Analysis: Bond market pressure is squeezing Main Street as Wall Street waits on Warsh

A trader works, as a screen broadcasts a press conference by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh following the Fed rate announcement, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., July 29, 2026.

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Rosie O’Donnell Crushed Her ‘Kimmel’ Monologue by Doing What Jimmy Kimmel Doesn’t

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What did you expect when Rosie O’Donnell was announced as making her talk show return by substituting for Jimmy Kimmel as a guest host on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live?

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The 3DMark Port Royal world record has been beaten, and all it took was a $5,000+ liquid nitrogen-cooled RTX 5090

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In news only nerds like me will care about (which is pretty much my raison d'être at this point), the world record for the highest 3DMark Port Royal score has been smashed. Shattered. Thrown into the mud. Soundly beaten.

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A fintech app built by crypto exchange Kraken just launched a cash back debit card in bid for consumer wallets

Kraken is one of the world's largest crypto exchanges.

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A fintech app from the makers of the crypto exchange Kraken is launching a cashback U.S. debit card, vying for a place in consumer wallets as crypto evolves from an asset class into infrastructure for mainstream financial products.

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Dolls Are a Girl’s Best Friend: New Marilyn Monroe Barbie Lands at Mattel

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Decked out in her signature pink gown from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, here’s where to buy the latest release from the toy brand

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A NATO commander says training Ukrainian soldiers is showing his forces that skills neglected after the Cold War matter again

Camouflaged uniformed person with a Ukrainian flag patch adjusts equipment beside computer screens in a makeshift workstation.

Ukraine is fighting a fierce electronic warfare battle to keep its drones and communications working while frustrating Russia's, and it's showing allies that they need to focus on it.

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Cyclospora is changing the American workplace lunch: 'We switched our marketing immediately,' says Saladworks CEO

The country's ongoing cyclospora outbreak is changing a familiar part of corporate America: eating salad for lunch.

In July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration linked a multistate cyclospora outbreak to iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico and distributed by fruit and vegetable producer Taylor Farms. Since then, the kinds of salad-heavy restaurants that tend to appear on workplace desks around lunchtime have struggled.

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The Lantern of the Laughless Saint, a Morrowind-inspired RPG weirdfest out this week in early access, has immediately seduced me with dialogue camera hijinks

I want everything to do with this, madman

A close up of my character Bob in The Lantern of the Laughless Saint.
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I've woken up on a beach. I'm staring up into the nostrils of a bald man whose face looks to be made of wet clay. He's saying vaguely threatening things about a tower and my race and an island and the fact I'm far from home. The dialogue camera of The Lantern of the Laughless Saint clearly picks up on how unnerved this introduction to its adventure has made me.

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Phyllida Law: Actress who starred with daughters Emma and Sophie Thompson dies

Stage and screen star Phyllida Law, the mother of fellow actresses Dame Emma and Sophie Thompson, has died at the age of 94.

"It is with great sadness we have to announce that Phyllida Law died supremely peacefully at home, surrounded by all of her family, on Monday 27th July," her manager Jacky Leggo said in a statement to BBC News.

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CEO Who Fired 900 People On Zoom—Allegedly Calling Employees ‘Monkeys’—Faces Lawsuit From His Company

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Better Home & Finance on Tuesday sued founder Vishal Garg, accusing him of a “scorched-earth campaign” to regain control of the company in a lawsuit that highlights his controversial tenure as chief executive, during which employees allege Garg called them “monkeys” and “dumb dolphins.”

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