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1. 1. Opinion: Remembering Margo Howard

   By Scott Simon · 1 Aug 2026

   Margo Howard had a lot of life experience and used it to offer advice for years as "Dear Prudence" for Slate. She died this week at the age of 86.

2. 2. How these slum dwellers went from one-room shacks to beautiful new apartments

   By Kamala Thiagarajan · 1 Aug 2026

   It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.

3. 3. FDA weighs a new kind of flu shot based on technology RFK Jr. has questioned

   By Sydney Lupkin · 1 Aug 2026

   The FDA is poised to render a decision on Moderna's mRNA-based flu shot, which could be the first of its kind to market. The decision is expected to reverberate throughout the biotech industry.

4. 4. Lebanese who fled the Israeli invasion visit to see what's left

   By Jane Arraf · 1 Aug 2026

   Residents of the ancient town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon have endured wars in the past, but the latest conflict with Israel is testing the limits of their endurance.

5. 5. More than 25,000 children lose previous legal protections, as federal contract ends

   By Chiara Eisner · 1 Aug 2026

   Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children are set to lose legal representation. The federal contract that pays for legal access expired Friday.

6. 6. Death toll in Spain border crisis reaches 67 as tens of thousands cross back in to Morocco

   By The Associated Press · 1 Aug 2026

   The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.

7. 7. Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies?

   By Huo Jingnan · 1 Aug 2026

   OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI.

8. 8. Over 81,000 U.S. soldiers are missing from past wars. One may soon be identified

   By Hope McKenney · 1 Aug 2026

   In June, the Department of Defense disinterred the remains of an unidentified WWII soldier who had been buried in Sitka, Alaska for decades. Now, they'll try to confirm who he is.

9. 9. Nurses chase Cyclospora using grocery receipts, food apps and detailed interviews

   By Kate Wells · 1 Aug 2026

   Public health nurses have been pulled from other duties in Washtenaw County, MI, to call hundreds of people sick with cyclosporiasis, and try to help them remember everything they ate in recent days.

10. 10. Staff Sgt. Rampersad, 28, who always knew she wanted to serve, is laid to rest

    By Brittany Kriegstein · 1 Aug 2026

    Staff Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad is one of a handful of service members who've recently died in the conflict with Iran. Her family says she knew from a young age she wanted to serve in the military.