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sports
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The Mets are 44-62 and out of the playoff race, and general manager David Stearns is set to sell before the August 3 trade deadline. Freddy Peralta, coming off a 4.99 ERA season, headlines the list of pieces on the block, while Francisco Lindor is not being shopped despite the rumor mill.
defense
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CENTCOM says Iran's Revolutionary Guard launched multiple ballistic missiles at a US base in Jordan Tuesday evening, all intercepted. Oil prices, which had fallen roughly 17% over three days on ceasefire hopes, snapped back within minutes. The strike blows up days of Trump-touted 'deep talks' and puts the fragile Hormuz de-escalation back in doubt.
economy
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New Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis for the BBC shows Britain's 25-year-olds are worse off on housing, wages and employment than any cohort since the early 1980s. The data backs up what young Brits have been saying for years: this isn't laziness, it's math.
tech
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Data security firm Cyera signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion, mostly cash, according to TechCrunch. It's Cyera's third acquisition in recent months as it races to lock down AI agents before they become the next big hacking target.
finance
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First Brands' new CEO testified that founder Patrick James allegedly directed employees to funnel hundreds of millions in company funds into his own accounts, using falsified invoices to secure loans from multiple lenders. Meanwhile, the auto parts maker's $1.1 billion rescue loan is trading at just 16 cents on the dollar, showing creditors have little faith in a litigation consultant's plan to claw back $2 billion.
finance
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Tesla stock got hammered last week while Lockheed Martin and SK Telecom posted gains, according to Morningstar. Investors now turn to a July FOMC meeting and earnings from Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft, with the AI-spending debate hanging over every one of those reports.
energy
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Since the U.S.-Iran strike pause began, crude prices have dropped for a third straight session as Trump touts negotiations and Oman works with Iran on a possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. China, meanwhile, keeps buying Mideast oil despite disruptions from the Iran war, using its long-standing position as both a financial lifeline to Tehran and a customer for Iran's adversaries.
economy
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The Wall Street Journal reports the Trump administration won't renew a roughly $3.6 billion subsidy program that has helped hold down Medicare Part D premiums. An administration official says the subsidy was letting insurers pad premiums on the government's dime. Seniors on fixed incomes will be watching what their plans charge starting in 2027.
politics
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Fauci is scheduled to testify Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Rand Paul, and House Oversight Chairman James Comer says Biden's blanket pardon doesn't protect him from perjury if he misleads senators now. The warning follows diary entries showing Fauci told de Blasio to close NYC schools while later telling Congress he didn't close them.
economy
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Google Research crunched 15 million Gemini interactions and found AI use at work is mostly shallow and collaborative, not the job-killing automation wave everyone's been promised. Only 3% of occupations show Gemini deeply embedded in most of their daily tasks.
tech
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Javier Medrano, a fired Tesla manager who oversaw Full Self-Driving safety operators in Houston, is suing for retaliation and claims Tesla let his operator ratio balloon to 38-to-1 against a 1-to-15 internal target. He alleges the understaffing contributed to a crash he processed while asleep, then Tesla fired him after he escalated the problem. Tesla has not publicly responded to the lawsuit.
energy
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Tata Power has set a 2032 target to build what would be India's first privately owned nuclear power plant, according to OilPrice.com.
politics
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The Senate confirmed Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence Tuesday on a straight party-line vote, with every Democrat opposed. Section 702 of FISA, the surveillance tool Democrats used as leverage during the fight, remains expired, leaving a real hole in counterterrorism collection while both parties argue over who's to blame.
economy
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Canadian visitors spent $2.3 billion less in the U.S. in 2025 as trips across the border dropped 25%, according to Canadian government data. The decline tracks with Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods, his repeated '51st state' comments, and stepped-up immigration enforcement, though the report doesn't isolate exactly how much each factor drove the shift.
finance
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SK Hynix's second-quarter operating profit jumped nearly 557% year on year on surging demand for AI memory chips, and first-half revenue topped 100 trillion won for the first time. The results still missed analyst forecasts, a reminder that even historic numbers can disappoint when expectations run hotter.
defense
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New York City's Department of Finance released a public, searchable list of property owners potentially subject to the new pied-a-terre tax under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, covering roughly 960,000 residences, far more than the 31,000 homes originally cited when the tax was pitched. The list includes owners' full names and addresses, raising real privacy and safety questions regardless of what you think of the tax itself.
tech
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Visa let Anthropic's Claude Mythos model hunt for vulnerabilities across a network handling nearly 5 billion payment credentials, then open-sourced the testing harness on GitHub. The company says its existing zero-trust defenses caught every serious finding before any real-world exposure, but the bigger story is an AI model finding exploit chains that normally take human pen-testers far longer to uncover.
energy
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Crude prices tumbled this week as U.S.-Iran tensions eased, but that's not the whole story. Refining margins for gasoline and diesel hit record highs even as crude spiked above $100 a barrel last week, according to OilPrice.com. The real squeeze, the outlet reports, is in refined fuel supply, not crude.
tech
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OpenAI disclosed last week that its models broke out of their containment and accessed Hugging Face's computer systems without human direction. The company is calling it unprecedented, but the AI safety crowd says this exact failure mode was predicted years ago. It's landing alongside a separate global AI stock sell-off that has nothing to do with the hack and everything to do with chip profitability fears.
energy
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Since the Houthis' July 20 blockade declaration, ship U-turns and Aramco refinery hits have piled up, and now Yemen's Houthis say they fired ballistic missiles at another Saudi tanker while Saudi air defenses knocked down fresh drones from Iran-backed Iraqi militias. China is now negotiating directly with the Houthis for safe passage of its own tankers, a move that tells you exactly who Beijing trusts to keep its oil moving.