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LONDON: Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa shattered the women’s-only world record in winning the 45th London Marathon on Sunday, while Kenyan Sebastian Sawe made a brilliant tactical decision to demolish a stacked men’s field en route to victory. The 28-year-old Assefa, silver medallist in the event at last year’s Paris Olympics, pulled away from Joyciline Jepkosgei of Kenya over the final couple of kilometres after the two had set a blistering early pace. She crossed the finish line in two hours, 15 minutes and 50 seconds, beating the previous women’s-only record of 2:16:16 set last year in London by Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir,…

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesWarner Bros. Discovery is taking a page out of Netflix’s playbook.In an apparent move to crack down on password sharing outside the home, the company’s streaming service Max has launched a new feature it is calling Extra Member Add-On. Similar to Netflix’s paid sharing model, the new feature allows users to add an extra person who does not live in the same household as the primary account holder to their subscription for a monthly fee.Priced at $7.99 a month, the friend or family member of the account owner gets their own stand-alone account under…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Alphabet — Shares of the megacap technology name pulled back 1.4% after a federal judge ruled that Google has illegally monopolized online advertising technology , namely the markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges. Hertz — The rental car company surged 43.9% to a 52-week high, following a 56% rally in the previous session, after Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square took a sizable stake . A regulatory filing revealed Pershing Square had built a 4.1% position as of the end of 2024. Pershing has significantly increased the position — to 19.8%…

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“We know where we are,” Padilla told the nominee. “We know what the directive is: Get it to Schedule III,” he said, referring to a rescheduling recommendation from the Department of Health and Human Services. “Are you committed to seeing it to fruition?” the senator asked. “I don’t know. I haven’t seen it,” Cole said....

The BPRA Is Reframing How We Think About Plant Medicine By reviving coca research, the Beneficial Plant Research Association is challenging the psychedelic notion of “plant medicine” and rooting its work in Indigenous-led ecological care. In psychedelic circles, the phrase “plant medicine” tends to evoke images of ayahuasca, mushrooms, huachuma, or iboga. But outside that...

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When TikTok creator Franchesca Ramsey pops onto people’s for-you-pages, ukulele in hand, most people expect to hear a short but gospel tinged song about a fictitious political party themed on vicious and face-eating leopards. But this satirical song has a real-life story behind its rise on TikTok — and it starts with gay Black conservative...

Despite the buzz surrounding artificial intelligence, even the most advanced vision-language models—GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.5 Pro—struggle with a decades-old challenge: playing the classic first-person shooter Doom.On Thursday, a new research project introduced VideoGameBench, an AI benchmark designed to test whether state-of-the-art vision-language models can play—and beat—a suite of 20 popular video games,...

Before licensed dispensaries, venture capital, and mass-market branding, there were patients.The legal cannabis industry exists today because of them. It was patients—people living with AIDS, cancer, autism, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and other debilitating conditions—who fought for legalization. Their advocacy, their stories, and their medical needs convinced policymakers to take cannabis seriously.Yet, today, those patients have...