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Serena Williams Will Play Singles at Wimbledon Again. The Grass Will Decide the Rest.

New Delhi, June 26 -- LONDON - The decision that matters most at Wimbledon this year was made weeks before a ball is struck, in the quiet bureaucratic act of Serena Williams putting her name back into... Read More


WHO SAFER Alcohol Report: 2.6 Million Dead Annually as Global Drink Prices Drop

The report, June 26 -- Every day, roughly 7,000 people around the world die from alcohol. Not from addiction as an abstraction, but from liver disease advancing silently over years, from road crashes ... Read More


Neon Sets November for Paper Tiger as James Gray's Cannes Hit Heads to Awards Season

New Delhi, June 26 -- Neon has committed its entire awards season to Cannes. The distributor announced Thursday that James Gray's Paper Tiger will open in select theaters November 13, expanding wide N... Read More


Jackass: Best and Last Opens With Franchise-Record 93% on Rotten Tomatoes

Jackass, June 26 -- At some point in the editing of Jackass: Best and Last, Johnny Knoxville got emotional. Not in the manner one might expect from a man who has been bitten by a full-sized alligator,... Read More


H5N1 Bird Flu Reaches South Australia, Completing the Virus's Global Sweep

CANBERRA, June 26 -- When a sick giant petrel was brought to a wildlife rescue group on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula on June 14, the bird was just another distressed seabird in need of care. T... Read More


Mathew Bowyer, Bookie Who Bankrolled Ohtani's Interpreter, Leaves Prison

New Delhi, June 26 -- LOS ANGELES - The lifestyle funded by illegal sports wagers included butlers, private jets, and Rolls-Royces. Federal prison, Mathew Bowyer told KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los An... Read More


Supreme Court Sides With Bayer in Roundup Cancer Ruling, Wiping Out Thousands of Lawsuits

New Delhi, June 26 -- WASHINGTON - For two decades, John Durnell kept weeds out of his Missouri garden with Roundup. By 2019, he had non-Hodgkin lymphoma. A jury gave him $1.25 million and found that ... Read More


Sweepstakes Casinos Desert Indiana and Iowa as July 1 Bans Close In

The departures, June 26 -- For players who spent months accumulating virtual currency balances on platforms like McLuck, Hello Millions, or High 5 Casino, the notices that arrived this week carried th... Read More


Alex Cooper Responds to Unwell Toxic Workplace Claims at Cannes Lions

CANNES, June 26 -- The version of Alex Cooper that Vanity Fair's forty-plus sources described was not the person who arrived at the Cannes Lions festival Thursday. That version berated staff until the... Read More


Larry David's HBO History Comedy Gets Mixed Reviews on Opening Night

LOS ANGELES, June 26 -- The most improbable pairing in the summer television calendar arrives on HBO tonight: Larry David, who spent twenty-four years being socially disastrous in contemporary Los Ang... Read More