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The big question coming from abroad this week is what the results of recent global elections suggest about the U.S. election in November. Will U.S. politics become embroiled in the anti-incumbency, anti-establishment sentiment seen elsewhere in the 2024 election cycle, upending a long-held American conventional wisdom that incumbent officeholders are hard to replace? And what will this mean for the presidential race and the contested presidential election? Joe Biden Former President Donald TrumpWas it the excitement from last week’s debate?Already this year, incumbents have lost their majorities in South Africa and India, and Senegal’s elections have brought an outsider to…
A “Believe in Boston” flag is raised during the Duck Boat Parade celebrating the Boston Celtics’ 18th NBA championship.Stan Grossfeld | Boston Globe | Getty ImagesThe 2024 National Basketball Association (NBA) champions are for sale.The Boston Celtics ownership group announced plans to sell the team on Monday, according to a statement posted on the Celtics’ account on social media site X.Boston Basketball Partners LLC, the ownership group’s controlling family, said it plans to sell its entire stake in the team due to “estate and family planning considerations.”The sale of the majority stake is expected to close by the end of…
The United States is by far the most gold medal-winning country in Olympic history, winning 1,061 gold medals since 1896. While the U.S. has dominated in the pool, on the track and at the Olympics overall, there are some sports in which an American has never reached the podium. The U.S. has a chance to win its first medal in breaking, the only new event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but there are also older sports in which the country is still looking to win its first medal. Given U.S. Olympic history and the outlook for the Paris Olympics, it…
The United States is by far the most gold medal-winning country in Olympic history, winning 1,061 gold medals since 1896. While the U.S. has dominated in the pool, on the track and at the Olympics overall, there are some sports in which an American has never reached the podium. The U.S. has a chance to win its first medal in breaking, the only new event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but there are also older sports in which the country is still looking to win its first medal. Given U.S. Olympic history and the outlook for the Paris Olympics, it…
Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Social media has been in an uproar over Biden’s debate performance.Many were disillusioned with both candidates’ prospects, and their ages.Even before the debate, Biden was struggling to engage with Gen Z voters, many of whom get their news from TikTok. There was one bright side to Biden’s terrible performance in the CNN debate: Relatively few people tuned in to watch it.But for a critical audience, there was no need to watch it live.Polls have shown that Biden has clear problems with critical Gen Z and millennial…
Terence Samuel is leaving USA Today after a year as editor in chief.Samuel “was a valued colleague during his tenure at USA Today,” USA Today senior vice president Monica Richardson said in a statement. “We wish him the best of luck and thank him for his contributions.”Karen Bohan, USA TODAY’s political editor, has been named interim editor-in-chief as the company conducts a national search for its next editor-in-chief. Bohan, a veteran White House reporter and former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, joined USA Today in 2018 as Washington editor and then became politics and Washington editor in chief.…
European Union regulators say Meta violated new EU competition laws by requiring Instagram and Facebook users to pay a fee if they did not want their personal information used to generate targeted ads.”We want citizens to be able to control their data and choose a less personalised advertising experience,” Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice-president for competition policy, said in a statement on Monday.The preliminary findings were announced as part of a longer-term investigation into whether the social media giant violated the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the first antitrust law targeting large tech companies in a major economy.…
The 2024 NHL offseason got off to an eventful start. Just four days after the Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup, the epic 2024 NHL Draft took place at the Sphere in Las Vegas, several big trades were made and 225 top prospects found new teams.Now it’s time for the league’s 32 front offices to replenish their roster through free agency.Here’s our continuously updated tracker with a list of every player signed, analysis of the biggest trades, talk of what’s coming next, and more.Please note that the most recent transactions are listed at the top in chronological order.More information: GradesPlayer…
CNN — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump can claim immunity from criminal prosecution for some actions he took during the final days of his presidency, a decision that is likely to further delay his pending trial on federal election interference charges. The ruling, the Supreme Court’s most closely watched case this year, overturns a federal appeals court ruling in February that found Trump entitled to no immunity for crimes he allegedly committed while in office in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Supreme Court’s decision was 6-3, with the court’s liberal wing…
Every weekday, CNBC Investing Club’s Jim Cramer delivers his Homestretch, an actionable afternoon update, in time for the final hour of Wall Street’s close. Stocks were on pace to close higher on Monday after a volatile session for both stocks and bonds. The 10-year Treasury yield again approached 4.5%. Continuing on from the second quarter, mega-tech stocks continued to weigh on the S&P 500, with club picks Apple up more than 2.5%, Amazon up more than 2% and Microsoft up roughly 1.5%. But average stocks fared worse, with the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index dropping nearly 1% during the session.…