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He and his wife, Dana Bonda, are retired attorneys who have spent decades escaping to the coast south of Ensenada, where they’ve become involved in various local causes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2026

The researchers, drawing on data from 10 cities that tracked rises in mortality with temperature increase, estimated that a single day of extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

“We’re having to re-examine even how we think about what causes inflation, and that makes it a particularly challenging analytical moment for us,” Kashkari said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 26, 2026

The Russell 2000’s simplicity, being based only on size, causes it to include lots of junky companies—great in a bull market but less-so over the long term.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

Just as multiplying by zero causes the number line to collapse into a point, the vanishing point has caused most of the universe to sit in a tiny dot.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife