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May 1, 2026
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8 min read
Plus: the refugee who drowned swimming the English Channel, the stone skipper with 88 world-record hops, and why Ethiopian runners ignore GPS watches.
Human Interest
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Apr 30, 2026
6 min read
Plus: how far Trump can go to nationalize AI companies, what artificial wombs can actually do, and the GrapheneOS founder who burned his own code.
Politics & Power
+3
Apr 29, 2026
Plus: a life sentence for an unloaded-gun robbery, Shteyngart's miserable week on the world's biggest cruise ship, and the myth of Man the Hunter.
Culture
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Apr 28, 2026
Plus: a fake rehab's forced labor scheme, a Manhattan con artist who rented one apartment to 45 people, and the Saints emails that shook New Orleans.
Investigative
Plus: questions about a nonspeaking autistic author's novel, Telegram groups sharing assault techniques, and a 3D-printed housing scam in Illinois.
Plus: what losing childhood vaccines could cost us, the Marshall Islands' first-ever soccer team, and how Silicon Valley went from idealist to oligarch.
Plus: a bacteria creeping up the East Coast, India's most powerful jailed gangster, and why wolves belong in a healthy ecosystem.
Plus: mysterious "little red dots" baffling JWST astronomers, a disabled mother's search for self-forgiveness, and whether our ancestors felt pain like we do.
Plus: monopsony keeps your paycheck small, the MJ biopic's buried secrets, and the "missing scientists" panic that isn't.
Plus: The Atlantic's verdict on America's best free restaurant bread, how Sony destroyed the Alamo Drafthouse, and fake Keytruda vials killing cancer patients in Mexico and Nepal.
Plus: how 1980s mergers turned law firms into billable-hour machines, Virginia's high-stakes gerrymandering referendum, and peptide vials found to contain lead and endotoxins.
