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<\/a><\/p>\nMaya Sulkin \u2022 Culture and Ideas<\/p>\n
Mental-health leave has gone from a seldom-discussed, stigmatized break to something that younger employees not only openly talk about but a workplace perk they feel entitled to. But what\u2019s a manager to do when half the team is on mental-health leave? Maya Sulkin has the story on the Zoomers and millennials who reset, travel the world, become influencers, and even look for new jobs\u2014all on the company dime.<\/p>\n Ruy Teixeira and Karlyn Bowman \u2022 U.S. Politics<\/p>\n Rumors of the death of American patriotism have been greatly exaggerated, argue Ruy Teixeira and Karlyn Bowman, and in the midterms, whichever party embraces a hopeful nationalism will see a boost at the polls. While one side of the aisle posits that America has faded from past greatness, the other doubts it was ever great at all. Today, Teixeira and Bowman dig into the data behind America\u2019s patriotism gap\u2014and the lessons each party can learn from it to win crucial races in the midterms this fall.<\/p>\n Rupa Subramanya \u2022 Antisemitism<\/p>\n At a high school in Arlington, Virginia, Jewish students were mocked, threatened, and chased\u2014then their desperate requests for help were met with indifference by school officials. In Rupa Subramanya\u2019s latest investigation, she talks to students and their families about the double standards when it comes to fighting discrimination, and how a school\u2019s failure to tackle antisemitism threw children\u2019s lives off course.<\/p>\n MORE FROM THE FREE PRESSTHE NEWS Four crew members were killed<\/a> by a suspected Houthi strike on an Egyptian-owned cargo ship in the Red Sea yesterday as tensions mounted in Middle Eastern waterways. Separately, a U.S. missile struck a second ship bearing the Panamanian flag near the Gulf of Oman as it tried to evade<\/a> the region\u2019s American blockade.<\/p>\n Per President Trump\u2019s request, Russia has released<\/a> U.S. Marine Robert Gilman, who had been imprisoned since 2022 and whose health had badly deteriorated in custody. Russia made no public demands in exchange for Gilman, who according to Russian state media was arrested and jailed for drunkenly kicking a police officer.<\/p>\n Donald Trump hid in an airline catering container to surreptitiously escape Turkey during last month\u2019s NATO summit after intelligence officials learned of an Iranian threat to his life. Two senior U.S. officials confirmed Monday that the elaborate ruse<\/a> involved using Air Force One as a decoy while Trump was whisked to another aircraft.<\/p>\n A Cleveland father set a new world record<\/a> over the weekend for the fastest mile run while pushing a stroller: 4 minutes and 17 seconds. Guinness World Records has yet to certify the new record, which beat the previous one by nearly nine seconds.<\/p>\n Nobody won Monday night\u2019s $905 million Powerball jackpot, sending the estimated prize for Wednesday\u2019s drawing to $1 billion. It is now the eighth-largest<\/a> jackpot in Powerball history.<\/p>\n The judge in charge of suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione\u2019s trial announced yesterday that jurors will remain anonymous<\/a>, citing prosecutors\u2019 concerns of intimidation from Mangione\u2019s supporters. \u201cThe People have documented threats, harassment, and exposure of personal information directed at individuals perceived as connected to the case, including witnesses and others,\u201d the judge wrote in an order published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Damage to a cargo vessel after a Houthi attack in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, on August 11, 2026. (Yemen Ministry of Transport via Reuters)<\/p>\n