The Nasdaq was up 1.5% at 26,213 points and the S&P 500 was up 0.8% at 7,499 points. The Nasdaq 100 climbed 1.7% while a gauge of semiconductor firms notched the best quarter ever. The Dow recorded its strongest first half in five years.
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Prince William has marked what would have been Princess Diana’s birthday with a tribute that centers on her humanitarian legacy. The Prince of Wales chose to highlight the third anniversary of Homewards, his initiative to end homelessness across the UK. “It feels like he is really channelling her spirit with this.”
France's national health agency said there were 1,000 additional deaths during the country's heat wave from June 24 to 26. Eighty-five percent of the reported fatalities involved people 65 and older. Other parts of Europe have been blanketed by soaring temperatures. The heat wave has broken records across Europe.
Parents wept, while mothers and female relatives cried and beat their chests in grief. The victims’ bodies were transported to their homes in Kahna, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lahore. President Asif Ali Zardari and prime minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed their sorrow over the tragedy.
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. returns to Capitol Hill after a four-month absence. He was hospitalized for treatment for depression. His opponent, Rep. Cory Booker, blasted him for trading stocks during his treatment. He faces a tough re-election fight in New Jersey's D.C. district.
Roy argued that Congress does not need a constitutional amendment to address the issue. Three of the court's nine justices dissented from the decision: Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito. "No long and unwieldy constitutional amendment is necessary," Roy said. "It is not necessary to require our national self-obliteration"
Many Malawians are now stranded in Mozambique unable to travel further north to Malawi. "We have no money for transport, food and shelter as we attempt to proceed," one man says. Ghana, Malawi, Mozambiques and Zimbabwe have also been repatriating their citizens by plane or bus.
The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, is in town, and he’s gone bow tie all the way. Jim Chalmers came out of the gate hot appearing to turn the world upside down by opting for a traditional tie instead of a bow tie. After that, it was bow ties all theway.
Bennet and DeGette will likely look back at their losses and kick themselves for not taking these challengers more seriously before it was too late. Bennet all but cleared what was expected to be a crowded primary field just by announcing he wanted the governor’s office just over a year ago. De gette was backed by extensive — and dedicated — grassroots organizing.
State Department congratulates Keiko Fujimori as Peru's president-elect following razor-thin vote count. "The United States congratulates President-Elect Keiko Fujimori of Peru on her important electoral victory," the department said. The victory marks a return of her family's political brand to Peru’s highest office — a movement that has long carried a complicated relationship with the United States.
Potsdam voters pass new public library budget by 92% margin. New budget shows spending will total $706,679, up from $674,759 for 2025-26. $599,440 is for personnel, including $424,795 for salaries, $63,800 for health and dental insurance, $60,000 for retirement contributions.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh authored the opinion for the majority. He wrote that under Title IX and the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, schools can base eligibility for women and girls' sports teams on biological sex. In virtually all competitive sports, forcing female athletes to compete against males can undermine competitive fairness, he said.
The 146 Venezuelans on the deportation flight from Miami included 19 women and seven children. Venezuela’s repatriation agency showed one family a list of 32 survivors from the flight, but most are believed to have died. Venezuela Monday raised the death toll from last week's powerful earthquakes to 1,719 people.
Senegal have struggled to get visas for the World Cup in Brazil. The tournament has been dominated by Brazil, who have won the tournament a record five times. Senegal have won their first two games, but have lost the other two. The team is hoping to win the tournament for the first time since 1990.
Anthropic’s main rival OpenAI agreed last week to limit access to its latest model, GPT 5.6, at the request of the US government. Last week, OpenAI confirmed it had postponed the wider release of GPT-5.6 at the government's request, limiting access to a small group of vetted partners while additional reviews took place.
Critics have accused Donald Trump of pushing a ‘Christian nationalist agenda’ in the US. Keith Magee, a senior fellow and professor at University College London’s Centre on US Politics, said that the American principle of separating church and state “was never intended to push faith out of public life”
The conflict has killed at least 59,000 people, displaced some 13 million, and pushed many parts of the country into famine. The fighting has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis. More than 14 million people forced from their homes and 28 million facing acute hunger, aid agencies say.More than 30 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
Four women and two men died at a residential home for mothers and children in the northern town of Stade, west of Hamburg. Police have not yet disclosed what type of firearm was used in the incident, or how the perpetrator obtained it. The mother of the child and her 3-month-old daughter were unharmed.
Rubén Darío Sillie's wife died in his arms after last week's twin quakes. He turned to social media for help after his brother-in-law sent a text: "We are trapped, help" By Monday afternoon, searchers had recovered the bodies of his sister and her husband.
President Donald Trump didn't get what he wanted in some of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year. Trump pushed for limits no president had sought before, and certainly not through an executive order that would bypass Congress. The court struck down those provisions as unconstitutional limits on presidential power. The justices backed Second Amendment rights in a pair of rulings.
Manhunt after Monaco bomb attack wounds Ukrainian-born tycoon. Prosecutor General Stéphane Thibault called the bombing an ‘attempted assassination’ CNN’s French affiliate BFMTV reported that the target of the explosion was businessman Vadym Yermolaiev who has left his home country.
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