Bobby Flay remembers his late friend for more than just her cooking.
After Food Network host Anne Burrell was founddead at her New York home on June 17, Flay spoke out to share his treasured memories with the late chef.
“Worst Cooks in America was the funnest show on TV,” he wrote on his Instagram Story June 18. “All of your co-hosts (me included) were just alongside for the Anne Burrell ride.”
But the 55-year-old impacted him in ways beyond the kitchen.
“The greatest gift I got from AB,” Flay continued, “was turning me on to a world of Maine Coon Cats (including Nacho)… a gift that I’ll have forever.”
He accompanied the tribute with a smiling photo of Burrell hugging her two cats, which inspired Flay’s love for the felines.
In fact, just a day before Burrell’s passing, Flay had shared an update on his fur baby in honor of Father’s Day.
“The recipe for Made by Nacho: Take one chef, add lifelong cat obsession, simmer for decades,” he wrote on Instagram. “This is what cat-dad-since-forever looks like.”
O’Brien made it three from three in juvenile sprints this week with 8-13 favourite Charles Darwin a clear victor of the Norfolk Stakes.
The winner broke sharply from the stalls and Moore was in control from thereon, sending his mount clear in the final furlong to beat runner-up Wise Approach by two and a quarter lengths.
“He’s a big, powerful, strong horse. He really looks like a four-year-old racing against two-year-olds,” said O’Brien.
O’Brien and Moore combined again to win the Ribblesdale Stakes with 7-1 chance Garden Of Eden.
Stablemate Island Hopping set a strong gallop and as he faded, Moore was well positioned to take advantage.
The jockey had looked set to grind out victory on Serious Contender in the King George V Stakes, but 3-1 favourite Merchant swooped late to win.
Tom Marquand came with a driving run on his mount to triumph for trainer William Haggas and owners Highclere Racing.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has endorsed Democrat Rebecca Cooke in her attempt for a rematch against Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) in a battleground Wisconsin district.
Sanders said in a statement, first reported by NBC News, that he’s supporting Cooke to represent Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District because she will “stand up for working families and take on the greed of powerful special interests.”
“Rebecca is a working-class fighter who developed her populist roots in rural Western Wisconsin,” the senator continued. “A daughter of farmers, a waitress and a small business owner — she’s lived through failed policies from Washington elites and is ready to deliver tangible outcomes that working people will actually feel.”
Cooke previously ran for the House seat twice, losing the Democratic nomination in 2022 before winning the primary last year. Democrats eyed Van Orden’s seat as a possible pickup opportunity and she lost to him narrowly by less than 3 points.
She’s now seeking to face him again in what the party hopes will be a stronger year for their prospects in 2026.
Cooke said she’s “honored” to receive Sanders’s endorsement, calling him a “champion for the working class.”
“He’s spent his career fighting for the same values that drive our campaign here in Wisconsin’s Third District: putting people over politics, taking on corporate greed, and building a future that works for everyone—not just the wealthy and well-connected,” she said.
Cooke faces a couple primary opponents but has notched a wide range of Democratic endorsements from progressives and moderates. That includes support from the Blue Dog PAC, which backs moderate Democrats, and EMILYs List.
BPCE Equipment Solutions has lost its Chief Commercial Officer Florence Roussel Pollet just four months into the role, as the asset finance executive departs to join BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions.
Effective from June 16, Roussel-Pollet was appointed President of CNH Industrial Capital Europe, the joint venture between CNH Industrial, IVECO Group, and BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions, and joins the Executive Committee of BNP’s Equipment & Logistics Solutions International Business Line.
Her appointment follows the promotion of Mariusz Tarasiuk to CEO of BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions’ DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Roussel-Pollet is now tasked with leading a key partnership that underpins financing for CNH and Iveco’s machinery and vehicles across Europe.
The move marks a return to familiar ground for Roussel-Pollet, who built her career at Société Générale Equipment Finance (SGEF) from 2001, rising to global commercial leadership before joining BPCE in early 2025. Her time at BPCE coincided with the group’s acquisition of SGEF from Société Générale, which exited the asset finance space in 2023 as part of a strategic divestment.
“This role represents an excellent opportunity to leverage our strategic partnership and drive sustainable growth across our core markets,” said Roussel-Pollet, adding that she was “thrilled to be joining BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions” and eager to deliver “innovative financing solutions” to CNH and IVECO customers.
Operating under the CNH Capital and IVECO CAPITAL brands, CNH Industrial Capital Europe offers a range of custom financing solutions—including hire purchase, finance leases, and operating leases—in markets such as France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and Spain. These services are critical to the commercial success of CNH and Iveco Group, supporting their industrial vehicle and machinery sales.
Jean-Michel Boyer, Head of the Equipment & Logistics Solutions business line at BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions, praised the hire: “Florence’s extensive background in structured finance, international leasing, and commercial strategy will be instrumental in strengthening our strategic partnership with CNH and Iveco Group.”
Roussel-Pollet’s quick departure from BPCE will raise eyebrows in the French banking sector. She had been appointed CCO of BPCE Equipment Solutions in early 2025 following the group’s purchase of SGEF. In that role, she oversaw global sales across 14 entities and managed operations in the US, Brazil, China, and Hong Kong.
The SGEF sale marked Société Générale’s broader move to simplify its business model and exit non-core sectors like equipment finance. BPCE rebranded the acquired business as BPCE Equipment Solutions, hoping to build scale in leasing and structured finance.
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With FBC: Firebreak, Remedy Entertainment has entered the world of the first-person co-op shooter. Set in its Control universe — specifically the site of the first game, the brutalist nightmare office called the Oldest House — players control a member of the titular three-person team of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), tasked with addressing various containment breaches. Unfortunately, all the aspects that make Remedy’s worlds so intriguing are completely absent in this bare-bones co-op shooter, which offers nothing for either longtime fans or those invested in existing shooters.
Players in Firebreak are like firefighters or disaster responders, with each member occupying a different role: mechanic, water carrier, electrician. Across five recurring levels, teams must work to stop the spread of corruption, called the Hiss (a mysterious red entity that turns people into raging zombies and other types of creatures). Objectives vary from destroying Post-it notes to fixing fans, all while being assailed by swarms of various nightmare monsters.
Control, the central foundation of Remedy’s wider connected universe that also includes Alan Wake, is at its core weird. It’s how Remedy developers have described it — to me and others — allowing for fluctuations between the terrifying, the quirky, the odd, and the hilarious. The Bureau itself is a government agency tasked with containing bizarre items and reacting to huge and strange world events: for example, a traffic light that, when it flashes red, sends people to different locations, or a fridge that eats people if you stop looking at it.
In Remedy’s universe, FBC workers document, monitor, and research these sorts of items with the gray-faced enthusiasm of every bored researcher. The number of times the toy duck teleports needs to be logged as much as how many coffee filters need to be replaced in the break room.
That stone-faced reaction to the weird is only mildly present in Firebreak, with brief interactions with mission provider Hank Wilder, the security chief, detailing bizarre tasks in a slight monotone. Even player character barks demonstrate this. One of the player voice options is called “Pencil Pusher,” who, when receiving friendly fire, screams that such actions “violate office policy.” Health restoration involves characters huddling in a shower together; you can fix equipment by hitting it with a wrench.
As someone obsessed with Control, I was eagerly anticipating a return — particularly in the shoes of ordinary personnel, rather than the almost godlike head of the agency, Jesse Faden (who you play in Control). But that sense of unease that plays off the quirkiness is not here. The Oldest House and its enemies feel like little more than an aesthetic, or even a kind of mod, for a generic co-op shooter. There is no sense of progression, no overarching goal to which you are working. Levels and tasks repeat. There aren’t even creepy big-level bosses, like the terrors in Control, except in one area.
You will have seen all the game has to offer within a few hours, since each level has only three or four stages (with each successive stage in the same level taking you further in), and some stages can be completed within three to four minutes. As an example, one stage involves destroying replicating Post-it notes. Once you have destroyed a sufficient number, you rush back to the elevator as a horde descends. The second stage requires the same objective, only this time you gain access to a second area to destroy more notes. The third stage repeats this, only you go further in and face a boss. All end with rushing back.
While the game offers modifiers — such as harder enemies and corrupting anomalies that can slightly keep you on your toes — the core aspect wears out quickly. I do not feel I am making any headway in clearing out an entire level, since once cleared, there’s no indicator our team made any difference. The only incentive is to obtain better gear. At least the game doesn’t push microtransactions and is quite generous in its rewards, especially on harder difficulties.
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You also level up various roles independently: playing mainly as the mechanic, you will have to start from scratch if you switch to, for example, the electrician role. These roles do feel distinct, as you are given different gear and abilities. The mechanic can almost instantly repair broken equipment, a very useful skill given how many broken machines there are. But the game is filled with various hazards, such as fire and gunk, which the water soaker character — with their water cannon — can negate.
Shooting feels good, but guns are standard: shotguns, machine guns, pistols. Don’t expect weird weapons like the Service Weapon from Control. This is meat-and-potatoes destruction.
That’s precisely what disappointed me: ordinary workers in a world where fridges eat people is what made me love Control, and the idea of being able to play one of the lowly workers was exciting. Yet that charm is largely absent. I barely felt part of the FBC and it didn’t seem like I was containing anything.
In Control, you would clear rooms and see the game world change permanently. Obviously a co-op shooter can’t do things in the exact same way. But why not tie something like this to the host player? If I have to see the same level three times, progressing further each level, why not show some permanent change from a previous run? There’s no indication the world is reacting to the Firebreak team’s efforts.
In reality, Firebreak feels like one of the multiplayer modes that used to be tacked on to big-budget single-player games (think Mass Effect 3, for example). If players don’t feel like they’re making a difference as part of a team trying to stop an outbreak, why should we bother? The levels are akin to hero-shooter arenas, devoid of the deep lore of a Remedy game. At least with hero shooters, playing against other people keeps play constantly fresh. This felt like it was stale within a few hours, an avocado of a game.
I genuinely don’t know who Firebreak is for. Longtime fans of Control won’t find collectibles, environmental storytelling, or anything to even read. And those looking for meaningful multiplayer shooters have plenty of options already. This is a strange dim light for a studio that usually produces brilliance.
FBC: Firebreak is available now on the PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X / S. It’s also available for Game Pass and PlayStation Plus subscribers.
HE WAS A no-star recruit coming out of high school, landing at a small college before a sudden growth spurt. He didn’t register on NBA scouts’ radars until a couple of years later, as success didn’t come immediately even at that level, and then zoomed up the draft boards into the lottery late in the process.
This once unheralded prospect just kept getting better and better after arriving in the NBA, establishing himself as a do-it-all co-star, a perfect complement to an MVP who led the league in scoring. He earned his first All-Star appearance in his third season and hoisted the Larry O’Brien Trophy — for the first of several times — before hitting his prime.
It was a heck of a career path for Scottie Pippen, the Hall of Famer who won six titles as Michael Jordan’s superstar sidekick with the Chicago Bulls. More than a few decades later, Jalen Williams seems to be on a similar journey, a blossoming star thriving in the shadow of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have a chance to clinch their first championship in Thursday’s Game 6 of the NBA Finals against the Indiana Pacers in large part because of Williams’ performance in the series. The 6-foot-6 Williams has done everything from serving as the primary defender on Pacers star power forward Pascal Siakam to running point while his scoring total has increased in each game, rising to a playoff-career-high 40 points in the Thunder’s pivotal Game 5 win.
Gilgeous-Alexander and Williams have put themselves in that sort of company with their production in this series. They have combined for 291 points in the Finals. According to ESPN Research, the only duos to score more points through five games in a Finals are Jordan and Pippen in 1993, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving in 2017 and Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant in 2017.
“He is pretty special,” Pippen told ESPN. “I’m enjoying watching him. I see a lot of me in him for sure. I see a guy rising to be one of the top players in this league. He’s definitely a player that is capable of being able to lead that franchise to multiple championships — him and Shai, of course.”
PIPPEN WAS IN the final years of his career with the Portland Trail Blazers by the time Williams, 24, was born. But Williams is enough of a basketball historian to be flattered by the comparison.
“I feel like a new-age Scottie maybe,” Williams told ESPN. “I’m not mad at that one at all. I like that. And then obviously Shai gets a little Jordan comparison, so that’s cool. It’s very cool. Any time you compared to somebody like that, you’re doing something right.”
Williams has done a lot of things right since arriving in Oklahoma City as the No. 12 pick in the 2022 draft, one of several selections the Thunder acquired from the LA Clippers along with Gilgeous-Alexander in the Paul George trade that poured the foundation for a potential dynasty.
Williams made an instant impact, finishing as the Rookie of the Year runner-up, and has continued to develop rapidly as the Thunder made double-digit win jumps in each of his first three seasons. He earned his first All-Star selection along with a third-team All-NBA spot and second-team All-Defensive nod this season.
Pippen’s résumé features seven All-Star and All-NBA selections, 10 All-Defensive honors, the six championship rings, a Hall of Fame induction and a spot on the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team. It’s extraordinarily high praise to put Williams in the same sentence at this point.
But Pippen doesn’t want to limit Williams to that particular comparison, pointing out that Williams’ potential is even higher because of his scoring ability in this pace-and-space era of the NBA. Williams averaged 21.6 points per game this season — more than Pippen averaged in all but one season of his career, which was 1993-94, when Jordan was on his retirement sabbatical.
“I don’t even want to put a cap on him to say that he’s going to be me,” Pippen said. “I see him being greater, if I can say that. Just because of where the game is today. They have offensive freedom. We didn’t have that. We mostly ran out of a system. These guys have the freedom to shoot 3-balls and things of that nature. Players that are playing in today’s game have a chance to be better than players in the past because of the ability to shoot the ball.
“If this kid continues to shoot the 3-ball the way that he shoots it, I’m not going to sit here and argue with nobody and say that you can compare us. Because you can’t. He wins.”
Williams proudly smirked as the media inquired about his progress as a playmaker in the wake of the Thunder’s Game 4 road win.
Thunder coach Mark Daigneault had used Williams as a point forward in that game, having him serve as Oklahoma City’s primary offensive initiator to ease the burden on Gilgeous-Alexander against the Pacers’ relentless, full-court defense. Williams, the second-youngest player in the league this season to average at least 20 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists per game, rose to the challenge. He scored 27 points, keeping the Thunder within striking distance, and set the table for Gilgeous-Alexander’s clutch brilliance as they beautifully executed the two-man game down the stretch of Oklahoma City’s comeback win.
It amused Williams that his performance in a point role could be considered a surprise.
“Well, I grew up short,” Williams said. “So I’ve always been a point guard.”
Williams insisted that the toughest adjustment he had to make in basketball was learning to play on the wing during his first couple of years at Santa Clara. He had sprouted four inches since his high school graduation, his second growth spurt in that range over the span of a few years. He didn’t register as a draft prospect until assuming a point forward role as a college junior, when he averaged 18.0 points and 4.2 assists per game, and then his stock shot up after an impressive showing at the NBA combine.
“I had all the guard skills,” Williams said. “Then when I grew, thank God they didn’t really go anywhere.”
Pippen had a similar ascent at Central Arkansas, where he stayed all four years before going fifth overall in the 1987 draft. Bulls general manager Jerry Krause bet on the talent of a rangy wing with ballhandling skills, floor vision and a 7-3 wing span.
Thunder GM Sam Presti had similar intrigue with Williams, who has a 7-2 wing span, a physical attribute that helped him fill in as Oklahoma City’s starting center during a stretch of the regular season when 7-footers Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein were injured. As versatile and impactful as Williams is defensively, his development with the ball in his hands has fueled his ascension into a star.
“When he started with us, and this has been our approach with most players, it’s not like we just hand them the ball,” Daigneault said. “We put them in the system first, and the guys that are really efficient in the system, they end up banging the door down and show you that they need more. He was in that category.
“We weren’t pushing every button for him, but he just kept showing the ability to take more of a load. His efficiency was not dropping off, and his impact wasn’t dropping off. If anything, it was increasing. Usually when those guys are doing that, they are declaring themselves, and he certainly declared himself.
“Now he is learning all the lessons to be learned in that role.”
WILLIAMS CREDITS THE Thunder’s culture for allowing him to cultivate his game while impacting winning. He isn’t focused on only his individual development, but Williams has worked to grow his game in ways that complement Gilgeous-Alexander, and benefit from the attention paid to the MVP.
As Oklahoma City fans know all too well, a collection of young stars does not guarantee future championship parades. The Thunder’s 2012 Finals team featured three future MVPs — Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden — and never returned to this stage.
But the circumstances surrounding the star trios from the two Oklahoma City’s Finals teams are starkly different. Harden, the Sixth Man of the Year then, wanted a leading role and a maximum contract and got both when he was traded to the Houston Rockets before the next season. Durant and Westbrook won a lot of games together, but they didn’t enhance each other’s games the way that Gilgeous-Alexander and Williams do.
There’s a clear pecking order for the Thunder now, and that’s fine with Williams and Holmgren, who rival executives around the league assume will agree to lucrative contract extensions this offseason.
“It’s very easy when you have a team that likes to do their role,” Williams said. “And I’m not saying that guys can’t branch out, but just when everybody kind of accepts that role for the better of their team … I know mine. When you just have guys that are willing to do that, it allows everybody to grow and get better.
“I’ve had that, and I think what I got good at was understanding how Shai likes to play and being able to patch my game into something that complements him a lot more and can take the load off of him. A lot of it is self-awareness and at the same time willingness. I don’t think everybody’s willing to sacrifice parts of their game to do that. And he does the same thing. He’ll sacrifice parts of his game to make the team better. He can come down and shoot every ball and I’d slap him on the butt and say, ‘Good shot.’ So for him to be able to trust us, too, goes a long way.”
Williams has boosted his scoring total in each of his three seasons, going from 14.1 points per game as a rookie to 19.1 in his second season and 21.6 this season. His assists totals — 3.3, 4.5, 5.1 — have also increased each season.
“‘Dub’ has made tremendous strides,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “He is one of the biggest reasons why we’re here. Him being able to shoulder what he does every night on both ends of the floor takes a lot of pressure off everyone else around him, including myself. He is a gamer. He is a winner. But he continues to get better in every situation. He is a Swiss Army knife, and he’s only getting better with every game he plays. I’m excited to see where he ends up.”
Pippen had that same sort of steady, significant improvement as the Bulls built toward becoming a dynasty that hung six championship banners in eight seasons. He increased his scoring and assists averages each year through the first five seasons of his career. And he warns that Williams should be expected to keep making large strides.
“When guys go through journeys like that, watch out because the sky’s the limit,” Pippen said. “He is going to be a great player because he still feels unwanted. He’s still got that chip on his shoulder that, ‘They don’t know what they missed out on.’
“It’s nothing you get rid of. It’s a part of you. It’s instilled in you for life. He’s making people think now that passed him up. In the future, you will see that he’ll continue to just get better. He’s going to always keep his knife sharp.”
Ryan Lochte is exiting the deep end when it comes to conversations about his marriage.
Two weeks after his wife Kayla Reid announced she had filed for divorce, the 12-time Olympic medalist shared he wouldn’t be engaging with claims about what led to the end of his marriage, including those from a supposed source close to the couple that alleged to People that Ryan had cheated on his wife.
“Kayla and I both wish to keep this matter private for many reasons, most importantly, to protect our children,” he told the outlet in response to the allegations, per a statement published June 18. “For that reason, I also won’t be commenting on this matter, or replying to allegations made by third parties.”
In addition, Ryan—who shares kids Caiden, 7, Liv, 6, and Georgia, 23 months, with Kayla—called their separation “a difficult and very personal time.”
Since the news of their divorce—which Kayla filed for in March, according to court documents obtained by People—more details have surfaced about the couple’s relationship, including that the Lochtes have allegedly accrued more than $270,000 in debt, according to documents obtained by Us Weekly.
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The Bank of England has hinted at further interest rate cuts, which could come as soon as August.
It decided to keep rates at 4.25% on Thursday with inflation, the rate prices rise at over time, remaining at its highest level for more than a year and above the Bank’s target rate.
Governor Andrew Bailey said interest rates “remain on a gradual downward path”, but warned: “The world is highly unpredictable.”
There are concerns that the conflict between Israel and Iran, a major oil producer, could send energy costs higher and drive overall prices up, which would impact further rate decisions.
Clare Lombardelli, deputy governor of the Bank of England, told the BBC that the “uncertainty facing the economy” led to interest rates being held this month.
Describing events in the Middle East as “tragic” and “deeply worrying”, she said: “As you’d expect, we are monitoring carefully those events and the impact that those will have.”
Since the bank’s rate-setting committee last met in May, oil prices have risen by 26% while gas prices have grown by 11%.
Ms Lombardelli said: “We’ve seen oil prices, for example, increase since the attacks. But we’re thinking about and focussed on the impact for UK inflation and so we’re monitoring and carefully assessing those events.”
The bank marginally lifted its expectations for the UK economy but it said that underlying growth was “weak”.
UK growth has been uneven so far this year, with the economy expanding strongly at the start of the 2025, before shrinking sharply in April.
There has been evidence that the pace of wage growth – which contributes to the rate of inflation – is slowing. At the same time, the UK’s unemployment rate has risen and businesses are holding off on recruiting or replacing staff.
“In the UK we are seeing signs of softening in the labour market. We will be looking carefully at the extent to which those signs feed through to consumer price inflation,” said Mr Bailey.
The Bank’s base interest rate dictates the rates set by High Street banks and lenders.
The higher level in recent years has meant people are paying more to borrow money for things like mortgages and credit cards, but savers have also received better returns.
Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, said two interest rate cuts were “still on the horizon” this year.
“In every direction, there’s a conundrum to confront, so policymakers have judged that pressing the pause button on rates is the best option for now,” she said.
“Hopes for a summer rate reduction haven’t completely faded, with bets ramping up that a cut in August could provide the rays of relief that borrowers have been waiting for.”
Pressure growing on businesses
Businesses appeared to be trimming wages for some workers to pay for the rise in employment costs that came into force in April.
Employers have been hit with a rise in the amount of National Insurance they are required to pay as well as increases to the minimum wage. The Bank estimated the policy changes by Chancellor Rachel Reeves have hiked wage bills by 10%.
In its survey of businesses, it said that pressure had grown on firms to recover the higher costs by raising prices but added “success is mixed”.
Instead it said companies were using a range of measures to cut costs, including reducing pay rises for those workers just above the minimum wage level.
A weaker market for permanent staff forced Hays, the British recruitment firm, to warn that its full-year profits would fall far short of expectations.
The company highlighted reduced demand in the UK and Ireland where it expects fees to fall by 13%. Hays’ share price tumbled more than 10% to 61.97p, the lowest for more than 30 years.
Some businesses told the Bank of England that they were taking a hit to their profits rather than raising prices for customers to cover higher employment costs.
Inflation remains above the Bank target of 2%, at 3.4% in the year to May, and is expected to climb to 3.5% later this year. But it is forecast to fall back to around 2.1% next year.
Interest rates are the Bank’s main tool in trying to maintain the annual rate of inflation at, or close to its target.
The theory behind increasing interest rates to tackle inflation is that by making borrowing more expensive, more people will cut back on spending and that leads to demand for goods falling and price rises easing.
But it is a balancing act as high interest rates can harm the economy as businesses hold off on investing in production and jobs.
The State Department has begun evacuating nonessential government personnel and their families from Israel, as the conflict with Iran heats up and President Trump weighs greater U.S. involvement.
A government plane departed from Israel Wednesday with diplomats and family members who had asked to leave the country, according to The Associated Press, which cited two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The AP said there was no indication of how many diplomats were on the flight, nor how many evacuated Israel by land routes.
“Given the ongoing situation and as part of the embassy’s authorized departure status, mission personnel have begun departing Israel through a variety of means,” the State Department said in a statement to multiple media outlets.
The State Department on Saturday authorized family members of U.S. personnel and nonemergency employees to depart Israel “due to the volatile and unpredictable security situation in the region.”
The department currently advises against travel to Israel, citing the risk of armed conflict, terrorism and civil unrest. Commercial flights to and from the region have also been canceled because of the conflict.
Roth Capital analyst Scott Searle maintains a Buy rating on Gogo (GOGO) with a $16.50 price target after the company confirmed its first successful end-to-end 5G call utilizing the GCT Semi chipset. The news “continues to derisk” Gogo’s 5G headwinds and places air-to-ground services on a path to return to growth in 2026, the analyst tells investors in a research note. Roth is are “increasingly positive” about sustained growth and multiple expansion for Gogo.
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