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Sonia Exelby's Death: Inside a Paid-For Murder Plot

Jul 30, 2026

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2 min read

Sonia Exelby's Death: Inside a Paid-For Murder Plot

Plus: why kids can't quit Roblox, the hunt for a master counterfeiter, and a cabin build gone wrong.

Adventure

Recent

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.

Environment

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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Today’s Edition

Sonia Exelby's Death: Inside a Paid-For Murder Plot

Recent

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

Glenn Burke: Who Really Invented the High Five

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

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