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Steeling Up in Iowa
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · See a chart showing how US tariff revenue has grown in recent years.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.17 · President Trump tore down the East Wing in October 2025 to build a new ballroom
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Nvidia's Big Buyback
- 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Stock buybacks are when a company purchases some of its own shares of stock
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.51 · By 2024, Nvidia had become one of the world’s most valuable companies
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.62 · Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang once saved Nvidia from bankruptcy with a multi-million dollar Hail Mary
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.51 · Nvidia was founded in a Denny's restaurant
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Nvidia's attempted Arm acquisition revealed its hopes of becoming the world's leading AI company
- 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · In 2023 and the first half of 2024, Berkshire Hathaway bought back more than $12B of its own stock
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.41 · Nvidia pioneered the GPU industry via its origins as a video game company
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.28 · Nvidia controls more than four-fifths of the GPU market—but isn't considered a monopoly
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · As of 2025, Nvidia controls over 90% of the discrete graphics processing unit market, with its high-end components serving as the backbone for the AI data center boom, followed by AMD and Intel.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.41 · Nvidia entered its AI era after learning that its chips could be used in industries beyond gaming
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.37 · In 2025, American tech companies will spend $300B to $400B on AI
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.12 · Walmart was the first traditional retailer to crack the $1T club
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Air Base Threat Thwarted
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Rod Stewart announces 21-date "The Final Encore Tour," says it will be the last tour of his career
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Stevie Wonder shares four previously unreleased tracks from "Songs in the Key of Life"
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.65 · Watch several Motown stars—including Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and the Supremes—perform at the Apollo Theater in 1962.
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.68 · Explore a list of the best Motown albums of all time—featuring releases from Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Boyz II Men, and many more—assembled by a team of music critics.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.36 · 'You will never feel proud of your work if you find no joy within it; your best work is always joyful work.'
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Senate passes bipartisan college sports bill to regulate payments and restrict transfers, sending it to House
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.13 · New rules introduced in 2021 let college athletes profit from their name, image, and likeness.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Some opponents of Title IX wanted exemptions for revenue-producing sports
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Sports betting, explained
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.10 · Sports leagues have attempted to prevent athletes from betting
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Congress plays baseball together in a bipartisan charity game dating back to 1909
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.18 · 'NIL' in college sports refers to 'name, image, and likeness'
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.19 · In 1992, sports betting was outlawed in places where it wasn't already legal
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National Women's Soccer League unveils Atlanta expansion club's name, colors, and crest; team will debut in 20
- 0.58 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · Breaking down the WNBA's expansion plans
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · The WNBA includes 13 teams
- 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.61 · An interactive dive into the history of international women's soccer
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have led to a WNBA resurgence
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.29 · Title IX helped push women’s soccer to the world stage
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.31 · The economics of the WNBA
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Nearly two decades before the WNBA began, there was the WBL, the first women's professional basketball league in the US.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.53 · Documenting the first year of the WNBA
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.23 · The history of the Women's World Cup
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.65 · The history of the WNBA in 60 seconds
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National Hockey League play returns as the defending champion Carolina Hurricanes host the Florida Panthers to
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.47 · National Hockey League, explained
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SpaceX launches Starship spacecraft into orbit for first time to test its readiness for NASA's Artemis moon pr
- 0.61 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · Watch a supercut of the various iterations of SpaceX's Starship rocket
- 0.57 · curiosity · keep 0.53 · SpaceX successfully caught a rocket booster in mid-air
- 0.57 · curiosity · keep 0.40 · Starbase is SpaceX's testing ground for their most powerful rocket, Starship
- 0.57 · curiosity · keep 0.74 · Starship is the space travel ship that rides atop the world's largest rocket
- 0.56 · curiosity · keep 0.21 · The Artemis program to bring humans to the moon for the first time since 1972
- 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.20 · Overcoming industry skeptics, SpaceX provides low-cost, high-publicity spaceflights
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.19 · A primer on SpaceX's primary rockets and spacecraft
- 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · Elon Musk's $100M investment in SpaceX was lost to three failed rocket launches
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · The Space Launch System: NASA's most powerful rocket ever
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.58 · SpaceShipOne was the first privately built spacecraft to reach the boundary of space
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.19 · SpaceX was built to achieve Elon Musk's vision of making humans an interplanetary species.
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.25 · Major milestones of the Space Shuttle program's 135 missions included the launches of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the first American woman and African-American astronauts in space.
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Engineers tweak formula of lipid nanoparticles used to deliver mRNA, allowing vaccines to remain stable at roo
- 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.56 · mRNA vaccines teach the immune system how to respond to a threat, using a molecule called messenger RNA.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.47 · mRNA vaccines alter immune response, not DNA, to combat diseases like cancer.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.64 · COVID-19 vaccine breakthroughs are driving efforts toward a universal flu shot
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.18 · The basics behind mRNA vaccines
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.54 · See how the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine's mRNA instructions teach your own cells to trigger an immune response against the coronavirus's spike protein.
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.73 · Genetically modified viruses can help construct battery electrodes
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Neuroscientists discover humans' response speed when exhaling is on average 41 milliseconds faster than when i
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.59 · Some claim breathwork can improve mental health, help process trauma, and more
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.80 · Exercise improves brain blood flow, stimulates neural growth, and more.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.69 · How humans breathe without thinking about it
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.67 · The brain will attempt to rest itself in periods of chronic sleep deprivation
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Research advances suggest death takes much longer than we realized
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.56 · The human brain only uses 5% more energy during active tasks versus resting
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.34 · There's a new (contested) physiological explanation for near-death experiences based on analysis of the brains of resuscitated coma and cardiac arrest patients.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.51 · Stress can be contagious—and scientists want to learn more about it
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.67 · Humans can track smells on the ground quite well—our ability to crawl is a limiting factor
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.51 · Sleep research published in 2021 confirmed that there is a 'creative sweet spot' when people are drifting off to sleep, and that if they wake up at that point to work, it can boost their creative problem-solving.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.29 · Sleep disorders can exacerbate neurological and other health conditions
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.39 · Sleep is no longer considered a binary state—scientists are seeking to map a variety of liminal states between sleep and waking, including the hypnagogic state associated with boosts of creativity.
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US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.8%, Dow -0.7%, Nasdaq -0.9%) as 10-year Treasury yield climbs to its h
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Investors collectively owned $28T in US Treasury securities as of 2025.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Markets have always recovered and hit new highs following crashes
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.30 · In late 2025, the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 made up more than 40% of the index's total value
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.48 · Bond yields are the returns investors earn from a bond's interest—and they're a key economic barometer.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Interest rates have historically been an indicator of the US economy's overall health.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Some argue that the rising US national debt has become more important in recent months.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.42 · If the US government paid off its debt, it could disrupt the entire bond market, as Treasury bonds are among the most common bonds for investors and the majority of the national debt is in bonds.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.30 · For everyday Americans, a relatively high national debt can lead to higher interest rates on financial products such as mortgages.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.18 · What are Treasury yields?
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.23 · The S&P 500 yields a roughly 10.5% average annual return
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The US and China agree to each lower tariffs on $30B worth of nonsensitive goods, including Chinese Christmas
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.15 · Trade between the US and China has significantly increased in recent decades.
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · Track how American tariffs have impacted different countries and industries.
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · Fast fashion companies such as Temu and Shein often took advantage of the de minimis exemption, a US tariff loophole that ended in 2025.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · Auto and consumer goods companies absorbed billions in costs due to President Trump's 2025 tariffs.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · Christmas trees are a $6B global industry
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.17 · A trade war is an economic conflict where nations impose tariffs or other trade barriers on each other in retaliation for similar actions.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · Trump's 2025 tariffs represent a significant break from the rules-based trade order
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · The overall economic effect of President Trump's 2025 tariffs remains unclear
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · Read an overview of US tariff policy before the second Trump Administration
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · See a chart showing how US tariff revenue has grown in recent years.
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.52 · Tariffs are typically paid by the importing company or organization to the US Treasury.
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · The Lunar New Year is a major driver in China's economy
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Boeing shares close down 6.9% after the company identifies 737 MAX software glitch that could cause an automat
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.13 · How a panel blew off a Boeing plane in mid-air
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.64 · The aviation industry built trust in automation by keeping pilots in the cockpit
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New York prosecutors reopen investigation into alleged 2024 gang rape of a Cornell University student by seven
- 0.46 · longform · keep 0.44 · Inside the Sarah Lawrence College sex cult scandal
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FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey resigns, citing family reasons, amid reported tensions with FBI Director Kas
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Justice Department files appeal to end transgender care for inmates
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.07 · The government has said Title IX does not protect transgender athletes or apply to athlete pay
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Iran and US negotiators hold separate talks with mediators
- 0.45 · longform · keep 0.49 · Hear how the US and Iran went from close allies to bitter adversaries after the 1979 revolution.
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Russian drone strikes Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, killing at least seven people
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · Watch two Russian jets damage US drone over Black Sea
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Liverpool, New York, tops list of nicest places in America.
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · Check out America's happiest places to live
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.67 · America's most underrated places to visit
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.59 · Seven of America's cheapest and safest towns are in Ohio
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.62 · America's happiest cities in 2023
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · America's best mountain towns
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · The 20 best small US towns for retirement
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.75 · See a list of the best beer cities in America, including mainstays, like Asheville, North Carolina, and Portland, Oregon, as well as less-mentioned enclaves, like Minneapolis and Richmond, Virginia.
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.52 · Ranking America's healthiest and unhealthiest cities
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... and ranking the US' best-smelling cities.
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.52 · Ranking America's healthiest and unhealthiest cities
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · The most unique-smelling places on Earth
- 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.56 · Evaluating the world’s 'smartest' cities
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · Check out America's happiest places to live
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.62 · America's happiest cities in 2023
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.45 · A 2025 study explored the common words to describe body odor across 17 countries
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.75 · See a list of the best beer cities in America, including mainstays, like Asheville, North Carolina, and Portland, Oregon, as well as less-mentioned enclaves, like Minneapolis and Richmond, Virginia.
- 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.55 · The world's 10 best places to live
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · The best restaurant tasting experiences in every state
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.75 · The best beach in every US state
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See rendering of anatomically bizarre, newly discovered dinosaur.
- 0.54 · curiosity · keep 0.53 · Uncovering the evolution of history's largest dinosaurs
- 0.53 · experiences · keep 0.57 · View a directory of more than 300 dinosaurs
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · Spinosaurus had the weirdest dinosaur tail of all time
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.29 · Dinosaurs suffered from cancer, arthritis, and infections seen in modern animals
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.41 · The archaeological discovery that shifted scientists' understanding of human evolution
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · Huge tyrannosaur wore a fuzzy coat
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · The first dinosaur bone ever discovered in Antarctica—a tail bone from a titanosaur—sat in storage for over 40 years before scientists realized what it was.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.78 · Air sacs and lightweight bones helped some dinosaurs grow to enormous sizes
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · T. rex didn't stomp, it walked on tiptoes like a bird
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.73 · Explore an interactive timeline and map of dinosaurs across the globe
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · Dinosaur portrayals in film mistakenly limit them to only living in tropical climates
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · Dinosaurs ranged from the size of chickens to multistory buildings, with one of the largest, Argentinosaurus, spanning about 39 meters (128 feet) and weighing more than a Boeing 737.
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Meet the youngest female chess prodigy: an 11-year-old girl.
- 0.55 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · Magnus Carlsen became world champion at just 22 years old
- 0.55 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · A 13-year-old Magnus Carlsen challenged Garry Kasparov in 2004
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.29 · A 14-year-old "human calculator" shatters six mathematical world records in one day
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Inside the life of a 13-year-old beauty influencer
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Shark spotted in flooded New Jersey streets amid nor'easter. (w/photo)
- 0.61 · curiosity · keep 0.45 · An image of a shark swimming on the freeway repeatedly fools viewers during natural disasters
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.09 · Possible globster sighted on the Oregon coast.
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.77 · Watch the first-ever footage of a ghost shark
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Look inside Austria's new "Sound of Music" museum.
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How old is scratch-and-sniff?
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · Scientists are reconstructing ancient smells—including the surprisingly perfumy scent of a 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummy—to help the public experience olfactory aspects of history.
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · Read the academic article explaining how ancient smells can be dissected and recreated
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.55 · Humans may be able to distinguish more than one trillion scents
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.52 · 1 in 15 adults over age 40 experience phantom odors
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · 'Old people' smell increases with age, and its chemistry and age-related incidence have been documented.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · A super-sniffer smelled her husband's Parkinson's disease years ahead of symptoms.
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Watch emu defeat man in impromptu wrestling match. (w/video)
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · In the 1930s, three Australian soldiers were sent to fight emus with machine guns—and lost
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Do you have enough rizz to nail this quiz?
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John D. Rockefeller reported as world’s first billionaire (1916); Pope John Paul II is first pope to visit Ire
- 0.56 · explainers · keep 0.44 · How John D. Rockefeller became the world's first billionaire
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.76 · The history of the Rockefellers in 60 seconds
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.70 · John D. Rockefeller—the world's first billionaire—was born to a well-known con artist father.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.24 · A timeline of the Rockefeller family
- 0.43 · longform · keep 0.61 · John D. Rockefeller’s father had a nefarious past
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.56 · Some of the robber barons, including Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, were among America's greatest philanthropists.
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