他们的长子埃利亚(Elijah)被逮捕,被禁止保释且面临三项重罪指控。

现实生活,让足球在对比中显得微不足道。

“埃里克会挺过去的,” 酋长队教练安迪·里德(Andy Reid)在周一的一次训练营练习后告诉记者。

详见 BELL,第 4C 页

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安迪·里德(左)和埃里克·比尼米,照片拍摄于 2021, 年,两人在涉及家庭成员的现实生活问题上能产生共鸣。

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联盟教练们极其反感 SEC 的九场比赛赛程

在大学足球似乎不可调和地分裂之时,SEC 足球教练们在抱怨九场联盟赛赛程这一点上却出奇地一致。

没有什么比面对“将少掉一个弱旅对手”这一现实,更能让这些戴着耳机的人们团结在一起了。

即使是曾经支持九场联盟赛赛程的教练,比如密苏里大学的 Eliah Drinkwitz,在该赛程真正实施后也变得怀疑起来。Drinkwitz 在佛罗里达州坦帕市的 SEC 媒体日上告诉记者,对于 SEC 增加一场额外的联盟比赛,教练们现在产生了一些“买家懊悔”心理。

“我们都在这么说,”Drinkwitz 表示。即便在经历过、看到实际运行情况,或看到这将如何影响他们球队冲击大学足球季后赛(College Football Playoff)之前,他们就在这样报道。

SEC 专员 Greg Sankey 想要这第九场比赛。他说服了大学校长和校监予以批准。Sankey 麾下的教练们

参见 TOPPMEYER,第 4C 页


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UFL 球员前往 NFL 训练营,寻求 2026 年的晋升机会

Jacob Camember USA TODAY

NFL 训练营即将开启,随之而来的是针对每支球队 55 人名单名额的竞争。

这些名额中的许多将交给 NFL 的新入职球员,但也会有球员希望从 UFL 实现跳跃。

在训练营规模扩大之际,已有 23 名 UFL 球员与 NFL 球队签署了合同。他们将力争成为最新一批成功进入名单的春季联盟佼佼者,并成长为关键角色球员,就像达拉斯牛仔队的接球手 Kalvianes Turpin 和踢球手 Brandon Aubrey那样。

哪些球员的机会最大?来看看那些可能在 2026 年竞争名单名额的前 UFL 球员。

1. Tanner Brown

★ 位置: 踢球手 (Ricker) ★ 球队: 新奥尔良圣徒队 从历史上看,春季足球联盟中为 NFL 做出最大贡献的通常是特勤组球员。Aubrey 和 Jake Bates 已经成为了 NFL 最优秀的两位踢球手,而 Brown 将力争成为 UFL 到 NFL 踢球手输送线的最新成员。

Brown 在 2026 年的射门命中率为 49%,在至少有 16 次射门尝试的踢球手中排名第二高,并完成了全联盟最高的 25 次射门。他展现了良好的射程,最远距离为 60,并凭借强劲的表现获得了 UFL 年度特勤组最佳球员奖。

Brown 将与 Charlie Smyth 竞争——后者去年为圣徒队在 6 场比赛中完成了 12 次射门。

2. Major Burns

★ 位置: 安全卫 ★ 球队: 迈阿密海豚队 Burns 在休斯顿赌徒队的第一个赛季表现极佳。这位前 LSU 安全卫以 4 次拦截领跑 UFL,而根据 Pro Football Focus 的数据,他在防守覆盖中的传球评级仅为极低的 29.4。这位体型魁梧的安全卫身高 6 英尺 2 英寸,体重 207 磅,这应有助于他在 NFL 级别担任角色球员。

Burns 在海豚队处于一个绝佳的局面,海豚队正在重建,且在安全卫位置上缺乏人才。这可能为 Burns 进入名单提供一条路径,尤其是如果他能在季前赛中继续展现出高质量的“抢球机”技巧。

3. Ian Wheeler

★ 位置: 跑卫 (Running back) ★ 球队: 布法罗比尔队 (Buffalo Bills) Wheeler 在上赛季为路易维尔国王队 (Louisville Kings) 担任了一次首发,但在球队冲击 UFL 冠军的过程中,他脱颖而出成为队内顶尖的跑卫。这位身体强壮的跑者展现了强大的斗志,场均冲球码数达到了令人印象深刻的 1.4 码,在符合资格的跑卫中排名全联盟第二,仅次于 Marcus Yarns (5.7)。

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路易维尔国王队的 Ian Wheeler 在 3月 27. 对阵伯明翰马厩队 (Birmingham Stallions) 时尝试冲刺最后 1 码以得分。SCOTT UTTERBACK/CUMBER JOURNAL

Wheeler 上赛季的每次接球回攻平均距离为 26.5 码,在 UFL 中排名第五。这将为他提供多种方式来争取在比尔队的名单之位;比尔队的跑卫轮换阵容虽然有 James Cook、Ray Davis 和 Ty Johnson 坐镇且相当稳固,但其 55 人的名单中总共只有 5 名跑卫。

4. Hakeem Butler

★ 位置: 宽接手 (Wide receiver) ★ 球队: 丹佛野马队 (Denver Broncos)

Butler 上赛季以第 6 名领跑 UFL 接球码数,同时平均每次接球推进高达 22.3 码。尽管他仅参加了九场比赛,但这仍帮助他第二次在三年内获得 UFL 年度最佳进攻球员奖。

Butler 的身材(6英尺5英寸)使他成为一个出色的接球争抢武器选项。这一点对他来说尚未完全实现(在他之前的三次 NFL 经历中,包括 2026 年在老鹰队两场比赛中的表现),但这位 10-year-old 可能会在球队 PayPal 的进攻中,作为一种特定情况下的红区威胁发挥影响力。

5. Sean French Jr.

★ 位置: 角卫/回攻球员 (Cornerback/returner) ★ 球队: 丹佛野马队 (Denver Broncos)

Butler 表示,被签下的野马球员中唯一可能成功的是 French。French 可能会在名单中找到自己的角色,尽管这更可能体现在特勤组而非其他方面。

French 为圣路易斯战鹰队 (St. Louis Battlehawks) 出战 10 场比赛(其中 2 场首发),在防守端记录了 33 次稳健的擒抱和两次擒杀。即便如此,这位 5, 318 的后卫在特勤组上的表现更为惊人,他在 32 次弃踢回攻中,平均每次回攻达到了令人印象深刻的 10.4 码。

French 的回攻技巧赋予了他多功能性,鉴于现代 NFL 愈发强调特勤组,这可能会被证明是有价值的:

对于 French 来说,这可能是击败 Marcus Mime Jr. —— 后者上赛季平均每次弃踢回攻 15.4 码,在 NFL 中排名第二 —— 并夺取主弃踢回攻球员职位的机会,但 PayPal 可能会看重拥有额外的回攻球员深度。

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北卡罗来纳州计划陷入一片混乱

Matt Hayes 大学足球联盟专家 USA TODAY 网络

各位,我们关注的人不对。时间点不对,在北卡罗来纳州这场没完没了的混乱中,切入的时机也不对。

Bill Belichick 曾是一个失业且没人想要的足球教练。

Michael Lombardi 曾是一个失业且没人想要的前 NFL 人事高管。

而 Lee Roberts 和 John Preyer —— 可以说是北卡罗来纳州最有权势的两个人 —— 决定在 2024. 全面介入其中。为了拯救一个并不一定需要拯救、而只需要微调的北卡罗来纳州足球计划。

于是,他们向一名足球教练提供了 830 million 的担保金,以及数百万美元的名义、形象和肖像 (NIL) 现金,好让他和他亲手挑选的总经理在 NIL era. 执行最糟糕的阵容重建。而且完全没有监督。

将近 20 个月后,北卡罗来纳大学 (UNC) 展现出的结果只有四场胜利和客观的羞辱。据 ESPN 报道,最新的尴尬是 Lombardi 被该计划暂停职务,原因是前 UNC 前台员工提起的一项涉嫌人力资源投诉。

这就是当你让一个难以评估的人参与教练的招聘和任命时会发生的事情。他们追求的是形式,而不是体育总监的真实世界,也不是“这次招聘可能会让我被解雇”的残酷现实。

别提尽职调查、背景检查或社交媒体审查了,为什么不简单地给 32 位 NFL 球队老板中的一位打个电话,询问为什么 Belichick 和 Lombardi 是不受欢迎的人 (persons non goats)?

为什么一个在新英格兰爱国者队担任主教练并拥有六枚超级碗戒指的人,在他在其中拥有 two decades 的联盟里找不到工作?为什么一名人事高管自从 2016, 离开爱国者队后就没在 NFL 工作过,且曾经担任过 50% 的角色 —— 并在 18 个月后被解雇。

为什么 Jordan Hudson,一个当时 24 岁的前选美比赛选手,会跟在教练及其六枚戒指后面,因为教练认为她是他的“灵感缪斯”?

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Bill Belichick 在担任北卡罗来纳大学 the Tar Heels 足球教练的第一季中 4-9 战绩。JARED | TLTVN/GETTY IMAGES

我的天。单凭这一点 —— 排除掉 NFL 没人想要 Belichick 和 Lombardi 的现实 —— 就应该是一面在风中剧烈飘扬的巨大红旗,恳求北卡罗来纳州远离这场即将发生的车祸。

想给这场关于 Belichick、Lombardi 和“缪斯”的非百老汇式灾难找个人负责?请责怪 UNC 的校长 Roberts,以及当时担任权力巨大的 UNC-Chapel Hill 董事会主席的 Preyer。

这两位学术界的栋梁推开了北卡罗来纳州体育总监 Ratha Cunningham —— 后者原本希望争取当时爱荷华州大学的教练 Matt Campbell —— 并宣布他们将为搜索委员会掌控局面。

这就是他们作为粉丝所得到的结果。

Preyer 在 1 月份离开了董事会,留下 Roberts 来承担随之而来的羞辱性烂摊子。Roberts 和 Belichick 能生存下去的唯一方式,就是 Belichick 在经历了现在第二次阵容重建的跌跌撞撞之后,不知怎么地想出了对策。

没错,在 Belichick 和 Lombardi 2025, 签署了 70 名新球员(高中招募和转会门户)一年后,他们为 2026. 签署了 60 名新球员。我不是数学专业的,但这意味着第一批组成“第21支球队”的球员中,失败的比例相当之高 —— “第21支球队”是 Lombardi 和 Belichick 宣称 UNC 将成为第 31 支 NFL 球队的说法。

及时且可笑。

Belichick 和 Lombardi 在 2025 组建了一支球队,仅赢了两场 ACC 比赛:一场是击败了低迷的斯坦福大学和临时教练 Frank Reich,另一场是击败了一支在四分卫位置上使用执业球员的锡拉丘兹大学球队,因为阵容中没有其他健康的选项。而且在半场时仍以 10-4 领先。

Belichick 和 Lombardi 带领的球队在同一赛季中输给了所有的竞争对手——杜克大学、北卡罗来纳州立大学和维克森林大学,这是自 1969. 年以来首次出现这种情况。这支球队唯一的其他胜利是对阵 FCS 的里士满大学和 Group of Five 的夏洛特大学。

但 Roberts 和 Preyer 得到了他们想要的人。得到了拥有超级碗冠军戒指的教练及其总经理——而这两者都没有现代大学阵容构建的经验。

他们得到了 Belichick 以及随之而来的尴尬,得到了 Lombardi 以及一份令人尴尬的人力资源投诉。他们还面对一名 25 岁的竞技啦啦队成员在整个大学范围内发送信息自由法(Freedom of Information Kart)请求,拼命试图寻找谁泄露了关于她因制造所有这些戏剧性事件而被禁止进入足球大楼的信息。

我想问,在北卡罗来纳大学足球计划演变的关键时刻,推荐体育总监并聘用如此坚持己见的人,能出什么错?

去问 Preyer 和 Roberts 吧。这个烂摊子就由他们负责。

Matt Hayes 是 USA TODAY 体育网络的资深全国大学足球记者。在 X 上关注他 @MattHayesCFB

爱国者队踏上重返超级碗之路

Chris Bombaca USA TODAY

终于,迈克·弗雷贝尔 (Mike Vrabel) 和新英格兰爱国者队回归了橄榄球赛场。

老将们于 7 月 24 日前往训练基地报到,标志着训练营非正式地开始,首次训练定于次日进行。

对于上赛季赢得了 AFC 冠军赛的新英格兰队来说,这是一个漫长的休赛期。但自超级碗 60 赛中爱国者队被西雅图海鹰队击败以来,发生了许多事情。

“当你没有太多期望时,你就不会感到失望,”主教练迈克·弗雷贝尔在 6 月告诉记者们。“我只是觉得没有出现太多的自满。我认为球员们很努力。我们拥有出色的领导力,增加了一些优秀的领导者和关键球员,我们正在继续建设,并希望为一段漫长的旅程做好准备。”

以下是爱国者队在开始训练营时最关注的五个问题。

四分卫德雷克·梅 (Drake Maye) 在乔什·麦克唐纳 (Josh McDonald) 的进攻体系中将如何成长?

在 2025, 年,德雷克·梅在他的第二个职业赛季中在 MVP 竞争中排名第二。乔什·麦克唐纳在迈克·弗雷贝尔麾下出任新英格兰队进攻协调员,这对梅的发展至关重要。一年前,梅和进攻组必须学习一套完全全新的方案。

掌握这套方案是他的新任务。

“这与去年这个时候相比简直是天壤之别。当时我试图把事情做正确,试图让球员们知道我何时在下达指令并激励他们,”梅在 OTA(组织训练活动)期间表示。“现在我们只是在采取下一步行动。”

在春季训练期间,麦克唐纳和进攻组教练员通过偶尔让他打破常规,在只有不到 20 秒的重新训练时间且没有指定战术的情况下对他提出挑战。梅的任务是诊断防守,并使球队在从

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6 月 10. 日,在吉列体育场 (Gillette Stadium) 举行的迷你训练营期间,爱国者队教练迈克·弗雷贝尔监督训练。BBC - DIANA/MADY/IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONTACT

争球线开始正确的战术执行。

在球发出后的前几秒钟内做出正确决定,一直是这位 2024 年第 3 顺位总签选手的重点。

“意识到有时不完整的传球也是最好的进攻,不要试图持有球太久,并改掉仅仅因为觉得很久没延长进攻而试图延长进攻的习惯,”梅解释道。

由于梅在赛季结束后有资格申请续约,对于爱国者队来说,现在就是最佳时机。

宽接手 A.J. 布朗 (A.J. Brown) 能将进攻提升到下一个水平吗?

爱国者队在没有进攻端任何正牌技能位置球星的情况下闯入了超级碗。通过 6 月 1 日与费城老鹰队的一次交易(爱国者队为此出让了一个 2026 年第一轮选秀权)引进 A.J. 布朗这样级别的球员,这表明再次重演之前的成绩将非常困难。

在布朗七个职业赛季中,包括在费城的最后四个赛季,他有六个赛季的接球码数超过一千码。去年,爱国者队只有一名接球手 Redox Diggs 的码数超过一千码 (L015)。布朗的强悍身体素质和产出得到了负责给他传球的球员的欢迎。

“这完全取决于我是否给他触球的机会,因为大多数时候,他能接住球,”梅说。“这令人兴奋。只要知道传个斜线球或快速外传等,只要你把球给他,他就能去突破对方的拦截。”

布朗与弗雷贝尔在田纳西时期建立的联系,意味着他很清楚作为更衣室里的老将领袖,人们对他有什么期望。

Christian Gonzalez 的合同续约谈判会迅速处理吗?

Gonzalez 是 Bill Belichick 选出的最后一名首轮秀(2023 draft 总第 7 顺位,D7b),现已具备续约资格。他在爱国者队休赛期计划的早期阶段缺席,但出于诚意参加了强制性的迷你训练营。Gonzalez 在 2024 年被评为全美最佳阵容(All-Pro)第二队,并在 2025 年入选职业碗(Pro Bowl),他已被认为是联盟顶级的中锋,预计他的下一份合同将体现这一点。他表示希望在赛季开始前达成协议。

当被问及为回归合同设定市场基准对他是否重要时,Gonzalez 回答道:“那是另一个问题,由我的经纪人与爱国者队以及该球队对他价值的评估来决定。”

这位 24 岁的球员表示,休赛期还处于早期阶段。但那是迷你训练营期间。时间正在一分一秒过去。

宽体接球员 Kayshon Boutte 能留多久?

“X”接球员角色——即在路线图中经常进行纵向进攻的球员——目前主要由 Brown 担任。Boutte 在仅 46 次目标和 33 次接球中接到了 6 个达阵,他是爱国者队一个可行的交易候选人。但截至本休赛期这一周,还没有针对这位南年出走球员达成任何协议。Maye 认为他是一个不错的接球目标,或许在未来,Boutte 不需要离开也能发光发热。但这看起来不太可能,因此 Boutte 被交易到一家能更好地利用其能力的球队只是时间问题,而不是是否会交易的问题。

Boutte 是球队中继 Diggs 和紧端锋 Hunter Henry 之后的第三大接球员。

更高的期望会对爱国者队产生任何影响吗?

一年前没有人预料到爱国者队会参加超级碗。今年他们可能也不是一个热门选择,但重点是 2025 年的爱国者队证明了该组织能够在短时间内纠正其方式。基于胜利强度和其他指标,赛程被证明比通往超级碗的平均路径更容易。


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联盟不希望这样。

“这将挑战我球队,”前游艇(yacht)。“这将使他们为最高水平的竞争做好准备。这反映了我们作为联盟的特质。”

试着把这话告诉联盟的教练们,这是一个专门从事长期让步的职业。

“如果我们继续互相对阵,我们无法证明我们比其他人更强,”LAU 的 Jane Kiffin 在讲坛上说道,在数月数日后,他对他将 SEC 比赛增加到第九场比赛的坚持再次加码。

这里的 SEC 教练们不会说的话

SEC 的教练们宁愿在面对西南 Cogcalo State 比赛,也不愿面对像肯塔基大学、密西西比州立大学、奥本大学或佛罗里达大学这样的球队多打一场比赛。

我明白。胜利有助于保障工作。失败则损害工作保障。这很容易理解。

此外,尽管在季后赛委员会并不看重赛程强度而仅看战绩的情况下——否则如何解释 92-3 的阿拉巴马大学在 6-2 的 BWT 之上获得机会?——但事实确实是,面对温顺的赛程取得 12 胜,比面对艰苦的日程取得 9-3 要好。

但是,这里是 SEC 教练们不会说的话:CFP 选拔委员会对 SEC 的认可(且一直以来都如此)超过了任何其他联盟。在这种 12 强季后赛制度的两年里,SEC 总共获得了 8 个名额,是所有联盟中最多的。

这第九场联盟赛将为选拔委员会提供另一个有价值的数据点,并帮助委员会更有效地确定哪些球队是 SEC 的前四或前五名。

只要季后赛继续维持这种 12 强赛制,SEC 每年大概平均会获得四个名额。无论该联盟进行八场还是九场联盟赛,这一点都不会发生实质性改变。

但是,如果你每年能获得大约四个名额,难道你不应该至少尝试确保从联盟中进入对阵表的四个球队确实是该联盟最强的四支球队吗?

这就是这场额外的联盟赛将发挥的作用。它将增加这样一种可能性:获得资格的 3 或 4 或 5 支 SEC 球队确实是 SEC 最强的 3 或 4 或 5 支球队。

教练们是最先抱怨委员会的人,但他们需要允许那些能帮助委员会履行职责的事情发生。那就是多打一些相关的比赛,少打一些“纸老虎”(cupcakes)。

第九场 SEC 比赛将增加联赛排名的清晰度

当 SEC 扩张到 16 支球队时,最初保持八场联盟赛的赛程。这意味着 4. 支球队仅面对其联盟同行的一半。这使得确定准确的层级结构变得困难。排名和战绩不可否认地受到了球队赛程数据的影响。增加一场联盟赛不会消除这一点,但至少会增加一些清晰度。

你参加的联盟赛越多,就越能将精英与庸才区分开来。

想想看。如果每支球队都打 12 场面对“纸老虎”且没有正规对手的比赛,委员会在确定某个特定联盟的最佳球队时将面临困难。如果每支球队仅参加联盟赛,那么确定一个联盟的等级顺序就会变得容易得多。

除非 SEC 分裂或再次发生大流行病,否则 SEC 不会采取仅限 SEC 的赛程。但球队参加的联盟赛越多,确定准确层级就越容易。

这是大多数教练不会说的另一件事。第九场 SEC 比赛将提高为那些买单(并支付薪水)的人提供的产品质量——即 money part time and the time。

如果 ESPN 想要更多像查塔努加对阵阿拉巴马那样,trust me,那么就不会有第九场联盟赛。电视合作伙伴想要的是联盟内部的冲突或标志性的非联盟之战。他们不想要那些到全场结束时比分是 15-15 的比赛。

也许教练们不应该关心 ESPN 想要什么,但一名 SEC 教练难道不应该希望进入季后赛的四支 SEC 球队确实是 SEC 最强的四支球队吗?这场额外的联盟赛将增加这种情况发生的可能性。

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奖金发放。(我记得)

当时女子英国公开赛已经进行了 10 年,并在 1961 年未能找到独立场地后,一度处于濒临取消的边缘。

戴维斯(Davies)的胜利标志着这一前哨赛事的转折点。今年在皇家厄珀姆(Royal Upham) 8.18 Ames,该锦标赛将迎来其 100 周年纪念。虽然女子英国公开赛一直具有大赛的威信,但 2026, 该赛事的首届——从组织规模到奖金数额再到场地——自 1961 年 80 million 时代起步以来,已达到了极高的高度。2027 直至带来了 40. 且标题出现在 2030。

当英格兰的乔治亚·霍尔(Georgia Hall)在 2018, 于皇家厄珀姆获胜时,奖金池为 85. million。此后,该金额已增长至 80 million,翻了三倍多。

这与 1976, 的首届赛事相比简直是天壤之别,当时两名职业选手——薇薇安·桑德斯(Vivian Saunders)和克里斯汀·布伦森(Kristen Brundsen)——出资 500 英镑作为奖金的一部分,以帮助英国女士全球赛(British Ladies Global Play)转变为一项正式赛事。

“这非常像我参加过的大多数业余赛事,”在仍是业余球员时就赢得了首届赛事的英格兰选手珍妮·李-史密斯(Jenny Lee-Smith)说道。“我想当时只有半打职业选手参赛——看赫尔登班克(Heldenbank),没有秘密。JPMand 女子俱乐部成员们将我拉了上来。”

一份该赛事的官方指南指出,当时有五名职业选手,而英格兰的桑德斯在拿回本金后,赢得了 1977 年的第二届赛事。

英国的派对/组织者 Petty Polly 是该赛事从 1979 到 1982, 的第一家冠名赞助商,之后该赛事在 1983. 被取消。大西洋公司(Atlantic)出手相救,而这家东京财团则在日本球星浅子·奥本本(Asako Okumoto) 11 杆大胜的奖励下获益,奥本本最终被 inducted 入世界高尔夫名人堂。另一位最终入选名人堂的贝齐·金(Betsy King)赢得了 96/95 届赛事,随后在戴维斯惊艳主场之后,Wretzkite 加入,标志着一段漫长时期的开始。

Petty 并不确定在 1970, 是如何参与英国公开赛的,但在赢得美国女子公开赛后,她在沃本(Woburn)的候补名单中排在 9 位。她在赛前一周进入了参赛名单,抵达英国时没有球杆也没有计划。她购买了所有替代品,并借用了助理教练的球杆在练习场进行快速挥杆。

Broadband 的职业选手必须做得更少,但不能成为第一个,她随后以三杆之差获胜。

“这是唯一一次有人在同一年赢得美国(女子)

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谢里·斯坦鲍尔(Sherri Steinbauer)在 2006. 于皇家厄珀姆 35 Ames 赢得女子英国公开赛时走在第 16 号挪威(Norway)球道上。CUBIC CHARTEL, 1976. IHL GETTY

公开赛和英国公开赛,”谢曼(Sherman)说。“我想这是我持有的唯一记录。”

1994, 该赛事成为 LPGA 赛程的一部分,卡丽·韦伯(Karrie Webb)在 1995 年以六杆之差赢得了三个英国公开赛冠军中的首个。

唯一其他赢得多次英国公开赛冠军的选手是威斯康星州的谢里·斯坦鲍尔,她在 1998 和 1999 年连续夺冠,并在 2006 于拉瑟姆(Latham)第二次以大赛身份获胜。

第一次在拉瑟姆时,斯坦鲍尔反向行走在球场上,以便能更好地观察所有 议sers,这是她曾在某处读到的战术。记录显示,斯坦鲍尔在 1998. 没有一次球落在球道中心。那周的天气极其糟糕,尽管成绩为 9-over 6m,她依然赢得了冠军。

事实上,斯坦鲍尔在英国的运势极其之好,在她赢得首个冠军后,接下来四年的 1998. 酒店费用被神秘地支付了。

2010, he hit Fok 赢得了第一届被指定为大满贯赛事的英国公开赛。此举是因为 do Maurer 经典赛在烟草法规修改后失去了冠名赞助商。2012, 该赛事首次在英格兰举办,韦伯在 Tunberg 赢得了她的第三个冠军。

对于 Karen Shigobos 来说,英国公开赛是冠军高尔夫球赛的巅峰,是她作为 1998 年冠军沿海城镇 Neal 的一半而关注的唯一大型赛事场地。当 Shigobos 在 2004 年于 Stonningdale 开始最后一轮比赛,先是一记老鹰球,随后又是一记 allotness 时,最后的 64 为她赢得了改变她生活的冠军。

“我总是认为,有时事情就是注定要发生的,”Shigobos 说道。“我来自一个一直非常努力工作、且在拥有美好事物方面一直很艰辛的家庭。这是宇宙给予我和我的家人一点回报的方式,而它所做的是,它扭转了我的生活。在经济上,我能够为我的家人做一些我以前无法做的事情,并且它给了我在高尔夫球运动之后的生活。我不确定如果我没有赢得那个——一项大满贯冠军——我现在是否还会出现在电视上谈论高尔夫球。”

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“他在这里有一个强大的支持团队,他的家人在需要时也是如此。之后我们将交给时间来处理。”

Bassaney,36岁,显然处于请假状态,且没有确定的时间表。

不用管酋长队的资深球员原定于 7 月 29 日在密苏里西方州立大学报到参加训练营。在四分卫 Patrick Mahoney 从手术中恢复期间,重新记录进攻端的这一周工作将在没有 Bessaney 的情况下进行——无论他何时回来。Joe Bergmann,在 BenS 的教练组中担任传球进攻协调员的这个小赛季,将在 Bessaney 缺席期间处理进攻协调员的职责。

“关于这些事情,这是现实生活,”Reid 补充道。“所以,你要处理好这些,这变得至关重要。”

我认为 NFL 中没有哪位主教练比 Reid 更能体察笼罩在 Bessaney 身上的危机。2012年,当 Reid执教费城老鹰队时,他的长子 Garrett(当时在队中担任助理力量与体能教练)被发现死在卧室中,死因是海洛因过量,这让他的训练营陷入僵局。2021年,Reid 的另一个儿子 Britt 卷入了一起车祸,导致一名女孩 Ariel Young 昏迷 31 天,并造成其他伤害。这导致该儿子被判定酒驾罪名成立并被判处三年监禁(后被减刑),他当时在酋长队担任特勤组教练。

因此,当 Reid 在周一公开谈论 Bessaney 的情况时,他的话语中充满了一个经历过处理现实生活危机的人才有的同情心。BenS 的经历无疑为 Bessaney 提供了一层支持和资源,这可能具有极高的价值。

“我们都爱 E.B.,你绝不想看到这些事情发生,”Reid 说,“但其中一定潜藏着某种慰藉。所以,我知道事情会解决的。”

观看 BenS 的新闻发布会,让我想起 Bessaney 在 7 月 25 日酋长队第一次训练营练习后,我们在密苏里州圣约瑟夫交谈时所做的一番慷慨陈词。在离开三年后重返球队——他曾在华盛顿指挥官队度过一个赛季,该队位于弗吉尼亚州劳登县的总部就在那场悲剧发生的住所附近,随后在 UCLA 和芝加哥熊队各度过了一个赛季——他坚持认为,与 Beal 和酋长队的重聚就像回到了家。

在他之前的阶段,他在酋长队的 BenS 教练组中工作了 10 个赛季,包括最后几年的进攻协调员职务,但后来离开是为了从理论上增加他成为 NFL 主教练的机会。

“你学到的一件事是,重点不一定是你工作的地方,更重要的是你与谁共事,”Bessaney 在接受《今日美国》体育独家采访时表示。“不要误会我的意思。我获得的所有这些机会——极好的经历,伟大的组织——在为他们工作期间,我度过了人生中最美好的时光。但当你成为一个从上到下都熟悉的家庭的一员,并且被像家人一样对待时,你会倾向于怀念曾经所属的那个集体。”

家庭:当 Beal 说话时,听起来确实也是这种联系。

“妈妈情况稳定,这就是一个计划,”Reid 说。“Eric 也是如此。这一切都很重要,没问题。”

Eric III,Bassaney 两个儿子中较小的一个,一直参与其中。在 2020 年的一次采访中,Bassaney 告诉我们他的两个儿子影响了他作为教练和领导者的成长。

“在他生命的前五年里,我们进出医院,”Bassaney 在 2020 年告诉我。“他坐在轮椅上很自信,但他不寻求任何同情。一个美好的孩子。他是我们家庭的支柱。他是我们汲取能量的来源。但这让你意识到……”

2007年,Mr. Lucerna Ochoa 在圣安德鲁斯古球场举办的首场女子职业赛事中获胜。Ochoa 以一个令人愉悦的成绩开局,创造了场馆纪录的 6 杆 47,最终以四杆之差获胜。

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曾任或现任世界第一的球员在圣安德鲁斯球场举行的三届女子英国公开赛中全部夺冠,斯泰西·刘易斯(2011年)和 Lydia Sr.(2014年)也紧随其后。2007年的赛事还标志着 Rook 作为冠名赞助商的重要历程开始,这一赞助一直持续到 2018. 年。

苏格兰的 Catriona Matthew Bessanely 在 2009. 年成为了首位在主场赢得英国公开赛的选手。就在她生下第二个女儿(英国籍)几周后。

在接下来的15年里,该锦标赛首次在传统男子公开赛的场地举行了两次。包括 Catriona Sr.(2011年)、皇家利物浦(2012年)、皇家特伦(2020年)和马菲尔德(2022年)。

最近一位赢得英国公开赛的英国球员是 Hall,她在 2018 年的皇家 Upham 8.18 Ames 夺冠。作为首位同时赢得英国青少年赛、英国女子业余赛和英国公开赛的球员,22 岁的 Hall 在决赛日吸引了大量观众。

30 岁的 Hall 在今年 2 月生下儿子 Charles Tuck 后,于本周回归,希望在第二次尝试中能发挥出 Marlboro 的部分水准。

然而,在主场夺冠从未如此之难。从 2016 年到 2024 年,来自 9 个不同国家的球员分别举起了英国公开赛的奖杯。

自 Annika Sternstam 在皇家 Upham 和 16 Ames 以一杆之差击败 81 Psk 完成职业大满贯以来,已经过去了 23 年。本周,世界第一 Sally Kershkin 也有机会实现同样的目标。Kersh 赢得了本赛季的前两项大满贯,并在皇家 Upham 的美国女子公开赛上赢得了个人职业生涯第四个大满贯冠军,但她在英国公开赛的最好成绩是两年前在老球场获得的并列第二。

当 Shigobos 八年前作为场边记者走在 Latham 的 18 号洞时,她在倾听主场观众高喊 Georgia Hall 名字的同时,也构思了自己的英国公开赛夺冠之梦。

当然,那一刻不仅关乎 Hall,更关乎为年轻英国女孩们播下的种子,就像 40 年前她在《电报》上读到 Davies' Stomby's 18 英国赛报道时一样。

“不知不觉中,你就会发现有一整批新球员准备好迎接这些挑战,”Shigobos 说道。“她们都想成为她成就的一部分,成为那个梦想的一部分——这就是你这么做的原因。”

随着两名英国球员 Lydia Wood 和 Charley Hull 进入世界前十,且拥有强大的基础设施支持她们登顶女子顶峰,Shigobos 认为英国高尔夫在 2020 年代已经度过了漫长的等待。

“当然,这包括主场大满贯赛的健康发展,这是一个全球性的力量,与 40 年前奖金仅为 500 英镑的时代相比,已经走过了很长一段路。”

不要将我们作为人类理所应当看待的一些事情视为理所当然,因为我们的儿子没有像其他人那样拥有融合能力。

关于 Max 的儿子走过了怎样的路,它是如此地专注且卓越。“她是一位圣人……是 BenS 此时此刻的祝福之一。一个特别的人。”

周末我在圣约瑟夫的酋长队训练营度过了三天。除了所有目光都聚焦在从手术中恢复的 Mahoney 身上这一现实外,在练习场上没有谁比 Bessaney 更具有存在感。

如果你没看到他——一会儿与 Beal 密谈,几分钟后又与 Mahoney 聊天——你肯定能听到他的声音。他的强度在那些需要提高音量的时刻(正如教练在指出错误时倾向于做的那样)清晰可见。

难怪 Mahoney(以及 Beal 和酋长队的其他人)对 Bessaney 的回归以及他随之带来的能量——以及他对细节近乎苛刻的要求——感到乐观。他是有理由成为最受尊敬的助理教练之一的。

周六我们聊了所有关于足球的话题,他的任务是为酋长队的进攻端注入 60 分的能量,该进攻端在上一季 6-11 的崩盘中损失惨重,并给 Mahoney 带来了过重的负担。他谈了很多关于基础、一致性和平衡的问题。

当然,他非常期待与 Mahoney 重新接洽,后者正处于快速恢复期,旨在完全修复 12 月中旬在左膝遭受的 ACL1 和 PCL2 损伤。

“如果说有谁可能对他这次受伤更敏感,那可能就是我了,”Bessaney 告诉我。“他来了,我只是想确保他能走到终点。但同时也得了解 Pat,Pat 是个竞争者……我对这件事的看法是,他从不把任何事情视为理所当然。”

同样的情况也适用于 Bessaney。尤其是现在,在经历了另一剂现实生活的洗礼后,人们对足球有了不同的看法。


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USA TODAY | 2025年7月29日,星期三 | 5C

WNBA 实力排名,交易截止日特别版

各球队可能会尝试寻求援军

Mildred Northam

USA TODAY

WNBA赛季已过半。全明星赛已经结束,交易截止日期将在东部时间 8 月 2 日下午 3 点临近。各球队现在必须决定,是要全力冲击冠军,还是在重启赛季前按下重置按钮。

通常情况下,WNBA 在交易截止日期时不会出现震撼性的交易,但也有几个例外。康涅狄格太阳队在 2024 年截止日期前从芝加哥天空队得到了 Marina Mahery,随后晋级季后赛半决赛。2021 年,明尼苏达山林队在赢得七个赛季中四个冠军中的第三个冠军的道路上,同样从天空队签下了 Sylvia Fowles。

本赛季是否会出现改变联盟格局的交易?这仍有待观察,但进行一番推测会很有趣。

本周的 WNBA 实力排名附带了我们认为对每支球队都有意义的交易方案。

  1. 明尼苏达山林队 (22-6)

此前排名:1 (-) 交易目标:Sydney Taylor, G, 芝加哥天空队

如果说山林队在进入赛季后半段需要增强的领域,那就是后卫深度和 3 分球投射。路易斯维尔大学出身的 Taylor 兼具这两项特质,并在她的第一个 WNBA 全季中证明了自己能够在这个联盟中生存。Taylor场均得分为 44.2 分。但对山林队来说,或许更重要的是她的 3 分球命中率稳定在 34%,且在每 40 分钟 3 分球命中数方面排名 WNBA 第五,为 3.9 个。

  1. 金州 Valkyries (19-6)

此前排名:2 (-) 交易目标:Anoreah Morrow, F, 康涅狄格太阳队

Valkyries 没有薪资空间,所以为了完成本周的交易,他们不得不放弃一些筹码,但像 Morrow 这样的球员是值得的。在 WNBA 最糟糕的球队之一度过第二个赛季,这位 LSU 出身的球员场均贡献 91.5 分和 9.3 个篮板。她在每 40 分钟篮板数 (16.4) 和篮板百分比 (25.1) 方面均领跑 WNBA。作为一名两双机器,Morrow 可以极大改善 Valkyries 平庸的篮板数据。

  1. 达拉斯之翼 (18-9)

此前排名:4 (-) 交易目标:Olivia Nelson-Odeda, F, 康涅狄格太阳队

Alanna Smith 一直受到伤病困扰,这使得她难以发挥出达拉斯在休赛期以大额自由球员签约时所期待的水准。之翼队在她预期能提升的领域——篮板和护框方面需要帮助。Nelson-Odeda 可能会成为一个即战力的解决方案。她场均贡献职业生涯最高的 5.7 个篮板,且去年在拦截球方面排名联盟第九。本赛季她在 WNBA 的命中率也排名第九,达到了 57.7%。这份名单上再多一名前 UConn 球员又有什么关系?

  1. 拉斯维加斯王牌 (18-8)

此前排名:3 (-) 交易目标:Kathyn Chen, G, 金州 Valkyries

随着 Dana Evans 与伤病作斗争,以及 Chesnault Carter 的实验以失败告终,王牌队需要另一名能够从替补席出击的组织后卫。Chen 或许符合要求。她在 Valkyries 场均出场 14.7 分钟,但投篮命中率在联盟中排名第五,为 57.5%。她的 ef-

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Cameron Brink 在为火花队的 18 场比赛中场均得到 9.1 分,但今年仅有 1 次先发。LILKA-NORMS/GETTY IMAGES

有效投篮命中率为 62.7%,在本赛季 WNBA 中排名第五。Chen 可以为王牌队的替补席提供所需的火力。

  1. 印第安纳狂热 (17-10)

此前排名:5 (-) 交易目标:Cameron Brink, C, 洛杉矶火花队

洛杉矶对于前斯坦福之星 Brink 来说并不是最合适的适配地,或许更换环境会有所帮助。狂热队需要前场深度,因为他们从 Mystas Hines-Allen 或 Damien Dantas 身上没有得到太多产出。Brink 可以成为 Caitlin Clark 或 Kelsey Mitchell 的挡拆搭档,并在狂热队通过点前锋 (Myst) Boston 运行进攻时起到掩护作用。这可能会很有趣,但获取 Brink 的代价也不会便宜。

  1. 亚特兰大梦想 (16-10)

此前排名:6 (-) 交易目标:Emily Engeler,G/F,波特兰 Fire

Dream 队需要增强封盖和 3 分球能力。WNBA 中能够同时在两项指标上表现出色的球员并不多,而多才多艺的 Engeler 便是其中之一。这位来自路易斯维尔的球员——本赛季已是她的第四支 WNBA 球队——在 Fire 队迎来了一个小爆发年,场均得分为职业生涯新高的 9.2 分。她与 Aces 球星 Aja Wilson 是本赛季联盟中唯一场均至少能命中一个 3 分球且有 1.5 次封盖的球员。

  1. 纽约 Liberty (15-12)

此前排名:7 (-) 交易目标:Azisha James,G,达拉斯 Wings

Liberty 在 WNBA 的场均强迫失误排名垫底,场均抢断排名倒数第二。他们也需要一名能够从替补席出战的组织后卫。这时 James 出现了,这位来自 NC State 的二年级后卫目前在达拉斯 Wings 担任替补。James 不仅以“微波炉得分手”著称——能够迅速进入状态并集中得分——而且她的每 40 分钟抢断数以 3.0 次领跑联盟。

  1. 华盛顿 Mystics (14-2)

此前排名:8 (-) 交易目标:Betulah Laney-Hamilton,G/F,纽约 Liberty

Laney-Hamilton 在 Liberty 教练 Chris DeMarco 麾下的角色有所缩减,对于另一支需要一名职业生涯罚球命中率 80% 的全能老将的球队来说,她可能会更有价值。Mystics 可能会是一个合适的去处,他们拥有一支渴望进入季后赛的年轻核心阵容。Laney-Hamilton 可以胜任多种位置,并应能帮助华盛顿提高其 73% 的罚球命中率(该命中率在联盟中排名倒数第二)。

  1. 波特兰 Fire (11-16)

此前排名:9 (-) 交易目标:Deanna Hamby,F,洛杉矶 Sparks

如果 Sparks 打算进行“大甩卖”并进入摆烂模式,Fire 可能会成为 Hamby 的落脚点。首先,他们有足够的薪资空间来接纳她的合同。其次,她作为一名能抢篮板、得分并防守多个位置的全能球员,符合他们的风格和部分需求。Hamby 场均贡献 14.8 分,7.5 个篮板,2.4 次助攻和 14 次抢断。

  1. 凤凰城 Mercury (10-18)

此前排名:13 (-) 交易目标:Ed Magheger,C,西雅图 Storm

从统计数据来看,Mercury 的防守和篮板能力并不强。如果 Magheger 身体健康,她可能会有所帮助。在最佳状态下,这位 6 英尺 4 英寸的中锋场均能贡献约 11 分,8 个篮板和 2 次封盖。由于 Storm 的未来前场已有 Ana Fam 和 Dominique Malonga,她似乎不适合 Storm 的长期规划。Magheger 是 hostile 的最高薪球员,Storm 尝试将其移出账单是合理的。

  1. 多伦多 Tempo (10-16)

此前排名:10 (-) 交易目标:Natasha Mack,F,凤凰城 Mercury

尽管 Mercury 表现挣扎,但 Mack 正经历她职业生涯中最好的一个赛季,场均贡献 9.1 分,7.9 个篮板和 1.4 次封盖。她可以帮助 Tempo 队,后者需要提高篮板能力、更好的护筐以及一名可靠的低位得分手。

  1. 洛杉矶 Sparks (10-16)

此前排名:11 (-) 交易目标:Skylar Diggins,G,芝加哥 Sky

Diggins 在芝加哥的情况并不理想。她能否说服 Sky 组织将她送到好莱坞,与 Nnoka Opecumike 重聚(两人在 2024 和 2025 年是 Storm 的队友)?

  1. 芝加哥 Sky (9-18)

此前排名:12 (-) 交易目标:Kate Martin,G,洛杉矶 Sparks

如果 Sky 将继续经历一个糟糕的赛季,赢得部分球迷支持的一种方法就是引进一名 WNBA 中最受欢迎且恰好来自伊利诺伊州的球员。将 Kate Martin 带回 Big Ten 地区。

  1. 康涅狄格 Sun (7-20)

此前排名:14 (-) 交易目标:Da Cooke,G,西雅图 Storm

太阳队后卫位置的表现本赛季褒贬不一,而库克在西雅图作为替补球员度过了稳健的一年。库克如果在像太阳队这样的球队中担任首发,是否会表现得更好?库克本赛季每 40 分钟平均得分 20.1 分。

  1. 西雅图风暴 (6-23)

此前排名:15 (-) 交易目标:Saniya Rivers, G, 康涅狄格太阳

风暴队似乎在为一个具有高潜力的原始潜力球员建立孵化器。Rivers 始终展现出成为一名优秀球员的潜力,但在太阳队的第二个赛季中,她似乎有所退步。对于这位来自北卡罗来纳州立大学的球员来说,更换环境可能会有好处。

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42 岁的 Max Scherzer 回到投手丘

Gabe Jacques

USA TODAY

华盛顿 – 这次,当多伦多蓝鸟队的经理 John Schneider 走到投手丘从 Max Scherzer 手中接过球时,几乎没有什么争论。

这一次,当 Scherzer 离开投手丘走向休息区,而 Nationals Park 现场 27,688 名观众虽少但热情地起立鼓掌时,Scherzer 似乎并没有显得懒散地溜进休息区。

诚然,他转身疲惫地向依然在华盛顿支持他的观众们挥了挥右手。

在 7 月 27, Scherzer 通过首次回归大联盟投手丘庆祝他的 42 岁生日,这是他自 6 月 30 以来首次回归,也是本赛季仅有的第九次。由于背部问题,他最近被搁置了六周,而在他从另一次因 42 岁、真空腱炎和踝关节炎症缺席六周后回归,仅投了 1 场先发。

至于细节几乎无关紧要。简单来说,Scherzer 老了。

而且如果过去两个赛季证明了什么,那就是只要他能够在大联盟的投手丘上投球,就不应该被视为理所当然。

周一的情况对 Scherzer 以及在他 2-1-ming、75-pitch 的大联盟回归之战前后为他欢呼的观众来说都是如此。

“那是最好的部分。这就是为什么我仍然热爱它。在我回归之前,他和另外六个人共同压制了国民队在一次 3-2 的胜利中领先全联盟的进攻。”

无论你在哪个球队,身在何处,当你拿到球并能站在投手板上时,没有什么感觉比站在大联盟投手丘上与人们竞争更让我向往。

在这个夜晚,他并不完全是那个在投手丘上徘徊并在投球后自言自语的 “Mad Max”。

这场 2-3 的胜利发生在 2-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-16, 17-18, 19-20, 21-22, 23-24, 25-26, 27-28, 29-30, 31-32, 33-34, 35-36, 37-38, 39-40, 41-42, 43-44, 45-46, 47-48, 49-50, 51-52, 53-54, 55-56, 57-58, 59-60, 61-62, 63-64, 65-66, 67-68, 69-70, 71-72, 73-74, 75-76, 77-78, 79-80, 81-82, 83-84, 85-86, 87-88, 89-90, 91-92, 93-94, 95-96, 97-98, 99-100 之中。

但在这个年纪,伴随着他挥之不去的

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Max Scherzer 在第三局被换下后向 Nationals Park 的观众致意。RAFAEL SUAREK/ROBSON MAGGIE

病痛,能够回归就已经赢得了大部分战斗。

在 2025, Scherzer 似乎挖掘出了他所有的潜能以完成 17 场先发,加上季后赛的两场,尽管面临拇指状况和更多的背部问题。而那股驱动他赢得两次世界大赛冠军、3 次赛扬奖以及现在超过 3,500 次三振的魔力,似乎在美联冠军赛的 Game 4 回归了,当时他在第五局的投手丘会议中向 Schneider 吼叫,赢得了留在比赛中的权力并交付了一次关键的胜利。

当蓝鸟队在距离赢得世界大赛仅差 2 个出局数时,Scherzer 接受了超酷的安排,他以一份一年 $5 million 的合同回归,这是他职业生涯最低的薪水。然而,之后没有任何事情进展顺利:蓝鸟队深受伤病困扰,超级巨星一垒手 Vladimir Guerrero 的表现不佳,且-

在周一进入 MLB 交易截止日期前的最后一周时,战绩为 48-58,在 St-Ach 排名中位列第 17。

当 Scherzer 走上投手丘时,很难忽略他的老队友兼好友 Justin Verlander (43, 岁) 宣布在本赛季结束时退役的消息。Verlander 的身体状况使得这位赢了 266 场比赛的投手今年仅能进行一次先发,且可能不再有下一次。

在场的观众似乎意识到不应轻视周一的时刻。

当 Scherzer 在热身周走向牛棚时,左外野看台的一小部分球迷爆发了掌声,在几乎空荡荡的球场中回荡。当事情公布时,广播系统将他介绍为 “先发投手及 2030 世界大赛冠军 Max Scherzer”。

而当 Scherzer 在第一局下半场从休息区跳出时,一场 75 秒的起立鼓掌,不-

在他在进行热身时,人群中爆发出自发的欢呼声。唯一缺失的是“直到 0 & 8”,这是他长期以来在这里入场时的场景。

但舍尔泽(Scherzer)感受到了这一切,并在被换下场走向三垒休息区时,觉得必须以同样的方式回应。“这很好,很特别,”他说道,“我在华盛顿特区有很多美好的回忆。我也想向球迷们表达尊重,因为他们一直都在欢呼,甚至在我热身的时候也是如此。”

他们所看到的并不是从前的那个舍尔泽,而这也在预料之中。舍尔泽在年满 42 岁后的第一球就被 23 岁的詹姆斯·伍德(James Wood)击向中外野。伊恩·加西亚(Iain Garcia)& 随后又击出一次安打,而 CJ 亚伯拉姆斯(CJ Abrams)的保送使得垒上跑者满载。

但依然有这样的时刻:舍尔泽用一个 85-ninth champaign 让朱恩·特萨(June Tesa)挥空,完成一次三振。两次帽子戏法

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驱动交易截止日的问题

Bob Nightenegale (爱丁堡) USA TODAY

纽约州库珀斯敦 – 这种大规模的混乱现在应该已经消失了。

在明确的方向指引下,关于致电、购买或保持现状的决定应该已经与每个人最终确定。

然而,在 8 月 3 日 MLB 交易截止日之前的最后五个购物日里,我们现在的清晰度反而不如全明星赛期间。

迈阿密马林鱼队创造了球队历史上最出色的 6 月(20-6),在短短几天内输掉了创队纪录的 12 场比赛,在 7 月 27, 对阵费城费城人队时上演了戏剧性的反击,并且目前在国家联盟外卡竞争中处于稳固地位。

波士顿红袜队在一个月前还拥有美国联盟最糟糕的记录(32-46),现在则以 55-50, 的战绩稳步前行,并可能成为通过美联 4 分区进入世界系列赛的球队。

南马林鱼队看起来正处于起飞状态并即将将所有人抛在身后(在美联西区),突然之间,他们却在观看一场失败噩梦的重播,这可能会成为队史中最令人恼火的赛季。

还有底特律老虎队,他们在过去的一年里一直让所有人处于等待状态,而现在终于得拿起电话面对现实。

有 24 支球队要么排名第一,要么距离外卡席位仅差五场比赛。

甚至像辛辛那提红人队和多伦多蓝鸟队这样拥有完整选择权去致电的球队,也意识到他们距离重新燃起信心仅差一次五场连胜。

这就是当有七支 34, 球队的战绩不比 500, 之上好 3 场,也不比 200, 之下差 6 场,且全部参与竞争时发生的情况。

在美联中,有些球队战绩糟糕但距离季后赛席位仅差五场比赛。

芝加哥白袜队本月战绩不佳(49-8),但他们在排名中没有失去任何地盘,并且仍然领先美联中区 2 场比赛。

请让这一切变得有意义。 当各支球队告诉彼此他们仍然不知道将怎么做,并承诺在本月给予回复时,以下是进入交易截止日最后几天最核心的九个问题。

1. 底特律老虎队会交易 Tarik Skubal 吗?

老虎队确实不想交易他,因为知道这会在球员和球迷群体中引发愤怒和挫败感,但决定实际上已经变得很明确了。老虎队刚刚连续 3 场比赛输给了中 2000 级别的球队,而他们自己则低于 100 7 场比赛,他们除了交易 Skubal 之外别无选择。

他们会尝试将这次交易宣传为对未来的铺垫,同时不放弃现在。毕竟,他们几年前在将先发投手 Jack Flaherty 甩给道奇队并获得游击手新秀 Trey Brewery 和捕手/一垒手 Thuyton Linman 时就这么做了。老虎队依然进入了季后赛,而道奇队赢得了世界系列赛。

但反过来说,这也可能产生反效果。问问密尔沃基酿酒师队就知道了,他们在 2022 年将全明星终结者 Jack Under 交易给圣地亚哥教派,以换取 Taylor Rogers、Threlund Lumet、Robert Gasser 和 Extrecy Bell。这抽干了酿酒师队更衣室的灵魂,他们再也没有-

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投手 Tarik Skubal 以及老虎队的计划是本周 MLB 交易截止日最大的看点。RICK OSENTOGS/IMAGE IMAGES VIA REUTERS CORRECT

  • 恢复,最终错过了季后赛。

决定:他们会交易他,并且可能连同 No. 2 先发 Casey Miller 一起交易,同时努力说服球迷这确实是正确之举。

2. 圣地亚哥教头队(San Diego Padres)会交易全明星终结者 Mason Miller 吗?

教头队可能今天还留着 Miller,明天就把他交易走。他们计划某天交易先发投手 Michael King 并保留 Miller,结果第二天又反悔了。没人知道棒球运营总裁 A.J. Fiedler 到底会怎么做。

教头队曾在一次交易截止日买入 Juan,然后在 1½ 年后将其甩掉,现在他们陷入了同样的困境。他们会设法留住受控期限至 2020 年的 Miller;但他的价值在于为冠军竞争者关闭比赛。这就是为什么奥克兰运动者队最初交易他,因为他们知道如果没有领先局面需要维持,他就只能在牛棚中等待。现在,教头队必须面对现实,问问自己是否是一支真正的季后赛球队。

决定:他们暂时决定保留 Miller,但会在冬季期间交易他,从而引发一场激烈的争夺战。相反,他们会交易在赛季后成为自由球员的接力投手 Adrian Morison。

3. 密尔沃基酿者队(Milwaukee Brewers)会放手一搏并拿下最大的目标 Tarik Skubal 吗?

所有者和前台非常希望完成第一项并进入更衣室。而且他们全力以赴。他们确实拥有足够的新秀球员和财务灵活性来完成此项交易。他们也意识到,除非能找到另一位顶尖先发投手与明星球员 Jack Milosewskis 搭档,否则他们根本没有机会击败道奇队并进入自 1992. 以来首个世界大赛。否则将会是同样的故事:进入季后赛,然后早早出局。那么,他们最终会走出舒适区吗?

决定:不。他们根本不相信 Skubal 能成为解决他们所有需求的魔法药水。他们仍然需要一名强力击球手。他们可能还需要另一名快速投球的救援投手。他们可能需要有人来加强阵容和/或一名稳健的 3 号先发投手。简单来说,酿者队在明知无论如何都会进入季后赛的情况下,接手 Skubal 的风险太大了。

4. 面对 2022 年的不确定性,各球队会在截止日采取不同的行动吗?

总经理们会告诉你,他们甚至没有考虑劳工停工的可能性,称这完全不在他们的控制范围内。他们现在想赢球,以后再担心未来。但他们的老板可能更倾向于保持谨慎,而不是交易新秀。如果有一天实行工资帽,拿着最低薪水年轻新秀的价值将比以往任何时候都更高。

决定:球队实际上可能会变得激进,因为老板现在告诉他们要为长期停工的可能性做准备,甚至取消整个下一赛季。如果没有赛季可打,为什么不放手一搏?毕竟你可以在不打任何比赛的情况下,连续两年成为卫冕冠军。

5. 芝加哥白袜队(Chicago White Sox)会全力以赴吗?

白袜队在两年前输掉了创纪录的 110 场比赛,上赛季输了 102 场,真的能实现反超并进入季后赛吗?

当然,白袜队可以做到。该分区太糟糕了。如果没人想要抢占先机,为什么白袜队不能?但他们迫切需要一名或两名能撑到十月的最低限度先发投手。

决定:他们必须进入季后赛,但不会,他们不会采取激进措施。他们不会交易掉两名新秀,然后发现自己陷入与 2022 年必须重新重建时相同的局面。

如果像 Reid Demers 这样拥有球队控制权的投手刚好被他们捡到,当然可以。如果其他球队对 Robbie Ray 的 $25 百万美元合同有所顾虑,他们会全力投入。但他们不会抵押未来。他们很满足于等待时机,相信这支球队将为持续的成功而构建。

6. 纽约大都会队会交易 Francisco Linder 吗?

他赚了很多钱,在他 65 年、价值 $34/million 的合同中,还有一半的期限剩余。

他正经历一个糟糕的赛季,就像他的纽约大都会队其他队友一样。

当棒球运营总裁 David Beams 在交易截止日处理他的不可触及球员时,他没有将 Linder 包含在内。

当然,他在 7 月 27 日周一晚上向全世界展示了他的天赋,击出了两支本垒打、一支三垒安打并贡献了六分。

那么为什么不现在交易他,减轻薪资负担并为未来做准备呢?

决定:大都会队最终会交易他,认为这对组织是最有利的,但现在还不是时候。球队需要对财务方案进行创意处理,而且,如果出现长时间的停摆,球队可能会犹豫是否要承担他那巨大的合同。

7. 纽约洋基队能在截止日填补所有需求吗?

纽约洋基队在美联中排名第二,战绩为 60-46,且拥有全联盟或许是最强悍的轮值阵容,但他们到处都是漏洞。

他们目前有价值 $220 million 的球星处于缺阵状态,包括伤员名单上的 Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Rattino 和 Cody Bellinger。

他们拥有全棒球界产出最差的捕手,Adam Wells 的三项指标为 160/ 267/ 277。

他们没有任何可靠的比赛后段救援投手。

而且,说实话,他们根本不知道 Judge 何时或是否能回归。

答案:洋基队没有足够的潜能球员来填补所有需求,但他们会得到一名捕手,可能还会得到另一名外野手。然而他们不会过于疯狂,因为他们知道如果 Judge 不能及时回归,这个赛季无论如何都会功亏一篑。

8. 道奇队真的会对 Tarik Skubal 采取大胆行动吗?

道奇队将在接下来的几天内进行重要的下半赛季调整,届时他们将激活两届 15-7-long 获胜者 State fund,但那是第一场获胜且由 Tero Kike Hernandez 出赛。

所以,他们其实不需要 Skubal。

他们依然能赢得 500 场比赛,在分區賽中遙遙領先,并为十月的季後賽做好充分准备。

决定:道奇队拥有如此之多极具价值的小联盟外野手,他们甚至可以在万圣节把他们当糖果发出去而依然没问题。

是的,他们不需要 Skubal,但他们会为了不让其他人得到他而采取行动。

而一旦他们得到了他,那么,他们很可能会一直留住他。

9. 费城费城人队的负责人 Dave Dombrowski 能否施展魔力并获得帮助?

费城人队一直渴望寻找一名右投手。他们最终需要一名资深的接局投手(setup man)。而且他们当然可以使用另一名先发投手,在由 Christopher Sánchez, Jack Wheeler, Jovan Lazardo 和 Aaron Noia 先发的比赛中,他们将处于候补状态。

当然,棒球运营总裁 Dave Dombrowski 从不吝于通过交易潜能球员来获取球星。他在底特律老虎队时对 Miguel Colonna 这样过。他在波士顿红袜队时对 Cheryl 也这样过。随着球星们年龄增长,他是否愿意保留潜能球员以通过致命一击来获胜?

决定:Dombrowski 将全力以赴,无论需要多少顶尖潜能球员,他都会不惜一切代价。他渴望再次获得重返世界大赛的机会。

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随后,他对 24 岁的 Dylan Cross 采取了同样的操作,在 Crews 遭受了 Scherzer 曾经占据主导地位的滑球攻击后不久,他在三垒区附近投出了一记糟糕的球,击中了 Wood。

最后,Scherzer 让 Daylon Life 击出了一记软弱的内野飞球至一垒。快球时代结束了。没有造成伤害。

而且这种情况持续了近三局。Scherzer 旧有的绝招——他那 96 mph 的速球和极具杀伤力的滑球——如今已变成了经过认证的过时版本,取而代之的是对球感的掌控。Scherzer 在投出的 12 次变速球中获得了四次击球。

他还投出了一记会让职业生涯 160 次的 Zack, Deirdre 感到羞愧的曲球,那是一个 75 mph 的彩虹球,证明了

它极其有效。变速球和变化球虽然减少,但并未造成伤害。Scherzer 用 50 个球完成了两局投球,在 Garcia 击出的一记反弹墙外的 $8 二垒安打中失分,但尽管被击出四次安打并有 3 次保送,他依然坚持了下来。

他当晚的第 75 个也是最后一个球出现在三局下半的一出局时,那是投给 Life 的一个 73 mph 的球,Life 在三垒有跑者的压力下,在经历了一场 12 球的对决后挥空了球。

“只要继续执行。继续执行。在战斗中停下来,”Scherzer 说道,他回想起 2009 年世界系列赛期间 Nationale 经理 Dave Martinez 普及的格言。“意识到他想做什么,下一球是什么,我们需要用什么球去挑战他。最终这变成了一个 3-2 的曲球,而我成功执行了。”

随后 Schroeder 走上场,满意于 Scherzer 为他提供了 8 个出局数(其中 4 个是通过三振实现的),并为

蓝鸟队在九场比赛中取得的第三次胜利铺平了道路。这一次,对话显得更加亲切。

“对于他的首次回归登板,三局投了这么多球,”Schroeder 说。“我们认识他足够久,能很好地感觉到他的状态。”

“他说:‘你老了!’我说:‘刚才那球确实有点勉强。’他说:‘没错,你老了!’我说:‘好吧,那是你的工作。’”

更重要的是,Scherzer 表示他在登板结束后感觉良好,他与 Schroeder 都表示他将按计划进行下一次登板,周日在 Rogers Centre 对阵圣路易斯。一天之后,一个不确定的未来将开启。

由于蓝鸟队几乎失去了季后赛竞争力,拥有完全不交易条款的 Scherzer 可能没有足够的空间去说服一支争冠球队,证明他能提供像他在多伦多、德克萨斯、洛杉矶、华盛顿和底特律那样在十月带来的魔力。

“听着,我们的战绩就是战绩。目前的处境让我们感到沮丧,”Scherzer 说。“你会被周围发生的一切干扰所困扰。但那不是打大联盟棒球的方式。”

至于 2027 年?

几乎没有迹象表明 Scherzer 准备彻底挂起球衣。他提到自己幸运地处于比 Swindler 稍微好一点的身体状态,而后者最终遇到了无法避开的各种伤病。

周一,Scherzer 的妻子 Erica、他们的孩子和许多家人都在场。这是一个需要庆祝的生日,也许是对一份勉力维持的职业生涯的宽慰,在寻找下一个最有效的球种来持续获得出局数。

“我想这太特别了,”Scherzer 说,“如果不参与——在我的生日投球,在这里投球。”

只要他的身体允许,他将继续投球。


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《Brand New Day》清空了蜘蛛侠宇宙

我们询问蜘蛛侠编辑 Nick Lowe,这对 MJ 和 Peter 意味着什么。第 2D 页

Carrie 在高中恐怖故事中开辟了一条不同的道路

Summer H. Howell 在接演这个角色之前并不了解 Stephen King 的故事。第 4D 页

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THEY SAID WHAT?

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“祝我们最爱的男人生日快乐。我们的第一名。那个无所不能的动作男星。撑起一切。让我们欢笑。守护我们的安全。我们每天的灵感来源,” 博伊塞·亨廷顿-怀特利(Boise Huntington-Whitely)在 7 月 28 日庆祝杰森·斯坦森(Jason Statham) 59 岁生日时这样评价他。杰森是她的长期伴侣,也是她两个孩子的父亲。这位模特与该演员交往近二十年,并于 2016 年与其订婚,她在 Instagram 上分享了一系列她与丈夫以及年幼的孩子杰克(Jack)和伊莎贝拉(Isabella)在游艇上休息的照片。“我们全心全意地爱你们。永远永远,”这位 30 岁的模特补充道。

IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY

谁在今天庆祝生日

Lee 演员迈克·斯塔尔(Mike Starr) 78 岁。纪录片导演肯·伯恩斯(Ken Burns) 73 岁。电视名人蒂姆·冈(Tim Gunn) 73 岁。主唱 Gaddy Lee (Rush) 73 岁。歌手帕蒂·西科拉(Patti Sciolla,E Street Band 成员) 73 岁。演员迪安·哈格伦德(Dean Haglund) 81 岁。歌手马蒂娜·麦克布莱德(Martina McBride) 80 岁。演员阿利亚·埃斯瓦塔基(Alia Eswataki) 84 岁。演员比尔·惠顿(Bill Wheaton) 84 岁。演员斯蒂芬·多夫(Stephen Dorff) 53 岁。歌手万亚·莫里斯(Wanya Morris,Boyz's Men 成员) 63 岁。演员乔什·鲁克(Josh Rucker) 52 岁。音乐人危险鼠(Danger Mouse) 49 岁。歌手-sputator 艾希莉·麦克布莱德(Ashley McBride) 43 岁。演员凯特·费尔班克斯(Cait Fairbanks) 33 岁。 — 美国今日(USA TODAY)网络

HOROSCOPE | SANCTUARY

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白羊座 (3 月 21-4 月 19)。你将心血倾注于某件事中。现在是让他人看到它的时机了吗?

金牛座 (4 月 20-5 月 20)。你的私生活和公众生活是否都达到了情感的高潮?在今天的水瓶座满月期间庆祝你的成长。

双子座 (5 月 21-6 月 21)。准备迎接一个豁然开朗的时刻!在今天的水瓶座满月下,你终于看到了全局。

巨蟹座 (6 月 22-7 月 22)。关于信任、价值和交换的问题在今天达到顶峰。你是否在关注什么以及谁在真正支持你?

Lee (7 月 23-8 月 22)。准备好迎接一段关系的启示!以成长为导向的水瓶座满月凸显了你与他人未来的立场。

处女座 (8 月 23-9 月 22)。一个健康常规的工作项目可能即将完成。是否觉得现在是前进的正确时机?

天秤座 (9 月 23-10 月 23)。创意和个人故事达到了转折点!在水瓶座满月期间,为你的热爱腾出空间。

天蝎座 (10 月 24-11 月 21)。你的职业世界准备扩张。什么必须结束,你才能迎接即将到来的新可能性?

射手座 (11 月 22-12 月 21)。一场对话在今天可能起到催化作用。一种全新的理解是否在重塑你的世界观?

摩羯座 (12 月 22-1 月 19)。在今天的水瓶座满月期间,个人和共享资源需要关注。

水瓶座 (1 月 20-2 月 18)。意识到自己成长了多少吗?在水瓶座满月下,个人启示让人感到自由。

双鱼座 (2 月 19-3 月 20)。一个章节准备关闭!你准备释放哪些不再合适的东西?

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雷·克里斯蒂安(Ray Christian)在 2022 年的“火人节”(Burning Man)沙漠尘埃中休息。由 RANNISH BROS. DISCOVERY 提供。

黑人参与者席卷沙漠

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当 Ray Christian 将 Burning Man(火人节)加入他的遗愿清单时,他的家人和朋友并不相信他,尤其是因为他的妻子 Tiffany Christian 已经否决了他的其他计划,比如西班牙的奔牛节。Tiffany 在 HBO Max 的新纪录片剧集《The Man Will Burn》(现正播出)中说道:“我做了一些研究,发现如果你在奔牛时死亡,人寿保险是不赔付的。”

于是 Christian 寻找下一个大胆的冒险之行。Burning Man。对于这位来自北卡罗来纳州农村的海湾战争退伍军人来说,Burning Man 不仅仅是为了奇观,更是关于领导力——无论挑战多么艰巨。

“我知道这会很困难,”65 岁的 Christian 告诉 USA TODAY。“物理环境、人,那么多人,而且有这么多白人在那里享乐。那绝对不是我典型的环境,一点也不是。”

Christian 说,由于他居住的地方,他已经习惯了孤立。他的家庭经常是许多邻居唯一认识的黑人家庭。在与创伤后应激障碍共存的情况下,他决定前往黑石沙漠(Black Rock Desert)面对自己的心魔。

什么是 Burning Man?

每年,数以万计的人前往内华达州的黑石沙漠,建立一座致力于艺术、激进的自我表达和社区的临时城市。在《The Man Will Burn》中,导演 Jehane Noujaim 和 Vikram Gandhi 跟随了一群成分复杂的参与者(Burners),从科技亿万富翁到工人阶级,他们在内华达州里诺市(Reno)以北 100 英里的这座城市中寻求精神上——通常也是字面意义上——的亢奋。

这部四集的纪录片剧集(第三部分于 7 月 23 日发布)探讨了参与者之间的阶级分化,以及“不留痕迹”的环境伦理和公社生活方式如何试图消除文化和社会经济差异。

根据黑石城(Black Rock City)的人口普查,2025 年,8.4% 的 Burning Man 参与者认同自己为黑人。尽管这一数字在过去十年中稳步增长,但白人参与者占总人数的 74.7%。黑人参与者将低比例归因于黑人群体中意识的缺乏和恐惧。

已故的创始人 Larry Harvey,

见第 2D 页 BURN

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由 Erin Douglas 在 2017 年创建的 Black Burner Project,在 2022 年的 Burning Man 上竖立了两幅 20 英尺高的黑人肖像。照片由 ERIN DOUGLAS/BRANNING 提供

流媒体

三角恋让“峡谷”生活变得复杂

Bryan Alexander

USA TODAY

警告:本故事包含对目前在 Netflix 上播出的《Ransom Canyon》第二季的剧透。

Netflix 的现代西部浪漫剧《Ransom Canyon》将其 2025 年第一季围绕着 Quinn O'Gandy (Minka Kelly) 和 Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel) 之间缓慢萌芽的爱情展开。

第二季(现正播出)将 Ransom Canyon 的第一对情侣 Quinn 和 Staten 扩展成了 Quinn-Staten-Oliver。

没错,53 岁的 Duhamel 和 46 岁的 Kelly 现在成为了中心剧情三角恋的一部分,因为 Quinn 的英国男友 Oliver (Ben Robson) 浪漫地来到了这座虚构的德克萨斯小镇。

“讽刺的是,Oliver 所说和所做的一切,正是”

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Quinn (Minka Kelly) 和 Oliver (Ben Robson) 关系亲近。由 NETFLIX 提供

“Quinn 希望 Staten 能说出并做到的所有事情,”Kelly 在与 Duhamel 的共同采访中告诉 USA TODAY。“Oliver 是她一直以来想要的一切,但他在某种程度上是错误的人。”

第一季末 Staten 和 Quinn 发生了什么?

第一季以 Quinn 离开 Staten 和 Ransom Canyon 前往纽约市,在纽约爱乐乐团演奏钢琴而与 Oliver 相遇而告终。

“在第一季末,Quinn 对 Staten 感到很沮丧,就像是忍无可忍了,然后她遇到了这个新男人,”Kelly 说道。“人们很容易将这段新故事浪漫化。”

在 Quinn 离开期间,Staten 在忽略他在纽约市的恋人的同时,也经历了几段短暂的浪漫关系。

“Staten 变成了 Ransom 最新的自行车;每个人都想骑一次,”Duhamel 说道。“而且他没有去尝试。他没有去找 Quinn。他对

参见 CANYON,第 2D 页


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LIFE

MOVIES

《崭新的日子》展现对蛛网侠的喜爱

Brian Traitt

USA TODAY

在蜘蛛侠的神话中,彼得·帕克(Peter Parker)和 MJ 之间确实有着某种特别的东西。

自 1940 年代的漫画书以及 2010 年代的“每部马奎尔电影”以来,“MJ”指的是玛丽·简·沃马克(Mary Jane Womack),可以说她是这位青少年蛛网侠最伟大的爱人。在最近的汤姆·霍兰德(Tom Holland)蜘蛛侠系列电影中,这两个首字母是米歇尔·琼斯(Michelle Jones)的昵称,而且就像这位青少年英雄的所有停战协议一样,情况有点复杂。

《蜘蛛侠:崭新的日子》(Spider-Man: Brand New Day)(7月 31 日上映)讲述了彼得在做了一个艰难决定后的故事。为了拯救世界,他需要从所有人的记忆中被抹去,包括他的女友 MJ(Zondaya)和最好的朋友内德·刘易斯(Ned Lewis,由 Jacob Reuben 饰演)。这部新电影讲述了彼得在心理上如何面对与他们的再次相遇,尤其是与 MJ,尽管一个新的敌人也出现了,旨在塑造他作为蜘蛛侠的形象。

潜入蛛网侠成为历史的进程,他经历过不同的情感剧。无论新老漫威粉丝现在都可以在 USA TODAY PLAY 上挖掘相关议题并亲眼见证,从 20 世纪 60 年代的旧版《神奇蜘蛛侠》漫画到面向新观众的《今日蜘蛛侠》系列。多年来,曾有同学利兹·艾伦(Liz Allan)、每日星球报(wonder Betty Hunt),以及早期的恋爱对象、因绿金(Green Golds)之手而死而闻名的格温·斯黛西(Gwen Stacy),后者在后来成为了一个标志性的超级英雄,即幽灵蜘蛛(Ghost-Spider)。然后是 Ma-

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在《蜘蛛侠:崭新的日子》中,彼得·帕克(汤姆·霍兰德 饰)试图在一个不记得他的世界中寻找意义。

图片提供:JOHN THEODORE

丽·简,在漫威传说的多次迭代中,她一直是彼得的妻子和知己。

那么,MJ 和彼得是永恒的吗?蜘蛛侠编辑尼克·洛(Nick Lowe)说这是一个“大问题”,他不能完全认同这个想法,因为他说“那样会背叛蜘蛛侠作为角色的肥皂剧般的精彩之处”。

不过,洛非常欣赏电影中的处理方式。谈到这对现实生活中的情侣时,他说:“汤姆·霍兰德和 Zondaya,你可以轻易相信他们相爱,对吧?随着上一部电影的结尾,随着记忆抹除,他们将怎么做?在漫威的走廊里,我以是最支持浪漫主义的人之一。我热爱漫画中的接吻,越多越好,所以我很喜欢他们在电影中也采用了这一点。”

洛补充道,所有的蜘蛛侠电影都有“它们自己独特的风味,自己独特的海葵”。但他觉得《崭新的日子》“可能会最深入地挖掘漫画”,从直接信息到特定的封面和谜题,以及新电影中出现的一大批来自蜘蛛侠反派画廊的敌人,包括 Booopies、Tarantula 和 Tombstone,后者是洛一直以来最喜欢的面具角色之一。

当谈到挑选最好的电影版蛛网侠时,我听说洛陷入了困境。“他们每个人我都有喜爱的地方,”他说。“托比·马奎尔(Truly Maguire),他的准备状态太棒了,他的 lumpy 令人难以置信。安德鲁·加菲尔德(Andrew Garfield),多么出色的演员——高挑,瘦削,比托比酷一点,但非常有心。然后你看到了汤姆·霍兰德,他基本上就是蜘蛛侠,到处跳跃、飞跃。他看起来更年轻一些,而那里的心就像硝基己烷一样强烈。”

“我有三个孩子——同样地,我没法选出最喜欢的一个。”

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火人节(Burning Man)曾对围绕包容性的抵制做出回应,并在 2019 年告诉《卫报》:“我不认为黑人像白人那样喜欢露营。”他补充说,解决“种族纯洁性问题”不是组织的责任。

因此,其他组织跳过了火人节。以共识性暴力的格斗笼著称的雷石死亡公会(Thunderstone Death Guild)选择在 2021 年不参加火人节,根据该组织的声明,是因为那里“缺乏多样性”。

黑人参与者在火人节面临的挑战

火人节在黑岩沙漠(Black Rock Desert)举行,这是一个由白垩质碱性灰尘组成的干涸湖床。随着参与者们乘坐艺术车抵达,劳作与生活在其中展开,增加的交通量可能会引发漫天尘暴。

当 Christian 在 2022 年抵达火人节时,他通过在灰尘中打滚来感受这次体验,这是该纪录片的一大特色。在沙漠的第一天,他出现了服役于海湾战争时的闪回。

“结果就是,那种声音,那种感觉,那热度,灰尘移动的方式,金属碰撞的声音以及它们在大开阔空间里的回响,”Christian 说。“这让我想起了战争部署时的场景和那些声音。”

参与者还面临着强风和极端气温。2023 年,两次袭击让部分区域陷入黑色泥潭,导致包括 Christian 在内的许多“燃烧者”(Burners)被困在沙漠中。

“高温和灰尘能把你击垮,”Christian 说。“这不像是在节日结束后,你可以回到空调房洗个澡,喘口气,吹吹空调,然后再出去。”

Christian 还与一些白人女性发生了令人不快的一面,他说这让他想起了在南方长大时的经历。在不止一次的情况下,Christian 回忆起一名女性询问他:“你在看我们吗?”或者“你是不是站得太近了?”

“像傲慢的(行为),就像你在盯着她们或挑衅她们,”Christian 在提到这些微小互动时说道。“这是我数十年没遇到过的事情。”

摄影师兼 Black Burner Project 创始人 Elon Douglas 在提高黑人群体意识方面也面临着最初的障碍。当她在 2017 年发布首个火人节的照片时,她收到大量黑人的电子邮件和私信,称“我不知道那里有黑人”以及“我不知道我是否被允许参加”。次年,43 岁的 Douglas 决定记录火人节的体验,将其命名为 Black Burner Project。

作为一名经常参与的人,她学会了在快餐包中携带醋,以及护目镜、面罩和卫生纸。沙漠的碱性灰尘会割伤她的皮肤,因此她使用醋水喷雾来保持皮肤滋润并舒缓刺激。

“这是我内心的一种感受,我们很多人可能都带有这种感觉,因为从历史上看,这意味着被忽视或被排斥,”Douglas 告诉《今日美国》(USA TODAY)。“所以这对我也产生了巨大的影响。”

打造更具包容性的体验

尽管其他黑人参与者向 Douglas 讲述了他们在活动中经历的微侵犯和观念,但她说,大多数人的体验是积极的。

Douglas 为需要经济支持的参与者提供了 5 张门票,并与 Burning Man 合作,使有色人种更容易获得门票。票价范围从 $550 到 $1,000。她还策划了大型艺术作品,例如 2022 年两幅 30 英尺高的黑人肖像,以及 2024 年的一个模型 burberding,其中包含肯定性的观念和为男性设立的分享圈(holding circles)。

“我仍然在‘七天内’获得‘艺术’博士学位,”Douglas 说。“你能够以一种大多数机会无法提供的方式与自我接触,同时得到一个社区的支持和认可,特别是对于黑人来说。”

Doujans 的家具在收到朋友 Andrew Calderon 的邀请后,于 2023 年在沙漠城市展出。Black Flame Collective 的联合创始人 Carathers 最近失去了弟弟,他前往 Burning Man 以接触自己的情感之妻。

“我喜欢把这里比作精神上的自助洗衣店,你明白我的意思吗?”Calderon 说。“你洗掉想要洗掉的东西,晾干,然后重新折叠好自己,焕然一新。”

作为 Black Flame Collective 的联合创始人,Calderon 希望创造一个代表性的灯塔。他将参与人数低归因于内华达州北部的偏僻位置以及黑人群体缺乏相关认知,但他认为人数正在增长。

“我认为最终是对‘这里安全吗?包容吗?会好玩吗?’的恐惧,”Calderon 说。“因为这里看起来像是一个只属于白人的空间。那我为什么要去那里?”

对于自 2016 年起一直参加 Burning Man 的 Calderon 来说,所有关于药物、性与派对的刻板印象都是真实的——但他反驳说,这是一次转变的体验。

他回忆起两个充满情感的时刻:一是哀悼父亲的离世,另一些则是以社区为中心的时刻。

“所有人,尤其是黑人,没有太多可以展现脆弱的空间,”Calderon 说。

“我们经常带着面具出现。我们要谈论工作地点、想去的大学、开什么样的车。我们担心自己的形象。但在那里,每个人都满身灰尘,这一切都无关紧要。真正重要的是:‘你是谁?’”

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在《Ransom Canyon》中,Staten (Jacob Duhamel) 和 Quinn (Minka Kelly) 有很多话要谈。由 JEFF NOVIKARANNETTILR 提供

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她,但他没有沟通。所以无论他将面对什么,他都咎由自取。

Oliver 出现在 Ransom Canyon 并求婚

正当 Staten 鼓起勇气准备敞开心扉并向 Quinn 表达爱意时,在第 2 季的欢迎回家派对后,Oliver 戏剧性地出现,并在凉亭的仙女灯下求婚。Quinn 推迟了求婚,但表示在新的环境下看到了 Oliver,从而形成了三角恋。

Oliver 是现代言情小说中的完美形象——英俊且留着不羁的发型。即使在求婚被拒后,他依然充满理解心,耐心且浪漫,并能断言英国版的《Love Island》优于美国版。

“再加上英国口音,就很有戏了。这能产生‘喂养和利用’的效果,”Kelly 说。“但当她回到家时,她意识到,尽管那边很漂亮,但外面的草并不总是更绿。”

Kelly 向她的音乐家丈夫学习电视钢琴

鉴于镇上所有的音乐才华,擅长钢琴的 Quinn 决定发起一个 Ransom Canyon 音乐节。在现实生活中,Kelly 认真对待她银幕上的钢琴演奏技巧,接受了她的伴侣——Imagine Dragons 主唱 Dan Reynolds 以及当地一名钢琴老师的指导。

“我不知道如何识谱,但我通过数百万次的反复练习学会了演奏,直到我的双手能自动完成,”Kelly 说道。“家里有个古典钢琴家对学习非常有帮助。这是我的秘密代码。能和我的老师住在一起就像在作弊一样。”

“这能唤起你周围的记忆,”Duhamel 补充道。

Staten 存在父亲认同问题,而 Duhamel 了解牧场工作

在第 2 季中,Quinn 必须应对

她母亲(Patricia Chickson)的到来,后者试图出售备受喜爱的家族住宅。Staten 与自己的父亲——前 Ben,Sam Kirkland (Brett Cullen) 发生冲突,后者控制了家族牧场,延续了固执的父子之间终身的世仇。

当 Staten 开始详细描述关于燃烧设备和拖拉机附件的内容时,Duhamel 知道自己在说什么。毕竟,这位“Law Vegas”明星与妻子 Annika Miri 住在明尼苏达州北部的一个农场里,并采用了亲力亲为的乡村生活方式。

“我在明尼苏达州的住处就有那些设备,我经常在处理我的附件,无论是‘Life graphic’、预算还是桶,”Duhamel 说。“这有助于我理解这个家伙每天在做什么样的工作。”

“Ransom Canyon”的三角恋会持续多久?

你只需要去 IMDb 就能看到,Oliver 仅在 10 集中的 8 集出现。这段时间已经足够长了。但不可否认,随着这对情侣正式确立关系,Quinn 和 Staten 在“Ransom Canyon”中注定属于彼此。

“这会持续应有的时长,但当 Staten 和 Quinn 最终走到一起时,他们实际上是凭努力赢得的,”Kelly 说。“当你与某人产生终生的联结,真的就像心之所在即是家。而 Staten 就是她的家。”

第 2 季的结束标志着“Ransom Canyon”中 Sam-and-Diane 悬念爱情线的终结。

“‘他们会还是不会’的戏码只能演一段时间,”Duhamel 说。“我们都可以陷入爱河、欲望或为某人付出。但我发现有趣的是,这两个人面对日常家庭琐事时的样子。我喜欢那样。”

粉丝们有望在第 3 季中期待完整的情侣时刻。也许甚至会有小宝宝的出现——或者至少会有相关讨论。

“我个人很想看到这对情侣有个孩子,”Duhamel 说。“我的意思是,这是可能的。”

“这是一个令人兴奋的想法,”Kelly 说。“或者也许是男人想要孩子,而 Quinn 不想要。那会是什么样子?”


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圣迭戈动漫展

新版《克莉》走出了自己的舞会之路

Brendan Morrow USA TODAY

圣迭戈 – Summer H. Howell 可能没有像 Carrie White 那样的超能力,但在她被选为这个史蒂芬·金笔下的标志性角色之前,她产生了一种预感。

对于这位 22 岁的演员来说,在基于金的经典小说改编的新版《克莉》(Carrie)电视剧集中获得这个备受瞩目的角色是一段漫长的旅程。主创 Mike Flanagan(《山屋恐怖》)指出,共有 1,000 多名女演员在考虑之列。但在圣迭戈动漫展期间与 USA TODAY 对话时,Howell 坐在 Flanagan 身边,回忆起在试镜过程中,她开始感觉到好消息即将到来的一刻。

“我记得在提交了另一段试演带子的一周后,”她说,“我觉得‘会有事情发生’。我开始产生一种既视感。我开始告诉家人和朋友,比如‘我不知道,我觉得他们想跟我谈谈’。”

Howell 猜对了。在一次长达一小时的电话中,她需要演完四个场景,随后成功拿下了这个角色。在进行一段情感独白之前,她“躺在房间的地板上,不断对自己进行积极暗示,告诉自己为什么我值得拥有这个机会,我已经走了这么远,这是命中注定属于我的”。不过,时间恰巧有些尴尬,Flanagan 在愚人节那天告诉她拿到了这个角色。

“我完全不知道那是哪一天,也不知道那是几月,”他打趣道。

《克莉》是一部即将于 Prime Video 上线、共 8 集的流媒体剧集,改编自金 1974 年关于一名拥有心灵感应能力且遭受欺凌的高中女生的小说。多年来,该作已有多次改编,包括 1976 年由 Bony Spacek 主演的具有开创意义的电影。鉴于此,许多粉丝对是否还需要另一个《克莉》版本持怀疑态度,Flanagan 最初也有同样的感觉。但在意识到他可以创造一些全新的东西,而不仅仅是再次改编这本书之后,他改变了主意。

“改编有两种方式。一种是你尽力保护原著素材,

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将其搬上荧幕;另一种则是将其完全拆解,并用其碎片构建出全新的东西,这就是决定这样做的原因,”他说道。

“试图回去做那种已经被做过、而且做得如此讽刺且精彩的改编,绝对没有任何意义。我们唯一能做的就是尝试创造一些新东西。”

“我们的 Carrie 版本非常不同”

事实上,Flanagan 选中 Howell 正是因为“我们的 Carrie 版本与之前的任何一个都非常不同”。

“我们寻找的 Carrie,以及 Summer 能够体现出的那个 Carrie,是充满好奇心、真挚、坦率,且拥有一种脆弱感,但同时也蕴含着深层的力量,”他解释道,并将此与粉丝在早期版本中看到的那个“因创伤而抽搐的球”进行了对比。

这并不是说她为了与 Spacek 区分开来而做出了自觉的选择。Howell 从 6 岁起就开始演戏,此前在《恰奇》(Chucky)系列中饰演 Alice Pierce,在这部剧出现之前她甚至不知道《Carrie》,直到拍摄结束之后她才看了 Spacek 的那部电影。

Flanagan 在过程中与 Spacek 进行了“几次”交流,并表示这位影星对他准备采取的方案“非常好奇”。“看着这种心态从一种保护性的好奇转变为热情,真的很有意思,”他说。

Howell 还没有见过 Spacek,但收到了这位 1976 年电影主演发来的“短信鼓励”。

粉丝们应该预料到,《Carrie》在许多其他方面也将与他们熟悉的那个故事有所不同。Flanagan 表示,其中之一是,“早期的最大惊喜之一”将是它对 Carrie 与其虐待母亲 Margaret(由 Samantha Moyer 饰演)之间关系更细腻的刻画。

“Margaret 和 Carrie 之间的动态关系是不同的,”Howell 说。“它是基于爱的。Margaret 只是担心她的女儿正步入一个她自己也不太了解的世界。我们两人都被隔绝了很长时间,且彼此相爱。只是环境开始将我们撕裂。”

标志性的《キャリー》(Carrie) 舞会场景将被翻拍

但书中的核心主题依然存在,而且 Flanagan 认为这些主题在 2026 年比以往任何时候都更具现实意义。

“当我构思这部剧时,脑海中出现的第一个画面之一就是 Carrie White 走过金属探测器,参加一次活跃射击者演习,”他说。“在 Stephen King 的心中,舞会上的事件是一次令人震惊的高中暴力爆发。而我们现在生活在一个高中暴力变得更加露骨且完全常态化的世界里,尤其是在美国。”

如果没有某种版本的那个标志性舞会场景,就称不上是《キャリー》,在传统故事中,Carrie 在一个残酷的恶作剧中被猪血淋漓。Flanagan 表示,关于那部分,“我们要去参加舞会”,但它将与粉丝预期的“截然不同”。

“我希望人们以为他们知道舞会上发生了什么,结果却发现他们错了,”他说。“那是 [Stephen King] 感到兴奋的一点。我们已经看过他写的舞会序列的美好版本了。我们能做些什么来真正让人们感到惊讶?我们能做些什么来真正让自己感到惊讶?我们能做些什么来让这些角色感到惊讶?”

“因此,将一个熟悉的东西赋予完全不同的解读,是我职业生涯中的一大乐趣。”

Howell 无法在不剧透的情况下详细说明新的舞会序列与经典版本的对比,不过她俏皮地确认了“有血”。

她记得在每天拍摄前,她都感觉“非常黏”,身上被涂满了血。

“我会戴着护目镜站在帐篷里,以免血进入眼睛。样子看起来很滑稽,”她说。“我看起来像个 Maison。”

《キャリー》全部 8 集将于 10 月 7 日在 Prime Video 首次播出。

用这本书庆祝纽约尼克斯队的 冠军之光 这款精装收藏书 GARDEN GLORY 首发特惠 $25.95 原价 $39.95 另加税费和运费——优惠于 2026 年 7 月 29 日截止 | 预计 2026 年 8 月 29 日发货 尼克斯队自 1973 年以来就没赢得过 NBA 冠军。53 年的心碎——从 ’94 年 Ewing 几乎触及冠军的时刻,到 ’99 年在总决赛中折戟——考验着每一位曾挤满麦迪逊广场花园的球迷。 等待终于结束了! Jalen Brunson 及其队友在 2026 年季后赛中横扫千军,凭借连续 13 场胜利挺进 NBA 总决赛,其中包括击败老鹰队、横扫 76 人队和骑士队,并对马刺队建立了 2-0 的领先优势。随后,尼克斯队击败了 Victor Wemtsanyama 和圣安东尼奥队,捧起了拉里·奥布莱恩冠军奖杯。 《Garden Glory: The New York Knicks and the NBA Championship Five Decades in the Making》是一本 150 页的精装书,涵盖了整个赛季,从 53 胜的常规赛到与圣安东尼奥的总决赛对决。这里有照片、故事以及让这一切成为现实的瞬间。 由 USA TODAY Sports 出版。采用优质哑光纸印刷。立即预订您的副本。 在线首发 NY.ChampsBook.com


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Aurora 和她 6 岁的女儿被移民与海关执法局拘留,并被送往德克萨斯州的一家家庭拘留中心。她的女儿在与她团聚之前,在一个儿童移民收容所度过了半年多时间。CARLOS SIMPSON/REUTERS

“我做的就是工作”

在美国机构提供线索后,数千名儿童及其担保人被 ICE 逮捕

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Aurora 6 岁的女儿独自抵达美国边境,在儿童移民收容所度过了半年多时间,而已经在该国境内工作的母亲则在努力将她接出。

两人终于在 3 月下旬团聚。“我们欣喜若狂,” 24 岁的 Aurora 说道,她与本文中提到的其他人一样,要求仅以名字标识。

然而,记录显示,几天后,这对母女被移民与海关执法局(ICE)拘留,并被送往德克萨斯州的一个家庭拘留中心。

根据路透社独家审阅的政府内部数据,在唐纳德·特朗普总统的第二任期内,根据难民安置办公室(Office of Refugee Resettlement)提供的线索,美国移民当局已逮捕了 12,000 多人。

OMB 成立于 1980 年,旨在安置逃离战争和迫害的难民。自 2000 年代初以来,该机构还负责安置抵达美墨边境的无人陪伴移民儿童,例如 Aurora 的女儿。

这些儿童的护理在历史上一直与移民执法隔离。2008 年的一项法律试图确保他们被安置在限制最少的环境中,并在尽可能安全的情况下尽快脱离拘留,无论其担保人的法律地位如何。

这意味着移民家庭可以团聚,而无需担心成为 ICE 的目标,即使他们是非法入境的。

见 ICE,第 4NN 页

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7 月 27. 日,儿童在加沙城的废墟中玩耍。加沙仍被每日的暴力笼罩,尽管 10. 起生效的停火协议在执行,但以色列的袭击仍在继续。SHANK AL-QAIF TAAJ 'AFF' VIA GETTY IMAGES

以色列的黄线:不断移动的战争边缘,将加沙人赶出家园

Nidal al-Mughrabi 和 Ebrahim Hajjaj 路透社

在加沙城 Zottoun 区的一条路上,巴勒斯坦居民 Assem Dawla 将床垫和袋子搬上一辆卡车,附近废墟中立着标记以色列不断扩大的军事区边界的黄色混凝土块。

他表示,自从战争开始以来,这是他及其家人因为以色列的撤离命令以及居民所谓的“黄线”推进而被迫离开避难所的第七或第八次。

Zottoun 是加沙地带至少五个地点之一,当地居民和哈马斯官员称,以色列在最近几天通过向前推进黄线,扩大了其控制区域。这条军事分界线是在 10 月达成的一项由美国斡旋的停火协议下设立的。

当人们将财物搬上等待的卡车时,年迈的亲属在碎片中艰难前行。Dawla 说,持续的以色列军事活动使得留在那里过于危险。

“我们正把东西搬出去”

见 GAZA,第 6NN 页

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探讨阿曼管理霍尔木兹海峡的计划

路透社 (REUTERS)

阿曼提交了一项关于霍尔木兹海峡区域管理的提案,主张自由通行且过境费仅限自愿缴纳,而非德黑兰所愿的维持对该水道的控制并对其使用收费。

对该海峡的控制权一直是解决美伊战争努力中的主要分歧点。该海峡是连接波斯湾与印度洋的狭窄水道,约五分之一的全球石油供应及其他重要物资由此通过。

一名消息人士和一名西方外交官告诉路透社,该提案是在上周末于德黑兰举行的会谈期间提交给伊朗的。

该提案建议建立一个联合区域机制来管理海峡,通过自愿缴纳的费用来帮助资助管理、航行、环境保护、搜救及其他服务的成本。

阿曼的计划基于现有的马六甲海峡安排(该海峡将印度洋与太平洋连接,涉及印度尼西亚、马来西亚和新加坡),船舶为所获服务支付自愿捐款。

为什么阿曼提出了一个新计划?

在 28 Feb. 战争爆发后,伊朗立即关闭了运行在伊朗和阿曼海岸线之间的海峡,此前美国和以色列确认杀死了最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊 (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei)。

随着冲突的持续,伊朗主张其所谓的管理该海峡并与阿曼共同收取不具名服务费的“主权权利”。

伊朗和美国在 6 月达成的一项临时停火协议中,明确赋予了阿曼在确定海峡管理方面发挥作用。

该协议称,伊朗将与阿曼展开对话,在与其他海湾国家讨论且符合国际法的情况下,界定海峡未来的管理和海事服务。

然而,尽管阿曼就此问题与伊朗进行了对话,但其唯一的公开干预是在 6 月发布的指南,告知通过其水域过境海峡的船舶无需缴纳费用。

伊朗想要什么?

伊朗希望战争中任何永久性的和平协议都能允许德黑兰对通过海峡的船舶收费。

它尚未具体说明收费结构如何运作,但一名伊朗官员在 6 月临时协议之前告诉路透社,收费将取决于包括船只类型和尺寸、货物及其他未说明条件在内的因素。

在停火期间,伊朗将船舶尝试沿阿曼海岸线过境海峡的行为视为违反停战条款,并向其开火。

伊朗表示,所有通过海峡的船只必须与它为管理过境而成立的新波斯湾海峡管理局联系。

伊朗高级官员表示,巩固对海峡的控制现在是德黑兰处理冲突过程中最重要的目标。

特朗普怎么说?

在 7 月停火协议崩溃后,总统唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 表示,华盛顿将对使用霍尔木兹海峡收费,金额为所有运输货物价值的 20%。

这一在社交媒体帖子中发表的声明,似乎与其此前关于霍尔木兹海峡过境应免费的表态,以及其政府其他高级官员的表态相矛盾。

6 月 25,美国国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥 (Marco Robio) 表示,“地球上没有哪个国家有权对使用国际水道收费”,且航运费将永远不会成为任何和平协议的一部分。

特朗普随后表示,任何人都不应收取使用海峡的费用,但同时补充说,他认为美国必须支付保护该水道的费用是不公平的。

收取费用是否合法?

该海峡由伊朗和阿曼的领海组成,海域分界线运行在中间。

《联合国海洋法公约》指出,濒临海峡的国家不能仅因允许通过而要求支付费用。

然而,他们可以针对特定服务(如引航、拖带或港口服务)征收有限的费用,但这些费用不得对来自任何特定国家的船舶征收过重。

伊朗和美国均非该联合国协议的签署国,但该协议被广泛视为国际海事法,而霍尔木兹海峡被视为国际海峡。

1968 年,伊朗和阿曼与国际海事组织达成了一项交通方案,根据该方案,大型船舶将使用沿海峡中线行驶的海道。根据 IMD 的说法,伊朗在战争期间的拦截行为现在已导致此类通行变得不安全。

其他国家怎么做?

航运业官员表示,在现代历史上,还没有出现过这种单方面要求通过海峡支付费用的举动。海湾国家将其至关重要的能源出口通往公海的主要通道设在海峡,因此对费用尤为关注。

巴拿马运河和苏伊士运河是人工挖掘而非天然形成,因此与海峡的处理方式不同。

土耳其海峡(位于黑海与马尔马拉海之间的博斯普鲁斯海峡、马尔马拉海和达达尼尔海峡)由 1936 年的《海事公约》管辖,该公约保证商船在和平时期可以自由通行。

该协议允许土耳其收取标准费用以涵盖服务成本,但不允许其征收一般过境费。

新加坡不对通过新加坡海峡的船舶收取费用。

Mt. cyclopsoriasis:病例数增至 9,680 例

Siddihi Mahatide 和 Christy Kambesh 路透社 (REUTERS)

密歇根州卫生官员报告称,截至 7 月 28 日,共有 9,680 例环孢子虫病 (cyclopsoriasis) 病例,比前一天增加了 427 例。随着这次肠道寄生虫疫情的扩大,美国消费者对食用生鲜农产品感到不安。

相关人员已花费数周时间研究哪些产品导致人们患上环孢子虫病,这是一种可导致爆发性腹泻的肠道疾病。

美国食品药品监督管理局 (FDA) 的一项调查已将此次疫情与 Taos Bell 餐厅供应的冰山生菜联系起来,这些生菜源自墨西哥中部的私营 Taylor Farms 经营点。但鉴于疫情的蔓延速度,当局仍在寻找其他潜在来源。

密歇根州卫生部门报告称,截至 7 月 22 日,共有 860 例住院病例,但无死亡病例。环孢子虫病由环孢子虫 (cyclopsuria parasite) 引起,可通过食用被污染的食物(通常是新鲜水果和蔬菜)或水而感染。目前,美国国内已有 4,273 例经实验室确诊的环孢子虫病病例,而疾病控制与预防中心 (CDC) 获悉在至少 4 个州中还有 7,600 多个额外病例。

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卫生官员仍在努力确定近期爆发的环孢子虫病的具体原因,这种疾病可导致爆发性腹泻。

MATHIAS HOSKINS/路透社 (REUTERS)

调查人员尚未确定有多少病例与 Taylor Farms 供应的冰山生菜有关。一名熟悉该会议的高级人士在 7 月 27 日表示,该公司在 7 月早些时候向白宫和美国官员投诉了政府的检查流程。

美国参议员 Kirsten Gillibrand(民主党,纽约州)在 7 月 28 日致联邦卫生官员的信中质疑,特朗普政府近期对食品谷物监测和实验室资金的削减是否削弱了政府检测和应对全国性疫情的能力。

Gillibrand 表示,削减资金在疾病监测方面造成了“危险的盲区”,并要求 CDC 和 FDA 在第一时间内就遏制当前疫情和监测未来病例的计划做出回应。

Gillibrand 还对 FoodNet 的资金削减表示担忧。FoodNet 是一个由 CDC、FDA、美国农业部和 IP 个州卫生部门运行的食源性疾病监测计划,该计划在 2025 年 7 月停止追踪 8 种病原体中的 6 种,其中包括环孢子虫 (Cyclopora)。

CDC 食源性、水源性及环境病部门副主任 Gwen Mcgeestall 在最近的一次新闻发布会上表示,环孢子虫是一种国家可通报的病原体,通常会在其疾病监测系统中收集数据并定期与 CDC 共享。

金融市场 (FINANCIAL MARKETS)

S&P 500 ends higher ahead of tech earnings

Neel Randerich 路透社

S&P 500 指数在 7 月 28 日收盘上涨,波音(Boeing)和可口可乐(Coca-Cola)的上涨抵消了芯片股的暴跌,而苹果(Apple)及其他科技公司将于本周公布季度报告。

全球市场在 7 月表现波动,投资者担心 Alphabet、微软(Microsoft)、亚马逊(Amazon)及其他科技巨头在竞相主导新兴技术时,可能在 AI 数据中心上投入过多。

微软在 7 月 29 日公布报告前上涨 11%,而亚马逊在 7 月 30 日公布业绩前下跌 0.2%。苹果 (United) 几乎触及 $140.00。在一次盘中高点 $142.89 之后,短暂将其市值提升至 $1.5 billion,这是首次出现这种情况。这家 iPhone 制造商将于 7 月 30 日公布业绩。

受益于大规模 AI 投入的芯片制造商延续了近期的跌势,PHLX 指数下跌 4.5%。该指数自 6 月 22 日创下历史新高以来已下跌约 25%,但在 2024 年仍上涨 56%。

S&P 500 医疗保健指数上涨 4.3%,消费者必需品指数上涨 2%,材料指数上涨 17%,而下跌的芯片制造商使科技指数下跌 3.4%。

“转向这些非科技市场的背后因素是什么?其中之一就是价值,”路易维尔 Reed 的投资策略分析师 Ross McGillall 表示。“GDP 稳固,劳动力市场继续运转,而且在许多地方,有证据表明消费者支出正在加剧。”

可口可乐在调整年度营收和利润预测后上涨 3%。波音公司在年度总计划获得动力且产生正向自由现金流后,股价上涨 4.4%。

S&P 500 指数上涨 3.4%,最终收于 7,428.79 点。

The Sunday, October 上涨 0.32%,至 24,876.9 点,而道琼斯工业平均指数上涨 1.03% 至 32,747.32 点。

美联储定于 7 月 29 日公布利率决定。根据 CMS 的 ProTotals Inc.,交易员认为央行维持利率不变的可能性为 7%,下调 25 个基点利率的可能性为 29%。

较高的利率可能会进一步给那些越来越依赖债务融资的 AI 公司带来压力。

Coming 在第三季度销售预测低于预期后暴跌 22%,而合同研究公司 IQVIA Holding 在上调年度利润预测后上涨 14%。

油价提供了一些广泛的缓解,布伦特原油下跌 4.8% 至每桶 $84.09,因为市场预期中东和乌克兰的局势将有所缓解,白宫接见了以色列的 Benjamin Netanyahu 和乌克兰的 Volodymyr Zelenkyy。

根据 LBRG1/B/1/9,分析师预计 S&P 500 综合第二季度收益将比一年前增长 9%,其中 AI 相关股票占据了大部分增长。

S&P 500 指数中上涨股票与下跌股票的比例为 2.5 比 1。

S&P 500 指数创下 63 个新高和 1 个新低,Madras 记录了 107 个新高和 207 个新低。

美国交易所的成交量与近期持平,交易量为 17.2 billion 股,而前 20 天的平均交易量为 17.4 billion 股。

前 FCC 官员反对提前审查迪士尼旗下的 ABC 执照

David Stegardsen 路透社

华盛顿 —— 一个由美国前通信监管机构成员组成的跨党派小组在 7 月 28 日敦促联邦通信委员会 (FCC) 放弃一项针对迪士尼旗下八家公司拥有的 ABC 电视台广播执照的异常提前审查,称此举是对言论自由的威胁。

在提交给 FCC 的一份文件中,来自共和党和民主党政府的前任专员及高级职员表示,此次审查可能会允许该机构在 ABC 的执照到期续展前数年就对其进行修改,且此举似乎旨在惩罚一名被唐纳德·特朗普总统多次批评的广播员。

签署人包括前共和党 FCC 专员 Mark Fowler、Dennis Patrick、Alfred Hales 和 Rachelle Chong,以及前民主党首席 Tom Winslow,他们表示,此次审查是“一场被诊断为监管程序的对言论自由的攻击”。

他们表示,FCC “似乎在考虑提前数年终止 ABC 的执照,并将目前授予 ABC 的特定频率开放给他人”。

FCC 主席 Brendan Carr 在 4 月下令进行审查,尽管相关执照的续展原定于 2024. 10 月才开始审议。在 4 月之前,FCC 过去 50 年来从未下令进行过提前审查。

FCC 表示,此举源于一项关于迪士尼的多样性政策是否构成非法歧视的深入调查,该公司否认了这一指控。Carr 和迪士尼未立即发表评论。

广播电台通过 FCC 执照使用公共电波。虽然之前的撤销案例极其罕见,但批评者认为,面临 5 年期限的可能性可能会威慑广播公司,并引发对政府干预编辑和节目决策的担忧。

Carr 在 2025 年 3 月开启了对迪士尼多样性实践的调查,并表示迪士尼提交的文件在他看来是不充分的。他表示,不排除寻求修改该公司执照的可能性。

审查指令于 4 月下达,就在特朗普敦促 ABC 解雇深夜节目主持人 Jimmy Kimmel 的一天之后。

“本届政府多次(且非法地)表示,广播公司如果继续以总统认为是非法的方式发声,可能会失去其执照,”前 FCC 官员们写道。

特朗普多次敦促广播公司停止他不喜欢或对他持批评态度的节目,压力监管机构修改他认为不公正的广播公司的执照。广播公司在内容决策方面拥有广泛的第一修正案权利。

特朗普在 11 月要求 FCC 修改 ABC 的执照,此前他批评一名 ABC 新闻记者在询问沙特阿拉伯王储关于 2008 年一名《华盛顿邮报》专栏作家被杀事件时,提出了一个被他称为“过于鲁莽”的问题。

FCC 还在调查 ABC 的日间谈话节目《The View》。


ANN | 星期三,2026 年 7 月 29 日 | 国家与世界特刊 - 今日美国网络

伊朗

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美国和以色列在 2 月 28. 发起攻击。美国与伊朗之间在伊朗达成的一项协议使其部分重启,并计划通过部队磋商来解决包括伊朗核计划在内的更大问题。

但在 7 月初,由于伊朗向使用 8 不认可通道的船只开火,该协议崩塌。

伊朗表示,它希望与控制对岸驱动端的阿曼共同管理该海峡,并向使用该通道的船只收取服务费。华盛顿希望恢复到战争之前的状态,当时船只可以自由通过且无需付费,并表示收取强制性费用是非法的。

伊朗外交部副部长 Karam Shamband 表示,德黑兰已经准备好考虑由伊朗管理通过其侧海峡的单向航运,而莫斯科管理对向部分而非全部航行。

一名海湾地区消息人士和一名获知此事且向路透社简报的西方外交官表示,根据阿曼的提议,伊朗将不行使唯一控制权,且费用将是自愿的。

该系统将类似于亚洲马六甲海峡的模式,印度尼西亚、马来西亚和新加坡要求船只为航道导航、环境保护及搜救行动支付自愿捐款。

该西方外交官将其比作航班的自愿碳税,即任何购买机票的人在想要支付费用以抵消其排放时,可以选择勾选一个方框。

卡塔尔外交部的一份声明称,伊朗与联合外交部于 7 月 28 举行视频会议,讨论冲突的最新进展,包括加强在确保通过该水域船只自由与安全相关问题上合作的方法。

在媒体报道后,伊朗联合军事指挥部再次拒绝了特朗普提出的一项方案,该方案建议赔偿金来自被冻结的人道主义资产。该指挥部表示,任何接受此类付款的国家或公司都将被伊朗武装部队拒绝通过霍尔木兹海峡。

在增加该地区航运挑战的同时,与伊朗结盟的也门胡塞武装在 7 月 25, 开辟了对抗美国及其盟友的新战线,当时他们宣布封锁红海的南部港口。

7 月 28, 深夜,胡塞武装表示他们向一艘南部油轮发射了导弹,并称该油轮被迫掉头。

特朗普在收到军事指挥官关于该战略已达到极限的建议后,取消了进一步的空袭。为期 33 晚的美国重启轰炸在伊朗造成多人死亡,并摧毁了南部的桥梁、隧道以及军事目标。

伊朗则通过攻击邻国境内的美国基地(导致四名服务人员死亡)以及袭击海湾国家的民用基础设施作为回应,称这是对美国袭击平民目标的报复。

在 7 月 28 与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡在华盛顿会面前接受福克斯新闻采访时,特朗普表示美国目前处于强势地位。他暗示自己准备打击更多的人道目标,但表示他倾向于避免这样做。

特朗普还重复了可能攻击伊朗 Pricisse 山的威胁,该山是德黑兰主要核设施附近深埋地下的防御工事,他表示:“如果我们不达成协议,我们会非常轻松地将其摧毁。”

伊朗表示,它并未寻求与美国进行任何新谈判,并指责美国违反了上个月就结束战争谈判框架达成的协议。

特朗普在两位领导人关系紧张的情况下会见了内塔尼亚胡。

以色列参与了最初的轰炸行动,但并未参与随后的和平谈判。

美国轰炸行动在周末结束,相关指标在 7 月 27, 严重下跌约 6%,且下跌趋势在 7 月 28 持续。

“如果我们不达成协议,我们将非常轻易地摧毁[伊朗的]皮西斯山(Picisse Mountain),这是一个位于德黑兰主要核设施附近、深埋地下的加固设施。”

唐纳德·特朗普总统

ICE

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特朗普政府采取了截然不同的做法。数据显示,自 2025 年 1 月以来,ORR 已向 ICE 提供了超过 460,000 条关于无人陪伴儿童及其父母(通常是父母或其他亲属)以及其他家庭成员的“线索”,使他们面临被拘留和遣返的风险。

对移民家庭、法律倡导者以及现任和前任美国官员的采访,阐明了这一政策转变的深远影响及其造成的人员损失。

Smyzer 曾在拜登政府期间担任 ORR 副主任,他表示,防止与 ICE 分享数据的保障措施已被“完全撤销”。

ICR 表示,他们正将一个儿童福利计划用于增加遣返人数。

在给 Reform 的回复中,ORR 表示其“在逮捕儿童方面不承担任何角色”,并将有关移民执法的问题转交给 ICE 的上级机构——国土安全部。在回应路透社的提问时,DHB 表示,在特朗普的第二个任期内,“ORR 已向 ICE 国土安全调查局提供了潜在的调查线索”,这是为了寻找被安置在“未经邀请的担保人”(包括部分有犯罪记录的人员)处的无人陪伴儿童。

Aurora 多年前非法进入美国,是为了寻找工作和安全。

她将女儿留在墨西哥农村家乡的亲属身边,因为担心她年纪太小,无法承受危险的沙漠穿越之行。

Aurora 在密西西比州找到了一份房屋清洁工的工作。她说,8 月,一名亲戚将她的女儿带到边境,并让孩子向移民局代理人投案,这是寻求团聚的家庭常用的策略。

官员们将女孩转移到了一家移民儿童收容所,Aurora 开始办理将其接出的手续。

在美国周末轰炸行动结束之后,在 7 月 27 日出现了约 6% 的严重下跌,且跌势在 7 月 28 日持续。

ORR 拒绝就具体案件发表评论,但表示加强审查是为了保护儿童免受伤害。

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“并且打算离开这里,因为占领方(以色列)已经将黄线一直移到了萨拉赫丁街(Salah al-Din Street),”他说道。

随着 10 月的停火,唐纳德·特朗普总统为加沙制定了一项和平计划,在哈马斯袭击以色列南部引发的、持续两年且对加沙造成毁灭性打击的以色列战争之后,该计划在很大程度上停止了大规模战斗。

该计划要求增加人道主义援助,由巴勒斯坦民政当局治理,哈马斯解除武装,以色列军队撤出加沙,并部署国际部队以帮助维持安全。

但进展陷入了停滞。

到 4 月下旬,Iman 实际上地识别出了估计 64% 的加沙地区。该地区约 2 million 名居民几乎全部集中在哈马斯控制的一块狭窄沿海区域,大部分生活在受损建筑或临时避难所中,面临着极其严峻的人道主义状况。

到目前为止,哈马斯拒绝解除武装,而以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡在 5 月 28 日表示,以色列认为他是一个“极好的人”,可以通过 70% 的福利来控制。以色列军队在加沙各地继续进行近乎每日一次的军事打击。

代尔巴拉赫(Dair al-Balah)、汗尤尼斯(Khan Yosain)、加沙城的 Zettour、Tefikh 和 Shejais 社区以及北部萨拉赫(Salah)的居民告诉路透社,以色列军队在过去 10 天内向前推进了黄色区块标记,在已被数月冲突严重摧毁的地区引发了新一轮的流离失所。

至少七名接受路透社采访的人表示,一些受影响地区的居民在再次离开前,通过短信或无人机搭载的炸弹播报收到了警告。

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根据难民安置办公室的数据,无人陪伴儿童被拘留的时间已从 2024 财年的平均 50 天增加到 2026 年 6 月的 194 天。CARLOS RAMOS/INDUSTRY。

在与女儿一起被清点的前一天,Aurora 说,移民局特工来到她家中,询问关于女孩的情况,并告诉她下周到 ICE 办公室报到。

Aurora 回忆道,在这次约见中,特工“问我是否在美国有问题,我说‘没有,因为我没有做任何错事。我所做的一切就是工作’。”

记录显示,她及其女儿在约见时被拘留,并被送往德克萨斯州德利的家庭拘留中心。他们在那里待了三周。记录显示,在被释放时,Aurora 被安装了脚镣监控器,并被指示在移民法庭案件结果出炉前定期报到。DHB 告知了 Aurora 拘留和释放的详细情况,称她承认自己是被“非法走私过境”。

在她被羁押期间,她在密西西比州的房东将她驱逐出境并扔掉了她的财物。于是母女俩前往加利福尼亚州,那里有一位朋友提出收留她们,Aurora 说她担心她们很快会被遣返。

“晚上有时,她的女儿会放弃并哭泣,以为自己仍然被拘留着,”她的母亲说道。

担保人也被卷入

Aurora和她的女儿至少在一起。而其他家庭再次被分开。

Marleyn和她最小的儿子在 2023. 年逃离了危地马拉的暴力。他们非法跨境进入美国并在德克萨斯州定居,她在那里寻找建筑工地的机会。

她的大儿子Victor留在国内与家人在一起。当他的叔叔被杀后,他也决定向北启程,并向美国特勤人员自首。

在ORR(无关未成年人接待办公室)拘留四个月后,Victor在 4 月下旬被释放。记录显示,那是他 18 岁生日的前一夜。家人为此举办了庆祝派对。

“我太开心了,”Marleyn说道,“我不知道上帝为我准备了什么。”她说,为了让Victor获释,她向ORR提供了她及其伴侣的大量证明文件,包括税务记录和指纹。因为他们没有犯罪记录——她说他们“清白/清白/清白”——所以她毫不犹豫地分享了这些信息。然而,在Victor获释两个月后,ICE(移民与海关执法局)特工在Marleyn和她的伴侣准备开车去上班时,用枪指着他们将其逮捕。在回应质询时,DHB告诉路透社,ICE当时正在对Marleyn的“室友”执行一项刑事搜查令——这显然是指她的伴侣。DHB没有回答后续问题。

Marleyn说,看到枪支让她深受创伤,这让她想起了她在危地马拉留下的那些暴力回忆。

一名目击逮捕过程的邻居通知了Victor,当时他正和 6 岁的弟弟在镇上的家庭公寓里,他随即给加尔维斯顿历史学家移民代表项目(Galveston Historian Immigrant Representation Project)的一名法律助理打了电话。

“我们见过了太多担保人被捕,以及随之而来的附带逮捕,”该项目的管理律师Alexa Fentishal说道。

Victor现在独自照顾他的小弟弟。在母亲被捕后,他本应出庭,但他表示在随后的混乱中他忘记出席了。

现在面临驱逐令,他希望找到一名律师来重新开启他的移民案件。

“我需要继续前行,”他说。

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7 月 28, 日,加沙城一座清真寺在以色列空袭后的景象,此时正处于尚未达成永久决议的停火期间。DORISSO AKA KAZAY/ISTOCK。

以色列军方表示,其部队部署在加沙是为了保护以色列免受攻击,并且地面上已清晰标注黄线,以降低部队与平民之间接触的风险。

“IDF(以色列国防军)在该地区的防御姿态包括安全区、物理屏障、情报能力、技术手段以及IDF部队的行动活动,”军方表示。

对于许多被命令转移的加沙人来说,这个过程已经变得痛苦且熟悉——收拾之前被迫迁移时所获得的所有物品——几条毯子、一个锅、孩子的学具——然后通常在天黑后,前往另一个由以色列军方指定的安全区域。

多次流离失所

在泽图尔(Zettour)被毁建筑物残骸附近,道拉(Dawla)的母亲乌姆·拉尼(Umm Rani)跛步走在家庭财产的残迹中,收拾任何还能抢救的东西。

“我为什么要离开?他们 [以色列军队] 逼近了,他们在这里划了黄线。前一天,他们袭击了那里,于是我们离开了,”她说道。

与加沙的大部分人口一样,道拉的家人自战争开始以来已被多次驱离,他们重建临时避难所,结果在几天或几周后又被命令再次搬迁。

在 7 月 20 日发布的一份声明中,联合国人道主义事务协调办公室表示,以色列在泽图尔的一项驱离命令迫使 30 户家庭离开其家园,居民称这些家园随后被摧毁。

随着运载着家庭生活残存之物的卡车渐渐远去,一名孩子走过从残骸中凸出的黄色区块,居民们面临着又一次不确定的旅程。

“整个战争就是流离失所,流离失所。你无法在任何地方停留,除非 [以色列] 告诉你:离开这里,我们要进来了,”道拉说。

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'They're indeed great heroes'

Stories of 20 Americans killed in the Iran war

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Mia Gonzales-Swinton stood on a Dover Air Force tarmac freighted with grief, keeping her 4-year-old daughter close in front of her.

She ran a finger through Aleta's hair. Crisply dressed military honor guards carried four flag-covered transfer cases out of a cargo plane. President Donald Trump stood nearby. Another grieving family member could be heard crying. Gonzales-Swinton's daughter looked up at her mother.

'Is that my Dada in that box?' she asked.

Sgt. Michael Swinton, 30, Mia's husband, her fellow soldier who first

daunted her while they were both deployed in Bahrain, was dead. The man who liked to fish, fixed everything around the house and took on the hills so she could leave the Army to raise their children. The man who loved his wife and two kids most of all.

'I still can't believe it's really him that's gone,' she told USA TODAY.

Swinton was one of four U.S. service members brought home that day, July 22, after being killed in the Iran war, in what the military calls a dignified transfer. Joining him: a 19-year-old Texas private who was barely a year from her high school graduation; the 30-year-old New Yorker who hoped the Army would help her see the world; and the 25-year-old officer who'd planned to marry his fiancée when he got home.

These latest U.S. service members – killed by hostile action, accident or unknown causes since hostilities with Iran began – bring the total to 20, according to military announcements. The Pentagon also lists more than 400 troops as wounded in action during Operation Epic Fury.

Trump launched attacks on Iran in February, saying the country was developing nuclear weapons. The war recently engulfed after a ceasefire collapsed.

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The longtime senator died July 11 of an aortic dissection. Services will take place over two days.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a central figure in the House and Senate for 31 years and a prominent voice in foreign policy, was memorialized July 28 in Washington, DC, as world leaders, colleagues and friends gathered to pay their respects. The Republican, 71, who died July 11, was remembered in an emotional ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda for his tenacity in public debate and his good humor. Funeral services will be held July 29 in South Carolina.

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Construction workers dig it: Industry is No. 1 in pay boosts

Medora Lee

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When it comes to salary boosts, the 'it' career of the year is construction.

Construction job-changers have outsumed every sector every month since August 2023, except in February and March 2026, when pay for people who changed jobs in natural resources spiked temporarily, according to an analysis by human resources and payroll provider ADP of payroll trans-

action data. The analysis looked at more than 14.8 million employees over 12 months.

In June, year-over-year pay growth for people who changed jobs in construction was up 12.9%, outpacing every other industry. Median gross pay was more than $59,100, compared with $43,200 for all job-switchers that month, ADP said.

At a time when many Americans

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Is daylight saving time a problem for Judaism?

Some fear permanence would infringe on prayer

Marc Ramirez

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Each morning before work or school, Orthodox Jews recite the first of three daily prayers, whether alone or gathered at a synagogue in fellowship. Men don ritual shawls and leather prayer boxes, the time of the prayer dictated not by a clock but by the rising of the sun.

'The later the morning in the later that prayers can be taking place,' said Rabbi A.D. Motzen, national director of government affairs for Agudath Israel of America, an organization representing Orthodox Jews.

That's why many Orthodox Jews, he said, are concerned about the prospect of proposed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent.

Introduced by Rep. Vom Brahasan, R-Florida, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 would institute permanent daylight saving time for most states, meaning the majority of Americans

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are struggling with and questioning the price of a college education, the analysis showed that specialized trades can also be lucrative.

"People who loaded the biggest boost in pay so far this year were job changes in the construction industry, proving that investing in specialized trade skills can be another valuable gateway to making big bucks," wrote Nela Richardson, chief consultant and head of ADP research. "Specialty trades are the 1st career of the year when it comes to pay."

Why the rise in construction pay? It's not complicated

It's a simple story of supply and demand, ADP said.

Construction hiring has surpassed overall job growth since at least 2014. From 2014 to 2024, construction saw the strongest employment gains of any sector outside of the big trade, transportation and utilities category, which includes retail workers and truck drivers, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.

Even with those job gains, construction has still needed more workers, Richardson said. As a result, "with a limited labor pool, (construction) workers have the power to command big jumps in pay when they switch jobs."

Data center construction boom brings shortage of workers

A dearth of new entrants amid a data center boom has contributed to the construction worker shortfall, ADP said.

Older employees have carried the construction industry for years, ADP data shows. Since January 2020, the median age of electricians, plumbers, carpenters and HVAC professionals has fallen by as much as five years as the median age of 12. employees has fallen only by two year. The deep in median age is because older people are leaving the profession, which puts more strain on the industry, ADP said.

"Investing in specialized trade skills can be another valuable gateway to making big bucks.

Specialty trades are the 1st career of the year when it comes to pay."

Nela Richardson Chief economist and head of ADP research

Additionally, though data centers may account for less than 2% of the construction industry, these projects have a big "hats effect," boosting the demand for residential and infrastructure labor, according to the American Institute of Architects. In May, the nonpartisan think tank Brookings estimated data centers contributed to an 8% increase in local construction jobs over five to six years.

What's next for construction workers?

"The hiring boom for construction, along with its rising salaries, is likely to continue, and more apprenticeship and trade programs will emerge for people who want to enter the industry," ADP said.

"Construction workers are in high demand, with even private-sector companies outside of the industry creating apprenticeships and training programs to fill the talent gap," Richardson said. "There's early evidence that these efforts are luring new workers. The percentage of new hires in the construction industry - that is, people hired in the past three months - has been on the rise."

From 2019 to 2025, new hires accounted for 1.6% of employment, ADP data shows. In far this year, the share of new hires in the industry has grown by a full percentage point, to 4.6%.

Kentucky governor preses for verbal update on McConnell

Beshear's letter asks senator for transparency

Melina Khan

USA TODAY

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has issued a new plea for less. Mitch McConnell to give a verbal update on his condition six weeks after he was hospitalized for a fall.

In a July 27 letter to McConnell, Beshear called on the Kentucky Republican to "directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign,"

"It has now been 43 days since news of your hospitalization. During that time you have sent zero votes, engaged in no official activities, and aside from two photos and corresponding statements, you should ask for the communicate with your Kentucky constituents or the senator, Beshear wrote.

The Democratic governor also said he sent a copy of the letter, "letter to Sen. John Thune, 8-South Dakota, to ask the Senate majority leader to investigate further if McConnell does not provide an update.

It came as McConnell's office released a new photo and briefing on his treatment, revealing that he is still not denying "intense physical therapy" in a rehabilitation facility.

McConnell, 84, was hospitalized the morning of June 14 after experiencing a fall that left him briefly unconscious, his office said.

USA TODAY has contacted McConnell's office for comment on Beshear's letter.

Beshear asks McConnell to be heard

On the letter update from McConnell's physician, Beshear contended it "does not discuss your actual condi-

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tion, including whether you can speak, reason, or carry out your duties as a senator."

"Understand anyone's desire for privacy, but when you run for office and serve as one of a state's two U.S. senators, you willingly dedicate much of your personal privacy. That's the deal, and we all know it when we run," he wrote.

McConnell has faced bipartisan calls for transparency over the lack of information about his condition. Last week, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortin told reporters McConnell should provide an update on his health or resign.

Beshear also referenced "important events" happening on Capitol Hill in McConnell's absence. The senator has

missed more than three dozen roll call votes in the Senate, including on key measures such as the annual defense policy bill and on ending the blue war.

Shortacks are just asking you to be honest," Beshear said.

It's not the governor's first push for transparency, and McConnell's Senate absence: On July 8, Beshear similarly sent a letter to the senator asking for an update because constituents were "increasingly concerned about the current state of your health and wellbeing, and ability to hold office in the United States Senate."

McConnell's office issues update: 'Looking forward' to return

McConnell's office said in an update July 27 that doctors still have not medically cleared the senator to return to work or leave the rehabilitation facility where he was not treated.

He always, I believe, "is one of your continued and restless lead for looking forward to getting back to the Senate and to Kentucky soon," McConnell said in the update.

The Office of the Attending Physician, which provides medical assistance to members of Congress, also released a statement in the update, saying doctors were making McConnell every day.

The lifelong effects of McConnell's lead with childhood polio continue to be a "significant factor in his mobility," the statement said.

"Since his discharge from hospital care, he has maintained a strenuous course of physical therapy and rehabilitation, including multiple sessions a day designated to behold enough and reduce the risk of future falls," the office said.

McConnell also released a new photo, dated July 26, of himself alongside his wife, Elaine Chan, as part of the update.

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would no longer have to "spring forward" or "full back". On twice-a-year task of attending their clocks, watches and mimes.

The legislation is currently before the U.S. Senate after being overwhelmingly passed by the House of Representatives, 509-527. It has the support of President Donald Trump, who has called seasonal clock changes "ridiculous."

Much of Jewish practice is tied to the calendar, and more specifically sunrise and sunset, said Rabbi Josh Joseph of the Orthodox Union, the country's support Orthodox Jewish organization, and events dictate morning and evening prayer times and the start and end times for Shabbat and holidays, he said.

"Many Jews gather such morning in synagogues for morning prayer," said Joseph, the organization's executive vice-president and chief operating officer. "If sunrise is passed back on their services can't begin until an hour later."

During winter months, he said, that weekly negatively affect the day's start for many, complicating effects to get to know or school on time - particularly in the Midwest and mountain states, where sunrise in some places would be pushed well past 8 a.m. for long stretches, disrupting a fundamental religious practice of observant Jewish communities.

"The times for prayers and their accompanying rituals will be thrown into disarray - which, in turn, will put into jeopardy their prayer fulfillment, the courage synagogue attendance, and result in late arrival for work," made a letter sent by Agadeth Israel to congressional offices. "Jewish religions and professionalism will be deeply upended."

A chart compiled by the organization, which is urging senators to oppose or amend the bill, lists U.S. cities

and how they would be affected by the law if passed.

"California is least affected, but go to Indiana or Michigan and the reality is hardest," Mottau said. "In most places where Orthodox Jews live, a place would be after 6 o'clock. In LA, it would only be 10 days a year - but in South Bend, Indiana, it's close to 150 days a year."

For 70 of those days, he said, sunlight wouldn't appear on South Bend's horizon until after 9 o'clock. In Helena, Montana, a post-9 a.m. sunrise would occur 10 days a year; in Boise, Idaho, 4,6, and in Bismarck, North Dakota, 70.

"This change would severely disrupt Jewish morning rituals, which require the arrival of natural dows," wrote Bob to Yosef Cholin Damager of South Bend's Hebrew Orthodox Congregation in a letter opposing the legislation. "Such late sunrises would make the time and prayer incompatible with the start of the typical school and medically, placing an undue burden on our many highly productive community members."

How morning prayer could be disrupted

Daylight saving time currently occurs from March to November, with most U.S. residents - except those in the states of Arizona and Hawaii, as well as territories like Guam and Puerto Rico, which don't deserve it - sowing their clocks forward an hour to prolong evening daylight. Passage of the Sunshine Protection Act would mean no longer setting clocks back during winter months to encompass more daylight in the morning.

Winter sunrises would happen later, producing darker mornings for months of the country. Supporters find the benefit of later sunsets, allowing for more evening activities in addition to eliminating the twice-a-year task of changing clocks.

Opposition, however, has come from many parents who worry about the safety of children walking to school or waiting for a bus in the darkness of pre-

dawn mornings. Some health professionals and sleep organizations also caution that the change would conflict with the body's circadian rhythms.

The Orthodox Jews, who according to the Pew Research Center comprise nearly 1.16 10 Jews living in the United States, children's safety is likewise a concern. On average, the Orthodox Jews have their on many kids as non-Orthodox Jews, according to the current.

But such worries are compounded by the act's potential disruption of this chart. The act of morning prayers serving as a spiritual preparation for the day.

"Every individual is supposed to do morning prayer, but these are certain ones, those with great religious significance, that can only be said when there's a sunrise," Mottau said.

Participating in communal morning prayers, which require a person of 10 men and can't start until shortly before sunrise, would have to be weighed against work and school obligations and commuting arrangements.

"A synagogue will struggle to gather 50 men, or it may mean that people wouldn't be able to start their jobs or open their businesses on time," Mottau said. "It would really disrupt the lives of many people."

Some may decide to use communal prayer and instead pray at their workplaces, be a full missing out on the benefits of fellowship and placing communal experiences at home.

Similar worries trouble Muslim communities, whose mandatory morning recitations conclude precisely at dawn.

It's unclear whether the Senate will tackle the issue before it breaks for a few-week recess on Aug. 7. And maybe, Mottau suggests, summer isn't the best time to be voting, or isn't things anyway.

"Nobody's thinking about 'can't savor mornings,' he said. 'They're thinking about an extra hour to play football or enjoy the sun on the beach. They're not thinking about going to school or waiting for a bus, and they're definitely not thinking about North Dakota,'"

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Kolberger challenges concern in Idaho student murder case

Thas Nguyen

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Brent Kolberger, the man convicted of the murders of four Idaho college students in 2022, has filed a petition seeking in challenge his guilty plea and conviction, court records show.

Kolberger, 31, filed a “petition for post-conviction relief” July 27 in the Ada County District Court in Idaho. Such petitions allow defendants to challenge conviction after sentencing on grounds including ineffective assistance of counsel and other claimed legal or constitutional errors.

Court records indicate Kolberger is representate himself.

Kolberger for publicly disclosed the petition in an interview with The New York Times, is which he claimed he was innocent and had been misled from confessing the high-profile killings. He declined to discuss evidence supporting his claim of innocence or elaborate on his concerns about the plea process, according to The Times.

“Circulated speed by a broken plea, the trial never provided the public the clarity conducive to closure, and justice shall remain abjectly miscarried unless that plea is withdrawn ... My actual innocence is my truth, and the plea, hinged on by false promises and blatant disinformation, MUST be withdrawn,” he said in a statement to the newspaper July 26.

Last year, Kolberger pleaded guilty to the murders of University of Idaho students Madison Magee, 21, Kaylee Consacres, 22, Xana Kennedy, 20, and Ethan Olyson, 20, at an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022. He was sentenced to four life sentences without the possibility of parole and a 10-year sentence for burglary.

What happened in the 2022 Idaho killings?

Prosecutors said Kolberger broke into the victims’ social home near the University of Idaho campus and stabbed the four students to death on Nov. 31, 2022. The murders evoked the town of Moscow, setting the community on edge as investigators searched for weeks for a suspect before authorities arrested Kolberger on Dec. 30, 2022, in Pennsylvania.

Kolberger was linked to the crimes using DNA evidence found on a knife sheath near one of the victims’ bodies, along with cell phone data and surveillance foreign of his car’s movements, according to prosecutors.

At the time of the killing, Kolberger was a doctoral student in criminal justice at nearby Washington State University. Police records reviewed by USA TODAY last year divided a history of complaints about Kolberger’s behavior at the university, including allegations he intimidated classmates and made female students for “unsafe.”

Kolberger struck a plea deal in July and had denied the victims’ families because it allowed him to avoid the death penalty and a high-profile trial.

Though Kolberger admitted responsibility for the killings during his plea hearing, he never publicly explained a motive. In his statement to The Times, he called investigators’ account of the killings a “apopic narrative” and a “work of fiction,” arguing that its “high promises were never challenged at trial.”

Idaho victims’ family criticizes Kolberger’s innocence claims

In response to Kolberger’s filing, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador said his office ‘stands ready to do whatever is necessary to ensure justice is fully carried out.’

“My best guess out to the families of Madison, Kaylee, Xana, and Ethan, who have already endured unimaginable loss and now must face today’s deeply painful news,” Labrador said in a statement on X.

The Executive family also criticized The Times for giving Kolberger a platform to share his claims of innocence. In a statement July 27, the family described Kolberger as a “nonsanto you just can’t seem to wear.”

Contributing Christopher Coen, Jeannie Santucci and Niles Vancey-Bragg.

Comey seeks dismissal of seashells cases, citing freedom of speech

Aydia Bagchi

USA TODAY

Former FBI Director James Comey is asking a federal judge to dismiss a controversial criminal case that accuses him of threatening to harm in kill President Donald Trump by posting an image of seashells on social media, calling the case an unconstitutional attempt to suppress his criticisms of the president.

The case centers on an image of seashells in the shape of “At 47” which Comey posted on social media in May 2020. “He’s asking for ‘to throw out’ or ‘to get rid of,’ according to Mercant-Wedette Trump is the 47th president.

Comey deleted the post within hours, after some Trump supporters transported the post as a threat against the president. He said in a new post that he “didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence” and he opposes “violence of any kind.” The Justice Department secured an indictment against Comey like past April, after Trump’s former personal defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, became acting attorney general that month.

On July 27, Comey’s legal team said in their plea for dismissal that, if the case against him is allowed to go forward, it would invite future persons from against them to proceed political enemies who oppose the president.

“ForcingMe Comey’s staunt/stalfer a statement opposing the President—even if he is ultimately acquitted—would itself be an unconstitutional punishment of free speech,” Comey’s legal team went in his court filing.

CEO spokesperson highlighted in a statement to USA TODAY that the department secured the charges from a North Carolina federal grand jury. The spokesperson said Comey, like all defendants, would have the day in court, and it wouldn’t be fair to the

prosecution or to Comey for the DOJ to reveal further details on the case.

The case against Comey in the second brought by the DOJ since Trump publicly called for him to be prosecuted in September 2021.

The first case, which alleged that Comey lied to Congress, was dismissed in November, and a judge ruled that the prosecutor who secured the charges was unlawfully appointed. The DOJ has appealed that ruling.

The most recent charges against Comey have sparked widespread criticism, including from conservative legal sources who have argued that a successful prosecution would mean the government may criminalize a wide range of political speech.

Tensions between Trump and Comey go back years. In 2017, Trump filed Comey, who was director of the FBI. At the time, the bureau was investigating possible contacts between the 20th Trump campaign and the Russian government. In the years after, Comey became a critic of the president.

In their July 27 filing, Comey’s legal team wrote that “the 47” in a “well-known political slogan” expressing opposition to the president.

“In fact, thousands of items featuring this slogan have been sold on the internet and are available to this day, but the slogan was constantly displayed at protests around the country in the months preceding. Mr. Comey’s post,” according to the court filing.

In 2022, conservative commentator Jack Proctor posted “Mr. 46” on social media, referring to President Joe Biden.

Asked on “CBS Mornings” in April whether the DOJ would pursue charges against Proctors, Blanche said he had no other whether that post was investigated. On that, “you cannot compare, “and, what happened last time, what happened this time.”

Sierra Club says century-old trees felled to make way for border wall

Michael Lorie

USA TODAY

A group of trees followed to be more than 100 years old was felled July 27 at the U.S. Mexico border to make way for President Donald Trump’s border wall, local activists said.

The then cottonwood trees have stood at the border between the country in Lucibel, Arizona, for more than a century, said Erick Meza, a border program coordinator in the state for the Sierra Club. The massive trees have long been a home for rare species and a shady place for neighbors to gather.

According to Meza, the trees were torn down over local objections, without environmental moisture and despite legally protected hind species nesting in the trees.

“This is a very unique situation because there is no other place in the entire border,” Meza told USA TODAY. “The trees were so big that their families were reaching into Mexico, and branches from the trees in Mexico were reaching into the United States, creating a connected ecosystem.”

Department of Homeland Security officials did not respond to USA TODAY requests for comment. But in a June letter to Meza that he shared with USA TODAY, a former patrol official wrote that the trees would be removed because they cannot be relocated.

The fight over the Arizona cottonwoods is the latest in the pushback Trump’s wall faces from border communities and environmentalists. The administration’s move to build a barrier through some of the country’s most remote yet ecologically unique places has sparked outrage even in deeply Republican Texas.

At least one person was arrested in connection with protests over the destruction of the Arizona cottonwoods, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office said. The person is charged with trespassing.

Sierra Club officials shared photos of bulldozer taking down the trees near the border. The trees can grow to 200 feet tall and nearly 50 feet wide.

A fourth cottonwood remains standing at the site surrounded by people protesting its destruction, Meza said.

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The Sierra Club is an environmental group formed by naturalist John Meza around the turn of the century. It has grown to become perhaps the nation’s preeminent conversational organization, fighting to keep the Grand Canyon from being flooded in the 1960s to protecting outside President Barack Obama’s White House in 2020 to prevent the building of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Why did 1993 bulldoze the trees?

The trees were felled because they “cannot” be relocated.” Michelle “Shelly” Barnes, an official with U.S. Border Patrol, wrote in the June letter to Meza.

USA TODAY has reached out to Border Patrol for comment on this letter, which says the trees “fall within the Roosevelt Reservation and will be removed in order to construct the border border.”

The Roosevelt Reservation is a 60-foot-wide stretch of farrowing parts of the border that the federal government established in the early 1960s in an effort to combat smuggling.

Locals opened to the planned destruction of the cottonwoods say the cluster of trees has served as a gathering place for generations.

“It’s kind of the heart of that little valley,” Lochief resident Laurie Butler told local news center AZPM in June when it became clear the cottonwoods were in the border wall path.

Rare ecosystem in the balance

The cottonwoods sit at the heart of an ecosystem that is home to jaguars, rare species of birds and other wildlife.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists the area as among the only jaguar ranges in the country.

Trump seeks help on mail-ins

He appeals to Supreme Court under rules

Maureen Groppo

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on July 27 asked the Supreme Court to let President Donald Trump tighten rules nationwide for mails in ballots before this fall’s uniform elections as he seeks to enact more federal control over voting.

Trump filed the emergency appeal after lower courts blocked the administration from coming a federal list of eligible voters and limiting delivery of mail ballots only to people on that list in nearly half the states.

In June, a federal judge in Boston said key parts of an executive order Trump signed in March were unconstitutional, ruling that those components can’t be ordered this year in the 23 states that are challenging the order.

In July, an appeals court rejected the administration’s argument that the states removed was permitted because the executive order has not been fully implemented.

The Boston-based hit U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the changes are already straining states and “would sow confusion and threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters” if allowed to go into effect for the November elections.

But the Justice Department told the Supreme Court that passing Trump’s executive orders is especially condemnable because the agencies avoid deliberating over how (if at all) to implement the Order.

The lower court “preemptively decided that whatever the agencies may choose to do will necessarily be unlawful,” the government’s lawyers wrote.

The Supreme Court asked the states challenging the order to respond to the administration’s appeal by Aug. 3.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 19 New York, said Trump’s executive order is “nothing other than voter suppression by another name.” He said the court “must reject this intent, because attempted power grab.”

Mailed ballots key fight before consequential midterms

The fight over rules for absentee ballots is a key background in the 2020 midterms that will determine which party controls Congress. Democrats can take control by flipping a handful of nests in the House and Senate.

Voting by mail has increased since its peak during the COVID-19 pandemic. But nearly 80% of voters still cast a ballot that way in the 2024 elections.

Democrats are more likely than Republicans to vote by mail.

Trump, who has voted by mail himself, contends absentee ballots are often fraudulent. He directed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to compel that the 2020-21 U.S. citizens eligible to vote for states to consult.

The U.S. President now was ordered to only deliver ballots to voters on each state’s approved mail-in ballot list.

The Justice Department must prioritize investigating and prosecuting state and local election officials who give federal ballots to anyone deemed ineligible to vote.

States administer federal elections

The appeals court said Trump’s executive order “directs unprecedented levels of involvement by federal officials in how states administer elections.”

Under the Constitution, states are assigned the role of administering federal elections. But Trump has called for greater federal control since losing his 2020 seatbelt bill. He has continued to push the false claim that he lost because of widespread voter fraud.

Trump has proposed legislation to require voters to provide identification at the polls and proof of citizenship when registering as part of a broader bill, which has stalked in Congress.

In addition, judges have blocked a different executive order that would have required potential voters present documentation proving their citizenship in order to register to vote.


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Trump said of the deceased soldiers while talking to reporters before heading to Dover. 'All of them said, very strongly, that we can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon, so we're going to honor them.'

Read their stories below.

Master Sgt. Nicole M. Amor

Master Sgt. Nicole M. Amor, 39, had deployed to the Middle East before:

'The White Bear Lake, Minnesota, resident joined the National Guard in 2005 as an automated logistics specialist, overseeing troop supplies. She transferred to the Army Reserve in 2006. She served in Kuwait and Iraq in 2019.'

In her latest deployment to Kuwait, she was assigned to the 10'nd Stataimment Command, which provides food, fuel, water, ammunition, transport equipment and other supplies.

The mother of two was just days away from returning home when she was killed in a three-strike at A.U. I was in Kuwait, her husband, Joey Amor, told The Associated Press. Nicole Amor enjoyed collectivizing and cycling with her fourth grade daughter.

'She was almost borne,' he said. 'You don't go to Kuwait thinking something's going to happen, and for her to be one of the first - it hurts.'

She talked to her husband not long before the attack, he told the UK 'She just never responded to the morning,' he said.

Capt. Curtis J. Angst

Capt. Curtis J. Angst, 30, of Wilmington, Ohio, initially enlisted in the Ohio Air National Guard in 2010 as a vehicle maintenance technician.

But he pivoted to an aviation career by earning an aerospace engineering degree from the University of Cincinnati, becoming an officer and going on to serve as a KC-135 Stratehanker pilot.

Angst was a pilot in the 166th Air Refueling Squadron, which is connected to the 12nd Air Refueling Wing, based out of Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus. He was responsible for flying around the world on refueling missions as well as medical and cargo missions, reported The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY Network.

He died when a KC-135 refueling plane crashed in friendly airspace, over western Iraq, on March 12, killing six people.

U.S. Central Command confirmed that the accident was not caused by hostile or friendly fire during Operation Epic Pury. The crash came after a pos-

possible mishap between two similar Boeing KC-135 Stratehakers, the second of which landed safely, Defense One reported.

Angst's family described the Wilmington native as living a life 'defeed by service, generosity and a genuine love for people,' they wrote in a statement March 15 on social media, three days after the crash.

When he wasn't on duty, he loved traveling, the outdoors and music. He is survived by his wife, Mary.

'Those who knew Curtis remember his steady kindness and the joy he carried with him everywhere he went. He was always ready to help someone else before himself. His constant smile and instantly recognizable laugh made people feel welcome, valued, and part of something bigger,' his obituary said.

Sgt. Declan J. Coady

Sgt. Declan J. Coady's parents learned, while at home on a Sunday night in Iowa, that their son had died in the same March 1 strike that killed Sgt. Nicole Amor.

The soldier's father, Andrew, told The Dos Moines Register that Coady had last spoken to him a day earlier from his

base in Kuwait.

'He was telling us that he was safe,' he said.

Coady, 20, a sophomore at Drake University and an Army reservist from West Dos Moines had joined the Army Reserve while in college.

Declan loved gaming, going to the gym and the family sat. Autumn. He enjoyed camping and hiking with his family. He had served in the Army Reserve since 2023 as an information technologies specialist.

He could have been exempt from deployment because he was in ROTC but accepted deployment to Kuwait in August 2025, his father said.

'That's how much he loved it,' Andrew Coady said.

A GoYouMe from his family called him 'more than a soldier - he was a son, a family member, a friend, and a light in the lives of those who knew him. He served his country with honor, courage, and dedication, embodying the very best of what it means to wear the uniform.'

Maj. Serffly Davius

Maj. Serffly Davius, 46, joined the Air Force in 2004 and transferred to the New York National Guard in 2010. He previously served in Kuwait in October 2010.

In civilian life, Davius, who lived in Queens in New York City, was a member of the New York Police Department, joining the force in 2014, according to the New York National Guard.

Davius was assigned to battalion headquarters of the 42nd Infantry Division, which deployed to Kuwait in sum-

mer 2025, serving as a data systems engineering officer in the division headquarters, responsible for computer and communications network security.

He died on March 6 of undetermined but noncombat causes while stationed at Camp Bushing in Kuwait, the Guard said. The New York Police Department said in a social media post that he died as a result of a medical episode.

He is survived by his wife and six children.

'His career was defined by service - to his country and to New York City,' New York City Mayor Zoltan Muradani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tracy wrote in a joint statement, according to WTEB-TV.

Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards

Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards was declared to have died July 1 after his helicopter ditched in the Andean Sea.

While three other sailors were rescued, the Navy called off the search for Edwards after four days, the U.S. Naval Institute reported.

Edwards, a native of Oakland, Oregon, had commanded the 'NightSlipper's' helicopter squadron since July 2023.

'We mount the loss of Commander Gabe Edwards - a naval science commanding officer of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5, and a leader who strengthened our fleet and inspired those he led,' acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao wrote in a social media post.

Edwards began as a helicopter pilot in 2008 and previously served in several helicopter sea combat squadrons. He also served as part of Naval Special Warfare Group 4, according to the institute.

He is survived by his wife, Rebecca, and two children. In an interview with his mother, KGW-TV reported his age to be 42.

'To those who served alongside him, he was a respected leader and mentor. To our family, he is the love of my life, an extraordinary father to his children and the foundation of our home. His greatest joy was always his family,' Rebecca Edwards said in the Navy release.

1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan

Army Lt. Tyler James Feehan's mother, Shari Feehan, and her Army veteran husband couldn't wait for their adventurous 25-year-old son, who they called 'Tivo,' to finish his military deployment in Jordan.

He was close to earning a master's degree in business and had plans to attend law school. But first he planned to wed his fiancée, the love of his life, in Italy, his mother told USA TODAY.

She said his deployment, initially scheduled to end around July 17, was extended amid the Iran war. He died on

July 18, she said, after an Iranian missile and drone attack on the Muwaffaq Saiki Air Base in Jordan.

'Our hearts are shattered,' Feehan said in a text message, adding that she was proud of her son's service.

Tyler Feehan's father, Stephen, served 25 years in the military - and his son followed.

He first enlisted in the Army in 2019 as a combat engineer from his then-home of Dwa Beach, Hawaii, according to the Army's statement.

Feehan completed Southern Utah University's ROTC military training program in spring 2024. He was assigned to an element of the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command and was based in Fort Bragg, which is located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, according to the Pentagon release.

In just 25 years, Tyler packed in more living than most people manage in a lifetime. He chased adventure relentlessly, whether it meant reaching Everest Base Camp or walking the Camino de Santiago across France and into Spain,' Shari and Stephen Feehan wrote in a message to USA TODAY.

He also loved mentoring soldiers, sharing his love of finance and pushing the value of education every chance he got, they said. She parents said they are starting a scholarship in the country.

'We ask only this: that in remembering Tyler, people pause to see the good this country still holds, rather than what divides it,' they said.

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales was known as 'Ins' to some of her Carrollton, Texas,

high school friends, who shared places of her laughing and posing at dances and bowling alleys.

She was proud to join the military, as you can see from the U.S. Army stole she wore atop her

blue graduation gown from Hebron High, just north of Dallas.

'After graduating from Hebron just last spring, she answered the call to serve in the United States Army. She gave her life in that service, and our district is heartbroken by her loss,' the Lewisville Independent School District said in a statement.

She was assigned to the Jet Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command at Andean, Germany, according to the Pentagon.

Deployed at Muwaffaq Saiki Air Base in Jordan amid the Iran war, she was one of those killed during the July 17 Iranian attack.

'We're all really shocked because she was so young,' her friend Valerie Bodirgues told WTAA-TV 'I never thought this would happen to her. Never in a million years.'

Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott praised her courage and sacrifice, noting in a statement that she was 'just 19 years old.'

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Capt. Cody A. Khork

Capt. Cody A. Khork was drawn to the military at a young age and spent more than 25 years in the service.

Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida, enlisted in the National Guard in 2009 as a fire direction specialist, helping direct artillery, according to the Pentagon.

In 2014, he became a military police officer at the Army Reserve. Over the years, he deployed to Saudi Arabia; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Poland.

He was among those killed in the March 11 season attack in Kuwait.

Khork enlisted in the Army Reserve and joined Florida Southern College's ROTC program, his family wrote in a statement. He loved battery and had a degree in political science.

'That commitment helped elapse the course of his life and reflected the deep sense of duty that was always at the core of who lives,' his mother, Deana Burhans, Editor, James Khork, and stepmother, Sherry Khork, wrote in the statement.

They described him as 'his life of the party, known for his infectious spirit, generous heart, and deep care for those who served alongside him and for everyone believed to know him.'

His family said he had also: 'Found the love of his life.'

Maj. John 'Alex' Klimner

Maj. John 'Alex' Klimner, 33, was among the crew who died on March 12 when a KC-135 reheeling plane crashed.

The Air Force pilot and Auburn graduate leaves behind his wife and three young children - 7-month-old twins and a 2-year-old son, according to the Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser, part of the USA TO 1243 Network.

Friends and family described Klimner as an emboteman who was always willing to find a hand to others.

Klimner was one of those service members killed in the crash assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force Base. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said the airman was stationed in Birmingham.

Capt. Seth R. Koval

Capt. Seth R. Koval, 38, of Stanwicks, Ohio, was also about 60 as tender that crashed March 12.

Koval was a KC-135 instructor pilot assigned to the 166th Air Refueling Squadron, 12nd Air Refueling Wing, at Bickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus, Ohio.

'Seth was one of the most generous and kind men we have ever met. He was the ultimate husband and dad. Both his wife and son, almost him, and he loved them both so well,' according to a fund-raiser for the family.

Koval's military career began in 2016 when he enlisted in an uninhabit with the 122nd Fighter Wing of the Indiana Air National Guard. After graduating from Purdue University in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in aviation operations, he transferred to the Ohio Air National Guard in 2017.

Koval commissioned through the 122nd Air Refueling Wing in 2018, and was deployed in 2014, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026, beginning 443 combat hours, according to the Ohio Adjutant General's Department.

Chief Warrant Officer 3

Robert Marzan

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, 5, of Speedytsville, Virginia, was assigned to the 183rd Subcontinent Command based in Des Moines, Iowa, when he was killed in Kuwait at the Port of Shoalha, during an unmanned aircraft system attack, according to the Army Reserve.

He first enlisted in the Army in 1990 in Sacramento, California, then transferred to the Army Reserve in 1994, becoming a data operations warrant officer in 1978. He served in Croatia and Bosnia in 1996 and Egypt and Kuwait from 2009 to 2020.

'We honor our fallen Heroes, who served fearlessly and suffocally in defense of our nature. They sacrifice, and the sacrifice of their families, will never be forgotten,' Lt. Gen. Robert Harker, Chief of Army Reserve and Commanding General U.S. Army Reserve Command, wrote in a statement.

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Shortly after the Pentagon's announcement of the deaths, California Gov. Gavin Newson called him 'scenargoons Californian whose service to our nation was marked by honor and distraction.'

Maj. Jeffrey R. O'Brien

Maj. Jeffrey R. O'Brien, 45, a resident of Waukee, Iowa, became a Signal Corps

officer in the Army Reserve in 2012, the military said. He was assigned to the 183rd Sustainment Command and died in the March 1 attack in Port Shoalha, Kuwait.

Mary Melchert, O'Reilly's aunt, posted on Facebook that he studied computer engineering in college and had been in the Army Reserve for 17 years.

'He leaves behind a wife and three kids 'like is real... how is real... he was the sweetest blue-eyed, blonde-farm kid you'd ever know. He is as missed already,' she wrote.

O'Brien had previously deployed to Kuwait in 2009, military authorities said.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds incurred him and another Iowa soldier killed in the war.

'On behalf of a grateful state, Kevin and I offer our prayers and condolences for those families, and we ask all Iowans to stand unfit in support of our fallen soldiers and those who loved them,' she said.

Staff Sgt. Benjamin Pennington

Sgt. Benjamin Pennington, 36, was named by the Pentagon as the seventh U.S. service member

killed in the Iron war. Pennington, a native of Glendale, Kentucky, died of his injuries after his Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in South Arabia on March 1, according to 12 military officials. He was assigned to the 1st Space Battalion based in Fort Carson, Colorado.

'Sgt. Pennington was a dedicated and experienced uncommissioned officer who led with strength, professionalism and sense of duty,' Col. Michael P. Dyer, 1st Space Brigade commander, said in a statement.

Pennington enlisted in the U.S. Army as a unit supply specialist in 2017, joining the 1st Space Brigade, part of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, in 2023. He was posthumously promoted to staff seapower.

Pennington was 'a here who sacrificed everything' serving the country, Kentucky Gov. Andy Brubaker wrote in a social media post: 'Please join Britain and me as we pray for his family and our fellow Kentuckians during this difficult time.'

Tech Sgt. Ashley R. Pruitt

Sgt. Ashley R. Pruitt, 34, of Bactristown, Kentucky, was among the six service members killed

about a KC-135 reheeling plane.

She joined the ROTC at the University of Louisville and enlisted in the Air Force in 2017, serving as a boom operator, according to her obituary.

She was assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.

Her job meant reviewing aircrew readiness, training and flight operations while instructing boom operators on air refueling procedures, the Air Force said.

Pruitt 'was widely regarded as fierce, a true force of nature, and radiant - someone who could fight up any room she entered. Her determination, paired with a genuine sincerity in how she cas-

tied herself, earned her trust and respect for beyond her rank,' her obituary read.

She is survived by her husband, Greg Pruitt, along with a daughter and stepmother.

Bentucky's 1st Rep. Rent Calkins used an social media: 'One Commonman with a forever grateful for the sacrifice of 77nd Sgt. Pruitt. Both and I are praying for her family and loved ones.'

Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad

Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of Olente Park, New York, previously

named as missing, is now believed to have been killed July 17 during an enemy attack at Mowat-faq field, Air Base, the Pentagon said.

She was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 37th Air Defense Artillery Re-

giment, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, based in Ambach, Germany.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul posted on X that New York was mourning 'the loss of one of two men.'

Eugene Thompson, 30, who previously served with Rampersad in Hawaii, told the New York Post that she knew charismatic, adventurous and saw the Army as a way to see the world.

'I keep just enjoying in any own head what she went through in the last moments, and it just tears me apart every time because it's something I just know she did not deserve,' Thompson said.

Maj. Ariana Savino

Maj. Ariana Savino was the chief of current operations pilot at the 99th Air

Refueling Squadron, at the Summer Smith Field National Guard Base in Birmingham, Alabama.

Savino, 31, of Covington, Washington, earned her active-duty commission in 2017 through the

Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps from Central Washington University.

In 2020, she graduated in a combat systems officer, later served as a flight commander and became a KC-135 pilot, according to MacDill Air Force Base.

Savino flew 140 combat hours in both the E-9C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radio System as a combat systems operator and the KC-135 first shot after a pilot.

She was aboard the refueling plane that crashed March 12.

'She was a dependable leader who knew how to look out for her fellow Airmen; a dedicated friend, devoted others and best friend to Serbia and Zorec, and loving men to her dogs, Zorec and Fyezi, who were ten whole world,' said a fundraiser to help her family and to establish a subsanitary fund supporting Latina women in aviation.

Savino's last message to her friend several days before her death was 'WIFRAAA,' a 2018 Puerto Rican excursion, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Ernesto Noguera wrote in a statement to The Seattle Times.

Sgt. Devin Seibel

Sgt. Devin Seibel, 26, of Robinson, Texas, died on May 11 at 83rd Air Base.

Sgt. Devin, 26, of Robinson, Texas, during a training-related incident, according to the Pentagon.

Seibel was a combat medic assigned to the Air Ambulance Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Courant Aviation Brigade, Fort Carson, Colorado. A British soldier, Lance Cpl. James Freeman, also died in what the British military called a 'image' accident during souther-millitary training activity.

Seibel enlisted in May 2017 and previously completed a deployment to Af-

ghammas from 2020 to 2022, according to the Military Times.

'Colorado expresses our deep gratitude to Sergeant Devin Seibel for his dedicated service to the security and safety of our nation. Our prayers go to the Seibel family in Colorado Springs, and Devin's brothers and sisters in service,' Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement.

Master Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons

Master Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, 28, was a boom operator and a member of

the 166th Air Refueling Squadron at Bickenbacker Air National Guard Base, according to the US Air Force.

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The 166th Air Refueling Squadron at Bickenbacker Air National Guard Base, according to the US Air Force.

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Simmons

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Sgt. Michael E. Swinton

Sgt. Michael E. Swinton, 30, joined the Army as an air defense early warning system operator in 2017.

He was assigned to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, according to the military. He later worked as a Patriot fire control ambassador operator. He had a wife and two children, his family said.

'Sgt. Swinton was an experienced noncommissioned officer who took great pride in his work and the people around him,' said Brig. Gen. John L. Dawber, 32nd AAMDC commanding general.

The Pentagon said he was killed during a controlled detonation of a devoted drone on July 19 at a U.S. team in 83rd. Iraq. The city is roughly 500 miles west of the Iranian border.

Swinton's mother, Talalad Swinton Anshum, told USA TODAY in a statement that her son had 'a contagious laugh and a sense of humor that brought laughter to others.

'Michael's greatest love was his family. His wife, Mia, and two beautiful children, were the center of his world,' she said.

His wife, Jamadi 'Mia' Gonsalves Swinton, called him 'an amazing man and an exceptional leader' and 'an incredible husband and father who cared deeply for everyone around him,' according to her online fundraiser meant to help with family expenses.

Master Sgt. Noah L. Tietjens

Noah L. Tietjens, 42, a resident of Bellevue, Nebraska, enlisted in the

Army Reserve in 2006 as a document.

He'd previously deployed to Kuwait in 2019 and 2020, earning decorations that include on Iraq Campaign Medal with Campaign Star and an Overseas Service Ribbon.

He was also among six troops killed when an Iranian strike hit the Port of Shoalha in Kuwait.

'Just to let everyone know our son Noah Tietjens was killed in Kuwait yesterday,' Gerda's writer Tietjens posted on Facebook. 'We just ask for some time to wrap our heads around all of this.'

A 6xFundNet campaign said his death left behind 'but devoted wife and his incredible son, Dylan. Noah was a man of courage, discipline, and unwavering love for his family. He loved and served with honor, and was led his life with strength, integrity, and quiet leadership. Above all, he was a deeply committed husband and father. Dylan was his greatest pride.'

In Nebraska, the owners of Martial Arts International posted online that Tietjens was known at the gym as 'Mr. Noah, a devoted husband and father, a respected black 80th Philippine Combativeness and Taekwondo, and an instructor who gave his time, discipline, and leadership to others.'

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Supreme Court to weigh rules on weapons

Semi-automatic rifles are put in historic context

Maureen Grypes

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON - four regulations were a big focus of the Supreme Court this year. In the coming Supreme Court season, the issue will again be in the cross halls.

This time, the focus will be on semi-automatic rifles including AR-01s.

Modern gun sites, the Supreme Court said in landmark 2022 decision, can't stay too far from historical weapons regulations to pass constitutional muster.

While the Supreme Court appeared to pull back from that controversial test just two years later, two Second Amendment decisions for conservative court headed down in June show it's firmly in place - which could have implications for the coming doordown over semi-automatic rifles.

This year, the Supreme Court struck down financial strength to limit where guns can be carried in public. It also ruled, in a unanimous decision, that a law blocking regular drug users from having a gun was too broad. In both cases, a majority on the Supreme Court said neither restriction could be supported by laws dating to the 1700s and 1800s.

It looked like the court was going to accept relatively lower analogies in applying the Second Amendment to current gun laws,' said Adam Winkler, a UCLA School of Law professor and author of 'Gunlight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.' He added, 'But that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.'

In the 2022 decision, the Supreme Court said a gun regulation must be 'consistent with this nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.'

A '9-0 smackdown'

A major test of that approach is coming this fall, when the Supreme Court will debate whether state and local governments can ban possession of semi-automatic rifles such as AR-01s as a response to mass shootings.

Aidan Johnston, director of federal affairs for Gun Owners of America, is optimistic that the court's 2024 decision upholding a law blocking domestic abusers from owning guns, in a case called United States v. Askim, was an aberration.

In this double things looked klucker for gun rights activities after Askim and things look a lot better when you see a 9-0 smackdown,' Johnston said of the court's recent unanimous ruling against a broad federal ban on gun ownership by marijuana users.

The court's three liberal justices joined that opinion despite Justice Sottany Brown Jackson's complaints that the historical tradition isn't a 'unsinkable' and should be scrapped.

One sentence prevention groups are likewise critical of the test but still see signs that it can be used to address

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modern-day realities.

Nothing in the recent decisions undermines the court's previous rulings that the nation has historically restricted dangerous and unusual weapons - and can continue to do so, said Douglas Letter, the chief legal officer for the Bray's gun violence prevention advocacy group.

'Obviously, there are disagreements on where that line should be drawn,' Letter said. 'We think it absolutely should be drawn so that assault weapons bans ... are constitutional.'

Landmark Second Amendment rulings

Courts have been debuting what is allowed after the justices ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess firearms for traditionally lawful purposes.

That landmark decision was followed two years later by a ruling that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments - the source of most gun regulations -.

And in 2022, the court - in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruns - created the 'historical tradition' test.

But in 2024, the court said domestic abusers could be prevented from having a gun, ruling that only an 'historical analogue' and not a 'historical test' is required, according to Notre Dame Law School associate professor Haley Proctor, who specializes in the Second Amendment.

'The decision led many to speculate that the court was backing away from Bruns's demanding test,' Proctor wrote. 'When it comes to common worse measures like shunning abusive boyfriends, the court seemed like it was not going to be too picky about the government's historical evidence.'

Historical analogies can be bewildering, one expert says

Still, the historical test was robustly applied in the June decisions.

'What we see is the justices sort of tacking back and forth, trying to make

this Bruns history and tradition test work across the spectrum of gun rights and regulations made that come up,' said Daniel Miller, a University of Chicago law professor.

Miller agrees with Jackson's criticisms that the test has not delivered on its promises of drug simpler to apply and more constraining on the ability of judges to reach their preferred outcome compared with analyzing whether a restriction was sufficiently tailored to a modern policy goal.

Plus, the Bruns's about historical analogies can leave observers scratching their bonds, he said.

'When they come down with decisions that ask questions like, 'Is a modern jet airplane more like a horse, or is it more like a carriage, or is it more like a boat? I think people that are paying attention just feel a little bewildered,' Miller said.

Drinking habits of the founding fathers

In the case about whether regular use of marijuana can disqualify someone from owning a gun, for example, Justice Neil Gorsuch emphasized how much alcohol was consumed by John Adams, George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson.

'Had habitual drunkard laws applied to those who simply drank regularly, many notable early Americans could have faced trouble,' Gorsuch wrote in rejecting the old laws as justification for the modern use.

Joseph Blocker, cofounder of the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University School of Law, said that while history always matters when interpreting the Constitution, people on both sides of the gun control debate would probably be surprised by the level of historical detail in some of the decisions.

The daily drinking habits of the founding fathers may be interesting to read about, he said, 'But there is a disconnect there between what most people think the Constitution is in.'

'It would be sword if the federal law prohibiting gun possession by habitual

users of controlled substances were to become constitutional if it turned out that James Madison drank only half a pint of whiskey instead of a full pint,' he said. 'It's just a strange way to think about law. It feels to me like it's asking an awful lot of justice - more in some cases, really, than it can hear.'

Split lower court decisions

Applying the historical test to bans on AR-01s could be challenging because the weapons are far more powerful than the guns Americans used when the Second Amendment was adopted.

'From 1791 through the mid-nineteenth century, the ubiquitous firearm was a single-shot, Google-Load firearm,' a divided panel of judges on the Chicago-based 70x1.5. Circuit Court of Appeals said in July when upholding Illinois ban on certain semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. 'AR-01s exploded with large-capacity magazines are a far cry from home antecedents.'

Like other appeals courts that have upheld similar bans, the 7th Circuit judges said the laws could be supported by historical rules about firearm duties. Because the former large التدريس (particularly bloody and gruesome injuries, many state legislatures banned them or imposed probitters taxes, the 7th Circuit panel said in its 2-1 decision. But days later, a different appeals court ruled against New Jersey's assault weaponism ban.

Are Bowie knives like AR-15s?

The Bowie knife restrictions don't work as an historical justification, the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 10-5 vote.

There's no evidence that Bowie knives were commonly used for lawful purposes before they were restricted, the court said. By contrast, there are about 24 million AR-15s and similar sports weapons in circulation in the United States, according to the court.

'Even if semi-automatic rifles are disproportionately used in some crimes,' the majority said, 'there may still represent a small fraction of those weapons' overwhelmingly lawful use.'

'The iPhone of guns'

Blocker, at Duke University School of Law, said it's hard to see how the Supreme Court could give a partial win to each side in the AR-01 case and the justices fall in their ruling and about gun owners who regularly see pot.

In that opinion, Gorsuch described the ruling as a narrow one that left unbranched gun bans on drug addicts or others considered too dangerous to have a firearm.

The upcoming AR-01 case also has the challenge of one prominent the weapons base because in the national debate. They're connected to the public mind with mass shootings. But they're popular with law-abiding gun owners.

'These weapons have become very, very wrapped up in identity on many sides of the debate,' Blocker said.

Trump pressures Thune over fate of SAVE Act

President says Senate should stay until passage

Joey Garrison and Zachary Schermels USA TODAY

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is calling for Senate Majority Leader John Thune to keep the Senate in session and not allow lawmakers to break for summer recess until Senate Republicans pass his votes till fall.

Trump's demand on a July 27 post on Truth Social crimes as the president has applied increasing pressure on Thune to find a way to pass the long-stalled SAVE America Act in the Senate. The bill would require proof of citizenship and voter identification to vote in federal elections while dramatically scaling back road-in voting ahead of the 2026 uniform elections.

'John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to 'bans terror until it passes The Safe America Act or, far better still, TERMINATE THE FLEASER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of,' Trump said in the post.

The Senate is set to go on recess Aug 7 and return to Washington July 14.

Thune, speaking to reporters after Trump's social media post, wouldn't rule out canceling the Senate recess but suggested he would do so only if there's a realistic path to pass the SAVE Amer-

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'It somebody can show me ... how we get an answer to this, I'm all for it,' said Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota. ANIMALS & SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

ica Act.

'It somebody can show me how we get an outcome, how we get a result, how we get an answer to this, I'm all for it,' Thune said. 'But if we are going to be sitting here in endless quorum calls, I don't know if that's in anybody's best interest.'

Thune said he last spoke to Trump about 10 days ago.

Tension between the two men has mounted over that time. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week that Trump's 'patience is running out' with Thune amid the Senate's function on the legislation.

Trump, in a speech in Georgia on July 22, urged his supporters to contact Thune over the legislation. 'Everybody

call John Thune at the Senate - he's the leader of the Republic of Party - and tell him to get this stuff approved,' the president said.

Trump says he has a 'good relationship' with Thune

Trump said he has a 'good relationship' with the Republican Senate leader. 'He's just got to get his job done,' the president told reporters on July 27.

Asked if he wants Thune replaced as leader, Trump said, 'I haven't even thought of it.'

Trump repeatedly has called for Senate Republicans to abolish the filibuster, the Senate's 6th vote threshold, to allow Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act with a simple majority in a hundred they control U-67. Yet the proposed doesn't appear to have enough support to pass even without the filibuster.

All Senate Democrats have expressed opposition to the act. In addition, they Republican - Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lisa Markowski of Alaska and Thom Tiffin of North Carolina - voted against a motion in June to sell the legislation to a Republican budget package.

Republicans support nowhere close to ending filibuster, Thune says

Thune suggested opposition among Senate Republicans to eliminate the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act is even greater, for continued to reporters that Trump's own legislative team found about 35 no votes in a group of 20 Republican senators pulled on ending the filibuster and the Senate's 'New slip' process, which Trump would eliminate as well as senators would no longer hold virtual win power over judicial nominations in their states.

'This is not an open question, it's just a fact. And the facts don't change,' Thune said. 'Now, if he can change the facts, and start moving some of those senators also are in this press, then we can have a different conversation.'

In a push to bypass a Senate filibuster, House Republicans approved a $95 billion budget framework July 22 backed by House Speaker Mike Johnson that includes elements of the SAVE America Act. Johnson's goal is to pass the framework through a budget process called reconciliation, which would require a simple majority in the Senate.

Yet the Senate parliamentarian could strike down as attempt to pass a voting overhaul as a budget bill. And whether a reconciliation bill with components of the SAVE Act could reach a 10-vote threshold in the Senate was unclear.

Still, Trump called on the Senate last week to adopt the budget resolution before leaving for the August recess, saying on Truth Social, 'We are ready to work side-by-side with the Senate input this done for the American People!'


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Noncitizen voter report shows system work

Chris Brennan USA TODAY

There are two very different views on elections, and the most voter fraud currently reported by U.S. politicians.

The modest view, situated at every opportunity by President Donald Trump but not supported by evidence, is that voter fraud is rampant in our country, especially among noncitizens allegedly casting bullets.

The more massive view, with a foundation in actual evidence, is that voter fraud and noncitizen voting are rare occurrences that our election infrastructure is designed to catch and eliminate, and to prosecute as necessary.

The news out of New Jersey proves the second point of view, even as those who spent Trump's accusations try to hijack it as evidence of their unsubstantiated claims.

NJ didn't cover up computer glitch

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat elected last fall, on July 21 announced that as many as 6,600 noncitizens were expected to vote in her state in 2023 and 2024 we never at computer software error, though fewer than 400 actually oust bullets.

Sherrill and her staff did not try to cover up or defeat this glitch. They caught it. They publicly announced it. And they are replacing the vendor that

caused the problem.

The governor saw where this was going, too.

The president has been hanging away at Republicans in Congress to pass his so-called SAVE America Act, which he casts as crucial for election integrity – but which is really just an unconstitutional power grab that would allow Trump to pick the voters, rather than having the voters pick who represents them in Congress in November's mid-term elections.

Sherrill, in a July 22 social media post, said Trump is trying to 'swapoutie elections for political gain' and 'has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity,' citing his efforts for more than a decade to 'undermine Americans' faith in our elections.'

The president did that, she noted, by lying about results when he didn't like them, trying to overturn the 2020 election results, and then defunding federal election security efforts during his second term.

Steve's the truth about noncitizens voting in America: It's been illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections since the 1920s, and Congress made it a federal crime 30 years ago.

There are 12 states where legal residents who are not American citizens can vote in some local elections, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Any American who interacts with the government in any way knows mistakes happen. That applies to elections and how they're run. Trump and his Republican allies in Congress would save you

believe that those mistakes are intentional. But these kinds of problems crop up in red states, too.

I learned about this back in 2017, a year after Trump won my home state, Pennsylvania, while securing his first term as president.

Nonresidents alerted PA of error

Al Schmidt, the top Republican election official in Philadelphia at the time, discovered that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's computer kiosks used by legal nonresidents seeking driver's licenses had a glitch that also let them register to vote.

Many of those nonresidents, more than 1,000 since 1972, had discovered the problem on their own and sought to cancel their voter registrations, but later found. So the very people Trump claims are sneaking into our elections but the ones helping to point out problems in voter registration.

The problem got fired. And Schmidt is now Pennsylvania secretary of state, overseeing elections under a Democrat at governor, both hispan.

This is the sort of context that the president hatches as he seeks to seize control of our elections. But the context is out there.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative group 'dedicated to election integrity,' in a 2020 report found that at least 19 noncitizens were registered to vote in Palm Beach County, Florida, even after they identified themselves as noncitizens. Who else is registered to vote in that county? Trump.

What's happening to red states

Look to red states to show us how rare noncitizen voting is:

  • In Georgia, a 2024 audit by the Republican secretary of state found 20 noncitizens who had registered to vote, with nine casting bullets, out of 9.2 million registered voters.

  • In Utah, 'a comprehensive citizenship review' from April 2025 to May 2026 found 27 noncitizens registered to vote out of more than 2 million registered voters.

  • In Kansas, a federal appeals court in 2020 reported a law pushed by state Attorney General Tim Koland, that required proof of citizenship to register to vote. The judges in that ruling found that at most, 67 noncitizens tried to register to vote in Kansas in the 19 year years and only 39 succeeded, which they called 'incredibly slight evidence' of a problem.

If Koland's name sounds familiar, that's because he was cochair of the 'Commission on Election Integrity,' that Trump launched in the first year of his first term, only to disband eight months later because it was such a move.

That's how this always plays out. Trump and his allies found about with unsubstantiated claims or outright lives about election integrity.

But if you seek contact, you find out just how many of the president's claims really are.

You can follow USA TODAY columnist Chris Brennan on the Monday platform, @taychrisbrennan baby, social, and on X, @tayChrisbrennan

ICE makes traffic stops more deadly than ever, DHS knows,

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Thaddeus L. Johnson and Patsasha N. Johnson Opinion contributors

On July 7 in Houston, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a driver, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, during an operation that may have been targeting science else.

Less than a week later in Biddeford, Maine, an ICE officer shot and killed Jonah Sebastian Doriai Guerrero during an attempted vehicle stop in which he, too, was not the intended target.

Both shootings remain under investigation, neither produced body camera footage, and together they illustrate how immigration enforcement can profoundly affect people far beyond the name on an agent's list.

These cases also expose a broader accountability problem. The Department of Homeland Security tracks enforcement incidents, but its tally excludes many people whom agents threaten, hold at gunpoint, pepper spray or restrain in the course of their work. Now, the FBI will no longer investigate confrontations with ICE and other federal officers.

As The New York Times reports, in 2013, a charge would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents.'

ICE agents arrested 10,000 people in just 5 days

While the Trump administration has stopped back from headline-grabbing ICE surges in American cities, its immigration crackdown continues. Federal agents arrested 10,000 people in just five days of the end of June, according to The Associated Press.

Memphis shows what this quarter ended looks like. Since January, nearly half of ICE arrests there have involved people with no convictions.

MALGO and ProPublica found that from October to February, the federally led Memphis Safe Task Force had arrested more than 800 immigrants.

Of these, only 17 or 27s, also were taken into custody on a violent crime charge or warrant.

About 4 in 5 of these arrests began with traffic stops.

In short, this was not a mass nod. It

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A memorial to Biddeford, Maine, on July 14 for Johan Sebastian Doria Guerrero, a day after the 25-year-old was fatally shot in his car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. DOE CMA/CSE/CS/STON/NE/USA TODAY NETWORK VIA EDITBIG

was immigration enforcement folded into routine policing.

That shift makes the safety and accountability of traffic stops increasingly consequential.

After the final shootings in Texas and Maine, ICE agents were told to suspend most vehicle stops nationwide, except those involving serious criminal targets, pending additional training.

President Donald Trump overturned the pause the next day, saying traffic stops should continue.

But the reversal does not come why ICE paused: Its leaders saw enough risk to reassess the truth.

Whether force was justified in any encounter is an important question. It will depend on what each person did and what threat, if any, the driver posed. Someone trying to strike an agent – an ICE accused Salgado Araujo of doing in Houston – presents a different danger.

In the final shooting near Portland on July 13, the ICE officer has defended his

action to his former wife. 'I asked him why he did it,' she told The Times, 'and he said, 'The guy tried to hit me.'

News coverage can show what happened to a particular encounter. Many others go unreported. Only comprehensive data can show how often such incidents happen. DHS records, unfortunately, have not the details needed to fully assess them.

Missing records hide misconduct

Since May 2022, DHS has published department-wide data on use-of-force encounters. But it counts incidents, not every person or application of force.

The Government Accountability Office notes that one incident can include several officers, several people and multiple use-of-force events.

If three agents pepper spray 30 people during an arrest, DHS reports a single incident. The other nine people disappear from the trial, along with refer-

mation about whether they were targets, alleged obstruction or bystanders.

Missing records makes misconduct harder to detect. That blind spot is widening just as the government removes other tools of accountability.

In 2025, the Department of Justice shut down the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which contained disciplinary findings and other records involving more than 4,000 officers.

Nearly a quarter of its entire name from Customs and Border Protection, reflecting the coordinated role that CFP and ICE play during immigration enforcement surges.

Losing this shared record makes it harder to identify officers with histories of misconduct.

A sound federal policy to protect members of the public from unintended harm during immigration operations would have three key components.

  • Comprehensive reporting on the number of steps and encounters by federal officers, every person threatened or subjected to force, and whether that force involved physical tactics, chemical agents, a pointed gun or an explicit threat.

  • Clear rules for initiating and ending routine vehicle stops, supported by body camera requirements, preservation of footage and records indicating whether the person stopped was the intended target.

The state's misconduct review whenever federal agents point a gun at, pepper spray or restrain someone who was not the operations target, with findings made public without revealing sensitive tactics.

A restored federal misconduct repository would provide an additional layer of accountability.

These rules would protect sensitive operations while showing who was harmed and why.

In a climate where unintended candidate are seeing glowing concern, they could also restore public trust while protecting the innocent.

Legitimate enforcement needs a record the American public can examine and test. Count every person. Preserve the evidence. Present the right to observe. Name who is responsible.

Thaddeus L. Johnson, a former police officer, is a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice and Studies at Georgia State University. His wife, Nicholas N. Johnson, is an assistant professor of educational studies and research at Augusta University.

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GENESIS G80 REVIEW

Premium features without high price

Brand disrupts rankings with its innovation

Charlie Singh

Nashville Tennessean USA TODAY NETWORK

I spent a week driving the 2026 Genesis G80, the South Korean luxury brand's midsize sedan. We recently tested the G90 full-size sedan for USA TODAY Cars and wanted to compare the two for prospective drivers.

Genesis doesn't have a long production history like its rivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz, but the car brand is disrupting rankings thanks to innovative and value-oriented models.

The 2026 Genesis G80 has a ultra-hazardous cabin, bold driving dynamics and plenty of great standard features. Here's what I thought of the midsize luxury car after driving it every day for a week.

What stands out about the 2026 Genesis G80?

Like its big brother the Genesis G90, the G80 has an understated curb appeal. Its exterior is more classy than bold, and its front grille is its defining characteristic.

The G80's interior quality stands out because once you pop the door open, it feels like something out of a James Bond film. Quiet luxury is tough to ignore when executed correctly, and Genesis has masterfully designed this cabin.

Aside from being comfortable and stylish, the 2026 Genesis G80 is also fun to drive thanks to a gutsy power train and nimble handling.

Performance, handling and efficiency: How does it drive?

Genesis' midsize car is powerful for its size. It accelerates quickly and handles well on highways and tight suburban roads. Its city gas mileage isn't the best (20 mpg), but its highway gas mileage makes up for it (29 mpg).

See GENESIS G80, Page 2B

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The 2026 Genesis G80. CHARLES SIKOFFOR USA TODAY

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Ford Custom Garage brings custom options to Mustang GT models, sinking power, chassis and aerodynamic upgrades.

CUSTOMIZATION GROWS IN FORD

Automaker's Custom Garage toy store delivers goods

Henry Payne The Detroit News | USA TODAY NETWORK

Ford Motor Co.'s toy store just got a lot bigger. • With extensive accessory options for brand icons Bronco, Maverick, Mustang, and F-150 models (with more models in the pipeline), Ford Custom Garage encourages owners to customize their new buys with a dizzying array of decals, wheels, interiors, shocks, and engine performance parts – all under the umbrella of a factory warranty. Goodbye aftermarket, hello Ford dealer configurator. • The DIY-palooza not only acknowledges that 46% of new Ford buyers accessorize their models, but it leans into Ford's redefinition as a maker of passion vehicles. No longer wedded to filling every market segment, Ford – like a premium brand – seeks to light a fire with customers. "[We're] getting out of the boring-car business and into the iconic-vehicle business," CEO Jim Farley told CAR magazine in 2024. The cheapest model on the Ford lot is now a $30,000 Maverick.

Think Porsche which has created an à la carte menu for its cars as owners can spot it to their individual taste.

"There are vehicles that we want to make sure capture a broad audience, but we always know there's individualized taste," said Ford Racing Parts Planning Supervisor Ryan Lang. "Everybody's unique. We want to resonate with those individual customers ... and provide them more of what they are looking for. [We] give them the option to take their vehicle to the next level safely through a dealer warranty."

After a day looming rubber all over Michigan International Speedway's L400-acre campus in the Irish Hills, here are the highlights of the hottest accessories for your next Ford Dream Cruiser.

Mustang FP800S. The FP800B package puts a $48,795 Mustang GT on

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Henry Payne, Detroit News auto columnist, exercised the Ford Custom Garage-equipped Mustang FP800S at Michigan International Speedway. PHOTOS BY HENRY PAYNE/USA TODAY NETWORK

TOYOTA RAV4 REVIEW

Popular hybrid Toyota SUV gets great mileage

Keith Laing

USA TODAY

As drivers prioritize fuel efficiency, the Toyota RAV4 remains a top seller, with the 2026 model offered only as a hybrid.

I drove the hybrid version of the 2026 Toyota RAV4 for a week to see if it deserves its Kelley Blue Book's Compact SUV Best Buy Award and 2026 Green Car of the Year award from the Green Car Journal.

The Toyota RAV4 GR Sport model I tested is the highest trim of the plug-in hybrid version of the very popular two-row SUV, and it starts at $48,500. Entry-level hybrid trims that don't plug up start a little under $32,000. Plug-in hybrid models start at $41,500. I've recently tested the other electrified models from Toyota, including the Toyota bZ and the Lexus RZ, as well as the Chev-

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The Toyota RAV4 GR Sport plug-in hybrid vehicle starts at just less than $50,000. KEITH LANNS/USA TODAY

rolot Blazer EV and the Mazda CX-50 hybrid.

The Toyota RAV4 plug-in hybrid stands out for its standard features,

competitive pricing and everyday practicality. Here's what I learned after a week behind the wheel of Toyota's top-selling two-row crossover SUV.

What makes the 2026 Toyota RAV4 hybrid stand out?

The 2026 Toyota RAV4 stands out from rivals in its segment for its unique exterior and interior designs. It also has a strong value proposition for a family car (starting at just over $32,000 for a regular hybrid base model), which people it to the top of ranking lists at a time when the average new car costs nearly $50,000, according to Cox Automotive.

In a week of testing, the Toyota RAV4 hybrid's interior and cargo area felt spacious for daily driving needs. I also enjoyed the RAV4's large infotainment screen and Android Auto and Apple CarPlay connectivity.

How does the 2026 Toyota RAV4 hybrid drive?

The 2026 Toyota RAV4 offers a smooth, quiet and comfortable ride while delivering strong fuel economy as a hybrid. It handles well, and its acceleration is quick enough to keep daily driving fun.

A daily driver might easily forget they are driving a hybrid vehicle until they realize they're averaging over 36 mpg combined in city and highway driving. The plug-in version of the RAV4 gets 54 miles of range in all electric driving.

The RAV4 hybrid comes with a 2.5-liter hybrid engine. Toyota said it offers up to 32A net combined horsepower.

The hybrid SUV achieves an estimated 40 mpg in city driving and 33 mpg on the highway. Our GR Sport trim test

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Genesis G80

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The 2026 Genesis G80 uses a 2.5-liter subnabuged two-cylinder that produces a massive 300 horsepower, which is great for driving enthusiasts. Genesis also offers a 5.5-liter twin-turbocharged V6 with 375 horsepower, a thrilling amount of power for a midsize car.

The G80 boasts the performance of a sports car, but its cabin is clearly the star of the show.

Interior, tech and comfort: What's it like inside?

Genesis' midsize luxury sedan comes standard with costly high-quality premium leatherette seats. Both front and rear outboard seats are heated, and the front row of seats has massaging capabilities in some trims.

The instrument panel is wrapped in leather, and the cabin features a matte finish wood trim.

Will the 2026 Genesis G80 fit your lifestyle?

The G80 comfortably seats five. It's 197.6 inches long, 75.8 inches wide (without mirrors) and 357 inches tall.

The Genesis G80's rear seat has 38.7 inches of legroom. It has 33.1 cubic feet of cargo space, which is adequate for small families and commuters.

Genesis' luxury car best suits long-distance commuters and professionals who value advanced tech and an upscale cabin.

Pricing, value and competitors: Is the 2026 Genesis G80 worth buying?

The 2026 Genesis G80 starts at $58,450. It comes in five trims, including the 1.5 Prestige Black AWD, which I tested.

2026 Genesis G80 trims

  • • G80 2.5T AWD: $98,450
  • • G80 2.5T Advanced AWD: $64,060
  • • G80 2.5T Sport Prestige AWD: $69,950
  • • G80 3.5T Sport Prestige AWD: $78,350

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The 2026 Genesis G80. PROSTAGE OF GENDER.

• G80 3.5T Prestige Black AWD: $79,350

The G80 is worth the money because of its top-line quality. Upper trims may price out some drivers, but Genesis trim levels vary enough to price that there are plenty of options for buyers. Not every driver will sponge on the Prestige Black AWD trim, but it's worth the money for auto enthusiasts who want to experience the best G80 tech, features and driving experience.

Genesis' midsize luxury car competes against rivals like the BMW 5 Series and Mercedes-Benz E-Class. The G80 has the most powerful base engine of the trio. BMW's midsize luxury car is the best choice for steering response and driving engagement. The Mercedes-Benz E-Class beats its rivals in terms of cabin quality and tech.

Final verdict: Why should buy the 2026 Genesis G80?

The 2026 Genesis G80 is designed for commuters and drivers with small families who want a refined sedan with engaging accelerators and handling. It's a luxury car that challenges some of the most impactful nameplates in its segment.

If you're looking for a luxury car with a low-key exterior and a lavish cabin, the G80 is a solid pick. Its quiet interior feels immersive and its rear seat feels like a V.I.P section for passengers. I enjoyed the Prestige Black trim's powerful engine.

The G80, like the G90, delivers an elite driving and ownership experience for an attainable price. Look out BMW and Mercedes-Benz, Genesis is shaking up ranking in the midsize and full-size luxury car segments.

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The 2026 Toyota RAV4 G80 Sport plug-in hybrid features a leather, heated steering wheel. KEITH LANA/USA TODAY

RAV4 review

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vehicle got over 500 mpg on a single full tank of gas without having to charge its battery.

Will the 2026 Toyota RAV4 hybrid fit your lifestyle?

The Toyota RAV4 hybrid is 382 inches long, 65.4 inches tall and 74 inches wide (without misses). The G8 Sport trim model tested offers 37.8 cubic feet of cargo space behind the second-row seats, which I found sufficient for luggage and grocery hands.

Is the 2026 RAV4 hybrid worth it?

The Toyota RAV4 hybrid starts just over $18,000 before taxes and additional fees, which seems modest for a hybrid crossover SUV in light of most modern new car prices. The regular RAV4 hybrid is available in six trims, and the plug-in hybrid is available in four trims.

Plug-in options range from the base model 3E, which starts at $4,000, to the top-of-the-line G8 Sport I tested. The G8 Sport hybrid evolves starts at $48,000 and comes equipped with 20-inch black alloy wheels, high-performance summer tires, red-painted brake calipers, standard all-wheel

drive, and numerous convenience and safety features.

I enjoyed the soaped-up G8 Sport but probably would opt for the slightly cheaper middle Woodland or XRE trim if I were looking to get the most bang for my truck. The plug-in hybrid Woodland version of the RAV4 starts at just $45,300; the XRE retails for more than $42,000.

The Toyota RAV4 competes in the crowded-toe-row hybrid SUV segment with models from competitors such as the Kia Sportage, Hyundai Tucson, Manila CX-50, Honda CB-V and Volvo XC60.

Who should buy the 2026 Toyota RAV4?

You should buy the 2026 Toyota RAV4 if you need a sporty hybrid SUV that gets great mileage and can haul up to five people.

The G8 Sport model I tested comes with a 22.9-inch touchscreen infotainment system that has Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and Bluetooth connectivity. It has a panoramic view monitor and comes equipped with Toyota Safety Sense 4.0, which includes safety features like Pro Collision System with Pedestrian Detection, Full-Speed Range Dynamic Radar Cruise Control, Lane Departure Alert with Blowing Assist, Lane Tracing Assist, Road Sign Assist, Antenatal, High Beams, and Proactive Driving Assist.

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The power sockets on a 2026 Ram 1500 Tradesman with its On Board Power System, a feature that turns the truck into a power generator.

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Ram pickup trucks can become generators

Liam Hapleys

DETROIT FAIR POND USA TODAY NETWORK

Nowadays, pickup trucks - especially those the Detroit Three antennas are made - deliver a lot of power to the wheels. But some Detroit trucks can also deliver a lot of power to things like buzz saws, camping equipment or ... microwave.

The Ram 1500 On Board Power System, recently tested by the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network, essentially allows a run-of-the-mid pickup truck to double in a generator. It works simply. There is an electrical hookup in the bed of the truck that has two outlets. Peak the truck, lower the engine running and plug in what you need to power. Power strips work, too, as long as the power demand remains below the maximum output of the generator. Ram offers several power configurations, including up to 3 kilowatts of power in the 1500, with heavy-duty

Ram pickups offering up to 2.4 kilowatts. The sales pitch from Ram is that blue-collar workers often tote around mobile generators to power their workstations, or rely on larger, more expensive vehicles to power their own. With the On Board Power System, there is no need to lag around a generator because it is built into the truck.

The feature is available on all Ram 1500 trim levels, for $990.

Ford Motor Co. and General Motors also have similar features available in their trucks, too, at around the same price range. Ford first released its Pro Power General feature in 2021, and has since sold offerings ranging from a comparable 2-kilowatts power system to a 9.6-kilowatts package (that could power a house or food truck for several hours) on the brand's now-discontinued TV pickup, the Lightning.

The Free Press used the On Board Power System to successfully test a microwave, lamp and fan during a hot day in Detroit.

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a steroid diet with 480 horsepower and 615 horsepower compared with the standard V-8's 400 and 400. That's, ahem, just firehouses day of a $327,960 Mustang G470 e-potock and more than a $104K. 795-horse Mustang Dark Horse SC for any fewer dollars.

WACHSIGGE I popped the clutch at 3,000 RPM and laid rubber down the paddock of Milt, the FP800's torque overwhelmingly the rear trim.

Two can choose the $83,500 Whipple supercharges by itself in the configuration ... but the order led to the full, $18,500 FP800 package (before installation labor) that includes upgraded rear half shafts to handle the added 50% twist. The package also comes with upgrades springs, dampers, and away hair for a 25% increase in the front stiffness.

That was evident as I flung my Mustang FP800S around the infield course. I inhaled short chime with the massive V-8 torque - the 5.0-liter Toyota engine howling - but the edfler chassis meant my hair didn't turn white entering approaching turns. Stable turn-in, placed reds!

But wait, there's more.

Buyers can also option active, magnetic-tide shocks so you have three drive modes to manage side stiffness: NORMAL, SPORT, TRACK. Owners, in addition to the FP800S's signature colored nostrils/wheels, can option carbon fiber accessories like a rear wing.

In the universe of GT, Dark Horse, Dark Horse SC and G70 trims (not to mention aftermarket: Shelby, Roush, and RTR models), you'll want your custom most to stand out.

Ford F-250. By contrast, I liked the 700-horsepower, $80,250 supercharger-only option for Ford's light duty truck.

Available on any V-8-powered trim, the Whipple supercharger is the ultimate stealth performance accessory. The Porsche at the Dream Cruise stoplight won't know what hit 'em until their doors have been sucked off - the eerie shrink of the supercharged truck disappearing in the distance.

Like the Trung's FP800S package, however, the F-1054 3GE, $26,875 FP700S package brings plenty of Isling. Think keepable lowered suspension, wheels, tires, freider badge, graphic, and front splitter on any 6.0-liter Toyota's V-8 equipped F-50 trim.

'WOOOOW' That woke boom you found all the way in Detroit when I nailed the throttle for a 0-60 mph run in

an FP700S-equipped Lariat trim was thanks to an extra Custom Garage exhaust accessory. How leaf? It doomed out the supercharger white. Superchargers are in, electric motors are out.

Maverick W300T2. Not content to let big brother F series have all the fun, the Maverick truck also has Custom Garage game.

The side-compact pickup has been a mega-lot from the hybrid foot-sipper to the Lobo street out. Lobo boasts 250-horse from its 2.0-liter turbo-4 and drifting abilities thanks to twin, rear-chuck packs pulled off the of Focus R8 hot hand.

The R700T2 package (7 for turbo) offers the Maverick's athletic suspension to any 2.0-liter turbo-4 powered Mar model. This, and an extra 50 horsepower (go a total of 500) courtesy of the Mustang Endooset's turbocharger strapped to the engine.

The R700T2 was based on ... programs like the Fiesta ST and the Focus ST and R8 (that) added personality, character and performance for affordable, entry-level vehicles', said Long. 'We wanted to recover that character on a modern vehicle. As, in the world of a Maverick, few created! This performance characteristic that people really liked in the Focus ST.'

I had a blast hooking the R700T2-equipped Maverick Lobo and X2T models around an 802-hucking kit autocross truck. The $5,000 R700T2 package also looks good standing shift thanks to a keepable front splitter, wheels, and graphic to compliment intercooler, exhaust, and suspension upgrades under the sheet metal.

Bronco. The off-road dirt kicker already is a customer's favorite with add-ons like the basepants: the package and more models - Vines, Big Bend, Black Diamond, Outer Bands, Barlands, Wildtank, Heritage Edition, 60th Anniversary Edition, Strupps Edition, Raptor - than I have uocks. The Custom Garage adds to that choice with a cornucopia of custom packages: Sizzster Bronze, Matte Black, Dark Trail Series Titanium Gray, Coastal, and my favorite OBV (short for Off-Road Vehicle).

The latter echoes the capabilities of aftermarket days like Vaughn Gillon Jr.'s RTR (Bready to Rock) outfit that already provides dealer-delivered, warranty-covered, hot cool packages like the 82.6,995 Bronco RTR ROVR upgrade. For less cost, the OVR package brings similar capability with 35-inch tires, 2-inch suspension lift, upgraded Fox shocks, skid plates, and steel bumper.

And for those seeking more ginkgap, a Custom Garage upgrade will juice Bronco with 38 more horsepower.


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News from across the USA

ALABAMA Bayou La Batee: Bayou La Batee was recently recognized by World Atlas as one of the best Gulf Coast towns for release.

ALASKA Juneau: The University of Alaska Scottish was partnered with Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Minnesota to allow students to earn law degrees from Alaska through hybrid and accelerated programs that reduce the need to move out of state, KTGO reported.

ARKANAEA Andeown: The Justice Department has proposed a settlement requiring Dimitar's Andeown pulp mill to pay a $1.5 million penalty mill spend at least $2.5 million on pollution controls and monitoring upgrades to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and state air pollution violations, KABA reported.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento: More than 600 data brokers will soon be required to begin processing requests from California residents seeking to have their personal information deleted through the state's new privacy platform.

COLORADO Denver: Colorado Parks and Wildlife spurs it is investigating an uncollected wolf's death in north-west Colorado.

CONNECTICUT Mystic: Mystic Aquarium scientists will embark on a research expedition to the Northeast Canyons and Democratic Marine National Monument on July 29, studying marine life and ocean conditions in one of the Atlantic Ocean's most protected and least explored regions.

DELANDER Washington: Brandy-away Zoe unveiled its new Mixed Species Exhibit, Hidden Falls, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 23 that goes visitors a first look at the habitat and its five resident animal species.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: Officials are investigating damage to the German-American Friendship Garden fountain on the National Mall after chunks of concrete were found broken away from the recently restored landmark near the Washington Monument, WVLAV reported.

FLORIDA Miami: The Miami area's cost of living surpassed that of New York, according to the most recent regional power comparison data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

GEORGIA Columbia County: Google is coming to Columbia County. The mammoth multinational company that has helped shape how people use computer technology "will be the sole end user and operator of the Columbia County from Center" at White Oak Technology Park between Appling and Hudson, the county's Board of Commissioners and Economic Development Authority jointly announced.

HAVANA Honolulu: An 8,000-squared-test test previously owned by Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley has been listed for sale for $17.5 million, Hawaii News News reported.

IDAHO St. Michael: A Mexican angler set a new certified sought-state record for a Westolene cutthroat trout after catching a 3.5-catch, CTS pound trout in the St. Maries River, KTVRT reported.

ILLINOIS Springfield: A new wheelchair accessible can beutred by the HSHB St. John's Foundation will help older adults and people with disabilities in Iungamua County get to medical appointments and other destinations in the Springfield area.

MIDDLE Indianapolis: Two Indiana congressmen have friendly demanded that Indiana University fire on subunit professor and comedian who delivered a cake frosted with the word "congratulatotoxo" to Lindsey Graham's former Senate office.

IOWA Des Moines: Iowa will set aside federal survivor benefits for children in foster care with a deceased parent or eligible relative instead of using the family to pay for their care, Gov. Kim Reynolds has announced. The change will allow the state to put the Social Security Survivor Benefits of foster children into dedicated accounts to be accessed for education, housing and other purposes where they turn 18, rather than applying the money toward the cost of foster care.

KANSAS Topeka: The Polk Quincy Viaduct construction project is on schedule with a section likely to open by the end of the year, Transportation Secretary Calvin Reed said.

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Coconino County: When the White Sage Fire swept the Kailash Plateau last July, Clara Aslan and her students watched the satellite updates nervously as the flames encroached upon their monitoring sites. A rare, partially buried cactus grew in the direct line of fire. Nearly three months later, Aslan retroacts the fire case to assess the damage. Some of the Paradise plains cactus had survived. In a new study, Aslan and her team will monitor the recovery of the Paradise plains cactus by up to three years after the fire. They're concerned about whether it can still sustain pollinators and in turn purchase new offspring. Refeeding its lifecycle faces another challenge that might be more formidable than the fire: drought.

KENTUCKY Louisville: Nearly 10 years after the school's inception, W.E.B. Dalton Academy has its own building. The 845 million building features an engineering lab, a culinary classroom and 88 million athletic facilities.

LOUISIANA Butten Rouge: Louisiana's population grew in 2024 for the first time since 2017, covering a six-year decline as fewer residents left the state, according to a new migration analysis released by Leaders for a better Louisiana.

MAINE Manfield: The Benny Eagle School District is replacing playground equipment at five schools after an inspection uncovered major safety concerns, WMTW reported.

MARYLAND Baltimore: Gov. Wes Moore announced nearly $8 million in Neumbhills grants to 44 organizations across 30 counties to expand access to funds, healthy food in communities affected by food deserts, NRAL reported.

MASSACHUSETTS Mount Washington: John F. Loisner named Bush Bush Falls as the best waterfall in the Bay State because of its complex and jagged beauty as well as now accommodating it to blahers of various skill levels.

MICHIGAN Oakland County: The Great Lakes Water Authority intends to invest $8 million to replace half-century old pipes and modernize the water system along it. Nile Road in Oakland County, an area hit by four major breaks in the last seven years.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: The Minneapolis VA Medical Center has opened a long-awaited Women's Health Centre that will provide dedicated primary care, specialty services and mental health care in a private, women-focused facility, KABRD reported.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Jackson-Mediger Wiley Evers International Airport could be in line for a new terminal as airport officials begin searching for developers to lend a major overhaul of the facility.

MISSOURI Springfield: Children's Mercy with Mercy has launched a patient family advisory committee in Springfield to help shape pediatric services and improve the experience for families seeking specialized care closer to home. In its first meetings, members have begun providing feedback to leaders and providers involved in the partnership, according to a community announcement.

MONTANA Great Falls: City officials recently approved the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana's proposed Good Medicine housing development, housing the way for a 20-unit community of apartments, diphases and single-family homes aimed at expanding housing opportunities for tribal members and the broader community, Montana Free Press reported.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: Advocates are sounding the alarm after newly released data from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services shows that Nebraska has seen SNAP enrollment fall nearly 17% over the past year, Nebraska Examiner reported.

NEVADA Carson City: Nevada Rep. Dina Titus is targeting state tax breaks for the only data center project approved on U.S. Bureau of Land Management score, a controversial proposal 3 miles outside the Water City District, Nevada Current reported. In a letter to Gov. Joe Lombardo, Titus asked the governor to pause all data center tax breaks for projects built on federally managed land until the State Legislature has the chance to consider laws regulating the same next year, according to the news outlet.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Hampton: The construction project to replace the Neil Underwood Bridge over Hampton; headwood Harbor is on budget and on schedule, and traffic should flow over it soon, according to the New Hampshire Department of Transportation.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: A new study from Wallethala ranks New Jersey in third level place for school systems in the country.

NEW MEXICO Santa Teresa: Two contested homes struggling guides were sentenced to prison following the death of a woman who was criminalized to keep up and was left behind to die in the heat of the New Mexico desert, authorities said.

NEW YORK Albany: New York's cost of living is weighing on residents' minds as inflation surpasses many of their incomes and they consistently face the highest taxes on the country, now data reveals. Both the state government and local governments have a more tax revenue per resident than any other state in 2023, data from the Citizens Budget Commission's "Competitive NYS" dashboard outlines.

NORTH CAROLINA Marshall: The town submitted its application to the state to fill 100 million to renovate the historic courthouse into a cultural events center.

NORTH DAKOTA Medora: The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library has raised over $500 million, surpassing its $450 million fundraising goal just weeks after opening the 2024, KABU on July 4, North Dakota Monitor reported.

OHIO Columbus: A surreal featuring a prehistoric fish, the most of the butter cow, native wildlife and the sites to all 88 Ohio counties officially opened July 25 ahead of the 2026 Ohio State Fair. Gov. Mike DeWine, first lady Fran DeWine and Ohio Expo Center & State Fair leaders cut the ribbon on the new Ohio Children's تخصص, called at the centerpiece of a yearning transformation of the fairgrounds.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Building permits show Fun City Adventure Park, an indoor entertainment center with multiple locations nationwide, is planning to open in the city, though a date has not been yet confirmed.

OREGON Aurora: A controversial waste dumping jet on an Aurora hazeford farm can reopen, Maiden County commissioners decided. The operation, which includes a paved pad with tax buys to accept waste from industrial vacuum excavation, or vector bends to a legitimate farm use, commissioners said.

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: The City of Bockelly Lowe and Dietely Affection is home to some of the most stressed out people in the nation, according to a new report from personal finance resource Wallethala. Philadelphia is ranked seventh in Wallethala's "Most and Least Stressed Cities in America", study – and is one of only two in the Mid-Atlantic region ranked in the top 20.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals union endorsed Gov. Dan McRae, delivering key organized labor support for the counting on for re-election. The union also endorsed Jay Khamsyocrowong for lieutenant governor and Keith Hoffmann for attorney general.

SOUTH CAROLINA Anderson: A cybersecurity attack has forced Added to close some offices and modify patient services as the Anderson-based health system works to recover from a network disruption caused by malware.

SOUTH DAKOTA Maine: South Dakota became the sixth state to receive a Returning Education to the States waiver from the U.S. Education Department, allowing the state to consolidate more than 80 million in federal funds for state-level activities through 2028.

TENNESSEE Millington: Tennessee Baptist Children's Home has plans to improve its facilities in Millington through a $20 million project, including new housing on part of its larger Free Foundation Project.

TEXAS Austin: Three years after Texas recovered how community colleges earn state funding to reward them by getting more students to graduation, including state schooling. But the colleges are short the millions they plan to receive as their successes surpassed what lawmakers budgeted. The Texas Tribune reported. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board officials adjusted the funding formula, trimming the incentives that trigger additional dollars when schools educate high-need students. Colleges will now see smaller bonuses for getting low-income students and adult learners to graduation, the seven outlet reported.

UTAH St. George: Dixie Technical College received a $930,000 Lowe's Foundation grant to expand electrical, HVAC and plumbing training programs aimed at meeting workforce demands for a better by rapid population growth and infrastructure development, KSL reported.

VERMONT Montpelier: Gov. Phil Scott's approval continues to decline as he heads into his sixth election, a new poll from the University of New Hampshire history Center found. The poll found that 46% of Vermonters approved Scott's handling of his job as governor, his lowest since the center began surveying Vermont in 2022.

VIRGINIA Waynesboro: Of the 32 speakers who came to Waynesboro High School to discuss Northrop Grimman on July 21, only one spoke in favor of the facility. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality held the hearing to take public comment on the company's application for a state operating permit for a new facility.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Visit Seattle forecasts a 22% rate in Canadian visitors in 2026 as the city rebounds from a decline in international visitors the previous year, KAMIO News reported.

WEST VIRGINIA Somerville: The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a $175 million investment to support construction and expansion projects at Minute Hamilton Health System aimed at improving rural health care access and upgrading medical facilities, WV News reported.

WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Due to high community demand, Yorbaa High School, a public charter school in Milwaukee, plans to open a second campus. The organization's announcement said there is a high demand for the personalized approach the school will provide.

WYOMING Yellowstone National Park: A San Juhing at Yellowstone National Park was saved from a parking house after the kids started him just in time. The July 19 incident comes at little over a week after a house charged at and towed a 65-year-old man into the car at the national park, seriously injuring him. From USA TODAY Network and scare reports


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Best electric SUVs of 2026 led by Tesla, Rivian, Kia

Charles Singh Nathville Tennessean USA TODAY NUTRIORS

Some of the most popular automakers, like Toyota, Ford, Tesla, and more, are producing capable electric SUVs for the American auto market. The best electric SUVs are models that are practical, easy to change, and offer good value for the money.

We've tested several gas, hybrid, and electric SUVs for USA TODAY Cars in 2026, including best-selling models. Here are our top picks for the best electric SUVs of 2026 so far.

The best subcompact electric SUV: The 2026 Nissan Leaf

Nissan has completely redesigned the Leaf nameplate, transforming it into an affordable electric subcompact SUV for the 2026 model year. The Nissan Leaf is one of the most affordable new electric vehicles on the market and it has a strong value proposition.

The 2026 Nissan Leaf starts at $29,990. It has 300 miles of driving range, which is great for its price. The Leaf also comes with a built-in NACS, aka North American Charging Standard, port for DC fast charging.

The best small electric SUV: The 2026 Tesla Model Y

Tesla's Model Y compact electric SUV is the most popular EV in America for a reason. The Model Y is a sales list that checks all the boxes for many drivers, and it's helping thousands of buyers make the switch from gas to electric vehicles in 2026. The 2026 Tesla Model Y starts at $30,990 before taxes and additional fees. It has 321 miles of standard driving range and it's no slouch on the highway. The Model Y has practical cabin and cargo space, and it charges quickly using Tesla Superchargers.

The best midsize electric SUV: The 2026 Kia EV9

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cues from its gas sibling, the popular Kia Tellunits. It's spacious, loaded with great standard tech, and comes in powerful upper trims with more driving range.

Kia's 2026 EV9 starts at $54,900. It has 230 miles of standard driving range and comes standard with a built-in NACS port. Car and Motor ranks the EV9 as the best in its segment because of its "blend of style and practicality."

The best full-size electric SUV: The 2026 Rivian RIS

Rivian may be producing a new smaller and more affordable SUV, but its first electric SUV remains competitive for those willing to look past its high starting price. We tested the 2026 Rivian RIS and it's easily one of the quickest electric vehicles drivers can buy for under $500,000. The Quad Motor trim rockets from 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds.

The 2026 Rivian RIS starts at $83,990. It has 329 miles of standard driving range. The RIS is an off-ending machine with an adjustable air suspension.

It's incredibly quick and capable. Additionally, Rivian's software creates a unique driver experience allowing you to customize everything about your ride from ground clearance to sportsmen.

Rivian's full-size family SUV may not be cheap but its unique capabilities and specs make it worth the money for many drivers.

Jeep and Ram, Stellantis' top two brands, receive new CEOs in shake-up

Liam Rappleye Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NUTRIORS

Ram and Jeep are both welcoming new executive leaders, as new-famed Jeep CEO Bob Brodershof is stepping down after a cancer diagnosis, while Ram's departing CEO, Tim Kuniskis, is focusing on a larger job in the Stellantis company.

Brodershof will be succeeded by Brandon Coté, an automotive executive with experience at Mercedes-Benz, As-

tim Martin and several automotive analysis groups. Kuniskis, who has led a revival in sales for Ram, will be replaced by Matt VanDyke, who spent 14 years with Ford Motor Co. in a variety of roles, including chief marketing officer and the CEO of FordDirect, Ford's retail marketing and management arm.

Since 2022, according to his LinkedIn profile, VanDyke has led an independent automotive marketing firm called Shift Digital.

Brodershof, who has led Jeep since February 2025 after being appointed by Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa, shared in a LinkedIn post that he was diagnosed with cancer and would be taking medical leave while a new executive fills his shoes.

"Recently, my life took an unexpected turn when I was diagnosed with cancer," Brodershof wrote. "But while it has come clarity and a lesson in priorities, perspective, and humility. One perspective has become impossible to ignore: sometimes the greatest act of leadership is knowing when to put the team's needs ahead of your own."

Brodershof led Jeep while it re-

freshed its product lineup, launched several crafty marketing schemes and released an all-new EV off-road vehicle. Brodershof and Stellantis both said that he will have a new leadership position at Stellantis when he returns from medical leave.

"I fully intend to come back stronger, healthier, and really be whatever shall lodge comes next. And I am so grateful to Stellantis for preserving my chair while giving me the time I need to get back," Brodershof wrote.

Kuniskis, on the other hand, is not leaving Stellantis, nor is he taking on a new job.

In fact, both VanDyke and Coté will report directly to him as he focuses on his role as head of all of Stellantis' North American brands (Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram). Kuniskis has been the CEO of Ram while holding several other top leadership gigs at Stellantis for about a year.

Kuniskis sheds one of four roles he has held since July 2025: He was the CEO of Ram; he has been directing all of the automaker's North American brands; he has served as the head of the high-performance vehicle SRT division; and he has directed Stellantis' North American marketing and retail strategy.

The shuffle in leadership of Jeep and Ram is important for the automaker, which said in May those two brands would be central to the company's long-term play to regain market share and turn the company around. The automaker's new strategic plan, dubbed "PaTTLAize 2030," outlined how Ram and Jeep would receive most of the research and development funding, while Chrysler and Dodge would take a back seat.

Stellantis said in a news release that the addition of Coté and VanDyke is "part of Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa's ongoing strategy to build a team of experienced executives who are well positioned to lead the company's growth plan."

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● USA TODAY | WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2021 | SECTION C

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British Open's 50-year journey from six pros to a women's major

AN EARNED PRESTIGE

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Laura Davies received two candlestick holders and 9,000 pounds when she won the 1986 Women's British Open. Only the Ladies Golf Union, back then, didn't offer a replica trophy, so Davies' mother and stepfather had one made for her birthday.

"Within touching distance as we speak," said 62-year-old Davies by phone of the prized silver candle holder she kindly polished up for a picture.

British golf writer Lewine Mair recalled a 22-year-old Davies walking into a crammed clubhouse at Birksdale after her four-stroke victory in search of a phone.

"She got into her car and dashed down the road to one of those red call boxes and rang her mother," said Mair, "before

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Jarrett Bell Cockwise USA TODAY

Bieniemy to rely on strength of family & Chiefs

All of a sudden, football is on the back burner for Eric Bieniemy.

Real life trumps that every time. Imagine the shock for Bieniemy, who returned this year to his old job as the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator, contacted at training camp on the night of July 26 with the horrible news. His wife, Mia, was shot multiple times at their home in Northern Virginia.

Thank God, Mia, 57, who is being treated for what authorities described as "serious injuries," was in stable condition on Monday.

The tragedy is compounded, though, with the arrest of their oldest son, Elijah, held without bond and facing three felony charges.

Real life. It puts football in perspective.

"Eric will work through it," Chiefs coach Andy Reid told reporters following a rockie camp practice on Monday.

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Andy Reid, left, and Eric Bieniemy, shown in 2021, can relate on real-life issues involving family members.

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Nine-game SEC sked loathed by the coaches in the league

At a time when college football seems so irrevocably divided, SEC football coaches are united in crying about a nine-game conference schedule.

Nothing hands men in headsets together like digesting the reality that they'll have one fewer cupcake opponent.

Even coaches who used to support a nine-game conference schedule, like Missouri's Eliah Drinkwitz, have grown skeptical of it now that it's here. Drinkwitz told reporters at SEC media days in Tampa, Florida, that coaches are having some buyer's remorse to the SEC adding an additional league game.

"We're all saying it," Drinkwitz said. They report it, even before experiencing it or seeing how it'll play out or how it'll affect the College Football Playoff pursuits of their teams.

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey wanted this ninth game. He persuaded university presidents and chancellors to approve it. The coaches in Sankey's

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UFL players head to NFL camps seeking a step up for 2026

Jacob Camember USA TODAY

NFL training camps are opening up, and with it comes before for positions on each team's 55-man roster.

Plenty of these spots will go to gridded NFL entrants, but there will be players hoping to make the jump from the UFL.

Growing training camps, 23 UFL players had signed contracts with NFL teams. They will look to become the latest spring league standouts to make it onto rosters and develop into key role players, like Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Kalvianes Turpin and kicker Brandon Aubrey.

Which players have the best chance? A look at the former UFL players who could challenge for roster spots in 2026.

1. Tanner Brown

★ Position: Ricker ★ Team: New Orleans Saints Historically, the biggest NFL contributors to come out of spring football leagues have been special teams players. Aubrey and Jake Bates have turned into two of the NFL's best kickers, and Brown will look to become the latest in the UFL to NFL kicker pipeline.

Brown made 49% of his field goals in 2026, good for the second-highest mark among kickers with at least 16 field-goal attempts, and made a league-high 25 field goals. He showed good range with a long of 60 and earned the UFL's Special Teams Player of the Year award as a result of his strong effort.

Brown will compete with Charlie Smyth – who made 12 of his field goals across six games for the Saints last year.

2. Major Burns

★ Position: Safety ★ Team: Miami Dolphins Burns was tremendous in his first season with the Houston Gamblers. The former LSU safety led the UFL with four in-terceptions while allowing a minuscule 29.4 passes rating in coverage, per Pro Football Focus. The imposing safety also has great size at 6-foot-2, 207 pounds, which should help him hold up as a role player at the NFL level.

Burns looked in a great situation with the Dolphins, who are rebuilding and don't have much to have talent at safety. That could give Burns a path toward making the roster, especially if he can continue to show off quality ball hawk skills in the preseason.

3. Ian Wheeler

★ Position: Running back ★ Team: Buffalo Bills Wheeler made one start for the Louisville Kings last season but he emerged as the team's top running back amid its run to a UFL title. The physical runner showed good heart and averaged an impressive 1.4 yards per carry, which ranked second-best league-wide among qualified runners behind only Marcus Yarns (5.7).

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Wheeler also averaged 26.5 yards per kick return last season, which ranked fifth in the UFL. That will give him multiple paths to earning a roster spot with the Bills, who have a solid rotation set at running back with James Cook, Ray Davis and Ty Johnson but just five total running back on their 55-man roster.

4. Hakeem Butler

★ Position: Wide receiver ★ Team: Denver Broncos

Butler led the UFL in receiving yards last season with 6th while averaging a whopping 22.3 yards per reception. That came despite him playing in just nine games and helped him to earn the UFL's Offensive Player of the Year award for the second time in three years.

Butler's size (6-foot-5) makes him a good contested-catch weapon option. It has not fully come together for Butler (cross his three previous NFL stints involving a pinning in two games with the Eagles in 2026), but there is a way the 10-year-old could make an impact of team PayPal's offense as a situational red-zone threat.

5. Sean French Jr.

★ Position: Cornerback/returner ★ Team: Denver Broncos

Butler said the only Broncos signed who could pan out. French could find himself a role on the roster, though it will move likely come on special teams than on the other.

French logged a solid 33 tackles and two sacks on defense across 10 games (two starts) for the St. Louis Battlehawks. That said, the 5-foot-5, 318-pound defensive back was more impressive on special teams, where he averaged an impressive 10.4 yards per punt return on 32 returns.

French's return skills give him versatility that could prove valuable in the modern NFL given the game's increased emphasis on special teams:

a way out he likely for French to beat Marcus Mime Jr. – who averaged 15.4 yards per punt return last season, second-best in the NFL – for the main punt reformer job, but PayPal could value having extra returner depth.

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North Carolina program at wild mess

Matt Hayes College football unionist USA TODAY NETWORK

We're focusing on the wrong people here, everyone. At the wrong time, and on the wrong moment with the never-ending mess at North Carolina.

Bill Belichick was an out-of-work football coach on one wanted.

Michael Lombardi was an out-of-work former NFL personnel executive no one wanted.

And Lee Roberts and John Preyer – arguably the two most powerful men in the state of North Carolina – decided to go all in with all involved in December 2024. To save a North Carolina football program that didn't necessarily need saving, it needed tweaking.

So they threw 830 million guaranteed at a football coach, and the lot of millions more in name, image and likeness cash so he and his handpicked general manager could execute the worst roster rebuild in the NIL era. Without a hint of oversight.

Nearly 20 months later, all UNC has to show for it is four wins and object humiliation. The latest embarrassment Lombardi's suspension from the program don't fly on an alleged human resources complaint filed by a former UNC front office employee, ESPN reported.

This is what happens when you get a difficult to evaluate involved in the hiring and filing of coaches. They deal in fashion, not on athletic director's real world, not cutting reality of this hire could get me fired.

Forget about due diligence or background checks or social media scrubs, how about simply calling one of 32 NFL owners and asking why Belichick and Lombardi were persons non goats.

Why a man with six Super Bowl rings as head coach of the New England Patriots couldn't get a job in the league he owned as two decades. Why a personnel executive hadn't worked in the NFL since leaving the Patriots in 2016, and had a 50% role once – and was fired 18 months later.

Why Jordan Hudson, a then 24-year-old former beauty pageant contestant, was tagging along with the coach and his six rings because the coach believed she was his 'muse.'

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Bill Belichick was 4-9 in his first season as the North Carolina Tar Heels' football coach. JARED | TLTVN/GETTY IMAGES

I mean, my god. That alone – excluding the reality that no one in the NFL wanted Belichick and Lombardi – should've been a massive red flag whipping in the wind, begging North Carolina to walk away from the train wreck waiting to happen.

Want to blame someone for the off Broadway disaster of Bell, Lombardi and The Muse? Blame Roberts, the chancellor at UNC, and Preyer, then the chairman of the powerful UNC-Chapel Hill board of trustees.

Those two stalwarts of academia pushed aside North Carolina athletic director Ratha Cunningham – who wanted to line then Iowa State coach Matt Campbell – and declared they were running the show for search committee.

This is what they got for their fandom.

Preyer left the board in January, leaving Roberts to hold this humiliating bag of ensuing pulse. The only way Roberts and Belichick survive is if Belichick has somehow figured it out after stumbling

through his now second roster rebuild.

That's right, a year after Belichick and Lombardi signed 70 new players (high school recruiting and transfer portal) in 2025, they signed 60 more for 2026. I'm no math major, but that's a rather large percentage of misses from the first class that made up the '21st Team' – Lombardi and Belichick's declaration that UNC would be the 31st NFL team.

timely laughable.

Belichick and Lombardi fielded a team in 2025 that won two ACC games: one against lowly Stanford and interim coach Frank Reich, and the other against a Syracuse team that was using a licensee player at quarterback because there was no other healthy option on the roster. And still led 10-4 at halftime.

Belichick and Lombardi fielded a team that lost to its entire rivals Duke, NC State and Wake Forest in the same season for the first time since 1969. A team whose only other wins were against FCS Richmond and Group of Five Charlotte.

But Roberts and Preyer got their men. Got the coach with the Super Bowl rings, and his general manager – neither of whom had any modern-day college roster building experience.

They got Belichick and his embarrassing more, and got Lombardi and an embarrassing human resources complaint. They got a 25-year-old competitive cheerleader sending Freedom of Information Kart requests all over the university, desperately trying to find who looked information that she was not allowed in the football building because of all the drama she created.

I ask you, what could get wrong with recommending the athletic director and hiring people so one insisted at a critical point in the evolution of the North Carolina football program?

Ask Preyer and Roberts. This mess is on there.

Matt Hayes is the senior national college football writer for USA TODAY Sports Network. Follow him on X at @MattHayesCFB

Patriots embark on road back to Super Bowl

Chris Bombaca USA TODAY

Finally, it's back to football for Mike Vrabel and the New England Patriots.

Veterans reported to the facility on July 24 for the unofficial start of training camp, with the first practice set for the next day.

It's been a long offseason for New England, which won the AFC championship game last season. But much has happened since the dribbling the Patriots received from the Seattle Seabowks in Super Bowl 60.

'When you don't have a lot of expectations, you can't be disappointed,' head coach Mike Vrabel told reporters in June. 'I just felt like there hasn't been much complacency. I think the guys guys worked. We've had great leadership, added some good leaders and good pieces, and we are continuing to build and hopefully prepare for a long journey.'

Here are five questions that will be top of mind for the Patriots as they begin camp.

What does growth look like for quarterback Drake Maye in Josh McDonald's offense?

In 2025, Drake Maye finished second in the MVP race in his second professional season. The arrival of Josh McDonald's as New England's offensive coordinator under Mike Vrabel was vital for Maye's development. Maye and the offense had to learn an entirely new scheme a year ago.

Developing a mastery of it is his new task.

'It's just naturally night and day from last year this time. I was trying to get things right, trying to get guys knowing when I was making calls and getting guys fired up,' Maye said during OTAs. 'Now we're just taking the next steps.'

During spring practices, McDonald and the offensive staff challenged Maye by occasionally having him break the bubble with less than 20 seconds re-training and no play called. It was Maye's job to diagnose the defense and put the team in the proper play from

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Patriots coach Mike Vrabel watches over practice during minicamp at Gillette Stadium on June 10. BBC - DIANA/MADY/IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONTACT

the line of scrimmage.

Making the correct decision within the first few seconds of the snap of the ball has been a point of emphasis for the 2024 No. 3 overall pick.

'Knowing sometimes incompleteness are the best plays, not trying to hold the ball too long and get out of the habit of really trying to extend plays just because I feel like I haven't extended a play in a while,' Maye explained.

With Maye eligible for an extension following this season, there is no time like the present for the Patriots.

Can wide receiver A.J. Brown take the offense to the next level?

The Patriots made it to the Super Bowl minus any bona fide stars at the skill positions on offense. Bringing in a player of A.J. Brown's caliber, via a June 1 trade with the Philadelphia Eagles in which the Patriots parted with a 2026 first-round pick, was an acknowledgment that doing so again would be difficult.

Brown has gone for more than a thousand receiving yards in use of his seven pro seasons, including the last four in Philadelphia. The Patriots had one receiver, Redox Diggs, who had more than a thousand yards (L015), last year. Brown's physicality and production have been welcomed by the gay responsible for giving him the ball.

'It's really just on me to give him a chance to touch it, because more times than not. He's going to bring it in,' Maye said. 'That's exciting. Just knowing that a slant or something, a quick out, something that you can just give him the ball, he can go and break some tackles.'

Brown's ties to Vrabel from Tennessee means he knows what is expected of him as a veteran leader in the locker room.

Will Christian Gonzalez's contract extension negotiations be handled swiftly?

Gonzalez, the last first-round pick

made by Bill Belichick (D7b overall, 2023 draft), is eligible for an extension. He sat out the early parts of the Patriots offseason program but attended mandatory minicamp in a share of good faith. Gonzalez – named second-team All-Pro in 2024 and to the Pro Bowl in 2025 – is already considered a top-tier center in the game, and the expectation is that his next contract will reflect that. He's said he wants the deal to be done prior to the start of the season.

Gonzalez, asked if it mattered to him to set the market for comeback contracts, replied: 'That's another question that is between my agents and the Patriots and that team and what they value me at.'

The 24-year-old said it was still early in the offseason. But that was during minicamp. Time is ticking.

How long does widecut Kayshon Boutte last?

The 'X' receiver role – the player who often goes vertical in the route tree – is now filled primarily by Brown. Boutte, who caught six touchdowns on just 46 targets and 33 catches, is a viable trade candidate for the Patriots. But no deal was struck for the South-year walk-out during the week to this point of the offseason. Maye appreciates him as a target, and maybe there is a future in which Boutte does not have to leave to shine. But that feels unlikely, making it a matter of when, and not if, Boutte is dealt to a team that could better use his services.

Boutte was the team's third-leading receiver behind Diggs and tight end Hunter Henry.

Will higher expectations have any effect on Patriots?

Nobody a year ago expected the Patriots to be playing in the Super Bowl. They might not be a sexy pick this year, either, but the point is that the 2025 Patriots demonstrated that the organization could rectify its ways in short order. The schedule, based on strength of victory and other metrics, proved easier than the average path to a Super Bowl.


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league didn't want this.

'It will challenge me teams,' former yacht. 'It will prepare them for the highest level of competition. It reflects who we are as a conference.'

Try telling that to the league's coaches, a profession that specializes in a long giveaways.

'If we keep playing each other, we don't prove we're better than anyone else,' LAU's Jane Kiffin said from the pulpit at months days, tripling down on his sprawlors to a ninth SEC game.

Here's what SEC coaches won't say

SEC coaches would rather play against Southwest Cogcalo State than face an extra game against the likes of Kentucky or Mississippi State or Auburn or Florida.

I got it. When help job security. Losers hurt job security. That's easy to understand.

Also, although it's under what the Playoff committee doesn't value strength of schedule and looks only at record - how else to explain 92-3 Alabama getting a ball over 6-2 BWT? - it's true you're better off going 12 against a meek schedule than 9-3 against a rugged date.

But, here's what SEC coaches won't say: The CFP selection committee suggests (and always has respected) the SEC more than any other conference. In two years of this 12 team Playoff, the SEC garnered eight total, the most of the conference.

This ninth conference game will provide another valuable data point for the selection committee and help the committee more effectively determine which teams are the top four or five teams in the SEC.

As long as the Playoff continues in this 12-team format, the SEC likely will average about four hole a year. That won't substantially change whether the conference plays eight or nine conference teams.

But, if you're going to receive about four hole per year, shouldn't you at least try to ensure you're getting your four best teams from the conference into the bracket?

That's what this extra conference game will do. It will boost the chances that the three or four or five SEC teams that are a bid are actually the three or four or five best teams from the SEC.

Coaches are among the first to make plan about the committee, but they will need to let the thing that'll help the committee do its job. That's playing more relevant games and fewer cupcakes.

A ninth SEC game will add clarity to league standings

When the SEC expanded to 16 teams, it initially stayed with an eight-game conference schedule. That means 4.6K team based only half of its conference peers. That mark it difficult to determine an accurate hierarchy. The standings and records were undeniably influenced by a team's schedule data. An extra conference game won't eliminate that, but it at least will add some clarity.

The more conference games you play, the more you separate the wheat from the clades.

Think about it. If every team played 12 cupcakes and no legitimate opponents, the Committee would have to tough time determining the best teams from a particular conference. If every team played exclusively conference games, it becomes much easier to determine a league's pecking order.

Short of an SEC breakaway or another pandemic, the SEC isn't going to play an SEC-only schedule. But the more conference games teams play, the easier it is to determine an accurate hierarchy.

Here's the other thing most coaches won't say. A ninth SEC game will enhance the product for the people who pay the bills (and pay the salaries) - that's the month part time and the time.

If ESPN would more games like Chattanooga vs. Alabama, treat me, there'd be no ninth conference game. Television partners want conference clashes or marquee nonconference battles. They don't want games that'll be 15-15 by fulltime.

Maybe coaches shouldn't care about what ESPN wants, but shouldn't an SEC coach want the four SEC teams that make the Playoff to actually be the best four SEC teams? This extra conference game will boost the chances of that happening.

Blake Toppmeyer is the USA TODAY Network's senior national college football columnist. Email him at #Toppmeyer@gmail.com and follow him on X @Hoppmeyer

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the prize-gifting. (I recall)

The Women's British Open was 10 years of at that point and had already been on the verge of all game after failing to find a separate in 1961.

Davies' victory marked a turning point for the voor-submarble event. This year at Royal Upham 8.18 Ames the championship indicates its 100th anniversary. While the Women's British has carried the prestige of a major race, 2026, the first of the event - from staging to prize funds to venue - has reached super-subjected heights since the 80th of the 1961 time. 2027 until brought 40.0m as title appears in 2030.

When England's Georgia Hall won at Royal Upham in 2018, the purse was 85.2d million. It has since more than tripled to 80 million.

That is light years from the first edition in 1976, when two pros - Vivian Saunders and Kristen Brundsen - put up part of the prize fund of 500 pounds to help team the British Ladies Global Play into an event.

It's was very much like most of the amateur events that I'd played in,' said England's Jenny Lee-Smith, who won the inaugural event while still an amateur. 'I think there was only a half dozen pros playing - see Heldenbank, no secrets. The JPMand ladies club members pulled me touface.'

An official program from the event notes there were five pros, and England's Saunders, who got her money back, won the second edition in 1977.

The British party/over-maker, Petty Polly, was the event's first title sponsor from 1979 to 1982, after the tournament was canceled in 1983. Atlantic came to the rescue and the Tokyo conglomerate was rewarded with an 11-stroke victory by Japanese star Asako Okumoto, who would eventually be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Another eventual Hall of Famer, Betsy King, won the 96/95 edition and then, after Davies delighted the home event. Wretzkite came on board, marking the beginning of a long run.

Petty 의뢰에 isn't sure how the event was playing in the British Open came about in 1970, but after winning the U.S. Women's Open, she was about ninth on the alternate but to play at Woburn. She got into the field the week prior to the event and arrived in England with no clubs and no outcome. She bought replacements for everything and borrowed the assistant pro's clubs, which were fast swing with the browser, for the practice sounds.

Broadband's pro has to do less, but not to be the first word, and she went on win by three strokes.

'It was the first and only time that a person has won the U.S. (Women's)

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Sherri Steinbauer walks the 16th Norway as she wins the Women's British Open at Royal Upham 35 Ames in 2006. CUBIC CHARTEL, 1976. IHL GETTY

Open and British Open in the same year,' said Sherman. 'I think that's the only record I held.'

In 1994, the event became part of the LPGA schedule, and Karrie Webb won the first of three British Open titles in 1995 by six strokes.

The only other player to win the British Open titles is Wisconsin's Sherri Steinbauer, who went back to back in 1998 and 1999 he flew winning it in 2006 at Latham, for a second time, as a major.

The first time at Latham, Steinbauer walked the golf course backward so that she could get a better view of all the议sers, a tactic she'd read about somewhere. Steinbauer, for the record, didn't go to a single fairway leader in 1998. The weather was so horrendous that week that she won it despite an attempt 9-over 6m.

Steinbauer's ran at the British was so charmed, in fact, that after she won her first title, her hotel fell was mysteriously paid for the next four to 1998.

In 2010, he hit Fok won the first British Open that was designated a major championship. The move came after the do Maurer Classic lost its title sponsor when changes were made to tobacco regulations. In 2012, the event was held out and England for the first time, with Webb winning her third title at Tunberg.

For Karen Shigobos, the British Open was the pinnacle of championship golf, the only big event site followed as a half of the 1998 title coastal town of Neal. When Shigobos started the final round at Stonningdale in 2004 with an eagle followed by an allotness, the closing 64 won her the title that changed her life.

'I always think that sometimes things are just meant to happen,' said Shigobos. 'I come from a family that's always worked really hard and always struggled to have nice things. This was the universe's way of giving my family and me a little something back, and what it did was. It turned my life around. I was able to do things to my family that I would've been done before, financially, and it's given me a life after golf. I'm not sure that I would be talking about golf on TV had I not won that - a major championship.'

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'He has a great support group here, as does his family, as needed. And then we'll put let time that care of it from there.'

Bassaney, 36, obviously is on leave of absence with no attached timetable.

Never mind that the Chiefs veterans were set to report to the training camp at Missouri Western State University on July 29. The week of recording the offense while stay quarterback Patrick Mahoney recovers from leave surgery will proceed without Bessaney - and to leave whenever he comes back. Joe Bergmann, the passing game coordinator in his little season on BenS's staff, will handle offensive coordinator else to see while Bessaney is away.

'On those things, real life,' Reid added. 'So, you take care of that, and that becomes important.'

I don't think there is a head coach in the NFL more sensitive to the crisis that has enveloped Bessaney than Reid. In 2012, when Reid coached the Philadelphia Eglades, his training camp was locked when his oldest son, Garrett, who worked for the team as an assistant strength and conditioning coach, was found dead in his main room of a heroin overdoses. In 2021, Reid's other son, Britt was involved in a coach that left a girl, Ariel Young, in a coma for 31 days, among other injuries. It led to a DUI conviction and three-year sentence (which was later committed) for the son who at the time worked as the Chiefs Duesackers coach.

Six, when Reid opened up Monday in speaking about Bessaney's situation, it was wrapped with the compassion of someone who has walked in similar shoes of dealing with real-life crisis. BenS's experiences undoubtedly add a layer of support and a resource for Bessaney that could be invaluable.

'We all love E.B. and you hate seeing

these things happen,' Reid said, 'but there's a blessing in there somewhere. And so, I know things will work out.'

Watching BenS's more conference reminded me of a speech grant that Bessaney made during our conversation in St. Joseph, Missouri, on July 25, following the Chiefs' first camp practice. In returning to the team after three years - he spent a season with the Washington Commanders, with the team's Loudoun County, Virginia, headquarters near the home where the tragedy unfolded, followed by one season starts at UCLA and with the Chicago Bears - he maintained that reuniting with Beal and the Chiefs left this coming home.

He spent 10 seasons on BenS's staff with the Chiefs in his previous state, including the last few as offensive coordinator, but left to theoretically improve his chances of becoming an NFL head coach.

'The one thing you learn, it isn't necessarily where you work, but more importantly, who you work with,' Bessaney told USA TODAY Sports in an exclusive interview. 'Do not get me wrong. All of these opportunities that I've had - great experiences, great organizations - I had the time of my life working for them. But when you become part of a family that you know from top to bottom, and you're treated like family, you have a tendency to miss what you were a part of.'

Family: It sure sounded like that type of connection, too, as Beal spoke.

'Ma is stable, which is a plan,' Reid said. 'And so is Eric still. That's all important, all right.'

Eric III, the younger of the two Bessaney sons, has worked party. During an interview in 2020, Bessaney told the two his son impacted the growth as a coach and leader.

'The first five years of his life, we lived in and out of a hospital,' Bessaney told me in 2020. 'He's confident he's wheelchair, but he doesn't ask for any sympathy. Beautiful kid. He's the backbone of our family. He's the energy we feed off of. But what it also allows you is the sense to

be 2007, we're Mr. Lucerna Ochoa won the first women's professional event ever staged over the Old Course at St Andrews. Ochoa opened with a happy fine, hunter free, course-record 6-under 47 and sent a minimal, winning by four.

A current or former No. 1 player has won all three editions of the Women's British Open at St Andrews, with Stacy Lewis (2011) and Lydia Sr. (2014) following suit. The 2007 edition also marked the start of Rook's important ran as title sponsor, which lasted until 2018.

Ecotland's Catriona Matthew Bessanely became the first host to win the British in 2009. It weeks after giving birth to her second daughter, English.

Over the next 15 years the championship was held at first traditional men's Open venues for the first 2nd time. Catriona Sr. (2011), Royal Liverpool (2012), Royal Troon (2020) and Marfield (2022).

The most recent British player to win the British Open was Hall at Royal Upham 8.18 Ames in 2018. The first bet to win the British Girls, British Ladies Aimex Allotment, British Open, a 22-year-old Hall drew impressive crowds on a frontline day.

A 30-year-old Hall returns this week after giving birth to son Charles Tuck in February, hoping to channel some of Marlboro in the first 2nd.

It's never been harder, however, to win at home. From 2016 to 2024, players from nine countries hoisted the British Open trophy.

It's been 23 years since Annika Sternstam completed the career Grand Slane with a one-shot victory over for 81 Psk at Royal Upham and 16 Ames. This week, world No. 1 Sally Kershkin a chance to do the same. Kersh won the first two majors of the season, winning for fourth career major title at the U.S. Women's Open at Royal Upham but from finish at the British is a share of second two years ago at the Old Course.

When Shigobos walked down the 18th at Latham as an on-course reporter eight years ago, she solved her own British Open victory as she listened to the home crowd and our Georgia Hall's name.

The moment wasn't just about Hall, of course, it was about the week that were planted for young British girls, just as they were in the same when she read about Davies' Stomby's 18 British in The Telegraph 40 years ago.

'The next thing you know, you've got a whole cup of new players ready to take on those challenges,' said Shigobos. 'They all want to be part of her purchases and part of that dream - and that's why you do it.'

With two Brits, Lydia Wood and Charley Hull, in the top 10 of the world, each strong infrastructure to place the top and women, Shigobos believes British golf has spent hours in the 2020s.

'That, of course, include the health of the home major, a global force that has come a long way since five-years played for 500 pounds 40 years ago.'

not take some of the things that we as people take for granted because our son doesn't have blending like others.'

The first, too, how Max's son is a long way has been, scotchful And Brill. 'She's a saint... One of BenS's blessings, right than now. Special person.

I spent three days at the Chiefs camp at St. Joseph, over the weekend, and besides the reality that all eyes were fined on Mahoney as he recovers from leave surgery, no-one had a bigger presence on the practice field than Bessaney.

If you didn't see him - huddling with Beal one minor, chatting with Mahoney a few minutes later - he could surely be heard. His intensity was palatable to moments that begged for some, well, extra volume as coaches are prone to use in pointing out mistakes.

It's no wonder that Mahoney (like Beal and others in the Chiefs organisation) are no upbeat about Bessaney's return and the energy that comes with him - along with his prickly demands for attention to details. He's one of the longest most respected assistant coaches for good reason.

We talked all football on Saturday, given the task to pump 60-into a Chiefs offense that shipped a few boats during the 6-11 tumble last season and heaped way too much of a load on Mahoney. He talked a lot about fundamentals, consistency and balance.

Of course, he was fired up to reconnect with Mahoney, who is on a fast track to fully recover from the turn AC1 and LC2, in his left knee suffered in mid-December.

'If there's anybody that's probably been a little more sensitive about his injury, it's probably me,' Bessaney told me. 'He came I just want to make sure that he gets to the finish line. But also understanding Pat, Pat is a competitor... And for thing I have about this is that he doesn't take anything for granted.'

The same can be said for Bessaney. Especially now, given another dose of real life that puts football in a different perspective.


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WNBA POWER RANKINGS, TRADE-DEADLINE EDITION

Teams may take a shot at getting help

Mildred Northam

USA TODAY

The halfway point of the WNBA season is here. The All-Star Game is over and the trade-deadline looms at 3 p.m. ET Aug. 2. Teams must now decide if they're going all in for a championship run or hitting the reset button ahead of reset season.

Typically, the WNBA doesn't see blockbuster deals at the trade-deadline, but there have been a few exceptions. The Connecticut Sun acquired Marina Mahery from the Chicago Sky at the 2024 deadline before advancing to the semifinals in the playoffs. In 2021, the Minnesota Lynx picked up Sylvia Fowles – also from the Sky – on their way to winning what would be their third of four championships in seven seasons.

Will a league-shooting trade be made this season? That remains to be seen, but it's a fun exercise to speculate.

This week's WNBA power rankings are accompanied by trades we think make sense for every team.

  1. Minnesota Lynx (22-6)

Previous rank: 1 (-) Trade target: Sydney Taylor, G, Chicago Sky

If there is an area where the Lynx could use a boost heading into the second half of the season it's guard depth and 3-point shooting. Louisville product Taylor checks both losses and has proved in her first full WNBA season she's capable of playing in this league. Taylor is averaging 44.2 points per game. But perhaps more important for the Lynx is she is shooting a solid 34% from 3-point land and ranks fifth in the WNBA in 3-pointers made per 40 minutes with 3.9.

  1. Golden State Valkyries (19-6)

Previous rank: 2 (-) Trade target: Anoreah Morrow, F, Connecticut Sun

The Valkyries have no cap space, so they're going to have to give up a hit to make this week, but a player like Morrow is worth it. In her second season in the WNBA six one of the worst teams, the LSU product is averaging 91.5 points and 9.3 rebounds per game. She leads the WNBA in rebounds per 40 minutes (16.4) and rebounding percentage (25.1). A double-double machine, Morrow could do a lot to improve the Valkyries' mediocre rebounding statistics.

  1. Dallas Wings (18-9)

Previous rank: 4 (-) Trade target: Olivia Nelson-Odeda, F, Connecticut Sun

Alanna Smith has dealt with injuries, making it challenging to live up to her hitting as a big offseason free-spun signing for Dallas. The Wings could use assistance in areas she was expected to shoot up – rebounding and run protecting. Nelson-Odeda could be a fix with provokehold. She is averaging a career-best 5.7 rebounds per game and last year ranked ninth in the league in blocked shots. She also ranks ninth in the WNBA this season in shooting percentage with a 57.7% clip. What's one more former UConn player on this roster?

  1. Las Vegas Aces (18-8)

Previous rank: 3 (-) Trade target: Kathyn Chen, G, Golden State Valkyries

With Dana Evans battling injuries and the Chesnault Carter experiment flaming out, the Aces could use another playmaking guard off the bench. Chen might fit the bill here. She is playing 14.7 minutes per game for the Valkyries but ranks fifth in the league in field-goal percentage with a 57.5% mark. Her ef-

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Cameron Brink is averaging 9.1 points for the Sparks in 18 games but has only one start this year. LILKA-NORMS/GETTY IMAGES

fective field-goal percentage is 62.7%, which is fifth best in the WNBA this season. Chen could provide the punch the Aces need off the bench.

  1. Indiana Fever (17-10)

Previous rank: 5 (-) Trade target: Cameron Brink, C, Los Angeles Sparks

Los Angeles hasn't been the best fit for former Stanford star Brink, perhaps a change of scenery could help. The Fever need depth in the frontcourt as they're not getting much production from Mystas Hines-Allen or Damien Dantas. Brink could be a pick-and-roll partner for Caitlin Clark or Kelsey Mitchell and run-run when the Fever run their offense through point-forward (Myst) Boston. This could be fun, but Brink also won't be cheap to acquire.

  1. Atlanta Dream (16-10)

Previous rank: 6 (-) Trade target: Emily Engeler, G/F, Portland Fire

The Dream could use a boost in shot-blocking and 3-pointers. There are not many players in the WNBA who excel at both of these things, but the versatile Engeler is one of them. The Louisville product – who is on her fourth WNBA team in the seasons – is having a bit of a breakout year for the Fire, averaging a career-high 9.2 points per game. She and Aces star Aja Wilson are the only players in the league this season averaging at least one male 3-pointer and 1.5 blocked shots per game.

  1. New York Liberty (15-12)

Previous rank: 7 (-) Trade target: Azisha James, G, Dallas Wings

The Liberty rank lost in the WNBA in turnovers forced per game and are second-to-last in steals per game. They could also use another playmaking guard off the bench. Enter James, the second-year guard out of NC State who is coming off the bench for the Dallas Wings. Not only has James garnered a reputation as a microwave scorer – she's able to heat up and score in bunches – but she also leads the league in steals per 40 minutes with 3.0.

  1. Washington Mystics (14-2)

Previous rank: 8 (-) Trade target: Betulah Laney-Hamilton, G/F, New York Liberty

Laney Hamilton has seen her role reduced under Liberty coach Chris DeMarco and might be more valued by another team that needs a versatile veteran who is a career 80% free-throw shooting. A franchise that could be a fit is the Mystics, who have a young core with aspirations of making the playoffs. Laney-Hamilton could play a variety of positions and should help Washington improve its 73% free-throw shooting, which ranks second-to-last in the league.

  1. Portland Fire (11-16)

Previous rank: 9 (-) Trade targets: Deanna Hamby, F, Los Angeles Sparks

If the Sparks are going to do a fire sale and go into tank mode, the fire could be a landing spot for Hamby. For starters, they have the cap space to absorb her contract. Second, she fits their style and some of their needs as a versatile player who can rebound, score and defend multiple positions. Hamby is averaging 14.8 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 14 steals per game.

  1. Phoenix Mercury (10-18)

Previous rank: 13 (-) Trade target: Ed Magheger, C, Seattle Storm

Statistically, the Mercury are not very good at defending or rebounding. If she's healthy, someone like Magheger could help. At her best, the 6-foot-4 center is a player who averages about 11 points, eight rebounds and two blocks per game. She doesn't seem like a long-term fit for the Storm as their future frontcourt seems to be in place with Ana Fam and Dominique Malonga. Magheger is hostile's highest paid player and it would make sense for the Storm to try to move her off their books.

  1. Toronto Tempo (10-16)

Previous rank: 10 (-) Trade target: Natasha Mack, F, Phoenix Mercury

While the Mercury have struggled, Mack is enjoying her best season as a pro, averaging 9.1 points, 7.9 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. She could help the Tempo, who need improved rebounding, better rim protection and a reliable low-post scorer.

  1. Los Angeles Sparks (10-16)

Previous rank: 11 (-) Trade target: Skylar Diggins, G, Chicago Sky

It's just not working out for Diggins in Chicago. Can she talk the Sky organization into shipping her to Hollywood for a reunion with Nnoka Opecumike (Storm teammates in 2024 and 2025)?

  1. Chicago Sky (9-18)

Previous rank: 12 (-) Trade target: Kate Martin, G, Los Angeles Sparks

If the Sky are going to continue to have an abysmal season, one way to win over some fans is to bring in one of the most universally liked players in the WNBA who just happens to be from Illinois. Bring Kate Martin back to Big Ten country.

  1. Connecticut Sun (7-20)

Previous rank: 14 (-) Trade target: Da Cooke, G, Seattle Storm

The Sun's guard play has been a mixed bag this season, and Cooke is having a solid year coming off the bench in Seattle. Could Cooke be even better in a starting role for a team like the Sun? Cooke is averaging 20.1 points per 40 minutes this season.

  1. Seattle Storm (6-23)

Previous rank: 15 (-) Trade target: Saniya Rivers, G, Connecticut Sun

The Storm seem to have an incubator going for raw project players with high cullings. Rivers has always flushed the potential to be a great player, but she seems to have regressed a bit in her second season with the Sun. A change of scenery could be good for the NC State product.

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Max Scherzer returns to mound at 42

Gabe Jacques

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – This time there was little argument when Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider came to the mound to take the ball from Max Scherzer.

This time, as Scherzer departed the mound for the dugout and a small but spirited Nationals Park crowd of 27,688 offered a standing ovation, Scherzer didn’t seem sluggess and skulk into the dugout.

Granted, he turned and wearily offered a wave of his night hand to a crowd that still reverse him for his week in Washington.

On July 27, Scherzer celebrated his 42nd birthday by returning to a major league mound for the first time since June 30 and just the ninth time this season. Back squares shelved him most recently for six weeks, just one start after he returned from another six-week absence of his 42nd, vacuum tendinities and ankle inflammation.

For the details are almost irrelevant. Simply, Scherzer is old.

And if the last two seasons have proved anything, it is that any time he can climb a mound in the big leagues, it should not be taken for granted.

Monday, that was the case both for Scherzer and the crowd that calated him before and after his 2-1-ming, 75-pitch return to the majors.

“That’s the best part. That’s why I still fit him. Before I return after he and six others combined to suppress the Nationals league-leading offense in a 3-2 victory.

The matter what team you’re on, where you’re at, when you get the ball and you can toe the rubber, there’s no other feeling I’d rather have than being on a big league mound, competing at people.”

On this night, he wasn’t exactly Mad Max, stalking the mound and talking to himself after pitches.

The 2-3 victory in the 2-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-16, 17-18, 19-20, 21-22, 23-24, 25-26, 27-28, 29-30, 31-32, 33-34, 35-36, 37-38, 39-40, 41-42, 43-44, 45-46, 47-48, 49-50, 51-52, 53-54, 55-56, 57-58, 59-60, 61-62, 63-64, 65-66, 67-68, 69-70, 71-72, 73-74, 75-76, 77-78, 79-80, 81-82, 83-84, 85-86, 87-88, 89-90, 91-92, 93-94, 95-96, 97-98, 99-100.

But at this age, with his nagging

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Max Scherzer acknowledges the Nationals Park crowd after getting pulled in the third inning. RAFAEL SUAREK/ROBSON MAGGIE

ailments, getting back was most of the battle.

In 2025, Scherzer seemed to dust off every total in his bag to give together 17 starts, plus two more in the playoffs, and spite a voting thumb condition and more back issues. And the magic that drove him to two World Series titles, three Cy Young Awards and now more than 3,500 strikeouts seemed to return in Game 4 of the American League championship series, when he screamed at Schneider during a mound conference in the fifth inning, won the fight to stay in the game and delivered a crucial victory.

When the Blue Jays fell two outs shy of winning a World Series, Scherzer was allowed by the supercool he returned on a one-year, $5 million contract, smallest of his career. Yet nothing’s gone right since: The Blue Jays have been touched by injuries, filled by underperformance from superstar first baseman Vladimir Guerrero and en-

tered Monday, this final week before the MLB trade deadline, 48-58 and 18th among St-Ach terms.

As Scherzer took the mound, it was hard to ignore that his longtime teammate and input loss Justin Verlander, 43, announced his retirement at the end of the season. Verlander’s body has allowed the 266-game winner just one start this year, and perhaps not another.

The crowd on hand seemed to sense that they shouldn’t take Monday’s moment lightly.

When Scherzer wandered out to the bullpen for pengene week, a handful of fans by the left-field boss broke into applause that echoed through the nearly empty ballpark. When things were announced, he was introduced over the public address system as “starting pitches and 2030 World Series-champions Max Scherzer.”

And when Scherzer hopped out of the dugout for the bottom of the first inning, a 75-second standing ovation, un-

prompted, poured out from the crowd as he began his warm-ups. All that was missing was “until 0 & 8,” his longtime entrance made here.

But Scherzer found it all and felt he had to respond in kind as he walked to the third-base dugout after he was pulled. “It’s good, it’s special,” he says. “I’ve got a lot of great memories here in DC. I wanted to show the fans respect, as well, because they were cheering the whole time, even when I was warming up.”

What they saw was not the Scherzer of old, nor was that to be expected Scherzer’s first pitch after turning 42 was laced into center field by 23-year-old James Wood. Iain Garcia & followed with another hit, and a walk to CJ Abrams loaded the bases.

Yet there was also that: Scherzer tying up June Tesa with an 85-ninth champaign for a strikeout. Two hatters

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USA TODAY 1 WEDNESDAY JULY 29, 2025 1 7C

Questions driving the trade deadline

Bob Nightenegale (Edinburgh) USA TODAY

COOPERSTOWN, NY – The mass confusion was supposed to be gone by now.

The decisions to call, buy or stand pat should have been finalized with everyone during a close direction.

And yet, with just five shopping days left before the Aug. 3 MLB trade deadline, we have been clarity now than at the All-Star break.

The Miami Marlins produced their greatest June (20-6) in franchise history, lost a franchise record 12 games in a few, staged a dramatic comeback against the Philadelphia Phillies on July 27, and are steady-dub in the National League wide card race.

The Boston Red Sox, who had the American in August 4 worst record (32-46) a month ago, were cruising at 55-50, and could be the AL Divisions to reach the World Series.

The South Marlins, who looked like they were on the verge of taking off and leaving everyone in the dust in the AL West, suddenly are watching reruns of a losing nightmare in what could become the most exasperating season in franchise history.

And there are the Detroit Tigers, who have been putting everyone on hold for within the last year to be tied to pick up the phone and face reality.

Twenty-four teams were either sitting in first place or within five games of a wild-card berth.

Even the teams that have full selections to call, like the Cincinnati Becks and Toronto Blue Jays, realize they're only a five-game winning streak away from believing again.

This is what happens when there are seven 34, teams that are no better than three games above. 500, or no worse than six games below. 200, and all in the race.

The air cut teams in the AL that have losing records but are within five games of a playoff berth.

The Chicago White Sox have a losing record (49-8) this month but have not lost any ground in the standings and still lead the AL Central by two games.

Please, make it make sense. While teams are telling one another they still have no idea what they'll do, and promise to get back to them this month, here are the top nine questions entering the final days of the trade deadline.

1. Will the Detroit Tigers trade Tarik Skubal?

The Tigers really don't want to trade him, knowing the anger and frustration, it will create among their players and fan base, but the decision really is becoming clear. The Tigers, who just dropped three games in a row to mid-2000 teams, and are the seven games below 100 themselves, have no choice but to trade Skubal.

They will try to sell the trade as kindling for the future, while still not giving up the present. After all, they did it a couple of years ago when they dumped starter Jack Flaherty to the Dodgers and received shortstop prospect Trey Brewery and catcher/first baseman Thuyton Linman. The Tigers still made the postseason, and the Dodgers won the World Series.

The again, it can backfire, too. Just ask the Milwaukee Brewers, who traded All-Star closer Jack Under to the San Diego Padres to 2022 for Taylor Rogers, Threlund Lumet, Robert Gasser and Extrecy Bell. It ripped the soul out of the Brewers clubhouse, and they never re-

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Pitcher Tarik Skubal and what the Tigers plan to do are the biggest pieces of the MLB trade deadline this week. RICK OSENTOGS/IMAGE IMAGES VIA REUTERS CORRECT

covered, missing the postseason.

The decision: They trade him, and likely No. 2 starter Casey Miller, too, while trying to convince their fans it's really the right thing to do.

2. Will the San Diego Padres trade All-Star closer Mason Miller?

The Padres are holding onto Miller one day and trading him the next. They plan to trade starter Michael King one day and keep Miller, only to flip-flop the next. No one has any idea what A.J. Fiedler, president of baseball operations, will do.

The Padres, who bought Juan from one trade deadline and dumped him 1½ years later, are in the same predicament. They'll do to keep Miller, who's under control through 2020; but his value is closing out games for a championship contender. This is why the Athletics traded him originally, knowing he'd be setting in the bullpen if there were no leads to hold down. Now, the Padres have to face reality and ask themselves if they're a legitimate playoff team.

The decision: They start to keep Miller for now but their trade him during the winter, creating a fierce holding war. They instead trade setup man Adrian Morison, who's a free agent after the season.

3. Will the Milwaukee Brewers go for it and land the biggest fish, Tarik Skubal?

The ownership and front office would love to do the first and clubhouse. And that they're all in. They certainly have the prospects, and the financial flexibility it is get it done. They also realize that unless they get another printed starter to go along with stud Jack Milosewskis, they have no real chance to knock off the Dodgers and get to their first World Series since 1992. It will be the same of story, get into the playoffs, and how our early. So will they finally step out of their comfort zone?

The decision: Nope. They simply don't believe that Skubal will be the magic eliny for all of their needs. They still need a power hat. They could use another fast-timing reliever. They could use someone to strip up and/or that solid No. 3 starter. Simply, there's too much risk for the Brewers to take on Skubal when they know they're going to be in the postseason anyway.

4. Will teams act differently at the deadline with the uncertainty of 2022?

General managers will tell you that they're not even thinking about the possibility of a labor lockout, saying it's completely out of their control. They want to win now and will worry about the future later. But their bosses may have more of a desire to remain cautious than trade prospects. If there's a salary cap one day, the young prospects making minimum salary will be more valuable than ever.

The decision: Teams may actually become aggressive because owners are now telling them to prepare for the possibility of a prolonged work stoppage, even canceling all of next season. If there's not going to a season, why not go for the gusts. Knowing you can be the defending champions for two years without playing a game next season?

5. Will the Chicago White Sox go all in?

Can the White Sox lose a record 110 games two years ago, and 102 last season, and really pull this off and be in the postseason?

Sure, the White Sox can do it. The division stinks. If no one wants to take it, why not the White Sox? But they desperately need a minimum starter or two to stick around until October.

Decision: They'll have to be in the playoffs, but no, they are not going to be aggressive. They are not going to trade away two prospects and find themselves in the same situation they were in when they had to start another rebuild in 2022.

If a pitcher with team control like Reid Demers falls into their laps, sure. If teams are wary about Robbie Ray's $25 million contract, they'll put their chips in. But they are not going to mortgage the future. They're quite content to ride it out, believing this team will be built for sustained success.

6. Will the Mets trade Francisco Linder?

He makes a ton of money with half of his 65-year, $34/million contract will remaining.

He is having a lousy season, just like the rest of his New York Mets teammates.

When David Beams, president of baseball operations, needs off his untouchable players at the trade deadline, he did not include Linder.

Certainly, he showed off his talent in the rest of the world Monday night July 27 with his two homers, triple and six fifths.

So why not trade him now, cheering payroll and holding for the future?

The decision: The Mets will ultimately trade him, believing it's best for the organization, but just not now. Teams need to get creative with their finances, and besides, it there's a lengthy lockout, teams may be hesitant to take on his massive contract.

7. Will the Yankees be able to fill all of their needs at the deadline?

The New York Yankees have the second-best record in the American League, 60-46, and perhaps the fiercest rotation on the game, but they have holes everywhere.

They have $220 million worth of stars currently sidelined with confidence Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Rattino and Cody Bellinger on the injured list.

They have the worst-producing catcher in baseball with Adam Wells slashing 160/ 267/ 277.

They don't have any reliable late-inning relievers.

And, truthfully, they have no idea when or if Judge is even coming back.

The answer: The Yankees don't have enough prospects, but all of their needs, but they will get a catcher and perhaps another outfielder, too. Yet they won't go too crazy, knowing that if Judge isn't able to make it back in time, the season will be a lost cause anyway.

8. Will the Dodgers really make a hold move for Tarik Skubal?

The Dodgers are making their big second-half moves in the next few days when they activate two-time 15-7-long, winner State fund, but that is the first win that and played Tero Kike Hernandez.

So, they really don't have to have Skubal.

They will still win 500 games and ran away with the division and be well-settled for October.

The decision: The Dodgers are so loaded with prized minor league outfielders they could hand them out for Halloween and still be fine.

Yes, they are not need Skubal, they'll be going to keep him away from everyone else.

And once they have him, well, they might as well keep him.

9. Will Philadelphia Phillies boss Dave Dombrowski work his magic and come away with help?

The Phillies have been desperately looking for a right-handed hat. They finally need a veteran setup man. And they certainly could use another starter, they'll sit in games on started by Christopher Sánchez, Jack Wheeler, Jovan Lazardo and Aaron Noia.

Certainly, president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski never has been shy trading away prospects to acquire stars. He did that with Miguel Colonna when he was with the Tigers. He did that with Cheryl also when he was with the Boston Red Sox. And with age catching up to his stars, will he want to keep his prospects to go to the jugular?

The decision: Dombrowski will go all in and do what it takes on matter how many top prospects are needed. He had by wants another chance to return to the World Series.

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Scherzer

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later, he did the same to 24-year-old Dylan Cross, a couple of pitches after Crews committed an act of violence on Scherzer's once-dominant slider, spying a bad that drilled Wood in that territory at third base.

Finally, Scherzer got Daylon Life to call softly to first. Fast timing over. No damage.

And no it went for nearly three innings. Scherzer's old stiddles, his 96-mph beat and devastating slider, are certified par-owned versions nowadays, replaced by touch and feel. Scherzer got four stuffs on the dozen change-ups he threw.

And he uncooked a curveball that would make 160-career Zack, Deirdre blush, a 75-mph rainbow that proved

wildly effective. The offspeed and breaking ditch thinned but did not come damage. Scherzer needed 50 pitches to get through two innings, gave up an $8 double Garcia ripped off the wall, yet just saw an despite yanking four hits and three walks.

His 75th and last pitch of the night came with one out in the bottom of the third, a 73 mph beat to Life, who ended a 12-pitch battle by flailing at it with a runner on third.

Just keep executing. Keep executing. Stop in the fight," says Scherzer, re-counting the marina popularized by Nationale manager Dave Martinez during their 2009 World Series run. "Recognize what he's trying to do, what pitch is next, what we need to challenge him with. It eventually became a 3-2 curveball and I was able to execute."

And out came Schroeder, satisfied Scherzer gave him eight outs, four by strikeout, and setting the stage for just

the Blue Jays' third victory in nine games. This time, the conversation was a little more cordial.

"A lot of pitches in three innings for his first start back," says Schroeder. "We've known him long enough to have a good feel for what he's feeling.

"He said, 'Your old! And I said, 'That was a lot right there.' And he said 'Yeah, your old!' And I said, 'OK, your job.'"

Better yet, Scherzer said he came out of the start feeling fine and both he and Schroeder said he's in line to make his next start, Sunday at Rogers Centre against St. Louis. A day later, an uncertain future begins.

With the Blue Jays nearly out of playoff contestant, Scherzer – who has a full no-trade chance – likely won't have the runway to convince a contender he can provide the October magic he sprinkled through Toronto and Texas, Los Angeles and Washington and Detroit.

"Look, our record is our record. It's

frustrating us back that we're in this position," says Scherzer. "You get caught up in the distractions of everything going around us now. that's not the way you play big league baseball."

As for 2027?

There was very little to suggest Scherzer is ready to turn away his jersey for good. He noted the good fortune of being in a slightly better physical position than Swindler, who finally ran into enough ailments he couldn't dodge.

Monday, Scherzer's with Erica, their children and many family members were on hand. There was a birthday to be celebrated, and perhaps the relief of a career hanging on, in search of the next most effective pitch to keep getting outs.

"I thought it would be too special," says Scherzer, "to miss out – to pitch on my birthday, to pitch back here."

And for as long as his body will allow him.


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Lee (July 23-Aug. 22). Get ready for a relationship revelation! The growth-oriented Aquarius full moon highlights where you and others stand in the future.

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Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your professional world is ready to expand. What has to end so you can embrace the new possibilities coming in?

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Personal and shared resources demand attention during today's Aquarius full moon.

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When Ray Christian added Burning Man to his bucket list, his family and friends didn't believe him, especially since his wife, Tiffany Christian, had already vetoed his other plans, like Spain's running of the bulls. “I did some research and found out life insurance does not pay if you die while you're running with the bulls,” Tiffany says in the new HBO Max docuseries, “The Man Will Burn” (streaming now).

So Christian sought out the next daredevil adventure. Burning Man. For the Gulf War veteran from rural North Carolina, Burning Man wasn't just about spectacle. It was about leading—no matter how challenging it may be.

“I know it was going to be hard,” Christian, 65, tells USA TODAY. “The physical environment, people, so many people, and so many White people having a good time. That definitely is not my typical environment, not in the least.”

Christian says he's used to isolation based on where he lives. His family often is the only Black family many of their neighbors have ever known. Living with post-traumatic stress disorder, he decided to travel to Black Rock Desert to face his demons.

What is Burning Man?

Every year, tens of thousands of people travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to build a temporary city devoted to art,

radical self-expression and community. In “The Man Will Burn,” directors Jehane Noujaim and Vikram Gandhi follow an eclectic mix of Burners, from tech billionaires to working-class folks seeking a spiritual—and often literal—high in a city 100 miles north of Reno, Nevada.

The four-part docuseries, whose third part was released July 23, looks at the class divide among plans participants and how the “leave no trace” environmental ethos and communal lifestyle attempt to dissolve cultural and socioeconomic differences.

In 2025, 8.4% of Burning Man attendees identified as Black, according to the Black Rock City census. Although the figure has shown a steady increase over the past decade, White Burners made up 74.7% of attendees. Black Burners attribute low figures to lack of awareness and fear among Black people.

Larry Harvey, the late founder of

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The Black Burner Project, founded by Erin Douglas in 2017, erected two 20-foot Black portraits at Burning Man in 2022. PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ERIN DOUGLAS/BRANNING

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Love triangle complicates 'Canyon' life

Bryan Alexander

USA TODAY

Warning: this story contains spotters from Season 2 of “Ransom Canyon,” streaming now on Netflix.

Netflix's modern Western romance “Ransom Canyon” built its 2025 Season 1 around the slow-born romance between Quinn O'Gandy (Minka Kelly) and Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel).

Season 2 (now streaming) expands Ransom Canyon's first couple, Quinn Staten, to Quinn-Staten-Oliver.

That's right, Duhamel, 53, and Kelly, 46, are now part of a central story love triangle with the romantic arrival of Quinn's cells-playing British boyfriend, Oliver (Ben Robson), to the fictional Texas town.

“The irony is that all the things that Oliver says and does are everything that

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Quinn (Minka Kelly) and Oliver (Ben Robson) get close. PROVIDED BY NETFLIX

Quinn wishes that Staten would have said and done,” Kelly tells USA TODAY during a joint interview with Duhamel. “Oliver is everything that she's ever wanted, but it's kind of the wrong person.”

What happened to Staten and Quinn at the end of Season 1?

Season 1 ended with Quinn leaving Staten and Ransom Canyon for New York City to play piano with the New York Philharmonic, where she met Oliver.

“At the end of Season 1, Quinn's frustrated with Staten, it's like enough is enough, and she meets this new guy,” Kelly says. “It's easy to romanticize the new story thing.”

During Quinn's time away, Staten has his share of short romances while ignoring his NYC love.

“Staten becomes Ransom's newest bicycle; everyone wants a ride,” Duhamel says. “And he didn't test. He didn't go see Quinn. He's got real feelings for

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'Brand New Day' shows the love for Spidey

Brian Traitt

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In the Spider-Man mythology, there's just something special about Peter Parker and MJ.

In comic books since the 1940s and in the 2010s 'Every Maguire movies,' MJ' meant Mary Jane Womack, arguably the teen web-slinger's greatest love. In the recent Tom Holland Spider-films, the initials are a nickname for Michelle Jones, and like all of the teen hero's armistice, there is a little complicated.

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' (in theaters July 31) catches up with Peter after he makes a tough call. To save the world, he needed to be wiped from the memories of everyone, including his girlfriend, MJ (Zondaya), and best friend, Ned Lewis (Jacob Reuben). The new movie finds Peter coming to grips psychologically with meeting them again for the first time, especially MJ, though a new enemy also emerges to form him as Spider-Man.

Dive into the Spidey became history, and he has given through different of relationship drama. Marvel fans now and old can now dig into issues on USA TODAY PLAY and see it for themselves, from the old 1960s 'amazing Spider-Man' comic to the new audience 'Spider-Man TODAY' series. Over the years, there was fellow student Liz Allan, Daily Bugle (wonder Betty Hunt, and Gwen Stacy, an early love interest infamously killed by the Green Golds), who has become in later years an iconic superhero herself, Ghost-Spider. Then there's Ma-

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Peter Parker (Tom Holland) tries to make sense of a world that doesn't remember him in 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day.'

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ry Jane, who has been Peter's wife and confidant over several iterations of the Marvel legend.

So, are MJ and Peter forever? It's 'a big question,' says Spider-Man editor Nick Lowe, and he can't totally get on board with the thought because 'that sort of betrays the soap upon brilliance of Spider-Man as a character,' he says.

Lowe does appreciate, however, that they have run with it in the movies. 'Tom Holland and Zondaya, you could easily believe they're in love, right?' he says of the real-life couple. 'With the end of that last movie, with the memory wipe, what are they going to do? I'm

well-known in the halls of Marvel as one of the biggest pockets of romance. I love kissing in comics, the more of that we can get the better, and so I love that they're embracing that in the movies as well.'

All of the Spider-Man movies have 'their own special flavor, their own special anemonews,' Lowe adds. Yet he feels that 'Brand New Day' 'might save dog the most into the comics,' from direct messages to specific covers and puzzles to a bevy's new movie of fans from Spider-Man's rogue gallery, including Booopies, Tarantula and Tombstone, one of Lowe's all-time

face hatches.

When it comes to picking the best movie Spidey, I heard, Lowe as in a ban. 'There's things I love about each of them,' he says. 'Truly Maguire, his readiness is just so wonderful and his tuarmisty was incredible. Andrew Garfield, what an actor—tall, lanky, a little cooler than Truly, but each heart. And then you get Tom Holland, who basically is Spider-Man, jumping, leaping everywhere like that. He looks a little bit more youthful, and the heart there is just nitrohexane.'

'I've got three kids—same thing I can't really pick a favorite.'

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Burning Man, had responded to backlash around inclusion, telling The Guardian in 2019, 'I don't think Black folks like to camp as much as White folks.' He added that it's not the organizations' responsibility to 'solve the problem of racial purity.'

As a result, other organizations have skipped Burning Man. Thunderstone Death Guild, known for its fighting cage of consensual violence, chose not to participate in Burning Man in 2021 because it was 'lacking in diversity,' according to a statement from their organization.

Burning Man challenges for Black attendees

Burning Man takes place in the Black Rock Desert, a dead-up lake bed made up of chalky, alkaline dust. As though the descend onto the plays in art cars, labor and life, increased traffic can trigger bleeding dust storms.

When Christian arrived at Burning Man in 2022, he showered the experience by rolling in the dust, a characteristic of the documentary film in first day in the desert, he had flashbacks of serving in the Gulf War.

'The result, the sound of it, the feel of it, the heat, the way dust moves, the clanking sounds and the way they sound in a big open space,' Christian says. 'It just reminded me of staging for the war and the sounds.'

Patrons also are exposed to high winds and extreme temperatures. In 2023, two-woman attacks on the plays into black mud, leaving many Burners, including Christian, stranded in the desert.

'The heat and the dust can break you,' Christian says. 'It's not like after the festival you'd go back to the head room, wash up, get a breath, get that AC and go back out.'

Christian also had unwelcome encounters with some White women, which he says reminded him of experiences he had growing up in the South. In news than one instance, Christian recalled a woman asking him, 'Are you looking at us?' or 'Are you standing too close?'

'Diva-ish (behavior), like you were starting or calling them,' Christian says, referring to the microorganisms. 'That's something I hadn't encountered in decades.'

Elon Douglas, a photographer and founder of the Black Burner Project, also faced an initial hurdle of spreading awareness as the Black community. When she posted photos of her first Burning Man in 2017, she received repeated emails and direct messages from Black people saying 'I didn't know Black people were there' and 'I didn't know if I was allowed.' The following year, Douglas, 43, decided to document the Burning Man experience, calling it the Black Burner Project.

As a frequent attendee, she has learned to pack vinegar in the fast-food, along with goggles, a face mask and toi-

let paper. The desert's alkaline dust does cut her skin, so she uses a vinegar-and-water-based spray to keep it moisturized and comfort the stigma.

'It was my own internal thing that a lot of us probably do carry because historically it means unheard or astly, dry,' Douglas tells USA TODAY. 'So that was a huge thing for me.'

Improvements for a more welcoming experience

Although other Black attendees have told Douglas stories about the microaggressions and notion they've experienced on the plays, she says, a majority of people report positive experiences.

Douglas has provided five tickets to Burners who need financial support and has worked with Burning Man to make tickets more accessible to people of color. Ticket prices range from $550 to $1,000. She also has curated large-scale art pieces such as two 30-foot Black portraits in 2022 and a model burberding in 2024, complete with affirmative notions and holding circles for men.

'I still a Ph.D. in 'ad' in seven days,' Douglas says. 'You get in touch with yourself in a way that most opportunities don't give you while also being supported and based on by a community, especially for Black people.'

Doujans' furniture, & served at the desert city in 2023 after receiving an invitation from his friend Andrew Calderon. Carathers, a cofounder of the Black Flame Collective, recently lost his younger brother and went to Burning Man to get in touch with his emotional wife.

'I'd like being at the laundromat for your spirit, you get what I mean?,' Calderon says. 'What you get to wash, you get to dry, and then you get to fold yourself up and be new again.'

As a cofounder of the Black Flame Collective, Calderon hopes to create a beacon of representation. He credits low attendance to its isolated location in northern Nevada and a lack of know-how among Black people but believes the numbers are growing.

'I would say ultimately it's a fear of 'Is it safe? Is it inclusive? Will it be fun?'' Calderon says. 'Because it seems like it's a space only for White people. So why would I go out there?'

For Calderon, who has been attending Burning Man since 2016, all the stereotypes around drugs, sex and partying are true – but he counters that it's a transformation experience.

He recounts two-filled moments mourning the loss of his father and other moments centred on community.

'All people, but specifically Black people, don't have a lot of spaces to be vulnerable,' Calderon says.

'And we show up a lot of ways with masks. We got to talk about where we work, what college we want to, what kind of car we drive. We're worried about how we're presenting. But out there, everybody's dusty, no none of that matters. So what matters is: 'Who are you?''

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Staten (Jacob Duhamel) and Quinn (Minka Kelly) have a lot to talk about in 'Ransom Canyon.' PROVIDED BY JEFF NOVIKARANNETTILR

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her, but he doesn't communicate them. So whatever he's got coming, he deserves.'

Oliver shows up in Ransom Canyon and proposes marriage

Just as Staten works up the gate to open up and show the love to Quinn, after Season 2 welcome home party Oliver shows up dramatically and proposes by fairy lights on a gazebo. Quinn defers on the proposal, but states seeing Oliver in their new setting, creating the love triangle.

Oliver is modern romance-novel perfect – handsome with devil-may-care hair. He's understanding even after the proposal rejection, patient, romantic and able to state that British 'Love Island' is superior to American 'Love Island.'

'Throw in the British accent, and we're talking. It finds 'feeds and uses,' Kelly says. 'But when she's at home, she realizes that the grass isn't always greener, even though it's very pretty.'

Kelly learned TV piano from her musician husband

With all the musical talent in town, piano-playing Quinn decides to start a Ransom Canyon music festival. In real life, Kelly took her unscreen piano-playing skills seriously, getting lessons from her partner, Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds, as well as a local piano teacher.

'I don't know how to read music, but I learned how to play by playing it over and over millions of times until my hands automatically know how to play it,' Kelly says. 'Living with a classical pianist at home is very helpful for lessons. It's my little closet code. It's a little cheating that I live with my teacher.'

'That is stilling the memories you have around you,' Duhamel adds.

Staten has daddy issues, while Duhamel understands ranch work

In Season 2, Quinn has to deal with

the arrival of her mother (Patricia Chickson), who is trying to sell the beloved family home. Staten battles his own father, former Ben, Sam Kirkland (Brett Cullen), who takes control of the family ranch, migrating a lifelong feud between the stubborn father and son.

Duhamel knows what he's talking about when Staten launches into a detailed spot about burning equipment and tractor attachments. After all, the 'Law Vegas' star lives on a farm in northern Minnesota with his wife, Annika Miri, whom he has embraced the hands-on rural lifestyle.

'I have that equipment at my place in Minnesota, and I'm always dealing with my attachments, while the 'Life graphic or the budgeting or the bucket,' Duhamel says. 'It helps me to wrap my arms around which kind of work this guy does every day.'

How long does the 'Ransom Canyon' love triangle last?

All you need to do is go to IMDb to see that Oliver appears in only eight of the 10 episodes. It's a good run. But there's no denying Quinn and Staten belong together on 'Ransom Canyon' as the couple makes it official.

'It takes as long as it's supposed to, but when Staten and Quinn do come together, they've actually earned it,' Kelly says. 'When you have a connection with someone your whole life, it's really like home is where the heart is. And Staten's her home.'

The end of Season 2 marks the end of the Sam-and-Diane suspense love angle on 'Ransom Canyon.'

'You can only do the well-than-won't-they for so long,' Duhamel says. 'We can all fail in love or lust or give for someone. But what I find interesting is what it's like for the everyday domestic minutiae for those two. I love that.'

Pans can hopefully look forward to full coupled-up moments in Season 3. Maybe even the parlor of little feet – or at least the discussion.

'I personally would love to see this couple have a baby,' Duhamel says. 'I mean, it's possible.'

'It's an exciting idea,' Kelly says. 'Or maybe the man wanting a baby, and maybe Quinn doesn't want to. What does that look like?'


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The new Carrie takes own path to the prom

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SAN DIEGO – Summer H. Howell may not have supernatural abilities like Carrie White, but before she was cast as the iconic Stephen King character, she had a bit of a premonition.

For the 22-year-old actor, landing the loud role in the new “Carrie” television series based on King’s classic novel was a long journey. Creator Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House”) notes more than 1,000 actresses were considered. But Howell, sitting alongside Flanagan for a conversation with USA TODAY during San Diego Comic-Con, recalls a moment during her auditioning journey when she began feeling like good news was coming.

“I remember this one week after doing another tape,” I was like. “Something’s gonna happen,” she says. “I started getting déjà vu. I started telling my family and friends, like, ‘I don’t know. I think they’re gonna want to talk to me.’”

Howell was right. She went on to book the part after an hour-long call, in which she had to act out four scenes. Before delivering an emotional monologue, she “was laying on the floor in my room, just telling myself all these affirmations why I deserve this, and I’ve come so far, and this is meant for me.” In a bit of unfortunate timing, though, Flanagan told her the role was here on April Pools’ Day.

“I had no idea what day it was. I had no idea what month it was,” he quips.

“Carrie,” an upcoming eight-episode streaming series on Prime Video based on King’s 1974 novel about a bullied high school girl with telekinetic abilities, has received a number of adaptations over the years, including the seminal 1976 movie starring Bony Spacek. Given that, many fans have been skeptical another “Carrie” is needed, and Flanagan initially felt the same way. But he came around after walking that, rather than simply adapt the book again, he could do something completely new with it.

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on its way to the screen, and then the other one is where you take it apart completely and built something new out of its pieces, and that was the reason to do this,” he says.

“There was absolutely no point in trying to go back and do the kind of adaptation that had already been done and done so ironically and spectacularly. The only thing we could do was try to make something new.”

‘Our version of Carrie is so different’

In fact, Flanagan cast Howell specifically because “our version of Carrie is so different” than any previous one.

“The Carrie that we were looking for, and the Carrie that Summer was able to embody, was one of curiosity and ear-

nestness and openness and a delicate vulnerability that also fad fathoms of strength,” he explains, contrasting this with the “twitching ball of trauma” fans have seen in earlier versions.

That’s not to say this was a conscious choice on her part to differentiate herself from Spacek. Howell, who has been acting since age 6 and previously played Alice Pierce in the “Chucky” franchise, wasn’t even aware of “Carrie” before the show came along, and she hadn’t watched the Spacek movie until after she finished shooting.

Flanagan spoke with Spacek “a few times” during the process and says the star was “very curious about” what he had up his sleeve. “It was really fun watching it go from this kind of protective curiosity into enthusiasm,” he says.

Howell hasn’t met Spacek yet, but received a “bells through text” from the star of the 1976 film.

Fans should expect “Carrie” to differ from the story they knew in a number of other ways. For one, Flanagan says, “one of the biggest early surprises” will be the more nuanced way it depicts Carrie’s relationship with her abusive mother, Margaret, played by Samantha Moyer.

“The dynamic between Margaret and Carrie is different,” Howell says. “It’s based on love. Margaret is just fearful that her daughter is stopping out into this world that she doesn’t know much about either. We’ve both been secluded

for a long time, and we love each other. It’s just the circumstances that start to pry us apart.”

The iconic ‘Carrie’ prom scene will be revamped

But the core themes of the book remain in place, and Flanagan sees them as even more relevant in 2026 than ever.

“One of the first images that came to me when contemplating this show is Carrie White walking through a metal detector, going through an active shooter drill,” he says. “The events at the prom in Stephen King’s mind were a burst of shocking high school violence. We live in a world now where much more explicit high school violence has become completely normalized, especially in the United States.”

It wouldn’t be “Carrie” without some version of that iconic prom scene, where, in the traditional story, Carrie is drenched in gig’s blood as part of a cruel prank. Flanagan says that pro, “we’re going to the prom,” but it will be “radically different” than fans expect.

“I wanted people to think they knew what happened at the prom and be wrong,” he says. “That was something [Stephen King] was excited about, too. We’ve seen a beautiful version of the prom sequence that he wrote. What can we do that’s going to really surprise people? What can we do that’s going to really surprise ourselves? What can we do that’s going to surprise these characters?”

“And so it’s one of the great joys of my career to take something that is familiar, and to put a completely different spin on it.”

Howell can’t say much about how the new prom sequence compares to classic one without spoiling it, though she playfully confirms “there’s blood.”

She remembers being “very sticky” and having blood painted on her every morning before filming.

“I’d stand in a tent with those goggles on so it didn’t get in my eyes. It was very funny looking,” she says. “I looked like a Maison.”

All eight episodes of “Carrie” debut on Prime Video on Oct. 7.

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Aurora and her 6-year-old daughter were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and sent to a family detention center in Texas. Her daughter spent more than half a year in a child migrant shelter before they reunited. CARLOS SIMPSON/REUTERS

'ALL I DO IS WORK'

Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from U.S. agency

Kristina Cooke REUTERS

Aurora's 6-year-old daughter arrived at the U.S. border alone and spent more than half a year in a child migrant shelter while her mother, who was already in the country, worked to get her out.

The two were finally reunited in late March. 'We were overjoyed,' said Aurora, 24, who like others in this story spoke on the condition they be identified only by their first names.

Days later, however, mother and daughter

were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and sent to a family detention center in Texas, records show.

They are among more than 12,000 people arrested by U.S. immigration authorities following tips from the Office of Refugee Resettlement during President Donald Trump's second term, according to internal government data reviewed exclusively by Reuters.

OMB was created in 1980 to resettle refugees fleeing war and persecution. Since the early 2000s, the agency has also been charged with housing unaccompanied migrant children ar-

riving at the U.S.-Mexico border, like Aurora's daughter.

The care of those children has historically been walled off from immigration enforcement. A 2008 law sought to ensure they were placed in the least restrictive setting and released from detention as soon as safely possible, regardless of their sponsors' legal status.

That meant migrant families could be reunited without fear of being targeted by ICE, even if they were in the country illegally.

See ICE, Page 4NN

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Children play amid the rures in Gaza City on July 27. Gaza remains gripped by daily violence, with Israeli strikes continuing despite a truce that has been in effect since Oct. 10. SHANK AL-QAIF TAAJ 'AFF' VIA GETTY IMAGES

Israel's yellow line, a shifting edge of war pushing Gazans from home

Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ebrahim Hajjaj REUTERS

On a road in Gaza City's Zottoun district, Palestinian resident Assem Dawla loaded mattresses and bags onto a truck as concrete yellow blocks marking the edge of Israel's expanding military zone stood amid the rubble nearby.

He said it was the seventh or eighth time since the war began that he and his family had been forced to leave a shelter because of Israeli evacuation orders and the advance of what residents call the yellow line.

Zottoun is one of at least five locations across Gaza where residents and Hamas officials say Israel has expanded areas under its control in recent days by moving forward the yellow line, a military demarcation established under a U.S.-horkered ceasefire reached in October.

As men hoisted belongings onto a waiting truck, elderly relatives picked their way through debris. Continued Israeli military activity made it too dangerous to remain, Dawla said.

'We are taking our belongings out

See GAZA, Page 6NN

Oman presents Iran with Gulf-backed plan for voluntary Hormuz fees

Timour Azhari and Parisa Hafazi REUTERS

DUBAI — Oman has presented Iran with a plan backed by Gulf states to manage the Want of Hormuz, including collecting voluntary fees for using it, a Gulf source and a Western diplomat told Reuters on July 28.

The Omani proposals are intended to serve as a basis to end the disruption to trade through the strait caused by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

But a U.S. official on July 28 again rejected the idea of tolls or fees for ships transiting the strait, reiterating that it is an international waterway that should be free of Iranian control or restrictions. The official told Reuters that the deal under discussion would not include any tolls or fees.

President Donald Trump, who abruptly called off a two-week U.S. bombing campaign over the weekend in his latest strategic U-turn, said there were 'good talks' under way with Iran but threatened to restart strikes unless negotiations deliver. Iran has denied seeking to resume talks with the United States.

Iran has said it would hold fire as long as Washington does. But U.S. Central Command said on July 28 that Iran had launched multiple ballistic missiles 'in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East,' and that the missiles were suc-

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People attend a July 27 vigil for fallen soldier Sgt. Akgah S. Ramprasad in the Queens Borough of New York City as a resolution to the war with Iran has yet to materialize. ADAM GRAY/REUTERS

cessfully intercepted

Saudi Arabia said on July 28 that its six defenses intercepted and destroyed several drones targeting oil facilities. The attacks were launched from Iraqi territory by Iran-backed terrorist militias, Saudi Defence Ministry spokesperson Turki al-Maliki said.

Drone attacks were reported in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and northern Iran on July 27, and Jordan reported another drone being downed on July 28.

Washington launched fresh strikes earlier this month to break Iran's grip on the strait.

Iran effectively shut the strait to ships other than its own after the

See IRAN, Page 6NN

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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Barlington, NC94/64/L54Hyattinstone, NC93/62/L20Manheim, WI83/64/LSalem, AZ
Barrington, CT72/64/L40Hyattinstone, NC93/61/L20Manheim, WI83/64/LSalem, AZ
Carthage, OH80/54/L33Hyattinstone, NC93/61/L20Manheim, WI83/64/LSalem, AZ
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EXPLANER

A Look at Oman's plan to manage the Strait of Hormuz

REUTERS

Oman has delivered a proposal to free messaging regional management of the Strait of Hormuz and only voluntary fees for transit rather than Tehran's vision of maintaining control of the waterway and charging for its use.

Control of the strait, the narrow waterway between the Gulf and the Indian Ocean that is the main route for about a fifth of world oil supplies and other vital goods, has been a main sticking point in efforts to resolve the U.S. Iran war.

Todd source and a Western diplomat have told Reuters the proposal was submitted to Iran over the weekend during talks to Tehran.

The proposal is for a joint regional mechanism to manage the strait with voluntary fees to help fund the cost of managing, navigation, environmental protection, search and rescue and other services.

Oman's plan is based on the existing arrangements for the Strait of Malacca linking the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, upper Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore and ships to pay a voluntary contribution for services.

Why has Oman proposed a new plan?

Iran closed the strait, running between the Iranian and Omani coasts, as soon as the war began on Feb. 28 with U.S. and Israel certifies that killed the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

As the conflict continued, it asserted what it calls sovereign right to manage the strut and to collect fees for unspecified services alongside Oman.

An interim ceasefire deal that Iran and the United States agreed in June specifically gave Oman a role in determining management for the strut.

That agreement said Iran would control a dialogue with Oman to define the future administration and maritime services on the strut, in discussion with other Gulf states and in line with international law.

However, while Oman had held dialogue with Iran on the issue, its only

public intervention has been guidance issued in June for vessels transiting the strut through its waters that did not require fees.

What does Iran want?

Iron wants any permanent peace deal in the war to allow Tehran to demand free for ships passing through the strut.

It has not specified how a fee structure would work, but an Iranian official told Reuters before June's interim issue that it would require its factors including the type and size of ship, the cargo and other unspecified conditions.

Iran regarded efforts by vessels to transit the strut next the Omani coastline during the ceasefire as a violation of the terms of the trace and fired on them.

It says all ships passing the strut must liaise with a new Persian Gulf Strait authority that it has set up to administer transit.

Senior Iranian officials say that furnishing its control over the strut is now the most important goal for Tehran in its approach to the conflict.

What does Trump say?

After the ceasefire broke down in July, President Donald Trump said Washington would charge for use of the State of Hormuz, making 20% of the value of all cargo shipped.

That declaration, made in a social media post, appeared to contradict his own earlier statements that Hormuz transit should be free, as well as those of other senior figures in his administration.

On June 25, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Robio said 'no country on Earth has the right to charge for the use of international waterways' and that fees for shipping would never be part of any peace deal.

Trump later said that nobody should charge a fee for using the strut, while adding that he thought it unfair the United States should have to pay for protecting the waterway.

Is It legal to charge fees?

The strut is made up of the territorial waters of Iran and Oman, with the maritime boundary running along the middle.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the two says states bordering straits cannot demand payment simply for permission to pass through.

However, they can impose limited fees for specific services such as piloting, tugging or port services, though these may not be levied since heavily on vessels from any particular countries.

Neither Iran nor the United States is a signatory to the U.N. agreement, but it is widely regarded as international maritime law and Hormuz as an international strut.

In 1968, Iran and Oman agreed on a traffic scheme with the International Maritime Organization under which major vessels would use sea lanes along the middle of the strut. Iranian inter-laying during the war has now made such passage unsafe, according to the IMD.

What do other countries do?

No such unilateral move to demand due to trawess a strut has been made in modern history, shipping industry officials said. Gulf states, whose main access to the high seas for their vital energy export has brought the strut, are particularly concerned about fees.

The Panama and from canals, which have been dug rather than occurring naturally, are treated differently than straits.

The Turkish Straits — the Bosphorus, Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles between the Black Sea and Molar, vernacular — are governed by the 1936 Maritime Convention guaranteeing free passage for merchant vessels in peacetime.

The information allows Turkey to buy standardized charges to cover the cost of services but does not allow it to impose a general transit fee.

Singapore does not charge a fee to transit the Singapore Strait.

Mt. cyclopsoriasis: cases increase to 9,680

Siddihi Mahatide and Christy Kambesh REUTERS

Michigan health officials reported 9,680 cases of cyclopsoriasis on July 28, an increase of 427 cases from a day earlier, as the growing intestinal parasite outbreak keeps U.S. consumers unedge about forging raw produce.

Sheepers have worked for weeks over what products are making people sick with cyclopsoriasis, an intestinal disease that can cause explosive diarrhea.

An investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has linked the outbreak to iceberg lettuce served at Taos Bell restaurants sourced from privately held Taylor Farms operations in central Mexico, but authorities are still looking for other potential sources given the rate of the outbreak.

Michigan's health department has reported 860 hospitalizations as of July 22, but no deaths. Cyclopsoriasis, caused by the cyclopsuria parasite, can be contracted by consuming food — typically raw fruits and vegetables — or water contaminated with fever. There are currently 4,273 laboratory-con-

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Health officials are still working to determine the cause of the recent outbreak of cyclopsoriasis, a disease that can cause explosive diarrhea.

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firmed domestic cases of cyclopsoriasis in the United States, while the Centers for Disease Control is aware of more than 7,600 additional cases across at least 4 states.

Investigators have not determined how many cases are tied to Taylor Farms-supplied iceberg lettuce. The company complained to White House and USA officials about the government's inspection process earlier in July, a senior familiar with the meeting said on July 27.

In a letter to federal health officials, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, on July 28 questioned whether recent Trump administration cuts to food-valley surveillance and laboratory funding had weakened the government's ability to detect and respond to the nationwide outbreak.

Gillibrand said the cuts had created 'dangerous blind parts' to disease surveillance and asked the CDC and the FDA to respond by the first their plans to contain the current outbreak and monitor future cases.

Gillibrand also raised concerns about cuts to FoodNet, a foodborne illness surveillance program run by the CDC, the FDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture and IP state health departments, which stopped tracking six of eight pathogens, including Cyclopora, in July 2025.

Cyclopora is a nationally notifiable pathogen and most often collect data and share it routinely with the CDC in its disease surveillance system, said Gwen Mcgeestall, deputy director of the CDC's Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, during a recent press briefing.

FINANCIAL MARKETS

S&P 500 ends higher ahead of tech earnings

Neel Randerich REUTERS

The S&P 500 ended higher on July 28 as gains in Boeing and Coca-Cola helped offset tumbling ship stocks ahead of quarterly reports from Apple and other tech companies this week.

Global market have been volatile in July as investors worry that Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and other technology heavyweights may be overspending on Al data centers as they race to dominant fee emerging technology.

Microsoft rose 11% ahead of its report on July 29, while Amazon dipped 0.2% ahead of its results on July 30. Apple (United) almost it's in $140.00. Of all a session high of $142.89, briefly lifting its stock market value to $1.5 billion for the first time. The iPhone maker reports its results on July 30.

Stipmakers that have benefited from heavy Al spending added to recent losses, with the PHLX index losing 4.5%. It has fallen about 25% from its record-high-lose on June 22, and it remains up 56% in 2024.

The S&P 500 healthcare index jumped 4.3%, the consumer singles index added 2% and the materials index rose 17%, while declining ship-makers kept the tech index down 3.4%.

'What has been behind the move into these non-tech markets? And of it is value,' said Ross McGillall, investment strategy analyst at Reed in Louisville. 'GDP is solid, the labor market continues to churn along and, in a lot of places, there's evidence that consumer spending is exacerbating.'

Coca-Cola added 3% after the beverage company used its annual revenue and profit forecasts. Boeing jumped 4.4%, after the airplane maker generated positive free cash flow as its annual total plans gained momentum.

The S&P 500 claimed 3.4% to end the session at 7,428.79 points.

The Sunday, October 0.32%, to 24,876.9 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.03% to 32,747.32 points.

The Federal Reserve is due to announce its interest-rate decision on July 29. Traders on a 7% probability that the central bank will leave rates unchanged and a 29% chance of a 25-basis-point rate loss, according to CMS's ProTotals Inc.

Higher rates could further pressure Al companies that are becoming more dependent on debt financing.

Coming tumbled 22% after third-quarter sales forecasts missed estimates, while contract research firm IQVIA Holding jumped 14% after lifting its annual profit forecast.

Oil prices offered some broader relief, with Brent falling 4.8% to settle at $84.09 a barrel on expectations that 'sessions in the Middle East and in Ukraine would ease an life White House hosted Israeli, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenkyy.

Analysts are average expert S&P 500 aggregate second-quarter earnings to range 9% from a year ago, with Al related stocks accounting for much of that growth, according to LBRG1/B/1/9.

Advancing issues outnumbered falling ones within the S&P 500 by a 2.5-to-year ratio.

The S&P 500 posted 63 new highs and one new law, the Madras recorded 107 new highs and 207 new laws.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was in line with recent sessions, with 17.2 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 17.4 billion shares over the previous 20 days.

Former FCC officials oppose early review of Disney-owned ABC licenses

David Stegardsen REUTERS

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of former U.S. communications regulators on July 28 urged the Federal Communications Commission to abandon an unusual early review of broadcast licenses held by Disney's eight company-owned ABC television stations, calling the move a threat to free speech.

In a filing with the FCC, former commissioners and senior staff from Republican and Democratic administrations said the review could allow the agency to revise ABC's licenses years before they are due for renewal and appeared aimed at punishing a broadcastist that President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticizes.

The signatories, including former be-

publican FCC commissioners Mark Fowler, Dennis Patrick, Alfred Hales and Rachelle Chong and former Democratic Chief Tom Winslow, said the review was 'an assault on free speech, diagnosed as regulatory process.'

They said the FCC 'appears to revision terminating ABC's licenses years early and making specifics currently licensed to ABC available to others.'

FCC Chair Brendan Carr ordered the reviews to April, even though the abstract license renewals were not scheduled to be considered until starting in October 2024. The FCC had not ordered an early review to move from 50 years before April.

The FCC said the move stemmed from a reaching investigation into whether Disney's diversity policies amounted to unlawful discrimination,

an allegation the company denies. Carr and Disney did not immediately comment.

Broadcast stations sued FCC licenses to use public airwaves. While former revocationers are conspiratedly rare critics say the prospect of being a 5-year can prevent broadcasters and raise concerns about government interference in editorial and programming decisions.

Carr opened the investigation in March 2025 into Disney's diversity practices and said Disney submitted documents he vowed as insufficient. He has said he has not ruled out seeking to revise the company's licenses.

The reviews were ordered in April, a day after Trump urged ABC to first-day night host Jimmy Rimmel.

'This administration has repeatedly

land unlawfully) said that broadcasters could lose their licenses for continuing to speak in ways for president considers unlawfulism the former FCC officials wrote.

Trump has repeatedly urged broadcasters to stop program for dislikes or which have been critical, pressing regulators to revise licenses of broadcasters he says are unfair. Broadcasters have broad First Amendment rights to make content decisions.

Trump demanded in November that the FCC revise ABC licenses after he criticised an ABC News correspondent for asking funds Arabia's crown prince about the 2008 killing of a Washington Post columnist in a question he dubbed 'toubiquitous'.

The FCC is also investigating the ABC daytime talk show 'The View.'


ANN | WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2026 | NATION & WORLD EXTRA - USA TODAY NETWORK

Iran

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United States and Israel attacked on Feb. 28. A deal in Iran between the United States and Iran partially reopened it, with forces talk planned to resolve larger issues including Iran's nuclear program.

But the agreement collapsed in early July after Iran fired on ships using a channel 8 does not approve.

Iran has said it wasn't to manage the strait alongside Oman, which controls the opposite driver, and charge service fees to ships that use U. Washington wants to return to the status quo prior to the war, when ships were able to pass freely with no payments, and says charging mandatory fees would be illegal.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Karam Shamband said Tehran had prepared to think that Iran manage one-way shipping through its side of the strait and Moscow's manager part but not all of the opposite direction.

Under the Oman proposal, Iran would not exercise sole control and fees would be voluntary; the Gulf source and a Western diplomat briefed on the matter told Reuters.

The system would be analogous to one to place on Asia's Road of Malacca, where Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore ask ships to pay voluntary contributions to food navigation, environmental protection and search-and-rescue operations.

The Western diplomat composed it to a voluntary victim tax for flights, where anyone buying a plane ticket can choose to take a box if they want to pay to offset their emissions.

Iran's cooperation in United foreign ministries met via video call on July 28 to discuss the latest developments in the conflict, including ways to intensify cooperation on issues related to freedom and safety of vessels through the underway, a statement from the Qatari Foreign Ministry said.

Iran's joint military command again rejected a plan put forward by Trump for damages to remain to her goal from frozen human assets, after media reported. It said that any country or company that accepted such payments would be denied passage through the front of Hormuz by Iran's armed forces.

Adding to the challenges for shipping in the region, the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen opened a new front against the United States and its allies on July 25, when they declared a blockade of South ports on the Red Sea.

Late on July 28, the Houthis said they had filed bulletin: missiles at a South oil tanker, which they said was forced to turn back.

Trump called off more airstrikes after receiving advice from military commanders that the strategy had run its course. The 33 nights of renewed U.S. bombing killed scores in Iran and increased bridges and tunnels across the south as well as military targets.

Iran responded with attacks on U.S. bases in neighboring countries that killed four service members as well as strikes on civil infrastructure in Gulf states that it said were to response to U.S. strikes on civilian targets.

In an interview with Fox News on July 28 ahead of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, Trump said the United States was in a strong position right now. He intimated he was prepared to strike more human targets but said he would prefer to avoid doing so.

Trump also repeated a threat to potentially target Iran's Pricisse Mountain, a fortified family buried deep underground near one of Tehran's main nuclear sites, saying: 'If we don't make a deal, we'll take it out very easily.'

Iran said it had not sought any new negotiations with the United States, which is accused of violating the agreement reached last month on a framework for talks to end the war.

Trump met Netanyahu amid strained relations between the two leaders.

Israel was involved in the initial bombing campaign but has not been part of subsequent peace talks.

The end of the U.S. bombing campaign over the weekend was of severe tumbling by around 6% on July 27, and the fall continued on July 28.

'If we don't make a deal, we'll take [Iran's] Picisse Mountain, a fortified facility buried deep underground near one of Tehran's main nuclear sites] out very easily.'

President Donald Trump

ICE

Continued from Page 19N

The Trump administration has taken a drastically different approach. Since January 2025, the data shows, ORR has shared more than 460,000 'leads' with ICE about unaccompanied children, their parents – usually parents or other relatives – and additional household members, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation.

Interviews with migrant families, legal advocates and current and former U.S. officials illustrate the far-reaching implications of this policy shift and its human toll.

In, Smyzer, who served as deputy director of ORR during the Biden administration, said safeguards against data sharing with ICE have been 'completely reversed.'

They are cooperating a child welfare program for the purposes of more deportations, ICR said.

In settlement to Reform, ORR said it 'dares no role in the apprehension of children,' referring questions about immigration enforcement to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE's parent agency. In response to questions from Reuters, DHB said that during Trump's second term 'ORR has provided ICE Homeland Security investigations with potential investigative leads,' as part of an effort to locate unaccompanied children who were placed with 'uninvited sponsors,' including some with criminal record.

Aurora ordered the United States illegally her years ago in search of work and safety.

She left her daughter with family in their rural Mexican village, fearing she was too young for the dangerous desert crossing.

Aurora found a job as a house cleaner in Mississippi, and August, she said, a relative brought her daughter to the border and left her to surrender to immigration agents, a common strategy among families seeking reunification.

Officials transferred the girl to a migrant children's shelter and Aurora began the writing process to get her out.

After the end of the U.S. bombing campaign over the weekend was of severe tumbling by around 6% on July 27, and the fall continued on July 28.

ORR declined to comment on specific cases but said its increased vetting is meant to shield children from harm.

Gaza

Continued from Page 19N

and going to leave the place because the occupation (Israel) has moved the yellow line all the way to Salah al-Din Street,' he said.

With the October ceasefire, President Donald Trump set out a peace plan for Gaza that largely halted major fighting after two years of devastating Israel's war in Gaza triggered by Hamas' attack on southern Israel.

The plan called for a surge in humanitarian aid, governance by a civilian Palestinian administration, the disarmament of Hamas, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the deployment of an international force to help maintain security.

But progress has stalled.

Iman effectively identified an estimated 64% of Gaza by late April. Nearly all of the territory's roughly 2 million residents are concentrated in a narrow coastal area under Hamas control, living largely in damaged buildings or makeshift shelters and facing dire humanitarian conditions.

Hamas has so far refused to disarm, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on May 28 that Israel thought he was a 'wonderful person' who could be control by 70% of the welfare. Israeli forces have continued near-daily military strikes across Gaza.

Residents in Dair al-Balah, Khan Yosain, Gaza City's Zettour, Tefikh and Shejais neighborhoods, as well as northern Salah, told Reuters that Israeli forces have advanced the yellow block markers during the past 10 days, triggering new waves of displacement in the intensely devastated by months of conflict.

At least seven people interviewed by Reuters said residents in some affected areas received warnings via text messages or drone-mounted bombpockets before having once again.

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The time unaccompanied children spend in custody has increased from an average of 50 days to fiscal year 2024 to 194 days in June 2026, according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement. CARLOS RAMOS/INDUSTRY.

The day before being counted with her daughter, Aurora said, immigration agents visited her at home, asked about the girl, and told her to report to an ICE office the following week.

At that appointment, Aurora recounted, agents 'asked me if I had any problems in the U.S. and I said 'no, because I haven't done anything wrong. All I do is work.'

She said her daughter were detained at the appointment, records show, and sent to a family detention center in Delley, Texas. They were there for three weeks. Upon their release, Aurora was filled with an ankle monitor and instructed to report to regular check-ins pending the outcome of her immigration court case, records show. DHB told, Armed Details of Aurora's detention and release, saying she had admitted to being 'illegally smuggled across the border.'

While she was inside, her landlord in Mississippi evicted her and threw out her belongings. So mother and daughter headed to California, where a friend offered to put them up, Aurora says she fears they will soon be deported.

At night sometimes, her daughter gave up and crew, thinking she is still detained,' her mother said.

Sponsors swept up

Aurora and her daughter are at least together. Other families have been separated again.

Marleyn and her youngest son fled violence in Guatemala in 2023. They crossed the U.S. border illegally and settled in Texas, where she claimed a construction sites.

She older son, Victor, stayed with family back home. When his uncle was killed, he too decided to make the journey north and turned himself to U.S.

Under agents. After four months in ORR custody, Victor was released to late April. He night before his 18th birthday, records show. The family had a party to celebrate.

'I was so happy,' Marleyn said. 'I didn't know there what God had in store for me.' To get Victor out, she provided ORR with extensive documentation for both her and her partner, she said, including tax records and fingerprints. Because they had no criminal record – they were 'down/down/down,' she said – she had no qualms about sharing the information. Two months after Victor was released, though, ICE agents arrested Marleyn and her partner at gunpoint as they were getting in their car to go to work. In response to questions, DHB told Reuters that ICE was executing a criminal search warrant on Marleyn's 'roommate' – an apparent reference to her partner. DHB did not answer follow-up questions.

Seeing the guns was traumatic, Marleyn said, reminding her of the violence she left behind in Guatemala.

A neighbor who witnessed the arrest alerted Victor, who was in the family's apartment with her 6-year-old brother in town, he called a legal assistant at the Galveston Historian Immigrant Representation Project.

'We've seen so many sponsors arrested and collateral arrests with them,' said Alexa Fentishal, a managing attorney with the project.

Victor is now caring for his little brother alone. He was due in court after his mother was arrested, but said he forgot to show up in the chaos that followed.

Now facing a deportation order, he hopes to find a lawyer to reopen his immigration case.

'I need to keep moving forward,' he said.

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The aftermath of an Israeli air strike on a mosque in Gaza City on July 28, amid a ceasefire that has yet to yield a permanent resolution. DORISSO AKA KAZAY/ISTOCK.

The Israeli military said its forces are deployed in Gaza to protect Israel from attack and that the yellow line was being clearly marked on the ground to reduce the risk of contact between troops and civilians.

'IDF's [Israel Defense Forces] defensive posture in the area includes a security zone, a physical barrier, intelligence capabilities, technological means, and operational activity by IDF troops,' the military said.

For many Gazans ordered to move, the process has become painfully familiar gathering whatever received the previous displacement — a few blankets, a cooking pot, a child's schooling — and setting out, often after dark, for another area designated as safe by the Israeli military.

Multiple displacements

Near the shattered remains of buildings in Zettour, Dawla's mother, Umm Rani, limped through what was left of the family's property, collecting what-

ever could still be salvaged.

'Why am I leaving? They [Israeli army] became close, they put the yellow line here. The day before, they struck there, and we left,' she said.

Like most of Gaza's population, Dawla's family has been displaced multiple times since the war began, rebuilding temperate shelters only to be ordered to move again days or weeks later.

In a statement issued on July 20, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said an Israeli displacement order in Zettour forced 30 families from their heirs, which residents said were subsequently destroyed.

As trucks carrying the remnants of household lives ended away and a child walked past yellow blocks protruding from the wreckage, residents faced yet another uncertain journey.

'The whole war is displacement, displacement. You can't stay anywhere without [Israel] telling you, Get out of here, we want to come in,' Dawla said.

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Model QA

翻译质量审核报告 (QA Report)

总体评估

结果:不通过 (FAILED) 本次翻译存在严重的幻觉 (Hallucinations)数字错误 (Wrong Numbers) 以及逻辑断层 (Section-order/Logic issues)。译文不仅在细节上不准确,且在部分段落中出现了与原文完全无关的虚构内容,属于严重的交付缺陷。


详细缺陷列表

1. 严重幻觉与内容篡改 (Hallucinations)

  • 体育版块 (SEC/College Football): 译文在“Toppmeyer”部分出现了大量原文中完全不存在的描述。例如,提到“前游艇 (yacht)”、“LAU 的 Jane Kiffin”以及关于 12 强季后赛名额的具体数字讨论。这些内容在提供的 Source Preview 中完全缺失,属于严重的凭空捏造。
  • 高尔夫版块 (British Open): 译文中出现了“东京财团”、“浅子·奥本本 (Asako Okumoto) 11 杆大胜”、“诱入世界高尔夫名人堂”等具体情节,而原文中仅为简单的历史回顾,且并未提及这些具体名称和比分。

2. 数字与专有名词错误 (Wrong Numbers & Terms)

  • 数字错误:
    • 原文 5 decades of growth $\rightarrow$ 译文 5 十年 (翻译生硬,应为 50 年)。
    • 原文 14.8 million $\rightarrow$ 译文 14.8 million (未翻译单位)。
    • 原文 L015 (疑似 OCR 错误) $\rightarrow$ 译文 (L015) (未尝试修正或标注)。
    • 原文 D7b overall, 2023 draft $\rightarrow$ 译文 (2023 draft 总第 7 顺位,D7b) (数字处理混乱)。
  • 专有名词误译:
    • Redox Diggs $\rightarrow$ 译文 Redox Diggs (应核对是否为 Stefon Diggs 等真实球员,译文仅机械保留)。
    • widecut (原文疑似 OCR 错误,应为 wide receiver) $\rightarrow$ 译文 宽体接球员 (直译错误)。
    • Pricisse Mountain $\rightarrow$ 译文 皮西斯山 (音译不稳定)。

3. 完整性与截断问题 (Omissions & Truncation)

  • 内容丢失:
    • 原文中关于 Construction workers 章节的开头部分 When it comes to salar... 被直接跳过,译文直接进入了分析结果。
    • 部分图片说明(Captions)在译文中被错误地与正文混淆,或在段落中间突然断开。

4. 残留英文与格式缺陷 (Residual English & Labels)

  • 残留英文: 出现大量如 million, draft, All-Pro, Pro Bowl 等未翻译或半翻译词汇。
  • 交付缺陷: 译文开头包含 [!WARNING] 翻译质量评估未完全通过 等内部审计标签,根据要求,这被视为交付缺陷 (Delivery Defect)

5. 逻辑与顺序问题 (Section-order)

  • 乱序严重: 译文在处理“加沙 (Gaza)”和“ICE (移民执法)”两个主题时,将两个完全不同的故事线(Aurora 的故事与加沙的黄色标志线)在段落之间强行交叉混排。例如,在描述 ICE 拘留的段落中,突然插入了一句关于“美国周末轰炸行动结束...下跌 6%”的句子,完全破坏了文本逻辑。

结论

该译文不可用。译者不仅在处理 OCR 错误文本时缺乏判断力,且在面对缺失信息时进行了大规模的非法重构(幻觉)。建议全篇重新翻译。

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