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The Titans are still looking for their first win of the season.

Changes are coming to MLB jerseys for the All-Star Game and beyond.

A Senate independent challenger smeared his Republican opponent’s staff as “Hitler Youth frat boys” in a call with prospective Democratic donors on Friday, amid mounting concerns over heightened political rhetoric that has channeled into violence this election cycle. Independent candidate Dan Osborn on a Zoom meeting with a NY-based Democratic donor collective accused Nebraska GOP...

Sean Rayford/Getty ImagesAn area touted as a “climate haven” that’d be safe from the adverse effects of global warming is among the most devastated by Hurricane Helene. Real estate experts like Jesse Keenan, of Tulane University, said in 2022 that Asheville, North Carolina, was the landing spot for scores of Americans moving in hopes of living somewhere that’d be climate-proof.Now, however, the mountain city of 94,000 is the site of “biblical devastation,” said one local emergency services official. That comes after Helene made landfall in Florida and quickly moved north, inciting flash floods that wiped some tiny Carolina city’s entire downtowns—like that of nearby Chimney Rock—off the map. Read more at The Daily Beast.

La agencia de la ONU para refugiados palestinos aseveró el lunes que un comandante de Hamás muerto el lunes en el Líbano era empleado suyo, pero que había suspendido desde que surgieron denuncias sobre sus lazos con el grupo en marzo.

David Hester inspects the damage around his house after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Horseshoe Beach, Florida. Hurricane Helene ruined much of what it encountered in its 500-mile journey across the Southeast US, leaving Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia to battle with record storm surge, wind damage, and catastrophic flooding. At least 120 people have been killed across the six states, and millions of homes and businesses are without power, the AP reported. Hundreds of people remain missing, and the numbers of missing and dead are likely to increase. The monstrous Category 4 storm made landfall on Thursday, September 26, after a summer lull in what’s been projected to be an especially active hurricane season. Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to visit Valdosta, Georgia, among the communities hit hard by the hurricane. Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris canceled campaign events and is returning to Washington, DC, on Monday for a federal briefing on Helene. Follow here for the latest news and updates. What’s going on in Asheville? The devastating fallout from Hurricane Helene, explained. Weather radar showed a strange blue mass in the eye of Hurricane Helene. What was it? Why Hurricane Helene is a wake-up call  One chart shows how Hurricane Helene turned into a monstrous storm

Hanna Cavinder went off on internet trolls and said she was sick to her stomach over those that post negative comments about people's appearance and weight.

The state and national Democratic Party said the rule might introduce "uncertainty" in vote tallying, and "wreak havoc on the general election."

NetflixIn an exceptional vote of confidence for taste—and progress—in America, the gorgeous, hilarious, and incredibly urgent documentary Will & Harper has been in the Top 10 of Netflix’s most watched movies since it premiered on the platform on Friday.The road trip film follows Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, one of Ferrell’s closest friends from their time on Saturday Night Live, as they cross the country to reacquaint themselves with one another after Harper transitioned. The raves the film won after its premiere at Sundance in January have been unanimously echoed since it's been available to stream. Its frank look at how people in different parts of the country feel about the transgender community, and how a transgender person reckons with feeling both finally free and, sometimes, ostracized living out publicly.Owing to Ferrell and especially Steele’s candor and humor, the film manages to be remarkably accessible and entertaining while educational in a way that, at the risk of sounding trite or hyperbolic, could legitimately save lives. One key to the film’s accessibility is its familiarity. That, of course begins with Ferrell, who proves an exceptional audience surrogate, approaching his questions and conversations with Steele with the empathetic curiosity—and mischievous edge—necessary to open up the astounding dialogue that is the throughline of the film.Read more at The Daily Beast.

A second lawsuit has been filed by a fan who claims he was the first to secure possession of Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani's 50th home run ball and is the rightful owner.

The white-haired man obliterated the "Shake It Off" singer's old instrument at the Ellis County WildGame Dinner in Waxahachie, Texas on Saturday night, according to footage posted on social media.

Most voters say they plan to watch the VP debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance Tuesday night, which will be moderated by CBS News.

Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin recently warned donors that Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign in Michigan is "underwater," according to a report.

The president, who plans to travel to North Carolina this week, said he might need to call Congress in for a special session after it did not include additional disaster relief in its spending bill.

Miami’s revolving door at quarterback combined with a struggling Titans team provides path to a +825 same-game parlay.

One North Carolina GOP national committeeman, whose family has lived on Lake Lure for generations, recounts how the tourist town of Chimney Rock has been devastated.

"Galaxy Gas" is a new spin on an old drug — nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas or "whippets" — and it's taken over social media.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face each other on the debate stage Tuesday evening.

Investors have been divided over whether the US central bank will slip into a series of quarter-percentage-point cuts now or perhaps be prompted to make another large cut.

Twenty years ago, Lost revolutionized television with its nonlinear storytelling, unfurling a narrative via flashbacks, flash-forwards, and even flash-sidewayses. But all of those innovations would have rung hollow if it hadn’t also given viewers some of the most memorable, complex characters in TV history.In the fall of 2004, audiences watched with rapt attention as Dr. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), wanted fugitive Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), and 69 other survivors of a plane crash stumbled around a mysterious island trying to make sense of what had just happened. Over the course of six seasons, we learned about the past lives and anguish of dozens of characters—many of whom had unwittingly crossed paths with one another—and how these experiences colored their interactions.Hugo Reyes, best known as Hurley, was easily the most virtuous member of this troubled group. Played by relative newcomer Jorge Garcia, he was compassionate, honest, and humble—almost to a fault. Hurley eventually became one of the show’s heroes and most beloved characters, but the show put him through hell to get there.Every Lost character had an albatross: Jack struggled with a savior complex, while Kate had to overcome her vigilante past. Hurley believed that he was cursed, stemming from the barrage of bad luck that befell him after winning the lottery. Perhaps if Garcia had looked like the rest of the cast, the emotional punishment Hurley faced might not have been as notable. But he was Lost’s sole fat lead character—and not only did Hurley have to endure a litany of suffering, but he also had to overcome writing that frequently stereotyped him because of his body. Revisiting the show 20 years after its premiere makes that both more apparent and more distressing.[Read: ‘Shallow Hal’ and the never-ending fat joke]Among Lost’s most degrading tropes was Hurley’s obsession with junk food. Realistically, everyone on the island should have been thrilled to discover a supply of processed food in Season 2, after they’d been marooned for weeks. Yet Hurley was the only one who obsessed over it—and later started hoarding it for himself. (In flashbacks, Hurley was typically shown eating unhealthy food, including a whole bucket of his beloved fried chicken at the fast-food franchise he bought with his lottery money.) In contrast, the other survivors were usually seen eating fruit or fish. The implication of these moments, in retrospect, was that Hurley was uniquely flawed because of his diet and his size. Fatness has long been culturally equated with a lack of discipline and self-control—a popular and harmful myth—and through Hurley’s arc, the show regularly reinforced that notion.Art reflects the social norms of the era in which it’s made, and the early-to-mid-2000s marked the height of a moral panic about weight. Fat people were stigmatized by hit movies and shows such as Shallow Hal and The Biggest Loser (the latter of which premiered one month after Lost). A popular trend in media coverage of obesity was using zoomed-in images of fat people that showed only their bodies, a technique that researchers have found encourages fatphobic beliefs. Comedians often mined fatness for humor—and that included Hurley’s. At the 2011 Golden Globes, the host, Ricky Gervais, made a crude, insulting joke about the series finale: “From what I can make out, the fat one ate them all.” Truthfully, it wasn’t far from a line that one of Lost’s own characters might have lobbed at Hurley.Throughout the series, Sawyer (Josh Holloway), a surly con man, made fun of the other islanders—but he never taunted anyone more than he did Hurley. Among the dozens of names Sawyer called him were Lardo, Stay Puft, Jabba, Deep-Dish, and Jumbotron. The writing made clear that the name-calling—and his many selfish actions—was Sawyer’s response to his childhood trauma; he alienated himself from everyone else, believing he could go it alone. But although the nicknames were designed to reveal Sawyer’s psychology, the sheer number of them directed at Hurley compounded other troubling choices for Hurley’s storyline.The show, for instance, pathologized his fatness. In the Season 2 episode “Dave,” we learned that Hurley was institutionalized before ending up on the island. In a flashback, his therapist told him that he uses food as a trauma response, born out of his misplaced guilt that his weight was responsible for two people’s death: He had stepped out onto an overcrowded deck that collapsed. It wasn’t actually his fault, however; nearly three times more people than recommended were already standing on the deck. His therapist assuaged Hurley’s fears about his weight’s impact, but the writing validated his shame. During his in-patient treatment, he began hallucinating an imaginary friend called Dave, who encouraged him to eat junk food and “stay fat” instead of trying to shed pounds; Hurley would later conclude that Dave was a negative influence, preventing him from changing—code for dieting. Hurley’s mental illness was thus explicitly tied to his weight, a reductive understanding of a link that research suggests is far more complex.Lost also perpetuated the damaging trope that Hurley’s size made him unlovable. In the same episode in which the show introduced Dave, we learned that Hurley had developed feelings for Libby (Cynthia Watros), another survivor. Although she didn’t have a problem with his size—seeing him for the kind, generous person he was—Hurley felt undeserving of affection unless he made himself smaller. Sure enough, he was on a fish-and-water diet by the following episode. Even after stranding him on an island, Lost insisted that he punish himself for his fatness: Hurley performed the role of “good fatty,” using his attempts at weight loss to earn social acceptance. All of this became moot when, an episode later, Libby was shot and killed. In short order, Hurley quickly lost the one person on the island who had embraced him unconditionally, leaving him alone to wallow in his self-loathing.[Read: The retrograde shame of ‘The Biggest Loser’]Hurley’s suffering did lessen as the show went on and he slowly became one of its strongest, most sympathetic leads. After enduring another tragic death at Season 3’s close, he demonstrated resilience, reacting to the loss with vulnerability rather than vengeance. Unlike many other survivors, and especially the men, he was never consumed by resentment; he even forgave Libby’s killer. Perhaps most poignant, Jack—who had been the survivors’ de facto leader (and Lost’s primary lead)—entrusted Hurley with the duty of protecting the island in the show’s final episode. The fortitude, wisdom, and humanity of Hurley’s later-season characterization helped ameliorate the writing’s earlier efforts to undermine him—although these developments didn’t undo that history.Hurley’s selflessness and clear principles endeared him to Lost fans, as they did to his fellow survivors on the show. (Some took longer than others to warm up to him, however; although their relationship greatly improved over the seasons, Sawyer still couldn’t resist calling Hurley “Bigfoot” in the finale.) By Lost’s end, Hurley’s trajectory from loser to leader had established him as the show’s moral compass. And yet, in a vision of a “happy ending” for him shown in an earlier episode, he is “eating his feelings” and asking Libby why she likes someone who looks the way he does. It was as though his binging on food and his insecurity were essential traits.Lost’s approach to Hurley wasn’t consistently cruel or lazy; Hurley didn’t exist solely for laughs. Fans remember him for his personal growth and ability to overcome adversity. But even those who worked on the show came to acknowledge the negligence behind Hurley’s story—albeit decades after Lost premiered. In 2023, the writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, who left the show after Season 2, critiqued Lost for portraying Hurley “as feckless, ignorant, and gluttonous—and therefore the butt of countless fat jokes.” The series ultimately elevated Hurley, but it never let viewers forget that he was a hero with an asterisk, one that’s only grown more glaring with time.

Will Heath/NBC via Getty ImagesSaturday Night Live star Bowen Yang drew the ire of many Chappell Roan fans this weekend when he was accused of mocking the “Red Wine Supernova” singer in the show’s “Weekend Update” segment. Appearing in costume on the show as the viral pygmy hippo Moo Deng, Yang embodied the animal as he addressed the challenges of dealing with internet fame. “For the past 10 weeks, I’ve been going nonstop. Running around, eating lettuce, trying to bite the water from a hose. And the response has been overwhelming,” said Yang to laughs. “But it has come to the point where I need to set some boundaries. Reminder, women owe you nothing. When I am in my enclosure, tripping over stuff, biting my trainers knee, I am at work.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

The New York City Police Department implemented extensive security measures during the United Nations General Assembly in Midtown Manhattan, authorities say.

Cities will be able to issue permits that allow cannabis dispensaries to host live performances and serve hot food and nonalcoholic drinks.

Cornell, the Ithaca, NY-based school, is the only Ivy League university that has reported a lower 20-year annualized return than Harvard.

A Times investigation found that court-ordered parenting classes in child abuse and neglect cases go largely unregulated in California.

Matt MurphyMid-conversation with this reporter last year, the Tony Award-winning Broadway star Gavin Creel revealed a tattoo on his right wrist reading “Both.”This, he said, summed up his attitude to everything in life—things that can be wonderful and terrible, celebratory and melancholy. “I am in a space of all things and everything. At 47 years old, I have realized to love myself is to accept myself, and not judge myself... I am staying open to possibilities—that there is so much more I don’t know and don’t understand.”Today it was revealed that Creel had died at 48, after being diagnosed with cancer—a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma—in July.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Fatah Sharif had been placed on administrative leave since allegations of his ties to the militant group emerged in March.

Netflix has released the first look photos of Cillian Murphy filming the long-awaited “Peaky Blinders” movie. 

New polling from the Tar Heel State indicates the GOP presidential nominee may not be sunk by a gubernatorial candidate’s personal problems. The East Carolina University survey of 1,005 likely North Carolina voters, conducted Sept. 23 through 26, suggests many are exploring splitting their tickets between the presidential race and the one for the state’s...

Once again, we will have a president election by the slimmest of margins. This makes the ability to compromise extremely important.

Newsom's new climate initiative would have more credibility if he had fulfilled his promise to shut down the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility.

Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, said he declined or returned gifts from Turkey and met with F.B.I. officials who said to be wary of such gifts.

At a moment when the Irish singer had few people defending her, the country music veteran showed strong support. It created a bond that remained throughout their lives.

Biden administration officials have credited the policy for leading to the dramatic reduction in illegal crossings.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, her National Rally party and two dozen others are accused of embezzling European Parliament funds.

North Carolina has been devastated by flooding and mudslides after the remnants of Hurricane Helene tore through the state.

A New Mexico judge on Monday upheld an involuntary manslaughter conviction against a movie armorer in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust.”

WASHINGTON — President Biden starkly instructed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday to abandon reported plans for an imminent invasion of southern Lebanon to clear out Hezbollah-held areas days after the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. “Israel may now be launching a limited operation into Lebanon. Are you aware of that? Are you comfortable with their...

Mary J. Blige will launch her For My Fans Tour in North Carolina in January, and the 27-city tour includes three stops in California in March.

The singer, songwriter and actor, who died on Saturday at 88, found his way into situations and tales that underscored his role as a conscience for country music.

Media Matters for America, a left-wing watchdog group, is mulling the purchase of Alex Jones’ InfoWars after a Texas judge ruled the outlet could be liquidated to pay the families of the victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to a report. Texas and Connecticut courts ruled that conspiracy theorist Jones...

ATLANTA — It was unclear if the Mets would celebrate Monday. More clear was when such a celebration would occur.

Al Roker and his daughter Courtney Roker Laga stopped by the Page Six studio to talk about their brand new cookbook, “Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By: Easy Memory-Making Family Dishes for Every Occasion.” The father-daughter duo will be at the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival presented by Invesco QQQ on October 20 demonstrating recipes...

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes reacted to Rashee Rice's devastating knee injury after the team's win against the Los Angeles Charges.

Terror master Hassan Nasrallah is dead at the hands of the heroic IDF, and The New York Times is very upset. Per the paper’s simpering posthumous piece on the former Hezbollah chief — killed in a daring airstrike on the headquarters of his murderous cadre — Nasrallah was a “gifted orator” who “maintained that there should be...

“I gave up basketball to follow Jesus,” Griffin said in a video posted to his YouTube channel on Sunday. "I know that, in a lot of people's eyes, that seems like a loss … I'm super excited because I truly get to serve God."