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Could Iran’s regime collapse? Experts assess Bessent’s bid to sever financial lifelines
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Monday announcement that America will impose the economic equivalent of the military campaign that defeated Nazi Germany on the Islamic Republic of Iran could set off a series of events leading to the dissolution of the nearly 47-year-old dictatorship in Tehran, according to Iran experts.
Bessent’s declaration of economic warfare follows President Donald Trump’s commitment last week to launch an "economic D-Day" against the Tehran regime. The comprehensive U.S. economic pressure point campaign targeting Iran’s already troubled economy could have dramatic effects on the restive population in the country of over 90 million people.
"In the Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries. Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe," said Bessent. He added, "Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone. Iran's fanatics devote themselves to death to America and seek nuclear weapons to do just that. They have murdered and maimed more of our citizens and service members than any other terrorist regime on Earth."
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Just hours before Bessent spoke, Iran’s currency, the rial, plunged to an all-time low. The rial fell to 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar. Iranians are struggling to afford basic goods.
Jonathan Harounoff, an Iran expert and British author of Persian heritage, told Fox News Digital that "Ultimately, this pressure campaign will likely continue to cripple the regime and set the stage for perhaps yet another domestic uprising. The precise timing of such a revolt is impossible to predict."
Harounoff, who has written extensively on upheavals in Iran against the clerical leadership, added, "What isn't impossible to predict is that the regime is governing brutishly over a repressed population that has endured sustained economic and social immiseration. It's only a matter of time before more protests break out, and the real question is whether international organizations like the U.N. and Western governments will choose to stand by — or tangibly support the Iranian people and actively sever any cooperation they maintain with the regime."
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He warned that, "Too often, outsiders speak of regime change as if it were a passive exercise. Certainly, only the people of Iran can bring about organic, homegrown, transformational change — and they have 47 years of turmoil and repression driving them toward it. But there are real ways to support the Iranian people (Starlink, supporting think tanks and foundations, raising awareness of the plight of Iranians, etc.) and help them achieve what has, until now, been a quixotic dream."
Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told Fox News Digital, "The question is often asked: what makes this iteration of the maximum pressure campaign different from all other iterations? The answer is this iteration is taking place against a backdrop where there is a synchronization of economic and military pressure against the Iranian regime — a combination which has never been deployed by a U.S. administration until now. The U.S. naval blockade currently in place against Tehran is unprecedented. The Iranian regime's industrial base — for example, steel plants — has also been damaged following kinetic strikes. The Iranian regime’s military capacity has likewise been degraded."
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He noted, "So Operation Economic Outcast is being launched at a time of true weakness in terms of its national power. The regime's risk tolerance may be increasing, but so is its desperation. The drivers pushing the Iranian people into the streets to protest have only gotten worse since January — with political, economic and social forces all deteriorating. The regime is seeking to use the tussle over the Strait of Hormuz as a distraction from all of this."
Alireza Nader, an independent Iran expert, however, expressed skepticism that the tightening of the economic screws could provoke a mass revolt. "I don’t think starving the civilian population in Iran will lead to an American victory. The regime has demonstrated an extreme brutality toward the population, having massacred thousands of unarmed protestors this past January. And Iranians are less likely to rise up when the promised help to them from Trump and Netanyahu never materialized."
Nader said, "The Woman, Life, Freedom movement against the regime prior to the war had the best chance of overthrowing the regime. This war has disrupted the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom."
Beni Sabti, an Iran expert at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel, told Fox News Digital that "there are some protests inside Iran for pensioners and those who did not get their salaries."
He said the January protests began with "economic problems." President Trump has said that the Iranian regime murdered 52,000 Iranian demonstrators during the Jan. 8 and 9 mass protests against the regime.
Sabti, who was born in Tehran and has deep sourcing in Iran, said Trump’s economic offensive campaign against Iran could "bring out the people again." He said there were some "rumors" that lower-rank army soldiers did not receive their salaries.
The U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent seized on the point that the regime will have payroll problems today. He said, "To the ordinary soldiers supporting this regime, as more and more of your paychecks stop or are supposedly just delayed, ask whether your commanders are leading your country to triumph or to ruin, and recall that the Berlin Wall fell when ordinary soldiers decided not to shoot at their own people."
New evidence in Lockerbie Pan Am Flight 103 bombing case pushes federal judge to postpone trial
The criminal trial of a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was postponed by a federal judge Monday after defense attorneys said they received new evidence over the weekend from prosecutors.
Jury selection was set to begin Wednesday in Washington, D.C., in the trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi. It would have been the first U.S. trial stemming from the bombing that killed 270 people, most of them Americans.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich did not specify the nature of the novel evidence in his order.
Al-Marimi’s defense team said prosecutors handed them the evidence on Saturday, adding in their request to the judge that their "constitutional and ethical obligations require the defense to investigate this development."
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The judge granted Al-Marimi’s lawyers the delay and scheduled a status hearing on Sept. 1.
Al-Marimi is charged with making the bomb that downed the Pan Am flight, killing all 259 passengers and crew members. The plane came down over the small town of Lockerbie, Scotland, where it destroyed an entire city block and killed 11 people on the ground.
Citizens of 21 countries were among the victims, including 190 Americans and 43 people from the United Kingdom. Among those aboard were 35 Syracuse University students returning home from a semester abroad.
The bomb exploded less than 40 minutes into the flight, which had departed from London Heathrow Airport and was headed to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.
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Kara Weipz, board president of the nonprofit Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, told The Associated Press that her organization has not received any details about what caused the delay in Al-Marimi’s trial.
Weipz’s brother, Richard Monetti, was one of the Syracuse students who died on the flight.
Weipz said the families of the victims had already been packing to head to Washington for the trial.
"At the same time, for almost 38 years we've been seeking the truth of what happened," Weipz said. "If that's what this is, then that's a good thing, and this delay is worth it... It's important to hear all the facts."
Prosecutors say Al-Marimi carried out the bombing at the behest of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, who was ousted from power in 2011 and violently killed by rebels.
In 2000, two other Libyan agents were tried by a panel of Scottish judges on a U.S. military base in the Netherlands. One was convicted, while the other was acquitted.
For decades, the true identity of the bombmaker has been a mystery.
Al-Marimi, now in his mid-70s, faces two counts of destruction of an aircraft resulting in death. He could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors say Al-Marimi worked for Libya’s intelligence service from roughly 1973 until 2011, eventually attaining the rank of colonel.
Investigators allege he brought a suitcase containing a bomb to an airport in Malta and handed it off to co-conspirators for a flight to Frankfurt, Germany. The suitcase was then transferred to London, where it was loaded onto Flight 103.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Mysterious 3,000-year-old hoard with violently smashed sword emerges during construction project
Archaeologists in Central Europe recently came across an unusual hoard of Bronze Age tools — including a sword that had been deliberately smashed with a powerful blow.
The discovery was announced by Archaeological Center Olomouc (ACO), a research institution in the Czech Republic, on August 12. The hoard was found in a heavily flooded area at the end of May.
The cache, discovered near Kojetín in central Moravia during archaeological work connected to a railway project, contained an assortment of worn and broken bronze objects.
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The artifacts included eight deformed sickles, one intact sickle, part of a sword blade, ornament fragments, three ingots and two unfinished objects.
"Use-wear analysis has shown that most of the bronze objects had been used before their deposition and that some were deliberately damaged," ACO officials said in a statement.
Pictures show the mud-covered Bronze Age artifacts shortly after their discovery.
The sword bore particularly dramatic signs of damage, with archaeologists concluding that it had been struck apart with a single powerful blow.
"[It was] probably delivered with a chisel or an axe, while several of the sickles were intentionally deformed," the ACO release read.
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Lead archaeologist Vít Záhorák told officials the team's decision to use metal detection was crucial to finding the objects.
"We knew our work was continuing in an area occupied by an extensive prehistoric settlement, so we also used metal-detecting survey during the archaeological monitoring," said Záhorák.
"It was this method that led to the discovery of the bronze hoard," he added.
While it may seem plausible that the tools were concealed as a temporary hiding place, officials say the evidence points to a more ceremonial purpose.
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"The current interpretation instead suggests that the objects were deliberately deposited in a former wetland and that their deposition may have formed part of a ritual practice," the statement said.
Officials noted that the Kojetín discovery has parallels with other Bronze Age sites.
"Deposits of bronze objects in watery or waterlogged settings are also known from other Bronze Age sites," the statement read.
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"In some of these cases, archaeologists have considered a possible connection with ritual practices. Further specialist analyses will help determine whether the Kojetín hoard had a comparable significance."
The artifacts are currently undergoing conservation and analysis by specialists.
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The Bronze Age hoard is far from the only archaeological discovery to emerge in the Czech Republic in recent years.
Last year, officials announced the discovery of multiple military graves during highway construction, including one dating back to the 1745 Battle of Žďár during the Second Silesian War.
This spring, ACO officials reported finding over 1,000 ancient artifacts spanning during excavations along a future high-speed railway route.
Charles Barkley declares WNBA is 'for women only' after ongoing transgender athlete debate
NBA Hall of Famer and sports commentator Charles Barkley declared Monday that the WNBA is "for women only. Period."
During an interview on CNN host Michael Smerconish's podcast, Barkley commented on former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom being removed from a WNBA game Sunday night after being confronted by Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud. Critics have accused Freedom of deliberately stirring up controversy by wearing a T-shirt that read "WOMAN noun. adult human female."
Barkley responded that while he respects the transgender community, he believes "under no circumstances" should biological men play against biological women and criticized NBA and WNBA leadership for failing to address that.
"I'm disappointed in [NBA commissioner] Adam Silver and Cathy [Engelbert] the [WNBA] commissioner," Barkley said. "First of all, you can't let stupid stuff go out to the internet, which is one of the worst things that ever happened to the world. They should have come out two weeks ago before all this. People are looking for attention now...but [Freedom] has a point though, because Cathy and Adam haven't said, 'Hey, it's in the title, WNBA."
Barkley urged the commissioners to come out and draw a line in the sand, saying, "'There's no transgender people going to play in the WNBA. If you don't like it, kick rocks. And we're not going to discuss it anymore.'"
"And Enes is trying to get attention," Barkley continued. "'No, we're not doing that either. The WNBA is for women. And listen, this is the last time we're going to discuss it. We're not going to turn it over to the fools on the internet. We're not going to turn it over to Congress and things like that. The WNBA is for women only. Period.'"
Barkley added that between stories like Freedom's removal from a game and the backlash against Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham opposing biological males in female sports, the WNBA is gaining a bad reputation.
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"When's the last time you heard something positive about the WNBA? I can't even remember. And I'm a WNBA fan," Barkley said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the NBA and WNBA for comment.
Jennifer Sey, founder and CEO of XX-XY Athletics, praised Barkley's comments for speaking "the truth" out loud to his audience.
"Elite athletes have always known the truth about sex and sports. Charles Barkley is just bold enough to say it out loud," Sey said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Independent Women ambassador Peyton McNabb agreed with Sey, telling Fox News Digital, "It really is that easy to say. If the WNBA wants this conversation to go away as badly as they claim, then stop dancing around it and stand up for women. Say the league is for women, period. What are they so afraid of? They continue to create this controversy for themselves by refusing to say something that should be so simple. Charles Barkley had no problem saying it - why does the WNBA?"
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Director of Independent Women's Law Center May Mailman, however, expressed doubts that Barkley's comments would sway public responses to protecting women's sports.
"Men should not play in women’s sports, and everyone knows what that means. The real question is whether Barkley speaking up will give others confidence to do so. And unfortunately, it’s hard to see that, because Sophie, after many years, got the confidence to do so, and she’s nearly had her head taken off at games and has fans showing up to protest her," Mailman said.
The WNBA came under controversy after both Freedom and former NBA player Royce White declared their intentions to join the WNBA in response to the players and coaches supporting transgender players.
Though the sports league's rules state that "only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA," the WNBA rules do not define what a "woman" is.
DiJonai Carrington's '8/23' post ages like milk after Fever-Sky game, flies under the radar
Chicago Sky guard DiJonai Carrington flew under the radar on Sunday as the hullabaloo between Enes Kanter Freedom and Natasha Cloud dominated the headlines following the Sky’s loss to the Indiana Fever.
Carrington seemed to be extra excited about playing the Fever again after getting into a skirmish with Sophie Cunningham in their previous game. Carrington’s hack on Cunningham led to a Flagrant 2 and a subsequent ejection back on Aug. 8. She then posted "8/23" on her X account and claimed "white privilege" on a separate post on Threads.
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So, when Aug. 23 came around, everyone was expecting some kind of fireworks. Instead, Carrington and the Sky’s performance against the Fever was a dud.
Carrington had seven points on 3-of-11 from the field with an assist and a block in 18 minutes. She was minus-5 off the bench. In the four minutes she played in the previous Fever-Sky matchup, Carrington had eight points, a rebound and was plus-6 on the court.
WNBA watchers took note of Carrington’s "8/23" post and pointed out it came to fruition in a different way.
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Caitlin Clark made eight 3-pointers and the Sky lost by 23 points, 113-90.
Clark was on fire, making 13 of her 24 attempts. She was 8-of-12 from beyond the arc and finished with 37 points. Kelsey Mitchell added 30 points as she was 10-of-19 from the field and 6-of-9 from deep.
Indiana has clinched a spot in the WNBA playoffs with a 25-14 record. The Fever sit in fifth place – a half-game behind the Atlanta Dream, two games behind the Golden State Valkyries for second place and six games behind the Minnesota Lynx for first place.
Chicago has been eliminated from playoff contention with a record of 15-23. The Portland Fire and Dallas Wings are battling it out for the eighth and final spot.
AI may answer some New Orleans 911 calls
Calling 911 is one of those moments when you expect a human voice on the other end. In New Orleans, though, an artificial intelligence system may answer in a limited situation involving certain calls about already reported auto crashes.
The Orleans Parish Communication District handles 911 emergency communications in Orleans Parish. OPCD says the AI helps manage repeat crash reports while keeping human call-takers available for other emergencies.
Hearing an automated voice after dialing 911 could make anyone pause. So, here is what the system actually does, when it steps in and where humans remain in control.
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OPCD began working with emergency communications company Carbyne on AI-assisted call triage before launching the system in 2023. Carbyne calls the technology AI-V Emergency Call Triage. The company designed it to help emergency communication centers deal with sudden floods of calls about the same event.
A car crash can create that problem quickly. OPCD says one accident can generate numerous calls from nearby drivers. During busy periods, those repeat reports can pile up while call-takers handle other emergencies. The AI gives OPCD another way to manage some of those repeat calls.
The system checks whether an incoming call comes from within 200 meters, or about 650 feet, of a crash that 911 already knows about. It can step in only when every human call-taker is occupied. OPCD says it has not deployed the system this way for any other category of 911 call.
The conversation starts simply. OPCD says the AI identifies the call as New Orleans 911. It then asks whether you are calling about an accident at a specific location. Your response determines what happens next.
Answer anything other than yes, and the system returns your call to the 911 queue for a human call-taker. OPCD says this safeguard works regardless of the language you use. Confirm that you are calling about the known crash, and the AI tells you that 911 already knows about it.
Someone involved in the accident or a caller with more information can stay on the line for a human. Otherwise, the system tells the caller that they may hang up. OPCD says the AI itself cannot end the call. The caller decides when to hang up.
The limits of the system become especially important when you are talking about 911. OPCD says the AI cannot dispatch emergency responders. It also cannot determine how urgently a call should be handled.
Its role focuses on identifying this specific type of repeat crash call and determining whether the caller needs to remain in the human queue.
OPCD also says the technology isn’t a large language model like ChatGPT. The system performs a much narrower task within the emergency communications network. Comparing it directly with a general-purpose AI chatbot can therefore create the wrong impression of what it actually does.
This was one of my first questions about the technology. OPCD says the system sends a call back to the queue or a human operator when it cannot understand the caller.
It also defaults to a human when a call falls outside the limited crash scenario it was designed to handle. The system supports multiple languages. OPCD also trained it using local 911 recordings to better understand New Orleans accents and local street names. That local training can help in a city where a street name could challenge an unfamiliar voice system.
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There is another safeguard worth knowing about. OPCD says the AI system keeps the 911 center's normal callback procedures in place.
Once your call enters the queue for a human, hanging up does not erase it. The call center can contact you after staff work through the queue. Still, OPCD advises callers to stay on the line whenever possible. A call waiting in the queue will eventually reach a call-taker.
An AI interaction does not disappear from the system. OPCD says it logs these calls with the normal metadata and audio recording. Those records remain available when investigators need them.
The agency also says calls handled through the system do not get uploaded to an outside large language model. That addresses an obvious privacy question whenever AI becomes part of an emergency communications system.
OPCD says it tested the technology for several months before putting it into live use. The agency says its team reviewed 100% of the calls handled by the system during its first three months. During that review period, OPCD says it found no false positives or false negatives.
In practical terms, the system handled the calls OPCD expected it to handle without taking over calls outside its intended use. That result is encouraging, although it covers a defined review period rather than every call handled since the system launched. OPCD says its compliance team continues to audit the technology closely.
Carbyne has published performance figures from its work with OPCD. Because Carbyne provides the technology, these numbers are vendor-reported rather than findings from an independent study. In a Carbyne case study, the company says its AI-V Emergency Call Triage system triaged more than 3,500 events during a 90-day period.
Carbyne reports that redundant calls among those triaged calls dropped by more than 30%. The company also says distressed callers got their calls answered up to 40 seconds faster on average. Those numbers suggest the approach has potential. Still, I would like to see OPCD continue releasing its own performance data over time.
OPCD says no. The agency has struggled to fill all of its available call-taker positions. Staffing shortages also remain a broader problem across the 911 industry. OPCD says it views AI as a tool to support its human call-takers rather than replace them.
For New Orleans, the goal is to reduce repeat crash reports during call surges so human call-takers can reach other people waiting for help. The agency says it has not expanded AI triage to other categories of 911 calls.
OPCD is studying what else the technology might eventually do. However, those experiments are taking place in a testing environment rather than on the live 911 system.
The agency says it has explored whether AI could help with other types of call clusters. It has not put those uses into operation. OPCD also says it will not expand the AI triage tool to additional 911 categories unless the agency can ensure the technology works properly. For now, its live use remains focused on the specific auto-crash scenario.
New Orleans may be the test case here, but this story reaches far beyond one city. AI is starting to move into public services that people rely on during emergencies. That means your community could eventually face the same questions. When should AI step in? What should it be allowed to handle? How quickly can you reach a human when something goes wrong?
For now, New Orleans keeps the system on a very short leash. It handles only certain repeat calls about known crashes, and human call-takers remain available for anything outside that narrow use. The bigger question is what happens next.
As more emergency centers look for ways to handle staffing shortages and call surges, AI could become part of the conversation where you live. If that happens, you should know exactly what the system can do, what it cannot do and how easily you can reach a person. That is what I would be watching most closely.
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Hearing AI on a 911 call would make a lot of people uneasy. I understand why. In an emergency, you want help fast and a clear way to reach a person. New Orleans has given its AI a narrow job. It can help filter repeat reports of an accident that 911 already knows about while human call-takers are busy. I can see the benefit. One crash may generate many calls while someone elsewhere needs help with a completely different emergency. Still, 911 deserves an extremely high standard. OPCD says its early audit found no false positives or negatives, and the agency continues to monitor the system. I want that scrutiny to continue. Any move beyond this limited use should come with clear safeguards and solid performance data.
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Nike x NFL Rivalries uniforms return for 2026 season with 8 new teams, including Lions and Texans
With a new NFL season around the corner, the league and Nike are building off the success of last year’s "Nike x NFL Rivalries" program, a first-of-its-kind uniform and apparel collection manufactured and sold by Fanatics, which was designed to deepen the connection fans and communities have with their football teams.
For the 2026 campaign, eight new teams continue the Nike x NFL Rivalries program through distinct uniform designs created for each participating team.
The teams include teams from the AFC South – the Houston Texans, Tennessee Titans, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Indianapolis Colts – and NFC North – the Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers.
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"Revealing eight new Rivalries uniforms marks the next chapter in a program that is beloved by fans across the NFL and Nike," Taryn Hutt, vice president of club marketing for the NFL, said in a statement. "By spotlighting the launch of the AFC South and NFC North Clubs and the passionate communities behind them, we continue to capture the spirit and tradition of football’s greatest divisional rivalries."
This program became Fanatics’ best-selling merchandise release to date, which demonstrated just how strong the fan demand was, while establishing momentum for the program’s sequel in 2026.
The teams will be debuting these Rivalries uniforms during an upcoming home game against their division rival, starting with the Colts in Week 3 against the Texans.
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Here is the full schedule for the teams this season, while a full description has been added as to how the uniforms came together:
Colts: Week 3 vs Texans, Sept. 27, 1 p.m. ET
"Amps up the classic Colts look with enhanced stripes, high-shine finishes and dark, intense tones designed to evoke power and speed. Horseshoe, iron work and anvil-inspired details keep the look rooted in Colts tradition."
Packers: Week 5 vs Bears, Oct. 11, 4:25 p.m. ET
"Celebrates the Packers’ unique fan ownership and community connection, with stock certificate-inspired details woven into the numbers and sleeves. Vintage green and alabaster tons give the historic concept a fresh, elevated look.
Lions: Week 8 vs Vikings, Nov. 1, 1 p.m. ET
"Takes a futuristic approach to Lions identity, pairing Honolulu blue with carbon-fiber-inspired numbers that nod to the city’s automotive and racing heritage. Lion-eye shoulder details reinforce the team’s ‘Defend the Den’ mentality."
Jaguars: Week 8 vs Colts, Nov. 1, 1 p.m. ET
"Blends Florida coastal culture with the city’s urban swagger, featuring a custom Jaguars script, jaguar-print details, chrome accents and dimensional numbers. The design celebrates DUUUVAL from the shoreline to the streets."
Titans: Week 10 vs Jaguars, Nov. 15, 1 p.m. ET
"Blends the Titans’ Two Tone Blue heritage with Nashville’s music culture, featuring a navy base, Titans Blue accents, neon-inspired numbers and guitar/amplifier-inspired striping."
Texans: Week 11 vs Colts, Nov. 19, 8:15 p.m. ET
"The all-white ‘iced out’ uniform celebrates H-Town culture through metallic and chrome finishes inspired by the city’s custom car scene. ‘Be Someone’ bridge-inspired numbers, street-tile patterns and street-name details bring Houston’s identity into the design."
Vikings: Week 15 vs Lions, Dec. 20, 8:20 p.m. ET
"Draws on Viking history and the spirit of the North, pairing deep purple and ivory with carved numbers and Viking Knot-inspired details. References to the Gjallarhorn, longship and classic helmet create a look that feels both ancestral and modern."
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"Gives Bears heritage a modern update, using a midnight palette, burnt orange accents and striping inspired by classic team design and the Chicago flag. Bold orange pants and heritage details nod to George Halas and the return of the ‘Monsters of the Midway.’"
The Rivalries uniforms will be included in the team’s lineup for three years in addition to their existing alternate uniforms. And additional teams will debut their own Rivalries uniforms during the 2027 and 2028 seasons, while the eight teams from 2025 will also wear their uniforms at some point this season in a select game against a division rival.
Finally, this year’s launch features visual campaigns showcasing the new uniforms in communities where each rivalry lives. The campaigns include current players like the Lions’ Jameson Williams, Texans’ Nico Collins and Packers’ Jordan Love , while homegrown talent in those cities like rappers Big Sean, Slim Thug and Bun B, as well as country singers Gowa Gibbs and Thomas Edwards, are featured.
With each jersey date set, fans can get ahold of these new threads starting Sept. 1.
Sarah Spain says WNBA players need ‘real media,’ but that sounds more like league-approved PR
Sarah Spain thinks the WNBA should steer its players toward what she calls "real media."
That’s a PR job. Not a journalism job.
On a recent episode of her podcast, Spain said she wants the league to keep setting up relationships with "the real media" that covers the WNBA "in a fair way."
Her definition of fair is pretty clear. Players trust the outlet, the outlet helps build their brands and the WNBA helps make the relationship happen.
She’s laying out a league-approved list of "reporters" players are supposed to trust.
The people who don’t make it? Spain threw them in with "a rando" on the internet spreading "bulls---."
And, by the way, Spain’s already inside the system she wants the league to grow. Spain's podcast has recently featured Connecticut Sun assistant coach Roneeka Hodges, Golden State Valkyries guard Veronica Burton, Seattle Storm players Dominique Malonga and Awa Fam, WNBA legends Cheryl Swoopes and Ticha Penicheiro, and former WNBA president Donna Orender.
Spain has the access and she calls that fair coverage. Then she says the WNBA should help its players find more outlets like hers.
That's convenient, huh?
The WNBA has publicists, marketers, agents, sponsors and social media teams to build brands. It doesn't need to turn reporters into another arm of that operation.
Spain’s preferred media setup is already taking shape in the WNBA.
I know because the teams have put it in writing.
The Atlanta Dream denied an OutKick credential request for its Aug. 5 game against the Phoenix Mercury. In follow-up answers, the Dream said it had denied 14 applications, given priority to season credential holders and outlets that consistently cover the team, and considered "the tone of coverage."
Tone of coverage.
That has nothing to do with whether a reporter got facts wrong. It has everything to do with whether the team likes the way it is being covered.
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The other credential denials use different words, but the same record keeps pointing in one direction.
The Dallas Wings said priority went to outlets that regularly cover the Wings and WNBA. The Connecticut Sun cited "reputable media/wire services" and outlets with a record of covering the organization. The Las Vegas Aces said it would prioritize local outlets and organizations that regularly provide editorial coverage of the Aces and WNBA.
The Chicago Sky asked a Fox News reporter about his planned coverage, denied the request and said credentials were for media covering games "for basketball purposes."
Then Atlanta told us it weighs tone.
That’s the one that matters.
The WNBA can call the preferred outlets reputable. Spain can call them real media. But a credential decision based on tone is still a team deciding whether it likes the reporter doing the coverage.
And the league just gave us another example.
When it wanted the public to know Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White were ineligible for the 2027 draft, the WNBA didn’t answer OutKick’s questions about the rule it used. Instead, unnamed league sources told Front Office Sports the men were ineligible and called their declarations "simply publicity stunts."
Front Office Sports printed the conclusion and the league’s framing. But it never told readers whether it asked the WNBA to define "woman," explain its eligibility standard or say how Freedom and White failed it. If it did ask, readers were never told the WNBA refused to answer.
That’s different from the treatment OutKick gets when we report something inconvenient for the league. Then Front Office Sports wants documentation, competing sources and a discussion about our motives.
Spain says the WNBA should steer players toward "real media" outlets they can trust. The league has already made clear which outlets it trusts: the ones that will carry its message without making it answer the question.
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USA Today columnist Christine Brennan asked DiJonai Carrington whether she intentionally poked Caitlin Clark in the eye during the 2024 WNBA playoffs. It was a question that had to be asked after an incident happened on the court, yet the WNBA Players’ Association responded by calling for Brennan to lose her access.
Spain has gone after Brennan, too. Earlier this summer, she called Brennan’s Caitlin Clark coverage a "dereliction of duties as a journalist" and questioned whether Brennan’s book promotion explained her singular focus on Clark.
In Spain’s version of "real media," the reporters who ask the wrong questions don't belong.
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Then Sophie Cunningham said "biological men" shouldn't compete in girls’ and women’s sports. Days later, the WNBA’s biggest players and Commissioner Cathy Engelbert were available all weekend in Chicago for All-Star festivities.
The questions should have been obvious to any reporter interested in doing their job.
Do you agree with Cunningham? Does the WNBA support female-only sports? What is the league’s policy on transgender eligibility?
The reporters with access didn’t ask.
Spain had access, too. She moderated a panel at the WNBA’s All-Star Media & Innovation Summit, hosted a live show, sat courtside at the game and later said she spoke with Paige Bueckers, Fever coach Stephanie White, Stephanie Dolson and Aliyah Boston.
Her All-Star recap had plenty about the parties, cookies, mascots and her baseline seat. It didn't include a single question about Cunningham’s comments, female-only sports or the WNBA’s transgender eligibility rules.
And when Fever coach Stephanie White read a prepared statement accusing unnamed people of hate, fear mongering and divisiveness, WNBA media elevated the rehearsed rant into an "important" moment instead of testing a single one of those claims.
Spain predictably took White’s side, too. She played part of White’s performative outrage speech on her podcast, said she was "adamantly opposed to Sophie Cunningham’s grift" and said White "was warranted in that anger and frustration."
Spain wants the league steering players toward outlets that will help build their brands and tell them who to trust. Those are the outlets she calls "real media."
The reporters who ask questions the league doesn’t want answered get hit with a credential denial, accused of having the wrong tone or brushed off as "randos."
That isn’t fair coverage.
It’s a loyalty test that punishes the reporters who are actually doing their jobs.
Major brain changes that occur around age 50 could impact dementia risk
The brain may undergo a notable shift at midlife, as new research suggests that its protective immune cells begin to decline and are increasingly replaced by inflammatory cells at around age 50.
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego; New York Genome Center; and University of California, Irvine, found that these brain changes may help explain why aging increases the chances of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disease, including dementia.
The study analyzed postmortem tissue from the hippocampus – the portion of the brain that is responsible for learning and memory – in 40 neurologically healthy adults, ranging from 20 to 95 years of age.
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"The most striking change was that after about age 50, the brain’s resident immune cells, called microglia, appear to be increasingly replaced by immune cells that enter from the bloodstream," first author Nathan Zemke, Ph.D., principal investigator at the UC San Diego Center for Epigenomics, told Fox News Digital.
"Microglia normally protect the brain by clearing debris and responding to injury, but the incoming cells carry stronger inflammatory signals."
The researchers believe this shift may contribute to chronic inflammation linked to cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s.
They also noted the deterioration of cells involved in maintaining the blood-brain barrier – the protective filter that helps keep harmful substances out of the brain – as well as widespread changes in DNA and gene activity.
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One of the most exciting implications of the study, according to Zemke, is that the replacement immune cells originate in the blood, which means they are more accessible than cells already deep inside the brain.
"It may eventually be possible to modify blood-derived immune cells so that they are more protective and less inflammatory when in the brain," he said. "That could provide an entirely new way to approach Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases without having to directly manipulate cells within the central nervous system."
Although these findings are still in early stages, Zemke said, gaining a better understanding of why this immune-cell replacement happens – and why it happens earlier in some people than others – could lead to new strategies for preserving brain health during aging.
The study’s chief limitation is that it studied human brain tissue collected postmortem from different individuals across the adult lifespan, the researchers noted.
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"That allows us to identify strong age-related patterns, but it cannot directly show how the same person’s brain changes over decades or prove that a particular cellular change causes cognitive decline or Alzheimer’s disease," Zemke said.
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"We also do not yet know what triggers the influx of blood-derived immune cells into the brain. Determining whether changes in the blood-brain barrier, inflammation, genetics, lifestyle or other factors initiate this process will be an important next step."
The researcher emphasized, however, that he would not recommend that people make any specific medical or lifestyle changes based on this study alone.
"These findings are primarily about understanding the biology of brain aging and identifying new directions for prevention and treatment," he said.
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The timing and extent of the brain changes varied considerably between individuals, suggesting that brain aging is not necessarily a fixed process that happens identically in everyone.
"The next challenge is to understand what drives that variation and whether some of those factors can be modified," Zemke added.
The study also included a small sample of just 40 people and examined tissue only from the hippocampus, meaning the findings may not reflect immune changes throughout the entire brain.
The study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, was published in the journal Science.