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Conference shake-ups have taken some college football rivalries away, but fans in Washington don’t have to worry about the rivalry between its state teams disappearing in 2026. The Washington State Cougars and Washington Huskies will face off in the 2026 Apple Cup, with Sunday’s kickoff at Husky Stadium set for 4 p.m. ET. The Huskies have won 10 of the last 12 meetings in this rivalry, including a 59-24 rout in Pullman last season. Both of Washington State’s victories over those 12 games have come in the past five seasons. Washington is favored by 23.5. Bet on Washington State vs. Washington in Week…

After last night’s 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, Sabrina Carpenter is halfway to EGOT status, and she may have had to claw her way to this trophy. The Man’s Best Friend artist, who already has two Grammy Awards to her name, noted the “hard work and diva fights” that went into hosting the ABC/Disney+ variety special The Muppet Show as she celebrated winning Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded). “Thank you ©televisionacad,” wrote Carpenter on her Instagram Story. “So incredibly proud of the whole muppets crew on our Emmy wins!!!!! A lot of love and happiness and hard work and diva fights went…

You write that “changing the way you think about the brain cliff can literally change the way you think and remember”. How?Dr Norman Swan: There are three things you need to know which are not widely known.Think cognitive change not cognitive decline: one way people think about our cognitive function is by comparing it to what it was like when we were in our 20s and it’s not a valid comparison. It leads to an assumption that we’ve declined into deficit. That’s not actually what’s happened, especially when we’re in midlife (40s and 50s). Our brains have changed, not deteriorated.…

The Director-General of the National Sports Commission, Bukola Olopade, has expressed confidence in Lagos State’s readiness to host the inaugural National Intermediate Games, EKO 2026, describing the event as a platform to showcase Nigeria’s sporting potential. Speaking at a joint technical meeting ahead of the Games, Mr Olopade commended Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Lagos State Government for their commitment to sports development and youth empowerment. “When you look at the build-up to the first National Intermediate Games, you cannot but marvel at the leadership that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has given to sports in this country,” Mr Olopade said. He…

A crowd of supporters at the AfD election night party HQ erupted in cheers as the projections came up on the screen.A short while later, people burst into singing Germany’s national anthem.”We have made history in this state,” Siegmund said. His opposite number in the CDU, Sven Schulze, conceded victory and said his party would have to deal with the result: “This was an extremely tough and intensive election campaign.”Germany’s centre-left SPD described the outcome as “truly dramatic” and national leader Lars Klingbeil, whose party is in government nationally with the CDU, described the outcome as a “signal to Berlin”…

Bennett Oghifo  Jetour Nigeria is set to introduce the highly anticipated RELY R8 premium heavy-duty pickup truck to motorists and automotive enthusiasts in Abuja as the award-winning automaker takes its flagship showcase, The Jetour Experience, to the Federal Capital Territory from September 22 to 24, 2026. Following the strong reception that greeted its Lagos showcase, the Abuja edition is expected to attract government officials, corporate executives, fleet operators, business owners, automobile enthusiasts and members of the media. The company which currently operates through seven accredited dealerships, including Elizade Nigeria Limited, New Era AutoVehicle Services, Kojo Motors, Germaine Auto Centre, Tab…

Hayek noted that it’s difficult to attribute soy consumption to individual fish species. But other research has found a rise in the use of crop-based ingredients fed to farmed salmon. In Norway, the world’s biggest producer of farmed salmon, 90 percent of feed ingredients were marine-based in 1990, but by 2020 that had dropped to about 23 percent. Advocacy groups there determined that 90 percent of the soy fed to farmed salmon in Norway comes from three Brazilian companies, each of which have sourced soy ingredients from illegally deforested patches of the Amazon rainforest. Other research has found that the…

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Throughout much of one-man-band director Shinya Tsukamoto’s solemn trauma drama Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?, viewers outside of Japan may be asking themselves a different question than the one posed by the title: “Why,” they might wonder, “did a Japanese filmmaker known for cultish genre flicks like Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tokyo Fist decide to make a movie about an African American U.S. Marine wrecked by his experience during the Vietnam War?” It takes most of the film for us to learn the answer, which is in fact rather simple and is definitely not a spoiler: The script…