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https://www.npr.org/2026/06/19/nx-s1-5864503/air-force-one-trump-qatar
The newest Air Force One jet, gifted to President Trump from the Qatari government, arrived ahead of schedule on Friday to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
Friday afternoon, Trump toured the luxury Boeing 747 plane that initially stirred controversy. The plane was…
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https://www.thedissident.news/exclusive-how-the-new-york-times-changed-its-coverage-of-trans-people/
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022.
In January 2015, the New York Times’ only trans opinion columnist…
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https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/congress-just-rushed-through-a-disastrous-copyright-office-overhaul/
In a voice vote last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much…
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/17/period-tax-sanitary-products-abolished-pakistan-minister
Pakistan plans to abolish “period tax”, in a victory for young campaigners who had taken the government to court over the charges.
Finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb announced that sanitary towels and related items were…
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https://newrepublic.com/post/211978/donald-trump-cancels-nominee-hearing-intelligence-voting-rights
The president just scrambled the last week of negotiations in Congress to abet his dead voter ID bill.
Donald Trump cancelled the Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton via a Truth Social post Wednesday, just hours before it was…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/17/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-visit-epstein
Staff from the House oversight and judiciary committees visited the Texas prison where Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is serving her sentence, according to Democratic lawmakers.
In a statement, the Democratic…
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https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/america-250-religion-race-patriotism
A profound identity crisis has gripped America ahead of its 250th birthday: Citizens are less proud, less religiously unified and losing faith that the American Dream still works.
Why it matters: Democracies can survive policy brawls. They struggle to function when…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/cbs-stephen-colbert-peanuts-the-late-show
On his last day hosting CBS’s The Late Show, Stephen Colbert played one of the most iconic songs from the Peanuts soundtrack.
“Oh no! I hope this doesn’t cost CBS any money!” he joked, as Louis Cato and the Great Big Joy Machine performed the…
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/14/switzerland-referendum-population-cap-svp
Voters in Switzerland appeared on Sunday to have rejected an unprecedented far-right proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million in a divisive referendum dubbed “the Swiss Brexit”.
A projection by the national broadcaster SRF, which…
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I’m back in the van for now, so I’m not updating my profile yet, but I returned from Temple this afternoon after a week in the room I’ll be renting.
To call this a stepping stone to the idea of the eventual commune hits the nail on the head. It’s a multigenerational home where if something needs to be done, people just do it. And cook.
In…
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/02/scott-pelley-60-minutes-cbs-news
Scott Pelley, one of the most well-known and respected journalists in broadcast journalism, has been fired by CBS News after clashing with network brass over last week’s severe round of cuts at 60 Minutes, the show he has worked on since 2004, the Guardian…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/graham-platner-maine-senate-sexting
Key Democratic leaders appeared to continue their support for embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on Tuesday after meetings in Washington DC.
Platner is contending with yet another revelation – this time about sexually explicit texts…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/ken-paxton-texas-senate-runoff
I don’t think Talarico could have beaten Cornyn, but holy hell does Paxton carry a lot of baggage. As such, this is the outcome I was hoping to see.
Texans put up with a lot of bullshit, but embezzlement, securities fraud, impeachment and adultery might be too…
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/26/high-temperatures-millions-workers-impacted-by-heat-india-asia
By the time Jalaj Jha begins getting ready for work each morning, he already feels drained. Awakening in a cramped room in Delhi, with no ventilation except a rattling fan pushing hot air around, the 24-year-old gig worker has ahead…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/trump-irs-settlement-tax-returns
The justice department quietly added a provision barring the IRS from auditing Donald Trump’s tax returns on Tuesday, amending a widely criticized agreement that creates a secretive and loosely controlled $1.776bn fund to compensate allies of the…
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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18052026/nextera-dominion-utility-mega-merger/
A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand are reshaping the industry.
The…
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-dreams-of-a-nuclear-power-plant-on-the-moon-heres-why/
Last year, less than a month after being named acting administrator of NASA, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy made an eyebrow-raising announcement to the world: NASA was going to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. As part of…
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/overcrowding-ice-detention-solitary-confinement/
Angel Lemus-Linares, a 32-year-old migrant from El Salvador seeking political asylum, recalls ICE officers shoving him into a filthy, cramped solitary confinement cell and beating him after another detained individual attacked him while in ICE…
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-creates-fund-taxpayer-money-allies-1235564569/
The Justice Department confirmed on Monday that it is creating a $1.776 billion fund to send taxpayer money to “victims of lawfare and weaponization.”
According to a statement from the DOJ to MeidasTouch, the fund would “consist…
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https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/05/18/dutch-cops-shame-games-nets-74-wanted-fraudsters/5241980
Netherlands police’s scheme to unmask and shame scammers into submission is proving highly successful, with 74 of its 100 most wanted now known to investigators.
The country’s “Game Over?!” campaign involved releasing the blurred…
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/18/gaza-cement-dual-use-israeli-ban-recycling-rubble-reconstruction
It is difficult to see through the dust inside the cramped, low-roofed tent on the eastern edge of Khan Younis. Ibrahim al-Aloul works alongside four others, with a piece of fabric tied over his mouth and nose as his…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/trump-cuts-ai-weather-prediction-forecasts
As the US prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal government’s weather forecasts less reliable when they are…
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/17/who-ebola-outbreak-congo-uganda-global-health-emergency
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda is a “public health emergency of international concern”, the World Health Organization has said.
The WHO made its declaration on Sunday after more than 80 deaths and…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/17/trump-washington-dc-reflecting-pool
Workers renovating one of Washington DC’s most historically symbolic sites in a project ordered by Donald Trump may be risking their safety as they race to finish on time for the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations, a union monitoring the site has…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/kash-patel-snorkeling-uss-arizona-memorial-hawaii
Of note:
According to the AP, marine archaeologists and National Park Service crews occasionally dive at the memorial to monitor the wreck’s condition, and other dives have been conducted to inter the remains of surviving USS Arizona crew…
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My ex has a new kitten. She’s very cute and, at five weeks, as the kids like to say, “smol.” I’m not certain at what point “small” became too difficult to type, but as an editor …
At any rate, the cat is not the point. Rather, she invited me up, this time insisting I pay for the Lyft in _both_ directions, which is not how we’ve done this…
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-helium-3-create-a-gold-rush-on-the-moon/
Since time immemorial, humans gazing up at the moon have asked grand questions. Where did it come from? Why does it wax and wane? Is it made of cheese?
We now have responses to most of these (“a giant impact,” “orbital phases” and “no, sadly,”…
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/kyle-diamantas-fda-commissioner-don-jr-hunting-buddy-1235561834/
If you’ve ever swallowed an aspirin, put milk in your coffee, fed your pet, or filled a prescription, then you’ve relied on the lifesaving oversight of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Long viewed as the world’s…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/alligator-alcatraz-south-florida-detention-center-closure
An alliance of environmental groups and immigration advocates has welcomed what looks to be the imminent closure of Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigration jail in the remote Florida Everglades celebrated by Donald Trump for its…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash
A plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy use and impact upon the state’s stressed…