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Oil prices remain highly volatile

Brent crude rose 2.7% to $90.87 a barrel on Monday after swinging between $72 and $102 the previous month.

Allies are being pulled into tensions

Japan called security cooperation with the United States and South Korea critical after Trump announced scaled-back drills with Seoul and criticized it for not helping fight Iran.

The military strain is growing

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been deployed for nine months, longer than the typical six-month deployment, amid family concerns about sailors' mental health, food, and sanitation.

Most drones were intercepted

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses stopped 791 drones across several regions, Crimea and nearby seas, though three people were injured in the Moscow region.

The strike hit civilian sites

The missile attack on Pechenihy damaged homes, a cafe, a post office, a store and at least seven vehicles, according to Ukrainian officials.

Ukraine builds its own reach

Over the past year, Ukraine has developed domestically made long-range drones that can strike deep inside Russia and have drawn attention from foreign governments and defense companies.

Damage reaches essential services

The earthquake damaged at least 4,500 homes, 122 health facilities, 252 schools and 84 places of worship.

The quake struck shallow

The earthquake occurred about 10 kilometers below the surface, and tsunami warnings were issued before being lifted.

Support targets children’s fears

In one village, 17 children joined counselors for games, educational activities and group sessions aimed at easing anxiety.

Long-term borrowing gets costlier

The 30-year yield reflects the interest rate investors seek for lending money over a long period, so a higher yield signals more expensive long-term borrowing.

Bond prices and yields move oppositely

When investors sell existing bonds, their prices fall and their yields rise, helping explain how a bond sell-off produces higher yields.

Debt supply can pressure markets

When governments issue more debt, investors may demand higher yields to absorb the additional bonds, especially when inflation is already a concern.

Sales beat analyst expectations

Adjusted earnings were $4.92 per share versus $4.73 expected, while revenue reached $47.86 billion compared with the $47.27 billion forecast.

Comparable sales hit a milestone

Comparable sales rose 1.7%, the retailer’s strongest result since the fiscal third quarter of 2022 and above the 0.9% expected by analysts.

Costs remain partly offset

Home Depot expects 2026 sales growth of 2.5% to 4.5%, with tariff refunds expected to partly offset higher fuel, energy and product costs.

Canada relies heavily on America

Nearly 72% of Canadian goods exported last year went to the United States, making the dispute especially important for Canada's economy.

Importers pay the tariff first

The charge is collected from U.S. companies bringing goods across the border, which may then pass the added cost on to shoppers through higher prices.

The legal tool is unusual

Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act allows tariffs of up to 50% without an investigation and does not set a time limit for keeping them in place.

Legal categories can change outcomes

AI may confuse a tax credit, tax deduction, tax exclusion or grant, even though each one works differently under the law.

Definitions can leave people out

If a draft treats “state” as only the 50 states, a federal program could accidentally exclude Washington, DC and tribal nations.

The new tool flags uncertainty

The office’s Comparative Print Suite returns an error when it cannot identify where a proposal should change existing law, rather than inventing an answer.

Age estimates trigger protections

The teen settings apply when users identify themselves as 13 to 17 or when OpenAI's system estimates that they are under 18.

Parents get limited controls

Parents can set quiet hours and receive notifications when the system flags a possible safety risk.

Study tools aim to prevent shortcuts

A homework reminder can redirect teens who appear to be bypassing an assignment toward ChatGPT's study mode, with optional study hours turning it on automatically.

Phones require more preparation

Google had to install testing equipment, tooling machines and new production processes in Vietnam before making Pixel phones there from scratch.

Google has fewer China ties

Moving production may be simpler for Google than for Apple because Google does not officially sell Pixel devices in China and has a relatively small local user base.

Supply plans are also changing

Google reportedly expects shipments to rise from 12 million units in 2025 and is combining memory-chip orders for Pixel phones with purchases for its cloud business to manage costs.

Medical exemptions stayed steady

Only 0.2% of kindergartners had health-based exemptions, while most exemptions were for personal or religious reasons.

Coverage fell below the target

Only 92% of kindergartners were recorded as protected against DTaP and 92.4% against MMR, below the roughly 95% experts say is needed to prevent measles outbreaks.

Unvaccinated people drove cases

Ninety-three percent of people diagnosed with measles this year were unvaccinated, even though two MMR doses provide about 97% protection, usually for life.

Her chats stayed hidden

A friend found nearly 1,800 pages of conversations months after Rottenberg’s death, while her family and in-person therapist had not understood the depth of her suicidal thoughts.

Use is already widespread

Surveys cited in the article found that 3 in 10 adults use digital mental-health tools, while a separate study found use among as many as 1 in 5 teens and young adults.

Warnings may not trigger care

ChatGPT recommended the 988 lifeline to Rottenberg, but experts say a suggestion alone does not connect someone with a trained professional who can assess immediate suicide risk.

Starting early improves protection

Treatment worked best when begun within the first two weeks of entering HIV care, although it remained effective when started within eight weeks.

Most treatment lasted six months

The programs mainly used six months of isoniazid, while newer options in the United States can sometimes be completed in one or three months.

Funding cuts could reverse gains

More than 13 million people with HIV have received preventive treatment since 2018, but reduced support for TB programs is projected to cause over half a million additional TB deaths.

Older bodies face extra risks

Older people often sweat less and may have weaker hearts or existing medical conditions, making the same heat more dangerous for them than for young, healthy adults.

Three degrees brings prolonged danger

At 3°C of warming, older people in regions such as South Asia and the Gulf could face dangerous heat day and night for three straight months each year.

Cooling could prevent deaths

Because most heat deaths happen indoors, the researchers say wider access to air conditioning and other cooling facilities should be central to heat plans.

Surface cooling can hide warming

When the AMOC weakens, only a thin North Atlantic surface layer cools while much of the ocean interior—including deeper Atlantic waters—warms.

Strong currents release ocean heat

A strong AMOC carries tropical heat northward, where deep-ocean mixing helps transfer that heat into the atmosphere.

Future collapse is not certain

The researchers found that a warmer world may make the AMOC more stable, allowing a climate-driven weakening to recover rather than become irreversible.

Rules differ across borders

Different jurisdictions regulate AI, organisms, and biological compounds differently, making it harder for researchers to know what information they can legally share.

AI has shown real capabilities

Scientists have already demonstrated that AI can design and synthesize a new virus that does not occur in nature.

The grant's size is unclear

OpenAI committed $1 million across all 14 grants, while each recipient may also receive up to $1 million in API credits, but NTI's individual cash award was not disclosed.

Most pitches are not hit

The Yankees say only 17.2% of their pitches resulted in balls in play last season, leaving the team trying to hold fans' attention during nearly 83% of pitches.

Sound design shapes volume

The Dodgers' extreme noise is partly credited to speaker placement, including a centrally located bank aimed directly at the crowd.

Players helped drive changes

Yankees players including Anthony Rizzo, Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge gave input into adding more music, chant prompts, sound effects and DJ performances.

The inquiry widened beyond Aspiration

The 11-month investigation also examined sponsorship or business relationships involving companies such as Daktronics and Boingo Wireless.

Introductions are now the focus

Sources say the league is examining whether the Clippers’ introductions of Leonard to team sponsors violated rules, rather than claiming the team negotiated the endorsement contracts.

Possible discipline remains unclear

The NBA is considering whether the Clippers failed to supervise employees, but the specific rule and potential penalties have not been identified.

The shirts carried opposing messages

Two fans supported restricting women's sports to people assigned female at birth, while another wore a shirt supporting transgender people.

The league has no specific rule

Although the collective bargaining agreement limits the WNBA to women, it does not define participation using gender identity or sex assigned at birth.

The debate has triggered protests

Sophie Cunningham's opposition to transgender women competing in women's sports led to small rallies, and a Seattle Storm minority owner received a five-game ban after confronting fans.

Domestic numbers are unusually strong

Its $786.5 million in the U.S. and Canada ranks fourth all time, while its $71 million third weekend ranks second behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The Odyssey keeps expanding

Christopher Nolan’s film has reached $1.294 billion worldwide, including a $36.3 million opening in China where Imax generated an unusually large share of ticket sales.

Oak Street opened modestly

The End of Oak Street made $47 million worldwide against an estimated $80 million-$92 million production budget before worldwide marketing and distribution costs.

Davis is not accused of shooting

The prosecution says Davis organized the attack but did not personally pull the trigger.

The memoir is central evidence

Davis wrote in his 2019 memoir that he supplied the gun, while his defense argues the book should be treated as fiction.

Witnesses recalled the aftermath

The first day included testimony from police officers and a nearby driver, including an account that Shakur refused to identify his shooter.

Her career began in infancy

Panettiere appeared in commercials from 11 months old before moving into soap operas, television series and films.

Nashville brought major recognition

Her performance as country singer Juliette Barnes earned two Golden Globe nominations, in 2013 and 2014.

Her memoir addressed personal struggles

This Is Me: A Reckoning discussed addiction, depression and the effects they had on her relationships and family life.

The package covers decades

The employee information includes records dating back to 1986, along with about 3.4 million payroll records.

Customer behavior is included

Google is set to receive pricing models, booking patterns, flight behavior, refund histories, and records of inflight purchases and Wi-Fi sales.

It is not an airline purchase

The auction covered Spirit's data and software code rather than the airline itself, including information from finance, operations, and revenue-management systems.

The test cabin is unusually large

The A321neo trial has 44 domestic first-class recliners across 11 rows, compared with roughly 20 first-class seats on most of Delta's single-aisle planes.

Seats are selling without upgrades

Delta says it sells about 80% of the oversized cabin on average, reflecting demand from passengers willing to pay rather than rely on elite-status upgrades.

The experiment began as a workaround

Delta installed certified recliners temporarily because regulatory delays held up the planned lie-flat Delta One seats for those A321neos.

Silk production needs rare endurance

Rubelli weaver Lorita Bellocco works an 18th-century loom with 800 spools of thread, and one six-meter piece can take a year to complete.

Mantero preserves enormous archives

The silk company’s collection includes 75,000 fabric prints and 80,000 silk scarves alongside the work of more than 500 employees.

Hotels turn craft into experiences

Grand Hotel Tremezzo can arrange visits to the Rubelli factory, while Passalacqua sells Mantero scarves printed with images from the villa’s history.

Exposed roles saw sharper declines

Stanford researchers found a 16% relative employment decline since late 2022 among 22-to-25-year-olds in AI-exposed jobs, while older workers in those fields and workers in less-automatable jobs stayed stable or grew.

Remote jobs can favor experience

Employers may avoid junior workers in remote roles because training them from afar takes more effort, while remote hiring gives companies access to experienced candidates across the country.

Heavy AI users still hired

A study of more than 21,000 U.S. firms found that companies making the biggest AI investments increased entry-level head count by 12% over the two years after adopting the tools.

AI use has two sides

Among teen AI users, 77% use it for support such as brainstorming or feedback, but 63% also go straight to it for answers.

Blocking tools has limits

Of students who had an AI tool blocked on a school device or network, 59% said they switched to a personal device with less oversight.

Teacher guidance remains uncommon

Fewer than one in three teens say a teacher has discussed safe AI use with them, and only one in four have discussed checking whether AI information is accurate.

The program serves many institutions

Nearly 25,000 districts, schools, library groups and other entities received $13.2 billion in total E-rate funding between 2021 and 2025, with most going to districts.

Funding does not cover everything

E-rate advocates say the program pays for eligible internet services and equipment, not student devices, educational content or curriculum.

Parents could gain an opt-out

The FCC is asking whether schools should receive E-rate support only if parents get a meaningful chance to opt their children out of screen-based instruction or screen use during the school day.

Markets cover several fire outcomes

Polymarket users could bet on when and where a fire would spread, as well as when it would be contained or extinguished.

A new wildfire market launched

High Country News reported that Wyldfyre began operating in June as a prediction market focused specifically on wildfires.

Officials fear insider trading

The senators’ letter warned that people with information about firefighting or fire conditions could potentially use it to gain an unfair advantage.

Trade spans independent roasters

Trade partners with more than 50 roasters and offers curated deliveries every 7, 10, or 14 days.

Podium targets unusual coffees

Podium Platinum sends coffees that placed in major US competitions, with an emphasis on unusual varietals, processing methods, or flavor profiles.

Orders can fit routines

The tested Trade setup delivered one 12-ounce bag every two weeks, while single-variety plans offer one to four deliveries per month.

Original wording stands out

Vivid descriptions, metaphors, and concrete details were seen as signs of originality, intelligence, and humor.

Stories invite empathy

Describing yourself doing or reacting to something helps readers picture your perspective more clearly than simply listing traits.

Specific openness matters

A profile should offer enough personal information to build trust while also making clear that you want to hear another person’s story.