Today is Wednesday, June 25, the 176th day of 2025. There are 189 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On June 25,1973, former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.

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In 1876, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand, began in southeastern Montana Territory. As many as 100 Native Americans were killed in the battle, as were 268 people attached to the 7th Cavalry Regiment, including George Armstrong Custer and Mark Kellogg, the first Associated Press reporter to die in the line of duty.

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In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set a minimum wage, guaranteed overtime pay and banned “oppressive child labor,” was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1947, “The Diary of a Young Girl,” the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.

In 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South. The conflict would last for over three years and would be responsible for an estimated 4 million deaths, an estimated 3 million of whom were civilians.

In 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, its first “right-to-die” decision, ruled 5-4 that family members could be barred from ending the lives of persistently comatose relatives who had not made their wishes known conclusively.

In 1993, Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada’s 19th prime minister, the first woman to hold the post.

In 1996, a truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.

In 2015, in the case of King v. Burwell, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in a 6-3 ruling that preserved health insurance for millions of Americans.

In 2021, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose death led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations.

Today’s Birthdays:

Actor June Lockhart is 100.
Civil rights activist James Meredith is 92.
Singer Carly Simon is 82.
Actor-comedian Jimmie Walker is 78.
Musician Tim Finn is 73.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 71.
Actor-writer-comedian Ricky Gervais is 64.
Hockey Hall of Famer Doug Gilmour is 62.
Author Yann Martel (“Life of Pi”) is 62.
Actor Angela Kinsey (“The Office”) is 54.
Actor Linda Cardellini is 50.
Actor Busy Philipps is 46.

In the aftermath of another tough loss — this one the Twins’ ninth straight defeat in a one-run game — Chris Paddack echoed a sentiment he shared in early April when things weren’t going the Twins’ way.

“Keep the faith, Minnesota,” the starting pitcher said. “We’re not going anywhere. We’re busting our butts every day. This little funk that we’re in, this little storm that’s happening, it’s going to go away. And things are going to happen good for the Twins here soon.”

His hopeful message, on the heels of a 6-5 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night at Target Field, comes at a time where many Twins fans are likely losing faith daily. The Twins (37-42) have now lost five straight, 11 of 12, and are 6-16 in the month of June.

Their latest loss came in a game that slipped away in the ninth inning when closer Jhoan Duran, after getting the first out of the inning and then getting ahead 0-2 on former teammate Jorge Polanco, hit him with a pitch, putting him on. He would allow a single and hit another batter before Julio Rodríguez’s sacrifice fly brought home what would become the game-winning run for Seattle (41-37).

“I tried to throw the best pitch to Julio, and he made the contact he wanted,” Duran said. “He won this time.”

It actually Rodríguez’s second sacrifice fly of the day, the first coming as part of a third inning that spiraled away from Paddack.

The Mariners began the inning with two straight hits before J.P. Crawford dropped down a bunt that Paddack collected and then airmailed to first base. Instead of having two runners on and one out, the Mariners had the bases loaded, nobody out, setting the stage for the big inning.

Paddack said third baseman Brooks Lee had called him off, but he believed it was going to be a bang-bang play and that he needed to grab it.

“If I get that out, does the inning change? I think it does,” Paddack said. “I don’t end up throwing close to 40 pitches. Instead of five (runs), maybe it’s two, maybe it’s three. It keeps us in the game, and we end up winning that ballgame.”

Still, the Twins gave themselves a chance to win, pulling themselves out of the five-run deficit over the course of two innings.

Kody Clemens got the Twins on the board in the bottom of the third with his eighth home run. Then in the fourth inning, Trevor Larnach sparked the offense with some aggressive baserunning, hustling to second on a play that looked destined to be a single.

“Trevor is standing on second base with a double, and then things start happening,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “It’s probably not by accident that that’s the way it works.”

Larnach scored on a hit by Lee. Another run came around when Ty France bounced into a double play. Then with one big, timely swing, catcher Ryan Jeffers tied the game  with a double off Mariners starter Luis Castillo that hit off the wall in left field.

The Twins held the Mariners off for the next few innings thanks to the efforts of Paddack, who went five innings, Louie Varland, Griffin Jax and Brock Stewart. But they were unable to overcome Seattle for the second straight night.

“It’s disappointing, because you’re right there,” Baldelli said. “One swing or a clean inning in the ninth and you’re right there. You’ve got the opportunities, and that’s all you can ask for is the opportunities. You’ve got to come through.”

This year’s PWHL draft was said to be loaded with top-tier defenders, which was good news for the Minnesota Frost, who were hit hard along the blue line with a pair of key losses due to expansion.

By the time the Frost were on the clock with the sixth pick on Tuesday night at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Ottawa, three defenders already had been selected, But they still were able to add a highly touted player in Quinnipiac captain Kendall Cooper.

A right-handed shot, Cooper has been added in hopes of filling the void created with the loss of Sophie Jaques, who signed a free-agent deal with Vancouver.

Last week, the Frost signed defender Sidney Morin to a two-year free-agent contract, easing the loss of Claire Thompson.

The 30-year-old Morin, a native of Minnetonka, played the past two seasons for Boston.

The Frost used their second-round pick to select St. Lawrence forward Abby Hustler, a 2024 Patty Kazmaier finalist. They added one of Hustler’s St. Lawrence teammates in the third round, selecting versatile forward Anna Segedi.

The Frost added Connecticut defender Ava Rinker in the fourth round.

The 23-year-old Cooper, an Ontario native, played for Canada’s Under 18 team in the world championships. At Quinnipiac, she collected 116 points in 158 career games for the Bobcats.

“I’m going to play any role they need me to play,” Cooper said shortly after being selected. “I try to pride myself on consistency, someone who can be reliable to do the right thing out there.”

The 22-year-old Hustler led St. Lawrence in scoring in three of her four seasons with the Saints. She led her team in scoring this season with 19 goals and 20 assists.

Gophers center Ella Huber went to Boston in the second round as the 10th overall pick. Montreal selected her teammate, Natalie Mlynkova, two picks later.

“It’s a crazy day, because you don’t know where you’re going to be picked or when,” Huber said. “So the no-control thing is pretty crazy, so just having peace with that.”

The New York Sirens had the first overall pick and selected Kristyna Kelsounkova, a high-scoring forward out of Colgate. The Boston Fleet took Clarkson defenseman Haley Winn with the second pick.

New York then traded defender Ella Shelton to the Toronto Sceptres for the third pick and selected Wisconsin forward Casey O’Brien. Defenseman Nicole Gosling went to the Montreal Victoire with the fourth pick.

Chanhassen’s Rory Guilday, a defender from Cornell, was taken by the Ottawa Charge. Vancouver used its first pick to take Finnish forward Michelle Karvinen. Seattle closed out the first round by selecting Ohio State forward Jenna Buglioni.

Briefly

Edina’s Lily Delianedis, who played collegiately at Cornell, was selected by Seattle in the third round.

Gophers forward Peyton Hemp was selected by Ottawa in the fourth round.

Alanna Smith scored a career-high 26 points and tied a career-high with six blocks Tuesday night in Washington.

Jessica Shepard was solid in her first game back after missing four, with 12 points and 15 rebounds. But she and Smith didn’t get enough offensive help.

In scoring their fewest points this season, the Lynx lost 68-64 to the Mystics.

The blame can easily be directed at failing to hold on to the basketball. Minnesota committed 19 turnovers that the Mystics turned into 26 points.

Courtney Williams had 10 of Minnesota’s miscues, including one that Sug Sutton turned into a layup for a 66-64 Mystics lead with 27.2 seconds left.

Williams missed a jumper with 15.2 seconds left and Sonia Citron made two late free throws to seal the win.

Minnesota’s final basket came with 8:48 remaining, missing six shots and making six of 12 free throws the rest of the way. The Lynx scored just nine points in the final 10 minutes, a season-low for a quarter.

“We had chances, we couldn’t get the free throws to get enough separation,” said Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve. “Clearly our defense was good enough. We should be the team that gets the stop, and then gets the possession and then at least gets a shot out of it, and we couldn’t catch the basketball, then turn it over and give them two points. That was frustrating to watch.”

The Lynx (12-2) were playing their second straight game without Napheesa Collier (lower back), the league’s top scorer and the league’s reigning Defensive Player of the Year.

Shepard had the first four points and Smith scored the next 13 as Minnesota jumped out to a 17-6 lead. A 3-point play by McBride pushed the lead to 14. But, as part of a 23-4 run, the Mystics cut it to two by quarter’s end.

“Rebounding, turnovers, I think were our biggest problems in the first half. And then when push came to shove, probably free throws. But we need to be able to rebound the ball and take care of the ball a lot better,” Smith said.

Washington (7-8) had a 40-39 rebounding advantage.

Minnesota’s starting backcourt of Williams and Kayla McBride was a combined 3 for 20 as the Lynx shot just 37.9%.

“They outplayed, they out-physicaled us, they out-toughed us, they out-wanted us. They took the game. They took it. They were aggressive, they wanted it, and the guard play for us was just not good enough” Reeve said.

Shepard returned after missing four games to play for Slovenia in the 2025 FIBA EuroBasket tournament, where she was playing 30-plus minutes per game. In three starts there, she averaged 22.7 ppg and 11.3 rebounds.

Trailing by six with less than four minutes to play in the third quarter, Shepard scored five points in an 11-4 Lynx run — capped by putting back a Bridget Carleton miss a split-second before the third quarter expired — for a 55-54 Lynx lead.

It is the first time in 11 games the Lynx lost this season when leading or tied after three quarters.