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              Today is not only the first day of the second half of the year, but it’s also a sacred day for baseball fans: Bobby Bonilla Day.
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              Every July 1, retired third baseman Bobby Bonilla receives a $1.19 million check from the New York Mets, even though he hasn’t played an MLB game in 25 years. Back in 2000, the Mets owed Bonilla $5.9 million, but instead of taking that cash up front, he negotiated a contract that spreads out $30 million in guaranteed payments each year from 2011 until 2035.
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                Stocks’ best quarter in six years
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                  26,213.72
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                  7,499.36
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                  52,319.20
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                  4.418%
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                     +4.0 bps
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                 So far this year, the stock market has had the vibe of six Roman candles duct taped to the back of a Ford Ranger: shooting up farther than everyone expected, but on an unstable base. The S&amp;P 500 closed Q2 yesterday up 14.9%, its biggest jump since 2020, when markets were rallying after their initial Covid nosedive.
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                 The index is up 9.55% since the start of the year, despite declines starting in late February when the US and Israel attacked Iran. In the last quarter, markets
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                 In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court
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                 the constitutional right of birthright citizenship, striking down President Trump’s executive order declaring that babies born in America to undocumented immigrants or nonpermanent residents are not US citizens. The constitution extends the right of citizenship to “every free-born person in this land,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his majority opinion. “We keep that promise today.” In a social media post, Trump said the ruling was “too bad for our Country” and told Congress to step in. In news that the president was happier about, the Supreme Court also upheld state laws banning transgender girls and women from playing on school sports teams.
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                 Uncle Sam may have approved it, but John Bull has questions. Lisa Nandy, the UK’s Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport, told Parliament that “I am minded to intervene” in Paramount Skydance’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Nandy cited
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                 about maintaining the “plurality of views in news media” as well as the “plurality of persons with control of the media enterprises.” The deal would put CNN and CBS News under one roof and give Paramount ownership of WBD’s film studios and streaming services.
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                 The NBA legend will be taking his talents somewhere other than Los Angeles for 2026–2027, ESPN reported yesterday. James, officially a free agent as of last night, played eight years with the Lakers, helping them win the title in 2020. Per ESPN, the Golden State Warriors are
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                 , while his former teams, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat, may also be interested in a reunion. The 41-year-old, who is still playing at a high level despite being born the year that
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                 hit theaters, leaves behind his son, Bronny James, who’s still on the Lakers.
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                 You may want to hold off enrolling in clowning school to AI-proof your career, as new research undermines AI jobpocalypse fears. Companies
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                   more
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                 The study found that employers that adopted AI actually hired faster than their counterparts that did not:
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                   AI-forward companies expanded headcount by 10.2% in the 24 months after adopting AI, while there was no noticeable employment change for companies with modest AI adoption.
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                   In a reassuring sign for early-career professionals, entry-level hiring grew at the same rate as for more senior roles at AI-forward firms. The most aggressive AI adopters tended to have a higher share of junior employees than firms that hadn’t adopted AI.
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                 These findings might provide some solace to worried white-collar workers by challenging the notion that AI is taking their roles, even as companies blame the tech for layoffs and some research
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                 it might be shrinking entry-level employment.
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                 the report’s authors caution that it’s too early to tell what AI’s effect on the labor market will be down the road. But some economists think AI could
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                 You don’t need kryptonite to stop
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                 when you have poor reviews, little interest in secondary superheroes, and a toxic online fandom. The DC tentpole movie had a worse
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                 The Milly Alcock-led movie is on track to lose, optimistically, $100 million to $120 million, per reports. And there is no shortage of reasons:
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                  Target missed:
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                  Supergirl
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                 was meant to appeal to Gen Z women, but 59% of the audience was male, and 65% was 26 or older, which are only encouraging numbers for dive bars.
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