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U.S.
- Postal service sets new rules for mail-in ballots, but a court order keeps them on hold
- Fast-moving Hawk Ridge Fire grows to 13,000 acres, forcing 42,000 evacuations
- The middlemen selling restaurant reservations you cannot get
- School bus stop-arm cameras cut illegal passing by a third — and generated 91,000 tickets
- A subway line is being rewired one weekend at a time. Riders are noticing.
- The felony backlog is shrinking almost everywhere — except where it grew the most
- Border encounters fell for a fifth straight month. The composition changed more than the total.
- Body cameras were on. The footage was released, on average, 71 days later.
- Drones are cutting bridge inspection times from days to hours. The backlog is still growing.
- Appeals court strikes down a city’s protest permit fee, and sets a test other cities will have to meet
Politics
- Senate clears a stopgap spending deal with hours to spare, pushing the real fight to December
- What the new tariff schedule actually changes at the checkout
- Three governor’s races are inside the margin, and the polling is telling two different stories
- A hiring freeze meant to save money is costing three agencies more than it saves
- A state privacy law passes with an unusual provision: companies must show their work
- A redistricting case returns to the same court for a third time, and the calendar is now the argument
International
- Trade talks stall over a clause nobody wants to name, and the summit ends a day early
- A severed undersea cable, a ship that switched off its transponder, and a case that may never close
- A poor harvest, a closed corridor and a funding gap: three things turning a bad year into an emergency
- War-risk premiums have tripled on one route. The ships are still sailing.
- Lawmakers vote to delay the toughest AI rules by a year, and to keep the deadline for the rest
- A research station built on permafrost is being moved, because the ground it stands on no longer holds
Business
- Central bank holds rates for a third meeting, and drops the word markets were watching
- The job market in eight charts
- Builders have the lots and the permits. They are not pouring the foundations.
- We priced the same 40-item basket in nine cities. The spread was 34%.
- Airlines must now show bag and seat fees before the fare. Bookings shifted within a week.
- A warehouse automated a third of its picking. Headcount fell by 4%.
Technology
- The grid is now the bottleneck for AI, and utilities are rationing connections
- A chip plant opens two years late, and the hard part is only starting
- A launch scrubbed four times in nine days shows how narrow the window really is
- Two years after a repair law passed, parts are available. Prices are the new complaint.
- A year without phones in class: test scores barely moved, and something else did
- Why attention has become the scarcest thing we own
Entertainment
- A festival sold out in ninety seconds. Then the resale listings appeared for four times face value.
- Streaming services are raising prices and cutting catalogs. Subscribers are doing the math.
- The summer finished ahead of last year on fewer films, and one weekend explains most of it
- A late-night show is dropping the monologue. The clips economy already did.
- A documentary shot over eleven years wins the festival’s top prize, and its subject sees it for the first time
Lifestyle
- School lunch changed this year. Here is what is actually different on the tray.
- The four-day week is quietly winning, one Friday at a time
- What a first apartment actually costs, line by line
- Five weeknight dinners from one shopping trip, and none of them take an hour
- Timed entry saved the parks from gridlock. It also reshaped who visits.
Health
- Flu season started five weeks early, and the dominant strain is a poor match for the vaccine
- Districts that moved the high school bell later got 34 more minutes of sleep. Nothing else changed.
- Telehealth kept rural clinics open. The broadband it depends on is still missing.
- The benefit curve for daily steps flattens far earlier than 10,000
- Hospitals are publishing their prices. Almost nobody can read the files.
Sports
- Week one preview: three rebuilt offensive lines and the quarterbacks who will find out first
- The trade market is frozen, and the reason is a rule change nobody wanted to test first
- The expanded playoff produced better games and a scheduling problem it cannot solve
- Three seasons of the pitch clock: games are shorter, and the pitchers are different
- Attendance is up 41% and the buildings are the constraint
Weather
- Forecasters raise the hurricane season outlook, and explain why the number of storms is the least useful part
- A heat dome settles over the southwest, and the overnight low is the dangerous part
- Federal officials order steeper water cuts, and agriculture takes almost all of them
- Warning lead time has doubled. The number of people who act on a warning has not.
- A weak La Niña is likely this winter, and the word doing the work is “weak”
Video
- Watch: the state emergency operations center briefing on the Hawk Ridge Fire
- Fourteen minutes with a research storm chase team, from deployment to the last probe
- Thirty-six hours at a container terminal, from the last ship of Tuesday to the first of Thursday
- How a recount actually works, filmed inside the room where the ballots are counted
- A night shift on a stretch of border where almost nothing happens