The excuses that keep piling up The backyard isn’t my first condition.
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Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 July 2026
Big Tech’s historic AI outlays, set to top $700 billion this year, are piling pressure on companies to show returns from the technology and offset the rising cost of rolling it out across their businesses.
His signature tactical approach was the high press, in which the back line moves up the pitch, swarming opposing players in the midfield—essentially, defending by attacking.
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Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
7 July 2026
In those moments, what frightened her most was not her own safety but the knowledge that her husband was up there somewhere, flying in the same sky swarming with fighter planes dropping their bombs on Tehran.
Horseback riding in the gentle meadows and stunning mountains is the main event here, but there is plenty to do beyond that— hiking, river tubing, board games, herding cattle, hayrides, the list goes on.
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Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 July 2026
There’s the Basque population in Boise, Idaho, whose ancestors traded a mountainous region between France and Spain for the American West in the hopes of finding gold but later turned to sheep herding.
Meanwhile, the French are flocking to see a two-part, five-hour-long movie, La Bataille de Gaulle, which retells the story—both anguished and heroic—of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation.
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Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
9 July 2026
Dangerous heat is throwing a wrench in holiday plans on the eve of the Fourth of July and the nation's 250th anniversary, but that's not stopping Americans from flocking to outdoor celebrations.
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