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In what authorities have described as the largest natural disaster in the history of Spokane County, Wash., wildfires have destroyed hundreds of structures and forced the evacuation of thousands of people as firefighters continued their efforts to knock back and control several blazes in the area.On Sunday, nearly 1,000 firefighters were combating at least three wildfires that ballooned over the weekend in Spokane, which is home to about 600,000 residents. More than 5,390 acres of land have been scorched and officials said there was no containment of the fires on Sunday afternoon.Officials said at a news conference on Sunday that…
Petal, Ariana Grande‘s new studio album, tops this week’s new music poll. Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (July 31) on Billboard, choosing the pop star’s eight full-length LP as their favorite new music. Petal rose to the top in a week that included new music releases from Cardi B, Davido, Slayyyter and Shaboozey — plus a collab track from Erick Brian, Dale Pututi & Nesty, as well as one from Benny Blanco, Selena Gomez & Becky G — and more. By the poll’s closing time on Sunday, Petal collected 41% of the vote. Grande’s new album made its way to…
The Detroit Tigers reportedly explored a different path before sending Tarik Skubal to the Los Angeles Dodgers.According to MoccBomb, Detroit pushed to acquire Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Logan Henderson in any potential Skubal deal. Milwaukee reportedly refused to include the young starter, leaving the Tigers to continue searching for a return built around a premium player.Advertisement”Sources: #Tigers were insistent on landing #Brewers Logan Henderson in any deal made for Tarik Skubal. #Brewers didn’t budge. Once #Dodgers came to the conclusion to move Hope they scratched him and traded him immediately as the main piece for Skubal. It was all but over…
Mexico covers 1.96 million square kilometers (about 757,000 square miles), making it the 13th-largest country in the world. It once stretched over a far greater area and included six modern U.S. states, including the vast forests, mountains and deserts of California. To understand how Mexico occupied the West Coast of North America, we need to understand the geography of the continent. The Atlantic coastline of what is now the United States was colonized by Britain and seemed to offer little other than farmland. In the southern half of the continent, the Amazon restricted colonization to the coast. European expansion, led…
Ariana Grande is set to take a break from the public once her Eternal Sunshine Tour wraps on Sept. 1. The pop star’s time off includes her pulling out of leading the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George, which was expected to open next summer in London’s West End. People first reported the news — which comes just after Grande released her highly-anticipated new studio album Petal — on Sunday (Aug. 2), publishing a statement attributed to a representative for Grande. Billboard has reached out to Grande’s team for comment. “Ariana will be taking a step…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Insurers probed by US prosecutors over their private credit investments paid millions of dollars to a tiny credit-rating agency at the heart of concerns about the industry’s growing conflicts of interest.Delaware Life and Clear Spring, two insurers majority owned by the billionaire investor Mark Walter, have together paid $8mn to Egan-Jones since 2024, according to filings reviewed by the FT.Walter, who owns the LA Dodgers and Lakers and has a stake in Chelsea Football Club, has faced a wide-ranging probe into the…
The democratic socialists packed into a dive bar on Chicago’s South Side were in a bubbly mood after the first day of their national summit. Hayley Banyai-Becker, a 31-year-old from Portland, Ore., stood on a chair to rally fellow members of the Democratic Socialists of America to stay on “the front lines of class struggle.”But there was a problem: None of them could hear her.“Did they just turn the music up?” Ms. Banyai-Becker called out, over the thump of angry rock.“Scream louder!” a D.S.A. member said.“Should we go up one by one and tell them to turn the music down?”…
Ariana Grande will “take a step back from visibility” after her ‘Eternal Sunshine’ tour, and has withdrawn from her planned West End debut. The singer is wrapping up the North American leg of her headline tour and will begin a 10-date residency at London’s O2 Arena later this month, with those dates concluding on September 1. After that, her representative has confirmed that she will take a break from public appearances. “Ariana will be taking a step back from visibility after she completes the ‘Eternal Sunshine’ tour,” the rep told People. “She looks forward to finishing the tour and ending it on a high note, both…
You don’t have to be a futbolero to know the national icon that is Jorge “El Inmortal” Campos. The former Mexican national team goalkeeper, who stood a mere 5-foot-6, dominated throughout the 1990s as a stalwart between the goalposts, supplying acrobatic dives and theatrical saves that have been compiled into countless highlight reels by a zealous fanbase. On the field, he helped popularize the role of an attacking goalie — the rare archetype of a goalkeeper who would leave his own goal to become an offensive weapon against opposing defenses (Campos famously played striker at times, netting over 35 goals…