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Economic Mixed Signals
- 0.56 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · The US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a monthly 'jobs report' that tracks the unemployment rate, the number of Americans currently on payroll, and more.
- 0.56 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · The monthly US employment report is eagerly anticipated by Wall Street and has significant impacts on markets.
- 0.51 · 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.
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · The clearest sign of a recession is a steady increase in job losses and high unemployment.
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.19 · The unemployment rate is calculated using a monthly survey that the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses to identify those who are employed or actively looking for work.
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · Explore why layoffs are the biggest driver behind unemployment in the US with this interactive.
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.25 · The US federal government employs roughly 3 million people
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.27 · Experts recommend preparing your finances accordingly if you're expecting to be laid off soon, taking actions such as looking into the cost of replacing employer-sponsored benefits like healthcare.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.11 · COVID-19's shock to employment rates sparked some economists to fear deflation
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.27 · The US unemployment rate soared to over 24% during the Great Depression, the highest in recorded history.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.17 · A recession is commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP, but in practice, these economic phenomena are more complex.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.36 · The federal minimum wage in the US has been $7.25 per hour since 2009—making this the longest the US has gone without a minimum wage increase since 1938.
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Baseball Finale Begins
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Ebola Crisis Convening
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Ebola virus, with an average fatality rate above 50%, has been responsible for at least 250 confirmed deaths during the 2026 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.07 · The 2026 Ebola outbreak is hampered by the lack of a vaccine against the relevant species of the virus, heightening the need for rapid tests to aid in disease control.
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.42 · There have been close to 40 Ebola outbreaks since 1976
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Three Ebola species are responsible for most large outbreaks of the disease, yet the only approved Ebola vaccine is known to work against just one of them.
- 0.50 · longform · keep 0.38 · See how Ebola tore through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in 2014-2016.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.05 · The 2026 Ebola outbreak in the DRC is spurring new Ebola vaccine development for the Bundibugyo species.
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.41 · See the evolution of Ebola vaccine and treatment development.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Cultural norms about how to handle the bodies of loved ones in communities in West Africa have hampered Ebola responses.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.10 · An Ebola vaccine was developed during the 2018 west African Ebola outbreak, but the 2026 Ebola outbreak is with a different species of the virus, not the one that the vaccine is approved to treat.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.21 · Explore what it's like inside a patient isolation unit, used in situations such as treating a patient or suspected patient with Ebola.
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.14 · Marburg virus, related to Ebola, is also extremely deadly, and has no available vaccine.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.31 · Ebola is a filovirus, meaning it resembles a thread under a microscope, though it sometimes twists and can resemble a bowl of spaghetti.
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Bride is brought to tears after her husband secretly includes footage of himself asking her late father for hi
- 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.48 · Toddler delivers tear-jerking speech at her mom and dad's wedding
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · Why art history is filled with miserable brides
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Former NHL star Ron Duguay, best known for his stints with the New York Rangers and his relationship with 2008
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Rapper Eminem's former employee pleads guilty to copyright infringement charge for stealing and selling unrele
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.24 · How one trial tested the limits of satirical music
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.40 · The complicated use of rap lyrics as legal evidence
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"Looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular pleads not guilty to rape-related charges filed last month
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Actor Tom Skerritt, whose notable roles included Jimmy Brock in "Picket Fences" and Commander Mike "Viper" Met
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John Anderson, who joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2024, dies at age 71
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Physicists trap single antimatter particle for months, potentially allowing for more precise measurements of t
- 0.60 · curiosity · keep 0.09 · In 2026, researchers successfully transported antimatter in a truck using a portable trap that employed electromagnetic fields to hold 92 antiprotons.
- 0.56 · curiosity · keep 0.41 · At CERN's Antimatter Factory, researchers create and guide antiprotons and antielectrons together to form antihydrogen, and all these antiparticles are analyzed to help scientists study the behavior of antimatter.
- 0.56 · curiosity · keep 0.18 · Efforts to find Majorana particles may finally lead to reliable quantum computers
- 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.64 · By combining special relativity with quantum mechanics, antimatter was predicted four years before it was observed, though the math suggested it possessed negative energy.
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.09 · Antimatter's rarity across the cosmos is one of the biggest problems in modern physics because the high-energy environment of the early universe should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter.
- 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.24 · Antimatter was discovered by examining debris from collisions between atmospheric gases and cosmic rays—high-energy matter particles from space.
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.32 · In 1997, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory identified 'positron geysers'—fountains of antimatter particles—emerging from near the center of the Milky Way.
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.48 · While atoms are normally made of protons, neutrons, and electrons, exotic ones have been built with antimatter—alternate versions of normal matter that live for fractions of a second and are about a billion times as rare.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.47 · Antimatter particles possess the same mass and spin as their normal particle counterparts, but possess an opposite charge and transform into pure energy upon colliding with normal matter.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.13 · Particle accelerators detect subatomic particles using millions of sensors
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.09 · Within ALICE—A Large Ion Collider Experiment—at the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have created quark-gluon plasma—an exotic form of matter present in the moments after the Big Bang.
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.24 · Scientists are experimenting with ways to probe the multiverse theory
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France confirms first-ever human case of Shamonda livestock virus in severely immunocompromised individual who
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.20 · Foot-and-mouth disease, which affects animals, has been eradicated in many locations
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · The similarly named foot-and-mouth disease doesn't affect humans, unlike HFMD
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.12 · After the first gene-edited pig heart transplant patient died, a latent pig virus was discovered inside his xenotransplant.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.35 · People can—and have—contracted leprosy from armadillos
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.12 · 'Tomato flu' outbreak in India turned out to be HFMD
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.14 · Marburg virus, related to Ebola, is also extremely deadly, and has no available vaccine.
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Expert panel recommends shortlist of lunar destinations NASA should prioritize for astronaut missions to maxim
- 0.57 · explainers · keep 0.21 · The space race of the 21st century is focused on a permanent lunar outpost
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.46 · Why are we finally returning to the moon after 50 years?
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.09 · In 2024, China announced plans to establish an international lunar research station
- 0.52 · 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.
- 0.50 · experiences · keep 0.53 · NASA uses extreme Earth environments to prepare for space exploration
- 0.50 · experiences · keep 0.32 · Simulating the moon's surface in the desert
- 0.50 · experiences · keep 0.74 · Watch a documentary on what the first 10,000 days of colonizing the moon look like
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.75 · How NASA plans to build a lunar base, from roads to habitats
- 0.50 · 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.
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.21 · The Apollo program built US space technology and showcased its Cold War dominance
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · Learn about the missions comprising the Artemis program, which aim to return humanity to the moon and develop the technology for future human space exploration.
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.22 · NASA plans to build a lunar-orbiting space station to support future missions to Mars
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US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -1.2%, Dow +0.0%, Nasdaq -2.6%) as Brent crude oil prices exceed $113 pe
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Investors rely on the S&P 500 as a benchmark for the state of the economy
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Beyond oil, the Iran war has pushed up costs on fertilizer, prescriptions, and mortgages.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The S&P 500, managed by the same company, is another major stock index
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Why does the stock market matter?
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.65 · Hear Steve Ballmer explain how US gas prices are affected by the global price of oil.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.46 · The stock market, explained in 3 minutes
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Why have gas prices surged nearly 27% since the Iran war began?
- 0.42 · 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
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · The US exported more crude oil and petroleum products than it imported in 2025
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · How crude oil is split across oil markets based on geographic origin
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Moderna shares sink 17.6% following a premature leak of trial data for its personalized cancer vaccine; while
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.47 · mRNA vaccines alter immune response, not DNA, to combat diseases like cancer.
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.19 · The business models behind vaccines
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.10 · At a 2026 cancer conference, news that a novel pancreatic cancer drug doubled survival times in clinical trials led to a standing ovation.
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Elon Musk reportedly invests roughly $1B in Skydance, the entertainment company that resulted from Paramount a
- 0.48 · 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.
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.26 · Read a timeline of all of Elon Musk's business ventures, from the software company Zip2 in the 1990s to Musk's Twitter acquisition.
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · Elon Musk's $100M investment in SpaceX was lost to three failed rocket launches
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Elon Musk reshaped Twitter into X with bold moves and polarizing decisions
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.20 · Overcoming industry skeptics, SpaceX provides low-cost, high-publicity spaceflights
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.21 · See Bloomberg's continuously updated Billionaire Index
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.76 · How to visualize the enormous wealth of Elon Musk
- 0.43 · 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.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.12 · Silicon Valley's reign over tech, money, and politics
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.48 · The world's 50 most valuable private companies
- 0.43 · 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.
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · See how SpaceX compares to history's other largest IPOs.
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Federal officials charge 82-year-old Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D) and family members over alleged c
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President Donald Trump must sit for deposition in his $10B lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11, federal judge s
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France bans some protests across multiple cities after days of riots, looting
- 0.50 · explainers · keep nan · French students blockaded schools to demand repairs and more teachers, just as France's borrowing costs hit a 24-year high.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.41 · In 1910, riots swept Champagne over unfairness in the winemaking industry
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.42 · Check out information on the over 1,000 protests across the globe since 2017.
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Airbnb cracks down on hosts putting guests to work.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Find out what it's like to work in the gig economy
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.16 · Some tourist hot spots, including Barcelona and Mexico City, are shunning tourists.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Former New Yorker editor Tina Brown coined the term “gig economy” in 2009
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Why anxiety can feel worse at night, and what to do about it.
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Anxiety can arise at any stage of life and make someone feel unsafe in their mind and body.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.53 · Menopause can exacerbate anxiety
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Stress and anxiety may lead to similar symptoms, but stress is a response to external triggers, while anxiety is persistent, and its symptoms won't disappear once an immediate stressor is gone.
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Heart attacks are less harmful at night
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.42 · Anxiety is one of the world's most common mental health disorders, causing persistent excessive fear and worry that interferes with daily activities.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.41 · The side effects of falling back and springing forward
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.75 · Nightmares are unpredictable, but are linked to stress, anxiety, trauma, and more.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.64 · Obsessing over sleep metrics leads to worse sleep quality
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Explore a series of bedtime exercises to improve sleep
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Circadian rhythm disruption can influence various mental health disorders, including schizophrenia, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.55 · The 10 top tips a psychotherapist offers her patients with anxiety include "you will not die from anxiety" and "anxiety is just trying to protect you."
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.33 · Temperature and certain medications can also affect your circadian rhythms
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Researchers determine when Vincent van Gogh painted "Starry Night."
- 0.68 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · Vincent Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' accurately depicts turbulent flow
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.23 · Scientists used mass spectrometry to determine the materials in a 1690 painting
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.74 · How Van Gogh painted 'Irises' in an asylum
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.27 · Historians theorize Vincent Van Gogh suffered from Ménière's disease or epilepsy
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New literature prize awards books cowritten with AI.
- 0.57 · curiosity · keep 0.20 · Readers discovered AI prompts in several romantasy books
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.10 · The Oscars now prohibit AI-generated acting and writing
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.46 · Researchers found that by mid-2025, around 35% of newly published websites utilized AI for language generation
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.27 · Decoding the hype around AI
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.31 · Stephen Wolfram on AI's rapid progress & the "Post-Knowledge Work" era
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.14 · The growing role of AI in journalism
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.23 · In 2023, OpenAI spent $520 million on ChatGPT
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · Teaching a robot to laugh
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.50 · AI gained mainstream attention with tools like IBM Watson and Apple’s Siri
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.13 · Microsoft has integrated AI across its software products with Copilot
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.62 · OpenAI initially focused on novelty projects, like training AI bots to win video games, before becoming known for its AI chatbot ChatGPT.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · OpenAI helped kick-start an AI arms race in Silicon Valley
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Quick-thinking man saves kids stuck on runaway school bus.
- 0.49 · longform · keep 0.11 · Good Samaritans help Florida driver experiencing medical emergency
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See a creepy mechanical doll from 1871 that crawls.
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · While robots tend to become more appealing the more humanlike they appear, beyond a certain point, humans have exhibited uneasiness and fear—a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley.
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What happens to the friend stuck with the bill?
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Study finds one bad apple can ruin a social group.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.33 · Science says being a jerk doesn't pay off
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Stuck under a car? Enter: humanoid robots. (via YouTube)
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · While robots tend to become more appealing the more humanlike they appear, beyond a certain point, humans have exhibited uneasiness and fear—a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley.
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First National Women’s Rights Convention begins (1850); Comedian and "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson born (1
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