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Venezuela’s Death Toll Climbs Past 1,700 as Over 43,000 People Remain Missing After Twin Earthquakes
Venezuela’s Death Toll Climbs Past 1,700 as Over 43,000 People Remain Missing After Twin Earthquakes On June 24, 2026, a 7.2-magnitude foreshock struck northern Venezuela, followed 39 seconds later by a 7.5-magnitude mainshock — the strongest earthquake to hit the country since 1900. The twin quakes devastated La Guaira state and the capital Caracas, collapsing…
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Love Island UK Boots Casa Amor Contestant After Stabbing Court Documents Surface — But He Was Never Charged
Love Island UK Boots Casa Amor Contestant After Stabbing Court Documents Surface — But He Was Never Charged Gabriel Garland, a 24-year-old Casa Amor entrant on ITV2’s Love Island UK Season 13, was removed from the show after producers discovered his name appeared in court documents linked to a 2019 stabbing in south-east London. According…
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DC’s $170 Million Supergirl Crashes and Burns While Toy Story 5 Laughs All the Way to the Bank
DC’s $170 Million Supergirl Crashes and Burns While Toy Story 5 Laughs All the Way to the Bank Supergirl, the second film in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe, directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El, debuted to a deeply disappointing $37.1 million at the North American box office…
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Trump Signs a “Freedom to Fix” Order for Car Owners — Auto Dealers and Environmentalists Are Both Livid
Trump Signs a “Freedom to Fix” Order for Car Owners — Auto Dealers and Environmentalists Are Both Livid President Trump signed a presidential memorandum titled “Lowering the Cost of Living by Promoting the Freedom to Fix” on June 29, 2026, directing the Environmental Protection Agency to clarify within 30 days what vehicle owners and independent…
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The House Is About to Brawl Over a $1.15 Trillion Defense Bill That Includes Renaming the Pentagon the “Department of War”
The House Is About to Brawl Over a $1.15 Trillion Defense Bill That Includes Renaming the Pentagon the “Department of War” The House Rules Committee voted 8-4 on June 29, 2026, to advance more than 300 amendments for floor consideration on H.R. 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, a $1.15 trillion…
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Witkoff and Kushner Fly to Qatar for Iran Nuclear Talks — Tehran Says No Meeting Is Actually Scheduled
Witkoff and Kushner Fly to Qatar for Iran Nuclear Talks — Tehran Says No Meeting Is Actually Scheduled President Trump announced on June 29, 2026, that special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner would travel to Qatar for talks with Iran, despite the United States and Iran having traded military strikes in the…
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Supreme Court Deals the GOP a 5-4 Loss on Mail Ballots — Trump Demands the Filibuster Die in Response
Supreme Court Deals the GOP a 5-4 Loss on Mail Ballots — Trump Demands the Filibuster Die in Response The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on June 29, 2026, that Mississippi’s law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days afterward to be counted does not conflict with federal statutes governing…
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Supreme Court Hands Trump the Power to Fire Independent Regulators — The Fed Barely Survives
Supreme Court Hands Trump the Power to Fire Independent Regulators — The Fed Barely Survives The Supreme Court voted 6-3 on June 29, 2026, to overturn Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, a 91-year-old precedent that had prevented presidents from dismissing members of independent federal regulatory agencies without a finding of cause. The ruling validates President…
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1,300 Europeans Dead in One Week: The Heatwave Everyone Predicted Finally Arrived and Nobody Was Ready
1,300 Europeans Dead in One Week: The Heatwave Everyone Predicted Finally Arrived and Nobody Was Ready The World Health Organization reported more than 1,300 excess deaths across Europe between June 21 and June 28, 2026, as a prolonged high-pressure heat dome stalled over the continent and drove temperatures to all-time national records across multiple countries…
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1,719 Confirmed Dead, 50,000 Still Missing: Venezuela’s Earthquake Relief Effort Is Collapsing Under Its Own Weight
1,719 Confirmed Dead, 50,000 Still Missing: Venezuela’s Earthquake Relief Effort Is Collapsing Under Its Own Weight Twin earthquakes measuring Mw 7.2 and Mw 7.5, striking 39 seconds apart, hit northwestern and central Venezuela on June 24, 2026, in the strongest seismic event to strike the country since 1900; the confirmed death toll reached 1,719 by…