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AXIOS (Megan Morrone) - Exclusive: Codex agents are inching into the mainstream Thu Jun 25 09:00:06 2026

AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work. Why it matters: The frontier AI labs have spent years promising that effective AI agents will act as our minions in the workplace and at home and that might soon be a reality. The big picture: Use of Codex — OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform — is accelerating, according to a new report from OpenAI, Columbia, Duke and the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers separate Codex users into three categories: OpenAI employees, outside organizations and individual users. Then they measured usage of Codex versus ChatGPT, by tokens. - 99.8% of OpenAI employees' output tokens were produced with Codex, compared to 63% for organizations and 16.5% for individuals. - OpenAI's…

NPR (Kate Bartlett) - 'They can kill you': Immigrants fear a surge in xenophobic violence in South Africa Thu Jun 25 09:00:00 2026

Foreign-owned businesses have been attacked, migrants driven from their homes, and several killed. A leading xenophobic group has given all undocumented immigrants until June 30 to leave the country.

NPR (Ashley Lopez) - Trump keeps sabotaging legislation over a voting bill. Here's what's in it Thu Jun 25 09:00:00 2026

President Trump blew up what could have been a win for his party — and he did it to force lawmakers to pass an elections overhaul bill that has been all but doomed in the Senate.

NPR (Andee Tagle) - How to find middle ground when your partner wants kids — and you don't Thu Jun 25 09:00:00 2026

Psychotherapist Merle Bombardieri has been helping couples with this conundrum for decades. She shares four exercises to bring clarity to the situation — and find a solution that minimizes regret.

NPR (Selena Simmons-Duffin) - 4 surprising things to know about abortion in America since Dobbs Thu Jun 25 09:00:00 2026

A confusing patchwork of state laws began to take shape hours after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. Here's where things stand now on the abortion issue.

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NPR (Brian Mann) - Long before the World Cup, Ukrainian immigrants built a soccer powerhouse in Philly Thu Jun 25 09:00:00 2026

World Cup games are underway in Philadelphia. Long before Americans caught the world's soccer craze, Ukrainian migrants made Philly a soccer town. Today, the sport helps sustain their culture.

NYTIMES (Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens) - Triumph of the Tasteless Thu Jun 25 09:04:16 2026

This is an era of illusion, and Musk and Trump are the self-adoring, self-promoting emblems and emperors of it.

WASHINGTONPOST (Brady Dennis, Chris Hacker) - Unlike the rest of the U.S., the South is growing its youth population Thu Jun 25 09:00:00 2026

Population across the region grew across all age groups between 2020 and 2025. But it was the only region with growing numbers of people under 18.

NPR (A Martínez) - Morning news brief Thu Jun 25 08:46:16 2026

At least 32 killed and 700 injured after two earthquakes hit Venezuela, Trump and Senate GOP face off in tense meeting, a top general is expected to retire, joining a number of Pentagon shakeups.