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The South Florida Bulls will host the Boise State Broncos in a 2025 college football Week 1 battle on Thursday. The Broncos topped the Mountain West last season with a perfect 7-0 conference record and 12-2 record overall, going 5-1 away from Albertsons Stadium. They visit a South Florida side that finished 7-6 on the season and was 3-3 at home. Kickoff from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa is set for 5:30 p.m. ET. The Broncos are 5.5-point favorites in the latest South Florida vs. Boise State odds from SportsLine consensus, while the over/under for total points scored is set at…

Meghan OwenWork and money correspondent, BBC London andLauren StanleyBBC LondonBBCKeisha and her daughter live in a flat that they say can reach 43C in summerAs the UK experiences hotter temperatures families across the country are increasingly feeling the impact, with their homes no longer a sanctuary but an unbearable space that many are desperate to escape.Keisha says her top-floor flat can reach up to 43C in summer, and the baseline temperature is around 31C.”It should be illegal to live in these conditions,” says the 36-year-old, one of many parents who say that living in an “unbearably” hot flat is making…

Moving into the second half of September, it may feel as though it’s you against the music. Venus enters Virgo on September 19, and there’s a solar eclipse in Virgo on September 21. There is some aspect of your creative process that can’t come on the ark you’re building to survive the coming floods, and if it’s not that, perhaps you’re being called to create a new template that feels more current and fresh—more true to the tastes and genres that currently feel exciting to you. And if the canvas is your life, well, where is the tension between your…

new video loaded: Hong Kong Media Mogul Jimmy Lai’s Trial Wraps UpBy Jiawei Wang•August 28, 2025The national security trial of Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong media tycoon, closed on Thursday. The critic of the Chinese Community Party has become a symbol of how free speech has been squashed in the city.Recent episodes in InternationalInternational video coverage from The New York Times.International video coverage from The New York Times.Show more videos from International

new video loaded: How Trump Could Gain Control of the FedBy Ben Casselman, Melanie Bencosme, June Kim, Gabriel Blanco and Jon Hazell•August 28, 2025President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook has laid bare the erosion of the Federal Reserve’s independence, which could lead to economic consequences for Americans, The New York Times’s chief economics correspondent explains.Recent episodes in Behind the ReportingShow more videos from Behind the Reporting

Tesla sales slumped 40% across Europe in July compared with a year earlier as Elon Musk’s electric car company faces increasingly tough competition from its Chinese rival BYD.There were 8,837 sales of Tesla cars last month across the EU, the European Free Trade Association and the UK, according to figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). That compared with 14,769 at the same point last year.New car registrations for BYD across Europe rose to 13,503 last month, compared with 4,151 a year earlier. BYD now has 1.2% market share, the ACEA found. Tesla’s share remains at 0.8%.Chinese car brands,…

Dozens of Hollywood A-listers will descend on the Venice film festival this week, but activists hope to shift the spotlight from the red carpet to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.With an anti-war demonstration planned for one of the festival’s biggest nights on Saturday, questions over the biennale’s stance on Gaza dominated Wednesday’s launch event.Scores of local political and grassroots organisations are expected to join the march, running under the title Stop the Genocide – Free Palestine.More than 1,500 people, including industry figures, have signed an open letter from the group Venice4Palestine (V4P) calling on the festival “to be more courageous…

Andrew Flintoff has said he “didn’t know if I had it in me to carry on” after his crash at the Top Gear test track.The 47-year-old was speaking on Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams: Ultimate Test, the third series to be made in which the former England cricket captain attempts to build new teams from teenagers who have limited experience of the game.In the first episode of the new BBC One series which launches on Sunday 7 September, Flintoff attempts to build his first team of girls in Blackpool, and one of the teenagers he invites to join them asks…

August 28, 20253 min readThese Succulents Glow in the Dark—And They’re GorgeousHouseplants become rechargeable night-lights after injection with tiny phosphor particlesBy Katherine Bourzac & Nature magazine Researchers gave these succulents in the Echevaria genus a glow up by injecting them with luminescent particles. University students might soon have something other than black-light posters to brighten their dorm rooms. Researchers have created glow-in-the-dark plants by injecting succulents with materials similar to those that make the posters light up. The fleshy plants shine as brightly as a night light, and can be made to do so in a wide variety of colours…

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