The Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Edition
U.S. Blockades Iran, Apple Sues OpenAI, and a Maya Astronomer Gets a Name
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$19 million
The starting bid for 'Gus,' a T. rex fossil heading to auction — a price that would make it the most expensive dinosaur ever sold. But scientists worry a private buyer could put the specimen permanently beyond the reach of research.
Source: Smithsonian
This week: Argentina and England renew their longtime rivalry in the second World Cup semifinal, following the France-Spain opener; only the winners advance to the final.
Coming months: Big Boy No. 4014, the 1.2-million-pound steam locomotive that logged over a million miles before retiring in 1961, continues its national tour honoring America's 250th birthday.
This year's festival: The Venice Film Festival will present Ellen Burstyn a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the premiere of a Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed short about Marilyn Monroe.
- 1789Parisian revolutionaries storm the Bastille, igniting the French Revolution
- 1881Outlaw Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico
- 1965NASA's Mariner 4 flies past Mars, returning the first close-up images of another planet
- 2015New Horizons completes its historic flyby of Pluto, three billion miles from Earth
Inside RFK Jr.'s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is moving to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy from inside the health department.
Reuters · Yasmeen Abutaleb, Dan Levine, Bo Erickson
A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela
Why survivors of Venezuela's earthquake are directing their fury at the rubble of a flagship revolutionary housing project.
The Guardian · Tom Phillips
The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
How a 1960s chatbot named ELIZA foretold why people now share their secrets with ChatGPT.
Wired · Sarah Ciston et al.
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