WATCH: Surfaced videos of Dem Senate candidate backing 'defund the police' contradict recent denials

The front-runner in Michigan’s messy Democratic primary has repeatedly said he never called for defunding the police, but unearthed interviews and video from years earlier tell a different story. Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the Democratic nomination in Michigan against Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., has been adamant throughout his push for the Senate that he never wanted to strip tax dollars from police departments, going so far as to say he deleted old tweets embracing the ideology.But in ...

Trump asks Supreme Court for rehearing over $5M E Jean Carroll civil judgment

President Donald Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision rejecting his appeal of the $5 million civil judgment awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll, a request filed after the justices turned away the case last week.The court denied Trump’s petition June 29 without taking up the case, leaving in place the judgment tied to a 2023 jury verdict that found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s and defaming her. Trump has denied Carroll’s allegations.In the reh...

Barrett, Kagan to make rare Capitol Hill appearance as Supreme Court seeks more security amid threats

Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan are set to make a rare appearance on Capitol Hill next week, where they will testify on the Supreme Court's proposed fiscal year 2027 budget.Their appearance before the House Appropriations subcommittee comes just weeks after the Supreme Court concluded a highly consequential term, delivering major wins for President Donald Trump, including expanding his executive authority, while also ruling against key parts of his agenda, including his executive orde...

Tennessee conductor fired after telling July 4 passengers America is greatest country, critics should 'leave'

A Tennessee transit agency apologized and fired a part-time railway conductor after video spread online showing him celebrating Independence Day by calling the United States "the greatest country on the face of the planet" and telling anyone who disagreed they could leave.Local ABC affiliate WTVC NewsChannel 9 reported Monday that the part-time conductor was fired after a TikTok video posted by Nathan Scherer captured him saying, "To the very, very few Americans in here, happy Independence Day. ...

Fierce Trump critic makes stunning admission on defense spending: ‘He has won the argument’

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that President Donald Trump has "won the argument" on NATO defense spending, crediting years of U.S. pressure with prompting Canada and European allies to take on a greater share of the alliance's security burden.Speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Carney said he spoke with Trump before the gathering and told him that NATO members increasingly recognize the need to boost military spending amid continued security threats from Russia."I...

Rosie O'Donnell fumes over Trump's involvement with FIFA after US star's red card: 'It's sickening'

Rosie O’Donnell is once again upset with President Donald Trump. This time, it’s about the World Cup.O’Donnell, 64, was livid that Trump reached out to FIFA President Gianni Infantino to ask the organization to review the decision to give U.S. soccer star Folarin Balogun a red card. The red card meant Balogun would have been suspended for the team’s knockout match against Belgium on Monday, but FIFA decided to suspend the one-game ban after Trump’s call."The fact that he called up FIFA and had t...

Teachers who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination now cash in with taxpayer-funded settlements

Public universities and school districts have agreed to pay more than $2.7 million to educators disciplined over social media posts about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, including a $1.9 million settlement approved last week, as lawsuits alleging First Amendment violations continue to mount.NBC News reported Friday that public records show at least five educators have reached settlements with their employers over the past year totaling more than $2.7 million, with a newly approved agre...

Candice Bergen dishes on dates with Donald Trump and Henry Kissinger

Before Donald Trump became president and Henry Kissinger shaped U.S. foreign policy, actress Candice Bergen crossed paths with both men on a more personal level.During an episode of Ted Danson's "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" podcast, the 80-year-old actress opened up about her past dates with influential figures at different moments in her life."One date, very short date," Bergen described her meetup with Trump, who allegedly showed up in a maroon limousine, wearing a matching suit, vest and...

Boarding school where Paris Hilton says she was abused loses licence

Utah has revoked the licence of a boarding school where Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teenager, saying the school has "failed to provide applicable health and safety services for clients."

Platner ripped cheaters as ‘garbage’ in unearthed posts before his own early-marriage sexting scandal

Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner repeatedly criticized a lawmaker on Reddit for cheating on his wife years before his campaign confirmed he sent sexually explicit messages to women early in his marriage. On four occasions between 2018 and 2019, Platner claimed that, while he was working as a bartender in D.C., former GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter had confided in him that he was sleeping with women who were not his wife. Platner called Hunter a "real piece of sh-t" and a "garbage person" b...

Trump admin uncovers 7,100% surge in Medicare transplant claims, says anti-fraud crackdown blocked millions

FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration revealed new figures that show a drastic 7,100% spike in Medicare claims for tissue and organ transplants in just six years as the task force led by Vice President JD Vance continues to crack down on fraud across the country.The staggering increase in claims occurred between 2019 and 2025, surging from $200 million to $14.4 billion, prompting the anti-fraud task force and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to identify potentially fraudulen...

WATCH: Americans rip 'disgusting' Dems forced to split with Platner amid rape allegation

America 250 State Fair attendees questioned why Democrats waited until a rape allegation emerged to abandon U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, arguing the party ignored a string of earlier controversies before finally calling on the Maine candidate to drop out."The Democratic Party has a lifespan that's not much longer," Nancy from Tennessee told Fox News Digital."They realize party's sinking, and one of the ways to keep it from sinking is get the dead weight off the ship, and he is a piece o...

Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' enters rare Billboard territory after 12 weeks ruling the Hot 100

Ella Langley can't stop cooking the charts.The "Nicotine" singer isn't just a massive hit with OutKick readers. She's become the most famous in the country music world, and probably a top three or four star overall.Her rise over the past couple years has been nothing short of spectacular to watch unfold. Now, in 2026 she's taking things to a new level, including dominating the ACMs.Langley's generational run isn't slowing down.COUNTRY MUSIC STAR CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY WITH SPICY SWIMSUIT PHOTOBillb...

Live Updates: New Supports Have Made Building Stable, Mamdani Says

A Midtown high-rise that suffered structural damage had not moved since Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. The streets around the building were starting to come back to life after a tense day.

Southern Poverty Law Center Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Fraud Charges

Southern Poverty Law Center Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Fraud Charges Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on July 7 entered not guilty pleas again to 11 criminal counts alleging it defrauded donors by sending millions of dollars to informants who infiltrated white supremacist and so-called hate groups that it publicly opposed. The fresh arraignment of the nonprofit organization under a new superseding indictment took place via v...

Apple AI security update proves hackers move fast

A security update rarely feels dramatic. You see the alert, promise yourself you will install it later and then go right back to whatever you were doing. This time, Apple is giving you a stronger reason to pay attention.Apple released iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 on June 29, 2026. The updates include security fixes for vulnerabilities tied to the kernel, WebKit and WebRTC. Apple says these fixes were first made available through the iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6 and macOS Tahoe 26.6 ...

Valve Releases Proton 11 With Huge Linux Gaming Improvements

BrianFagioli writes: Valve has released Proton 11.0-1, a major update to its Windows compatibility layer for Linux that makes more games playable while fixing a long list of bugs affecting existing titles. The release restores compatibility for many EA games after a recent EA App update, moves classics like Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, and SHOGUN: Total War from Proton Experimental into the stable release, and adds support for games including Gothic 1 Classic, X-Pla...

Colorado quarterback Julian Lewis reveals he wasn't reading defenses for majority of 2025 season

With Big 12 Media Days in full swing in Frisco, Texas, members of the media are loading up on content to help keep fans satiated during these final weeks before the start of the 2026 season.One program in particular that never disappoints in that regard is the Colorado Buffaloes, and with a head coach as bombastic as Deion Sanders, it's easy to see why.But oddly enough, it wasn't Neon Deion who provided the most intriguing quote of the afternoon on Tuesday.DEION SANDERS DECLARES HE'S CANCER-FREE...

Karmelo Anthony blasts judge in new filing over handling of murder trial

Karmelo Anthony's new legal team is accusing the judge who presided over his murder trial of bias and arguing courtroom restrictions violated his constitutional right to a public trial in a pair of post-conviction motions seeking to overturn his conviction.According to court filings reviewed by FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, Anthony's defense team asks that Collin County Judge John Roach recuse himself from all remaining post-trial proceedings while also requesting a new trial based on what the defens...

Manage AI applications on Mac with Jamf’s AI Governance and Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we show how you can use Jamf’s AI Governance with Amazon Bedrock to configure, deploy, and validate managed settings for AI applications across a Mac fleet.

Joy Behar cornered by 'The View' producer on frustration with Trump supporters amid Platner scandal

"The View" co-host Joy Behar was cornered by the show's producer, Brian Teta, on Tuesday over her frustration with voters who supported President Donald Trump amid Graham Platner's latest scandal as he faces mounting calls to exit the race.Behar brought up the late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy during the "Behind the Table" podcast, hosted by Teta, and said, "Teddy Kennedy had that had that whole thing with Chappaquiddick, and yet people still wanted him in Congress. Why? Because he voted correctl...

Ancient Roman May Have Been the World’s First Collector of Sea Monster Fossils

Whether this person was an early paleontologist or a fanatic of Greek myths, researchers aren't sure.

MARK PENN: Democrats ignored every warning sign in Graham Platner’s Senate disaster

Federalist No. 62, written by James Madison, outlines the nature of the Senate and the qualifications of senators they were older, more removed from politics, with six-year staggered terms, and meant to cool the hot-tempered passions of the House of Representatives. Guess Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner and the party organizers didn’t read that one.They are recruiting senators with exactly the opposite qualifications inexperienced, reckless, flamboyant and unstable. Platner was ...

63 Million Barrels Of Iranian Oil Stuck At Sea After US Pulls Iran Sanction Waiver

63 Million Barrels Of Iranian Oil Stuck At Sea After US Pulls Iran Sanction Waiver Tehran's oil export troubled just got worse.  One week after we reported that Iran was already struggling to sell its crude to buyers in Asia (including China, which appears to now prefer UAE exports instead), overnight the US rescinded the sanctions waiver that allowed Tehran to sell its oil without penalties, making sales of Iranian crude to international buyers even more challenging.  The Iranian...

1 rescued in B.C. boat sinking dies in hospital, 6 still missing, RCMP say

Donald Trump Jr says evidence in Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing 'more cut and dry' than he thought

Donald Trump Jr. said Tuesday that evidence presented during the preliminary hearing for the man accused of assassinating Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was "much more cut and dry" than he expected, saying newly released surveillance video and witness testimony left little doubt in his mind about the prosecution's case."Once this hard evidence was laid out to me in a courtroom before my very eyes, [and] seeing the reaction of the defense, this thing is much more cut and dry than I wou...

Frantic search underway for crew after Boeing 737 wreckage found by officials

Officials in Pakistan are scrambling after a cargo plane with five crew members went missing on Tuesday evening, prompting an urgent search.The Boeing 737, operated by K2 Airways, was on a cargo flight en route to Karachi, Pakistan, when it disappeared around 9:21 p.m. local time, The Associated Press reported.The flight, K2 Airways Flight 1732, had departed from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates earlier that day.DELTA FLIGHT FORCED TO DIVERT AFTER PASSENGER GOES INTO LABOR AND DELIVERS BABY M...

These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.

White House Denies Giving OpenAI ‘Green Light’ to Publicly Release Its Latest Model

The Trump administration insists the power to release new AI models rests entirely with the companies, even as its been wrapping OpenAI and Anthropic in bureaucratic red tape.

China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around $890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~$4.12 per share

Rajasik Mukherjee / Reuters: China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around $890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~$4.12 per share China's Nexchip Semiconduct

Danny McBride says ditching LA was the best move for his career and family

Actor Danny McBride is exposing the real reason he opted to ditch Los Angeles.On a new episode of Rich Roll's podcast, Roll asked him about his decision to move his family out of the "bubble" of L.A. to Charleston, South Carolina, in 2017.McBride, who's created and starred in shows like "Eastbound and Down" and "The Righteous Gemstones," explained that part of the reason he likes living where he does now is that it offers him more creative freedom."When we were shooting 'Eastbound,' we were shoo...

Caesars stock pulls back Wednesday as Icahn rival bid looms over Fertitta deal

Caesars stock pulls back Wednesday as Icahn rival bid looms over Fertitta deal

Lenovo Kills Its ‘Game Boy’ That Was Preloaded With Illegal Games

The Lenovo G02 came too close to touching the third rail of retro game emulation.

Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture The AI agent platform fo

Your Delusion Doesn't Make Me A "Doomer"

Your Delusion Doesn't Make Me A "Doomer" Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance "There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of ev...

Leftist California group pushes to add 'Black English' to schools' multilingual education program

A group of radical left-wing groups in California are pushing for schools to add Black vernacular into a Golden State program that pushes multilingualism for kids.Black Californians United for Early Care and Education (BlackECE) is a "collaborative partnership of organizations committed to advancing language justice for Black children in early childhood education." Those groups include Californians Together, Catalyst California and Early Edge.A co-founder of the umbrella group said she was tease...

Back Toronto Blue Jays Dylan Cease against Logan Webb in a low-scoring Giants pitching matchup

We escaped with a win yesterday as the Miami Marlins pulled off the victory in extra innings. It was a bit of a frustrating one because the Marlins were winning 4-2 after five innings, and then the bullpen allowed three earned runs in the top of the eighth. The Marlins came right back and tied it up before winning in 10 innings.It would've been nice to not have to sweat, but I won't complain about a win. We are flying across the country to take on a different series.The Toronto Blue Jays are a t...

Deadly illegal immigrant truck crash exposed failures on the road and at the border: key senator

The crash that killed a Pennsylvania state trooper, allegedly caused by an illegal immigrant truck driver, exposed failures at the intersection of highway safety and immigration enforcement, the architect of Pennsylvania's move-over law said.Michael Bon, a 33-year-old Haitian national who entered the U.S. under former President Joe Biden's mass parole program, according to the Department of Homeland Security, was arrested after his big rig plowed into Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira Jr...

GOP senator accuses NYT of sitting on bombshell allegation to protect Schumer, Dems

FIRST ON FOX: A top Senate Republican accused both The New York Times and high-level Senate Democrats of working together to delay publishing allegations against Maine Senate Democratic candidate Graham Platner until they could do maximum damage.Stories and allegations against Platner have been piling up for nearly a year, inflicting incremental damage to his candidacy with each report published.It started with the unearthed footage of him dancing intoxicated, sporting a tattoo of Nazi iconograp...

10 Creepy Horror Tales to Stream on Netflix

Zombies, ghouls, witches, aliens, demons, and terrible human beings—what more do you need for your next summer binge?

PocketMage, an e-ink PDA inspired by wizards

The PocketMage is a retro-styled e-ink PDA ("personal digital assistant," remember?) with a clamshell case, a tactile QWERTY keyboard, and a "wizard-inspired" operating system built for notes, journaling and calendars. At under 4 by 3 inches, it actually fits in a pocket, unlike similar gadgets such as the chunky PicoCalc and the tablet-sized Alpha. Read the rest The post PocketMage, an e-ink PDA inspired by wizards appeared first on Boing Boing.

Oil prices jump more than 6% and stocks fall after Trump says ceasefire with Iran is 'over'

The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil, the international standard, rose to about $79 US on Wednesday following the resumption of strikes in the Middle East. Major U.S. indexes also followed global markets on a downward trajectory.

Lopez: On Skid Row, it's been decades of frustration. Will the next mayor have a plan?

Exhausted Skid Row merchants' rep: "If something is working down here, you can't prove it by me."

LangChain and NVIDIA Launch NemoClaw Deep Agents Blueprint

LangChain and NVIDIA launch the NemoClaw Deep Agents blueprint, combining Deep Agents Code, Nemotron 3 Ultra, and OpenShell for open, governed enterprise agents.

Former Toronto Raptor Kyle Lowry and wife latest high-profile members of Toronto Tempo ownership group

Former Toronto Raptor Kyle Lowry and his wife, entrepreneur and philanthropist Ayahna Cornish-Lowry, are the latest members of the Canadian WNBA team's star-studded ownership group.

NVIDIA Nemotron Achieves Benchmark-Leading Performance With LangChain Deep Agents Harness

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration platform. LangChain tuned its Deep Agents h

Sources: China plans to let some of its biggest AI companies buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips to offset a domestic computing shortage in recent months

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: China plans to let some of its biggest AI companies buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips to offset a domestic computing shortage in recent months China pl

A Hidden Nuclear Weapon Could Already Be Orbiting Earth. This MIT Physicist Has a Plan to Find It

The Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in orbit—but we currently have no way to verify that satellites aren't carrying them.

Mysterious Spheres Found In Australia Are Likely Space Debris

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: An Australian beach community was confused -- and later delighted -- by the discovery of six metallic-looking spheres that washed ashore last week. The mystery, and the ensuing attention, prompted a bunch of alien jokes from local residents and businesses. But Australia's space agency put the speculation to rest on Monday, saying that the spheres appeared to be rocket debris that had recently re-entered the atmosphere from orbit. The...

Redesign Work Before You Add More AI Agents

Map AI value, design workflows, redefine talent, upgrade the executive team, and measure the business impact. The post Redesign Work Before You Add More AI Agents appeared first on Towards Data Scienc

Republicans Gleefully Celebrate Midterms Chaos in Maine

Political operatives in Trumpworld hope that US Senate candidate Graham Platner stays in the race as long as possible.

2026 Emmy Awards nominations: Updating live

Buckle up, TV lovers the nominees for the 78th Emmy Awards will be unveiled today.

Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that utilizes a single camera and language prompts

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that utilizes a single camera and language prompts Mistral AI

Google Deepmind adds background execution and MCP support to Gemini API managed agents

Google Deepmind is adding four new features to Managed Agents in the Gemini API. Agents can now run asynchronously in the background, connect directly to remote MCP servers, use custom functions along

Christian Pulisic's 'rest' comment after World Cup exit draws strong reactions from USA soccer legends

Entering the 2026 FIFA World Cup as the darling of the United States Men's National Team, the public has done a 180 on Christian Pulisic.The 27-year-old AC Milan star has been the face of USA soccer since at least the turn of the decade, but the fact is that he was a major disappointment throughout the tournament.Sure, it did not help that he re-aggravated a calf injury in the opener, which led to him missing the equivalent of roughly two full games, but even when he was on the pitch, he did not...

WTI Extends Gains As Crude Exports Slide, SPR Drain Continues, 'Tank Bottoms' Hit

WTI Extends Gains As Crude Exports Slide, SPR Drain Continues, 'Tank Bottoms' Hit Oil prices spiked overnight to three-week-highs after President Trump said that he thought the Iran cease-fire was “over” amid a volatile 24 hours in the Persian Gulf region. The Trump admin launched a series of strikes on Iran and revoked a waiver that had allowed Iran to sell oil in retaliation for attacks on tankers this week in the Strait of Hormuz. Daniela Hathorn, an analyst at Capital.com, a b...

FIRST ON FOX: Pressure mounts on YMCA to ditch transgender policies after Supreme Court Title IX ruling

FIRST ON FOX: The YMCA is facing renewed pressure to change its policies on transgender access to sex-segregated locker rooms, sports teams and overnight accommodations after the American Parents Coalition (APC) argued the organization's rules conflict with the Supreme Court's recent Title IX rulings.The coalition argued the nonprofit, which operates about 2,600 locations nationwide and receives more than $600 million annually in government funding, should update its policies to align with the S...

Nintendo will shut down Mario Kart Tour on September 30

The company doesn't plan to release an offline version.

Nothing Ear 3a Review: You Can Skip the Flagship

The Ear 3a wireless earbuds offer a great mix of style, substance, and interesting features for an approachable $99.

Platner told rape victims to ‘take some responsibility’ and avoid being assaulted in vulgar resurfaced post

Graham Platner, Maine’s embattled Democratic Senate nominee who stands accused of rape, made a Reddit post in 2013 where he criticized victims of rape."Holy f---, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to?" Platner wrote in 2013, responding to another user who expressed disappointment that women couldn’t get intoxicated without fearing sexual assault."Men and women, you make a choice to consume e...

Trump Admin Approves Public Release Of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Models Ahead Of Thursday Release

Trump Admin Approves Public Release Of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Models Ahead Of Thursday Release The Trump administration has approved the wide public release of OpenAI's advanced GPT-5.6 model family, a source familiar with the discussions confirmed to Axios on Tuesday. OpenAI announced late Tuesday night that its flagship model, named Sol, along with the more accessible Terra and Luna variants, will launch publicly this Thursday. Prompt via GPTcommands The decision marks the latest delay...

Is Life Just Different?

In 1993, a team led by the planetary scientist Carl Sagan tentatively concluded that there is life on Earth. Not much of a deduction, you might think except that the researchers confined their evidence to observations made by the Galileo spacecraft, which had flown past our planet three years earlier on a looping journey to Jupiter. So great is the transformative power of life that its presence… Source

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025 Paradig

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its third fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, including AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM in 2025

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Insane country music concert brawl goes viral after fans fight during Gavin Adcock show

Some fans at a Gavin Adcock concert found themselves in an all-out brawl.Gavin Adcock is one of the fastest rising stars in the country music world, and his style is pretty in-your-face and over the top.His music is certainly a lot of fun. It's perfect for a rowdy cookout with the boys. However, I think it's safe to say some people took the party a bit too far.MORGAN WALLEN FAN GOES VIRAL KICKING A PHONE OUT OF SOMEONE'S HAND AS SHE'S BEING ESCORTED OUT IN HANDCUFFSThe "Last One To Know" singer ...

Three ways the LNG market could crack before winter

War, weather and outages may still send gas prices soaring

15-year-old exits Wimbledon junior draw after racket-throwing incident ends first-round match

A 15-year-old women’s singles competitor at Wimbledon learned quite the lesson during play on Monday.Tantrums will not be tolerated.Ida Wobker, from Germany, was disqualified from the Wimbledon junior tournament after throwing her racket on the ground, which bounced into the stands. The decision was confirmed by the All England Club on Sunday.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe incident occurred during the second set of the first round match between Wobker and her opponent on S...

The Plumbing For Vast Defense Spending Needs To Be Set Up

The Plumbing For Vast Defense Spending Needs To Be Set Up By Michael Every of Rabobank In response to Iranian strikes on ships using the Omani route in Hormuz, the US has struck Iranian air defense, missile, and drone sites in the Strait and suspended its oil sanctions waiver. These are clear breaches of the MoU, and we will now see if Iran escalates --it says it will take “decisive” action-- with the risk of war if the US is also prepared to go that route. We suspect the US will t...

Meta Is Toying With the Idea of Smart Glasses That Record Everything, All the Time

Meta seems to think there's no such thing as a bad idea when it comes to smart glasses.

The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro

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ORICO 88 Series 4-Bay USB4 NVMe SSD Enclosure Review: Fast Storage That Works Natively on Linux

Ever tried a DAS (Direct-Attached Storage) device? Unlike NAS, where you have a bunch of hard drives available over network, DAS is directly connected to your computer.I never used such a product because I never had the need. But then Orico sent me there new DAS 88 Series 4-Bay USB4 NVMe SSD Enclosure and I got the opportunity to use a DAS for the first time ever.Sharing my experience and some benchmarking test that I did for the first time in several years.Orico 8848U4 DAS SpecificationHere's t...

Apple pledges to buy $30 billion of Broadcom's US-made chips

Apple's program to invest in US manufacturing sees it spend $30 billion on Broadcom chips.

Officers in Maryland respond to reported assault, discover guns and unusual group of animals

An alleged assault in Maryland led to an unusual discovery after deputies arrested a landlord accused of threatening his tenants at gunpoint and found an alligator, a caiman, a snake, an emu and six handguns on the property, authorities said.Sir Leander Evans Gamble, 57, of Waldorf, was arrested July 3 after deputies responded to a reported assault involving a firearm at a property on Penjack Place, according to the Charles County Sheriff's Office.Investigators said Gamble confronted three peopl...

Republican lawmakers press WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert to protect Caitlin Clark

The criticism of WNBA officiating has now reached Capitol Hill.Just days after Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark publicly called on the league to do a better job protecting its players, a group of Republican lawmakers is demanding answers from WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGEIn a letter led by Rep. August Pfluger, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, and co-signed by a dozen members of Congress including lawmakers from Indiana the group argued t...

South Korea Falls Into Bear Market As Memory Euphoria Fizzles

South Korea Falls Into Bear Market As Memory Euphoria Fizzles It started off with the usual morning rush by retail momentum chasers into the handful of massive, market-moving names (read Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix), but as has been the case over the past two weeks, the initial euphoria quickly reversed and the Kospi rolled over, closing down 5.4%, 9.99% over the past two days, and down 22% from the all time high of 9385 hit just over 2 weeks ago on Jun 18. ... officially en...

Air Canada names Anko Van der Werff as new CEO following predecessor's French-language fracas

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If you indulge in late-night binge-watching on your Roku, Fire Stick or Google TV, you're going to want to enable this feature.

Volcano fire forces evacuations in Riverside County, others reduced to warnings

Three fires broke out in Southern and Central California amid warm temperatures Tuesday, triggering evacuations.

Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs

Corbin Bolies / Variety: Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs Kaon AI, a st

Live Updates: Status of Damaged Manhattan Building Is Unclear After Crews Work Overnight

A Midtown high-rise that suffered structural damage was stable for now, New York City’s buildings commissioner said, but he warned of tense days ahead.

Erika Kirk comforts a stranger in tears during hearing for husband's accused assassin Tyler Robinson

PROVO, Utah In an emotional moment in the gallery during the second day of a preliminary hearing for Charlie Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson in a Utah courthouse Tuesday, the victim's widow Erika Kirk reached forward to hand a tissue to a crying woman in the row in front of her.Over the course of the hearing, the Kirk family has been given permission to come and go to avoid painful testimony.At one point Tuesday, as defense attorney Richard Novak cross-examined the case's lead investigato...

Manhattan building stabilized, some evacuations lifted after collapse feared

A 37-story Manhattan high-rise that sparked fears of a possible collapse and forced widespread evacuations in one of New York City's busiest neighborhoods was stabilized late Tuesday, allowing officials to lift some evacuation orders.Officials said residents were allowed to return to several of the seven buildings evacuated earlier in the day after inspectors found no additional movement in the damaged structure."We've been monitoring the building for many hours and have not seen any movement," ...

Katie Couric couldn't remember the year or the president during frightening brain episode

Journalist Katie Couric is sharing a scary medical episode that she experienced on June 27.In a post on Substack titled "The Day I’ll Never Remember," she detailed a sudden episode that left her unable to recall the current month, year and president."I thought it was 2024. And I believed Joe Biden was president," she wrote.ONE WALKING HABIT COULD SIGNAL A HEALTHIER BRAIN AFTER 80, SCIENTISTS SAYThe event occurred while Couric was attending the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, during which she p...

Air Canada names Anko Van der Werff as new president and CEO

Air Canada on Wednesday named Anko Van der Werff as its next president and CEO.

Golf influencer Paige Spiranac stuns the internet with her latest content, an 18-handicap shines and BOOM!

I hope you guys are ready for a Wednesday Screencaps that includes an amateur athletic performance unlike anything you have seen this year. I'm talking a performance that you have never seen out of Tiger Woods.All of you remember that I teased a golf video that was made while I was Up North at Garland Golf Resort in Lewiston, Michigan. Let me set this up by reminding you that this video was shot after I'd played somewhere around 152-154 holes of golf over five days. The USGA GHIN has me at an 18...

One year after deadly Texas floods, Hill Country proves grief can't wash away grit

A year ago this summer, on July 4, floodwaters rose in the dark in the Texas Hill Country and did not stop. By morning, 139 people across the Hill Country were gone: 119 of them in Kerr County. Many were neighbors and friends; others had come to experience its beauty.Like so many families across our community, my life was changed forever by the flood, and the anniversary we mark this month is deeply personal.A year later, there are empty seats at dinner tables. There are families marking anniver...

Fi Ultra pet tracker uses T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service for coverage

Fi's latest dog tracker uses Starlink satellites for rural areas.

SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, deep and broad China ties, and health and safety concerns

Tim Culpan / Culpium: SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, deep and broad China ties, and health and safety concerns [Opinion] The w

SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, extensive ties to China, and health and safety issues

Tim Culpan / Culpium: SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, extensive ties to China, and health and safety issues [Opinion] The world

Higher Electricity Rates In Blue States Linked To Renewable Energy Policies

Higher Electricity Rates In Blue States Linked To Renewable Energy Policies Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, A new analysis by Always On Energy Research and the Institute for Energy Research concludes that renewable energy mandates and net-zero policies have contributed to higher electricity prices in states that adopted them, while states with fewer climate-related mandates generally have lower electricity costs. The analysis examined electricity pricing data f...

Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year

Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters. MiniMax plans to release the model as open source. The article Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to o

The Foam Era Has Changed Pickleball—Here Are the Top 2 Pickleball Paddles Right Now

New tech has changed the game with the latest generation of pickleball paddles. Here's what to know and what to buy.

Platner campaign putting 'thumb on scale' to influence possible replacement, Maine Dem alleges

The Maine Democratic Party issued a stern warning to U.S. Senate primary winner Graham Platner, telling him and his campaign that they have "no role" in choosing his replacement.Platner has not yet withdrawn from the race, and is still the state's Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, despite mounting pressure from state and national Democrats to drop out after a woman who previously dated him accused him of sexual assault in a Politico report published Monday. Platner has denied the allegations, bu...

Collection of pixel-art skylines from old arcade and video games

Pixel Skylines collects background graphics from old video games that depict city skylines. The simple, grid-like design of skyscrapers lends them to representation as pixel art (faves that age me: 1987's Double Dragon, below, and 1988's Robocop, above) so that genre naturally dominates the set. Read the rest The post Collection of pixel-art skylines from old arcade and video games appeared first on Boing Boing.

NATO Chief Backs Renewed US Strikes On Iran As 'Absolutely Necessary' 

NATO Chief Backs Renewed US Strikes On Iran As 'Absolutely Necessary'  Even if most individual NATO members are still reluctant to jump on board Trump's Iran war, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is busy praising American military action there amid the annual summit in Ankara. Rutte has freshly described the overnight fresh US military strikes on Iran in response to Tehran attacking multiple international shipping vessels "absolutely necessary". Rutte voiced agreement with Trump t...

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos The rocket company foun

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, with $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, with $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos The rocket company founded b

Geno Auriemma makes unfathomably stupid comments about Caitlin Clark, but the WNBA mean girls will love them

I know it's late, but I've got a late submission for the "Dumbest Caitlin Clark Take Of The Year" award.I can still submit it? Good! Let's all welcome legendary UConn Women's basketball coach, Geno Auriemma, to the clubhouse. He'll be your new leader in just a minute.It's been nearly two weeks since Alyssa Thomas shoved Clark to the floor and did everything but choke her and use her as a doormat, and the discourse is as fiery as ever. Naturally, the whole thing has turned into a discussion about...

Filing: Chinese AI model maker Z.ai is seeking to raise ~$4B from the sale of 19.8M shares at ~$202 to ~$216 each, after its stock jumped 1,500% since January (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Filing: Chinese AI model maker Z.ai is seeking to raise ~$4B from the sale of 19.8M shares at ~$202 to ~$216 each, after its stock jumped 1,500% since January Chinese artificial-intellige