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California is getting ready to increase a health insurance tax. Will it affect your premium?
This lawmaker’s proposal could make California ‘the most secretive state in the country’
Voter voices: Reena Evers-Everette witnessed rage over Black voting
A tax on billionaires qualified for the November ballot. 5 things to know about the measure
Trump Administration’s Coal Investments Breathe New Life Into Plants With Repeated Violations
Paxton breaks with Texas GOP’s anti-IVF platform, saying he supports the procedure
Ted Cruz bill to regulate college sports in NIL era advances
U.S. Supreme Court unanimously sides with Texas man, rules it’s not a crime for marijuana users to have guns
Who Can't Afford Food?
FedSoc Forum: "No Enemies to the Right? Antisemitism and the Big Tent"
Today in Supreme Court History: June 18, 1787
1776 All-Stars: Why a Pseudonymous Anti-Federalist Is My Favorite Founder
The Texas GOP wants closed primaries. Here’s what that would mean for voters.
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Newsom promised to help Californians build new careers. Now, the money is running out
Landmark $211M tax-break deal could trump SpaceX’s deal in South Texas
“Survival of the fittest”: Insiders say screwworm could improve the Texas cattle industry, beef
The War on Economic Growth Is a War on the Poor
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Greenwood Leflore Hospital warns of closure as Medicaid moves to withhold $2.4 million payment
Far-Right Israeli Minister Ben Gvir to Attend UNCops Conference in NYC in July
Trump Administration Attempts to Stop Reparations to Black Community in Illinois
Police Tear Gas Protesters After Killing 1-Year-Old in Mississippi
New Poll Finds Most Americans Back Adopting Popular Vote to Select President
Trump Dismisses Question on Holding Officials Accountable for Iran School Strike
Trump Administration Shifts Pregnancy-Prevention Program to Promote Childbearing
Israel Hits Lebanon With Drone Strikes Hours After US and Iran Sign Agreement
Mamdani Defends Skipping Israel Day Parade as Action Against Israeli Government
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Saudi parrotfish festival stretches scientific & traditional ecological knowledge (commentary)
With plastic treaty in limbo, Mongabay speaks to top negotiator Julio Cordano
In search of the ‘rare and beautiful’ in an Ivorian rainforest
Monika Silva Koniuszek, 41, defended the everyday things corruption corrodes
Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy
Vanilla, fake eggs and nausea: How Australian scientists are training foxes to avoid turtle nests
Nepal’s rhino translocation looks good in numbers, but not so much in habitat
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The Center Square22d
Data suggests decline in Spokane homelessness as origin debate remains
(The Center Square) - As taxpayers question whether they’re subsidizing individuals who first became homeless before or after moving to Spokane, regional data suggests most lived there before their mo
Mississippi Today22d
Special education teachers were promised an extra $2,000. Where’s the money?
As teachers finalize their contracts for the upcoming school year, their salaries will reflect a $2,000 raise the Legislature passed this year. However, special education teachers might notice somethi
The Center Square22d
WATCH: Senate OKs taxes on digital software, managed care
(The Center Square) – The California Senate passed budget bills on Thursday to tax digital software and managed care organizations, garnering Republican criticism that the Democratic supermajority is
NPR22d
U.S. lifts blockade on Iranian ports as 60-day clock for a final deal starts ticking
The U.S. is allowing ships to enter and exit Iranian ports and coastal areas as the countries move to a new phase of negotiations over the next 60 days.
Common Dreams22d
130+ Groups Ask Congress to Reject AI Preemption Bill
On Thursday, Demand Progress and 130+ civil society groups sent a letter asking Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to reject legislation that would effectively kill state AI safeguards. T
Common Dreams22d
Response to the closing of the Bonn climate talks
Romain Ioualalen, Global Policy lead at Oil Change International, said:
Common Dreams22d
US-Iran MOU Signals Normalization But Higher Fossil Fuel Prices Will Cost Over $700 Billions in 2026
New analysis by 350.org shows that people and businesses will continue to pay a steep price for fossil fuel dependence, even if the Strait of Hormuz fully reopens and remains so. According to 350.org
Democracy Now!22d
"Shoot the People": Meet Misan Harriman, Celebrated Photographer & Outspoken Advocate for Palestine
The new documentary Shoot the People profiles the Nigerian British photographer and activist Misan Harriman, the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of British Vogue and an outspoken advocate
Reason Magazine22d
Plaintiff Can't Litigate Claim That "Security Clearance Process" Was Used "as a Pretextual Weapon to Execute an Ideological Purge"
From Judge Kyle Dudek (M.D. Fla.) today in Reilly v. U.S. Att'y Gen.:
Reason Magazine22d
ICE Says It's Moved Detainees Out of 'Alligator Alcatraz' For Hurricane Season
After reports that the Trump administration and state of Florida are considering abandoning the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in the Florida Everglades, the Department of Homeland Security (DH
The Real News Network22d
Big Tech’s assault on free speech: Mergers, social media, AI, and censorship
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Reason Magazine22d
Supreme Court Rules Government Cannot Bar Marijuana Users From Owning Guns
Today, in United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment prevents the federal government from banning gun ownership by marijuana users. Unusually for a Second Amendment cas
Truthout22d
A Wall Street Consensus Was on Display at the G7 Summit
World leaders are returning home from the annual G7 summit, having failed to address issues such as income inequality, climate change and territorial conflict, while entertaining the wealthy executive
CDC Newsroom22d
Transcript - Update on Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda and CDC's World Cup 2026(TM) activation
Transcript - Update on Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda and CDC's World Cup 2026(TM) activation
NSF News22d
Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative
The U.S. National Science Foundation appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders that have informed us they rely on data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Effective immed
The Conversation22d
Juneteenth’s real meaning is written on the plates of smoked meats, potato salad and watermelon
“Visiting Comanche Crossing on Juneteenth felt like freedom,” my father said as we pulled into Booker T. Washington Park, the site near what used to be known as the historic Comanche Crossing on Lake
Dialogue Earth22d
Q&A: ‘Being out in nature is a small but significant act of resistance’
Summer is the season of amaltas in Delhi. The yellow-flowering trees, also known as Indian laburnum, burst into bloom as temperatures climb. They offer a gentle reminder that even amid relentless urba
Inside Climate News22d
United Nations Climate Talks in Bonn Marked by ‘Sidestepping and Stalling’
The United States did not send a federal government delegation to the latest round of high-level global climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, but the current administration’s foreign and economic pol
Inside Climate News22d
How Shining a Light on Ships Could Help Solve Illegal Fishing
Mamadou Sarr remembers when an artisanal fisherman in Dakar only had to helm his wooden pirogue a single kilometer offshore to find a rich bounty of sardines and cuttlefish. For generations, Senegal’s
Dialogue Earth22d
Q&A: What the future holds for Africa’s fish, and Africa’s fishers
African fisheries support millions of jobs and provide essential food to millions more. But some of the continent’s waters are among the most overfished globally, according to a major new report from
Federal Reserve22d
Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Bank of Eufaula and S N B Bancshares, Inc.
Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Bank of Eufaula and S N B Bancshares, Inc.
The Real News Network22d
From fascism to AI, our world is breaking. Only rank-and-file workers can save it.
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Capital B22d
New Orleans Teens Are Keeping Jazz Alive Through the Trombone Shorty Academy
NEW ORLEANS — Tyler Stevenson, 17, stood in the spotlight for his solo on the same stage graced by James Brown and Buddy Guy decades ago at New Orleans’ historic nightclub Tipitina’s. This past spring
Federal Reserve22d
Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company
Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company
Chalkbeat22d
Feds open new investigations into transgender athletes in three Michigan school districts
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Chalkbeat22d
The other champions at the Knicks parade: NYC public school student basketball players
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Chalkbeat22d
14 candidates for 5 seats: See who’s running for school board at IPS and other Indianapolis area districts
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Chalkbeat22d
Allegations against Kamar Samuels highlight widespread dysfunction in NYC’s school contract system
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Reason Magazine22d
Supreme Court Makes It Clear There Is No Drug Exception to the Second Amendment
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that the government may not strip people of their Second Amendment rights or prosecute them for illegal gun possession simply because they are marijuana
Global Voices22d
Can the Special Seats Bill deliver the gender parity Nigeria needs?
The Special Seats Bill was designed to tackle the severe underrepresentation of women in parliament
Reason Magazine22d
A Slow Thursday At The Court
This evening, I will be speaking to students with The Fund for American Studies. As is my usual custom with June trips to DC, I went to the Court for opinion hand downs. And, as per my usual custom, I
Reason Magazine22d
Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism
As the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence nears, it looks like Americans overwhelmingly approve of their country's cardinal principles.