If there’s one recipe that takes me right back to busy weeknights as a kid, it’s Pizza Casserole. It combines the comfort of a cozy baked pasta with all the fun flavors of Friday pizza night. Think tender pasta coated in rich tomato sauce with savory sausage, peppers, mushrooms, and plenty of golden, melty mozzarella, and pepperoni and olives on top. My one-skillet version makes six servings for about $2 each, and is ready in just over 30 minutes. It’s kid-friendly, crowd-friendly, and just plain fun to eat!

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Trump says he is unsure about granting Patriot missiles to Ukraine

Trump told reporters he wasn’t sure whether he should grant Patriot missiles to Ukraine, calling it a “big step”.

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Almost four years into the artificial intelligence boom, the world's biggest tech companies are still making grand promises about the future. The problem is, they're burning through their cash in the process.

A new study involving the University of Cambridge has found that road traffic kills between 15% and 29% of hedgehogs in local populations each year.

Kannan Kothandaraman, CEO & Co-Founder at Selector.

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As cloud services went mainstream, the early promise of simplicity was lost in translation with companies using multiple cloud services and combining them with their legacy on-prem services. Complexity now moves across a wider footprint, and visibility depends on how well organizations can understand relationships across that environment. Many leaders now have more telemetry than ever, but less clarity when it matters most.

Marathon

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In the wake of the unceremonious death of Destiny 2 and layoffs encompassing nearly half of Bungie, all eyes are on the future of the studio, which is almost entirely leaning on Marathonn — its extraction shooter that launched this year. In Sony’s new earnings report, the company addressed Marathon and the state that it’s in. And Sony remains positive about the game.

A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago.

The rocket’s upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, carving out a crater and sending up a plume of dust and rubble that scientists – and sky gazers – are eager to observe.

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President Donald Trump repeatedly defended Jan. 6 rioters Friday and reiterated his support for a $1.8 billion fund to compensate them—even as he acknowledged it’s not in effect now—further complicating the fight over Todd Blanche’s confirmation to be attorney general, as Republican senators continue to oppose Blanche unless the White House formally rescinds the fund.

The global live music business is chugging along through its busy summer season as strong as ever, defying even what has long been its biggest challenge: ticket-price sensitivity.

Consumers consistently cite cost as the biggest barrier to attending concerts. But the percentage of respondents on Luminate’s U.S. Music 360 survey who cite ticket prices as a deterrent has trended downward from 59% in the first quarter of 2024 to 53% in the same period two years later. The survey and Luminate’s latest special report, “Live Music 2026,” is the focus of this week’s episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business.”