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Gas prices are high for July 4. California’s price-gouging fixes are still on the shelf
As America Celebrates 250th, Murkiness Surrounds Trump-Backed Planning Fund
Today in Supreme Court History: July 3, 1941
Texas Stock Exchange to launch trading on Monday in test of upstart’s challenge to Wall Street
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
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Taxpayer-Funded 250th Anniversary Group Pushes AI Slop to Whitewash US History
Americans Will Never Shut Up or Do As We're Told
What Makes Someone American? It's Neither Creed Nor Bloodline—It's a Spirit
On America's 250th Birthday, Celebrate Liberty
Review: Gore Vidal's Burr Is the Anti-Hamilton
America's Founding Drinkers: Washington and His Men Knew How To Party
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ICE must provide bond hearings within 90 days to detainees awaiting removal decision, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals says
One year after federal funding cuts, Mississippi’s Vietnamese health navigators face an uncertain future
Israeli Settlers Are Pushing a Plan to Establish 100 New Outposts in West Bank
Israel Reportedly Planned to Assassinate Iranian Negotiators During Peace Talks
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Mississippi Today6d
Some paid the ultimate price to enact voting rights. Their survivors see America turning backward
WASHINGTON — Holiday gatherings and major life events have come with an empty seat. Certain dates on the calendar meant time at a cemetery, standing before granite stones.
The Center Square6d
America’s 250th: Fireworks, fairs and festivals planned in nation's capital
(The Center Square) – The federal government has planned a day packed with events commemorating the nation's highly anticipated 250th birthday, including an address from President Donald Trump before
NPR6d
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce fans gather for glimpse of top secret wedding
Superfans and sleuths appear to have their hunches confirmed on Friday, as dozens of black cars dropped off elegantly dressed guests outside of Madison Square Garden in New York City. The wedding bash
NPR6d
Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz remains a powerful bargaining chip
Despite efforts by U.S. negotiators, Iran says it wants to charge a toll for ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. It's yet another unresolved issue of the U.S.-Iran war.
Global Voices6d
No safety, no way out: The Rohingya girls caught between aid cuts and child marriage in Bangladesh
Shrinking aid, unchecked polygamous marriage, and deepening poverty are driving Rohingya girls into silence and debt-driven marriages
Global Voices6d
After repeal of anti-gay sex law, LGBTQ+ individuals continue to face discrimination in Singapore
LGBTQ+ members continue to encounter bias and unfair policies
Truthout6d
AI Industry Is Creating a New Age of Imperial Extraction and Labor Exploitation
In our July Fourth special broadcast, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of artificia
Democracy Now!7d
Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the "Quasi-Religious" Push for Artificial Intelligence
As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise
Reason Magazine7d
HHS Video That Depicted HHS Group Director Wearing Allegedly Anti-Israel Symbols Wasn't Actionable Workplace Harassment
An excerpt from Openden v. Kennedy, decided Tuesday by Judge Adam Abelson (D. Md.):
Reason Magazine7d
UNC Non-Tenure-Track Professor's Nonrenewal Upheld
From Chavis v. UNC, decided Tuesday by Chief Judge Catherine Eagles (M.D.N.C.):
The Marshall Project7d
What, to the Immigrant, Is Your Fourth of July?
In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ landmark speech — and America at 250 — immigrants explain what Independence Day means to them.
ProPublica7d
“He Didn’t Need to Die.” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis.
Guards at an immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, could see a detainee in his cell with one end of a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and the other tied to the door handle. If they opened t
Inside Climate News7d
Drone Delivery Could Cut Pollution. Can Communities Live With the Noise?
RICHARDSON, Texas—Jonathan Pace first noticed the noise. But it wasn’t until he bought a Bluetooth-based drone tracker that what seemed like a neighborhood nuisance became something he could measure:
TorrentFreak7d
French Police Dismantle Operation Behind the Already Defunct YggTorrent
YggTorrent was France’s largest torrent community, with more than 10 million registered members when it shut down in March following a major hack.
Yale Climate Connections6d
Super Typhoon Bavi becomes the 3rd Cat 5 of 2026
Bavi is expected to pass through the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands near Tinian and Saipan islands Sunday afternoon (U.S. EDT) as a Cat 5, potentially causing catastrophic damage.
Mongabay6d
Tropical mountain wildlife are at high risk from climate change impacts, study finds
As the planet warms, animals living in tropical mountains may find it increasingly difficult to shift to new areas, according to a new study. Tropical mountains are particularly at risk when the impac
Dialogue Earth6d
Cambodia’s grid has reached people who can’t connect to it
In the forested highlands along the Mekong River, 55-year-old Kha Sros piles bundles of firewood in the kitchen of her wooden house. This wood, chopped from dwindling forest patches, has become a hous
Mongabay7d
Australia’s seagrass meadows under pressure as climate change turns up the heat
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is renowned for its coral, but far less so for its expansive seagrass meadows. “People don’t dive on them, don’t snorkel on them, and don’t go rock poo
Chalkbeat6d
Michigan lawmakers OK increased student funding and investments in literacy
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Inside Climate News7d
California’s First Carbon Capture Project Is Up and Running. Environmentalists Are Still Trying To Stop It.
California Resources Corporation, the state’s largest oil company, passed a long-targeted milestone in May: It had finally taken carbon dioxide that would otherwise warm the atmosphere and injected it
Reason Magazine7d
Mike Huckabee's False-Advertising-Related Case Against Meta Can Go Forward
From the June 23 decision in Huckabee v. Meta Platforms, Inc., by Third Circuit Judge Peter Phipps, joined by Judges Arianna Freeman and Emil Bove:
Reason Magazine7d
Open Thread
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Reason Magazine7d
Some Thoughts on the Court's Opinion(s) in the Birthright Citizenship Case
Ilya Somin has already covered much of the Trump v. Barbara territory in his posting here on the VC a few days ago [available here], and I agree with everything he writes, including his terse summary:
Reason Magazine7d
The American Bald Eagle Is Back - But Don't Credit the Endangered Species Act
The American bald eagle--our nation's national bird and symbol--is doing well. Populations have been expanding for years, and are now approaching the levels estimated for the founding era.