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Breaking Stories (US)

• Goldman (GS) Junior Banker Magazine Shoot Sets Off Blame Game at Firm

  A magazine’s glossy photo shoot with young Wall Streeters, including a pair from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. who opined on their spending and dating, is setting off finger-pointing inside the famously restrained investment bank.

  Bloomberg
• Family recalls Army son Sgt. Declan Coady killed in Iran drone attack in Kuwait

  U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Declan Coady was killed in an Iranian drone attack at Kuwait's Port of Shuaiba. The 20-year-old Drake University student's family shared memories after learning of his death.

  Fox News
• 7 Things You Absolutely Shouldn't Do In Marathon

  Stop doing Rook runs. Slow down. Quit shooting everything.

  Kotaku
• Wave of strikes in Beirut’s Dahieh; US says B-2 bombers hit underground missile sites

  US says B-2 bombers struck Iran’s underground missile facilities as Israeli airstrikes pounded Beirut’s Dahieh; Iranian vessels reported sunk and regional tensions escalate

  ynetnews
• A Killing Spree in Utah Rattles a Region and Puzzles Officials

  Three women were slain in two locations, officials said on Thursday. A frantic manhunt involving four states led to an arrest, but a motive was still unclear.

  The New York Times
• Anxiety grows among California Democrats as gubernatorial candidates rebuff calls to drop out

  Despite a warning from the state Democratic Party chair that a crowded field could hand the governorship to a Republican, eight of nine major Democratic candidates filed their paperwork to run, betting they can build momentum before the June primary.

  Los Angeles Times
• First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In: Here's How It Compares to the M1 MacBook Air

  Benchmarks for the new MacBook Neo surfaced today, and unsurprisingly, CPU performance is almost identical to the iPhone 16 Pro. The MacBook Neo uses the same 6-core A18 Pro chip that was first introduced in the iPhone 16 Pro, but it has one fewer GPU core. The MacBook Neo earned a single-core score of 3461 and a multi-core score of 8668, along with a Metal score of 31286.

  MacRumors
• Blue Jays-Braves game ends on ABS challenge when umpire blows call

  A spring training game between the Braves and Blue Jays ended Thursday when the home plate umpire's call was challenged and overturned.

  The Big Lead
• Pete Hegseth says Iran's strikes backfired, strengthened US Gulf ties

  War Secretary Pete Hegseth says U.S. firepower over Tehran will surge dramatically as Iran's regional strikes pull Gulf allies into American orbit from CENTCOM headquarters.

  Fox News
• Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result

  The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved record-breaking performance. In this unconfirmed result, the M5 Max with an 18-core CPU achieved a score of 29,233 for multi-core CPU performance, which tops the 27,726 score achieved by the Mac Studio's M3 Ultra chip with a 32-core CPU. M5 Max is now the fastest Apple silicon chip ever, and it even topped every other consumer PC processor in the Geekbench database.

  MacRumors