Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, holds a motherboard as he speaks during the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 11, 2025. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Nvidia shares rose more than 4% on Wednesday and closed at a record for the first time … Read more
A person at a baseball game who ridiculed the dead mother of the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte has been banned by the White Sox and Major League Baseball indefinitely, the league confirmed Wednesday. Marte was in tears on the field after the person attending the White Sox home game in Chicago Tuesday made the remark, … Read more
A court in Japan has sentenced a US marine to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa last year. Lance Cpl Jamel Clayton, 22, attacked the woman in her 20s, choking her from behind and attempting sexual intercourse, the court ruled. The case is one of a … Read more
Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former journalist Lauren Sanchez arrived in Venice on Wednesday — kicking off what is expected to be a weekend of lavish wedding festivities for the couple, attended by some of the world’s top celebrities and drawing the ire of locals and protesters, who view it as a crass example … Read more
The 2025 NBA Draft is here, and it’s not all about the prospects’ basketball skills. Outside Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday, the next great players took the red carpet to show off their fashion sense and style. Here were the best looks from Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper, Ace Bailey and more. Source link
A court in Leipzig has lifted a ban imposed by the German government on the influential far-right magazine Compact. The ruling is seen by some as a blow to Germany’s fight against right-wing extremism, although for others it could be proof of the country’s high standards of free speech. In July 2024 the German interior … Read more
Iranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region, officials and activists say. Within days of Israel’s airstrikes beginning on June 13, Iranian security forces started a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by … Read more
To say Wall Street isn’t a fan of Zohran Mamdani would be an understatement. In fact, high-profile investors and business leaders in the Big Apple are up in arms about the stunning win by the democratic socialist in the primary to win the Democratic nomination to serve as the next New York City mayor. The three-term … Read more
New York City’s high-profile mayoral primary this week shined a bright light on the nation’s ongoing experiment with ranked choice voting, reopening the debate over the relatively new, unique and complex system. New York City is among the 63 jurisdictions — which include cities, states and counties — that have in recent years implemented ranked … Read more
At a Nato press conference in the Netherlands, President Trump took a question from Myroslava Petsa from the BBC Ukrainian Service. She asked whether the US would be supplying Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine. Trump then asked where she was from and took an interest in her personal situation, asking whether her husband was … Read more