HE’S DONE IT!!! 🤩 LEWIS HAMILTON WINS THE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA GRAND PRIX!!! 🏆🎉 #F1 #BarcelonaGP

New York police have confirmed that 63 people were arrested, four people were stabbed and a teenager was shot in the foot overnight as unruly crowds flooded into the city's streets to celebrate the Knicks' first NBA championship in 53 years jrnl.ie/7070800

Doctors in England call off strikes after last-minute offer in long-running dispute reut.rs/4vF4deA

🏆🏅Congratulations to Katharine Lake Berz of @thestar.com for winning the Gold CAJ Award for Written Feature https://loom.ly/c9KTYz8 🏆🏅Félicitations à Katharine Lake Berz du Toronto Star pour avoir remporté le Prix ACJ or du Reportage Écrit

🏆🏅Congratulations to Liam Casey, Jordan Omstead and Chris Katsarov Luna at @cdnpress.bsky.social for winning the Gold CAJ Environment and Climate Change Award for "Inside the Ring of Fire: A tale of two First Nations and a road that could change everything" https://loom.ly/qpVt2Jg

🏆🏅Congratulations to Amy Dempsey Raven and Megan Ogilvie at the @thestar.com for winning the Gold CAJ Award for Written News for "Failing Jade" https://loom.ly/kjQiPw0 🏆🏅Félicitations à Amy Dempsey Raven et Megan Ogilvie du Toronto Star pour avoir remporté le Prix ACJ or

Tech millionaires claim China is behind a wave of local opposition to U.S. data centers, while providing little direct evidence.

Meteorologists forecast this El Nino will rival — or exceed — a record one that began in 1997 and helped trigger billions of dollars in damage from heat waves, floods, droughts, tornadoes and wildfires. https://to.pbs.org/43u3EIQ

“We’ve grown our subscriber base, we’ve recouped our lost profitability, and El País now makes money. It doesn’t make enough money, but it is profitable now. It was loss-making five years ago.” pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/el-...

The massive storm that brought torrential rain and hail to southern Manitoba Tuesday afternoon and evening produced at least two tornadoes, Environment and Climate Change Canada confirmed Thursday.

Top story: Four years after a mass shooting tore their community apart, this southwest Texas city of 15,000 may soon be represented in the U.S. House by a gunmaker, Second Amendment absolutist, and edgy YouTube personality.

Grok’s sexualized deepfakes violate Canada’s privacy law, watchdog rules

Toronto Police identify 43-year-old officer shot and killed Thursday morning while executing a search warrant as part of a national security investigation into shots fired at the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Breaking: US ambassador to Canada says Toronto police officer shot executing a search warrant early Thursday has died and was part of a national security probe involving past shots fired at US consulate in downtown Toronto www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Developing: Toronto police officer rushed to hospital in critical condition after being shot executing a search warrant early Thursday www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

LBJ's #Humpday Podcast Picks for June 10th This week: AI's promises and risks, climate change's impact on sport, and technology's growing role in journalism and local politics. h/t @utoronto.ca @torontomike.com @dmrider.bsky.social medium.com/@lanrickbenn...

Dinosaur highway 'longest of its kind in the world.' 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BYD chairman says firm will be world's biggest automaker in 5 years as shares slide reut.rs/4uu8AbI

The perfect spot for a farm? Vacant office buildings in downtown Chicago.

The government report details previously undisclosed incidents, including that a detainee escaped in October due to what ICE called the contractor’s oversight failure. In January, a security guard lost a loaded firearm inside the facility that was never recovered.

The vice president is boosting a MAGA conspiracy theory after Spencer Pratt failed to advance in the race for L.A. mayor. trib.al/1N10k65

A federal judge in Mississippi has punished all four lawyers on opposing sides in a civil trial and canceled the proceedings after some of them, relying on artificial intelligence, cited fake legal cases in court filings.

GM to offer EV owners ability to sell power to US electricity grid reut.rs/4vCJ84z

@torontomike.com More connections! I recently wrote about Ronville, a long-closed Muskoka lodge my family visited when I was young. I, an FOTM, interviewed FOTM Christine Simpson who worked at Ronville, and whose coworker was musician Stephen Stanley, another FOTM www.thestar.com/initiatives/...

I returned to @torontomike.com to talk about the strong mayor investigation - Star’s first major use of AI to analyze data - & my other work since helping break the John Tory story, overseeing coverage of the race to replace him, and transitioning out of city hall open.spotify.com/episode/7mXJ...

Anthropic's Mythos-based new AI models face backlash for limiting AI research assistance, sparking industry debate on transparency and ethical AI practices. https://bit.ly/3QsNYm2

More than 92,000 Illinois consumers lost or dropped their Affordable Care Act health insurance in recent months following the expiration of generous tax credits.

MD Hossain hadn’t considered that he could reach and unify millions when he grabbed the microphone on a Manhattan corner and roared: “My mayor Muslim. My bagel’s Jewish. My Christian Dior. Knicks in four.” https://wapo.st/3RZrXf2

One family watched oily black liquid bubble up through their home’s foundation; another saw their well water contaminated. This new documentary tracks their fight against a powerful industry and the state regulators that looked the other way. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social

Battle rages at City Hall over proposed rodeo ban

ICYMI: Premier Doug Ford’s team sold strong-mayor powers as a fix for the housing crisis. A comprehensive Toronto Star analysis, however, found that only two per cent of more than 4,200 strong-mayor decisions issued since the law’s inception have been directly aimed at housing creation. #onpoli

Some, like Newmarket Mayor John Taylor, fear the new law erodes democracy, risks abuse of power, and even “veers dangerously close to authoritarian governance.”  These rejections have not been accepted, however: the strong-mayor legislation does not provide a way to opt out. trib.al/YwHrkI0

Dozens of local governments and individual mayors have written to Premier Doug Ford and Housing Minister Rob Flack to reject the strong-mayor powers — or to ask Ontario to repeal the legislation entirely. #onpoli New from Kate Allen, @dmrider.bsky.social and Nathan Pilla:

From Reddit: The Martin Goodman parking lot? Cyclist records driver after driver invading the busy waterfront cyclist-pedestrian trail determined to get free car parking. Not a police officer in sight www.reddit.com/r/torontobik...

Tomorrow the @torontostar.bsky.social's @dmrider.bsky.social returns to Toronto Mike'd

Star Investigation: Coun. Parthi Kandavel, who is under investigation by the Ontario Provincial Police, said he was recusing himself from further development projects in his ward “out of an abundance of caution.” New from @benspurr.bsky.social and Victoria Gibson:

Monday: Musician Jennifer Foster Tuesday: @dmrider.bsky.social Wednesday: Joe Carter Classic - who knows who I'll chat with! Thursday: James Dann Friday: Tim Cherry, son of Don

New: FIFA waters down its much-criticized, last minute ban on water bottles at U.S. & Canada matches, "clarifies" that each fan can bring one soft-sided unopened water bottle into a match - but reusable bottles still banned www.thestar.com/sports/socce...

NEW: ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand local law enforcement agencies a facial recognition app that would query a database of hundreds of millions of images to verify someone’s immigration status, according to an internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media.

Three remaining "60 Minutes" veterans have decided on their futures with the beleaguered broadcast mainstay.

The Kennedy Center’s general counsel ordered staff on Thursday to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the building by June 12, according to a memo obtained by CNN, in order to comply with a recent court order. https://cnn.it/4uTzYkk

Even as local opposition grows to a proposed data center site in Jackson, Mississippi, the company behind it has expanded its proposal from 190 to 230 acres in the Ashley Acres neighborhood. www.mississippifreepress.org/jackson-data...

The race to combat Ebola: what vaccines and treatments are being developed and how long will it take?

The SIU is investigating Toronto police officers' violent arrest of a cyclist who failed to stop during a ticketing blitz. The man's lawyer say he suffered a concussion when they tackled him to the ground www.thestar.com/news/gta/siu...

Cyclist tackled to the ground by Toronto police for failing to stop during a ticketing blitz suffered a concussion, wants independent review, his lawyer tells the Star www.thestar.com/news/gta/cyc...

A female shark named Ritinha at Rio de Janeiro's AquaRio aquarium has predicted Brazil will beat Morocco in the national team's opening match at the FIFA World Cup, choosing the Brazil-labeled can over Morocco's in front of a live audience.

Germany has failed to win a seat on the UN Security Council, losing out to Portugal and Austria for the two European spots starting in 2027.

Ireland is gripped by the controversy over an industrial plant that exports large quantities of the raw materials for aluminium to Russia. Jason Corcoran argued that Dublin risks undermining its credibility through allowing the plant's operation.

Nissan announced Wednesday that it was considering building cars for Chinese manufacturer Chery, which produces the Omoda and Jaecoo brands, at its plant in Sunderland in northeastern England.