BIIF sports: Warriors rout Daggers
KEA‘AU — Business was booming for Kamehameha Schools-Hawai‘i football on Thursday night against Pahoa. The Warriors routed the Daggers 59-0 in Kea‘au. It was the second time KSH shut out Pahoa.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Dodgers blank Padres, advance to NLCS
LOS ANGELES — Known for a top of the order filled with MVP performers, the Los Angeles Dodgers threw a curveball and advanced to the National League Championship Series on the back of their pitching staff.
Hawaii QB Schager takes the hits and keeps on playing
How Roger Goodell became the NFL’s $20 billion man
As they met in the lobby of the Omni Viking Lakes Hotel in Minnesota in late August, Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, and Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, greeted each other warmly, sharing fist bumps as a small entourage that included their oldest sons surrounded them. The two men, who have nine Super Bowl wins between them (six for Kraft, 83, and three for Jones, who turns 82 on Sunday), were upbeat and refreshed after their summer vacations in the South of France and the Hamptons.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot moves Like the solar system’s biggest kickball
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is one of the solar system’s most astonishing marvels. An elliptical storm with inky swirls of burnt orange and dulled copper, it is longer than the Earth is wide, and its winds screech through the tops of the planet’s clouds at 400 mph.
Nevada asked AI which students need help. The answer caused an outcry.
Nevada has long had the most lopsided school funding in the country. Low-income districts there have nearly 35% less money to spend per pupil than wealthier ones do — the largest gap of any state.
For atomic bomb survivors, a Nobel Peace Prize and a reckoning, 80 years later
Cities blasted to rubble. Burned bodies and flayed flesh. Invisible waves of radiation coursing through the air. And the indelible image of a mushroom cloud.
Trump ratchets up rhetoric, calls for death penalty for migrants who kill Americans
AURORA, Colo. — Donald Trump portrayed migrants as dangerous criminals during a rally in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, calling for the death penalty for migrants who kill U.S. citizens as he escalates the anti-immigration rhetoric that has fueled his presidential run.
Elon Musk shows off Tesla ‘robotaxi’ that drives itself
After years of promises, Tesla on Thursday unveiled a car that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO said will be able to drive itself without human supervision. Musk has said the vehicle will add trillions of dollars to the company’s stock market value and fuel its growth.
As Floridians return, officials size up Milton’s uneven trail of destruction
Florida residents on Friday returned to neighborhoods stricken by power outages and filled with piles of soggy, stinking debris as tens of thousands of emergency workers began repairing the destruction caused by Hurricane Milton.
Lebanon’s leader calls on UN for cease-fire amid search for airstrike survivors
BEIRUT — Rescuers dug through piles of rubble in central Beirut on Friday, looking for survivors and bodies, a day after deadly airstrikes in two densely populated neighborhoods of the Lebanese capital spread fear that no place in the country was safe from the Israeli military onslaught against Hezbollah.
In Michigan, Walz assails Trump’s record on manufacturing
WARREN, Mich. — Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota took the stage in a Detroit suburb on Friday to offer a sharp rebuttal to former President Donald Trump, who had positioned himself as a savior of the auto industry at an appearance in Detroit a day earlier.
Democrats roll out ad attacking Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president
The Democratic National Committee on Friday released its first advertisement this election season targeting a third-party presidential candidate, Jill Stein of the Green Party. With Election Day just weeks away, Democrats are increasingly concerned that Stein’s candidacy could siphon votes away from Vice President Kamala Harris, whose race against former President Donald Trump is tight. The ad will run on television in three battleground states — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — and on cable nationally, according to a news release.
Trump aides sought enhanced security for closing stages of campaign
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has requested a series of additional security measures, including military assets, in conversations with the White House and the Secret Service because of continuing threats to his safety, according to four people briefed on the matter.
Week 6 Sunday NFL Capsules
Jacksonville Jaguars (1-4) at Chicago Bears (3-2) in London, 3:30 a.m. HST
Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs in bid to slash costs
Boeing’s new chief executive on Friday announced plans to reduce its workforce by 10%, or about 17,000 jobs, as he seeks to restructure the company in an effort to slash costs and improve production of planes, which has been plagued by numerous delays.
Price controls are a bipartisan delusion
Now that inflation seems to be largely tamed, another threat has sprung up in its wake: the misguided notion that politicians can and should deal with high prices by capping or controlling them.
Vance plays Saruman to Trump’s Sauron
“I’m a big Lord of the Rings guy,” JD Vance once told a podcaster. The running mate of former and perhaps future president Donald Trump went on to explain that “a lot of my conservative worldview was influenced by Tolkien.”
She didn’t see other Black hikers. She decided to change that.
INGLETON, England — The women made their way up the narrow stone steps in a winding line, the rolling green fields of the English countryside stretching out across the valley below. The steep climb, which had begun in the early morning, brought them high above an elevated rail line, its imposing Victorian arches rising in the distance.
