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Walmart and Sam's Club to Accept Apple Pay and Tap-to-Pay Contactless Payments by End of 2026

BENTONVILLE, Aug. 22 -- For more than a decade, the checkout line at Walmart was one of the few places in the United States where your phone's built-in wallet was useless. That changes next week. Sta... Read More


GTA 6 Leak: Take-Two Subpoenas Discord and Microsoft to Identify GTA VI Leaker

NEW YORK, Aug. 22 -- Whoever leaked two GTA 6 gameplay clips and a world map to the internet last week may have felt the relative safety of an anonymous username. That assumption is now the subject of... Read More


Why the Free Plan at Mailrelay Is a Smart Place to Start With Professional Email Marketing

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Introduction Professional email marketing ought to assist a business in expanding before it begins exerting a strain on the budget. However, most of the free tools are limited o... Read More


Somalia Piracy: Iran-Linked Tanker Sibu 1 Seized as Gulf of Aden Attacks Hit 13 in 2026

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Six men climbed aboard a tanker in the Gulf of Aden last Thursday. The Sibu 1, an Eritrea-flagged oil vessel already under United States sanctions for ferrying Iranian petroleum ... Read More


Trump Tariffs Add $147 to Back-to-School Supply Costs as Families Hit Peak Shopping Season

The figure, Aug. 22 -- The spiral notebook that a parent in Ohio needed for her daughter's seventh grade cost $4.79 at Target this month. She didn't notice the small text on the import label. But some... Read More


Meta Children's Privacy Trial: States Demand Infinite Scroll Ban as $200 Billion Case Enters Week Two

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- The eight jurors seated in Oakland's federal courthouse this week are not being asked to decide whether teenagers have been harmed by Instagram and Facebook. That question was la... Read More


Iran Says Its Doctrine Is Now Offensive. Its One Example Came Five Months Into the War.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 -- The Islamic Republic's army has a spokesman who gives interviews to the state news agency about once a week, and on Saturday Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia used one of them to... Read More


A Drone Hit a Turkish-Run Ship in the Black Sea. Nobody Has Claimed It.

ISTANBUL, Aug. 22 -- Eleven men got off the RMS TEAM. The twelfth did not, and by Saturday nobody had found him. The fire started in the accommodation block and the engine room, according to the noti... Read More


Iran War: Pezeshkian Calls for Peace 'From Position of Strength' as Bessent Plans Biggest Sanctions Wave

Those two framings, Aug. 22 -- Donald Trump declared this week that the Strait of Hormuz was "American territory right now." Iran's president answered on Friday by offering to end the six-month-old wa... Read More


Russia Protests Document Checks at Its Riga Embassy. Latvia Copied Them From Moscow.

RIGA, Aug. 22 -- The Russian embassy in Riga stands at number two, Ukrainian Independence Street. Riga city council renamed that stretch of Antonijas iela in March 2022, and the mission spent eight mo... Read More