Trump Urges the U.K. to Drill More Oil, Criticizing Its Energy Policy
President Trump said the North Sea was a “treasure chest,” but its high taxes were driving away oil producers.
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Hurricane Forecasters Keep Access to Threatened Defense Department Satellite Data
Hurricane Forecasters Keep Crucial Satellite Data Online after Threatened Cuts Microwave satellite data that are key to capturing changes in a hurricane’s strength will not be taken from meteorologists as originally planned By Andrea Thompson edited by Jeanna Bryner Infrared satellite imagery of Hurricane Otis compared with microwave imagery of the storm in October 2023….
Cash App users can now pool money for group payments — even with non-users
Cash App launched a new peer-to-peer payment feature on Tuesday called “pools” that allows users to pool money with friends or family members to pay for expenses like grocery bills, restaurant checks, vacations, and group gifts. Initially available to select users, it will expand more widely in the coming months. Users can create pools through…
Donald Trump increases his golf footprint in Scotland while world looks elsewhere | Golf
Even a cursory glance towards the scale of this year’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush emphasised why ongoing and occasionally fevered chatter about Turnberry staging the world’s oldest major is futile. Whether the Turnberry owner was Donald Trump or Donald Duck, its lack of adjacent infrastructure makes it unfit for the Open. The Ayrshire venue,…
Fantastic Four: First Steps: Joseph Quinn hints at Spider-Man joining the Future Foundation in an interview at the film’s Sydney premiere | Exclusive
A few weeks ago, I got the chance to speak with Joseph Quinn at the premiere of the Fantastic Four: First Steps premiere in Sydney. I went in confident, I had a good question for him: I wanted to ask if it were the Fantastic Five instead of Four, who would he cast as the…
How Europe’s Leaders Coaxed Trump on Gaza and Ukraine
A tactic of deference and praise, along with a studied attempt to avoid any public blowups, coaxed President Trump into changes on key issues like Gaza and Ukraine.
Google’s NotebookLM can now make narrated slideshows with AI
Google’s NotebookLM is getting a new Video Overviews feature that uses AI to create slideshows with narration. The feature is rolling out now in English, and Google says that support for “more languages” is coming soon. “You can think of these as a visual alternative to Audio Overviews: the AI host creates new visuals to…
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asks to be released from jail on $50-million bond – National
Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs asked a judge to release him on a $50-million bond on Tuesday while he awaits sentencing in his federal sex crimes case. This comes after a jury convicted Combs of federal prostitution-related offences but acquitted the performer of sex trafficking and racketeering charges following his eight-week trial. In a new…
Trump gave the USOPC cover on its transgender athlete policy change. It could end up in court anyway
In its push to remove transgender athletes from Olympic sports, the Trump administration provided the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee a detailed legal brief on how such a move would not conflict with the Ted Stevens Act, the landmark 1978 federal statute governing the Olympic movement. That gave the USOPC the cover it needed to…
UK Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood In September, Barring Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said his country would make the move unless Israel agrees to a cease-fire with Hamas.