Why Walmart decided to say it would raise prices — and risk Trump’s fury
Analysts say Walmart’s thinner margins and price-sensitive shoppers may have influenced the company’s decision to speak out.
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Personal secretary and adviser to Mexico City’s mayor killed in brazen daylight attack
Members of Clara Brugada’s team shot dead by gunmen on motorcycle in attack in central part of the cityThe personal secretary and an adviser to Mexico City’s mayor have been shot dead by gunmen in a brazen daylight attack in a central part of the city….
Mexico City mayor’s secretary and adviser shot dead in street
Mayor Clara Brugada, who holds the second most powerful political post in Mexico, said her secretary Ximena Guzmán and adviser José Muñoz were killed.
Southwest Airlines will require chargers be kept out while in use because of battery fire concerns
Passengers on Southwest Airlines flights will soon be required to keep their portable chargers in plain sight while using them because of concerns about the growing number of lithium battery fires.
Watchdog’s Kids Company report was ‘one-sided’, but judge upholds key findings
Court rules that Charity Commission must rewrite parts of its 2022 inquiry report into charity’s collapseA watchdog report into Kids Company, the children’s charity set up by the late Camila Batmanghelidjh, was “irrational”, “unfair” and “one-sided” in…
July Earthquake Prediction Is Scaring Tourists Away From a Top Summer Destination – Fodors Travel Guide
July Earthquake Prediction Is Scaring Tourists Away From a Top Summer Destination Fodors Travel GuideNew Baba Vanga’s predictions spark mass trip cancellations among travellers in July 2025 – know why Times of IndiaPrediction of J…
Justice Department to use False Claims Act to pursue institutions over diversity efforts
The department’s use of the law is all but certain to be met with legal challenges.
The ad-supported web is dying, and the next development to accelerate this may be the agentic web, which Microsoft is pushing via NLWeb and MCP support (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
The ad-supported web is dying, and the next development to accelerate this may be the agentic web, which Microsoft is pushing via NLWeb and MCP support — Ethan Zuckerman wrote in The Atlantic in 2014: &he…
Microsoft is Putting AI Actions Into the Windows File Explorer
Microsoft is starting to integrate AI shortcuts, or what it calls AI actions, into the File Explorer in Windows 11. From a report: These shortcuts let you right-click on a file and quickly get to Windows AI features like blurring the background of a ph…
Bust of Jim Morrison stolen from Paris cemetery found by authorities by chance
French police say they have found a bust of The Doors frontman Jim Morrison that was stolen from his grave in Paris in 1988.