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What’s on tap: 

• Stuntman Baumgartner dies

• Ozzy raises $190M for Parkinson’s

• Ground squirrel invasion

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Today’s Big Story

Three-Parent Baby Trials

• Eight babies have been born in the UK using an IVF technique that reduces the risk of parents passing on genetic diseases to their children. The procedure combines DNA from three people — the father's sperm, the mother's egg, and healthy mitochondria from a donor woman. Only 0.1% of the baby’s DNA comes from the donor.

• Mitochondrial diseases affect 1 in 5,000 births and can cause devastating, untreatable symptoms, including vision loss, diabetes, and muscle wasting. The technique successfully reduced disease-causing DNA by 95–100% in six babies and 77–88% in the other two. The children, now between 6 months and over 2 years old, are all currently healthy.

• Britain became the first country to legalize the procedure in 2015, but it remains unapproved in the U.S. American doctors have performed a similar procedure in Mexico in 2016, where no laws regulate the practice.

Saturday’s Quick Hits

• Obamacare customers face sharp cost increases in 2026 as enhanced subsidies expire and insurers propose the largest premium hike in seven years at 15%. A middle-class family earning $110,000 could see monthly costs jump from $779 to $1,662. The subsidies helped more than 22 million people afford coverage. (More)

• Congress passed Trump's $9 billion budget cuts targeting foreign aid and public broadcasting. The House voted 216-213, and the Senate voted 51-48. Several Republicans joined Democrats in opposition, including Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. Speaker Mike Johnson promised more cuts ahead, saying, "This isn't the end, it's the beginning. (More)

• Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner died Thursday in a paragliding crash in Italy. He was 56. Known as "Fearless Felix, Baumgartner became famous in 2012 for jumping from 24 miles above Earth and breaking the sound barrier with his body by reaching 843.6 mph. He also set records for BASE jumping from the Christ the Redeemer statue and Taiwan's Taipei 101 skyscraper. (More)

• Facing backlash over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to unseal Epstein’s grand jury transcripts. The move followed a Wall Street Journal report about a sexually suggestive 2003 letter Trump allegedly wrote to Epstein for his 50th birthday. The letter, part of a leather-bound album, featured a drawing and ended with the line: “May every day be another wonderful secret.” Trump called it fake and is suing WSJ owner Rupert Murdoch. (More)

• Chevron completed its $53 billion purchase of Hess after an international court ruled Exxon couldn't block the deal. Exxon claimed it had first rights to buy Hess's stake in Guyana's massive offshore oil fields, where the companies are drilling partners. Chevron shares fell 1% while Exxon dropped 3%. The CEO warned of job cuts from combining the companies. (More)

• The State Department will destroy 500 tons of emergency food aid worth $800,000 because it expires this month. The supplies were bought under Biden for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but sat in a Dubai warehouse. Officials say USAID cuts and bureaucratic delays prevented transfer to the World Food Program. The food could have fed 1.5 million children for a week. (More)

Weekly Dose of Positive

• Ethiopian and Eritrean families reunited at their shared border for the first time in five years after local activists unofficially reopened crossings without government approval. (More)

• Ozzy Osbourne's farewell concert raised $190 million for Parkinson's research. The 76-year-old rocker was diagnosed with the disease in 2019. (More)

• A loyal Chihuahua helped save its owner, who fell 26 feet into a Swiss glacier crevasse, by staying put and leading rescue helicopters to the barely visible hole. (More)

• Kids in Texas are running lemonade stands for Camp Mystic flood victims. So far, with 9-year-old twins have raised over $5,000, and total donations have reached $440,000. (More)

Extra Credit

Ground squirrels are taking over a North Dakota city.

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