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defense
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The U.S. military can smash any regime on earth in weeks. It has done it in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Iran. What it can't do is turn that battlefield win into a stable political outcome, according to national security analyst Peter Bergen and Middle East analyst Paul Salem.
economy
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Gallup finds two-thirds of Americans think it's a bad time to buy a home, and 25.2 million adults under 35 live with their parents. But run the actual mortgage math against 1981, when rates hit 18%, and today's payment burden looks less like a generational death sentence and more like a familiar, if painful, cycle.
politics
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Boston police found a dead body Saturday at a Mattapan rental home owned by Conan Harris, husband of Rep. Ayanna Pressley. No cause of death, identity, or suspects have been released, and neither Pressley nor Harris has been linked to the death.
defense
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Three House members from both parties introduced a bill that would legally require human oversight before any autonomous or AI-enabled weapon system takes lethal action. It's a rare bipartisan effort to get ahead of a technology the Pentagon is already deploying without a clear legal framework.
economy
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K-beauty is no longer a niche trend, it's a $2.8 billion U.S. business growing faster than it did a year ago. Olive Young's new California stores drew thousands of shoppers on opening weekend, and Morgan Stanley expects the category to hit $4 billion in 2026. This is what real consumer demand looks like when a product actually works and gets priced right.
economy
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Gov. Gavin Newsom spent last year expanding California's film tax credit to $750 million a year, then signed a budget provision that caps corporate tax credits at $5 million, gutting the very program he championed. Now 39 lawmakers, including his own party's Assembly caucus chair, are demanding a fix before the legislative session ends.
politics
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U.S. Marshals arrested Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami Saturday on a sealed warrant tied to a U.K. extradition request. Hours later, British prosecutors announced a fresh wave of charges, including seven more counts of rape against Andrew Tate, bringing the total number of alleged victims in the case to seven.
defense
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Gideon Saar told a Washington counter-terrorism conference that IDF-seized Hamas documents point to covert funding and ownership of the Global Sumud Flotilla through a Spanish shell company. The Treasury Department has already sanctioned several flotilla organizers this year over alleged Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood ties, though a rights group representing one target disputes the claim.
defense
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reportedly prepared to dismiss Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi if he can find a replacement who won't destabilize the front line, according to the Financial Times. Meanwhile he's still trying to talk former Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko into becoming ambassador to Washington after she turned him down once already. This is a government under real pressure making real personnel calls in the middle of a war. Nobody's hiding it, which is more than you can say for a lot of Western governments.
defense
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Since the Jordan base attack killed two more American service members Friday, the State Department has issued a global 'Worldwide Caution' warning Americans that Iran-aligned groups could strike U.S. citizens and diplomatic facilities anywhere in the world. Total American military deaths in the conflict now stand at 16, with more than 420 wounded, as CENTCOM confirms new U.S. strikes on Iranian missile and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz.
economy
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The term 'male recession' is everywhere in commentary right now, but a close look at two of the pieces driving the conversation shows the coverage doesn't back up the label with data. One outlet wanders into a decades-old ethnography of pickup basketball; the other's much-cited workplace piece no longer exists online.
tech
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Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM says weak sales of its new spy RPG Zero Parades: For Dead Spies forced redundancy or at-risk notices for up to 32 staff. The game got solid reviews but couldn't pull a fraction of its predecessor's audience, and this is the studio's second round of layoffs since 2024.
economy
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1h ago
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Three elderly women accuse Olle Beauty Clinics on the Upper East Side of cornering them in private rooms and guilt-tripping them into paying a combined $800,000 for facials, memberships, and unproven treatments. The newest plaintiff, 76-year-old Phyllis Sousa, says she alone was drained of $675,000 over three years. No criminal charges have been filed; this is a civil lawsuit, and the spa has not yet responded publicly.
sports
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England survived playing 13 men for long stretches and held off Argentina 31-24 in a Nations Championship thriller, with a last-play Argentina try chalked off after a TMO review. Seven yellow cards and a shaky discipline record follow Steve Borthwick's team into November.
tech
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A PG&E power outage knocked out traffic signals in San Francisco's Richmond District and Presidio on Saturday morning, and Waymo paused robotaxi service for about an hour before it caused problems. That's a real change from December's blackout, when Waymo cars stalled more than 1,500 times and needed tow trucks.
tech
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France's gambling regulator ANJ ordered internet providers to block Polymarket outright on Friday, July 17, after a 2024 payment ban failed to stop nearly 579,000 French visits to the site in June. The move follows a hacked weather sensor that rigged a prediction market, and adds France to a growing list of countries clamping down on unregulated betting platforms dressed up as financial markets.
health
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Since Michigan's July 13 statement pointing to lettuce as a likely source, the CDC now says more than 7,000 cyclosporiasis cases have been confirmed or are under investigation across 34 states since May 1. No recall has been issued, no single producer has been named, and federal officials expect the outbreak to keep spreading through August.
energy
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New federal projections show Lake Mead dropping to levels not seen since Hoover Dam was built, with Lake Powell hovering right at its hydropower protection line. Both reservoirs sit near 24-27 percent capacity with no deal among the seven Colorado River Basin states to change course.
sports
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Days before the 2026 World Cup final, President Trump told a crowd at a FIFA event in Trump Tower that the US shouldn't have to share future hosting duties with Canada or Mexico. FIFA President Gianni Infantino stood next to him and called the tournament a symbol of the American Dream.
energy
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CENTCOM restarted its blockade of Iranian ports on July 14 after President Trump ordered it back on, following the collapse of a June memorandum of understanding and fresh tanker attacks. Tehran used the ceasefire window to export roughly 80 million barrels of oil worth about $6 billion before the door slammed shut again.