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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – The Trump administration plans to meet executives from the biggest U.S. defense contractors at the White House as soon as next week to discuss accelerating production, as U.S. strikes on Iran and other recent military operations draw down supplies, sources said. The meeting would mark the second White House gathering with chief executives of America’s largest defense contractors on ramping up weapons […]

By Edmund Lee, Helen Coster and Dawn Chmielewski NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuters) – When Nick Bilton, the new head of “60 Minutes,” showed up at his first staff meeting last week, the CBS newsmagazine was already in turmoil. His predecessor was fired days before and several correspondents had either left or were pushed out. In the room with Bilton was Kelly Funke, a TV production consultant he hired to […]

Second-seeded Alex de Minaur of Australia recorded 27 winners against 17 unforced errors while notching a 7-6 (8), 7-5 victory over Martin Damm in the second round of the Libema Open at ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. With a 7-6 advantage in aces, de Minaur also had just one double fault compared to four for his opponent. Damm committed 44 unforced errors to go with 28 winners and stayed in the match by […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — While millions of soccer fans cheer or groan over World Cup matches spanning North America, health officials will be on high alert for germs. A heat wave may be the most obvious health threat. But infectious diseases can spread in a crowd, and experts are set to scrutinize wastewater, hospital visits, even social media for any signs that an outbreak might be brewing. Measles, one of the […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should preach to these conservative evangelical congregations. The amendment would tighten existing restrictions in the Southern Baptist Convention, which already has a faith statement opposing women pastors. The vote at the annual meeting was 6,028 to 2,026 — […]

LONDON (AP) — Laurence Olivier, arguably Britain’s greatest ever stage actor, was honored Wednesday with a blue plaque attached to the central London property where he lived as a child. Unveiled by Ian McKellen, the plaque at 22 Lupus Street in Pimlico marks the place where Olivier began acting as a child. “For those of us who were lucky enough to have seen him in the theater, it’s of course […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Payments giant Visa said Wednesday that it has embedded its payment network inside of ChatGPT, empowering the chatbot to independently shop and complete transactions on behalf of its user. It means AI agents can not only recommend products but complete the purchase on the user’s behalf, at potentially any merchant that accepts Visa. The payment network’s previous attempts at this technological leap were confined to a […]

DETROIT (AP) — Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Wednesday against eight pro-Palestinian activists who are accused of conspiring to run a criminal intimidation campaign against University of Michigan officials while trying to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel. The indictment also describes vandalism against some companies that operate in Michigan and against the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. “In America, we rule by law not by fear. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities served a search warrant on Wednesday at a Southern California aerospace facility where a chemical tank overheated last month, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate. The warrant signed by a federal judge last week approved the seizure of documents and records related to the “storage, use, or disposal” of methyl methacrylate, the chemical inside the affected tank. “Samples of the substance within any tank, tote, […]