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Feds Erase “Harm” From the Endangered Species Act, Opening Habitats to Bulldozers
Feds Erase “Harm” From the Endangered Species Act, Opening Habitats to Bulldozers The Departments of the Interior and Commerce on Thursday finalized a rule rescinding the longstanding regulatory definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act. Since 1981, “harm” had been defined to include actions that degrade or modify a threatened species’ habitat, not just…
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Trump Threatens “1,000 Missiles” as Iran Ceasefire Collapses
Trump Threatens “1,000 Missiles” as Iran Ceasefire Collapses President Trump said Friday that the ceasefire between the United States and Iran is over, as tensions escalated over control of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump had already ramped up his rhetoric against Iranian leadership in recent days, calling them “scum,” and the situation deteriorated further after…
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Trump Trashes His Own Housing Bill, Then Lets It Become Law Anyway
Trump Trashes His Own Housing Bill, Then Lets It Become Law Anyway The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the first major U.S. housing affordability bill in roughly 30 years, became law at 12:01 a.m. ET on July 11 without President Trump’s signature, after a 10-day waiting period expired since Congress formally presented it to…
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Judge Tosses Proud Boys’ Jan. 6 Convictions, Even While Saying Trump’s Version of Events Is “Fiction”
Judge Tosses Proud Boys’ Jan. 6 Convictions, Even While Saying Trump’s Version of Events Is “Fiction” U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, on Friday granted a Justice Department motion to dismiss with prejudice the remaining convictions of four Proud Boys members, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola, for their…
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Trump Fires the Referees Right Before the Midterms
Trump Fires the Referees Right Before the Midterms President Donald Trump on Thursday, July 9, fired the two Democratic members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, notifying them by email; Hovland learned of his removal via a White House email while visiting a local election office in Missouri. Christy McCormick,…
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Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Spreads to New Provinces as Unpaid Health Workers Walk Off the Job
Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Spreads to New Provinces as Unpaid Health Workers Walk Off the Job The death toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak reached 600 as of a government report released Thursday, with confirmed cases nationwide climbing to 1,759. New suspected cases have surfaced for the first time in the previously unaffected…
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Nine Months Into a Ceasefire, Israel Now Controls Nearly 70% of Gaza
Nine Months Into a Ceasefire, Israel Now Controls Nearly 70% of Gaza Nine months after a US-brokered ceasefire took effect between Israel and Hamas on October 10, Israeli forces now control nearly 70% of the Gaza Strip, well beyond the roughly 53% “yellow line” demarcation set under the original truce [1]. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
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US-Iran Ceasefire Collapses as Both Sides Trade Strikes Over the Strait of Hormuz
US-Iran Ceasefire Collapses as Both Sides Trade Strikes Over the Strait of Hormuz President Trump declared the US-Iran ceasefire established under last month’s memorandum of understanding “over” after Iranian forces fired on commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, and the US military struck roughly 90 Iranian military targets in a second consecutive night of…
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Disney’s Live-Action ‘Moana’ Sinks at the Box Office With a $250M Bomb Warning
Disney’s Live-Action ‘Moana’ Sinks at the Box Office With a $250M Bomb Warning Disney’s live-action remake of “Moana” opened in U.S. theaters Friday, July 10, 2026, pulling in $4.5 million from Thursday preview screenings and tracking for a three-day opening weekend between $40 million and $45 million, well short of the $60 million-plus industry had…
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Meta Killed Its AI Face-Remix Tool After Just 3 Days — And Nobody’s Happy
Meta Killed Its AI Face-Remix Tool After Just 3 Days — And Nobody’s Happy Meta launched an AI image generation tool called Muse on Instagram this week, letting any user create AI-generated images by @-mentioning another public Instagram account and pulling from that account’s photos as reference material. The feature was opt-out by default, meaning…