Author: Alex Maschino
Is it ownership’s fault that there has been a lack of offer sheets? James Murphy of RG.org: After the St. Louis Blues were successful last offseason with offer sheets for Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg, many thought there would be more attempts this offseason. That hasn’t been the case. One agent said that to get an offer sheet done, you’ll likely have to overpay for that player. Driving up the cost of players is not something owners want to see. “Look, if they match it, then all we did is drive up the market, and I don’t want to be…
The family of Israeli hostage Evyatar David held by Hamas in Gaza has accused the group of deliberately starving him as part of a “propaganda campaign”.”He is being starved purely to serve Hamas’s propaganda,” the family said on Saturday, a day after Hamas released a video showing an emaciated David in a narrow concrete tunnel.David, 24, has been in captivity since his seizure by Hamas at a music festival in southern Israel on 7 October 2023.”We are forced to witness our beloved son and brother, Evyatar David, deliberately and cynically starved in Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza – a living skeleton,…
US envoy tells Israeli hostage families he is working on plan to end Gaza War
Laura Prepon and her ex-husband, Ben Foster, unloaded their former marital home in Tennessee months after settling their bitter divorce, Us Weekly can exclusively report. According to real estate records, Prepon and Foster’s 5-bedroom, 7-bathroom, 6,170 square foot home in Nashville was sold on Monday, July 28. The exes listed the home in June for $4.245 million. The listing shows the sale price as $4 million. Prepon, 45, and Foster, 44, purchased the home in March 2024 for $3.995 million. The then-couple bought the home with an LLC named Infinity Rose. Records filed in Tennessee showed Foster as a member…
James Milner has chosen to switch to Brighton’s No. 20 shirt for the new season as a personal tribute to his former Liverpool team-mate Diogo Jota, who tragically passed away last month. The 28‑year‑old Portugal international died in a car accident in June alongside his brother, Andre Silva, only a few weeks after helping Liverpool secure the Premier League title. In response to his death, Liverpool confirmed that Jota’s iconic No. 20 shirt – worn throughout his five‑year spell at Anfield – would be retired permanently. Three of those seasons were spent with Milner before the experienced English midfielder departed for Brighton…
Here are the key events on day 1,255 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is how things stand on Saturday, August 2:Fighting Ukrainian rescuers recovered more than a dozen more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed apartment block in Kyiv overnight, bringing the death toll from Thursday’s attack by Russia to 31. A two-year-old was among five children found dead as a result of what is now Russia’s worst air strike of the year on Ukraine’s capital, which also injured 159 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as he announced the end of a more than 24-hour-long rescue operation at the…
A surprisingly weak July employment report has intensified expectations that the Federal Reserve will resume cutting interest rates as soon as September, with mounting evidence of a slowing U.S. economy and faltering labor market offsetting persistent inflation worries driven by new tariff hikes. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had previously left rates unchanged at a range of 4.25% to 4.50% at its July meeting, despite internal disagreements, growing signs that economic conditions warranted a more dovish approach, and mounting pressure from President Donald Trump on Fed Chair Jerome Powell to cut. The July jobs report, of course, is changing…
Love Island USA’s JaNa Craig is ready to move on after her dramatic split from Kenny Rodriguez. In the wake of the messy break-up, the reality star, 28, shared a message to her fans via her Instagram Story on Thursday, July 31, declaring she was ready to “close this chapter” of her life. JaNa insisted she was doing okay despite the public relationship breakdown and thanked everyone for their support in a piece-to-camera. “I’ve seen all the love you guys drown me in on social media – it has been an overflow of just support and prayers, and that means…
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As her first day of school under Taliban rule approached, Sajida Hussaini was hopeful. Her father, a teacher for 17 years, and her mother had instilled in her and her siblings the value of education, and now she was one year away from graduating high school.Even though the Taliban had taken over the country last summer, marking an end to many of the rights she and other Afghan girls had enjoyed all their lives, the regime had announced that it would reopen schools on March 23 and permit girls to attend.But when Sajida and her classmates arrived at the school’s…