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6 Things to Know About Judge Who Stopped Congress, Trump From Defunding Planned Parenthood
The Massachusetts federal judge who temporarily secured taxpayer dollars for Planned Parenthood after the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” defunding of the nation’s largest abortion provider has a career steeped in progressive politics and controversial...
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Here's Why the USDA Is Unleashing Millions of Lab-Grown Flies
The U.S. is releasing millions of sterile screwworm flies bred in Texas to combat the flesh-eating New World screwworm, recently discovered in southern Mexico and spreading north. The parasite, which eats living flesh, was recently detected about...

Good samaritan who saved 9-year-old from shark attack now detained by ICE — facing possible deportation
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Database’ is here—and it’s darker than you think
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting the...

Big Brother Trump Is Watching You
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting the...

Big Brother Trump is already watching you
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting the...

This Secretive Company Built An Empire By Hawking Bad Financial And Health Advice On Facebook
The roughly fifty-seven minute video, titled “URGENT WARNING for Americans Born Before 1979”, begins with a white-haired man in a checkered shirt sitting in a blurred hallway. He speaks slowly: “With Donald Trump taking the White House and RFK Jr....

The rules-based order died in Gaza. Will international law live?
This new international law is not strong enough to stop a genocide (yet). But, for the first time in five centuries, it exists. It is here. And it is ours to mould, writes Alonso Gurmendi [photo credit: Getty Images] It’s been nearly 21 months...

A Return To The Truth
Leonid Nevzlin Digital authoritarianism breaks down where solidarity and resistance emerge. They return not only in formation, in overcoats and with portraits of the leader. The new ghosts of authoritarianism often come in fancy suits or sneakers,...

The Partisan Perception Gap: Electoral Commission Credibilit...
Abstract The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana stands at the critical intersection of democratic consolidation and partisan contestation. This paper examines the paradoxical phenomenon whereby ruling governments consistently endorse EC actions...

Full list of players for each team in the 2025 NBA Summer League
With the draft and free agency in the rearview, summer league action is the next major tentpole on the NBA's offseason calendar. The action begins when eight franchises send teams to either Salt Lake City or San Francisco from July 5-8, before all...

Beijing joins hands with global partners to build digital-friendly city
BEIJING - “The question is not whether global digital transformation will continue, but whether we can ensure its benefits are inclusive, equitable, and accessible to all,” UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in China, James George, delivered...

This dental clinic is bringing confidence and smiles to underserved communities
When Cheryl Martinez enrolled in an addiction recovery program last May, one of her first orders of business was calling Ms. Darlene. Martinez had just spent a few months in jail and was sent to a recovery center in North County, after decades of...

U.N. Hosts Dress Rehearsal for COP30
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Brazilian negotiators prepare for November’s United Nations climate conference, a Nicaraguan dissident is killed in Costa Rica, and a Peruvian Japanese restaurant in...

Belgian customs seized 16.7 tonnes of cocaine during first half of 2025
Belgian customs seized 16.7 tonnes of cocaine in the Antwerp region during the first half of 2025, as drug traffickers continue to evolve their criminal strategies, reports RTBF/Belga. The quantity of white powder recovered was approximately five...

Weekly Coffee News: Luckin Enters U.S. + Good Food Awards Entry Period
Welcome to DCN’s Weekly Coffee News! Subscribe here for all the latest coffee industry news. Also, check out the latest career opportunities at CoffeeIndustryJobs.com. Luckin Coffee Officially Enters the U.S. Market Following months of...

Forgotten alliance: How Iran once turned to Israel for help
Long before today's tensions between Iran and Israel, a period of unexpected cooperation existed between the two nations – one that few remember today. In the early 1960s, a natural disaster became the unlikely catalyst for collaboration that...

KALW Almanac - Monday July 7, 2025
Today is Monday July 7, 2025 July 7 is the 188th day of the year 177 days remain until the end of the year 77 days until autumn begins the sun rose in San Francisco at 5:53:23 am and sunset will be at 8:35:15 pm Today we have 14 hours and 41...

Trump wants to take back citizenship already given to some immigrants
Stripping some naturalized Americans of citizenship is now a top priority of the U.S. Justice Department, according to memorandum recently made public. “President Trump and Attorney General (Pam) Bondi have directed the Civil Division to use its...

Trump’s united surveillance states of America: How will your data be deployed?
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting the...