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Teams seeking their first win of the season meet when the Rutgers Scarlet Knights battle the Boston College Eagles in a nonconference matchup on Friday night. Rutgers is coming off a shocking 37-21 loss to UMass in Week 1, while Boston College dropped a 34-15 decision at Cincinnati. The Scarlet Knights, who finished tied for 14th in the Big Ten with the Wisconsin Badgers at 2-7, were 5-7 in 2025. The Eagles, who tied for 16th in the ACC with Syracuse at 1-7, were 2-10 overall last season. Claim the latest Polymarket promo code CBSSPORTS to get a $50 bonus after…

James Bay came on stage in a wheelchair to support Bon Jovi at Wembley Stadium on Wednesday.The Brit Award-winning singer-songwriter, born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, had broken his ankle the day before.The 36-year-old had to perform while sitting down, with his left leg and ankle in a cast.In a caption on Instagram, the venue said the star had broken “his ankle on Tuesday… but still supported Bon Jovi on Wednesday”.

Tommy Hilfiger’s front row was a slam dunk. The Knicks are the kings of New York right now, so scoring Josh Hart, Karl-Anthony Towns and Miles McBride, three of the team’s stars, for the guest list of his New York catwalk show was a victory. Travis Kelce, who is co-designing another upcoming collection with Hilfiger and had been rumoured to attend this event with his new bride, was a no show, but you can’t win them all.Basketball player Karl-Anthony Towns in the front row. Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPATommy Hilfiger is all about sport. The design vocabulary of oversized jerseys, team stripes,…

The company hired to renovate the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool has acknowledged that “human oversight” and flaws in the repair plan caused the newly installed blue liner to peel and tear, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times that challenge Donald Trump’s repeated claims of vandalism.The president has repeatedly said vandals armed with knives or box cutters were responsible for tearing apart the pool’s “American flag blue” liner. But documents reviewed by the Times show that Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the company awarded the renovation contract, blamed its own execution of the repair work and a flawed design plan.The…

On Friday, Yemeni pro-government forces withdrew from Perim (also known as Mayyun). Witnesses and news agencies reported that Houthi forces moved on to the island.The Houthis later issued a statement, saying that their military operation to expel Saudi-backed forces had been a “success” and that “maritime navigation is safe for all companies except for Saudi vessels”.Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the “large-scale” military operation was launched on 3 September due to Saudi Arabia’s “blatant aggression” against “our dear people”.Sarea also said the Houthis had expelled “Saudi enemy” forces from six districts in the Taiz and Hodeidah regions, claiming that…

The number of active retail investors participating in Nigeria’s capital market has risen to 2.7 million from about 200,000 three years ago, Jude Chiemeka, chief executive officer of Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), has said. Chiemeka attributed the growth largely to digital technology, which has made it easier for investors to access the market remotely. “Today we have an active number of 2.7 million retail investors participating in our market,” he said Friday at BusinessDay’s Top 25 CEOs Awards in Lagos. The exchange is targeting a further increase in retail participation as part of efforts to deepen Nigeria’s capital market. Chiemeka…

The UK government has rejected the idea of creating a so-called “kill switch” to stop a dangerous attack from rogue AI.The proposal to create a legal mechanism for the UK to switch off an AI model in an emergency has been brought to Parliament by lords and MPs in recent weeks as fears grow about the threat the tech poses.But the Cabinet Office – the part of government which leads on AI safety – said the UK “cannot simply turn AI off”.”Blocking access to models in the UK would not prevent them being developed or misused elsewhere”, a spokesperson told…

The Ekiti Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has struck out the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party’s candidate in the June 20, 2026 governorship poll in the state, Dr Wole Oluyede, against the re-election of Governor Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the June 20, 2026 governorship election in Ekiti State, Dr Wole Oluyede, has formally withdrawn the petition he filed before the Election Petition Tribunal challenging the re-election of Governor Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Tribunal at its first sitting in Ado-Ekiti this week struck out the…

Survey finds that research mentors help junior scientists write publications and grant applications, whereas other types of mentors are helpful for landing a new job.Credit: Thomas Barwick/GettyThe most successful early-career researchers often rely on a network of mentors who each have different roles — from advising on research and grants to making professional introductions and providing emotional support, finds a study of nearly 900 scientists just starting out1.The findings are consistent with what mentorship scholars and practitioners have long argued: no single mentor can meet all of a trainee’s scientific, professional and psychosocial needs, says Keivan Stassun, an astrophysicist at…

Fantasy Football is all about the matchups. Even though you drafted your team with certain hopes and intentions, your weekly lineup decisions shouldn’t be determined by the order you picked your players in. You need to check who your players play and make sure you’ve got the right guys in — and the wrong guys on the bench. It’s too early to be absolutely sure which matchups will be easy and which will be tough, but we can make some educated guesses based on healthy personnel, defensive schemes, track records and key details of offenses. The things we know can…