Tampa — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a $117.6 billion fiscal 2027 budget Monday at Hillsborough Community College, issuing approximately $810 million in line-item vetoes and rejecting a $750 million transfer. The enacted plan increases K‑12 allocations, sets aside $1.5 billion for teacher pay and designates funds for Everglades restoration...
Delaware — As the General Assembly met June 30, legislators sought final-session votes on measures including House Bill 444, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which passed the House and awaited Senate committee review, alongside bills on energy drink sales at schools and increased oversight of gun dealers during the...
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...
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...
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 – 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
