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A man fell from a Kenya Airways flight into a London garden. He still has no name.

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

A man fell from a Kenya Airways flight into a London garden. He still has no name.

Plus: a teen's Epstein files find that got his school sued, a writer's sibling therapy with his brother, and monarch butterflies' surprising comeback.

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Jul 28, 2026

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2 min read

Glenn Burke: Who Really Invented the High Five

Plus: a phone sex operator on the sexual psychology of the right, the couple who saved China's oldest temples, and the biologist who traded God for a wolverine.

Culture

Jul 27, 2026

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2 min read

Guards watched his cell burn. Then they held the ambulance 28 minutes.

Plus: Meta's secret $50 billion Louisiana deal, Myanmar's rare earth mines, and a baseball diamond behind barbed wire.

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Jul 23, 2026

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2 min read

He drowned three children. His foster sister still keeps his watch.

Plus: the family a wrongful conviction left behind, a driver jailed 550 days over boxes he never opened, and a Hill Country ride on folding bikes.

Culture

Today’s Edition

A man fell from a Kenya Airways flight into a London garden. He still has no name.

Recent

Glenn Burke: Who Really Invented the High Five

Guards watched his cell burn. Then they held the ambulance 28 minutes.

He drowned three children. His foster sister still keeps his watch.

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