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Boxers almost never leave on their own terms, let alone get to say goodbye with the fight of their dreams. Then there’s Katie Taylor’s going away.

The Irish superhero will take on Flora Pili of France for the undisputed super-lightweight championship on Saturday night in front of more than 80,000 fans at Croke Park in Dublin. Taylor, who turned 40 years old in July, has promised to hang up her gloves, win or lose. 

Either way, she’ll go down as the most beloved and internationally accomplished athlete in Ireland’s history, as well as the most important female boxer from anywhere since Christy Martin. 

“House Democrats’ top election leader has a message for states ahead of the midterms: count faster,” Politico reports. Said Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY): “We are, I think, nicely trying to encourage people to do their balloting as quickly as possible, and that means hiring additional staff so that it doesn’t call into question results.” “The […]

“The U.S added 162,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department reported Friday, a much-stronger-than-expected result that suggested the labor market shook off its early-summer doldrums,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The unemployment rate stayed steady at 4.1%. That leaves it at a historically low level that indicates the labor market remains generally healthy.” NOTUS: U.S. […]

Antonia Hitchens: “A coterie of advisers, planners, and architects is enabling the President’s passion project—renovating D.C. in his own image.”

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The entire US auto industry is back at it again, lobbying Congress to stifle competition and ensure that Americans remain stuck with overpriced, second-rate, highly-polluting vehicles.

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Tesla’s Cybercab is already under federal investigation. NHTSA opened an audit into how Tesla certified the vehicle the same day the company started putting passengers in it in Austin.

The probe targets the exact thing that makes the Cybercab unusual: it has no steering wheel, no pedals, and no mirrors, and Tesla certified it as road-legal anyway.

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Organized labor in New York City has been mightily active so far this decade, and the first half of 2026 was no exception. Nurses, public defenders, hotel workers and college faculty all walked off the job this summer to historic effect, winning substantial contract improvements. But, while union advocates may have reason to pat themselves […]

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Diesel prices have officially hit a record high.

Punchbowl News: “The House Democratic Caucus is going to change its rules to punish those members who don’t show up for votes or skimp out on DCCC dues. Most Democrats agree that it’s not sustainable to have nearly 40% of the caucus paying less than 25% of their dues requirement – or dozens give nothing […]

“A mark of Giorgia Meloni’s success is how little the word ‘fascism’ is mentioned in association with her now, if ever,” Bloomberg reports. “Her record speaks for itself. She presides over Italy’s longest-serving government since the republic was founded after World War II.” “Having moved away from the political fringes, outmaneuvered rivals and established herself […]

Slow breathing with a prolonged exhale made people more willing to take risks by changing heart activity and increasing the brain’s sensitivity to rewards. The findings suggest that something as simple as controlling your breath can directly influence how you evaluate choices.

A giant iceberg measuring more than 76 square kilometers broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier in August 2026, marking the Arctic’s largest glacier calving event since 2020. The berg later slammed into Joe Island but survived without breaking apart, and satellites are now tracking it as it drifts through Nares Strait.

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary background noise and appeared where dark matter might be expected. Scientists are not claiming a discovery yet, but additional data could show whether this single mysterious event is the first hint of a long-sought dark matter particle.

UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, stem cells responsible for producing much of the cerebral cortex, change their behavior depending on how they process glucose and on physical contact with signals arriving from the thalamus. Those signals can alter which types of neurons are produced, including upper-layer neurons that are especially prominent in humans.

Scientists have discovered a strange black “devil flower” in Thailand that lives mostly underground, steals nutrients from fungi, and looks strikingly unlike a typical plant. The newly named Thismia daemona is known from fewer than 50 individuals and may already be critically endangered.