The Los Angeles Lakers have been sold for the second time in just over a year.
A group led by Josh Kushner, younger brother of Jared Kushner, and Bob Iger, the former CEO of the Walt Disney Company, purchased the NBA team for a reported $12.5 billion. This sale price marks the largest amount paid for a team. The previous owner, Mark Walter and his group, held a 71% stake in the Lakers, the majority of which was acquired in October 2025.
On hearing that new Prime Minister Andy Burnham will be embarking on a monthlong “cost of living” tour across the United Kingdom, one user of the social media chat platform Reddit commented: “Housing is too expensive, energy is too expensive, food is too expensive etc. There you go, Andy, I’ve saved you some fuel (very expensive).”
Power supply was cut on Thursday to about 540,000 homes and businesses across the US midwest as severe storms battered the region, data from PowerOutage.us showed.
Indiana was the hardest-hit state, with more than 267,000 outages, representing about 8% of its roughly 3.3 million customers, the data showed.
Nintendo has begun displaying in-store warnings of its impending Switch 2 price increase.
As announced earlier this year, the Switch 2 will rise in cost on September 1 in the U.S., U.K., and mainland Europe. In Nintendo's homeland of Japan, this price rise has already taken effect.
Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world and in some places is ill-equipped to deal with hot weather.
More than 135 million people across Europe, mostly in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, face temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) as the continent’s latest heatwave builds.
I’ve spent something like seven hours in funny-thinky cooperative puzzler Big Walk, and the concept of more Big Walk is something that confounds and, just a little bit, frightens me. What, you spent an entire evening stubbing toes in the dark and overconfidently barking incorrect solutions at friends, only for the opening of the map room to reveal the humbling significance of your progress thus far, and you want more? Friend, if I play this until my forties, I might make it halfway through.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - AUGUST 27: A view of a Boston Red Sox logo on a bag on the field before the game against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on August 27, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images)
It’s currently running a poll for the new vehicle’s name.
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic has been developing its "Delta class" of spaceships for a while now. It even stopped offering trips to suborbital space in 2024 after seven successful commercial flights to focus on its next-gen vehicle. The company had been preparing for the new spaceship's debut later this year and was originally planning to put it through a series of tests over the next few months leading up to its first commercial flight in the fourth quarter of 2026. But Virgin Galactic apparently faced several issues with the vehicle's assembly, and it has now announced that the new ship's debut commercial flight will take place in February 2027 at the earliest.
Bruno Guimaraes made his first appearance and Myles Lewis-Skelly scored amid speculation about his future as Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw by Como before winning 4-3 on penalties.
