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Seth WalderSep 1, 2025, 06:30 AM ETCloseSeth Walder is an analytics writer at ESPN, specializing in quantitative analysis. He is also a regular on “ESPN Bet Live” and helps cover sports betting. Seth has been at ESPN since 2017. He previously worked at the New York Daily News covering the Jets and Giants. You can follow Seth on X via @SethWalder.If you don’t want spoilers for the 2025 NFL season, look away.I typically write about the NFL in terms of probabilities — the chance the Eagles repeat as Super Bowl champions, the probability the Bengals get back to the playoffs,…

new video loaded: Hundreds Killed as Powerful Earthquake Rocks AfghanistanBy Monika Cvorak•September 1, 2025Injured people were airlifted from mountainous communities after a 6.0-magnitude quake. The death toll was expected to rise.Recent episodes in InternationalInternational video coverage from The New York Times.International video coverage from The New York Times.Show more videos from International

“We, the daughters of mother earth … have come together to collectively decide what we can do to bring about a world which we would like our children and our children’s children to live in,” so states the Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women.Adopted in 1995, the document outlined the oppression of women around the world and demanded governments recognise “the social, cultural, economic, and religious rights of the Indigenous peoples in their constitutions and legal systems”.Thirty years on, communities still face discrimination, threats and barriers that limit access to education, health services and routes out of poverty. Meanwhile the climate…

Publishers are past the point where page views and banner rotations held sway. A quiet revolution has elevated video from optional enrichment to a foundational revenue generator. In the current media calculus, attention is the new currency: dense, immersive, and increasingly monetized through video. Recently, evidence of this shift has been accumulating. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) reports that digital ad revenue surged to $259 billion in 2024, a 15% increase over the prior year, driven in part by video formats commanding premium pricing. Meanwhile, video ad-spend is on a pronounced upward curve: compounded at nearly 12% annually from 2021…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureLiverpool to resurrect Guehi move?Jacob SteinbergThere’s still hope that Liverpool will be able to complete a deal for Crystal Palace and England defender Marc Guehi. I’m told that Steve Parish, the Palace chairman, is in two minds about whether to sell Guehi, whose contract expires next year. Liverpool offered £35m plus £5m in add-ons. The message earlier this morning was that it wouldn’t happen; the word just now is that there’s still a chance. Liverpool have certainly looked like they need a new defender.ShareEd AaronsMore on Wharton here: Adam…

Latam-GPT is new large language model being developed in and for Latin America. The project, led by the nonprofit Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA), aims to help the region achieve technological independence by developing an open source AI model trained on Latin American languages and contexts.“This work cannot be undertaken by just one group or one country in Latin America: It is a challenge that requires everyone’s participation,” says Álvaro Soto, director of CENIA, in an interview with WIRED en Español. “Latam-GPT is a project that seeks to create an open, free, and, above all, collaborative AI model.…

The National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, have locked horns over alleged payment of ransom in billions to the bandits and terrorists kidnapping people in the North. While ex-Kaduna governor claimed that the present government is paying bandits billions of Naira to free some people in their captivity, the NSA described the claim as “false” aimed at denigrating the government’s efforts. When he appeared on Sunday Politics, a Channels Television programme, El-Rufai had claimed that the insecurity ravaging the North was higher than how it was before Tinubu-led federal government came on…

Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater, Yorgos Lanthimos and Tessa Thompson are among the stars set to participate in the BFI London Film Festival‘s Screen Talks program this year. Celebrated filmmakers Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay and Chloé Zhao will also join for sessions at the 2025 festival, opening Oct. 8 with Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Day-Lewis, the only person to win three best actor Oscars, is best known for his era-defining roles in such diverse films as My Beautiful Laundrette, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, My Left Foot, The Age of Innocence, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln and Phantom Thread.  He is due to…

The missile attack comes amid Houthi pledges to target Israel-linked shipping over its ongoing war in Gaza.Published On 1 Sep 20251 Sep 2025Yemen’s Houthi movement has claimed responsibility for a missile attack on a tanker in the Red Sea, days after Israeli air strikes killed its prime minister and several senior officials.The group on Monday said it directly hit the Liberian-flagged Scarlet Ray, which is Israeli-owned, according to the maritime security company Ambrey.The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency, which monitors shipping in the region, disputed the claim, reporting the missile missed its target on Sunday.“The crew witnessed a…

Ruth Otabor, was crushed by the company’s cement truck on 13 August, just six days after she graduated from Auchi Polytechnic. Dangote Group has reacted to the death of Ruth Otabor, the sister of Big Brother Naija Season 7 winner, Josephine “Phyna” Otabor, who was crushed by the company’s cement truck. PREMIUM TIMES reported that Phyna announced her sister’s death on Sunday, more than two weeks after the accident happened in Edo State. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines The accident occurred on 13 August, just six days after Ms Otabor graduated from Auchi Polytechnic. She…