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Hannah Schoenbaum

The Associated Press

Utah mother who self-published a children’s book about husband’s death now on trial for his murder

/2026/02/21/who-is-kouri-richins-utah-mother-on-trial-for-murdering-husband-childrens-book/

Claire Rush

PacifiCorp settles wildfire claims for over half a billion dollars

/2026/02/21/pacificorp-settles-wildfire-claims-for-575-million-california-oregon/

Mark Scolforo

Patrick Whittle

‘Zizian’ cult member marked by beliefs about veganism, animal rights, gender identity and AI bailed out of jail

/2026/02/21/what-is-zizian-cult-ai-gender-veganism-animal-rights-homicide/

Rio Yamat

After United flights roll off tarmac, lose tires, audit finds FAA isn’t staffed enough to do regular inspections

/2026/02/21/united-airlines-audit-faa-staffing-issues-regular-inspections/

Sam Mednick

Samy Magdy

Mike Huckabee infuriates Middle East after agreeing with Tucker Carlson’s claim that Israel has a biblical right to the whole region

/2026/02/21/mike-huckabee-israel-middle-east-tucker-carlson-interview/

Kim Tong-Hyung

Megan Janetsky

World shakes its weary head at more Trump tariff chaos as he ‘says a lot of things, and many of them aren’t true’

/2026/02/21/trump-tariff-supreme-court-ruling-world-reaction-macron-france-mexico/

Jason Ma

Farmer turns down $15.7 million offer from data center developers: ‘It breaks my heart … the rest of every square inch is going to get built on’

/2026/02/21/farmer-15-million-dollar-data-center-developers-farmland-prices-preservation-backlash-agriculture-economy/

Gerald Imray

Happy Pangolin Day: the prize for the shy scaly creature as world’s most trafficked mammal

/2026/02/21/happy-pangolin-day-the-prize-for-the-shy-scaly-creature-as-worlds-most-trafficked-mammal/

Michelle L. Price

Trump’s tariff fury continues as he moans about ‘ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision’

/2026/02/21/trump-tariff-fury-ridiculous-poorly-written-criticism-supreme-court/

Trump’s plan B to impose new tariffs is also illegal because a balance-of-payments deficit doesn’t exist, trade experts say

/2026/02/21/trump-tariffs-section-122-trade-law-trade-deficit-capital-account-surplus-balance-of-payments/

Wendy Benjaminson

Maria Paula Mijares Torres

Bloomberg

Trump boosts new tariff rate to 15% a day after announcing 10%

/2026/02/21/trump-global-tariffs-15-percent-supreme-court-ruling-section-122-trade-act/

Heather Hollingsworth

Morgan Lee

At least 20 communities with large warehouses are stealth targets for massive ICE detention centers. ‘There was absolutely no warning’

/2026/02/21/communities-large-warehouses-stealth-targets-ice-detention-centers-no-warning/

Mae Anderson

Despite tariff ruling, this U.S. coffee company doesn’t expect to ever get a refund. ‘It’s like a nightmare we just want to wake up from’

/2026/02/21/tariff-refunds-supreme-court-ruling-ieepa-trump-us-businesses/

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Bill Gates told him his big bet on OpenAI would be a flop: ‘Yeah, you’re going to burn this billion dollars’

/article/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-bill-gates-openai-sam-altman-youre-going-to-burn-this-billion-dollars-big-tech/

Paul Wiseman

Trump’s tariff refund mess leaves American business with half-a-decade of legal battles to look forward to

/2026/02/21/tariff-refunds-legal-fight-trade-courts-companies-importers-consumers/

Preston Fore

40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations—but it’s become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate

/article/rise-in-elite-students-seeking-accomodation-gen-z-phenomenon-find-success-in-competitive-job-market-stanford-university-skills-based-hiring/

Matthew Daly

U.S. military airlifts small nuclear reactor for the first time, flying a minivan-sized microreactor nearly 700 miles on a C-17

/2026/02/21/us-military-airlift-small-nuclear-reactor-first-time-c-17-microreactors/

Justin Spike

Hungary says it will block the EU’s $106 billion loan to Ukraine until Russian oil resumes flowing through a key pipeline that Moscow damaged

/2026/02/21/hungary-block-eu-106-billion-loan-ukraine-russian-oil-druzhba-pipeline/

Andrea Rodriguez

Milexsy Duran

U.S. blockade of Cuba’s oil supply is not only crippling the island’s economy but also threatening ‘basic human safety,’ minister says

/2026/02/21/us-blockade-cuba-oil-supply-economy-health-system-collapse/

Reid Litman

How fandom became culture’s power center — and a blueprint for Gen Z’s economic influence

/2026/02/21/fandom-gen-z-new-monoculture-economic-influence/

Sydney Lake

‘I have a chip on my shoulder.’ Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup Phia to succeed with ‘no ties to my privilege or my last name’

/2026/02/21/phoebe-gates-startup-phia-succeed-without-help-parents-bill-gates-melinda-french-gates/

Nick Lichtenberg

You have 18 months to figure out your office job, $1 billion CEO says. But it’s not going away

/2026/02/21/will-ai-take-my-job-coders-software-engineers-really-screwed/

Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-jobs-steve-chen-tech-billionaires-publicly-shielding-their-children-from-tech-products-social-media/

Igor Pejic

If the recent AI and crypto shocks upset you, you’re tracking the wrong cycle

/2026/02/21/claude-upus-openclaw-market-shock-saaspocalypse-like-deepseek-moment/

Sasha Rogelberg

A girl with a computer on the desk in front of her looks up.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z-less-cognitively-capable-parents-first-time-cellphone-bans-standardized-test-scores/

Shawn Tully

New CBO report shows national debt spiraling into uncharted territory by 2035—and Trump’s tariff defeat will make the picture even worse

/2026/02/21/cbo-national-debt-deficit-today-projections/

Catherina Gioino

Trump team livid about Dario Amodei’s principled stand to keep the Defense Department from using his AI tools for warlike purposes

/2026/02/21/trump-team-livid-dario-amodei-dept-of-war-using-claude-war/

Eleanor Pringle

Kevin Warsh, former governor of the US Federal Reserve

Jerome Powell knows the Fed’s balance sheet got too big—Kevin Warsh has a plan, he just has to sell it without freaking out the markets

/2026/02/21/jerome-powell-kevin-warsh-national-debt-treasury-fed-balance-sheet-national-debt/

Jordan Blum

Missiles produced by Iran's armed forces are displayed near a row of Iranian flags during commemorations to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution on February 11, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. In that year, Ruhollah Khomeini led an overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979 and established himself as Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Trump loves cheap gas—but a military conflict in Iran could nearly double your price at the pump

/2026/02/21/trump-cheap-gas-crude-oil-prices-conflict-iran-strait-hormuz-airstrikes/

Gabrielle Coppola

Detroit automakers ask White House to be spared from new tariffs

/2026/02/20/detroit-automakers-gm-ford-stellantis-tariff-exemption-supreme-court-ruling/

Eva Roytburg

Bearded man in early 30s with hand in pocket walking in Manhattan Financial District, talking with caller, landmark financial building in background.

The Twitter men’s wear guy says your dress shirt and chinos are ‘really ugly.’ He offers one simple way to upgrade your work look

/2024/06/17/derek-guy-twitter-menswear-work-outfit-attire-fashion-advice/

Sunny Nagpaul

Meet the 59-year-old Barbie ‘dealer’ whose hustle has netted $2 million in sales

/2024/06/08/barbie-economy-collector-toy-show-ebay/

Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, pictured at an event on November 7, 2017.

20 years ago Rolling Stone promised subscribers a ‘lifetime’ print magazine for just $99—now they’re canceling and readers are ‘enraged’

/2024/06/05/rolling-stone-subscription-lifetime/

Brands that teens once heralded as the epitome of trendy and fast fashion—think Abercrombie, Forever 21, and Shein—are now tapping into the $14 billion bridal-gown market.

Shein and Abercrombie are disrupting the $14 billion bridal gown market with cheap dresses—but where brides save, the world is paying full price

/2024/05/14/shein-abercrombie-bridal-gowns-dresses-environment-impact-forever21-lulus-fashion/

Chloe Berger

Gen Zers only plan to have one kid—and that’s bad news for our graying nation

/2024/05/09/gen-z-having-kids-babies-motherly-jill-koziol/

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New Fed report proves Milton Friedman and Joe Biden understood something vital about immigration—and explains why growth may sputter under Trump

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'I have a chip on my shoulder.' Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup Phia to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name'

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40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations—but it's become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate

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The Russian economy is eating its own muscle to survive as Putin's war on Ukraine destroys future capacity, former central bank adviser says

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Jake Angelo

The Nobel laureate who co-wrote 'Why Nations Fail' warns U.S. democracy won't survive unless these two things change

https://fortune.com/2026/02/22/who-is-daron-acemoglu-nobel-laureate-ai-job-layoffs-economic-inequality-donald-trump/?itm_source=parsely-api

Fabiola Sánchez

Mexican army kills top drug kingpin 'El Mencho' and several others, prompting airlines to suspend flights to Puerto Vallarta

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Emma Burleigh

Billionaire bosses like Jeff Bezos and Reid Hoffman denounce work-life balance—and some think working nonstop is key to success

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Mark Cuban says AI won’t take your job anytime soon because it still acts like a hungover college intern—with a $100K price tag to show for it

https://fortune.com/2026/02/20/mark-cuban-smartest-counter-artificial-intelligence-stealing-jobs-six-figure-price-tag-lacks-awareness-ai-layoffs/?itm_source=parsely-api

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