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Columbus-Based and National Fashion Designers to Take the Runway During Week-Long Fashion Celebration Fashion Week Columbus (FWC) presented by Woodford Reserve has announced its full lineup of designers and runway shows for 2025. This highly anticipated annual event returns September 14–20 with a robust schedule of fashion-forward experiences. FWC kicks off the season with a Launch Party on August 7 at The Overlook, where the headline celebrity designer will be announced. The public is invited to this free but ticketed event. Some events during Fashion Week Columbus are free with registration, while others require a paid ticket. Tickets for FWC go on sale later this month at https://fashionweekcolumbus.org. The 2025 show lineup includes: Sunday, Sept. 14 – High Fashion Tea Runway Show Monday, Sept. 15 –Macy’s Fall Fashion Show Tuesday, Sept. 16 – Nordstrom’s Beauty Show Wednesday, Sept. 17 – Nurtur Aveda Institutes Recycled Runway presented by SWACO Thursday, Sept. 18 – Philanthropy Meets Fashion Friday, Sept. 19 – FWCurve Runway Show & Afterparty Marketplace Saturday, Sept. 20 – Finale Runway Show A panel of industry experts selected this year’s designers after evaluating each submission for creativity, technical skill, market readiness, and artistic vision. Whether emerging or established, each designer brings a unique perspective that embodies the spirit of innovation, diversity, and artistry. The 2025 FWC Designers include: Juan Ferroyros  –  Ferreyos Life Sophi Mitil – The Sophi Mitil Co. Jay Robertson – The House of Jay Amour Tiraj Lucas – From Tirz Amber Hall – Amber Nicole Customs Valerie Mayen – Yellowcake Shop Bea Heidman – The Bea Hive Xantha Ward – Xantha Jasmine Burton – Alexandria Jay Candace Walker – Elaina B Evelyn Smith – E.Denise “The runway is calling,” said Thomas McClure, Founder and Interim Executive Director of the Columbus Fashion Council. “This group of designers represents some of the most exciting talent in our fashion community. From avant-garde to ready-to-wear, they’ll deliver a week of unforgettable fashionable moments that Columbus won’t want to miss.” Fashion Week Columbus continues to position Central Ohio as a vibrant hub for fashion and creativity, proudly ranking third in the nation for resident fashion designers, behind only New York and Los Angeles. About Fashion Week Columbus ABOUT FASHION WEEK COLUMBUS Fashion Week Columbus is the flagship program of the Columbus Fashion Council, which produces a full week of fashion shows and fashion-related programs showcasing emerging fashion designers to media, buyers, and the incredible fashion community in Central Ohio. Since its debut in 2010, Fashion Week Columbus has provided a platform for 220+ fashion designers, 2000+ models, awarded $65K+ in scholarships to fashion design students, and produced 200+ fashion shows. ABOUT COLUMBUS FASHION COUNCIL As a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, the Columbus Fashion Council’s mission is to provide scholarships to fashion design students and a platform for local fashion designers. Our vision is to expand the fashion economy in Central Ohio through industry growth initiatives, community support, funding access, and creative programming. We strive to nurture and retain fashion talent right here in Central Ohio. Signature events include Fashion Week Columbus, The Fashion Industry Conference, Columbus Fashion Awards, The Fashion Presentations, Common Thread Shops on Third, and more. Read More

The soft serve ice cream machines market size was valued at $665.00 million in 2021, and is estimated to reach $962.5 million by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 3.8% from 2022 to 2031. In general, soft serve ice cream contains less milk fat than normal ice cream. Compared to ice cream, which is held at a temperature of 15 °C, soft serve ice cream is made at a temperature of roughly 4 °C. Air is injected into soft serve during the freezing process. Up to 60% of the finished product’s total volume can be made up of air, or overrun. The amount of air changes how the final product tastes. Low air content products taste heavy & cold and have more intense colors. Soft serves ice cream and other frozen desserts such as frozen yogurt and sorbet are ideal for soft serve machines’ ability to provide a light and fluffy texture. For small companies or cafes that aim to provide a wide variety of frozen delicacies, these types of equipment are ideal as they are quite simple to use. Although there are different types of soft serve machines available, they may generally be divided into four groups based on their capacity, amount of flavor options, feed mechanism, and cooling system. Download Sample Report: https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/request-sample/A31660 Sales of soft serve ice cream machines have increased dramatically as they use a more hygienic procedure than manual ice cream makers. Soft serve ice cream machines provide the best experience to their customers in the form of taste, flavors, and prices. In addition, since the majority of frozen food products is consumed by children and younger generation, rising disposable income is fueling the expansion of the soft serve ice cream machine. Another significant element that is anticipated to increase sales of the soft serve ice cream machines is consumers’ need for dessert after meals. Thus, all of these soft serve ice cream machines market trends are creating soft serve ice cream machines market opportunities for the market growth. According to soft serve ice cream machines market analysis, the global soft serve ice cream machines market is segmented on the basis of price range, application, distribution channel, and region. By price range, the market is divided into premium and mass. Among these, the mass segment occupied the major soft serve ice cream machines market share in 2021, and is projected to maintain its dominance during the soft serve ice cream machines market forecast period. The soft serve ice cream machines market growth is greatly aided by consumers from the lower middle class and higher middle class purchasing more mass-market products. As per application, the market is fragmented into entertainment venue, catering industry, ice cream parlors, and others. The catering industry segment is anticipated to grow at a moderate rate during the forecast period. Catering businesses can be as little as one person working out of a single location to a large enterprise with numerous locations. This industry’s growing demand for ice cream is to be accountable for the segment’s expansion. This is indirectly creating soft serve ice cream machines market demand during the forecast period. Buy This Research Report: https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/soft-serve-ice-cream-machines-market/purchase-options On the basis of distribution channel, it is classified into online and offline. The online segment is anticipated to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period. Customers are encouraged to purchase soft serve ice cream machines online due to increase in number of promotions or discounts as well as increase in popularity of various internet portals & applications for buying soft serve ice cream machines such as Amazon and Flipkart in developing nations. The region that dominated the global market in 2021 was Europe. The market is expected to be dominated by Europe in the next few years as a result of key regional companies investing in ice cream manufacturing equipment. Exporters in both developed & developing nations faced a number of difficulties as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The implementation of lockdown & curfew on a global scale had an impact on both domestic and foreign manufacture of soft serve ice cream machines, which in turn, hindered the market expansion. As a result, the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative influence on the soft serve ice cream machines market in 2020 as a result of decreased company sales and operations being suspended. For Purchase Enquiry: https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/purchase-enquiry/A31660 The major players analyzed for the global soft serve ice cream machines industry are Carpigiani Group, Catta 27, Donper USA, Electro Freeze, Frigomat, GEL Matic Italia Srl, ICETRO America Inc., Oceanpower America LLC., Spaceman USA, Stoelting, Technogel, Tekno-Ice, Tetra Pak, The Middleby Corporation, and Vollrath Company LLC. KEY FINDINGS OF STUDY In Soft Serve Ice Cream Machines Market By price range, the mass segment was the highest revenue contributor to the soft serve ice cream machines market size, with $426.7 million in 2021, and is estimated to reach $603.5 million by 2031, with a CAGR of 3.6%. By application, the ice cream parlors segment was the highest revenue contributor to the market, with $250.7 million in 2021, and is estimated to reach $345.8 million by 2031, with a CAGR of 3.3%. Depending on distribution channel, the offline segment was the highest revenue contributor to the market, with $571.2 million in 2021, and is estimated to reach $836.1 million by 2031, with a CAGR of 3.9%. Region wise, Europe was the highest revenue contributor, accounting for $249.6 million in 2021, and is estimated to reach $348.6 million by 2031, with a CAGR of 3.4%. Allied Market Research is a full-service market research and business consulting wing of Allied Analytics LLP based in Portland, Oregon. Allied Market Research provides global enterprises as well as medium and small businesses with unmatched quality of “Market Research Reports” and “Business Intelligence Solutions”. 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Most people experience generative AI today through chatbots like ChatGPT. However, web browsers are emerging as a potential gateway for everyday user interactions with large language models (LLMs). This shift from standalone chatbots to AI agent-driven web browsers has been underscored by recent product releases such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent, which lets AI agents use a browser to surf the web on behalf of the user. Last month, The Browser Company unveiled Dia, which is essentially a web browser integrated with an AI chatbot. Then there is Comet, Perplexity’s desktop browser which goes a step further by offering users access to an in-built AI agent. Google is reportedly testing a similar Gemini integration in Chrome while OpenAI is also rumoured to be developing its own AI-powered web browser. Is the AI chatbot race over? Why are tech companies increasingly focusing on AI native browsers? It might have something to do with user context. Web browsers offer a better understanding of a user’s online activity such as reading articles, writing emails, online shopping, etc. This information might be useful for developers to build AI tools that can automate these tasks. Perplexity is looking to challenge Google’s dominance in web browsing as well as online search. The limited roll-out of Comet comes at a time when both these markets could potentially open up to upstarts like Nvidia-backed Perplexity if Google is forced to spin off Chrome in the US search antitrust remedies case. In this context, let’s take a look at how Comet is different from Google Chrome, its common use cases, and whether the latest offering could give Perplexity an edge in the rapidly intensifying browser wars. What is Comet? How does it work? Comet is an LLM-based web browser that comes with an in-built AI Assistant. Users have the option to link their Google account to the browser in order to transfer all the context and browser extensions from Chrome to Comet. Story continues below this ad The browser is built on the Chromium framework, an open-source architecture that is maintained by Google and underpins several other web browsers including Microsoft Edge, Brave, and DuckDuckGo. However, Comet draws its search capabilities from Perplexity’s ‘answer engine’, which is wrapped around foundational LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 4.0 Sonnet. Though, Perplexity also has its own LLM called Sonar. Comet can be used to generate summaries of articles and YouTube videos. Users can also ask it to describe an image on their screen or perform deeper research about a particular topic. It is also able to provide AI-generated summaries of all the web pages that feature as open tabs on the browser. “Comet is not just another chatbot. It’s an AI-native browser that performs operational tasks, like a silent worker running continuously in the background,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas was quoted as saying by The Verge. Comet is available for both Mac and Windows users. However, accessing the browser is currently possible only if you are a Perplexity Max subscriber or on the company’s early access waitlist. In the future, Comet could become available to users for free but the more advanced AI features will likely continue to be gated behind a subscription tier, Srinivas said in a Reddit AMA held earlier this month. Story continues below this ad How is Comet different from Google Chrome? Firstly, Comet replaces Google Search results with Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’. This means users will receive AI-generated information about what they are looking for instead of seeing a web page with a list of blue links to various online websites. Unlike traditional search engines, Perplexity reportedly surfaces links to relevant websites before providing AI-generated responses to users’ search queries. Another key difference between Comet and traditional web browsers is the tabbed interface, which lets users access information quickly. Comet also suggests related content based on what a user is looking at and what they have already read. To be sure, Google has also been integrating several new features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode in Chrome. Its Gemini chatbot is also accessible through the browser for subscribers in the US. However, what truly sets Comet apart from Chrome and other AI native web browsers on the market is its agentic capabilities. Comet has an Assistant button at the top-right corner of the browser that opens up a sidebar with a chat interface. Besides search queries, users can ask the Assistant to carry out certain tasks on their behalf. Story continues below this ad For instance, you can ask it to write and send an email, unsubscribe from promotional emails, write and publish posts on social media platforms such as LinkedIn, and close all the tabs on the browser, among other activities. The Assistant within Comet is better at completing tasks on its own when users start their prompt with “take control of my browser and…,” according to a report by The Verge. Comet’s Assistant pulls user context from third-party apps. This means that the browser’s agentic capabilities work only when users are logged in to these apps. However, Comet’s agentic features may not work reliably for all tasks. “Some of the more complicated agentic actions like shopping do have a higher failure rate than simpler tasks, but this is actually a limitation of current AI models. So this will only get easier and better in Comet,” a Perplexity spokesperson was quoted as saying. “You can still take over from the agent and complete [the task] when you feel like it is not able to do it,” Srinivas said. Story continues below this ad Google’s parent company, Alphabet, does not release daily search data, but recently revealed that Google receives 5 trillion queries per year Perplexity recorded over 780 million search queries from users in May alone this year, according to Srinivas. Google Search, on the other hand, receives five trillion queries every year. It does not release daily or monthly search data. Perplexity’s search products have reportedly witnessed 20 per cent growth month-over-month

A body was discovered Monday in water below an Oregon waterfall where a group of six was swept to the bottom on Saturday, killing at least two, authorities said. Monday’s discovery at Dillon Falls was made by divers on the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office search and rescue team shortly after 11 a.m. amid an ongoing response, the office said in a statement. Names of the deceased were not available, and the Deschutes County Medical Examiner’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for information. The sheriff’s office described the body found Monday only as that of a female. The number of missing since the incident has gone from two to one. “At this time, DCSO can confirm three survivors and two deceased females,” the sheriff’s office said. “One male member of the party is still unaccounted for.” The sheriff’s office has described its efforts both as “recovery operations” and “search and rescue.” One person was pronounced dead at the scene amid the response after the incident was reported shortly before 3 p.m. Saturday, the sheriff’s office said. A multiagency search-and-rescue mission was launched Saturday and continues, it said. Search and rescue teams were combing the waters of the Deschutes River after a group went over a waterfall on Saturday. Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Oregon Three people were rescued from the water and taken by ambulance to the St. Charles Health System’s medical center in Bend, the sheriff’s office said. Their conditions were unavailable. Dillon Falls is on the Deschutes River in the Deschutes National Forest, about 173 miles southeast of Portland and about 10 miles south of Bend. The falls have a 15-foot drop that turns into rapids when the water reaches the Deschutes River, according to Visit Central Oregon, which promotes tourism in the region. Photos posted by the sheriff’s office show a hazard sign warning visitors of the waterfall nearby and indicating paddlers should wear life jackets. The office, along with its search-and-rescue arm, Bend Fire and Rescue, and private medical transport company AirLink, which uses helicopters for urgent cases, responded Saturday, sheriff’s officials said. Bend police provided drones to help the search, they said. The sheriff’s office said its search-and-rescue team launched two drones in the Dillon Falls area Sunday. Fifteen members of a swift water rescue team searched areas highlighted by the drones, the sheriff’s office said. Three K-9 teams also joined the search effort and worked with marine patrol boats to scour the area downstream of the falls, the sheriff’s office added. The effort also includes a cadaver dog, the sheriff’s office said Monday. Rebecca Cohen Rebecca Cohen is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital. Dennis Romero and Gemma DiCasimirro contributed . Read More

A man was in jail Sunday after it was alleged he drove a vehicle into a post office in San Jose, California, early in the morning, sparking a blaze that damaged the location, police said. No injuries were reported in the 2:30 a.m. blaze, but the fire damaged the post office building, particularly the front part where the vehicle entered, San Jose Fire Battalion Chief Josh Staley said. The fire was knocked down 90 minutes after it was reported, he said, but not before it most likely burned some mail. Staley described it as a two-alarm fire that drew three city fire battalions. The vehicle and the collision apparently sparked the blaze, Staley said. The driver was later identified as Richard Tillman, 44, of San Jose, according to San Jose police. The charred frame of a car that was driven in to a U.S. Post Office in San Jose.AIOFILMZ He was jailed based on an allegation of arson and was being held Sunday afternoon, according to police and jail records. He was due in court Wednesday. Video showed the vehicle with its backside into the structure. This photo provided by the San Jose Fire Department shows firefighters responding to a fire burning after a car crashed into a Post Office, early Sunday, July 20, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (San Jose Fire Department via AP)AP Though investigators believe the collision was deliberate, motive was unknown and still being investigated, police said in a statement. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the lead agency investigating the incident, San Jose police said. It did not immediately respond to a request seeking more information. Dennis Romero Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital. Lindsay Good , Madeline Morrison and Michelle Acevedo contributed . Read More

An off-duty Customs and Border Patrol agent was shot in New York City’s Riverside Park late Saturday in an alleged robbery that did not appear to target him because of his job, police said. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday that the perpetrators were two unauthorized immigrants who had been arrested multiple times. Both suspects have been detained, Noem said. Noem said the first suspect is a Dominican national named Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, 21, who had allegedly been arrested four different times in New York City. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference Sunday that he was hospitalized with gunshot wounds that investigators believe he sustained during the incident. Shortly after the news conference, Noem said on X that the second suspect was Christian Aybar-Berroa, who is also from the Dominican Republic. Noem said on X that Aybar-Berroa entered the country in 2022 and was ordered to leave a year later by an immigration judge. Two law enforcement sources told NBC News that the encounter appeared to be random and that it was an attempted robbery. Tisch said the CBP agent was sitting on the rocks along the water in the Manhattan park when two men rode up to him on a scooter and one of them got off, approaching him from behind. One of the men took out a gun, at which point the agent realized he was being robbed and took out his firearm in defense, Tisch said. The gunman fired at the agent, who returned fire, she said. The CBP agent was hit in the face and on the forearm, Tisch said. Mayor Eric Adams said he had visited the agent in the hospital as the agent recovered with family members. His condition was unknown. The incident was caught on CCTV, allowing detectives to match Mora with the person shown firing at the CBP agent, Tisch said. Mora went to Bronx Care Hospital after midnight with gunshot wounds to the groin and a leg consistent with those sustained by the person who shot the agent, Tisch said, citing the security video. Trump highlights shooter’s immigration status Adams said Mora is known by law enforcement and has had repeated and violent past encounters with officials. Tisch said Mora is also in the United States illegally, having entered through Arizona in 2023. He has two previous arrests for domestic violence in New York and an active warrant after he did not show up in court in one of those cases, Tisch said. Mora was also wanted by New York police in connection with an alleged robbery in December and an alleged stabbing in January, she said. Mora was in police custody at Lincoln Hospital, where he had surgery, Tisch said. Adams said of Mora at the news conference Sunday: “In less than one year, he has inflicted violence in our city. And once he is charged for last night’s crimes, we will be able to add attempted murder to his rap sheet.” President Donald Trump called the person of interest an “Illegal Alien Monster” on Truth Social on Sunday and said Democrats “have flooded our Nation with Criminal Invaders.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on X that Mora is from the Dominican Republic. Trump has long highlighted crimes committed by undocumented migrants as reasons for harsh immigration crackdowns, despite evidence showing that the undocumented population commits fewer crimes than natural-born U.S. citizens. Expert analysis and available data from major-city police departments reviewed by NBC News last year showed that despite some high-profile incidents, there was no evidence of a migrant-driven crime wave in the United States. In December 2020, researchers studying Texas crime statistics found that “contrary to public perception, we observe considerably lower felony arrest rates among undocumented immigrants compared to legal immigrants and native-born U.S. citizens and find no evidence that undocumented criminality has increased in recent years.” In the first months of his second term, Trump and his administration have been cracking down on arrests of undocumented immigrants, with promises to deport violent criminals. Most of those in immigration custody, however, do not have criminal records, according to data. As of June, after six months of aggressive immigration enforcement, only a small fraction of undocumented immigrants known by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as having been convicted of sexual assault and homicide had been arrested, internal ICE data obtained by NBC News showed. From Oct. 1 through May 31, 185,042 people were arrested and booked into ICE facilities. Of that group, 65,041 had been convicted of crimes, the data showed. Other ICE data showed that nearly half of those in ICE custody had neither been convicted of nor been charged with any crime. In a statement Monday, acting ICE Director Todd M. Lyons said that “sanctuary city policies and the Biden administration’s open border policies allowed two criminal illegal aliens to enter this country, roam free and commit multiple crimes with no repercussions.” “Habitual criminals who weren’t even supposed to be in the United States shot an off-duty federal officer in one perpetrator’s second armed robbery this year,” Lyons said. “I’m tremendously relieved that this CBP officer will recover, but the bottom line is that this shouldn’t have happened.” Rebecca Cohen Rebecca Cohen is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital. Jonathan Dienst Jonathan Dienst is chief justice contributor for NBC News and chief investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York. 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A SkyWest flight had to perform a go-around maneuver after it nearly collided with a B-52 bomber Friday before landing in North Dakota. The air traffic control tower had cleared the plane to approach the airport, but the pilot “performed a go-around when another aircraft became visible in their flight path,” SkyWest said in a statement. The SkyWest pilot identified the second plane as a B-52 bomber. The Air Force said Sunday evening that it was “looking into” reports of a military aircraft “operating in the same airspace” as a commercial airplane. It added that a B-52 assigned to Minot Air Force Base had conducted a flyover of the North Dakota State Fair on Friday evening. Delta Flight 3788, operated by SkyWest, landed safely in Minot, North Dakota, after it flew in from Minneapolis, the airline said. SkyWest said it is investigating the incident. The near-collision Friday comes just six months after a military helicopter hit a passenger plane near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, killing 67 people. In video posted to social media and verified by NBC News, the plane’s pilot explains to passengers what happened in the air and apologizes for what he called an “aggressive maneuver.” The pilot says that the ATC tower instructed him to turn right but that when he looked over, he saw a B-52 bomber. He says that he was then instructed to turn left but that at that point, he looked over and “saw the airplane that was kind of coming on a converging course with us.” The second aircraft was moving faster than the SkyWest plane, the pilot says, so he made the decision to turn behind it. “So, sorry about the aggressive maneuver. It caught me by surprise,” the pilot says in the video. “This is not normal at all. I don’t know why they didn’t give us a heads up.” The pilot concludes: “Long story short, it was not fun, but I do apologize for it, and thank you for understanding.” The passengers applaud, the video shows. The passenger who recorded the video, Monica Green, said she was “so sick to my stomach that that was so close to happening.” She said she felt the plane take a hard turn and then “I just remember the plane going, like, sideways … and just looking straight out the window and just seeing grass, like you weren’t seeing the skyline anymore.” She said she is anxious about returning to the airport in Minot to fly home. In the video, the pilot also mentions that the tower that serves Minot International Airport does not have a radar and that controllers rely only on visuals to make calls. The Air Force Base nearby does have radar, the pilot says, which causes him to wonder why nobody said, “Hey, there’s also a B-52 in the pattern.” NBC News aviation analyst Jeff Guzzetti said the lack of radar capability at smaller airport is not at all uncommon. “There are many small airports across the country that have commercial service that don’t have radar. Instead, they’ll have some sort of coordinating communication with another radar facility several miles away, perhaps with a military base,” Guzzetti said. Since the airport in Minot is so small, the federal government allows it to be a “contract tower,” Guzzetti said. That means the air traffic controllers are not federal employees but are contractors hired by the FAA who are usually retired controllers. Contract towers are also not unheard of, he said — there are 265 of them in the United States. The key question, Guzzetti said, is how much coordination there was between the Air Force base and the airport. “I wouldn’t think that you would need a more powerful radar system or a larger tower to prevent things like this,” Guzzetti said. “I just think that you need good coordination between the military base and the local civilian airport to work together to avoid these types of near misses.” Rebecca Cohen Rebecca Cohen is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital. Maggie Vespa NBC News Correspondent Selina Guevara Selina Guevara is an NBC News associate producer, based in Chicago. Jay Blackman Jay Blackman is an NBC News producer covering such areas as transportation, space, medical and consumer issues. Courtney Kube and Samantha Wei contributed . Read More

President Donald Trump wants Washington’s football franchise and Cleveland’s baseball team to revert to their former names. Trump said Sunday on his Truth Social site that “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!” Josh Harris, whose group bought the Commanders from former owner Dan Snyder in 2023, said earlier this year the name was here to stay. Not long after taking over, Harris quieted speculation about going back to Redskins, saying that would not happen. Guardians president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti indicated before Sunday’s game against the Athletics that there weren’t any plans to revisit the name change. “We understand there are different perspectives on the decision we made a few years ago, but obviously it’s a decision we made. We’ve got the opportunity to build a brand as the Guardians over the last four years and are excited about the future that’s in front of us,” he said. Both teams have had their current names since the 2022 seasons. Washington dropped Redskins after the 2019 season and was known as the Washington Football Team for two years before moving to Commanders. Cleveland announced in December 2020 it would drop Indians. It announced the switch to Guardians in July 2021. In 2018, the team phased out “Chief Wahoo” as its primary logo. The name changes had their share of supporters and critics as part of national discussions about institutions and teams dropping logos and names considered racist. The Guardians are the fifth name for Cleveland’s baseball franchise. It joined the American League in 1901 as one of the eight charter franchises as the Blues. It switched to the Bronchos a year later and used the Naps from 1903 through 1914 before moving to the Indians in 1915. Washington started in Boston as the Redskins in 1933 before moving to the nation’s capital four years later. Washington and Cleveland share another thing in common. David Blitzer is a member of Harris’ ownership group with the Commanders and holds a minority stake in the Guardians. Read More