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Elon Musk Rips Into Trump’s “Utterly Insane” Tax Bill Again

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After a brief interlude, Elon Musk on Saturday resumed his public wrestling match with President Donald Trump, ripping into the president’s domestic policy bill as “utterly insane and destructive” just as the Senate met to vote on a key procedural step to pass the “big beautiful bill.” “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions […]

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Firefighting Foams Contain Toxic Chemicals. Why Not Switch to Soybeans?

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jeff King has served on the volunteer fire department in Corydon, Kentucky, for over 30 years. He is well aware of the dangers of the job—including one that may be hiding in the supplies he and his crew use to […]

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Hungary Banned Pride Events. Thousands Marched Anyway.

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Earlier this year, Hungary’s parliament passed legislation banning Pride events and allowing the use of facial recognition technology to identify attendees. The ban is supported by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a conservative nationalist and Trump ally whose regime has been widely described as anti-democratic. Orbán has for years decried “gender insanity” and “woke globalists,” the […]

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Environmentalists Sue to Stop Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Deportation Center

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Deep in the Everglades, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has swiftly begun construction of an ICE detention center on an airfield surrounded by wetlands that will house up to 1,000 detainees and could open as soon as next week. In a Friday interview with Fox News, DeSantis called the new center “Alligator Alcatraz” and said […]

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The Collapse of the World’s Coral Reefs is “Death by a Thousand Cuts”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Kenyan marine ecologist David Obura is chair of a panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the world’s leading natural scientists. For many decades, his speciality has been corals, but he has warned that the […]

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Presses Oil Firms on Lobbying for a Huge Tax Break in the Budget Bill

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democratic lawmakers led by the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren are pressing two energy companies about their efforts to “win a $1.1 billion tax loophole” in Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. The proposed exemption, which Senate Republicans inserted into their version of […]

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Trump Once Said Congress Should “Always” Approve Military Strikes

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At nearly 8 p.m ET Saturday, President Donald Trump delivered shocking news that would quickly rouse global angst about the threat of nuclear war. He did so on social media. “A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,” he thumbed out on Truth Social about three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites that […]

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The Supreme Court Just Weakened a Key Civil Rights Law

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The headline from the Supreme Court on Thursday is that the GOP-appointed justices green lit efforts by Republican-controlled states to defund Planned Parenthood by withholding Medicaid funding. The decision imperils the health of millions, denying Medicaid patients access to their preferred provider and shoe-horning patients to a smaller number of available doctors. This is a […]

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In Trump’s Wartime Reality Show, Truth Is a Casualty

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Donald Trump often does not tell the truth. The intelligence community produces classified reports that are unavailable for outside evaluation. Thus, the public cannot trust what Trump and his crew say about the intelligence. This is a fundamental problem. We cannot accept as fact what Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi […]

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Murder Rates Could Hit Record Lows This Year, but Killings by Police Are Rising

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There’s a good chance the United States will see the lowest murder rate it has ever recorded this year, a major change from the early pandemic, when killings skyrocketed. In 2023 and 2024, homicides fell at what appears to be a record pace—and they’re continuing to plummet so far in 2025, according to a recent […]

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Zohran’s Next Challenge: Another Disgraced (Former) Democrat

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As certain corners of the political elite panic over Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York’s Democratic primary, the city’s scandal-plagued mayor is suddenly swaggering. “No one does it like New York, no one,” Eric Adams said at his official reelection announcement on Thursday. “We laid the foundation, and now it’s time to build the […]

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As Political Violence Surges, Trump Shuts Down a Top Prevention Program

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Since March, the Trump administration has dismantled a leading office at the Department of Homeland Security whose mission was averting terrorism and targeted violence. The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, known as CP3, has been stripped of funding, and most of its 40-plus personnel have been fired, reassigned, or otherwise pushed out. Amid this […]

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