U.S. Treasury yields rose to multi‑month highs on Wednesday as escalating tensions with Iran and higher oil prices revived concerns about inflation and further Federal Reserve interest rate increases. Two-year yields, which are sensitive to interest rate expectations, climbed to 4.3105%, their highest level since February 2025, while the 10-year...
Los Angeles, United States – Actor Jason Alexander has issued a public apology to reality television personality and activist Courtney Stodden over a 2012 Funny or Die parody sketch filmed when Stodden was 17. The comedy segment, a spoof of daytime talk shows, depicted the Seinfeld actor rubbing a mobile...
LOS ANGELES — Plas Johnson, the American tenor saxophonist whose distinctive, loping sound defined the theme for the 1963 film “The Pink Panther,” died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 94, his children Eric Johnson and Stephanie Oliver confirmed. A leading Hollywood studio musician...
Washington, United States – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday advanced the bipartisan Motor Vehicle Modernization Act of 2026, a measure intended to tighten restrictions on Chinese automakers entering or operating in the U.S. market. The legislation sets a 15% Chinese ownership threshold for automakers, seeking to limit vehicles...
Minnesota, United States – The Minnesota Vikings are only days away from reporting to the TCO Performance Center for training camp after finishing last season with a 9–8 record and missing the playoffs. The outcome has set the tone for an offseason defined by organizational change, as the franchise responded...
United States – Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has purchased an IndyCar Series charter from Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in a transaction that marks the first formal step toward Dreyer & Reinbold’s planned full-time return to the championship in 2027 with a single-car program. The deal, which follows the introduction of...
LOUISIANA – A special prosecutor in Louisiana on Wednesday dismissed felony intimidation charges against state Attorney General Liz Murrill, a Republican who had been accused of threatening and intimidating elected officials in New Orleans. The case centered on warning letters Murrill sent to Democratic leaders in the city, in which...
Atlanta, United States – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 4,173 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis since May 1, 2026, more than doubling the 1,645 cases recorded the previous week. Federal officials are also monitoring about 7,400 additional illnesses that require laboratory testing to determine whether they...
Actor William Shatner, 95, and his youngest daughter, Melanie Shatner Gretsch, 61, have disclosed that they underwent overlapping battles with separate stage 4 cancers beginning in mid-2022. Melanie was diagnosed in July 2022 with HER2-positive breast cancer that had spread to lymph nodes in her chest, requiring chemotherapy, 30 radiation...
A federal judge in San Francisco has rejected an emergency bid by 26 Meta employees to halt their terminations, after they alleged that internal AI-driven tools contributed to discriminatory layoff decisions. The workers claimed systems such as the “Metamate” AI and productivity scoring unfairly penalized employees who took legally protected...
