Mercury erase 13-point deficit, clinch Finals berth with 86-81 victory.

PHOENIX (AP) Alyssa Thomas scored 23 points, DeWanna Bonner made two key 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and the Phoenix Mercury overcame a 13-point deficit in the final period to beat the short-handed Minnesota Lynx 86-81 in Game 4 on Sunday night and advance to the WNBA Finals for the first time since 2021. Phoenix will face the Indiana-Las Vegas winner in the championship series.

The sanctions war on Iran has resumed, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving country

Iran used to be a very sophisticated country. and then, in 1979, the Mullahs moved in. While Tehran is still a fairly modern city, the moment you step out of it, you enter the backwaters of what almost fifty years of Islamic extremism will do to a nation. Add in the Mullah’s genocidal goals for Israel, and the fact that they’ve been fomenting terrorism worldwide for their entire existence, and you have a country that badly needs a powerful intervention. Donald Trump began that intervention when, partnering with Israel, he completely destroyed Iran’s military. The Israelis wiped out Iran’s defensive abilities,.

Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high

Why it matters: America’s domestic terrorism landscape has undergone a remarkable inversion since President Trump took office, as his policies have eased grievances on the far right while intensifying anger on the far left. Far-right violence has historically been more frequent and more lethal, but plunged dramatically over the first six months of 2025. Despite the uptick in high-profile attacks like the assassination of Charlie Kirk, political violence remains rare and overwhelmingly opposed by most Americans. By the numbers: CSIS researchers compiled and analyzed a data set of 750 domestic attacks and plots from Jan. 1, 1994, to July 4, 2025, categorizing them.

Gov’t borrowings swelled in Aug. on mammoth bond issue

This year’s mammoth sale of retail government bonds pushed up the Marcos administration’s total borrowings in August, as the state moved into the final stretch of its annual fundraising drive meant to plug its budget hole. Gross financing nearly tripled from a year earlier to P508.5 billion, according to the latest cash operations report of

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