Employer ghosting of job applicants just hit a three-year high — and companies are now pulling offers from people who already quit their other jobs and told their families they'd found something. Also: nearly one in ten Gen Zers reports zero face-to-face human contact on a typical day, and the number hasn't come back down since COVID the way most people assumed it would. And Harvard researchers confirmed that on the days the biggest albums drop — Taylor Swift, Drake, Kendrick Lamar — fatal car crashes spike 15%, because people are navigating Spotify in traffic instead of waiting until they're parked. Plus a squid spill that blocked a Rhode Island road for eight hours, a wildfire couple told to pay their cable cancellation fee, 200 lizards in 22 pairs of socks, and the national debt hitting $40 trillion.
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