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Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation Plus subscription next month. The service’s annual Essential plan will go from $60 to $80, the Extra plan from $100 to $135, and the Premium plan from $120 to $160. The new pricing goes into effect starting September 6th.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, in July 2023.
  • A Ukrainian presidential advisor warned that Prigozhin's death shows Putin won't negotiate.
  • Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash last week, confirmed by Russia. 
  • Mykhailo Podolyak said Putin



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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House on September 01, 2021 in Washington, DC
  • Zelenskyy "bombed" his first Oval Office meeting with Joe Biden, according to a new book.
  • Ukraine's president's "absurd analysis" of NATO "pissed Biden off," Franklin Foer writes.
  • The book says that even Zelenskyy's most



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  • The key to a comfortable retirement may be saving $100 a week starting at 25.
  • Doing so could amount to over $1 million by 65, a new report found.
  • Student-loan-payment resumption means millions of Americans may be unable to save for retirement.

Putting aside a couple hundred dollars a month for retirement starting at 25 — just a few years after many Americans graduate from


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  • China's economy will struggle for at least the next year, TS Lombard strategists said.
  • The research firm estimated China's growth would remain under 5% through 2024.
  • That's because monetary easing efforts will take time to kick in and rev up the economy.

China's economy won't improve much anytime soon as growth will remain low over the next year, according to TS


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Netflix has announced its lineup of movies coming to the streaming platform for fall. Here's everything coming.



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Rivian revealed the range for its new dual-motor R1T, and it surely does not disappoint.

The Dual-Motor and Performance Dual-Motor R1T will have the “best range in our lineup,” Rivian said in a tweet, with an EPA estimated 410 miles when coupled with the company’s Max battery pack and 352 miles with the large pack. That’s all predicated on 21-inch wheels



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Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez of New York.
  • AOC says the left was "bewildered" by power for so long because they hadn't experienced having it.
  • She told The Times that power was generally seen as something held by a "consummate insider."
  • In the interview, Ocasio-Cortez spoke of how the Democratic Party has changed since her first election in 2018.

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