Northern Ireland golfer Rory McIlroy shot a three-under-par 69 during the third round of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, England. McIlroy finished his round with a birdie and an eagle on the closing par-5 holes, leaving him at 11-under-par 205 overall. He stands two strokes...
The board of directors of Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, has approved participation in a federal diesel subsidy program. The initiative provides 1.00 real per liter for diesel producers over an initial 30-day period with a possible 30-day extension. Petrobras simultaneously increased diesel prices to distributors by 1 real per...
The Federal Register briefly utilized a search tool powered by Chinese technology company Alibaba's Qwen model to help users browse proposed federal regulations. The integration emerged shortly after the Federal Bureau of Investigation accused Alibaba of maliciously copying US-based rival Anthropic's artificial intelligence models on an industrial scale. The search...
Netflix has released Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, marking the first female-focused installment of the true-crime anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. Starring Ella Beatty as Lizzie Borden, Charlie Hunnam as Andrew Borden, and Rebecca Hall as Abby Borden, the biographical drama explores the 1892 ax murders...
British retailer Marks and Spencer made its historic London Fashion Week debut on Friday, marking one hundred years in the fashion sector with a major showcase of womenswear and menswear collections. Held under chief executive Stuart Machin, the high-profile event featured archive-inspired garments designed to appeal to younger consumers through...
Walt Disney Co. and ABC urged a federal court on Thursday to block the Federal Communications Commission from conducting early reviews of eight broadcast station licenses. In a legal filing, Disney argued that FCC Chair Brendan Carr initiated the unprecedented reviews to carry out directives from President Donald Trump aimed...
Two major hospital systems have agreed to pay a combined nine point five million dollars to resolve Department of Justice investigations into alleged fraudulent billing for pediatric gender-affirming care. Federal authorities asserted that healthcare providers submitted insurance claims using false disorder diagnoses to secure reimbursements from private and government-funded health...
Federal regulators have intensified scrutiny of digital health platforms following allegations of deceptive business practices and unauthorized data disclosures. Multiple online healthcare providers face lawsuits from the Federal Trade Commission for sharing sensitive consumer health records with third-party advertising networks without explicit user consent. Regulators also cite questionable marketing strategies,...
NASA is reportedly in discussions with Boeing to potentially handle ten or more future commercial crew flights to the International Space Station. The Wall Street Journal reported the talks, indicating the agency maintains interest in a dual-provider model alongside SpaceX despite Starliner facing technical setbacks during its 2024 crewed test...
Advanced Micro Devices has introduced its sixth-generation EPYC server processors, code-named Venice, engineered to accelerate complex agentic artificial intelligence operations in enterprise data centers. Published benchmark metrics indicate that the new flagship EPYC 9996 processor achieves a SPECrate 2026 integer base score of 1210, outperforming several competing architectures in specific...
