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The Massachusetts Gaming Commission said it is investigating bets that sports media personality Bill Simmons said he had someone else place for him, a violation of the state’s gambling rules. Simmons, a popular pundit and founder of sports media website The Ringer, said during a recent episode of his podcast that he asked his daughter’s…
More than 3,000 people have now died in the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in Congo’s history, according to new government data released Wednesday. Congo’s Ministry of Health has recorded 6,186 confirmed cases, including 3,007 deaths, since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a global health emergency in May. Just more than 1,400 people have…
U.S. Central Command launched a new round of strikes against Iran in retaliation for earlier attacks against American forces in Jordan. Tehran responded by targeting U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf region. President Trump said Tuesday night on Truth Social he is “not trying to force Iran to the negotiating table” with the strikes. Trump…
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Google does not have to break up its advertising technology business after finding last year that the search giant held an illegal monopoly over the industry. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request to force Google to sell off its AdX exchange business, which…
OpenAI’s forthcoming artificial intelligence model Astra is the company’s first to meet its “critical cybersecurity capability” threshold and will require stronger safeguards before release, the AI firm said Tuesday. In a blog post, OpenAI said Astra can find and exploit previously unknown security flaws across “many well-protected systems” without a human prompt to do so.…
Some forecasts indicate this year’s El Niño may be the strongest ever recorded.
The USS Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday docked at the Laem Chabang port in Chonburi province in Thailand after more than 280 days at sea while on a record-setting deployment in the Middle East. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier appeared to have large blotches of rust on the hull above the waterline and at the edge of…
The Dallas Police Department said Tuesday it is shutting down more than 300 Flock cameras after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ordered state agencies to halt funding for the roadside camera network. The city will cancel 321 of the company’s automated license plate readers supported by state funding by Sept. 15, authorities said. More than…
Golf legend Tiger Woods on Wednesday reversed a plea in connection with his latest DUI arrest, agreeing to plead no contest to a reckless driving charge and failure to submit to a sobriety test to avoid harsher punishment from a Florida judge. Woods was arrested in March after striking a pickup truck and flipping his…
Apple on Tuesday changed the name of Lake Ontario on the web version of its Maps app to “Lake America,” after President Trump directly contacted the tech giant for an update in accordance with his recent executive order. The company said U.S. users will now find “Lake America” on their maps, following the change in…
The debate is not simply about giving police effective tools. The real issue is expanding the government’s power to monitor people without clear evidence that the benefits outweigh the harm, meaningful public oversight, or safeguards strong enough to protect communities already subject to over-policing.
Chevron announced early Wednesday that it has reached an agreement to expand its oil production in Venezuela. Chevron said that it has been assigned additional acreage in the Orinoco Belt, where it has an established position. Joint venture plans include investing more than $7 billion over the next five years and increasing production to approximately…
If Congress fails to intervene, a depleted trust fund could trigger an automatic benefit cut averaging about $500 a month for recipients.
Memory integrity could get enabled on your device next month, unless you’ve already disabled it.
The U.S. military completed a new wave of strikes Tuesday on targets in Iran as the conflict in the region stretches into its seventh month. “U.S. forces struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets including air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets and facilities, mine laying capabilities, and communications sites,” U.S. Central Command (Centcom) wrote…
President Trump said on Tuesday he would be nominating Hung Cao for Navy Secretary after the predecessor to the role stepped down in April. The president announced his pick on Truth Social Tuesday night, saying “We need Patriots like Hung leading our Navy and Marine Corps, and I can think of no one better than…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spiked the names of at least six Army officers from a list for promotions to two-star generals, a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Hill Tuesday. The removals come just days after the Pentagon chief blocked promotions of four Army officers selected to ascend to one-star…
The resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll underlines how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is increasingly imposing his will on the Pentagon after nearly 20 months in the role. Driscoll’s departure, which came sooner than expected, followed months of tensions with Hegseth, who has forced out or stalled the promotions of dozens of senior military officials…
