Here's a slightly more intelligble article:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/new-laws-on-guns-ca...

At first I thought they were banning cash-only businesses, but it is in fact the opposite. Businesses must now accept cash in Washington D.C.

Almost impossible to read actually. What even do some of the bolded parts have to do with the parts that follow them?

'Driving the news', 'Zoom in' and 'zoom out' seem just like spurious titles.

For me it makes it harder to read. I think it's because my skimming muscles are so tuned to both bold and first-sentence text that when presented such a stark opportunity, I naturally try to jump from one bold title to the next. But the bolded "titles" contain no substantive information, so I have to fight that urge, which means I can't skim at all, even though my attention reeeeally wants to jump.

That's Axios for you. I'm sure it appeals to some people.