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Montreal is in for a stretch of sunny fall weather this week, though temperatures are expected to gradually cool as the days go by. Sunday will see a high of 14 Celsius before temperatures drop to an overnight low of 8 C.

Max Verstappen took part in his first GT World Challenge Europe race at Portimão Saturday afternoon, piloting his Team Verstappen No. 3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 for the closing 45-minute stint. But some fans online were not happy about why Verstappen inherited the car so far back in the field. After several successful overtakes in the 3-hour GT race, Chris Lulham spun the NO. 48 Mercedes of Stolz while trying to take fifth place. The failed overtake earned Lulham a drive-through penalty, and he served it right around the time he was scheduled to hand over driving duties to Verstappen. Verstappen got into the car a few laps later after the penalty was served in 24th. A safety car bunched up the field, and Verstappen had the chance to race up to ninth and fifth in his class. Sunday morning, Verstappen posted on X that he did not find the fans' personal attacks against his teammate okay. “Exciting weekend!” Verstappen wrote. “Was very happy to be racing our GT3 car in Portimão. There were some ups and downs, but as a team we [learned] a lot. “I also feel I need to speak up about the hate and harassment Chris has received after the race.

Relative emissivity spectrum of 2P/Encke’s nucleus obtained by the COMICS observations, in comparison with that of 460P/PanSTARRS (T. Ootsubo et al. 2021). The spectrum of 460P/PanSTARRS (in grey) is shifted by 0.1 for the readability. The grey hatched area is the wavelength region influenced by the telluric ozone absorption. -- [astro-ph. EP] [astro-ph. EP] We observed comet 2P/Encke with the Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS) on the Subaru telescope on UT 2003 November 12.3, when the comet was at heliocentric and geocentric distances of 1.09 and 0.27 au, respectively.

The PS6's memory and storage reportedly cost more than $680 between them. That's according to leaker Kepler_L2, who wrote that "RAM + NAND alone is over $680" in a NeoGAF thread in which Kepler_L2 was replying to a forum user who doubted an earlier cost estimate and suggested Sony could subsidise the PS6 to launch at $680.

Twenty years ago, a teenager called Mark Simpson won both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year; he commissioned a short piece for clarinet from Gavin Higgins, another young composer. It was Higgins’s first paid work and he promised to thank Simpson by writing him a clarinet concerto. Fast forward two decades: both men have forged award-studded careers, Simpson continues to combine composition and performance – and Higgins has finally delivered that concerto.‘Striking jagged poses like a cubist figure’ … Adam Hickox conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Photograph: Gareth JonesMarking the end of Simpson’s tenure as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s artist in residence, its premiere featured the kind of intense splashes of musical colour that leave an afterimage. Climaxes came in slow-burn waves and paroxysms of frenetic activity. Simpson’s solo line – sometimes keening, expressive vocalise; sometimes a wild assemblage of rapid blips and riffs – weaved through the shifting orchestral textures, here haloed by muted brass, there soaring over a low hum of gong and double bass.

A “suspicious” envelope reportedly sent to U. S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s office in Skokie on Friday was one of several mailed to elected officials across the country, a social media post from the congresswoman states. Federal authorities are investigating “suspicious letters” sent to four Illinois representatives —  Schakowsky (D-9th), Brad Schneider (D-10th), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-8th), Mike Quigley (D-5th) and Robin Kelly (D-2nd) — amid warnings in at least 19 other states, according to an ABC NEWS report.

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Georgina Cates, the British actress who appeared in films including “An Awfully Big Adventure” and the TV series “2point4 Children,” has died. She was 51. Cates’s death was announced by her daughter, Naiia, on Instagram in June, though it had not been reported until now.

In a recent ruling, the U. S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to have boys’ sports for boys and girls’ sports for girls. That is not how Minnesota does it. Minnesota State High School League rules say boys who claim to be girls can play on girls’ teams. Now some of our legislators want to make that permanent by writing it into the Minnesota Constitution. Your lead story names Zach Stephenson and Mary Kunesh (“Local legislators speak in favor of Equal Rights Amendment,” March 20, 2026). But this is not your mother’s or your grandmother’s Equal Rights Amendment. This amendment (HF 501/SF 473) adds something called “gender identity” to the constitution. This harms the interests of women, children, gays and lesbians. Under “gender identity” in Minnesota, women must allow some men into their private spaces, like locker rooms or domestic violence shelters. Children are told they can choose to be either a boy or a girl, and children who don’t fit into regressive stereotypes of what a boy or girl “should be” get channeled into harmful chemical or surgical modifications to their bodies.

Every replay of the Mass Effect games tends to start with a promise: this time, you’ll do things differently. Then Shepard makes the same speech, you bring the same squad, and you’re right back where you started. BioWare’s Mass Effect Legendary Edition, the remastered trilogy released in May 2021, makes starting over easy. But the best replay value is in changing the rules. Swap the class you always play, tank a choice on purpose, or finish the whole thing with one gun. These eight runs each come with their own mission parameters. And this time, maybe you’ll really do things differently. Spoilers for major plot points throughout the Mass Effect trilogy.

“I worry about healthcare, long-term care, inflation, a long bear market and living to 95.”

Click here to read highlights from the story Wisconsin’s statewide economic development agency has signed at least five nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) with data center developers.

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David Konecny spoke to Deadline about his latest horror apocalyptic game Dreadline Express.