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Kalshi hit $13.5 million in a single day of World Cup trading fees on June 24, the latest data point in a regulatory contest that the CFTC's July 27 comment deadline has
Spot gold settled near $3,972 an ounce on Friday, its first close below $4,000 since November 2025. The breach came as the May PCE report pushed Fed rate-hike odds higher and Trump's Iran ceasefire framework drained gold's three-year war premium.
Patrick Wilson and Jason Ritter have signed on to The Last of Us Season 3, joining Kaitlyn Dever's Abby in HBO's adaptation of the back half of The Last of Us Part
The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a roughly $368 million network of some 900 deep-sea sensors that has tracked ocean carbon, currents and marine heat for more than a
Sean Evans and Keke Palmer spent more than 90 minutes at Lucali in Brooklyn on Friday, the night their long-teased Hot Ones episode landed online with an on-camera kiss, in what celebrity-watchers
Tyra Banks filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix over the 'Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model' docuseries, claiming selective editing falsely implied she ignored a sexual assault on her show.
Jack White confirmed Friday that his seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, arrives on Third Man Records July 10, 2026, led by the single 'Dollar Bill' and backed by Patrick Keeler, Dominic Davis
A federal judge struck down the Trump administration's freeze on asylum and immigration processing for 39 countries, ruling it used national security as a pretext to mask anti-immigrant animus. When ordered to
The Mandalorian and Grogu added $33 million to its third-weekend domestic run on Friday, while Universal's Obsession overtook its opening-week performance in week two, giving Hollywood its strongest mid-June box-office Friday in
Olivia Rodrigo’s third studio album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love has earned a Variety Critics’ Pick, featuring a Robert Smith collaboration and described as her most musically
James Handy, the New York-born character actor whose four-decade career included Top Gun: Maverick, Jumanji, Arachnophobia and Logan, has died at age 81. Los Angeles authorities are investigating his death at his
Trump has formally nominated Todd Blanche, the lawyer who defended him at his Manhattan criminal trial, to be the nation's permanent attorney general. Blanche has already been running the Justice Department, and
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