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Voter Fraud Arrests, OpenAI Spy, and Leap Hours

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California Voting Crackdown
  1. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.59 · The wildest cases of election fraud in US history
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Saudi Bugging Suspect
  1. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.09 · Saudi Arabia began investing in international sports in the mid-2010s
  2. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.19 · 10 ways that Saudi Arabia violates human rights
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Israeli Settler Attacks
  1. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.18 · View a timeline of Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank.
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Weekslong rescue effort in Yellowstone National Park reunites family with their Jack Russell terrier mix, Luna
  1. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.10 · Buford the Pyrenees showered with gifts after rescuing 2-year-old boy lost in the desert
  2. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · Husky goes way off track at the Westminster Dog Show
  3. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.23 · Teen rides stranded scared horse to safety—14 miles out of burning canyon
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Tampa Bay advances to World Series with win over Cleveland, will face Milwaukee
  1. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.07 · MLB pitchers were charged with benefiting from sports betting
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Philadelphia Eagles QB Jalen Hurts will reportedly miss the rest of the NFL season due to blood clots in his l
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Netflix reportedly fires film chief Dan Lin five days after laying off roughly 1,000 employees
  1. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.29 · The company's success is often credited to cofounder Reed Hastings
  2. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.08 · Dating app Bumble laid off roughly 30% of its staff in June 2025
  3. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.54 · Netflix, explained
  4. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.53 · Contrary to popular belief, Netflix didn't kill Blockbuster, though it did intentionally position itself as an alternative to the movie-rental store.
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Jon Stewart extends contract with Paramount to continue hosting "The Daily Show" through December 2028
  1. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Watch Jon Stewart's unifying opening monologue during his first show back after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international anchor, is leaving the network in June 2027 after 43 years; she
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Trump administration creates White House task force and National Institutes of Health division to advance wome
  1. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · How the Trump administration explained the firing of the NSF's National Science Board
  2. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Women's health research continues to be underfunded
  3. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.12 · An organizational breakdown of the National Science Foundation's directorates
  4. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.06 · President Trump has changed decades-long norms for the DOJ during his second term
  5. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.48 · Scientific breakthroughs funded by NASA, the NSF, and the NIH include GPS, sign language, bladeless LASIK surgery, and quantum dots—tiny semiconductor crystals used in many modern televisions.
  6. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.07 · Autism research has faced significant cuts under Trump
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Women globally spend 25% more of their lives in poor health or with disabilities than men
  1. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Women's health research continues to be underfunded
  2. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · Visualizing how American men and women spend every hour of the day, by decade of life
  3. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.28 · By 2030, roughly 6% of the world's population will be in menopause
  4. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.73 · MS disproportionately sickens women, but men tend to have worse outcomes
  5. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.37 · A 15-year bibliographic analysis identified systematic gender bias across Wikipedia
  6. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.50 · The disparity in life expectancy between wealthy and impoverished nations has notably narrowed
  7. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.47 · Extending the worldwide lifespan by one healthy year is worth $38T
  8. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.54 · Women typically have more robust immune responses than men
  9. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.10 · Black women offer a solution to racial health disparities
  10. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.54 · Marriages are more at risk when the woman is sick
  11. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.22 · The Nobel Foundation has stated there is no 'substantial male chauvinist bias in the [selection] committees,' despite only one in 20 awards going to women.
  12. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.33 · Women more likely than men to report strain of being a caregiver
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Apple announces Oct. 28 product launch event, where analysts expect the company to unveil its first touch-scre
  1. 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · Explore a breakdown of 18 influential Apple products
  2. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.69 · Watch Steve Jobs unveil the first iPhone in 2007
  3. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.65 · Watch Steve Jobs introduce the first iPad
  4. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · Apple, the tech giant renowned for products like the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, started out in a garage in 1976.
  5. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Apple's latest invention
  6. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.16 · Apple's future will likely continue to incorporate mixed reality hardware and AI
  7. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · In 1984, Apple ran an award-winning Super Bowl commercial
  8. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.42 · Apple's '1984' ad aired once during the game and permanently shaped their advertising
  9. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Lessons learned from Steve Jobs
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iPhone Duo—Apple's first foldable phone—is back-ordered until late January
  1. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · Explore the history of the iPhone from 2007 to 2023.
  2. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.69 · Watch Steve Jobs unveil the first iPhone in 2007
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Fingerprint analysis suggests women and children helped make China's Terracotta Army sculptures, challenging t
  1. 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.56 · Recreating ancient faces: where art meets archaeology
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US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow -0.1%, Nasdaq +1.1%) as tech stocks climb ahead of Tesla and
  1. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.49 · Many of the top companies in the US by market cap began as tech startups
  2. 0.47 · 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
  3. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
  4. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Investors rely on the S&P 500 as a benchmark for the state of the economy
  5. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · US IPO issuance—the total dollar amount of new stock sold to the public via IPOs—hit a record high in 2026.
  6. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · Why some say the S&P 500 has effectively become an AI fund
  7. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.29 · The Nasdaq's 'Magnificent 7' companies are responsible for roughly 40% of the Nasdaq 100 index's gains, while the remaining 93 companies account for the other 60%.
  8. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The S&P 500, managed by the same company, is another major stock index
  9. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Millions of Americans will be invested in SpaceX because of the fast-tracked process to list SpaceX on the NASDAQ 100, and, subsequently, the index funds that track it.
  10. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Why does the stock market matter?
  11. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
  12. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.36 · 'The stock market' can be loosely defined as a set of exchanges and other places where shares of public companies are bought and sold.
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China's economy outpaces forecasts, growing 4.5% year-over-year on strong exports
  1. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.10 · China had an inflation rate of -0.4% in August 2025
  2. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · The Lunar New Year is a major driver in China's economy
  3. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.54 · Ranking the world's economies: 1980 vs. 2025
  4. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Hear Ray Dalio talk about the growth of the Chinese economy
  5. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · Imports of hormone and peptide compounds from China soared in 2025.
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Elon Musk pledges SpaceX shares to every US child after Anthropic announces it will commit 5% of its shares to
  1. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.09 · SpaceX's S-1 or 'prospectus' revealed many previously unknown details about the company, including its unprofitability despite doing $18.7B in revenue in 2025, exactly how many voting shares Elon Musk will have in the company (roughly 85%), and more.
  2. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Millions of Americans will be invested in SpaceX because of the fast-tracked process to list SpaceX on the NASDAQ 100, and, subsequently, the index funds that track it.
  3. 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.20 · Overcoming industry skeptics, SpaceX provides low-cost, high-publicity spaceflights
  4. 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · See how SpaceX compares to history's other largest IPOs.
  5. 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.19 · SpaceX was built to achieve Elon Musk's vision of making humans an interplanetary species.
  6. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.31 · NASA and SpaceX combine public support and funding with private enterprise
  7. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.47 · Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 after initially attempting to purchase ballistic missiles in Europe and Russia, hoping to launch a rocket carrying a plant or animal to Mars to spark global interest in colonizing the planet, but found them too expensive.
  8. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · Elon Musk's $100M investment in SpaceX was lost to three failed rocket launches
  9. 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · US IPO issuance—the total dollar amount of new stock sold to the public via IPOs—hit a record high in 2026.
  10. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.59 · Billionaires are racing to space to control future markets
  11. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.28 · Elon Musk's will to launch: the early days of SpaceX
  12. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · See how SpaceX has impacted costs throughout spaceflight history.
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64% of Americans say AI is developing too fast
  1. 0.58 · news-in-context · keep 0.36 · AI investment may be the next major economic bubble
  2. 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.30 · 71% of equity investments in Q1 2025 went to AI companies
  3. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.57 · People are experiencing AI 'brain fry' at work
  4. 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.37 · In 2025, American tech companies will spend $300B to $400B on AI
  5. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.07 · Google's CEO has warned that today's AI boom shows 'elements of irrationality'
  6. 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · Why some say the S&P 500 has effectively become an AI fund
  7. 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.46 · View a map of AI adoption rates around the world through Q1 2026, led by the United Arab Emirates (70.1%), Singapore (63.4%), and Norway (48.6%).
  8. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · 87% of the startups in Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 batch were AI companies
  9. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.46 · Researchers found that by mid-2025, around 35% of newly published websites utilized AI for language generation
  10. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Warren Buffett has worried that AI might end up being as consequential as the development of the nuclear bomb
  11. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.66 · Listen to legendary investor Marc Andreessen break down the 'lump of labor fallacy,' which argues that there's not a finite amount of work in an economy and that technological innovations create new industries.
  12. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Will AI kill us all? A debate.
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US homebuilder sentiment hits nearly 14.5-year low amid higher mortgage rates, rising costs of building materi
  1. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.59 · Construction of small, affordable starter homes has decreased 75% since the 1970s.
  2. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · Enter your ZIP code to see its median income, median home value, and how affordable a typical home is there.
  3. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.30 · Charting the rise of the American McMansion
  4. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.21 · Historically, borrowing money from other people to purchase property was common until private financing companies—primarily building and loan associations—stepped in to offer mortgages to buyers.
  5. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.21 · How interest rates affect homebuying
  6. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.60 · See how much it costs to build a new home in each US state, as homeowners look to new construction in a competitive real estate market—with a national average cost of over $332K for a 2,100-square-foot home.
  7. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.20 · Over 1.9 million Americans—more than a quarter of those unemployed—have been classified as 'long-term' unemployed in a given month in 2026, meaning they've been out of work for at least 27 weeks.
  8. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.39 · US homeownership rates declined from the start of the Great Recession through 2016.
  9. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.22 · US homes have been shrinking in recent years
  10. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.18 · The factors stirring up a home insurance storm
  11. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Housing 'starts'— new constructions—signal the health and future of real estate
  12. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Beyond oil, the Iran war has pushed up costs on fertilizer, prescriptions, and mortgages.
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Homebuyers cancel roughly one in seven sales last month, the highest share since the pandemic
  1. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.39 · US homeownership rates declined from the start of the Great Recession through 2016.
  2. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.24 · Before the Great Recession, lax requirements to get a mortgage resulted in mass defaults that left nearly 19 million homes vacant.
  3. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.21 · Historically, borrowing money from other people to purchase property was common until private financing companies—primarily building and loan associations—stepped in to offer mortgages to buyers.
  4. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.44 · To continue selling mortgages, agencies that determine how risky a loan is gave high ratings to homebuyers regardless of their actual risk portfolio.
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Ukraine says it has carried out the world's first drone evacuation of a wounded soldier
  1. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · The Russia-Ukraine conflict is the largest ground war in Europe since World War II in terms of casualties, forces mobilized, and displacement of civilians.
  2. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.12 · Breaking down Western military weapons in Ukraine
  3. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · Watch two Russian jets damage US drone over Black Sea
  4. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.25 · A brief history of drones
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Independent Australian politician Helen Haines is critically wounded after being struck by a car near her offi
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France imposes curfew for minors in several northern cities, including Lille, as well as parts of Paris
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Ranking the US' best community colleges.
  1. 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.73 · Some educators argue society's obsession with colleges at the top of rankings has hurt the US higher education ecosystem
  2. 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.48 · Hear why one author thinks college rankings may be irrelevant
  3. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.56 · Ranking the most popular undergraduate degrees of the last decade
  4. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · See where your state ranked in an analysis of the best public school systems in the US.
  5. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.49 · America's top 100 universities, ranked by tuition​.
  6. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · Explore a college affordability and transparency guide
  7. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · Check out America's happiest places to live
  8. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.27 · The largest university endowments in the US
  9. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.63 · The most expensive private schools in the US
  10. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.52 · Ranking America's healthiest and unhealthiest cities
  11. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · The US has the 13th-best students in science, according to a global assessment by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
  12. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · The 20 best small US towns for retirement
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Why did we start saying " Roger that "?
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The world's top destinations to witness "golden hour."
  1. 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.66 · The best places to visit in 2024
  2. 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.70 · Forty-nine top-notch photos of springtime around the world
  3. 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.57 · Stephen Wilkes' day-to-night panoramas
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Analyzing 99 cities for quality of life versus cost of living. (w/graph)
  1. 0.57 · experiences · keep 0.56 · Evaluating the world’s 'smartest' cities
  2. 0.54 · experiences · keep 0.55 · Explore a worldwide ranking of smart cities
  3. 0.54 · experiences · keep 0.55 · The world's 10 best places to live
  4. 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.44 · 15 out of 25 major US cities have a lower cost of living than their nearby suburbs
  5. 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.52 · Ranking America's healthiest and unhealthiest cities
  6. 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.62 · America's happiest cities in 2023
  7. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.33 · Smart city systems can increase positive feelings toward local government
  8. 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.25 · What its like to live in the world’s ‘smartest cities’
  9. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · Check out America's happiest places to live
  10. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.12 · A report on social well-being around the world
  11. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.63 · Many 'cheap' retirement destinations contain hidden costs
  12. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.49 · How life ranks in South Korea
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Expedition to find Amelia Earhart's plane comes up empty.
  1. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · Roosevelt left a White House dinner to fly over Washington with Amelia Earhart
  2. 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.41 · Thanks to digitized archives, shipwreck hunters can now do in a day the research that once took them at least a week or two.
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Ever see a snake do a cartwheel? (scroll for video)
  1. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Snakes move around by coordinating hundreds of muscles
  2. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · River dolphins manhandle an unlucky anaconda
  3. 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.74 · Watch a traditional Aztec fire-serpent dance rooted in Mexica mythology
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What retirement could look like for the "Gilmore Girls."
  1. 0.40 · longform · keep 0.49 · Inside a FIRE follower's money diary
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Meet the vampire birds who drink blood.
  1. 0.58 · curiosity · keep 0.87 · Vampire bats are the only mammal to feed exclusively on blood
  2. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · Mosquitoes drink a maximum of 0.01 milliliters of blood in a single meal.
  3. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · Pterosaurs were dinosaur cousins that ruled the skies
  4. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · The word 'vampire' appeared in the English-speaking world in the 1730s
  5. 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.49 · Exploring bird skulls
  6. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.49 · One doctor argued vampires were based on a real disease
  7. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.63 · The strange endurance of consuming blood for health
  8. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.83 · Millions of years of evolution produced dinosaurs with bizarre features
  9. 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.67 · Watch live cams of wild birds feeding
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Do we need a leap hour?
  1. 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.17 · Leap smears evenly distribute leap seconds, which were used to resynchronize clocks with Earth's rotation, over a 24-hour period.
  2. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.73 · Earth's rotation rate constantly changes, which drove the need for leap seconds to synchronize a solar day with timekeeping tools.
  3. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.60 · Daylight saving time, explained
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Baseball great Mickey Mantle born (1931); Congress investigates "Reds" in Hollywood (1947); Tom Petty born (19
  1. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · Catching up with hobby icon Sy Berger
  2. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · 100 moments that shaped baseball history
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