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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Superman might do more than just save Metropolis — filmmaker James Gunn hopes the beloved superhero will bring hope to a cynical world. “Everybody’s gotten so cynical and ironic,” said Gunn. “Everybody’s ironic about everything all the time. And he (Superman) is a good-natured guy who wants to be kind. And when you see the world through Superman’s eyes, everyone is beautiful.”“Superman,” which flies into theaters nationwide Thursday, is a bit of a change in tone for the writer and director who brought a mischievous playfulness and snark to the chaotic worlds of “Suicide Squad” and…

Facebook Tweet Email Link The US Department of Health and Human Services called off an upcoming meeting of expert advisers on preventive health care, raising questions about the future of the longtime, nonpolitical advisory group. An HHS spokesperson confirmed to CNN that the US Preventive Services Task Force — which has set recommendations for cancer screenings, STI testing and other preventive care — will not meet on Thursday as previously scheduled. A notice was sent Monday afternoon saying that the office of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is postponing the July meeting, according to a person familiar with the…

Earlier this month, Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, solved a mystery that had been plaguing him for weeks. Weird images of what were clearly ChatGPT sessions kept being uploaded to the site. Once he solved it, he realized that ChatGPT had become one of his company’s greatest hype men — but it was also lying to people about what his app could do. Holovaty is best known as one of the creators of the open source Django project, a popular Python web development framework (though he retired from managing the project in 2014). In 2012, he launched Soundslice,…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration sued the California Department of Education on Wednesday for allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams, alleging the policy violates federal law. The move escalates a battle between the Republican administration in Washington and Democratic-led California over trans athletes. The lawsuit filed by the Justice Department says California’s transgender athlete policies violate Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination in education based on sex. The department says California’s rules “are not only illegal and unfair but also demeaning, signaling to girls that their opportunities and achievements are secondary to…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 2:55 PM ET, Tue July 8, 2025 WHY IT RATES: Star Clippers is making strategic personnels to help build business. —Sarah Kuta, TravelPulse writer Star Clippers is pleased to announce the promotion of longtime employee Cyndi Denman to the new position of Director of Sales. Cyndi’s new role will be to build Star Clippers’ business by working with the company’s strategic partners and accounts, as well as growing charter sales, and increasing the account base. The company has hired Sheryll Pyle to replace Cyndi in the role of Business Development Executive for the Southeast region.Cyndi…

“SaaS is going away,” said Dave Park, co-founder and CEO of Narada AI. The company is betting big on a different future for enterprise software, one powered by agentic AI. Change is coming “in the not-too-distant future,” Park said on Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast. “The typical knowledge worker today deals with anywhere from 17 to 25 different SaaS tools and portals every day, wasting two and a half hours just manually looking up or updating these systems. We believe in a future where it’ll just be the data, the databases, and AI agents or agentic models that take your request…

Former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is no longer interested in buying a minority stake in his old team, telling CNBC Sport Wednesday that he’s been priced out.”Basically, it’s too expensive for me,” Manning told CNBC Sport in an interview. “A 1% stake valued at $10 billion turns into a very big number.” Manning’s comments come as NFL team valuations skyrocket. In CNBC’s Official NFL Team Valuations published in September, the Giants were valued at $7.85 billion, ranking fourth among the league’s 32 teams.In December, the Philadelphia Eagles sold a minority stake in the team at a valuation of $8.3…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 2:55 PM ET, Tue July 8, 2025 Bookings are now open for Emerald Cruises’ 2027-2028 yacht cruising collection. Travelers can choose between 170 departures across four luxury yachts, which will visit more than 200 ports in 70 countries. The season includes 25 new voyages, including Emerald Raiya’s inaugural Mediterranean sailing launching April 8, 2027, from Valletta. The cruise line will also visit 19 new ports of call in Greece, Italy, France, Turkey, Costa Rica, Panama and more. Emerald Cruises will also be returning to Central America after a successful 2024 season. “This season reflects how Emerald Cruises…

YouTube is preparing to update its policies to crack down on creators’ ability to generate revenue from “inauthentic” content, including mass-produced videos and other types of repetitive content — things that have become easier to generate with the help of AI technology. On July 15, the company will update its YouTube Partner Program (YPP) Monetization policies with more detailed guidelines around what type of content can earn creators money and what cannot. The exact policy language itself has not yet been released, but a page on YouTube’s Help documentation explains that creators have always been required to upload “original” and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government.In letters to Dartmouth College, the University of Notre Dame and five other universities, leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party raise concerns about the schools’ partnerships with the China Scholarship Council, a study abroad program funded by China.The program sponsors hundreds of Chinese graduate students every year at U.S. universities. After graduating, they’re required to return to China for two years. In the letters sent…