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Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app on select Amazon Fire TV Sticks today. The app, which Microsoft first announced last month, provides access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, allowing subscribers of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to stream a variety of Xbox titles to some Fire TV devices.

The Xbox app will initially be available only on the Fire TV 4K Max (2023) and



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Walmart is offering new Walmart+ memberships for $49 a year, or half off the usual $98 fee.
  • Walmart is offering half off the price of a Walmart+ membership until July 18.
  • That timing gets ahead of Amazon's Prime Day, which happens on July 16 and 17.
  • Walmart has been stepping up its effort to woo customers over from the e-commerce giant.

Walmart's members-only sales event is in the rearview, and



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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan said she would not replace President Joe Biden on the 2024 ticket.
  • Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan vowed she wouldn't run if President Joe Biden exited the race.
  • Whitmer has repeatedly backed the president and his 2024 run.
  • Leaked polling found Whitmer was popular among Democrats and outperformed Biden.

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Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley have been married since 2016.
  • Actor Margot Robbie and producer Tom Ackerley met through the 2014 film "Suite Française."
  • They started dating in 2014 and got married in Australia in December 2016. 
  • People magazine confirmed in July that Robbie is pregnant and expecting her first child with Ackerley.
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A sign for extreme heat in Death Valley, California, in June 2024.
A sign for extreme heat in Death Valley, California.
  • Global temperatures continue to increase, with 2023 recording the warmest numbers on record.
  • In 2021, Oregon, Utah, and Washington broke heat records.
  • The hottest temperature recorded in US history was 134 degrees Fahrenheit in California in 1913.

2023 was the hottest year on record, and 2024 is shaping up


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