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Tennis superstar Roger Federer announced via Instagram that he would retire from tennis after playing in the Laver Cup. Federer has dominated the tennis world for over 20 years and is retiring at 41 after injuries and surgeries prevented him from enjoying and playing tennis the way he wanted.
Adobe is acquiring the online design startup Figma for $20 billion.
Go deeper →Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took credit for sending a privately chartered plane filled with 50 immigrants to the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts. The plane took off from San Antonio, Texas, and the passengers were told they were being sent to Boston.
Go deeper →Two buses of immigrants dropped passengers outside Vice President Kamala Harris's residence in Washington D.C. today. Fox News was staged outside her residence as the buses unloaded.
The long-awaited Ethereum merge, which will change the energy-intensive process to certify ownership of cryptocurrency coins to a proof of stake model, went live today. Ethereum will now no longer rely on the resource-heavy mechanism for mining coins.
The Senate will delay voting on a bill to codify same-sex marriage until after the midterm elections, as it is more likely they will have the votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster.
Go deeper →Amtrack, the leaders of railroad workers unions, and president Biden all convened to avert a potential strike scheduled for Friday if Amtrack failed to settle with union leaders who demanded better conditions for workers.
Go deeper →The House has passed a bill with protections for civil service voters against an executive order signed by President Trump during his final months in office. 'Schedule F' was an executive order that made it easier to fire federal civil service workers and replace them with less-qualified candidates, whom critics of the bill suspected were Trump loyalists. President Biden rescinded the order, but Trump has spoken about his intention to reinstate the order should he be elected.
Actress Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds are expecting their fourth child. Lively revealed her pregnancy on the red carpet at the 10th annual Forbes Power Women's Summit.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act today, which mandates safeguards for minors using social media platforms. The protections include disclosures from social media companies about their misinformation and violent content policies.
Go deeper →Rapper Cardi B pled guilty to two misdemeanor charges for her role in a bottle-throwing incident in 2018. Instead, she will avoid jail time and serve 15 days of community service.
The editor-in-chief, the head of media, and other staff writers at Tencent's popular video gaming website Fanbytes were laid off today. The employees said they were given no warning, and the layoffs were a total shock. The site launched in 2018, and it is unclear how widespread the layoffs are.
Brooklyn Nets player Kyrie Irving shared a 2002 video from Alex Jones's show, Infowars, about supposed secret societies that would bring a plague upon the earth on his Instagram story today. Jones is a notorious conspiracy theorist who is best known for falsely claiming that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged.
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