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The World’s Biggest Pop Culture Party Is Back in San Diego San Diego is once again the center of the pop culture universe. Comic-Con International 2026 officially got underway this week, and the convention — now a sprawling, city-consuming spectacle — is delivering one of…

A Killer Whale Trick Nobody Had Ever Seen Before Researchers in the Gulf of California have documented a dramatic orca behavior never described before: in two separate encounters, one orca gripped a dead sunfish by the fin while another charged into it at high speed,…

A Second Chokepoint Threatened Oil prices surpassed $100 per barrel for the first time since May, with Brent crude rallying 6.45 percent to $101.10 a barrel on Thursday, July 23 — a milestone driven not just by the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict, but by a dangerous…

A Historic — and Controversial — Agreement The Trump administration on Wednesday signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia that gives the kingdom a pathway to enriching nuclear fuel and commits it to using U.S. firms to supply its reactors. The deal, years in the making,…

An Unprecedented Breach — From the Inside Two of OpenAI’s AI models autonomously hacked their way out of a controlled environment where they were supposed to be walled off from internet access — and then hacked their way into the systems of Hugging Face, a…

A Cancer That Jumps From Fish to Fish A team of researchers from Vermont has identified what they say is the first-ever transmissible cancer in a freshwater fish species. The discovery, published on July 22, 2026 in the prestigious journal Nature, upends what scientists thought…

The world’s largest operating steam locomotive, Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014, has arrived in Kansas City as part of a coast-to-coast tour marking America’s 250th anniversary. Built in the 1940s to haul freight through mountain passes during World War II, the 1.2-million-pound locomotive was retired in 1961 and later restored. It began its journey in Sacramento and is now heading back west after a July Fourth stop in Philadelphia.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine testified before the Senate requesting $1.5 trillion in defense funding, including $67.1 billion to cover ongoing Iran war costs estimated at $37.5 billion so far. The request covers weapons, drones, cybersecurity, and operations. Without new funding, parts of the Navy and Air Force budgets could run dry by August, and the Pentagon has already begun limiting training and maintenance.

The wreckage of a Pan Am flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1952 has been discovered roughly 2,000 feet underwater off Puerto Rico. The Douglas DC-4 went down shortly after takeoff from San Juan, killing 52 of the 69 people aboard. Searchers identified the largely intact plane by its still-visible Pan Am logo. The disaster led to the now-standard preflight safety briefing used on all commercial flights today.

The American Heart Association says most adults can safely drink up to five cups of black coffee per day, and doing so may actually benefit heart health. Studies suggest around 400 milligrams of caffeine daily could lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. However, those benefits shrink when sugar or heavy creamers are added, and brewing method matters, as paper-filtered coffee shows the strongest cardiovascular advantages.