NYTIMES (Shane Goldmacher) - Obama to Headline Fund-Raiser With Jeffries in New York
The top Democrats will gather party donors on Sept. 10, just as Republicans converge in Texas for their unusual midterm convention.
NYTIMES (Cecilia Kang, Nikolay Nikolov, Paul Abowd, Alexandra Ostasiewicz and June Kim) - What Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Means
Our reporter Cecilia Kang explains Meta’s settlement of a lawsuit claiming that the company’s social media platforms had harmed teenage users.
NYTIMES (Matt Richtel) - Parents Say Meta Settlement Is Big, but Not Enough
Across the country, parents described feeling some validation after the landmark $17.1 billion settlement. But they also felt skeptical that much of anything will change.
NYTIMES (Harel Shapira) - When My Father Told Me He Wanted a Gun, I Knew Everything Had Changed
It’s time to reframe the debate.
AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Dolly Parton left a decades-long project roadmap she built while working until her final day
Dolly Parton spent her last months planning a biopic, a Broadway musical, an avatar concert series, and a slate of new ventures, a roadmap her manager says will guide her team for decades after her death at 80. Danny Nozell, Parton's longtime manager, disclosed the scope of her posthumous plans on Wednesday, one day after […] The post Dolly Parton left a decades-long project roadmap she built while working until her final day appeared first on American Almanac .
Dolly Parton spent her last months planning a biopic, a Broadway musical, an avatar concert series, and a slate of new ventures, a roadmap her manager says will guide her team for decades after her death at 80. Danny Nozell, Parton's longtime manager, disclosed the scope of her posthumous plans on Wednesday, one day after her nephew Bryan Seaver confirmed her death in an Instagram video. Parton had been admitted to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville on Friday and died four days later after a brief battle with cancer, complicated by kidney and autoimmune issues that had already forced her off the road. The woman who grew up singing with eleven siblings in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee did not spend her final stretch…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Private messages show Brian Hickerson pursued a younger woman months before Hayden Panettiere's death
Brian Hickerson repeatedly messaged a 25-year-old Greenville, South Carolina, woman seeking dates in the months before actress Hayden Panettiere died at an Airbnb in the same city, raising fresh questions about the couple's volatile final chapter. Hickerson, now 37, followed the woman on Instagram and sent her a direct message on March 29, the day […] The post Private messages show Brian Hickerson pursued a younger woman months before Hayden Panettiere's death appeared first on American Almanac .
Brian Hickerson repeatedly messaged a 25-year-old Greenville, South Carolina, woman seeking dates in the months before actress Hayden Panettiere died at an Airbnb in the same city, raising fresh questions about the couple's volatile final chapter. Hickerson, now 37, followed the woman on Instagram and sent her a direct message on March 29, the day after they allegedly met at a downtown Greenville nightclub called Cat's Pajamas, Page Six exclusively reported . The message read: "Great meeting you last night pretty lady. I owe you a date. I'm heading to City Tavern for a slushie in a bit you should join." He told her he had "just moved here from Los Angeles." Less than a month earlier, on March 2, Panettiere and Hickerson had been…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Violent storms batter Spain's coast, leaving dozens injured and a tourist region in chaos
A series of freak storms hammered Spain's Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands over the weekend, collapsing a seafront wall onto beachgoers, flooding city streets waist-deep, and triggering mini-tsunamis that swamped harbors across Ibiza and Majorca. In Roda de Bera, a small coastal town about ninety minutes south of Barcelona, eleven people were injured in […] The post Violent storms batter Spain's coast, leaving dozens injured and a tourist region in chaos appeared first on American Almanac .
A series of freak storms hammered Spain's Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands over the weekend, collapsing a seafront wall onto beachgoers, flooding city streets waist-deep, and triggering mini-tsunamis that swamped harbors across Ibiza and Majorca. In Roda de Bera, a small coastal town about ninety minutes south of Barcelona, eleven people were injured in the early hours of Saturday morning when violent weather tore through the area. An 18-year-old woman was left fighting for her life after a seafront wall collapsed on top of her and two others. No update on her condition has been released. Hours later, a punishing afternoon storm struck the nearby port city of Tarragona, unleashing torrential rain and large hailstones that…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Missing cat turns up 86 miles from home after nearly a year on the run
A house cat named Ginge vanished from his owner's home in Sunderland, England, and was found almost a year later living among a feral colony 86 miles away in Leeds, rescued only because a volunteer noticed he was too friendly to be a stray. Lucy Roche, a volunteer branch leader for the charity Cat Action […] The post Missing cat turns up 86 miles from home after nearly a year on the run appeared first on American Almanac .
A house cat named Ginge vanished from his owner's home in Sunderland, England, and was found almost a year later living among a feral colony 86 miles away in Leeds, rescued only because a volunteer noticed he was too friendly to be a stray. Lucy Roche, a volunteer branch leader for the charity Cat Action Trust 1977, was making her regular rounds feeding feral cats in Garforth, a town outside Leeds, when one animal in the colony caught her attention. The cat rubbed against her, purred, and let her pet him, behavior that set him apart from the wary ferals she usually encounters. Roche brought the cat to a local veterinarian, where a microchip scan revealed his name was Ginge and his owner, a woman named Beth, lived more than 86 miles north…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Hours-long LAPD pursuit ends at North Hollywood motel after suspect crawls down freeway on blown tire
A nearly two-hour police chase through Los Angeles ended with a felony suspect tackled at a budget motel, but not before a bystander turned the live helicopter broadcast into a spectacle by dropping his pants on camera. The pursuit began around 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night when LAPD officers gave chase to an unnamed […] The post Hours-long LAPD pursuit ends at North Hollywood motel after suspect crawls down freeway on blown tire appeared first on American Almanac .
A nearly two-hour police chase through Los Angeles ended with a felony suspect tackled at a budget motel, but not before a bystander turned the live helicopter broadcast into a spectacle by dropping his pants on camera. The pursuit began around 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night when LAPD officers gave chase to an unnamed suspect driving a white Lexus sedan through residential streets in Los Angeles. The suspect was wanted for allegedly assaulting a police officer and faced multiple additional felony charges. What followed was a slow, grinding crawl across two freeways and several neighborhoods that tied up officers for the better part of the evening. After winding through surface streets in North Hollywood, the suspect steered the Lexus onto…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Joey and Jesse Buss buy into the San Diego Padres while fighting their sister over the Lakers
Two of Jerry Buss's sons have purchased a minority stake in the San Diego Padres through their own investment firm, even as their sister Jeanie Buss fights to block the family's remaining share in the Los Angeles Lakers from being sold. Joey and Jesse Buss, the youngest siblings in the Buss family dynasty, reached a […] The post Joey and Jesse Buss buy into the San Diego Padres while fighting their sister over the Lakers appeared first on American Almanac .
Two of Jerry Buss's sons have purchased a minority stake in the San Diego Padres through their own investment firm, even as their sister Jeanie Buss fights to block the family's remaining share in the Los Angeles Lakers from being sold. Joey and Jesse Buss, the youngest siblings in the Buss family dynasty, reached a deal to acquire roughly 5% of the Padres through Buss Sports Capital, the venture they launched in September 2025. The brothers will also sit on the new Padres ownership group's advisory board, joining controlling owners Kwanza Jones and Jose E. Feliciano, who purchased the franchise at an MLB-record $3.9 billion valuation . MLB owners unanimously approved that sale on August 17. The Padres deal marks the brothers' first…Open