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US president also to seek constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and various officeholders. Joe Biden will announce plans to reform the US supreme court on Monday, Politico reported, citing two people familiar with the matter, adding that the US president was likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics. Biden said earlier this week during an Oval Office address that he would call for reform of the court. Read More
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Immigration detainee charged over alleged drug ring operating from inside Villawood detention centre
Police allege the man used an encrypted messaging service to deal drugs and coordinate a network of runners outside the Sydney facility.Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast An immigration detainee and another man have been charged over an alleged drug ring operating from inside a detention facility. Police say the 49-year-old dealt large amounts of methylamphetamine using an encrypted messaging service from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney’s west. Read More
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To be clear, NASA is not declaring that it's discovered Martian life. Rather, its Perseverance rover has drilled a sample from a rock with attributes that could have come from ancient microbial activity, the agency announced Thursday. "This is exactly the kind of sample that we wanted to find," Katie Stack Morgan, a lead scientist on the Perseverance mission, told Business Insider. Read More
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The 2024 Paris Olympics is making a historic bid among a long lineage of international games, from its Seine cleaning efforts and integration of AI, to the first time the competition has achieved gender parity among athletes. Its leaders are also making claims for international camaraderie amid global turmoil, including the continued barrage of Palestine by Israel's armed forces. Athlete delegations from both Israel and Palestine will be competing in Paris, under close watch from activists around the world. Read More
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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is postponing the highly scrutinized listing of Pershing Square's U.S. closed-end fund, according to a notice on the New York Stock Exchange's website. The initial public offering of Pershing Square USA Ltd, with the ticker PSUS, has been delayed until a date to be announced, according to the website. Ackman is now looking to raise $2.5 billion to $4 billion for the fund, well short of the $25 billion target from a few weeks ago, according to a regulatory filing dated Thursday. Read More
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Getty Images At a moment of unprecedented turbulence in modern American political history, Kamala Harris is having a remarkably smooth ride. It may not last long. Tony Fabrizio, Donald Trump’s campaign pollster, calls it a “Harris Honeymoon” – where a combination of good press and positive energy have combined to give the Democrat a surge of momentum. Read More
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North Carolina state regulators now say a nonprofit run by wife of North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson must repay $132,000 for what they call disallowed expenses while carrying out a federally funded child care meal program Read More
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The FAA approved SpaceX to resume flights of its mainstay Falcon 9 rocket after a being grounded about two weeks ago following a rare inflight failure. Read More
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Warner Bros. Discovery has sued the NBA in an effort to keep distributing the league's games, after it chose NBCUniversal and Amazon as new media partners. Read More
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Dave Zirin, Jules Boykoff. “The Olympic Games are profoundly disrupting the lives of French people,” the protesters wrote in a joint statement.“The question then arises: Who benefits from the Games?” The post The Paris Olympics Are Kicking Off With Protests appeared first on The Nation. Read More
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Federal prosecutors have criminally charged the well-known short seller Andrew Left with securities fraud related to allegedly using his public platform to illegally profit from manipulating stock market activity. Left and his firm Citron Capital also were separately charged in a civil fraud action by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused them of "engaging in a $20 million multi-year scheme to defraud followers by publishing false and misleading statements regarding his supposed stock trading recommendations." Read More
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The Ohio senator floated the idea on a podcast with conservative influencer Charlie Kirk in 2021, saying that "we should reward the things that we think are good, and punish the things that we think are bad." "Let's tax the things that are bad, and not tax the things that are good," Vance, now Donald Trump's running mate, said at the time. "If you're making $100,000, $400,000 a year, and you've got three kids, you should pay a different, lower tax rate than if you're making the same amount of money and you don't have any kids." Read More
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Woman seeks $1m for defamation after she says LaToya Cantrell falsely accused her of following and harassing. A New Orleans woman once accused of stalking by the city’s mayor, LaToya Cantrell, turned the tables on Friday with a $1m-plus federal lawsuit accusing the elected official, her chief of staff, and eight members of the city’s police department of civil rights violations and defamation. Anne W Breaud’s lawsuit says Cantrell falsely accused her of following and harassing her. It also claims Cantrell’s chief of staff and members of the police department improperly accessed state and federal information on Breaud. Read More
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Cofounder Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as "El Mayo," and Joaquin Guzman Lopez — the son of the cartel's other jailed cofounder, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman — were arrested in Texas and are facing multiple charges related to manufacturing and trafficking fentanyl, Garland said. FBI director Christopher Wray noted both men had "eluded law enforcement for decades." Read More
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To find the best ice cube trays, we made a cooler worth of ice and consulted two drinks experts. Here are our top picks for cubes, ice spheres, and more. Read More
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Apple is set to report next week as megacap earnings kick into high gear. The quarterly results from the iPhone maker are always important, but they won't determine what's next for the stock. It's a weird time for Apple, whose stock started 2024 as one of the most hated on Wall Street coming out of last year's tech boom. It regained its luster ahead of better-than-feared earnings in May and last month's artificial intelligence announcement. Apple has held up much better than its Big Tech counterparts in the painful market rotation that began July 11. When Apple delivers fiscal third-quarter numbers after Thursday's closing bell, analysts expect the iPhone maker to report a revenue increase of nearly 3% to $84.36 billion and an earnings-per-share (EPS) gain of more than 6% to $1.34. It's the last quarter before the new iPhone is unveiled, which has seasonably been a slow time for upgrades. Apple usually introduces the next iteration of its flagship device in September. This year's third-quarter dynamic, however, is being compounded by what we already learned at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 10 — that the company's new Apple Intelligence features will only be available on the iPhone 15 Pro model or better. That means buyers who might have made purchases in the past few months have another reason to wait and see what the new AI-enhanced iPhone has to offer. In the past, would-be buyers may have delayed their purchases to see what incremental upgrades the next model would bring. But this year, they know for a fact that the new iPhone will get them access to Apple Intelligence and then some, such as a better camera. That's why the reported fiscal Q3 results from Apple, as important as they are, won't be as important to... Read More
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Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves said Friday that the new Labour government would be the most pro-growth and pro-business the country has seen. Reeves told CNBC that it was only through wealth creation that the living standards of ordinary Britons would be improved and more money would be available to invest in public services. Read More
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Whether they are the result of climate change or just freaks of nature, disasters can be costly. The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information estimate that weather and climate disasters in the U.S. did nearly $93 billion in damage last year. "There's really no place in the country that doesn't have risk," said Jeremy Porter, head of climate implications for First Street Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization. "As you start to look at the multiple hazards, wildfire, wind, flood, extreme heat, then you start to understand that these hazards touch all parts of the country." Read More
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Cryptocurrency storage company Ledger is raising the price of its iPod-like Stax hardware wallet by 40% — just three months after shipping it to customers — and launching a cheaper version, in a major product revamp for the French startup. The company said Friday the price of Ledger Stax, which sports an E Ink display and allows users to secure their crypto, will now be $399. That's up from the $279 Ledger had originally offered for the device when it was unveiled back in December 2022. Read More
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Louisiana’s Elizabeth Francis, ‘America’s grandmother’, was born before women could vote and has seen two world wars. The oldest person in the US offers two bits of advice when asked for the keys to her longevity: “If the good Lord gave it to you, use it” and “Speak your mind, don’t bite your tongue!” Elizabeth Francis’s pearls of wisdom were recirculated widely as she celebrated her 115th birthday on Thursday. The milestone cemented her place as the world’s fourth-oldest living person, according to the LongeviQuest website, an authority on supercentenarians, or those who are 110 or older. Read More
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Finding a new job is getting harder. Last month, the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.1%, the first time it has crossed above 4% since 2021. Fewer people are quitting their jobs, and recent college graduates are having a hard time breaking into the market. Read More
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Spencer Platt | Getty Images An important gauge for the Federal Reserve showed inflation eased slightly from a year ago in June, helping to open the way for a widely anticipated September interest rate cut. The personal consumption expenditures price index increased 0.1% on the month and was up 2.5% from a year ago, in line with Dow Jones estimates, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The year-over-year gain in May was 2.6%, while the monthly measure was unchanged. Read More
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European drug regulators on Friday rejected the Alzheimer's treatment Leqembi from Biogen and Eisai, creating another hurdle for the companies as they scramble to boost uptake of the therapy in the U.S. The European Commission, the EU's executive body, has a final say in Leqembi's approval. But it almost always follows the drug regulator's recommendations. Read More
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French rail company SNCF has warned that disruption from Friday's sabotage against the country's train network could last until the end of the weekend and affect hundreds of thousands more passengers. Coordinated arson attacks on three lines of the high-speed TGV network on Friday caused chaos for travellers, hours before the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics. A fourth attack was thwarted by rail workers. Read More
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Olympic organisers have issued a "deep apology" after South Korea's athletes were mistakenly introduced as North Korea at the opening ceremony in Paris. As the excited, flag-waving team floated down the River Seine, both French and English announcers introduced them as the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" - the official name of North Korea. Read More
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The Californian made enough money from his basketball career to retire in comfort. But he was called back to the sport he loved as a high schooler. When Chase Budinger was named to the US men’s beach volleyball team for the Paris Olympics, it seemed as if the selection panel had gotten its wires crossed. Budinger – a tall, blond, California cliche (and in case unclear, his is a hard g) – isn’t just any sand-sprinkled leviathan. He’s a 36-year-old NBA retiree. Really, the 6ft 7in swingman wouldn’t look out of place among the motley crew of journeymen who carry the US men’s basketball team through the Olympic qualifiers while the likes of LeBron James and Steph Curry are otherwise occupied. Instead, he’s poised to become the rare human who has logged minutes in the NBA and competed in the Olympics in a sport other than basketball. Read More
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It's looking more and more like SpaceX may have to step in and bring them home. The company's Crew Dragon spaceship has been successfully flying astronauts to and from the ISS for years. "We have two different systems that we're flying," Steve Stich, the manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, said in a press briefing on Thursday. He was referring to the Boeing Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon. Read More
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The presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in June set off a wild month in US politics. From Mr Biden's re-election campaign falling apart to former President Trump surviving an assassination attempt, the last few weeks have been unprecedented. Read More
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The number of measles cases recorded so far this year is already triple the 2023 total.According to the CDC, 188 measles cases have been reported.Experts attribute the trend to declining vaccination rates in the U.S. and a rise in measles cases worldwide. The number of measles cases recorded this year is more than triple the total from all of last year — with five months still to go. Read More
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Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. Read More
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Marine archaeologists in Wisconsin find ship after single day of searching, in 50ft-deep waters off Algoma. Shipwreck hunters with the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan 131 years ago. A team of marine archaeologists located the Margaret A Muir – a 130-foot, three-masted schooner built in 1872 – in 50ft-deep waters off the coast of Algoma, Wisconsin, on 12 May. Read More
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Celine Dion has returned to the stage for the first time since revealing a serious health condition, delivering a typical powerhouse performance at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. The Canadian superstar had been rumoured to be singing a duet with Lady Gaga, but instead went solo on the Eiffel Tower to bring the four-hour event to a stirring climax. Read More
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We need comprehensive reform that addresses the entire ecosystem of fees, contracts and practices that have allowed PBMs to amass such unchecked power. Read More
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Nakash, 13, Aayat, 11, and Muhammad Hanan, 7, ‘missed beyond measure’ say Khurram Malik and Naumana Gul Khan. The parents of three children who died in an east London house fire have paid tribute to them, saying they were “loved beyond words and missed beyond measure”. The children who died after the blaze in East Ham on 13 July were named by police on Friday as 13-year-old Nakash Malik, 11-year-old Aayat Malik and seven-year-old Muhammad Hanan Malik. Read More
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Users on Elon Musk's X came across an interesting new option tucked deep into the Settings tab on the social media platform this week. "Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning," reads the settings option on X, formerly known as Twitter. The option refers to X's AI chatbot Grok, which the company continues to integrate throughout the platform. Read More
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Kelly Burdick. Writer Lewis H. Lapham, longtime editor of Harper’s Magazine and the founder of Lapham’s Quarterly, died in Rome. He was 89. The post Lewis Lapham Salvaged From History What Was Useful, Beautiful, and True appeared first on The Nation. Read More
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Quarterback led NFL in passing yards last seasonDeal is a record for a Dolphins player The Miami Dolphins and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa agreed to a four-year, $212.4m extension, multiple outlets reported on Friday. ESPN reported that Tagovailoa’s new contract includes $167m guaranteed and is the largest in Dolphins history. The $53.1m average annual salary is the highest in league history on a four-year extension, according to NFL Network. Read More
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Federal student loan payments are on pause for millions of people while the Biden administration defends its new relief program in court. Here's what to know. Read More
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Boar’s Head has recalled more than 207,000 pounds of deli meat, including liverwurst and ham products, because they may be contaminated with listeria bacteria. Read More
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Fears that OpenAI's new search engine will challenge Google's dominance in the near term are exaggerated, especially because Alphabet is already playing offense by integrating generative AI tools into its own platform. ChatGPT creator OpenAI on Thursday announced a prototype of its search engine, SearchGPT, in an effort to directly compete with Google Search. The Microsoft -backed AI startup said SearchGPT will generate quick responses to user queries that include relevant sources from the web. Users will be able to ask follow-up questions to add more context with each query. OpenAI said the prototype is currently available to a small group of people for feedback. Alphabet shares fell 3.1% on the news Thursday, underperforming the tech-heavy Nasdaq , which dropped 0.9%. The stock lost about 0.3% in Friday's session and again lagged the Nasdaq, which added roughly 0.8%. Anytime there are headlines about search-engine competition for Google, "a sell-first, ask-questions-later situation" tends to play out, said Director of Portfolio Analysis Jeff Marks during the Investing Club's Friday's Morning Meeting. We're skeptical that's the right strategy, to say the least. Investor concerns about the proliferation of generative AI chatbots and the risk they present to Alphabet's core search-engine business are not new. It's been a worry ever since OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT in November 2022, taking the world by storm with its ability to churn out humanlike written responses on all manner of topics. GOOGL YTD mountain Alphabet's year-to-date stock performance. We keep a close eye on the competitive landscape. However, the Google Search business continues to perform well. Just this week Alphabet reported better-than-expected second-quarter revenue for its search unit. "Not really seeing any decline in web traffic away from web search" despite the popularity of AI chatbots," Marks said Friday. "So, maybe this threat here is a little overblown,... Read More
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Single-pilot plane was delivering aid to crews battling Falls fire in eastern Oregon when it went missing on Thursday. A single-pilot tanker plane disappeared in eastern Oregon while fighting the Falls fire, authorities said Friday. The plane – used to deliver gallons of fire retardant or water – had been contracted by the US Bureau of Land Management to aid firefighters near the town of Seneca, on the edge of the Malheur national forest. Read More
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Somewhere between What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Carol lies Mothers' Instinct. Set vaguely in the early 1960s, this psychological thriller thrusts two of America's most thrilling actresses at each other in a queer-coded battle of wills and mental illness. Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain star as a pair of (mostly) happy homemakers who live side by side in charming suburbia. Established cinematographer Benoît Delhomme makes his directorial debut here, draping the film in a dreamy pastel palette that cools as the plot kicks in. An untimely death throws these very, very close friends into a spiral of suspicion that threatens to not only end their bond but maybe even several lives along the way. Read More
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For France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin - the man with the task of securing the Paris Olympics - the sabotage attacks on the high-speed rail network will have come as a blow. He has vowed the attackers will all be quickly arrested, but so far he has not indicated who might be to blame. Read More
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Acasia Welburn pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual activity with child by person in a position of trust. A school worker has been jailed for sexually abusing an autistic boy who was under 16 at the time, police said. Acasia Welburn, now 26, had been working at a school in North Yorkshire in a “trusted care position” when she abused the child. Read More
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Even as home prices hit new highs, experts say there are signs that the housing market is becoming better for buyers in some locations. The median cost of an existing, single-family home in the U.S. was $426,900 in June, a new all-time high, according to the National Association of Realtors. About 3.89 million homes were sold in June, a 5.4% decrease from May, NAR found. Read More
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But a small part of him had hoped that when the habitat's doors opened on July 6, he'd be on the red planet for real instead of in Houston. The mission mimicked space travel conditions like communication delays, limited resources, and cramped living quarters. To Brockwell, who was the mission's structural engineer, it felt real. Read More
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Judge dismisses challenge over removal of woman’s name and warns against risks of informal conception arrangements. A woman has lost a court of appeal challenge over her name being removed from a child’s birth certificate after her ex-wife admitted she secretly had sex with their sperm donor. The “unprecedented” and “unusual” case centred on the question of who were the legal parents of a girl, now aged six. Read More
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The Paris Olympics kicked off on Friday with an opening ceremony unlike any other. It promised to be a star-studded event with expected appearances from Celine Dion and Lady Gaga, with rumors of other big names. The ceremony certainly delivered with performances and appearances from stars. Read More
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Dexcom shares sank more than 40% on Friday and headed for their worst day ever after the diabetes management company reported disappointing revenue for the second quarter and offered weak guidance. The stock fell $45.38 to $62.47 as of early afternoon, wiping out about $18 billion in market cap. Prior to Friday, the biggest drop came in September 2017, when the shares plunged 33% in a day. Dexcom held its stock market debut in 2005. Read More
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Anthony Nesmith | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images The WNBA's new media rights deal includes a price reevaluation after the 2028 season to account for the league's rising popularity, according to people familiar with the agreement. The WNBA deal has been negotiated within a broader $77 billion NBA agreement with media partners announced earlier this week. The WNBA-specific contract is worth $2.2 billion for 11 seasons — an average of $200 million per year. Read More