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Editors’ picks

A selection of the best reporting and most interesting stories from NBC News.

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Drive to Decision Day

Five states. Eight competitive congressional districts. What people along I-80 said is steering their votes.
Harry Styles plays guitar on stage

Fans pay the price

Nine people tried to buy the same Harry Styles concert ticket on StubHub. They got eight different prices.
A worker in a hard hat twists the lever of a pipe outside near large trucks getting filled with oil
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Running on fumes

More oil is getting out of the Middle East. Why is it still so expensive?
Photo illustration of knights fighting with cursors.
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Battling over shopping carts

The AI agent wars are here. Amazon just raised the drawbridge.
Photos of Carl Yenner, Aurimar Villegas, Nika Hodges and Dale Legget.
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'We didn't know she was dead': 11 families learned what happened to relatives' bodies from NBC News

How did unclaimed bodies end up in the hands of a major biotech company?
Read more from NBC News' investigation into the U.S. body parts trade
Aurimar Iturriago Villegas's mother looks at her photo at her home in Venezuela.

A young woman's body was chopped up for science — as her mother desperately fought to bring her home

She left Venezuela hoping to lift her family out of poverty. When she was murdered, her corpse became a commodity in the U.S. body trade.
Karen Wandel's father, Libero Marinelli, Jr., was a widowed Army veteran.

A veteran's corpse was sent across state lines — before his family knew he was dead

Libero Marinelli Jr.’s journey from a public hospital to a for-profit body broker demonstrates the peril of an industry with little regulation, an NBC News investigation found.

The body broker industry has no rules. For one disgraced chiropractor, that was perfect.

A disgraced chiropractor found a new job selling bodies. In an industry with few guardrails, he soon faced accusations of mishandling human remains.

As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their loved ones without consent

The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business dissecting and exporting corpses.

Texas medical program stops using unclaimed bodies following NBC News investigation

The Health Science Center had received about 2,350 unclaimed bodies in the past five years. More than 830 of them were selected for use.

NBC News publishes the names of more than 1,800 people whose unclaimed bodies were given over

Survivors said they were disturbed and heartbroken to learn that their loved ones’ bodies may have been studied.
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EXCLUSIVE

EXCLUSIVE

Diddy’s pampered life in prison: Massages, nude photos, Hennessy

Sean Combs has spent thousands of dollars a month to bring his lifestyle to a low-security correctional facility in southern New Jersey, sources said.
Diddy seated at a table holding a cellphone
Diddy seated at a table holding a cellphone
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Culture & Trends

Culture & Trends

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The complicated bargain between ‘looksmaxxing’ influencer Clavicular and the women in his orbit

Women are collaborators and subjects of ridicule in the influencer’s online world. The dynamic is under new scrutiny as he faces criminal charges.
Clavicular.
Clavicular.
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Culture & Trends

Culture & Trends

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Custom cursors, GIFs and hand-coded widgets: The personal blog is back

On an internet shaped by algorithms, templates and platforms that dictate how people present themselves, many Gen Z women are reviving the old blog format.
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Israel

Israel

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Massive algae bloom exposes fragility of Israel’s advanced water system

“We thought about a missile or a cyberattack, but we never thought about algae,” one analyst said.
Algae bloom in the water off Israel
Algae bloom in the water off Israel
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U.S. news

U.S. news

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An endangered wild cat faces a new threat: SpaceX’s expansion in Texas

A federal judge has cleared the way for SpaceX to expand its Texas Starbase into the habitat of the last wild ocelots remaining in the U.S.
Ocelot close-up.
Ocelot close-up.
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U.S. news

U.S. news

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Promises unkept: Senior living home bankruptcies rob families of their life savings

The bankruptcy of one property allowed it to avoid paying back nearly $150 million – even after it was purchased by a private equity firm.
Tom and Emily Ryan inside their home at the Buckingham in Houston.
Tom and Emily Ryan inside their home at the Buckingham in Houston.
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Environment

Environment

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In a mysterious reversal, Earth’s atmosphere has gotten less dusty

The trend might help explain why the Earth seems to be warming faster than climate models predicted.
Wind turbines are partially obscured by a dust storm.
Wind turbines are partially obscured by a dust storm.
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China

China

How an American teacher’s $5,000 donation helped turn a Chinese desert into a lush forest

Ronald Sakolsky couldn’t believe his eyes when he visited China’s Mu Us Desert for the first time in 26 years.
CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-YIN YUZHEN-U.S.-RONALD SAKOLSKY-REUNION-VISIT (CN)
CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-YIN YUZHEN-U.S.-RONALD SAKOLSKY-REUNION-VISIT (CN)
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Spain

Spain

Anger grows across Spain after elderly woman is evicted from her home of 70 years

The eviction of Maricarmen Abascal, 87, sparked protests and has fueled anger about Spain’s housing crisis.
Maricarmen, An 87-year-old Resident Of Retiro, Is Facing Her Fourth Attempt At Eviction
Maricarmen, An 87-year-old Resident Of Retiro, Is Facing Her Fourth Attempt At Eviction
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Europe

Europe

Europe frets as the Kremlin pushes the limits of its hybrid warfare

Moscow has long embraced tactics that straddle the threshold of war, but a string of increasingly brazen incidents has left U.S. allies ‘a bit freaked out.’
A forensic technician works alongside a bomb-disposal robot.
A forensic technician works alongside a bomb-disposal robot.
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Culture & Trends

Culture & Trends

Should you bring iced coffee to a job interview? Question brews generational debate

A TikTok video posted by a recruiter last week has become a flashpoint for how different age groups approach prospective employers.
A guest wears a thin gold bracelet on the wrist, a large rectangular washed blue denim Telfar tote with dual top handles, a long shoulder strap, holding a clear plastic cup of iced coffee with a turquoise straw.
A guest wears a thin gold bracelet on the wrist, a large rectangular washed blue denim Telfar tote with dual top handles, a long shoulder strap, holding a clear plastic cup of iced coffee with a turquoise straw.