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Cyclospora outbreaks expose a U.S. food safety system that’s been crumbling for decades—and Musk’s DOGE cuts are ‘only going to make that worse’

“None of this is efficiency,” one food safety expert said of DOGE’s government personnel and research cuts. "This is all whatever the opposite...

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New LA Angels owner Stan Kroenke is quietly America’s largest private landowner, boasting 2.7 million acres and besting Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos

Kroenke’s purchase of nearly 1 million acres of ranchland marks a growing trend of the ultrawealthy snapping up farmland as an alternative asset.

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Once a champion for physical media, Sony is now telling PlayStation customers they don’t actually own the digital video games they paid $70 for

A class action lawsuit filed in June alleges the PlayStation maker did not properly disclose that paying for a downloadable game is different than...

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Starbucks is discontinuing a blending powder for drinks after particles went ‘airborne’ and left baristas coughing and falling ill

The coffee chain said it will no longer use the product as it transitions from its summer to fall menu.

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Women’s professional soccer has a champagne problem: A packed calendar around the World Cup that will test the sustainability of its mega growth

“That schedule was intentionally designed to position the NWSL at the center of one of the biggest years in the history of women's soccer,”...

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The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing

“The technology that was supposed to shrink the industry is fueling its expansion,” said Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok.

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DOJ is turning to an ancient body of law to capture Iranian oil tankers. It’s been so long since the U.S. used it, ‘we’d have to conduct a séance’

The Justice Department is reviving prize law, a centuries-old set of rules that could streamline the process of seizing enemy vessels.

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An 87-year-old American billionaire bought the first Ferrari Luce for $40 million, and the purchase could save him $13 million in taxes

Dr. Herbert A. Wertheim, an optometrist and philanthropist with a $4.8 billion net worth, bought the EV earlier this month. It had a presale estimated...

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Pete Hegseth is worried about the Pentagon’s ‘Soviet-style bureaucracy,’ but the military’s $285 billion maintenance mess is all-American

“You have to question whether the resources are being allocated in a way that provides maximum benefits,” Harvard’s Linda Bilmes told Fortune.

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Over 1 million people clicked LinkedIn’s ‘seems like AI slop’ button as the platform fights to keep ‘dead internet theory’ from becoming reality

One analysis found LinkedIn was “the most AI-saturated platform,” with more than 40% of its long-form posts being flagged as completely AI-generated.

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‘It’s hard to know exactly what the objective of DOGE was’: Former IRS boss warns Elon Musk’s cuts to the tax agency will be felt in years to come

Beginning in February 2025, DOGE slashed more than a quarter of the IRS’s 100,000-person workforce.

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American billionaires are showing off their farmland for elaborate hobbies, but a buying spree among the ultrarich risks pricing farmers out

Mark Zuckerberg and Alexis Ohanian have become amateur yeoman, but other one-percenters may be putting actual farmers at a disadvantage.

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‘This is a money-losing proposition for most of these individuals’: Americans are draining stock portfolios to shovel more money into sports betting

Amid the growing lure of sports betting, Gen Z men in particular face a growing risk of financial disaster, experts say.

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‘Damage from the chaotic tariff regime cannot be refunded’: The $100 billion in refunds have wiped out revenue the import taxes brought in since May

In June, the Trump administration saw a more than $25 billion loss in net customs revenue as a result of tariff refunds outpacing revenue.

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Exclusive: The man leading Trump’s RTO charge for government workers says he filmed a video in front of a blank wall to avoid work-from-home suspicion

“I was in my bedroom,” OPM director Scott Kupor said in an all-hands meeting this week. “I was trying to find something that was not...

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‘Buyers aren’t yet opening their wallets’: AI-generated assets are flooding marketplaces, but consumers are snubbing them for human-made products

In 3D model marketplace CGTrader, AI-generated assets made up one-sixth of newly uploaded models, but just 2.6% of sales.

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Google’s founders didn’t market test Alphabet’s name before launching the now $1.9 trillion juggernaut. Here’s the advice Steve Jobs gave Larry Page

The anniversary of Google's IPO is on Wednesday, and Fortune looked back at the philosophy behind the founders' brainchild.

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Strait of Hormuz chaos has incentivized China to use an alternative trade route: a 3,400 mile frozen Arctic channel dubbed the ‘Ice Silk Road’

Chinese shipping company Sea Legend Line just announced a shipping route through the Arctic, which takes half the time as established shipping routes.

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U.S. strategic reserves are getting so low the drawdown threatens to damage the 60 underground salt caverns storing American oil

“We should be highly concerned about the integrity of the caverns anytime crude inventories drop below 300 million barrels,” one petroleum...

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Starbucks CEO says the coffee chain won’t lose its cash-strapped consumers because it’s on its way to being a ‘world-class customer service’ company

Brian Niccol said Starbucks’ quality and customer service is worth the cost of a $6 or $7 latte.

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The ‘manosphere’ is actually a multibillion-dollar industry that sells courses and supplements to insecure Gen Z men, report finds

“In the very real moment of confusion…there is an industry of platforms, influencers and advertisers who are making billions off of young men’s...

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‘If your tariff was 0%, there’s no need to commit fraud’: The White House is sounding off on a $112 billion tariff-dodging scheme it made worse

The Trump administration is cracking down on foreign importers of record behind the evasion—which China is at the center of.

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Facing a decadeslong shortage, the FAA has now hired more than 2,000 air traffic controllers through its campaign recruiting Gen Z video gamers

With the U.S. still 3,500 controllers short of its staffing target, the federal government is turning to Fortnite fans and Roblox players to fill the...

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The electric shock gloves ICE is spending up to $20 million on are already being given to police officers in Omaha public schools

The Omaha Police Department was awarded more than $65,000 for 40 pairs of the gloves in May 2025.

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Nearly a dozen firms are already paying up to $100,000 per month for early access Trump’s Truth Social posts

The release of Truth API has raised concerns about insider trading among economists and legal experts.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Record beef prices are minting fortunes for ranchers—but straining the American farmers who fatten their cattle

“Pretty much everybody above [cow-calf producers] is a margin operation,” one economist said. “And most of those margins are under some sort of...

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Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: ‘Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers’

The AI boom has turned the standard profit margin model on its head, according to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok—and it’s making the...

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It’s not just Canadian tourists snubbing U.S. cities. Business leaders are cancelling more trips to America as geopolitical tensions continue

An analysis of cell phone data shows Canadian visits to U.S. cities have plummeted 42% year-over-year, dwarfing previous estimations.

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After blowing its entire 2026 AI budget in months, Uber CTO says ‘We’re coming to the end of the so-called ‘tokenmaxxing’ era’

“You might expect costs to rise as adoption accelerates,” Praveen Neppalli Naga said. “We've seen the opposite.”

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Boomers and Gen Xers scramble our assumptions about economic misery — they’re way unhappier than millennials and Gen Z

The generations who were supposed to have it figured out are the ones panicking about money.

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The Trump administration has doled out $100 billion in tariff refunds, but Americans are suing U.S. companies for not seeing a penny of the returns

Customers of Five Below, Sony, and Nintendo have filed class action lawsuits demanding they receive refunds from the struck-down import taxes.

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Trump’s tariffs were supposed to boost American manufacturing, but the new levies are actually pushing some companies back to China

“The story that it is bringing back manufacturing is really not the story,” economist Mary Lovely warned. “Manufacturing is not coming back.”

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‘I’m mortified’: YouTube star Hank Green apologizes for ChatGPT overuse after fans accuse him of including a prompt by mistake

"I have been relying too heavily on AI as a research aid,” Green said, while denying that “I appreciate the pushback” was an AI-generated phrase.

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The Iran war already has a winner: The world’s largest shipbroker notching record earnings from the ‘exceptional volatility’ in the Strait of Hormuz

Geopolitical chaos “actually increases the importance of such firms because people are getting a bit more desperate,” one maritime trade expert...

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Data centers were actually making electricity costs cheaper, but the $7 trillion buildout with no guaranteed AI demand is threatening the trend

From 2015 to 2024, average retail electricity prices decreased by 3.5% for every doubling of data center capacity, new research finds.

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Startups are installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the beleaguered electrical grid

Span, in partnership with Nvidia and PulteGroup, uses homes’ underutilized electrical capacity in computer processing.

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The $39 trillion U.S. national debt isn’t as high as Japan’s and Singapore’s relative to economy size—and yet it’s still worse somehow

“Japan’s debt dynamics are fundamentally different from those of the United States…. Japan is the world’s largest creditor nation. The U.S. is...

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Study finds AI boosted homework scores 18%—then tanked exam results 20%

There’s a massive debate over whether Gen Z is the first generation to be less cognitively capable than their parents. A study of 26,800 high school...

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Mark Cuban says he has the solution to growing income inequality, and it’s to reward every employee—from CEO to janitor—with company stock

“I would like to see it so that every single CEO/founder/entrepreneur does what I did, which was to give equity to every single employee," Cuban said.

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It’s not just Taco Bell lettuce and possible glass in Pillsbury rolls: Food and drink recall events reached a 6-year year-over-year high

A General Mills recall and cyclospora outbreak traced back to a Taco Bell supplier have made consumers antsy about food safety.

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The minimum wage is now the lowest it’s been in 70 years—making the federal wage floor ‘officially a poverty wage,’ report finds

“We are currently in the longest period of inaction on the federal minimum wage since its inception in 1938,” economist Sylvia Allegretto wrote in...

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America’s math and reading scores tanked after schools ditched textbooks for screens—and AI could worsen the brain rot

A major Brookings Institute study of more than 500 students and educators across 50 countries found the risks of AI in the classroom “overshadow its...

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U.S. soccer star Landon Donovan was raised by a single mom and said he wouldn’t break though today because youth sports have gotten too expensive

“That's not a good system to create good players,” Donovan, a three-time FIFA World Cup participant, said. “How do you create good players by...

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U.S. companies have finally gotten $71 billion in tariff refunds, but they’re using it to offset inflation caused by the Iran war

“The Middle East conflict is really driving more inflation…so we are going to use the majority of the tariff refund to offset these higher...

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Trump has tried to decouple from China, but ending U.S. reliance on the country would cost America nearly $14 trillion, EY warns

“We're not going to achieve these levels of investments,” EY-Parthenon partner Mats Persson told Fortune.

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LAPD was one of Flock Safety’s biggest government customers. Now it’s renegotiating its partnership over ‘serious concerns around civil liberties’

The department recently announced it would not renew its contract due to how Flock collects and shares data.

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The $124 trillion Great Wealth Transfer is more than just cash: More U.S. businesses are now being inherited than bought, BofA finds

A greater share of companies passed down to family members could be a sign of greater wealth concentration and the power of private markets.

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McConnell’s absence could jeopardize Republicans’ defense spending agenda as the Iran war escalates

The Trump administration has asked Congress for an additional $350 billion in defense funds amid the reignited Iran war.

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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

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z...

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