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Red Sea shipping slows after Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia, data shows

Ship traffic through Bab el-Mandeb fell on Sunday after Yemeni Houthis attacked Saudi oil installations along the Red Sea coast, while transit through the Strait of Hormuz stayed low over the weekend, shipping data from Kpler showed on Monday. Eleven commodity vessels passed through the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Sunday, the lowest level in months, the data showed.Red Sea traffic has been disrupted off the coast of Yemen since last week by the Tehran-aligned Houthis, who want to blockade Saudi exports, expanding the U.S.-Iran conflict that has already choked oil supply through the Strait of Horm

As Indonesia cuts methane emissions, life atop a mountain of garbage begins to change

Japan PM Takaichi's approval rating slides as inflation bites, Yomiuri poll shows

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Japan June services producer prices rise as Iran war keeps freight costs high

Japan's services producer price index rose 3.2% in June from a year earlier, central bank data showed on Monday, a sign of broadening inflationary pressure that will keep alive market expectations for further interest rate hikes.The annual rise in the index, which tracks the price companies charge each other for services, followed a revised 3.4% gain in May.The increase was driven by continued gains in transportation costs, which rose 5.3% in June from a year earlier, as rising fuel prices and supply disruptions from the Middle East conflict kept ocean and air freight charges elevated, the da

Nvidia in talks with OpenAI to guarantee $250 billion financing for data center, WSJ reports

Shares, bonds bounce as oil skid offers inflation relief

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Oil prices ease after US and Iran pause their attacks

Oil prices eased in early trading Sunday, falling further from a two-month high set last week, after the United States and Iran refrained from launching military strikes in the Persian Gulf for a second straight day. The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil to be delivered in September dropped 4.9% to $92.02 shortly after trading resumed. The decline followed a 3.9% drop on Friday. Brent crude, the international standard, briefly hit $102 a barrel last week. That was $30 more than the most actively traded contract in the Brent market was going for early in the mo

Oil slips 5% after US, Iran pause fighting over weekend

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Seattle police are searching for two men who parachuted from the Space Needle

The Seattle Police Department is searching for two men who climbed over the glass wall of the city's iconic Space Needle on Friday, flipped over the edge and parachuted down from the 605-foot structure. The jumpers face trespassing charges, according to a report provided by Public Affairs Officer Brian Pritchard. The BASE jumpers purchased tickets and entered the Space Needle at about 8:50 p.m. Friday, according to the Seattle Police Department. The popular attraction has a round observation deck surrounded by high glass windows that are open to the

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Trump is giving Iran talks 'a little bit of room,' US ambassador to UN says

U.S. President Donald Trump has paused attacks on Iran to allow more room for diplomacy, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Sunday. "He's giving talks some space, he's giving it a little bit of room," Mike Waltz told the "Fox News Sunday" program.Waltz did not provide further detail on the nature of the talks, but there has been a weekend lull in the fighting between Iran and the United States. The Pentagon paused bombing operations after 13 nights of escalating strikes and there were no weekend reports of attacks by Iran on its neighbors.Asked about the pause, a senior officia

Federal officials investigate after a video appears to show a person kicking a California sea lion

‘Going it alone does not work’: America’s first one-party war

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Jones and Clark help Team Spoon beat Team Coop 129-122 in the WNBA All-Star Game

Jonquel Jones, Nneka Ogwumike and Dominique Malonga made WNBA history on Saturday night. It was quite the All-Star party in the league's 30th season. Jones had 22 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists, helping Caitlin Clark and Team Spoon outlast Marina Mabrey and Team Coop 129-122 in the WNBA All-Star Game. Playing with a heavy heart after the death of an aunt, Jones was named MVP. The 32-year-old New York Liberty center became the first player to win the league, WNBA Finals, Commissioner's Cup and All-Star MVP awards. “No matter what

Airstrikes have paused and talks are pressing forward. But can the US and Iran take the off-ramp?

The U.S. military has paused its airstrikes on Iran after nearly two weeks of intensifying bombing, while diplomatic efforts have pushed forward to try to avert a return to all-out war. But it remains to be seen whether the U.S. and Iran are at an inflection point in a mercurial conflict that will reach the five-month point Tuesday. President Donald Trump both has threatened more strikes and said talks are pressing on, all while brushing off concerns that rising gas prices tied to the fighting could hurt Republicans in November's midterm elections. Adding to the u

Opening statements to begin in trial of Lindsay Clancy, mother accused of killing 3 children

US appeals court rules Trump cannot implement mail-in voting order

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Toronto police investigate after Jewish-owned bakery chain hit by gunfire and vandalism

Two Jewish-owned bagel shops in Toronto were damaged Sunday in incidents now under investigation by the Toronto Police Service’s Hate Crime Unit.Two locations of Kiva’s, a bakery specializing in bagels, were attacked in the morning, with one shop’s window damaged by gunfire, police said in a post on X. The second location in the city also had a window damaged, but investigators found no evidence of gunshots there.“At this time, investigators are examining whether the incidents are connected and working to identify those responsible,” police said. “There have been no reported injuri

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Iran says it will halt strikes as long as US bombing pause holds

Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States does the same, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday. The development comes as the United States pressed pause on its bombing campaign after President Donald Trump's advisers told him they were running out of targets and expressed worries about depleting the U.S. arsenal. After 13 nights of intensifying U.S. airstrikes on Iran, the Pentagon suspended the campaign late on Friday, with no U.S. attacks reported on either Saturday or Sunday. Iran, which had been following each night of U.S. attacks with its own strikes on nei

Pentagon's official Iran war death toll no longer lists 4 troops killed during renewed fighting

Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting

The US military hasn’t blown up an alleged drug boat in a month. Has the campaign worked?

Amid the longest pause to date in the US military’s deadly military strikes against alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, US law enforcement officials told CNN they are uncertain about the strikes’ lasting impact after 11 months, and experts are skeptical they will meaningfully change the region’s drug trade.The official mission for Operation Southern Spear, as the boat strike initiative is known, is classified, according to a May 20 report from the Pentagon’s inspector general office. The US military has destroyed at least 67 vessels and killed at least

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Michigan, Missouri primaries will again lay bare the Democratic divide over Israel

Fiercely fought primaries on August 4 in Michigan and Missouri will provide the next crucial tests in the debate over American policy toward Israel that has convulsed the Democratic Party this year.Arguments about Israel have marked a sharp dividing line in both the Michigan Senate primary between centrist Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul El-Sayed, and a Missouri rematch between firebrand former US Rep. Cori Bush and Rep. Wesley Bell, a more mainstream figure, who ousted her in a primary two years ago. While Stevens and Bell largely defend the existing US security partnership with Isra

Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary sets up a battle of generations

Wildfires in France drive 250,000 people from their homes and creep toward wine city of Bordeaux

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President Donald Trump has returned to the stage of the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner

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Israel prepares major military operation in West Bank after four Palestinians and two Israelis killed

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Maine Democrats nominate Troy Jackson to replace Platner in US Senate race

Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson on Saturday won the state Democratic Party's U.S.

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls