“The World Cup is ruining my life,” a neighbour precocious said pinch a laugh. “I’m expected to beryllium working; alternatively I’m watching World Cup. I’m expected to beryllium doing chores; alternatively I americium watching World Cup.”

I laughed successful blameworthy recognition. We had met connected the thoroughfare by chance while I was stepping the dog. Having conscionable spent the past 2 hours watching, past celebrating Lionel Messi’s chapeau trick during Argentina’s first-game triumph complete Algeria, I had little than an hr to get backmost successful clip to watch Austria play Jordan.

That was connected Day 6, and it’s only gotten worse. If I had to cipher my ain ratio of activity done to shot watched ... well, arsenic I americium not a sports reporter, I don’t deliberation my editor would beryllium thrilled. (Though I’m judge she appreciated the England/Congo updates I provided arsenic I vanished this piece.)

Like millions worldwide, my family and I person been deeply, and successful our case, weirdly, engrossed successful this year’s games. “Weirdly” because we do not travel men’s soccer. The World Cup is different, of people — going in, I figured I would cheque retired the U.S., support an oculus connected Messi, past tune into the last fewer games. Perhaps my hubby would subordinate (but only if he astatine slightest pretended to understand the offside rule), but pinch our 2 oldest children retired of the house, it is, pinch the objection of the Super Bowl, unheard of for our family to concurrently position immoderate sporting arena successful existent time.

Until this World Cup. I’m not rather judge really it happened, but abruptly we’ve sewage crippled times written onto our calendar. Entire days person been spent successful beforehand of the TV pinch astatine slightest 1 kid and the others watching from their homes, our family texts studded pinch “are you watching…?,” “did you conscionable spot that?” and, of course, “OMG MESSI!”

(I would effort to cipher my caller ratio of chores done to Messi videos watched if I weren’t legitimately concerned that my family would person maine committed.)

The truth that my boy and his woman unrecorded successful Kansas City certainly helped spark our newfound fascination. Yes, Los Angeles is besides a big city, but L.A. hosts truthful galore things; inevitably we were mostly concerned about what it would do to the traffic. KC, connected the different hand, is the smallest and about improbable of the big cities, and complete the past fewer years we person seen — connected visits and done my son’s accounts — each the construction, effort and can-do tone that has gone into preparing for the event.

We were thrilled erstwhile it was announced that Argentina, England, the Netherlands and Algeria would beryllium based successful aliases adjacent KC. We wanted the metropolis to shine, and it has — from adjacent Lawrence’s enthusiastic take of Algeria to Messi’s historical chapeau instrumentality astatine Kansas City Stadium.

Team USA defender Mark McKenzie, left, and Turkey midfielder Baris Alper Yilmaz successful the World Cup lucifer astatine Los Angeles Stadium connected June 25.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

But it’s much than vicarious Midwestern pride. When our older girl began texting retired missives from the earliest games and our boy sent pictures of fans streaming into Kansas City Stadium, we started watching arsenic a measurement to enactment connected.

First, arsenic a family, and past to our state and the remainder of world.

The games person been inevitably exciting, particularly arsenic now that they’re successful the knockout round, but the wide sensation was unexpected relief, a soul-soothing balm.

At a clip erstwhile the news rhythm seems to service up thing but conflict, situation and woe, the World Cup offers shelter, a genuinely world arena successful which conflict is defined by semipermanent sports rivalries and questionable referee decisions.

We want our nationalist aliases preferred teams to win, of course, but nary matter the outcome, it’s intolerable not to beryllium thrilled by the show of phenomenal play, underdog tenacity and truthful galore adoring and enthusiastic fans.

Soccer is called the beautiful crippled for galore reasons, and hours/days/weeks of sustained beauty is intolerable to resist. Even societal media has surrendered to spectacular highlights on pinch tales of Japan supporters cleaning up stadiums, fans of the victorious consoling fans of the defeated and Europeans discovering the glories of free refills and ranch dressing.

None of this changes the realities we look successful America and the remainder of the world. Grocery and state prices stay catastrophically high; Iran continues to contradict U.S. claims of negotiated solution to an unpopular war. The unnecessarily revamped reflecting excavation successful Washington remains a swamp of algae and tourist arrests, arsenic the semiquincentennial struggles nether the weight of our president’s self-centered hubris.

But for a fewer blessed weeks, the World Cup offers inspiration, flight and taste healing.

It has also, frankincense far, escaped President Trump’s truthful often internationally insulting social-media announcement and much importantly, his presence. Historically, the leaders of big countries be the opening match; Trump has, apparently, been excessively engaged (including readying and attending the UFC Freedom 250 cage lucifer precocious held connected the South Lawn.)

Given his inclination to suck the oxygen retired of immoderate room (like his caller reception astatine Game 3 of the NBA Finals successful New York), it’s decidedly for the best. If thing else, the World Cup has fixed america a chance to return a break from authorities and talk alternatively about Messi, France’s Kylian Mbappé, England’s Harry Kane and each the astonishing goalkeepers, including Cape Verde’s now-iconic Vozinha.

Never earlier person I truthful understood the therapeutic powerfulness of sport.

Who wouldn’t want to astatine slightest return a break from rising bales cases, the latest national aliases Supreme Court decisions and superior tea-leaf readings to suffer themselves successful a crippled wherever exquisitely diligent passing abruptly bursts into spectacular feats of velocity and footwork? Where a well-defended shot could abruptly go a extremity pinch a about undetectable flick of a foot, aliases a perfectly placed changeable blocked by a goalie’s unthinkable expertise to motorboat into space? Where an result that seems assured could beryllium overturned successful the last minutes to the corporate roar of an world formed of thousands?

Vozinha of Cape Verde makes a prevention during the World Cup lucifer betwixt Spain and Cape Verde astatine Atlanta Stadium connected June 15.

(Justin Setterfield / Getty Images)

Like galore Americans, I person been occasionally embarrassed by the World Cup’s vulnerability of my world-geography ignorance — I cognize wherever Bosnia and Herzegovina lies connected a map, but until recently, I couldn’t spot Cape Verde, Curacao or, if I’m being wholly honest, Cote d’Ivoire.

Isn’t it wonderful, though, to person a logic to reacquaint yourself pinch a world representation that isn’t related to war, earthy aliases man-made disaster aliases economical and governmental tension? The existent U.S. management whitethorn look to beryllium astatine likelihood pinch conscionable about everyone, but visiting World Cup fans are present to punctual america of each we share, beneath our crazy wigs and look paint, our cheers, groans and chants.

And we, arsenic hosts, person shown them that America is truthful overmuch much than the sum of our existent government’s policies and posturing.

Watching each this happen, successful existent time, has been magical, miraculous and magnetic.

Not each moment, of course. Various visa issues created unnecessary and embarrassing drama; precocious summons prices and proscription issues were blamed for quiet seats astatine immoderate of the early games. Members of the Iranian squad and its coaching unit criticized the measurement they were treated (though the squad near a handwritten statement successful the dressing room of Los Angeles Stadium, thanking L.A. for its hospitality). The arguable hydration breaks, and the other commercials they accommodate, could beryllium irritating (though erstwhile it’s adjacent to 100 degrees successful galore stadiums, rather necessary). And though it didn’t matter successful position of standing, watching the U.S. suffer to Turkey wasn’t overmuch nosy for American fans (though the Turkish exuberance was beautiful infectious).

Overall, the 2026 World Cup has done precisely what it was expected to do: create, successful this country, a shape for the finest teams and players successful the world’s about celebrated athletics and, much important, carve retired 5 weeks successful which we could each walk a fewer hours removed from the governmental and taste divisiveness that threatens to specify us.

It’s abstraction successful which we could cheer, gasp and leap retired of seats on pinch our families, friends and each the millions we will ne'er meet but to whom we are connected each the same.

Now if you’ll excuse me, the adjacent crippled is about to start.

“Since we had a shelter that closed successful May of past year, 2025, the number of bum group sheltering successful parks has increased, mostly successful forested areas,” acting Mayor George Doubt told BERITAJA.

“We person a caller building called the Driftwood Shelter that houses 40, but it’s not large capable to location everybody that’s surviving unsmooth correct now.”

LIFT ran the shelter that closed successful May 2025, but they mislaid the lease connected their spot and had to adjacent down, Doubt explained.

“So from May 2025 until they opened the Driftwood Shelter, location was really nary shelter successful Powell River.”

The Driftwood Shelter opened successful precocious April this year.

Pat Martin organized a gathering of residents up of the assembly gathering truthful group could person their say.

“I want to person a safe organization and we do not person a safe organization anymore. We utilized to person a safe community. I was calved and raised present successful Powell River. I went away, I did a batch of activity successful third-world countries. I’ve travel back, I’ve made this my location and I person a batch of compassion for people, but what’s happening is not working,” she said.

Martin said the metropolis assembly needs to put much thought into the scheme for the unhoused successful the community.

Mark Scott pinch the Westview Ratepayers Association, which advocates for section residents, said astatine the rally connected Tuesday.

“We judge location is simply a amended way,” he said.

“And the amended measurement is proceeding from you and moving together connected solutions. We don’t person each the answers, but we’re very assured that we’ve sewage a amended measurement that’ll move america guardant pinch your sound — not successful isolation, not 7 guys connected assembly making a decision, but each of our community.”

Scott said they sent a letter to the acting politician and assembly a fewer weeks agone outlining what he said is simply a scheme to reside homelessness successful the community.

Resident Nichole Strickland said astatine the assembly meeting, saying she, for illustration galore residents, feels disappointment that their voices are not being heard.

“This is not about deficiency of compassion; I deliberation each personification deserves dignity, support and a organization to rebuild their life, but compassion besides intends creating solutions that really thief people, not simply relocating a analyzable rumor into 1 of our metropolis parks,” she said.

An unhoused person, identified only arsenic Robert, said astatine the meeting, saying group are not looking for a handout, but a manus up.

“A batch of america effort to conscionable make it done the time and do the champion we could and effort to unrecorded a amended life,” he said.

“We struggle, we person our issues, we understand that, but we don’t want to harm people, we don’t want to wounded children, thing for illustration that.”

Ultimately, nary 1 was successful favour of changing the bylaw, pinch Doubt saying he thinks they request to region and rethink really they move guardant pinch this plan.

He said everyone successful the community, including those surviving successful the forested areas and parks, should beryllium progressive successful formulating a plan.

Coun. Jim Palm said this is not an easy taxable to talk about.

“It conscionable puts you successful different abstraction arsenic to what’s going connected retired location because I walked the encampments this greeting and saw first manus — actually, that’s the first clip I’ve done it; I should person been location erstwhile — but what I saw was surely not healthy,” he said.

Palm said that what he saw was unsanitary and that he did not consciousness safe stepping the trails.

“There are two-storey structures pinch windows; it’s conscionable mind-boggling what’s retired there,” he added.

Coun. Trina Isakson agreed that the rumor is simply a analyzable one.

“There’s concerns about supporting the dignity of group surviving successful encampments,” she said.

In July, 290,000 passengers are expected to deed the streets of Vancouver, pinch akin numbers expected successful August.

“Each cruise vessel telephone to the larboard of Vancouver injects about $3 cardinal into our section economy, truthful erstwhile you’re looking astatine that comprehensively, it’s about a $1 cardinal economical effect to conscionable our section system present successful Vancouver,” Chance McKee pinch the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority said.

The Alaska cruise marketplace is increasing successful fame and is simply a celebrated homeport.

At the Port of Vancouver, ships could refuel, restock and behaviour attraction work.

For passengers, it’s a premier location.

“Everything is downtown; it’s truthful awesome to conscionable beryllium capable to measurement disconnected the vessel and bask the beautiful city,” Theresa Bower, a Holland America passenger, said.

“It’s truthful cleanable and everybody is truthful friendly, the nutrient is truthful bully — I mean, what’s not to like?”

The mean rider spends much than $1,100 connected hotels, restaurants, shops and section attractions.

Neighbouring Gastown is 1 of the about celebrated places to visit.

Owner of Cappelleria Bertacchi, Adi Bertacchi, said business could jump 60 per cent erstwhile a cruise vessel is successful town.

“The bully point is that this model is increasing, not conscionable successful numbers but successful time,” he said.

“I retrieve astatine the opening erstwhile we opened present much than 10 years ago, it was May to September.”

Strong cruise volumes and ongoing FIFA World Cup 2026 festivities mean those readying to sojourn downtown Vancouver and Canada Place should scheme for accrued crowds and traffic, according to the Port of Vancouver.

AOL is public again — benignant of. Its proprietor Bending Spoons, the 13-year-old Italian institution that has been quietly acquiring beloved but ailing Internet brands for the past decade, went nationalist connected the Nasdaq today, opening astatine an complete $18 ​billion valuation, pinch the banal past popping 40% by marketplace close.

Headquartered successful Milan, Bending Spoons applied immoderate of the backstage equity playbook to a agelong bid of acquisitions — Meetup, Eventbrite, Vimeo, WeTransfer, and galore others. But it is not a flip-and-sell scheme: it wants to toggle shape these companies pinch tech and past clasp onto them.

“We want to spot ourselves arsenic an usability that takes beloved brands and makes them overmuch better,” its cofounder and main merchandise officer, Matteo Danieli, told TechCrunch.

The ‘how’ has generated contention complete the years, especially about layoffs. But the institution besides drove gross growth, moreover much truthful pinch AI. “In the past twelvemonth and a half, we’ve witnessed an unthinkable acceleration successful the gait astatine which we were capable to vessel caller features and create worth for users,” Danieli told TechCrunch. 

That whitethorn beryllium the correct point to opportunity erstwhile investors, nationalist and private, person overmuch much appetite for AI than for aging SaaS businesses. But Bending Spoons has a case: its F-1, the balanced of S-1 forms for overseas companies, includes a section called ‘AI earlier it was cool’ — a motion to its roots.

Before Bending Spoons, location was Evertale, “a merchandise that would automatically create a diary of your life by leveraging what you would telephone AI today, and that we called instrumentality learning then,” Danieli said. That startup failed, but it taught lessons to the cofounders and squad members who now lead Bending Spoons — Luca Ferrari, Francesco Patarnello, Luca Querella, and Danieli himself. 

“It sparked a reflection about the truth that you don’t ever find cleanable relationship betwixt really talented entrepreneurs are and the occurrence they have, particularly from zero to one. Luck is simply a very large constituent of that equation. So we developed an obsession for uncovering a strategy that would, arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, trim the domiciled that luck plays successful maturation and success,” Danieli said.

The institution besides mentioned this accuracy successful its F-1 pinch specified lines as, “Luck plays a large domiciled successful uncovering product-market fit,” and “luck is irrelevant erstwhile pursuing operational excellence.”

Those mantras show up successful areas for illustration pricing its products. “We effort to leverage the blase information tracking, analytics infrastructure and experimentation toolkit that we’ve developed.” 

According to Danieli, this sometimes leads the institution to merchandise much features for free to thrust connection of mouth. But it has besides led to value increases that sparked complaints from semipermanent subscribers. Despite this, however, he says customer retention has been “remarkably stable.”

One acquisition was peculiarly scrutinized. “Evernote whitethorn beryllium the first merchandise we acquired that was genuinely loved by users, truthful we had very strict judges.” That’s the 1 he’s about proud of — including its AI-heavy v11 update. He said the institution yet won complete users pinch its changes that were praised by galore subscribers, including Evernote cofounder Phil Libin.

Bending Spoons itself started getting much support complete the years. Valued astatine $11 billion successful a backstage equity information earlier its IPO, it had some VC firms and VIPs connected its headdress table, including large names from tech and entertainment. In its earlier years, however, VCs struggled to understand its approach. “We’ve sewage a batch of ‘you’re crazy’ reactions passim the years,” Danieli recalled. 

That’s besides captured by the company’s tagline, “Impossible. Maybe.”

Focusing connected talent was besides 1 of the lessons that Bending Spoons’ founders learned from their Evertale days, and hiring became a focus. The co-founder Ferrari “invested the champion portion of the first 2 aliases 3 years moving connected civilization and hiring processes. We judge we now excel astatine spotting talent, particularly erstwhile young and erstwhile they don’t person a awesome way grounds yet.”

The numbers look to agree. According to its SEC filing, “in portion helped by advancement successful AI, gross per full-time balanced Spooner accrued from $1.12 cardinal successful 2023 to $2.57 cardinal successful 2025, and was $0.97 cardinal successful Q1 2026.”

This besides explains why Bending Spoons took the different determination of bringing the full institution to New York to observe its listing. “It’s 1 much instrumentality for america to entree the liquidity that we request to substance our acquisitive strategy, but we besides thought that for 1 time it would beryllium the correct point to return it each successful and bask the infinitesimal pinch each our colleagues,” Danieli said. 

That’s conscionable 1 day, though. After that, Bending Spoons will spell backmost to buying companies — and return advantage of slashed SaaS valuations it has itself managed to escape, according to Danieli. “From a buyer’s position and arsenic a institution that grows done acquisitions, that’s really a awesome opportunity and infinitesimal to deploy capital.”

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Former NBA subordinate Malik Beasley pleaded not blameworthy Wednesday to criminal charges stemming from an alleged sports betting strategy successful which prosecutors opportunity he manipulated his on-court quality to use bettors.

Beasley, 29, who wore a navy suit during the little arraignment successful Brooklyn, acknowledged that he publication the indictment and understood the criminal charges revenge against him.

He said very little, allowing his lawyer to participate a not blameworthy plea connected his behalf. A magistrate judge released Beasley connected a $100,000 bond, pinch his mother and begetter co-signing.

The erstwhile NBA subordinate is besides prohibited from gambling aliases contacting witnesses and co-defendants.

Federal prosecutors alleged that Beasley, while playing for the Milwaukee Bucks, agreed pinch different ex-NBA player, Ed Davis, successful 2024 to hole his capacity successful aggregate games truthful Davis and others could spot fraudulent wagers connected his performance.

In exchange, Beasley allegedly accepted bribes, which were utilized to salary disconnected debts that he owed Davis, according to the indictment. Federal prosecutors said that Davis gave Beasley respective loans aft he racked up millions successful gambling debt, contempt earning tens of millions of dollars during his nine-year NBA career.

Prosecutors elaborate astatine slightest 4 games wherever the defendants allegedly schemed to person Beasley manipulate individual crippled stats for the use of gamblers.

In 1 instance, Beasley allegedly told co-defendants to stake connected him securing less than 3.5 rebounds during the Bucks-Cleveland Cavaliers crippled connected Jan. 6, 2024. He pulled down 1 committee that night.

The forbidden gambling ringing placed wagers totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, including bets amounting to $75,000 pinch winnings of astatine slightest $121,000.

Six people, including Beasley and Davis, were charged successful the indictment pinch ligament fraud conspiracy, bribery successful sporting contests, honorable services ligament fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Weintraub, who appeared pinch Kaitlin Farrell connected behalf of the government, said Beasley has known about the national investigation for about a year.

Beasley’s attorney, Jason Goldman, told reporters that the erstwhile NBA subordinate looks guardant to fighting the charges.

“This is only the very opening of things. An apprehension intends nothing. An indictment intends nothing,” Goldman said.

He is owed backmost successful tribunal for a position convention successful August.

Beasley is the latest charged successful a increasing sports gambling investigation led by prosecutors successful the Eastern District of New York.

Last year, existent and erstwhile NBA players, on pinch a coach, were among about 3 twelve group indicted successful relationship pinch 2 awesome alleged operations past year. One lawsuit zeroed successful connected the rigging of poker games backed by the Mafia and the different connected the usage of nonpublic accusation to spot wagers connected aggregate NBA games.

Among the defendants successful the cases are erstwhile Miami Heat defender Terry Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers caput coach Chauncey Billups, and ex-NBA subordinate Damon Jones, arsenic good arsenic members and associates of 4 awesome Mafia crime families.

In April, Jones, 49, pleaded blameworthy to 2 counts of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud for his domiciled to defraud awesome sportsbooks, including DraftKings and FanDuel, and swindle millions of dollars from poker players.

Federal prosecutors said Jones is simply a co-conspirator successful the caller indictment involving Beasley and Davis, and his alleged engagement is apt to beryllium considered erstwhile he is sentenced.

WhatsApp this week started rolling retired username reservations up of the broader motorboat planned later this year. The characteristic — which lets group find and connection each different by grip alternatively of telephone number — is already raising impersonation concerns, drafting scrutiny from information experts and regulators successful India, the app’s largest market, pinch much than 500 cardinal users.

The rollout marks a displacement successful really group place 1 different connected WhatsApp. Instead of relying connected telephone numbers arsenic the superior identifier, users will progressively interact done platform-managed usernames, a alteration that Meta says improves privateness but that critics reason could create caller opportunities for impersonation.

In early testing, TechCrunch recovered usernames resembling salient politicians, celebrities, business figures, and nationalist institutions — including “indiamodi”, “shahrukh.actor”, “teamamitabh”, “ambanijio”, and “rbi_verify” — were still disposable to reserve. These reference Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s telecom institution Jio, and the Reserve Bank of India, respectively. Separately, Binance laminitis Changpeng Zhao said connected X that he couldn’t reserve “cz_binance,” the grip he already uses connected that platform.

Asked about really it protects against impersonation, Meta told TechCrunch it reserves usernames for nationalist figures, authorities entities, and “some variations” of those names truthful only the morganatic proprietor could declare them. The institution did not explain, however, really it decides which lookalike usernames get proactively reserved and which don’t.

The concerns person already reached regulators successful India, wherever cyber fraud schemes frequently utilization messaging platforms to impersonate police, banks, and authorities officials.

In a announcement sent to WhatsApp connected Wednesday and reviewed by TechCrunch, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) said the characteristic could “materially summation the incidence of online fraud, phishing, integer apprehension scams and impersonation attacks” by enabling bad actors to interaction users without exposing their telephone numbers.

The ministry besides warned that usernames could facilitate impersonation of “individuals, nationalist authorities, financial institutions, and authorities agencies” by allowing usernames intimately resembling those of genuine group aliases organizations. It directed WhatsApp to explicate why regulatory action should not beryllium initiated nether India’s IT laws and asked the institution not to rotation retired the characteristic until consultations were completed.

A elder authorities charismatic separately told TechCrunch that the Indian IT ministry is cognizant of the rumor and is engaging pinch WhatsApp complete the feature.

That involution has drawn its ain pushback from New Delhi-based integer authorities group Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), which said the announcement lacked a clear ineligible ground and risked giving the executive wide powers to dictate merchandise design. (It’s a dilemma that operators building successful regulated markets cognize well: rules made case-by-case, by letter, are harder to scheme about than rules made successful the open.)

“Impersonation and fraud are existent risks, but they are met by enforcing the criminal rule against those who perpetrate them,” the group said successful a statement. “They are not met by MeitY deciding, successful backstage and by letter, what features Indians whitethorn use.”

The statement echoes a similar observation the Delhi High Court made successful a lawsuit involving Telegram, wherever the tribunal said that utilizing usernames alternatively of telephone numbers could make it easier to conceal personification personality and dispersed illicit contented faster. That lawsuit wasn’t about WhatsApp, but the parallel has been resurfacing successful nationalist chat arsenic WhatsApp prepares its ain launch.

Privacy, trust, and level power

Rachel Tobac, main executive of SocialProof Security, called usernames a nett privateness summation because they trim the request to stock telephone numbers, which could expose users to SIM-swap attacks, phishing, and relationship takeovers. Still, she said, lookalike usernames still create opportunities for impersonation.

“Ultimately, usernames are a awesome thought to debar leaking your telephone number to folks you don’t know, but it’s important to verify personality pinch the username usability too,” Tobac told TechCrunch.

Her proposal for about users: prime a username that isn’t easy guessable, truthful it’s harder for attackers to find you, connection you cold, aliases harass and spam you.

Even WhatsApp acknowledges usernames won’t beryllium one-size-fits-all. In an FAQ posted connected X connected Wednesday, the institution said about users should take a username unsocial to WhatsApp. However, it besides lets users declare their existing Instagram aliases Facebook usernames by linking their accounts, saying the action is intended to thief creators, businesses, and organizations support a accordant personality crossed Meta’s platforms while reducing impersonation.

The Mozilla Foundation said the preamble of usernames is apt to bring caller tradeoffs. “Increased scams and impersonation from clone handles are perchance a large one,” it told TechCrunch. “Checking a telephone number could beryllium a useful verification tool, but these harms are besides permitted by the platform’s basal creation choices.”

Mozilla besides flagged a broader interoperability mobility — 1 worthy logging if you’re building connected apical of, aliases competing with, Meta’s ecosystem. While letting users declare their existing Facebook and Instagram usernames whitethorn trim down connected impersonation, it besides shows really easy Meta could stitch personality together crossed its ain apps, moreover arsenic users still can’t return that identity, aliases their contacts, to a rival platform.

For now, WhatsApp says it is taking a gradual attack to the rollout. “We’re taking our clip and listening to feedback truthful that erstwhile it rolls retired later this twelvemonth we get it right,” the institution said successful its FAQ.

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The Stampeders (1-2) are astatine location Thursday to the Toronto Argonauts (2-1) successful the Stampede Bowl, which was introduced past twelvemonth to link Calgary’s CFL crippled to the yearly Calgary Stampede that dates backmost complete 100 years and starts Friday.

A bespoke trophy resembling a horse’s caput goes to Thursday’s victor astatine McMahon Stadium. Calgary hit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for it successful 2025.

The 28-year-old McAllister has scored return touchdowns successful back-to-back games for the first clip successful his life astatine immoderate level of football.

His second, which was a 90-yard punt return successful the 4th fourth Saturday successful Kelowna, B.C., was pivotal successful a 41-33 triumph complete the B.C. Lions for Calgary’s first triumph this season.

McAllister’s first was a 120-yard runback aft a missed section extremity successful an overtime nonaccomplishment to the Saskatchewan Roughriders successful Week 3.

“No amended emotion than returning 1 against anybody and past looking backmost and your teammates are coming to observe pinch you and the different team’s not there,” McAllister said.

He’s backmost successful the CFL aft a play pinch the Hamilton Tiger-Cats successful 2023, erstwhile McAllister led the convention successful all-purpose yards and kickoff return average.

Calgary classed past successful full return yards past season. So the squad sought a master successful signing the five-foot-nine, 192-pound moving backmost from Dillon, S.C., who appeared successful a brace of pre-season and 3 regular-season games pinch the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders successful 2024.

McAllister was about precocious pinch the United Football League’s Columbus Aviators.

“I do deliberation his legs are back,” Stampeders caput coach and wide head Dave Dickenson said. “He hadn’t played a batch of football. He surely hadn’t been successful our convention for a while.

“Even successful the NFL and successful the UFL, he hadn’t played a ton of football, but he has arsenic advertised, successful my opinion, been excellent.

“Our convention has outstanding returners. We spell up against them each week, and we’ve sewage the aforesaid guy, the feline that could deed a crease and he’s gone.”

The Argonauts besides boast a return threat successful Janarion Grant, whose 68-yard punt return to people successful Friday’s 40-34 triumph complete the defending Grey Cup champion Roughriders successful Regina was his 14th return touchdown to rank 3rd successful CFL history.

McAllister, who has compiled a mixed 359 yards connected kickoff and punt returns pinch Calgary, says it took clip to return to a CFL authorities of mind.

“My first twelvemonth successful Hamilton, that was my first twelvemonth successful the CFL. I was learning there,” he recalled. “I didn’t afloat grasp the full crippled the full year, but I was comfortable capable to wherever I came backmost present and I was a small comfortable, but it’s still a process of getting backmost utilized to the game.

“I wouldn’t opportunity I was afloat comfortable, but I consciousness for illustration I’m getting successful the groove.”

McAllister besides pointed retired the upwind that buffeted McMahon successful the team’s first 2 location games, and changed the trajectory of kicked footballs, “was a small chaotic for me.”

Both the Stampeders and Argonauts are operating connected short weeks, pinch Calgary’s a time shorter, heading into Thursday’s tilt astatine McMahon.

“This is different reliable force connected the road,” Argonauts caput coach Mike Miller said. “Calgary took Saskatchewan to double overtime, sewage the triumph past week against B.C.

“Dave does a bully occupation pinch that team. (Co-ordinator) Bob Slowik defence, they’re a beingness group, they alert to the football. They’re surely very opportunistic connected offence also.

“They person a premier returner there, they’ve sewage beingness screen teams truthful we’ve sewage different awesome situation that we’re excited about, but it’s a situation nonetheless.”

Toronto will beryllium minus violative lineman Dakoda Shepley (back) connected Thursday. Calgary merchandise Peter Nicastro shifts from centre to correct defender pinch Domenico Piazza astatine starting centre.

Just complete a week aft he was signed by Calgary, Benny Sapp draws successful astatine halfback for Jaydon Grant (ankle).

“I consciousness for illustration I’m going to beryllium ready,” Sapp said. “I would emotion to person much movie time, but sometimes you’ve sewage to beryllium a pro.”

Calgary’s players collected straw cowboy hats from stacks adjacent their dressing room doorway aft Wednesday’s walkthrough, but protect backmost Godfrey Onyeka wore his chapeau during immoderate drills.

“This is my first clip throwing 1 on,” McAllister said. “I’m liking it truthful far.”

This study by BERITAJA was first published July 1, 2026.

— With files from Dan Ralph successful Toronto.

While the LGBTQ+ organization and friends celebrated June arsenic Pride period crossed overmuch of the country, 1 organization successful Central California was surviving successful a different reality.

Following a 3-2 ballot connected June 16 by its Board of Supervisors, Fresno County recognized June arsenic “Traditional Nuclear Family Month,” declaring that the atomic family portion is “God’s cleanable design” that aligns pinch Fresno’s “traditional” values.

But for group for illustration Supervisor Luis Chavez, who was elected to the committee successful November 2024 and said he is owed to return complete arsenic chair adjacent year, past month’s ballot was an anomaly that should not beryllium repeated, he said.

For Chavez, he said, the solution was personal. He and his family person opened up their location to foster children for the past 7 years.

“We’ve taken successful children that were not welcomed successful homes because they did place arsenic either lesbian, cheery and we really had a nonbinary kid that stayed pinch us, too, successful our home, and it bothered maine because this connection specifically excluded the astonishing foster parents that we person that conscionable happened to beryllium LGBTQ,” he said.

Chavez said he was the only Fresno County supervisor to be this year’s Fresno Pride Parade, a ceremony that brings 20,000 group to the city’s Tower District. For personification who had attended the festivity hardly a week prior, the solution projected by committee chair Garry Bredefeld was divisive, not unifying.

“Nobody is opposed to the quote unquote accepted family, I deliberation a batch of folks travel from that,” Chavez said. “The connection that was utilized was conscionable exclusionary and made it a constituent to marginalize and consciousness that we weren’t going to admit LGBTQ folks successful our community.”

Bredefeld introduced the solution aft the governors of Tennessee and Indiana signed proclamations declaring June “Nuclear Family Month” successful their respective states.

“I deliberation the LGBT activity is trying to unit their schedule connected different people, and this was a measurement of saying, ‘Hey, look, you could person your parade and your month, but we’re besides going to admit accepted families arsenic well,’” Bredefeld said.

When it came clip to ballot initially, not each of the supervisors wholly agreed. Supervisor Nathan Magsig moved to amend the solution to adhd connection recognizing azygous parents, grandparents and foster parents.

“I deliberation arsenic a community, we request to beryllium mindful of what things are about beneficial to our children and early generations, but recognizing astatine the aforesaid time, too, that things hap successful life,” Magsig said.

Magsig’s amendment was adopted. But erstwhile Chavez requested the inclusion of LGBTQ+ parents, he was denied — cementing his “no” ballot connected the resolution. The different opposing ballot came from Supervisor Brian Pacheco, who declined to comment.

In the end, the solution defined the accepted atomic family arsenic “one husband, 1 woman and immoderate biological, adopted, aliases fostered children” and said “single mothers and fathers, grandparents, foster parents, and those parents that person associated custody” are “critically important to raising patient children and are recognized for their sacrifice, difficult activity and devotion.”

Advocates opportunity that for the county’s LGBTQ+ residents, the ballot could beryllium seen arsenic different illustration of their marginalization.

“It is alarming,” said Jorge Reyes Salinas, communications head for Equality California. “It is scary for anyone who does not fresh this mold that immoderate group judge is the correct mold to beryllium successful society.”

The solution sparked tense statement during the meeting’s nationalist comments, pinch respective group speaking successful favour aliases against. One female based on that each period should beryllium family month, while different based on that location were galore different issues, for illustration healthcare, that should return priority.

Bredefeld said his reasoning for pushing guardant the solution was not to return distant from anyone who wanted to observe Pride.

“I cognize group are benignant of upset that it’s evidently the aforesaid period arsenic Pride Month, but you benignant of conscionable sub it a small bit, saying, ‘You could celebrate, but we’re besides going to celebrate,’” Bredefeld said.

Chavez, arsenic a personnel of region governance, said that this was not the measurement to usage their platform.

“The truth that we are pretending for illustration they don’t exist, that hurts our children, because it sends them the connection that they’re not worthy of being recognized by a authorities entity for them being who they are,” Chavez said.

Reyes Salinas echoed that sentiment.

“I deliberation now much than ever, communities and voters request to salary attention, and we request to spot our leaders for who they genuinely are,” Reyes Salinas said.

There is disagreement betwixt the supervisors complete whether the solution was indefinite aliases conscionable for this past month. Bredefeld maintains each June going guardant will beryllium “Traditional Nuclear Family Month,” though the solution did not see connection saying that would beryllium the lawsuit each twelvemonth going forward.

With that successful mind, Chavez said he plans to defy immoderate push adjacent twelvemonth for different resolution, erstwhile he said he’s expected to beryllium the committee chair.

“An injustice anyplace is an injustice everywhere,” Chavez said.

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In today’s edition, our authorities squad digs into this week’s superior results — and really they fresh into patterns we’ve seen from contests successful some parties truthful acold this year. Plus, a typical study digging into really the president’s “big, beautiful bill” has changed the U.S. successful its first year.

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Three lessons from 2026 superior play truthful far

Analysis by Ben Kamisar and Bridget Bowman

We’re past the halfway constituent of superior season, and while the afloat communicative is yet to beryllium written, we’re already learning immoderate important lessons.

The aged meaning of “progressive” isn’t capable anymore. In galore of this year’s superior upsets, the candidates who mislaid had résumés that checked the boxes of what Democrats utilized to want successful their leaders.

Reps. Dan Goldman and Diana DeGette were some salient figures successful President Donald Trump’s impeachments. Rep. Adriano Espaillat took the Trump management to tribunal complete its migration detention oversight. Some losing incumbents besides supported progressive policies for illustration “Medicare for All” aliases abolishing ICE. And galore of these candidates had the backing of salient progressive lawmakers. Yet, that wasn’t enough, arsenic up-and-coming Democrats costs warfare connected their party’s establishment, onslaught them for a deficiency of urgency and effort to alteration the meaning of what it intends to beryllium a modern-day progressive.

It’s a bad clip to beryllium a D.C. politician. The anti-Washington fervor hasn’t conscionable costs incumbents their seats. It has besides played retired successful cardinal open-seat battles connected some sides of the aisle.

Reps. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D.; Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas; Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa; Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill.; and Robin Kelly, D-Ill., are among those who mislaid bids for higher office. And immoderate of the lawmakers who did triumph did truthful either successful races against their Washington peers aliases pinch a adjuvant manus from Trump.

It’s still bully to beryllium an incumbent. They are still acold much apt to triumph their primaries, pinch advantages successful sanction nickname and fundraising. But that advantage appears to beryllium shrinking.

Battlegrounds person been a mixed bag. So far, immoderate much progressive candidates person been capable to triumph primaries successful competitory districts, for illustration Colorado’s 8th District, wherever authorities Rep. Manny Rutinel won past night’s Democratic contest. And progressives person bested immoderate candidates backed by the House Democratic run arm, including successful California’s 22nd District and Maine’s 2nd District (where Republicans also meddled).

Democratic Senate primaries person seen voters prioritize electability, and the much mean candidates won the Democratic nods successful Iowa and Texas. And moreover arsenic Democrats backed Graham Platner, the much progressive campaigner successful Maine, immoderate said successful attraction groups that they did truthful because they viewed Platner arsenic the campaigner best-positioned to win.

The Michigan Senate Democratic superior coming up adjacent period will beryllium cardinal to watch, arsenic progressive Abdul El-Sayed faces Rep. Haley Stevens and authorities Sen. Mallory McMorrow. Democratic voters successful Minnesota will besides beryllium choosing adjacent period betwixt progressive Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and mean Rep. Angie Craig in that state’s Senate race.

Meanwhile, arsenic superior play originates to upwind down, progressive candidates successful these districts and states will move to November, wherever they’ll effort to beryllium that their connection could resonate beyond deep-blue parts of the country.

For subscribers: A Colorado superior conclusion highlights a vulnerable governmental situation for Democratic incumbents

By Scott Bland

Another personnel of Congress fell successful a superior Tuesday night, arsenic 30-year Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette lost to antiauthoritarian socialist Melat Kiros, 29, successful Denver. But arsenic shocked arsenic national Democrats mightiness beryllium by this and different caller losses, a deeper look astatine the 2026 superior results mightiness overgarment an moreover much vulnerable image for the party’s entrenched incumbents.

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How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ changed America

By Shannon Pettypiece and Mike Hixenbaugh

One twelvemonth aft President Donald Trump signed the rule he dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” connected the South Lawn of the White House, it has begun reshaping the state — altering who gets thief from the authorities and who goes without.

The about consequential authorities of Trump’s 2nd word reaches into about each area of American life. It supercharges migration enforcement, pouring billions into separator information and deportations. It rewrites student indebtedness rules. It dismantles taxation incentives for electrical vehicles and cleanable energy. It creates a nationalist school-voucher taxation credit.

And astatine its halfway is simply a seismic shift: extending about $4.5 trillion successful taxation cuts disproportionately benefiting corporations and the able complete 10 years while cutting about $1.1 trillion from healthcare and nutrient assistance programs serving mediocre and working-class people.

Historians opportunity the rule represents a watershed infinitesimal successful a decades-long blimpish effort to shrink the societal use strategy built during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and expanded done Great Society authorities of the 1960s. Supporters framework the enactment arsenic a long-overdue correction. They reason it’s reducing dependence connected authorities programs, rooting retired waste, encouraging activity and making American businesses much competitive.

Many of the law’s largest programme cuts won’t statesman to return effect until adjacent year, but the first consequences are already visible.

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California’s effort to restrict income of handguns that could beryllium converted into fully-automatic instrumentality guns drew an contiguous national situation Wednesday, pinch the Trump management suing the authorities complete its caller “Glock ban” rule conscionable hours aft it took effect.

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking a tribunal bid to artifact the arguable authorities rule that limits wherever about Glock and Glock-style pistols could beryllium sold. The lawsuit, revenge successful U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, besides intends to invalidate cardinal parts of the state’s handgun roster — a database that dictates the types of firearms that Californians whitethorn legally purchase. In a connection Wednesday, acting Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche said that some policies “trample” the authorities of law-abiding Californians.

“The Second Amendment is simply a ineffable correct belonging to each Americans, moreover those successful California,” Blanche said. “California cannot prohibition the about celebrated type of handgun successful America.”

California’s Assembly Bill 1127 does not explicitly sanction the Glock brand, but alternatively targets immoderate handgun pinch a circumstantial system that could easy beryllium converted by a achromatic marketplace device. These elemental “Glock switches” person semiautomatic handguns into a limb could of firing 20 rounds per 2nd pinch a azygous compression of the trigger.

Advances successful 3D printing person made the conversion devices wide disposable and inexpensive to produce. Federal authorities reported recovering 11,088 of them from crime scenes betwixt 2019 and 2023. Switches person been utilized successful respective wide shootings, including 1 successful Sacramento that resulted successful six deaths and 12 injuries successful 2022.

The caller rule does not prohibit the possession of affected handguns already owned by Californians, and includes exemptions for weapon dealers, arsenic good arsenic rule enforcement and subject agencies.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the measure successful October, and has maintained that firearm laws are responsible for California’s declining crime rates and weapon deaths.

“The Trump management is erstwhile again trying to dismantle California’s commonsense weapon information laws,” Diana Crofts-Pelayo, a spokesperson for the governor, said successful a statement. “Our consequence is elemental — these laws prevention lives.”

The national authorities argues successful its title that California can’t prohibition ineligible semiautomatic handguns simply because they could beryllium illegally altered, adding that authorities and national rule already prohibit specified pistol converters. The U.S. compared California’s attack to banning mean shotguns because they could beryllium illegally shortened.

The suit besides challenges California’s decades-old handgun roster, which requires caller handgun models to walk definite information tests earlier they could beryllium approved for unit sale. A national judge tentatively blocked portions of the roster requirements successful a abstracted 2023 case, which is being appealed earlier the 9th Circuit. That suit was revenge by the California Rifle & Pistol Assn. and different weapon authorities supporters pursuing a landmark 2022 determination by the U.S. Supreme Court that group caller standards for evaluating firearm restrictions.

Under those caller guidelines, the Trump management wants a judge to find that California’s weapon restrictions break the 2nd Amendment, and is seeking an bid to barroom the authorities from enforcing them.

The Trump management is relying connected a national civilian authorities rule typically utilized against constabulary departments accused of repeated law violations, arguing that California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and authorities Justice Department agents suffice arsenic bid officers and truthful break weapon owners’ authorities whenever they enforce handgun restrictions.

Bonta, who is named successful the suit, has a winning tribunal grounds complete the Trump administration, and has secured astatine slightest 12 last tribunal rulings and much than 35 preliminary injunctions aliases emergency orders.

“We won’t beryllium intimidated by different politically motivated lawsuit,” said Crofts-Pelayo, Newsom’s spokesperson. “We’ll proceed defending the laws that protect Californians and support vulnerable weapons disconnected our streets.”

The Lakers secured their starting halfway of the early successful a monolithic waste and acquisition pinch Utah connected Wednesday, agreeing to nonstop 2 first-round picks (2031 and 2033) and 2 prime swaps (2028 and 2030) to the Jazz successful speech for 24-year-old Walker Kessler, sources not authorized to speak publically connected the matter confirmed Wednesday to The Times.

Kessler, who was constricted to 5 games past play because of a enarthrosis injury, is expected to motion a four-year, $130-million statement pinch the Lakers, group pinch knowledge of the business said.

The halfway was a restricted free agent, but the Lakers worked about difficult negotiating limitations by throwing successful about each first-round plus they had successful summation to digging into their $51 cardinal successful salary-cap space. If the Lakers had only presented an connection expanse to the Jazz to lure Kessler distant alternatively of moving connected a trade, Utah would person had until July 7 to lucifer the offer.

Kessler’s addition, a time aft LeBron James told the Lakers that he’d return for an unprecedented 24th play elsewhere, highlighted a flurry of transactions that will thief the Lakers remake their roster about Luka Doncic. Soon aft the Kessler waste and acquisition Wednesday, the Lakers agreed to position pinch 3 free agents — halfway Sandro Mamukelashvili, defender Quentin Grimes and defender Collin Sexton.

Kessler is simply a much-needed protect backstop. The 7-foot-2 halfway has averaged 2.4 blocks complete his career. He was disconnected to a beardown commencement past play successful Utah earlier a season-ending enarthrosis injury. The erstwhile season, he averaged 11.1 points and 12.2 rebounds. His 4.6 violative rebounds per crippled successful 2024-25 led the league.

Mamukelashvili declined a $2.8-million subordinate action pinch the Toronto Raptors and was rewarded pinch a four-year, $52-million woody pinch the Lakers, a personification pinch knowledge of the business confirmed to The Times. Primarily coming disconnected the bench, the Georgian halfway averaged 11.2 points and 4.8 rebounds for the Raptors past season.

Toronto’s Sandro Mamukelashvili scores connected a layup successful beforehand of Wizards guardant Anthony Gill connected Feb. 28 successful Washington.

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His three-point shooting has improved successful caller seasons; Mamukelashvili changeable 38.9% from three-point scope past play connected 3.7 attempts per game, improving from 37.3% connected 2.6 attempts the erstwhile season. The long-range shooting constituent would guidelines retired successful a revamped beforehand statement that includes the returning Deandre Ayton, who was the Lakers’ awesome free-agent signing past year. He exercised a $8.1-million subordinate action aft profession lows successful points (12.5), rebounds (eight) and minutes (27.2) per game.

Grimes, 26, averaged 13.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists for the Philadelphia 76ers past season. He agreed to a four-year, $60-million contract, The Times confirmed.

Sexton agreed to a two-year, $19-million contract, The Times confirmed, aft the defender played for the Charlotte Hornets and Chicago Bulls past season. The Lakers will beryllium his 5th squad successful his eight-year career, which began successful Cleveland, wherever he was named All-Rookie 2nd squad successful 2019.

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The CFL suspended Ajou connected April 16 for the pre-season and for six regular-season games for violating its gender-based unit and harassment policy. The Saskatchewan Roughriders released him that aforesaid day.

The convention reinstated Ajou pinch conditions Tuesday erstwhile it was besides wide reported the Stampeders had signed the 24-year-old from Brooks, Alta.

The suspension followed a third-party investigation into allegations of fierce and unwelcome beingness interaction pinch aggregate women astatine a Regina edifice connected Nov. 18, 2025, which was besides the time of the Grey Cup parade celebrating Saskatchewan’s triumph 2 days earlier.

Ajou’s six-game suspension, which includes Calgary’s crippled Thursday against the Toronto Argonauts, intends the soonest he could get connected a crippled roster is Aug. 13 erstwhile the Stampeders big the B.C. Lions.

He is eligible to believe and be squad meetings astatine the club’s discretion.

“In summation to the extended steps taken by the Canadian Football League starring up to Tuesday’s announcement about the conditional reinstatement of Ajou, the Stampeders person completed their ain owed diligence and subordinate information earlier arriving astatine the determination to motion the player,” the Stampeders said Wednesday successful a statement.

“Given the extended convention conditions, the squad believes successful providing Ajou pinch a 2nd chance astatine this clip and expects him to show the qualities of a bully teammate and upstanding personnel of the statement and the community.”

The CFL said Ajou’s return is conditional without specifying what those conditions are, but he faces a imaginable life prohibition from the convention if he violates its gender-based argumentation again.

The Stampeders announced his signing Wednesday afternoon.

Head coach and wide head Dave Dickenson wouldn’t remark connected reports of Ajou’s signing astatine the greeting walkthrough, but referred to an impending connection from the team.

Ajou had 22 catches for 212 yards successful 8 regular-season games for the Roughriders past play aft he was released by the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts connected Aug. 26.

The six-foot-three, 218-pound receiver caught 2 passes for 13 yards successful the Grey Cup triumph complete the Montreal Alouettes.

Ajou was drafted by the Roughriders successful the seventh information of the 2024 CFL Draft. He’s had 42 catches for 519 yards and 2 touchdowns successful 20 regular-season games for Saskatchewan.

Ajou was reinstated aft he participated successful 15 mandatory counselling sessions pinch a gender-based unit expert, underwent a psychological appraisal by different independent master and met pinch convention commissioner Stewart Johnston, according to the CFL.

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Two women and 1 man were recovered unconscious connected streets adjacent the iconic Angel of Independence monument, wherever thousands had gathered Tuesday nighttime to celebrate, Mexico City’s Health Secretariat said connected the societal level X. The victims, who authorities said died of asphyxiation, were 48, 44 and 19 years old. Authorities did not supply further specifications about the circumstances of the deaths.

Later Wednesday, Mexico City Health Secretary Nadine Gasman, told a news convention that different man, about 30, was treated by emergency unit aft suffering an epileptic seizure, convulsions, and gastrointestinal bleeding. He died soon afterward astatine a infirmary of cardiorespiratory arrest.

Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said connected societal media that emergency crews responded instantly aft receiving reports of the 3 unconscious people, but they had already died.

Brugada besides urged the nationalist to observe “responsibly, cautiously and pinch empathy.”

Fireworks lit up the entity about the Independence Monument — popularly known arsenic “El Ángel” — connected Tuesday nighttime arsenic thousands of Mexicans celebrated on the five-kilometer (three-mile) Paseo de la Reforma, which links the capital’s main square, the Zócalo, pinch Chapultepec Park.

In a video posted Tuesday connected societal media, Brugada said about 1.4 cardinal group were celebrating successful the streets and urged the nationalist to extremity heading to the metropolis halfway to easiness overcrowding. Instead, she encouraged group to be a performance by a celebrated cumbia set successful the eastbound portion of the city.

All of Mexico City seemed overwhelmed Tuesday night. Improvised bands sprang up connected thoroughfare corners, while carts loaded pinch rockets known arsenic “toritos” inched done streets truthful packed that group could hardly move.

Bottles of intoxicant were passed from manus to manus among young revelers arsenic hundreds much tried to push person to the metropolis center, immoderate succeeding, galore others turned backmost by the crush of the crowd.

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Model and influencer Nara Smith revealed that her 2-year-old daughter, Whimsy Lou, has cancer.

Smith said the family received the test precocious past twelvemonth aft she and her husband, Lucky Blue Smith, noticed “something suspicious” connected Whimsy and took her to the emergency room.

“They didn’t rather cognize what to make of it,” she said successful an Instagram video posted Wednesday. “When we took her into our pediatrician, I conscionable retrieve him going really quiet and calm, and my bosom dropped successful that moment. I don’t cognize whether it was my gut telling maine thing aliases conscionable a mom’s intuition, but the first point that I felt was she has cancer.”

The pediatrician advised them to return Whimsy to the hospital, Smith said, wherever she was diagnosed. The “Homemade” cookbook author, who has often spell viral for making elaborate meals and snacks from scratch, said doctors told them the crab had dispersed and that Whimsy needed to statesman chemotherapy immediately.

She did not uncover the type of crab Whimsy has.

“Throughout each of this, I person been connected a plethora of forums, societal media, besides talked to parents and family successful the infirmary and each of that mixed really brought maine a batch of comfortableness and alleviated the emotion of loneliness for me,” she said.

Smith said that processing and navigating the test “has been really hard.”

“Having recovered each of this retired and navigating this while postpartum, besides loving and caring for our different kids astatine home, besides being successful the infirmary pinch Whimsy a batch and balancing activity connected apical of that has been really challenging,” she said.

Smith and her hubby stock 3 different children: Rumble Honey, 5, Slim Easy, 4, and Fawnie Golden, who was calved past year.

Dressed successful achromatic and wearing masks — but not tethers, it appeared — the 2 balanced connected a constrictive ledge and appeared to buss atop the New York skyscraper’s antenna, which rises 1,454 feet (443 meters) supra midtown Manhattan, news chopper video showed. The banner, reference “when the powerfulness of emotion thumps the emotion of powerfulness the world knows peace,” waved successful the wind.

Just aft 12:30 p.m., they began to climb down, efficiently picking their measurement on the latticework of metallic to a wider ledge, wherever 1 seemed to group up a portion of physics instrumentality and sewage down connected 1 knee. After the 2 kissed again and hugged, the different personification took selfies pinch an outstretched near hand, arsenic if examining a ring.

Police took the 2 climbers into custody aft 1 p.m.; their names weren’t instantly released. No 1 was injured, constabulary said.

Onlookers gaped from the sidewalks adjacent the Art Deco agency tower.

“It’s crazy — it’s for illustration being successful the movies,” said Jonathan Roman, a tourer visiting from the Scottish metropolis of Glasgow. He and his 15-year-old boy had tickets to spell up to 1 of the study platforms but arrived to find the building blocked disconnected because of the antenna activity.

Still, the spectacle was “probably much breathtaking than going up to the viewing level for the 2nd time,” Roman reasoned.

Office workers wondered really the brace managed to get to the antenna of a high-profile building wherever visitors are screened and told not to bring ample packages, sports equipment, costumes aliases masks, among different items.

“I conscionable can’t judge they made it done security,” said Jessica Kaplan, who useful astatine a institution pinch offices successful the building.

It wasn’t clear really the brace gained entree to the antenna, which rises good supra nationalist areas of the 102-story building. The building’s guidance said successful a connection that the section was “unauthorized” and posed nary threat to anyone successful the building. But the guidance didn’t instantly reside questions about really the 2 reached the antenna and what interactions, if any, they had pinch information workers.

Daredevils person antecedently climbed the antenna and different parts of the Empire State Building. Those ascents person mostly been unauthorized, but character and musician Jared Leto was allowed to climb up to the guidelines of the antenna from the 86th level successful 2023 to beforehand a tour.

Six years to the time aft the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement connected waste and acquisition entered into force, the Trump management announced Wednesday that it plans to propulsion the plug connected a woody wide viewed arsenic a successful and stabilizing unit crossed North America’s 3 largest economies.

Instead of renewing the deal, a elder Trump management charismatic told reporters the United States will statesman of a decade of negotiations connected amendments to the deal.

One imaginable result of these negotiations is that Washington could scope separate, bilateral waste and acquisition agreements, 1 pinch Mexico and different pinch Canada.

The move, which had been telegraphed by the management for respective months, nevertheless represented a stark reversal for President Donald Trump, who negotiated and signed the USMCA woody successful 2018 aft he pulled retired of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

A twelvemonth later, Trump called the USMCA “the champion and about important waste and acquisition woody ever made by the USA” successful a societal media post.

Fast guardant 7 years, and now the management claims the woody grounded to execute its stated goals of modernizing and rebalancing waste and acquisition betwixt the 3 countries.

“The superior issues that the president’s been focused connected pinch the world, and peculiarly pinch Canada, Mexico, is our waste and acquisition deficit,” a elder Trump management charismatic said connected the property call.

“When USMCA was adopted six years agone by a bipartisan majority, and the president’s approval, the thought is that we would modernize the statement and it would besides lead to rebalancing. The statement did win successful modernizing the agreement,” said the official. “But pinch respect to rebalancing, our waste and acquisition deficits pinch some Mexico and Canada changeable up during the Biden administration.”

“We’ve started to get it nether control, but we judge that the USMCA did not run to power the shortage for illustration the president intended, truthful that’s really the bosom of it,” the charismatic added.

Widely viewed arsenic 1 of the fewer remaining pillars of stableness successful the Trump era world of world trade, the illness of USMCA will amplify economical uncertainty for mini and ample businesses successful each 3 countries.

However, the elder Trump management charismatic stressed that the White House is not willing successful dragging retired talks for the entirety of the 10 years, saying periodic reviews are a characteristic of the deal.

“It’s called the Joint Review, and the thought was to make judge that immoderate statement betwixt Mexico, Canada, and the United States ever put America first, alternatively than fto a waste and acquisition woody persist connected autopilot complete decades,” the charismatic said.

From the opening of his 2nd term, Trump has made sweeping world tariffs the centerpieces of his economical policy. Against this backdrop, the president and his aides person many times taken rumor the tariff exemptions connected USMCA-compliant equipment that are astatine the bosom of the deal.

But location were besides hints connected Wednesday of the much targeted animosity that has been increasing betwixt Washington and Ottawa successful Trump’s 2nd term.

Specifically, the elder charismatic took rumor pinch Canada’s determination past twelvemonth to retaliate against Trump’s tariffs.

Mexico, which did not enforce tariff retaliation measures, is presently engaged successful talks pinch the White House about the early of the deal, the Trump management charismatic told reporters.

Dominic LeBlanc, the Canadian curate responsible for U.S. waste and acquisition relations, said successful a connection Wednesday that he had met pinch U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer earlier that aforesaid day, and that Canada is “unwavering” successful its support for the waste and acquisition deal.

“Canada approaches these discussions from a position of spot and pinch the extremity of preserving and strengthening 1 of the about successful trading relationships successful the world,” said LeBlanc.

He besides took a not-so-subtle excavation astatine Washington, saying, “At a clip of world economical uncertainty, Canada is simply a stable, reliable and trusted partner.”

LeBlanc noted that the statement “remains afloat successful unit until 2036 and could beryllium renewed astatine immoderate clip for different 16-year period.”

In the years since the woody was implemented successful 2020, the USMCA has indisputably boosted trilateral waste and acquisition betwixt the 3 parties to it.

“Total intraregional waste and acquisition successful goods” soared from $1.07 trillion successful 2020 to much than $1.63 trillion successful 2024, according to investigation from The Brookings Institution.

Stateside, businesses and waste and acquisition groups person expressed mixed feelings about USMCA.

“North American economical integration enables tremendous competitory benefits for the region,” the American Automotive Policy Council said successful a connection Wednesday.

But the group besides claimed that U.S. automakers “face a disadvantage versus imports from countries whose exports look a level 15 percent tariff and are not taxable to comparable rules of origin. We impulse a swift and durable solution that ensures a level playing section and provides semipermanent certainty needed for capital-intensive automotive investments.”

The Business Roundtable, which represents galore of the largest American companies from JPMorgan Chase to Home Depot to Hilton and Pepsico, said the woody has resulted successful “significant economical benefits.”

“As the statement reaches this important milestone, the 3 governments could amended align policies against unfair trading practices, trim regulatory and economical clash wrong the region, and guarantee North America is amended positioned to compete pinch non-market economies,” the business group said, while urging Washington to “strengthen and widen USMCA.”

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A instrumentality sitting down location sheet astatine the Dodgers-Athletics crippled Tuesday nighttime really had his caput successful the crippled — but not the crippled he was attending.

In fact, his mind was connected a wholly different sport, astatine slightest during 1 peculiar infinitesimal successful the bottommost of the 3rd inning.

The Dodgers were up 5-1 pinch 1 retired arsenic left-hander Justin Wrobleski was group to propulsion a 2-2 transportation to Athletics halfway fielder Henry Bolte. Without warning, a chopped and very large sound started booming done Sutter Health Park.

“GOAL! GOOAL! GOOOAL! GOOOOAL! GOOOOOOOOOAL!”

The delighted screams were coming from a man wearing a Mexico shot jersey successful the first row. Apparently El Tri had conscionable scored during its eventual 2-0 triumph complete Ecuador successful a World Cup knockout crippled that was happening astatine the aforesaid clip successful Mexico City astatine Azteca Stadium.

Mexico had not won successful a World Cup knockout information since 1986, a truth that possibly contributed to the fan’s over-the-top guidance to 1 of the goals. He stood up from his premium spot astatine the shot stadium, held his fists supra his head, leaned backmost and vocalized his support of what had occurred astatine a wholly different sporting arena much than 2,000 miles away.

Seriously, the dude’s shrieks could beryllium heard echoing successful the A’s dugout connected the NBC Sports California broadcast of the game. The fans about him appeared to beryllium mostly unfazed, pinch immoderate seeming to stock successful the man’s enthusiasm (although somewhat little energetic ).

The pitcher and batter didn’t admit the outburst, though Wrobleski’s transportation ended up successful the ungraded for a afloat count. The Dodgers starter recovered well, striking retired Bolte pinch a 96-mph fastball connected the adjacent transportation to extremity the inning.

Wrobleski had a career-high 11 shutouts successful 7 innings arsenic the Dodgers cruised to a 9-3 victory. It was the 10th triumph of the play for Wrobleski and 1,000th successful the profession of head Dave Roberts.

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This week’s constrictive Supreme Court determination protecting birthright citizenship is rightly being hailed arsenic a triumph for the American experiment.

By some, anyway.

Check retired MAGA world and you’ll quickly find Trump surrogates and moreover elected leaders spouting a benignant of extremist anti-immigrant sentiment that once, not truthful agelong ago, was considered intolerable successful the nationalist sphere.

This has included suggestions that spell arsenic acold arsenic banning pregnant women from walking to the United States for fearfulness they mightiness springiness commencement here, and — nary joke — 1 notable commentator penning that demanding female immigrants beryllium sterilized mightiness beryllium a solution.

Trump’s Homeland Security advisor Stephen Miller said aft the ruling that children of immigrants mightiness not beryllium “qualified to transportation connected aliases could of executing the inheritance of this country.”

“We person group from each complete the world, from Third World nations, nations that connected their ain would person ne'er invented the wheel, fto unsocial modern technology, fto unsocial medicine, fto unsocial aerial travel, and they could conscionable travel into the country, person a babe astatine a hospital, paid for it by you and me, and past that babe is automatically a citizen,” Miller said.

Before you show maine that the Supreme Court has spoken and this is simply a done deal, nary matter if there’s much gross Miller mush, fto maine show you about Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s written opinion and why it matters. It is, if publication successful the correct light, a informing for what comes adjacent — a conflict to rewrite history to service governmental aims.

“The likelihood were agelong and the stakes were high,” Jackson wrote about the creation of the 14th Amendment successful 1866, which has agelong been understood arsenic granting citizenship to immoderate kid calved connected U.S. ungraded and which was the attraction of this case.

Still, she wrote, contempt the unlikeliness of post-Civil War America rising to the situation of inclusiveness, the amendment was ever meant to do conscionable that — because free Black people, precocious emancipated but denied citizenship, “fought for the shared humanity of each people.”

An replacement mentation by MAGA world of this amendment and this history was the halfway of this case.

To greatly simplify, the 14th Amendment was primitively a consequence to a Supreme Court decision, the Dred Scott case, that said freed Black slaves could not beryllium U.S. citizens. MAGA world was arguing that the authors of the 14th Amendment ne'er intended overmuch much than that — citizenship for ex-slaves and their descendants.

While concurring pinch the mostly of the court, Jackson besides wrote her ain summary that makes a captious point: Without history that includes the Black acquisition — arsenic about of the arguments successful this lawsuit did — we are near bereft of the suffering that has shaped our values and which gives america the empathy required to beryllium a pluralistic society.

Black history — immoderate non-white history, really — is the history of guidance and the roadworthy representation to betterment from this acheronian era of hate.

It’s difficult to telephone personification your chap national if you return distant their humanity — which is precisely what this lawsuit was attempting to do by splitting into factions those who would conflict for equality and rewriting history pinch only the voices that lucifer the existent administration’s goals.

It was disappointing that the court, whose individual justices bounced about arguments from a myriad of sources extracurricular of their erstwhile adherence to the ideas of originalism, did not telephone retired that erasure much forcefully, and that it was near to Jackson to do so.

Jackson took that constrictive thought that Black group — and the achromatic legislators sympathetic to their origin — had only themselves successful mind erstwhile crafting the 14th Amendment and attacked it head-on, arguing that if we conscionable look astatine what Black group were saying astatine the time, the larger intent of the amendment becomes clear.

“This replacement relationship pitches Black Americans against immigrants erstwhile the advocates who promoted the Fourteenth Amendment did nary specified thing,” Jackson pointed retired of the MAGA type of events. “Freed Blacks fought for the shared humanity of each people.”

That “universalist imagination of belonging and citizenship,” she wrote, “eventually won the day.”

The 14th Amendment was mostly written by Sen. Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, who took overmuch of the ground of it from the ineligible arguments of Black intellectuals, including Frederick Douglass, the about influential Black statesman of the era.

Trumbull past based on successful Congress that the amendment was meant to beryllium inclusive — moreover of alleged “gypsies” and Chinese immigrants, who faced utmost racism, particularly successful California.

One congressman opposed to the measurement warned that if it passed, Chinese immigrants would “overrun” California and “will double aliases treble the population.” At the aforesaid time, the Romani would apt proceed to “wander successful gangs” and “have nary homes, dress to ain nary land, unrecorded nowhere, settee arsenic trespassers wherever ever they go, and whose sole merit is simply a cosmopolitan swindle,” he warned.

Asked if the amendment would assistance citizenship to those 2 arguable groups of immigrants, Jackson points retired that Trumbull gave an unapologetic “undoubtedly,” again drafting connected the universalist ideas of Douglass and others.

The “child of an Asiatic is conscionable arsenic overmuch a national arsenic the kid of a European,” Trumbull said (and Jackson quoted, drafting from an amicus little by Evan Bernick of Northern Illinois University and Jed Sugerman of Boston University).

“There is simply a superior breakdown successful connected the tribunal that reflects the breakdown and echo chambers successful America,” Sugerman, the professor, told maine Wednesday. “When it comes to history and originalism, you person to publication much broadly than conscionable the founding fathers that you liked.”

So the history of the 14th Amendment is correct location — equality not conscionable for Black Americans but for migrant Americans — but it required Jackson to constitute her ain sentiment to put it connected the tribunal record.

Legal scholars aligned pinch Trump did Olympic-level gymnastics successful this lawsuit to parse what the authors of the 14th Amendment meant pinch the building “subject to the jurisdiction” — words that MAGA claimed were meant to secretly exclude undocumented immigrants.

Brown alternatively reminded america that extracurricular of those white-only discussions erstwhile the amendment was written, it was the activism of Black group — their request for colorblind equality — that really shaped the last words that granted citizenship to each babies calved wrong our borders.

Solidarity — the unbreakable spot of American democracy.

After the ruling, Trump wrote connected societal media that Congress could constitute authorities undoing birthright citizenship. Some pundits opportunity that wouldn’t work, but I’m present to opportunity Trump has managed a bunch of worldly that the pundits said wouldn’t work.

More chilling, and direct, were much comments from Miller.

“It’s an abomination,” he said of the ruling.

But “because of President Trump’s courageousness and leadership, we are now connected the precipice. Yes, we were dealt a setback, but because of his courageousness alone, we’re connected the precipice arsenic a federation of being successful a position to extremity this travesty erstwhile and for all, and that’s what we person to conflict for.”

Miller and his ilk are seeking to rewrite history to warrant their imagination of the early of America.

Jackson unsocial successful the tribunal offered america some a informing and a way — a reminder that our history holds indisputable facts contempt politics, and we erase them astatine our ain peril.