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El Niño is here, and it’s already looking like it could be 'mind-blowing'

Temperatures in the El Niño region in the Pacific Ocean are the warmest they've been on record at this time of year. And the peak is still months away.

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Jul 17 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • cbc.ca
Jon Jones Reacts to Conor McGregor’s UFC 329 Loss

UFC legend Jon Jones shared his reaction after Conor McGregor lost in the first round of his UFC 329 fight against Max Holloway.McGregor lost via first-round TKO when he buckled his knee against Holloway in the UFC 329 main event. Following the event, many fighters have shared their thoughts on what is arguably the most […] The post Jon Jones Reacts to Conor McGregor’s UFC 329 Loss appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jul 17 • 3:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New York Yankees Make Max Fried Announcement Before Dodgers Series

On Friday evening, the New York Yankees will be back in action when they play the Los Angeles Dodgers (at home) in the Bronx.They went into the All-Star break in the middle of a four-game winning streak (after sweeping the Washington Nationals).New York Yankees Make Max Fried AnnouncementMax Fried is in the middle of his […] The post New York Yankees Make Max Fried Announcement Before Dodgers Series appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jul 17 • 2:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Exclusive : Diagnostics log confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max camera specs ahead of launch

An ISP diagnostics log, part of the trove of internal Tata Electronics files leaked in June by the World Leaks ransomware group, confirms several previously rumored iPhone 18 Pro Max camera specs ahead of Apple's official announcement.

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Jul 16 • 11:36 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
‘Children of Blood and Bone’ first-look photos depict Regina King on her throne, Cynthia Erivo ready for battle

First-look photos from the ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ movie show the all-star cast wearing colorful threads on sweeping sets.

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Jul 16 • 9:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Priyanka Chopra says Nick Jonas needed proof it was actually her during first text exchange

While appearing on the ‘Hey Jonas’ podcast, Priyanka Chopra shared that Nick Jonas wanted proof that she was who she said she was while initially texting him.

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Jul 16 • 9:16 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Sports without politics is a fantasy and the World Cup proves it

From ancient Greece to Nazi Germany, sport and politics have long been intertwined. Nevertheless, we still imagine that international sport can be kept above the fray and serve as a neutral arena where nations compete on merit alone. In this article, diplomacy scholar Geoffrey Allen Pigman argues the 2026 FIFA World Cup shows this is a dangerous illusion. When international sport is left entirely to revenue-maximizing private bodies like FIFA, it doesn't escape politics, but rather surrenders to its worst expressions. With the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics fast approaching, the IOC must decide whether to learn that lesson or repeat the same mistakes. The largest and most lucrative FIFA World Cup ever draws toward its climactic conclusion amidst a swirl of controversy. Team members, staff, fans, and spectators have been denied their right to enter the United States to participate, and US President Donald Trump intervened with FIFA boss Gianni Infantino to overturn a referee’s call that Trump believed disadvantaged the US national team. It is a moment to step back and reflect on what the purposes of international sport mega-events like the World Cup, and international sport more broadly, are, and what they should be. Does international sport serve public purposes? Is there a public interest? Or is it primarily a private endeavor organized by commercial enterprises to entertain the global public (and generate profit in the process), which is occasionally used by governments and leaders for raisons d’etat? Central to the idea of sport is the principle of fair play, which in the international context demands that games be free from political interference. However, it is impossible to separate sport from politics, all claims to the contrary notwithstanding. The most positive political use of international sport through the millennia has been to facilitate diplomacy. The use of international sport for diplomatic objectives has existed since at least the time of the ancient Olympic Games, around which was instituted the custom of the Ekecheiria, or Olympic Truce, between participating states to facilitate fair competition and diplomatic achievements by ensuring that participants could travel safely to the Olympiad. In his seminal work On Diplomacy (1987), diplomacy scholar James Der Derian characterized the objectives of diplomacy as overcoming alienation and mediating estrangement between governments and between peoples. One increasingly important diplomatic tool in the technology-infused media environment over the past century has been public diplomacy, under which governments and non-state diplomatic actors (e.g. transnational corporations) communicate to global publics about their international policy objectives and to shape their global brand image. Political scientist Michał Kobierecki, in his important book Sports Diplomacy (2020), views sports diplomacy as falling broadly within the ambit of public diplomacy, as international sport intimately involves the participation of global publics as spectators and consumers of global media. Diplomacy scholar Stuart Murray and this author, in a 2013 article, distinguish between international sport used for diplomatic purposes and international sport-as-diplomacy, which encompasses the range of diplomacy that occurs as teams and competitors, spectators and fans, and government officials all converge for international sporting events like the Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup. Diplomacy scholar H.E. Chehabi, in a 2001 article on US-Iran sports diplomacy, describes the interaction between spectators and fans at international sporting events as “people-to-people diplomacy,” in which relationships develop independently of governments and their objectives. Diplomacy by the aforementioned definitions is often unsuccessful. Moreover, all too often the tools of diplomacy may be employed by governments and other actors to thwart or oppose the objectives of diplomacy as characterized by Der Derian. Governments routinely use the tools of public diplomacy to disseminate propaganda, spreading misinformation in the attempt to deceive global publics about their objectives and to create misleading impressions about their brand identity. Within sports diplomacy, the term “sportswashing” has been coined recently to describe how governments invest in and promote international sport to create positive global public impressions of their nations and, in doing so, to distract the global public from their deficient records in areas such as human rights and democratic governance. Murray, in his 2018 book Sports Diplomacy: Origins, Theory and Practice, introduces the concept of sports anti-diplomacy, wherein governments intentionally use international sport to advance aggressive and nationalistic objectives. Obvious historical examples include Hitler’s use of the 1936 Berlin Olympics to glorify his Third Reich and the 1969 El Salvador-Honduras football “war.” SUGGESTED READING The beautiful game made ugly By Emily Ryall FIFA argues that it is and seeks to be apolitical in its stewardship of international Association Football (soccer). FIFA policies governing bids to host the World Cup require uninhibited and non-discriminatory access for players, team staff, and spectators of all participating countries to host nations and venues. It became clear soon after Trump returned to power in the United States in January 2025 that Trump’s political intentions and objectives to limit non-US citizens from living and working in the United States and, in numerous cases, even visiting the country, would collide with FIFA’s host nation policies. Beginning soon after the start of the second Trump administration, US federal authorities imposed restrictions on entry to the United States of citizens of between 20 and 40 countries for any purpose, with only limited exceptions. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began arresting non-US citizens in the United States, including persons with and without legal status, holding them in jails, concentration camps, and other detention facilities until they were deported to their home or third countries, where they faced substantive risks to their personal safety. FIFA boss Gianni Infantino, in an effort to ensure the most successful and lucrative World Cup in history, engaged diplomatically with President Trump in an attempt to facilitate entry to the US for World Cup participants. Infantino did all in his power to ingratiate himself with Trump, to the extent of creating a FIFA “Peace Prize,” which he awarded to Trump in December 2025 at a ceremony in the then Trump-controlled John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on the occasion of the World Cup draw. The prize was an ersatz consolation for someone who aspired in vain to win the rather more prestigious and well-known Nobel Peace Prize. And in the run-up to the World Cup, conditions became worse. In February 2026, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a war of aggression against Iran, illegal under international law, under the false pretence that Iran’s government was preparing to attack the United States and Israel. During the US aerial bombardment of Iran, US planes bombed Azadi Stadium, the facility where Iran’s national football team trained. As the 2026 FIFA World Cup began, it was clear that Infantino’s efforts had been for naught: the Trump administration would not adhere to FIFA policies governing access to World Cup host nations. World Cup referee Omar Artan, a citizen of Somalia, was denied a US visa to enter the United States to participate in the World Cup. Trump’s government only granted US visas to Iran’s football team ten days before they were scheduled to arrive for the tournament. Numerous members of the support staff for Iran’s team were denied US visas. Iran’s team, which had been scheduled to train in Arizona, was directed to shift its training site to Tijuana, Mexico, notwithstanding that all three of their group stage matches took place at US venues. The US Department of Homeland Security only permitted the Iranian team to enter the US on the day before each scheduled match and then to return to Mexico immediately after playing. Members of Iraq’s and Switzerland’s football teams were delayed for hours by US officials at the US border, and an Iraqi team photographer was refused entry. Spectators and fans from Haïti and Iran were denied entry to the United States altogether. A large number of fans from a range of countries had their applications for US visas rejected. There were multiple off-ramps through which participants could have avoided the negative consequences of Trump’s decisions for the 2026 World Cup. Once it was clear that the Trump government intended to violate the established expectations for World Cup hosts, FIFA could have shifted the matches scheduled to take place in the United States to Mexico and Canada. The three nations were already designated as co-hosts, and host cities and venues had been selected. Once it was clear that FIFA, governed by FIFA boss Gianni Infantino’s dependent and dysfunctional relationship with Trump, would never consider this option on its own, it fell to the national football federations to act. The national federations, particularly some combination of federations of the leading contenders (France, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Morocco, England, Germany, etc.), could have refused to participate under the US-imposed conditions or, at the least, demanded an ironclad agreement with the Trump government that FIFA policies on access would be respected. ___ International sport is inextricably entangled with diplomacy of different sorts, for good or ill, it cannot be considered to be in the purely private realm and left to revenue-maximizing private actors. ___ Why did neither FIFA nor the national football federations act to protect the interests of players, team staff, referees, fans, and spectators? In essence, the relentless engines of capitalism prevailed over norm observance, ethics, and fair play. The revenue interests of FIFA, sponsors, global media, and host cities won out. FIFA’s managers viewed hosting another World Cup principally in the United States as a veritable pot of gold for FIFA and its collaborators. FIFA has estimated its own revenue over the 2023-26 budget cycle, which includes the 2026 World Cup, at $13 billion, revised up from an initial projection of $11 billion, and 72% higher than the previous revenue cycle. Of that total, FIFA is estimated to have generated $8.9 billion from the Cup itself in revenue from TV rights ($3.92 billion), sponsorships ($2.69 billion), ticket sales ($3.1 billion), licensing rights, and other sources. A joint study by FIFA and the World Trade Organization estimates that the World Cup will contribute over $40 billion to global GDP, including nearly $14 billion in direct visitor spending in the three host countries (but principally in the United States, which hosted the lion’s share of the matches). The FIFA World Cup is now reportedly “the single most lucrative recurring commercial property in global sport.” And yet, notwithstanding the Trump government’s uses of the World Cup for sports anti-diplomacy, and the climate of anxiety that this created for participants and spectators, diplomacy that did not depend upon governments was able to thrive at the World Cup. Examples of successful people-to-people diplomacy were legion, as citizens of towns and cities across the States, as well as in Mexico and Canada, welcomed team members, their families and supporters, to training sites across North America. Fans of different teams joined together in person in stadiums for matches, at watch parties and bars, and at welcome events sponsored by host cities. The joy and camaraderie shared between the citizenry of Boston and Scotland’s “Tartan Army” of fans is but one example of how the “Beautiful Game” brings people together. Friendships forged across continents are likely to endure well beyond the Cup final. Even those achievements cannot be seen as unalloyed, however. As South African football fan Byron Pillay commented to Al Jazeera, “Football is called the Beautiful Game for a reason, for its ability to unite people. But it’s hard to believe in that magic with the politics and war rhetoric off the field of play, especially when one of the tournament hosts is central to that.” Ultimately, the experience of the 2026 FIFA World Cup illustrates that, as international sport is inextricably entangled with diplomacy of different sorts, for good or ill, it cannot be considered to be in the purely private realm and left to revenue-maximizing private actors. As long as there is the possibility of diplomatic progress in mediating estrangement between governments or between peoples, there is a broad and overarching public interest in international sport. Likewise, as it would be difficult to put on an international sport mega-event without international sporting organizations like FIFA and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), global media firms, and companies purchasing sponsorships, public and private interests in international sport must coexist, most likely somewhere on a shifting spectrum between partnership and rivalry or cross purposes. As the World Cup wraps up, the IOC needs to consider its lessons before the scheduled 2028 Los Angeles Olympics if they want to avoid a media-hyped Trump version of the 1936 Berlin Olympiad. The IOC and the National Olympic Committees need to set conditions on and make demands of Trump’s government with clearly articulated consequences for non-compliance, up to and including cancellation of the Games. Time is running out for the IOC, as unlike with the FIFA World Cup, there is no at-the-ready alternate venue for Los Angeles.

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Jul 16 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • iai.tv
Rosie O’Donnell says Michelle Trachtenberg ‘was in pretty bad shape’ before her death

Rosie O’Donnell wishes she ‘could have done more’ for her ‘Harriet the Spy’ costar Michelle Trachtenberg who died at 39 in 2025, but says she was ‘inaccessible’ in her final years.

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Jul 16 • 6:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Matt Damon calls Ben Affleck ‘one of the great loves of my life’

Matt Damon said that his BFF Affleck — whom he called ‘one of the great loves of my life’ — had an overwhelmingly positive reaction to ‘The Odyssey’: ‘He didn’t stop talking for an hour.’

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Jul 16 • 6:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Matt Damon gets caught not knowing his ‘Odyssey’ costar Zendaya’s last name

Zendaya and Matt Damon both star in ‘The Odyssey,’ but he struggled to summon her last name while promoting the new film: ‘Uhhhh…’

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Jul 16 • 4:11 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
George Santos responds to body-shamers after ‘Special Forces’ cast photo drops: ‘Omg internet yes I’m fat’

George Santos called out body-shamers who ripped apart his and other ‘Special Forces’ contestants’ cast photos.

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Jul 16 • 3:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Broadway and ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maise’l star Josh Grisetti’s cause of death revealed

Josh Grisetti’s cause of death has been revealed. The Broadway actor died on July 10. He was 44.

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Jul 16 • 2:27 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
House Subcommittee to Examine Prediction Market Protections

Congress examines consumer protections in unregulated sports prediction markets. House hearing addresses market integrity and regulatory gaps. Learn more.

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Jul 16 • 12:52 PM EDT • Sports • legis1.com
The best and worst moments of Marcello Hernandez hosting the 2026 ESPYs

The best and worst moments of Marcello Hernandez hosting the 2026 ESPYs included digs at Shane Gillis and Tiger Woods, and a moment with Will Ferrell.

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Jul 16 • 12:41 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
‘Today’ show intruder arrested after allegedly lunging and yelling slur at host Craig Melvin

Chaos momentarily took over the ‘Today’ show studio in New York City when an intruder broke into the studio and confronted co-host Craig Melvin, yelling racial slurs.

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Jul 16 • 12:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Jennifer Garner praises ex-husband Ben Affleck as ‘incredible co-parent’: ‘He’s a great partner in that way’

‘The Five Star Weekend’ actress Jennifer Garner praises ex-husband Ben Affleck as an ‘incredible co-parent,’ and credits their dynamic for ‘freeing’ her to take more acting gigs now.

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Jul 16 • 11:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Motorola is bad at Android updates, confusing promises are on full display with latest release

Motorola is pretty bad at software updates, with new Android versions delayed by months and devices often getting the bare...

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Jul 16 • 11:05 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Julie Chen Moonves blasts Rick Devens: ‘This ain’t ‘Survivor,’ honey. This here ‘Big Brother’’

‘Big Brother’ host Julie Chen Moonves blasts Rick Devens’ gameplay: ‘This ain’t ‘Survivor,’ honey. This here ‘Big Brother.’ Go back to the island, dude.’

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Jul 16 • 10:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Jillian Michaels warns against social media health advice as ‘healthmaxxing’ trend goes viral

‘Keeping It Real’ podcast host Jillian Michaels discusses the viral ‘healthmaxxing’ trend and GLP-1 drugs on ‘Fox & Friends.’

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Jul 16 • 9:21 AM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Conor McGregor Says Max Holloway Fight Should Be No Contest

UFC superstar Conor McGregor says that the result of his fight against Max Holloway at UFC 329 should be overturned to a No Contest.McGregor was stopped just 69 seconds into the main event of UFC 329 when his knee gave out on him, and referee Mike Beltran stepped in and called an end to the […] The post Conor McGregor Says Max Holloway Fight Should Be No Contest appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jul 16 • 1:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Reese Witherspoon gushes about reunion with ‘Legally Blonde’ and ‘Freeway’ costar Alanna Ubach: ‘She’s my girl’

Reese Witherspoon couldn’t stop talking about her love for ‘Legally Blonde’ and ‘Freeway’ costar Alanna Ubach as she promoted their new show ‘Lucky.’

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Jul 16 • 1:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Reporter doesn’t flinch when cockroach lands on her, crawls around during live report

TV news reporter Rachel Menitoff’s reaction to a cockroach landing on her during a live report is going viral.

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Jul 15 • 10:37 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Andy Serkis defends all-white ‘Lord of the Rings’ ensemble, says casting wasn’t ‘politically correct’

Andy Serkis says he didn’t take a ‘politically correct just-casting-for-the sake-of-casting-and-ticking-boxes’ approach to all-white ensemble of his upcoming ‘Lord of the Rings’ film, ‘The Hunt for Gollum.’

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Jul 15 • 8:11 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Billy Joel credits this music legend, who turns 80 today, for his hit song ‘Just the Way You Are’

Billy Joel says a multi-platinum music legend is responsible for making his megahit song ‘Just the Way You Are’ a hit: ‘She talked me into it’

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Jul 15 • 7:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
ZeniMax Online Studios leadership to exit as part of Xbox cuts

There are major changes happening atop Maryland-based ZeniMax Online Studios, developer of the Elder Scrolls Online, Game File has learned. Joe Burba, a 14-year veteran of the studio who was appointed to run it last July, is departing, along with ESO executive producer Susan Kath, studio game director Rich Lambert and production director Ala Diaz. Their roles were listed among hundreds of others cut last week from the Maryland offices of ZeniMax, in a WARN letter sent to the state by ZeniMax and obtained today by Game File. Tonight, BUrbam Kath, Lambert and Diaz notified Zenimax Online Studios workers of plans to “transition” to a new leadership team consisting of promoted ZOS veterans. That transition will occur “over the next few months,” they told workers, according to a copy of the notice reviewed by Game File. “We will remain in place during the transition period to help ensure a smooth handoff.” Last week, Microsoft laid off of 1,600 workers across its vast gaming teams in locations around the U.S. and abroad. Just who has been impacted and how hard various studios have been hit has been emerging day by day. Game File reported last week that Microsoft/ZeniMax notified officials in Maryland that 379 gaming jobs were being cut across the state. They tallied cuts in two locations: one for ZeniMax Media Inc. (covering Elder Scrolls/Starfield/Fallout-maker Bethesda Game Studios and central Bethesda game publishing) and one for ZeniMax Online Studios (Elder Scrolls Online). More than 200 jobs were cut at the latter. Last week’s totals did not reveal job titles, nor did Microsoft announce any leadership changes in the ZeniMax group. That has now happened. Earlier today, Game File obtained from Maryland officials a breakdown of the 379 impacted roles, which, extraordinarily, included “studio head.” Microsoft later confirmed to Game File which studio head that referred to: ZeniMax Online Studios’. Microsoft has since has notified studio employees and internally announced new leadership. ZOS will now be run by Josh Henderson, previously head of business operations at the studio, and Nick Giacomini, who was promoted to game director for ESO last August. Game File is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Last week’s news of 200+ cuts at ZeniMax Online Studios generated public sympathy for those workers and questions about the long-term viability of the Elder Scrolls Online. ESO is a massively multiplayer online game that inherently persists on the strength of new content being developed for it. Earlier today, fans and workers in Maryland protested the cuts at the ZeniMax teams in a rally organized by the Communication Workers of America, the union that represents many of the impacted employees. Regarding concerns around the game, a community manager stated on Saturday: “The plan is still to deliver great content, and we will hopefully have an update soon.” In their note to the studio today, the outgoing leaders of ZeniMax Online Studios predicted “growth” for the game: We have tremendous confidence in Josh and Nick, the future of this studio, and the continued growth of ESO. With exciting experiences still ahead for our players as we wrap up work for Update 51 and beyond, we believe that your passion, creativity, and commitment to each other and the community will continue serving as the heartbeat of ESO. The list of jobs cut in the ZeniMax WARN notice in Maryland includes several very senior roles, including: Studio Head Studio Operations Director Studio Game Director Studio Audio Director Studio Art Manager Vice President and Controller VP, Global Sales & Business Development While some of those job descriptions match the exiting ZOS leadership team, Game File couldn’t verify if all were from that studio. The full list of cut roles shared by Maryland officials also covers workers at Bethesda Game Studios and its central publishing office. The following is an excerpt: The list of 379 eliminated ZeniMax jobs in Maryland also includes: four animators three bilingual CS (community service) leads for Chinese, Italian, and Japanese a creative director for the Elder Scrolls Online Player Life Cycle two food service workers seven producers more than 60 senior QA testers. and many others The WARN notice states that almost all of the 379 workers were notified of their layoff on July 6. In fine print, it states: “Approximately 9 employees were notified of the elimination of their position prior to July 6, 2026.” A 2021 mega-merger scaled back Microsoft announced in 2020 that it intended to buy ZeniMax and its network of game studios in 2020, and closed the $7.5 billion deal in March 2021. The purchase, which preceded Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, added several award-winning studios to Microsoft’s portfolio, including Bethesda (Elder Scrolls, Fallout), Arkane (Dishonored), and id Software (Doom). The studios’ output since then included a 2024 Game of the Year contented from MachineGames in the form of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle along with Starfield from Bethesda and the poorly-received Redfall from Arkane Austin. In recent years, a Microsoft repeatedly in cutback mode closed ZeniMax’s Tango Gameworks (which was reconstituted by Krafton) and closed Arkane Austin. The Xbox cuts last week have hit the ZeniMax group hard, with 158 jobs eliminated in Texas, many of them at id, and 379 from the ZeniMax teams in Maryland. Xbox also said last week that it would be entering a consultation process around Arkane Lyon, a process expected to end in a sale, shutdown or other form of divestment. The Lyon team has been working on a game tied to Marvel’s Blade vampire-hunting super-hero.

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Jul 15 • 7:42 PM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news
‘The Odyssey’ reviews: What critics are saying about Christopher Nolan’s take on the epic

Before you watch ‘The Odyssey,’ see what critics are saying about the new Christopher Nolan epic.

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Jul 15 • 7:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Nationals to Recall Top Catching Prospect, Activate Max Kranick

Harry Ford is expected to join the Nationals after the All-Star break, while Max Kranick returns after rehabbing from last year’s flexor tendon surgery.

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Jul 15 • 4:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
WATCH: Erica Schwartz testifies in confirmation hearing for CDC director
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Jul 15 • 4:12 PM EDT • Health • pbs.org
WATCH: Erica Schwartz testifies in confirmation hearing for CDC director
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Matt Damon reveals insane advice he got from Sean Penn about his daughters dating

Matt Damon hasn’t run into any trouble when it comes to his daughters’ dating lives — but if he ever does, he has some memorable advice from Sean Penn to guide him.

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Jul 15 • 3:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
See more images of unidentifiable Tom Cruise as his ‘Digger’ character

Tom Cruise graced the cover of TIME Magazine (kind of) to share a closer look at his radical transformation in ‘Digger.’

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Jul 15 • 3:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Is ‘The Odyssey’ Christopher Nolan’s best movie?

Is it possible that Christopher Nolan is only just now hitting his peak as a filmmaker with ‘The Odyssey’?

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Jul 15 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Holy crap, someone else finally made an Android phone with Qi2 magnets built-in

Folks, it finally happened. Someone other than Google has finally put Qi2 magnets in an Android phone with Motorola’s new...

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Jul 15 • 9:55 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
ZeniMax Designer Morgan Goin Says Elder Scrolls Online Can’t Match Its Content Pace After Xbox Layoffs Gutted the Studio

ZeniMax designer Morgan Goin says The Elder Scrolls Online can't keep up its usual content pace after the Xbox layoffs gutted the studio.

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Jul 15 • 9:30 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
‘Victorious’ star Daniella Monet recalls auditioning against Miley Cyrus and Taylor Momsen for ‘Hannah Montana’

‘Victorious’ star Daniella Monet relives the ‘wild, wild day’ when she auditioned against Miley Cyrus and Taylor Momsen for the role of Hannah Montana.

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Jul 15 • 9:25 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Baker Mayfield addresses epic trash talking on Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’

Baker Mayfield addresses epic trash talking on Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’: ‘None of that is for the camera’

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Jul 15 • 9:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
“Worse Long-Term Outcome” – Sports Medicine Doctor Has Grim Prognosis of Conor McGregor’s Recovery After Upcoming Surgery

Conor McGregoris preparing for yet another major surgery after blowing out his knee at UFC 329 against Max Holloway. On X, ‘The Notorious’ confirmed that a grueling medical procedure is on the horizon, with subsequent reports also revealing that he is scheduled to undergo an MRI soon.

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Jul 15 • 8:53 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Imax, Goer Dynamics Partner on In-Car Entertainment System for China

Imax and Goer Dynamics are developing the world's first Imax-branded in-vehicle entertainment system, set to enter production in China this year.

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Jul 15 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • variety.com
Imax to Develop Entertainment System for Self-Driving Cars in China

The big-screen innovator and Goer Dynamics, an arm of the Chinese manufacturing giant behind Meta's headsets and Apple's AirPods, aim to start production by the end of 2026.

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Jul 15 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • hollywoodreporter.com
The Motorola Edge 70 Max is all about power

Big battery and fast wireless charging.

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Jul 15 • 8:18 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
9 explosive behind-the-scenes feuds between costars

From blockbuster blowups to slow-burning rivalries, these celebrity feuds show that sometimes the real drama unfolds behind the scenes.

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Jul 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
‘Lucky’ Release Schedule: How Many Episodes Will the Apple TV Show Have?

Here’s everything to know about the ‘Lucky’ episode release schedule, following its premiere on Apple TV on July 15.

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Jul 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • people.com
Motorola's brand-new Edge 70 Max flagship is exquisitely affordable and impressively feature-packed

Powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor and equipped with blazing fast magnetic wireless charging, Motorola's latest Galaxy S26 Ultra rival is fully official... in India.

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Jul 15 • 4:08 AM EDT • Technology • phonearena.com
The Mac Speaks: ‘We’ll Be Back!‘

Don’t give up hope on Conor McGregor just yet. For the first time since his disastrous UFC 329 leg injury (not the broken leg from five years ago) suffered versus Max Holloway, McGregor has gotten in front of a camera and addressed fans directly. On his 38th birthday, McGregor shares a sip of his energy […]

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Jul 15 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Israel Adesanya Plays Matchmaker for Conor McGregor’s Return

UFC Hall of Famer Israel Adesanya played matchmaker for Conor McGregor’s return fight when he recovers from his knee injury.McGregor’s comeback to the UFC after five years away from the Octagon lasted just 69 seconds when he lost via injury TKO due to a knee injury in his UFC 329 main event bout against Max […] The post Israel Adesanya Plays Matchmaker for Conor McGregor’s Return appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jul 15 • 1:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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‘Growing Pains’ star shares terrifying story of almost being kidnapped from the set

Former ‘Growing Pains’ star Ashley Johnson says she was almost kidnapped from the sitcom’s set in the early ʼ90s.

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Jul 15 • 12:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
9-day ‘Jeopardy’ champ narrowly avoids defeat after flubbing ‘Final Jeopardy’

Caleb Groen is on a streak as the current 9-day ‘Jeopardy’ champ, but he nearly met his maker on Tuesday’s episode after flubbing a ‘Final Jeopardy’ clue from the category ‘Historic Books.’

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Jul 15 • 12:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Xolo Maridueña returns as Blue Beetle in James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ sequel ‘Man of Tomorrow’

Xolo Maridueña is suiting up again as Blue Beetle for the highly anticipated ‘Superman’ sequel ‘Man of Tomorrow.’

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Jul 14 • 10:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
FTO designation exposes compliance gaps in Brazil’s entertainment sector

Following a domestic money-laundering probe that linked funk artists to Brazilian criminal groups and the subsequent US designation of two cartels as terrorist organisations, Brazilian legal practitioners tell Latin Lawyer they are updating sanctions-screening systems for entertainment-industry clients, reassessing their own onboarding processes for artists and producers and reaching out to Mexican peers for guidance on managing the fallout.

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Jul 14 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • latinlawyer.com
Matt Damon recalls George Clooney stealing his identify to prank Amy Poehler and Tina Fey: ‘I was so bewildered’

Matt Damon recalls feeling ‘bewildered’ after getting a fruit basket from Amy Poehler and Tina Fey — but after one phone call, he realized it was all part of a prank orchestrated by George Clooney.

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Jul 14 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Olivia Wilde shares Sam Rockwell’s ingenious trick for nailing auditions

Sam Rockwell had a brilliant trick for acing auditions before he became a big star, and he revealed the secret to Olivia Wilde when they worked on on ‘Cowboys & Aliens.’

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Jul 14 • 7:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Sources: 76ers' pursuit of LeBron led by Maxey, Embiid, Brown

76ers stars Tyrese Maxey, Joel Embiid and Jaylen Brown have all been in communication with LeBron James amid the team's pursuit, sources told ESPN on Tuesday, with Maxey leading the charge.

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Olivia Wilde recalls Penelope Cruz improvising their kiss in ‘The Invite’

‘The Invite’ director and star Olivia Wilde was ‘shocked’ when Penelope Cruz decided to kiss her in an unscripted moment in the film.

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Jul 14 • 6:35 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Sam Neill had pneumonia before death, costar says

Rima Te Wiata, who starred alongside Sam Neill in ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople,’ said that the ‘Jurassic Park’ actor had pneumonia before his death.

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Jul 14 • 3:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
47 revelatory hours with Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced

To review this month’s supposed remake of 2013’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, I must first correct the record. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced isn’t a game about pirates (and assassins) in the 18th century Caribbean. Sure, sure, that’s what the trailers would have you believe. They’ve go their clips of Edward Kenway swinging his swords and steering his pirate ship into cannon-blasting combat against British frigates. Is Resynced truly a pirate game? Of the 47 hours I spent playing Resynced over the past few weeks, I will admit I spent maybe 44 (?) of them collecting plunder with Blackbeard, drinking rum with Anne Bonny and debating the pros and cons of the lawless pirate-run settlement Nassau with Benjamin Hornigold. I may in fact have spent dozens of hours sailing to remote islands, reading treasure maps, opening messages left in bottles, sinking the odd Man o’ War with a well-timed broadside, collecting sea shanties for my crew, befriending a pet monkey, and hunting whales. I am nevertheless neither so Gullible nor so Narrow-Minded as to call the magnificent Resynced a “pirate remake.” Oh no. Forget any reviews of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced you may have read. Forget what you yourself may have played, if you’ve spent any time with the game since its launch. What Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is really about I’m here to give you the scoop (spoilers for Resynced’s Animus menu lore, which many players are probably not going to see): Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, the new game whose development was led by Ubisoft Singapore, is set in the year 2096. It’s about a societal split, about revolution, about an old Assassin’s Creed adventure repurposed in the series’ distant future as propaganda or samizdat. It’s about the overheated future of 2096, essentially conquered by the series’ well-established nefarious Templar-run company Abstergo. (In this future, Abstergo is, among other things, remaking a 2013 pirate movie called Devils of the Caribbean, but this time in VR. The VR version will be backed by a marketing plan that involves AI influencers, a 10,000-avatar “metaverse premiere event” and that manufacturing of memes aimed at “50 million VR nodes.” See what I mean about Abstergo being evil?) Resynced is about a late 21st-century population mollified by the widespread use of Abstergo’s Animus devices which let people experience the lives of historical figures culled from “genetic memories.” It’s about an insurgent faction of Assassins. And it’s about a plan to wake the population into revolutionary fervor by showing them the memories of 18th century pirate Edward Kenway, who—as depicted in the original Black Flag and again in Resynced—gradually comes to an understanding about the Assassins of his day and their centuries old fight for freedom. Resynced is also about an AI developed within the late 21st-century Animus, called Ego. It has found a way to alter genetic memories, to create and show Animus users false ones. The game is about Ego’s efforts to tell the people experiencing Edward Kenway’s memories that Kenway was wrong, that fighting against order is folly, that we should crave a world where “compliance is rewarded with power.” Who are we in this game? We’re an unnamed Animus user in 2096 who experiences Kenway’s journey virtually. At four moments during Kenway’s exploits in the Caribbean our virtual jaunt can be interrupted for 10-15 minutes, as we explore Animus “rifts” where Ego explicitly tries to tell us how wrong Kenway was. None of this is what 2013’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag was about, of course. That was a different game, even if you also spent dozens of hours pirating as Kenway in that game, across missions and a map that’s been faithfully reintroduced and rebuilt for Resynced. The 2013 Black Flag was about you playing as an unnamed researcher newly hired in 2013 by Abstergo Entertainment, the video game development wing of the Templars’ evil-corp. In that game, you were assigned to use the Animus to dive into the genetic memories of Desmond Miles, a man who died in Assassin’s Creed III and who was descended from a long line of Assassins (and at least one Templar) whose adventures were featured across the prior AC games. In 2013’s Black Flag, your mission was to plumb the Edward Kenway experience for material that Abstergo could use in productions such as the motion picture Devils of the Caribbean, though the Templars had some ulterior motives for the assignment. Resynced is therefore not a remake of 2013’s Black Flag. It’s a sequel. It is a new game about a new exploration of Edward Kenway’s pirate/assassin journey, set 83 years after the framing sequences of the original game. Resynced provides a new narrative framework that, thanks to the concept of an AI that wants to alter historical memories, arrives with creative justification to tweak a now-classic 13-year old game. That makes Resynced, already a hot seller, a tantalizing hint of where Ubisoft could go with a line of Assassin’s Creed remakes. They could remake the first game, the Ezio games, even the recent ones set in ancient Egypt and Greece. And for each, they could not just modernize the graphics and controls but expand and alter their sequences of events to use them as reference points for a conflict set in the late 21st century, as rival factions try to weaponize historical memories. Game File is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, even when that work consists of ravings about Assassin’s Creed’s modern day plot, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe A story most players will probably miss If you didn’t know any of this, I’m not surprised. If you played the game and still didn’t catch it, I’m not a bit shocked. If Ubisoft has no plans to do more of this, I won’t fall down. Almost all of what I’ve described is optional and missable in Black Flag Resynced. I nearly missed it myself, as I planned for a breezy playthrough of an old Assassin’s Creed favorite. Instead, I found myself in a 40+ hour hunt for the “real” story, buried deeper in Resynced than any gold-filled chest. The story of 2096 is Resynced’s meta-story, told in two remote pockets of the game: 1) four optional playable “rifts” that players may find as they proceed through Resynced’s pirate fantasy , 2) in dozens of text files tucked three menus deep in the game’s barely-interactive Animus hub. Assassin’s Creed games have almost always had a meta-story about people in the 21st century (usually matching the game’s release year) and their connections to the main history portions you play. Those meta-stories have always been squeezed into the margins, though seldom as severely and as, uh, graphiaclly simple, as in recent games. Back in 2013, the modern-day exploits of you as an Abstergo Entertainment employee were prominent. They were portrayed via first-person portions that occasionally interrupted the third-person Kenway experience and could be explored for hours, complete with their own missions, side quests and puzzles. Resynced’s 2096 story—of Assassin “Watchers” vs. Abstergo/Tempar goons, of rogue AIs, of panicking scientists, of a woman wondering why her Animus-addicted husband is muttering about Mary Read (“What does he mean by Assassins?”), of a fight for the population’s hearts and minds via varying interpretations of Edward Kenway’s life choices—is mostly told through unlockable text files. The files are interesting. Offered via diary entries, intercepted chats and news reports, they present varied perspectives of a world in crisis. One set works as a narrative puzzle as it reveals the Rashomonic interpretations of a massacre, or was that a successful Assassin hit? Another favorite reveals the rising bitterness of a person who, through Edward Kenway’s journey, now shakes at the ignored evil around him. One surmises that Ubisoft is averse to putting the Assassin’s Creed’s meta-story in the way of more marketable pirate playgrounds and ninja/samurai epics. Instead, we get a better-than-nothing text-in-menus approach introduced in 2025’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows. In Shadows, players unlocked the meta-story text files largely via time-gated missions that called on the user to kill X number of enemy type Y, clear three enemy castles, re-win a three-phase fighting tournament, and other grinds. Time restrictions on accessing these missions and unlocking the files meant it could take players months to access the full story in-game. But even in the most hardcore Assassin’s Creed hangouts, the fanbase instead seemed to throw up their hands rather than grind to keep up. In Resynced, Ubisoft has shown some mercy, diminishing the amount of new text files that are tied to timed grinds. Now, most of the text-based 2096 lore are associated with “data file” collectibles that players can find in the world. That includes a batch of written entries that explain a historical link between the feudal Japan era in Shadows and the piracy adventures in Black Flag. Players who explore a lot will find dozens of data files, though the game does not appear to offer any in-game tracker for finding each one. You just need to keep looking for them. As of this writing, I have most of them, but not all. I can’t find any full guide for them online. And even Ubisoft’s optional $5 microtransaction that reveals lots of items in-game does not appear to reveal the locations of the text files (at least the official description omits them from its collectibles list). That’s not a huge bother, because tracking the data files down compelled me to re-explore the waves and islands of Black Flag. That was a thoroughly pleasant task to do for the first time in a dozen years. I expect many players, though, will be content to wait for the files to be reproduced in an online AC wiki somewhere, the easier to read on a web page. It may not seem enticing to play a video game in order to gradually unlock pages of text to read. Why not, you may ask, just read a book, where they put the pages in order? For one, they’ve not tucked this latest installment of Assassin’s Creed’s meta saga in a book. I also enjoy the unordered delivery, the dawning comprehension of a story about 2096’s desperate people and questionable tech, which I glimpsed first at its middle, then the end, then the front, then other moments in between1. I am also enamored with the idea of the Assassin’s Creed games I’ve previously played, including Black Flag, being repurposed for an information war. The ideas in Resynced’s meta-story, which builds off characters and ideas in Shadows’ chunks of text, are strong. The potential of where they could go with it is exciting. As for the pirate stuff? Looks great, controls pretty well, is fun to play and oh so speedy in terms of how much of a good time you can have with each sit-down. It never gets old to chase a new shanty page across a rooftop, bombard a fort with upgraded mortars or use a diving bell to explore sunken wrecks (hats off to the team at Ubisoft Barcelona that worked on the underwater portions in Resynced; that team is now facing layoffs, such is the misery of modern gaming and oft-troubled Ubisoft). New pirate missions in Resynced involving new ally characters are brief, dramatic and add more to Edward’s story, even if the gameplay perks they provide barely enhance the gameplay. A new denouement for high-class pirate Stede Bonnet is affecting; a new hunt for Blackbeard’s treasure is a welcome extra moment. A new epilogue to hunt down a pirate killer, on the other hand, over-complicates Kenway’s character. The ending credits remain my favorite of any game I’ve ever played. Black Flag provides great source material. The revisit is well-made and a great sign of what could be. It is offered in a different wrapper that hints at an opportunity for more interesting remakes to come, should Ubisoft choose to pursue such treasures—and as we brace to resist or comply with an Abstergo future. 1 The messages that Edward Kenway finds in bottles tell another out-of-order story, one about a man reckoning with the strange memories and voices he’s heard in his head since he was a boy. That tale was also in the 2013 game and develops into one of Black Flag’s most compelling character arcs. In Resynced, it has lost its climax, because the bottle story previously paid off in the halls of the first-person Abstergo Entertainment, which is exclusive to the older game. An altered resolution, written by the 2013 game’s lead writer is fine, doesn’t invalidate the 2013 version, but makes for an inferior final note.

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Jul 14 • 3:17 PM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news
Lenny Kravitz shares the practical reason why he works out in leather pants

It’s more than the rock star city life — Lenny Kravitz has revealed the thoughtful reason why he chooses to work out while wearing leather pants.

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Jul 14 • 2:48 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Venezuela earthquake health response enters early recovery phase as focus shifts to restoring essential health services

Washington, D.C., 14 July 2026 (PAHO) – Nearly three weeks after the devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela on 24 June, the health response is entering a critical early recovery phase focused on restoring essential health services, strengthening referral networks and preventing secondary public health emergencies, according to PAHO's latest

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Christopher Nolan Fans Will Stop at Nothing to See ‘The Odyssey’ in Imax 70mm, From Cross-Country Trips to Delaying Pregnancy

Nothing is going to keep Amber Connaghan, a 29-year-old tech editor who lives in the California desert, from seeing Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” on opening day. Connaghan bought her ticket over a...

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Jul 14 • 1:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
‘Nobody Wants This’ star Jackie Tohn reveals Jessica Biel convinced her to drop out of college

Jackie Tohn lived with Jessica Biel and her family as a teen, and Biel convinced her to drop out of college to pursue acting.

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Jul 14 • 12:49 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Chamath Palihapitiya: Some CFOs are in for a tokenmaxxing shock

AI spending ballooned as companies pushed workers to use more tokens. Chamath Palihapitiya says CFOs may soon feel the hangover.

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Jul 14 • 11:57 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Richard Gere’s son takes first leading role after viral ‘Euphoria’ part

Homer Gere, the son of Richard Gere, takes his first leading role as a ‘psycho’ in Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Shards.’ Watch the trailer for the high school serial killer drama.

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Jul 14 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Josh Hartnett teases ‘terrifying powers’ are at work in first look at supernatural thriller ‘Below’ (exclusive)

EW has your exclusive first look at Josh Hartnett and Charlie Heaton’s upcoming supernatural thriller ‘Below,’ created by Jesse McKeown: ‘The veil is thin here.’

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Jul 14 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever

Vibecoding has made it possible to create a cheap rip off of a video game in just a few hours.

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Jul 14 • 9:20 AM EDT • Technology • 404media.co
Savannah Guthrie returns to ‘Today’ after 4-day absence

Savannah Guthrie has returned to ‘Today’ following a four-day absence.

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Jul 14 • 8:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
The Moment Victor Wembanyama Decided to Pass Up $50 Million

Victor Wembanyama signed a five-year, $251 million maximum contract with the San Antonio Spurs instead of a $300 million supermax deal with individual performance incentives.

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Jul 14 • 8:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Raiders' Maxx Crosby fires shots at Chargers fans

Las Vegas Raiders edge rusher Maxx Crosby threw massive shade at Charger fans.

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Jul 14 • 6:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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‘Bachelor’ star Joe Amabile reveals diagnosis with early stage brain tumor, will undergo surgery

Beloved ‘Bachelor’ Nation star Joe Amabile says that his doctors detected a ‘blueberry-sized’ tumor in his brain after he underwent a full-body scan. He is scheduled for a craniotomy in two weeks.

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Jul 13 • 10:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
‘The Ring’ star Daveigh Chase left an estate worth $400K after her death at 35

‘The Ring’ and ‘Lilo & Stitch’ star Daveigh Chase left an estate worth $400,000 after her death at 35 from AIDS and drug use.

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Jul 13 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Shia LaBeouf says ‘Holes’ costar Sigourney Weaver allegedly ‘slapped’ his dad after he hit on her

Shia LaBeouf claims ‘Holes’ costar Sigourney Weaver ‘slapped’ his dad after he hit on her

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Jul 13 • 7:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
‘Off Campus’ creator reacts to $80K pay disparity claim between leads Ella Bright and Belmont Cameli: ‘Check your sources’

‘Off Campus’ creator Louisa Levy responded to a claim a podcast made about pay disparities between lead actors Ella Bright and Belmont Cameli: ‘These numbers are far from correct.’

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Jul 13 • 5:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Daytime Emmys reveal first nominees for 2026, including Best Actor in a Drama

The hotly anticipated 2026 Daytime Emmys have revealed their first batch of nominees ahead of Tuesday’s full announcement, including Best Actor in a Drama Series and Best Talk Show Host.

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Jul 13 • 4:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Jason Kelce opens up about his 4 daughters being Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s flower girls

Jason Kelce says his daughters were ‘very happy’ to be uncle Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s flower girls.

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Jul 13 • 4:07 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Trump shuts down Jake Tapper live after Iran question: ‘Don’t talk about it’

Donald Trump shut down Jake Tapper during a live interview after the journalist asked the president about the war in Iran. Trump had called in to the show for an interview about the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham.

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Jul 13 • 3:16 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Scott Bryce, ‘As the World Turns’ star, dies at 68

Scott Bryce, who portrayed Craig Montgomery across three decades of ‘As the World Turns,’ has died. He was 68.

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Jul 13 • 2:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Paul Wesley marries Natalie Kuckenburg in an intimate civil ceremony

‘The Vampire Diaries’ star Paul Wesley got married in an intimate wedding to Natalie Kuckenburg.

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Jul 13 • 2:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
‘Crystal Lake’ first look: Linda Cardellini dives into ‘Friday the 13th’ prequel (exclusive)

‘Crystal Lake’ exclusive first look reveals Linda Cardellini’s Pam Voorhees in the ‘Friday the 13th’ prequel series. The Emmy nominee talks exploring the original killer’s origin story.

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Jul 13 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Laura Dern remembers ‘Jurassic Park’ costar Sam Neill in touching statement

Laura Dern remembers her ‘Jurassic Park’ costar Sam Neill, who died on Monday at 78.

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Jul 13 • 11:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
‘Carrie’ TV series first look reveals Mike Flanagan’s modern twist (exclusive)

‘Carrie’ exclusive first look: Mike Flanagan discusses how the Flana-fam gives the Stephen King classic a modern TV twist.

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Jul 13 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
See the first full look at Tom Cruise’s crazy physical transformation in his new movie ‘Digger’

We finally have our first full look at Tom Cruise’s crazy physical transformation in the new trailer for his upcoming movie ‘Digger.’

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Jul 13 • 9:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Xbox cuts "not the end" for The Elder Scrolls Online, insists ZeniMax, despite a drastic reduction in size

Layoffs at ZeniMax Online had reportedly put MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online in a difficult spot, but the developers are still confident in its future.

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Jul 13 • 8:13 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Sam Neill, ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Possession’ star, dies at 78

Sam Neill, the legendary New Zealand actor who starred in the ‘Jurassic Park’ films as well as horror classics like ‘Possession,’ died on Monday at 78, his family announced on social media.

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Jul 13 • 7:41 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned With Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory

Apple has recently overhauled its entire M-Series chip plans, scrapping the launch of the M6 Pro and M6 Max processors and jumping straight to the M7 series. While the base M6 SoC is expected to launch, Apple is moving into the M7 series without the M6 Pro/Max variants, with plans to offer some...

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Jul 13 • 3:38 AM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
Islam Makhachev trolls Conor McGregor following UFC 329 injury

Ultimate Fighting Championship titleholder Islam Makhachev poked fun at Conor McGregor following the Irishman’s anticlimactic defeat to Max Holloway.

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Jul 13 • 2:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
When regulation is good for business

By now, I think I have established both my view that I am a fan of ESG investing and the benefits of regulating what is and isn’t a sustainable investment, and my view that in Europe, ESG regulation has gone too far and become too costly. It almost feels like the old Aristotelian maxim of doing things in moderation that leads to the best outcomes is valid in regulatory efforts as well. To give you an example, let’s look at a study by the National Bank of Belgium on the impact of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) on fund flows of conventional and ESG funds. The SFDR was announced on 27 November 2019 and came into effect on 10 March 2021. It was implemented in several stages and split funds marketed in the EU into three broad categories: (i) Art. 6 funds that are basically conventional funds without any specific ESG integration, (ii) Art. 8 funds that ‘promote environmental or social characteristics’, which must provide additional reporting how they do that, and (iii) Art. 9 funds that are impact funds. The gaps between the announcement and the phased implementation give us an idea of how fund flows were affected by the regulation. It is clearly visible in the figure below that once the new regulation was announced and when it was initially implemented, fund flows in Art. 8 and Art. 9 funds increased significantly. Conventional Art. 6 funds also saw more inflows, but the increase was not statistically significant. I should add that the data below is pure fund flow, cleaned of performance effects and of any reclassified funds that moved from one classification to another. Note also that once the initial rush in ESG funds was over, additional, stricter regulatory requirements didn’t create that many new flows. This implies that with additional regulation, the funds incurred higher costs to comply but didn’t benefit in terms of new inflows and higher assets under management. Fund flows as the SFDR regulation was implemented in the EU Source: Emiris et al. (2026) When examining the drivers of these flows, the authors of the study found that institutional investors were more likely to switch to ESG funds and particularly so in countries where concerns about sustainability are culturally more accepted. In a society where buy-in into environmental and social risks is higher, private investors were shifting more of their assets into ESG funds as the regulation made it clear which funds are really green and which ones are not. And institutional investors in these countries did so as well, given the societal pressures and reputational risks of sticking with conventional funds. Meanwhile, fund managers reacted to the changing regulatory environment as well. Many funds that were mildly green before the regulation was announced became greener and more sustainable as the regulation was introduced to attract new assets and new investors. Cleverly, and unsurprisingly, these ESG funds also charge on average higher fees, which means that not only did fund managers gather fresh assets, but their profitability increased as well.

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Jul 13 • 2:00 AM EDT • Business • klementoninvesting.substack.com
Priscilla Presley’s son hits back at critics of him fundraising to launch a pizza shop in his driveway

Priscilla Presley’s 37-year-old son, Navarone Garibaldi Garcia, is standing by the GoFundMe he set up for a pizza business he plans to run out of his driveway.

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Jul 12 • 11:31 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
The real Daeron speaks: ‘House of the Dragon’ star unpacks the Ormund relationship

‘House of the Dragon’ star behind Daeron Targaryen (the real one) speaks. The actor talks the ‘uncontrollable, chaotic’ Ormund and the ‘inherent conflict of power.’

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Matt Damon recalls Christopher Nolan ‘looking like a drowned rat’ on ‘The Odyssey’ set

Matt Damon is praising ‘The Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan for toiling through the intense shooting days alongside his cast and crew, noting that he ‘never’ complained despite ‘looking like a drowned rat’ at one point.

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Jul 12 • 6:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Dana White offers bizarre defense of Conor McGregor’s health status by citing social media views

UFC CEO Dana White got a bit defensive after accusations surfaced on Saturday night that star fighter Conor McGregor, who was making his return to the octagon after a five-year absence, had been injured prior to his fight with Max Holloway to headline UFC 329 in Las Vegas. McGregor lost to Holloway via TKO 69…

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Jul 12 • 6:00 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
Tom Holland apologizes to name-twin Tom Holland for making his name impossible to google

It takes two Tom Hollands to unpack Christopher Nolan’s epic take on ‘The Odyssey’: see the name twins meet face-to-face and recreate a certain Spider-Man meme.

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Jul 12 • 4:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Britney Spears breaks silence on hanging out of SUV sunroof on Los Angeles freeway

Britney Spears has broken her silence about the controversy that followed after she was photographed hanging out of the sunroof of a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon on a busy L.A. freeway on Thursday.

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Jul 12 • 4:36 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Jake Paul Faces Backlash After Mocking Conor McGregor's Injury

Jake Paul is certainly not afraid of controversy, and he created some on Saturday night after mocking the knee injury Conor McGregor suffered just seconds into his UFC 329 fight against Max Holloway. The fight marked McGregor’s return after a five-year layoff, but it ended up being one of the more ...

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Jul 12 • 3:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Inside the Record-Setting Business of the Los Angeles Dodgers with President & CEO Stan Kasten

Stan Kasten, Los Angeles Dodgers President, CEO and Part Owner, joins Sports Business Radio to discuss the record-setting business of the Dodgers. From superstar Shohei Ohtani's impact on attendance, sponsor sales and merchandise sales, to improvements to the fan experience at Dodger Stadium, to the Dodgers surpassing 4 million fans last season and being on track to draw that many fans again this season, we discuss how in many regards, the Dodgers are maximizing revenues better than any other pr

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Jul 12 • 3:12 PM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com
Inside the Record-Setting Business of the Los Angeles Dodgers with President & CEO Stan Kasten

Stan Kasten, Los Angeles Dodgers President, CEO and Part Owner, joins Sports Business Radio to discuss the record-setting business of the Dodgers. From superstar Shohei Ohtani's impact on attendance, sponsor sales and merchandise sales, to improvements to the fan experience at Dodger Stadium, to the Dodgers surpassing 4 million fans last season and being on track to draw that many fans again this season, we discuss how in many regards, the Dodgers are maximizing revenues better than any other pr

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Jul 12 • 3:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hollywood icon Mamie Van Doren recalls the drunk MGM megastar who interrupted her first date with Vic Damone

In her new memoir, ‘You Thought I Was Dead,’ the legendary blonde bombshell Mamie Van Doren recalls a romantic night at big band star Vic Damone’s that was cut short by one of the brightest stars at MGM.

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Jul 12 • 3:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Zoey Deutch says working with Jennifer Aniston was ‘surreal’: ‘Every take was just so brilliant’

Zoey Deutch shared her awed reaction to working with Jennifer Aniston on ‘Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.’

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Jul 12 • 2:31 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Rosie O’Donnell says prison visit with daughter was their first real conversation in 10 years

Rosie O’Donnell says her prison visit with daughter Chelsea marked a turning point in their relationship: it was their first real conversation in the past decade.

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Jul 12 • 1:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Maxx Crosby Reveals True Feelings About Ravens QB Lamar Jackson

Raiders edge rusher Maxx Crosby doled out some pretty incredible praise for Ravens QB Lamar Jackson at the Sack Summit. The post Maxx Crosby Reveals True Feelings About Ravens QB Lamar Jackson appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jul 12 • 12:04 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rosie O’Donnell quit her talk show when she saw this number in her bank account

Rosie O’Donnell’s talk show, which earned her the label “The Queen of Nice,” ended after the host discovered she had this much money in her bank account.

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Jul 12 • 9:26 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Green MP Hannah Spencer aims to pass law on maximum workplace temperatures

Byelection winner says heatwaves are causing ‘absolute chaos’ and workers need protection from unsafe conditions

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Jul 12 • 9:16 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Seahawks Issued Compelling Take on Raiders’ Maxx Crosby

The Seattle Seahawks have one of the NFL’s most dominant pass rushes, which helped fuel their run to winning a Super Bowl last season. Nonetheless, the Seahawks were able to get to the quarterback without having a premier pass rusher. Seattle made the opposing signal-caller uncomfortable with a constant pass rush, thanks to their depth. […] The post Seahawks Issued Compelling Take on Raiders’ Maxx Crosby appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jul 12 • 8:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com