Unai Emery urges Villa to forget European exit and book Champions League place

Submit your questions for Jennifer Rubin’s mail bag newsletter and live chat.

Conservative writer and speaker Rich Lowry explains how his speaking engagements were canceled even though he didn't actually say what he was accused of saying.

Mireya Acierto/FilmMagicCNN political commentator Alisyn Camerota announced Friday that her husband of 22 years has died after being diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer.Camerota, who shared that she would have celebrated their anniversary this month, wrote in an Instagram post that her partner Tim Lewis succumbed to his battle with cancer on July 27, two years after his diagnosis.Camerota praised Lewis for “soldiering through a devastating diagnosis with more humor, humility and bravery.” She captioned a photo from their wedding day, writing, “He was a phenomenal father, husband, friend and role model and the rest of us are left trying to follow in his footsteps.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

The source, who knows the couple, said Hines is no pushover at home and "has a backbone."

The families of the six killed when the Dali struck and collapsed the bridge, as well the two aboard the span who survived, asked a judge not to cap damages.

After a spring semester full of encampments on New York college campuses, chants for the death of Jews at NYU and pro-Hamas strongholds at Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, Jewish students were hoping for a quiet fall semester.

Even a short strike at East and Gulf Coast ports could disrupt U.S. supply chains until 2025, according to one expert.

NetflixThe first teaser for the footage for the new Ryan Murphy series Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story didn’t so much raise an eyebrow as it catapulted that eyebrow off my forehead and to the moon.In it, the camera sensually pans around the actors playing the notorious brothers as they, while shirtless, start caressing each other’s bodies. I’m sorry, you think. Are they suggesting that these brothers were banging?!?!Monsters, which tells the story about the siblings who were convicted of murdering their parents, is now out on Netflix. And, well, yes, that is exactly what the trailer was suggesting—which the show itself stops just short of making explicit.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Chefs drop by the L.A. Times Kitchen to show dishes that are simple enough for home cooks but also spark ideas, reveal new techniques and tap into creativity.

The elder Cramer, who is up for re-election in November, has said that his son “suffers from serious mental disorders which manifest in severe paranoia and hallucinations.”

A.J. Brown will miss the Eagles’ Week 3 matchup against the Saints. 

Coach Robert Saleh said on a Friday morning conference call the early prognosis “is decent,” but there are still tests left to determine the exact severity.

Taxpayers could be the ones on the hook for a huge haul. A towing company says their lucrative city contracts and operating license were eliminated because of the “bribery and corruption” of a city official and a towing-industry rival, according to a newly filed $150 million lawsuit naming the city. Runway Towing claims that disgraced...

Early sales of the new phones were down 13% compared with last year's launch of iPhone 15. Analysts say it's because iPhone 16 lacks AI.

Ten people were killed in March 2021 at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colo. The gunman has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Hochul, who infuriated the lefty wing of her party by refusing to raise income taxes in this year’s state budget, says she wants to keep holding that line in 2025.

Kevin Mohatt/ReutersRobert F. Kennedy Jr is often described a black sheep amid the sprawling Kennedy family, but he has one thing in common with the men who made the Kennedy name: his reputation as a womanizer. That characterization rang true yet again Thursday when a report alleged that New York magazine’s star reporter, Olivia Nuzzi, engaged in a “personal relationship” with Kennedy after she penned a splashy profile of him in November, when his presidential run still had a glimmer of hope.Nuzzi, 31, has been emphatic that she and Kennedy, 70, never got physical with each other. She’s stopped short of detailing what their relationship entailed, but sources have told multiple outlets—including the New York Post—that it was “digital cheating.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.In the 1940s, a man named Earl Tupper invented a product that would transform how Americans store their food. Women started selling his airtight plastic containers, dubbed “Tupperware,” to their friends and neighbors. Soon, the product was everywhere—but by the 1980s, once Tupperware’s patents started to expire, so were the copycats. This week, after years of struggling to keep up with competitors, the company behind Tupperware filed for bankruptcy.For Tupperware—a product once so successful that its name has become a generic term, as with Band-Aids and Kleenex—being first wasn’t enough. It makes intuitive sense that being the first to bring a product to a market would give a brand the advantage. But being the “first mover,” as it’s called in business parlance, isn’t a guarantee of being the most profitable. Tupperware is one of a batch of 20th-century brands, including Xerox and Polaroid, that created a product that defined their field but then struggled to compete with imitators. As the late billionaire businessman Eli Broad (himself a proud “second mover”) wrote in his 2012 book, The Art of Being Unreasonable, the companies that follow an innovator get to benefit from the customer base that the innovator has identified, and can learn from their predecessor’s mistakes.“A first mover,” meanwhile, “can sometimes fall in love with its product and fail to realize when technology evolves and consumers want something different,” Broad wrote. Toyota, for example, saw great success as the “first mover” in modern hybrid cars, but it has been slower than its competitors to make a fully electric vehicle, Fernando Suarez, a business professor at Northeastern, told me: “The pride of being first, the pride of having invented the category,” sometimes makes companies reluctant to change. Advantages do come to those that enter a market first, but the so-called “first-mover advantage” comes with a shelf life, Suarez said: Once the novelty of a product wears off, consumers tend to look for the cheapest version, brand name notwithstanding.Even as America entered a “golden age for food storage,” as Amanda Mull put it in The Atlantic earlier this year, Tupperware fell into some of these traps. Tupperware’s competitors have pulled ahead by making either higher-priced glass containers that appeal to sustainability-minded consumers—and look chicer in the modern fridge than old-school Tupperware—or cheaper, lighter alternatives, Amanda noted. Tupperware, it seems, got stuck in the middle: It didn’t meaningfully modernize its design, but it also wasn’t all that cheap.Tupperware also didn’t sell products at traditional retailers such as Target or on Amazon until 2022, instead sticking with the direct-sales approach that first put it on the map. Now, though, the “Tupperware parties” that made sense when fewer American women worked outside the home aren’t as appealing to potential customers—and, at worst, can inspire fear of the dreaded multilevel-marketing scheme. The Tupperware direct-sales model has proved more successful abroad in recent years, notably in Indonesia. In a statement this week, the company said that it planned to seek the bankruptcy court’s permission to continue operating during proceedings and that it recently “implemented a strategic plan to modernize its operations, bolster omnichannel capabilities and drive efficiencies to ignite growth.” In other words: The company is going to try to get with the times.The world of business loves an inventor—and stigmatizes a follower, Oded Shenkar, a business professor at Ohio State and the author of a book on imitators, told me. But, he said, most leading businesses today are not actually pioneers. Consider Facebook, which didn’t invent the idea of a social-networking site but rather found spectacular success with its own version. Walmart’s founder has openly said that he “borrowed” ideas from other stores, and the head of Ryanair admitted to taking cues from Southwest, Shenkar noted.If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance you have cabinets full of something you call Tupperware—whether it’s from the actual company or a copycat brand. For all of Tupperware’s influence on the American kitchen, if it collapses for good, many people may not even notice that it’s missing. In the end, the verbal shorthand that Tupperware gave Americans may outlast the actual containers.Related: Tupperware is in trouble. Home influencers will not rest until everything has been put in a clear plastic storage bin. Here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Vivek Ramaswamy has a solution for Springfield. An unexpected window into the Trump campaign Thomas Chatterton Williams: Elon Musk is debasing American society. Today’s News The Israeli military said that it launched an air strike on Beirut, killing a senior Hezbollah official and 10 other Hezbollah members. Lebanese health authorities reported that the attack killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens. The Georgia State Election Board approved a controversial measure to require all Georgia counties to hand-count ballots this year. An internal Secret Service review found that there were multiple communication failures within the Secret Service on the day of the July assassination attempt on Donald Trump; in a news conference, Acting Director Ronald Rowe cited “complacency” that led to a “breach of security protocols.” Dispatches Atlantic Intelligence: The AI doomers are licking their wounds, Damon Beres writes. The Books Briefing: A new memoir shrewdly captures the upheavals of the Trump years, Maya Chung writes. Evening Read Anna Moneymaker / Getty Mark Robinson Is a PosterBy David A. Graham Mark Robinson is many things: the lieutenant governor of North Carolina, the Republican nominee for governor, and a bigot. But the key to understanding him is that he is a poster. The poster is an internet creature—the sort of person who just can’t resist the urge to shoot off his mouth on Facebook or Twitter or in some other online forum (for example, the message boards on the porn site Nude Africa). These posts tend to be unfiltered and not well thought out. Sometimes they’re trolling. Sometimes they’re a window into the soul. The imperative is just to post. Read the full article.More From The Atlantic Trump’s deranged plan to lower food prices by raising them “I survived Hamas captivity, but I’m not yet free.” Doctors said these women’s mutated genes wouldn’t harm them. How to cool the world without blocking the sun Culture Break Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Mubi; A24; TIFF; Netflix; EPK Anticipate. These are the 15 buzziest films to look out for through the end of the year.Read. In her new novel, Intermezzo, Sally Rooney moves past the travails of youth into the torments of mortality, Amy Weiss-Meyer writes.Play our daily crossword.P.S.I rewatched a childhood favorite, Napoleon Dynamite, earlier this week, and was reminded that one of the movie’s many goofy subplots involves two characters, Kip and Uncle Rico, selling Tupperware-like containers door to door in a somewhat harebrained scheme to raise cash. Trying to make the sell to a local couple, Uncle Rico pulls out a model boat and offers to throw it in with the 24-piece set of containers. In another scene, seeking to impress a potential client, Kip drives over a bowl to show how durable it is, and it (predictably) shatters. Kip and Uncle Rico don’t seem to achieve great financial success with the bowls, but the scenes are an amusing testament to the rich American tradition of peddling food-storage containers in the neighborhood.— LoraDid someone forward you this email? Sign up here.Sign up for The Decision: A 2024 Newsletter, in which Atlantic writers help you make sense of an unprecedented election.Stephanie Bai contributed to this newsletter.When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.

An illegal migrant punched and took a bite out of a US Border Patrol agent's face Thursday -- as the brave men and women on the frontlines of the Harris-Biden border crisis battle a "significant rise" in assaults.

Antes de llegar a Los Ángeles con Angel City, la costarricense Rocky Rodríguez lo había ganado todo en el fútbol profesional de Estados Unidos.

Harris has been using abortion rights as one of her key arguments for why voters should choose her over Trump in what is shaping up to be the closest election in decades..

In the stunning footage, cops are shown trailing Derrell Mickles, 37, after he hopped a turnstile at the L line station on Sutter Avenue — then shouting “drop the knife!” and “put the knife down!” on Sunday.

YouTube/Law&CrimeCarly Gregg, the Mississippi teen who shot her mother dead and wounded her stepfather, weeped as she was was found guilty Friday in the pair of ruthless shootings.The 15-year-old is set to spend the rest of her life in prison after being convicted on all charges, which included first-degree murder, attempted murder and tampering with evidence.The jury deliberated for two hours after watching home surveillance footage that shows Gregg, with a handgun tucked behind her back, darting into her mother Ashley Smylie’s room. Moments later, three shots could be heard ringing out followed by a scream.Read more at The Daily Beast.

NY Post readers discuss a new federal indictment filed against rapper Sean Combs for sexual abuse and trafficking.

Elijah Nouvelage'Kamala Harris fired up the Democratic base Friday as she blamed Donald Trump for women’s suffering under the “Trump abortion ban.”Speaking at a rally in Atlanta, Harris faulted Trump for the fall of Roe v. Wade and the abortion restrictions that states subsequently enacted. And she ridiculed her opponent’s debate performance, in which he touted his record on abortion.“In our debate last week—” Harris said before she was interrupted by laughter and applause. “Well, that was fun,” she said, before turning serious, saying, “But I know everyone here paid attention to the words, though, the words, right?”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Former GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy took questions ahead of a town hall he hosted in Springfield, Ohio where residents have been outraged by the influx of migrants.

Smythe, now in her 40s, left a good job and her marriage for Martin Shkreli.

As Pat Sajak has left "Wheel of Fortune," Vanna White is reflecting on her position with the game show and feels that "they could do it without me." However, there is one reason why the acclaimed show still "needs" her.

Atlanta Falcons star safety Jessie Bates III said he might talk some trash about Taylor Swift to Travis Kelce during the Falcons' game against the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday.

The mother-daughter duo was spotted exactly one month after Banderas announced her engagement to her childhood sweetheart.

Former President Trump tells an Israeli American group that if he loses the election, 'the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that.'

For her first album in four years, Katy Perry reteams with producer and songwriter Dr. Luke, with whom she made many of her biggest hits.

Two-year-old Alyssa Adewale is ready to prove mom wrong!

The CEO of Triton Submarines criticized OceanGate’s approach to safety in a hearing about the submersible disaster that killed five people last year.

In conversations caught on hidden camera, New York City’s former COVID czar said that he’d organized a pair of sex parties in the second half of 2020, as New Yorkers coped with peak pandemic social isolation. “The only way I could do this job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam every now and then,” Jay Varma told an undercover reporter with whom he thought he was on a date. In a video compiled from several recordings taken this summer, the onetime senior public-health adviser to city hall describes the two events that took place in August and November of 2020. He also talked about his work promoting vaccination in the city by making it “very uncomfortable” for those who wanted to avoid the shots.“I stand by my efforts to get New Yorkers vaccinated against COVID-19, and I reject dangerous extremist efforts to undermine the public’s confidence in the need for and effectiveness of vaccines,” Varma said in a statement to The Atlantic. He acknowledged having participated in “two private gatherings” during his time in government, and said he takes responsibility “for not using the best judgment at the time.” The statement also notes that the taped conversations were “secretly recorded, spliced, diced, and taken out of context.”It’s not clear whether Varma personally violated any COVID rules. The sex parties involved, by the account he gave to the podcaster Steven Crowder in a companion video, “like, 10 people.” At the time, New York’s guidelines—which Varma was promoting far and wide—limited gatherings to 10 people or less in an effort to curb the spread of the virus. Separate city guidance on “Safer Sex and COVID-19” discouraged—but did not forbid—group sex. (“Limit the size of your guest list. Keep it intimate,” the guidance said.) Varma explained that he’d sex-partied responsibly, noting, “Everybody got tests and things like that.” He also said that he’d attended a dance party with hundreds of others in June 2021, after he’d left government (but while he was still consulting for the city on COVID policies).Still, you might think that a public-health official would do better to skip out on all of these events while other city residents were encouraged to minimize their social interactions. Even if Varma did not personally buck official guidance, others in his family may have crossed the line. He says in the videos that his family traveled to Seattle for Christmas in 2020, and that he didn’t join because the mayor was concerned about the optics: Public-health officials were actively encouraging people to avoid traveling for the holidays to avoid a winter surge. The following January, the U.S. reported a then-record number of COVID deaths.In June 2021, around the time that he attended the dance party with hundreds of others, Varma wrote an article for The Atlantic about the tricky calculus behind vaccine mandates and related COVID policies. “Many academic public-health experts favor more stringent restrictions than public-sector practitioners, including me, believe are realistic,” he wrote. He argued instead for what he called “a more targeted approach—one that neither requires universal sacrifice nor relieves everyone of all inconvenience.”Perhaps it would have helped if he’d shared his own struggles with that tension at the time. Social-science research tells us that public-health messaging wins trust most effectively when it leads with empathy—when leaders show that they understand how people feel and what they want, rather than barraging them with rules and facts. Clearly Varma struggled in the way that many others did as he tried to navigate the crushing isolation of the pandemic. In preparation for the holidays, his family was faced with tough, familiar choices, which resulted in his being separated from his loved ones.The end result may seem hypocritical, but it’s also relatable. (Well, maybe not entirely relatable, but in principle.) “We know that transparency can increase public trust in public health and medical experts,” Matt Motta, who studies vaccine hesitancy at the Boston University School of Public Health, told me. What if Varma had been forthright with the public from the start, even on the subject of his sex parties? Perhaps he could have shown that he understood the need to get together with your friends as safely as you can, in whatever ways make you happy. Even now, his description of that moment strikes a chord. “It wasn’t so much sex,” he told the woman who was trying to embarrass him. “It was just like, I need to get this energy out of me.” So did the rest of us.

Maryland officials closed the island’s beaches last Sunday when about 50 used needles, feminine hygiene products and other debris rolled in with the tide.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris attended a town hall style forum hosted by Oprah Winfrey in Michigan Thursday night. Harris received questions on most of the 2024 campaign cycle’s top issues, including guns and immigration — but a segment on abortion proved to be an emotional centerpiece that has continued to generate conversation. That moment largely focused on a 28-year-old Black woman from Georgia named Amber Thurman, featured in a recent ProPublica report. Thurman died in August 2022 after doctors hesitated to treat her following a complication from a medication abortion. After that year’s Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the right to an abortion guaranteed by Roe v. Wade, Georgia implemented a strict abortion law that severely limited the abortion-related care available to anyone more than six weeks pregnant.  Thurman was at least nine weeks pregnant; state law allows Georgia doctors to perform the procedure she required — a dilation and curettage, or D&C — only when the mother’s life is in danger. Doing so before then could result in a doctor going to prison for up to 10 years. At the time, the hospital reportedly had no guidance or policy in place about how to navigate the law and ascertain whether a pregnant person’s life was in danger. However, the ProPublica report suggests Thurman’s doctors waited too long — 20 hours after she went to her local hospital — before beginning to operate on her. A state review found Thurman’s death was “preventable,” and that’s a theme her family stressed as they spoke with Harris and Winfrey. “They just let her die because of some stupid abortion ban,” Thurman’s older sister said. “They treated her like she was just another number.” Harris offered her condolences to Thurman’s family, and used the moment to argue that Thurman’s story underscores the need for a change for greater abortion rights — as well as the sort of abortion policy Democrats are running on. Democrats are running on expanding abortion rights In the wake of Dobbs, more than a dozen states have passed strict abortion bans; nearly a dozen others, including Georgia, have laws that severely limit who is able to access an abortion.  Georgia’s law, the LIFE Act, was initially passed in 2019 and upheld last year. It outlaws abortion once embryonic cardiac activity is detectable, something that usually occurs around five or six weeks of gestation. It does allow abortions past that point for “medical emergencies,” but is vague about when doctors should declare an emergency, other than defining them as a “condition in which an abortion is necessary in order to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.” In many states, there have been efforts to overturn abortion laws — or keep them from being instituted. In Michigan, where the town hall was held, voters enshrined the right to abortion into the state’s constitution in 2023. In the wake of Dobbs, ballot initiatives to protect abortion access in Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Vermont, Montana, and California all passed. And this year, a new slate of states will decide whether to protect access. “There are 10 states with ballot initiatives for this November,” said David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University who focuses on gender and abortion access. “Five of those states would change the current law in that state … going from [ending] a complete abortion ban [in] South Dakota and Missouri, to alleviating a six-week ban in Florida, a 15-week ban in Arizona, and a 12-week ban in Nebraska.” Democrats have tied themselves to these initiatives, hoping that they boost turnout. The party successfully campaigned on abortion in the 2022 midterms, and made abortion a factor in several special elections that were Democratic wins. They hope to make the issue a central part of this year’s election too. According to the Pew Research Center, abortion is a top five issue for Democratic voters, and a top 10 issue for voters overall. Harris has repeatedly attacked former President Donald Trump as being responsible for the end of Roe, arguing as she did Thursday, “The former president chose three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would overturn the protections of Roe v. Wade — and they did as he intended.” Harris, meanwhile, has said that, as president, she would approve federal legislation protecting the right to abortion. The current model for that legislation is the 2023 Women’s Health Protection Act, which would prevent state governments from imposing restrictions on abortion rights pre-viability. (Of course, Harris would probably need a Democratic majority in both the House and Senate — which currently seems unlikely — for federal abortion protections to pass.)  For his part, Trump has bragged about being the president who overturned Roe, and has argued that abortion policy should be left to the states. He has said he would not approve a federal abortion ban if given another term. He has also sought to distance himself from Project 2025, the conservative vision for the US that includes draconian restrictions on women’s health care, rights, and freedom.  But that’s not to say that a second Trump term couldn’t make even abortion more difficult to access, including through the method he used the first time around: court appointments. 

U.S. stocks drifted around their all-time highs, as a record-setting week for Wall Street closed on a quieter note

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon echoed Bowman’s fears, saying he wouldn’t “count my eggs” that the rate cuts will deliver the US economy a soft landing. 

Myles Garrett is expected to take the field on Sunday despite injuries to both of his feet ahead of the Browns’ Week 3 match-up against the Giants. 

“The antisemitism problem in this country is on the left. It is not on the right,” Scott Jennings said. 

Former mirrorball champion Cheryl Burke joins Page Six’s Desiree Murphy to recap all the highlights from the Season 33 premiere of “Dancing With the Stars.” Cheryl breaks down everything from Anna Delvey’s bedazzled ankle monitor to how she was almost being paired with Dwight Howard. For more with the dancing pro, tune into the new...

Ted Colbert, the president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, will be leaving the beleaguered company, Boeing announced Friday.

"Stay back, they have a gun" is what a desperate Manhattan man told his family moments before his wife was shot point blank in the head by a teen mugger and his pal.

Plus, a baseball game for the ages

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear confirmed that the body found during a search near a freeway this week was alleged Interstate 75 gunman Joseph Couch.

Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement hampered the Secret Service ahead of a July assassination attempt on former President Trump.

The torrential rains have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more across the region this year.