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Baycurrent Classic: Xander Schauffele wins first title since 2024 Open

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Xander Schauffele won his first title since last year's Open Championship at the Baycurrent Classic in Japan.American Schauffele carded a final-round 64, featuring eight birdies, to finish one shot clear of compatriot Max Greyserman on 19-under at Yokohama Country Club.It was Schauffele's first event since the United States' Ryder Cup defeat by Europe at Bethpage Black in New York.The 31-year-old struggled with a rib injury at the start of the year which disrupted the momentum generated by his 2024 Open victory at Royal Troon, which came only two months after his maiden major win at the PGA Championship."It feels good,…

Index Plunges as Trump Threatens Hiking Tariffs on China

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Key Takeaways A number of high-flying tech stocks tumbled Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, amid worries about worsening U.S.-China relations, while a snack and soft drink giant extended its post-earnings gains.Advanced Micro Devices and other semiconductor firms were among the S&P 500's biggest decliners.PepsiCo stock added to its climb in the wake of a strong earnings report driven by international growth. High-flying tech stocks led the S&P 500 lower Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, amid worries about worsening U.S.-China relations. Meanwhile, a snack food and soda maker built on its momentum in the wake of an upbeat quarterly report. Major U.S. equities…

The App Store Was Always Authoritarian

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High-modernism as handmaiden to autocracy is depressingly predictable. October 11, 2025 Eric Prouzet And now we see it clear, like a Cupertino sunrise bathing Mt. Bielawski in amber: Apple will censor its App Store at the behest of the Trump administration without putting up a fight. It will twist words into their antipodes to serve the powerful at the expense of the weak. To better serve autocrats, it will talk out both sides of its mouth in ways it had previously reserved for dissembling arguments against threats to profits, like right-to-repair and browser choice. They are, of course, linked. Contents…

WATCH: 8 children displaced by war are reunited with their families through talks with Putin, Melania Trump says

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump announced Friday that eight children displaced by the Russia-Ukraine war have been reunited with their families following ongoing talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Watch the announcement in our video player above. Melania Trump in August wrote a letter to Putin and had her husband hand-deliver it during his meeting with the Russian president in Alaska. READ MORE: Putin praises Trump’s peace efforts, despite failure to win Nobel prize Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in Russia taking Ukrainian children out of their country so that they can be raised as Russian. The first lady,…

Witches of Essex: Rylan and Prof Alice’s look at one of history’s most shameful periods is unfailingly moving | Television

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Witches of Essex is one of those television shows that could have been created working backwards from its title. “It sounds like Witches of Eastwick!” you can imagine a producer brainstorming. “Can we do anything with that?”Yes, yes we can. We can put together a three-part documentary about the Essex witch trials, which saw hundreds of people – the majority of them women – accused of witchcraft in the 16th and 17th centuries. Crucially, we can hire everyone’s favourite Essex boy, Rylan (though less favourite since his comments on immigration saw more than 700 Ofcom complaints last month) to present…

iPhone 17 Pro Max review: Orange you glad the battery is bigger

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When Apple announced its thin and light iPhone Air, some people said, “Who asked for a thinner phone?” Moments later, the company went in the other direction and announced a slightly thicker and bulkier iPhone 17 Pro lineup. With this, Apple did what those people had wanted: It made a phone with a thicker form factor to accommodate a larger battery, leading to better performance. Out of the new iPhones, the Pro phones received more iterative updates (unless you count the new orange color). But people who buy these phones will still reap the benefits. The build The first thing…

Ironman World Championship: Great Britain’s Kat Matthews wins silver

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Britain's Kat Matthews claimed silver at the World Ironman Championship, but compatriot Lucy Charles-Barclay was forced to pull out while leading as competitors battled sweltering conditions in Kona, Hawaiʻi.Matthews benefited from the late withdrawals of Charles-Barclay and American Taylor Knibb to finish second behind Norway's Solveig Lovseth, who claimed her first Ironman world title.Charles-Barclay was leading after 10 miles of the marathon but visibly began to struggle as temperatures pushed 28C with 70% humidity.She eventually pulled out with about nine miles remaining after consulting with her husband at the side of the road.That seemingly left the path clear for Knibb…

Trump Increases Tariffs on Chinese Goods by 100%

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Key Takeaways President Donald Trump said he will impose an additional 100% tariff on goods from China starting Nov. 1, reigniting a trade war between the world's two largest economies.China has leveraged its dominance of the rare earth market as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with the U.S., which relies heavily on rare earths for its high-tech industries. The U.S.-China trade war flared up again on Friday when President Donald Trump announced an increase in import taxes as part of a dispute over critical "rare earth" minerals that China exports.In a lengthy social media post early on Friday, Trump…

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors

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Israeli spyware maker NSO Group has confirmed to TechCrunch that a U.S. investment group has acquired the company. NSO spokesperson Oded Hershowitz told TechCrunch on Friday that “an American investment group has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership.” Confirmation of the deal came soon after Israeli tech news website Calcalist reported Friday that a group led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds agreed to purchase the surveillance tech maker in a deal valued in the tens of millions of dollars. Hershowitz declined to specify the amount invested, as well as who the…

‘RIFs have begun.’ Vought announces start of mass firings during government shutdown

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A spokesperson for the budget office said the reductions are “substantial” but did not offer more immediate details. WATCH: ‘Do your damn job,’ federal worker union leaders tell Congress mired in shutdown The Education Department is among the agencies hit by new layoffs, a department spokesperson said Friday without providing more details. The department had about 4,100 employees when Trump took office in January, but its workforce was nearly halved amid mass layoffs in the Republican administration’s first months. At the start of the shutdown, it had about 2,500 employees. Federal health workers were also being fired Friday, though a…