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Strawberry Moon peaks June 29: When and where to watch

Strawberry Moon peaks June 29: When and where to watch

June's full moon earns a deceptive nickname. The Strawberry Moon will peak on June 29 at 7:57pm ET, marking summer's first full moon,...

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GTA 6 gets unexpected rival as PS4 release returns

GTA 6 gets unexpected rival as PS4 release returns

Rockstar Games confirmed Grand Theft Auto VI will launch on November 19, 2026, as pre-orders go live June 25 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S....

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Keir Starmer resigns: Key moments that defined his premiership

Keir Starmer resigns: Key moments that defined his premiership

Keir Starmer resigned as Prime Minister on Monday, stepping down after just two years in office. Standing outside 10 Downing Street, Starmer announced...

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10 jobs expected to disappear by 2035: Check yours here

10 jobs expected to disappear by 2035: Check yours here

The Bureau of Labour Statistics projects 313,600 cashiers will vanish by 2034. Word processors are declining faster than any other occupation at 36%....

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Trump vs Meloni: Feud deepens after G7 photo dispute

Trump vs Meloni: Feud deepens after G7 photo dispute

President Trump escalated his feud with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday, insisting she "begged" for a photo at this...

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Keir Starmer expected to resign as UK prime minister

Keir Starmer expected to resign as UK prime minister

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to announce his resignation on Monday following intense pressure from Labour MPs to make way for Andy Burnham,...

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Vance arrives for Iran talks as Strait of Hormuz closure looms

Vance arrives for Iran talks as Strait of Hormuz closure looms

Vice President JD Vance arrived in Switzerland on Sunday for high-stakes negotiations with Iran aimed at solidifying a ceasefire agreement signed...

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Trump new Air Force One vs his luxury 757: Design showdown

Trump new Air Force One vs his luxury 757: Design showdown

President Trump unveiled the new Air Force One on Friday, a Boeing 747-8i gifted by Qatar, dismissing months of ethical criticism with a statement...

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French fries raise diabetes risk 20%: New study warns

French fries raise diabetes risk 20%: New study warns

French fries significantly raise type 2 diabetes risk, but boiled potatoes don't, a crucial distinction buried in a decades-long study of 205,000...

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Apple devices have unfixable security flaw, researchers warn

Apple devices have unfixable security flaw, researchers warn

Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have disclosed an unfixable hardware vulnerability affecting millions of Apple devices. The flaw, named...

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Are we alone? Scientists hunt for alien life in Yellowstone

Are we alone? Scientists hunt for alien life in Yellowstone

Arizona State University doctoral candidates Tanner Barnes and Vince Debes hike Yellowstone's trails not as tourists, but as astrobiologists...

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Paraguay knocks out Turkey with record 64-second World Cup Goal

Paraguay knocks out Turkey with record 64-second World Cup Goal

Paraguay scored the fastest goal of the 2026 World Cup at 64 seconds, then defended with 10 men to eliminate Turkey 1-0 in a stunning Group D upset on...

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the real reason Earth escapes the dying sun gravity

the real reason Earth escapes the dying sun gravity

Earth will not be consumed by the dying Sun, at least not according to new research from the University of Leuven published Friday in Astronomy &...

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GTA 6 cover art hides 9 secrets that change everything

GTA 6 cover art hides 9 secrets that change everything

Rockstar's nine-panel GTA 6 cover art is far more than eye candy. Each frame tells a story. Pre-orders begin June 25, and fans are already...

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GTA 6 fever shuts down entire company as employees take day off

GTA 6 fever shuts down entire company as employees take day off

Grand Theft Auto 6 has not launched yet, and it is already closing businesses. Burger Motorsports, a US automotive company, announced via Instagram...

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UAE bans social media accounts for children under 15

UAE bans social media accounts for children under 15

The United Arab Emirates has introduced a minimum age of 15 for social media use, becoming the first Arab country to impose such a restriction as...

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Is Claude AI down? Users report issues with chat, app, website

Is Claude AI down? Users report issues with chat, app, website

Claude AI is experiencing an outage, with thousands of users reporting problems with chat, app access, website connectivity and login services....

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Trump says Apple will make chips with Intel in the US

Trump says Apple will make chips with Intel in the US

Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture chips on American soil, US President Donald Trump announced Thursday in a Truth Social...

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Blue Origin to rebuild launch pad after recent explosion

Blue Origin to rebuild launch pad after recent explosion

Reconstruction has begun at Blue Origin's launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, CEO Dave Limp confirmed Wednesday less...

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AI will cause labour shortages, not job losses: Bezos

AI will cause labour shortages, not job losses: Bezos

Half of Americans fear AI could cost them or someone in their household a job, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published this month. Jeff Bezos...

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Former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel's secret society exposed in data leak

Former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel's secret society exposed in data leak

For nearly 20 years, Dialogue kept its membership invisible. That changed this week. A data leak has exposed the inner circle of the invitation-only...

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GTA 6 gameplay: What leaked footage reveals

GTA 6 gameplay: What leaked footage reveals

Grand Theft Auto 6 has not yet launched, and Rockstar Games has not formally detailed its robbery mechanics, but leaked footage and official trailers...

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US-Iran ceasefire set to go public, long-term peace still unresolved

US-Iran ceasefire set to go public, long-term peace still unresolved

A war that has killed more than 7,000 people across Iran and Lebanon may be edging toward a pause. The United States and Iran have signed a memorandum...

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Anthropic set for talks with Trump over Mythos dispute

Anthropic set for talks with Trump over Mythos dispute

Senior Anthropic technical staff are set to meet with Department of Commerce officials in Washington on Monday after the Trump administration ordered...

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What happened at Trump's UFC birthday bash on the South Lawn?

What happened at Trump's UFC birthday bash on the South Lawn?

President Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday with an evening that combined blood sport, geopolitics and pageantry on a scale no American president has...

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Trump heads to G7 summit with Iran deal hanging in balance

Trump heads to G7 summit with Iran deal hanging in balance

President Donald Trump is flying to France for the annual G7 summit this week with a potential Iran peace deal unresolved, strained alliances with...

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Blizzard sues popular WoW private server Project Ascension

Blizzard sues popular WoW private server Project Ascension

Blizzard Entertainment has filed suit against the operators of Project Ascension, one of the most popular private World of Warcraft servers on the...

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Study reveals millions of planets may form near black holes

Study reveals millions of planets may form near black holes

Scientists studying the brightest and most violent regions of galaxies have stumbled onto an unexpected discovery: supermassive black holes may be...

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States press ahead with AI laws despite Trump's warning

States press ahead with AI laws despite Trump's warning

Six months after President Donald Trump warned states to back off regulating artificial intelligence, they are doing it anyway and in greater numbers...

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Texas trial lawyer used AI to defeat Meta and Google in landmark case: Here’s how

Texas trial lawyer used AI to defeat Meta and Google in landmark case: Here’s how

When Texas trial lawyer Mark Lanier woke up after four hours of sleep to cross-examine Mark Zuckerberg, his team had already been working through the...

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Knicks win first NBA championship in 52 years, several arrested in celebrations

Knicks win first NBA championship in 52 years, several arrested in celebrations

New York City erupted Saturday night after the Knicks claimed their first NBA championship in more than half a century, and what began as jubilation...

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Here’s what has Elon Musk built on his way to $1 trillion?

Here’s what has Elon Musk built on his way to $1 trillion?

Elon Musk made history on June 12, 2026, by becoming the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX debuted on the Nasdaq at $150 per share, pushing...

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China warns US of retaliation over Pentagon blacklist expansion

China warns US of retaliation over Pentagon blacklist expansion

China issued a sharp rebuke to Washington on Saturday after the Pentagon expanded its list of Chinese companies it says support Beijing's...

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World Cup 2026 opener kicks off with A-listers Tom Cruise, David Beckham, Katy Perry

World Cup 2026 opener kicks off with A-listers Tom Cruise, David Beckham, Katy Perry

Team USA opened its 2026 World Cup campaign with a 4-1 demolition of Paraguay on Friday, the host nation's highest-scoring result in tournament...

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Is Facebook and Instagram down? Users report widespread issues

Is Facebook and Instagram down? Users report widespread issues

Facebook and Instagram appear to be down for many users on Friday, with outage-tracking website Downdetector showing a sharp increase in reports...

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Best Football games to play during World Cup 2026

Best Football games to play during World Cup 2026

With the 2026 World Cup now underway and fans glued to every match, many are looking for ways to bring that tournament energy home between games. From...

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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google leaders to meet at G7 summit

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google leaders to meet at G7 summit

The leaders of three of the world's most powerful AI companies are heading to the same room next week, a rare sight given how fiercely they...

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Openai bans China-linked accounts over fake electricity bill outrage

Openai bans China-linked accounts over fake electricity bill outrage

OpenAI has banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts it believes were operating from China after finding they used the platform to run covert influence...

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OpenAI may cut prices before Anthropic does, report says

OpenAI is reportedly considering steep cuts to its token pricing in a bid to regain enterprise momentum lost to Anthropic, a move that could trigger a...

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Apple teams up with London police to crack down on iPhone theft

iPhone theft in London has fallen by 18% in a year, and the Met Police say a data-sharing partnership with Apple is a significant reason why after the...

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Elon musk details SpaceX's plan for AI Data Centers in space

Elon Musk wants to move AI computing off the planet and says SpaceX already has most of the technology to do it. In a half-hour video posted to X on...

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Scientists found 5-million-year-old whale graveyard

Chinese scientists have discovered the world's largest and oldest known whale graveyard on the floor of the Indian Ocean, a 1,200-kilometre...

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China used ChatGPT to attack Trump's Tariffs: OpenAI has proof

Chinese-linked operatives used ChatGPT to generate anti-Trump propaganda targeting US trade and tech policy, OpenAI revealed Wednesday, making it one...

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Canada proposes social media ban for under-16s, targets AI chatbots

Canada has introduced sweeping legislation that would ban children under 16 from social media platforms and place new safety obligations on AI...

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Snapchat adds new privacy controls for teen users

Snapchat is tightening content controls for teenage users, limiting who can see Stories and Spotlight posts from users under 18 in a move the company...

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NASA Artemis III crew announced: Here's who will fly to Moon

NASA has officially named the four astronauts who will fly the Artemis III mission, targeting launch in mid- to late 2027. The crew was revealed on...

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Instagram lets you reorder your profile grid: Here's how

Instagram is rolling out one of its most requested features: the ability to manually rearrange posts on your profile grid. The update gives users...

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Claude Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8: 5 Key differences developers must know

Anthropic's launch of Claude Fable 5 gives developers two distinct tiers of frontier model to work with, but choosing between them isn't as...

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12 killed as gunmen open fire across Johannesburg settlement

At least 12 people are dead and nine injured after gunmen stormed an informal settlement in Cleveland, east of Johannesburg, late Tuesday night, one...

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Prada x Axiom introduces new spacesuit layer for NASA's Artemis missions

The spacesuit astronauts will wear on the moon has a Prada-designed undergarment, and it comes with stirrup pants, thumbholes, and a red stripe. But...

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