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Aug 13, 2026
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3 min read
Plus: a golf-club manager's $14.7M Reflecting Pool disaster, a bomb plot in Poland that may have been Ukrainian, and a $533M artillery factory that made nothing.
Politics & Power
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Aug 12, 2026
Plus: Mexico's narco-slavery camps, the silence where the aliens should be, and why you're left-handed.
Science & Health
Aug 11, 2026
2 min read
Plus: torture testimony from inside a Russian prison, the sons who spent months digging through Ground Zero rubble, and what QVC taught two roommates about friendship.
Culture
Aug 10, 2026
Plus: a family evicted during a Las Vegas heat wave, the tangled history of psychedelic toads, and the diehards keeping Esperanto alive.
Human Interest
