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The US housing market handed buyers a blunt reminder in June 2026: the median existing-home price hit an all-time high of $440,600, marking the 36th consecutive month of year-on-year price growth. Prices rose 1.8% on June 2025 and set a new record.

The US State and Justice Departments have placed a combined bounty pool of more than $100 million on eight leaders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, known by its Spanish initials CJNG.

SpaceX posted $7.8 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2026, a 92% increase on the same period a year earlier, the largest revenue figure of any company in a debut quarterly report as a public company.

Money flowing through America's federal research grant system does not move like a bank transfer. It moves through layers of peer review, agency priority-setting and congressional appropriation, each designed to keep politics at arm's length from the science.

Walgreens now expects to close fewer than 100 US locations in 2026, a company spokesperson confirmed. That figure sits well below the approximately 700 closures expected during the current year as part of a broader restructuring push that has already reshaped the chain's national footprint.

Donald Trump used an Oval Office appearance to attack the prosecutor he installed in Washington, after her office dropped felony charges over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and blamed a contractor's flawed installation instead.

Eli Lilly confirmed on 3 August 2026 it will open a formal expanded access pathway for retatrutide, its investigational triple-agonist obesity drug.

Some votes squeak through. Others announce something. The Senate's 89-4 decision on 3 August to invoke cloture on H.R. 6500 belongs firmly in the second category.