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Lead: Apple is reportedly preparing a standalone Siri app to appear with iOS 27 and macOS 27, with a public reveal expected at WWDC on June 8–12. Sources say the app is being trialed across iPhone, iPad and Mac and would use Gemini models under Apple’s deal with Google. The new experience is said to … Read more

Lead On Tuesday, a New Mexico jury ordered Meta Platforms to pay $375 million after finding the company’s products harmed minors and exposed them to sexual exploitation. The verdict follows a six-week trial brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, who accused Meta of prioritizing profits over child safety. Jurors heard testimony from 40 … Read more

Epic Games announced on Tuesday that it will cut more than 1,000 positions as the company spends more than it earns despite Fortnite’s continuing popularity. In a staff note published online by founder and CEO Tim Sweeney, Epic also identified roughly $500 million in cost reductions across contracting, marketing, and unfilled roles intended to bring … Read more

Lead On March 24, 2026, University of North Carolina Athletics issued an official announcement saying the men’s basketball program will undergo a leadership change. The statement—published on the university’s athletics site—described an immediate transition and outlined next steps for interim management and a broader review of the program. The move affects one of the nation’s … Read more

Lead: On March 24, 2026, global oil benchmarks fell and Asian stocks rallied after U.S. President Donald Trump signaled willingness to pursue talks with Iran and Washington circulated a 15‑point plan meant to end the Middle East war. That shift, along with an Iranian letter dated March 22 offering more permissive passage through the Strait … Read more

Lead: Warner Bros. announced Tuesday night via its social channels that Stephen Colbert and his son, screenwriter Peter McGee, are developing a new Lord of the Rings feature. The project grows from chapters early in The Fellowship of the Ring that were omitted from Peter Jackson’s 2001 adaptation and is being scripted with longtime Jackson … Read more

On 25 March 2026, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched another series of strikes on sites in Israel and US facilities across the Gulf, even as the White House said it had sent a 15‑point proposal to Tehran aimed at ending the conflict. The strikes—reported on Wednesday morning by Iranian state media—hit targets in Kuwait, … Read more

North Carolina has formally opened a search for a new head coach to lead its storied men’s basketball program, and 247Sports has compiled a list of names under consideration after speaking with multiple sources. The reporting aggregates figures confirmed as legitimate targets as well as names circulating in the public narrative. This piece synthesizes that … Read more

Stephen Colbert will co-write a new installment in the Lord of the Rings film slate, a project announced alongside Peter Jackson on social media. The untitled follow-up, currently bearing the working name The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, is described as the second of two new films being developed from J.R.R. Tolkien’s … Read more

Lead On March 25, 2026, Meta Platforms Inc. told regulators it will award milestone‑based stock options to senior executives — the first such grants since the company’s 2012 IPO. The options will vest only if Meta meets ambitious stock‑price targets over the coming years, according to company filings released Tuesday. Meta says the awards are … Read more

Lead: Mette Frederiksen has emerged the clear winner of Denmark’s 2026 parliamentary contest, but her victory does not deliver an immediate, stable governing majority. The center-left triumph sets up delicate coalition bargaining in Copenhagen, where centrist leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen could become the decisive kingmaker. Negotiations unfolding over the coming days will determine whether Frederiksen … Read more

A drone strike that ignited a blaze at Kuwait International Airport on Tuesday has intensified regional tensions as US leaders approve a deployment of more than 1,000 members of the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East. Reports say the airport fire followed an unmanned attack; there were no immediate official casualty totals. At the … Read more

In a surprise result in Palm Beach, Democrats have flipped Florida House District 87 — the legislative seat that contains former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. First-time candidate Emily Gregory was projected to defeat Trump-backed Republican Jon Maples in a special election held Tuesday, reversing a 2024 Republican margin of 19 percentage points in the … Read more

Lead Grammy-winning South African composer Lebohang Morake, known as Lebo M, filed a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles in March 2026 accusing Zimbabwean comedian Learnmore Mwanyenyeka (stage name Learnmore Jonasi) of harming his reputation by misrepresenting the meaning of the opening chant to The Lion King, ‘Circle of Life.’ The complaint says Jonasi repeatedly offered … Read more

Lead: A drone strike that ignited a fire on Kuwait’s airport runway on 24 March 2026 has added a new flashpoint to an expanding Middle East conflict. Reports say emergency crews contained the blaze with limited operational disruption, while the US authorised the deployment of elements from the 82nd Airborne Division—around 1,000 personnel—to the region … Read more