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It’s the middle of Atlantic hurricane season, but you’d be forgiven for forgetting that it’s even happening.The basin has only seen three named storms since the start of hurricane season in June, a trio of weak and largely disheveled tropical storms. One or two additional tropical storms are possible through the middle of August as the season struggles against a bevy of unfavorable conditions.They include this year’s El Niño, which is on its way to making history as sea surface temperatures soar to unprecedented heights across a critical swath of the Pacific Ocean, as well as persistent puffs of dry,…

In 2019, after quitting a faculty job in response to bullying, I co-founded the Academic Parity Movement with environmental activist Saya Ameli Hajebi. We built the organization to give researchers somewhere to turn when their own institutions did not listen to or, worse, betrayed them.Seven years and several thousand case reports later, I have reached an unexpected conclusion: academic bullying is no longer just a problem of institutions ignoring people who are affected by it. Increasingly, it is a problem of institutions overreacting to allegations.I’ve been wrongly accused of bullying — what do I do?Universities operate in fear of public…

Lens’ players are congratulated after winning the French Super Cup (Trophee des Champions) football match between RC Lens and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens, northern France on August 16, 2026. (Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP) Ten-man Lens denied Paris Saint-Germain a second trophy in five days as Florian Thauvin’s first-half goal secured a 1-0 victory in the French Champions’ Trophy on Sunday. Lens were worthy winners in their first match under new coach Dino Toppmoeller, adding to the French Cup title they won under previous boss Pierre Sage in May. PSG, who beat…

Oscar winner Viola Davis, who featured alongside Panettiere in the 2016 courtroom drama film Custody, shared a tribute to her former co-star on Instagram, external.She said: “What an amazing talent you were…. so gifted.”Davis’s husband Julius Tennon also appeared in the film with them, playing a court officer, and she noted how “Julius and I loved working with you…. an old, wise soul with such a deep heart”.Davis added: “I wish the world had more time with you because I had a burning curiosity about who you were becoming. I saw this beautiful phoenix rising from the ashes. Your tests…

The Plateau State Police Command has detained an officer accused of shooting an unarmed trader in the leg at a checkpoint in Riyom Local Government Area of the state. According to a report by Daily Trust, the incident occurred on 11 August when the trader, identified as Danladi, was stopped at a checkpoint while transporting vegetables to the South-east. The command’s spokesperson, Alfred Alabo, confirmed the incident and said the officer had been disarmed and taken into custody. “The DPO, Riyom Division, came there immediately. He got the information with his men, disarmed the officer and took him immediately to…

Suspected armed attackers have reportedly killed some and injured others after invading communities in the Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State. The attacks occurred in the early hours of Sunday in several communities in Mbazun Ward, including Mbaterem, Ayaba, Ikpur, Yina, Aboajio and Ukpen, according to statements by local officials and a member of the House of Representatives. Jonathan Modi, chairman of Ukum Local Government, who visited the affected communities on Sunday, condemned the attacks as “barbaric, senseless and unacceptable” and said the council had deployed security personnel to vulnerable areas to prevent further attacks. Modi also visited hospitals…

Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party was at the weekend re-elected Governor of Osun State amid stiff opposition from Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress and Hon Najeem Salaam of the African Democratic Congress. Deji Elumoye reports. The 2026 gubernatorial poll in the State of the Living Spring which took place on Saturday, August 15, 2026 was devoid of crisis in all the 30 local government areas of the state. This was a sharp contrast to what transpired in the build-up to the election when several cases of alleged killing of political opponents were reported in different parts…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Financial services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.On Friday, MainFT scooped the overall impact of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s $35bn July trading loss on Jane Street Capital’s own, otherwise enviable, investment record.And the losses generated by Aschenbrenner’s leveraged AI stock bets put him up at the top of the global leaderboard of fund facepalms. We know this because we found a cool table on Wikipedia. It’s a catalogue of financial disasters, based largely on this CFA monograph by Thomas S Coleman — an ex-Moore Capital risk-guy-cum-finance-academic — though it captures far…

It’s just a hook, sewn into a bag, but I really, really like it. Peak Design is so proud of its clever integration that the San Francisco-based maker of camera gear gave it a name: BagLev, for its ability to keep its new City Line of bags levitated above the dirty ground.How many of us are guilty of coming home and tossing a bag onto the kitchen table or counter to unload it? We pretend it’s not a thing, despite the carryall having come into contact with unknown filth picked up from the floors of subways and dive bars, sidewalks,…

Jamie Dimon, the boss of the US bank JP Morgan, has urged John Healey not to use his first budget as chancellor to increase taxes on banks’ bumper profits.Speculation has been growing that a windfall tax could be imposed on UK lenders to fund Andy Burnham’s cost of living agenda, with campaigners estimating such a move could raise £19bn.Dimon told Healey in a phone conversation that higher levies could hit jobs, citing a fall in finance roles in New York that he blamed on the city’s tax regime, according to the Financial Times.The Wall Street billionaire’s comments were condemned by…