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Lakers reload with Sandro Mamukelashvili, Walker Kessler, Collin Sexton and Quentin Grimes
The Lakers secured their starting center of the future in a massive trade with Utah on Wednesday, agreeing to send two first-round picks (2031 and 2033) and two pick swaps (2028 and 2030) to the Jazz in exchange for 24-year-old Walker Kessler, sources not authorized to speak publicly on the matter confirmed Wednesday to The…
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Legal correspondent Paula Reid expected to join MS NOW after CNN departure
As CNN prepares for change under a new owner, the network’s chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid is heading for the exit and expected to jump to MS NOW. The Washington-based Reid’s contract with CNN is up in several months and she has told the network she does not plan to renew. She is expected…
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Sony’s PlayStation Puts a Nail in Physical Media’s Coffin
Bad news for fans of physical media: Sony has announced that it is abandoning game discs. In a blog post published Wednesday, Sid Shuman, senior director of Global Content Communications at PlayStation, wrote that from January 2028, “physical game disc production for all new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will be discontinued.” Shuman added that…
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SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day
In the weeks following its dramatic IPO, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has yet to find stable ground. After shooting up to an all-time high of over $225, shares of the rocket company have swung wildly back down to Earth, betraying plenty of uncertainty over the company’s dizzying, north-of-$2-trillion market cap. After all, the company is burning…
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Court sentences 7 more to prison over shooting at Texas immigration detention center
FORT WORTH, Texas — Seven more people were sentenced to prison Wednesday over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that wounded a police officer and has left many protesters facing decades behind bars. All but one of the defendants sentenced in Fort Worth courtrooms pleaded guilty to charges related to the shooting outside the Prairieland…
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Trump Earned $1.2 Billion in Crypto Revenue in 2025
The release this week of President Trump‘s mandatory financial disclosure for 2025 has revealed that he earned around $1.2 billion in crypto revenue last year. According to the 927-page financial disclosure, which was released Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Trump raked in more than $500 million last year with his World Liberty…
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Russia’s top banker begs for Putin end to Ukraine war, issues stark warning: ‘ ‘Economy simply cannot survive
Russia’s top banker has called on Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, warning that the four-year-old conflict is dragging the country into economic collapse. German Gref, head of the state-controlled Sberbank, said ordinary Russians are increasingly feeling the economic effects of the war, which are being worsened by Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia’s…
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Tom Hardy’s ‘MobLand’ fate revealed after on-set clash
Looks like Tom Hardy’s “MobLand” character won’t be swimming with the fishes after all. The actor has reportedly settled his beef with producers and is “back in the fold” for a potential third season of the hit Paramount+ series, per The Hollywood Reporter. The outlet reported Wednesday that Hardy — who plays the leading role…
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Victor Willis, Village People frontman and ‘Y.M.C.A.’ singer, dead at 74
Victor Willis, the Village People singer who co-wrote some the band’s biggest hits including “Y.M.C.A.,” has died. He was 74. The band announced Willis’ death in a statement to social media, saying, “We are profoundly sad to announce the death of Victor Willis, lead singer of Village People,” adding that “Victor passed on Monday June…
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Harvey Weinstein hospitalized in New York after reported heart failure, difficulty breathing
Fallen Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein, whose health has been worrisome in recent years, is receiving medical treatment in New York after a fresh bout of reported health issues. Weinstein, 74, is “recuperating and resting at Bellevue Hospital,” his publicist Juda Engelmayer confirmed to The Times on Wednesday. He did not immediately respond to additional inquires…