Being asked to name my favorite book of all time feels like way too much pressure (apologies to the asker, this newsletter’s editor).
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Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
15 July 2026
Her rebuke comes as Caribbean leaders meet under the Caricom bloc and launch a new slavery reparations manifesto, pressing Britain for apologies, debt cancellation and other measures long resisted in London.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2026
Hegseth, who appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee to request an additional $67 billion in funding, was pressed by Democrats to be more transparent about the war's war's progress, goals, strategies and justifications.
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Mary Bruce,
ABC News,
22 July 2026
All of these excuses and explanations and justifications are wrong, and missing the point.
And yet, when fate brings us together with someone in a completely unexpected way, our defenses collapse.
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Ed Meza,
Variety,
23 July 2026
The incident also suggests that cybersecurity defenses designed to stop human hackers may be outmatched by AI agents capable of searching for vulnerabilities and acting at machine speed.
Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Alex Kian told jurors during closing arguments that Dominguez chose to attack his victims, repeatedly stab them and flee afterward.
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Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
21 July 2026
As the battle for grass fields escalates, the lawyer in me can’t resist sharing the arguments for and against switching entirely to grass.
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