Everything: 13 Jul – 19 Jul
Pressure held steady across the week (64 to 64) — a flat week is a real result, not a missing one.
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The week’s editions · 84
Merck's cholesterol pill clears the FDA — the first you can swallow, not inject
A new British PM is set to reopen the North Sea — and split his own party over it
A £11m con dressed as protection — and why the same trick runs your inbox
Two governments go shopping: Italy's state moves to own the phone network, Britain seizes its last steelworks
A study says junk food may drive a third of heart disease — as regulators fight over what 'junk' even means
Saudi Arabia's $55 billion buyout of EA clears its last big hurdle in Europe
Washington takes the keys to America's best AI — as China gives its own away
How your blood clots — a chain reaction built to be stopped as fast as it starts
Opportunity cost — why the real price of anything is what you gave up to get it
NASA ends its far-side moon-lander deal as delays push the landing toward 2031
MLB banned AI from the dugout — because the line between preparing and cheating had started to blur
Venezuela's earthquake toll passes 5,000 as its own rescue is found to have stalled
You can now bet on whether a drug will pass its trial — and that quietly changes the trial
The EU moves to slow the climate rules it built to bind itself
23andMe settles its DNA breach for $18m — but six million people can't change the data that leaked
Short sellers pocket $5 billion as SpaceX slides — a rare week when betting down paid
One field, five states, many logos: a parasite in Taco Bell's lettuce reveals how few hands your food passes through
Xbox cut about 3,200 jobs — and this time the layoffs didn't stay quiet
Amazon's cloud billed some customers up to $1.5 trillion — for a coffee's worth of service
How your body decides to breathe — it watches the waste, not the fuel
Net worth — the one number that counts what you keep, not what you make
India's first private rocket reaches for orbit — and cracks open a state monopoly
The World Cup's video referee was built to end bad calls — instead it started a fight over who the rules are for
A handful of chip stocks drag the whole market down
An Ebola trial was built in six weeks — while the outbreak's frontline collapses for lack of pay
A top science panel says extreme weather now carries fingerprints
Companies are handing AI agents the keys to act on their own — and security wasn't built for helpers that can't be predicted
As chip stocks slide again, regulators move against the leveraged funds amplifying the market's swings
A common pesticide is quietly harming the bees that pollinate a third of our food — while its makers keep winning in court
Sony's plan to kill the game disc is a door that only opens one way
The EU orders Google to open Android and share its search data with rivals
How your kidneys clean your blood — they filter out everything, then take almost all of it back
How insurance actually works — why thousands of strangers quietly cover your worst day
A rocky planet the size of a slightly bigger Earth just showed us its air
Manchester United paid Chelsea £48m for Andrey Santos — and selling him was near-pure profit
US strikes reach Tehran as Iran hits Gulf neighbours and moves to choke Hormuz
The FDA is publishing the letters that say why drugs get rejected — and the industry is fighting it
Canada is on fire again — and the smoke is already crossing into US cities
The password beat the exploit — stolen logins are now the top way ransomware gets in
A rally only half the market joined — cool inflation lifts Big Tech, but the split is the story
The farm-labor visa everyone dislikes just keeps growing — and Washington can't agree how to fix it
Android's app-store gate cracks open next week — and gaming's landlords should be nervous
The AI bet quietly shifts from the model to the plumbing
How a fever actually works — your body turns up its own thermostat on purpose, and the chills are the climb
Tax brackets — why the rate you 'fall into' isn't the rate you actually pay
SpaceX is set to fly its biggest rocket again today — for the 13th time, on purpose
The NBA's best young star took a discount — and the rules are why
China's economy posts a record-low 4.3% as shoppers stop spending
A drug slowed Alzheimer's by hitting the protein everyone ignored — and still "failed" its own test
Three states move in one day to shield power bills from the AI boom
Microsoft shipped a record patch load — nearly triple last month's — and AI is why
The new Fed chair stops telling markets what comes next — and asks them to sit with the uncertainty
A "super" El Niño is forming — and analysts warn it could push global food prices up into 2028
Palworld hit 40 million players and the studio kept the price at $30
New York becomes the first state to pull the brake on data centers
How muscles grow stronger — you tear them down first, and the gain happens while you rest
How a mortgage amortizes — why your early payments are almost all interest
A space mirror won approval — and the agency admitted the harm wasn't its to weigh
A clearinghouse rejected $90 million in college sports deals — for looking like pay in disguise
Europe moves to choke Sudan's war by banning its gold
Four children with "universally fatal" brain cancer are alive years after an experimental therapy
A heatwave is running up Europe's power demand and knocking out its power at the same time
The EU and UK named Russia's hackers — and 13 governments warned they're living in the world's routers
Twelve states sue to block the $110bn Paramount–Warner Bros deal — weeks after Washington cleared it
US crops have sold below cost for 50 years — the hidden safety net under cheap food is now being pulled from small farms
Games studios just had their bloodiest week in years — and the store that sells their games had its best
The AI trade wobbles — the machines keep getting built anyway
How caffeine actually works — it doesn't add energy, it blocks the signal that you're tired
How inflation eats savings — why a still balance is a shrinking one
A NASA astronaut rode a Russian rocket to orbit today — while the two countries barely speak on Earth
Premier League losses jumped over 600% — because no club can afford to stop spending
China expels a third top leader as Xi's purge climbs into the ruling elite
A cancer therapy, taken off a shelf, is turning on the immune system that attacks itself
A wave of carbon-burial projects has small-town America fighting back — and a scientist fighting a columnist
An AI found a serious flaw in the code that locks the internet
The week the banks go first — earnings season opens as the inflation numbers land
John Deere agrees to let farmers fix their own tractors again — a decade after it locked them out
Ubisoft did something game publishers almost never do — it told us how many copies it sold
Companies pushed staff to use AI. It backfired — and workers are pushing back
How sleep sorts your memories — the night shift that decides what you keep and what you lose
The emergency fund — the savings that isn't meant to grow
A Mars rover finds life's building block — and why scientists won't call it life
The World Cup broke US TV records — and set off a bidding war worth up to $2 billion
Europe's deadly summer: wildfires rage as heat quietly kills thousands
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