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Russia launched its biggest strikes in weeks on Kyiv overnight, hitting the capital with a wave of missiles and drones. AP confirmed the barrage killed 11 people and injured 54, two of them children.

Ukrainian officials called it one of the most intense bombardments of the capital in weeks, with residential buildings among the targets. Kyiv's mayor urged residents to keep sheltering as cleanup crews sifted through debris at dawn.

Gaza marks 1,000 days of war Thursday, with the ceasefire holding but recovery still barely underway. Protesters gathered outside Israel's Knesset to mark the grim anniversary, demanding accountability on both sides.

Thousands of Gaza patients are still waiting for evacuation to receive medical treatment abroad, according to the territory's health ministry. Roughly 300 people referred for care have died while waiting since the ceasefire began, health officials say.

American companies that laid off workers to make room for AI are quietly reversing course, realizing artificial intelligence cannot do everything and rehiring for the growth phase. Pattern is showing up across customer support, engineering, and financial-services teams that shed staff the heaviest during last year's AI rollouts.

HR executives cite hallucination costs, integration friction, and lost institutional knowledge as the three most common drivers of the reversals. Wall Street analysts say the trend complicates the AI-productivity narrative several tech CEOs have leaned on to justify current-quarter capex.

Singapore seized a $42 million mansion tied to a probe into smuggled Nvidia AI chips. Investigators are tracing how the banned servers moved through the city-state's tech supply chains.

Four people died in Mexico City celebrations after more than a million fans poured into the streets to mark the country's World Cup knockout win over Ecuador. Authorities are still tallying injuries from crowd surges across half a dozen major intersections.

Chizi, one of China's biggest stand-up comedians, is restarting his career abroad after being banned by Beijing censors last year. His new tour targets Chinese-speaking audiences in North America, Southeast Asia, and Europe.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is closing facilities that house thousands of inmates, citing crumbling infrastructure, chronic staffing shortages, and budget gaps. The move sets up a complicated reshuffling of the incarcerated population and renewed scrutiny of the agency's long-term footprint.

The Trump administration won't renew the USMCA deal outright, opting for annual reviews of the trade pact instead. Trade talks with Mexico continue, but discussions with Canada haven't even started yet.

Thursday's jobs report will reveal key hiring trends this week, offering the clearest signal yet on the labor market's health. Economists are watching closely for cracks after months of mixed signals on employment.

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Chanel is acquiring Charvet, the Parisian shirt maker dating to the 1830s, in a bid to add men's-wear savoir-faire to its luxury portfolio. The deal signals Chanel's push deeper into heritage menswear at a moment when personal luxury spending has cooled.

Amsterdam-based tank manufacturer KNDS postponed its planned IPO, saying it will proceed "upon the return of more favorable market conditions." The delay hints that the defense-stock rally that carried much of 2025 has lost its edge with public investors.

The Magnificent 7 stocks are now in the red for the year after a rough June that flipped Alphabet, Meta, and Nvidia's YTD lines. Rotation into industrials and healthcare is the mirror-image trade running behind the mega-cap decline.

Scientists drove ATVs and hiked miles through dense forest to reach an untouched Maya site on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, which they named Minanbé — "there is no path." Its remoteness spared it from looting, offering a rare chance to study monuments in their original context.

Airlines are carrying more passengers than ever while operating fewer flights than they did two decades ago, straining the US aviation system through the summer travel season. Controllers and airport-operations leaders are already flagging systemic-risk indicators in the peak-holiday week.

Kia said its vehicle-tracking features are for owner convenience, not real-time security, after a wave of stolen-car recovery frustrations. The company cited UK legal restrictions on live location tracking in explaining why users cannot rely on the app to trace a moving vehicle.

The USMNT won their first knockout game since 2002, beating Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 despite playing a man down. Folarin Balogun scored before his red card, and Malik Tillman sealed it with a late free kick.

LeBron James is leaving the Los Angeles Lakers after seven seasons, one of the largest offseason moves in NBA history. Where he lands next is now the summer's largest open transaction, with multiple contenders reportedly clearing salary space in preparation.

Dansby Swanson hit three home runs — including a grand slam — and Michael Conforto added two of his own as the Cubs blitzed the Padres 23-3 Wednesday. A 20-run margin is the largest in the Cubs franchise history in a single game.

James Wood belted a three-run homer for his 22nd, plus rookies Andrés Chaparro and Nasim Nuñez each hit their first, as Washington beat Boston 10-2 at Fenway. Nationals took the series with the win in steamy afternoon heat.

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CNN correspondent Paula Reid is leaving CNN for MS NOW amid the network's merger turmoil. Her exit comes as Paramount weighs new leadership for CNN following its deal with Warner Bros. Discovery.

The Onion is relaunching InfoWars as comedy Thursday, years after buying the platform out of Alex Jones's bankruptcy. Tim Heidecker says the legal fight to actually take control was "a long, hard struggle."

A law enforcement official briefed on security plans confirmed Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will marry at Madison Square Garden on Friday night. Midtown Manhattan is bracing for a security cordon of the sort usually reserved for heads of state.

What it is: Ten years ago, scientists published the FAIR principles — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable — as a blueprint for open, reusable research data. Nature revisited the framework this week, timed alongside new reporting that asks a blunter question: has the public actually stopped trusting science?

The detail: The original FAIR data framework has drawn roughly 16,000 citations over the past decade, and researchers are now extending its logic beyond raw datasets to software, algorithms, and AI "model cards" through follow-up efforts like FAIR4RS and FAIR-USE4OS. A companion Nature investigation into public trust in science found the picture is more surprising than doom-laden headlines suggest, with confidence holding up better than expected in some places even as it splits sharply along political lines elsewhere.

Why it matters: Openness was supposed to be the antidote to scientific misconduct and public skepticism alike, giving anyone the tools to check a study's data for themselves. A decade in, the harder question isn't whether the data is open, but whether transparency alone can rebuild confidence that erodes for reasons that have little to do with data access in the first place.

What to watch: Expect FAIR-style standards to keep expanding into software and AI documentation over the next few years, as journals and regulators push for research pipelines outsiders can actually audit. Whether that transparency effort outpaces the erosion of public trust may end up shaping how the next decade of science gets funded and believed.

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