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The 34-year-old Vladimir Tarasenko is coming off a two-year contract at a $4.75 million cap hit. He put up 23 goals and chipped in with 24 assists for 47 points in 75 games for the Minnesota Wild. That was after an 11-goal, 22-assist season in 80 games with the Detroit Red Wings. The winger still has some game left. Will he find a contract, or will he have to go the PTO route first? Why hasn’t anyone signed Vladimir Tarasenko, and would he be a fit for the Edmonton Oilers Daily Faceoff: Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton talking about free…

Ministers have announced where more than 70,000 social and affordable homes will be built in England over the next 10 years as part of an initial allocation of almost £10bn in a bid to address the housing crisis.Funding has been granted to Greater Manchester, the West Midlands, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North East England, and Liverpool. An additional £6bn was previously announced for London.It is the first part of a wider plan to build 300,000 social and affordable homes, under the government’s £39bn social housebuilding programme.Housing charities welcomed the news but said it was still not enough to meet demand,…

Cypher Tank is back.  Applications for 2026’s Bitcoin-focused pitch competition are now open after last year’s event drew over 4,000 participants from 64 countries.  Like 2025’s event, the format, promoted and funded by the Plan ₿ VC Fund and the Plan ₿ Foundation, pairs a “Shark Tank”-style negotiation format with a documentary-style production, filming real pitches, deals and judge deliberations for release as an online series.  This year’s edition expands the finalist field to 12 projects — eight for-profit and four nonprofit — up from last year’s eleven, with founders competing to negotiate direct investment from a panel of judges…

The movie grossed nearly $180m worldwide at the box office at the time.The yellow silk Carolina Herrera dress Hudson wore near the end of the film also became a much talked-about piece of modern cinema fashion.The star’s most recent film role was in 2025’s Song Sung Blue, which earned her a second Oscar nomination, following her first nod for Almost Famous back in 2001.McConaughey’s films include Dallas Buyer’s Club, which won him an Oscar in 2014, The Wedding Planner and Magic Mike. He also appeared in 2008 movie Fool’s Gold alongside Hudson.Representatives for Hudson and McConaughey have been contacted for…

Rishabh Pant and Dhruv Jurel (ANI/PTI Photos) NEW DELHI: India bowling coach Morne Morkel has revealed that Rishabh Pant’s shoulder is “badly bruised” after the wicketkeeper-batter missed wicketkeeping duties on Day 3 in the second Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo.Pant suffered the injury on the opening day after taking a blow to his wrist and was forced to retire hurt. He returned on Day 2 and scored a brisk 63 off 89 balls, but did not take the field after India declared their first innings at 503 for nine.Dhruv Jurel, who scored a century on the second day, continued…

ICSI CS June 2026verification of marks: The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) will open the online window for candidates seeking verification of marks in the CS June 2026 examinations from August 26. Candidates who are not satisfied with their marks can apply for verification through the official ICSI website within the prescribed deadline.The verification facility will be available for 21 days from the date of declaration of the result. Candidates will have to submit their applications through their SMASH portal accounts and pay a non-refundable fee of Rs 250 for each subject.According to the schedule, the verification window…

Crypto card spending hit a monthly record, with stablecoin-funded purchases climbing to $1.03 billion, or $1.04 billion in supplementary reporting based on PaymentsScan data. PaymentsScan, an on-chain analytics platform that tracks card activity across dozens of issuers, reported that the figure was up 16% from June and nearly 200% from a year earlier. More than 10 million individual purchases were logged in July alone, according to PaymentsScan data cited on X by The Kobeissi Letter. Just three years ago, PaymentsScan’s tracked monthly volume was roughly $1 million. The climb from $382 million in August 2025 to more than $1 billion…

United Overseas Bank’s (UOB) Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann note AUD/USD has slipped into short-term consolidation between 0.7135 and 0.7170 after last week’s sharp rise, but they still regard the broader uptrend as intact. They highlight 0.7200 as a major resistance level to watch, with strong support at 0.7105 needing to hold to sustain the bullish momentum over the coming weeks.Consolidation within broader uptrend”24-HOUR VIEW: AUD soared to a high of 0.7180 last Friday. Yesterday, when it was at 0.7165, we highlighted the following: “The sharp rise appears overdone, but there are no signs of a pause just…

It does­n’t quite ring true to call David Bowie a rock star. Zig­gy Star­dust, the neon syn­thet­ic-clad alien alter ego he both cre­at­ed and retired in the ear­ly sev­en­ties, was, of course, rock star­dom out­landish­ly per­son­i­fied. But then, that was the con­cept of what turned out to be just one of many per­son­ae he delib­er­ate­ly craft­ed through­out the course of his career. That career was in music, pri­mar­i­ly, but look­ing back on it today, more than a decade after Bowie’s death, it looks more like his medi­um was cul­ture itself. That’s under­scored by his inter­views, clips from a vari­ety of…

Target is issuing an apology.  The retailer spoke out to address backlash over a children’s Halloween costume that it was allegedly selling under the name “Kids’ Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown.” “An apology from us: We pulled an offensive Halloween costume that should never have been part of our assortment,” Target wrote in a statement to X Aug. 24. “As a company, we got this wrong, and we are deeply sorry.” The corporation said that the bodysuit—which drew comparisons to “racist minstrel imagery” on social media—is no longer for sale. “We know this is especially hurtful for our Black guests,…