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States Confront New SNAP Costs After Error Reports

Georgia officials this week reported a 15.2% SNAP error rate and are preparing to cover increased administrative fees and potential benefit repayments under the One Big Beautiful Bill enacted July 4, 2025; the state flag…

ROTHBURY, Michigan: T-Pain debuts unreleased Oliver Tree track

ROTHBURY, Michigan — At the Electric Forest music festival on the night of June 27, 2026, Grammy-winning artist T-Pain premiered a previously unreleased collaborative track featuring the late genre-bending musician Olive…

Florida: SpaceX launches heavy SiriusXM communications satellite

SpaceX launched the SiriusXM SXM-11 digital audio radio satellite to orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday, June 28, 2026, at 10:25 p.m. EDT. The satellite, built by Larentis Space Systems on…

Inglewood: Canada clinches first World Cup knockout win

INGLEWOOD, California – Canada earned its first-ever World Cup knockout stage victory with a 1-0 win over South Africa in the Round of 32 at SoFi Stadium. The single-elimination match, played on Sunday as the tournament’…

Los Angeles Lakers remain silent as LeBron hits free agency

LeBron James entered Monday, June 29, 2026, as an unrestricted free agent with no contract offer from the Los Angeles Lakers, according to multiple ESPN reports. Despite a negotiating window that opened after the NBA Fin…

Austin-based TPx enters Chapter 11 to restructure debt

AUSTIN, Texas – TPx, one of the United States’ leading managed IT, network, and cybersecurity providers, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in an effort to restructure its balance sheet and substantially redu…

South Korea plans $518 billion semiconductor megacluster

South Korea has announced plans to build a $518 billion semiconductor megacluster south of Seoul to strengthen its role in global chip supply and meet fast-rising demand from artificial intelligence applications. The pro…

Washington court blocks EPA rollback of soot standards

A federal appeals court in Washington has rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s bid under the Trump administration to abandon a 2024 rule that tightens limits on fine particulate, or soot, pollution across the U…

Los Angeles BET Awards cut Kwn performance mid-broadcast

LOS ANGELES — The 2026 BET Awards, held on June 28 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, drew swift criticism after the network cut away from British R&B singer Kwn’s debut performance during the live broadcast. The 26-…

States Scramble to Finalize Budgets Ahead of Deadlines

Trenton — Lawmakers passed a $60.7 billion fiscal year 2027 budget and approved a supplemental spending bill late Sunday, June 28, and advanced an increase to the child tax credit; the supplemental package reportedly con…

AHR Added To Russell 1000 Value, Removed Elsewhere

United States. American Healthcare REIT, Inc. was added to the Russell 1000 Value benchmark and removed from the Russell 3000 Growth, Russell Small Cap Composite Growth and Russell 2000 Value benchmarks this week, Market…

Cottonwood Fire Near Beaver Tops Ninety-Three Thousand Acres

BEAVER, Utah. Fire crews battling the Cottonwood Fire in Fishlake National Forest reported Sunday that the blaze had burned about 93,607 acres with 0% containment, as firefighters worked from State Highway 153 toward Lio…

Washington Supreme Court to rule on Trump powers

The U.S. Supreme Court is nearing the end of its current term, expected to conclude in early July, with several major rulings pending on presidential authority and election rules. Justices are set to decide challenges to…

Nashville crowd boos Taylor Swift tribute video

In Nashville on Saturday, June 27, 2026, a pre-recorded video tribute from Taylor Swift drew a noticeable mix of boos and cheers during Alan Jackson’s farewell concert at Nissan Stadium. The event, titled “Last Call: One…

Three firefighters killed battling Snyder Mesa Fire

Mesa County, Colorado. Three wildland firefighters died and two were injured while fighting the Snyder Mesa Fire on the Colorado–Utah border on Saturday and reported into Sunday; authorities said the lightning‑started bl…

England's Ben Stokes retires from international cricket

Ben Stokes, one of England's most influential all-rounders, has announced his retirement from international cricket, ending a career that began with his limited-overs debuts in 2011 and Test debut in 2013. The left-hande…

United States chip talks signal Apple-Intel manufacturing partnership

United States – A reported preliminary chip-manufacturing agreement between Apple and Intel is drawing significant attention across the U.S. technology sector as the country seeks to rebuild domestic semiconductor produc…

Garden Grove chemical plant faces major federal probe

Authorities in Garden Grove, California, are preparing a large-scale hazardous materials cleanup at the GKN Aerospace manufacturing facility, scheduled to start on Monday morning, June 29, 2026. The operation follows a M…

Kazakhstan mining deal links Trump sons' investors

The Trump administration supported a major mining agreement granting an American company access to one of the world’s largest undeveloped tungsten deposits in Kazakhstan, a metal critical for missile systems, fighter jet…

United States limits Meta access to Google Gemini

Google has significantly restricted Meta Platforms’ access to its Gemini artificial intelligence models due to a severe shortage of computing capacity, according to reporting first highlighted by the Financial Times. Aro…

Nashville court finalizes Kidman-Urban divorce settlement

A Nashville, Tennessee court finalized the divorce of actress Nicole Kidman and country music singer Keith Urban in January 2026, ending their 19-year marriage. Renewed attention has focused on a behavior-based prenuptia…

Tehran asserts sole control over Hormuz strait

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday, June 28, 2026, that Iran alone is responsible for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and restoring shipping traffic, directly challenging terms of a June 17 U.S.-Iran c…

Los Angeles warehouse fire extinguished after eight days

Los Angeles, California, officials declared a massive industrial fire at a 491,000-square-foot cold storage warehouse in the Boyle Heights neighborhood fully extinguished on Wednesday evening, June 24, 2026, after it bur…

Washington: Trump threatens Iran with total destruction

Washington, United States — President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the Islamic Republic of Iran "will no longer exist" if the United States is forced to resume full-scale military operations, issuing his most dir…

Albania protesters oppose Kushner-linked coastal development

TIRANA, Albania — Thousands of people have marched nightly for weeks in the capital to oppose a proposed luxury development on the uninhabited island of Sazan and along the nearby Narta Lagoon, a protected wildlife reser…

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