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How the Democratic party flipped the House and Senate, in 12 charts

During the 2026 midterm election, Republicans lost control of both the House and Senate.

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What’s at stake as Nebraska voters decide whether to legalize online sports betting in the midterms

Sports betting in Nebraska can support its property tax fund—or leave Nebraskans with empty wallets.

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Billionaire Sergey Brin is building political infrastructure that will last beyond his $102 million fight against Prop 40

Building a Better California is spending on more than just the wealth tax.

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Waymo’s backers valued it at $126 billion. The Alphabet division that houses it brought in $372 million last quarter—and lost $2.05 billion

Other Bets lost $5.50 for every $1 of revenue in Q3 2026.

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Trump slammed Biden-Harris for the ‘war on energy’ during his 2024 campaign. Now he’s rolling back Biden-era regulations as gas sits above $4 a gallon

A new Trump EPA push would spread the savings out to 2050. Trump says he's "putting American energy back in the hands of the American workers."

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Mark Cuban says owning the Mavericks went from being about basketball to ‘about valuations’ and created ‘more stress’—it still made him $4.3 billion

How Cuban made the NBA’s ‘worst’ franchise a champion—and then why he left.

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Airlines are trading nearly 23% higher ticket prices for emptier planes as jet fuel prices spike over 90% from the Iran War’s fuel squeeze

Jet fuel has nearly doubled in price since February—leaving airlines scrambling to make up the difference.

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‘Nobody prepared them’: The ultrawealthy worry wealth will dull their heirs’ ‘drive and desire’ and so some aren’t telling them how much there is

A Bank of America study found 61% of ultra-high-net-worth individuals are concerned about their children’s motivation.

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Google told to halt work on Finnish data centers after clearing an estimated 250,000 trees before environmental review was done

Finland welcomed Google’s biggest European bet. Now its own regulator says the company jumped the gun.

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The AI boom is nearly $5 trillion short of paying for itself, Gartner says

Data centers need to generate a cumulative $8.5 trillion in revenue through 2030. Gartner says no more than $3.6 trillion will flow back.

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Lakers, Clippers, Man City: why do so many sports owners have money on both sides of a situation?

Related-party deals are legal and everywhere in sports. A string of 2026 cases highlights their increasing centrality in ownership.

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‘You don’t want rogue agents’: Jamie Dimon bars outside AI agents like Meta’s Muse from JPMorgan accounts

Recent rogue AI agent incidents have raised concerns about letting agents manage your finances.

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‘I may be crazy enough to try one more time’: Lindsey Vonn isn’t ruling out a comeback after eight surgeries and two months in a wheelchair

“From a sporting perspective, I mean, there is still a small chance,” the 41-year-old Olympian said after more than a dozen injuries.

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Travis Kelce joined an activist group pushing Six Flags to consider a sale. The ‘Final Destination’-style death of a patron poured gas on the fire

The NFL star teamed up with activist hedge fund Jana Partners and other investors last October to acquire a roughly 9% stake in Six Flags.

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Gen Z is on track to become the richest generation, but risks getting caught in a ‘cycle that is easy to fall into and hard to break alone’

Gen Z isn’t just racking up credit card debt, they are also carrying shame.

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‘Everybody knows you’re out of touch’: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his own exec told him to stop hyping Foundry

Karp told a room of CEOs that his best ideas are the ones his team says can't work, and that VCs once asked him: "Where's the parasite?"

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Trump keeps changing who gets his $5,000 dividend, and only 21% of voters believe he’ll actually pay it

Who is getting the cash: all U.S. citizens or only American adults?

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Meet the two cofounders who went on a 10-month-long trip before starting their $350 million business—they say you should too

They trekked through China, Colombia, and the Philippines—and it made their bond stronger.

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Taxpayers are still paying $1.6 million a week to keep 420 radio staffers out of work

The United States Agency for Global Media can’t document 99% of the gear from Voice of America that it dumped in 2025.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has emerged as the biggest foil to AI doomerism about the existential risk to humanity

The AI chipmaking giant is stepping in to prevent further AI agent breaches.

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Forget supersized: McDonald’s is exploring an $8.5 billion bet on an American fast food wave led by proteinmaxxing, portion control, and GLP-1s

Even fast food giants have to change with the times as GLP-1s and protein become the new normal.

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In the affordability crisis, 37% of parents are counting on financial help from the Bank of Baby Boomers and can’t wait for the Great Wealth Transfer

The cost of childcare has led many families to turn to their parents before the Great Wealth Transfer.

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‘It’s so corrosive to democracy’: Over 50 federal prosecutors speak out against Trump’s $100,000 a month ‘insider trading’ scheme

"We're in an environment where we all want to be looking to the founders, right?"

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Meta plans to spend $145 billion this year, more than every military budget except the U.S., China and Russia

The $145 billion is roughly a 101% markup from the company’s capex from 2025.

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The 10-year Treasury yield just hit 5% for the first time since 2007 — is a 1970s-style ‘stagflation’ on the return?

From the pandemic to the war in Iran, the bond market has been on quite a ride to the 5% benchmark.

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‘They must be doing it for ulterior reasons’: Jensen Huang says AI leaders are ‘irresponsible’ for scaring the public with ‘doomsday narratives’

The Nvidia CEO says “there is a 0% chance” of AI doomsday—and the AI pioneers may have their own motives for pushing AI slowdown.

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Even in the era of NIL, college sports are stacked against student athletes—now lack of transparency is holding them back from a ‘fair market’

Without collective bargaining agreements like in pro sports, college athletes are left to navigate NIL blindly.

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Snap is betting $3.5 billion on AR glasses that businesses can use as CEO Evan Spiegel sees a post-smartphone era

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the era of the smartphone is coming to an end—with smart glasses being the future.

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Data centers are swapping water for forever chemicals to keep AI cool

A new ChemSec report finds most of the world's largest PFAS producers are expanding output to meet demand from AI data centers.

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Shrinkflation is coming for pro sports: The cost of watching the NFL jumped 28.6%—and attending a game 72%—since 2015

To watch all the football action this season, you will need to open your wallet more—for less.

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Trump is freeing Irish whiskey from tariffs while tightening the screws on Canadian booze

Trump cut Ireland a parting gift—after the country allowed its golf tournament to be hosted at the U.S. president’s resort.

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‘Combine your passion with an investment strategy’: Meet the venture capital using 500,000 Pokémon and trading cards as a hedge against a debt crisis

Peter Levin thinks collectibles and trading cards are here to stay in the alternative asset market.

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Students are using AI in school and test scores are down, but the OECD finds that those who use it once or twice a week perform similarly to nonusers

But using AI almost everyday can create a negative feedback loop.

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It’s not just food: The plastic packaging your food comes in may carry cancer-linked chemicals, and most go untested

The government is replacing harmful chemicals in your food packaging—but they may be unknowingly making it worse.

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Meet the data center capital of Europe as Google joins Microsoft and TikTok in betting over $30.2 billion on Finland

Major “hyperscalers” are making their way across the pond to build foundations in Europe’s newest data center host.

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Men are larp-ing as NFL players to score dates and cash—one made $1.3 million before the FBI arrested him

False professional sports stories have become a new scamming model in the age of larp-ing culture.

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‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit

The tech giant faces a new privacy lawsuit weeks after agreeing to the largest child-safety settlement of its kind.

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As wildfires and floods batter national parks, a developer says it’s negotiating for a piece of Yosemite

The national park will trade roughly 700 feet of its land for less than two acres, according to the developer involved.

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Clippers fined $30 million as owner Steve Ballmer is suspended for a year following NBA investigation on behind-the-curtain deal

A near-year-long investigation has amounted to a heavy blow to the LA franchise and its owner for an alleged circumvention of league rules.

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San Francisco Democrats break with their party over the billionaire tax—and reveal how deeply Prop 40 has split the left

The billionaire tax vote looms in November—and Democrats in California can’t agree on endorsing it.

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Sony and Warner Music sue Anthropic over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs, including ‘I Am the Walrus’ and ‘Hallelujah’

The music publishers are seeking up to $150,000 per pirated song—and $25,000 for each removed copyright information.

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College sports and ‘amateurism’ become the new ‘professional’ as an NFL player fights to return to school

Pros going back to amateur sports? It’s not amateur in the first place, according to a sports historian.

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The $40 trillion national debt is growing while Social Security goes broke—because wealthy Boomers are collecting over $100k in benefits per year

Boomers are getting 265% returns from Social Security—and the “great wealth transfer” won’t save Gen Z.

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SpaceX says it’s building its largest spaceport yet, committing $100 billion for a Louisiana site—adding to its list of billion-dollar expansion plans

Louisiana is getting a taste of Musk’s big ideas as they get a part of the CEO’s billions-of-dollar-plans to bring humanity to space.

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A major German bank just let Claude and ChatGPT trade for customers. In one test, Claude beat human traders 76% of the time—but there’s a catch

Scalable Capital is rolling out an AI assistant program that lets users make trades, analyze portfolios, and set up savings plans with just a few...

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Meta’s $17.1 billion settlement will be over 12-times larger than the second largest big tech privacy settlement in the past four years

The settlement is just 1.17% of Meta’s $1.46 trillion market cap.

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‘This is obviously a very, very lucrative business for them’: Somali pirates are back—the Iran war is keeping the US too busy to stop them

Brett Erickson, a managing principal at Obsidian Risk Advisors, says Somali pirates have a lower risk of American retaliation because of resources in...

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FTC moves to make retailers disclose use of ‘personalized pricing’ as technology now enables broad consumer surveillance

The proposal would warn companies that failing to disclose that they are using personal data to set prices could violate the FTC Act’s prohibition...

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Mark Walter’s sports empire offers a glimpse of the money machine behind private credit—and the plumbing keeping it together

Where did the money come from for Walter to buy the Dodgers, Lakers and Chelsea FC? And what does it have to do with insurance?

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Membership into Miami’s most exclusive club is something money can’t buy—and Jeff Bezos is among those standing outside, looking in

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has three properties on Indian Creek, but he still doesn’t have a membership into the island’s country club.

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