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NPR (Michael Copley) - 2025 saw relatively fewer natural disasters. Will you get a break on home insurance?

Disaster costs fell in the U.S. in 2025. Still, it was the fourth time in five years that extreme weather inflicted more than $100 billion in annual losses. Industry experts say the growing financial toll will make insurers wary of rushing to cut rates.

Disaster costs fell in the U.S. in 2025. Still, it was the fourth time in five years that extreme weather inflicted more than $100 billion in annual losses. Industry experts say the growing financial toll will make insurers wary of rushing to cut rates.Open

NPR (Deena Prichep) - Over puppy yoga? Try it with snakes.

You've heard of yoga with kittens, and goats, and maybe even reindeer… but what about a bunch of pythons and one baby Columbian Common Boa named Mango?

You've heard of yoga with kittens, and goats, and maybe even reindeer… but what about a bunch of pythons and one baby Columbian Common Boa named Mango?Open

AXIOS (Madison Mills) - OpenAI, Anthropic feud could prop up Google

Google is quietly expanding its Pentagon work — and growing users faster than its rivals — while Anthropic and OpenAI publicly spar over conditions for Defense Department work. Why it matters: Winning the AI race may depend on knowing when to stay out of scuffles. What they're saying: "When you have two major companies fighting each other, it is a good distraction for another company to come in and learn from their mistakes and just go all the way to the top," PitchBook's Harrison Rolfes tells Axios. State of play: Google is set to provide AI agents to the Pentagon's 3-million-person workforce for unclassified work, Bloomberg reported Tuesday . - The news came just one day after rival AI lab Anthropic sued the Pentagon for…

Google is quietly expanding its Pentagon work — and growing users faster than its rivals — while Anthropic and OpenAI publicly spar over conditions for Defense Department work. Why it matters: Winning the AI race may depend on knowing when to stay out of scuffles. What they're saying: "When you have two major companies fighting each other, it is a good distraction for another company to come in and learn from their mistakes and just go all the way to the top," PitchBook's Harrison Rolfes tells Axios. State of play: Google is set to provide AI agents to the Pentagon's 3-million-person workforce for unclassified work, Bloomberg reported Tuesday . - The news came just one day after rival AI lab Anthropic sued the Pentagon for…Open

STRIPES (Corey Dickstein) - Army starts producing drone case designed by paratroopers from 82nd Airborne | Stars and Stripes

The little case solves multiple problems paratroopers tasked with drone responsibilities face going into combat or a training environment.

ABCNEWS - Inflation report to be released as Iran war sends gas prices surging

Overall prices cooled in recent months but remain above the Fed's target.

NPR (Cory Turner) - Federal oversight protects student borrowers. Some of it has stopped, watchdog says

Without this Education Department oversight, borrowers could "be placed in the wrong loan repayment status, billed for incorrect amounts" and more, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says.

Without this Education Department oversight, borrowers could "be placed in the wrong loan repayment status, billed for incorrect amounts" and more, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says.Open

NPR (Miles Parks) - Americans are split on wanting the National Guard to monitor voting, a new poll finds

Nearly half of Americans support the National Guard monitoring November's elections, potentially signaling an openness to the sort of nationalizing of elections that President Trump says he wants.

NPR (Jaclyn Diaz) - The Trump DOJ is giving guns back to felons, including one alleged fake elector

The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.

The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.Open

WASHINGTONPOST (Lena H. Sun, Rachel Roubein) - RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers drop proposal to revisit covid-19 shot

Some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel have publicly questioned the safety and manufacturing of the shots, including raising a debunked theory that DNA contaminants in the vaccines are harmful.

WASHINGTONPOST (Dan Diamond, Aaron Schaffer) - Democrats ask what happened to millions earmarked for Trump’s library

ABC, Meta, Paramount and X reportedly agreed to pay at least $63 million in settlements with the president. The original fund was dissolved last year.