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Parades in NYC and San Francisco wrap up LGBTQ+ Pride Month

Pride Month celebrations peaked with big parades in New York, San Francisco and some other cities on Sunday.

Texas Board of Education approves required reading list with Bible passages for 5 million students

Texas Board of Education voted 9-5 to approve a required reading list including Bible passages for the state's over 5 million public school students.

Former NBA players Malik Beasley, Ed Davis are latest to be charged in gambling scandal

Former NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis have been indicted in the latest round of charges in the government’s gambling investigation.

Parades in NYC and San Francisco wrap up LGBTQ+ Pride Month

Pride Month celebrations peaked with big parades in New York, San Francisco and some other cities on Sunday.

Texas Board of Education approves required reading list with Bible passages for 5 million students

Texas Board of Education voted 9-5 to approve a required reading list including Bible passages for the state's over 5 million public school students.

Former NBA players Malik Beasley, Ed Davis are latest to be charged in gambling scandal

Former NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis have been indicted in the latest round of charges in the government’s gambling investigation.

Parades in NYC and San Francisco wrap up LGBTQ+ Pride Month

Pride Month celebrations peaked with big parades in New York, San Francisco and some other cities on Sunday.

Around the world

Pakistani airstrikes kill 36 civilians in Afghanistan and wound 160, officials say

Officials in Afghanistan say overnight strikes by Pakistani forces have killed at least 36 civilians and injured more than 160.

Woman stalked by charging bear on morning dog walk captures terrifying encounter on camera

Tense video shows a woman stalked by a large bear while walking her dog in a wooded area in Canada, charging and circling her for nearly two minutes.

Rubio announces framework deal between Israel and Lebanon as experts warn Iran will fight to sabotage it

Secretary of State Rubio and PM Netanyahu welcome U.S.-brokered framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon as a step toward lasting peace.

American rescue teams pull infant alive from rubble in Venezuela days after devastating twin earthquakes

Video shows U.S. search-and-rescue teams pulling an infant alive from rubble in Venezuela more than 72 hours after devastating twin earthquakes.

Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks

Iran has again launched drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait in response to new U.S. airstrikes.

Families watch in horror as skydiving plane crashes in France, killing all 11 aboard

A skydiving plane crashed shortly after takeoff in northeastern France, killing all 11 aboard. Investigators are working to determine the cause.

Iran targets US with psychological warfare campaign to manipulate Americans, embarrass Trump: experts

Iran's decapitated leadership has moved its influence operations to X, using covert digital proxies to undermine Trump's nuclear deal, analysts say.

Technology

How to watch Panama vs England: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time for FIFA World Cup 2026 as Three Lions hunt top spot in Group L

Here's how to watch Panama vs England for free online and from anywhere as the Three Lions aim to top Group L at the FIFA World Cup 2026.

Watch out

Researchers uncovered a fake tax notice campaign that delivered remote-access malware via staged downloads and encrypted communications.

Building a state-of-the-art development platform with Backstage

Key takeaways Backstage solved the portal problem, not the platform problem. A portal organizes catalogs, documentation, and templates. A platform owns deployments, environments, policies, and runtime operations. Backstage assumes that the execution layer exists beneath it.

AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll

Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers’ AI token usage as they do for their salaries. According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer’s monthly salary within the next two years.

FBI warns Microsoft users about passwordless scam

The FBI warns about Kali365, a phishing scam targeting Microsoft 365 accounts that can bypass multifactor authentication using device code tricks.

Upscale AI readies Skyhammer scale-up networking tech, raises new funding

AI continues to fuel demand for new networking technology and the vendors that build it. Upscale AI, which emerged from stealth in September 2025 with a $100 million seed round, has raised an additional $190 million in a Series A-1 extension.

How fuzzy APIs are remaking the web

For nearly as long as the web has existed, web development has wrestled mightily with the right way to connect components over the network. This is the question of the remote API. It influences every aspect of the software we build. We sort of arrived at a tolerable compromise with JSON APIs.

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Trump cancels plans to sign housing bill, in latest sign of tension with his party

The decision to cancel a signing ceremony for the bipartisan housing bill comes at a moment when Trump and some Republicans are split over what GOP priorities should be ahead of the midterm elections.

Senate approves war powers resolution rebuking Trump over Iran conflict

The Senate for the first time has approved a war powers resolution to block U.S. military action against Iran. Tuesday's vote comes as lawmakers warily watch President Donald Trump’s efforts to resolve the conflict.

Americans' pride in U.S. history and democracy drops, and fewer are proud to be American, polls find

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans have grown less proud of the country’s history or the way its democracy works over the past several years. That includes Americans' pride in the nation’s military and its political influence around the globe.

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push to toss $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case

The Supreme Court is rejecting a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused writer E.

Biden's illegal immigration surge caused higher rent and home prices, Fed study finds

A Federal Reserve working paper finds unauthorized immigration during the Biden administration drove up home prices by 2.2% and rents by 1.4%.

Walz lodges records demands with Trump administration

A records battle between President Donald Trump’s administration and Gov. Tim Walz took a fresh turn when Minnesota’s leader pushed for documents he argues would prove he was targeted for political retribution.

Minneapolis City Council votes to repeal bathhouse ban

Bathhouses were banned in the city in 1988 during the AIDS epidemic. The Minneapolis City Council voted on Thursday to repeal the ban. It now heads to Mayor Jacob Frey.