Ellie Gottheimer and Larra Mullin, who met when their fathers were in Congress, make a case for bipartisanship in a picture book about dogs working together. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/books/ellie-gottheimer-larra-mullin-childrens-book.html
Younger generations’ appetite for hands-on activities — what the internet has dubbed “grandma hobbies” — has reached far beyond Michigan. In North Carolina, John C. Campbell Folk School, the oldest folk school in the country, has a long waiting list for its teen program; just a few years ago, it was struggling to fill all … Read more
Seventeen years ago we reported on a woman named Jennifer Thompson — a rape victim who was devastated to learn, years after her assault, that she, and the police, had identified an innocent man who was convicted and sent to prison, while the actual rapist had gone on to attack several more women. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crime-victims-form-unlikely-bonds-with-wrongfully-convicted-60-minutes-transcript/
ENGLAND’S smallest county is set to disappear from the map under the biggest local government shake-up in more than 50 years. The overhaul will see Rutland County Council abolished and replaced by a larger authority stretching around Leicester, as ministers redraw council boundaries. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39792344/england-county-wiped-map-council-shake-up/
In the looming shadow of a waste tip, Britain’s dream of becoming an AI superpower is playing out. The low-tech business of dealing with rubbish is meeting the cutting edge of artificial intelligence in the form of a data centre proposed by developer Era4 at a huge landfill site in Kent. https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2026/07/16/methane-powered-ai-how-to-beat-the-uks-data-centre-crunch/
ANOTHER WEEK, another cocky claim from Elon Musk: he now envisions SpaceX becoming “worth more than the rest of Earth” if it accomplishes its long-term goals. https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/07/12/elon-musk-is-building-a-form-of-capitalism-that-adam-smith-would-hate