Millions of Women May Be Misdiagnosed With UTIs They Don’t Actually Have
A Diagnosis That Keeps Cycling Back — With No Real Answer Every day in her Los Angeles urology practice, Dr. Maria Uloko sees the same patient: a woman diagnosed with recurrent urinary tract infections, who has taken repeated rounds of antibiotics and is confused about…
Big Oil Is Cashing In on the Iran War While Its Gulf Assets Burn
Record Profits, Rising Danger Six months into the war on Iran, the largest US oil companies have posted their biggest profits since 2022 — selling less oil at far higher prices. It sounds like a paradox, but it’s the defining story of the global energy…
OpenAI Pulls the Plug on Cursor Over Musk’s History of Breaking Contracts
A $60 Billion Deal Triggers a Corporate Breakup OpenAI has announced plans to wind down its agreement supplying AI models to Cursor, the popular AI coding platform recently acquired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX — and the reasoning is blunt. “We are making this choice because…
The Safety App Quietly Expanding Across America and Beyond
A New Kind of Neighborhood Watch The Citizen app gives users real-time awareness of emergencies, crimes, and incidents happening nearby — often before it hits the news. That simple but powerful promise has fueled one of the most aggressive expansions in the public safety technology…
Six Months In, the Iran War Grinds On With Diplomacy and Economic Pressure Colliding
A Conflict at the Six-Month Mark The US-Iran war began on February 28, 2026, after the United States and Israel conducted airstrikes on various Iranian military targets, which included the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. What many hoped would be a swift operation has…
Stripe and Advent Walk Away From $53 Billion Bid to Buy PayPal
A Blockbuster Deal That Never Was Advent International and Stripe have walked away from their pursuit of PayPal, ending months of speculation over a deal that would have ranked among the largest leveraged buyouts ever — and sending PayPal shares tumbling as much as 16%…
Warsh’s Jackson Hole Debut Rattles Bond Markets With Hawkish Inflation Warning
Markets Hold Their Breath Before a Historic Speech Wall Street spent the morning of August 28 in an unusual state of suspended animation. U.S. stock futures pointed in different directions as investors looked ahead to Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s keynote address at the Kansas…
Nepal Glacier Collapse Death Toll Surpasses 600 With Thousands Still Missing
A Wall of Water, Ice, and Mud On the morning of August 26, a catastrophic chain of events began high in the Himalayas. A massive glacier collapse triggered devastating flooding that swept through parts of Nepal and Tibet, sending a wall of water, ice, rock,…
Judge Upholds Karmelo Anthony Murder Conviction, Defense Vows to Fight On
Conviction Stands After Retrial Bid Fails A Texas judge denied a new trial for Karmelo Anthony on Saturday in the stabbing death of a 17-year-old athlete at a high school track meet — a killing that drew national attention and led to harassment of the…
New “Exercise Pill” Passes First Human Trial With No Serious Side Effects
A Pill That Tricks Your Body Into Thinking It Worked Out What if you could get some of the metabolic benefits of a hard run — without ever lacing up your sneakers? That’s the ambitious idea behind ENV-308, a new experimental drug that just cleared…
