Links for you. Science:

Patient count in Cyclospora outbreak in Michigan at more than 14,700 (one out of seven hundred Michiganders have been infected)
A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
The Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing, but all eyes are on its specimens — all 19 million of them
4 fully vaccinated people in Pa. are sick with measles, including 1 in Lancaster County
The lightbulb moment behind a potential antiviral breakthrough
Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age
‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs

Other:

What Happened to al-Qaeda? Twenty-five years after 9/11, analysts can’t decide if the terrorist organization is all but defunct or more threatening than ever. (excellent)
D.C.’s To-Do List for Janeese Lewis George Keeps Getting Longer
Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign
Trump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting maps
Fact check: Trump’s story about being carried away by firefighters after the 9/11 attack
Trump’s off-the-cuff comment about ‘a very cool thing’ spurs international uproar
NO, WE SHOULDN’T STOP TRYING TO DEBUNK TRUMP, ESPECIALLY ON THE $5000 BRIBE CHECKS (and turn the debunking into an attack)
Retail Vacancies Downtown Are Still High, and Some Landlords Are to Blame (D.C.)
Trump leads RNC in pledge to ‘cheat like hell’ in November elections
Ohio Senate campaign staffer used Nazi soldiers as profile photo
USPS Tries Rejecting Entire County’s Ballot Over Spacing Issue
Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse
Why Are Women Over 100% of Jobs Gained Under Trump’s Second Term?
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Paramount Caught Using ‘Astroturf’ Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger
The poorest in the US can’t find housing even as low-income units sit empty
Republicans Jump at the Chance to Advertise on Trump’s $5,000 Checks
Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
She Watched Federal Agents Kill Alex Pretti. Now She Has Told Investigators What She Saw.
Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Reflecting Pool Failure. The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
Oh No We Made A Planet Destroying Machine Please Give Us Money I Mean Regulate Us
Trump’s 9/11 lies are stolen valor, not ‘a bit of weirdness’
What do Americans remember about 9/11?
The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades
Trump Tells Smithsonian Institution To Install George Washington Statues And Exhibit
The Quiet Radicalism of Mansour Abbas and Yoav Segalovitz
As test scores hit record lows, US and Germany chart opposite paths in education
A photographer’s final moments on 9/11 – and the last shot he took. Bill Biggart ran for his cameras when the first World Trade Center tower was hit; his shots were developed after his death. Twenty-five years later, they have been added to the Imperial War Museum collection
President Trump: The man who wasn’t there on Sept. 11