Schools, faith, media, sports and the culture war.
The NFL says the Oct. 25 Steelers-Saints game at Stade de France will go ahead as scheduled, after mass protests in France that the BBC, as relayed by Front Office Sports, said brought at least 1,200 arrests. The league's statement reached us through Front Office Sports and ESPN.
The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries both left the court for the national anthem before Game 1 of the WNBA Finals and jogged back right after it ended. No team or league statement explains the exit.
The Daughters of the American Revolution voted to disband the Texas chapter that led a two-year push to limit membership to biological women. The national society says it was a bylaw violation, not a disagreement over policy.
A Missouri sheriff's office says five men in its jail asked to be baptized, and local church volunteers made it happen. Two weeks later, the post is circulating nationally — on the strength of a single unverified agency account.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked the third anniversary of October 7 with a statement that mourned Israeli dead and then accused Israel of genocide and apartheid. On HBO, Bill Maher had a two-word verdict.
ABC News published a report tying defense firms backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump to more than $6 billion in government contracts, then quietly deleted it — no correction, no editor's note, no comment.
Eva Marie Saint, who won an Academy Award for her first film role in "On the Waterfront" and starred opposite Cary Grant in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest," has died at her Los Angeles home at age 102.
Cornell's trustees have retained former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of how the university prevents and responds to sexual misconduct, including the contested 2024 fraternity case now in the hands of a special prosecutor.
Jimmy Kimmel aired a short clip of President Trump saying he'd done a lousy job as president. The full transcript shows Trump was making a conditional joke about a new website — and conservative outlets noticed.
CBS Sports says it and Tony Romo have "mutually agreed to part ways" after nine years, closing out a saga that began with a July OWI arrest in Milwaukee. J.J. Watt keeps the lead analyst chair for the rest of the season.
A New York Post report says Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman pledged to bar transgender students from girls' bathrooms and locker rooms in New York schools. The article could not be retrieved for this report, and the pledge remains unverified — but the state's standing order blocking two Long Island districts is already on the books.
Warner Bros.' climate satire "Digger" opened to roughly $8 million and a C+ CinemaScore, reported to be Tom Cruise's softest debut since 2007, while a $40 million romantic thriller took the weekend with $33.6 million.
