
Trump's ULTIMATUM to Iran That Could Spark EVERYTHING
Iran denies offering to negotiate in return for a U.S. bombing pause. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visits the White House on Tuesday.
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Iran denies offering to negotiate in return for a U.S. bombing pause. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visits the White House on Tuesday.
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Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can emblazon with their X username. Other perks include Apple Wallet support and free money transfers on X. It also advertises "up to" a 6 percent APY, but only Premium Plus subscribers are eligible for it - standard Premium subscribers have to dep

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.

Many legacy hardware and software players are increasingly seeing value in entering the healthcare arena.

Investors are fretting over a report that Nvidia could backstop an OpenAI data-center lease, in what would be the largest such arrangement yet.
Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

Hundreds of conversations with Anthropic’s chatbot were discovered as being publicly accessible.

Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles will be available on Freenow, the mobility network that Lyft acquired in 2025.
Sometime in June of 2026, without ceremony, human beings became a minority on the internet they built. Cloudflare, which manages traffic for millions of websites, reported that bots now generate 57.5% of web page requests. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had predicted in March that the crossover wouldn’t happen until the end of 2027. It arrived more than a year early. Global defense and technology leader Thales, in its annual “Bad Bot Report,” argues that machines became the majority back in 2023.
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Sam Altman said during a recent podcast that we are in the singularity. Media has gone wild. Let's be mindful. An AI Insider analysis with a steady hand.

Hugging Face isn’t doing much to prevent the AI models it hosts from spitting out sexualized deepfakes. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which found that seven out of the top nine image editing models hosted by Hugging Face readily complied w
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Earlier this year, we showed two of our interns, both bright young people in their twenties, an early build of an AI-generated presenter we were developing for training content. I expected them to take to her instantly. These are young people who grew up on social media and inside video games, people who had never known a world without smartphones and YouTube. They were the archetypal digital natives. If anyone would be comfortable with an AI avatar, surely it was them. I was wrong. To put it b

China is reportedly producing a key chip tool in a market dominated by ASML. But analysts questioned China's ability to compete with the Dutch giant.
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Inside the slick new Terminal B at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, a headless robotic “dog” is beginning to patrol the floors. As bemused airport travelers watch from close by, the four-wheeled device rolls around baggage claim, where it’s been deployed for a demonstration. Its job: sniffing. Well, sort of. The robot is armed with air quality detectors that the airport team says help monitor the terminal for pollutants. This robot, along with two others, constitutes a fledgling automated fleet th

Leaders love quick wins. When AI lands in their organization, the instinct is immediate: find repetitive tasks and automate them. Speed up invoice processing. Summarize customer emails. Route support tickets. As a result, metrics improve. Time savings appear. Progress feels real. But this is the biggest and most common mistake I see across industries: Companies are using artificial intelligence to accelerate workflows they should be eliminating. The result is faster versions of legacy processes

Dyson’s new stick vacuum can vacuum and mop in a single cordless device—if you’re willing to really splurge.

In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

AI companies use tokens to track usage and bill customers. Now economists are using them to track the spread of AI through the economy.
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At Oxman, a New York design studio, you’ll find four capes. They hang off a mannequin in soft folds, each knitted from a single piece of silk. Their color is uneven. Deep indigo collects in the ridges of the material, black shades in the valleys, blues appear in slightly crooked lines. The pigment is streaked and faded, so no two sections look the same. A commercial dye house would call this a defect and throw it out. But here, the inconsistency is the point. The color on the fabric was not prod

When Alyssa Gangeri was running restaurants in New York more than a decade ago, Yelp was the bane of her existence, she says. She would regularly go down a rabbit hole, reading her restaurant’s reviews and scouring them for clues about when the diners had visited or who had served them. Both Gangeri and Yelp have evolved. Yelp has expanded beyond being a hub for reviews of local businesses into offering tools for those businesses. And today, Gangeri uses the company’s products to help run The Bu

Over the last few months, I've spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology - even the fastest, cheapest models are getting very good at understanding and processing speech. I've tested lots of these apps, from WisprFlow to Monologue to Spokenly to Handy to so many others, and have found them all to be useful ways to quickly write emails, Slack messages, and more. They sometimes default to

Should you splurge on the new Series 11, or will the SE 3 do? Let us help you figure out which version to get (and which to avoid).

This image shows which Apple devices are included in its new leasing program. | Image: Apple Apple has officially introduced "Apple Upgrade," a new leasing program that aims to make it easier to get your hands on the latest iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models. The service is launching today in the US, and works like a car lease - allowing users to keep a device at the end of their subscription period, pay off the device early, or upgrade early to a new model. This leasing program is roll
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Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a "general-purpose digital worker" that can access local files and apps to perform actions on your behalf, such as creating documents and updating spreadsheets. This launch builds on Personal Computer integrations that Perplexity launc

Logitech's new gaming boss, Robin Piispanen, tells me he likes the idea of gaming handhelds. "It's such a charming value proposition," he says, as we sip iced vanilla lattes at my local cafe. But he's not building one right now. He's not sure when or if Logitech should try again, after its underwhelming experiment with the Logitech G Cloud streaming handheld. "Right now, in this moment in time, there's bigger things for us to focus on than doing a second G Cloud," he tells me. Personally, I fe

Until recently, governance felt like a solved problem—critical but entirely manageable. With the rise of AI, it is now the dominant enterprise anxiety. AI projects are stalling because companies lack the governance, visibility, and controls to deploy them effectively. I’ve watched this pattern play out across industries over the past two years. Organizations that moved quickly on adoption saw strong results in isolated use cases, but soon discovered their accountability infrastructure had not ke

People have found plenty to dislike about data centers, from their massive energy and water usage to their potential to drive up the cost of living in surrounding areas. But perhaps the biggest anxiety around data center development is the threat of noise pollution, and one Michigan community in crisis is arguing that living down the block from a data center can be nightmarish. Since 2024, residents in Dowagiac, Michigan, have reported nonstop noise from a local data center, not only making it u

On an incredibly detailed new map, you can look through the world’s 120,000-plus power plants, from solar and wind farms to battery storage and coal and gas plants, along with nearly 3 million miles of transmission lines and hundreds of thousands of substations. Other layers include gas pipelines, flood risk, and power-hungry data centers. The map was built by Brian Bartholomew, an energy consultant who created it as part of a side project called OpenGridWorks, which provides publicly accessible

The program represents a historic shift in how the company sells its consumer electronics at a time when consumers are worried about high prices.
Granola debutes an Apple Watch app for in-person notetaking
Following the original's debut at CES earlier this year, Twelve South is introducing a new version of its leather-wrapped Valet charging tray designed for use in places where space is at a premium. While the original Valet was 7.5-inches deep and large enough to serve as a catchall for a couple of items like your wallet and keys, the new Valet nearly halves that to 4.5-inches deep, so it's better suited for single items, like a pair of glasses. Despite being smaller, the new Valet brings some we

It’s not fancy, but it gets the job done for hours and hours on a single charge. Despite what influencers may say, you don’t need to spend $99.99 on Dyson’s HushJet Mini Cool or $149.99 for the Shark ChillPill to survive the summer whenever you leave the comfort of air-conditioning. My family has found all the comfort it needs to survive humid baseball games, sweltering concerts, and sweaty hikes with a couple of affordable handheld fans from a Chinese company called JisuLife that has spent th

Recursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date.
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.
Veo is launching accessibility-focused electric tricycles in Denver, with plans to put its e-trikes on the streets nationwide.

Visa plans to cut about 7% of its workforce, or roughly 2,600 employees, as CEO Ryan McInerney seeks to streamline the payments giant.
A couple of years ago, I started falling asleep with Apple’s AirPods Pro in my ears. I’m a side sleeper, so this involves trying to carefully tuck my head into my pillow in a way that minimizes ear pain. It also means being jolted awake by low battery warnings during the night, then waiting for enough charge to pop them back in again. The ordeal is worthwhile, though, just to block out snores and calm my racing brain with a podcast or some ambient noise. This makes me an ideal candidate for Ozlo

The app is currently available to X Premium and Premium+ subscribers in the U.S.
Tech Stocks Tumble on Worries About A.I. Spending and China’s Chip Competition The New York Times Micron, SK Hynix stocks sink as AI chip sell-off deepens Yahoo Finance Stock Market Today: Chip Stocks Under Pressure as AI Worries Push Investors to Other Sectors WSJ GSK invests £400m to move research centre to Cambridge as Burnham praises ‘vote of confidence’ in UK - business live The Guardian Chip Rout Deepens on Circular Funding, China Competition Fears Bloomberg.com
For years, we've heard rumors of a new home hub device from Apple, meant to take on smart home devices like the Google Nest Hub Mini and Amazon's Echo Show. Besides "HomePod with a screen," details have been sparse. But now, a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman sheds some light on the alleged device, as well as a potential release window. According to Gurman, the new smart hub will feature a 7-inch square display and a brand-new operating system based on Apple's tvOS, with "grids of icons,

Similar to the smartphone and desktop apps, the web app will support the calling features such as screen-sharing and reactions.
On the heels of a $1.5 billion copyright infringement ruling against Anthropic, OpenAI has adjusted ChatGPT’s programming to refuse requests to mimic the style of well-known authors. While the chatbot used to happily write in the voice of professional writers, attempts to convince it to do so now are met with a polite refusal and an suggested alternative. Fast Company, for instance, asked ChatGPT to write a story about a family in the Depression in the voice of John Steinbeck. The chatbot replie

The decision arrives as the breakneck pace of data center construction has grid operators scrambling to generate power.
The first modern GPU with 4GB of VRAM has appeared, as RAM prices and component shortages push tech prices higher. As Digital Foundry reports, a listing for an AMD Radeon RX 9050 with 4GB of RAM was spotted on ASRock's website by a user on X, the same day ASRock also launched an 8GB version of the RX 9050. Does it make sense to buy a graphics card with just 4GB of VRAM? According to the specs on ASRock's website, the 4GB version of the RX 9050 is built on AMD's RDNA 4 architecture and has a 64-

Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.
The U.S. wants development of military AI tools to move faster.

Big Tech’s binge is draining free cash flow — and the bond markets are taking notice.
The jockeying between Apple and Nvidia reflects a debate about the future of AI that has preoccupied investors this summer.
New Yorkers who want to see their Instagram or TikTok feed curated by an algorithm, or receive notification after midnight, will soon have to verify their ages to access those features. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) released a set of final rules on how to implement the SAFE for Kids Act, signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul (D) in June 2024. The rules lay out in more detail what social media platforms subject to the law will need to do in order to comply, including standards fo

The Tile Pro offers the longest Bluetooth range of any Tile tracker. | Image: Tile Apple’s latest AirTag may seem like the obvious choice if you own an iPhone and are shopping for a Bluetooth tracker, but it’s not the most affordable option. For families that contain both Android and Apple devices, it might be better to pick up the latest Tile Pro instead. It works well across both platforms, and right now it’s on sale for $23.99 ($11 off) at Amazon and directly from Tile. This is its cheapest

While the summer months are great for putting in the miles on your favorite bike, it can be frustrating to have to hang it up when the weather turns. This smart bike trainer turns your road bike into an indoor exercise bike, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to connect to your PC, iOS, or Android device, and support for a wide variety of interactive and training apps. Multiple retailers have the Kickr Core 2 on sale for $399.99 (usually $549.99) in both the Cog and Click version (Wahoo, Amazon) which fit

Apple says it won't limit the capabilities of devices leased through its new Upgrade program if you miss a payment. In an emailed statement to The Verge, Apple spokesperson Brian Bumbery says, "There will be no restricted mode and/or there will be no limitations put on device functionality due to missed payments or default with the Apple Upgrade program." This confirmation comes after 9to5Mac uncovered code in an iOS 27 beta for a new "App Managed Features" system. This would reportedly allow fi
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Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital pen pals and nature journals, here are the latest App Store finds worth adding to your Home Screen.
A YouTube Premium membership is about to come with a ton of new programming. According to an NBCUniversal announcement, starting early next year, YouTube Premium will include Peacock Premium at no additional cost. Peacock Premium Plus has already been available via YouTube Primetime Channels since late June. Under the new deal, Peacock content will be available to millions of YouTube Premium subscribers as well. The deal will also extend NBCUniversal’s multiyear distribution agreement with YouT

Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-California ) has proposed bill would direct federal regulators to establish minimum national safety standards for autonomous vehicle operators — action that follows a series of incidents in which robotaxis blocked fire trucks and impeded emergency responders.
In June, Nintendo announced a new version of the Switch 2 that should let you easily replace its battery pack - but only for Europe. Logitech will do much the same. User-replaceable batteries will be the law in Europe in February 2027, but instead of bringing them to the rest of the world, Logitech plans to ship one version of its wireless mice to Europe and a different version everywhere else. That's the word from Logitech's new gaming boss, Robin Piispanen. We talked about it over iced vanilla

Ozlo’s first major update to its sleep earbuds introduces longer battery life, improved connectivity, enhanced audio, and new sleep features as the startup continues the product line once abandoned by Bose.
It’s built into your phone. Into your email. Into your search engine. Artificial intelligence is everywhere, to the point that avoiding it seems nigh on impossible—but there are ways to disable or ignore AI features, and librarians around the world are teaching their tech-averse patrons the ropes. “Avoiding AI” workshops are springing up at libraries, where patrons who may not be familiar with the technology can hear the pros and cons of its use, as well as get step-by-step instructions on how t

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed," the employees wrote in a statement. "The world's leading Al companies believe they could be close to au

A Georgia man was charged with a felony for allegedly wiping his phone while being questioned by Customs and Border Protection. Samuel Tunick had something in common with others who have had their devices searched at airports: He was an activist. Unlike others who have had their phones seized with no explanation, Tunick was told that CBP needed to search his device to determine whether it contained child sexual abuse material, according to court filings. But Tunick's attorneys argue that the sea

The Hybrid adds Bluetooth functionality to the wired H3, seen here. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge While most gaming headsets have moved towards low-latency wireless connections, there’s something to be said for a budget-friendly, capable wired headset. The EPOS H3 Hybrid is on sale for just $24.99 at Woot, a whopping 75 percent off its original price of $99.99. It has an unorthodox batch of features: USB-A and 3.5mm options for connecting to a controller or a PC, and Bluetooth suppor

His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
The release of the Chinese AI model Kimi K3 was a flashpoint in the AI world, sharpening the debate over whether the most capable models should be closely held by individual companies, usually U.S. tech firms, or freely and transparently distributed in the tradition of open-source software. Not only did the high-performing Kimi K3 challenge the cherished Silicon Valley notion that Western AI labs still lead their Chinese counterparts in large language models, though likely by only a hair, but it

Wednesday’s earnings report will offer a read on whether Microsoft’s aggressive AI buildout is delivering appropriate returns
Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.
Back-to-school shopping usually means backpacks, notebooks and dorm-room basics. But for many families, a phone plan — or a first phone — has become just as essential. Boost Mobile is leaning into that rite of passage with a slate of back-to-school tech deals aimed at parents looking to get their kids connected without committing to a traditional […]

Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
"America won the first Space Race, and we can do it again — but only if we get government red tape out of the way," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
In June, UK staff at the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia became the first to announce their intentions to form a union. Now, US-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining the union drive, but management at the nonprofit have declined to voluntarily recognize their union. "While the Wikimedia Foundation touts to the public that they plan to take a neutral stance in our organizing efforts, they have already proven that not to be the case behind the scenes," a press release sent by Commu

eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga that revealed how eBay's former executives sent live insects, a bloody pig mask, a funeral wreath, and other strange items to David and Ina Steiner over their newsletter's coverage of eBay. The Steiners, who operate the EcommerceBytes newslett

In an interview, Meta’s chief executive took aim at Anthropic and OpenAI, which have pushed to tightly control A.I. development, and said he supported “more openness.”

The Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on "advanced robotic devices" and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission says the ban will include "mobile" robots, such as humanoid and quadruped models - but it is not limited to robots that walk around. Though the FCC says the move

Willie Nelson has spoken out against the construction of data centers across America, releasing a statement encouraging citizens to fight the proliferation of facilities that “only destroy the environment around them.” The country legend published an open letter on social media describing how he grew up in Abbott, Texas, and that the community needs to […]

Move comes as the Trump administration has increasingly sought to keep Chinese technology out of the US The Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on humanoid robots from China on Tuesday, saying that the technology poses “unacceptable risks” to the country’s national security. The move comes as the Trump administration has increasingly sought to keep Chinese technology out of the US. The FCC defines the banned robots as “advanced robotic devices”, which include humanoids and animal-l
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How much could a single underscore in a username really matter? Just ask Brandon Klayme, who served 18 months in prison before realizing how authorities arrested, charged, and convicted the wrong man.

Severe weather is also hampering flights in Chicago’s major airports.

CNBC's Jim Cramer said reports of Nvidia backing OpenAI's data center expansion revived memories of the financing arrangements that preceded the dot-com crash.
“Investors frequently receive only a small fraction of the shares they request — if they receive any at all.”
“His proposal involves a proprietary equity hedge strategy to manage $700,000 of my assets.”
Negotiating can be daunting, with 55% of US workers avoiding salary negotiations due to fear. Yet, it creates deeper, collaborative conversations if done correctly.

South Korean semiconductor shares tumbled on Tuesday, extending a rout in chipmakers after another weak session on Wall Street.
The proposed settlement aims to close a years-long legal battle over claims its talcs products cause cancer.

Attractive valuations, quick intervention by regulators and a return of foreign investors have helped propel Indonesian stocks reach bull-market status.
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Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday en route to Michigan, Trump dismissed suggestions that the U.S. was running short on weapons.
You might have heard the term “wildflowering” in the dating world. According to a piece in Psychology Today, it “means allowing a relationship to either wilt or bloom completely organically without enforcing any particular timelines, labels, or expectations.” In other words, it’s the idea of letting relationships unfold instead of trying to force them. According to Macaire Montini, VP of People and Culture at the HR platform HiBob, it’s also how careers should work in the AI era. Artificial int

AI stock sell-off deepens as investors dump chipmakers Financial Times Shares slip as chip stocks come under heavy selling: Here's why Yahoo Finance SK Hynix shares plunge 13% in Seoul as chip sell-off deepens CNBC Oil Extends Decline, Asian Stocks Set for Losses: Markets Wrap Bloomberg.com Asian chip stocks slide as China competition fears rattle AI trade Reuters
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A 50% Canadian whisky tariff begins August 19. See when bottle prices could rise, why increases will vary and which bottles face the greatest pressure in stores.

From New York to London to Hong Kong, Shein has seen its IPO bounce continents and its value miss recent peaks. Now it awaits investor appetite in a likely Fall listing.

Peter Drucker was the quintessential management visionary. Often decades ahead of his time, he developed concepts like the knowledge worker and management by objectives long before they were on anybody else’s radar. It was for good reason that the corporate elite hung on his every word as if they were supplicants granted an audience with an ancient oracle. Yet when Drucker first met Thomas J. Watson, he was taken aback. “He began talking about something called data processing,” Drucker recalled,

South Korea temporarily paused trading on Tuesday as its benchmark stock index led losses across the region, closing more than 10 percent lower.

In fact, experts recommend it because it can keep you off the hamster wheel of debt. Here's how to find the money in your budget to put toward savings and credit card payments.
“I plan to retire at the end of my 70th year and transition to Medicare.”
UPS beat Wall Street expectations and raised its full-year guidance in its second-quarter earnings report Tuesday.
Coca-Cola stock has risen 19% this year, outstripping the gains of the S&P 500.
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.

Unions have grown more popular in recent years, with 16.5 million workers represented by a union in 2025—the highest share of the overall workforce in 16 years. As workers have mounted high-profile union campaigns at companies like Starbucks and Amazon, some employers have openly pushed back on those efforts, in turn becoming increasingly vocal about their opposition to unions. New research from Cornell University indicates that a company’s stance on unions can have a measurable impact on its

Exchange-traded funds designed to make magnified bullish and bearish bets on swings in stocks and other areas of financial markets are closing down at a record pace.
How 209 Mare turned a €500 towelling blazer into a global luxury business, using Monaco, social media and smart distribution to create Rivierawear.

Elon Musk's space company has wiped off more than $1.2 trillion in market cap since hitting a high of $225.64 per share in June.
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Warsh will reveal how he weighs energy shocks, AI-driven price pressure, the Fed's task forces and pressure from Trump.
Cracker Barrel must decide between appealing to its most loyal diners or potentially alienating them by breaking from its roots.
Boeing took a $280 million charge on its long-delayed Air Force One program.
PayPal is showing progress on some metrics as a standalone company, but Wall Street is preoccupied with its deal prospects following recent news.
Health insurer Centene’s net income eclipsed $1 billion in the second quarter as the company is getting a better handle on rising costs of people in its health plans.

MICRO by The Fix launches at Cannes’ Hôtel Martinez this August, blending movement, breathwork and recovery before opening its permanent Chelsea home.

“I have an IRA, a high-yield savings account, four CDs and checking and savings accounts.”
Crypto investors have largely been exempt from the "wash sale" rules that apply to stocks and other traditional assets. Congress is trying to clamp down.
Climate disruption could prolong inflation. Look to refiners, tanker operators and agricultural stocks.
Most conversations about AI-ready leadership focus on the technology— which workflows to rebuild, which tools to buy. True, the CEO must endorse these decisions but that isn’t their role. In the AI era, their role is one of people transformation and the readiness that matters most is their own willingness to lead it first. At Star, we call this “organizational recomposition,” and it is by far a harder job than many realize. It means taking the talent, skills, and capabilities of the people you h

Spend five minutes reading the coverage coming out of Cannes this year and you’d think there weren’t any movie stars left on billion-dollar yachts in the harbor. The celebrities this year were creators, all making mega deals back on shore. Brands are building creator strategies. Agencies are launching creator practices. Investors are pouring capital into creator businesses. But from where I sit, after more than two decades running an entertainment marketing agency, something feels off. The marke

Beacon Wellness Brands, is expanding plusOne's accessible sexual wellness collection, including vibrators, into Ulta Beauty.

The market should recover its poise within the next few days, says Fundstrat’s Tom Lee.
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A driver’s seat that reclines on its own could pin rear passengers, regulators said.

Among the largest U.S. cities, Las Vegas saw the biggest drop in home prices, while Chicago saw the biggest increase.
There are financial challenges that come with being in a couple, but one of the greatest may be simply talking about money.
For Warren Buffett’s authorized biography, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, the billionaire investor gave writer Alice Schroeder unprecedented access to explore his opinions and philosophy of life. That exploration resulted in a book filled with rare gems. On the topic of career advancement, consider what Buffett said: “People ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most. It’s crazy to take little in-between jobs ju

I speak exclusively with Armarium founder Giorgia Gabriele about luxury’s pricing problem, why hospitality is winning and building an independent global label.

The iPhone maker recently regained its spot as the world’s most valuable company.

Americans’ confidence in the economy fell this month as gas prices resumed their climb after the U.S. and Iran stepped up their fighting

Japan is edging toward the exit on buying America’s debt. Here is why this matters to your retirement plans.
Most people don’t get a break in their tax rate until they retire, but there could be earlier opportunities
Brands have seen their power diminish as creators dominate the scene during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. That’s changing how companies approach celebrity endorsements.

Mamdani's proposed $70 million city-owned grocery stores promise cheaper eggs and milk. Basic economics suggests the savings may come with hidden costs.

Investors should focus more on earnings growth and less on capital expenditures, says Catalyst Funds’ chief investment officer.
Canal+ Group, the parent company of “Paddington” producer Studiocanal, saw its revenue climb 40% to €4.3 billion ($4.8 billion) for the first half of 2026, boosted by the acquisition of MultiChoice which has significantly expanded the pay-TV group’s footprint across Africa. The group, which is listed at the London stock exchange, said it had already […]

After reporting better-than-expected Q2 results, PayPal said it remains focused on its AI-driven turnaround, but would consider a deal that creates more value for shareholders.
Rising prices for care and managing chronic conditions helped drive up the forecast.
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Brokerages, startups and even retail investors are building AI agents that can help oversee portfolios and automate investing tasks once handled by humans.
Ina and David Steiner run a popular ecommerce blog that had angered eBay executives due to its critical coverage.
Shein disclosed the FTC is investigating its U.S. business, but the nature of the probe is unclear.
The Facebook and Instagram owner is set to report earnings after the market close on Wednesday.
Wall Street analysts expect Ford to report adjusted earnings per share of 35 cents and automotive revenue of $45.86 billion.
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Most software companies are expected to show a slowing pace of sales growth over the next two years. Oracle and DigitalOcean are among the exceptions.
The reserve has an authorized storage capacity of 714 million barrels, according to the Department of Energy.
The investment comes after speculation that Saudi Arabia may take Lucid Motors private -- which the EV maker has denied.
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer. The drugmaker, which has been fighting talc-related lawsuits for more than a decade, said that the settlement is conditioned on at least 95% of remaining claimants participating. A U.S. bankruptcy court judge denied a $9 billion settlement proposed by company subsidiary Red River Talc last year that would have been one of the biggest mass tort settlements in history.

We don't see signs of a slowdown in the parcel delivery industry, and believe FedEx is stealing share from its rival UPS.
Think bond funds are safer than stocks right now? Stocks actually look like the smarter bet.
The long tail of the eBay cyberstalking scandal has resulted in a nearly $56 million payout.
The U.S. Agriculture Department will allow cattle imports from Mexico to resume beginning in late August, despite the threat of the New World screwworm.
Boeing's second-quarter results leaped over Wall Street expectations on the financial metric that matters most.
It's been a rough month for Elon Musk, if there is such a thing for the world's richest man.
Coca-Cola’s stock is bucking consumer weakness as it heads toward a record high.
Working hard, or bear-ly working? | Cath Virginia It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter's projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google's new projected range - $195 billion - is much more than the company had previously forecast as its top end spending. Now, look, I recognize that there's an impulse to say things like "What's $15 billion between friend

The electric vehicle manufacturer recently denied reports of bankruptcy.

Geopolitical and valuation concerns are weighing down Palantir shares, while other software stocks ride a wave of rotation out of semiconductors.
Information overload and AI are driving digital fatigue, forcing brands to rethink how they build trust and connect with consumers.

Alphabet's free cash flow has turned negative, and the company lifted its capital spending forecast. Slower-growing cloud rivals report this week.
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For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.

Just weeks after driving major indexes such as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite to record highs, semiconductor stocks are taking a beating once again.
Investors are getting concerned that we may be near a period of “peak” defense spending, especially if control over Congress becomes divided.
This summer, millions of people have felt the dire consequences of climate change as they faced extreme, record-breaking heat. And the Big Oil companies fueling those heat waves are seeing their profits soar, a new analysis finds. In the first quarter of 2026, the world’s six biggest oil companies—BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies—saw a combined net income of $23 billion. For Q2, that figure is expected to nearly double to $45 billion, according to an Oxfam report based on

Loadings at a Mediterranean port have picked up as Saudi Arabia races to offer its oil to buyers through a lengthier — and more expensive — backdoor.
The $1,600 transaction is virtually immaterial but might be reputationally awkward for a company still digesting its largest-ever acquisition.

Can a screenshot still prove workplace harassment? A digital forensics expert on why cases that never needed forensics now depend on the device behind the message.

Fuel-cell maker also raises its 2026 guidance for the second straight time
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The storage maker’s June-quarter results come in ahead of Wall Street’s expectations, and the stock rallies after hours
Investors are worried about China’s domestic supply of chips and manufacturing tools, analysts noted.
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American Airlines said in a statement that a "technology issue briefly impacted connectivity" for some systems.

SK Hynix announced second quarter earnings on Wednesday, with profit reaching a record but still missing estimates. Revenue more than tripled year over year.
Hollywood powerbroker Ari Emanuel rallied to the defense of his friend and business associate David Ellison, claiming that the state attorneys general trying to block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery deal are threatening to “destroy” competition in the entertainment industry. Emanuel, who is CEO of TKO Group and former head of Endeavor, penned an op-ed published […]

A federal appeals court on Saturday kept the restrictions blocked in 23 states that sued, finding states must prepare for potentially disruptive election changes.
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The president also assured supporters that negotiations over ending the war in Iran, a conflict that has sent fuel and energy prices soaring, are continuing in a “friendly” fashion.
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Sen. Rand Paul has released a tranche of Dr. Anthony Fauci's diary entries from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci is set to appear before a Senate committee Wednesday on the origins of the coronavirus.
Pentagon relabels U.S. casualties caused by Iran amid scrutiny of wartime transparency The Washington Post Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting CNN Trump administration’s revision of Iran war casualties ‘huge disrespect’, say veterans The Guardian Military Families Express Outrage After Pentagon Lowers Number of U.S. Troop Deaths in Iran War The New York Times Pentagon’s official Iran war death toll no longer lists 4 troops killed during renewed fightin
Last week Andy Burnham announced he was pausing early release plans for September after backlash from survivors and victims.

The post included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine.

Rand Paul releases Anthony Fauci's pandemic-era diary notes. Here's what they tell us NPR Fauci’s diary reveals his thoughts on a ‘rambling’ Trump and his own fame The Washington Post Key Takeaways From Anthony Fauci’s Covid-Era Journals WSJ Fauci expressed disillusionment with ‘rambling, crazy’ Trump in journal The Guardian Inside Fauci's private diary: What he wrote about Trump, TV personalities and celebrities Fox News
The judge deferred on a motion from the New York Times to dismiss the lawsuit.

Trump demands Senate cancel August break until it passes voting bill AP News Thune tries to fend off Trump’s war on the Senate recess Politico Thune's shield against Trump Axios Trump demands Senate stay in Washington to pass voting bill The Washington Post 'Show me how this ends.' Thune responds to Trump's escalated calls to pass SAVE America Act PBS
The two faced off in the final Michigan Democratic primary debate hours after POLITICO published a leaked recording of El-Sayed.
Private entries, released by a Republican senator, have reignited a furious debate over whether Covid-19 leaked from a lab.

At the final debate before next week’s Democratic primary for Senate, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Representative Haley Stevens showcased their wildly different ideological stances and political styles.

Trump administration urges Supreme Court to allow order targeting mail-in voting before midterms AP News Trump asks Supreme Court to let him curtail mail voting CNN Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow new limits on mail ballots The Washington Post President Asks Supreme Court to Allow His Order Restricting Mail Voting The New York Times US appeals court upholds injunction that blocks Trump’s order to create a federal voter list AP News
President Trump will meet his Ukrainian counterpart in Washington this week. President Volodymyr Zelensky will also attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham.
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Recordings between Biden and his ghostwriter reveal references to classified information and memory gaps.

In a rare occurrence, Modi's government was forced to concede demands of Gen Z protesters, underscoring their rising influence in the country's polity.
Trump’s SAVE America demands threaten to hand Senate a cruel summer Politico Trump demands Senate cancel August break until it passes voting bill AP News 'Show me how this ends.' Thune responds to Trump's escalated calls to pass SAVE America Act PBS Trump Standoff With Thune on Voter ID Bill Risks GOP Agenda Bloomberg.com Thune's shield against Trump Axios
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The two leaders will also attend Sen. Lindsey Graham's funeral service.
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Democrats are making the case that now is the time to tackle anti-corruption reforms — to serve as a check on Donald Trump and to overhaul a system voters say is co-opted against their interests.
The Trump administration saw some big losses at the Supreme Court in 2026 on issues involving tariffs, birthright citizenship and the Federal Reserve.
Trump and Zelenskyy's meeting comes as the U.S war against Iran and Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine have threatened to overlap in recent days.
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To cut down on the time it takes to verify signatures for early ballots, election officials in Arizona’s largest county made a simple UI change. All it took was less scrolling. When people in Maricopa County vote early, they sign green affidavit envelopes that are scanned into a county system; election officials then compare that signature with the voter’s signature on file. The county uses an an enterprise-built, custom system designed in-house to do the comparisons digitally, but the previous

Lindsey Graham's final mission nears finish line as world leaders gather to honor him Fox News Traffic advisory ahead of Sen. Lindsey Graham's funeral WUSA9 ‘He’s irreplaceable’: How Lindsey Graham made an indelible mark on foreign policy and Trump CNN Washington says goodbye to Sen. Lindsey Graham NBC News Graham to Be Honored at Funeral Services This Week. Here’s How to Watch. The New York Times
Ukraine's leader is hoping to firm up US commitments to bolstering Kyiv's anti-ballistic missile defences, as Russia has escalated deadly attacks.
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Five of the Congress members serve on committees whose work touches SpaceX's federal contracts, defense programs, AI, telecommunications or securities markets.
President Trump is set to hold separate meetings with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are today. And, Temporary Protected Status holders may face deportation soon.

Why is a tiny federal agency demanding detailed medical records from emergency room visits? That’s a question that, as yet, doesn’t have a good answer. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has been pressuring executives from at least 100 hospitals to start sending detailed medical records by the end of the year, according to an internal memo obtained as part of an investigation by KFF Health News. This would mean that hospitals would be required to hand over the personally identifiable

As the 2026 midterm elections approach, the National Republican Congressional Committee is knocking Democrats who have opposed President Donald Trump's tariffs.
McConnell Gives Rare Health Update And Releases New Photo Forbes Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s message to Sen. Mitch McConnell: Disclose more about health or resign CNN McConnell Extends Senate Leave, Will Miss State Picnic The New York Times Mitch McConnell’s office releases new photo, statement that he’s still recovering Louisville Public Media McConnell out of hospital but still not 'medically cleared' to return to work BBC
Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate’s front-month contracts fell again as the U.S. and Iran continue to pause fighting.
President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. has sold more than $13 billion of Venezuelan oil since taking control of the South American nation's energy exports.
Laura Loomer, Trump ally, MAGA influencer, and former Ukraine critic was granted extensive access to the country.

Political advertising disclosures in the U.S. used to be fairly simple. Since 2002, campaigns recorded commercials for television and radio that have been required to include information about who paid for them along with language that they “approve this message.” Political advertising today isn’t always that straightforward. Thanks to AI and paid influencers, plenty of political ads don’t follow that standard script anymore, leaving voters in the dark about what they’re seeing. Instead of just

Tirado Pantoja has been in the country since 1996 and has a son and stepdaughter who are both U.S. citizens.

Mitch McConnell shares new photo, health update; says he won't attend Fancy Farm WLWT McConnell Extends Senate Leave, Will Miss State Picnic The New York Times Mitch McConnell’s office releases new photo, statement that he’s still recovering Louisville Public Media McConnell shares second photo amid absence, says he will not attend Kentucky political event Kentucky Lantern Beshear says McConnell should disclose health details or resign The Hill
A resurfaced video of Graham reacting gleefully to U.S. strikes on Iran in February went viral this week.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for an executive order from President Donald Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections. The Justice Department asked the justices to halt for now lower court decisions blocking the sweeping changes in nearly half the country. The request comes shortly after Trump delivered a primetime address elevating his yearslong push to raise doubts about the legitimacy of elections, an

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The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.
The prime minister's plans for technical education have their roots in the Manchester Baccalaureate.

The FCC and its current chairman, Brendan Carr, were blasted by former heads of the agency and other officials as pursuing a campaign to “censor Disney’s and ABC’s speech” with its highly unusual early review of spectrum licenses for eight ABC-owned TV stations. In a filing Tuesday with the FCC, the officials — who served […]

Trump dismissed fears that his tariffs could hurt the economy — especially as affordability concerns have become a key issue of the upcoming midterm elections.
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The New York Times reporter Mike McIntire says gun companies and the NRA are broadening the scope of the Second Amendment, socializing kids to appreciate guns and marketing a new brand of masculinity.
She says she stands by past comments that the interest charged on Plan 2 loans is "egregious".

The Senate is expected to confirm Trump’s permanent replacement for Pulte as director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, Tuesday evening.

Ruby Rippey has stayed mostly quiet since her relationship with the San Francisco mayor rocked the city. Not anymore.

National political leaders and prominent figures from around the globe are remembering the late Sen. Lindsey Graham with funeral services in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

The Trump administration is preparing to ramp up funding by hundreds of millions of dollars for programs designed to counter China’s growing influence around the world, after it had put a halt to many of those initiatives last year during a flurry of budget and personnel cuts. The administration notified Congress late last week that it intends to spend $175.8 million to replace outdated and aging undersea telecommunications cables in the Caribbean and Central America to prevent China from moving

Lawmakers, foreign leaders and President Trump are gathering Tuesday for the first of two days of funeral services for the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham.
The judge ordered Trump’s trust to start turning over documents within 10 days, though it could still appeal the order.

The chameleon effect is endangering the vice president’s political prospects.

McConnell’s prolonged absence could complicate the GOP’s narrow Senate majority and trigger an untested Kentucky vacancy process.
The sanctions target Russian officials, oligarchs, their family members, foreign persons, Russian banks and financial institutions and the Russian shadow fleet.
The letter is part of the commission’s public comment period for the first draft of its proposed rule on regulating prediction markets.
Live updates: Trump joins Zelensky and Netanyahu at Lindsey Graham's funeral after talks BBC Trump Loved Graham, Not So Much His Beloved Senate The New York Times President Trump to Lead Tributes to Lindsey Graham at Washington Funeral WSJ Lindsey Graham’s death leaves Trump reflecting on his own mortality The Washington Post Graham's casket arrives at Washington National Cathedral BBC
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Donald Trump's base has been increasingly spilt. Laura Loomer's sudden embrace of Ukraine has only widened that divide.

Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
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After exhausting their gerrymandering options in 2026, the party is hoping to redraw more congressional maps ahead of the next election cycle.

Senators announced a breakthrough on the long-stalled measure as Senator Lindsey Graham, its main champion, was memorialized.

In a day of tributes, Lindsey Graham is remembered as a tireless Washington mainstay NPR Lindsey Graham remembered by Trump as 'giant of the US Senate' at funeral BBC Live updates: D.C. bids farewell to Lindsey Graham; Trump meets with Netanyahu and Zelenskyy NBC News Lindsey Graham’s death leaves Trump reflecting on his own mortality The Washington Post Lindsey Graham eulogized as an ‘American original’ with global reach AP News
Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, said he has terminated nearly a third of the officials in his office, but others doubt the figures are accurate.

The affair was made public in 2007.

Colt Gray last week pleaded guilty to a 2024 rampage that left four dead at a high school outside Atlanta.

The Senate on Tuesday is expected to vote on Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump's nominee to become the director of national intelligence.
After disclosing that thousands of ineligible people were added to the voter rolls, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is trying to bring accountability while resisting President Trump’s narrative.

Newsom affair with friend's wife resurfaces amid presidential run rumors SFGATE Aide Who Had Affair With Newsom 20 Years Ago Details Her Experience The New York Times Former Gavin Newsom aide shares fresh details of affair The Guardian Former aide shares details of decades-old affair with Newsom in Vanity Fair essay The Hill Former Newsom aide reveals new details of affair from 20 years ago USA Today
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Democratic Party officials have approved a new calendar that puts South Carolina at the head of the line. Black and Latino voters will gain new clout.

Dr. Andrew Smith, the director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss a recent poll on Maine's Senate race.

Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.

Also, a powerful earthquake hits Japan. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
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President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.

The visits by the leaders of Israel and Ukraine underscored just how deeply President Trump was enmeshed in conflicts he had promised — and failed — to end quickly.

Florida puts ex-police officer to death for girl’s murder, first of 2 executions set for single day AP NewsSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
Millions of older Americans could pay more for their prescription drug coverage next year.
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The AI race is heating up so fast this summer that it's reshaping national priorities in the U.S. and China.
A fourth heatwave of the year is now under way for parts of the UK, with temperatures expected to climb into the mid-30s Celsius later this week.

Extreme fire conditions on the ground have created unprecedented conditions in the atmosphere.

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The Houthi threat to Saudi oil exports comes as Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are still reeling from the closure of the strait of Hormuz Governments in Asia are scrambling to avoid their second major energy crisis in six months, as another maritime chokepoint in the Middle East faces a violent blockade, leaving only the Suez canal completely open for the free movement of gulf oil. Countries like Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and South Korea – which rely on Middle East oil for up to 9

Madrid is booming, culturally and economically, but the wildfires raging within a short drive of the capital have provided a reality check.

From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown “It rained for 10 days and 10 nights, non-stop – I’d never seen anything like it,” says Anar Gul, a construction worker who lives in the remote district of Dur Baba in eastern Afghanistan. The houses in his village are built from stone and mud, which makes them extremely vulnerable to heavy rains. After days of rain, Gul’s kitchen collapsed and his neighbour, Sayed Afsar Sadat, saw a large part of

After nearly 10 years carrying out Chinese government repression in Xinjiang, a former police officer is now seeking asylum in Germany.

Unmanned surface vessels represent much more than self-propelled bombs. They are becoming miniature multipurpose warships.

The BBC goes on patrol with Ecuador's police, who are grappling with a huge surge in drug crime.

Why this time around, Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump might not go to script CNN Netanyahu’s first meeting with Trump since the Iran war began is a chance to smooth over strains The Seattle Times Trump to host Netanyahu, Zelenskiy as Ukraine, Iran wars reach critical stages Reuters Trump says US 'winning big time' against Tehran as Netanyahu prepares to unveil new Iran intel Fox News Iran war live: Trump says ‘friendly’ talks ongoing; Netanyahu arrives in US Al Jazeera
Wu was detained for hours at London's Heathrow Airport last week and refused entry, he told the BBC.

Talks over the Strait of Hormuz continue as Iran's foreign ministry discussed the strategically vital maritime passage with Saudi and Omani counterparts.
The meeting comes as both face pressures at home. Netanyahu is up for reelection, embattled in part due to his deteriorating relationship with Trump. Trump is under pressure to end an unpopular war.
French President Emmanuel Macron said France was "facing a completely unprecedented fire," describing the situation as France's worst fire-related crisis since World War II.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked southern Japan on Tuesday, as officials issued a tsunami advisory for the coasts of the Ariake Sea and the Yatsushiro Sea.
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Iran War Live Updates: Trump says U.S. will "go back to doing what we were doing" if new talks stall CBS News Iran war live: Trump says US talking to Tehran, set to meet Netanyahu Al Jazeera Trump says US and Tehran having 'good talks' as drones hit Iran's neighbours Reuters Trump says Iran war talks taking place during lull in strikes BBC America has few good options for a “massive attack” on Iran The Economist
Temperatures in France are expected to rise to 95 degrees Fahrenheit this week, as firefighters battle the ongoing wildfire, which has affected parts of Spain.
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The row sparked after the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending the term of the UN high commissioner for human rights.

Faced with unprecedented blazes, firefighters in both countries are using a brief window of opportunity to bring the flames under control before temperatures spike.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck the country’s Kumamoto prefecture An aerial image shows the damaged Aeon mall after an earthquake in Kashima, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan. The UN nuclear watchdog said that Japan’s nuclear regulation authority has informed it that there is no damage or safety issues at the Sendai nuclear power plant after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture. Continue reading...

One of the largest fires in modern French history is raging near the vineyards of Bordeaux. That is just the latest problem for France’s embattled wine industry.
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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says the vessel fired 17 shots as he was giving a BBC interview.

Three fires in the Madrid region have caused special concerns, with a new heatwave expected to hit Spain from Wednesday.
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The attack in the Caspian Sea was an unusually direct encounter between two countries that have been on opposite sides for years.

South Korean authorities briefly ordered evacuations on Tuesday due to what they said was a white phosphorus leak at a U.S. military base near Seoul

Deaths expected as Kumamoto shook by 6.8-magnitude quake, knocking out power and damaging buildings A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has shaken south Japan, leaving at least 50 people injured, with some trapped and presumed dead inside a partly collapsed shopping mall. The earthquake hit the Kumamoto prefecture on the southern Kyushu island late on Tuesday afternoon, knocking out power to thousands of homes and damaging roads, bridges and buildings. Continue reading...

Firefighters are braced for a sharp rise in temperatures on Wednesday, which could complicate the containment of wildfires.
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Powerful quake hits southern Japan, deaths feared in shopping mall blast Reuters Live updates: Many people trapped in collapsed shopping mall after Japan quake CNN A 7.1 quake hits Japan's Kyushu, trapping people in a collapsed shopping center Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB Kumamoto Castle, a Famed Landmark, Is Damaged in the Japan Earthquake The New York Times People trapped and injured after powerful earthquake strikes Japan Yahoo

The deployment comes as tensions have increased between China and the Philippines, which each lay claim to the South China Sea.

For those who have upcoming holidays to the affected regions, here is what you should know about how it might impact your plans.

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes as powerful wildfires sweep across Spain and France, revealing the growing scale of a climate crisis already reshaping the continent.
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The centuries-old castle, one of the country’s best-known, was also affected by the region’s 2016 earthquakes.

Data shows Canadians have replaced US vacations with other international trips in apparent rebuke to Trump Canadians spent $3.3bn less on travel to the US in 2025 than in the previous year, as Donald Trump’s hostile policies towards his northern neighbour continue to incur an economic cost, new government data shows. The research also indicates that Canadians are not bucking travel overall and instead have replaced US vacations with other international destinations, in a rebuke to Trump’s tariff

Some parents on benefits are incentivised to discourage their kids from taking on apprenticeships.

Amid a reprieve in the fighting, Iran’s leaders are betting that they can endure more pain than President Trump can, and they have leverage over the Strait of Hormuz, analysts say.

Lucy Ness says "I hope my baby's remains are with someone who loves them like I loved these".

Attacks in the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran war have led Saudi Arabia to rely on an alternative route for exporting oil. Our reporter Rebecca F. Elliott explains how that route is now threatened by the Houthis, a Yemeni militia supported by Iran.
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Live updates: Japan earthquake; Many people trapped in collapsed shopping mall CNN Many Feared Trapped in Mall Collapse After Japan Earthquake, Officials Say The New York Times Tracking the impact of the Japan earthquake in maps and charts CNN People trapped and injured after powerful earthquake strikes Japan Yahoo Destroyed Aeon mall had just reopened for 'fresh start' a decade on from deadly quake Reuters
In an interview with NPR, one of Ukraine's top negotiators Sergiy Kyslytsya explains why Kyiv believes it now has the leverage to force Russia into serious negotiations.
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Human rights activists say the Iranian government has been rapidly escalating executions. The latest prompted public protest, videos appear to show.

Netanyahu praises first meeting with Trump since launching the Iran war AP News Live updates: Trump-Netanyahu meeting underway after US president brushes off pressure to escalate war CNN Bibi gets his meeting but not much else Politico Netanyahu returns to a skeptical Trump as Iran war grinds on The Washington Post A diminished Bibi arrives for his moment with Trump Axios
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Japan earthquake searches continue overnight, with people missing in collapsed mall and factory BBC Many Feared Trapped in Mall Collapse After Japan Earthquake, Officials Say The New York Times Destroyed Aeon mall had just reopened for 'fresh start' a decade on from deadly quake Reuters A 7.1 magnitude quake hits Japan's southern Kyushu island and dozens are injured or missing AP News Historic Japanese Castle Damaged in 7.1-Magnitude Earthquake Hyperallergic
The 51-year-old daughter of the late former President Alberto Fujimori, Peru's new conservative leader has pledged to fight crime with an "iron fist."
After five months, Iran and the United States are far from resolving the conflict. A former national security official says the most likely outcome is a frozen conflict.

Senator Lindsey Graham helped to coordinate a group of lawmakers to rebuke the I.C.C., which was investigating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

Oman put a Gulf-backed Hormuz plan to Iran: regional management and voluntary fees. The real fight is who administers the strait, not only whether ships can pass.
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The two leaders were in Washington to attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch supporter of Israel and advocate for US aid to Ukraine.

Crews are still battling wildfires that broke out last week and have burned nearly 200,000 acres across Spain. The country is bracing for another round of extreme heat, with temperatures expected to top 100 degrees Fahrenheit starting Wednesday.
A flurry of diplomacy has eased tensions, officials said, after an incident risked triggering a wider war.

With their ally, Iran, bottling up the Strait of Hormuz, the Houthi group in Yemen is escalating its declared blockade of Saudi shipping in another vital waterway, the Red Sea.
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US Central Command says it intercepted "multiple" ballistic missiles fired by Iran.
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Oman presents Iran with Gulf-backed plan for voluntary fees to use Hormuz Reuters Iran Rejects Omani Proposal to Share Strait of Hormuz, Demands More Control WSJ World in Brief: Trump says America and Iran are talking; tech sell-off deepens The Economist Iran and Oman exchange proposals to manage Strait of Hormuz Al Jazeera Iran hosts Hormuz calls with Saudi Arabia, Oman as Trump hails ‘good talks’ CNBC
Wednesday is set to be the hottest day of the week for many as a widespread fourth heatwave grips the UK.

Scientists have long assumed that there’s an upper limit to the intensity of the solar winds that reach Earth. New research suggests there’s not—and the implications are alarming.

As if you didn’t have enough to worry about: Now, it turns out, stressing about money could have a long-term effect on your brain. A new study, published in Innovation in Aging, looked at data collected from 2,759 people over the course of more than seven decades, in what is known as the 1946 British birth cohort. The U.K. Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and Development collected participiants’ information through questionnaires and home and clinic visits. The origins of the

A weakening Atlantic current could supercharge California’s atmospheric rivers while leaving Greenland with fewer snow-producing storms. The changes could raise flood risks, strain infrastructure, and reshape water supplies far beyond the Atlantic.
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all? For many years, scientists could answer that question only in general terms. They knew that human-caused climate change was increasing the frequency or intensity of some kinds of extreme weather, but determining its influence on a particular event was much more difficult. Today, researchers can provide a scientifically grounded a

The computer models meteorologists use aren’t 100 percent accurate. But natural weather forecasters seem to have a sixth sense for sudden squalls.

Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is tumbling out of control after suffering key component failures.
Fifty-seven years ago, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. Most Americans won’t ever step foot on the moon, or even see it up close. But with this week’s “buck moon,” you can get a pretty good view. Here’s everything you need to know about July’s full moon, which hits its peak on Wednesday, July 29, at 10:36 a.m. ET. Why is it called a “buck moon”? July’s full moon is annually labeled the “buck moon” because the

"Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link's three reaction wheels currently are not operable."

A recent study found that sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, may stop cancer from metastasizing. BSIP/Getty Images Researchers report that the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra may help slow the spread of cancer. Sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, appears to interfere with cancer cells’ ability to metastasize and travel to other parts of the body. More research is needed to determine if Viagra would be more effective against certain types of cancer and whether the drug can

Lipfendra, a new once-daily pill for high cholesterol, can be taken instead of or alongside a statin. Iryna Veklich · Moment / Getty Images The FDA has approved Lipfendra, a new drug for adults with high LDL cholesterol. It is the first PCSK9 inhibitor in its class to come as a pill; the other three treatments require shots. Lipfendra can be taken instead of or alongside a statin to lower high LDL cholesterol. People with high cholesterol levels now have a new treatment option: a once-daily

Recent research has found that GLP-1s, like Ozempic and Wegovy, can help you maintain a lower calorie intake for more than a year. Image Credit: Jon Challicom/Getty A new study found that people taking semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy) maintained a significantly lower calorie intake after 60 weeks on the medication. Participants taking semaglutide consistently consumed 24% to 30% fewer calories than those receiving a placebo throughout the study. The findings suggest semaglutide may continue

Three studies evaluated the potential impact of new cholesterol guidelines, which are expected to improve treatment outcomes. Getty Images The AHA, ACC, and other medical organizations released new cholesterol guidelines in 2026. Three studies evaluated the potential impact of the new guidelines and found that they could expand treatment options. With more than half of U.S. adults eligible for statin therapy under the new guidelines, experts say early intervention is key to cholesterol manag

A new study found that females with PMOS (formerly PCOS) may have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Image Credit: andreswd/Getty Females with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) were about four times more likely to develop heart or artery disease than those without it, according to a new study. The elevated risk held even after researchers accounted for diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. The study authors said it was the largest U.S. a

The American Heart Association (AHA) states that up to 5 cups of black coffee a day is safe for most people. Image Credit: Filmstax/Getty The American Heart Association (AHA) published a statement confirming how much caffeinated coffee is safe to drink each day. Adding flavorings like sugar, cream, and syrups to coffee can cancel out coffee’s heart-health benefits, however. The statement noted that the higher levels of caffeine in energy drinks can be harmful to heart health. A growing bod

Research shows that eating an avocado a day may help reduce heart disease risk in people with obesity. Image Credit: Thai Liang Lim/Getty A recent study has found that eating an avocado a day may help lower the risk of heart disease in people with obesity. The researchers found that this was associated with lower levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles, which are proteins that transport cholesterol through the body. Avocados can also provide various other health benefits, such as

The U.S. military will begin screening service members for testosterone deficiency to “optimize” health. Getty Images Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. military will begin annual screening for testosterone deficiency among service members ages 30 and older. Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) may benefit people with a confirmed deficiency, but there are risks, including impaired fertility. A single blood test cannot diagnose low testosterone; other symptoms must also

Photo taken on Aug. 23, 2021 shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland, the United States. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua via Getty Images) On the first day of a two-day meeting, an FDA advisory panel voted in favor of four types of peptides to be sold as compounded medications. Proponents describe wellness peptides as a “fountain of youth” that can promote healing from injury and improved overall wellness. Doctors and scientists say the safety and effectiveness of i

Research shows that regular cultural engagement can slow physiological aging in older adults. Image Credit: AzmanJaka/Getty A new study claims that older adults who regularly attend cultural events such as museums, movies, and theater tend to have a lower physiological age, meaning their bodies function younger than their years. Those who engaged culturally every few months or more had an average physiological age of about 3 years less than those with less participation, despite similar actu

Proponents of the “menopause cocktail” say that a combination of allergy and acid reflux medications helps alleviate menopause symptoms. Image Credit: Pekic/Getty The viral “menopause cocktail” involves a mix of allergy and acid-reducing medications to reportedly help manage menopause symptoms. Experts caution that the trend reflects gaps in menopause care and lacks sufficient evidence around safety and effectiveness. Long-term use of the medications may carry risks, including masking under

After a heart attack left Angie Lindsey (right) with heart failure, a remote monitoring device helped her care team manage her condition from afar, making specialized care more accessible from her rural Missouri home. After surviving a heart attack, Angie Lindsey developed heart failure that required her to travel hours from her rural Missouri home for specialized care. An implanted remote heart-monitoring device now allows her care team to track changes in her heart health and adjust treatm

Since October, the morning-after pill has been made available free-of-charge at high street pharmacies under a new scheme in England.

As federal health officials investigate possible sources of the cyclospora outbreak, experts say most fruits and vegetables remain safe to consume. Getty Images The FDA reports that no product samples have been confirmed as positive for cyclospora amid fears over consumption of lettuce, herbs, and other produce. As health officials investigate possible sources of the multi-state outbreak that has sickened thousands, consumers should stay informed about product recalls and continue washing p

Rumer Willis is sharing how hormone tracking helped her better understand her cycle, and why she’s encouraging other women to better understand their reproductive health. Photo by Victoria Wall Harris Rumer Willis says hormone tracking helped her better understand her cycle. Experts say at-home hormone tests may help confirm ovulation and guide fertility planning. Willis hopes more women feel empowered to advocate for their reproductive health. When actress Rumer Willis gave birth to her dau

A popular TikTok trend suggests that eating dinner 4 to 5 hours before bed can improve sleep quality. Image credit: Olga Rolenko · Moment/Getty “Early-bird dinners” are a growing social media trend, with some TikTokers claiming that eating earlier can improve sleep quality. Experts agree that consuming the last meal of the day earlier in the evening may help with getting a better night’s rest. Eating dinner earlier may also offer additional benefits, such as reducing acid reflux and improvin

During Black Maternal Mental Health Week, Black Girl Vitamins, a Chicago-based wellness brand, released a film that examines how systemic failures in healthcare drive inequities in maternal health and beyond.

Squint and you might see what looks like a hotel room inside Nemours Children’s Health, a pediatric hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. The hospital’s new Advanced Delivery Unit—which treats patients during the complicated, long, and fearful process of going through a high-risk pregnancy—is much more akin to a guest-centric boutique hotel than a sterile labor and delivery ward. For a hospital, it offers an uncommon, but much-needed, level of hospitality. “What people think of these sorts of worst-

The opioid-like compound, which is found in kratom, can cause brutal withdrawal symptoms and will soon be a controlled substance. Some users tell WIRED it has relieved their pain and anxiety.

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A new fast-acting pain relief medication contains the active ingredients acetaminophen (Tylenol) and naproxen (Aleve). Photo courtesy of Kenvue Federal regulators have approved a new pain medication that combines the attributes of Tylenol and Aleve. The new product, Tylenol with Naproxen, is expected to be available soon as an over-the-counter medication in retail establishments across the United States. Advocates say the combination medication provides the fast-acting relief of Tylenol and

The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.

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The Toronto Blue Jays disgruntled starter has thrived with Los Angeles Dodgers, proving his former manager wrong.

Just an hour south of Lisbon sits Terras da Comporta, which is home to two world class golf courses that are the perfect golf destination.

The Travelers Championship joins the PGA Tour's Championship Series as record attendance and Scottie Scheffler's appearance elevate the 3M Open's future prospects.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have quietly signed an award-winning lefty as they search for pitching depth ahead of the trade deadline.

The WNBA will launch a centralized Replay Center in 2027, an investment aimed at improving officiating consistency following years of criticism from players and coaches.

The Cleveland Guardians risk losing ground in the Central Division, as the Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Minnesota Twins are all playing well. They need offense.

Former Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has been confirmed as the new head coach of the France national team.

President also blames Brazil and Mexico and says online critics ‘do not want the ideas of freedom to succeed’ More than a week has passed since Ferran Torres scored the extra-time goal that gave Spain its second World Cup, but – at least for Argentina’s president – the tournament is not over. Javier Milei has claimed that a coordinated “anti-Argentina campaign” was behind criticism of the country’s team, accusations of racism among its fans and conspiracy theories alleging that Lionel Messi’s si

The Philadelphia Phillies have received news that a two-time NL MVP will officially retire after playing his final season with the team.

The Atlanta Braves have released a 28-year-old infielder as they made room for the superstar slugger’s return.

A squirrel scampered across the outfield during the Tigers-Orioles game at Comerica Park before the grounds crew captured it, much to the crowd's disappointment.

There were three International pro events last weekend, with the Professional Pickleball Association's Asia tour in Singapore, the Association of Pickleball Player's Asia tour in Malaysia, and the PPA kicking off its European tour.

The WNBA All-Star Game in Chicago shattered attendance records with 19,783 fans, notably surpassing the NBA's All-Star event for the first time ever.

IndyCar unveiled its first new car since 2012 as Hollywood actor Matt Damon introduced the IR-28 in a video. The new Indy car is designed to break track records.

European football's governing body Uefa reacts furiously to proposals from Fifa to seek private investment in its competitions, including the World Cup.

The New York Mets cut a handful of position prospects on Tuesday in what appears to be the first step of their looming fire sale.

FIFA confirmed plans to raise $4.2 billion for a new entity controlling the nonprofit’s “commercial and event operations” at a $20 billion equity valuation.

The LA Rams and LA28 officials announced the first recipients of the LA28 Ticket Program, an initiative to make the 2028 Olympic Games accessible to all Angelenos.

Sinner defeated Alcaraz in straight sets in last year’s final to earn a record $6 million in prize money.

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FIFA has a complex plan to sell chunks of its commercial rights to the World Cup to minority investors, including a firm run by Joshua Kushner, the brother of Jared Kushner.
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“Obsession” star Michael Johnston is in early talks to join the fourth installment of “The Mummy,” Variety has confirmed. Johnston previously starred in the TV series “Teen Wolf,” but this year’s “Obsession” brought him to the attention of moviegoers when the low-budget Curry Barker horror film became a box-office sensation. As previously reported, Academy Award winners Brendan […]

For the first time in the history of the UK series, only three couples were in the final after several twists.

Ariana Grande has filed a lawsuit against anonymous hackers, claiming that they gained backdoor access to devices that led to the leak of unreleased songs and footage from recording sessions and music videos. The suit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles and reviewed by Variety, targets a group of unnamed John Does for phishing scams […]

A new fandom took over San Diego Comic-Con this year: “Dungeon Crawler Carl.” While there were plenty of Marvel and DC superheroes walking around the convention center and the surrounding Gaslamp Quarter (not to mention the Trekkies and “Star Wars” storm troopers, and the other comic book cosplayers), there were just as many people sporting […]

The Walking Dead: Dead City gives us more of the same, and more of the same is both boring and frustratingly stupid.

Disney’s beloved animated series, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, is returning for a fourth and final season, launching on July 29th, as it’s tied to the show’s 25th anniversary this year.

K-pop soloist from20 on his album 'Rated R,' his banned single 'Big Boy,' Michael Jackson inspirations and why he focuses on honoring diversity and LGBT themes in K-pop.

The body of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found last September inside the trunk of a Tesla registered to singer D4vd.

Zendaya stunned the red carpet at the “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” Los Angeles premiere in a black satin Ashi Studio corset with a sweeping architectural train, putting an exclamation point on a press tour that the young star used as her personal runway. “It’s kind of an abstract way to present the spider,” Law Roach, […]

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has finally been unveiled to members of the film press, who are calling Tom Holland’s fourth standalone movie “a grounded Spider-Man tale” that is “thrilling, heartfelt and confidently character driven.” Fandango correspondent Erik Davis shared a glowing review on X, writing that director Destin Daniel Cretton’s sequel “feels deeper, more thoughtful […]

Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired revenge thriller “Kill Jackie,” starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, for HBO Max in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, France and Belgium. The deal takes in two of HBO’s most established streaming markets, the Nordics and Spain, where SVOD services HBO Nordics and HBO España launched as far back as 2012 […]

Ryan Coogler announced at San Diego Comic-Con that 'Black Panther 3' will be filmed entirely on large-format celluloid, a historic first for Marvel Studios.

Lee Chang-dong’s “Possible Love” will open in Korean theaters September 23, followed by select theatrical releases in Australia Oct. 22 and in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland and Japan Oct. 23, before streaming globally on Netflix starting November 6. The film’s world premiere will be at the Venice Film Festival and North American Premiere at […]

The BBC One show's co-host will swap the TV sofa for the presenter's chair on Radio 5 Live Breakfast.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins was “not surprised” that U.S. President Donald Trump insulted her during his speech at Friday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. During an appearance on “The Daily Show” on Monday, Collins — who serves as CNN’s chief White House correspondent — debriefed the event with Jon Stewart. “In the room, I was not […]

Hollywood star Orlando Bloom is making another attempt to sell his longtime Malibu beach mansion—relisting the property at a big discount, just a few weeks after it was taken off the market.
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Xinemarte, the immersive cinematic art platform developed by Los Angeles-based creative technology company SQNXR, has made its Malaysia premiere as a special program at the recently concluded 9th Malaysia International Film Festival in Kuala Lumpur. The platform’s Kuala Lumpur rollout began a day ahead of MIFFest’s opening, and marks the second stop in Xinemarte’s Asian […]

“Chrysalis” has secured a theatrical distribution deal in Vietnam through CJ CGV Vietnam, the country’s leading multiplex operator and distributor, with a nationwide release set for Sept. 11. The film will open locally as “Mãi Nợ Một Lời Tạm Biệt,” rendered in English as “The Farewell I Never Gave.” The international title remains “Chrysalis.” The […]

San Sebastian Film Festival competition title “In My Father’s Room” has been added to Bitters End’s fall sales slate. The film marks the feature directorial debut of best-selling novelist Maha Harada. Known in Japan under the title “Muyou no Hito,” the drama is adapted from Harada’s own short story “An Unnecessary Man.” The cast includes […]

Buzzy new projects from “Jacky,” “Spencer” and “Maria” director Pablo Larraín, and Benjamín Naishtat will be joined by Mike Leigh’s “Tender Loving Care” in main competition at September’s San Sebastián Film Festival. Also making the cut are new titles from Nicole Garcia – Marion Coillard starrer “7:40 ce matin-là/Milo,’ as well as Maha Harada’s […]

Universal’s blockbuster event release “The Odyssey” maintained its grip on the U.K. and Ireland box office, securing a second consecutive weekend at No. 1. Christopher Nolan’s epic spectacle added £11.8 million ($15.7 million) in its sophomore frame, representing a remarkably light holdover drop and elevating its local gross to £35.3 million ($46.9 million) after 10 […]

ABC News is going after true-crime superfans with the launch of the “20/20 True Crime+” subscription tier on Apple Podcasts. The new podcast subscription, available as of Tuesday (July 28), provides ad-free access to all “20/20” content from new and archival episodes and narrative series, as well as early access to new releases and exclusive […]

TelevisaUnivision has announced the nominees for the 23rd edition of Premios Juventud, airing live on September 3 from the Starlite Amphitheater in Marbella, Spain. Carín León leads with nine nominations, followed by Beéle, Kany García and Rauw Alejandro with seven nods apiece. Artists with six nominations include Eladio Carrión, Farruko, Karol G, Manuel Turizo, Ovy […]

She plays Lady Baela Targaryen in HBO's Game of Thrones prequel, and is the ninth celebrity to be confirmed.

It’s got a hero with a healthy dollop of inner turmoil under his wholesome façade, and a villain who’s far from a hissable cartoon. Yet if the movie is fun at times, it’s also arduous, episodic, and half an hour too long. I was glad that "Brand New Day" didn’t get lost in the superhero-fatigue syndrome of CGI overkill, but the movie is more busy and self-serious than it is emotionally involving.

Paramount has released the trailer for “Children of Blood and Bone,” which hits theaters Jan. 15, 2027. “In the epic fantasy world of Orïsha, a young woman goes on a quest to reclaim the magic that was violently stolen from her people,” the logline reads. “She and her brother ally with the daughter and son […]

Anna Kendrick-led action thriller “Embassy” is set to land on MGM+ in the U.S. The high octane six-part series, created and written by Rom Lotan, stars Kendrick (“A Simple Favor”) as an American diplomat called Layla opposite Sam Heughan (“Outlander”) as her British ex-fiancé and J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”) as the U.S. ambassador. John Strickland (“Bodyguard”) […]

Playwright Max Wolf Friedlich, who made his Broadway debut with the buzzy thriller “Job,” is returning to the New York stage. His new show “The Holes” will premiere off-Broadway this fall. Robert Pattinson is executive producing “The Holes” with Brighton McCloskey through their company Icki Eneo Arlo, marking the team’s first foray into theater. “The Holes” takes […]

Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens, one of the leading artists in the roots and Americana realm, has signed with WME for representation in music worldwide, she and the agency announced Tuesday. The move comes as Giddens prepares to unveil her seventh studio album, “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers,” on Sept. 18 on Nonesuch […]

Parallax Films has boarded international sales on “Private Property,” the new short from Deepak Rauniyar and Asha Magrati, ahead of its world premiere at the 79th Locarno Film Festival. The film screens in Pardi di Domani’s Concorso Corti d’Autore, competing for the Pardino d’Oro for Best Auteur Short Film. A clip has been unveiled. “Private […]

ABC News' Trevor Ault goes behind the scenes with Joe Buck as he hosts "ESPN Jeopardy!" featuring celebrities, former athletes and ESPN personalities.

Apple TV has unveiled a new trailer for “Ted Lasso” Season 4 ahead of its Aug. 5 release date. The new season picks up as Jason Sudeikis’ titular Ted is facing a new challenge: coaching a second division women’s soccer team. Alongside Sudeikis, Season 4 sees the return of Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, […]

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Thailand’s first purpose-built international content marketplace wrapped its debut edition this month with an estimated THB2.2 billion ($65.5 million) in business value generated across three days of structured deal-making and co-production talks. The Bangkok International Content Market 2026 – known as BICM2026 – ran earlier this month at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in […]

Back in May 2025, Christopher Nolan revealed his next epic, “The Odyssey,” would be the first feature film shot entirely with Imax 70mm cameras. As “The Odyssey” sails to nearly $650 million globally, including $140 million in Imax — and with the company’s coveted 70mm screenings sold out for weeks — a source at Imax […]

The Singles Collection, perhaps the biggest hits compilation by Britney Spears, reaches career-first milestones on multiple U.K. charts this week.

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The White House used a second song by Katy Perry in a TikTok post after she said she was “appalled and angry” by the use of “Firework” in a video flaunting military strikes.

The third edition of the Reply AI Film Festival — a competitive event dedicated to shorts made using AI that runs in tandem with the Venice Film Festival — has unveiled its selection and announced its prestigious jury headed by Italian Oscar winner Gabriele Salvatores. The 10 works, produced using new technologies and AI tools, […]

As "Choosin' Texas" rises to a new peak on the U.K.'s Official Streaming chart, so, too does Ella Langley, as she's only landed one hit on the roster so far.

Paramount+ has unveiled first-look images at “Dexter: Resurrection” Season 2. The second season of the series, which does not yet have a premiere date, will see Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) once again playing the titular killer of killers as he battles fellow serial killers in New York City. Check out the new images below. […]

Food Network is leaning into the rise in popularity of restaurant culture with a new fall competition series that follows celebrity chef Bobby Flay as he leads a restaurant cooking line team trying to execute a fine-dining menu in real time for real diners. Titled “Bobby Flay’s The Line,” the show will feature Flay along […]

Four people. One letter. An ocean between them. To send a letter home from Bangkok in the 1950s, an overseas Chinese laborer needed four people: himself, a scribe to put his words on paper, a reader to decode it at the destination and the person waiting to hear it read aloud. Lan Hongchun built a […]

Rick Moranis spent nearly 30 years retired from acting, but the comedy icon finally got back in front of the camera last fall to reprise the role of Lord Dark Helmet in “Spaceballs 2: The New One.” Acting again threw Moranis for a loop, not least because he was returning alongside his original “Spaceballs” co-stars […]

See photos of Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Michael B. Jordan and several other stars who walked the red carpet of the U.S. premiere of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” Monday night in Los Angeles.

Gracie Abrams debuts Daughter From Hell at No. 1 on five of six charts in the U.K., missing only the Official Albums Streaming tally — but only by two spaces.

Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing a vertical video feed to HBO Max to help you find something new to watch. Streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney Plus, and Peacock already offer TikTok-like vertical video feeds to surface content that might be interesting to users, and now HBO Max will have a similar feed of its own. The feed, called "HBO Max Shorts," will be accessible from an icon on the bottom navigation menu. It will show you things like trailers, clips, and bonus content from the HBO Ma

Netflix has released the first spinge-tingling teaser trailer for the thriller series “Below.” In the teaser for the six-episode series, which can be seen in its entirety below, a small seaside town is terrorized by a mysterious sea creature. “Below” will have its world premiere as part of the Primetime program at TIFF 2026 on […]

Film at Lincoln Center has named Tony Gilroy’s “Behemoth!” as the centerpiece selection of the 64th New York Film Festival. The film will have its world premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, Oct. 2, with Gilroy, its star Pedro Pascal, and additional members of the cast in attendance. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center […]

Magic: The Gathering will travel back to Middle-earth this month with the release of a new set of tabletop gaming cards based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. Variety has the exclusive first look at a card from the collection featuring a key character in the plot against the dragon Smaug. Releasing Aug. 14, “The Hobbit” set will […]

JP Saxe is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter. Last year, he made headlines after scheduling an ambitious headlining tour that he ended up canceling. Instead of making excuses, like many musicians in the same position have, Saxe got brutally honest about why he scrapped the dates, posting a TikTok and writing a guest column for Variety explaining […]

Tony Award winner Lena Hall has boarded “Disconnecting Peter,” joining previously announced star Chad Michael Murray in the upcoming family drama. The film is written and directed by Christopher Beatty. Hall will play Elizabeth Ruck, wife to Murray’s Peter Ruck, a woman working to hold her family together as her husband’s destructive patterns threaten to […]

Boutique sales agency FiGa Films has pounced on the worldwide sales rights to Guatemalan drama “Nosotros” (meaning “Us”) ahead of its world premiere at the 51st Toronto Intl. Film Festival (TIFF). Playing at TIFF’s Discovery sidebar, “Nosotros” is written and directed by Joaquín Ruano, who said: “As this is my debut feature, it was essential […]

"Supergirl," the latest film in James Gunn's revamped DCU, is now streaming after its disappointing summer box office run. Here's how to watch it at home for your next movie night.

How So Ji-sub’s action thriller ‘Agent Kim Reactivated’ became a ratings and Netflix hit—and what its success means for K-dramas, webtoon adaptations and AI production.

As of this frame, Disturbed's cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" reaches 550 weeks on the U.K.'s Official Rock & Metal Singles chart, a first for the band.

Barcelona-based world sales company MoreThan Films has acquired period road movie “Les Indes” (“The Indies”), co-written and directed by first-time feature filmmakers Pauline Julier and Nicolas Chapoulier, ahead of its premiere in the Venice Film Festival’s Giornate Degli Autori (Venice Days). Produced by Spain’s Lastor Media (“Alcarràs”) and Switzerland’s Alina Film (“The Currents”) and inspired by […]

NYC-based sketch comedy quartet Simple Town, who have performed live and in online shorts over the last decade, make an amusing leap to the feature-film format in “Big Break.” Ostensibly playing themselves, the group here gathers at a country manse to celebrate one member’s breakaway mainstream success — and for the other three to beg/cajole […]

BLacklight and Dark Star Pictures have teamed for the nationwide theatrical release of “Wildcards,” creating a unique theatrical experience that the creatives behind the film hope will spark conversation, community discourse and, of course, box office. The latest feature from writer-director Wes Miller (“Black Heat,” “Call Her King”), “Wildcards” follows the trial of Theodore Sterling, […]

Evan Rachel Wood isn’t among the “Practical Magic” cast members returning for the forthcoming sequel — and she’s opening up about her disappointment. Speaking to “Entertainment Tonight” at the red carpet premiere of her new series “The Shards,” Wood called it “sad” not to be asked back for “Practical Magic 2.” “It is sad, because we […]

Jennifer Aniston is set to star in Olivia Wilde’s Universal comedy “Naughty,” playing a single mom named Mallory — whose “trash-bag ex” is Santa Claus. Peter Dinklage takes on the role as the king of Christmas. Wilde — fresh off the success of her latest directorial effort “The Invite” — directs “Naughty,” which centers on […]

Three Bruno Mars smashes — "Die with a Smile" with Lady Gaga, “Locked Out of Heaven” and “Risk It All” — return together to the Official Streaming chart.

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Mary Beth Barone knows her debut Netflix special, “Galaxy Brain,” might piss some people off. In fact, she’s keeping a list — on it are J.K. Rowling, Mark Zuckerberg and male comedians in general, to name a few. “I’m just fully ready to get it out there and see who’s mad at me,” Barone tells […]

With a wave of surprises at Ecomoda and a twist on how fans will watch it all unfold, the streamer dropped a video teaser offering the first glimpse of what's ahead.

Shakira and Burna Boy both earn their first No. 1s on the U.K.'s Official Streaming chart as their World Cup anthem "Dai Dai" rises to the top spot.

Harlan Coben’s “I Will Find You” has become Netflix’s No. 10 most-popular English-language TV series of all time, having reached a cumulative 101.9 million views in the six weeks since its release. Previously, the No. 10 spot belonged to the limited series “His & Hers,” which stars Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal and reached 98.2 […]

Figure skater Amber Glenn went viral during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, partly because she won a gold medal and partly because she outed herself as a huge fan of Hasbro’s popular tabletop card game Magic: The Gathering. On multiple occasions throughout the games’ TV coverage, the Team USA member was seen opening […]

Following a bidding war, Universal Global Television and Patrick Macmanus’ Littleton Road Productions have acquired the rights to “Biological War: A Scenario,” Annie Jacobsen’s latest novel out today. The television adaptation will be taken out to buyers in the upcoming weeks. “Annie’s spent her career reporting with such ferocious clarity, you can’t stop reading her […]

Superhero fatigue is no match for Peter Parker. Sure, comic book movies have been on the fritz. But Marvel’s friendly neighborhood web-slinger is about to change the narrative, with Sony’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” swinging to a truly heroic box office debut. Estimates are ranging from $260 million to $280 million from 4,300 North American […]

"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie," the animated sequel to 2023's "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," is coming to streaming video on demand this week following the film’s massive run at the worldwide box office.

Variety‘s annual Showrunners Breakfast will return on August 14, featuring two spotlight conversations with a curated group of this year’s Emmy-nominated showrunners, plus the Norman Lear Creative Conscious Award presentation to Ryan Murphy. Murphy will receive the award in recognition of a body of work that embodies Lear’s enduring legacy of creativity, visionary storytelling and […]

Ross Douthat, the conservative New York Times columnist will join CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” along with author Sebastian Junger, new CBS News correspondent Trevor Phillips and filmmaker Gianna Toboni, the Paramount Skydance news division announced Tuesday, a move that will remake the look and feel of the venerable newsmagazine at a time when it has […]

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association filed an antitrust lawsuit Tuesday against Penske Media Corporation, the parent of Variety, over the 2023 acquisition of the Golden Globe Awards. The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, accuses PMC of taking control of the awards show through a “sham process tainted by fraud.” It also alleges […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details and scene descriptions about the new crime series “Furious.” The first three episode are available to stream on Hulu. Emmy Rossum was shooting “Shameless” several years ago on her birthday when she received a call from her estranged father. “He called me as he sometimes did — I had […]

Freestyle Digital Media has acquired the golf crime comedy “Mooch,” written by, directed by and starring Jeff Ryan. “Mooch” will debut on digital platforms starting Aug. 14. Ryan, who retains theatrical rights through is First-Names Films, will release the film in a national roadshow of one-night screenings developed in partnership with Emo Nite, featuring live […]

Ariana Grande filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the currently unidentified hackers who allegedly stole and leaked private content. It aims to "uncover the identities of these currently unknown and unscrupulous individuals," referred to as "John Doe 1 and John Does 2 through 100." The lawsuit also says that "In 2023 alone, 45 unreleased songs" were "hacked, stolen, and leaked," adding that hundreds of similar leaks have happened since Grande's music debut

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is a hit with Rotten Tomatoes critics, yet it is the lowest-ranked Tom Holland film in comparison to the actor’s three previous solo films as the legendary Marvel Comics character.

Singer Madison Beer and NFL star quarterback Justin Herbert announced their engagement via an expensive ring. The couple's combined net worth is at least $74 million.

Soda Stereo's ECOS concert tour pairs live musicians with a digital avatar of late singer Gustavo Cerati, offering a glimpse at the future of live music technology.

A group of U.S. visual effects workers engaged directly by “Star Wars” franchise productions has joined the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees for collective bargaining purposes. The new bargaining unit includes U.S. workers who contribute to titles including, but not limited to “TheMandalorian & Grogu,” “Ahsoka” and “Starfighter.” The unit, which overwhelmingly supported joining […]

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