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The only window that opens on the presidential car is the driver’s window. It also has no keyholes, and only the Secret Service knows how to open the doors. James

Prince Harry and Meghan are returning to the UK with their children LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have decided to return to the United Kingdom for an extended stay starting this fall, but they won’t resume their roles as working members of the royal family, The Associated Press learned Wednesday. https://apnews.com/article/prince-harry-meghan-lilibet-archie-2a26920acb7ed33bb590654bfd57702b

What beats seeing eclipses from space? Try the northern and southern lights Eclipses may be wondrous, but nothing beats seeing the northern and southern lights from space. Read More.

New CDC director acknowledges agency problems in first large staff meeting In her first large staff meeting, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promised Wednesday to advocate for the agency while acknowledging that congressionally funded programs lacked staff and employees were feeling burned out. Read More.

UN rights chief is concerned about arrest of opposition figures in Zambia's election The United Nations human rights chief said Wednesday he is concerned over the arrest of opposition officials in connection with last week's troubled election in Zambia. Read More.

What to know about the outbreak of a rare kind of Ebola An Ebola outbreak in Congo has surpassed 5,000 confirmed cases, making it one of the largest outbreaks of the deadly disease ever recorded. Read More.

'Many' Fed officials think higher rates will be needed if inflation stays high Many Federal Reserve officials think the central bank will have to lift its key short-term interest rate in the coming months if inflation doesn't subside, minutes of the Fed's meeting last month showed. Read More.

PHOTO ESSAY: Behind Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, a world of artisans endures For centuries, Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar has been more than a marketplace. Behind its crowded passageways, generations of craftspeople have made, repaired and restored the objects that eventually emerge for sale. Read More.

Longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes to retire, citing differences with Pentagon leadership The longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes has announced his retirement, ending a decades-long career with the military newspaper as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon moves to exert editorial control and eliminate what it asserts are “woke distractions.” Read More.

Guileless Old Party (Anna Moneymaker / Getty)   View in browser For many observers of American politics, the past few years have been disillusioning, knocking down hopeful beliefs about what the people of the United States will support or tolerate. Even some of Donald Trump’s backers have become disaffected. Yet somehow, a small caucus of non-MAGA Republican senators has managed to remain preciously naive about the president and the administration he runs. No matter how many times Trump or his aides show who they are and how they operate, these senators seem flabbergasted and saddened. No case illustrates the ease with which they are fooled like the confirmation of Todd Blanche as attorney general. Blanche was confirmed last week on a 50–49 vote, but only after GOP Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn extracted a written assurance from Blanche that a $1.8 billion fund for payouts to Trump allies would not proceed. Senator Bill Cassidy also wavered, but said he was persuaded by the vow. (All three men will leave the Senate at the end of this term: Tillis is retiring, and Cornyn and Cassidy lost primaries to Trump-backed challengers.) This weekend, Blanche was interviewed on Meet the Press. Kristen Welker asked whether he could “pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House.” Blanche refused—likely an honest answer, given his demonstrated willingness to follow Trump’s lead, but one that should worry anyone who believes in the rule of law; witness Trump’s repeated demands for political prosecutions, irrespective of evidence. Yet Blanche insisted to Welker that Trump “will never ask me to do something unethical or illegal. He never has. He never will.” That might reassure someone whose political memory stretches back only as far as early August. But anyone old enough to remember the slush fund, or Blanche’s starring role in negotiating it (as laid out by Federal Judge Kathleen Williams in May), would know that Trump not only has asked Blanche to do something unethical, but that Blanche complied. In order to vote to confirm, Cornyn, Tillis, and Cassidy had to convince themselves first that Blanche’s conduct in that case is not indicative of his basic moral compass; and second that he would be more accountable once permanently confirmed by the Senate than he was when he still had to win over their votes. If Trump finds or attempts to find some way to resuscitate the slush fund—as some experts believe he might—many people will be dismayed, but only this trio of guileless senators will be shocked. Cassidy’s willingness to vote for a Trump yes-man is all the more puzzling because he voted to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial, and because the president led the charge to defeat him in a primary. (The impeachment vote was Trump’s main reason for targeting him.) But Cassidy has a long record of credulity. As my colleague Nicholas Florko has reported, Cassidy—a physician—cast a deciding vote to confirm Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but only after the nominee made promises about preserving the existing vaccination regime, a pledge he promptly broke. On ABC’s The Week this past Sunday, Cassidy said “it’s pretty evident” that Kennedy’s vow was a lie. And on CNN’s State of the Union, he called the White House’s latest vaccine move, attempting to unbundle the measles, mumps, and rubella injection, “a crazy, stupid thing.” Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, another doctor, voted for Kennedy and has since been upset about the administration’s anti-vaccine steps. Who could have foreseen that the prominent vaccine skeptic would undermine federal vaccination policy? Two other moderate Republicans, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, voted against Blanche’s confirmation, issuing statements that noted the politicization of the Justice Department under his watch as acting attorney general. But they are not always so clear-eyed. Murkowski delivered one of 2025’s most unintentionally hilarious statements when she cast a crucial vote to pass Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act through the Senate. “My sincere hope is that this is not the final product,” Murkowski said in a statement. “This bill needs more work across chambers and is not ready for the President’s desk. We need to work together to get this right.” Naturally, that didn’t happen; the mystery is why she thought the White House, or Mike Johnson’s House, would improve the bill once she’d surrendered her leverage. Collins, however, is the dean of the credulous caucus. The Mainer, who faces a tough reelection campaign this fall, is perpetually concerned about Trump-administration actions, but seldom ready to actually use her power. Collins is a rare pro-abortion-rights Republican who previously said she wouldn’t support any Supreme Court nominee who opposed Roe v. Wade. In 2018, she voted to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who said Roe was “settled as precedent.” When Kavanaugh was part of the majority that voted to overturn Roe in 2022, Collins lamented the ruling but now says she didn’t regret her vote for Kavanaugh and would do it again. More recently, Collins helped pass a huge appropriation for ICE with few strings attached, then expressed dismay at the use of the funds to buy “shock gloves” for agents. Even her vote against Blanche was symbolic, because he had enough votes to be confirmed without her. One could easily write these senators off as cynical, but if they’re acting for political gain, it’s not working well: Cassidy’s and Cornyn’s mild deviations from Trump led to the end of their careers; Tillis’s retirement helped him avoid what might have been a stiff primary challenge. Many of their concerns appear earnest. Perhaps they really just are that gullible, unable to adapt to a Trump age that is leaving them behind. In defending his Blanche vote, Cassidy shrugged off attacks: “I’ll be criticized for this vote. What’s new?” But voters might reasonably expect that their elected officials are savvier about the world than a babe in the woods. Related: Why did Bill Cassidy do it? What Trump officials mean by “never”

🍌 1 for the road: Coffee goes bananas Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Banana is the flavor of the summer, Axios' Carly Mallenbaum reports. It's the fastest-growing added beverage flavor over the past year at restaurants tracked by Circana, a market research firm. 📈 Google searches for "banana coffee" and "banana matcha" hit all-time highs this year. TikTok has plenty of videos for the banana-curious — including Eva Longoria's tutorial for making banana iced coffee at home. Go deeper.

Washington's stealth oil operation Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Stock: Getty Images The U.S. military has quietly established a shipping corridor in and out of the Strait of Hormuz, two U.S. officials tell Axios' Barak Ravid. 🚢 Under the operation, which has been underway for the past several weeks, 15–20 tankers have entered and exited the strait through a southern channel along the coast of Oman. About 10 million barrels of oil a day are being transported out of the strait and injected into the global energy market, the officials said. That's roughly half the pre-war volume. ⚓️ The U.S. military is helping empty tankers enter the Gulf from the Arabian Sea through the strait, pick up oil from the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait, and then exit. One of the U.S. officials, who has direct knowledge of the matter, tells Axios: "We have been controlling the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz for two months now. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps can be a nuisance, but they don't control the strait. We do." 🪖 The task force overseeing the Hormuz effort is being run out of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division headquarters in Fort Bragg, N.C. It creates a daily list of ships exiting the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Arabian Sea, as well as a list of rented empty tankers that travel from the Arabian Sea, through the strait and into the ports of Gulf countries to pick up more oil. Each night, the ships are scheduled to move in one big outbound line during a certain time slot and one big inbound line during a separate time slot. The ships are given several checkpoints to pass through and report back. The U.S. Air Force has fighter jets looking for Iranian cruise missiles and drones to shoot down. Keep reading.

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Trump picks Dr. Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, to lead the Food and Drug Administration WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, has been picked to lead the Food and Drug Administration, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. https://apnews.com/article/fda-donald-trump-heidi-overton-marty-makary-a54907d62a2482bd462410c0778266b9?

Judge removed from Texas track meet killing case as Karmelo Anthony seeks new trial McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — The judge who presided over Texas teenager Karmelo Anthony’s murder conviction was removed from the case Wednesday ahead of a key hearing to decide whether to grant a new trial in the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old athlete at a high school track meet. https://apnews.com/article/texas-track-stabbing-austin-metcalf-karmelo-anthony-5526b6ba91035724814c2beeab4bd4fb?

Trump’s New Deportation Plot ‘Looks Like Human Trafficking’ A new draft contract for the administration’s self-deportation scheme has been branded “gross and un-American.” The Trump administration is looking to pay up to $2.3 billion for a follow-on to its scandal-hit self-deportation scheme that will include payouts for unaccompanied migrant kids who “choose” to remove themselves. The original $915 million award went to Salus Worldwide Solutions in May 2025, a company barely two years old with no prior work as a lead federal contractor that has since faced corruption allegations over how it won the contract. The new deal contains no provisions for protecting the children it intends to target, and states their payouts will go only to “Government-designated adult recipients.” Rekha Sharma-Crawford, an award-winning immigration attorney, told PunchUp, the Daily Beast’s sister Substack, that the arrangement “looks and feels a lot like human trafficking.” Rep. Bennie Thompson, ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, called the focus on minors “gross and un-American.” The new contract also contains provisions for crews to enroll migrants already detained at 35 facilities, with mobile “rover” units roaming across the country on request. A DHS spokesperson said it would be “inappropriate to comment” until the award process ends. Salus did not respond to requests for comment. Tom Latchem exposes the secrets, scandals, and stories that powerful people and institutions want to keep under wraps. Follow all of his reporting at PunchUp on Substack.

Trump’s Deportation Ploy Blows Up in His Face Last-ditch efforts to keep ICE out of the headlines appear to have been in vain. The Trump administration’s push to keep ICE out of the headlines before the midterms does not appear to have convinced voters, with half of Americans saying its immigration crackdown is still too aggressive. After the White House faced bipartisan backlash over the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents earlier this year, President Donald Trump ousted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Her successor, Markwayne Mullin, pledged to make the White House’s mass deportation campaign more discreet, including by making fewer arrests in public. He also threw Noem under the bus by publicly calling her signature billion-dollar warehouse crusade a mistake in humiliating testimony. But with less than three months until the midterm elections, a Politico poll published Wednesday suggests the makeover has failed to shift public opinion. Half of Americans, including nearly a quarter of Trump’s 2024 voters, still say the 80-year-old president’s immigration campaign is too aggressive, according to Politico. That figure is “virtually unchanged” from polling in January and April, when outrage mounted over federal agents killing U.S. citizens Renee Good, 37, and Alex Pretti, 37. Non-MAGA Trump voters are more than twice as likely as self-identified MAGA voters to believe that Trump’s mass deportation campaign has gone too far, with 31 percent describing it as too aggressive compared with 15 percent of MAGA voters, according to the poll conducted from Aug. 8 to Aug. 12. The findings point to a potential vulnerability for Republicans heading into the November midterms on an issue that has traditionally been a source of strength for the party.“Voters really did want border security, but they did not want to see abuelita taken away because she’s been here for 40 years but without documentation,” Arizona-based GOP strategist Barrett Marson told Politico. The poll, conducted by London-based polling firm Public First, found a notable proportion of Americans have noticed the administration’s attempts to change course. But those changes have done little to improve trust. A 56 percent majority of Americans say there has been at least a “small shift” in how ICE is carrying out its immigration crackdown. But 44 percent of those respondents say the changes have made no difference in how much they trust the administration, while 30 percent say they have made them less willing to trust officials on immigration. Whit Ayres, a Washington-based Republican pollster, told Politico that the stubborn public opposition is “not that surprising at all.” Even with a lower-profile approach, the administration is still pushing to ramp up arrest and deportation numbers. “It’s a lot easier just to go into an airport and find somebody who had overstayed a visa, had applied for an extension … and throw them into handcuffs and put them in a detention center. That’s the easy way to get the numbers up, and a great way to thoroughly antagonize public opinion,” he said. Another Republican strategist, who spoke with Politico on the condition of anonymity, said Trump “ran on border security, and he’s following through.” “But the visuals of wins are unfortunately overshadowed by the visuals of chaos,” they said. “There’s no question that the wall-to-wall coverage of the chaos that follows ICE makes voters squeamish.” When contacted for comment, White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told the Daily Beast that “Americans sent President Trump back to the White House with a clear mandate to deport criminal illegal aliens.” “Every single day the Trump Administration is delivering on his promise to the American people to remove murderers, pedophiles, rapists, and gang members from American communities,” she added. “Americans are grateful to the President for removing these criminals from their neighborhoods and for Making America Safe Again.” ICE raids during Trump’s second term in the White House drew headlines for sparking protests nationwide. The aggressive enforcement campaign has also put pressure on the agents tasked with carrying it out. John Sandweg, a former acting ICE director, told Politico in an interview published last fall that ICE agents were “under tremendous pressure.” “They’ve been under a lot of pressure to ratchet up the number of arrests. They’ve been forced to adopt some of these more aggressive tactics, because the [Trump] administration seems more interested in the quantity of people arrested, more so than the quality,” said Sandweg. Reuters reported in July that at least seven people have been killed in immigration enforcement operations since Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, while 53 people have died in ICE custody since the president’s second term began. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-deportation-ploy-blows-up-in-his-face/?

North Korea shrugs off Trump’s scaled-back drills with South Korea, saying it changes nothing SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Wednesday that a U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea does not change what it sees as the provocative nature of the drills, dampening hopes for an early resumption of diplomacy between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump. https://apnews.com/article/korea-us-military-drills-313e01e4ee305b4c9b1b8bf12643fb17?

👋 Good morning! Happy Hump Day. Have a night, El Niño: Fernando Tatis Jr. basically single-handedly won Tuesday's game for the Padres, hitting two home runs and robbing Francisco Lindor of a grand slam in a 5-2 victory over the Mets. In today's edition: Historic beatdown in Milwaukee, the NFL’s next frontier, AP preseason All-Americans, Nationals on pace for rare trifecta, and more. Yahoo Sports AM is written by Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy. Let's sports...   ⚾️ A LITTLE LOPSIDED BREWERS 22, MARINERS 0 Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh looks on during the seventh inning. (John Fisher/Getty Images) The Brewers rolled to a 22-0 victory (!!!) over the Mariners on Tuesday in Milwaukee — the kind of blowout Major League Baseball hadn't seen in well over a century. Historic beatdown: The final score matched the largest shutout win since the start of the 1888 campaign, per MLB stat guru Sarah Langs, and is the largest at home in that span. Aug. 18, 2026: Brewers 22, Mariners 0 (in Milwaukee) Aug. 31, 2004: Indians 22, Yankees 0 (in New York) Sept. 6, 1975: Pirates 22, Cubs 0 (in Chicago) Way back when: The last time there was a larger shutout was on June 28, 1887, when the Philadelphia Quakers (now the Phillies) defeated the Indianapolis Hoosiers, 24-0. Here's that 1887 Quakers squad in all their glory. In the center is Hall of Fame manager Harry Wright, known as the "Father of Professional Baseball." (Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images) Playoff picture: The Brewers improved to an MLB-best 78-48 with the win, and remain 4.5 games ahead of the Cubs (74-53) atop the NL Central. The Mariners, meanwhile, fell to 59-67 and are now three back of a very crowded AL wild card race.   🏈 GOING GLOBAL THE NFL'S NEXT FRONTIER (Grant Thomas/Yahoo Sports) One day, the NFL will have international teams. What does that mean for the league's American fans? Jay Busbee, Yahoo Sports: Imagine a Super Bowl Sunday in the not-too-distant future where you settle down to watch the Big Game. Before kickoff, there's a performance of "God Save The King" — this year's contest is in London's Wembley Stadium, after all, it's just polite — and then it's time for the Paris Berets to face the Madrid Matadors. As you get comfortable on the couch, maybe you spend a moment thinking about when the "N" in "NFL" stood for just one nation … and then it's game time. Now, before you freak out at the prospect of escargot and bangers n' mash elbowing chicken wings and pigs in a blanket off your Super Bowl spread, don't worry. The NFL isn't going full international anytime soon. But… like it or not, the NFL will expand its reach overseas in the future. Take it from a guy who knows: "At some point, there will be NFL teams outside the USA," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told Germany's RTL/ntv in the course of an interview with Markus Kuhn, a German-born former defensive tackle with the Giants. "I have no doubt that this will happen one day." (Julian Finney/Getty Images) How would that work? The logistics of posting NFL teams overseas are daunting but ultimately manageable. Games in Western Europe can kick off in the early afternoon local time to air in the 9am ET slot. For other nations, the NFL could adopt an F1 approach: gear games to the timeframe of the host nation, and the rest of the world, including the United States, can just set their alarms. Which brings us around to you, the loyal American NFL fan. While the league's expansion is wonderful news for newly-created fans in host countries and, of course, the NFL's bottom line, what does it mean for Americans who have followed their teams for generations? Well, there's the jingoistic "football's an American game, dammit" take, but let's be honest: when you're watching a game on TV, it doesn't matter if that game's in Munich or Miami. Yes, you might have to get up a little early to watch your favorite team when they go international, but — sadly — we all understand now that the NFL viewing experience in the 2020s requires a bit of homework, and probably a new subscription or two. The real question going forward will be just how much the NFL alters itself to appeal to the desires and customs of its coveted nations. We're not saying that VAR will become standard practice in NFL games, or that NFL players will start flopping like Premier League soccer players, but we're not not saying that either. And then there's the possibility of an overseas Super Bowl. That's where the logistics really start to bite; keeping the game at its traditional 6pm ET start is virtually impossible in an international destination. (That's late at night in Europe, early in the morning in Australia.)   🏈 FIRST TEAM AP PRESEASON ALL-AMERICANS Ole Miss running back Kewan Lacy. (CFP/Getty Images) The 2026 preseason AP All-America teams were announced on Tuesday. Texas leads the way with four players on the first team, and the SEC has 14 of the 27 first-team selections. First team offense QB: Dante Moore (Oregon) RB: Kewan Lacy (Ole Miss); Ahmad Hardy (Missouri) WR: Jeremiah Smith (Ohio State); Malachi Toney (Miami); Cam Coleman (Texas) TE: Trey'Dez Green (LSU) OT: Carter Smith (Indiana); Trevor Goosby (Texas) OG: Evan Tengesdahl (Cincinnati); Shadre Hurst (Houston) 😄 Kade Pieper (Iowa) All-Purpose: Wayne Knight (UCLA) K: Tate Sandell (Oklahoma) First team defense Edge: Colin Simmons (Texas); Dylan Stewart (South Carolina) DT: A'Mauri Washington (Oregon); David Stone (Oklahoma) LB: Rasheem Biles (Texas); Xavier Atkins (Auburn); Rolijah Hardy (Indiana) CB: Leonard Moore (Notre Dame); Ellis Robinson IV (Georgia) S: KJ Bolden (Georgia); Koi Perich (Oregon) DB: Bray Hubbard (Alabama) P: Evan Crenshaw (Troy) Second team: Offense and defense   ⚾️ EXCLUSIVE CLUB NATS ON PACE FOR RARE TRIFECTA (Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images) One of the rarest achievements for any baseball team is to lead the majors in runs, home runs and stolen bases in the same season — a feat accomplished by just four legendary teams over the past century… and perhaps soon a fifth that is unlikely to even make the playoffs. One of these is not like the others: With six weeks left in the regular season, the fourth-place Nationals lead MLB in runs scored (670), home runs (180) and stolen bases (135), as legendary sportswriter Thomas Boswell brought to our attention last week. But compare these Nats — with their middling 60-67 record and meager +13 run differential — to the quartet that came before them. 1931 Yankees: This Babe Ruth- and Lou Gehrig-led squad went 94-59 with an AL-record 1,067 runs scored and a +307 differential, the seventh-best mark since 1920. 1952, 1953 & 1955 Dodgers: These three iterations of the "Boys of Summer" Dodgers — led by the likes of Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges and Duke Snider — all reached the World Series, and in 1955 brought home the first title in franchise history. Big picture: The story of Washington's season has been its pitching staff's inability to keep up with its fearsome lineup led by superstars James Wood and CJ Abrams. Even a moderate improvement to its woeful bullpen (32 blown saves) and bottom-five rotation (4.67 ERA) would put this team more in line with the famous outfits listed above; instead, the 2026 Nationals seem destined to to elicit a "huh?" anytime this stat is mentioned in the future.   📺 VIEWING GUIDE WATCHLIST: WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19 Olivia Miles drives to the basket the last time the Lynx and Valkyries played, back in June. (Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images) 🏀 Lynx at Valkyries The WNBA's top two teams square off tonight (10pm ET, USA) in San Francisco, where Minnesota (29-7) will try to win its fifth straight game and Golden State (25-9) will try to win its seventh straight. Back like she never left: Lynx superstar Napheesa Collier — the MVP runner-up in each of the last two seasons — has shown no signs of rust in her return from offseason surgery on both ankles, averaging 19.1 points, 7.3 rebounds and 3.2 assists in nine games while shooting a career-best 50% from long range. ⚾️ Little League World Series The 79th edition of the LLWS begins today in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where 10 U.S. teams and 10 international teams will compete for glory over the next two weeks. As a reminder, the brackets are separate until the very end, when the U.S. and international champions will face off in the LLWS Championship. Today's schedule: Leon, Nicaragua vs. Santiago, Dominican Republic (1pm, ESPN); Phenix City, Alabama vs. Tacoma, Washington (3pm, ESPN); Vancouver, Canada at Seoul, South Korea (5pm, ESPN); Bayonne, New Jersey at Bridgewater, Massachusetts (7pm, ESPN). More to watch: ⚾️ MLB: Yankees at Orioles (6:35pm, Prime) … New York (70-55) holds the first wild card, while Baltimore (61-65) is among the horde of teams fighting for the third. 🎾 Cincinnati Open: Round of 16 (11am, Tennis) … Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe, Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka and more are in action. ⚽️ MLS: Vancouver vs. Houston (10:30pm, Apple) … First vs. second in the West.   ⛳️ LET'S PLAY TRIVIA TIME Scheffler holds up his trophy from last weekend's FedEx St. Jude Championship. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images) Since 1983, which basically signals the start of the modern PGA Tour, only five golfers have won more Tour events than Scottie Scheffler's 21. Question: Can you name them? Hint: Only one played regularly on the PGA Tour this year. Answer at the bottom.   🍿 SPORTS SHORTS WATCH: "MUREWA" Yahoo Media Group and The Nonfiction Hotlist invited filmmakers worldwide to submit documentary shorts for recognition and distribution. Nearly 1,000 filmmakers answered the call — and now, the results are in! Five films were selected in the Sports category, and we'll be sharing one each day this week ahead of our inaugural Film Festival this weekend. Title: Murewa Director: Ché Scott-Heron Newton Runtime: 14 minutes About the film: Murewa follows childhood friends Marlon and Murry as they grow up together in the seaside town of Worthing, with a shared passion for skateboarding and photography, before their lives take dramatically different paths.   Trivia answer: Tiger Woods (82 wins), Phil Mickelson (45), Vijay Singh (34), Rory McIlroy (30), Dustin Johnson (24)

Donalds, Jolly emerge from primaries Donalds took 48% of the vote in a crowded primary that included nine other Republicans, Christine Sexton reports. Jolly easily defeated five opponents in the Democratic primary, earning 61% of the vote. Jolly is a former GOP U.S. House member and Trump dissident who switched to the Democratic Party last year and appeared on the path to his own competitive primary against Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings. But Demings dropped out of the race after being diagnosed with cancer. Related: Despite being outspent 10-to-1, Jolly likes his chances of becoming governor   Nixon advances to face Moody in U.S. Senate race with decisive win over Vindman Her victory concluded a primary that had some wondering whether progressive Democrats’ wins around the nation would carry into Florida. Nixon, carrying endorsements of several of Florida’s progressive Democratic legislators, enjoyed a significantly smaller campaign account compared to competitor Alex Vindman. Nixon is best known for her in-your-face progressivism — for example, staging a sit-in in the governor’s office to protest his congressional gerrymander.   Wasserman Schultz, Moskowitz advance in their congressional primary races In one of the most watched congressional primaries this year, longtime Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz won in a Broward County-based seat held by a Black representative since the early 1990s. Meanwhile, two-term U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz crushed his Democratic Socialists of America-backed opponent, Oliver Larkin, 63%-37%. Republican Cory Mills, facing allegations of dating violence and campaign finance law violations, lost his primary in CD 7, in Seminole and Volusia counties. Democratic Florida House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell held off fellow Democratic Rep. Michele Rayner in state Senate District 16 in the Tampa Bay area, 60%-40%.

Israeli military launches criminal probes into killings of Hind Rajab and Palestinian paramedics JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military on Wednesday announced its first criminal investigations into troop conduct in Gaza, focusing on the killings of 5-year-old Hind Rajab and her family and of 15 Palestinian paramedics. https://apnews.com/article/israel-military-hind-rajab-gaza-parademics-investigations-c0a733a3ac78660b474e5bdb47154f8b?

Why Did Paul Go to Pisidian Antioch? On Paul’s so-called first missionary journey, detailed beginning in Acts 13, he and his companions go from Syrian Antioch to Cyprus (where Barnabas was from), and they end up in the city of Paphos. From there, they sail north to the southern coast of Asia Minor, to the ancient Greek city of Perga. Nothing at all is said about Paul and Barnabas staying and evangelizing there; instead, they head north through rugged mountain territory to a small Roman town called Pisidian Antioch. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-rome/why-did-paul-go-to-pisidian-antioch/?

Yes, Ellen White and the General Conference wanted to get this anti-Trinitarian book into the hands of as many people as possible. This is something I've collected material on from the General Conference Archives - I'll dig it out of my creature-christ folder this weekend.

AJ, This has nothing to do with spirituality. Anti-vaxxers who cite spiritual reasons for refusing a shot are like those who conflate Christianity and democracy. One has nothing to do with the other.