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The British Statesman Who Recognized America's 'Fierce Spirit of Liberty'
James Talarico, Gina Hinojosa attack GOP with parallel populist pitches at Texas Democratic Convention
Dolores Huerta tells Texas Democrats to organize and “save democracy” in surprise convention appearance
Abbott trolls Talarico with tacos and cattle at Texas Democratic Convention, ignoring opponent Hinojosa
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Protests Over Kushner-Backed Development Threaten to Topple Albanian Government
Albania, a country in the southwestern region of the Balkan peninsula, is witnessing one of the biggest waves of anti-government protests since the final end of socialism in 1992. The protests began i
Truthout12d
Minnesota Immigrants Are Still Facing the Fallout of Trump’s ICE Invasion
Months after the Trump administration announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, Minnesota immigrants are still grappling with the impacts of the largest federal immigration crackdown in recent U.S.
NPR12d
Trump nominates former Oklahoma state trooper to head ICE
President Trump nominated Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, to direct Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency hasn't had a Senate-confirmed director since the Obama administrati
NPR12d
Critical fire weather complicates firefighting efforts in massive Utah wildfire
Firefighters working on the nation's largest current wildfire, burning in southern Utah, are being challenged by historic weather conditions. Extreme wildfire behavior is expected to continue through
UN News13d
Venezuela: International rescue teams join the search for survivors as earthquake deaths surpass 1,400
More than 2,000 rescue workers from 27 countries have been deployed to Venezuela to locate people trapped under the rubble following the twin earthquakes on Wednesday, in a deployment supported and co
Global Voices13d
When surveillance becomes part of the landscape
In Latin America, surveillance is colonizing everyday spaces until we are numb to it
The Marshall Project13d
Why New York’s ‘Precision Policing’ Raises Civil Rights Concerns
New York police officers keep watch as protesters hold a rally outside the immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City, in 2025.
TorrentFreak13d
Feds Seize Domain Names of Nearly 400 Pirate Sports Streaming Sites
With the FIFA World Cup being partially hosted by the United States, the chance of a U.S.-led pirate domain seizure round was significant.
Inside Climate News13d
How ‘Mother Trees’ Nurture Our Forests
Interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
TorrentFreak13d
EU-Backed DNS Resolver Collects Pirate Site Blocklist, Which It Doesn’t Use
Earlier this month, BREIN published its latest annual report, providing insights into its priorities and achievements.
Grist13d
Environmental defenders remain among world’s most targeted activists
Environmental and Indigenous rights defenders remained among the world’s most targeted human rights advocates in 2025, despite landmark rulings by international courts affirming governments’ obligatio
CalMatters13d
An explosion scare, then a warehouse fire: Californians want answers about hazardous chemicals
Manuel Valle, 84, jumped on his bike and rode through his Boyle Heights neighborhood despite the protests from his worried children. The air was smoky, for the fifth day in a row; he pushed through fi
Mongabay13d
Women patrol Tanzania’s Pemba waters in a community-led push to protect the sea
PEMBA, Tanzania — Patrolling the sea is not the kind of work many women on Tanzania’s Pemba Island are traditionally expected to do. Yet, for Amina Gharib Issa, it has become part of her life recently
Inside Climate News13d
Can Clusters of Human-Constructed Ponds in the Arizona Desert Save a Threatened Frog?
WHITE MOUNTAINS, Ariz.—As the warming climate drops less rain on the White Mountains and the thirsty atmosphere and soils suck up more of what does fall, the Chiricahua leopard frog has been threatene
Truthout13d
Trans People Behind Bars Face Great Risks. Prison Officials Are Making It Worse.
“I am the ONLY female being held in a male prison here in New Jersey all because I am transgender,” Gia Valentina told Truthout. In January 2026, after years of requesting the procedure, Valentina had
Inside Climate News13d
The Future of Duxbury Reef
BOLINAS, Calif.—Kent Khtikian pointed at a seemingly barren inch of reef. His hair, curly, long and grey blew wildly in the wind underneath a tan cowboy hat. He hunched over and kneeled close to a tin
Reason Magazine12d
Federalist Society Courthouse Steps Podcast on Pung v. Isabella County Takings Case
I recently participated in a Federalist Society podcast on Pung v. Isabella County, the Supreme Court's recent badly flawed Takings Clause decision. Deborah La Fetra of the Pacific Legal Foundation (o
Global Voices13d
Haiti’s ‘Grenadiers’ bring hope and joyful moments at World Cup 2026
‘[W]ith the Grenadiers, the whole world discovered another aspect of Haiti’
Reason Magazine13d
A Biohacker Gives Birth
My six-pack began to disappear in the fourth month of my pregnancy, with the final pack officially vanishing in week 15.
Reason Magazine13d
L.A. Delays Its $30 Hotel 'Olympic Wage' Until After the Olympics
In May of last year, the Los Angeles City Council voted to raise the minimum wage for hotel workers in the city to $30 an hour by 2028. This represented the culmination of over a decade of hotel-speci