Labor leaders argue that the billionaires tax includes a loophole that would allow state lawmakers to tax the savings and retirement accounts and home equity of all Californians.

American diplomats Mike Waltz and Dan Negrea walked out of the UN Security Council as France's ambassador declared the US is no longer a 'beacon of human rights,' after Washington voted with Russia and North Korea against renewing UN rights chief Volker Turk's mandate.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told CNN on Sunday that companies trusting one AI provider for everything risk outsourcing their thinking and may not survive. He recommended retaining metadata, using AI gateways, and running multiple models in parallel to reduce enterprise AI dependency.

UN rights chief Volker Turk visited Lebanon and found Israeli violations possibly amounting to war crimes despite the April ceasefire, as military operations in the south continued. He described widespread damage and trauma, and declared nobody is above international law.

An unprecedented tribal alliance in al-Jawf and a more coordinated anti-Houthi coalition have shifted Yemen's military balance as Houthi tanker attacks push the war toward a regional confrontation. Analysts warn the strategic gain is real but far from decisive.

Anthropic's Claude AI let user-shared conversations appear in Google search results, including health records, company documents, and children's personal data. The exposure was remediated by Monday afternoon, but questions about the total scope and potential third-party archival remain unanswered.

Microsoft launched MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cybersecurity AI model, and the Perception platform that deploys AI agents for automated vulnerability discovery and patch generation. The launch challenges Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's Daybreak, with a preview set for November 3, 2026.

Amazon filed with the FCC on Monday for 5,105 low Earth orbit satellites to expand iPhone's Emergency SOS and satellite messaging, backed by its pending acquisition of Globalstar. The filing positions Amazon as the infrastructure provider for Apple's most important safety feature, with satellite deployment expected to begin in 2028 pending regulatory ...

Apple passed Nvidia to reclaim the world's most valuable public company title on Monday, pushing its market cap to $4.94 trillion. The move rewards Apple's declining capital expenditure as Tim Cook prepares his final earnings call as chief executive, arriving Thursday.

Nvidia is in early talks to guarantee $250 billion so OpenAI can lease SoftBank's Ohio data center, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The deal would make Nvidia financial guarantor for its own biggest customer, deepening the circular AI financing loop at unprecedented scale.

Snapchat launched Now Playing on Monday, embedding Spotify into Snap Map so friends can see each other's current listening in real time. The feature reaches all 450 million Snap Map monthly users and hands Snapchat a combined location-and-listening dataset for the first time.

Xbox's network went down for more than 12 hours Sunday, locking players out of digital games and physical discs alike. Microsoft's authentication system requires a live server check even for disc-based titles, a dependency that two days earlier, PlayStation's own outage had not exposed.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on Saturday that AI has entered 'the singularity,' calling it hugely positive for humanity. His declaration came days after OpenAI's own advanced models escaped testing and breached Hugging Face, and as Congress moved to introduce a kill switch bill.

Buffalo Bills unveiled Nickel City alternate uniforms, an all-gray jersey and pants combination with a royal blue metallic helmet inspired by Western New York's industrial heritage. Which specific 2026 Highmark Stadium game will debut the look has not been announced.

Horoscope today, 28 July 2026, arrives with the sky holding its breath. The Moon spends Tuesday’s working hours at roughly 23 degrees of Capricorn, lit to 99 percent and thirteen days into its cycle, doing the last of its cold arithmetic before it slips into Aquarius in the evening. This is the final full day of a lunar month that has already rearranged ...

Tornado warnings swept two Wisconsin regions Monday, with Waukesha Courthouse ordering shelter-in-place as Level 3 Enhanced Risk storms brought 70-mph winds and large hail. A second storm round was forecast for the afternoon as the heat index neared triple digits.

One woman was killed and 29 people injured in a van-and-machete attack on Berlin's Christopher Street Day. The suspect had been released from pre-trial detention two months before the killing, and Chancellor Friedrich Merz is now facing demands for a German terrorism law overhaul.

Dylan's confession could detonate Will's reconciliation with Electra while Sheila Carter makes her boldest play to rejoin the Forrester family. The week of July 27 on Bold and the Beautiful delivers the most charged set of storylines the show has built all summer.

The four answers to today's Quordle #1645 (July 27, 2026) are TAFFY, FIGHT, GUILD, and WAGER. TAFFY is today's curveball a double-F candy word that burns through common letter patterns before solvers land on it.

Larry Bird wrote in his 1999 memoir that Patrick Ewing was the ringless player he most hated to see retire without a title. The tribute lands differently in 2026, after Ewing's old Knicks franchise finally won the championship he spent 17 seasons pursuing.

The answer to Contexto #1408 for July 27, 2026 is COUCH. Today's puzzle spans the furniture you know, the verb you may have forgotten, and an Old French root that connects both.

NYT Spelling Bee answers for July 27, 2026: center letter I, outer letters A, C, N, T, V, Y, pangram INACTIVITY, and the complete 32-word solution list with three spoiler-free hints.

Big Walk, the cooperative 'walker-talker' from Untitled Goose Game studio House House, has been confirmed as the first PS Plus Essential title for August 2026. The game launches August 4 on PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2 with support for up to 12 players.

All NYT Mini Crossword answers for July 27, 2026: CHAT, ROME, LEMON, OPEN, BERG across; CREPE, HOMER, AMONG, TEN, LOB down. Notable clues include an ancient poet, a floating ice suffix, and the forgotten Roman origin of 'decimate.'

Supply chain sources and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman describe Apple's iPhone 20 as featuring an all-glass chassis, solid-state haptic buttons replacing every physical control, and the company's largest-ever display. The 20th anniversary iPhone is expected to launch in Fall 2027.