BOSTON — Sonny Gray carried a no-hitter into the eighth inning and recorded his 2,000th career strikeout as the Boston Red Sox edged the New York Yankees 5-4 in 10 innings at Fenway Park on Sunday night, June 28, 2026. The win completed a four-game sweep of New York, Boston’s...
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 flagged 651,073 active SNAP cases as of May 31 and included $5.9 million in the FY2027...
BOSTON, United States – A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked key parts of a Trump administration executive order that sought to restrict who could vote by mail in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. In a preliminary injunction issued on June 25, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani barred the...
In Chicago on Saturday, June 27, 2026, singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and Dutch DJ Martin Garrix made an unannounced appearance at a wedding reception at the Adler Planetarium. The surprise visit was arranged after the bride’s brother, Mike Kindelin, sent Garrix a direct message on Instagram asking him to visit because...
Iran and the United States have resumed technical-level negotiations in Switzerland despite escalating military tensions near the Strait of Hormuz. Talks began Monday, June 29, at the Burgenstock resort, under a June 17 memorandum of understanding, Iranian officials said. Delegations, led on the Iranian side by deputy foreign minister Kazem...
In New York, a coalition of publishers representing nearly 400 local and regional U.S. newspapers has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging widescale copyright infringement. The complaint, lodged in a New York federal court, claims the companies used automated web scraping tools to copy millions of original...
Israel – Iranian cyberattacks on Israeli systems have tripled over the past year, Israel’s National Cyber Directorate chief Yossi Karadi said in a June 29, 2026 interview with German newspaper Die Welt. Karadi reported that authorities recorded about 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June 2026, compared with roughly 1,600 in...
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 Oliver Tree. The surprise debut came during a highly anticipated back-to-back DJ set with basketball legend and electronic music producer...
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 the 1300-class platform, weighs about 15,000 pounds (7,000 kilograms), making it one of the...
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’s only fixture that day, put the global spotlight on two nations making their debut...
