From artificial intelligence to fatalities from music streaming to the effects of immigrants on elderly health care, the Planet Money newsletter rounds up some interesting new economic studies.

A large study found that people taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder.

In a phone call with CBS News Monday, Trump said "the war is very complete." But at a separate event with Republican lawmakers, he said the U.S. still needed to achieve "ultimate victory."

Trump hails Iran successes but offers no end date, Lebanon wants talks with Israel, and two teens are charged in NYC attack attempt.

Policy experts say new SNAP changes don't address the challenges faced by single parents. They also argue that losing food assistance will only create more barriers for struggling families.

With the removal of FDA warning labels, hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause has grown in popularity. Now some patients are reporting delays in filling prescriptions for estrogen patches.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but presidents assert broad authority over use of force and the military. Congress has done little to push back.

The case of Khalil, who was detained last March, sits at the vanguard of a battle of immigrants' due process and civil rights, and the Trump administration's mass detention and deportation policies.

Voting ends Tuesday night in the district that former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene left this year after a feud with President Trump. It's unclear if his pick will win her spot.

Scotland, Conn., can be a confusing place to live. The tiny town has six ZIP codes, which makes receiving mail an unwelcome adventure.

Concern has grown for team after one critic called them "wartime traitors" for failing to salute during the Iranian anthem.

The US president has tried to soothe nerves over oil and markets, but his comments still lack clarity, writes Anthony Zurcher.

Labour faces pressure to stem the Middle East's impact on energy bills, writes the BBC's political editor.

A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people were killed, expert video analysis shows.

A shock to oil supplies is rattling financial markets, driving up prices at the pump and raising fears of a bigger economic hit.

We tracked reports and contacted police and prosecutors for a deeper look at the situation across UK.

Scotland's busiest station remains closed following a huge fire that destroyed a neighbouring building.

The weather is set to get a lot colder as the week progresses, as Tomasz Shafernaker and Simon King explain.

Parents were frightened by social posts that seemed to encourage violence at schools. But it was more complicated than it looked

Some are questioning if the Satanic detail is appropriate in a Christian place of worship.

Aircraft on the ground briefly halted until systems were up again

JetBlue took the unusual step of requesting a ground stop for all flights this morning, with the US airline resuming operations less than an hour later and blaming the stop on "a brief system outage."…

Autonomous assistants could manipulate choices, push pricier deals, and prioritize their creators

Britain's competition watchdog says the next wave of agentic AI assistants could end up nudging people toward worse deals, manipulating choices, or quietly prioritizing the interests of the companies behind them.…

As Citrix slips out a preview of Xen Server 9, the release that brings it back to the V12N mainstream

The Xen Project has decided to support all releases of its flagship hypervisor for five years, and one of the first beneficiaries of the change is Citrix, which has delivered a preview of XenServer 9 – the release that will take the product back into the mainstream virtualization market.…

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals

The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may have been going about it the wrong way.…

With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins

HPE has changed its terms and conditions in ways that allow it to change hardware prices after it’s issued a quote, due to rampant storage and memory price rises.…

As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using Palantir to figure out where its staff should sit, after deciding only the colorful AI company can do the job.…

First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issues

Anthropic has introduced a more extensive – and expensive – way to review source code in hosted repositories, many of which already contain large swaths of AI-generated code.…

David and Goliath…but with AI agents

Researchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot in just two hours.…

Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that away

Angry company responses to customer complaints are a favorite topic of internet amusement and outrage, but they're also embarrassing for the employees who post them. Having AI process customer reviews could be a better way. …

Copilot gets tuned to handle long-running knowledge work tasks

Microsoft on Monday celebrated freedom of choice by giving customers in the company's Frontier program the option to use Anthropic and OpenAI models via Copilot Chat.…

"It's a big fat middle finger for those that thought they had something."

A warehouse of guitar gear in the palm of your hand.

M5 Pro Max's "performance" CPU cores definitely aren't just rebranded E-cores.

States seek mistrial, saying "sudden disappearance" of US will influence jury.

Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study.

Nintendo may face pressure to share refunds with gamers who helped pay tariffs.

Falling cats in the study also seemed to show a marked preference for turning to the right.

What part of "this year," exactly, is still anyone's guess.

The key is understanding how to conserve energy across a lap. Oh, and be reliable.

Faster charging, more modern infotainment, and a new LFP battery are highlights.