2025 Creative Arts Emmys: SNL50 wins 7, The Traitors takes 4 including Alan Cumming for Best Host

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Lead On Sunday night (September 7, 2025) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the second night of the 2025 Creative Arts Emmys capped a two-night run with SNL50: The Anniversary Special emerging as the single biggest winner, claiming seven statuettes. The Traitors won four awards, highlighted by Alan Cumming taking Best Reality Host. The … Read more

Fugitive Father Shot Dead; Three Children Found in NZ Wilderness

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Lead New Zealand police shot dead a fugitive father in the early hours of Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, after an armed confrontation following a reported break-in near Piopio, Waikato. The man, believed to be Thomas Callam Phillips, had been wanted with his three children—reported missing since December 2021—and was located after a chase that ended … Read more

Peronists Win Buenos Aires Province as Milei’s Party Trails

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Lead: On Sept. 7, 2025, Argentina’s opposition Peronist bloc scored a clear victory in legislative voting across Buenos Aires province, the country’s most populous district. Provisional official counts showed the Justicialist Party led by Governor Axel Kicillof with 46.8% against President Javier Milei’s Libertarian coalition at 33.8%, with 82.2% of ballots tallied. The result signals … Read more

Russell Wilson’s nightmarish Giants debut in 21-6 loss to Commanders

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Lead: On Sept. 7, 2025 in Landover, Md., Russell Wilson made his first regular-season appearance for the New York Giants and the result was a 21-6 season-opening loss to the Washington Commanders. The Giants managed just 231 yards of offense, converted 4 of 16 third downs and settled for field goals after multiple red-zone failures. … Read more

Rick Davies, Supertramp Co-Founder Who Wrote and Sang ‘Bloody Well Right’ and ‘Goodbye Stranger,’ Dies at 81

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2025-09-07 Rick Davies, the British keyboardist, singer and co-founder of the rock band Supertramp, has died at age 81, multiple outlets reported on Sept. 7, 2025. Davies was best known as the writer and vocalist on signature tracks including “Bloody Well Right” and “Goodbye Stranger,” which helped define Supertramp’s sound in the 1970s and 1980s. … Read more

Fed rate-cut optimism lifts markets as yen slips after Ishiba resignation

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Lead: Global markets rallied on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, as weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs data intensified bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this month. Stock indexes rose across the region while gold held near record levels and U.S. Treasury yields eased. The yen weakened to 148.39 per dollar following the surprise resignation of … Read more

Two Oregonians Win $1M and $2M in Powerball Drawings

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This week two Oregon residents took home multi-million-dollar Powerball prizes while the main $1.8 billion jackpot was claimed by winners in Missouri and Texas. On Thursday an Oregon ticket purchased in Beaverton doubled from $1 million to $2 million after the player selected the Power Play option. On Sunday one of the 20 matching-five winners … Read more

Venezuela to Deploy 25,000 Troops to Tackle Drug Trafficking as U.S. Adds Jets

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Lead On Sept. 7–8, 2025, Venezuela announced a major military expansion in several coastal and border states to counter drug trafficking, announcing plans to raise deployed forces to about 25,000 troops. The move, ordered by President Nicolás Maduro and disclosed by Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino, targets the Guajira region of Zulia, the Paraguana peninsula in … Read more

Japan bond market and stocks brace for PM Ishiba exit

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his resignation on September 7, 2025 in Tokyo, setting up fresh market volatility across Japan’s long-dated government bond market and equity benchmarks. Super-long Japanese government bond (JGB) yields have been trading near multi-decade highs, while the Nikkei has eased from an August record. Investor attention is shifting to possible successors … Read more

Trump Downplays ‘Department of WAR’ Post, Says He Wants to ‘Clean Up’ Chicago

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Lead: On Sept. 7, 2025, President Donald Trump sought to minimize a weekend social-media post that invoked a rebranded Pentagon label — “Department of WAR” — alongside images of helicopters, fire and the Chicago skyline. Speaking to reporters before departing the White House for the U.S. Open, he said he was not threatening armed conflict … Read more

Bessent Says Russia’s Economic Collapse Could Bring Putin to Table

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Published Sept. 7, 2025 — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told NBC’s Meet the Press that Washington and European partners are weighing a new round of sanctions and secondary tariffs on Russia to press President Vladimir Putin toward peace negotiations over Ukraine. Bessent said the U.S. is ready to escalate economic pressure but emphasized that … Read more

Mushroom murders: Erin Patterson jailed for life after three relatives poisoned

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On Monday, 8 September 2025, an Australian judge sentenced 50‑year‑old Erin Patterson to life imprisonment, with eligibility for parole after 33 years. Patterson was convicted in July 2025 of murdering her estranged husband’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and his aunt Heather Wilkinson by serving a beef Wellington contaminated with death cap mushrooms at her … Read more

Fed rate-cut bets lift markets as yen slips after Japan PM resigns

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On Sept. 8, 2025, global markets rallied after U.S. August payrolls came in well below expectations, strengthening bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates later this month. Stocks in Asia and Europe climbed while the dollar wavered and gold hovered near record highs. The yen weakened sharply after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba … Read more