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Culture Canada to make its Eurovision Song Contest debut in 2027 Business US declines to renew North American trade pact, moving to annual reviews World Three die of asphyxiation in Mexico City World Cup celebrations Politics Progressive challenger unseats 15-term Rep. DeGette in Colorado primary Science Archaeologists find an intact Maya city hidden in Mexico's Campeche jungle Sports Mexico beat Ecuador to reach the last 16, ending a 40-year World Cup knockout wait Culture Netflix recreates Gene Wilder's voice with AI for a Willy Wonka game show Technology Amazon to pay $2.25 million to settle FTC identity-theft records claim Culture Canada to make its Eurovision Song Contest debut in 2027 Business US declines to renew North American trade pact, moving to annual reviews World Three die of asphyxiation in Mexico City World Cup celebrations Politics Progressive challenger unseats 15-term Rep. DeGette in Colorado primary Science Archaeologists find an intact Maya city hidden in Mexico's Campeche jungle Sports Mexico beat Ecuador to reach the last 16, ending a 40-year World Cup knockout wait Culture Netflix recreates Gene Wilder's voice with AI for a Willy Wonka game show Technology Amazon to pay $2.25 million to settle FTC identity-theft records claim

Chloe Bennett

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Robots on an automobile assembly line (file photo)

Tuesday, 6/30, 03:22 PM

Ford rehires veteran engineers after leaning on AI for quality control fell short

Ford has brought back hundreds of experienced engineers after artificial intelligence proved unable to replace their hard-won judgment on the factory floor — a turn being read as a cautionary tale about the limits of automation.

The facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Culture 1 d

Value of looted antiquities seized from the Met passes $95 million

The Warner Bros. studio lot

Business 1 d

UK signals it may intervene in Paramount's $110bn Warner Bros. Discovery deal

The Palace of Westminster in London

Politics 2 d

Ex-MP Craig Williams admits cheating over a bet on the UK election date

Politics 2 d

Supreme Court won't hear Trump's appeal, leaving Carroll verdict in place
Culture 2 d

Dame Penelope Keith, queen of the British sitcom, dies at 86
Sports 3 d

Ben Stokes to retire from international cricket, ending an era for England
Science 3 d

NASA takes its commercial playbook to Mars with a private orbiter
Business 3 d

Debt and the AI boom are raising global financial risks, BIS warns
World 4 d

Uganda's army chief orders shutdown of leading media group

Books on display at a bookstore

Culture 4 d

How male-male romance fiction went mainstream — with women leading the way

From hockey rinks to royal palaces, gay male romance is one of publishing's fastest-growing categories — and the readership driving it is, perhaps surprisingly, largely straight women.
The roots of the phenomenon reach back half a century to the manga shelves of Japan.

A film clapperboard on set

Culture 4 d

K. Bhagyaraj, a defining writer-director-actor of Tamil cinema, dies at 73

A bride and groom at an outdoor wedding

Culture 5 d

Your friend is ordained now: the rise of the amateur wedding officiant

Andy Warhol (left), whose work Bruno Bischofberger represented in Europe, with Tennessee Williams in 1967

Culture 5 d

Bruno Bischofberger, the Swiss dealer who linked Warhol and Basquiat, dies at 86

The main stage of the Eurovision Song Contest

Culture 5 d

Canada Becomes Eligible for Eurovision as Organizers Widen the Rules

In brief

World 5 d

UN Warns of Record Cocaine and Surging Synthetic Drugs
World 6 d

Spain Bucks Europe's Rightward Turn With a Mass Migrant Regularization
Business 6 d

Ryanair to Seat Young Children With Parents for Free After Regulator Pressure
Business 7 d

Disney to Pay $50 Million to Settle Streaming-TV Pricing Lawsuit
Science 7 d

Curtains of light: the science behind the aurora
Politics 7 d

Prime ministers, presidents and the architecture of democratic government

Technology 7 d

Rockstar sets Grand Theft Auto VI at $79.99 as pre-orders open
Technology 8 d

Valve says it is working with Nvidia and Intel to widen SteamOS GPU support
World 8 d

Ten years after the Brexit vote: what Britain decided, and where it stands
World 8 d

Central Asian workers now pick Britain's summer berries
Science 8 d

Know your 'sweat score'? Inside the race to put a hydration lab on your arm
Technology 8 d

How 100 Romanian hospitals beat a ransomware attack with pen and paper

In brief

Culture 8 d

Clive Davis, the music mogul who shaped modern pop, dies at 94