From the first tee of his own oceanfront course in Doonbeg, the President declares a unified Ireland "fantastic" and, per the White House, is, in the specific, the most qualified person in the room to say so
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Apple's new CEO unveils the foldable iPhone Duo at his first keynote, eight days into the job; the phone folds, the event hashtag trends higher than the phone, and Tim Cook, now executive chairman, applauds on cue
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Houthis seize the port of Mokha and the island of Zuqar, taking the Bab el-Mandeb strait; Saudi Arabia stands down its air force, which, per one regional official, is because it had not yet received a green light from the U.S.
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The Treasury announces it will spend $6 billion buying back its own bonds to push down the 30-year yield, now at a 19-year high, as the national debt hovers at the edge of $40 trillion
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The 2026 NFL season opens with a Super Bowl rematch — Seahawks 13, Patriots 10 — and the league, in its words, is "keeping the option open" on a third one, because trilogies are the safest bet it has
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2,977 drones hold the shape of the Twin Towers over New York Harbor for the 25th anniversary, one light for each life lost; not one of them, in the middle of it, decides to form a duck
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Peru's 600-year-old royal tomb was so well hidden, even the looters couldn't find it; the team realized, one centimeter at a time, that the ground was doing the thing
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Nike's "Specter" jerseys are so bold that a fan group has formed to remember what the old ones used to look like, in high definition
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The emoji taste-test trend is turning entire diners into one very confused flavor experiment; the pickle and chocolate is the one people apologize for
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Scientists find the first Denisovan forearm bone — 1.7 inches, 40,000 years old, and, per the researchers, the part that makes them quiet