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Nobody's socializing with their neighbors anymore

Americans are staying home more, but connecting with neighbors less as digital life grows.

Axios

Don’t Call It Upward Mobility If People Still Can’t Afford to Live

A living wage analyst challenges rosy claims about rising standard of living, and shows that for millions of Americans, their pay doesn’t cover the basics.

Capital & Main

CIA Officers Killed In Mexico: President Sheinbaum 'Not Informed' Of Covert Drug Mission

Two CIA officers working from the US embassy in Mexico were killed alongside two Mexican officials when their car plunged into a ravine after a counter‑narcotics mission in Chihuahua.

International Business Times UK

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The housing affordability crisis isn’t just crushing millennials—it’s squeezing out buyers in their 50s and older, too

“When purchasing power declines, fewer people buy homes at 28—but also fewer purchase at 38 or 48,” writes Housing Center codirector Ed Pinto.

Fortune

US embassy workers killed in Chihuahua, Mexican president says she had no idea what they were doing

After two US officials were killed in a crash in Chihuahua, the largest state in Mexico, president Claudia Sheinbaum said she had no idea what operation they were involved in as she was not informed. According to reports, it was a covert operation in northern Chihuahua to destroy a clandestine…

The Times of India

Two U.S. Embassy Staffers Die in Chihuahua Returning From Drug Lab Raid in Mexico

Two U.S. Embassy instructors and two Mexican state investigators were killed early Sunday in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua after returning from an operation targeting clandestine drug laboratories.

Latin Times

'We should absolutely be concerned about non-college-educated men today': higher rents, living at home, falling out of the labor market

“Very real economic forces” are “limiting the options for noncollege-educated men,” said Gabrielle Penrose of the American Institute for Boys and Men.

Fortune

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‘I am certain’: Harvard policy expert warns the true cost of the Iran war to U.S. taxpayers will exceed $1 trillion

Linda Bilmes, along with economist Joseph Stiglitz, previously calculated the true cost of the 2003 Iraq war was at least fourfold greater than initially projected.

Fortune

Turns out the American middle class didn't die. It got richer—and felt poorer

Since 1979, the American Enterprise Institute calculated, the ranks of the upper middle class, earning $133,000 to $400,000, more than tripled.

Fortune

The 'affordability economy' has created a housing market nobody predicted: Prices collapsing in the Sun Belt, soaring in the Rust Belt

Las Vegas, Austin, and Miami are now leading a national price downturn, while metros like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee are finally having their moment.

Fortune

'AI can be relentless in a way that a human is not': With too few experts to go around, this startup is chasing a Matrix-style idea of “copying and pasting” expertise

With too few human experts, this AI startup is chasing a Matrix-style idea of “copying and pasting” expertise.

TechRadar

When rights exist on paper but not in practice: how bureaucracy blocks access to welfare across Europe

In Europe, national and regional parliaments widely recognise citizens’ entitlement to protection in areas like housing, fuel and access to health and social care. But across the continent, growing numbers of people entitled to social benefits never actually receive them.

The Conversation

Mali faces record number of kidnappings of foreigners by jihadist group

The number of foreigners kidnapped by jihadists in Mali has reached a record high, with at least 22 taken hostage by the al-Qaeda affiliate group JNIM in the last six months, as part of its strategy to undermine the ruling junta.

Radio France Internationale

Chinese firms pay price of jihadist strikes against Mali junta

Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta.

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International Business Times

Chinese Firms Pay Price Of Jihadist Strikes Against Mali Junta

Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta.

Fortune

Trump says tariffs are going to be enough to pay down national debt. They likely won’t even touch the sides

In exclusive interviews with Fortune, Wharton professor Joao Gomes and AEI’s Desmond Lachman warned that while tariffs may slow debt growth, they won’t meaningfully reduce it.

Fortune

For the first time in decades, the U.S. will likely experience negative net migration, shrinking the U.S. workforce—and economic growth by extension

Trump’s mass deportation campaign could slash GDP growth by up to 0.4% in 2025 in a “startling” blow to the labor force, economists warn

Reason

Chronic Absenteeism Hasn't Gone Away After Lockdowns. Research Shows Poor Kids Are Hurt Most.

"The income gap really was the main driver that showed up over and over again," said one researcher.

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The Guardian - US

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began

The Guardian - US

Puerto Rico drops climate lawsuit after DoJ sues states to block threats to big oil

Territory’s voluntary move comes as Trump administration makes good on pledge to end lawsuits against oil and gas

The Guardian - US

Chaos unleashed by Musk’s Doge is starting to wane – what does that mean?

Tech billionaire plans to hang up the chainsaw as he steps away from ‘efficiency’ role amid Tesla sales slump

Fortune

Republican officials are questioning Trump’s tariff regime being the scenes, says Sen. Rand Paul. ‘They whisper in my ear: Free trade is good’

GOP donors and think tanks are starting to publicly denounce President Donald Trump’s policies, which led to a historic stock market rout.

Fortune

Trump’s tariff formula ‘was rigged’ to get higher rates— and it used the wrong value for one of its variables, conservative think tank says

“What’s driving the policy is that since the 1980s Trump has been a protectionist, and he thinks trade deficits are losses and trade surpluses are profits,” AEI’s Stan Veuger told Fortune.

Reason

A Computational Error May Be Driving the Size of the Tariffs

Tariffs #2: AEI says that the Administration Seems to Have Used the Wrong Number in its Formula

Fortune

It's college application season, but don't worry: most schools accept most students—and rates are up

"Colleges are competing for a smaller pool of potential students, and as a result, those who do apply enjoy higher odds of admission."

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