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From the window of Orion, home looks like a pale-blue marble slipping under the dark felt of the universe. The four people aboard the spacecraft, now earthbound after finishing their lunar flyby, have traveled farther from our planet than any person has ever ventured, and have seen more of the moon’s far side than any person has ever beheld.

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Some movies you watch and never forget—because you can’t.

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In the days since the U.S. and Israel first launched strikes against Iran, nearly 800 Iranians, six American service members, and at least ten Israelis have been killed. Israeli forces took out Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, over the weekend.

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Flying during one of the busiest travel seasons of the year means a lot of waiting.

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Glass-cutting power tools, priceless crown jewels, and two scooters to escape on. The story of the thieves who targeted the Louvre last weekend could have been ripped from a movie.

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Long flights can be tedious, but they also present a chance to watch movies both new and familiar.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent the past six months working fast to embed his Make America Healthy Again creed into American life.

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On your Sunday, explore stories about the one book everyone should read, what McKinsey did to the middle class, and more.
Teens Are Forgoing a Classic Rite of Passage
Fewer young people are getting into relationships.

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Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Luis Parrales, an assistant editor who has written about what the border-hawk Catholics get wrong and why the papacy is no ordinary succession.

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Announcements of yet another book-to-film adaptation are usually met with groans by fans of the source material. But sometimes a new movie can be a chance to lift the best elements of a story.

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Spend time with stories about the bizarre relationship of a “work wife” and a “work husband,” the great cousin decline, and more.
The Great Cousin Decline
Families are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one.

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In the early hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River flooded. Heavy rainfall, enhanced by atmospheric moisture leftover from a recent tropical storm, dumped water across parts of central Texas. By 6:10 a.m., a gauge in Hunt, a community in Kerr County, measured that the river had become a 37.

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A hard day is helped along by a few creature comforts: a good meal, a few friends, the right show to unwind with.

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Conventional housing wisdom dictates that if you can’t afford Los Angeles or New York City, try Austin or Atlanta. For years, astronomical prices, labyrinthine zoning laws, and dwindling square footage have driven renters and homeowners out of big coastal cities in droves.

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In the death chambers of the Mississippi Delta, on a rainy night in an Indiana penitentiary, and in the early hours at an Alabama prison, Elizabeth Bruenig has seen three men die. She watched them thrash, draw labored breaths, close their eyes.

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Not all movies are meant to be watched twice. Some leave a glancing effect; others emanate so much intensity that the idea of sitting through them again feels unbearable.

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This Memorial Day, catch up on Atlantic stories about an AncestryDNA test that revealed a medical secret, why public pools are in decline, 24 books to get lost in this summer, and more.

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Many analogies have been made of friendship—it’s like shifting seasons, or a plant, or a really good bra—but I picture friendship most clearly as a house, jointly occupied.

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Our editors compiled seven great reads. Spend time with stories about the risks of trying to raise successful kids, an alarming trend affecting the job market, the top goal of Project 2025, and more.
Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids
And start raising kind ones.

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Maxwell Cohen knew the tariffs were coming. President Donald Trump had openly threatened a trade war on the campaign trail, and Cohen, an entrepreneur, heeded his words.

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Our editors compiled six stories to serve as your weekend reads. Spend time with articles about why grandparents are reaching their limit, an “impossible” disease outbreak in the Alps, the Trump administration’s many conflicts of interest, and more.

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The world we live in has been molded by the porn we watch—and you don’t have to look too hard to find it. Instagram models hawk their OnlyFans subscriptions, sex workers post “Day in My Life” vlogs, and the market for erotic romance novels is a gold mine.

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Many people who contract measles don’t know right away that they have it. Days after infection, the symptoms can feel like the flu, until the tell-tale blotchy red rash emerges—usually near the hairline at first, later traveling down the biceps, abdomen, thighs, feet, hands.

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The internet is a choose-your-own-adventure place, but it can sometimes feel like too many roads lead to doomscrolling.

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