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Prior to Game 1 of the 2026 Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Carolina Hurricanes, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA Executive Director Marty Walsh announced that the New York Islanders and UBS Arena will be getting an All-Star Game. So, to quote Commissioner Bettman, the demise of the All-Star Game has been greatly exaggerated. As many thought, the NHL had cancelled the All-Star Game in favor of Four Nations. But in speaking with Marty Walsh, the NHLPA Executive Director, “the 2027 NHL All-Star Game will be a prelude to the 2028 World Cup of Hockey.”…

It comes after the US Supreme Court struck down many of US President Donald Trump’s previous duties in February.

Bitcoin fell into the mid-$67,000s on Tuesday, dragging the entire ecosystem of crypto-linked equities with it. Bitcoin shed more than 11% over the past week, crashing below $67,000 for the first time since early April, according to Bitcoin Magazine Pro data.  The drop hit crypto treasury stocks with full force. Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) tumbled 9.15% on Tuesday, trading at $136.08 at close, with a session low of $134.11 — dangerously close to its 52-week floor of $104.16. Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN) fell 4.23%, to $173.74.  And Strive, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASST), the Vivek Ramaswamy-founded bitcoin treasury company, dropped 6.23% to $16.10…

The Italian restauranteur will join Grace Dent on the series, following Torode’s exit last year.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (ANI Photo) Royal Challengers Bengaluru may have retained the IPL trophy, but according to former England captain and Gujarat Titans wicketkeeper-batter Jos Buttler, one teenager overshadowed every other storyline in the tournament. Speaking on the YouTube podcast For The Love of Cricket, Buttler reflected on the recently concluded IPL 2026 season and reserved special praise for 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, whose remarkable campaign captured the imagination of cricket fans across the world. While discussing RCB’s successful title defence and Gujarat Titans’ defeat in the final, Buttler made it clear that Sooryavanshi’s performances stood above everything else. “RCB won the…

Class 9 students hit hardest as NCERT books remain unavailable in Bengaluru schools. (Representative Image) BENGALURU: Schools have reopened, but several CBSE schools in the city are reeling under shortage of NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) textbooks, thus affecting their academic schedules. While schools say there is a shortage of books for classes 6-9, the worst hit is class 9, where a completely new syllabus has been rolled out. While the online PDFs are available on the website, schools say that do not suffice. “Teachers find it hard in language classes, when students don’t have text books.…

Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, is preparing to mine Bitcoin using electricity generated from sugarcane waste in Brazil, and the pilot is set to go live by July 1, 2026. The operation, run through Tether-backed agribusiness Adecoagro, will start with 10 megawatts of capacity and approximately 1,280 Bitcoin mining machines powered entirely by biomass energy from sugarcane processing. Adecoagro already operates more than 230 megawatts of renewable electricity generation capacity across South America, giving the project an established energy platform before a single mining rig is switched on. The 10-megawatt pilot is a small slice of that,…

UOB strategists Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann describe GBP/USD price action as range-bound after a brief drop to 1.3407, expecting the pair to edge lower toward 1.3430 while keeping 1.3405 as distant support. For the next one to three weeks, they see current moves as part of a 1.3390–1.3510 consolidation, but warn that a weekly close below 1.3300 could trigger a slide toward 1.2945–1.3010.Sterling consolidates inside broad band”24-HOUR VIEW: GBP dropped to a low of 1.3407 on Monday and rebounded to close largely unchanged at 1.3456 (+0.02%). Yesterday, we pointed out that “the price action provides no fresh…

TL;DR: You can’t close a gap you can’t see. Most companies sit on more talent than they realize, but skills mapping and real-time tracking surface what job titles hide. Annual plans can’t keep up. When managers can’t predict skill needs, continuous feedback loops beat static planning every time. Knowledge without practice is shelfware. If employees have no safe space to apply what they’ve learned, the training budget pays for theory that never hits the job. If nobody owns it, nobody fixes it. Assign the roles: managers define what the business needs, L&D builds the structure, and employees build and apply…

Though season seven, episode one ended with Escobar sleeping alongside Ace Greene, narrator Iain Stirling welcomed viewers back the next day, briefly noting, “Yulissa has left the villa.” Four days later, she expressed remorse for her actions in the videos, emphasizing that she had “no right in using” the word. “I used it ignorantly, not fully understanding the weight, history, or pain behind it,” Escober, 28, wrote on Instagram. “I wasn’t trying to be offensive or harmful, but I recognize now that intention doesn’t excuse impact.”  “I’ve changed a lot since then, not just in how I speak, but in…