A curated selection of news and stories for your midday escape.

We’ve all been there: you’ve got 20 minutes, a fork in one hand, and your phone in the other ready to scroll something while you eat. But instead of getting pulled into another doomscroll or ad-stuffed feed, why not read something that actually feeds your brain?

That’s the idea behind Lunch Break Reads: a curated newsletter of short, excellent stories sent daily. No fluff. No paywalls. Just the internet’s most interesting writing, selected for your lunch break.

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Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs by Shannon Pettypiece (NBC News)

The night Jeffrey Epstein claimed his cellmate tried to kill him by Dan Ruetenik, Cara Tabachnick, and Graham Kates (CBS News)

Tiger kills Oklahoma trainer linked to ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic by Susannah Cullinane (CNN)

Super typhoon hits Philippines as thousands evacuate by Kelly Ng (BBC)

Celeste Rivas went missing a year ago. Her decomposing body was found in singer D4vd’s Tesla by Nathan Solis and Richard Winton (LA Times)

The H-2A Visa Trap by Max Blau and Zaydee Sanchez (ProPublica)

Cracking the Family Codes by Jeremy B. Jones (Long Reads)

‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang by Jason Burke (The Guardian)

Harry Styles runs Berlin Marathon, finishes in under 3 hours by Shafiq Najib (ABC News)

Ancient spear-throwing tool brings fun and history to Vermont competition by Amanda Swinhart and Patrick Whittle

Only 10% of Earthquake Energy Shakes the Ground. Here’s What the Rest Does. by Luis Prada (Vice)

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