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Victor Willis, Village People Lead Singer Who Co-Wrote 'Y.M.C.A.,' Dies at 74

LOS ANGELES, July 2 -- There is a hand gesture known in virtually every country on the planet, taught by a song that lasted five decades, written by a man most people could not have named. Victor Will... Read More


Iran Claims Hormuz Command as Europe's Naval Mission Quietly Collapses

On the same day, July 2 -- "We will not leave our two ships stationed in Djibouti until autumn, simply hoping that something might eventually happen." It would be better, he said, for German soldiers ... Read More


Washington Called Anthropic's Fable 5 a Security Threat. The Only Expert Who Read the Research Disagrees.

On July 1, July 2 -- For 20 days, the most capable AI model Anthropic had ever released was unavailable to most of the world, pulled from servers by a directive from the U.S. Commerce Department over ... Read More


FDA Scientists Warn Against Peptides Kennedy Backs as He Reshapes the Advisory Panel

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- BPC-157, a peptide sold online as a cure for tendon injuries and inflammatory bowel conditions, has never been tested in a rigorous human clinical trial. Health Secretary Robert ... Read More


Serena Williams Falls to Maya Joint at Wimbledon 2026 as Knee Injury Threatens Doubles Run

New Delhi, July 2 -- LONDON - The moment arrived, improbably, at 6-all in the second-set tiebreak. Serena Williams, forty-four years old and four years removed from competitive tennis, serving to sta... Read More


Nara Smith Reveals Daughter Whimsy Lou's Cancer Diagnosis: 'My Heart Dropped'

LOS ANGELES, July 2 -- It was the kind of quiet that stops a room. Lucky Blue Smith went silent when the doctors delivered the news, and Nara Smith knew before the words landed that something had shif... Read More


China Hits Canadian Pea Starch With 73.5% Deposit as Bilateral Trade Thaw Ends

BEIJING, July 2 -- Canada's pea starch exporters started July facing a 73.5 percent cash deposit on every shipment into China, their largest Asian buyer, after Beijing's Ministry of Commerce issued a ... Read More


The Company That Bought AOL and Vimeo Is Now Public - at an $18 Billion Valuation

New Delhi, July 2 -- Vimeo built a video platform over two decades with engineers, product designers, and a team that understood what filmmakers needed. When Bending Spoons acquired the company in Sep... Read More


National Grid Is Spending $1.75 Billion to Power Microsoft's AI - by Bypassing the Grid

The investment, July 2 -- The company that operates Britain's high-voltage transmission lines announced Tuesday it would invest $1.75 billion into a Houston startup building a gas-fired power plant in... Read More


Founder says IIT Bombay gave him more than a degree: 'No algorithm can replicate'

India, July 2 -- Is a degree from an elite institution like IIT Bombay actually worth it, especially in the day and age of AI? This is the question that Shikhar Agrawal, co-founder and CEO of Anahad, ... Read More