On Monday morning, popular meteorologist James Spann shared a tweet that included a statement issued by National Weather Service meteorologist Robert Ricks on August 28, 2005, one day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, Louisiana. “This is the statement issued by NWS meteorologist Robert Ricks (from the Slidell office) the day before Katrina made landfall. Some thought this “doomsday” statement was a hoax. Unfortunately, it wasn’t,” Spann wrote in the tweet....

That’s what we all said nearly twenty years ago while struggling to cope with our grief. Since the days of George Washington, we’d thought of ourselves as more or less removed from what he called “messy, foreign entanglements,” protected from the rest of the world by two great oceans and divine providence. We’d jumped into the thicket a time or two. America saved the world at least twice during the 20th century, probably three times given our willingness to contest an expensive, global Cold War which occasionally turned hot in places like Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East at the cost of our greatest treasure: the young men and women sent to fight....

When the All-Star Game started, Mike Trout brought about the zombie revolution. There is no better player on the planet, so the undead walking among us is the most logical explanation. MORE: Best photos from the All-Star Game | Franchise Four honorees | Franchise Fifth options That, or these ceremonies are meant to honor legends of the past, and Trout will have his place in one someday. All he did on Tuesday was become the first player ever to win back-to-back All-Star Game MVPs....

If you thought the headband stage was bad, boy, are you in for a treat. Cornrows. Maybe he's trying to go incognito in an attempt to make people forget about that awful, awful play. But we can't let that happen. UPDATE: How did Sanchez wind up with cornrows? He lost a bet. Via Instagram: “This is what happens when you lose a bet to @nickwoolery and hangout at Willie Colon’s house too long!...

On social media, Michelle Obama celebrated her husband’s birthday milestone with a heartwarming photo. In the throwback picture, the former president and his wife are gathered with their two children, Sasha and Malia. She shared her well wishes to her “favorite guy.” The former First Lady of the United States wrote, “Here’s to all the good days, blue skies, and new adventures to come.” A post shared by Michelle Obama (@michelleobama) on Aug 4, 2020 at 6:08am PDT...

Transport for London (TFL) recommends people carry water and bring fans on to the underground, as temperatures on lines without AC could be dangerously hot. The app, Citymapper, has updated its features to show travel routes that do have air conditioning (about 40 percent of the underground has the feature). People all across the city are grateful. One Twitter user, @geofftech, created a map that outlines exactly which Tube lines are air-conditioned....

Congratulations on the new baby, new record — and surviving cancer. How are you doing? I am fantastic. In fact, can you hang on a second? I’m going to move because my son’s in here and he wants to play. [Baby noise] Sorry about that. How old is he? Nine months, and he’s trying so hard to walk. He’s crawling at, like, 90 miles an hour, pulling up on everything....

Hedge funds pass away all the time. Hedge Fund Research of Chicago estimates that 326 went out of business in the first half of this year. But Amaranth isn’t just one of almost 9,000 hedge funds, it was favored by the likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers, which steered billions of dollars of clients’ money into it. Lehman–which, like Amaranth and the other players here, declined to talk to me–has told its clients it got some of their money out....

Tyson said that out of the 2,244 staff and contractors at its plant in Wilkesboro, some 570 came back with positive results for COVID-19 following tests between May 6 and May 9. The company said most cases were asymptomatic. The plant had been closed earlier in May for cleaning and sanitizing to mitigate against the disease after officials in Wilkes Country said most of the coronavirus cases in the county were linked to the plant, the News and Observer reported....

A CDC internal briefing document reviewed by ABC News shows an estimated 1.1 million people who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine came back for a third, unauthorized booster dose. The report does not include individuals who received the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine and then got a booster. Florida, Ohio, California, Illinois and Tennessee had the highest number of people choosing to get a booster shot, according to the document....

But now, while states and cities across the country have already taken action, in addition to President Donald Trump, it’s questionable whether federal lawmakers will be able to get legislation to the president’s desk at all this year. One month has passed since George Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck May 25. But as House Democrats on Thursday prepared to pass their own police reform bill, federal proposals in Congress to rein in cops’ use of force were at a stalemate following Senate Democrats the day prior blocking a measure from their GOP colleagues....

Briedis pulled off the third-round TKO at the World Boxing Super Series in Riga, Latvia, but the round prior was one of the most insane rounds of boxing you’ll ever see. The referee didn’t hear the bell and let the round continue for an additional, staggering 33 seconds. Join DAZN and watch the World Boxing Super Series The second-round madness began when Glowacki hit Briedis behind the head and Briedis responded by elbowing Glowacki in the jaw with 36 seconds left....

If you think Chinese have an image problem in real life, take a look at the virtual world. World of Warcraft is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, or MMOG, that boasts more than 7 million players worldwide–with some 5 million reportedly in China. The game–which has been called an Americanized version of “Lord of the Rings”–is populated by everything from dwarfs and night-elves to orc-hunters and rogues. Then there are the gold farmers, who have just one goal: to scoop up as much in-game currency, or gold, as they can in the shortest amount of time....

Ginsburg, who died from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer on September 18, became a cultural icon during her more than 27 years on the court. In addition to her role as one of the Supreme Court’s more liberal voices, documentaries detailing her life story and workout videos filmed while she was in her 80s inspired admirers to call her the “Notorious R.B.G,” a play on the name of the late rapper The Notorious B....

Protests against the orders have in recent days been organized by conservative groups in state capitals across the country, most frequently in states with Democratic governors. President Trump recently voiced a measure of support for the protesters, who he said were justified in demonstrating against governors who’d “gone too far” in ordering citizens to remain at home to slow the spread of COVID-19. But according to a Navigator Research survey conducted from April 14 to 17, the president’s views don’t correspond with the views of most Americans....

Romney and Cotton released a significantly more modest federal minimum wage increase proposal on Tuesday as President Joe Biden and Democratic lawmakers push to raise the hourly wage in a phased approach to $15 by 2025. The GOP senators’ plan would raise the federal minimum wage to just $10 by the same deadline, up from the current $7.25 per hour that has been in place since 2009. To put the two proposals in perspective, assuming an individual worked 40 hours a week without any vacation for an entire year, they’d earn about $20,800 under the Romney-Cotton plan and about $31,200 under the Democratic plan....

Call it “Ripken Orange,” named after Cal Ripken, the Orioles’ Hall of Fame shortstop. Today, Ripken Baseball, the sports and entertainment company that runs the facility, completed its installation of the orange outfield wall upgrade. Promats Athletics, a leading manufacturer of protective pads in baseball, completed the upgrade, covering the installation of 390 pads that blend Ripken Orange with black pads over the backstop wall, dugouts and batter’s eye in center field....

Daniel Mark applied to receive state benefits back in March and was initially denied them due to not qualifying for standard unemployment, Portland’s KOIN reports. However, after qualifying for the benefits under the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act, and waiting around three months, he was surprised to receive not one but 37 unemployment benefit checks. “These are all the checks, and so it’s a little over $14,000 worth of checks....

The stadium, built in 1938 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008, is a complete loss, according to OregonLive. Firefighters arrived on the scene at 5:26 PT. The fire was under control in two hours but it spread quickly through the nearly 80-year-old stadium. The cause of the blaze is under investigation, but there were no injuries after a two-block radius was evacuated. MORE: Best MiLB states | Broadcaster has called minor league games since 1949...

No. 7 Oregon finished off a 28-27 victory against No. 11 Wisconsin with that vintage aggressive style on a 28-yard pass from Justin Herbert to Juwan Johnson on the final drive of the game. The Ducks capped off a 12-win season that included a Pac-12 championship and showed why Mario Cristobal has this team inching closer toward a Playoff berth for a conference searching for respect. It almost happened this year....