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House Republicans Torch Their Own Agenda, Send Congress Home Early to Dodge a Voter ID Fight
House Republicans Torch Their Own Agenda, Send Congress Home Early to Dodge a Voter ID Fight House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed lawmakers for an extended July Fourth recess on July 1, after 14 Republican members joined Democrats to kill a procedural rule in a 224-198 vote, freezing the chamber’s entire legislative calendar [1]. The failed…
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Ukraine Torched a Third of Russia’s Oil Refineries — Now Ordinary Russians Can’t Fill Their Tanks
Ukraine Torched a Third of Russia’s Oil Refineries — Now Ordinary Russians Can’t Fill Their Tanks Ukrainian drone attacks have knocked approximately one-third of Russia’s oil refining capacity offline, triggering nationwide fuel shortages and rationing across the country, The Washington Post and wire services reported on July 1, 2026. An AP count found more than…
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1,300 Dead and Climbing: Europe’s Record Heatwave Is a Catastrophe Everyone Is Blaming on Someone Else
1,300 Dead and Climbing: Europe’s Record Heatwave Is a Catastrophe Everyone Is Blaming on Someone Else More than 1,300 excess deaths have been recorded across Europe since June 21 in connection with a record-breaking heatwave, the World Health Organization reported. France’s public health agency logged approximately 1,000 excess deaths since the heatwave began on June…
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Soldiers in the Streets, 900+ Jailed: South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown Turns Violent
Soldiers in the Streets, 900+ Jailed: South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown Turns Violent South African authorities arrested more than 900 people on July 1, 2026, as nationwide anti-immigrant demonstrations swept the country in what organizers had billed as a final enforcement of their self-imposed “deadline” for undocumented migrants to leave. Police monitored 120 marches across the…
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Hollywood’s Biggest Merger Ever Just Got Approved — And Everyone in the Industry Has a Reason to Hate It
Hollywood’s Biggest Merger Ever Just Got Approved — And Everyone in the Industry Has a Reason to Hate It Paramount Skydance has formally submitted a remedy to the European Commission agreeing to exit its international film distribution joint venture with Universal Pictures — the United International Pictures partnership — as a concession required to clear…
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Taylor Swift’s MSG Wedding Is the Biggest Party You’re Not Invited To — And New York Is Paying the Price
Taylor Swift’s MSG Wedding Is the Biggest Party You’re Not Invited To — And New York Is Paying the Price Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce are set to marry at Madison Square Garden in New York City this week, with a rehearsal dinner for roughly 100 guests at the Infosys…
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A 29-Year-Old DSA Candidate Just Ended Diana DeGette’s 30-Year Congressional Career — Denver’s Democratic Establishment Is in Shock
A 29-Year-Old DSA Candidate Just Ended Diana DeGette’s 30-Year Congressional Career — Denver’s Democratic Establishment Is in Shock Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old Ph.D. student and former attorney running as a democratic socialist, defeated 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District on June 30, 2026, ending DeGette’s three-decade career…
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Republicans Are Pushing Courts to Allow Voter Roll Purges Inside the 90-Day Election Window — And the Stakes Are the 2026 Midterms
Republicans Are Pushing Courts to Allow Voter Roll Purges Inside the 90-Day Election Window — And the Stakes Are the 2026 Midterms Republican state officials in Arizona and Ohio are mounting a coordinated legal effort to reinterpret a longstanding provision of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 that bars election authorities from running systematic…
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Political Parties Can Now Spend Unlimited Money Alongside Their Candidates — The Supreme Court Just Supercharged the Two-Party Machine
Political Parties Can Now Spend Unlimited Money Alongside Their Candidates — The Supreme Court Just Supercharged the Two-Party Machine The Supreme Court voted 6–3 on June 30, 2026 to strike down a 1974 post-Watergate federal law limiting how much money political parties can spend in direct coordination with their candidates. The case, National Republican Senatorial…
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Supreme Court Says States Can Ban Trans Girls From Women’s Sports — Everyone Is Furious for Different Reasons
Supreme Court Says States Can Ban Trans Girls From Women’s Sports — Everyone Is Furious for Different Reasons The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 on June 30, 2026 that state laws requiring student athletes to compete according to their biological sex at birth do not violate Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth…