America’s Biggest Banks Just Crushed Earnings Expectations Across the Board
A Historic Morning on Wall Street It was a morning Wall Street won’t soon forget. On Tuesday, July 14, all five of America’s largest banks — JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo — reported their second-quarter 2026 earnings simultaneously before…
Scientists Detect a True Sugar in Deep Space for the First Time
A Sweet Discovery at the Heart of the Galaxy Erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries, kiwis, and many red fruits, apparently exists in a giant molecular cloud of gas and dust near the center of our galaxy, some 26,745 light-years from Earth. This marks the…
South Austin Man Charged With Murder After Fatally Shooting His Roommate
A Deadly Altercation in the Early Morning Hours At 4:54 a.m. on Saturday, July 11, Austin Police Department officers responded to a report of a shooting at 8303 Empress Blvd. What they found inside was a scene of fatal violence between two people who shared…
One Pound of Rock Just Revealed a Vanished Planet From the Solar System’s Violent Dawn
A Desert Rock With a Billion-Year-Old Secret A one-pound rock found in the Sahara in 2019 has become evidence for something much larger than itself: a vanished planetary body from the first years of the solar system. It sounds like science fiction, but researchers say…
id Software Is Battered But Not Broken After Microsoft’s Brutal Xbox Layoffs
A Brutal Week for the DOOM Studio Of all the layoffs that came down on Xbox Game Studios this week as part of Microsoft and Xbox’s 3,200 “reset” cuts and four studio divestments, the ones that hit DOOM developer id Software were the most shocking…
Oil Prices Spike as US Strikes Iran and Ceasefire Appears to Collapse
A Fragile Peace Shattered A ceasefire that had briefly calmed one of the world’s most critical oil corridors is now in serious jeopardy — and global energy markets are feeling it immediately. Oil prices surged on Wednesday after President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran…
Steel Beams Bent Like Cigarettes Inside NYC’s Largest Office-to-Apartment Conversion
A Midtown Emergency Unfolds It started with a report of falling bricks. By mid-morning on Tuesday, July 7, one of the most ambitious construction projects in New York City history had become a full-scale urban emergency. Two structural support beams on the 21st floor of…
