His Daughter Signed the Admission Agreement as “Responsible Party,” a Formality, the Nursing Home Said. When Dad’s Medicaid Application Failed, the 32,000 Bill Came to Her (finance.yahoo.com)
Mark Cuban Says If You Can Schedule Your Healthcare Appointment, You Can Negotiate A Cash Price — Often Better Than Your Insurance Company (finance.yahoo.com)
Billionaire Bill Ackman Has 13% of Pershing Square Capital Management''s 19 Billion Hedge Fund in 1 Stock That''s 31% Below Its 52-Week High (finance.yahoo.com)
President Trump has discussed kicking journalists out of the White House, where they have worked for decades, and moving them to a nearby building, current and former administration officials say (on.wsj.com)
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, whose weight has been repeatedly mocked by President Trump, said he has taken a GLP-1 medication for two years after being diagnosed with diabetes (on.wsj.com)
Republican lawmakers are running out of time to assuage voters angry about soaring fuel costs—an issue seen as the GOP’s biggest political liability in the midterms (on.wsj.com)
Polling has been spotty this year, but as of today, Democrats appear to have a solid edge in the midterms. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
California’s attorney general and Paramount have discussed a series of potential concessions as part of advanced settlement negotiations, including a 1.5 billion investment by the company in production in California (on.wsj.com)
Billionaire YouTuber MrBeast spent 10 million building a village in Ghana—he says viewers watch philanthropy videos less but ‘I’ll keep making them’ (news.google.com)
The Lost Descendants of Thomas Jefferson - Scientists have new proof that the President had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country. (www.newyorker.com)
The Fallout of a Charlie Kirk Campus Scandal - Students and faculty across the country were punished for their reactions to the conservative activist’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name. (www.newyorker.com)
Waiting for Jay-Z - In a sold-out run at Yankee Stadium and an eight-part documentary on HBO, the rapper makes the latest case for his own singularity. (www.newyorker.com)
What Barbara Kingsolver Believes the Novel Can Do - One of the country’s most popular novelists writes what she calls socially engaged fiction. In her new book, she considers the role of art—and who it’s for. (www.newyorker.com)
Hernan Diaz’s Grand Experiment - In the novel “Ply,” the Pulitzer Prize winner imagines a ruined New York, a fractured society, and the ultimate structure of existence. (www.newyorker.com)
The Curious Power of Punctuation - Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences? (www.newyorker.com)
What’s Really Behind the Baby Bust? - People say they want more children than they’re having. Is modern life stopping them—or have our ideas about a good life changed? (www.newyorker.com)
What Life Is Actually Like in Gaza Today - Nearly a year after the ceasefire, the analyst Jaser Abu Mousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family. (www.newyorker.com)
A Populist Revival in Iowa - In close contests for governor and a Senate seat, candidates from both parties claim that they’re fighting a corrupt system. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside Shaq’s League of Dunkers - The basketball legend’s dunking tournament launched this summer, with a clear star—a twenty-seven-year-old poetry lover named Mac McClung. (www.newyorker.com)
Learning to Yearn with Georgia Oakley - The director of the new “Sense and Sensibility” film chats about marketing Jane Austen for Gen Z, with a little help from “Normal People” ’s Daisy Edgar-Jones. (www.newyorker.com)
The Return of “Salt” - Mark Kurlansky’s 2002 best-seller is back on the list, all thanks to a young TikToker who’s never had a latke. (www.newyorker.com)
Why I Free-Solo El Capitan - When some of you asked if I’d record my thoughts as I hang by my fingertips over my impending death, I thought, Why not? (www.newyorker.com)
Our A.I. Problem - Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction? (www.newyorker.com)
“Dark Horse,” by Sarah Anderson - At least once a day I press the Thought like a bruise, and if I don’t it eventually starts to play anyway. (www.newyorker.com)
Sharon Horgan, Autofiction Auteur - The TV writer-actor on the sandwich generation, finding love onscreen, and growing older with her shows. (www.newyorker.com)