There are new developments within the dying of Slash’s stepdaughter, Lucy-Bleu Knight.

The post-mortem on Knight has been accomplished, and her physique is prepared for launch, The Put up can affirm.

In accordance with Los Angeles Medical Examiner information, the reason for dying has been deferred as extra testing takes place.

An investigator is assigned to the case.

Knight died at age 25 on July 19 at a non-public residence, information obtained by The Put up confirmed.

Slash, 59, introduced his stepdaughter’s dying Sunday, saying she “handed away peacefully.”

“Lucy-Bleu was an extremely proficient artist, a passionate dreamer, and an enthralling, lovable, candy soul,” he wrote on Instagram.

The Weapons N’ Roses guitarist requested for “privateness” and that “social media hypothesis be saved to a minimal” as they “grieve and course of this devastating loss.”

Knight was the daughter of Slash’s longtime accomplice, Meegan Hodges, and her ex, Mark Knight. Slash first dated Hodges in 1989 they usually rekindled their relationship in 2015.

Three hours after the rocker shared the tragic information of Knight’s dying, a selfie of the 25-year-old was posted to her social media with a cryptic message.

Within the photograph, Knight, sporting glasses and two necklaces, stared away from the digital camera with a critical look on her face.

“Whether or not I made you are feeling excluded, manipulated/ managed you, informed you to give up your day job from the consolation of being financially supported by my mother and father, or drowned actual points in poisonous positivity-I’m sorry,” the caption started.

“Numerous missed alternatives and connections on account of a disgustingly huge ego, insecure coronary heart and worry of being weak,” the message added. “Might my soul study to evolve from my poor job at being Lucy-Bleu. Peace🌷.

Knight had not posted on her Instagram since Jan. 4.

That put up featured a photograph of a portray Knight mentioned she made. The paintings depicted an individual sporting a white costume and inexperienced cowboy footwear.

Earlier than Knight’s dying was introduced, Slash canceled 4 upcoming dates of his solo S.E.R.P.E.N.T tour on account of “unexpected circumstances.”

“We love our followers and apologize for any inconvenience this has prompted,” the announcement learn partly.

Slash helped type Weapons N’ Roses in 1985.

He left the band in 1996, however returned to the group precisely 20 years later.

The well-known musician has additionally loved success as a solo artist. He has recorded two solo studio albums, 2010’s “Slash” and 2024’s “Orgy of the Damned.”

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees held a second of silence earlier than Monday’s recreation for Rachel Minaya, spouse of group government Omar Minaya, who died over the weekend at age 55.

“The Yankees are devastated to be taught of the passing of Rachel Minaya, the spouse of Yankees Baseball Operations Senior Advisor Omar Minaya. To these closest to her, she was a loving and compassionate mom and spouse, and an enormous supporter of her household and family members,” the Yankees mentioned in a press release.

“In a really brief time, Omar has grow to be a beloved member of the Yankees group, the place he usually shows his distinctive potential to attach with folks of numerous backgrounds. Over the course of his distinguished profession within the recreation, he has freely given to others with kindness and friendship, and on this unthinkable time, we provide Omar, his sons Justin and Teddy, and their household and mates our profound condolences. His household is an extension of the baseball household, and it is a loss that’s deeply felt amongst all of us.”

Rachel Minaya was discovered unresponsive within the lavatory of the residence, officers mentioned. First responders transported her to Hackensack Meridian Well being Pascack Valley Medical Middle the place she was pronounced useless, officers mentioned.

A reason behind demise has not been revealed, however officers mentioned circumstances don’t seem suspicious. A trigger and method of demise is pending. The Minayas have two grownup sons, Justin and Teddy. The Minayas have been married for greater than 30 years, per the report.

Omar Minaya is a senior adviser to Yankees common supervisor Brian Cashman, a submit he began in 2023. He was GM of the New York Mets from 2004 to 2010 and later a particular assistant with the Mets from 2017 to 2020. He was additionally GM of the Montreal Expos from 2002 to 2004 earlier than the franchise moved to Washington.

“We have been tremendously saddened to be taught of Rachel Minaya’s passing. Omar had a considerable influence on our group and his spouse, Rachel, was at all times by his aspect each step of the way in which,” Mets homeowners Steve and Alex Cohen mentioned in a press release. “The Minayas have been expensive mates of ours for years and we lengthen our deepest condolences to Omar’s whole household and family members.”

The baseball world remembered Rachel Minaya, who was discovered lifeless in her Bergen County house over the weekend, for her heat and help.

The Yankees and Mets organizations, together with many others within the baseball group, have expressed their condolences and remembered Rachel Minaya, spouse of govt Omar.

“To these closest to her, she was a loving and compassionate mom and spouse, and an enormous supporter of her household and family members,” the Yankees mentioned in a press release. “In a really quick time, Omar has turn out to be a beloved member of the Yankees group, the place he frequently shows his distinctive capability to attach with folks of various backgrounds. Over the course of his distinguished profession within the sport, he has freely given to others with kindness and friendship, and on this unthinkable time, we provide Omar, his sons Justin and Teddy, and their household and mates our profound condolences. His household is an extension of the baseball household, and it is a loss that’s deeply felt amongst all of us.”

Mets house owners Steve and Alex Cohen additionally expressed their sorrow. “We had been tremendously saddened to be taught of Rachel Minaya’s passing. Omar had a considerable influence on our group and his spouse, Rachel, was at all times by his facet each step of the best way. The Minayas have been pricey mates of ours for years and we prolong our deepest condolences to Omar’s complete household and family members.”

Mets radio broadcaster Howie Rose tweeted, “All of us within the Mets group are deeply saddened by the passing of Rachel Minaya, the spouse of former Mets GM and present Yankees govt Omar Minaya. He’s one of the vital beloved folks in baseball and our hearts exit to Omar and his sons Justin and Teddy. RIP.”

Omar Minaya joined the Yankees at the beginning of 2023 as a senior adviser to normal supervisor Brian Cashman. He served because the Mets’ normal supervisor from 2004 to 2010 and as a particular assistant to a number of GMs from 2017 to 2020. 

Mets supervisor Carlos Mendoza opened his pregame media discuss Monday by extending his ideas and prayers, SNY reported. “Everyone knows what he meant to the Mets group,” Mendoza mentioned.

The Minayas have two sons, Justin and Teddy.

Because the Packers and quarterback Jordan Love presumably shut in on a brand new contract, there’s a rising perception that he’ll turn into the most recent highest-paid participant in NFL historical past — till the following one.

Love’s present wage makes that quite a bit simpler to do.

It’s the previous cash/new cash dynamic. If Love shall be attending to $56 million per yr by means of a five-year, $280 million extension (or, possibly, $55.1 million on a $275.5 million deal), it could really be a six-year take care of solely $10.5 million in “previous cash” added to the “new cash” and making a contemporary long-term deal.

At $56 million per yr in new cash, it could be a six-year, $291 million contract. It will have a complete common from signing of $48.5 million. At $55.1 million per yr in new cash, it could be six years and $286 million. The typical payout can be $47.6 million from signing.

That’s the important thing level to recollect when new mega-quarterback offers are stapled onto contracts with a number of years left. There aren’t any extensions within the NFL. The previous contract will get torn up, and it will get changed with a brand new one. The decrease the remaining money on the previous deal, the better it’s to pump up a new-money common that permits the participant to grab, normally quickly, the crown of richest contract ever.

Once more, what issues would be the escape hatch for the Packers. What number of years will the assured cash and/or the cap penalties tie the 2 sides collectively? At one finish, there’s the Deshaun Watson deal, which binds the Browns and Watson for 5, fully-guaranteed seasons. On the different finish, it’s the Derek Carr extension from two years in the past in Las Vegas. The one which was heralded as being price greater than $40 million per yr for 3 years, along with the one yr he had left.

And he actually had one yr left.

The contract gave the Raiders an out after one season, and the Raiders took it.

For Love, the new-money common shall be one issue. And it gained’t actually be all that vital. What is going to matter is the total assure at signing, the rolling ensures after yr one and two, the cap prices and accelerations if he’s traded or launched.

The cash shall be a given. What is going to in the end matter is whether or not the Packers are dedicated to Love for one yr (Derek Carr, Geno Smith), two years (Daniel Jones, Russell Wilson), three years, or longer.

Our guess is that it is going to be three. However who is aware of? If it was as straightforward as I’m making it appear, it could already be completed.

It apparently shall be quickly. Till it’s, coach Matt LaFleur will certainly be reminding the entrance workplace that it’s exhausting to get the first-string offense able to face the Eagles in Brazil with (checks notes and confirms spelling) Sean Clifford as QB1 and (checks notes and confirms he’s not a randomly generated Madden participant) Michael Pratt because the backup.

Half of immediately’s local weather change is attributable to tremendous pollutant greenhouse gases—together with methane, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and nitrous oxide (N₂O)—which can be way more potent than carbon dioxide (CO₂). Slashing emissions of those super-pollutants is the quickest option to sort out local weather change and a essential complement to lowering carbon dioxide—whereas creating good-paying clear vitality jobs, stopping tons of of hundreds of deaths yearly because of respiratory sicknesses, and boosting meals safety. 

Since Day One in workplace, President Biden has taken historic motion to dramatically cut back U.S. and world tremendous pollutant emissions. For instance, domestically the Biden-Harris administration is implementing the November 2021 U.S. Methane Motion Plan that takes a whole-of-government method to chop shopper prices, shield staff and communities, keep and create high-quality, union-friendly jobs, and promote U.S. innovation and manufacturing of essential new applied sciences important to tackling the local weather disaster.

Globally, President Biden has rallied the world to sort out methane emissions via the World Methane Pledge to cut back world methane emissions 30 % by 2030, and he signed the U.S. ratification of the Kigali Modification, a world settlement to part down super-polluting HFCs and keep away from as much as 0.5 °C of world warming by 2100. In complete, this administration has taken actions that may cut back tremendous pollution by practically 300 megatons per yr domestically by 2030, equal to 70 million gasoline-powered vehicles.

In the meantime, many Republicans in Congress proceed to disclaim the very existence of local weather change and stay dedicated to repealing the President’s Inflation Discount Act—the largest local weather funding in historical past—which might put good-paying jobs in jeopardy and undermine the well being and security of their very own constituents.

As we speak the Biden-Harris Administration is internet hosting a White Home Tremendous Pollution Summit with U.S. officers, firms, environmental organizations, unions, philanthropies, and worldwide companions to announce new home and worldwide actions to sort out local weather tremendous pollution and have fun successes in lowering tremendous pollution so far, together with:

New Efforts to Advance Detection and Reporting of Tremendous Pollution

• The Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s World Monitoring Lab and United Airways introduced an settlement on a pioneering collaboration that may use business plane to considerably improve monitoring of local weather pollution, together with carbon dioxide and methane, and carbon monoxide and water vapor, which is able to enhance understanding of greenhouse gasoline emissions. The Cooperative Analysis and Improvement Settlement will support within the growth of a brand new Business Plane Greenhouse Gasoline Monitoring Program throughout the World Monitoring Laboratory.

• The State Division and the Nationwide Aeronautics and House Administration (NASA) dedicated to deploy 10 state-of-the-art monitoring methods to U.S. embassies and consulates to measure ozone and its precursors. The info from these sensors might be used to enhance the capabilities of local weather and air high quality satellites and develop a brand new tropospheric ozone forecasting mannequin.

• Carbon Mapper – a non-profit that leads a public-private partnership—together with the Nationwide Aeronautics and House Administration (NASA), Planet Labs PBC, and different companions—introduced the upcoming launch of the primary Carbon Mapper Coalition satellite tv for pc, additional increasing instruments to watch methane emissions throughout all sectors. The Carbon Mapper Coalition satellites, that are designed to detect methane super-emitters at facility-scale from area, will construct on U.S. non-public sector and non-profit group detection functionality with the launch of MethaneSAT by the Environmental Protection Fund earlier this yr. On the Summit, the Bezos Earth Fund introduced $10 million in new funding to help MethaneSAT to proceed to advance satellite-based detection of methane emissions.

New Trade Management to Scale back Nitrous Oxide Emissions

• Main U.S. firms showcased new actions that, by early 2025, will cut back total U.S. industrial emissions of nitrous oxide by over 50% since 2020.
  • Ascend Efficiency Supplies, the most important producer of adipic acid in the USA, introduced the set up of a further thermal discount unit that has nearly eradicated N2O emissions at their Florida facility.
  • ClimeCo, a world sustainability firm and the most important developer of commercial N2O abatement initiatives in the USA, introduced three new emissions discount initiatives that may come on-line by early 2025 and cut back nitrous oxide emissions on the three amenities by roughly 95%.  

New Initiatives to Scale back Home Methane Emissions

• As a key a part of the Environmental Safety Company (EPA)’s new Clear Air Act guidelines to cut back methane emissions from oil and pure gasoline operations by practically 80% in comparison with emissions with out the rule, the Tremendous Emitter Program leverages knowledge collected by EPA-certified third-party specialists utilizing accredited distant sensing applied sciences (equivalent to satellites) to seek out giant methane leaks and releases and notify house owners and operators. As soon as notified, house owners and operators should examine to seek out the supply of the tremendous emitter occasion, report the outcomes of that investigation to EPA, and restore any leaks or releases lined by an EPA customary. To maintain the general public knowledgeable, EPA will make the super-emitter knowledge publicly out there on a well timed foundation. EPA has begun accepting functions to grow to be licensed third-party notifiers, and is working with numerous organizations which can be fascinated about creating functions.

• EPA introduced it is going to subject a proposed rule to replace its Clear Air Act emission requirements for brand new and current municipal stable waste landfills in 2025 to chop and different dangerous landfill gasoline emissions, together with via incorporating new applied sciences that may higher measure and deal with emissions and cut back dangerous air air pollution in frontline communities.

New Initiatives to Scale back World Methane Emissions

• Constructing on three years of worldwide management on integrating methane discount into growth programming, the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID) has shaped new partnerships with 9 non-public firms to deal with meals loss and waste underneath its Meals Loss and Waste Accelerator launched final yr. Meals loss and waste contributes 8-10 % of world greenhouse gasoline emissions, together with extremely poisonous methane emissions when discarded or leftover meals decomposes. USAID will work with 9 companies in Kenya, Nepal, and Tanzania over the following two years to upcycle or in any other case stop over 85,000 metric tons of meals loss via practices like modern meals processing and storage and improved post-harvest dealing with. This may create greater than 600 jobs, no less than 45 % of which might be held by girls, and brings the overall variety of public-private partnerships underneath the Accelerator to 12.

• A consortium of philanthropies – represented by the Excessive Tide Basis – introduced greater than $300 million to help the World Methane Hub, which is able to catalyze billions of {dollars} in essential challenge investments and might be devoted to lowering methane emissions throughout key sectors, with an emphasis on low- and middle-income nations.  The World Methane Hub was established by philanthropies alongside the launch of the World Methane Pledge and has already helped catalyze over $10 billion in methane lowering challenge investments by strategically regranting $200 million to 114 grantees conducting work in 152 nations.

• The UN Setting Programme’s (UNEP’s) Worldwide Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) introduced new participation within the Methane Alert and Response System (MARS) since its launch in December 2023. International locations representing over two-thirds of oil and gasoline emissions occasions detected by MARS in 2023 now take part in this system with nominated focal factors.  These focal factors span the over 140 member firms of UNEP’s Oil and Gasoline Methane Partnership 2.0 and 15 governments of main oil and gasoline producing nations, which symbolize greater than 60% of world oil and gasoline manufacturing.

• The World Financial institution introduced that, with $10 million in US funding, they’re advancing the work of mainstreaming methane into their world growth programming with a primary batch of 15 country-led packages centered on lowering 10 million tons of methane from the livestock, rice, waste and sanitation sectors and benefiting over 100 million folks.

As we speak’s new actions construct on greater than three years of labor by the Biden-Harris administration to sort out super-pollutants at dwelling and overseas.

Home highlights embrace:

• In 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration took practically 100 actions to dramatically cut back methane emissions underneath the U.S. Methane Emissions Discount Motion Plan. These actions included plugging leaks and regulating emissions within the oil and gasoline sector, reclaiming deserted coal mines, lowering meals waste and agricultural emissions, investing in cleaner buildings and industrial processes, and launching modern applied sciences to detect and halt giant methane emissions.
• Yesterday, as a part of $4.3 billion in Local weather Air pollution Discount Grants from the Inflation Discount Act, EPA introduced a number of grants to cut back tremendous pollutant emissions in states throughout the nation, together with to the Pennsylvania Division of Environmental Safety to cut back industrial greenhouse gasoline emissions, to the Hudson Valley Regional Council to cut back fugitive methane emissions from closed landfills, and to the Colorado Vitality Workplace to cut back methane emissions from landfills, coal mines, and pure seepage. In complete, Local weather Air pollution Discount Grant initiatives are estimated to cut back tremendous pollutant emissions via 2030 equal to the annual vitality use of roughly 3.5 million properties.
• EPA is implementing a nationwide program underneath the bipartisan American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act to realize an 85% phasedown by 2036 of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – potent greenhouse gases utilized in refrigeration, heating and cooling gear, and different sectors. This phasedown will cumulatively obtain emissions reductions equal to 4.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from 2022 to 2050 – equal to roughly three years of U.S. energy sector emissions at 2019 ranges.
• Final summer season, EPA issued a last rule to implement a 40% phasedown of HFCs beginning in 2024. This builds on the success of the ten% phasedown that EPA applied for 2022 and 2023. The 2024 phasedown establishes an identical allowance methodology to offer regulatory certainty to trade and stakeholders, guaranteeing environment friendly implementation.
• The Administration’s Interagency Process Drive on Unlawful HFC Commerce continues to work diligently on strong enforcement mechanisms to make sure a stage taking part in discipline for U.S. firms complying with the phasedown necessities. For the reason that begin of the phasedown in January 2022, the Process Drive has prevented unlawful HFC shipments on the border equal to greater than 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide – greater than the emissions from over 200,000 properties’ electrical energy use for one yr.
• In April 2024, PHMSA introduced practically $400 million in grants to fund 130 initiatives in 26 states to restore, rehabilitate, or change gasoline distribution pipelines which can be susceptible to methane leaks and ruptures and different security hazards in predominantly underserved communities as a part of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation’s first-of-its-kind Pure Gasoline Distribution Infrastructure and Modernization Grant Program.

• In June 2024, the White Home and a number of other federal businesses launched a Nationwide Technique for Lowering Meals Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics which lays out a path for the U.S. to fulfill its nationwide objective of lowering meals loss and waste by 50% by 2030. Stopping meals loss and waste and rising recycling of meals and different natural supplies has vital advantages together with lowering greenhouse gasoline emissions, saving households and companies cash, and constructing cleaner, more healthy communities.

• In Might 2024, EPA issued a last rule to strengthen, develop and replace methane emissions reporting necessities for petroleum and pure gasoline methods underneath their Greenhouse Gasoline Reporting Program, as required by the IRA. The ultimate revisions will guarantee higher transparency and accountability for methane air pollution from oil and pure gasoline amenities by enhancing the accuracy of annual emissions reporting from these operations. 
• In June 2024, EPA and the U.S. Division of Vitality (DOE) introduced the supply of $850 million in Inflation Discount Act funding via the Methane Emissions Discount Program to assist oil and pure gasoline sector operators cut back methane emissions and transition to out there and modern methane emissions discount applied sciences. This system additionally goals to enhance emissions knowledge assortment and measurement in any respect scales (floor stage, aerial, and satellite tv for pc) and supply correct, clear knowledge and monitoring functionality to impacted communities.
• Within the first half of 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration has been supporting the event of measurement, modeling, and knowledge requirements for detecting methane concentrations and quantifying level supply emissions via the 2023 Nationwide Technique to Advance an Built-in U.S. Greenhouse Gasoline Measurement, Monitoring and Data System.

Worldwide highlights embrace:

• At COP26 in Glasgow, alongside European Fee President von der Leyen, President Biden launched the World Methane Pledge, which now has 157 nations dedicated to the worldwide objective of lowering methane 30 % by 2030.
• On the Main Economies Discussion board in 2022, President Biden unveiled the Methane Finance Dash, which catalyzed over $1 billion in new grant funding in 2023 to assist creating nations cut back methane throughout sectors.
• After the profitable ratification of the Kigali Modification, the Biden Administration labored with companions to leverage U.S. contributions to the Montreal Protocol’s Multilateral Fund to lift practically $1 billion to help HFC phasedown and associated vitality effectivity measures.
• Due to U.S. management in driving consensus, all events agreed as a part of the World Stocktake consequence at COP28 to incorporate all greenhouse gases – together with tremendous pollution – of their 2035 Nationally Decided Contributions due in early 2025. 

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LONDON — Right here is one thing for everybody within the basketball world to grasp because the Olympics, maybe probably the most aggressive worldwide event in historical past, are about to get began:

LeBron James shouldn’t be messing round.

He could also be 39 and named the nation’s flag-bearer, however that is no ceremonial second.

On Monday night time, as he placed on one other show of dominance and can in entrance of the most important crowd to ever watch a basketball sport in London, the followers, the opponents and even his friends on Crew USA might solely watch in awe.

With Germany, the present FIBA World Cup champion, attempting to ship a message by knocking off the People simply days earlier than the beginning of the Olympics, James grabbed management of the sport in the identical method he has accomplished since he was a youngster.

James scored eight important factors and wrapped them round steals, rebounds and normal brute power to steer Crew USA to a 92-88 victory. He completed with 20 factors, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, however the statistics are hardly consultant of his affect.

As James went on a basket-steal-basket-rebound-free throws-rebound run through the center of the fourth quarter, his teammates bounced across the bench enviornment like kids at recess watching all of it play out.

“We bought an ideal group of fellows and it would not matter if it is me, Joel [Embiid], Steph [Curry] or when [Kevin Durant] comes again,” James mentioned. “All people going to have a second and that is what the workforce is all about. All of us root for each other irrespective of how the sport goes.”

And, by the best way, James opened the sport with two vicious dunks within the first three minutes.

After going 3-of-3 capturing within the fourth quarter towards South Sudan on Saturday, together with the game-winning basket with eight seconds remaining, James’ unrelenting ultimate stretch Monday noticed him go 4-of-4 as he scored the final 11 factors for Crew USA.

“Simply placing the workforce on his shoulders,” Crew USA guard Jrue Vacation mentioned. “Being LeBron James.”

Crew USA finishes the pre-Olympic tour with an imperfect 5-0. The squad has some points to work on after two lower than spectacular showings in London.

Embiid was a vivid spot, nonetheless, as he continues to spherical into kind. He had 15 factors, 8 rebounds and 5 assists.

Embiid began slowly popping out of coaching camp, exhibiting rust and looking out out of practice after he took day off on the finish of the season to let some accidents heal. However he has constantly improved and proven higher rhythm and was wanted Monday as a result of Anthony Davis, his backup, bought into foul bother.

“Individuals who watch me know that each season it takes me a few video games to get going, and that is no totally different,” Embiid mentioned. “That is the explanation we have preseason video games. I really feel like myself and I will maintain going and I will be enjoying at that MVP stage I’ve performed for the final 5 – 6 seasons.”

Curry had 13 factors for Crew USA however was simply 1-of-7 on 3-pointers because the U.S. struggled from deep, capturing simply 29%.

Germany has 4 present NBA gamers on its roster and is understood for glorious workforce chemistry, which was on show in its run to the World Cup title final summer season. Almost everybody who steps on the ground for the workforce can shoot the three. The Germans transfer the ball nicely, are very lively with their fingers on protection and have terrific measurement.

Most significantly on this sport, they took care of the ball and had been ultra-aggressive on the offensive glass.

Crew USA had points with permitting dribble penetration, which led to kick-out 3-pointers within the close to catastrophe towards South Sudan on Saturday. This was clearly a degree of emphasis coming into Monday’s sport, particularly with Vacation and Anthony Edwards making use of heavy ball strain on Germany’s guards and customarily higher defensive deal with power.

The Germans struggled at occasions to generate clear seems to be and tried extra end-of-shot-clock 3-pointers than triples out of their offense. It was precisely the kind of defensive response the Crew USA coaches had been hoping for.

However there was nonetheless the issue of not ending the possessions, with the Germans getting 14 second probabilities and scoring 16 factors off them.

That and a spate of turnovers, particularly a stretch within the third quarter when the People’ offense was short-circuited by 5 giveaways in a four-minute span, and Germany was in a position to compensate for 36% capturing by getting 12 extra pictures.

“We will get quite a bit higher,” Crew USA coach Steve Kerr mentioned. “We’re attending to a spot now the place we’re getting snug with rotations and I feel guys are getting conversant in one another. … I feel we are able to tighten up our sport and get higher. And that is the plan right here within the subsequent couple of weeks.”

Orlando Magic ahead Franz Wagner led Germany with 18 factors. Dennis Schroder, who was MVP of the World Cup final summer season, had 10 assists for the Germans however shot simply 3-of-15.

“We performed with good tempo after which, yeah,” Germany coach Gordon Herbert mentioned, “any individual named LeBron James made some performs on the finish.”

Whereas the Swifties and Bey Hive dream of a world the place Taylor Swift and Beyoncé come collectively to collectively endorse Vice President Kamala Harris because the Democratic presidential nominee, one singer is already getting the social gathering began.

British pop singer Charli XCX has entered the digital chat, posting “kamala is BRAT” on X, the app previously referred to as Twitter, on Sunday.

In case you do not perceive what meaning, you’re each not alone and in a secure house. Welcome to “Bratology 101.”

What’s a “brat?”

“Brat” is much less a noun than it’s a idea, although it is usually a factor.

The title of Charli XCX’s sixth studio album, she envisions a “brat” as somebody who’s “slightly messy and likes to social gathering and perhaps says some dumb issues generally,” she defined in a video shared on TikTok.

Many theorize that it’s the antithesis of the “clear” and “extremely groomed” side so usually on show by social media influencers.

There may be even a “brat” colour, a really particular shade of chartreuse, which the web has all however declared as the colour of the summer season.

The singer made it her album colour and has defined that it is “form of the thought of creating one thing like fairly disgusting and turning it into this factor you already know persons are going to take a look at quite a bit and take into consideration and ask, you already know, why that inexperienced?”

Staff Harris’s response

Harris’s camp responded in a method that signaled to the web they understood the praise and had been embracing it.

These visiting the official Kamala HQ account on X, which hyperlinks to her official website, are met with a background picture within the “brat” inexperienced colour and the vice chairman’s title in the identical font as sported on Charli XCX’s album.

Gen Z voters

If Harris secures the Democratic nomination, she’ll be working for each vote within the race in opposition to former President Donald Trump. Youthful voters might show important to the result of the 2024 election.

David Hogg, a 24-year-old activist and co-founder of the March for Our Lives motion shaped after a mass taking pictures whereas he was a pupil at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive College in Parkland, Florida, shared Charli XCX’s put up on Sunday.

“The quantity this single tweet could have simply accomplished for the youth vote will not be insignificant,” Hogg wrote.

Gen Z not solely grew up on the web, however they’ve additionally proven they know learn how to use social media to prepare to push for change.

Quickly after President Biden endorsed Harris, the web was flooded with meme photographs and movies of the whole lot from Harris dancing to coconut timber.

That latter got here to be due to remarks Harris gave in Might 2023 throughout a swearing-in ceremony of commissioners at an initiative centered on increasing academic alternatives for the Hispanic neighborhood.

Harris spoke about “a distinction between equality and fairness” and customized it with a household story.

“None of us simply reside in a silo. All the things is in context,” she stated. “My mom used to – she would give us a tough time generally – and he or she would say to us, ‘I do not know what’s unsuitable with you younger individuals. You suppose you simply fell out of a coconut tree? You exist within the context of all wherein you reside and what got here earlier than you.'”

The web responded with coconut memes that once more gained traction on Sunday as a solution to present assist. The Harris marketing campaign returned the sentiment with a line on the Harris HQ X account that reads: “Offering context.”

Some have complained that even when the coconut memes are well-meaning, they could even be perceived as racist.

Shares of CrowdStrike (CRWD 3.46%) sank after the cybersecurity firm skilled a significant outage that induced disruptions to companies across the globe. Nonetheless, the inventory remains to be up greater than 70% over the previous yr.

Let’s check out the latest outage, the influence it might have on the corporate transferring ahead, and whether or not the dip is a shopping for alternative.

Outage impacts clients all over the world

The CrowdStrike-related outage stemmed from a bug in a software program replace the corporate pushed out. The crash impacted tens of millions of Microsoft Home windows gadgets worldwide, inflicting Home windows-based computer systems and tablets to crash. The outage impacted quite a few industries from governments, to banks, to airways, which needed to cancel flights. Apple and Linux-run gadgets weren’t impacted.

The corporate undid the software program replace and gave purchasers a handbook workaround to repair affected gadgets. As such, the corporate stated it might take a while for some methods to be restored.

Microsoft stated that about 8.5 million gadgets had been impacted by the outage. Whereas that makes up solely about 1% of Home windows-based gadgets, the outage induced widespread disruptions throughout the globe.

On the very least, this can be a little bit of a black eye for the corporate and confirmed how one mistake can disrupt a lot. And whereas the corporate seemingly will not be financially responsible for the outage, it might give some vital clients who had been overly impacted some value concessions.

Some analysts, similar to Wedbush’s Dan Ives, argued the largest threat to CrowdStrike is that this incident might tarnish its model and that it opens the door for different cybersecurity firms to remove its enterprise. Nonetheless, cybersecurity outages aren’t distinctive to CrowdStrike and minor ones will be fairly frequent occurrences.

CrowdStrike remains to be largely thought of to be the gold customary for endpoint safety, and this outage seemingly does not change that notion. The disruption attributable to the outage additionally exhibits simply how a lot CrowdStrike has develop into ingrained within the IT material of industries across the globe and the way vital the corporate is.

Cybersecurity firms have lately been pushing clients to consolidate on one platform, arguing that they get higher safety from a unified system that works collectively in comparison with stringing disparate endpoint options collectively. It will likely be attention-grabbing to see if clients proceed down this path or need to maintain a number of distributors.

That stated, I do not suppose that this outage by itself can have any long-term implications for CrowdStrike or its inventory, as organizations will in the end proceed to gravitate towards best-of-breed cybersecurity options.

Is it time to purchase the dip?

Whereas I do not suppose the outage can have any lasting influence on CrowdStrike’s long-term prospects, whether or not now is an effective time to purchase the dip in inventory value is an entire completely different query. The one knock on CrowdStrike has been its hefty valuation, and the latest dip within the inventory value didn’t all of a sudden put it into bargain-bin territory.

The inventory now trades at a ahead price-to-sales (P/S) ratio primarily based on fiscal 2026 (ending January) estimates of about 14.7 occasions. That’s nonetheless the very best valuation amongst its cybersecurity friends. The corporate is rising strongly, placing up 33% income progress within the first quarter, however different friends have additionally proven robust income progress as effectively. For instance, SentinelOne grew its income 40% in Q1, whereas Zscaler noticed its income rise 32% for its most up-to-date quarter.

CRWD PS Ratio (Ahead 1y) knowledge by YCharts

Given its premium valuation, I would not soar into CrowdStrike’s inventory simply but. Nonetheless, if the outage causes the inventory to proceed to development decrease, nearer to the valuations of different cybersecurity shares, I might develop into extra fascinated with proudly owning the inventory.

I proceed to view CrowdStrike as better of breed within the cybersecurity house, however valuation does nonetheless matter.

Geoffrey Seiler has no place in any of the shares talked about. The Motley Idiot has positions in and recommends Apple, Test Level Software program Applied sciences, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Microsoft, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler. The Motley Idiot recommends the next choices: lengthy January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and quick January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Idiot has a disclosure coverage.

Bodycam video of the deadly taking pictures of Sonya Massey was launched by Illinois State Police Monday afternoon, exhibiting a chaotic scene after a sheriff’s deputy shot Massey within the face throughout a tense second over a pot of water in her house.

Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson has pleaded not responsible to expenses of first-degree homicide, aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct. He’s being held within the Sangamon County Jail whereas he awaits trial.

“(The video) goes to shock the conscience of America. It’s that mindless, that pointless, that unjustifiable, that unconstitutional,” civil rights legal professional Ben Crump stated. “This sheriff’s deputy was twice as massive as Sonya. Why would it’s important to use a gun to shoot her within the head?”

Authorities stated Massey, who’s Black, referred to as 911 within the early morning hours on Saturday, July 6, to report a suspected prowler outdoors her home in Springfield, Illinois.

Timeline of bodycam footage of Sonya Massey’s deadly taking pictures

First, bodycam video exhibits the deputies looking Massey’s property and taking particular curiosity in a automotive with damaged home windows. The deputies knock at the least 5 occasions and Massey involves the door. (Warning: Linked video comprises violent and delicate content material.)

Massey — a 36-year-old mom of two — will be heard mumbling one thing to Grayson, who responds: “Why would we harm you? You referred to as us.”

Grayson, who’s White, talks additional to Massey at her door and tells her no person was discovered close to her home. The opposite deputy’s bodycam is the one working. 

This dialog wraps up a few minute later, because the deputies ask extra in regards to the automotive.

The deputy whose physique digital camera is working is then seen inspecting the automotive in Massey’s driveway as fireworks go off within the distance that July 4th weekend. That second deputy then enters the home, with Grayson already inside.

In the home, Massey is first seen sitting on her sofa, volunteering to offer the deputies some paperwork and in search of her ID. Grayson then notices a pot on the range, asks Massey to test on it, and offers her Massey permission to maneuver it. He says they do not want a fireplace in the home. 

The video then exhibits Massey turning off the flame on the range and choosing up the pot.

“The place are you going?” Massey is heard saying.

“Away out of your sizzling, steaming water,” Grayson says.

“Away from my sizzling steaming water?” Massey appears to say within the video. “I rebuke you within the identify of Jesus.”

“What?” Grayson says.

“I rebuke you within the identify of Jesus,” Massey says.

“You’d higher f***ing not. I swear to God, I am going to f***ing shoot you proper in your f***ing face,” Grayson says.

He then raises his gun, described as a 9mm pistol, and yells at Massey to “drop the f***ing pot!”

Massey is seen apologizing and ducking for canopy, at which level Grayson shoots her, prosecutors stated. Three pictures are heard within the video.

Within the video, Massey could also be holding the pot of water above her head proper earlier than the pictures are fired.

Grayson didn’t activate his physique digital camera till after firing the pictures, Sangamon County State’s Lawyer John Milhiser contends. His physique digital camera video—seen on the finish of the clip launched by state police—exhibits his vantage level as he raises his weapon.

After the taking pictures, Grayson allegedly suggested his associate to not give medical assist to Massey due to the severity of her accidents. When the opposite deputy says he’s going to get his med equipment simply after the taking pictures, Grayson is heard saying: “She’s accomplished. You may go get it, however that is a headshot.”

Quickly after that, Grayson is heard saying to the opposite deputy: “What else can we do? I am not taking a pot of boiling water to the f***ing face, and it already reached us.” Grayson then leaves to get his med equipment, as the opposite officer says they will at the least attempt to cease Massey’s bleeding.

The opposite deputy is then seen tending to Massey. He supplied emergency help and stayed with Massey till medical professionals arrived.

As the opposite deputy offers assist, Grayson is heard speaking to somebody out of view of the digital camera, saying he had shot Massey.

“She had boiling water and got here at me with boiling water,” he’s heard saying. “She stated she was going to rebuke me within the identify of Jesus and got here at me with boiling water.”

Lawyer: Video exhibits Massey didn’t pose an inexpensive risk of hurt

Lawyer Craig Futterman, founding father of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Undertaking on the College of Chicago, reviewed the deadly moments as documented on the bodycam video.

“A part of what’s instantly horrifying is that could be a state of affairs that simply did not have to occur,” he stated.

He stated Grayson’s protection will most likely be that he felt threatened for his life over the recent pot of water — particularly as a result of he stated Massey appeared to achieve for the pot once more after placing her fingers up. However there have to be an inexpensive risk, and Futterman stated didn’t see proof of any affordable risk.

“First, I noticed a girl who was clearly a little bit bit out of kinds, however did not look, and did not give off an look to any affordable that she posed a risk of hurt,” Futterman stated. “Would any affordable officer in that state of affairs moderately consider that their life is threatened, reminiscent of they might take out their gun and level it at her and threaten her life? It is a clear no.”

In reality, Futterman stated, law enforcement officials are educated to not let individuals go into their kitchens for a motive.

“In case you really feel that somebody is doubtlessly threatening, the place is the final place you inform them or enable them to go? The kitchen, as a result of guess what’s within the kitchen,” Futterman stated.

Not like the entrance space of the home the place Grayson was seen speaking to Massey, “Within the kitchen, you may have knives. You could have pans,” Futterman stated.

Futterman was additionally confused by officer Grayson’s tone, and the way he started utilizing profanity and warning her that he would shoot when she walked to the sink with the recent pot. 

“The officer instantly grabbed his gun, and it escalated it went from zero to 100 like that,” he stated.

Futterman stated the occasion with the pot of water didn’t even warrant using a Taser, not to mention a gun. 

Relations decry Massey’s demise upon video’s launch

On Monday afternoon, Massey’s father, James Wilburn, talked about seeing the video of what occurred.

“I sort of really feel watching, it is a dream; I’ll get up. However I simply do not know. I do not know what to say,” stated James Wilburn. “I noticed this occur within the George Floyd matter. I noticed this occur within the Breonna Taylor matter, and I needed to say to God, ‘Why me? Why my baby?'”

Wilburn stated he’s particularly appalled at what occurred given his personal former career.

“A few of my finest mates are in regulation enforcement. I am former regulation enforcement,” he stated, “so it is embarrassing.” 

Wilburn additionally prompt Grayson may need believed he was proof against penalties for what occurred.

“An individual like that, due to his white privilege, it permits him to suppose he can do one thing like that and get away with it,” Wilburn stated.

Wilburn went on to say his daughter did have some psychological well being points and at one time sought assist.

“I believe that final phrases that my daughter stated to me was, ‘Daddy, I really like you.’ And to know and notice I will not see her once more, I can not discuss to her once more, I can not contact her once more,” Wilburn stated.

Talking late Monday after the movies have been launched publicly, Wilburn stated he was not initially informed a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed his daughter.

“By no means did they are saying that it was a deputy-involved taking pictures till my brother learn it on the web,” he stated.

In a timeline displayed earlier than the bodycam video, state police stated they have been notified of the taking pictures inside an hour. The bodycam footage was introduced to a grand jury in Sangamon County on Wednesday, July 17, and the grand jury returned an indictment towards Grayson that very same day, prosecutors stated.  

An arrest warrant was additionally issued for Grayson this previous Wednesday, and he was taken into custody. Grayson was additionally fired final week. Grayson has labored for six completely different regulation enforcement companies since 2020, paperwork reviewed by CBS Information have revealed. His legal professional declined to remark.

The Massey household and Lawyer Ben Crump met with Gov. JB Pritzker in Springfield on Tuesday. 

Illinois Lawyer Normal Kwame Raoul launched this assertion:

“The physique digital camera footage is horrific, and I supply my deepest sympathy to Sonya Massey’s household as they relive a second no household ought to expertise. Because the group reacts to the discharge of the footage, I urge calm as this matter works its method by way of the prison justice system.

“In Illinois we now have made certain that the regulation mandates unbiased investigations after officer concerned shootings. On this matter it seems that the investigation by the Illinois State Police and the next referral to the Sangamon County State’s Lawyer’s workplace have complied with the letter and spirit of the regulation by offering the suitable transparency and transferring towards accountability.”

Mr. Biden, who on Sunday introduced he wouldn’t search reelection within the 2024 presidential race, issued the next assertion after the discharge of the bodycam:

“Sonya Massey, a beloved mom, good friend, daughter, and younger Black girl, ought to be alive in the present day. Sonya referred to as the police as a result of she was involved a few potential intruder. Once we name for assist, all of us as People – no matter who we’re or the place we reside – ought to give you the chance to take action with out fearing for our lives. Sonya’s demise by the hands of a responding officer reminds us that each one too usually Black People face fears for his or her security in methods most of the remainder of us don’t.

“Sonya’s household deserves justice. I’m heartbroken for her kids and her total household as they face this unthinkable and mindless loss. Jill and I mourn with the remainder of the nation and our prayers are with Sonya’s household, family members, and group throughout this devastating time.

“I commend the swift actions that have been taken by the Springfield State’s Lawyer’s workplace. Whereas we look ahead to the case to be prosecuted, allow us to pray to consolation the grieving. Congress should move the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act now. Our basic dedication to justice is at stake.”