The wire that reads itself back
A new federal savings program seeds tax-advantaged investment accounts for young U.S. children with a one-time $1,000 government contribution, drawing both corporate backing and criticism over how much it helps low-income families.
Peru's electoral authority certified the conservative candidate as president-elect nearly a month after a June runoff decided by about 50,000 votes, sending her to office in her fourth bid for the presidency.
The island nation of roughly half a million people, the smallest ever to reach the World Cup knockout stage, pushed the reigning champions to the brink before losing 3-2 in extra time.
“Previous administrations spent 'hundreds of millions of dollars' — 'way over $100 million' under Obama — trying and failing to fix the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.” — President Donald Trump, June 2026
In a video address to his home country, the first US-born pope told Americans that the nation's openness to migrants had made it a 'byword for freedom' — remarks The Guardian described as an implicit rebuke of President Trump's immigration policies.
A trial announced by the World Health Organization will test the monoclonal antibody MBP134 and the antiviral remdesivir against a Bundibugyo strain of Ebola that has no approved vaccine or treatment and has killed at least 438 people.
George Stana and Nandito Badea received a combined 20 years for the 2024 knife attack on Iran International presenter Pouria Zeraati, which a Woolwich Crown Court judge concluded was carried out on behalf of the Iranian state.
Anastasiia Berezovska, 39, is wanted over a parcel bombing that wounded a sanctioned Ukrainian-born tycoon, his partner and son, and two bystanders in Monaco. A prosecutor said the person who planted the device likely did not act alone.
A commercial spacecraft called LINK is set to rendezvous with the aging Swift observatory and raise its decaying orbit, in what NASA calls a first-of-its-kind rescue. A rocket problem scrubbed the July 2 launch attempt.
A University of Minnesota team reports assembling a synthetic, cell-like system from non-living chemical parts that can grow, copy its DNA and divide under laboratory conditions. The work, posted as a preprint, has not been peer-reviewed, and researchers stress it is not a living organism and is not yet self-sustaining.
The Dow rose more than 1% to a record close as the U.S. added 57,000 jobs in June, below forecasts, while a second day of semiconductor losses weighed on the Nasdaq.
After weighing a Kalshi takeover, Meta is developing an app code-named Arena. Its use of 'play money' keeps it outside the CFTC's jurisdiction for now, a legal expert told NPR, as it eyes a market featuring Polymarket and Kalshi.
An improvised device planted under a table near the Palace of Justice killed at least nine people and wounded 22, according to Al Jazeera, the latest attack to hit Damascus since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
The president said the transatlantic relationship is 'not reciprocal' in a Truth Social post, days before NATO's 32 members meet in Ankara with defence spending and Ukraine on the agenda.
Seven days of ceremonies open in Tehran for the supreme leader killed in a February air strike, in Iran's first change of supreme leader since 1989.
Grid operators expect near-record electricity use this week. Behind the seasonal spike is a longer-run pressure: data centers powering the AI boom are reshaping how much power the grid must supply.
Career reviewers say there isn't good evidence that popular peptides such as BPC-157 are safe or effective. A July advisory panel — which includes industry-linked members — will weigh whether to ease restrictions.
About a third of US adults use AI for health information, rivaling social media, a KFF survey found. Frequent users were more likely to believe false vaccine claims — though the poll shows correlation, not cause.