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The following front-page stories received the most comments during the preceding week.

"Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far," Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar said in a campaign video. read more


The US, Denmark and Greenland reached an agreement giving the United States permanent access, basing and overflight rights in Greenland, along with the ability to establish additional US military installations. read more


A report from the Economic Policy Institute found that CEO pay at the top 350 companies rose 14% in 2025 to an average of $28 million. That means CEOs now make roughly 325 times as much as a typical worker. In 1965, CEOs were paid just 21 times the average worker's salary.


A Broader Measure Came In Higher, New Figures Show. Child poverty also fell to its lowest recorded level, while the share of Americans without health insurance remained largely unchanged. read more


"All these mechanisms (tapping storage and national reserves) helped to mitigate the price and supply risk," Chevron (CVX) CEO Mike Wirth said Friday at an energy conference in Austin, Texas, according to The Wall Street Journal. "Those have largely now played out, and we don't have nearly the buffers in the system that we did when [the Middle East war] began." read more


OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior from the user.


A total of 29% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 68% say they disapprove ... read more


Board votes to 'immediately' close Kennedy Center as judge says Trump's name cannot be added ... read more


In a first-of-its-kind mandatory report to Congress, the [Defense Department's inspector general] said that between Feb. 28 and June 30, Operation Epic Fury (OEF) had an estimated cost of $33.4 billion, with $22.3 billion of that spent on munitions alone. "The munitions expenditure on OEF has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply," the report states. read more


In National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, the White House laid out a national strategy for federal law enforcement, directing it to treat beliefs like "anti-Americanism, anti-Capitalism, and anti-Christianity" and "extremism on migration, race, and gender" as indicators of domestic terrorism. read more


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