J. Mendez

Your next career move might require a spacesuit. Dylan Taylor, the billionaire founder and CEO of Voyager Technologies, says humans will be living and working on a moon base within a decade, joining Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman in predicting that ordinary jobs are headed off-planet. And Taylor is not hedging on the timeline.

Goldman Sachs has refreshed its list of companies most likely to reap real productivity gains from artificial intelligence, and the top names are not the usual AI suspects. CoStar Group leads the 53-stock basket, followed by Dollar Tree, eBay and a cluster of insurance brokers. The screen lands with a sobering backdrop: despite two-thirds of the S&P 500 talking about AI on earnings calls, just 2% of companies have quantified any impact on their earnings.

Meta's biggest legal battle yet begins Tuesday in an Oakland federal courtroom, where a coalition of 29 state attorneys general will argue the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to hook children. The numbers on the table are staggering: Meta's own attorneys have said damages could reach $1.4 trillion, while the states' lawyers call $200 billion more likely. And the trial opens less than two weeks after Meta lost a similar case in New Mexico that will cost it nearly $1 billion.

Hayden Panettiere, the actress who became a household name as the indestructible cheerleader of "Heroes" and the country star of "Nashville," has died at 36, her representative confirmed. She was found unresponsive Sunday afternoon at an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina, and pronounced dead at the scene. No cause of death has been released, and police say preliminary findings show no signs of foul play or suspicious circumstances.

Tommy John, the four-time All-Star left-hander who won 288 games and lent his name to the elbow surgery that has saved thousands of careers, died Saturday at his home in Bradenton, Florida. He was 83. The New York Yankees announced his death in a statement Sunday. No cause was given, but John had been in hospice and had been diagnosed with bladder cancer and other ailments in recent years.

Sony is pulling the plug on physical games beyond January 2028, and the backlash has cracked open a much bigger question: when every purchase is digital and the PlayStation Store is the only shop in town, what do players actually own? The answer, buried in the fine print, is a revocable license. And a recent dispute with an indie studio shows how much power sits on Sony's side of that arrangement.

Millions of American drivers are in a surveillance database and have no idea. Now there is a way to check. A website called Have I Been Flocked? lets you type in your license plate number and see whether Flock Safety's nationwide network of automated cameras has captured your car and stored it in its database. The tool arrives as backlash against the company boils over, with cameras being cut down, stolen and abandoned by the cities that installed them.

Luigi Mangione confessed to killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in his own words Friday, pleading guilty to federal charges in a New York courtroom while Thompson's widow and family watched from the front row. The plea, made without any deal with prosecutors, may prove to be a legal masterstroke: within hours, his lawyers moved to dismiss his state murder trial, set to begin next month, arguing New York's double jeopardy law bars a second prosecution for the same act. Legal experts say they have a strong case.

Attorney General Todd Blanche will not promise that the Justice Department acts independently of the White House. Asked directly on Sunday whether the DOJ would "always act independently," Trump's former personal lawyer, now one week into the job, gave a flat refusal and said the president should have a voice in individual prosecution decisions. The answer makes explicit what critics have long alleged: Trump's wishes can shape who gets investigated and prosecuted.

President Donald Trump says the United States will "substantially reduce" its joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his "very good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and pointing to Seoul's refusal to join the US campaign against Iran. The announcement landed less than 24 hours before the allies' annual drills were set to begin, too late, by Trump's own admission, to cancel them.

Fernando Mendoza's first taste of NFL action came with a footnote for the record books. The Raiders' rookie quarterback threw a touchdown in his preseason debut Thursday night, becoming the first No. 1 overall pick to do so since Baker Mayfield in 2018. The Heisman Trophy winner completed 10 of 16 passes for 97 yards across four drives in Las Vegas' 27-14 loss to the Arizona Cardinals, showing flashes of the player the franchise drafted to be its future, and moments that reminded everyone he is still a rookie.

Nigel Farage got his seat back. The Reform UK leader won the Clacton by-election he triggered himself, taking 22,239 votes to 9,455 for Count Binface, the satirical candidate who campaigns with a trash can on his head. But the night ended strangely: Farage skipped the official vote count early Friday and canceled his planned victory speech, while Binface walked away with the best result of his six-election career.

The Navy is sending relief. The Pacific-based aircraft carrier USS George Washington has begun steaming toward the Middle East, a move that would swap out the USS Abraham Lincoln after a record-setting stretch of more than 260 straight days at sea. The rotation comes as reports of supply shortages and mental health struggles aboard the Lincoln fuel demands for accountability in Congress, and as the Pentagon insists the accounts are "completely misrepresented."

A single Powerball ticket sold in Illinois matched all six numbers in Wednesday night's drawing, claiming an estimated $1.04 billion jackpot, according to the lottery organization. It is the largest Powerball prize of 2026 so far, and the eighth-largest in the game's history. The win ends a drought that stretched across 44 consecutive drawings.

A fossil from the late Triassic period has upended one of paleontology's long-standing assumptions. Scientists have found the first evidence that a cynodont, part of the group of mammal-like reptiles that gave rise to all modern mammals, gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs. The discovery pushes the timeline of live birth back by up to 95 million years, according to researchers behind a study published today in Frontiers in Mammal Science.

Karoline Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary in history, is leaving the podium at the end of the month. President Trump announced the surprise departure Wednesday in a Truth Social post, saying Leavitt will exit to spend more time with her family. She is not leaving his orbit, though: Trump says she will become one of his top outside advisers heading into the midterms.

Lionel Messi may be nearing the end of his playing career. The 39-year-old Argentina legend said he has "serious doubts" about continuing in football, in an emotional Instagram message following the death of his father, Jorge Messi, who passed away this past weekend at 68. The tribute reveals a painful backstory to Messi's final World Cup: he played the entire tournament knowing his father was gravely ill back home.

Somebody paid to turn the internet against Anthony Fantano, and nobody will admit to it. The music critic has exposed a covert influencer campaign offering content creators $500 to make videos hyping the Strokes' diss of him on their new album. The Strokes say they had nothing to do with it. Their label says the same. Which leaves one very strange question hanging: who is bankrolling a smear campaign disguised as album promo?

The Ebola outbreak sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo has now killed more than 2,000 people, with 4,381 confirmed cases according to published government data. The outbreak is driven by the Bundibugyo strain, a variant genetically distinct from the virus behind the 2014 crisis, and that difference is undermining the treatments and vaccines the world spent a decade building. Experts say the risk to Americans remains extremely low, but the situation on the ground is deteriorating fast.

The Perseid meteor shower, the summer's biggest sky show, reaches its peak tonight under near-perfect conditions. The peak lands on the night of the new moon, meaning no moonlight to wash out the fainter streaks, and under ideal dark skies the Perseids can deliver up to 100 meteors per hour. Even better, it caps a rare double feature: the peak arrives just hours after today's total solar eclipse crossed parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain.