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Day 2 Highlights from Royal Lytham. Who’s on course to take Miyu Yamashita’s title?

Source: BBC.

A climate scientist says Earth is “passing the limits of adaptation” when it comes to withstanding the effects of climate change.

Source: NPR.

A U.S. company in Rwanda has been providing medical supplies via drone. But even state-of-the-art technology can’t overcome a weak health care infrastructure.

Source: NPR.

Max Greenfield is sharing an update on the New Girl reunion, and fans can rest assured about the development. In a new interview, the Running Point actor revealed that he has seen scripts for the reunion. “As far as I know, it’s happening,” Greenfield said on Today with Jenna & Sheinelle. “I’ve seen scripts, they’re […]

Source: Deadline.

North West has cancelled what would have been her first headlining tour, just months after launching her music career and only days before the first show.

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Paramount and the state attorneys general did not reach an agreement on a proposed Warner Bros. Discovery merger trial date, with the company pitching a November start, and the government plaintiffs asking the judge for April. Their proposals came in a joint filing on Friday. “The parties have discussed the trial schedule, but they have […]

Source: Deadline.

Two ransom notes purportedly sent by those who kidnapped Nancy Guthrie in Arizona earlier this year were released Friday by local authorities hoping to generate new leads in the case.

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Trump acknowledged the $1.8 billion so-called “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is “dead,” but made clear that he wishes it still existed.

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Alice McShane and Jessica Sartenaer spent a year and a half and sifted through more than 120 online allegations to investigate claims of sexual assault and possible statutory rape against Jared Leto, who denies the accusations.

Blueface says he and his girl don’t have sex now that she’s pregnant … because her baby bump is getting in the way of a good time. The rapper had Adam22 and Lena the Plug on his Kick stream Thursday, where he said — with Nevaeh Akira sitting…

From TMZ.

One Middle East expert predicted that President Donald Trump’s newly announced plan to secure Hamas’ disarmament is “likely to fail,” arguing the proposal faces significant logistical and political obstacles.

Steven Cook, a senior fellow in Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, told MS NOW that the roadmap is unlikely to result in Hamas giving up its weapons, given a lack of international participation and skepticism from key regional players.

Trump touted the deal Thursday on social media, calling the agreement brokered by his Board of Peace a “monumental step toward lasting PEACE and SECURITY.” However, Cook questioned the viability of the international organization established earlier this year as an alternative to the United Nations.

“What we know is, despite the pledges to donate millions and billions of dollars to the Board of Peace, it is mostly broke,” Cook said. 

While Hamas did confirm on Friday that it had agreed to a framework, the organization made it clear it would only surrender its weapons after Israel committed to fulfill commitments laid out in the October ceasefire agreement.

Cook said the competing demands of Israel and Hamas make implementation especially difficult.

“The Israelis are going to say they are not going to withdraw until Hamas disarms,” he explained. “Hamas is going to say it won’t disarm until Israel withdraws, and it’s going to be litigated forever.”

“This is an agreement that is likely to fail,” he said. “Hamas seems unlikely to actually disarm.”

Cook pointed to silence from key regional actors as one indication that has him unconvinced the proposal can succeed.

“The major players in the Arab world so far have said nothing and are not really directly involved in this, which would suggest that they remain quite skeptical,” he said.

He also noted the timing of the announcement, which comes as the administration continues to struggle to bring its war with Iran to an end. Cook told MS NOW that Trump may have shifted focus back to Israel’s war with Gaza since “he doesn’t have much else of a success in his other efforts in the Middle East.”

“The president really doesn’t have an answer for the problem he’s created for himself in Iran,” Cook said. “They have threatened escalation. They have escalated, and the Iranians have not changed.”

You can watch Cook’s full analysis in the clip at the top of the page.

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National Guardsmen shoved a retired Army captain to the pavement in violent retaliation for her opposition to their deployment in Washington D.C., the decorated soldier said in a multi-million administrative claim filed this week.

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