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‘What happens if we do die?’: Congress still stalled on continuity plan after 9/11

Brian Baird has spent a lot of time thinking about death over the last 25 years. Not just his own, but also his former House colleagues’. Making his way through the Longworth House Office Building on 9/11 and urging people to evacuate after seeing smoke rising from the Pentagon out…

Roll Call

Welcome to the 'upper-middle-class trap': why $300,000 a year doesn't feel like winning anymore

Investopedia put a $5 million price tag on the American Dream, but Nick Maggiulli says six-figure earners are more financially fragile than they look.

Fortune

Israeli airstrike destroys Gaza warehouse storing vital humanitarian aid

AN ISRAELI airstrike has destroyed a warehouse in Gaza, burying vital aid for malnourished children and pregnant women under rubble ...

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Nearly a quarter of the nation’s children are chronically absent from school in ‘ominous’ trend: researchers

Absenteeism is down since peaking during pandemic, but districts across the country are still struggling

The Independent UK

Beyond the Panic: Study Finds That Most Teens Use Social Media Moderately

A new survey finds most teens use social media moderately, though class divides persist.

Reason

More non-college-educated men are living at home and falling out of the labor market, thanks to rising rents and forcing a decline in marriages

“Very real economic forces” are “limiting the options for non-college-educated men,” said Gabrielle Penrose of the American Institute for Boys and Men.

Fortune

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

A new report found that 82 percent of Americans want the benefits of free markets taught in high school.

Reason

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Nobody's socializing with their neighbors anymore

Americans are staying home more, but connecting with neighbors less as digital life grows.

Axios

Don’t Call It Upward Mobility If People Still Can’t Afford to Live

A living wage analyst challenges rosy claims about rising standard of living, and shows that for millions of Americans, their pay doesn’t cover the basics.

Capital & Main

CIA Officers Killed In Mexico: President Sheinbaum 'Not Informed' Of Covert Drug Mission

Two CIA officers working from the US embassy in Mexico were killed alongside two Mexican officials when their car plunged into a ravine after a counter‑narcotics mission in Chihuahua.

International Business Times UK

The housing affordability crisis isn’t just crushing millennials—it’s squeezing out buyers in their 50s and older, too

“When purchasing power declines, fewer people buy homes at 28—but also fewer purchase at 38 or 48,” writes Housing Center codirector Ed Pinto.

Fortune

US embassy workers killed in Chihuahua, Mexican president says she had no idea what they were doing

After two US officials were killed in a crash in Chihuahua, the largest state in Mexico, president Claudia Sheinbaum said she had no idea what operation they were involved in as she was not informed. According to reports, it was a covert operation in northern Chihuahua to destroy a clandestine…

The Times of India

Two U.S. Embassy Staffers Die in Chihuahua Returning From Drug Lab Raid in Mexico

Two U.S. Embassy instructors and two Mexican state investigators were killed early Sunday in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua after returning from an operation targeting clandestine drug laboratories.

Latin Times

'We should absolutely be concerned about non-college-educated men today': higher rents, living at home, falling out of the labor market

“Very real economic forces” are “limiting the options for noncollege-educated men,” said Gabrielle Penrose of the American Institute for Boys and Men.

Fortune

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‘I am certain’: Harvard policy expert warns the true cost of the Iran war to U.S. taxpayers will exceed $1 trillion

Linda Bilmes, along with economist Joseph Stiglitz, previously calculated the true cost of the 2003 Iraq war was at least fourfold greater than initially projected.

Fortune

Turns out the American middle class didn't die. It got richer—and felt poorer

Since 1979, the American Enterprise Institute calculated, the ranks of the upper middle class, earning $133,000 to $400,000, more than tripled.

Fortune

The 'affordability economy' has created a housing market nobody predicted: Prices collapsing in the Sun Belt, soaring in the Rust Belt

Las Vegas, Austin, and Miami are now leading a national price downturn, while metros like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee are finally having their moment.

TechRadar

'AI can be relentless in a way that a human is not': With too few experts to go around, this startup is chasing a Matrix-style idea of “copying and pasting” expertise

With too few human experts, this AI startup is chasing a Matrix-style idea of “copying and pasting” expertise.

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The Conversation

When rights exist on paper but not in practice: how bureaucracy blocks access to welfare across Europe

In Europe, national and regional parliaments widely recognise citizens’ entitlement to protection in areas like housing, fuel and access to health and social care. But across the continent, growing numbers of people entitled to social benefits never actually receive them.

Radio France Internationale

Mali faces record number of kidnappings of foreigners by jihadist group

The number of foreigners kidnapped by jihadists in Mali has reached a record high, with at least 22 taken hostage by the al-Qaeda affiliate group JNIM in the last six months, as part of its strategy to undermine the ruling junta.

Radio France Internationale

Chinese firms pay price of jihadist strikes against Mali junta

Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta.

International Business Times

Chinese Firms Pay Price Of Jihadist Strikes Against Mali Junta

Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta.

Fortune

Trump says tariffs are going to be enough to pay down national debt. They likely won’t even touch the sides

In exclusive interviews with Fortune, Wharton professor Joao Gomes and AEI’s Desmond Lachman warned that while tariffs may slow debt growth, they won’t meaningfully reduce it.

Fortune

For the first time in decades, the U.S. will likely experience negative net migration, shrinking the U.S. workforce—and economic growth by extension

Trump’s mass deportation campaign could slash GDP growth by up to 0.4% in 2025 in a “startling” blow to the labor force, economists warn

Reason

Chronic Absenteeism Hasn't Gone Away After Lockdowns. Research Shows Poor Kids Are Hurt Most.

"The income gap really was the main driver that showed up over and over again," said one researcher.

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