U.S.-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic has reached a valuation of $965 billion after closing a new $65 billion funding round, the firm announced in its latest financing update. The round was led by major venture investors including Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital, and featured a $5 billion commitment...
Eugene — The OSAA 5A boys state track and field championships take place this weekend at Hayward Field, and previews list favorites, contenders and dark-horse entrants across sprints, distance races, hurdles, relays and field events. Several marquee names headline the meet: Jude Jarrett of Summit is the favorite in both...
LANSING, Ill. This week community members gathered in late May as the Lansing Junior Woman's Club held its May 27 banquet and supported McJournal Night at a local McDonald's, volunteers from the Lansing Scouts repainted the WWII concrete flag in Sweet Woods, and The Lansing Journal published a May 29...
KIMBERLY, Wisconsin: Local high school teams posted decisive wins across baseball, softball and track in the Appleton and Green Bay areas Thursday through Saturday, May 28–30. Kimberly's Papermakers, Green Bay Preble and Appleton North recorded notable victories and individual athletes such as Gracie Day, Payton Schreiber and Eva Busch posted...
LONGVIEW, Washington – A catastrophic industrial accident at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging pulp and paper mill on May 26, 2026, occurred when a 3.4 million-liter chemical storage tank ruptured, releasing a massive volume of highly alkaline “white liquor,” a mixture of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide. The rupture happened during...
United States-based crypto markets experienced a sharp sell-off on Friday, with more than $700 million in leveraged positions liquidated within 24 hours across major digital asset exchanges. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market value, fell more than 3% during the session and hovered near the $73,000 level as risk-off sentiment...
Oklahoma City — No. 5 Arkansas lost to No. 4 Nebraska, 5-3, in 10 innings Thursday at Devon Park during the Women's College World Series opener when Ava Kuszak hit a two-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th; earlier scoring included Kailey Wyckoff's two-run home run and...
Israel-based website-building platform Wix.com Ltd. announced on Thursday that it will cut roughly 20% of its global workforce, eliminating about 1,000 positions in what the company described as a major restructuring. Chief Executive and co-founder Avishai Abrahami said the reductions are primarily driven by the rapid integration of artificial intelligence...
Rancho Cucamonga, California — On Thursday, 14-year-old Shrey Parikh won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after prevailing in a 90-second eliminatory spell-off, correctly spelling 32 words to claim the $50,000 prize. He defeated 12-year-old Ishaan Gupta of Jersey City, New Jersey, who correctly spelled 25 words from the same list...
BATON ROUGE, La. The Louisiana House passed an amended version of SB121 on Thursday that redraws the state's congressional map, reducing the number of majority-black districts from two to one; the plan passed the House floor with a 66-36 vote and now returns to the State Senate for concurrence. The change...
