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  1. 📈 MLB Rank in-season update: Who's No. 1? We asked ESPN MLB experts for their updated top 50 to take stock of the best performances as the 2026 regular season begins to wind down.
  2. Japan's historic yen intervention has ‘turbo-charged’ the carry trade Japan's historic effort to prop up the yen may have had an unintended consequence: giving investors a better opportunity to put the carry trade back on.
  3. After GERD, can Egypt shape Ethiopia’s next Nile dams? Three projects mark a new test for Egypt after it failed to prevent construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
  4. Michiganders for Money Out Of Politics faces final hurdles: Lawsuit, Legislature This article first appeared on Planet Detroit and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
  5. Steam Makes Two Games Completely Free To Play Until Aug. 4 Steam is offering a 200-player World War I shooter and a tactical mech RPG as free-to-play titles for a limited time.
  6. Every Fall, Thousands of Four-Foot Cranes Take Over This California Wine Town The wild-sounding birds have a call that resonates for miles.
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US Orders Anthropic to Block Foreign Access to Top AI Models

The U.S. government issued an export control directive ordering Anthropic to suspend access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns about a jailbreak method that could bypass safeguards and let the models identify software vulnerabilities.

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Marvel Casts Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider

Marvel Studios electrified San Diego Comic Con 2026 by casting Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider and naming David Jonsson the new Black Panther during its Hall H panel.

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Ancient Greek Philosophers Took the Home Seriously

Ancient Greek philosophy treated the household and domestic life as serious subjects of inquiry, and texts from Aristotle's Economics to the Stoic philosophers Musonius Rufus and Hierocles reveal a far richer discourse on marriage, home and gender than the dominant readings of Plato and Aristotle suggest.

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Windows 11 Weather App Devours a Gigabyte of RAM

The Windows 11 Weather app consumes more than a gigabyte of RAM and serves third party adverts, making Microsoft's own default software an unlikely symbol of what remains wrong with the operating system.

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Tribes Call the Grand Staircase Monument Plan Essential

A plan from Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Celeste Maloy to overturn Biden era management guidelines for Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument using the Congressional Review Act missed its deadline Thursday, leaving the 1.9 million acre protected area's 2025 management plan intact.

LOCAL FEATURED STORY

City-owned Vacant Homes in Baltimore to Be Sold for $1

The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore's Board of Estimates voted 4 to 1 on March 20, 2024 to sell city owned vacant houses for as little as one dollar to buyers who agree to renovate them and live in them as their primary residence. City Council President Nick Mosby cast the lone dissenting vote, warning that the plan does not protect longtime residents from displacement as neighborhoods improve.

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City-owned Vacant Homes in Baltimore to Be Sold for $1
ARTS

Legal Battle Over Frida Kahlo's Legacy

The Art Newspaper

The Frida Kahlo Corporation filed two lawsuits on March 4, 2024 against online merchants it accused of selling unauthorized Frida Kahlo merchandise on Amazon, demanding either all profits or 2 million dollars for each counterfeit use.

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INDUSTRY

Apple's $1 Billion Bet on a Car it Never Built

Bloomberg

Apple spent approximately $1 billion per year over roughly a decade on a secret automotive project known internally as "Project Titan," yet never brought a car to market. The project, which was officially cancelled in early 2024, went through numerous design shifts — including a fully autonomous "Bread Loaf" minivan concept with no steering wheel, all-glass roof, and Level 5 self-driving capability. Tim Cook reportedly declined an early opportunity to acquire Tesla, a decision that in retrospect defined the project's long struggle.

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