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She taught literacy in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, marched against the Vietnam War and spent 35 years in Boston public school classrooms. She was also Ben and Casey Affleck's mother. Her family announced her death this week — she died on June 2.

Russell died Wednesday at his home near San Diego. Across three decades he rescued the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, made Jim Carrey a movie star, gave Cameron Diaz her first role and handed Dwayne Johnson his first lead.

Anthropic's new Opus 5 lands today at the same price as its predecessor, with company benchmarks showing large gains in agentic coding, computer use and knowledge work. It tops most of Anthropic's charts but not all of them, and still trails the specialized Mythos 5 on the riskiest cyber and biology tasks.

Chicago (57-45) opens a three-game set at PNC Park against a Pirates team (53-50) that is close enough to the division lead to complicate its own deadline plans. Matthew Boyd faces Jared Jones at 6:40 p.m. ET, with Pittsburgh down another catcher.

Arizona (54-49) holds the last NL wild-card spot by a thread, and Washington (52-51) is two back. Eduardo Rodriguez and his 2.63 ERA face Carson Palmquist, who is carrying an 8.74. First pitch 6:45 p.m. ET at Nationals Park.

The imprisoned music mogul was moved to segregated housing at a New Jersey federal prison after an altercation with a fellow inmate, according to multiple accounts. The Bureau of Prisons declined to confirm the incident, and it remains unclear whether the confinement is a short-term measure or something longer.

A Disneyland employee threw his keys and walkie-talkie into the water, removed his shirt and jumped into the Rivers of America in front of guests on a 90-degree afternoon. Disney says he was not hurt and that it is investigating.

Los Angeles arrives at Citi Field 65-38, the best record in the majors. New York is 43-60 and fifth in the NL East. Roki Sasaki faces Sean Manaea in the opener of three, with the trade deadline a week away and the two clubs pointed in opposite directions.

The Trump administration announced last October that it was killing 223 clean energy projects to stop waste. In a July court filing, an Energy Department lawyer acknowledged that of 284 terminated grants, all but one went to states Kamala Harris won — and that none were cut for any programmatic, statutory, cost or performance reason.

The triple-hormone drug produced up to 20.8% weight loss in people with type 2 diabetes and 22.6% in people with severe obesity and heart disease. Lilly will file with the FDA in early 2027. The cardiovascular numbers, though, are not the clean result the weight numbers are.

A wiring harness in the engine compartment can chafe, short circuit and catch fire. The recall covers 2021-2026 Bronco and Bronco Raptor SUVs. Ford recall number 26S55, NHTSA campaign 26V468 — VINs are searchable now, and the dealer fix is free.

The X-T6 is expected in the first week of September, with a 40MP sensor, 8K video, a new film simulation and reworked dials. Fujifilm has confirmed almost none of it. Here is the evidence tiered by how solid it actually is.

Manager Tony Vitello said McDonald's elbow ligament injury will get a second opinion this weekend and implied the rookie right-hander is unlikely to pitch again in 2026. Bader, out since May 29 with plantar fasciitis, has stopped baseball activity and will see a foot specialist Monday.

Chris Haynes reports Caldwell-Pope and Memphis are negotiating a buyout, and that he plans to sign with the 76ers once he reaches the open market. Nothing is agreed yet — and he would be walking away from a $21.6 million option to do it.

LaRocque had been the band's lead guitarist since 1985 and its only other constant member across 12 studio albums. He was publicly discussing the unreleased album 'Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920' as recently as last month. Gus G takes over writing, recording and touring.

The new Comic-Con trailer gives the first look at Ulrich Thomsen's Sinestro, brings Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner over from 'Superman,' and names the threat: the Manhunters, shape-shifters who can look like anyone. Eight episodes, starting August 16 on HBO.

In a stunning free-agency move, the 41-year-old is joining a loaded Sixers roster on a two-year, $8 million deal — taking the veteran minimum to chase a fifth championship as he begins a record-extending 24th NBA season with his fourth franchise.

The long-teased track arrived Friday after a June snippet, a TikTok leak and a live debut in Baltimore. Wallen says the melodies came together in about half an hour — and that he still isn't sure what project it leads into.

The French action thriller about the GIGN hit No. 1 on Netflix worldwide within hours of its July 22 premiere and has charted in 104 countries. Star Tomer Sisley says a second season is being worked on — and that France's real counterterrorism unit is willing to open its barracks again.

The House has passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. The trade-off is later winter sunsets — but also much later winter sunrises. Our map estimates the latest morning each state would face, from before 8 a.m. in the Deep South to well after 9 a.m. across the northern tier.

When a transmission line faulted in Northern Virginia's Data Center Alley, more than 3 GW of data-center demand dropped off PJM at once — roughly 3% of the grid's load — sending a voltage and frequency disturbance rippling from Washington to Chicago. No one lost power, but it doubled a warning grid operators got just two years ago.

Every PlayStation Network service went down Friday — account management, the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Direct, even the PS3 and Vita. Sony spent hours saying nothing while its status page still read OK. The outage coincided with a broad Amazon Web Services failure that hit much of the internet at once.

Baseball's best record hosts baseball's worst. Milwaukee (64-38) opens a three-game set against Colorado (41-63) at American Family Field in a rare Friday afternoon start, with Tomoyuki Sugano facing Shane Drohan. First pitch is 4:10 p.m. ET.

Shea Lacey and Joshua Zirkzee scored either side of half-time and Manchester United pulled clear late to beat Rosenborg 5-0 at Lerkendal Stadion, an emphatic pre-season run-out for Rúben Amorim's much-changed team.