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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Thursday. It was a big night for the Knicks — and for the New York City bar that used prediction markets to hedge its customers’ tabs.S&P 500 futures are falling this morning. The major indexes are coming off a down day.Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:1. Streak stoppedA television station broadcasts a news conference with US President Donald Trump on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, April 6, 2026. Michael…

Test your football knowledge before the World Cup begins with this 10-question quiz.Published On 4 Jun 20264 Jun 2026The FIFA World Cup begins on June 11. Here are 10 quiz questions before the tournament kicks off in North America.You can follow the action on Al Jazeera’s dedicated World Cup 2026 page with all the latest news, match build-up and live text commentary, and keep up to date with group standings, real-time match results and schedules.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jared Verse’s family is from Dayton, Ohio, and his older sister still lives there and will be relatively close by, so the trade that sent Verse to the Cleveland Browns comes with benefits. But let’s not kid ourselves, going from the Los Angeles Rams to the Browns wasn’t welcomed news for Verse.”I was upset for a good little bit of time,” Verse revealed when he met with local reporters at the Browns’ facility on Wednesday.Understandable. Jared Verse of the Los Angeles Rams reacts during the NFC Championship game against the Seattle Seahawks…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former first lady Jill Biden pushed back on Democratic critics of her memoir who say the book needlessly dredges up controversies from the 2024 election.Biden made the comment during an event promoting her book, “View from the East Wing,” in New York City on Wednesday. She was asked specifically about comments from former Biden White House spokesman Andrew Bates, who said of her book, “I don’t see why that painful conversation for the party needed to be publicly reopened right now,” according to the New York Post.”I want to say to Andrew:…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A California man is facing federal charges after authorities say he attempted to pass through security at Sacramento International Airport with an explosive device in his carry-on luggage while preparing to board a flight to North Carolina.Kimani Osayande Jones, also known as Kimani Osayande Jackson, 49, of Sacramento, was charged by criminal complaint with unlawfully possessing explosive material in an airport, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California.According to court documents, Jones attempted to pass through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Sacramento International Airport around 9…

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SINGAPORE: A woman on trial for being part of a scam syndicate in Cambodia targeting victims in Singapore had gone there for a job and never wanted to be a scammer, the defence said on Thursday (Jun 4).Testifying at the opening of the defence’s case, 35-year-old Filipina De Villar Rizalyn Panganiban described how she had gone to Cambodia for employment and realised only later it was a scam compound but needed money to return home.The 35-year-old Filipina is accused of belonging to a criminal group in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and of conspiring to cheat people in Singapore via government official…

NewsFeedThousands of people have marched in Argentina, where a woman is killed every 30 hours, to demand an end to gender-based violence. Protests were sparked by the brutal rape and murder of 14-year-old girl, Agostina Vega, found a week after she disappeared.Published On 4 Jun 20264 Jun 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

President Trump’s pick for acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte has become a point of contention on Capitol Hill, including on Wednesday, when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed to senators that he had a heated argument with the Trump loyalist last year — but disputed some of the details.The president’s decision to tap Pulte, who lacks a résumé in the national security field and oversaw the launch of mortgage fraud investigations into Trump critics as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has been met with little joy from Republicans on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of…

Premier Doug Ford has charged Ontario taxpayers more than $140,000 over the past year to charter private flights across Canada and the United States, according to publicly available records, revealing a change in habits for the once infamously penny-pinching politician. Records show Ford’s penchant for private travel took off immediately after winning the 2025 provincial election campaign, during which the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party chartered planes to Washington, D.C. to push back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.Since then, Ford and his staff have flown on five separate private flights in a single year to various destinations for government…