Today is Saturday, June 28, the 179th day of 2025. There are 186 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On June 28, 1914, in an act that sparked World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip.

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In 1863, during the Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. George G. Meade as the new commander of the Army of the Potomac, following the resignation of Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.

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In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending the First World War.

In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Alien Registration Act, also known as the Smith Act, which required adult foreigners residing in the U.S. to be registered and fingerprinted.

In 1969, riots broke out following a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ+ bar in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, leading to six days of violent protests that served as a watershed moment in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

In 1997, boxer Mike Tyson was disqualified from his rematch with heavyweight titleholder Evander Holyfield after Tyson bit Holyfield twice in the third round, including biting off a portion of Holyfield’s right ear.

In 2000, seven months after he was found adrift in the Straits of Florida, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba.

In 2017, a man armed with a shotgun attacked the offices of The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, killing four journalists and a staffer before police stormed the building and arrested him; authorities said Jarrod Ramos had a long-running grudge against the newspaper for its reporting of a harassment case against him. (Ramos would be convicted and sentenced to six life sentences plus 345 years in prison.)

In 2019, avowed white supremacist James Alex Fields, who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a young woman and injuring dozens, apologized for his actions before being sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges.

In 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.

Today’s Birthdays:

Filmmaker-comedian Mel Brooks is 99.
Diplomat and politician Hans Blix is 97.
Actor Bruce Davison is 79.
Actor Kathy Bates is 77.
Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 65.
Actor John Cusack is 59.
Actor Mary Stuart Masterson is 59.
Actor Tichina Arnold is 56.
Filmmaker-actor Mike White is 55.
Business executive Elon Musk is 54.
Actor Alessandro Nivola is 53.
Country singer-TV personality Kellie Pickler is 38.
Olympic track gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah is 33.

Comcast is simplifying how it sells internet services to consumers.

It will provide the same options everywhere, a major shift from the websites of yore that displayed option variations from state to state and even neighborhood to neighborhood.

There are now four plans for all: 300 megabits per second, 500 Mbps, 1 gigabit per second and 2 Gbps. These are all unlimited-use plans with no caps or overage charges, but they are usually not symmetrical (uploads are still much slower than downloads in most cases).

The plans are provided across three pricing tiers:

An “Everyday Price” paid monthly with no price guarantee
A lower price per month with a one-year price guarantee
A price per month with a five-year guarantee that is a a bit pricier than the one-year option but cheaper than the Everyday Price.

See Comcast’s grid below:

Also included with the new plans:

An Xfinity WiFi Gateway modem with none of the fees typically associated with such internet-provider device rentals
A free line of Xfinity Mobile cellular service for one year, with no fees or taxes.

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As expected, the Minnesota Wild were quiet on the lengthy first night of the NHL Draft on Friday, with their opening round pick traded away last season. But that doesn’t mean the State of Hockey was without a presence as 32 building blocks of the league’s future had their names called in Southern California.

Woodbury defenseman Logan Hensler, after a standout freshman year at Wisconsin, will be headed back to Madison for another season of college hockey, but his on-ice future is in Ottawa after the Senators drafted him 23rd overall on Friday.

Interviewed on stage at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, Hensler admitted that he was nervous waiting for his name to be called, but was happy to be picked in the top 25.

With several members of his family in attendance, Hensler did interviews and talked to officials from the Senators remotely, as the NHL tried its first “decentralized” draft, with officials from all 32 teams based in their home cities, rather than in one arena as has been done traditionally. The new format had some glitches, with the first round lasting more than four hours, and technical difficulties preventing some picks from speaking live to officials from the teams that drafted them.

“I think we all missed the old style,” said Wild general manager Bill Guerin, after his hockey operations team spent an evening he called “long and slow” in the team’s war room set up in the locker room at TRIA Rink. “I think the most important thing is what it’s like for the players. It’s not about us, it’s about these kids getting drafted and their experience.”

After playing prep hockey at Hill-Murray as a sophomore, Hensler spent two seasons with USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program in Michigan, then posted a dozen points as a college hockey rookie with the Badgers last season. With celebrity hockey fans announcing each team’s pick, Ottawa native and once-popular comedian Tom Green called Hensler’s name.

With the 29th pick, Chicago traded up to select two-sport Edina High School star Mason West, who is committed to the Michigan State hockey program, but will also be the Hornets’ starting quarterback as a prep senior this fall, before playing hockey for Fargo in the USHL.

On a night where trades were rare, nothing materialized that enticed the Wild to try to get back into the Friday night fray. They will pick 52nd overall in the second round on Saturday, with the picks beginning at 11 a.m. CDT. Guerin admitted that they weren’t close on any potential moves into the first round on Friday.

“I’m not too surprised. Everybody needs players and it just seems like a difficult year to make deals,” he said.

After weeks of speculation about their assorted offers to move down, the New York Islanders took their draft lottery winnings and invested them in defense, grabbing Matthew Schaefer with the first overall pick. The 17-year-old who spent limited time last season on the blue line for the Erie (Pa.) Otters of the Ontario Hockey League due to illness and injury, becomes the fifth player selected first overall by the Islanders, and the first since John Tavares in 2009.

Schaefer, who lost his mother to breast cancer two years ago, donned an Islanders jersey on stage, kissing the purple cancer ribbon on the jersey and pointing to the sky in honor of his mother.

Earlier in the day, the Islanders traded veteran defenseman Noah Dobson, their 2018 first round pick, to Montreal in exchange for a pair of picks later in Friday’s first round and forward prospect Emil Heineman.

San Jose used the second pick on major junior forward Michael Misa, while Chicago grabbed Swedish center Anton Frondell. Boston College standout forward James Hagens, predicted by many to be a top-three pick, fell to seventh and will stay in Boston after the Bruins grabbed him.

With the 20th pick, which originally belonged to the Wild prior to their trade for defenseman David Jiricek in November 2024, the Columbus Blue Jackets took the first goalie off the board, grabbing 18-year-old Russian Pyotr Andreyanov.

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Napheesa Collier returned with a 26-point, seven-rebound, six-assist effort, including a couple huge baskets in overtime and the Lynx scored 10 of the final 12 points to win 96-92 in Atlanta.

Kayla McBride finished with 18 points, including making all six free throws, Courtney Williams responded with 16 points and eight assists, and Bridget Carleton had a season-high four 3-pointers as part of a 14-point outing.

Collier, who missed the last two games with lower back soreness, came up clutch late.

Down by four in overtime, Williams scored on a pullup jumper and, after an Atlanta miss, a perfect pass from Williams set Collier up for a layup to even things back up with 1:45 to play.

The Lynx tied a season high with 30 assists.

A turnaround, fadeaway jumper by Collier gave the Lynx a lead with 1:11 left in the extra session.
Atlanta though they’d have a chance to tie it when Alanna Smith was whistled for a foul with 20.5 seconds left; however, the call was overturned after a lengthy video review. A pair of McBride free throws put the Lynx up by four.

The Dream scored inside at the other end, but McBride made a couple more from the charity stripe with 13.6 seconds left.

The Lynx (13-2) tied a season high with 13 makes from deep and avoided losing back-to-back games for the first time this season.

Long-distance shooting is what kept Minnesota in the game because the Dream (10-6) were able to impose their will in the paint, scoring a season-high 52 points in close and had a 40-28 rebounding advantage. Atlanta was 22 of 27 from the free-throw line. Minnesota was 17 of 18.

Jordin Canada split a pair of Lynx defenders for a driving layup with 3:49 in regulation to play and the Dream, who trailed by as many as 17 in the second quarter, had its biggest lead at 82-75.

A McBride triple got the Lynx within 84-82 with 1:29 left. Brionna Jones (putback) and Collier (layup) swapped baskets and Collier added a couple free throws with 21 ticks left.

The Dream had one last try to win it in regulation, but smothering defense by McBride forced Rhyne Howard into a desperation, off-balance long jumper.

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