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Fed Chair Warsh signals a possible rate hike, H5N1 bird flu spreads to every continent, and a 6-year-old unearths a 1,200-year-old Viking sword.
Business
The new Fed chair’s first press conference signaling a hawkish pivot — including possible rate hikes and elimination of the cutting bias — is a direct market-moving event affecting mortgages, savings, and investment…
Politics & World
A $400 million foreign gift becoming the official US presidential aircraft raises significant…
Sources: AP News, NPR News, Defense News
Sports & Culture
The USMNT beat Australia 2-0 and clinched first place in Group D after Paraguay’s win over Turkey…
Sources: CBS Sports, ESPN, BBC World
Toy Story 5’s projected opening weekend, which would make it the biggest domestic debut in roughly two years and the largest in the Toy Story franchise’s history. The original Toy Story earned $29M in its 1995 opening — meaning the franchise’s ceiling has grown more than fivefold in three decades.
Source: Deadline
How the Iran war and its ceasefire reshaped global power alignments in ways that will outlast the conflict itself.
Foreign Policy · Michael Hirsh
Why Canadian regulators had multiple opportunities to inspect the Titan submersible before its fatal implosion — and didn’t.
Wired · Mark Harris
What the sudden surge in brain-computer interface clinical trials means for patients, researchers, and the ethics of mind-machine medicine.
MIT Technology Review · Jessica Hamzelou
Father’s Day is Sunday — the second-most commercially celebrated day in the US, with Americans expected to spend a record $22.4 billion on gifts.
Summer solstice arrives Sunday at 10:42 a.m. ET, marking the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
U.S. Open Rounds 3 and 4 at Shinnecock Hills wrap up the weekend, with Wyndham Clark holding the lead entering Saturday play.
2026 FIFA World Cup Round of 32 begins, with the US set to face its knockout-stage opponent after group play concludes.
Today’s clickbait, so you don’t have toThese devoted animal dads will absolutely wreck you ahead of Father’s Day
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