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The federal government is taking an ownership stake in America's biggest banks. The Treasury Department also is pouring $250 billion into banks to restore faith and boost lending. The nation hasn't seen anything like this since the 1930s. And given its scope, bankers and analysts are still trying to make sense of the plan.

President Trump has reportedly reversed an Obama-era policy of giving more responsibility for terrorist drone strikes to the Pentagon. The CIA will resume more responsibility for not only generating intelligence but also conducting strikes — and reaction in the national security world is mixed.

Officials in a Texas hill country community pummeled by deadly flooding July 4 said Saturday that just three people remain missing, down from nearly 100, after people who had previously been reported missing have since been accounted for.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that she is not sure whether the accusation against Joe Biden is true but that it is important to listen to survivors and allow for proper due process in such cases.

In the past, corporate profit growth accounted for maybe a third of inflation. But a report from the Kansas City Fed found that nearly 60% of inflation in 2021 was because of corporate profits.

Buffalo accounts for 5% of the food collected during the nation’s largest one-day food drive.

Mentions of retail theft seem to be fading, their fever pitch cooling. What's changed? And how bad was the problem in the first place?

Check out this week's playlist from The Scene with Chelsea O, and learn about the artists and their music, including Passed Out, VANCAMP, and Jay Aquarious.

In a piece in Gizmodo, staff writer Sam Biddle calls password sharing "a lynchpin of intimacy in the 21st century." The practice has become a romantic symbol of trust, but law professor Woodrow Hartzog says it also carries a number of personal and legal risks.

The internet pounced on a senator's clumsy ask that Facebook end "finsta," but there was more to take away from a recent hearing about how Congress understands Big Tech.