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Fanatics Sportsbook will be the first U.S. sports betting company to work with ProhiBet Bad Actors. This system uses artificial intelligence (AI) and investigation methods to find and identify people who send abusive messages to athletes on social media.
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Fanatics Sportsbook is a sports betting company in the U.S.
It is partnering with ProhiBet Bad Actors, a tool to fight online abuse.
ProhiBet Bad Actors uses artificial intelligence to spot abusive behavior on social media.
The system also uses investigative techniques to identify the people responsible.
This partnership aims to stop harassment and protect athletes from online abuse.
Fanatics Sportsbook will ban bettors who harass athletes.
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Rome’s airports may stop using the EU’s new digital system for non-EU travelers this summer to avoid long delays. The system, which checks fingerprints and facial images, has caused long wait times and travel problems since it started fully working in April.
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The EU’s new entry-exit system (EES) requires non-EU citizens to give biometric data (fingerprints and facial images) when entering.
The system was fully implemented in mid-April after some delays and technical problems.
Rome’s airport chief says the system cannot handle the high number of summer travelers without causing chaos.
Some passengers face waits up to three hours or more, leading to missed flights.
Other countries, like France and Greece, have paused or delayed biometric checks for UK travelers.
Airport and airline groups warn that queue times could reach six hours at some airports during peak times.
EU officials say the system may take up to two years to work smoothly.
The European Commission allows some flexibility to suspend parts of the system if needed.
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Oil prices have dropped close to the levels seen before the Middle East war began, as more ships have started using the Strait of Hormuz because of a new U.S.-Iran agreement. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting Gulf countries to assure them their concerns will be included in ongoing talks with Iran.
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Brent crude oil price fell to $73.87 a barrel, near the $70 level before the war started.
U.S. crude oil prices also fell to about $70.34 a barrel.
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has increased following a new U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding.
The Strait of Hormuz is a key waterway for global oil shipments.
Senator Rubio warned that allowing Iran to charge fees for ships passing through the Strait could cause problems worldwide.
Rubio says the U.S. wants a peace deal with Iran that is real, verifiable, and fair.
The U.S. Senate recently rejected a measure to limit President Trump's power to wage war against Iran.
Secretary Rubio is meeting with Gulf Cooperation Council countries to coordinate U.S. and regional actions in the Iran talks.
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EasyJet has rejected a fourth offer from US investment firm Castlelake to buy the airline for £4.93 billion. EasyJet’s board says the bid undervalues the company and has doubts about Castlelake’s ability to complete the deal.
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Castlelake made a fourth takeover offer of £4.93 billion, or £6.50 per share.
Previous offers were £5.60, £6, and £6.25 per share.
EasyJet’s board says the latest offer still undervalues the company and questions whether Castlelake can deliver the deal.
EasyJet’s share price has dropped about 30% over the past year, affected by worries over the war in Iran.
Castlelake manages about $36 billion (£27.3 billion) in assets.
Under the deal, Castlelake and co-investors would own 49% of EasyJet, with the remaining 51% owned by European Union investors.
EasyJet wants Castlelake to provide clear promises about ownership and their ability to complete the purchase.
The deadline for Castlelake to make a firm offer is 17:00 BST on 5 July.
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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson responded to Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calling her a "spiteful class warrior" by saying she will make a T-shirt with that phrase. Badenoch criticized Phillipson for taxing private school fees to raise money for education, while Phillipson defended Labour’s broader plans to fight child poverty and improve education.
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch called Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson a "spiteful class warrior" at Prime Minister’s Questions.
Badenoch criticized the tax on private school fees introduced by Labour, which aims to raise £9 billion for education.
Phillipson said she will wear a T-shirt with "spiteful class warrior" as a sign of pride.
Labour plans include cutting child poverty, expanding free childcare and meals, and adding nursery places.
There is a current shortage of teachers, with 2,000 fewer teachers last year.
Phillipson accused Conservative shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy of making racist comments about Muslims, which Timothy denies.
The row included harsh language exchanged at Parliament and on social media.
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander supported Phillipson’s focus on poverty and opportunity.
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Shiite Muslims worldwide observed Ashoura, a holy day remembering the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in 680 A.D. This year’s observance follows months of conflict in Iran and Lebanon, where fighting has involved Iran, Hezbollah, and Israel. The day included traditional mourning rituals amid war and political tensions.
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Ashoura commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in 680 A.D.
The event is important for Shiite Muslims and symbolizes resistance to oppression.
Iran and Lebanon have seen months of war involving Israel, Iran, and the Hezbollah group.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed recently in an Israeli airstrike; his funeral is imminent.
Hezbollah has fired rockets into northern Israel, prompting Israeli air and ground attacks on southern Lebanon.
Many Lebanese displaced by the war are trying to return to damaged villages and cities.
Ashoura rituals include chest-beating, lamentations, and prayers, observed publicly in Iran with shops closing and large gatherings.
Iranian officials took part in Ashoura ceremonies, highlighting religious and political significance during the conflict.
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Gousto, a company that provides meal kits with fresh food and recipes, is closing its warehouse in Clay Lake, Lincolnshire. This closure will put 290 jobs at risk as Gousto moves all production to a single warehouse in Warrington, Cheshire, to lower costs and improve efficiency.
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Gousto sells meal kits that include fresh ingredients and cooking recipes.
The Clay Lake warehouse near Spalding will be shut down.
About 290 jobs are at risk due to the closure.
Gousto will centralize production at its Warrington warehouse, where around 600 people work.
Running two warehouses was costly and caused duplicated work.
The company has invested heavily in the Warrington site.
Gousto wants to keep prices low and stay competitive in the food market.
The company plans to support affected employees with care and practical help.
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President Donald Trump clashed with Republican senators after he refused to sign a bill aimed at lowering housing costs. The tension grew during a lunch meeting where Trump criticized GOP lawmakers over a recent vote to start pulling U.S. troops out of a conflict.
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President Trump declined to sign a bill meant to address housing affordability.
Republican senators were surprised and upset by the president’s refusal.
The conflict escalated during a lunch meeting between Trump and GOP senators.
The senators had passed a resolution directing Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from an unspecified area.
Trump expressed anger toward the GOP lawmakers for this resolution.
The disagreement revealed a strain in the relationship between the president and members of his own party.
Republican senators are now seeking ways to reconcile with President Trump after the dispute.
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The article provides advice on how to keep babies cool during heatwaves. It offers practical tips to help parents protect their young children from high temperatures.
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The article focuses on caring for babies during very hot weather.
It gives suggestions to keep babies comfortable and safe from overheating.
The content includes steps parents can take at home.
It highlights the importance of monitoring babies in heat.
The article is part of a series covering babies, toddlers, and heatwaves.
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The UK government will reduce the amount of steel that can be imported without tariffs by about half starting July 1. This action aims to protect the local steel industry from cheap steel coming mainly from China and follows similar moves by the EU.
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The UK will cut tariff-free steel import quotas by 51% to 3.2 million tonnes.
Tariffs on steel imported above these quotas will increase to 50% of the product's value.
New rules replace pre-Brexit EU quota agreements, but the UK had kept the old rules after leaving the EU.
Eleven types of steel used by UK manufacturers will be exempt from tariffs to avoid supply problems.
The UK steel industry produces about 3 million tonnes yearly, compared to nearly 2 billion tonnes worldwide.
The UK steel trade body says these measures are necessary to prevent the industry from collapsing.
Steel users worry that quotas and tariffs could raise prices on many steel products that Britain cannot produce.
Overcapacity in steel production is linked to subsidies in China and other countries, leading to excess steel being exported globally.
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A couple named Sydney and Joe created a viral video of their marriage proposal. Joe chose not to propose in a common way during their trip to Italy to keep it surprising, which led to millions of views online.
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Sydney and Joe are a couple whose proposal video became very popular on the internet.
Joe felt that proposing in Italy on vacation would be too obvious.
They looked for a less expected way for Joe to propose marriage.
Their video has received millions of views.
The story has attracted attention over the past few weeks.
The proposal took place during a vacation abroad, specifically in Italy.
The video went viral, meaning it spread quickly through social media and online platforms.
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President Donald Trump described Andy Burnham as an "extremely liberal" politician unlikely to allow more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. He also referred to Burnham as "the mayor of a town," highlighting his previous role as Greater Manchester mayor and suggesting potential challenges in UK-US relations if Burnham becomes prime minister.
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President Trump called Andy Burnham "extremely liberal" and doubted he would support North Sea oil and gas drilling.
Burnham is the likely next prime minister of the UK and was formerly the mayor of Greater Manchester.
Burnham has historically focused on domestic issues and avoided foreign policy comments.
Trump described Burnham as "the mayor of a town," a comment that may upset residents of Manchester.
The UK will host the G20 summit next year and the G7 the year after, which President Trump would attend.
Burnham has criticized President Trump before, saying in 2017 he would refuse to meet him during a state visit.
There is debate in the UK Labour Party about continuing or changing energy policies, including approval of new North Sea oil and gas fields.
Rachel Reeves, a Labour figure, supports expanding North Sea energy exploration, contrasting with Burnham’s expected position.
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Oil prices have fallen to levels seen before the start of the Iran war due to expectations of more oil supply from the Middle East. A new agreement has helped restart shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, easing fears about supply disruptions.
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August Brent crude oil dropped to $72.68 per barrel; US West Texas Intermediate fell to $69.58 per barrel.
These prices are the lowest since February 27, before the Iran war began on February 28.
The Strait of Hormuz, a key route for oil ships, is seeing nearly normal oil flows again after being disrupted by conflict.
Clearing mines from the strait will take a few weeks to fully return to normal.
Iran plans to increase oil sales following a temporary pause in US sanctions.
An initial agreement between the US, Israel, and Iran has allowed traffic through the strait to resume, starting a two-month negotiation period on broader issues.
Oman opened new temporary shipping routes to help tankers leave the strait.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned ships not to use the strait without permission and opposed the new shipping routes.
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IBM has created a new design for computer chips that fits nearly 100 billion tiny switches called transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail. This chip technology uses a 0.7 nanometer scale, smaller than the current standard of 2 nanometers, aiming to improve chip power and energy use, but it may take several years before it is ready for use.
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IBM's new chip design uses a scale of about 0.7 nanometers, smaller than the current 2-nanometer chips on the market.
The prototype chip has nearly 100 billion transistors on a tiny silicon surface about the size of a fingernail.
Testing shows the new chip is 50% faster and 70% more energy efficient than IBM’s 2-nanometer chip.
The design stacks transistors in layers, like a tall building instead of spreading them flat, to fit more on a small chip.
This approach is called NanoStack and was described as a major step forward by IBM’s research director.
Transistors are the tiny switches that control electrical signals and determine how powerful and efficient a chip is.
Making chips smaller and stacking transistors in 3D helps keep improving performance even as traditional chip shrinking faces limits.
Challenges with 3D chips include managing heat and ensuring layers don’t interfere with how transistors switch off.
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A report by the London School of Economics shows that legal cases related to climate change are increasingly targeting datacentres worldwide, focusing on their energy use, water consumption, and pollution. Countries like Chile, Ireland, the US, and the UK have seen lawsuits that challenge how datacentres operate and push for cleaner, renewable energy sources.
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About 3,600 climate-related legal cases since 2015 include many against datacentres.
In Santiago, Chile, a lawsuit stopped Google’s datacentre project due to concerns over water supply and climate impacts.
Ireland uses over 20% of its electricity on datacentres, and groups are legally challenging government decisions to allow fossil fuel use in this sector.
US cities like Pittsburg require datacentres to use renewable energy and recycled water, and lawsuits exist in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi related to fossil fuel use and pollution.
In Mississippi, a lawsuit alleges Elon Musk’s xAI company violates air pollution laws by using methane gas generators without permits.
In the UK, legal action halted a large datacentre project in Buckinghamshire over concerns about its environmental impact; the government admitted process flaws.
The report says litigation helps reveal environmental impacts and can push datacentres to switch to renewable energy, even if cases don’t always stop projects.
The lawsuits aim to prevent long-term reliance on fossil fuels in energy-intensive datacentres.
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American politics is changing dramatically due to the lasting effects of President Trump's time in office. Both major parties are struggling with internal divisions, and issues like socialism, support for Israel, and AI are causing major shifts among voters.
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President Trump's influence has caused major changes and divisions within American politics.
MAGA supporters are split between those loyal to Trump and those who support a strict "America First" stance.
Socialism is becoming more popular, especially among young Democrats, challenging traditional party leaders.
Support for Israel is decreasing among Americans under 50 in both political parties.
Young voters on both sides see AI (artificial intelligence) as a threat to jobs and are worried about the power of big tech companies.
The 2024 election coalition supporting Trump is weakening, with some former allies publicly breaking away.
The 2026 midterm elections for House and Senate seats are highly uncertain, with control possibly evenly split.
The 2028 presidential race has no clear frontrunner, making future political outcomes unpredictable.
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IBM has developed a new chip design called the "nanostack" architecture that can fit nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail. This design, called the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, promises much better computing power and energy efficiency for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.
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IBM’s new chip can hold almost 100 billion transistors on a tiny chip about the size of a fingernail.
The chip uses a sub-1 nanometer (0.7 nanometer) technology, which is called the 7 angstrom node.
The "nanostack" technology stacks transistors vertically to pack more into the same space.
Each transistor is made of three nanosheets, each about 5 nanometers thick, separated by 9 nanometers.
IBM says this chip design can improve computer performance by 50% or increase energy efficiency by 70% compared to their previous 2-nanometer chips.
The new design also offers a 40% improvement in memory scaling for SRAM, important for AI tasks.
These advancements were presented at the 2025 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Japan.
The improvements could help overcome physical limits that have made shrinking chip features more difficult in recent years.
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Many renters across the United States are asking the government to stop extra fees that increase their housing costs and risk of eviction. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is working on new rules to regulate these additional charges after receiving widespread comments from renters and industry groups.
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Renters say landlords use "take-it-or-leave-it" fees that they must pay or risk losing their home.
Nearly 400 out of 471 public comments to the FTC supported regulating these extra fees.
Property management companies have grown and now manage nearly half of rental units, often using fees to increase profits.
In 2024, Invitation Homes paid $48 million to settle claims about unfair fees but did not admit wrongdoing.
Also in 2024, Greystar settled for $24 million on similar allegations without admitting fault.
Industry groups say fees are necessary and oppose strict limits, although they support transparency about them.
The ongoing FTC rulemaking follows previous efforts limited by industry pushback and aims to create fairer fee rules.
Lawmakers have shown interest in the issue and a coalition is involved.
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The Trump administration has officially called frozen embryos "children" in new federal guidelines for a grant program that promotes frozen embryo adoption. This change reflects a stronger legal stance supporting fetal personhood, which could impact abortion rights and fertility treatments.
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The Department of Health and Human Services now refers to frozen embryos as "children" in grant guidelines.
The change applies to a nearly 20-year-old program that supports adopting frozen embryos created by IVF (in vitro fertilization).
The program began in 2002 during President George W. Bush’s administration and helps couples use surplus frozen embryos instead of discarding them.
Calling embryos "children" is a legal step toward granting embryos full personhood rights under the law.
This move aligns with anti-abortion efforts to ban abortion and certain birth control methods by recognizing embryos as persons.
The new focus prioritizes the "best interests of the child," meaning the frozen embryos, rather than the prospective parents.
Similar legal recognition of frozen embryos as persons led to clinics in Alabama stopping IVF treatments.
The Trump administration’s policy shift could have wide effects on abortion, fertility treatments, and reproductive rights.
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Randy Smith, the sheriff of St Tammany Parish in Louisiana, retired after pleading guilty to beating a local podcaster who often criticized him. Smith admitted to the attack, which happened at a restaurant while he was drinking, and agreed to more than a year of probation.
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Randy Smith served as sheriff from July 2016 until his retirement in 2024.
He pleaded guilty to second-degree battery and disturbing the peace by public intoxication.
The victim was Bobby Couvillion, a podcaster who had frequently criticized Smith.
The incident occurred at a steakhouse on May 29, where Smith had consumed 18 alcoholic drinks.
Smith attacked Couvillion by putting him in a chokehold, slamming him to the ground, punching, and kicking him.
Emergency calls led to Smith’s deputies first responding, but the investigation was handed over to the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation.
Medical reports showed Couvillion suffered a concussion and lost two front teeth.
Smith was arrested on June 4, posted a $10,000 bond, apologized without naming Couvillion, then pled guilty and retired.
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