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KENYANS VICTORIOUS IN BOSTON MARATHON
BRIAN SNYDER, REUTERS
John Korir and Sharon Lokedi, both of Kenya, celebrate with a trophy Monday after winning the men's and women's Boston Marathon races. Korir, 29, won his second straight Boston Marathon, setting a course record in the 130th edition of the race with a time of 2:01:52. Lokedi, 32, also repeated as champion on the women's side, finishing in a time of 2:18:51 — just 89 seconds slower than the course record she set last year.
$110 billion
BIG NUMBER
The value of a proposed merger between Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Skydance that Warner shareholders backed, according to a vote Thursday.
HE SAID …
Taking on violent hate " and extremist groups is among the most dangerous work there is and we believe it is also among the most important work we do."
— Interim CEO and President Bryan Fair, after the Trump administration indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday over its past use of paid informants.
THE WATER COOLER
MARIJUANA: The U.S. Justice Department reclassified state regulated marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a major shift. The directive acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed Thursday shifted licensed marijuana products from Schedule I to the less strictly controlled Schedule III but stops short of legalizing the drug for recreational use nationwide.
AI TRAINING: Meta is installing tracking software on U.S. based employees' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes to train its artificial intelligence models, part of an initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos Tuesday.
APPLE: On Monday, Apple announced Tim Cook will step down as CEO this year after nearly 15 years leading the Cupertino company and overseeing its market value increase to about $4 trillion. John Ternus, the senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become CEO on Sept. 1, while Cook will become executive chairman.
UNLIMITED SHRIMP: Red Lobster is exploring a new version of its Endless Shrimp promotion, the company announced Monday. The deal would reportedly be a limited-time offer. A permanent version of the deal in 2023 famously lost the seafood chain millions of dollars, forcing the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and close more than 100 locations.
Sources say Pentagon fired Navy secretary
IN THE NEWS
WASHINGTON — Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired, a U.S. official and a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday, just weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ousted the Army's top general.
The Pentagon announced Phelan's departure in a brief statement, saying he was leaving the administration "effective immediately." It did not provide a reason or say whether it was his decision to go. The Navy's No. 2 civilian, Hung Cao, will take over as acting Navy secretary.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Phelan was dismissed in part because he was moving too slow to implement reforms to speed shipbuilding and because he fell out with key Pentagon leadership. One source also cited an ethics investigation into Phelan's office.
EPSTEIN: The U.S. Justice Department's Office of Inspector General said Thursday it will investigate how the department complied with a law requiring the release of investigative files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
GUN VIOLENCE: A man shot and killed eight children, seven of them his own, and injured two women — the mothers of his children — and a ninth child last Sunday in Louisiana before officers killed him, Shreveport police officials said.
MURDER CASE: David Burke, 21, a musician known as D4vd, pleaded not guilty Monday to first-degree murder and other charges in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 14, months after her dismembered body was found in the trunk of his Tesla in Hollywood.
— Lee wire services
Iran, US continue to vie over key strait
IN THE NEWS
Iran flaunted its grip over the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday with video of its commandos storming a cargo ship after the collapse of peace talks that Washington hoped would open the world's most important shipping corridor.
President Donald Trump said Washington was in "total control" of the strait as U.S. forces confronted Iranian ships in international waters to enforce its blockade. U.S. forces redirected 33 vessels since the blockade began, the military said Thursday.
Meanwhile, Trump greeted Lebanese and Israeli envoys at the White House for a second round of U.S.-facilitated talks and later announced a ceasefire between the two countries was extended for three weeks.
RESIGNATION: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned Monday amid allegations of misconduct at the department, stepping down as the Labor Department's inspector general neared the end of an investigation into claims involving her and her top aides.
REDISTRICTING: President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday without evidence that a Virginia vote to redraw the state's congressional map was "rigged," as a county judge moved to block the measure. Voters approved a referendum the prior day that could help Democrats flip as many as four Republican-held seats in the U.S. House.
HOUSE: U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., resigned Tuesday before a congressional committee was set to hold a hearing on her punishment for ethics violations. She was charged with stealing $5 million in COVID-19 pandemic federal disaster funds.
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