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Idris Elba, Newly Knighted, Closes the Book on Bond - and Says Global Markets Would Never Accept a Black 007

LONDON, June 9 -- The timing was hard to miss. Days after Idris Elba was knighted at Windsor Castle, the 53-year-old actor sat for British GQ and settled, with unusual finality, the question that has ... Read More


UK Watchdog Opens Formal Probe Into Paramount's $110 Billion Warner Takeover, Sets August 7 Deadline

That deadline, June 9 -- The question was never whether Britain's competition authority would look at the deal. The question was how hard. On Tuesday, the Competition and Markets Authority moved past ... Read More


Trump Sends the Senate the Lawyer Who Defended Him, Nominating Blanche to Run the Justice Department

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The lawyer who sat beside Donald Trump at the defense table through his hush-money trial, and who fought the two federal cases against him, is now the president's choice to run t... Read More


Kremlin Still Waiting to Be Briefed on Witkoff and Kushner's 'Very Positive' Call With Zelensky

MOSCOW, June 9 -- The conversation happened on Sunday. By Tuesday morning, Moscow still did not know what was said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on June 9 that the United States had not ... Read More


Apple's Siri Finally Arrived. The Market It Was Built For Has Already Left.

CUPERTINO, June 9 -- Craig Federighi did not mean it as a concession. But when Apple's senior vice president of software engineering told reporters Monday that agentic AI involving "long-horizon tasks... Read More


Trump Holds the Blockade, Not the Bombs - and That Is the Real Leverage in the Iran Deal

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The explosions in Haifa and the petrochemical fires along the Iranian coast have commanded most of the attention. What has not is the thing Donald Trump keeps returning to, with ... Read More


Inside Trump's California Playbook: A Federal Prosecutor, No Allegations, and a Midterm Strategy Taking Shape

That visit, June 9 -- The attorney stood at the edge of the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on Friday morning, was shown the counting operation, and left. No search warrant. No subpoena. N... Read More


White House Presses Britain to Drop Its Plan to Ban Social Media for Under-16s

LONDON, June 9 -- The message from Washington to Britain this week was, in effect, that the country should think twice before deciding its own children spend too much time on American apps. It arrived... Read More


The 2026 Basketball Hall of Fame Class Is a Monument to the Revolution Mike D'Antoni Started

SPRINGFIELD, June 9 -- The question that hung over the announcement was not who had made it. The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame's Class of 2026 - Amar'e Stoudemire, Doc Rivers, Candace Parker, Mike ... Read More


Topuria Vows to Put Gaethje 'to Sleep' After Divorce Jab Ignites UFC White House Feud

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The White House lawn fight was always going to be something. Now, five days out, it has turned into something else entirely. Ilia Topuria spent the better part of his fight-week... Read More