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Cooper's drink brand, Unwell Beverages, is shutting down after less than two years in business.

Cooper's drink brand, Unwell Beverages, is shutting down after less than two years in business.

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Matthew Apicella, DO, a Sports Medicine Physician from NYU Langone joins Dexter Henry for the weekly Injury Report segment to discuss Qwan’tez Stiggers’ recovery from a concussion after the veteran cornerback lost consciousness during one of the Jets’ joint practice sessions with the Buccaneers. Full video: https://youtu.be/ZVbANNPYMJ0

Even if Luigi's pathetic excuse for a critique of “the system” made the least bit of sense, killing Brian Thompson was never going to change a damn thing beyond robbing his family of this husband and father.

Turns out the NFL hasn't moved on from AstroTurf after all.

President Trump dismissed family worries over the USS Abraham Lincoln's grueling 8-month deployment, claiming it has "not nearly" been long enough.

A curious Siberian husky picked a playful fight with a robot dog at a park in Jiangsu, China.

Shadow the bald eagle isn’t exactly taking his sweet time getting back in the dating game after the death of his partner Jackie.

The family put out a statement saying, "Today’s guilty plea marks an important step toward justice for Brian and for our family."

With the 2028 Summer Olympics set to take place in Los Angeles, Major League Baseball announced the 2028 MLB-All Star Game will be taking place a few hours north at Oracle Park in San Francisco. The news of the Midsummer Classic returning to San Francisco for the first time since 2007 comes in the midst...

Panama Canal Fees Hit Record As El Nino, Hormuz Crisis Choke Global Shipping

Panama Canal transit auction prices have surged to record highs this summer as an intensifying El Niño and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz upend global shipping routes. 

A Bloomberg report Friday morning said a supertanker paid a record $4.6 million at auction to bypass the growing queue and secure an earlier transit slot next week. The spike in canal fees and vessel wait times threatens to further raise freight costs, reinforcing growing concerns about inflationary pressures across global supply chains.

Daily auctions for August passage through the canal's busiest locks have averaged about $1.1 million, more than 16 times the average during the same period last year, according to the Financial Times, citing Argus Media. Recent auctions for the larger locks averaged a record $2.5 million. 

Bloomberg said that the liquefied petroleum gas supertanker G. Arete paid a staggering $4.6 million to skip the line, topping an earlier auction this week that exceeded $4 million.

At the same time, the Hormuz chokepoint disruption has pushed Asian buyers toward crude oil and petroleum products at major US export terminals in the Gulf of America, increasing demand for canal passage. Meanwhile, falling canal water levels linked to intensifying El Niño weather conditions, such as drought and limited rainfall, are constraining traffic, which are the main drivers behind rising transit costs. 

"The problem right now is the water levels are dropping steadily, and it's not supposed to be doing that from May to December," said Ross Griffith, head of Americas freight pricing at Argus, who the FT quoted. This year's El Niño has already disrupted marine traffic on European rivers such as the Rhine and Danube, leading to cruise cancellations and freight rerouting.

More color from the FT:

The Panama Canal Authority told the FT that some vessels that recently transited have paid amounts exceeding $1mn at auction to meet their specific market needs and reflected "temporary market fluctuations", not a tariff set by the Panama Canal.

"The announced draft adjustments will not reduce the number of daily vessel transits," an authority spokesperson said. But depending on how conditions change, the authority could impose further restrictions, the spokesperson added.

Parash Jain, managing director and HSBC's global head of transport and logistics research, told clients earlier this week that concerns are mounting that other key waterways around the world are also facing lower water levels, constraining shipping:

El Niño increases both drought and flood risks by shifting rainfall patterns, accelerating evaporation, and lowering river levels at key gateways such as the Panama Canal and Rhine River, while creating floods in Asia and South America, reducing harvests. Authorities respond with draught limits, caps on daily transits, and tighter slot availability, which forces vessels to load less, wait longer, or split cargoes, thus reducing effective capacity and supporting freight rates. Indeed, from 26 August, The Panama Canal Authority is lowering the maximum draft for the largest vessels transiting the canal, preparing for El Niño (6 August, Maritime Executive).

The strengthening El Niño episode poses risks well beyond shipping. As major institutional desks have warned, drought, flooding and disrupted harvests could tighten agricultural supplies and place renewed upward pressure on global food prices

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/14/2026 - 13:20

She's taking her birthday suit to a new level, lounging in nothing but a robe while on vacation with fiancé Van Hunt.

She's taking her birthday suit to a new level, lounging in nothing but a robe while on vacation with fiancé Van Hunt.

The Mamdani ally is a former Al Jazeera staffer and Booz Allen Hamilton consultant who has regularly forked out to the campaigns of Israel-bashing Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich).

Admitted killer Luigi Mangione revealed Friday that he posed as an investor to United Healthcare as part of his sick murder scheme.

Lindsay Clancy made a series of disturbing Google searches – including “How to slit throat to die” – in the days and weeks leading up to the grisly murders of her three children, bombshell testimony revealed this week.

Speaker Julie Menin's e-bike crackdown won't require registration -- even though she previously supported the measure that safety advocates say would hold out-of-control riders accountable.

The West Harlem Development Corporation has still to create a strategic plan for spending $76 million in community development grants from Columbia University

For the first time in Greenwich history, condos are selling for as much as $12 million, blowing past the town’s previous record condo sale of $6.75 million by nearly 50 percent. The prices are coming out of Chilston Court, a new luxury development in downtown Greenwich from Caspi Development, the team behind Tribeca’s celebrity-favorite hotel...