Sometimes, a public affairs officer at the Department of Justice gets to reach deep into their bag and write a press release with some literary flourish. Wednesday’s announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California is one such case: “Former NBA Star, Suspected Israeli Crime Figure Arrested on Federal Indictment Alleging High-Stakes Illegal Poker Games at …
Read More »Cubs’ potential World Series road just got a whole lot more complicated | Cubs News Marquee Sports Network Cubs trade for versatile utilityman Willi Castro, lefty reliever Rogers MLB.com Will the Cubs go all-in at the deadline? Breaking down Chicago’s potential trade options ESPN Chicago Cubs acquire starting pitcher in trade with the Nationals FOX 32 Chicago Cubs trade deadline takeaways: No big-time pitcher, …
Read More »The Cubs’ road to the World Series just got a whole lot more complicated | Cubs News Marquee Sports Network Cubs bolster pitching staff with trades for Soroka, Kittredge MLB.com Will the Cubs go all-in at the deadline? Breaking down Chicago’s potential trade options ESPN Trade grade: In landing Andrew Kittredge, Cubs set to reinforce bullpen The New York Times Chicago Cubs acquire starting …
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Actions to Get Americans the Best Prices in the World for Prescription Drugs The White House (.gov) Trump says he asked 17 drugmakers to take steps to cut U.S. prices within 60 days CNBC Trump calls for price cuts on prescription drugs within 60 days in letters to Eli Lilly, Pfizer, other drugmakers NBC News Trump …
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A viral claim is circulating on social media platforms that the whole world will go dark for six minutes on the upcoming August 2, 2025. Some posts even claim that this event won’t happen again for 100 years. Denying all rumours, experts say the claim is not true and that there will be no blackout on August 2, 2025. Instead, …
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Three days after the Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI action plan, the Chinese government put out its own AI policy blueprint. Was the timing a coincidence? I doubt it. China’s “Global AI Governance Action Plan” was released on July 26, the first day of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), the largest annual AI event in China. Geoffrey Hinton …
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Nintendo has updated Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World with a fresh patch that pulls a notable U-turn on a recent, controversial change. Last month, Nintendo upset Mario Kart fans by nerfing the game’s Random course selection option when playing in VS mode — something many players were deliberately using to try and opt out of open-world driving whenever …
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Last weekend, a global beta test began for Where Winds Meet, the open-world game published by NetEase that is already available in China. This free-to-play game takes place around the year 1000 between the great Tang and Song dynasties during what’s known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. In it, players take the role of a lone wandering …
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World Aquatics Championships 2025: Summer McIntosh wins third gold; Leon Marchand falls short of own world record Yahoo Sports ‘I was so close’: Summer McIntosh wins 3rd gold medal, just misses world record in 200m butterfly CBC Summer McIntosh wins third gold of swimming worlds; Léon Marchand wins 200 IM The New York Times Katie Ledecky looks toward ‘exciting’ head to head with …
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Léon Marchand crushed Ryan Lochte’s world record in the 200m individual medley by more than one second in the World Championships semifinals. Marchand, the Frenchman who won four individual golds at the 2024 Paris Olympics, clocked 1 minute, 52.69 seconds in Singapore. That erased the world record of 1:54.00 set by Lochte at the 2011 Worlds. “My plan was to …
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