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Inside a Philadelphia barbershop, Black men debate their political past and future Ever since Democrat Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to Donald Trump two years ago, political strategist Khalil Thompson has been traveling the country to figure out why Black men inched toward a white Republican rather than a Black woman. Although Black men vote overwhelmingly Democratic, even small shifts in their support can help swing razor-thin elections. Black men age 18 and older — roughly 4.3% of the U.S. population, according to the latest census estimate — have unique historical experiences that make their voting patterns distinct from other groups. Read more. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Trump calls on Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian diesel, saying attacks are causing a shortage Trump touches a nerve while in Ireland by saying reunification would be ‘fantastic’ Federal judge rules Trump DHS plan for 50% FEMA staffing cuts was unlawful Federal court rejects Trump order keeping Michigan coal plant open DOJ went after protesters for felony assault, but juries, judges were unconvinced, AP analysis finds The secret ballot has been an article of faith in US elections. That’s being tested in Georgia Justice Department directs states to hold on to 2024 election records as it seeks their voter data Diesel prices are hitting record highs at a bad time for many US farmers CIA releases dozens of presidential daily briefs on bin Laden and al-Qaida before Sept. 11 FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims during the Republican midterm convention US Rep. Tom Tiffany swims to safety after plane makes emergency landing in a Wisconsin lake President Donald Trump’s childhood home sells for $2 million GOP and Democratic officials in Nashville unite over renaming airport for Dolly Parton

Trump calls on Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian diesel fuel, saying attacks causing a shortage KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries and other infrastructure used to produce and distribute diesel, saying the attacks are causing a global shortage. He spoke after diesel prices in the U.S. hit a record on Friday, soaring past $6 a gallon on average. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-drones-odesa-refinery-border-crossing-17bb6a0401abc3eaa7d4586150a41d7d? ps:How pathetic?

😴 1 for the road: New status symbol Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios As more of us track our sleep through wearables and try different strategies to optimize nighttime rest, high sleep scores are becoming status symbols, The Wall Street Journal reports (gift link). People get scores from their wearables, smart mattresses and even baby monitors. How it works: Sleep scores aren't perfectly precise, but help spot patterns. If you know your baseline, you can experiment with changes like sleeping with white noise or on a cooler mattress topper to see if they meaningfully raise your score, CNET reports.

🗣️ Orators' new age Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios "As reading declines, ideas are spreading not by text but by spoken word" — a lasting piece of Charlie Kirk's legacy, The Economist reports ($): "Ideas that were once disseminated by headlines and columns are now being conveyed by TikToks and podcasts. As people spend more time absorbed in their screens and their AirPods, the human voice is making a comeback. That has consequences for how people communicate — and perhaps for the kinds of ideas that spread." 🤔 The intrigue: As oration comes back into vogue, so do its quirks. Written arguments are typically clean and structured, while spoken ones can repeat and ramble as people work toward their conclusion in real time. "The oral turn also helps explain the success of ... Donald Trump," The Economist notes. "Some have even compared his 'tagging' of enemies — 'crooked Hillary,' 'sleepy Joe' and so on — to Homer, who used epithets like 'ox-eyed Hera' and 'crooked-counseled' Cronos to lodge characters in audiences' minds."

💰 America's borrowing binge Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Americans are facing a rising tab as a multi-decade borrowing binge collides with a spike in energy prices caused by the Iran war. Long-term interest rates are surging, as are consumer prices. It's a toxic mix of near-term inflation pressures and years of fiscal imbalance, Axios' Neil Irwin reports. 📈 Driving the news: The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note rose to 4.97% Friday, up a full percentage point since the end of February, and only a hair below its high since 2007. That rate helps set borrowing costs across the economy, from business loans to mortgages. The rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has risen in lockstep, reaching 7.08% Friday, per Mortgage News Daily — the highest in more than a year. Gasoline is now at a national average of $4.31 a gallon, while diesel has climbed to over $6 a gallon. 👀 All this means the Fed is now expected to raise its target interest rate this week, but longer-term borrowing rates are set in global markets — and determined by bigger forces. Read on.

Celestial treat The same trio of planets was visible in March 2020, as seen in this photo from Alberta, Canada. Photo: Alan Dyer/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Early risers can spot three bright planets stretching across the morning sky for the rest of the month — and they won't need a telescope to see them, Axios Seattle's Christine Clarridge writes. Why it matters: Saturn, Mars and Jupiter can all be seen, weather permitting, in September's early morning hours, according to EarthSky. How it works: The planets will spread in a long arc along the ecliptic — the path the Sun, Moon and planets follow — like lights strung across the sky. To see all three, head outside before dawn and scan from east to west: Jupiter will be the bright one in the east, followed by reddish Mars and Saturn farther west.

🌐 Carney cozies up to Europe Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios For months, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has quietly courted European leaders — in France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and beyond — to pull closer to the European Union. Carney has even floated a new title for Canada, the Wall Street Journal reports: "Associate Member of the European Union." 👀 The intrigue: Trump has spent the last 18 months trying to rewire the global trading order by brute force, Axios' Ben Berkowitz writes. A spat over milk and whiskey usually wouldn't be enough to wreck a $900 billion relationship between neighbors. But Carney is taking the long view that Trump's order may outlast Trump's presidency. Go deeper.

🤑 September spending spree Data: AdImpact. Chart: Stef Kight/Axios Republicans are outspending Democrats in almost every battleground Senate race this month as Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) looks to the GOP's cash advantage to help hold his majority. Why it matters: The post-Labor Day rush is here, with $390 million (and climbing) of Senate campaign ads headed for voters' TVs, tablets and phone screens, Axios' Stef W. Kight and Hans Nichols report. By the numbers: In three crucial states — Ohio, Texas and Michigan — Republicans have reserved at least $10 million more in September advertising than Democrats. 🍑 Only in Georgia, a state where incumbent Democrat Jon Ossoff is now favored to win reelection, are Democrats outspending Republicans. Keep reading.

Hitting the AI brakes Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Over nine startling hours yesterday, the four biggest AI labs — which rarely agree on anything — set aside years of feuds and competition to endorse a slower development pace for their models. Their new stance: Prioritize safety over growth, even at a cost. The big picture: AI's unrelenting growth has hit an inflection point with the public, Washington and even the companies building it, Axios' Ben Berkowitz writes. Data centers are unpopular. People are panicked about doom scenarios. And 51 days before midterms, legislators suddenly realize there are points to be won by cracking down. ⚠️ Against that backdrop, the industry's most powerful CEOs hit the brakes yesterday. At 10 a.m. ET, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei dropped a 3,800-word essay saying model development needs to be paced, otherwise doom scenarios are possible — like a rogue-agent takeover of the entire internet, which he said could be as soon as six months from now. An hour later, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shocked the AI chattering class by quoting Amodei's essay on X and saying "Dario is right." Musk — who heads SpaceXAI, formerly xAI — had pointedly not joined previous industry-wide calls for any kind of slowdown. At 12:30 p.m., OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted: "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier." In a Friday interview that was released on Saturday, Altman told Fortune his company won't go public this year, dashing hopes for a blockbuster IPO. He said OpenAI has too much safety work to do and would be better off doing that as a private company. At 7 p.m., Demis Hassabis — the Nobel laureate who co-founded and chairs Google DeepMind, and is Alphabet's chief scientist — tweeted: "Dario's essay points towards the right path forward. The details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment." 🔎 Between the lines: Publicly putting safety ahead of technological or financial growth may be the industry's only route to avoid a crackdown that's not on its terms. Legislators are begging House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to stay in session and do something about the "threat" of AI. The more extreme alternative is something like Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) push to force a pause and make the most advanced AI illegal. Reality check: Most people realize there's too much money at stake to just stop. But the tradeoff may be between historic riches and slightly less historic riches. Let's see whether they actually agree on what oversight ("embedded third-party evaluators") and "slow" mean, then follow through. 🇨🇳 Friction point: No one in China is having the same kind of we'd-better-stop moment. Influential Silicon Valley tech voices, including former Trump official David Sacks, spent yesterday highlighting the counterargument that slowing down just lets adversaries — with no such safety qualms — catch up. In a late-night post, Sacks effectively dared OpenAI and Anthropic to voluntarily pace the AI frontier without waiting for the government. "If you don't, we'll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop." Amodei even acknowledged that a safety regime only really works if authoritarian governments come to the table, too. "Pacing within democracies will be limited by the lead that U.S. companies have over authoritarian regimes, chiefly the Chinese Communist Party," he wrote. "If we slow down by more than this amount, then (unpaced) CCP-associated projects will pull ahead, creating significant national security risk." The bottom line: Yesterday may go down as the day AI changed — when industry moguls vowed to limit themselves.

September 13, 2026 Good morning. Today we’re going back to school. Travis Duong, Hannah-Maria Bygrave, Ishani Peddi, Gene Winer and Nina Mareela Jones Fit check By Matt Yan I’m the host of Extra Credit, a newsletter for college students. Sign up here. Each generation has its own aesthetic. Gen Z is crafting a maximalist vibe. It’s glitchy and gloppy, but it’s not bland like that of our predecessors — sorry, millennials! (As one critic recently grumbled in the Times Opinion section: “Gen Z-ers dress like they’ve never worn clothes before.”) College quads now sometimes feel like catwalks: Students show off their personal style, some for the first time after years in high-school uniforms. I spoke with Jacob Gallagher, whose job is to know what’s cool. He hosts The Fashions, a newsletter that covers trends and what’s on the runway (you can sign up for it here). He answered questions about Gen Z attire. And as students return to school, we asked them how they’re dressing. Matt: How has fashion changed on campuses? Jacob: After the pandemic, everything (and this is not just on the campus) became way more dressed down. There used to be a certain sense of “getting dressed up” for class that just doesn’t really exist anymore. What trends are you seeing among college students and Gen Z? There is a lot of talk right now about how young people dress in this placeless, context-free mishmash. We call it “Gen Z chaos” in the office. When I was in college, your clothes reflected who you were, what you were into, what music you liked, what hobbies you had. I think you can’t really look at someone and glean that info anymore. There’s a lot of cobbling together thrifted clothes, stuff you’ve bought off TikTok Shop, making a shirt you inherited from a sibling into something that looks, well, interesting, perhaps rather than good. (Sorry!) If you were a college student today, what would you wear? Are you trying to fit in or be taken more seriously? As an outsider who is now well more than a decade removed from campus life, I tend to think a smidge of polish can do a lot. Does it make me washed and unc to, say … wear a button-up instead of a tee? Jeans instead of sweats? Maybe black loafers instead of Sambas? If you had to choose one staple item, what would it be? Get some good cotton shirts. They’re the kind of thing you can thrift or buy for under $50 at Uniqlo, and they’ll serve you well. You’ll need them for interviews, but you can also chuck them over some shorts on the weekend. Easiest, most versatile thing you can have in the closet. Campus style Readers of Extra Credit sent in these images of their style. Hannah-Maria Bygrave, 22, New York University This outfit was something I put together to attend my friend’s Howard homecoming. I believed the varsity jacket added a “school” touch, and the patchwork on the skirt sealed the deal. I wore the beige shoes to match the sleeves on the jacket. Nyx Hernandez, 20, New Mexico Highlands University I got most of my outfits from thrifting, gifts or clearance sections. I really like wearing button-ups and accessorize with what I have — for example, a slightly disheveled tie and some suspenders holding up my capris. I just love the color green. Might as well be the pop of color at my campus. Gene Winer, 21, University of Redlands I wore this the day I met Dolores Huerta, which also happened to be about a week prior to the Cesar Chavez revelations. Nina Mareela Jones, 18, Fashion Institute of Technology I’m wearing monochromatic pink Adidas Sambas, a lime green maxi skirt from Abercrombie & Fitch, a Jelly Firkin and a plain white tank top. More on college life: A new crop of students is trading keggers for yoga, saunas and cold plunges. At some universities, out-of-town parents can pay local moms to look after their college kids. THE LATEST NEWS A.I. Dario Amodei Fabrice Coffrini/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development to deal with safety risks. A.I. researchers are becoming more open about their concerns over the technology. Go inside their conversations. As calls grow for more restrictions on A.I., Washington has mostly been silent. Barack Obama called for Democrats to move A.I. oversight to the center of their agenda. Trump Administration President Trump endorsed the idea of Irish unification during a visit to Dublin. Trump demanded that the Smithsonian install a giant statue of George Washington outside the National Museum of American History. Trump’s childhood home in Queens sold for nearly $2 million. The new owner plans to live there and wants to remain anonymous, their agent said. More on Politics Members of Mormon Women for Ethical Government. Kim Raff for The New York Times Republican women in Utah are leading a fight against gerrymandering that would benefit their party. The Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin had to swim to safety after his plane made an emergency landing in a lake. “Affordability” is the buzzword of this year’s campaigns. Here’s how candidates have approached it. Around the World Now that Yemen’s Houthis have captured a strategic island in the Red Sea, Iran and its allies control two key oil shipping routes. As war with the United States drags on, Iran’s hard-liners are gaining more power. In the video below, Mujib Mashal, our South Asia bureau chief, describes what he saw in Nepal after a river swept away entire towns, bridges and roads. Click to watch. The New York Times Other Big Stories There hasn’t been a single hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean yet this year. Here’s why. A geologist surveying a California creek found a rare Pacific mastodon tooth from the Ice Age. FROM OPINION If Senator Jon Ossoff ends up in the White House, Trump will have only himself to blame, Michelle Cottle argues. A.I. was supposed to cause a renaissance of cool apps. But vibe coding — making software by typing into a prompt box — can only do so much, Paul Ford writes. The Anniversary Sale is on: Morning readers, enjoy our best offer. Celebrate 175 years of The Times with savings on unlimited news, puzzles, recipes, sports and more. $1/week for your first year. Save now. MORNING READS James Hill for The New York Times We’ve made these links free for you. You just need to log in. Fun run: At the Marathon du Médoc in France, runners pair a 26.2-mile course with wine tastings, oysters and steak. Still reeling: Only one place in the United States still makes the high-quality color film Hollywood uses for shooting and projecting. See how it’s done. Mercury shrinking: Our smallest planet is getting smaller. Lives Lived: Jonathan Cooper made custom violins for world-class musicians like Mark O’Connor and Alison Krauss using traditional methods. He died at 76. U.S. OPEN Elena Rybakina Karsten Moran for The New York Times Elena Rybakina defeated Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 in the women’s final for her second Grand Slam title of the year. A day out at the men’s final between Ben Shelton and Alexander Zverev could have cost you $100 — or $20,000. BOOK OF THE WEEK By Elisabeth Egan “Switzy,” by Emma Cline: A story about a regretful man en route to Zurich to end his life might not sound like a shoo-in for a riveting novel but, in Emma Cline’s hands, it is. David Hastings is an Alzheimer’s patient, a businessman, a father and a friend — in that order. Following him to Dignitas, we come to understand why he finds himself alone but for the company of a paid assistant. Cline’s tale, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, includes a goodbye, an apology and the ever-darkening shadow of dementia, yet it somehow manages to be more of a referendum on truth than it is on loss. (Read our review.) THE INTERVIEW Philip Montgomery for The New York Times “We use this word that neither Astra nor I have ever used before because we’re not nationalist people: We call them ‘traitors.’ Not traitors to a nation, not traitors to a flag or a border, but traitors to creation, traitors to life.” — Naomi Klein, the author and activist. In a new book, she and Astra Taylor (seen on the left above) argue that religious fundamentalists, ethnonationalists and tech oligarchs are hastening the destruction of the world. Klein and Taylor spoke with David Marchese about how they view these threats, and why they still have hope. Read (or watch) their full interview here. THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE Read this week’s magazine. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Slip on a lightweight knit, a sweater or a polo. The weather is getting mild, and style’s back on the agenda. Treat yourself to a memory foam pillow. Here are our favorites. Clean all the dust, skin flecks, hair and hand oil off your keyboard and mouse. Tune your circadian rhythm with a sunrise alarm clock. MEAL PLAN Rachel Vanni for The New York Times Tomatoes are otherworldly this time of year. Emily Weinstein, the editor in chief of NYT Cooking, recommends the perfect tomato basil chicken recipe to help you take full advantage of them. The chicken takes a cue from piccata and then heads in a decidedly summery direction: a quick pan sauce of butter, shallots, tomatoes, capers and a splash of red wine vinegar. Emily also suggests coconut curry noodles with shrimp and one-pan dumplings for dinner this week. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was impartial. Can you put eight historical events — including the rise of the baguette, the discovery of comets and the creation of the internet search engine — in chronological order? Take this week’s Flashback quiz. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Crossplay, Connections and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your weekend with The Times. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson

THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 13 1993 Israel-Palestine peace accord signed After decades of bloody animosity, representatives of Israel and Palestine meet on the South Lawn of the White House and sign a framework for peace. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 21st Century 2007 UN’s watershed Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted Arts & Entertainment 1996 Tupac Shakur dies 1990 “Law & Order” debuts 1916 Children’s author Roald Dahl is born 2004 Oprah gives away nearly 300 new cars Civil War 1862 Union troops discover Rebels’ Antietam battle plan Crime 1971 Massacre at Attica Prison Women’s History 1963 Mary Kay launches her namesake company World War II 1940 Italy invades Egypt

On 9/11, we saw the worst of humanity—but that day also allowed for some of its best. This week, we wanted to highlight some of the amazing stories of heroism by ordinary individuals. > Civilian boat captains helped evacuate roughly half a million people from lower Manhattan, resulting in the largest seaborne evacuation ever. (More, w/video) > Colleagues carried a quadriplegic coworker down nearly 70 flights of stairs to safety on 9/11. (More) > The "Man in the Red Bandana" saved lives by repeatedly entering the south tower's burning sky lobby to guide survivors to safety before dying in its collapse. (More, w/video) > Gander, a tiny town in Newfoundland, Canada, came together to host thousands of stranded passengers from 95 countries for days after 9/11 and inspired a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. (More, w/video) > Passengers and crew aboard hijacked United Flight 93 stormed the cockpit, forcing the hijackers to crash the plane short of its likely target, the US Capitol. See intact objects found in the wreckage of the crash. (More, w/video) An estimated 1 million Americans showed up to give blood in the days after the 9/11 attacks. Find your nearest blood drive today to support the Red Cross, which recently declared its second-ever national blood supply crisis. (Sign up info)

Never Forget Nearly 3,000 people died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the deadliest in US history. Their effects profoundly reshaped American society and the world. The day still resonates deeply: 93% of Americans who were at least 10 years old on 9/11 say they remember exactly where they were when they heard the news. > Decades of instability in the Middle East gave rise to al-Qaida. (More, w/video) > President George W. Bush explained his very public initial reaction to the attacks during a visit to a second-grade classroom. (More, w/video) > View artifacts at the Smithsonian that tell the story of 9/11. (More, w/photos) In response to 9/11, the US launched the Global War on Terror, beginning the longest military engagement in American history. Domestically, the government passed the Patriot Act, created the Department of Homeland Security, and transformed airport security while implementing controversial detention and interrogation policies. > Read how the attacks reshaped US foreign and military policy for decades. (More) > The Authorization for Use of Military Force, passed days after 9/11, has been used by five administrations to justify military operations in 22 countries. (More) > See Also: Netflix's outstanding five-part documentary on how 9/11 and the War on Terror changed America. (Watch trailer) More than 400 first responders died on 9/11, the largest loss of emergency personnel on a single day in American history. More than 10,000 members of the New York Fire Department have been diagnosed with at least one condition related to the World Trade Center's collapse, nearly 4,500 of which are cancers. > Hear from heroic firefighters who were there and loved ones of those who died that day. (More, w/video) > 9/11 first responders still deal with significant mental and physical impairments. (More) Discover more: > Queen Elizabeth II ordered the US national anthem played at Buckingham Palace after the attacks. (More, w/video) > Vladimir Putin was the first world leader to call Bush after 9/11, and visited the US two months later. (More) > Watch Jon Stewart's unifying opening monologue during his first show back after the tragedy. (More, w/video) > Hear the story behind President Bush's first pitch at the World Series in NYC, less than two months after 9/11. (More, w/video)

September 13, 2026 All Means All “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” (Matthew 28:18) “All” is a tiny word, but its all-encompassing meaning indicates its great importance, especially when in reference to Jesus. Consider its use in relation to creation. “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:3). “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth . . . all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist” (Colossians 1:16-17). There was never a time when all things were not in Christ’s mighty hands. As the Father’s heir, Jesus received all these things from the Father. “[The Father] hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things” (Hebrews 1:2). “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand” (John 3:35). The Father has also made Jesus the judge of all. “For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son” (John 5:22). Jesus Himself states that “all power is given unto me” (our text). With this power, Jesus redeems humanity and makes a new creation! “Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him” (John 17:2). “Behold, I make all things new” (Revelation 21:5). Jesus desires “all men to be saved” (1 Timothy 2:4), so He directs us to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19). We need not look anywhere else for help. Jesus has all things in His hand and has all authority! What a great comfort to know that, “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28). MJS

Good morning. 25 years ago today, the world changed forever. As I do every year, I'll be watching "The Man in the Red Bandana." Never forget. In today's edition: 49ers smoke Rams in Australia, Behind the Lens, the NFL's new pay hierarchy, Weekend Watchlist, the home run that saved a life on 9/11, Guess The Logo, and more. Yahoo Sports AM is written by Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy. Let's sports...   🏈 DOWN UNDER NINERS CRUISE IN MELBOURNE (Quinn Rooney/Getty Images) The 49ers destroyed the Rams, 27-7, in the NFL's first Australia game — a result that will reset expectations in a stacked NFC West and raise questions about the Rams as the anointed preseason Super Bowl favorites. Goose eggs: San Francisco denied Matthew Stafford a touchdown after he scored one in every single game last season, and reigning DPOY Myles Garrett failed to make an entry in the box score in his Rams debut. No tackles. No sacks. No QB hits. Nothing. (Morgan Hancock/Getty Images) Jason Owens, Yahoo Sports: The lack of pressure from Garrett and the Rams' defense in part allowed Brock Purdy and San Francisco's offense to have their way. The 49ers entered halftime with a 10-7 lead thanks to a 39-yard touchdown connection from Purdy to Demarcus Robinson in which Purdy had all the time in the world to make the downfield throw. After halftime, the 49ers blew the game open. They drove 51 yards on seven plays on the opening drive of the third quarter that ended with Purdy's second touchdown of the game. After a goal-line stand by San Francisco, the 49ers marched 99 yards for another touchdown and a 24-7 lead. At that point early in the fourth quarter the game was all but over. The last word: "Sometimes sports can humble you and today was one of those days," said Rams head coach Sean McVay. "Whether you want to say it's about travel, whatever, we just weren't good enough. … They deserve the win."   💰 HIGHEST-PAID THE NFL'S NEW PAY HIERARCHY When Christian Gonzalez extended his contract with the Patriots on Monday, he became the fourth cornerback this offseason to claim the position's highest-paid throne, completing a summer in which record pay was established at nearly every position on the field. Formation shift: While pay is escalating across the board, the composition of the league's best-paid players has oscillated over the last decade. Quarterbacks have long topped the league, with edge rushers chasing them on and off the field. Beneath the surface, though, shifts have occurred among the positions comprising the NFL's top 50 highest-paid players by average annual value. QBs have consistently ceded ground, with only 16 making the top 50 this season, down from 23 in 2016. It's no longer enough to be a starter — teams will move on before committing top dollar to a substandard signal caller. Wide receivers have been the primary beneficiary of that shift, with elite pass catchers compensated to keep their expensive passers well-armed. No love for the line? Perhaps most striking is the absence of offensive linemen. Five years ago, nine offensive linemen ranked in the top 50. This year, only one makes the grade. Bottom line: Pay is rising, and records are falling for the NFL's elite, no matter the position. But it sure is nice to be in the passing or pass-rushing business.   📸 PHOTOGRAPHY BEHIND THE LENS (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) Each week in Yahoo Sports AM, we'll be going "Behind the Lens" with Getty Images to get the backstory on the best photographs in sports. This week's photo: Juan Soto celebrates a home run against the Marlins with a sunflower-seed shower. Photographer: Carmen Mandato Location: Miami, Florida Date: Sept. 8 Behind the lens: Here's Carmen… At Marlins Park there's a bit of a give and take. From my photo position — about 20 feet away in the photo well — I can somewhat see the visiting dugout; but I'm also pretty obstructed, and I can't see the Marlins dugout at all. The important thing to know with shooting baseball is that we're not allowed to move around, so I can't really change the distance between myself and the subjects, which naturally reduces some of the visual variety in the coverage. Because of that, anytime there's a celebration, interaction or human moment, I make sure I'm looking for it. With this particular photo, I was on a telephoto lens because from that vantage point, I am largely blocked and need to clean up a lot of what's happening visually. Dugout celebrations are wonderful on a wide angle, and ideally I would love to shoot it that way, but here I was trying to use the telephoto to create intimacy instead. Juan had just hit a three-run home run, so I was looking for anything that added to that moment: teammates reacting, sunflower seeds flying, gum, whatever is happening. Anything that helps show the joy and personality of the players. I think having those humanizing, intimate moments is really important in sports coverage whenever you can get them. Equipment and technique: Carmen shot this with a Canon EOS R1 and Canon RF 400mm lens. She used an extremely fast shutter speed of 1/1000th of a second with a setting of f/2.8, ISO 400, indicating a wide aperture and moderate light sensitivity.   📺 VIEWING GUIDE WEEKEND WATCHLIST (Yahoo Sports) 🏈 NFL, Week 1 After two midweek games to whet our appetite, Sunday brings the glorious return of wall-to-wall NFL action. The games we're most intrigued by in the 1pm ET slot? Buccaneers at Bengals (Fox), Ravens at Colts (CBS) and Bills at Texans (CBS). Coming later: Division rivalries headline the afternoon and evening windows, with the Vikings hosting the Packers (4:25pm, CBS), the Eagles hosting the Commanders (4:25pm, Fox) and the Giants hosting the Cowboys in the nightcap (8:20pm, NBC). 🏈 NCAAF, Week 2 Saturday's slate is headlined by a potential national championship preview, as No. 4 Texas hosts No. 1 Ohio State (7:30pm, ABC) with Heisman contenders Arch Manning, Jeremiah Smith and Julian Sayin taking center stage in Austin. Best of the rest: No. 6 Oregon at Oklahoma State (12pm, ESPN); No. 11 Oklahoma at Michigan (12pm, Fox); No. 12 Alabama at Kentucky (3:30pm, ABC); Arizona at No. 15 BYU (3:30pm, Fox); No. 18 Tennessee at Georgia Tech (7pm, ESPN); Iowa State at No. 21 Iowa (7:30pm, NBC); Arkansas at No. 20 Utah (10:15pm, ESPN). 🎾 US Open, Championships The final four men take the court today, with top-ranked Alexander Zverev vs. Karen Khachanov in the first semifinal (3pm, ESPN), followed by an all-American matchup between No. 8 Ben Shelton and No. 11 Frances Tiafoe (7pm). The women's final between No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and No. 2. Elena Rybakina is tomorrow (4pm), and the men's final is on Sunday (2pm). Ending the drought: Shelton and Tiafoe have a chance to make some pretty big history this weekend. For starters, the winner of their match will become the first Black American man to reach a US Open final since Arthur Ashe in 1972. And if they then win that match, they'll be the first American man to win a Grand Slam since Andy Roddick won here in 2003. ⛳️ Solheim Cup The 20th edition of the biennial women's golf tournament tees off today (Fri-Sun, Golf) in the Netherlands, where Nelly Korda and Team USA will look to defend their title against Charley Hull and Team Europe in the Ryder Cup-style event. How they stack up: The average world ranking of the 12 Americans is 39, compared to 54 for the Europeans. But the U.S. still faces an uphill battle as they seek their first win on European soil since 2015. 🏀 FIBA Women's World Cup A champion will be crowned in Berlin, where France faces Germany in tomorrow's first semifinal (10:30am, TBS), followed by USA vs. Spain in the second (2pm, TBS). The winners meet in Sunday's championship (2pm, TNT). Going streaking: The Americans seek a fifth straight gold medal as they ride a 34-game winning streak in this event. Their last World Cup loss? The 2006 semifinals. 👟 World Athletics Ultimate Championship Budapest hosts the inaugural edition of this track & field event (Fri-Sun, Peacock/NBC), where athletes will compete for $10 million, including $150,000 for every gold medal. Who to watch: The field features most of the biggest names in athletics, including Mondo Duplantis in the pole vault (Fri. 2:08pm), Sha'Carri Richardson in the 100m (Sat. 2:38pm), Kenny Bednarek in the 200m (Sun. 2:38pm) and what could be the race of the weekend between Cole Hocker, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Josh Kerr in the 1500m (Sun. 2:10pm). ⚾️ Mets at Yankees The final Subway Series of the season holds more importance than most, as today's opener (7:05pm, ESPN+) takes place on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. They also play tomorrow (1:30pm, MLB) and Sunday (1:30pm, MLB.TV). Meanwhile, in Atlanta: The first-place Braves host the surging Phillies (Fri-Sun, MLB.TV/ESPN+), who are just 4 games back in the race for the NL East crown. More to watch: 🚴 Vuelta a España: Stages 19-21 (Fri-Sun, Peacock) … The race for the red jersey ends on Sunday in Granada, with Spain's Enric Mas leading by 1'37" entering the final weekend. ⚽️ MLS: Miami vs. Nashville (Sat. 7:30pm, Apple) … The top two teams in the East meet in South Florida, where Lionel Messi will look to add to his MLS-best 18 goals and 13 assists. ⚽️ EPL: Manchester United vs. Manchester City (Sun. 11:30am, Peacock) … City are in first place entering the 199th Manchester Derby, their first under new manager Enzo Maresca. 🏎️ F1: Spanish Grand Prix (Sun. 9am, Apple) … The first race at Madrid's new circuit, the Madring, a hybrid between a street course and a purpose-built track. 🏁 NASCAR: World Wide Technology Raceway (Sun. 3pm, USA) … The second race in The Chase takes place just a few miles east of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. 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That was how Thomas learned that he and his girlfriend originally had seats aboard the first of the hijacked planes, that they were nearly two of the flight's 90-plus fatalities, that the outcome of an innocuous playoff series essentially spared their lives. (Grant Thomas/Yahoo Sports) 🏈 Ross Dellenger: 4 scars, 2 plates and a rebuilt heart: Inside the incredible rise of Texas' Trevor Goosby The scar runs from Trevor Goosby's right forearm to his right triceps. There's another scar on his left hand. And then a third along his left shoulder. If he lifts up his shirt — he's nice enough to do so — you'll see a foot-long scar cutting his sternum in half. Four scars. Two metal plates. A reattached arm muscle. A couple rebuilt joints. And, most serious of them all, a skin graft to plug a hole in his heart. Somehow, someway, despite the bumps and the bruises, the surgeries and the rehab, Goosby, an under-recruited 3-star prospect, made it here: The anchor on a Texas offensive line that protects a member of the Manning family; the bulwark for the fourth-ranked team in the country; the late-blooming teddy bear of a man whose favorite hobby is building Legos. (Mallory Bielecki/Yahoo Sports) 🏈 Jay Busbee: Chicago has its next Michael Jordan in Caleb Williams… at least that's the hope At the start of his third season, Caleb Williams stands on the doorstep of glory. He's already given Bears fans the kind of hope they haven't had in decades. And if he's able to keep the reigning NFC North champion Bears on their current trajectory, well — immortality awaits. Nobody loves a hometown hero quite like Chicago. "The entire city of Chicago is behind Caleb Williams in a way that I've never seen us get behind a Bears quarterback," says Kevin Kaduk, author of the Bears By 7 newsletter. 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I underlined that. Sorry I didn't make that clear. Underlined or not, EGW calls the Wescott & Hort based English Revised Version, "the true version" compared to the KJV. The reference you cited is from the Desire of Ages, not the Review & Herald article I quoted from. The article is certainly written by EGW or at least credited to her. July 5, 1898 in the Review and Herald, Ellen White quoted the English Revised Version, based on the Greek test of Wescott & Hort. She called it the true version, compared to the KJV. I agree that we need to be careful in our studies. You cited a reference from Desire of Ages. I cited one from the R & H. In the Review and Herald article she says "the true version reads," siding with the English Revised Version against the KJV. Get it? The English Revised Version, at least in this text, is the true version. That version is based on the Greek text of Wescott and Hort. Westcott and Hort manuscripts

"God has withheld His blessings because His people have not worked in harmony with His directions. Test 7 P18. " I know its not a popular message, but he is right. In the fastest growing division of the church, SSD, we have 1 pastor to every 7-9 churches. That district produces at least 100 baptisms per year. Often a new church plant. It is amazing.

Need to be careful in your studies as the underlined part is not from Ellen White nor in the R&H as you see the original here https://text.egwwritings.org/read/14874.4577

No settled pastors. That is the way it is in 90% of our church. We see our pastor 3 or 4 times a year. Seems to work well. No control issues like USA.

Should be going before a firing squad. A guy kidnaps and sexually assaults a 13 year old girl and gets 3 years in prison? He'll be lucky of he makes it out alive

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