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College volleyball players keep Wrigley Field crowd entertained during game-ending delays
More than 40,000 college volleyball fans left Chicago’s Wrigley Field Sunday night without getting to watch the Nebraska-Missouri match, but it was still a win with players doing their best to keep the crowd entertained amid weather delays.
https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/college-sports/college-volleyball-players-keep-wrigley-field-crowd-entertained-game-e-rcna596472

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Policing minister makes statement on ‘intimidating and thuggish’ anti-migrant protests - UK politics live

Sarah Jones tells MPs ‘those responsible should expect to face the consequences’

Healey says Andy Burnham set out in his statement to MPs last week what he thought had gone wrong

The fundamentals of our economy [were] hollowed out through a series of past policy decisions, political power was centralised, weakening the relationships between the people, the businesses and the institutions who can make things happen beyond Whitehall. The economic enablers were privatised and outsourced, leaving accountability to a thicket of arm’s length bodies and regulators, too often without the predictability or the pace that underpins a thriving market economy. And our country was deindustrialised as the cost to make anything, to build anything here soared, and our dependence on unreliable sources grew, including in areas critical to our national security and sovereignty.

Let me be clear, I recognise that the costs of business, its energy bills, regulation, burdens, planning constraints, labour costs, have grown since Covid and I want to draw the line.

And whether it is the cost of business or the cost of living, the only way we deal with these in the long term is growth.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/sep/07/uk-politics-live-john-healey-economy-portsmouth-immigration-protests-latest-news-updates

German chancellor vows to stay in office despite AfD triumph in state election

Friedrich Merz said his conservative CDU was shaken ‘to its very foundations’ after far-right victory in Saxony-Anhalt

A “shocked” and chastened Friedrich Merz has vowed to stay in office despite the far right’s triumph in a state election that has brought anti-immigrant, pro-Kremlin politicians within striking distance of power.

The German chancellor, appearing ashen-faced in front of reporters in Berlin, said on Monday that the landslide victory by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Saxony-Anhalt had shaken his conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) “to its very foundations”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/german-chancellor-friedrich-merz-cdu-afd-saxony-anhalt

Initial and Forecast Surface Winds. Shapefile last updated Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:45:23 GMT

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...TROPICAL STORM WARNING ISSUED FOR OAHU... ...CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO DETERIORATE THIS AFTERNOON... As of 8:00 AM HST Mon Sep 07 the center of Lowell was located near 18.0, -162.1 with movement NNE at 15 mph. The minimum central pressure was 955 mb with maximum sustained winds of about 115 mph.

Source: Summary - Hurricane Lowell (CP4/EP122026)

New Mexico Democrats push back over Trump posts about renaming the state ‘New America’
New Mexico Democratic leaders are aggressively pushing back on President Donald Trump’s social media posts about renaming the state of New Mexico as “New America.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/new-mexico-democrats-push-back-trump-posts-renaming-state-new-america-rcna596473

New Mexico Democrats push back over Trump posts about renaming the state ‘New America’
New Mexico Democratic leaders are aggressively pushing back on President Donald Trump’s social media posts about renaming the state of New Mexico as “New America.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/new-mexico-democrats-push-back-trump-posts-renaming-state-new-america-rcna596473

Alleged killers of Australian surfers and American friend go on trial in Mexico

Three men on trial for killing Jake and Callum Robinson and Jack Carter Rhoad in Baja California in 2024

The alleged killers of two Australian surfers and an American at a Mexican surfing hotspot in 2024 have gone on trial in the border resort where the three were murdered.

The Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33, respectively, and their 30-year-old American friend Jack Carter Rhoad were shot dead after being robbed in Mexico’s violence-hit Baja California.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/alleged-killers-of-australian-surfers-and-american-friend-go-on-trial-in-mexico

King Charles confirms Harry and Meghan will not be working royals after U.K. return
Prince Harry and Meghan will not be working members of Britain’s royal family now they have returned to the U.K., a letter sent on behalf of King Charles said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/king-charles-harry-meghan-working-royals-uk-return-california-rcna596470

King Charles confirms Harry and Meghan will not be working royals after U.K. return
Prince Harry and Meghan will not be working members of Britain’s royal family now they have returned to the U.K., a letter sent on behalf of King Charles said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/king-charles-harry-meghan-working-royals-uk-return-california-rcna596470

Polanski faces Green rival in his pursuit of Keir Starmer’s old seat

Hamza Chowdhury says most of his fellow Green Camden councillors back him to contest 8 October byelection

Zack Polanski is facing unexpected opposition from his own party in his attempt to fight the Holborn and St Pancras byelection for the Greens, with a local councillor saying he is also seeking the nomination, and that the seat does not need “a politician you’ll only see on a leaflet”.

The intervention by Hamza Chowdhury, a Green representative on Camden council in north London, came as the date for the byelection was confirmed for 8 October, after Keir Starmer’s formal resignation as an MP.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/07/polanski-faces-green-rival-in-his-pursuit-of-keir-starmers-old-seat

Syrian reactor could have been used for nuclear weapons if completed, UN says

Chief of nuclear watchdog says secret Assad-era facility would have been able to produce fissile material

A nearly complete nuclear reactor built secretly during the rule of the toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad would have been able to produce fissile material for possible use in nuclear weapons, the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog has revealed.

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last month visited two sites, one in Deir ez-Zor and a second in an undisclosed location identified to them by Syrian authorities.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/syrian-reactor-could-nuclear-weapons-if-completed-un

Europe’s centre fears nationalist wave after AfD victory but only has itself to blame

Saxony-Anhalt win part of wider trend driven by mainstream policy failures and gradual normalisation of far right ideas

The numbers speak for themselves: Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party that dabbles in Nazi imagery, distinguishes between “biological” and “passport” Germans, and is too extreme even for France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen, nearly doubled its score in Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt to 43.8% of the vote.

Meanwhile, the centre-right CDU of the chancellor, Friedrich Merz, collapsed to 17.2%, less than half its total in the same race five years ago, and the centre-left SPD - Germany’s other main party of government for the past 60-odd years - scraped 9.3%. The least that can be said is that the centre did not hold.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/afd-germany-far-right-saxony-anhalt-nationalist-wave-europe-analysis

No 10 condemns ‘thuggish’ far-right activists after Portsmouth unrest

Hundreds of men, some in balaclavas, try to prevent asylum seekers’ processing, two days after similar scenes in Dover

Downing Street has condemned the “thuggish and intimidating behaviour” of far-right activists who blocked roads in Portsmouth when a boat carrying asylum seekers arrived in the city, two days after similar scenes in Dover.

Hundreds of men, some dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, tried to stop the arrivals from being transported for processing until 3am, when police removed them with threats of arrest.

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/07/ministers-condemn-far-right-activists-portsmouth-asylum-seekers

Merz says ‘shock’ AfD victory in key German state ‘is an election result we cannot simply move past’ - as it happened

German chancellor says vote for far-right party ‘will have repercussions’ across the country

• Far-right AfD wins key German state election but falls just short of majority

AfD’s Chrupalla continues in this vein, saying the German public wants to see a change in direction, and specifically saying the electorate is “fed up” as the government keeps “transferring billions of our tax money to Ukraine … instead of using it for our own population.”

He says the party has “a clear mandate” to rule in Saxony-Anhalt and will hold discussions with others about what can be done.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/sep/07/germany-afd-saxony-anhalt-merz-greenland-ratko-mladic-europe-latest-news-updates

Amazon’s Labor Day sale ends tonight — get Brooks, Shark, Stanley and more up to 78% off
Amazon’s Labor Day sale is live. I rounded up the best deals available now from Shark, Brooks, Stanley, Kiehl’s and more.
https://www.nbcnews.com/select/shopping/amazon-labor-day-sale-2026-rcna596463