Philadelphia 76ers star Paul George underwent an arthroscopic procedure on his left knee on Monday, the Sixers announced.
The injury was reportedly sustained during a recent workout. No exact timetable for the procedure, performed by team doctor Dr. Jonathan L. Glashow, was provided, just that George will be re-evaluated before Sixers training camp.
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The development is a grim omen for George’s second season in Philadelphia, which his team needs to be better than his first. The knee is the same one George sustained multiple injuries to during the 2024-25 season.
George joined the Sixers last offseason on a four-year, $212 million max contract, ending a five-year tenure with the Los Angeles Clippers under somewhat contentious circumstances. Oddsmakers loved what the move did for Philly’s title chances, but George wound up being one of the season’s biggest disappointments.
Paul George’s contract hasn’t worked out for the Sixers so far
When he was on the court, the 35-year-old George averaged his fewest points (16.2) since the 2014-15 season, when he returned from his infamous knee blowout. Lingering injuries likely slowed him down, and also limited him to only 41 games played, his fewest since 2021-22 when he tore the UCL in his right elbow.
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The Sixers ruled George out for the rest of the season in mid-March.
George’s woes were part of a team-wide cavalcade of injuries. He was supposed to be part of a big 3 alongside Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey, but Embiid ended up playing only 19 games while Maxey was limited to 52. The trio ended up playing only 15 games together, barely coming out as a positive when on the court.
Nearly every key contributor for the Sixers missed part of the season with an injury or even more, such as early Rookie of the Year candidate Jared McCain, who was knocked for the season in January with a torn meniscus. The team struggled to a 24-58 record, well short of even a spot in the NBA play-in tournament.
George being out indefinitely is not going to help hopes for a bounceback year in 2025-26.
Those with the marker on their medical records could benefit from tests to confirm or rule out an allergy, according to researchers.
Removing incorrect labels could help improve care for patients while tackling antibiotic resistance and saving money for the NHS, they said.
For the Alabama trial, published in the Lancet Primary Care and led by the University of Leeds, researchers recruited 823 patients from 51 GP practices in England.
Those taking part had no history of severe reactions to penicillin.
Some patients were tested for a penicillin allergy, with either an oral dose of the antibiotic or a small injection under the skin.
If there was no immediate reaction, patients were given a three-day course of penicillin to take at home, where they were monitored by the research team.
Of the 365 people tested for an allergy, some 234 had an oral test, with 13 testing positive, while 131 had a skin test, three of which were positive.
Elsewhere, 128 patients had an oral test after a skin test, with 14 testing positive for an allergy.
Overall, the study found 30 patients tested positive for a penicillin allergy, while 335 – or 92% – tested negative.
After three months, 276 patients had the allergy removed from their medical records.
And after 12 months, allergies were removed from the records of 321 patients, or 88% of the group that was tested.
Dr Jonathan Sandoe, lead author and associate clinical professor in microbiology at the University of Leeds School of Medicine and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Antibiotics have been life-saving drugs since the late 1930s, but we are now in an era where microbes are evolving to resist the effects of current antibiotics.
“The global challenge of antibiotic resistance is causing people to die of common infections, so it is vital to find ways to improve how antibiotics are used.
“Assessing people with penicillin allergy labels is one way we can achieve this.”
Patients who had the allergy check also had fewer antibiotics overall, the study suggests.
As part of the study, researchers analysed the cost-effectiveness of allergy testing based on the NHS model.
They said that although results may vary in different countries, the study observed “tendency towards reducing consultations, days in hospital, and emergency admissions” which “suggest that the penicillin allergy assessment pathway is cost-effective in the short run and increasingly likely to be so over longer follow-up periods”.
Researchers now suggest that “access to penicillin allergy assessment for patients should be widened”.
Dr Sandoe added: “This research shows that removing incorrect penicillin allergy labels has the potential to improve patient experiences, reduce health costs and tackle bacterial resistance.
“Now, we need to work together with policymakers and patients to help the NHS to address this issue.”
Professor Sue Pavitt from the University of Leeds, who jointly led the study, said her mother Rosie Woollard had a penicillin allergy added to her medical records in the 1950s.
She had been prescribed the antibiotic for mastitis – a common infection usually linked with breastfeeding – and developed a rash.
Prof Pavitt said: “My mum was vigilant and avoided taking penicillin from that day, but her allergy was never checked.
“It may have been a simple reaction to the other substances used in manufacturing the tablet or her rash was just a consequence of the infection.
“When my mum got older and had more underlying health problems, we noticed that when she had an infection, she often needed two or three courses of different antibiotics before the infection would clear.
“Each round of antibiotics took a toll on her wellbeing, appetite and ability to bounce back until the infection was under control.”
Professor Sue Pavitt (right) with her mother Rosie Woollard and brother Bernard (left) (Sue Pavitt/PA)
Ms Woollard developed repeated urinary tract infections later in life and died at the age of 91. Her cause of death was recorded as an antimicrobial infection.
Prof Pavitt said: “Antibiotic allergy and resistant bugs are complex concepts to understand – she was our barometer to see if we were explaining things clearly.
“She was also instrumental in making the Alabama trial open to older people with multiple long-term conditions, a group that is often excluded from research but important to reach.
“This research is in part her legacy and shows the value of preserving antibiotics, so that we can keep fighting infections with these important medicines.”
Christopher Butler, a professor of primary care in the Nuffield department of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford, said: “It’s this kind of research question that has a huge impact on improving care for individuals, improving cost-effectiveness of what we do as clinicians, and helps us preserve the precious shared resource of of antibiotics to all of us and to future generations.”
Travis Scott and the Cactus Jack boys released their JACKBOYS 2 compilation on Sunday (July 13), and La Flame didn’t waste any time releasing another visual from the project with the woozy “DUMBO” arriving on Monday (July 14).
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Directed by Gabriel Moses, Scott raps his wispy flow from the comfort of his penthouse living room while surrounded by plenty of beautiful women. He then heads outside for a spin in his exotic Lamborghini with a cameo from Sheck Wes.
At one point, one of the girls is seen touching up the Houston rapper’s fresh tiger ink on his stomach. “Confetti, let it fall to your waistline/ You get wasted, just don’t waste mine,” he sings over dreamy production.
“DUMBO” has been tabbed an early fan-favorite on JACKBOYS 2 and came in at No. 5 onBillboard‘s entire ranking of the 17-track compilation.
JB2 arrived in celebration of 713 Day, an homage to Scott’s hometown of Houston. The project features the entire Cactus Jack roster in addition to appearances from NBA YoungBoy, Future, Playboi Carti, GloRilla, Tyla, Vybz Kartel, 21 Savage, Kodak Black, SahBabii and Waka Flocka Flame.
Bun B also plays host while guiding the project’s transitions. The project was preceded by singles such as Sheck and Trav’s “ILMB” and “2000 Excursion,” which features the duo alongside Don Toliver.
“I FUCKING LOVE YALLL CANT EXPRESSS ENOUGH. AN REMEMBER ANY YOUNG WILD YOUTE OUT THERE WITH SOME WILD IDEAS THAT U SHARE WITH YOUR HOMIES U CONSIDER FAMILY GET TOGETHER AND GO AFTER IT,” Scott wrote to X following JB2‘s release. “COULD INSPIRE THE WORLD ONE DAY.
The first installment of JACKBOYS arrived in December 2019 and the compilation album debuted at No. 1 atop the Billboard 200.
Hard drives containing unreleased music by Beyoncé and plans for her Cowboy Carter tour were stolen in Atlanta earlier this month, according to local police, who say an unnamed suspect remains missing.
An arrest warrant has been issued for an unnamed suspect.
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Christopher Grant and Diandre Blue, who claimed to be a choreographer and dancer for Beyoncé, respectively, said hard drives for Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” tour were stolen from their vehicle on July 8, which contained unreleased music, footage plans for the show and set lists, according to an incident report filed by the Atlanta Police Department.
Other items taken from their vehicle include two suitcases, laptops and a pair of AirPods police said were tracked to a nearby area where a “suspicious person stop” was conducted, according to the report.
Police found two “very light” fingerprints on the scene and said cameras in the area near the vehicle captured the incident.
The Atlanta Police Department said in a statement an arrest warrant was issued for an unnamed suspect.
Forbes Valuation
Forbes this year ranked Beyoncé the 45th-wealthiest self-made American woman, with an estimated net worth of $780 million. She’s expected to bring in $325 million from her Cowboy Carter tour across 31 shows. Her husband, rapper Jay-Z, has a fortune estimated at $2.5 billion.
Key Background
Beyoncé, 43, holds the record for most Grammy Award wins with 35 after winning her first Album of the Year award for “Cowboy Carter” earlier this year. The album also won best country and her song “II Most Wanted” won best country duo/group performance. “Cowboy Carter” was billed as the second act to Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” album, and in the lead-up to the album’s release, “Texas Hold ‘Em’” went No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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The Pentagon has signed a multi-million dollar deal to begin using Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, as part of a wider rollout of AI tools for government use, the Department of Defence confirmed.
Announced on Monday by Musk’s company xAI, the $200m (£149m) contract is part of its “Grok for Government” programme, and aligns with the Trump administration’s push for more aggressive adoption of artificial intelligence.
It comes just days after Grok sparked backlash for spouting antisemitic posts, including praise for Adolf Hitler on X, the social media platform owned by Musk.
Musk said the bot was “too compliant” and “too eager to please”. He said the issue was being addressed.
Musk’s xAI says the new deal will give US government departments access to Grok 4, the latest version of the chatbot, and offer custom tools for national security use.
The company also plans to provide technical support for classified environments.
The Pentagon also announced awarding similar contracts to Anthropic, Google and OpenAI – each with a $200m ceiling.
“The adoption of AI is transforming the Department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries,” said the administration’s Chief Digital and AI Officer Doug Matty.
Musk’s expanding government partnerships come amid a deteriorating relationship with President Donald Trump.
The Tesla and SpaceX boss had spent a quarter of a billion dollars on Trump’s re-election effort in 2024, and actively campaigned for him.
He was later appointed to run the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) – a federal cost-cutting initiative tasked with reducing the size of the US government.
But in recent months, Musk began openly criticising what Trump had dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill”, a sprawling spending and tax cuts legislation that the Tesla boss said was too costly for Americans.
Musk resigned from his post at Doge in May, though the department has not been officially disbanded.
Since then, Trump had suggested Doge could be deployed to harm Musk’s companies.
Trump also suggested he might deport Musk, who is an American citizen and was born in South Africa. He also holds Canadian citizenship.
While at the helm of Doge, the White House was criticised for allowing Musk to have unfettered access to troves of government data on American citizens.
Despite the fall-out, Musk’s xAI has continued to expand its government work. Its newly-announced contract may also create an avenue for that data collection to continue.
Grok was introduced in late 2023 as a more unfiltered alternative to other AI chatbots like ChatGPT. It is already integrated into Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Drake had some choice words for Alex Warren after the latter artist’s six-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Ordinary” blocked the former’s “What Did I Miss?” from the top spot.
“Suppressor on the 1 spot,” Drizzy wrote on his Instagram Story Monday (July 14) while sharing a graphic of the all-genre songs chart dated July 19. “I’m taking that soon don’t worry one song or another. Rule changes and all.”
The No. 2 debut of “What Did I Miss?” still gives the 6 God a record-extending 81 Hot 100 top 10 hits, the most in the chart’s nearly 67-year history. It landed at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (Drake’s record-extending 21st chart-topper), Digital Song Sales (his 15th chart-topper, the most among male artists), Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs, Drake’s record-padding 31st leader on both tallies.
Drake released “What Did I Miss?” just days before his three-day headlining stint at 2025 Wireless Festival, where he hosted an R&B-themed night featuring special guest performances from his OVO labelmate PartyNextDoor, Ms. Lauyrn Hill, Giveon, Bryson Tiller and more; a UK rap-themed night with Skepta, Headie One, Central Cee, Dave and more; and an Afrobeats-and-dancehall-themed night starring Vybz Kartel, Burna Boy, Spice, Rema and more. The Toronto MC teased a new single with his On the Radar freestyle collaborator Cench on the third and final night of the festival that’s set to drop this Friday, July 18.
Billboard reached out to Drake’s reps for clarification on what “rule changes” he was referring to in his post but did not get an immediate response.
Progress towards universal access to safe, affordable surgical care is dangerously off track as at least 160 million patients each year are unable to receive surgery – with Low- and Middle-income Countries (LMICs) bearing the brunt of the crisis, a new study reveals.
A global coalition of 60 health experts representing 20 countries is calling for urgent action to resolve the crisis – warning that only 26% of LMICs are on track to meet a target for everyone to be able to access essential surgery within 2 hours, and none have achieved the recommended surgical volume of 5,000 procedures per 100,000 people per year.
Quality of surgical care remains a key concern, with 3.5 million adults worldwide dying within 30 days of surgery, considerably more than the combined 2 million adult deaths attributable to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Overall, 50 million patients worldwide suffer postoperative complications every year, with wound infection the most frequent complication. Surgery is a key contributor to antimicrobial resistance, with up to 96% of infected wounds in LMICs being linked to antimicrobial resistance.
‘Surgical Health Policy 2025–2035: Strengthening Essential Services for Tomorrow’s Needs’ is published today (14 July) in The Lancet by the University of Birmingham-led NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery.
Senior author Professor Aneel Bhangu, from the University of Birmingham, commented: “Surgery is not a luxury. It is a lifesaving, cost-effective intervention that underpins resilient health systems. Without urgent investment, millions will continue to suffer and die from treatable conditions.”
Researchers in the group, which is backed by funding from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) have made several key recommendations including:
Reframing surgery as a foundational component of well-integrated health systems, rather than a siloed intervention; investing in surgery can boost patient care across numerous diseases by increasing access to diagnostics, intensive care, and critical drugs.
Unlocking a ‘surgical prosperity dividend’ by increasing access to essential surgery; for example, scaling up breast, stomach, colon, and rectal cancer surgery in LMICs could enable 884,000 people to return to work and boost the global economy by over $80 billion each year.
Focussing efforts on making surgical services more resilient to future emergencies, including pandemics, climate change, natural disasters, and armed conflict.
The report also emphasizes the role of surgery in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), citing its impact on health, economic productivity, and national security. It proposes a new set of benchmarks for 2025–2035 to guide global efforts and ensure accountability.
Co-lead author Dr Dmitri Nepogodiev, from the University of Birmingham, commented: “With widespread cuts to global health funding this year, we are at a pivotal moment for surgery. We must continue to secure funding to expand access to surgery while maintaining quality.
“At the same time, we must prepare surgical systems for an increasingly unpredictable world. Pandemics, climate change, and armed conflict all threaten to disrupt care in the future, but most countries have made little progress in their preparedness since the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a new species of early-diverging neornithischian dinosaur that was part of the Jurassic Yanliao Biota in northern China.
The skeleton of Pulaosaurus qinglong in left lateral view. Image credit: Hailong Zhang.
Named Pulaosaurus qinglong, the newly-identified dinosaur species lived in what is now China during the Jurassic period, around 160 million years ago.
The ancient reptile was part of the so-called Yanliao Biota, a Middle-to-Late Jurassic-aged ecosystem that included dinosaurs, mammals, amphibians, insects and lizards, as well as plants.
“The Yanliao Biota is one of the most significant Mesozoic, terrestrial lagerstätte in China, with an age that ranges from 168 to 157 million years and is comprised of fossil assemblages from the Jiulongshan and the Tiaojishan Formations,” said senior author Dr. Xing Xu, a paleontologist with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Yunnan University, and colleagues.
“In total, there have been 54 genera and 58 species of vertebrates reported from the Yanliao Biota, including nine species of non-avian dinosaurs.”
“Because the Yanliao Biota preserves large amounts of vertebrate material from many species, it offers insight to major paleobiological events, such as the temporal origin of birds and the early evolution of mammals.”
“However, non-avian dinosaurs found in the Yanliao Biota are all small-bodied theropods whereas Ornithischia is represented by only one species, which may possibly be from the Jehol Biota.”
“This is in stark contrast to other contemporaneous Chinese terrestrial faunas such as the Shishugou and Shaximiao faunas where body size and taxonomic composition are more variable.”
Pulaosaurus qinglong belongs to Neornithischia (new ornithischians), a group of dinosaurs with the order Ornithischia.
First established in 1985, neornithischians had a thicker layer of asymmetrical enamel on the inside of their lower teeth.
“Neornithischia is a significant group of dinosaurs whose earliest origin may be dated back to the Middle Jurassic, represented by several early-diverging species including Sanxiasaurus, Agilisaurus, Hexinlusaurus found in China,” the paleontologists said.
“Besides China, there have been reports of neornithischian fossils from the Middle Jurassic of Eastern Europe, Scotland and layers from other geological times and countries.”
“Neornithischia diverges rapidly into a number of species in the Cretaceous period.”
The well-preserved specimen of Pulaosaurus qinglong was found in the Tiaojishan Formation of Qinglong in China’s Hebei province.
“The fossil is comprised of a nearly complete skeleton prepared on a brownish-red sandstone slab,” the researchers said.
“The specimen preserves most of the skull and a complete postcranial skeleton.”
According to the scientists, Pulaosaurus qinglong was a small-bodied neornthischian.
“The total length of this specimen is approximately 72.2 cm (i.e., the length from the rostral end of the skull to the caudal end of the last preserved caudal vertebrate) while its skull length is about 8 cm,” they said.
The discovery of the new species sheds new light on the biodiversity of Yanliao Biota and the phylogeny of early-diverging neornithischians.
“A phylogenetic analysis places Pulaosaurus qinglong at the base of Neornithischia close to Agilisaurus, which is the earliest-diverging neornithischian,” the authors said.
“The new species represents the first neornithischian found in the Yanliao Biota, and helps to fill the temporal and geographical gap in the distribution of Neornithischia within China.”
“A pair of arytenoids are preserved in the Pulaosaurus qinglong holotype and represents the second case of an ossified laryngeal apparatus among non-avian dinosaurs.”
“The arytenoids of Pulaosaurus qinglong indicates that ossified laryngeal apparatuses were present in Neornithischia, thus suggesting that the ossified laryngeal apparatus could be widespread across Dinosauria.”
“As the morphology of Pulaosaurus qinglong arytenoids resembles the arytenoids of extant birds, it is possible for the new species to have an avian-like vocalization.”
The discovery of Pulaosaurus qinglong is reported in a paper in the journal PeerJ.
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Y. Yang et al. 2025. A new neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northern China. PeerJ 13: e19664; doi: 10.7717/peerj.19664
The Camera app received some of the most noticeable design updates in iOS 26, with Apple simplifying the interface to make it easier to get to various controls. Most of what’s new focuses on design, but there are a couple other notable changes.
Liquid Glass Design
Like all of the iOS 26 apps, the Camera app has adopted the Liquid Glass look. Buttons are more rounded and “float” over the background of the app thanks to a new depth effect.
The area behind the camera shutter and control buttons is a touch more see-through than before, so you can see the areas outside of your image more clearly. There’s also no bar behind the toggles to change focal length, so the interface looks a bit cleaner.
Two-Tab Layout
The navigation bar at the bottom of the Camera app has been overhauled in iOS 26. Rather than the option to swipe between all of the photo and video modes, there are now just two main options that you see: Photo and Video.
While it’s only the Photo and Video buttons that are visible, you can actually still swipe in the same way to get to the other options like Portrait, Panorama, Slo-Mo, Cinematic, and more.
For multi-lens cameras, the small buttons to change focal length are still in the same position, and the buttons to view the photo you just snapped or change to the front camera haven’t changed location. The button to view photos is now round instead of square, in line with the Liquid Glass update, and Apple has shifted the controls down on the display.
The Photo and Video buttons are below the shutter button, when they used to be above. The shutter button itself no longer has a bright white ring around it, with Apple instead opting for a more subtle Liquid Glass ring. Bezel size for the top and bottom bars hasn’t changed.
Some of the controls that used to be located at the top of the Camera app are now tucked inside pop out menus. When you select a mode like Photo, you can then tap on the Photo button to get more options.
The menu has a Liquid Glass design and it offers large buttons for accessing Flash, Live Photo settings, Timer, Exposure, Styles, Aspect, and Night Mode. Tapping one gives you further options for that setting. So if you tap Exposure, you’ll get a slider where you can quickly adjust the exposure setting before you take a photo.
In Video mode, you can tap to access Flash, Exposure, and Action. Most of the other modes also have at least one option that’s accessed through this new menu. These menu options are also accessible by tapping on the menu icon at the top right of the display.
There are still some quick access buttons at the top of the Photos app, so you can swap to RAW mode, tap into Styles, or adjust flash and Night Mode settings without having to open the menu. Context-specific settings like the Macro mode toggle also still pop up in the same way as before when applicable.
There are toggles to see the Flash, Live Photo and Action Mode indicators in the Camera section of the Settings app.
Remote AirPods Shutter
The AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 can be used as a camera shutter in iOS 26, so you can take a photo by pressing on the stem of the AirPods. To get this to work, connect your AirPods to your iPhone, open the Camera app, and then press and hold on the AirPods stem.
You can take a photo using this method, or continue to hold to start a video. When you’re finished recording, press and hold again to stop the video.
Using this feature requires iOS 26 and the new AirPods firmware that accompanies iOS 26. Using the AirPods as a remote shutter button works with the Camera app and with third-party photo apps.
Cleaning Warning
If your camera lens is dirty, your iPhone can detect that it needs to be cleaned and will send you a notification letting you know you should clean it.
Developer APIs
Developers have access to a new Cinematic mode API in iOS 26 that allows third-party apps to capture Cinematic mode video, just like the built-in Camera app.
Cinematic mode supports recording video with a shallow depth of field and automatic focus changes between subjects. Apple uses rack focus to quickly swap the focus from one subject to another, for a movie-like recording experience.
Apple is also providing developers with an Audio Mix API for adjusting sound after a video is captured. Third-party video recording apps can offer the same Audio Mix controls that are available in the Camera app. Options include In-Frame for reducing sounds and voices from sources outside of the frame, Studio for reducing background sounds and reverb, and Cinematic for putting voices into a front-facing track while leaving environmental noises in surround, similar to movie audio.
Mac Accessibility
With macOS 26 and iOS 26, your Mac can connect to your iPhone to use your iPhone’s Camera app as a magnifying glass. A Magnifier on Mac feature uses the iPhone’s zoom capabilities, with the iPhone’s video feed showing up on a connected Mac through Continuity Camera.
Apple showed a student with vision issues using an iPhone to zoom in on a blackboard in a college class, with the feed coming through to her Mac so she could view what was going on while also taking notes.
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