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Published On 30 Aug 202530 Aug 2025Taylor Townsend is in the spotlight at the US Open as a result of an interaction she wishes had never taken place.Townsend said Jelena Ostapenko told her she had “no class” and “no education” during a face-to-face argument after their second-round match on Wednesday.A huge crowd cheered her on in doubles on Thursday, and Townsend made the most of a spot in prime time at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday night, upsetting fifth-seeded Mirra Andreeva 7-5, 6-2.Going into this Grand Slam, Townsend had nowhere near the star power or the name recognition of fellow…

Nearly 1,000 “worker over billionaire” protests are being planned in all 50 states starting this weekend as part of a Labor Day week of action organized by labor unions and advocacy groups in opposition to the Trump administration’s policies.The actions include marches and rallies in cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles, a Labor Day parade in New York City, rallies in Palmer, Alaska, Freeport, Maine, and a planned protest at the state capitol in Honolulu, Hawaii.The protests are organized by the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the US, and dozens of partner organizations, including Public Citizen,…

It’s only been since June that Meta invested $14.3 billion in the data-labeling vendor Scale AI, bringing on CEO Alexandr Wang and several of the startup’s top executives to run Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). But the relationship between the two companies is already showing signs of fraying. At least one of the executives Wang brought over to help run MSL — Scale AI’s former Senior Vice President of GenAI Product and Operations, Ruben Mayer — has departed Meta after just two months with the company, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.  Mayer spent roughly five years with Scale…

Luis R Conriquez has been itching to make a rap and reggaeton album for a long time. Sure, he’s a corridos artist at heart, but he’d always wondered if other genres could work, too. “With everything going on with corridos,” he tells Rolling Stone over Zoom, “it made eve more sense to do this. We were already changing things up.” In recent months, several corridos stars, including Conriquez, have stepped back from the genre as the spotlight on narco-themed music has grown. A few months ago, Conriquez even had to cut a show short after fans expressed frustration over his…

Ready or not, the NFL is back! The regular season is less than a week away when the Philadelphia Eagles open up Lincoln Financial Field, unveil their newest Super Bowl championship banner, and take on the Dallas Cowboys to get Week 1 off the ground. From there, it’ll be a mad dash to Santa Clara for Super Bowl LX, and there will be a lot that goes down between now and then. And we’re going to give our best guesses as to how some teams may fare in 2025.As we do every year, we’ve corralled our CBS Sports staffers and…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The smelly, gigantic blobs of brown seaweed that drift across the Atlantic Ocean every summer may not seem like a major threat at first glance. Yet, they are major players in Earth’s marine ecosystems. Once believed to be restricted to the nutrient-deprived Sargasso Sea off the United States’ eastern coast, marine biologists now better understand pelagic Sargassum for what it is—a fast growing organism found across a vast range of waters, with complex ramifications for its surroundings. Sargassum is a genus of brown seaweed (and therefore…

Still, many Cypriots refuse the idea that the 50-year-old conflict is insurmountable. There are small biocommunal efforts around the island’s shared heritage, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed a measured optimism around recent talks—the first substantial negotiations between the two leaders since 2017—with more meetings set for this September.Exciting developments have also enlivened the Cypriot tourism industry in recent years. While the island has its share of large seaside resorts, a wave of chic boutique hotels, often housed in restored historic buildings, has come to the cities and the interior. And a €170 million project recently commenced to expand…

When Andy, a server in Pizza Express, found himself in financial hot water before payday, getting a cheap advance on his wages was easy. Pizza Express, like hundreds of other employers with low-wage workers – including Asda, Next, Superdrug, Burger King and a number of NHS trusts – had struck a deal with the “financial wellbeing” app Wagestream, giving workers access to a suite of services including its key moneymaker: salary advance.For just £1.75 per withdrawal, Andy could take up to half of his wages early, with the agreement that he merely gave up the sum at payday. But the…

(Image courtesy of Amazon Studios) The name is familiar, and so are the stars, but critics hated the new War of the Worlds movie so much that initially, not one gave it a positive review on Rotten Tomatoes. It didn’t seem to matter: the low-budget film became Amazon’s most popular feature project in August, hitting No. 1 for most of a week and remaining in the top five most of the month. Not bad for a film that critics savaged. For the film’s producer Patrick Aiello, that over-performance suggests, once again, the declining power of critical takes in driving audiences…

Every platform wants to be the place you hang with friends — even Spotify as of this week — so it’s apparently time for TikTok to shore up its direct messaging feature! It told TechCrunch that over the next few weeks, all users should see voice messages and image sharing options arrive in their DMs.(They won’t show up for accounts that can’t DM to begin with, of course — “Direct Messaging is only available to accounts 16 years and older which means these features are only available to those accounts,” TikTok spokesperson JaShel Jones clarifies to The Verge.)I checked, and…