Original title: Turkish Assets Plunge After Senior Opposition Leader Ousted A Turkish court has ordered the removal of the main opposition party’s Istanbul administration, leading to a slump in local assets. Turkey’s benchmark BIST-100 fell as much as 5.9% following news a court had annulled the Istanbul provincial congress of the CHP, as the opposition party is known. The index trimmed losses later and was down 3.9% at 5:00 p.m. Istanbul. The yield on two-year government bonds soared 85 basis points to 39.78% while five-year credit default swaps — a gauge of the country’s risk — jumped. ...

Original title: The best Labor Day TV sales Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer, which is a bit sad, but it’s a great time to get a deal on a fancy, new TV. The US holiday is happening just before the start of the 2025-2026 NFL season, the World Cup qualifiers, and the lead-up to the MLB post-season games. This sports trifecta means you can take advantage of Labor Day sales on 4K TVs, whether you’re planning on hosting big at-home viewing parties, or you just want to tune in alone. Right now, you can save hundreds of dollars on high-end OLED TVs like Samsung’s S90D or Sony’s Bravia 8 II. If you don’t want to spend as much, you can pick up a 70-inch 4K TV from Insignia for well under $400. That’s just a taste, but we’ve got more deals below that should suit gamers, cinephiles and sports fans alike. Many of these TVs are at or matching their lowest prices, and, as always, there’s no guarantee that Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals will beat these prices. Insignia F50 Insignia’s massive 70-inch F50 4K TV is on sa ...

Original title: Google Play Games is about to show people what you play Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is updating user profiles for its Play Games service on Android devices to display gaming stats, achievements, and social features. The changes include a suite of new capabilities for “showcasing and tracking your game progress and stats, new ways to build your gaming community, and allowing you to tailor your profile to your liking,” according to Google’s help page. The update will be applied automatically, and starts rolling out in most global regions on September 23rd, and on October 1st for users in the EU and UK. Google is also emailing Google Play users directly to notify them about the changes. When applied, Google Play Games profiles and features will start appearing on the Google Play Store to prevent users from having to switch between apps when managing their accounts. The unified update aims to help users who make their profile information public to connect with other players and ...

Original title: Dolby Vision 2 goes beyond HDR with more AI and ‘authentic motion’ smoothing is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. More than 10 years after the launch of Dolby Vision, the next generation of the HDR format is here, and it aims to do more than just optimize tone and brightness level for different scenes. The new version, called Dolby Vision 2, has new “Content Intelligence” tools that use AI to automatically optimize your TV based on what you’re watching, where you’re watching it, and what device you’re on, expanding on the existing Dolby Vision IQ features. That includes a Precision Black that’s supposed to improve clarity in darker scenes without straying too far from a filmmaker’s intent, as well as an updated Light Sense feature to adjust picture quality using ambient light detection combined with reference lighting data from the source material. It also supports bi-directional tone mapping capabilities that Dolby says will allow high-performance TVs ...

Original title: Apple Slashes 2025 MLS Season Pass to as Low as $25 Apple has significantly discounted the MLS Season Pass for the remainder of the 2025 season, offering the annual subscription at $29, or $25 for Apple TV+ subscribers, down from the regular $99 price. The reduced rate covers the rest of the current MLS season and playoffs, including access to every match live and on demand, with separate English and Spanish commentary, with French available for Canadian matches. Other features of the pass include “MLS 360,” a whip-around show featuring highlights and commentary from every game, and “Sunday Night Soccer,” a newly introduced featured match broadcast every Sunday. This price drop is consistent with Apple’s pricing strategy in previous years, gradually lowering the cost of entry as the season progresses. Monthly subscriptions remain unchanged at $14.99 per month, or $12.99 per month with ‌Apple TV‌+. The discounted annual subscription is only valid through the end of the 2025 season, after which it will automatically renew at the standard ...

Original title: Onion CEO Ben Collins Hasn’t Given Up on Print—or Buying Infowars Ben Collins made a big bet. A year ago, just a few months after he’d been named CEO of The Onion, he relaunched its print edition. Once a favorite on university campuses, The Onion hadn’t published a physical issue since 2013. Common wisdom said that readership, and advertising dollars, just weren’t there for newspapers. But Collins, a fan of the satirical paper since childhood, thought “that’s dumb.” Readers celebrated The Onion’s relaunch and the ability to read all of its bitingly funny headlines on a single broadsheet. (An early headline from the relaunched edition: “I Was Honored to Die So the Print Edition of ‘The Onion’ Could Live,” written by “A. Tree.”) Collins wouldn’t give exact numbers on how many people are currently subscribed to the print edition but did say they should be enough to keep its writers’ room humming (a few weeks after we taped this episode, the Wall Street Journal reported that The Onion now boasts more than 53,000 paying subscribers). On this episode of Un ...

Original title: These ex-Premier League stars lost millions in investments. Now they are being chased by HMRC A group of former Premier League footballers say they lost tens of millions of pounds because of their financial advisers. Danny Murphy, Michael Thomas and Rod Wallace are part of the V11 campaign group, which comprises 11 footballers who invested with Kingsbridge Asset Management in the 1990s and 2000s. Former England midfielder Murphy - now a Match of the Day pundit - believes he lost roughly £5m because of “financial abuse”. David McKee and Kevin McMenamin, who ran Kingsbridge, say they “deny any wrongdoing”. They told the BBC: “At all times, Kingsbridge advised in good faith and set out the risks and opportunities both before and after any investment was agreed.” Up to 200 footballers may have been affected, with some losing their homes and being made bankrupt. They are now being chased for millions more in tax, despite being told by City of London Police they were “victims of crime”. ...

Original title: Beijing tightens control ahead of Xi’s big moment on world stage Beijing tightens control ahead of Xi’s big moment on world stage 7 hours ago Share Save Laura Bicker China correspondent Share Save Putin, Kim and Xi meet in China: BBC correspondents explain why The stage is set in the heart of Beijing for a grand display of power and military might that has been choreographed by President Xi Jinping. Eight huge Chinese flags flutter and flank the portrait of Mao Zedong, the founder of Communist China, which sits on top of the Gate of Heavenly Peace overlooking Tiananmen Square, one of the largest public squares in the world. Below are rows of seats reserved for 26 foreign heads of state, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, whose attendance is a diplomatic win for Xi. Across the road, near the Great Hall of the People, two huge floral arrangements commemorating the end of World War II rise up alongside seating for around 50,000 invitees. On the last day of preparations - Monday - Chang’an Avenue, the multi-lane road that c ...

Original title: Newly elected Green Party leader signals shift to left to take on Labour Zack Polanski elected leader of the Green Party Watch: Zack Polanski tells Labour “we’re here to replace you” His election potentially opens the door to cooperation with the new left-wing party being set up by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana. In his victory speech, Polanski promised to build a “green left” to take on Labour, telling Sir Keir Starmer’s party: “We are here to replace you.” The London Assembly member beat Green MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, who were standing on a joint ticket, by 20,411 votes to 3,705. Zack Polanski has been elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales by a landslide, signalling a clear shift to the left for the party. Polanski, a former actor who was the party’s deputy leader, campaigned on an “eco-populism” platform and has promised to make the party “bolder” and more radical in its approach. In his victory speech, he said: “If you’re feeling hopeless, if you’re feeling in despair, if you’re feeling poli ...

Original title: Sheinelle Jones Sets Return to NBC’s ‘Today’ Show NBC Today anchor Sheinelle Jones will return to the morning show this week, nearly four months after her husband passed away from a rare form of brain cancer. Jones will return to Today on Friday, Sept. 5, co-anchor Savannah Guthrie said Tuesday morning. Guthrie taped an interview with Jones, which will also air Friday. Jones, the co-host of Today’s third hour, has been absent from the show all year as her husband Uche Ojeh battled glioblastoma. Ojeh passed away in May at age 45. “She and her family have been through so much after the devastating loss of her husband Uche, and we recently sat down together, we shared a really personal conversation, talking about how she has carried on and found the strength these past few months,” Guthrie said Tuesday. “She calls this experience a beautiful nightmare, and she has thoughts on grief that are so touching, she’s got a special message of hope to for anybody facing their own struggles, and we will share that with you, and we cannot wait to we ...