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Iran's foreign minister says no 'final decision' on ceasefire 

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Iran’s foreign minister says no ‘final decision’ on ceasefire. Iran said it paused attacks on Israel Monday, but also stated it had not come to a “final decision” on a ceasefire.

“As Iran has repeatedly made clear: Israel launched war on Iran, not the other way around,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on the social platform X Monday evening. ”As of now, there is NO ‘agreement’ on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations.”

“However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards. The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later,” he added.

Shortly after, in a separate post, Araghchi said that “military operations of our powerful Armed Forces to punish Israel for its aggression continued until the very last minute, at 4am.”

“Together with all Iranians, I thank our brave Armed Forces who remain ready to defend our dear country until their last drop of blood, and who responded to any attack by the enemy until the very last minute,” he added.

President Trump said earlier Monday that Israel and Iran had “fully agreed” on “a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE,” on Truth Social, adding that it was going to start “in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!”

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Bank of New York Mellon Approached Northern Trust to Discuss Potential Merger

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Bank of New York Mellon Approached Northern Trust to Discuss Potential Merger

OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable

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OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable

Thanks to a related trademark lawsuit, we know what OpenAI and Jony Ive’s first AI device won’t be.

In court filings submitted this month, leaders from io — the consumer hardware team OpenAI recently acquired from Jony Ive’s design studio for $6.5 billion — testified that the first device they plan to release won’t be an “in-ear device” or a “wearable.” They also say the AI device won’t ship until “at least” 2026.

”The prototype Sam Altman referenced in the video is at least a year away from being offered for sale,” Tang Tan, io’s chief hardware officer and a former Apple design leader, said in a June 16th declaration. “Its design is not yet finalized, but it is not an in-ear device, nor a wearable device.”

“For many months after its founding, io surveyed the existing commercial offerings and engaged in prototyping exercises, as it considered a broad range of form factors, including objects that were desktop-based and mobile, wireless and wired, wearable and portable,” reads OpenAI’s June 12th opposition to Iyo’s lawsuit. “As part of these early efforts, io purchased a wide range of earbuds, hearing aids, and at least 30 different headphone sets from a variety of different companies.” (TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff first reported on the court documents.)

“thanks but im working on something competitive so will respectfully pass!”

While Tan’s declaration states that io’s first piece of hardware won’t be an “in-ear device,” it’s clear from the evidence submitted in the case that io and OpenAI have considered the category. In one email from late March, an io employee named Marwan Rammah told Tang that they should consider buying 3D scans of human ears “as a helpful starting point on ergonomics and HF.” And in another email earlier that month, Altman responded to Iyo’s offer to personally invest in the company by writing: “thanks but im working on something competitive so will respectfully pass!”

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Athletics celebrate groundbreaking of $1.75B Vegas stadium

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Athletics celebrate groundbreaking of $1.75B Vegas stadium

Jun 23, 2025, 04:45 PM ET

LAS VEGAS — With mounds of dirt, construction vehicles and the exact location where home plate will be at the new A’s Ballpark serving as the backdrop Monday morning, team owner John Fisher stood in front of a large gathering with one message: “We are Vegas’ team.”

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, state and local government dignitaries, former Athletics greats such as Rollie Fingers and Dave Stewart, Little Leaguers and many others looked on as the team celebrated the groundbreaking of a $1.75 billion, 33,000-person capacity ballpark that is expected to be finished in time for the 2028 season.

Nevada and Clark County have approved up to $380 million in public funds for the project.

“I have no doubt this is done in 2028,” team president Marc Badain said. “You know the workforce here; they’re all here and ready to get going.

“It’s nice to see the validation a day like today brings and what the next three years will mean for the community and for the construction project and the jobs and everything else that you’re going to see as this building comes out of the ground starting as early as tonight.”

Badain went through a similar process when serving in the same capacity for the NFL’s Raiders. He was a central figure in that team’s move from Oakland to Las Vegas in 2020 as well as the approval and construction of $2 billion Allegiant Stadium.

While waiting for Allegiant Stadium to be finished, the Raiders remained in Oakland for three seasons in the stadium they shared with the A’s. But while the Raiders maintained a largely strong connection to the Bay Area even while playing as a lameduck franchise, A’s fans were incensed about their team’s impending departure and the process involved.

That made staying in Oakland untenable for the franchise, which played its final season in the dilapidated stadium last year. The A’s are playing the first of at least three years about an hour away at a Triple-A ballpark in West Sacramento, California, while they await their move to Las Vegas.

“We are a local team,” Fisher said. “And we want to start from the youngest of fans, because if you can get the kids, you can get their parents. It takes less time than you think; what really takes time is … to have a winner.

“Our goal is to continue to build upon what we have, and building a team is like building anything else. Sometimes it takes more time than you want it to. It’s like building the stadium. And we think that we have the pieces to make ourselves really successful.”

The stadium will be built on nine acres of the 35-acre site owned by Bally’s on the corner of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard. The Tropicana’s resort towers were destroyed in an overnight demolition in October to clear the way for the ballpark.

The A’s are trying to strike a balance of making the most of their temporary home while also preparing for their future. Each A’s player wears a patch of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge on one sleeve and a Las Vegas logo on the other as part of a three-year sponsorship with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

The Las Vegas Stadium Authority in December approved lease, non-relocation and development documents, the last major steps for the A’s to eventually become Las Vegas’ team.

Artist renderings show a stadium with its five overlapping layers that bears a striking resemblance to Australia’s famed Sydney Opera House. A glass window beyond the outfield provides an outdoor feel with views of the Las Vegas Strip. Rather than a centralized cooling system, air conditioning will be distributed through the seats.

This will be MLB’s smallest stadium, though Tropicana Field where the Tampa Bay Rays usually call home has a capacity of 25,000 when the upper levels are closed off. It otherwise holds just less than 40,000 seats.

The Rays, like the A’s, are playing this season at a Triple-A ballpark after Hurricane Milton damaged their domed stadium. Tampa Bay’s long-term home is unknown, and the club could soon be in the hands of new owners.

Cleveland plays at Progressive Field, which now seats 34,830. It was downsized from the 43,345-seat capacity when the park opened in 1994.

The A’s are set to become the fourth major professional team in Las Vegas, joining the Raiders, NHL’s Golden Knights and WNBA’s Aces.

“I think that the demographics, the success that other sports have had and the amount of tourism here, those three legs of the stool make this an ideal market for us,” Manfred said. “I have no doubt that this team is going to be really successful in Vegas.”

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Yolanda Hadid Defends Photo of Gigi Hadid’s Daughter Khai

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Yolanda Hadid Defends Photo of Gigi Hadid’s Daughter Khai. Yolanda Hadid likes to have fun, but she doesn’t play games—especially where her granddaughter is concerned.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum posted a photo of Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik’s daughter Khai enjoying a day at the beach with her son Anwar Hadid in honor of his 26th birthday. However, some social media users chastised her for sharing the snap, seemingly because the 4-year-old was in a swimsuit.

“This is really inappropriate,” one user commented on Yolanda’s June 22 Instagram post. “A child’s privacy should always be respected posting such a photo is not okay. Please think about how this might affect her in the future.”

But the mom of three—who also shares daughter Bella Hadid, 28, with ex-husband Mohamed Hadid—didn’t take kindly to the criticism and stood by her decision to post the pic.

“Please go and harass somebody else’s feed,” she replied, adding, “You are not welcome here!!!”

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International law ‘at heart’ of Starmer’s foreign policy, says attorney general

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A commitment to international law “goes absolutely to the heart” of Sir Keir Starmer’s government and its approach to foreign policy, the attorney general has told the BBC.

In his first broadcast interview, Lord Richard Hermer, who is the Cabinet’s chief legal adviser, said that the government was determined to “lead on international law issues” globally.

He argued that this has enabled the UK to strike economic deals with the US, India and the EU in recent months.

The attorney general also defended Starmer’s decision to seek a “warm” relationship with President Trump even at the expense of “short-term political gain”.

Lord Hermer’s comments, which came in a full extended interview for an upcoming BBC Radio 4 programme Starmer’s Stormy Year, were made before recent speculation about his legal advice regarding the government’s approach to the conflict between Israel and Iran.

Nevertheless, they help to illuminate the approach being taken by one of the most powerful figures in government, as ministers navigate a perilous diplomatic moment.

On Monday, the government repeatedly declined to say whether it believed that America’s strikes on Iran were legal, arguing that this was not a question for British ministers to assess.

The approach to the law taken by Hermer, an old friend of the prime minister who had no political profile prior to his surprise appointment almost a year ago, has been a persistent controversy throughout Starmer’s premiership.

Asked whether international law was a “red line” for the prime minister in foreign policy, Hermer replied: “If you ask me what’s Keir’s kind of principal overriding interest, it is genuinely to make life better for the people of this country.”

He continued: “Is international law important to this government and to this prime minister? Of course it is.

“It’s important in and of itself, but it’s also important because it goes absolutely to the heart of what we’re trying to achieve, which is to make life better for people in this country.

“And so I am absolutely convinced, and I think the government is completely united on this, that actually by ensuring that we are complying with all forms of law – domestic law and international law – we serve the national interest.”

Hermer added: “Look, we’ve just entered trade deals with the United States, with India, with the EU, and we’re able to do that because we’re back on the world stage as a country whose word is their bond.

“No one wants to do deals with people they don’t trust. No one wants to sign international agreements with a country that’s got a government that’s saying, well, ‘we may comply with it, we may not’.

“We do. We succeed. We secure those trade deals, which are essential for making people’s lives better in this country.

“We secure deals on migration with France, with Germany, with Iraq, that are going to deal with some of the other fundamental problems that we face, and we can do that because we comply, and we’re seen to comply and indeed lead on international law issues.

“Being a good faith player in international law is overwhelmingly in the national interests of this country.”

Speaking about the UK’s relationship with the US more generally, Hermer said: “It’s a relationship that will no doubt at various points have various different pressures, but it is an absolutely vital one for us to have.

“I think the approach that Keir has taken, which is never to give in to that kind of Love Actually instinct for short-term political gain, but rather to ensure that our relationship with the United States remains warm, that channels of communication are always open, that there is mutual respect between us.

“I think that is overwhelmingly in this country’s interests.”

In the 2003 film Love Actually, a fictional prime minister contradicts a US president during a press conference.

Earlier this year, Hermer said he regretted “clumsy” remarks in which he compared calls for the UK to depart from international law and arguments made in 1930s Germany.

In a speech, he criticised politicians who argue the UK should abandon “the constraints of international law in favour of raw power”, saying similar claims had been made by legal theorists in Germany in the years before the Nazis came to power.

Some Conservatives and Reform UK have called for the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Cassidy calls for postponing RFK Jr's vaccine advisory panel meeting

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) called for the delay of this week’s meeting of a federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, citing concerns about members’ lack of experience and potential bias towards vaccines.

“Wednesday’s meeting should not proceed with a relatively small panel, and no CDC Director in place to approve the panel’s recommendations,” Cassidy wrote in a post on X late Monday evening.

He noted that members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices “do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology,” and some may even have a “preconceived bias against” mRNA vaccines.

Cassidy’s comments represent the strongest statement he’s made to date about Kennedy or his actions, though he did not mention the secretary by name. Cassidy voted to confirm Kennedy despite publicly wavering over the nomination and sharply criticizing his views on vaccines. 

Kennedy fired the entire 17-member ACIP panel earlier this month, arguing a “clean sweep” was needed to purge conflicts of interest and help restore trust in vaccinations and public health.  

The move was an unprecedented escalation in Kennedy’s quest to reshape the nation’s vaccine policy and seemingly ignored one of the key promises Cassidy said he extracted from the longtime anti-vaccine activist.

He then appointed eight new members, several of whom are vocal vaccine critics. 

If the meeting isn’t delayed, Cassidy said, the panel’s recommendations “could be viewed with skepticism, which will work against the success of this Administration’s efforts.”

The two-day meeting begins Wednesday. Part of the agenda includes discussion and a vote on recommendations concerning thimerosal, a vaccine ingredient wrongly linked to autism that Kennedy has long called to be banned. 

oil prices fall back after short-lived surge in early trading

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The price of oil was essentially flat Monday morning U.S. time after having opened higher Sunday evening U.S. time following the military strike on Iran by the Trump administration.

Even the initial increase in price was considered somewhat underwhelming compared to the more apocalyptic predictions heard prior to the attack.

However, from the perspective of the trucking industry, it was the continued strength of diesel compared to crude and gasoline that might get the greatest amount of attention.

At approximately 7:05 p.m. EDT, about an hour after trading began on various exchanges, global crude benchmark Brent was up $1.88/barrel to $78.89/b, a gain of 2.44%. The U.S benchmark crude grade, West Texas Intermediate, was up 2.52% to $75.70/b, a gain of $1.86/b. RBOB gasoline, which is a semi-finished gasoline product that serves as the trading platform for finished gasoline, was up 2.19% to $2.3806/gallon, an increase of 5.11 cts/g. (RBOB is essentially gasoline without the added ethanol).

But it was ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) that showed the largest increase Sunday evening. It rose 3.67% to $2.6352/g, an increase of 9.34 cts/g.

In a remarkable reversal, by 9:30 a.m. EDT, oil prices were flat to down from the Friday settlement on the CME commodity exchange.

Just before 9:30, ULSD was down about 25 basis points, or .09%. WTI was up .08% and Brent was up a little less than 0.2%.

Later news that two oil tankers that had at first done a U-turn to avoid going through the Strait and then reversed that decision and went through anyway helped calm markets.

In an interview on Bloomberg Television and reported by Bloomberg, Bob McNally, founder of Rapidan Energy Advisers LLC and a long-time Washington energy official, said earlier gains in the market already had moved the price to a level that reflected possible turmoil.

“We are up $10 a barrel since the war started, now a little more, and so I think there is an appropriate amount of risk in the market,” he said. “Traders are holding their breath, waiting to see if Israel or Iran expand this conflict beyond military and political targets into traded energy. “So far, no one has pulled that trigger , and if they don’t, I can see the price reversing.”

If ULSD settled at that level Monday afternoon in the U.S., it would be the highest price since a settlement of $2.6513/g on April 16, 2024.

The most bullish scenario for the oil market in the weeks leading up to the attack by the U.S. on Iranian nuclear facilities and now in the wake of an actual one is the fate of the Strait of Hormuz, which is the gateway to the Persian Gulf and the route of oil exports from numerous countries, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran.

T-Mobile’s satellite service officially launches in July

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When it goes live next month, “T-Satellite” will be available as an included service with just one T-Mobile plan — Experience Beyond — and will otherwise cost $10 per month. Like the beta service, it will be available to anyone in the US, not just T-Mobile customers.

At launch, T-Satellite will only include SMS on Android and iOS, as well as MMS on Android. T-Mobile says that MMS on iOS is “to follow.” And on October 1st, its satellite connectivity will get another upgrade: data.

But don’t expect to be able to use every app on your phone in a dead zone just yet. The company has a handful of app makers that it “anticipates” will enable satellite data connectivity, including AllTrails, Accuweather, and WhatsApp. The announcement also names Apple and Google as partners, but doesn’t list specific apps from either company.

Verizon and AT&T have taken issue with T-Mobile and Starlink’s parent company, SpaceX, claiming its satellite implementation will hamper their efforts. It doesn’t seem like those complaints have slowed Starlink and T-Mobile down.

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