The deadly crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival was just the latest fatal concert incident. Safety experts tell the Washington Post it won’t be the last. Without guaranteed paid federal bereavement leave, American workplaces aren’t prepared for the level of loss brought on by the pandemic, the Atlantic argues. Professional athletes are using new technology to compete for longer than ever before. Sports Illustrated looks at how their success may have lessons on aging for the rest of us. There’s a possible new clue in the case of sightings of people flying jetpacks, reported by pilots in California. The Miami Herald lays out a new theory: What the pilots saw wasn’t human.

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