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Zach KramAug 18, 2025, 08:00 AM ETCloseZach Kram is a national NBA writer for ESPN.com, specializing in short- and long-term trends across the league’s analytics landscape. He previously worked at The Ringer covering the NBA and MLB. You can follow Zach on X via @zachkram.It’s still the NBA offseason, but the 2025-26 season is slowly starting to rumble into gear.The new national TV calendar is taking shape. The season schedule was unveiled this past week. Training camps open in just over a month.So, let’s take stock of where all 30 teams stand before the heavy season preview content arrives. Here…

The account was active at least between September 2019 and January 2021, and had the username @PhDofbombsaway. It used several different screen names, including “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” and “Dr. Curtis LeMay,” an apparent reference to the US Air Force general who oversaw a campaign of firebombing Japan in World War II, promoted the use of nuclear weapons, and ran for the vice presidency alongside segregationist George Wallace in 1968. The account’s profile picture was a stock image of a fiery mushroom cloud.The account’s persona was that of a deeply loyal Trump supporter engaging in conspiracy theories ranging from…

A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary geography quiz highlights novels set in places that are often vacation destinations. To play, just make your selection in the multiple-choice list and the correct answer will be revealed. Links to relevant articles from the archives of The Times will be listed at the end of the quiz if you’d like to do further reading.

A furious row is raging over whether the Zambian president, Hakainde Hichilema, will preside over the funeral of his predecessor, Edgar Lungu, as the former president’s family wage a legal battle in South Africa to try to prevent his body from being repatriated.The legal fight marks the latest twist in a feud between the two men that goes back at least a decade and has now outlasted the former president, who died in South Africa in June aged 68 while being treated for an undisclosed illness.Mourners had already arrived for a funeral in Johannesburg in June when it was halted…

139 The Ghana Education Service (GES) has officially opened the application process for teachers and education officers seeking promotion to higher ranks within the service. The announcement, contained in a circular signed by Professor Smile Dzisi, Acting Deputy Director-General (Management Services), said the exercise covers promotions to the positions of Deputy Director, Assistant Director I, Assistant Director II, and Principal Superintendent. According to the circular, the promotion window will run from Monday, August 18, 2025, to Friday, September 5, 2025. The GES explained that the promotion exercise is strictly for teachers and officers who were promoted to their present rank…

A baby who lived in a mouldy housing association flat in north London died of unrelated causes, a coroner has found.Akram Mohammed died in February aged 15 weeks, which his parents believed was due to damp conditions in their Camden home.Earlier this year, the boy’s death sparked angry protests aimed at housing association Notting Hill Genesis, over the state of the family’s flat and failure to rectify it.Assistant coroner Edwin Buckett acknowledged their home was damp and mouldy, but concluded that Akram actually died of Strep B, pneumonia and Vitamin D deficiency.In evidence given to the hearing at St Pancras…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature90+4 mins: Longstaff is on for his debut. Tanaka off.Mary Waltz writes: “We Everton fans can complain all we want about the Handball [armball?] All we like but we really don’t deserve any points from this performance. Tip of the cap to Leeds.”I’d have said a draw was fair.Share90+2 mins: Stach thrashes a shot from 20 yards or so but it is straight at Pickford who fists clear.Stach has another chance soon after, volleying over from an Aaronson cross.Colum Fordham writes: “Just tuned into the match and the MBM…

Elon Musk’s X is struggling on Android devices in terms of new installs, even while App Store downloads grow, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. In July 2025, X downloads on Google Play saw a significant decline, as new installs dropped by 44% year-over-year worldwide, even as iOS downloads grew by 15%. This steep drop in installs is pulling down X’s overall average, leading to a 26% decrease in total mobile downloads year-over-year as of July. That’s still slightly better than the month prior, when total downloads had fallen by 35%, thanks to another sharp drop in…

NewsFeedUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed key details of his private White House meeting with Donald Trump, saying they discussed US security guarantees, prisoner exchanges, and a trilateral meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.Published On 18 Aug 202518 Aug 2025

Bridgerton production designer Alison Gartshore’s goal for season three of the Netflix romance was to maintain the established visual world of the series while pushing new boundaries. One of the ways she and her team did that was with new, elaborate ballroom sets sprinkled throughout the season. She discusses with THR the botanical ball in episode six that required heaps of faux florals and a mechanical pop-up garden to wow the queen. For the Love of Romance Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton and Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton. Liam Daniel/Netflix Season three revolves around Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan)…