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CBS News studio at Times Square in Manhattan, New York, United States of America, on July 6th, 2024. Beata Zawrzel | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesParamount Skydance said Monday it has agreed to acquire online publication The Free Press, naming its co-founder and CEO, Bari Weiss, as CBS News’ editor-in-chief.The digital upstart publication, which was launched by Weiss in 2021, will be joined with CBS News. Paramount said Monday The Free Press has 1.5 million subscribers, more than 170,000 of which are paid subscriptions.Weiss founded The Free Press after resigning from The New York Times’ opinion desk in 2020.”Weiss will shape…

Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDeloitte on Monday announced a deal to bring Anthropic’s artificial intelligence assistant Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees around the globe. The rollout will be Anthropic’s largest enterprise deployment ever, building on a partnership that the two companies first unveiled last year. Deloitte, which offers consulting, tax and audit services, is one of the 300,000 business customers Anthropic has amassed in the four years since the startup’s founding. “We are both investing a significant amount in this partnership, whether that’s financial or whether it is just simply the engineering resource that we’re going to…

KARACHI: Pakistan’s floods – among the deadliest in the country’s recent history — swept away villages, submerged farmland and forced over 2 million people from their homes, mainly in the northeastern Punjab province. The consequences, however, are not limited to humans. The catastrophic deluge has also devastated the country’s already fragile wildlife. “Entire habitats have been submerged, encompassing everything from scrub forests and rangelands to critical wetlands that act as wildlife sanctuaries,” Rafiul Haq, a Karachi-based ecologist, told Anadolu. Displaced jackals, wild boars, chinkara antelope, and even elusive jungle cats are now venturing into villages in search of food and…

Instagram announced on Monday the launch of a new “Rings” award that will give 25 creators a literal gold ring and a matching badge on their profile, but no cash.Winners will be chosen by a panel including Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, filmmaker Spike Lee, designer Marc Jacobs and YouTuber Marques Brownlee.The move comes as Meta-owned Instagram has wound down its creator bonus program and brand deals are slowing across the industry, raising the question of why one of the world’s richest companies is offering jewelry and profile features instead of direct payouts.”It’s more about a special visibility and sort of…

Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, speaks at a news conference on oceans and sustainable development at the United Nations in New York, June 25, 2013 in this screengrab taken from United Nations TV file footage.UNTV | ReutersThe Supreme Court on Monday said it would not hear the appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former British socialite who was convicted of sex trafficking related to the sexual abuse of underage girls by Jeffrey Epstein.The decision comes as the Trump administration remains the focus of criticism for its refusal to release investigative files about Epstein and Maxwell despite…

Nike’s turnaround plan is showing early signs of progress, but it will “take a while” for the company to return to profitable growth, CEO Elliott Hill said in an interview with CNBC’s Sara Eisen aired Monday.”When we come to work we think about three brands, and then multiple sports under each brand and then 190 countries that roll up to our four geographies,” Hill said in a sit-down interview from the company’s headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. “Each brand times sport, and each [geography] times country, they’re at different stages of the evolution.” When asked when investors can expect Nike to get…

Ren Dabing instructs students at Molao Youyi Primary School in Biancheng Town of Huayuan County, central China’s Hunan Province, Sept. 9, 2025. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) — The Chinese government plans to hire 7,000 retired teachers to work in compulsory education schools in the country’s rural areas this year, said a statement jointly released by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance.This recruitment drive is part of an action plan the government launched in 2018 to enhance the quality of rural education by employing retired educators to teach in rural areas.According to the statement, the drive will…

LAHORE: The verbal spat between the PPP and the PML-N — the two parties sustaining the current political dispensation and respectively ruling Sindh and Punjab — continued on Sunday as the PPP highlighted an alleged internal rift within the PML-N while the PML-N accused the PPP chief of weakening his own party. In a cleverly orchestrated press conference in Karachi, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon advised the PML-N to refrain from dragging the PPP into its internal rifts. He claimed that the Punjab government’s real issue was with the Shehbaz Sharif-led federal government, and that a “conspiracy” had been hatched…

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).Tom Williams | Michael A. McCoy | ReutersTop House Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Monday challenged Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to a live public debate about the government shutdown.”Given the urgency of the moment and the Republican refusal to negotiate a bipartisan agreement, a debate on the House Floor will provide the American people with the transparency they deserve,” Jeffries said in a letter to Johnson.”It will also give you an opportunity to explain your my way or the highway approach to…

People watch a drone light show staged in celebration of China’s National Day in Nan’an District of southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, Oct. 1, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) — As China’s National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays converge, the nation’s cultural activities, bustling transport networks and innovative consumption scenes are painting a vivid picture of economic resilience and growth potential.An aerial photo taken on Oct. 6, 2025 shows performers in traditional costumes during a parade in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang Province. (Photo by Zheng Kaixia/Xinhua)A tourist learns to draw mural patterns at a Dunhuang culture experience center in Dunhuang,…