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Trevor Preisel, the executive director at the New Castle Prism Initiative, said the LGBTQIA+ members of the center were upset by vandalism on their Pride flags.The center is located at the Third Independent Presbyterian Church in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and is one of the only centers offering LGBTQIA+ support in the Shenango Valley area.’If people are doing things like this, if people are talking about you, it goes to show that what we’re doing is working.’ They were preparing for a Pride festival on Wednesday when they discovered the vandalism.”People had torn down the progress flags and just thrown them…

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Karmelo Anthony, a black teen who was convicted of murder for fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf, a white teenager, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison by a jury in Collin County, Texas. The sentencing was handed down just hours after Anthony was convicted. The sentencing occurred hours after the guilty verdict, which the jury reached in under three hours of deliberation. Anthony, who was 17 at the time of the April 2, 2025, incident, was tried as an adult under Texas law. He faced a punishment range of five to 99 years or life in prison for murder. Due…

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The Brazilian Women’s National Team match against the United States on Tuesday (9) drew 50,402 fans to Arena Castelão in Fortaleza.The match surpassed Brazil’s friendly against Jamaica at Arena Pernambuco in June 2024, which drew 33,272 people. It also became one of the largest crowds for women’s soccer in Brazil over the last 20 years.AdvertisementAmong clubs, the record belongs to the 2024 Brasileirão final between Corinthians and São Paulo, with 44,529 spectators. In international competitions held in the country, the Olympics remain the clear leader.The Olympic semifinal between Brazil and Sweden at the Maracanã in August 2016 had 70,454 spectators.…

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The United States carried out airstrikes against several military targets in Iran on Tuesday, hours after President Trump vowed to retaliate for what he said was Iran’s downing of a U.S. Army helicopter gunship patrolling near the Strait of Hormuz.In a statement, Central Command said that the “self-defense” strikes carried out on Mr. Trump’s order were “a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”Central Command did not identify the targets, but Iran’s state television reported explosions and air defense sirens early Wednesday at several military installations, radars and artillery batteries along Iran’s southern Persian Gulf coast, including Bandar Abbas, Qeshm and…

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Morgan Stanley’s workplace unit and Citi each estimate at least a $5 trillion opportunity, while Bank of America’s Merrill puts it at $10 trillion.Processing ContentNo, this isn’t the possible post IPO market capitalization of tech giants OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX. Nor is it the scale of AI investments this year. Rather, it’s the mountain of client assets these Wall Street giants estimate is being held at rival firms. As wealth managers increasingly count their ability to bring in new assets as the key gauge of their success, such “held away” assets are being seen as low-hanging fruit, requiring less work than…

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Open as PDF (click to enlarge) According to Eurostat’s estimates, economic growth in the European Union remained positive but slowed during the first quarter of 2026. Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.1 percent in the euro area and by 0.2 percent across the EU compared with the previous quarter. This represents a moderation from the fourth quarter of 2025, when GDP expanded by 0.2 percent in both areas. On an annual basis, growth also weakened. Euro area GDP rose by 0.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, down from 1.3 percent in the…

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Craig Breslow, the Red Sox chief baseball officer, is having a lot of conversations about how his front office will pilot MLB’s Aug. 3 trade deadline. But it seems like those discussions are not reflecting their reality.The Red Sox (27-37) are last in the American League East, 11 ½ games behind the first-place Tampa Bay Rays, and 4 ½ games out of a Wild Card spot with six teams in front of them. They’re not a serious threat to win the World Series. They have several trade chips whose value may never be higher. Yet they’re still masquerading as potential…

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