High interest rates and prices are deterring individual buyers, leaving an opening for firms to snap up single-family properties.https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/with-individual-home-buyers-on-the-sidelines-investors-swoop-into-the-market-f0daf356
Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four other worlds in the temperate zone of an intriguing planetary system.https://www.wired.com/story/this-star-system-contains-five-potentially-habitable-planets/
The price of expensive chatbot subscriptions is driven by vibes—not immediate profitability for AI companies.https://www.wired.com/story/seriously-why-do-some-ai-chatbot-subscriptions-cost-more-than-200/
This vibrating and thrusting dildo is not for the faint of heart.https://www.wired.com/review/familiar-nebula-telescopic-thrust-suction-mount-dildo/
Polish and Swedish military aircraft were scrambled in response to a large Russian drone and missile attack launched across Ukraine on Sunday night.https://abcnews.go.com/International/nato-aircraft-scrambled-major-russian-drone-missile-strike/story?id=124128074
The Hamas-run Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said in a Monday statement that another 14 people died of malnutrition over the previous 24 hours.https://abcnews.go.com/US/malnutrition-deaths-gaza-hamas-health-ministry/story?id=124128635
Katerrius Sparks, 3, from Bessemer, Alabama, died on July 22, police and the county coroner said.https://abcnews.go.com/US/3-year-dies-hot-car-custody-contract-worker/story?id=124128631
A soccer coach who says he was mistakenly deported from the U.S. to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison because of a tattoo celebrated his release from detainment on Wednesday.https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/soccer-coach-deported-tattoo-celebrates-release-detention-124126505
Passengers evacuated onto the runway via emergency slide after an American Airlines flight aborted its takeoff on the runway in Denver on Saturday.https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/video/passengers-exit-plane-emergency-slide-after-aborted-takeoff-124126292
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to oust all members of a task force that recommends which preventive health services be covered by insurance, according to a source. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/rfk-jr-considers-firing-members-advisory-panel-source-124126201
Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/04/no-tax-on-tips-is-an-industry-plant
Amid national euphoria over the bombing of Iran—and the largely ignored devastation in Gaza—a question lurks: What is the country becoming?https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/04/israels-zones-of-denial
It’s run by a Michigan-born Jesuit—and a meteorite expert—known as the Pope’s Astronomer.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/04/the-vatican-observatory-looks-to-the-heavens
More than a thousand dentists have set up shop in Los Algodones. Their patients are mostly Americans who can’t afford the U.S.’s dental care.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/04/mexicos-molar-city-could-transform-my-smile-did-i-want-it-to
The President’s campaign to bend the independent central bank to his will is straight out of the playbook of populist strongmen and will likely go on for years.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/donald-trumps-war-with-jerome-powell-and-the-fed-is-far-from-over
The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it’s creeping toward the Texas-Mexico border.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/politics/screwworm-beef-prices.html
After a five-year drought and decades of mismanagement, Tehran is at risk of running out of water in several weeks, the government warned.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/iran-water-crisis-drought.html
James Uthmeier has followed an aggressive playbook similar to that of Gov. Ron DeSantis, for whom he used to work behind the scenes as chief of staff.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/floridas-new-attorney-general-a-desantis-appointee-is-making-waves.html
At President Trump’s urging, Texas is trying to squeeze up to five Democrats out of office to pad Republicans’ slim majority in the House.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/politics/democrats-texas-redistricting.html
The state attorney general, Aaron Ford, is seen as Democrats’ best bet to oust Gov. Joe Lombardo. Mr. Lombardo doesn’t plan on going down easy.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/politics/nevada-governor-ford.html