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Activists from Sudan, Myanmar, Pacific Islands, and Taiwan receive human rights award October 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM 0 1 / 2SwedenRight Livelihood AwardFILE Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang speaks during an interview with The in Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 10, 2020.

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Wednesday to activists from Sudan and Myanmar, where military and political violence devastates communities, to the Pacific Islands, where climate disaster threatens entire nations, and to Taiwan, which is the frequent target of threats and disinformation.

"As authoritarianism and division rise globally, the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates are charting a different course: one rooted in collective action, resilience and democracy to create a livable future for all," the Stockholm-based foundation said about the winners. It considered 159 nominees from 67 countries this year.

The youth-led organization Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon were awarded the prize "for carrying the call for climate justice to the world's highest court, turning survival into a matter of rights and climate action into a legal responsibility."

Justice for Myanmar was awarded "for their courage and their pioneering investigative methods in exposing and eroding the international support to Myanmar's corrupt military." The covert group of activists is working to expose the financial architecture and global corporate complicity sustaining the military government, Right Livelihood said.

Audrey Tang from Taiwan won the prize "for advancing the social use of digital technology to empower citizens, renew democracy and heal divides." Tang is a "civic hacker and technologist who rewires systems for the public good," the organization said.

In Sudan, the Emergency Response Rooms network was awarded for "for building a resilient model of mutual aid amid war and state collapse that sustains millions of people with dignity." The Sudanese community-led network has become the backbone of the country's humanitarian response amid war, displacement and state collapse. They helps includes health care, food assistance, and education, where many international aid organizations cannot reach, according to the foundation.

Created in 1980, the annual Right Livelihood Award honors efforts that the prize founder, Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, felt were being ignored by the Nobel Prizes.

"At a time when violence, polarization and climate disasters are tearing communities apart, the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates remind us that joining hands in collective action is humanity's most powerful response," said Ole von Uexkull, the nephew of the prize founder and the organization's executive director.

"Their courage and vision create a tapestry of hope and show that a more just and livable future is possible," he added.

Previous winners include Ukrainian human rights defender Oleksandra Matviichuk, Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. Matviichuk and Mukwege received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 and 2018, respectively.

The Right Livelihood Award comes just a week before the Nobel Prizes. The 2025 laureates will be given their awards on Dec. 2 in Stockholm. The size of the prize amount was not announced.

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Madonna is opening up about the near-fatal infection that landed her in the hospital for several days in 2023.

The Queen of Pop was in the intensive care unit for a serious bacterial infection in June 2023, weeks before she was supposed to embark on her Celebration tour.

On a recent episode of the *On Purpose* podcast, she told host Jay Shetty that she had sepsis and was put on a ventilator. She previously shared that she had been in an induced coma for 48 hours during her stay.

"One minute, I was alive and dancing around," the "Vogue" singer said. "And the next minute, I was in the ICU unit of a hospital and I woke up from being unconscious for four days."

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While she was recovering, Madonna said that she thought she would rebound quickly and resume tour rehearsals. However, the music icon became frustrated when she realized she had no energy or strength. Fortunately, she had her Kabbalah teacher there to support her through this difficult time.

"I couldn't get out of bed and I didn't know when it was going to end," she recalled. "And I used to talk to my teacher all the time and he's like, 'The sooner you accept what's happening to you and that you don't know when it's going to end, the sooner it's going to end.' That made so much sense to me."

Madonna resumed the Celebration tour in October 2023. During an early show, she said it was a "f---ing miracle" that she was able to perform after her health scare. The tour wrapped last May.

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The "Like a Prayer" singer said that she saw her late mother when she was "almost there on the other side." When she awoke in the hospital, she realized she needed to "forgive and make good with people that I still held grudges against."

During the podcast, she also shared how she forgave her "biggest enemy" — brother Christopher Ciccone — before he died. Ciccone was previously the pop star's art and tour director. The siblings had a falling out following the publication of Ciccone's tell-all memoir *Life With My Sister Madonna*.

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MLB playoffs 2025: Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell power Dodgers to Game 1 victory over Reds, but their bullpen could be their undoing

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MLB playoffs 2025: Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell power Dodgers to Game 1 victory over Reds, but their bullpen could be their undoing Jeff Eisenberg October 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM 0 LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández belted two home runs apiece.

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LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández belted two home runs apiece. Blake Snell didn't allow a run until the seventh inning. The Los Angeles Dodgers were well on their way to the sort of dominant victory that would reaffirm their status as the favorites to emerge as World Series champs for a second straight year.

Then manager Dave Roberts had to go to his ineffective, oft-maligned bullpen.

Relievers Alex Vesia, Edgardo Henriquez and Jack Dreyer turned a seemingly insurmountable, eight-run lead into a dicey one over the course of a confidence-sapping, 59-pitch top of the eighth inning. Boos rained down from the Dodger Stadium crowd after Dreyer walked in a run, the Reds' third of the frame, to allow Cincinnati to send the tying run to the on-deck circle.

Dreyer recovered enough to help the Dodgers secure a 10-5 victory Tuesday — but only with some help from the Reds. With the bases loaded and one out, catcher Tyler Stephenson chased multiple pitches out of the strike zone before striking out on a 3-2 slider. Then Cincinnati manager Terry Francona allowed weak-hitting third baseman Ke'Bryan Hayes to bat, and Dreyer induced a pop-up to end the inning.

In the end, the Dodgers won the opening game of their three-game wild-card series against the Reds, but they did nothing to quell concerns that their bullpen could be their undoing. They desperately need to find arms they can trust in high-leverage spots deeper in the playoffs, when games are tighter and opponents are stronger than 83-win Cincinnati.

With Tanner Scott and Blake Treinen floundering late in the season, Vesia had emerged as one of the Dodgers' few trustworthy late-inning options, but Dodgers manager Dave Roberts admitted postgame that the left-hander "wasn't sharp tonight." Nor was Henriquez, who, Roberts said, "didn't have any command."

While Dreyer eventually did his job and stopped Cincinnati's momentum, it galled Roberts that none of his relievers was aggressive when pitching with a huge lead. Vesia, Henriquez and Dreyer each walked at least one Reds hitter and fell behind in the count against others.

"When you start being too fine and getting behind, you start giving them free bases," Roberts said. "That's how you can build big innings and give them momentum. That's what I saw in that inning.

"If we don't feel comfortable using certain guys with an eight-run lead, we've got to think through some things."

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The one bit of good news amid the Dodgers' bullpen struggles came from Blake Treinen. After logging a 9.64 ERA in the month of September, he pitched a scoreless ninth inning, striking out two and allowing just one hit.

Going forward, one option the Dodgers are sure to deploy in these playoffs is utilizing their rotation depth in relief. Starters Emmet Sheehan, Tyler Glasnow and a rejuvenated Roki Sasaki could all pitch out of the bullpen against the Reds. And if the Dodgers advance, Clayton Kershaw could also be an option against Philadelphia in the division series.

Otherwise, the Dodgers will have to hope that their star-studded lineup can carry them and cover for the bullpen like it did Tuesday. And that their vaunted starting pitchers can go deep into games, the way Snell did in Game 1.

Ohtani set the tone before much of a late-arriving Dodgers crowd had finished fighting through Los Angeles traffic. One of baseball's most prolific sluggers opened the bottom of the first inning with a laser, turning on a 100-mph inside fastball from Reds fireballer Hunter Greene and rocketing a screaming line drive into the right-field bleachers.

In the sixth inning, with chants of M-V-P raining down from the upper deck, Ohtani struck again. His 454-foot moon shot off Cincinnati reliever Connor Phillips extended the Dodgers' lead to 8-0 and had Roberts raving after the game about the two-way superstar's ability to raise his level even higher on the postseason stage.

"His focus gets more keen, and the at-bat quality is better," Roberts said. "That's a reason why he signed to be with this ball club, this organization, to play in games like this, to showcase his otherworldly talent. I expect really fun things this postseason out of Shohei."

That Ohtani struck out in all three of his other at-bats ultimately didn't matter because the rest of the Dodgers' lineup provided plenty of support. Hernández and Tommy Edman ended Greene's postseason debut early with back-to-back third-inning blasts. Hernández added another bomb two innings later. Those five home runs equaled the Dodgers' single-game playoff record.

As good as the offense was, Snell held up his end, too. He surrendered just a single hit in the first six innings, adjusting to Cincinnati's aggressiveness on his first-pitch fastballs by mixing in more changeups.

In the bottom of the third, Snell shook his head and gestured at the home-plate umpire after what he thought should have been a called strike three to Stephenson was ruled just low. On the next pitch, he gathered himself and came back with a sharp curveball to induce an inning-ending swing-and-miss.

In 10 prior postseason outings, Snell had never gone more than 5 ⅔ innings. But in this one, he finished the seventh frame, something he considers a key for the Dodgers the rest of October.

"The deeper the starters go into the game," he said, "one, it means we're pitching good, and two, we're giving the bullpen a break."

Left unsaid by Snell: The fewer innings this flawed Dodgers bullpen throws, the better.

For seven innings Tuesday, a 93-win Dodgers team that underperformed for stretches of the regular season opened the playoffs looking like the juggernaut they were supposed to be all along. Altogether, it was an ideal start to Los Angeles' title defense.

Until the Dodgers' buzzkill of a bullpen sent their fans home feeling uneasy once again.

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White House criticizes Ana Navarro's 'brain-numbingly dumb takes' on The View after Donald Trump ...

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A spokesperson tells EW &34;President Trump is restoring integrity to our justice system&34; after Navarro's onair remarks about Trump during a Hot Topics segme

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White House criticizes Ana Navarro's 'brain-numbingly dumb takes' on* The View* after Donald Trump remarks (exclusive)

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- Ana Navarro criticized Donald Trump's accomplishment record during a segment on *The View*.

- Navarro brought up Trump's name and segued into a point about dictatorships on the air.

- "Was Ana Navarro living under a rock during the Biden administration?" a White House spokesperson asks in a statement to EW.

Ana Navarro has once again drawn the ire of the White House, as representatives for Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., have slammed *The View* cohost's recent criticisms about the president in a new, incendiary statement to **.

After the Republican panelist alleged on the air during a wider discussion about the indictment of former FBI director James Comey that Trump hasn't accomplished many of the things he spoke about on the campaign trail (like ending military assaults in Ukraine and Gaza) before segueing her point into one about other world "dictatorships" under people like Fidel Castro, the White House issued a statement to EW condemning Navarro's remarks.

"Was Ana Navarro living under a rock during the Biden administration? Or did she just choose not to talk about Joe Biden censoring Americans for sharing info about COVID-19 on social media or about Biden's FBI investigating concerned parents at school board meetings," read a statement by White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson.

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The statement referenced Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg's August 2024 remarks in a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan that alleged Biden's White House "repeatedly pressured" Facebook to remove "certain COVID-19 content including humor and satire," per the Associated Press.

The White House's statement to EW continued, claiming that, "President Trump is restoring integrity to our justice system and the indictment of Comey, by a grand jury, speaks for itself" without addressing wider controversy spurred by the Comey developments.

"Luckily for Ana, her brain-numbingly dumb takes won't embarrass her too much, because no one watches *The View* anyway," Jackson's statement finished, though *The View *recently announced that its season 29 premiere registered its highest debut ratings in five years.

EW has reached out to representatives for Navarro and Biden for comment.

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The White House's remarks on Navarro follow government officials' recent uptick in statements about media figures, after Trump publicly threatened to revoke former *View* cohost and staunch Trump critic Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship in July (which he's unable to execute on constitutional grounds, as O'Donnell was born in the United States).

Representatives for Trump and the White House have repeatedly spoken out against *The View *cohosts in recent months, with government officials taking issue with everything from Navarro slamming "Latino Trumpers" for voting for the president, to singling out Joy Behar for supporting Jimmy Kimmel amid his recent suspension (and reinstatement) following comments he made about the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk.

Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, has also spoken out against *The View, *touting in an interview with Fox News earlier this year that he believed "consequences" for the show might follow over the cohosts' left-leaning views.

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Even pop star Ariana Grande elicited a response from the White House, with representatives responding to the *Wicked* actress' reposting of an Instagram note that asked Trump voters if their lives have "gotten better" and if their groceries have "gotten cheaper" under his leadership.

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White House spokesperson Kush Desai pushed back in a statement that referenced Grande's lyrics: "Save your tears, Ariana. Because President Trump's actions ended Joe Biden's inflation crisis and are bringing in trillions in new investments."

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Aces beat Fever 107-98 in OT of Game 5 of semis, advance to WNBA Finals to face the Phoenix Mercury

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Aces beat Fever 10798 in OT of Game 5 of semis, advance to WNBA Finals to face the Phoenix Mercury MARK ANDERSON October 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM 1 1 / 5Fever Aces BasketballLas Vegas Aces center A'ja Wilson (22) and Las Vegas Aces guard Chelsea Gray (12) celebrate after a play against the Indiana Fever d...

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1 / 5Fever Aces BasketballLas Vegas Aces center A'ja Wilson (22) and Las Vegas Aces guard Chelsea Gray (12) celebrate after a play against the Indiana Fever during overtime in Game 5 of a WNBA basketball playoff semifinals series Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A'ja Wilson scored 35 points and Jackie Young had 32 to lead the Aces back to the WNBA Finals as Las Vegas held off pesky Indiana 107-98 in overtime in the deciding Game 5 of the semifinal series on Tuesday night after the already-depleted Fever lost another star player to injury.

The second-seeded Aces, who won the league title in 2022 and 2023, will host the fourth-seeded Phoenix Mercury on Friday in the opener of the best-of-seven championship series.

No. 6 seed Indiana made Las Vegas work for it even though the sixth-seeded Fever have been decimated by injuries, with star Kelsey Mitchell going down in the third quarter of Game 5 with an apparent left leg injury. She joined a list of injured Fever players that includes Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham.

Mitchell had scored a team-high 15 points at the time of her injury. Six Fever players reached double digits, including Odyssey Sims with 27 points and Natasha Howard with 16.

The Aces were closer of a three-woman show, with Wilson coming within three points of her playoff career high. Chelsea Gray — who briefly went into the locker room early in the third quarter with an apparent right leg injury — scored 17.

Las Vegas needed every one of those points because the Fever challenged the Aces throughout, including after Mitchell got hurt. Rather than fade away and concede the playoff series to the home team, the Fever battled to tie the game at 84 on two Sims free throws with 52 seconds left.

After Young made two free throws with 27.1 seconds remaining, Sims answered with a drive down the lane for a layup with 22.5 seconds to go to again tie the game. Young missed a layup in the closing seconds and Jewell Loyd the follow to send the game to overtime.

The Aces then took the lead early in OT and didn't give it up.

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FAA would furlough 11,000 employees in US government shutdown

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FAA would furlough 11,000 employees in US government shutdown ReutersSeptember 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM 14 An employee with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checks the documents of a traveler at Reagan National Airport in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2019.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department said on Tuesday more than 11,000 employees at the Federal Aviation Administration will be furloughed if government funding lapses at midnight.

U.S. airlines have warned that a partial federal government shutdown could strain American aviation and slow flights, as air traffic controllers and security officers would be forced to work without pay and other functions would be halted.

The Transportation Department said the FAA would continue to hire air traffic controllers, and field training of controllers would continue. During prior government shutdowns, the FAA suspended hiring and most training of air traffic controllers.

More than 13,000 current controllers would be required to continue working, but would not be paid until the shutdown ended, the FAA said.

The FAA has about 45,000 employees. In total, the Transportation Department would furlough 12,200 employees out of 53,717, including the FAA.

The FAA also said certification activities would continue for operational safety functions of commercial airplanes and

engines, as well as commercial space launch oversight and licensing.

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What's next for Indiana Fever? 2026 roster depends on CBA, free agency and Caitlin Clark

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What's next for Indiana Fever? 2026 roster depends on CBA, free agency and Caitlin Clark Heather Burns, USA TODAY October 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM 0 When the Indiana Fever started the season, the vibes were immaculate.

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When the Indiana Fever started the season, the vibes were immaculate.

The had perhaps the biggest superstar in women's basketball, Caitlin Clark, leading a Big 3 that included Kelsey Mitchell and Aliyah Boston. They had gone out and signed free agents DeWanna Bonner, Natasha Howard and sharp-shooter Sophie Cunningham with the goal of making the team a championship contender.

It didn't take long for the mood to change.

Bonner lost her starting job and fell out of the team's regular rotation. She missed two weeks in June due to personal reasons and was released June 25 when the team was unable to find a trade partner.

Clark sustained a series of soft tissue injuries and announced Sept. 4 she would not return this season because of a left groin injury. Backup point guard Sydney Colson (torn ACL), Aari McDonald (broken foot), Cunningham (knee injury) and Chloe Bibby (knee injury) also suffered season-ending injuries.

The Fever pushed through all these obstacles to finish 24-20 and make the playoffs as the No. 6 seed. They advanced to the semifinals before being eliminated by the Las Vegas Aces 107-98 in overtime of Game 5 Tuesday in Atlanta.

Aliyah Boston (7), Caitlin Clark (22) and Kelsey Mitchell (0) make up the Indiana Fever's Big 3.

"It says a lot about this group, how resilient they've been, how tough they've been, how locked in they've been to just putting one foot in front of the other and doing whatever is necessary to position ourselves to win ball games," Fever coach Stephanie White said. "And I think it says a lot about them that they've been able to bring in and we've been able to bring in new players, and they've adjusted and adapted to them."

The Fever had nine different starting lineups and 16 players on the roster this season. Who will return in 2026? Clark, Boston and Makayla Timpson are all on rookie deals but are the only players locked in for next year. The rest of the roster, with the impending collective bargaining agreement, are free agents.

That said, if the new CBA includes core players, the Fever will likely use the designation on Mitchell for a second straight season. She started all 44 games for the Fever this season averaging a career best 20.2 points and added 3.4 assists. Being designated as a WNBA core player means the Fever will have exclusive rights to negotiate with Mitchell for a one-year, supermax contract.

As for the remaining starters, Howard is a free agent after signing a one-year deal for $214,466 in February, returning to the franchise that drafted her in 2014. She has started 44 games, averaging 11.4 points and 6.6 rebounds. Lexie Hull is a restricted free agent after playing under a three-year, $217,502 rookie-scale contract that includes a fourth-year option that was exercised by the team. She started 30 games and averaged 7.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists.

Odyssey Sims' was signed on a short-term hardship contract after Clark and Colson's injuries. She was initially signed to a series of seven-day contracts, they converted them to rest-of-season contract to make her eligible for the playoffs.

White, who left the Connecticut Sun to return to Indiana in the offseason, is also expected to return.

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