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Apple to raise prices as AI boom pushes up chip costs
The firm’s outgoing boss Tim Cook did not say when prices will rise or which products will be affected.
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Bird flu kills more than 75% of baby seals on remote Australian island, study finds
Scientists, using data from last October and this January, estimate about 13,000 baby seals from a group of 17,000 on Heard Island were killed by the H5N1 strain of bird flu since last August, more than 75% of the entire group. They also found higher than expected deaths in penguin populations.
Why Padres trading for Tigers star Tarik Skubal is unlikely now
The Padres have arguably one of the most aggressive president of baseball operations in the sport.
A.J. Preller isn’t afraid to take the leap when it comes to Major League Baseball’s trade deadline. Last summer, the Padres made the deal of the deadline when Preller acquired Mason Miller from the Athletics.
The return package was perhaps the most shocking part of the trade; the Padres sent top prospect Leo De Vries and three other prospects to the Athletics. The move signaled the Padres’ desire to make a deep playoff run, and several insiders believed that would also be the case in 2026.
A few weeks ago, the Padres were considered early favorites to land Tigers ace Tarik Skubal in a blockbuster trade. But San Diego’s slumping offense has given the Skubal speculation reason to pause.
The Padres’ offense ranks last in batting average, OPS, runs and total bases. Though Preller is an aggressive GM, his pursuit of Skubal may be futile if the lineup remains stagnant.
MLB insider Jeff Passan believes the lack of offensive production could hinder the Padres’ deadline plans.
“I think the Padres’ deadline is going to be fascinating this year because when you are in the same league as the Dodgers and the Braves and the Phillies and the Brewers… the National League is stacked. It’s an impressive group of teams. If you’re A.J. Preller and you see the way that your offense has operated this year and you look at the top of your rotation, do you go get Tarik Skubal?” Passan said on “Foul Territory.”
“I think if Ethan Salas is in a trade, at very least, Scott Harris and Detroit, the president of baseball operations there, has to listen because he might potentially be the best prospect that gets offered. But is it worth renting Tarik Skubal for a team like this? A team that has flaws. Or do you look at it and say, you know what, the truth is if we have Tarik Skubal, if we have Michael King, if we have this bullpen, we can go out and beat anybody. But the Padres have mortgaged their farm system so much in recent years.
“I just don’t know if this is the Padres team that’s going to go out and chase.”
Despite winning the deadline last summer, the Padres made an early postseason exit in 2025 with a loss in the wild-card round to the Cubs. As the trade deadline draws closer, it remains to be seen whether Preller will go all in as the Padres’ bats search for answers this summer.
UK Weather: Developing heatwave to send temperatures above 30C
On Thursday temperatures are expected to rise to around 25-28C across the Midlands, East Anglia and south-east England, where there’ll also be some sunshine.
Elsewhere it will stay fairly cloudy with some rain, easing to showers, with temperatures around 17 to 24C, closer to the average for mid-June.
There will be another bout of wet weather on Friday in Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern and western areas of England and Wales.
It will then turn drier and sunnier for all parts over the weekend with some light winds. Temperatures in these areas will rise a little over the coming days, they will remain at the modest level of 19 to 26C.
The heat across southern and eastern areas of England is expected to build further on Friday with temperatures of 27 to 31C expected.
While less hot on Saturday, by Sunday and Monday temperatures could return to the high twenties and up to 31 or even 32C.
By Monday there could be some big thunderstorms developing across England and Wales.
With the heat persisting into Tuesday across south-eastern areas, some locations may enter official heatwave conditions with temperatures above 27C or 28C for three consecutive days.
The heatwave threshold varies in each county, but it sits between 25C across Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and parts of the south-west of England, and 28C in London.
Trump and Iran’s president sign initial deal aiming to end war
US President Donald Trump, who signed the deal in France during the G7 summit, defended the proposal, saying it would it would stave off an “economic catastrophe”. He warned, though, that the US would “bomb the hell” out of Iran if no final deal emerged.
MLB changing rules to Home Run Derby again
The Home Run Derby is getting a makeover.
One of the premier events of MLB’s All-Star week is ditching the clock and going with a set number of swings instead, The Athletic reported Wednesday.
In the first round, contestants will get 20 swings before going down to 15 in the second and third rounds.
In a fun twist, hitters will continue to swing if they homer on the final hack in each round until they produce an out.
For example, if a player hits a homer on the 20th swing of the first round, they keep taking swings until they record an out.
The top four finishers of the eight-player pool from the first round will advance to the second round, where the top first-round finisher will face the player with the fewest homers in the first round.
The second and third seeds also will face off to decide the championship matchup.
One of the biggest reasons for the change, according to The Athletic, was the new viewing experience for fans. This year’s derby will be the first on Netflix, and the streamer’s personnel asked for feedback from MLB and players for ways to improve the competition.
With the previous structure utilizing a timer, players said they would get tired trying to take as many swings as possible before the clock expired. Players will now have the ability to build drama and anticipation between swings.
The Home Run Derby has undergone several rule and format changes since the event’s introduction in 1985. From that year through 2014, the competition used some form of an outs-based system. In 2015 at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, MLB introduced the clock to great fanfare.
Fans will see the newest setup in action in the 2026 Home Run Derby, scheduled for 8 p.m. Eastern on July 13 at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park.
None of the eight participants has been announced, though Yankees slugger Ben Rice said this week that he “would love” to be part of the homer show.
Sabrina Ionescu’s game-winning layup, bench lead Liberty past Sky
CHICAGO — The Liberty extended their win streak to eight games Wednesday with a 96-95 win against the Chicago Sky.
New York mostly had its bench to thank for staying in the game. And Jonquel Jones’s nine-point fourth quarter and Sabrina Ionescu’s redeeming game-winning layup to secure the victory.
Satou Sabally scored 17 points on 8-for-11 shooting and Rebekah Gardner added 10 to lead the Liberty in outscoring the Sky’s bench 38-14.
The Sky had no business hanging around as long as they did. But it was like the Liberty were unaware that the Sky’s rookies, Gabriela Jaquez and Sydney Taylor, were respectable scoring threats.
Taylor, coming off a breakout 30-point performance against the Indiana Fever, led all scorers with 24 points. Jaquez added 22.
The Sky have been one of the biggest disappointments in the WNBA this season. They started 3-1 but have gone completely off the rails since.
Entering Wednesday, they had lost nine of their previous 11. One of their top offseason acquisitions — Rickea Jackson — suffered a season-ending ACL tear last month. Courtney Vandersloot, one of the franchise’s most tenured players, has yet to return after injuring her knee a year ago.
But Liberty coach Chris DeMarco wouldn’t be fooled by the challenge the Sky might present.
“They have a lot of talent,” DeMarco said of the Sky. “… Definitely a dangerous team.”
The Sky rudely awoke the Liberty in the first quarter, pulling ahead by as many as 14 points.
The Liberty used a 22-6 run across the end of the first quarter and into the second to take a one-point lead.
But the Sky never backed off. They kept pace with the Liberty, keeping within three points for most of the third quarter.
Leonie Fiebich’s 3-pointer toward the end of the third gave the Liberty a six-point advantage for their largest lead of the night to that point.
Every time the Liberty seemed to build their lead back up, the Sky found a way to trim it, whether it was Taylor’s 3-pointer that cut the Liberty’s lead to one or Elizabeth Williams’ deflection that forced a Breanna Stewart turnover.
Taylor secured the rebound off Stewart’s miss late in the game. Then she drained the go-ahead 3-pointer that sent the Wintrust Arena crowd to its feet.
Then, Ionescu drove by Skylar Diggins for the game-winning layup.
Taylor’s shot at the end of the game bounced off the rim.
Give the Sky credit, they went down swinging.
Wednesday was an emotional game for Natasha Cloud, who’s dealing with the hurt that comes after a breakup with someone you envisioned a future with.
She’s moved on from New York — not that she necessarily had the choice.
The Liberty said they had versions of their 2026 roster that included Cloud.
But when the time came, other dominoes fell, leaving Cloud as the odd woman out.
The Liberty landed marquee free agent Satou Sabally. They also signed highly sought-after French guard Pauline Astier. When the salary cap hits for each signing came to light, it became abundantly clear that the Liberty’s books were close to the max.
Cloud remained unsigned as training camps opened across the league before the Sky signed her four days before the season opener.
Speaking with The Post pregame, Cloud declined to discuss in detail what happened with New York in the end.
“Right now, I’m just focused on getting another dub,” Cloud said. “It happens to be [against] New York, but very happy to be where my feet are. Y’all know what it is. … This business is political. Business is business.”
Investigators searching for new videos of Amy Hillyard in Bay Area
A beloved Bay Area mom of two, wife, and coffee shop owner vanished without a trace months ago and now investigators hired by the family are seeking surveillance video they believe will give a clue as to what happened to her.
Amy Hillyard, 52, co-owner of Farley’s Coffee in San Francisco, was last seen on March 25 walking her dog near the 500 block of Radnor Road in Oakland. Witnesses reported she was wearing a tan top and tan pants at the time of her disappearance.
Thanks to the generosity of friends, those in the community and others who heard about her story, a GoFundMe has raised enough money for the Hillyard family to hire a private investigative team who is focused on finding that missing piece of information that could bring her home, per an update on BringAmyHome.com.
Investigators have asked for surveillance video from residents and building owners in the areas near where she was last seen starting from Wednesday, March 25th after 2 p.m.
The private team wants video from those in the area regardless of whether it shows people in the video or not.
“With 100% certainty, I believe there is a piece of surveillance that contains a clue,” says Steve Fischer of Search Investigations, LLC.
“Amy’s friends and volunteers have done a remarkable job building maps, going door-to-door, searching park trails.”
“We are using the information they gathered to launch a more focused search to discover where Amy went after she disappeared from her home,” Fischer added.
The update said that Fischer, along with investigator Steve Gelinske, had visited buildings in the area to get “videos from security cameras that were not previously received.”
“Using drones, tracing the steps she might have taken, visiting with homeowners and building owners, the investigators are leaving no stone unturned,” the message read.
Investigators are specifically looking for any kind of surveillance footage/Ring cameras from the following locations:
- Cleveland Heights
- Park Boulevard corridor
- MacArthur Boulevard vicinity
- Trestle Glen
- Crocker Highlands
“Even previously reviewed footage may give investigators critical insight and new information,” the message read.
“If you have reviewed video from that afternoon and there is no activity whatsoever, that information is also valuable to investigators.”
Amy’s husband, Chris Hillyard said on the day his wife went missing she visited a therapist.
She then texted him after she returned from the appointment around 1:40 p.m. he said, to tell him she was home.
Surveillance video showed that shortly after she got home, she took their dog for a walk and also spoke to a neighbor.
When Chris got home around 3:15 p.m., he said all he found was her cellphone, keys and other personal belongings on the kitchen counter, with the back door open.
Chris later opened up about the mental health challenges his wife was facing after dealing with several losses, providing some insight into why she was listed as “at risk due to a medical conditions” when she vanished.
He said that her mental health situation had gotten bad enough that she sought help from a professional who prescribed medication to help Amy deal with feelings of anxiety and depression.
The California Post reached out to the Oakland Police Department who said “there is no evidence to suggest foul play” and the investigation remains ongoing.
“At present, there is no evidence of abduction, kidnapping, or any other crime associated with her disappearance.”
Miranda Devine: Trump is showing the world, G7 leaders who’s the ‘boss’ and deserves respect for his deal-making
“I’m the boss,” President Trump joked when he arrived a bit late to a meeting with G7 leaders in France Wednesday.
He is.
That’s what his detractors forget.
America is “the boss” again, the colossus.
Iran doesn’t bully us.
Israel doesn’t instruct us.
Europe can sneer at Donald Trump all it likes, but it’s a supplicant.
China respects us.
Canada bows.
Trump understands power, and it rests easy on his shoulders.
He joked about it at the G7 in his relaxed American fashion, and European leaders now get it.
They laughed along, but they understood.
By the time he had emerged from a glittering dinner at Versailles to fly home, he had signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran that has the great and the good worked up into a symphony of hysterical catastrophizing.
While they hyperventilate, Trump casually shrugs and says it’s just a framework for negotiations toward a deal, and if it doesn’t work, he’ll just bomb Iran.
“If I don’t like it, if they don’t behave, we’ll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head, OK?” he told the media on the sidelines of the G7.
What the naysayers don’t understand is that the 14-point memorandum Trump signed is not a deal.
It’s a political document setting out terms agreed by both sides for negotiating a final deal that would result in Iran agreeing never to produce or procure nuclear weapons, with strict oversight.
In the meantime, the MOU gets the Strait of Hormuz open and gas prices down before the midterms, easing domestic political constraints on Trump.
The period of negotiation toward the hoped-for final deal is nominally 60 days, but senior administration officials agree it could take longer — in other words, until after the midterms.
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Why do it now?
In return, all the US agrees to in the short term is to remove the naval blockade on the strait — for now — and allow Iran to sell its oil.
Why do the deal now when we had our foot on their throat?
After all, Iran can no longer be the bully of the Middle East.
We have knocked out their military, sunk their navy, degraded their industrial capacity and started to force open the strait, and at the same time we have crippled their economy with our blockade and with all the devilishly creative strategies Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has crafted into Operation Economic Fury, with version 2.0 ready to roll if the deal doesn’t get done.
But the reason for the memo now is that Iran cried uncle.
“We were getting between five and 8 million barrels a day out of the southern lane [of the strait], and that was increasing,” said a senior administration official Wednesday.
“Oil prices were coming down, and that was increasing our leverage, and I do think that that helped make them realize that our blockade was incredibly effective, and their blockade was losing.”
And for the first time, Iran was telling US negotiators they would agree to stopping all nuclear enrichment for at least 10-15 years, dismantle all their nuclear sites, and agree to full inspections.
“If they weren’t telling us that . . . we would have kept the blockade and kept squeezing them,” said the official.
The carrot at the end would be the lifting of all sanctions, releasing frozen funds, and a $300 billion investment fund funded by Gulf countries, but none of that happens until after the final deal is done, and only if Iran lives up to its end of the deal, with the exact structure and timing of staged events to be negotiated.
“This MOU basically was a political document,” says the official, describing the Iranians as “master p.r. guys and bulls–tters, so they’re out saying a lot of things, but at the end of the day we’re not agreeing to give them anything.”
The administration is realistic about the untrustworthiness of the Iranians.
“This is a one-in-a-million shot to change Iran’s way, but . . . the costs that we’re expending in order to do it are small relative to the upside of it succeeding.”
Trump will go along with negotiations as long as it suits him. He has more than two years left of his term, and it suits him to have the Iranian regime constantly in fear of bombs dropping on their heads.
“We do have the [midterm] elections coming up,” said the official.
“Getting the oil prices down, gas prices down is good. Let’s play with this for a couple of months, whether you make a good deal or not.”
By Wednesday afternoon, even the Republican Senate’s most flamboyant war hawk, Lindsey Graham, had experienced a change of heart after a conversation with Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff.
“After this discussion, it is my opinion that signing the MOU will be beneficial to the United States,” Graham said.
Wonders never cease.
“Whether or not the United States can reach an acceptable, verifiable deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program and other issues is yet to be determined, but I see little downside to trying.
“The economic stability that comes from opening up the strait and the cessation of hostilities could create a pathway to peace well beyond the Iranian conflict.”
New Israel-Saudi ties
He’s talking about the expansion of the Abraham Accords and the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
That is one of the most significant differences between Trump’s Iran pathway and Obama’s JCPOA sleight of hand.
Trump’s negotiations have the support of Gulf allies, which Obama never had.
In fact the Gulf countries were opposed to Obama’s deal because they believed correctly that it just empowered and enriched Iran.
Unlike Obama, Trump is negotiating from a position of strength.
The armchair warmongers calling for a massive troop deployment to “finish the job” have learned nothing from the last 20 years.
This isn’t 2003.
The American people have no stomach for another endless, costly war in the Middle East.
Personally, having doubted Trump at times over the years, only to be proven wrong time and again, I think he’s earned the right to have his judgment respected when it comes to deal-making, and his resolve to use military force to make Iran pay if it tries to stiff us again.
A fascinating story in the Times of London this week points to another pressure point on the Iranian regime that is quietly playing out, no doubt with Trump’s full knowledge.
Women in Tehran are starting to drive around on motorcycles wearing skirts and without hijabs covering their hair, a crime that used to result in fines, jail and savage beatings.
“The morality police, for now, appear to have largely given up enforcing the rules,” the report says.
The Islamic Republic is crumbling from the inside, and Trump, alone, made it happen.