A fisher caught a large white shark on the south shore of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts on 7 June, before releasing it back into the ocean. Bryner Oliveira, who captured footage, said he had been 'at the beach enjoying the weekend' when the fisher reeled in the shark on his line. He said he unhooked and released the protected shark in about 15 seconds
Continue reading...The New York Knicks completed the largest comeback in NBA finals history to beat the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the championship series on 10 June. Fans took to the streets of New York City to celebrate the win, and the police made several arrests and used riot gear to disperse crowds
Continue reading...Vance Boelter changes plea in murders of Melissa and Mark Hortman as prosecutors agree not to pursue death penalty
The man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota house and her husband, as well as the nonfatal shootings of a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday after prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.
Vance Boelter was charged with murdering Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota house speaker, and her husband, Mark Hortman, and with shooting state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman. Boelter came to their doors in the early hours of 14 June 2025, disguised as a police officer and driving a fake squad car.
Continue reading...As the Knicks edge closer to winning the NBA finals for the first time in decades, a viral chant – posted by Kalshi – has become New York City’s anthem
The New York Knicks are 3-1 up in the NBA finals, one game away from winning the championship for the first time since the 1970s. The mood in New York is electric, the city is strewn in blue and orange, crowds roar outside Madison Square Garden, and – at least last week – a viral chant has become a new unofficial New York City anthem:
My mayor Muslim
My bagel’s Jewish
My mayor still Muslim
My bagel’s still Jewish
Continue reading...A joint congressional report describes a spam operation that turned tens of thousands of fake podcasts into search-engine bait for illegal pharmacy and scam sites.
Employees at artificial intelligence companies are coming into gargantuan sums of money amid boom in IPOs
Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area’s already expensive market are skyrocketing as employees at leading artificial intelligence companies come into gargantuan sums of money thanks to a boom in initial public offerings.
With San Francisco’s OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as SpaceX, which operates a major facility in the Los Angeles area, eyeing debuts on the stock market, the hot housing market may not abate soon. If their initial public offering (IPO) is well-received, the companies’ multibillion-dollar valuations are poised to produce massive wealth for employees and executives holding shares, which experts say could trigger an uptick in demand for the Bay Area’s limited housing stock.
Continue reading...The New York Knicks completed the largest comeback in NBA finals history to beat the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the championship series on 10 June. Fans took to the streets of New York City to celebrate the win, and the police made several arrests and used riot gear to disperse crowds
Continue reading...Unlike most other countries, the US are playing the 2026 World Cup not just for themselves, but for the future of their voice in the sport
Mauricio Pochettino paused. The microphone signal flickered. He tried, for a second time, to say a few things to the 5,500 fans who had gathered in the sun Monday at Championship Soccer Stadium in Irvine, California – the United States’ World Cup home base – for an open training session. Nothing. Then something. More choppy audio. By the time things came back online, he had developed a quip.
“We are in the greatest country in the world,” he said in his Rioplatense-accented English. “But the technology does not work.”
Continue reading...⚽️ Infantino tells fans to ‘chill’ in response to Fifa’s critics
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BTL chat is thus far dominated by Gianni Infantino’s ritual pre-tournament torching of his own dignity. SonOfThe Desert offers this:
“Infantino is just absolutely wretched, isn’t he? An absolute nothing of a man, sucking up to tyrants because he thinks it makes him look strong.
”But you know what’s really annoying me? All those heads of national associations who could have unified around a candidate - anyone - to oppose Infantino and try and rescue Fifa from humiliation. Couldn’t be bothered though, could they? Might’ve had to do some actual work that way.
New York has honored two footballing greats by temporarily renaming streets after Thierry Henry and Pelé ahead of the World Cup kickoff …
Crowds gathered at West 50th Street and 6th Avenue in downtown Manhattan to mark the unveiling of “Thierry Henry Way” by city officials, according to FOX Sports.
Continue reading...Police released photos of person of interest in Tuesday’s cross burning, often linked to white supremacy and racism
Chicago authorities are searching for a suspect after a cross was burned in Grant Park earlier this week.
At about 2.30pm on Tuesday, Chicago’s fire department responded to reports of a cross set ablaze in the park. No injuries were reported and firefighters quickly extinguished the flames.
Continue reading...A joint congressional report describes a spam operation that turned tens of thousands of fake podcasts into search-engine bait for illegal pharmacy and scam sites.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty told staff that Xbox's current economics "cannot continue," citing more than $20 billion in spending over five years, declining revenue outside Activision Blizzard King, console supply constraints tied to RAMaggedon, and an overextended studio portfolio. The memo stops short of announcing layoffs, but a Bloomberg report says substantial Xbox cuts are expected after Microsoft's fiscal year ends on June 30. Engadget reports: The takeaways are pretty grim. For starters, the simple math of Xbox's revenue isn't adding up to success. "Excluding Activision Blizzard King, over the past five years, we have spent over $20 billion on ongoing investments in our content, platform, and hardware subsidy, but our annual revenue has declined nearly half a billion during that time," the execs state. "Going forward, this cannot continue." They also acknowledge the impact of RAMaggedon: "We are currently unable to make as many consoles as players want to buy, and we need a new business model and partnerships for hardware as we remain committed to Helix." (Helix, in this case, is Project Helix, the codename for Xbox's new console.) Then there's the kicker, a renewed admission that Xbox still can't support the many studios it acquired in the late 2010s in an effort to grow its first-party game ambitions. "We have found ourselves over extended as we executed on changing strategies in a landscape of more readily available content," the pair said, noting elsewhere that with so many good games, not to mention the plethora of other forms of entertainment available, "Going forward, our competition is attention."
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