Faculty soccer powers  No. 10 Michigan and No. 3 Texas will play for simply the second time ever on Saturday in a blockbuster Massive Ten vs. SEC showdown. The one different assembly was a Rose Bowl thriller on Jan. 1, 2005, when the Longhorns outlasted the Wolverines 38-37 on a area purpose as time expired.

Now, practically 20 years later, they’ll tangle in an on-campus venue for the primary time because the Longhorns tackle the problem of taking part in the Wolverines inside Michigan Stadium. Each have been a part of final 12 months’s four-team Faculty Soccer Playoff, gained by Michigan, and so they narrowly missed taking part in one another when Texas fell to Washington in a good semifinal contest.

Though the Wolverines are the reigning nationwide champions and taking part in on their dwelling area, they enter Saturday’s showdown as underdogs following an offseason of change. Coach Jim Harbaugh left for the Los Angeles Chargers, and 13 gamers from the workforce’s 15-0 run have been chosen within the 2024 NFL Draft.

Although the Wolverines maintained some continuity by selling offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore, there are new faces all over the place for this system. In the meantime, Texas returned its coach, each coordinators and a star quarterback from final 12 months’s 12-2 workforce. That kind of continuity typically pays championship dividends. However will it make a distinction for the Longhorns in a hostile setting?

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Quarterback distinction: Each packages have recruited and developed high quality expertise over the previous a number of recruiting cycles. Nevertheless, they range vastly at quarterback. The Longhorns tout a pair of former No. 1 total prospects on the place in starter Quinn Ewers and backup Arch Manning. In the meantime, the Michigan quarterback competitors ran all through preseason between a bunch of understated rivals with significantly much less spectacular credentials. Davis Warren, a former walk-on, gained the job and acquired his first profession star in Michigan’s 30-10 Week 1 win over Fresno State. His 15 of 25 passing efficiency was adequate for a win however not adequate to settle the questions over how Michigan ended up able with no higher choices.  

Can Michigan maintain the run? A few of the personnel has modified, however Michigan’s id stays the identical: the Wolverines wish to run the soccer. The query is whether or not or not they’re going to have the ability to do it efficiently sufficient in opposition to Texas to maintain drives. Lead operating backs Kalel Mullins and Donovan Edwards mixed to common 4.6 yards per carry in Michigan’s season-opening win over Fresno State. However eight of their 26 makes an attempt went for two yards or much less in opposition to a workforce not recognized for taking part in stout run protection. Operating on Texas needs to be much more of a problem. The Longhorns have been wonderful defensively in opposition to Colorado State, however additionally they have one thing to show. Going through Michigan might be a litmus check for a defensive entrance that misplaced inside defenders Byron Murphy and T’Vondre Sweat — each first-round draft picks — from one of many nation’s finest run defenses.

Convention bragging rights: There’s already been one battle this season between ranked groups from the Massive Ten and SEC. It went the Massive Ten’s means as USC downed LSU to cap a 17-1 begin to the season for the league’s 18 groups. In the meantime, the SEC began out simply 2-3 in opposition to groups from different energy conferences in Week 1. The SEC might use a robust week, and this sport is clearly the league’s finest alternative to make an announcement. However a Michigan win would additional strengthen the Massive Ten’s early declare for convention superiority.

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Nothing Michigan confirmed in its Week 1 victory over Fresno State instructed the Wolverines are going to be making many offensive outbursts in 2024. The Wolverines went eight straight possessions and not using a landing at one level in opposition to a Mountain West workforce. However Michigan nonetheless seems to have a fairly good protection. Texas quarterback’s Quinn Ewers’ chemistry with a brand new group of pass-catchers might be examined in one of many sport’s most hostile environments. Touchdowns might be uncommon for each groups. Choose: Beneath 43

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Friday’s new US jobs report confirmed that unemployment ticked right down to 4.2% and employers added 142,000 jobs in August, decrease than the 161,000 anticipated. The weaker-than-expected report is a continuation of a labor market cooling development that has set off alarm bells that rates of interest could have been too excessive for too lengthy.

Look contained in the numbers: The sector that noticed essentially the most job progress was building, which gained 34,000 jobs, doubtless because of the Biden administration’s infrastructure spending. It was adopted by well being care, which added 31,000 jobs, and the general public sector’s 24,000 new jobs.

Why it issues: The report was extremely anticipated after unemployment spiked in July, leaving many questioning whether or not we had been heading for a broader slowdown within the labor market – a key metric of how the Federal Reserve will steer rates of interest when it meets later this month.

“Regardless of the headline unemployment quantity ticking down as anticipated, the small print behind the roles information had been blended,” says Eurasia Group’s world macroeconomics knowledgeable Babak Minovi. “Fed Gov. Christopher Waller gave some remarks later saying the roles information now ‘requires motion’ as a substitute of endurance, growing the market’s degree of concern on the well being of the financial system.”

Though the roles numbers had been weaker than anticipated, the market didn’t miss the goal sufficient to alter projections, which nonetheless predict that the Fed will drop rates of interest by at the very least 25 foundation factors when it meets later this month.

Lower than two years after taking up Twitter, now X, Elon Musk has managed to lose the corporate entry to its third largest market and reportedly greater than 40 million customers. And regardless of his bravado on-line, he appears to have backed himself right into a nook.

Brazil’s determination to dam X is the fruits of an ongoing battle between Musk and the nation’s Superior Electoral Court docket (TSE), a particular court docket run by Supreme Court docket Justice Alexandre de Moraes that issued takedown orders on content material it considers to be a risk to the integrity of its elections. Musk and X refused to conform, permitting accounts that had been accused of spreading hate speech and disinformation to stay on the platform, a transfer that ultimately triggered the ban.

Starlink was caught within the crosshairs too: The court docket froze the property of Musk’s different firm, saying it was a part of the identical “financial group” as X given its possession, for doable use to repay fines owed by X. When the block got here into impact Monday, Starlink allowed its clients—greater than 250,000 folks, in accordance with the corporate— to avoid the X ban through the use of its satellite tv for pc web connection. After preliminary resistance, Starlink backed down and mentioned it could comply. Specialists who spoke to WIRED say that more and more, plainly Musk has overplayed his hand.

“I believe he’s realizing Brazilians aren’t going to take to the streets as a result of X is suspended,” says Nina Santos, a researcher on the Brazilian Nationwide Institute of Science & Know-how for Digital Democracy. “Brazilian establishments aren’t going to again off simply because Musk is cursing on-line.”

In response to a request for remark, an X spokesperson directed WIRED to a publish from the platform’s World Affairs staff. “To our customers in Brazil and all over the world, X stays dedicated to defending your freedom of speech,” the publish reads partly.

In the meantime, Musk has continued to antagonize the court docket. Final week, he posted a seemingly AI-generated picture of Moraes behind bars (which was later deleted), with the accompanying textual content alleging, “At some point, Alexandre, this image of you in jail will probably be actual,” and one other evaluating him to the Harry Potter villain Voldemort.

“Ever since April, he has been toying with the picture of Moraes, the legitimacy of the Supreme Court docket, and escalated in a problematic approach,” alleges Bruna Santos, a researcher and activist with the civil society coalition Coalizão Direitos na Rede in Brazil. “He was totally conscious and he knew what the results can be.”

WIRED reported how workers scrambled to keep away from a authorized disaster when Musk took over Twitter in 2022, simply days earlier than Brazil’s presidential runoffs. The corporate was served a consent decree from the judiciary, warning that if it didn’t maintain its guarantees to maintain safeguards across the elections in place, it risked being blocked. On the time, the nation’s then president, Jair Bolsonaro, and his supporters allegedly unfold disinformation concerning the safety of the nation’s elections to solid doubt on the outcomes. Musk had promised a rollback of the corporate’s present content material moderation insurance policies, and promised a kind of “free speech absolutism” that, in observe, has let hate speech and mis- and disinformation circulation freely on the platform.

Silvio Almeida is not Brazil’s human rights minister. The choice comes after he was accused of sexual misconduct in opposition to an undisclosed variety of victims — which would come with Anielle Franco, Brazil’s racial equality minister.

Brazil’s Presidential Ethics Committee will examine the sexual misconduct complaints. Federal Police Chief Andrei Rodrigues has additionally pledged to provoke an investigation.

Me Too Brazil, a company that helps victims of sexual violence, confirmed to press shops that it was contacted by girls who reported alleged episodes of sexual harassment dedicated by Mr. Almeida. Metrópoles, a information web site, talked to 14 folks with information of the allegations. 

“The federal authorities acknowledges the seriousness of the allegations. The case is being dealt with with the rigor and pace that conditions involving attainable violence in opposition to girls require,” says an announcement from the presidential workplace.

First Girl Rosângela da Silva on Friday printed on Instagram a photograph with Ms. Franco, which many noticed as a sign that Mr. Almeida could also be on his means out of the federal government. That notion was consolidated after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated “it [was] not attainable” for somebody accused of sexual misconduct to stay within the authorities.

The Girls’s Rights Ministry on Friday morning endorsed the investigations on Mr. Almeida.

Mr. Almeida “vehemently repudiated” all accusations in an announcement of his personal. “There may be as soon as once more a gaggle making an attempt to erase and diminish our existence, attributing to me the conduct they carry. With that, Brazil, the human rights agenda, racial equality, and the Brazilian folks lose.”

The human rights minister stated he would search the courtroom system to make clear the accusations from Me Too Brazil. “All accusations should be investigated rigorously, however for that to occur, the info should be uncovered. And so they should not be based mostly on lies, with out proof.”

The Human Rights Ministry has one of many smallest budgets throughout the authorities. Initially of the 12 months, Mr. Almeida was criticized for failing to spend money on areas he deemed as priorities when taking workplace — corresponding to defending marginalized teenagers and youngsters and selling LGBTQ rights.

His division did tally a latest win, with the recreation of a fee on political disappearances.

NEW YORK – Watched the previous “Beetlejuice” in preparation for the brand new sequel? You’re not the one one. So did Michael Keaton.

Keaton’s trickster demon, the Afterlife’s main bio-exorcist and the man who will trigger unholy chaos in the event you say his identify 3 times, returns in director Tim Burton’s horror comedy sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (in theaters Friday). It’s the second iconic character in as a few years that Keaton has revisited after a number of many years – the opposite being Batman in final 12 months’s DC superhero journey “The Flash.”

Beetlejuice is totally different, although, as a result of he was an authentic creation from the minds of Keaton and Burton, an antagonistic weirdo obsessive about marrying teenage Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) and freaking out the residing and the lifeless alike. However as nice as Keaton was enjoying “the ghost with essentially the most” within the 1988 authentic “Beetlejuice,” he anxious about having the identical mojo a second time.

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“I’m so excited. Then I’m like, ‘Maintain on a minute. I don’t know if I can do that once more,’” says Keaton, who determined to sit down down and revisit the primary film. It’s not his regular method to motion pictures, he provides. “I do not need to go ‘we comedy folks,’ however I hate the overanalysis of comedy or the intense breakdown. I hate to consider it. Like once I did stand-up, I favored all these folks. I simply did not need to dangle round and focus on it. I need to do it.”

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Keaton says he at all times knew he cherished the film, however what stunned him was how large a kick he received out of it so a few years later. “I instantly began laughing, like I used to be a fan. I even laughed at what I did. I went, ‘Oh, that is actually humorous.’”

Does he have a favourite scene? “There’s a lot loopy stuff in that first one, it’s arduous,” Keaton says. “It is like, who’s your favourite band? Till I am driving house later at present, 3 within the morning, I gained’t know what it’s.”

Keaton does love the second when, after lately deceased couple Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) reject Beetlejuice’s companies, he angrily kicks over a plastic tree and shouts, “Good (expletive) mannequin,” adopted by a crotch seize. And Keaton additionally loved filming a pretend TV “advert” the place Beetlejuice rides and ropes a faux cow in Western garb and sings with a drawl, “Come on down and I’ll chew on a canine!”

Keaton got here up with that line on the fly doing the scene, which was impressed by the commercials of a well-known Southern California automotive salesman named Cal Worthington that Keaton and Burton knew. “He wore a cowboy hat and he’d be like, ‘I’d eat a bug!’ ” Keaton says.

The rewatch positively put Keaton again within the Beetlejuice groove: On the primary day filming the sequel, “he reveals up and, I swear, it was like demon possession. He simply did it,” Burton remembers. “It was really emotional.

“You bought sort of freaked out. I imply, it was virtually disturbing that he did it so shortly and so seamlessly.”

Being up shut that day to Keaton’s oddball alter ego “was so wonderful,” says fellow authentic star Catherine O’Hara. “However it wasn’t honest as a result of he did not age. He was at all times lifeless.”

Provides Burton: “Simply received a bit of moldier.”

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024 | USA | Tim Burton | 105 minutes)

I used to be 9 years previous when Tim Burton’s beloved ghost-comedy Beetlejuice film got here out. Now I’ve gotten fats and most of my hair is grey. I wasn’t precisely holding my breath for a sequel but it surely all the time felt inevitable as a result of no standard piece of IP actually stays dormant for greater than thirty-five years when milking each ounce of Gen-X nostalgia has confirmed so profitable over the previous decade or so. That is notably odd while you solely have to say the antihero’s identify thrice for him to seem. (There was that musical the place insane Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was kicked out of the theater for vaping and giving her boyfriend a handski, however let’s by no means point out that once more, you sicko.)

Whereas movies like this involuntarily summon the cynic inside me (my 23andme outcomes say that I’m 74% crank), the viewers on the preview I went to was psyched in methods I hadn’t anticipated. Many had been wearing full steampunk apparel and I don’t assume I’ve ever been in a crowd that cheered the composer’s identify within the opening credit.

As a movie, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice isn’t dangerous – some components are fairly good (notably once they contain Michael Keaton, who misplaced zero % of his enthusiasm and zaniness for the reason that first Beetlejuice movie). It simply felt pointless with many (many!) extra transferring components than it wanted.

Save for Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, many of the forged got here again for half deux. Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton all reprise their roles and Tim Burton is again to direct and Danny Elfman (he of the composer’s applause) once more gives the music. Monica Bellucci, Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux, and spooky it-girl (Cousin Itt-girl?) Jenna Ortega because the Deetz household’s youngest Astrid fill out the primary forged.

Michael Keaton, as I discussed above, is a gasoline. He’s as manic as he’s ever been and provides 90% of the film’s enjoyable. Winona Ryder is again as Lydia Deetz however she’s grown up and now hosts a TV present as a medium referred to as “Ghost Home.” Justin Theroux is Rory, Lydia’s supervisor and fiancé who appears to have malevolent intentions. Monica Bellucci is Delores, an ex who is set to kill the undead title character as revenge. Her murderous methods contain sucking out an individual or apparition’s soul. When it’s time, and never a second sooner, it’s 100% how I need to exit.

I don’t assume I absolutely perceive what Willem Dafoe is doing right here. One thing a couple of ghost-hunting detective who was a film star when he was alive. He does carry one other well-known identify to the forged and some humorous bits, so there’s that.

A lot of the movie could be very spectacular. I liked the expansive world-building Burton and his crew put collectively. There have been some cool visible results and a few working gags that had been fairly humorous. I laughed exhausting every time the late Charles Deetz was on display. I additionally actually preferred the storyline between Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega. Nonetheless, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice throws numerous proverbial spaghetti on the proverbial wall and fairly a little bit of it sticks as a result of numerous it was thrown. If I used to be nonetheless a music blogger, I’d name it “extraordinarily busy.”

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a enjoyable expertise general. Whereas I might be misanthropic when my nostalgia will get trampled by bare capitalism, this film – and Michael Keaton particularly – does work very exhausting to earn these wistful Gen-X {dollars}.

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By DAVID BILLER and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA

RIO DE JANEIRO — Sergio Mendes, the celebrated Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a world famous person and helped launched an extended, Grammy-winning profession, has died after months battling the results of lengthy COVID. He was 83.

The demise Thursday of the Brazilian pianist, songwriter and arranger was confirmed in an announcement by his household.

“His spouse and musical associate for the previous 54 years, Gracinha Leporace Mendes, was by his facet, as had been his loving kids,” the assertion Friday mentioned. “Mendes final carried out in November 2023 to offered out and wildly enthusiastic homes in Paris, London and Barcelona.”

Mendes was born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro’s sister metropolis, and studied classical music at a conservatory earlier than becoming a member of jazz teams. Within the late Nineteen Fifties and early Sixties, he started enjoying Bossa Nova because the style was heating up in Rio’s nightclub scene with Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto and others.

In 1962, they traveled to New York for a Bossa Nova competition at Carnegie Corridor. Through the journey, Cannonball Adderley invited Mendes to collaborate on the album “Cannonball Adderley and The Bossa Rio Sextet,” resulting in his first American file, “The Swinger from Rio,” after signing with Atlantic Data.

Two years later, Mendes moved to California and fashioned Brazil ’64, which advanced into Brazil ’66 after he added two feminine vocalists. The group’s debut album, produced by Herb Alpert, featured “Mas Que Nada.” Sung solely in Portuguese, “Mas Que Nada” was a mid-tempo Samba quantity initially launched in 1963 by composer Jorge Ben Sor, and up to date three years later by Mendes, who had been enjoying the music in golf equipment and gave it a jazzier, extra hard-hitting really feel.

“I put a band collectively referred to as Brasil ’66,” he advised The Guardian in 2019. “I’d all the time had instrumental teams, however once I added the 2 feminine singers – Lani Corridor and Bibi Vogel – it made a unique type of sound. We recorded the music in Los Angeles, with me, the drums, bass and guitar all performing dwell.”

Mendes’ model was a worldwide hit that helped perpetuate the Brazilian music growth of the Sixties. In 2006, a contemporary model of the music topped U.S. charts, as carried out by Black Eyed Peas. It was included in his album “Timeless,” produced by will.i.am and likewise that includes Stevie Surprise, Justin Timberlake and John Legend, amongst others.

“Sergio Mendes was my brother from one other nation,” trumpet participant Alpert wrote on Fb, together with a photograph from many years in the past, sitting subsequent to Mendes on the piano. “He was a real good friend and very gifted musician who introduced Brazilian music in all its iterations to your entire world with magnificence.”

Mendes’ different hits had been an eclectic mix starting from covers of the Beatles’ “The Idiot on the Hill” and “With a Little Assist from My Pals,” to his personal Brazilian chant, “Magalenha.” Mendes additionally composed the soundtrack for the movie “Pelé,” that includes saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, and even produced an album recorded by the good Brazilian soccer participant.

Mendes gained the 1992 Grammy Award for Finest World Music Album for “Brasileiro” and two Latin Grammy Awards. He additionally acquired an Oscar nomination in 2012 for Finest Unique Music for “Actual in Rio,” from the animated movie “Rio.”

“Brazilian soul was there,” pianist, singer, and songwriter Marcos Valle advised GloboNews about Mendes’ music. Valle additionally famous that it was Mendes who helped open doorways for different Brazilian artists of his era, together with himself, to achieve overseas audiences.

Mendes’ household mentioned they may present particulars concerning funeral and memorial providers at a later date.

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After a summer season of turmoil, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is lastly residence.

The capsule undocked from the Worldwide House Station with out astronauts onboard on Friday at 6:04 p.m. ET, then spent roughly six hours flying again to Earth. Starliner efficiently touched down at New Mexico’s White Sands House Harbor at 12:01 a.m. ET.

NASA footage confirmed the capsule streaking throughout the night time sky earlier than two units of parachutes opened to sluggish it down. Six touchdown airbags have been additionally deployed beneath the spacecraft to cushion its touchdown.

For Boeing, the Starliner’s profitable return was possible bittersweet. Its easy journey again means that the 2 NASA astronauts it carried to the area station may most likely have flown residence safely on the spacecraft. However issues with Starliner’s thrusters and leaking helium, each detected quickly after it launched, led the company’s high officers to determine to name on SpaceX for the return flight as a substitute.

“It’s essential to recollect this was a take a look at mission,” Joel Montalbano, NASA’s deputy affiliate administrator for area operations, mentioned at a information convention early Saturday after Starliner had landed.

Starliner launched NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to area in early June on the capsule’s first crewed take a look at flight — a mission anticipated to final round eight days. However the Starliner then remained parked on the area station for months as engineers on the bottom assessed the way to safely deliver it again to Earth.

After weeks of exams and evaluation, NASA decided that the capsule’s propulsion system appeared secure, however the thruster points posed an excessive amount of of a threat for Starliner to return with a crew. Wilmore and Williams will stay on the area station into the brand new 12 months then fly again in February on a SpaceX capsule.

The 2 astronauts have been readily available to assist with Starliner’s departure, which occurred because the area station was flying 260 miles over central China.

“We now have your backs, and also you’ve received this,” Williams radioed to mission controllers at NASA’s Johnson House Heart in Houston. “Convey her again to Earth. Good luck.”

The return journey was intently watched, because it marked the tip of a dramatic few months for Boeing and NASA. The take a look at flight was meant to reveal that the spacecraft may reliably ferry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit, thereby paving the way in which for NASA to certify Boeing to conduct common journeys to the area station.

As a substitute, the thruster points grew to become the most recent main setback for Boeing’s Starliner program, which even earlier than the launch was greater than $1.5 billion over price range and years not on time. An uncrewed take a look at flight to the area station, which NASA required of Boeing earlier than its spacecraft may carry astronauts, additionally went awry the primary time, and the corporate needed to repeat it in 2022.

DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis is recalling almost 1.5 million Ram pickup vans worldwide to repair a software program drawback that may disable the digital stability management system.

The recall covers sure vans from the 2019 and 2021 by 2024 mannequin years, principally in North America.

Stellantis stated in a press release Saturday that the vans could have anti-lock brake software program that would inadvertently shut down the steadiness management, which manages the throttle and brakes to keep away from skidding.

If that occurs, the corporate stated the brakes would nonetheless work. Stellantis stated it’s not conscious of any crashes or accidents from the issue.

U.S. security requirements require digital stability management to work throughout almost all phases of driving, the corporate says.

Sellers will replace software program to repair the issue for free of charge to house owners, who can be notified by letters beginning Oct. 3.