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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…
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The Supreme Court Buried Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order 6–3 — And Nobody Got What They Wanted
The Supreme Court Buried Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order 6–3 — And Nobody Got What They Wanted The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 on June 30, 2026 in Trump v. Barbara that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause guarantees automatic citizenship to virtually all children born on U.S. soil, including those born to parents who entered the country…
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Iran Is Bombing Ships on the New Hormuz Bypass Route — and 20% of the World’s Oil Trade Is in the Crossfire
Iran Is Bombing Ships on the New Hormuz Bypass Route — and 20% of the World’s Oil Trade Is in the Crossfire Following coordinated U.S. and Israeli airstrikes under Operation Epic Fury in late February 2026 that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran announced on March 4 that the Strait of Hormuz — through…
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Ukraine’s Drones Just Broke Russia’s Fuel Supply — Putin Admitted It, and the Gas Stations Are Turning Violent
Ukraine’s Drones Just Broke Russia’s Fuel Supply — Putin Admitted It, and the Gas Stations Are Turning Violent On June 29, 2026, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an unusually candid public admission to a meeting of senior officials: Ukrainian long-range drone and missile strikes on oil refineries inside Russia have caused nationwide fuel shortages. By…