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How digital price tags are spreading at retailers like Walmart — and sparking ‘surveillance’ fears
The growing use of digital price tags at Walmart and other big US retailers is stirring fresh anxiety that prices on groceries and other basic goods could be subjected to high-tech manipulation — and labor unions are looking to capitalize on the fears. Walmart said it is rapidly installing the tags — which can raise…
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Melania Trump’s former top aide is campaigning her new TV show
Melania Trump’s former top aide, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, is determined to not be defined by her unceremonious White House departure. “Melania was one chapter of my life. It’s not my story,” Vogue alum Wolkoff, who penned a memoir about their friendship and the FLO-TUS rift, told Page Six. She has moved on to her next…
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Beach Boys’ Mike Love selling Lake Tahoe mansion for $43 million
The vast Lake Tahoe estate of Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love, complete with a theater, wine tasting room, ice-skating rink and sauna, could be yours — for the small price of $43 million. Love has called the mansion home for more than four decades, with “much of Love’s work” taking shape on the property, according…
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U.S. and Iran Agree to Stand Down, Resume Talks After Days of Hostilities
—Douglas Rissing—Getty Images The U.S. and Iran have reportedly agreed to stand down after days of tit-for-tat hostilities that threatened to unravel a recently struck preliminary agreement to end the war. A week after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a memorandum of understanding, the two sides traded strikes around the Strait of Hormuz, the…
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Nancy Pelosi’s next challenge: Building a nonpartisan democracy institute at UC Berkeley
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who has served nearly 40 years in Congress to become one of its most influential power brokers, on Monday announced who she will take on when she leaves office in January: UC Berkeley students. The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy, to be launched with tens of millions of dollars in gifts…
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American Airlines plane forced to abort takeoff after another jet veers onto same runway at Miami airport
An American Airlines plane bound for Bermuda was forced to abort its take-off at Miami airport after another jet veered onto the same runway. The two planes were just a third of a mile apart at one point Friday evening as air traffic controllers scrambled to avoid a collision. The American Airlines plane, carrying 112…
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What to Know About the Heat Wave Headed to the U.S. Ahead of Fourth of July
A supporter of President Donald Trump fans herself against the heat during the Great American State Fair Kickoff Celebration on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2026. —Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images Weather forecasters warn of a prolonged and dangerous heat wave set to blanket large swaths of the U.S. this week into the…
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Shooting at World Cup Fan Zone in California Kills One
Football fans gather to watch USA and Paraguay at San Pedro Square for a FIFA World Cup watch party in San Jose, Calif. on June 12, 2026. —Emilee Chinn—Getty Images One person died and another person sustained “life-threatening” injuries, according to police, following a Sunday night shooting in a popular spot in California known for…
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Truckloads of Tesla Batteries Keep Getting Stolen Before They Even Leave the Factory
Trailers containing millions of dollars worth of Tesla car and home batteries have allegedly been stolen straight from loading docks at the company’s Nevada facilities at least 11 times since last December, according to sheriff’s records obtained by WIRED. “It’s an epidemic right now,” says Storey County Sheriff’s Detective Sam Hatley, who has been investigating…
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Lebanon says US-brokered Israel deal ‘will not be implemented’
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday said that the framework agreement with Israel “will not pass” and “will not be implemented.” Berri, who is an ally of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization, told Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar daily that his Amal movement would “confront” the deal in the Lebanese Cabinet. He said the US-brokered framework — which allows…