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Palantir posts a $1 billion quarter, the Senate advances a stopgap funding bill, and a notorious feral tabby is finally caught after three years.
Politics & World
Authorities arrested an arson suspect over the largest Spokane-area fire as displacement estimates rose to roughly 65,000 and cooler weather offered firefighters a first break.
Politics & World
Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia and Washington hold primaries Tuesday, led by Michigan’s…
Sources: NPR News, The Hill, Al Jazeera
Business
Palantir reported $1.1 billion in second-quarter profit on revenue of $1.9 billion, up 93% from a…
Sources: TechCrunch, Yahoo Markets
How long Nine Lives, a notoriously ‘erratic’ feral tabby, eluded trappers in New Zealand before finally being caught. In that time, the single cat wiped out dozens of rare brown teal ducks — a lopsided toll of one predator versus an entire endangered population.
Source: The Guardian
How the data center building boom is upending local politics and alliances across America.
Wired · Molly Taft
How Google built a $200 billion Wall Street finance machine to fund Anthropic’s rise. (Read, paywall)
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A researcher’s 50-year hunt for the biological source of chronic pain.
Aeon · Stephani Sutherland
Ariana Grande will step back from public visibility once her tour concludes, having exited the stage revival of Sunday in the Park With George.
Lego launches its detailed minifigure-scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope, bringing the orbiting observatory to desktops.
Larry Berg takes over from Don Garber as MLS commissioner next year, becoming just the third commissioner in league history.
Mauricio Pochettino leads the U.S. men’s national team toward the 2030 World Cup under his newly extended four-year contract.
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