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Kevin PeltonAug 25, 2025, 12:18 PM ETClose Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE systemThe Portland Fire announced Monday that Golden State Valkyries vice president of basketball operations Vanja Cernivec will be the WNBA expansion franchise’s inaugural general manager.In her current role, Cernivec helped build what has been the winningest expansion team in league history. At 19-18, Golden State is in playoff position with seven games left in the regular season. No WNBA expansion team has ever made the playoffs in its debut campaign.Editor’s PicksWorking under Valkyries GM Ohemaa Nyanin,…

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Mexican drug lord, Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, has entered a guilty plea to two drug smuggling and conspiracy charges in a court in New York, bringing an end to one of the longest and most notorious criminal careers in the history of organised crime.Zambada was not just any drug lord.He was the founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, for years the biggest and most powerful criminal organisation in Mexico – with an astonishing global reach.Last year, he pleaded not guilty to a raft of drug smuggling, gun-running and money laundering offences. But now, he has changed his plea before a federal…

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. This story was created in paid partnership with Sling. The wait is finally over! The NFL returns for the 2025-26 regular season with hard-hitting action, high-flying thrills and exciting plays for 18 weeks of games. If you want to livestream games online, the NFL is spread across broadcast and cable networks, including ABC, ESPN, NFL Network, NBC, Fox and more. The best way to watch these networks on one streaming service is with NFL Season Pass on…

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Before this attack, the Ocean Viking had rescued 87 people, including from war-torn Sudan, and was en route to Italy.A humanitarian group has said that Libya’s coast guard fired upon its vessel as it searched for a refugee and migrant boat in distress in the Mediterranean Sea.On Monday, the nonprofit SOS Mediterranee said the confrontation occurred a day earlier, about 40 nautical miles (74km) north of the Libyan coast, and released details and images of the incident. No casualties have been reported, although the group said the vessel sustained significant damage.SOS Mediterranee charters the Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking in partnership with…

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Millions of child predators are forming sprawling online communities on the dark web using the Tor network, where criminal behavior escalates through the sharing of child sexual abuse material, grooming strategies and normalization of exploitation, experts say. Despite repeated warnings of a growing number of predators taking advantage of it, Tor’s developers have taken no action to curb the spread of this content, critics say.The Tor (“the onion router”) network is an anonymity-focused internet system that routes traffic through a global web of volunteer-run servers to obscure users’ identities and locations. By encrypting data in multiple layers – like that…

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Nigerians, ignore viral message about harmful weather conditions from a non-existent agency IN SHORT: A message doing the rounds on social media warns Nigerians of “an extreme form of air pollution that is harmful to health” and claims the warning is from the “Environmental Protection Agency”. But there is no agency with that name in Nigeria. The message should be ignored. “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has informed us that the current weather is not harmattan, but an extreme form of air pollution that is harmful to health” begins a message circulating on Facebook in Nigeria since July 2025. The…

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Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie will return as “American Idol” judges in the singing competition’s 24th season, coming to ABC and Hulu in 2026. This particular trio debuted in this year’s Season 23, which debuted in March. It marked Underwood’s first season on “Idol,” while Bryan and Richie have shared the judge’s panel since Season 16 in 2018. Until 2025, they served alongside Katy Perry, who exited the show ahead of Season 24. There is no mention of Ryan Seacrest in the press release sent by ABC and Hulu, but he has hosted the series since its debut…

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The South African government is warning young women not to fall for social media recruitment drives promoting job opportunities abroad.This comes as a number of online videos by South African social media influencers advertising jobs for young women in Russia have gone viral.The authorities are investigating one promotional video by influencer Cyan Boujee, which has now been removed from her account. She describes a two-year “start programme” for young women at the beginning of their careers who want to acquire professional skills.A large number of young South Africans are jobless and many are desperate for work.In Boujee’s video – shot…

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