Blue Angels pilots pull up to seven and a half times the force of gravity with no anti-gravity suit, clenching muscles to force blood back to the brain or risk blacking out. A former commanding officer explains how flying inches from five other jets leaves zero room for error.
— via KQED, Samantha Kennedy
A 54-year-old man ends up dead after cops stop him for tossing an empty beer can and asking too many questions about his ID. Bodycam footage shows an officer tackle him from behind, then handcuff him unconscious before calling an ambulance; he lost his pulse en route to the hospital.
— via NY Post, Kalohe Danbara
A new 80,000-square-foot depot near BNA now services Nashville's self-driving fleet, and the cars drive themselves in for repairs. It's created over 70 jobs, and Lyft says riding with Waymo costs exactly the same as riding with a human.
— via Hoodline, Ethan Taylor
Over 200 sites across 30-plus Chicago neighborhoods open their doors this weekend for Open House Chicago, including the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry's South Portico, the lone survivor of the 1893 World's Fair. Some spots, like the David Rubenstein Forum, open only one day.
— via Block Club Chicago, Maxwell Evans
A bookseller sold Earl Spencer a Gutenberg Bible for £370 in 1790, then rebound it in blue goatskin, erasing clues to its past. Multispectral imaging has now traced it back to French friars whose library was being dismantled in the revolution, part of a wider pattern of Europe's monastic treasures feeding Britain's bibliomania.
— via The Conversation — History, Kelsey Williams, Associate Professor of English, University of Stirling
No team has repeated as NBA champion since the 2018 Warriors, and only that Warriors team even made it back to the Finals. The Knicks now carry a title, a weaker defense after losing Mitchell Robinson, and a suddenly loaded East that includes Kawhi in Toronto and Giannis in Miami.
— via NY Post, Malik Smith
The Thames once stank so badly in a heatwave that Parliament nearly fled the building. The fix became one of Victorian engineering's biggest flexes.
— via HistoryExtra (BBC), Jonny Wilkes
Sacramento's mild 72-degree Monday won't last: a dry warming trend pushes highs into the upper 80s by Thursday, peaking at 87 on Saturday. Gusty winds and dry vegetation through Tuesday still warrant caution with outdoor flames.
— via Hoodline, Michelle Johnson
A 1621 "wolf attack" on a Mayflower colonist wasn't a wolf attack at all. The animals sat on their tails and grinned, a historian argues, because they were Native American dogs meeting European ones for the first time in thousands of years.
— via JSTOR Daily, Matthew Wills
Open House Chicago hits Pilsen, Little Village and Chinatown this weekend with 200 sites citywide, 20 of them new, including a Studio Gang-designed building shaped by Chinese architectural motifs. A muralist's home studio and a century-old church are also open for free, self-guided tours.
— via Block Club Chicago, Leen Yassine
A 60-year-old man was knocked down and beaten to death outside a Chelsea sex shop Sunday night after an argument inside turned violent. Police say his wallet was stolen as he lay outside; a 25-year-old Queens woman now faces murder and robbery charges.
— via NY Post, Patrick Reilly
A Honda Civic went the wrong way on Highway 4 not once but twice, surviving spike strips before slamming into a parked sheriff's vehicle and then another car. The driver ended up hospitalized, the passenger ran on foot near Bay Point, and both face felony bookings.
— via Hoodline, Eileen Vargas
A shuttered CPS school sits empty for five years until Austin nonprofits turn it into an 85,000-square-foot workforce hub, now a Driehaus Preservation Award winner. See it and five other Austin sites this weekend during Open House Chicago.
— via Block Club Chicago, Michael Liptrot
A new art project called the Department of New Yorker Verification is stripping Queens-born Donald Trump of his "New Yorker" status for trash-talking the city, while awarding it to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who wasn't born in the US. The rules run on "suffering points" for things like rat sightings and turnstile jumps.
— via NY Post, Katherine Donlevy
School board races decide billion-dollar budgets and culture-war fights, yet most are won by a couple hundred votes with turnout under 10%. KQED surveyed 390 candidates for 109 Bay Area seats on closures, cellphones and more so voters aren't flying blind.
— via KQED, Steph Rodriguez
No BC Place, no SkyTrain, no Canada Place: Expo 86 built the city Vancouverites take for granted today, and now you can wear it. Four T-shirt designs mark the 40th anniversary, from retro logos to mascot Expo Ernie.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
Most adults need just one MMR shot for lifetime protection against measles. But specific circumstances push doctors to recommend a second dose, and knowing which ones apply could matter during an outbreak.
— via NPR, Maria Godoy
Five Rogers Park and West Ridge buildings, from a 1916 church with Baroque and Art Deco interiors to a condo complex, are opening their doors this weekend as part of Open House Chicago's 100-plus-site event, which added 19 new locations this year.
— via Block Club Chicago, Madison Savedra
David Bailey piled up three sacks and nine pressures, the most by a rookie in a game since Jared Verse, finally delivering on his No. 2 overall pick status. It came the same week comparisons to Giants rookie Arvell Reese, taken three picks later, had started to sting.
— via NY Post, Andrew Crane
Apple's rumored smart home push finally has a name and a date: the HomeView, a Siri-powered display hub coming Tuesday in countertop and wall-mounted versions. It lands alongside updated Apple TV and HomePod mini hardware, after HomeKit and the original HomePod failed to catch on.
— via TechCrunch, Anthony Ha
A startup called Ambi just raised $26 million to build an AI that listens to you constantly, during meetings and beyond, then jumps in with suggestions in real time. Its own CEO admits the industry still has no fix for telling bystanders they're being recorded.
— via TechCrunch, Ivan Mehta
A reporter returns to her childhood SoMa neighborhood to find all eight landmarks on her list gone. The search leads back to a lifetime of documentation drilled into her at Bessie Carmichael, where teachers taught students that photographing their own lives was the only way to preserve a vanishing place.
— via Mission Local, Aaliyah Español-Rivas
YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X all refused paid ads for the Alex Gibney documentary "Musk," flagging the campaign as political content before two platforms quietly reversed course. Musk has called the director a "tinfoil hat crackpot" and compared him to dog feces, while his camp threatens a lawsuit to keep the four-hour film from theaters.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
At least 139 dead, 84 still missing after an overcrowded migrant boat capsized off Djibouti, with some bodies already buried nameless in a common grave. Survivors, all Ethiopian, are in shock at an IOM center as officials warn the toll could still climb.
— via PBS NewsHour, Jamey Keaten, Associated Press
