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Queen’s 2025: Jack Draper and Carlos Alcaraz win to reach last 16

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British number one Jack Draper made comfortable progress to the last 16 at Queen’s with a 6-3 6-1 victory over American Jenson Brooksby, while top seed Carlos Alcaraz also advanced.

Spanish world number two Alcaraz was pushed well by determined lucky loser Adam Walton but got the job done in the end with a 6-4 7-6 (7-4) victory.

Draper and Brooksby were meeting for the second time this year, with Draper beating the 24-year-old at Indian Wells in March.

On that occasion Draper had to recover from going 4-1 down in the first set but there was no such trouble this time as he broke Brooksby’s serve in the seventh game before grabbing the double break to seal the set.

It was once again sweltering conditions in west London with the temperature at 26C when Draper and Brooksby entered the Andy Murray Arena, but the addition of a gentle breeze would have made things more palatable for the players.

But Draper still had no desire to hang around too long on court.

He broke Brooksby on his first service game and continued his momentum after a pause in play for a medical issue in the stands to get a second break and seal the win.

Draper, who wrote “Good to be home” on the television camera afterwards, will next face Australian Alexei Popyrin for a place in the quarter-finals.

The 23-year-old is hoping to emulate Murray and win at Queen’s Club. Murray’s success as a five-time singles champion there has been honoured this year by having the venue’s centre court named after him.

“Can’t get rid of this guy,” Draper joked about playing in the Andy Murray Arena. “Andy is an unbelievable guy, someone I’m very inspired by and I wouldn’t be where I am without him.

“I definitely miss him on the Tour. Thank you Andy, this court deserves to be named after you.”

In other action on Tuesday, American sixth seed Ben Shelton was stunned by lucky loser Arthur Rinderknech of France 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-4).

The Frenchman will next play Reilly Opelka of the United States after he beat Argentina’s Camilo Ugo Carabelli 7-6 (8-6) 6-4.

Czech Jiri Lehecka saw off Australian fifth seed Alex de Minaur 6-4 6-2 to progress to the last 16, while American Brandon Nakashima needed thee sets to overcome Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard of France 6-7 (10-12) 7-6 (7-5) 6-4.

Schwarzenegger: If you’re an immigrant in the US you should 'behave like a guest'

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Arnold Schwarzenegger says immigrants in America need to treat the country as if they’re houseguests and do everything they can to “keep things clean.”

“I just think the world of the great kind of history that we have with immigrants in America,” the bodybuilder-turned “Terminator” star-turned-California’s former Republican governor said Tuesday on ABC’s “The View.”

“But the key thing also is, at the same time, that we got to do things legal — that is the important thing,” Schwarznegger, who was born in Austria before immigrating to the U.S. in 1968, said when asked by “View” co-host Joy Behar whether he had a “visceral reaction” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.

“Those people that are doing illegal things in America, and they’re the foreigners, they are not smart,” Schwarzenegger, 77, said.

“Because when you come to America, you’re a guest, and you have to behave like a guest,” he continued.

“Like when I go to someone’s house and I’m a guest, then I will do everything I can to keep things clean, and to make my bed and to do everything that is the right thing to do rather than committing a crime, or being abusive or something like that,” the “FUBAR” actor said. 

Immigrants come to the country, Schwarzenegger said, to “use America for the great opportunities that America has in education, in jobs, creating a family, all of those kind of things.”

“Then you have to think about, ‘OK, if I get all of those things from America, then I have to give something back,'” advised Schwarzenegger, who became a U.S. citizen in 1983.

“You have a responsibility as an immigrant to give back to America, and to pay back America, and to go and do something for your community for no money whatsoever,” he said.

“Give something back to after school programs, Special Olympics, or whatever it is — make this country a better place.”

Schwarzenegger also weighed in on mass demonstrations in Los Angeles by anti-ICE protesters and President Trump recently saying he would support arresting Gavin Newsom (D) following a dare by the California governor to White House border czar Tom Homan. 

“I think the most important thing is, when you are in a leadership position like that, is that you are inclusive and that you work together with everybody,” Schwarzenegger told co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin when asked how he would approach the situation in the Golden State if he was still governor.

“It means that you have to work together with local government, the state government and the federal government they have to work together rather than fighting each other.”

Calling for comprehensive immigration reform, Schwarzenegger said: “Democrats and Republicans have to come together and solve this issue if they really want to be public servants. If they want to be party servants, and be party hacks and be tied to their ideology, then it won’t happen.”

“But if you want to make this country better, and if you want to improve this country and improve the situation of people’s lives, and bring the prices down and all of this, you will go and serve the people of America.”

Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq fall as Trump calls for ‘unconditional surrender’ of Iran

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A prolonged conflict between Israel and Iran may do more than rattle energy markets. One argument on Wall Street is that it could push the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates sooner than expected.

“A sustained rise in oil prices could cause the Fed to strike a more dovish tone,” Oxford Economics chief US economist Ryan Sweet wrote in a recent note to clients, arguing that an extended oil shock could dent demand and potentially spill over into an otherwise resilient labor market.

That’s because, historically, sudden spikes in oil prices tend to cause only a temporary rise in inflation that the Fed usually overlooks. But with the economy already softening, a persistent surge could pose a bigger threat to growth and jobs than to inflation itself.

“The economy has slowed and is vulnerable to anything else going wrong, including a sudden and persistent increase in oil prices,” Sweet said. “If the Fed views the hit to the economy and the labor market as greater than the temporary boost to inflation, the central bank could signal that it’s open to cutting interest rates sooner.”

On Tuesday, oil prices rallied, with international benchmark Brent (BZ=F) rising above $75 a barrel after President Trump called for Tehran residents to evacuate and rebuffed the idea of an Israel-Iran ceasefire.

That contrasted with optimism on Monday, when the Wall Street Journal reported that tensions between Iran and Israel had eased, sparking a rally in US equities and stabilizing crude oil prices following last week’s biggest price surge in three years.

Sweet, whose baseline forecast is that the Fed will deliver its first rate cut in December, noted it may take weeks before markets gain a clearer sense of the direction of oil prices.

Read more here.

Who is really behind the Trump Mobile T1 phone?

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But unless the organization has somehow hidden an entire domestic mobile device supply chain right under our noses, this is virtually impossible. The T1 Phone, as it’s called, lists some decent midrange specs like a 6.8-inch OLED 120Hz refresh rate screen. Offering it for $500 as soon as this fall? That would take a miracle. Case in point: a company called Purism makes a device called the Liberty Phone, which sources many of its parts from US companies and assembles it here. The cost? $2000, and you won’t find something as luxurious as an OLED panel there.

More likely the T1 will be a white label device with most or all of its production handled by a Chinese ODM, or original design manufacturer. These dozen or so companies are responsible for as much as 44 percent of smartphone shipments globally, largely handling budget models while OEMs like Samsung and Huawei focus on producing their own high-end devices.

So, which of these budget phones is closest to the pin? Because we love a good mystery, Verge staff spent the past 24 hours combing the likes of Amazon and GSMArena trying to piece it together.

With just a dubious set of specs to go on, we’ve narrowed it down to a handful of devices that might fit the description. Is the real T1 Phone somewhere in the mix? Will it be a customized version of one of these devices built to the Trump Organization’s specifications? Was this all a silly waste of time because this phone does not and will never exist at all? Who can say? In the meantime, leave a comment and let us know if you figured it out.

We found this one on Amazon through a rigorous search process, by which I mean we typed “Big Android phone” into the search bar. It’s the spitting image of an iPhone, or at least looks like someone used a rendering of a rumored iPhone and added the word DOOGEE to it. The camera array looks about right, and the screen is the correct size. It also claims to run Android 15. But it comes with a 6250mAh battery, which is bigger than the 5000mAh cell in the T1 that was initially described as a “long life camera” on the product page. Someone eventually fixed that yesterday, I guess.

We’ve got another iPhone imitator here, and this one has the right RAM and storage combo, plus its 6.78-inch screen matches the description. But it’s a 90Hz panel, and the T1 Phone claims to have a 120Hz display. The Ulefone also has an ultrawide camera, which the T1 seems not to have. But can’t you picture it in Mar-A-Lago Gold? Wouldn’t it be just fetching?

Maybe it’s the marble accents on this one, but I feel like this is a strong contender. This one has the headphone jack and the right-sized 6.8-inch screen, though it’s a 90Hz panel. There’s the Bold K20 too, which conveniently already comes in a gold finish. It would look right at home next to a bunch of gold spray painted decor from Alibaba.

Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton limited by sore calf in Game 5 loss

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton insisted on playing through a sore right calf in the second half of Indiana’s 120-109 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, despite concerns at halftime after he aggravated the injury during the first quarter Monday night.

Haliburton went to the locker room early in the game before returning in the second quarter with his calf wrapped. He finished the game, but his production was limited. He scored four points, matching the lowest scoring total of his playoff career, and finished without a field goal for the first time in his playoff career, going 0-for-6 from the field.

“It’s the Finals,” Haliburton said. “I’ve worked my whole life to be here and I want to be out there to compete, help my teammates any way I can.

“I was not great tonight by any means, but it’s not really a thought of mine to not play here. If I can walk, then I want to play.”

Haliburton limped off after his postgame news conference following Game 2, with what was later revealed to be a right ankle injury. On Monday, he acknowledged this injury was in the “same area.”

Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said it was clear Haliburton was not 100% but did not expect him to miss any games, especially with Indiana’s season on the line following Monday’s defeat.

The Pacers now trail 3-2 in the series. Game 6 is Thursday in Indianapolis.

“[Haliburton’s] not a hundred percent,” Carlisle said. “There’s a lot of guys in the series that aren’t.

“This is a lifetime opportunity. Not many guys are going to sit, even if they are a little banged up. If you’re injured, that’s a different story. But we’ll evaluate everything with Tyrese and see how he wakes up tomorrow.”

Haliburton had six total drives in Game 5, according to tracking by GeniusIQ, his fewest in a game this postseason and tied for the second fewest in a playoff game in his career.

But he still did his best to make an impact, adding six assists and seven rebounds in 34 minutes.

“Just trying to keep pace in the game, impact whatever way I can,” Haliburton said. “Try to get the ball to guys in the right spots if I can.”

Still, it will be hard for the Pacers to pull off an upset over the Thunder if Haliburton is limited. They are 6-7 this postseason when Haliburton scores 20 or fewer points (8-0 when he scores more than 20).

“He’s a fighter,” said Pacers forward Pascal Siakam, who led the team with 28 points. “He’s been our rock all year. He’s a big reason why we’re here. I don’t know exactly what’s wrong, but I know he’s fighting and he’s going to give us everything he’s got.

“One thing he showed, his resiliency. He showed that all year. We can continue to count on him to keep fighting. I admire that from him, just because I know that it’s hard. We’ve got a couple of days. Take care of our bodies, rest well and be ready for Game 6.”

Even with Haliburton limited Monday night, the Pacers rallied from a double-digit first-half deficit to cut the lead to 95-93 with 8:30 remaining in the fourth quarter. However, the Thunder went on a 25-16 run to end the game.

Indiana finished with 22 turnovers, which led to 32 points for Oklahoma City.

“We feel like we did a good job in the second half of putting pace in the game, and really getting out and running,” Haliburton said. “We thought we did a better job of that in the second half, but we have to really cut down on the turnovers. The turnovers are really killing us right now, especially the first half. We know we can be better there.”

Monday’s loss was the first time all postseason the Pacers have dropped back-to-back games, ending a streak dating back to March. Resiliency is something Indiana has prided itself on throughout this playoff run.

Haliburton said the Pacers are going to have to tap into that again to keep their season alive.

“We’ve had our backs against the wall many different times over the last two years and had to find different ways to win,” he said. “The way that this year has gone, nobody said this was going to be sweet.

“It’s kind of poetic that we’re here. We’ve got to be ready to go for Game 6. Our backs are against the wall. It’s a really tough team. … Everybody has to be prepared. It starts with me, and we’ve all got to be better. That’s just point-blank, period.”

Pope Leo XIV Related to Madonna, Justin Bieber and Angelina Jolie

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Harry Styles Makes Divine Appearance at Pope Leo XIV’s Conclave Election in Vatican City

The Father, the Son and the Hollywood cousins.

It turns out, the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) has an astonishingly celebrity-ridden family tree.

According to Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr., through a maternal ancestor born in the 1590s, the Chicago-born Pope Leo is ninth cousins—various times removed—with stars such as Justin Bieber, Madonna and Angelina Jolie.

Other significant ninth cousins include politicians Hillary Clinton and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as his father and fellow Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and famed writer Jack Kerouac.

Henry’s investigation into the new pope’s family tree also revealed an especially American background, reflective of the centuries of immigration the country has experienced. Of the ancestors found in Pope Leo’s family tree, he had family born in France, Italy, Spain, Cuba, Canda, Haiti and the French overseas department of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.

Pope Leo’s ascension marks the first time a North American was elected to head the Catholic Church, and his first remarks as Pope spoke to the idea of bridging global boundaries.

Small boats situation getting worse, says No 10

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Downing Street has said the small boats situation in the English Channel is “deteriorating”, ahead of a key UK-France summit next month on border security.

Meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada, Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to “work closely” to tackle crossings, a No 10 spokesperson said.

They added that both leaders agreed migration should be a key focus of their meetings during Macron’s state visit from 8 July to 10 July.

Official figures show more than 1,500 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats last week, pushing the total for the year to just over 16,000 – 42% higher than at the same point last year.

The leaders agreed “that their teams should pursue high-ambition outcomes that deliver for the British and French people,” the spokesperson said.

“Migration should be a key focus given the deteriorating situation in the Channel, they confirmed,” the spokesperson added.

Despite repeated questions from journalists, the prime minister’s spokesman declined to say what Sir Keir and Macron meant by the situation “deteriorating”.

Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp said “the Channel crisis is spiralling out of control” under Sir Keir’s watch.

“The gangs are laughing, the boats keep coming, and Labour’s response is to form another taskforce and hold a summit. It’s weak and it’s embarrassing,” he added.

Ministers have been pushing for the French government to implement new rules to make it easier to intercept boats.

In 2023, the previous Conservative government struck a deal to give France almost £500m over three years to go towards extra officers to help stop migrants making the journey.

Official figures show French authorities have intercepted fewer than 58% of recorded boat crossings this year.

In March, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the French government was reviewing its policies to tighten up policing around small boats, and recent days have seen a more aggressive posture from French police.

It comes as PA Media reported French officers used tear gas and batons to disperse migrants attempting to board dinghies in near Gravelines, near Calais.

Pictures show men, women, and children running through a cloud of smoke from sand dunes to the sea, where they waited nearly an hour before boarding the small boat.

Well over 50 migrants made it aboard the small black dinghy before it finally took off into the Channel, PA said.

Labour campaigned on a promise to “smash the criminal boat gangs” bringing migrants to the UK, and the Sir Keir has made tackling illegal immigration and “restoring order” to the asylum system a priority for the government.

After coming to government, Labour immediately scrapped the Conservative government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, redirecting funds to enhanced border security initiatives.

But Channel crossings have hit 40,000 since Labour took office in July 2024 – a 21% increase on the same period the year before.

Over the same period, 940 boats have been intercepted – stopping nearly 28,000 migrants from reaching the UK.

The government has pointed to good weather and the willingness of people smugglers to cram more people onto small boats as factors driving the spike in migration crossings.

It has prompted the Conservatives to accuse ministers of “blaming the weather” for the rise in numbers.

Iran finds itself in difficult end game with Israel, Trump

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Iran is finding itself in a difficult end game in its fight with Israel, with no calvary coming to support it.

Israel now has control of the skies over Tehran, and public discussions on an attack on the Fordow nuclear facility are moving to the mainstream.

Such an event would require the involvement of the United States and the consent of President Trump, as B-2 bombers dropping bunker-busting bombs are the only way to destroy the capabilities of a plant hidden deep in an Iranian mountain.

It’s not clear Trump will authorize that kind of direct involvement, which would risk pulling the U.S. into a deeper conflict.

But either way, Iran’s regime is being confronted with existential questions.

“There’s got to be a kind of chaos in both the IRGC and the Army,” said Elliott Abrams, U.S. Special Representative for Iran in the first Trump administration and senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, referring to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

“There’s been a lot of high-ranking officers killed. I don’t know what orders they’re getting from the top— they’re getting hit in very significant ways every day,” Abrams said. “So, is the command and control structure loosely intact or is it falling apart?”

Iran’s path out of a conflict with Israel is unclear, unless it comes to the negotiating table with the U.S. in a way that is satisfactory to Trump. Russia is unlikely to offer its assistance to Tehran, nor are other nations in the Middle East, wary of being drawn into a conflict against a top U.S. ally.

“Iran doesn’t seem to have fast friends,” said Fred Fleitz, vice chair of the America First Policy Institute’s Center for American Security.

“I fear that Iran’s leaders are simply too ideological and stubborn to make a compromise to end this war,” Fleitz added. “But we’re in a situation that no one had anticipated.”

Much depends on Trump, who before the war began was trying to get the two sides to agree to a deal at the negotiating table.

The U.S. president has continued to make moves that could prevent things from spinning further out of control.

For example, Trump reportedly cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against targeting Iran’s supreme leader, though the Israeli has refused to rule that out.

Trump on Monday issued a warning for Iranians to evacuate Tehran as he departed the Group of Seven (G7) summit a day early. On his way back to Washington, Trump said he was interested in a “real end” to the conflict, not just a cease-fire.

In the meantime, Israeli leaders and some top allies of Trump have ratcheted up their rhetoric.

Trump has stressed Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and on Tuesday he warned Tehran against targeting U.S. assets, saying “we’ll come down so hard, it’d be gloves off.”

He said he was considering sending Vice President J.D. Vance and his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to negotiate with Iranians leaders, adding it “depends on what happens when I get back” but that he’s looking for “better than a ceasefire.”

Vance, like Trump, is known for wanting to keep the U.S. out of foreign wars, though in a statement on X he also emphasized the importance of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Over the last few months, he encouraged his foreign policy team to reach a deal with the Iranians to accomplish this goal,” Vance said in the statement on X.

The White House on Tuesday morning also highlighted more than a dozen instances where Trump said Iran could not obtain a nuclear weapon, another rhetoric signal it may be laying the groundwork for more aggressive action.

Simone Ledeen, former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for the Middle East in Trump’s first term, said Trump may be thinking of regime change.

“I think it’s clear that in order to achieve this… goal of the war, which is complete dismantlement of the Iranian nuclear program, regime change might have to occur in order for that to happen,” she said.

“Their capabilities are certainly dramatically diminished, between the assassinations of a lot of the senior military leadership and intelligence leadership on the first night of the Israeli bombardment—  they took out a lot of the leadership of the IRGC— just full stop,” she said. “Those combination of things already has made it difficult for the command and control to function the way that it was meant to and by difficult, I mean sometimes insurmountable.”

Abrams predicted that “the regime could collapse, but I think it’s more likely that [it], in essence, gives up.” 

He predicted the supreme leader realizes “I’ve got to agree to the end of the nuclear weapons program or the whole thing will fall on our heads,” Abrams said.

“Trump is not saying ceasefire. Trump is saying we need a deal that solves this problem. And again, by that I think, does not mean regime change. He means the true end to the Iranian nuclear program,” he said.  “I don’t think this war ends certainly until the end of the weekend… my guess is less than two weeks, another week or 10 days.”

Marvell Launches New Power Regulator And 2nm Memory Chips To Boost AI, Cloud Efficiency

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Data infrastructure chip company Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) on Tuesday announced its Package Integrated Voltage Regulator (PIVR) power solutions.

These solutions transform power delivery systems and enable hyperscalers like Amazon.Com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google to boost returns on AI and cloud infrastructure.

The pre-validated power solutions effectively allow system designers to accelerate the shift to more minor, faster, integrated silicon chips and passives tightly coupled with the processor.

Also Read: Marvell Unveils Custom UALink Tech To Supercharge AI Data Centers With Faster, Scalable Performance

The smaller size, closer proximity, and higher performance provide a foundation for developing 4+ kilowatt compute platforms that hyperscalers can utilize to elevate computing operations in racks or data centers dramatically.

The Marvell PIVR power solution enables multiple infrastructure optimizations. This solution controls the flow of electricity to a semiconductor, reducing the comparatively high voltages from power supplies to the sub-1V levels consumed by advanced processors, filtering the electrical waveform, and strictly controlling voltage levels.

The company also expanded its custom technology platform by launching the 2nm custom Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), designed to boost the performance of custom XPUs and devices powering cloud data centers and AI clusters.

Marvell custom SRAM delivers up to 6 gigabits of high-speed memory while significantly reducing memory power consumption and die area at comparable densities.

Delivering the highest bandwidth per square millimeter in the industry, Marvell custom SRAM enables chip designers to recover up to 15% of the total area of a 2nm design.

Marvell custom SRAM also consumes up to 66% less power than standard on-chip SRAM at equivalent densities, operating at up to 3.75 GHz.

For context, Marvell Technology specializes in designing semiconductor solutions that power modern data infrastructure. It focuses on high-performance chips for cloud computing, networking, storage, 5G, and automotive applications.

In May, JP Morgan analyst Harlan Sur expressed optimism over the company, citing its strong market leadership in optical connectivity, synergies with its Storage, Networking, and embedded processing franchises, and its solid growth outlook in AI/Networking. Sur noted that Marvell is tracking to drive $4 billion in AI revenues this year (ASICs + networking), up 2x+ year over year, with a strong growth profile into calendar year 2026.

Blue Prince is coming to Mac

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Blue Prince, the architectural mystery puzzle roguelite, is coming to a Mac near you. In a press release from the game’s publisher Raw Fury, it was announced that Blue Prince is getting an update that will add Mac support (via Steam) coming “later this year.”

In it, your recently deceased uncle has given you the keys to his beloved Mt. Holly manor and has stipulated in his will that the house will be yours if you can find the secret 46th room. The manor is mysterious and its layout shifts and changes every night. Build rooms and solve puzzles to get closer to discovering that 46th room while solving other, deeper mysteries along the way. It’s a great game, and definitely well-suited to play sessions on a Macbook Air.

In addition to the new platform – which joins PC, PS5, and the Xbox Series X / S – starting today the game’s subtle but vibey soundtrack will be available for purchase on Steam. You can buy it either standalone for $10 or, if you don’t already own the game, it’s being bundled with the soundtrack for $36.