Joseph Cooper

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.

Searches for the Nordic bob have climbed more than 408% in recent months, making it the breakout cut of 2026. Here is what the Scandi bob actually is, why stylists say it makes fine hair look twice as thick, and how it differs from the stacked, Italian and butterfly bobs.

The gymnast posted a photo in surgical attire alongside her husband, Jonathan Owens, with the caption 'His birthday but he takes me to get my procedure.' She has still not said what sent her to the hospital in June, when she wrote that 'almost dying wasn't on my bingo card.'

The $4,899 Cinema Line body was due August 18. B&H now says September, Adorama says September 15, and dealers report Sony has shipped nothing at all. The rumour is a quality-control problem. The verifiable fact is that Sony's largest image sensor plant was knocked offline by an earthquake on July 28 — the same day Sony warned of delays.

Federal authorities say Lorenzo Thompson, a Jamaican citizen, overstayed a 2021 visa by nearly five years. His union and supporters say he has a pending asylum case and valid work authorization. Under U.S. immigration law, both descriptions can be true at once.

The 90-minute window opens at 5:45 p.m. CDT Friday from Starbase. A post-ignition abort on July 16 left four engines apparently unlit, and Tropical Storm Bertha pushed the next attempt back. This flight carries 20 V3 Starlink satellites — the first real payload Starship has flown.

At a town hall in a majority-Black Dallas suburb, Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico said repairing the harms of slavery is 'part of my faith tradition' and described investing in Black communities. He did not name a bill, a cost, or a funding source — a gap that separates what he actually said from how the moment is being framed.

The former Cowboys quarterback and CBS lead analyst, a Wisconsin native, was stopped on I-43 on Thursday night and arrested on suspicion of operating while intoxicated. It is a first offense — which in Wisconsin is a civil citation, not a crime — and he is due in court in September.

Bertha is done. After coming ashore first in southeastern Louisiana and again near the Texas line, the season's second named storm weakened into a trough of low pressure northwest of Houston. The National Hurricane Center issued its final advisory Thursday night, and impacts across the Gulf Coast were mostly minor.

Trump put on a red 'Trump 2028' hat and said he intended to run for a fourth term — then said, in the next breath, 'all joking aside.' Accounts on X have been circulating the line without that part, and one post has passed 1.6 million views.

An executive order directs the National Park Service to post temporary signage near the National Museum of American History telling visitors its exhibits contain inaccurate information. The president has no authority over the museum itself — but the sidewalk out front is federal parkland.

Verizon will supply more than $1 billion in dark-fiber connectivity for Google's AI data centers, CEO Dan Schulman said Friday, framing it as the first of several infrastructure agreements he expects to be worth multiple billions in revenue. The deal landed alongside raised full-year guidance.

Two division leaders meet at Citizens Bank Park, with Cam Schlittler facing Jesus Luzardo. It is an Apple TV exclusive — and despite what a lot of headlines are promising, Friday Night Baseball is not free in 2026 unless you use a trial.

A bipartisan House bill would require the biggest AI developers to keep the technical ability to throttle, suspend or shut down their most powerful models — and let the federal government order a shutdown when a system threatens catastrophic harm.

The Google parent burned through $5.9 billion in the second quarter — its first cash burn on record — even as Google Cloud grew a record 82%. With Microsoft, Meta and Amazon reporting next week, investors are bracing for more of the same.

The band has paused every U.S. and Canadian date scheduled between July 23 and September 3, promising to return in late September. The official word is a 'short break,' but a longtime collaborator says 85-year-old Mike Love has been battling health issues.

A preliminary NTSB report lays out how a Delta flight and an American flight ended up on a collision course on June 20 — an erroneous cockpit warning that paused a takeoff, dark runway warning lights, and a controller who lost track of who he had cleared.

State data shows 148,241 mail ballots were thrown out — a 1.73% rejection rate and a jump from recent primaries. The single biggest reason wasn't fraud or signatures but timing, and experts point to changes in how the Postal Service applies postmarks.

The Ecuadorian broke clear in the final kilometres at Orcières-Merlette to give EF Education-EasyPost its first stage of this Tour. Tadej Pogacar kept the yellow jersey untroubled — but a sickness sweeping his UAE squad has become the race's new subplot.

Shuttered since the pandemic collapsed ArcLight Cinemas in 2021, the geodesic Hollywood landmark on Sunset Boulevard will be renovated and reopened by Sony-owned Alamo Drafthouse. Work starts next month, with a reopening targeted for early 2028.

Michigan has reported the first two US deaths in the cyclospora outbreak, both in people with significant underlying conditions. The state has logged 11,234 cases and 193 hospitalizations on its own. The federal tally everyone quotes hasn't been updated since July 16 and still lists no deaths. Here's what's confirmed, what's lagging, and what to do.

A revolt over water use, electric bills and vanishing ranchland is scrambling partisan lines in rural Texas. Democratic governor nominee Gina Hinojosa is betting it can dent Greg Abbott — even as prominent Republicans lead the backlash themselves.