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Riots Rattle France
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.41 · In 1910, riots swept Champagne over unfairness in the winemaking industry
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.37 · Who died during the French Revolution of 1789?
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.42 · Check out information on the over 1,000 protests across the globe since 2017.
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Russia Sanctions Paused
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · What Trump's executive order provides TikTok
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · Trump's 2025 asylum suspension departed from a policy framework in place since 1980
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · The last remaining US-Russia nuclear arms treaty expired in February 2026
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.07 · Ukraine's pro-Russian President halted an EU deal in 2013, leading to a mass protest movement
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · Since World War II, US and Soviet/Russian leaders have repeatedly agreed to arms control treaties, though strained tensions have led to the expiration of agreements in recent years.
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.07 · Many countries remained neutral after Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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Fly Me to the Moons
- 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.45 · Mar's moons, Phobos and Deimos, are thought to be captured asteroids
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.21 · The Artemis program to bring humans to the moon for the first time since 1972
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.14 · NASA's ESCAPADE mission will study Mars' atmosphere
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.43 · The first flight on Mars carried a piece of the Wright plane with it
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · The European Space Agency placed a lander on the surface of a comet in 2014
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.21 · ESA’s Juice and NASA’s Europa Clipper will search for habitability near Jupiter
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.61 · Explore a collection of moon interactives from NASA, including a 3D lunar surface explorer, a tool for classifying moon rocks, and an interactive map for observing the moon each day of the year.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.09 · In 2024, China announced plans to establish an international lunar research station
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · Explore a timeline of every mission to Mars through 2020
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.08 · Ahead of constructing a lunar base as part of the Artemis program, NASA will send a fleet of hopping drones to scout the moon's south pole.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.22 · Firefly Blue Ghost lands private craft on the moon
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · Anticipating moon tourism by 2000, Pan Am issued 'First Moon Flights' club cards
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A 21-year-old raises $146K for an elderly woman who has worked at her local AMC for 45 years.
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"You Can See Everything," Nathan Fielder's film focusing on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, generates $15M
- 0.67 · longform · keep 0.64 · Watch the trailer for Nathan Fielder's documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, 'You Can See Everything.'
- 0.46 · longform · keep 0.52 · Elizabeth Holmes is among the many tech founders who famously dropped out of college, leading to a podcast series called 'The Dropout,' exploring her formation.
- 0.45 · longform · keep 0.25 · Read a primer on Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of biotech startup Theranos who was sentenced to prison for defrauding investors.
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · Netflix's 'KPop Demon Hunters' is the streamer's most-watched original movie
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.43 · The 2011 film 'Moneyball' shifted ideas about sports and statistics
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Big 12 Conference says referees ended BYU-Notre Dame game with one second remaining on the clock, preventing t
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Tampa Bay defeats Cleveland 3-1 to seize a 3-2 lead in the American League Championship Series; a Game 6 victo
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.07 · MLB pitchers were charged with benefiting from sports betting
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Astronomers discover first known green star: a dead white dwarf that turned chartreuse by absorbing a rocky pl
- 0.74 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · The first green star ever discovered was a white dwarf, which can appear in many colors, despite its name.
- 0.54 · curiosity · keep 0.54 · By separating light with tools such as prisms, scientists can reveal the presence and composition of celestial matter by identifying color fingerprints unique to specific elements and molecules.
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.13 · Ice found in another star system for the first time
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.68 · Unlike black holes and neutron stars, white dwarfs are the only major stellar remnant not to form via a supernova.
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · White dwarfs are the leftover cores of sun-like stars, which expel their layers after running out of nuclear fuel.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.32 · An exoplanet detection method involves measuring a host star's auroras
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.41 · Research suggests that the small red dots in images of deep space captured by the James Webb Space Telescope since 2022 are black hole stars—black holes surrounded by enormous clouds of gas.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.51 · Solar eclipses block the sun enough to enable scientists to observe its faint outer atmosphere, or corona, whose spectrum led to the discovery of helium over a decade before it was identified on Earth.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · You would be crushed almost immediately if you stood on a white dwarf, whose surface gravity is over 100,000 times stronger than Earth's.
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · The first two white dwarfs were discovered on January 31st, 79 years apart.
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.44 · Gaming out how our solar system might catch a new planet
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.80 · The most mysterious (known) star in the universe
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Wearing headphones during surgery may reduce the risk of postoperative nausea and vomiting, new study finds; c
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Medical professionals have experimented with using mixed reality headsets
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · Surgery before the dawn of anesthesia
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.65 · Scientists are learning to guide your dreams using sound and touch.
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Cat owners who spend more time in close proximity to their pets experience more positive moods, linked to a ho
- 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.52 · Are cats good for our health?
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · Scientists are using CRISPR to genetically modify felines so they don't trigger allergies in humans.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Humans are more genetically similar to cats than to dogs
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.51 · Stress can be contagious—and scientists want to learn more about it
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.83 · Cats began cozying up to humans around 10,000 years ago
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Humans are wired to pick up on each other's emotion, making laughter contagious
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.55 · Music that builds to a crescendo and then resolves relieves stress more than listening to nature sounds.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.76 · Stress affects different animals in different, but useful, ways
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.50 · People who feel connected to nature also report a higher well-being
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.50 · Touch helps newborns regulate stress, gain weight, and feel less pain
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.45 · The positives of feeling stressed
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.80 · Fear (and stress) can be contagious via pheromones secreted by the body
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US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -1.1%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq -2.1%) amid drop in tech stocks, last week's in
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
- 0.44 · 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
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The S&P 500, managed by the same company, is another major stock index
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.17 · Critics argue the Dow no longer reflects the modern economy
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.26 · GE’s removal marked the end of an era for the Dow
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Investors rely on the S&P 500 as a benchmark for the state of the economy
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · Retail investing by the numbers
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.50 · The number of publicly traded companies has decreased in recent years.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Read about the evolution of the S&P 500 and its recession recovery
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · Why some say the S&P 500 has effectively become an AI fund
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.15 · The Dow remains a shorthand for America's economic health
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US federal budget deficit clocks in at $1.9T for the 2026 fiscal year, up 12% since the same period in 2025 an
- 0.62 · news-in-context · keep 0.18 · The federal government has spent more money annually than it has collected every year since 2022.
- 0.60 · explainers · keep 0.16 · The national debt is growing at a faster rate than the economy.
- 0.58 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · In 2025, the US credit rating was downgraded over concerns about the debt-to-GDP ratio.
- 0.57 · news-in-context · keep 0.19 · In 2025, the US national debt per person was $113k.
- 0.57 · explainers · keep 0.16 · The federal deficit is the gap between what the US spends and what it collects.
- 0.55 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · The current federal budget, deficit, and debt, in charts
- 0.54 · news-in-context · keep 0.27 · See a chart showing how much the US federal government pays in interest on its debt.
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.15 · Why Ray Dalio thinks the US deficit is a political problem
- 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.18 · The US national debt is over $31T
- 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.26 · Explore a breakdown of the US gross domestic product, including GDP's growth over time, the GDP of individual states, and which industries contribute the most to US GDP.
- 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.54 · Ranking the world's economies: 1980 vs. 2025
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.43 · America’s looming debt spiral
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Vietnam signs free-trade agreement with four non-EU countries—Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, and Liechtenstein—
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Fire at a Canadian military base in Alberta reportedly kills at least four people, injures dozens more; offici
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Crowd surge at Hindu festival in India's eastern city of Kolkata kills at least 19 people, injures dozens more
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Pope Leo XIV is discharged from the hospital, recites Angelus prayer from the Vatican days after lung cancer s
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The US' best culinary resorts.
- 0.56 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · The best restaurant tasting experiences in every state
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.71 · The best sushi restaurants in the US
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · America's most haunted restaurants
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · America's best mountain towns
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · The favorite restaurants of former US presidents
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · Taste 15 of the best sandwiches across the US
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.67 · America's most underrated places to visit
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.75 · The best beach in every US state
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Ranking the best fast food in America
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.30 · Beard and his eponymous awards help define 'American cuisine'
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How to tell if someone is lying.
- 0.58 · explainers · keep 0.66 · You may be better at spotting a lie when listening to a speaker's voice inflections rather than watching for facial and body cues.
- 0.58 · explainers · keep 0.68 · The average person can only detect someone is lying 54% of the time
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.77 · Research shows that, on average, humans correctly spot liars about half of the time
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Alternatives to polygraphs, which correctly identify innocent people only 57% of the time
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What did the Liberty Bell sound like?
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Nearly four in 10 Americans participate in online communities.
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.26 · As of 2025, about 9 in 10 Americans use the internet daily
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · 1 in 5 American adults report daily loneliness
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · More than 4 in 10 Americans say the dead can protect or guide the living (46%), know what the living are doing (44%), or communicate with them (42%).
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · View the countries with the most internet users, including 94% of those in high-income nations
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Rare owls settle on a tower near NYC's Central Park.
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · Crows are believed to have intelligence on par with that of a 7-year-old child and demonstrate complex behaviors, from tool use to recognizing human faces.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.09 · Double rainbow appears in New York City on 9/11 anniversary
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · A gallery of New York cats alongside their feline reflections
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What is the most popular pro sports team in your state? (w/map)
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · Mapping the world records held by each US state
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.38 · Sports betting is legal in 47 states and the District of Columbia
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.51 · Measuring which nation has the most baseball fans
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.68 · See the religious breakdown of your state and how it compares to the rest of the country.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.63 · States with the most million-dollar homes
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.85 · Visualize the most common job in every US state, from fast food worker to home health aide
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · Based on the number of patents, venture capital investment, and research and development spending per capita in 2025, America's most innovative states are California, Massachusetts, and Delaware.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Sports betting, explained
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · The NFL is the most valuable sports league in the world, with 32 teams worth a combined $228B.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · Browse a list of the most important invention from each state
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · The wealthiest person in every US state in 2021
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.57 · Map of each state's largest tax revenue source
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The origins of the Ouija board.
- 0.72 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · The Ouija board originated in 19th-century America as a business-minded response to the growing fascination with Spiritualism, or the belief that the dead and living could communicate.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · Browse a timeline of the fascinating history of board games in America.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.63 · Where did zombies come from?
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.53 · The Royal Game of Ur, which dates back as far as 2600 BCE, is believed to be one of the oldest board games in the world.
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Where have all the airplane barf bags gone?
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · Paper boarding passes have become rarer in recent years
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · Many airports have dedicated stores for luggage, despite most passengers having luggage with them already
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Does your local library have the bear necessities?
- 0.43 · longform · keep 0.65 · Explore the unexpected ways people use public libraries in this 'This American Life' episode
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · Living side by side: The people and polar bears of Churchill, Manitoba
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.67 · How to dine like they do in 'The Bear'
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