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economy
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A Walmart in San Jose has placed cuts of beef, including a rib-eye and packages of ground beef, inside metal security cages, according to a viral video and reporting from the New York Post. It's the latest example of California retailers locking up merchandise to deter theft.
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Virginia shed 51,400 jobs in the year ending May 31, the worst job loss total of any state, with federal cutbacks accounting for less than half of it. At the same time, the commonwealth closed its fiscal year with a $936 million surplus and climbed to third in CNBC's business rankings. Both things are true, and they point to a state economy in the middle of a bumpy transition.
tech
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Chinese startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, on Thursday, July 16, 2026. Early benchmarks show it competitive with top US models at a fraction of the price, and Wall Street noticed fast, with Nasdaq chip stocks selling off Friday. The bigger question isn't whether Kimi K3 is good. It's whether America's regulatory approach is helping or hurting its lead.
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OpenAI is expanding parental controls so linked accounts get notified when a teen's account is deactivated over violent content or threats, not just self-harm signals. The change follows the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia mass shooting, where OpenAI banned the suspect's account but never told Canadian authorities.
health
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A Harvard-led study of nearly 2,700 healthy older adults found a blood biomarker called p-tau217 can flag dementia risk years before symptoms show up. People with the highest levels faced a 78% chance of cognitive decline within a decade. This isn't a diagnosis, it's a risk score, and it raises hard questions about what patients do with that information.
energy
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford have proposed a 3,300-kilometer pipeline to move western Canadian crude to Sarnia refineries without crossing US soil, adding a second bypass project alongside the west coast line Mark Carney locked down with British Columbia earlier this month. A feasibility study is due by the end of 2026, and none of this oil moves until the studies, permits, and financing actually land.
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New York City paid out $2.6 billion in cash assistance to nearly 865,000 residents last year, the highest number of recipients since before Rudy Giuliani's welfare reforms in the early 2000s. Add SNAP benefits and the city's total welfare spending topped $7 billion in 2024, according to city data reviewed by Fox News.
health
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Taylor Farms has published its complete recall list and pulled all central Mexico-sourced iceberg lettuce nationwide, days after CDC investigators named the company as the likely source of a cyclospora outbreak served at Taco Bell locations in five states. The company says the implicated farm supplies less than 1% of America's iceberg lettuce, but pulled the whole region's product anyway out of caution.
politics
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California released the contract for its $6.2 million diaper deal with Baby2Baby late Friday, months after reporters and an ethics watchdog started asking questions. The state's own database labels the deal 'non-competitively bid,' directly contradicting Gov. Gavin Newsom's public claim, and CBS News found more than two dozen similar no-bid exemptions worth over $1 billion buried in the state budget.
tech
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X and the National Music Publishers Association just dismissed their $250 million copyright fight with no explanation and no disclosed settlement terms. Both sides agreed to bar the cases from ever being refiled, which almost always means money changed hands.
health
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A University of Cambridge lab study found most artificial and natural sweeteners changed the growth of gut bacteria in petri dishes, and combining them with other substances made the effects stronger or weaker in over 100 cases. The standout finding: stevia's isosteviol paired with the antidepressant duloxetine (Cymbalta) sharply suppressed two bacteria linked to digestive health, though this is lab data, not proof of harm in actual patients.
finance
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U.S. stocks closed the week lower on Friday, July 17, as a chip selloff deepened and nearly 20 tech stocks are now down 25% or more this month. SpaceX's private stock closed below its IPO price for a second straight day, and traders are bracing for another possible 'DeepSeek Moment' that could rattle AI valuations further.
politics
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Stephen Miller says Treasury has issued new guidance directing banks to scrutinize accounts held by illegal immigrants, following Trump's May 19 executive order. The goal is blunt: kill financial access, drive voluntary departures. No law requires banks to close accounts yet, but regulatory pressure is already reshaping how lenders treat immigration status.
energy
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China controls 85-95% of the world's refined rare earth minerals, and Beijing has shown it's willing to use that as leverage. A U.S. government lab just built a reactor that pulls magnesium and potentially other critical minerals straight out of seawater, and if it scales, it could be one of the few real paths off China's supply chain.
economy
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The Trump administration declined to extend the USMCA for another 16 years on July 1, but the deal is still in force while a review process plays out. Republicans on Capitol Hill are calling it leverage to force Mexico and Canada to fully comply with the terms they already agreed to, not a withdrawal.
finance
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Chelsea have agreed a club-record £117m deal to sign Aston Villa midfielder Morgan Rogers, topping Manchester City's £116m Elliot Anderson deal as the most expensive transfer for an English player. Arsenal had reportedly agreed personal terms first but wouldn't match Chelsea's fee, and Rogers is set for a medical Monday.
politics
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Israel's parliament dissolved this week, locking in an October 27 national election, the first since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. Netanyahu's coalition is polling below the 61 seats needed to govern, but a fractured opposition means nobody should assume he's finished.
politics
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A three-judge D.C. Circuit panel on Friday let USPS resume work on Trump's mail-ballot barcode and voter-list rule, pausing a district judge's injunction. It's not a final win: a separate Massachusetts ruling still blocks the underlying executive order in 24 jurisdictions, and USPS hasn't even asked the Postal Regulatory Commission to sign off yet.
politics
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says two unnamed agencies contacted him suggesting Sen. Mitch McConnell had died during his monthlong hospital stay, before McConnell's office finally confirmed on July 12 he was alive and recovering. Beshear still wants more than a photo and a statement, and he's got a point: a month of silence from a sitting senator's office is how rumors like this start.
finance
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Warren Buffett told CNBC's Becky Quick he personally initiated Berkshire Hathaway's now-$31 billion stake in Alphabet, not new CEO Greg Abel as many assumed. In the same interview, the 95-year-old also explained why he's cutting off future donations to the Gates Foundation, and it's less about Jeffrey Epstein than his own kids finally proving they can give money away well.