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OpenAI rolls back an o4-mini snapshot deployed less than a week earlier after its monitoring detected an increase in content flags.

Facing a nearly $1 billion shortfall, Mayor Karen Bass signed Los Angeles's roughly $14 billion 2025-26 budget on the charter deadline, restoring more than 1,000 of the positions her April plan had slated for layoff.

Valley Metro opened the 5.5-mile South Central Extension and Downtown Hub, adding eight stations along Central and 1st avenues down to Baseline Road. The same day the system was restructured into an A Line running to Mesa and a B Line running from Metro Parkway in north-west Phoenix down to Baseline Road, the two meeting at four new downtown platforms.

Metro's $900 million station at Aviation Boulevard and 96th Street joins the C and K lines with 14 bus lines and the LAX shuttles, the first direct train connection to the airport.

President Trump invoked 10 U.S.C. 12406 to call at least 2,000 California National Guard members into federal service for 60 days, over Governor Newsom's objection, to protect ICE agents and federal buildings during the Los Angeles protests.

In a 6-3 vote the council ended a century of free trash pickup, setting a $43.60 monthly fee for the standard 95-gallon bundle, well above the $23-$29 voters were shown for 2022's Measure B.

OpenAI releases o3-pro to Pro users in ChatGPT and in its API, a version of o3 that thinks longer for the most reliable responses.

PLDT shareholders approved the 2024 audited financial statements and elected 13 directors, including three independents, at the annual meeting at the Grand Hyatt Manila in Bonifacio Global City.

A Manhattan jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of first-degree criminal sexual act for assaulting Miriam Haley in 2006, acquitted him of a charge involving Kaja Sokola, and deadlocked on the rape count involving Jessica Mann.

Declaring a local emergency after 23 businesses were looted, Mayor Karen Bass ordered an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew across roughly a square mile of downtown Los Angeles, bounded by the 5, 10 and 110 freeways, and lifted it a week later.

Cloud Art's donghua adaptation Zhu Xian continues into a third season, extending its wuxia-fantasy saga of rival sects, hidden loyalties, and the legendary Zhuxian Sword.

US District Judge Charles Breyer granted California a temporary restraining order finding the federalization of the state's National Guard illegal and ordering control returned to Governor Newsom, a ruling the Ninth Circuit paused within hours.

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 American fantasy adventure film and a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film by DreamWorks Animation, itself loosely based on the 2003 novel by Cressida Cowell. The film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-wrote and directed the animated film.

Ruling from the bench in Boston, Judge William Young found NIH's termination of about 800 research grants on diversity and LGBTQ health "arbitrary and capricious" and ordered payments to resume, calling the record racial discrimination.

Prosecutors displayed stacks of cash from Rp 11.88 trillion (about US$729 million) handed over by five Wilmar subsidiaries, the biggest seizure in the AGO's history, while their appeal against Wilmar's acquittal was pending.

New York's MTA won final approval for a record $68.4 billion five-year capital plan aimed at modernizing the aging subway, from new train cars to next-generation train control.

A Norfolk Superior Court jury in Dedham acquitted Karen Read of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2022 death of Boston police officer John O'Keefe, convicting her only of drunken driving.

A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel stayed Judge Breyer's order, holding the President was likely to have lawfully federalized California's National Guard under a "highly deferential" review, so the troops stayed under federal command in Los Angeles.

A federal judge in Boston barred the Trump administration from giving any effect to its 22 May 2025 revocation of Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, keeping Harvard able to enroll international students.

Salesforce lined up $6 billion of unsecured term loans, a $4 billion 364-day facility and a $2 billion three-year facility with JPMorgan as agent, to pay part of the cash for its $8 billion Informatica purchase.

Owner John Fisher, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and Nevada officials broke ground on the $1.75 billion, 33,000-capacity ballpark on the former Tropicana site at the south end of the Strip, which the A's plan to open for the 2028 season.

Agentforce 3 added a Command Center to watch and tune AI agents, native Model Context Protocol support and 100+ prebuilt industry actions, after 8,000 customers signed up for Agentforce.

Logan Airport reached 102 degrees on 24 June 2025, beating Boston's 100-degree June record from 2021, 1952 and 1925, with a heat index near 110. It fell just 2 degrees short of the city's all-time high of 104, set on 4 July 1911.

Assembly member Zohran Mamdani beat former Governor Andrew Cuomo 56.4% to 43.6% after three rounds of ranked-choice voting, in a primary where more than a million Democrats voted. Cuomo conceded on election night; the Board of Elections' ranked-choice tally confirmed the upset on 1 July.

Nike's fourth-quarter revenue fell 12% to $11.1 billion and diluted EPS sank 86% to $0.14 in the quarter it called the biggest hit of its Win Now turnaround, and it estimated new US tariffs would add about $1 billion of gross costs in fiscal 2026.

China opened Chongqing East, a 1.22 million sq m high-speed rail hub roughly six times the size of New York's Grand Central, as the newest showpiece of its 50,000km high-speed rail network.

Lululemon filed a trade-dress, design-patent and trademark suit in Los Angeles federal court accusing Costco of selling knockoffs of its Scuba hoodies, Define jackets and ABC pants, including a Kirkland-brand pant and Danskin, Jockey, Spyder and Hi-Tec tops.

After years of safety-related construction halts and cost overruns, the new cable-stayed Harbor Bridge across Corpus Christi's ship channel finally opened to traffic in 2025.

Takopi's Original Sin follows a cheerful alien named Takopi who lands on Earth to bring happiness to a bullied, lonely fourth-grader, Shizuka, only to confront how much darker her life is than his gadgets can fix.

National Gas marked a £350M investment in hydrogen-ready compressor infrastructure shared across three sites, Peterborough among them, part of preparing Britain's gas transmission network for a lower-carbon future.

Hershey said it will take FD&C certified colors - the synthetic dyes in Twizzlers, Jolly Rancher and Shaq-A-Licious gummies - out of its US products by the end of 2027, blaming a patchwork of state dye laws as HHS pressed food makers to drop them.

The Imperial Beach mayor beat Chula Vista Mayor John McCann 53.9% to 46.1% for the vacant District 1 seat, giving Democrats a 3-2 majority on the Board of Supervisors.

Canada's first large-scale liquefied natural gas export terminal, built by a Shell-led joint venture in Kitimat, British Columbia, produced and shipped its first LNG cargo in 2025.

HPE closed its all-cash purchase of Juniper Networks at $40 a share, doubling its networking business, days after settling the Justice Department's antitrust suit by agreeing to sell its Instant On unit and license Juniper's Mist AI source code.

A Manhattan federal jury acquitted Sean "Diddy" Combs of racketeering conspiracy and two sex trafficking counts but convicted him of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, each carrying up to 10 years.

Six months after the fires, Governor Newsom declared the public cleanup of more than 10,000 burned parcels in the Palisades and Eaton zones substantially complete, the fastest major disaster cleanup in US history.

The General Services Administration's OneGov agreement gave every federal agency a 75% discount on Oracle's licensed technology, cheaper OCI and no egress fees, priced on the whole government's volume.

Hershey hired Kirk Tanner, Wendy's CEO and a PepsiCo veteran of more than 30 years, who ran its $28 billion North American beverage business, as its next CEO from August 18, 2025. Wendy's named its CFO interim CEO the same morning.

Vuori created a global president role for former Fabletics brand president Ashley Kechter, over retail, e-commerce, supply chain and wholesale, and hired RH's Edward Lee as chief legal officer.

Salesforce named technology executive Amy Chang and former NVIDIA chief scientist David Kirk to its board, effective immediately, to add technical depth for what it calls the agentic AI era.