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The Reform UK leader's statement follows reports he failed to declare financial support from an ally. He has also faced questions over an unregistered £5m gift from a donor.

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — A large FDNY response is underway in Midtown after two columns buckled and five floors caved in at a building under construction Tuesday morning. FDNY said the call came in …

Mayor Mamdani says "the building remains unstable" as there has been additional movement in one of the columns since city officials arrived.

Almost half of the takeaway meals tested contained more salt than advertised, with some dishes delivering nearly twice the recommended daily limit in a single serving. Surprisingly, classic fish and chips ranked among the lowest-salt options, while pasta, pizza, and curries were often the saltiest.

Marcos Paulo has been making all sorts of phone-sized wallpapers for the World Cup and posting them to Threads. You have to poke around to find them in his account, but here are a few direct links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Tags: design · fashion · iPhone · soccer · sports · World Cup 2026

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking malls, flopping, hero instincts, and more.

Before I get started today, let's go ahead and open up the submissions for Why Your Team Sucks 2026. Does your NFL team suck? Well then, email us here and tell us why. A quick refresher of the guidelines for you. One: put your team's name and "WYTS" in the subject line. Two: Your team only, please. If you're some asshole Steelers fan sending in a missive about how pathetic the Browns are, right into the dustbin it goes. Got all that? Good. Then let's get down to business.

Your letters:

This is unbelievable. A new lawsuit states that the Trump administration shared the names and immigration records of Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government, allowing Iranian officials to identify people they wanted returned.

But our major news outlets apparently aren’t up to the job.

The post Trump’s crazed lies about ‘communists’ demand media debunking appeared first on Press Watch.

It's kind of incredible that these days, barely a day goes by that I don't think about AOL Instant Messenger (or AIM, as I'll call it throughout) at some point.

Standard.site provides a set of lexicons for publishing long-form content on the internet using the same protocol used under the hood by Bluesky.

Miley revealed the details behind her very own Barbie and what it means to her. Continue reading…

A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.

Comedian Alonzo Bodden (Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Heavy Lightweight) headlines this African legend about how one animal’s mischief created the savanna’s most majestic, magical trees.

This Circle Round episode originally was released on Nov. 7, 2023.

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[ Being: an early July screed in defense of an assertion... ] It was late on a weekday evening, shading towards midnight, sometime in the early winter months of last year, and I was walking back home on my daily constitutional. Somewhere along Chestnut Street near Gough, I ...

On Sunday, June 7, LeeAnne Hutchison was at the Tony Awards watching her Broadway debut Liberation win for Best Play. The next morning, she woke up and clocked in at The Defenders Academy—a week-long trial skills program for public defenders from across the country. She’s spent the last two decades using her acting skills to teach lawyers how to be more compelling in court. 

Hutchison and I met over Zoom to talk about what a court room has in common with a theater, and what keeps bringing her back to sharing her talents with public defenders. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

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Anthropic was scheduled to remove included access to its flagship Fable model from its subscription accounts today, July 7, and

The post Anthropic gives Claude subscribers five more days with Fable 5 appeared first on The New Stack.

How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization. Suggestions: “artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation” & “AI agent → probabilistic, unverified software manipulator”. Seems like the horse is out of the barn on this though…

The action of writing does not require artistry, but the artistry of writing requires action. That action being sitting down and actually doing it, even if it is hard. Writing coach April Dávila is here today to introduce some new methods that are sure to get you focused and motivated so that you can, as […]

Donald Trump disgraced the World Cup, and USMNT, with his interference in Folarin Balogun's red card.