Columbus, Ohio: On Wednesday, school counselor Bryan V. Stork, 48, was pulled from Nicolet Bay at Peninsula State Park in Gibraltar, Wisconsin, after bystanders and emergency responders found him unresponsive; responders performed life-saving measures and transported him to a local hospital where he later died. The Door County Sheriff's Office...
Los Angeles, United States – A sharply negative review of DC Studios’ film Supergirl by Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman has ignited widespread criticism across Hollywood and social media. Published shortly after the movie’s June 26, 2026 theatrical release, the review castigated Craig Gillespie’s direction and Ana Nogueira’s screenplay,...
Aurora, Illinois officials postponed Friday night's fireworks at RiverEdge Park and McCullough Park on Friday morning and rescheduled the displays for July 10 because of forecasted thunderstorms; meteorologists across the Midwest and Pennsylvania warned of afternoon and evening storms during the July 4 weekend with high temperatures and elevated heat...
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal all-hands meeting on July 2 that development of the company’s AI agent technology has not accelerated as planned over the past four months, despite a major internal restructuring. Meta laid off about 8,000 staff and reassigned roughly 7,000 employees to...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal grand jury on Thursday, July 2, 2026, indicted former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn on one felony count of destruction of government property in connection with alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The charge stems from a June 19, 2026, incident in which...
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk used his Instagram story to demand an immediate release from the team and criticize the NFL Players Association over a contractual dispute. In the posts, Aiyuk denied reports that he skipped offseason rehabilitation, saying he completed rehab independently rather than at the team...
London – On July 2, 2026, the Sophos Counter Threat Unit published a detailed threat intelligence report describing a formal operational partnership between the Vect ransomware group and the credential-harvesting collective TeamPCP, also known in criminal forums as PCPcat, ShellForce and DeadCatx3. Researchers state that the alliance creates an industrialized...
United States – Actor Seth Rogen has confirmed that Anne Hathaway exited the lead female role in the 2007 comedy film “Knocked Up” because of objections to a graphic prosthetic childbirth sequence. Speaking on the latest episode of The A24 Podcast alongside filmmaker Olivia Wilde, Rogen said Hathaway withdrew during...
In a series of late-Thursday posts on his Truth Social platform, President Donald Trump said it is “ridiculous” for the United States to maintain its current level of financial and military support for NATO, describing the alliance as “one sided” and “not reciprocal.” His comments come less than a week...
A fast-growing wildfire known as the Pocket Fire has expanded to 20,680 acres north of Sedona, Arizona, prompting severe air quality and ozone alerts across northern Arizona ahead of the July Fourth holiday weekend. As of Thursday morning, July 2, 2026, the blaze is 21% contained, with more than 1,000...
