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Jordan Devey, a retired NFL offensive lineman who won a Super Bowl with the New England Patriots, died at age 38. According to a GoFundMe page started to benefit his wife, Linsey, and their four young children, Devey “took his own life.” As of Saturday morning, the fund had collected more than $92,000 of its $200,000 goal. Devey was the rare NFL player who didn’t play high school football, giving […]

Restricted free-agent forward Cole Sillinger avoided arbitration by signing a three-year, $13.875 million contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets. The deal, announced Saturday, spans through the 2028-29 season. The move comes one day after the Blue Jackets avoided arbitration by signing goaltender Jet Greaves to a three-year, $15 million contract. “Cole is a hard-working, reliable two-way forward who plays the game the right way, has outstanding character and continues to […]

A fourth firefighter has died from burns after he and several colleagues were overcome by a fast-moving wildfire near the Colorado-Utah border last month, officials said Saturday. Nathan Matthews, 43, died Friday, the federal Interior Department said in a release. He was from Lincoln, Nebraska. “This is another heartbreaking loss for our wildland fire family,” said U.S. Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy. Matthews’ death came nearly a month after […]

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Saturday that they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida, in another escalation over vital shipping routes in the Middle East while the United States and Iran vie for control of the Strait of Hormuz. Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the Houthis’ military spokesman, said in a prerecorded statement that […]

By Krishna N. Das and Tora Agarwala NEW DELHI, July 25 (Reuters) – Nearly five weeks after the leaders of India’s youth Cockroach Janta Party began their protest demanding the resignation of the education minister over exam paper leaks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 75, posted a rare selfie video: he said he was pained by their suffering and promised remedial steps. The video, posted late on Thursday on Instagram, where […]

July 25 (Reuters) – Russian authorities said 11 people including four children had been killed by Ukraine in an overnight attack on a holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, accusing Kyiv on Saturday of deliberately attacking civilians. Ukraine did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in the war launched by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Russian-appointed […]

By Elizabeth Howcroft BORDEAUX, July 25 (Reuters) – When raging wildfires threatened Mohammed Laabar’s hometown in southwestern France on Friday, he and his wife gathered their three-year-old son, grabbed a pre-prepared survival kit and fled to nearby Bordeaux. Within hours, however, the winds shifted, carrying smoke and fumes from the fires into Bordeaux. For Laabar, a 35-year-old truck driver who lives in the town of Salaunes, the apocalyptic scenes that […]

By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA, July 25 (Reuters) – Brazil has denied visa requests for two Trump administration officials who planned to travel to the country to cast doubt on the integrity of its electoral system, two Brazilian officials with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Saturday. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, said the U.S. plan represented an attempt to shape […]

BERLIN (AP) — At least one person died and a second one appeared to be missing after a small plane crashed into a home in northern Germany on Saturday, police said. For reasons that are still being investigated, the small plane lost altitude and crashed into the roof of a single-family home in a residential neighborhood in Ganderkesee in Lower Saxony, police in the nearby city of Oldenburg said. According […]