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Ozempic Cuts Sick Leave — What’s Hidden Here?

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A new working paper finds that starting GLP-1 treatment is linked to a 17% drop in long-term sick leave among workers. Story Snapshot Researchers report a 17.3% decline in long-term sick leave after GLP-1 initiation. ...

Labor Shock: Pandemic Peak Smashed

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America just set a record no one asked for: 105.8 million adults are now counted as “not in the labor force.” Story Snapshot The “not in the labor force” count hit 105.8 million in June,...

Capitol Cash Games Hit a Speed Bump?

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The House just drew a bright line around one of Washington’s most unpopular habits: buying stocks while writing the rules. Quick Take The House passed the Stop Insider Trading Act, a bill that would bar...

Cold-Case Blood Drop Sparks Death Penalty Fight

One tiny drop of blood on a TV stand, matched years later to DNA...

Cracker Barrel’s Biscuit Bet Backfires

Cracker Barrel just sold the Maple Street Biscuit Company, closed 16 remaining locations, and...

Toddler’s Murder Sparks Immigration Firestorm

A Mexican national now sits in federal custody, accused of murdering and sexually assaulting...

Surveillance Video Captures Brutal Triple Kill

A parking garage argument in St. Paul ended with three apartment employees shot dead...

Arrest Boast Implodes — Mayor Backtracks

Zohran Mamdani promised to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, then had to admit...

Pentagon Injury Count Explodes

Nearly 100 American service members have been injured in Iranian strikes this month, and...

Nine Shooting Scenes, One National Nightmare

Nine mass shootings in one weekend exposed the raw chaos of America’s gun violence...

Whiplash Warnings Baffle Coast — Watch Up

A sloppy tropical depression near Florida may dump flooding rains while a Pacific cyclone...

Road Rage Horror Stuns Boxing World

A driver passed two cyclists on a rural Texas highway, stopped his vehicle, reversed,...

Media Spins Baby Into Culture War

A rare new baby in the vice president’s mansion is already exposing how the...

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Pentagon Hits Back — War Ladder Looms

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Two dead Americans at a quiet Jordan airbase turned a grinding Iran war into a blunt message: attack our troops, and we will hit back fast and hard. Story Snapshot Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

Grid Threat Looms at Lake Powell

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Lake Powell is now so low that one more bad year could flip the switch on a major source of Western power. Story Snapshot Lake Powell sits only about 35 feet above the point where...

DOJ Wipes $722M Case — Mastermind Walks?

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The man federal prosecutors once called the mastermind of a $722 million crypto Ponzi scheme is now poised to walk out of court with every criminal charge erased, and the government says that is...

Massive Recall Sparks Backyard Fire Fears

More than half a million shiny new Kobalt yard tools just went from “weekend...

Galactic Sugar Stuns Origin Theories

A humble four-carbon sugar, floating in the dark between stars, just plugged a missing...

War Shock Slams THESE Farms

In Louisiana farm country, the Iran war turned fuel and fertilizer into a game...

CONSUMER ALERT: Invasive Pest Rides Costco Product!

Costco’s plant warning is not a story of retailer blame but of a supply...

Bomb Threats, Backyards, And A $921M Ask

Two Supreme Court justices walked into Congress and calmly described bomb threats, swatting, and...

Webb Finds Ghost Planet

A tiny, ghostly “baby Saturn” hiding in the dust around a young star just...

Exploding Grill Glass Sparks Urgent Recall

A shiny stainless grill that can cook pizza, sear steaks, and suddenly explode glass...

Grocery Store Gunfight: Shots Erupt Mid‑Aisle

Two men were left in critical condition after shots were fired inside a Kroger...

Video Call Con Exposes Passwords

Scammers are draining bank accounts by turning Apple's FaceTime into a fake fraud hotline...

Pizza Darling Implodes — Dozens Go Dark

A once-expanding take-and-bake pizza darling is now shutting dozens of its own stores after...

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