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UAB fires Trent Dilfer after awful start as polarizing hire backfires

UAB fires Trent Dilfer after awful start as polarizing hire backfires

Trent Dilfer didn’t last long as a college football head coach. UAB fired the former Super Bowl-winning quarterback Sunday night after just two-plus season in which he amassed a 9-21 record. The Blazers are 2-4 and have lost three straight games by 32, 18 and 20 points. “We have made a decision to part ways with Head Football Coach Trent Dilfer,” …

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Hyperliquid’s Hypurr NFT airdrop backfires – $400K hack sparks jitters

Hyperliquid’s Hypurr NFT airdrop backfires – 0K hack sparks jitters

Key Takeaways What are Hypurr NFTs, and who received them? Hypurr NFTs are unique digital collectibles airdropped to early Hyperliquid users as a reward for supporting the project. Are there any risks following the Hypurr NFT drop? Yes, several NFTs tied to compromised wallets were stolen, and analysts are wary of a looming $12B HYPE token unlock that could impact …

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Enterprise Products: Trump “weaponizing” ethane exports to China backfires against U.S.

Enterprise Products: Trump “weaponizing” ethane exports to China backfires against U.S.

Leading U.S. energy products exporter Enterprise Products Partners warned that the Trump administration continuing to “weaponize” fossil fuel shipments to China would only backfire against U.S. shippers. Enterprise co-CEO Jim Teague issued his complaints during the July 28 earnings call about two months after the U.S. Commerce Department temporarily banned ethane exports to China as a trade agreement negotiating tool …

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‘A family of traitors’: Trump’s Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro | Brazil

‘A family of traitors’: Trump’s Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro | Brazil

Silvana Marques was one of thousands of Brazilians who flocked to São Paulo’s most famous art museum one afternoon last week. But the 51-year-old teacher wasn’t there to marvel over fog-filled London landscapes at Masp’s new Monet retrospective. She had come to join a protest heaping scorn on Donald Trump. Beneath the museum’s brutalist hulk, Marques spotted a cardboard effigy …

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TACO trade backfires on Wall Street as Trump charges ahead on tariffs

TACO trade backfires on Wall Street as Trump charges ahead on tariffs

Wall Street thought it had President Donald Trump all figured out on his trade war, but the past week has raised concerns that investors may be wrong. Markets had dismissed tariff risks under the assumption that Trump would follow an earlier pattern and back off, in what became known as the so-called TACO trade. That allowed stocks to reach new record-high territory …

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