Volleyball doesn’t have goalkeepers, but it does have liberos—and the rules are a little different for them.

Kamala Harris will name Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, according to three people familiar with the decision granted anonymity because the announcement is not yet public. By choosing Walz, Harris is elevating a Midwestern governor, veteran and former schoolteacher to help shore up support among blue-collar, white voters in the Rust Belt. Walz, 60, led a progressive overhaul of Minnesota during his second term as governor, when Democrats took full control of state government...

Google has violated US antitrust law with its search business, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing the tech giant a staggering court defeat with the potential to reshape how millions of Americans get information online and to upend decades of dominance. “After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” US District Judge Amit Mehta...

Early reports indicate that Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota governor Tim Walz to join her on the presidential ticket in November. Walz’s selection represents a rare moment in which America’s progressives and Republicans are experiencing the same range of emotions. If Harris had backed Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro for the role, both the far left and the Republican right would be beset with existential anxiety; progressives over their rejection by their party’s...

Stocks jumped Tuesday, recovering some some losses from the previous trading session. The S&P 500 traded 1% higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 316 points, or 0.8%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.8%. Several big technology stocks rebounded after a sharp pullback on Monday. Nvidia rose 3.6%, while Meta Platforms advanced 2.5%. Meanwhile, Apple continued its decline and fell more than 2%. Helping...

At her first major campaign rally since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris made a relatively unexpected promise. Speaking in Atlanta to a crowd of 10,000 supporters, Harris pledged to “take on corporate landlords and cap unfair rent increases.” Harris’s remarks to cap rents echoed a recent proposal from the Biden administration just two weeks earlier to limit rent hikes to 5 percent nationwide over the next two years...

A federal appeals court recently ruled voters in two different minority groups cannot coalesce to claim a Texas political map stripped their voting power, a decision that could give Republicans a boost to win congressional seats in the South. The court’s Aug. 1 decision curtails what conservative critics argue is the Democrats’ misuse of the Voting Rights Act to create voting districts favoring their party in Galveston, Texas. This ruling has the potential to...

Wall Street's main indexes rose in volatile trading on Tuesday, as investors looked for bargains after a rout in the previous session, while dovish rate commentary from Federal Reserve officials also lifted the mood. Most megacap and growth stocks, which together lost $200 billion in market value on Monday, gained as Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab bounced back 2.3%. Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab slipped 1.9%, extending a nearly 5% drop on Monday after Warren Buffett's...

The actor in the viral music video denouncing the 2024 Olympics looks a lot like French President Emmanuel Macron. The images of rats, trash and the sewage, however, were dreamed up by artificial intelligence. Portraying Paris as a crime-ridden cesspool, the video mocking the Games spread quickly on social media platforms like YouTube and X, helped on its way by 30,000 social media bots linked to a notorious Russian disinformation group that has set its sights on France before. Within...

Here’s a story that aged worse than Joe Biden. It’s a PolitiFact “fact-check” of Brit Hume from four years ago. In retrospect, it’s a masterclass in how the media gaslights its readers while pretending to hold a torch for truth. I worked with Brit Hume for nearly 20 years at Fox News. Between hundreds of staff meetings and countless hours on air, I discovered Brit has a rare, almost annoying quality: He is virtually always right. He’s a man who speaks with precision, choosing...