United States: Paraguay ousts Germany on penalties

 

FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts, June 29, 2026 – Paraguay produced the biggest upset of the 2026 World Cup by eliminating four-time champions Germany 4-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in their Round of 32 match at Boston Stadium. Julio Enciso gave Paraguay the lead in the 42nd minute, finishing a well-worked...

Garden Grove crews remove neutralized chemical waste

 

Hazardous materials crews in Garden Grove, California began removing neutralized chemical waste from the GKN Aerospace facility on Monday, June 29, 2026, following a major industrial emergency that prompted mass evacuations in Orange County. The operation, led jointly by the Orange County Health Care Agency, the South Coast Air Quality...

Washington Republicans weigh reconciliation for Trump voting plan

 

House Republican leaders are considering using the Senate’s budget reconciliation process to advance former President Donald Trump’s signature voting proposal, the Save America Act, without needing 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. After a White House meeting with Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Republicans are exploring whether key provisions...

United States retailer exits bankruptcy, becomes Exemplar Luxury

 

United States – Saks Global, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, officially emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 26, 2026, and rebranded as Exemplar Luxury Group (ELG). The move capped a turbulent five-month, court-supervised restructuring that began in January after the company suffered...

Boulder coach Deion Sanders declares himself cancer-free

 

Deion Sanders, head football coach at the University of Colorado and Pro Football Hall of Famer, says he is now cancer-free one year after undergoing radical bladder surgery. Speaking in Boulder in an interview with the Associated Press, Sanders, 58, described how a malignant bladder tumor was discovered during a...

Columbus star defenseman Werenski formally requests trade

 

Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski has requested a trade just weeks after winning the 2025-26 James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL’s top defenseman. The request emerged during NHL Draft weekend in late June 2026, immediately making the 28-year-old a major focus of the offseason market ahead of free...

United States insurance regulators targeted in Oracle hack

 

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), which supports state insurance regulation across all 50 U.S. states, has confirmed it was compromised in a hacking campaign exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35273. Oracle issued an out-of-band advisory on June 11, 2026, after Google and others observed active...

Austin: Tesla tests steering-wheel-free Cybercabs on roads

 

AUSTIN, Texas – Tesla has begun testing production Cybercabs without steering wheels or pedals on public roads in Austin as of June 30, 2026, marking a key step in its push to deploy fully autonomous robotaxis. The vehicles use end-to-end neural networks trained on large datasets from Tesla’s vehicle fleet,...

United States film 'Michael' sets biopic box office record

 

LOS ANGELES, United States – The biographical film "Michael," directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson, has become the highest-grossing biopic in box office history. Over the weekend of June 28, 2026, the film’s global ticket sales reached $977 million, edging past the $975 million record...

Los Angeles actor Kevin Spacey discusses LGBTQ+ tensions

 

In a June 29, 2026 episode of Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, recorded in Los Angeles, actor Kevin Spacey said he felt alienated and targeted by members of the gay community years before sexual misconduct allegations surfaced in 2017. The 66-year-old Oscar winner claimed that other gay men frequently made...