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Good morning. A huge congratulations to our video team for winning two News & Documentary Emmy Awards last night for The True Cost of Mining Electric Car Battery Metals and The Man Who Feeds Gaza’s Children. If you haven’t yet, give these incredible videos a watch.In today’s big story, a report by BI revealed that Scale AI exposed sensitive data about clients like Meta and xAI in public documents. The company has since said it’s launching an investigation.What’s on deckMarkets: Why a billionaire investor is predicting a “little bull market” for stocks.Tech: Amazon’s grocery chief didn’t mince words when it…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is in the final days of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government.But the justices also have six cases to resolve that were argued between January and mid-May. One of the argued cases was an emergency appeal, the administration’s bid to be allowed to enforce Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the country illegally.The remaining opinions will be delivered Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts…
LONDON (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying the organization has “ignored the science” and “lost the public trust.”A video of Kennedy’s speech was shown to participants at a Gavi meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, where the vaccines group was hoping to raise at least $9 billion for the next five years.Gavi is a public-private partnership including WHO, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation and the World Bank. It has paid for more than 1 billion children to be vaccinated through routine immunization programs, saving an estimated…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — One of the founders of Spire Motorsports has entered an agreement to purchase the NASCAR team owned by Rick Ware and is jumping back into the stock car series because he believes the current charters are grossly undervalued.T.J. Puchyr, who in 2018 alongside Jeff Dickerson launched the Spire team to take over the charter that Furniture Row Racing could not unload, told The Associated Press on Thursday he and Rick Ware Racing have a deal for him to take over Ware’s organization next season.When Puchyr and Dickerson bought the Furniture Row charter, the market for NASCAR’s…
LONDON (AP) — Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz are helping usher in a new era for tennis.With Wimbledon beginning Monday, the sport’s most recent Grand Slam champions are Gauff, a 21-year-old American, and Alcaraz, a 22-year-old Spaniard, who are both at No. 2 in the rankings and are both coming off French Open titles secured in riveting finals against the sport’s No. 1 players.They are young, they are charismatic as an be on the court and they are media-friendly off it. Gauff-Sabalenka, Alcaraz-Sinner give tennis rivalries as Wimbledon arrivesAlong with No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and former No. 1 Iga Swiatek…
With the words “Al Nassr forever” Cristiano Ronaldo ended uncertainty about his future and signed a two-year contract extension with the Saudi Arabian club on Thursday.The five-time Ballon d’Or winner’s latest deal means he will play on until at least the age of 42 and gives him the chance to add to his record-breaking career.“A new chapter begins. Same passion, same dream. Let’s make history together,” Ronaldo said in a social media post along with a picture of him holding up a shirt that said “Ronaldo 2027.”The contract sees Ronaldo extend his time in Saudi Arabia, having joined Al Nassr…
After a three-year IPO drought in digital health, Hinge Health and Omada Health finally nudged open the door to the IPO market. But don’t expect a flood of new healthcare IPOs this year.Investors and bankers told Business Insider that they don’t anticipate many other digital health startups to brave the public markets until at least 2026.Physical therapy company Hinge Health and chronic care provider Omada Health both went public in the first half of the year. Both companies’ shares surged on their IPO dates, signaling to the long line of private healthcare companies desperate for exits that public investors could…
PARIS (AP) — Kylian Mbappé has accused Paris Saint-Germain of moral harassment in a legal filing, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday.The Real Madrid star is at odds with his former club, arguing PSG owes him 55 million euros ($61 million) in unpaid wages.Mbappé is also unhappy with the way he was treated by the Ligue 1 club when the France captain was sidelined before the 2023-24 season, following his decision not to extend his club contract.The prosecutor’s office said Mbappé is “denouncing the ‘lofting’ he claimed to have been subjected to at Paris Saint-Germain.” The word lofting is…
By almost any material standard, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has it all — or at least everything money can buy. As the third-richest man in the world, he owns multimillion-dollar homes in Beverly Hills, Washington state, New York City, DC, and on Indian Creek Island in Florida; he sails the world in a $500 million superyacht, and can go to space on his very own rocket ship.So the A-list guests celebrating Bezos’ marriage to Lauren Sánchez may understandably be at a loss when it comes to what to buy the newlyweds. Surely they already have multiple KitchenAids and china sets,…
Julia Landon is moving out of Jersey City this summer, and she’s enlisting her friends to schlep boxes. Instead of texting or calling them to beg for help, she’s inviting them on Partiful. The 27-year-old made three events on the popular event planning app: one for packing (“Pizza, Packing and Party — oh my!”), one for loading the truck (marked with a cartoon of a vintage U-Haul truck that reads “U help me haul” in the company’s logo), and a final going away party at a bar (“One Last Time,” which, because no Gen Z party is complete without one,…