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The Guardian

  • Trump suggests Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre among young female staff he hired away from Mar-a-Lago – US politics live

    US president, asked on Air Force One about breaking with financier, says Epstein stole ‘people that worked in the spa’Ghislaine Maxwell demands immunity before testifying to CongressThe Trump administration must continue reimbursing Planned Parenthood clinics for Medicaid-funded services, a federal judge ruled on Monday, in an escalating legal war between the reproductive health giant and the White House over Republican efforts to “defund” Planned Parenthood.Days after Donald Trump signed his sweeping tax bill, Planned Parenthood sued over a provision in the bill that ended Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from Medicaid in 2023, such as Planned Parenthood. Continue reading...

  • US states sue over Trump demand to collect details of food assistance recipients

    Attorneys general challenge request for data of people enrolled in federally funded food assistance programA coalition of 20 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s demand that their states turn over personal data of people enrolled in a federally funded food assistance program, fearing the information will be used to aid mass deportations.The data demand comes as the Trump administration has sought to collect private information on mostly lower-income people who may be in the country illegally. It has already ordered the Internal Revenue Service and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to share private information with the Department of Homeland Security to aid in deportation […]

  • ‘The war needs to end’: is the US right turning on Israel?

    Longstanding ties between US conservatives and Israel face strain as war’s toll and internal rifts reshape the rightAs the Israel-Gaza war nears its two-year mark, and as images of starving people and utter devastation flood social media, cracks seem to be emerging in the American right’s typically iron-clad support for Israel.The US continues to support Israel diplomatically and militarily, and last Thursday pulled out of peace negotiations that it accused Hamas of sabotaging. And in the US Congress, only two Republicans voted for a recent amendment that would have pulled funding for missile defense systems for Israel. One of them, Marjorie Taylor Greene, on Monday became the first Republican to call Israel’s war a “genocide”. […]

  • Trump moves to scrap climate rule tying greenhouse gases to public health harm

    EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to revoke key scientific finding that allows for US climate regulationDonald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for US action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule rescinds a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. Continue reading...

  • Justice department asked California to give details of non-citizens on voter rolls

    Exclusive: Unusual request comes as Trump administration asks about a dozen states to provide information on votersThe Department of Justice has asked several large California counties to provide detailed personal information of non-citizens who got on to the state voter rolls, an unusual request that comes as the Trump administration has asked about a dozen states to provide wide swaths of information about voters and election practices.The justice department’s voting section sent identical letters to local election officials in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego on 9 July. The request asks the officials to provide the total number of non-citizens who had their voter registrations cancelled since 2020 as well as a copy of their […]

Ensia

  • Journalists, meet climate change

    The headlines scream about war, crime, political strife, economic woes. But underlying it all — and more and more often bubbling to the top — is what future historians will likely look back and call the story of this century: Climate change. Recognizing the importance of this pervasive phenomenon, Covering Climate Now, Columbia Journalism Review, the Solutions Journalism Network, The Guardian […]

The Marshall Project

Fair Observer

  • Crackdown Against Protesters Quickly Reveals Old Wounds In Serbia

    Protestors in Serbia have faced increasing use of force by the police as they’ve incorporated increasing civil disobedience into their tactics. The students, who had been leading rallies until recently, issued a deadline for the government to set a date for snap elections. Once it had come and gone, they began to set up roadblocks… Continue reading Crackdown Against Protesters Quickly Reveals Old Wounds In Serbia The post Crackdown Against Protesters Quickly Reveals Old Wounds In Serbia appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • Genocide… and Then Some!

    The first stanza of the English version of French composer Charles Trenet’s celebrated song, “Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?” reads: I wish you bluebirds in the springTo give your heart a song to singAnd then a kiss, but more than thisI wish you love. These lyrics (by the way, very different from the untranslatable… Continue reading Genocide… and Then Some! The post Genocide… and Then Some! appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • Iran Demands IAEA to Answer for Its Alleged Security Blunder

    On June 13, 2025, Israel launched an offensive against Iran without provocation, killing the country’s top military leaders as well as striking Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz. Israel claimed that the attacks were meant to prevent the Iranian government from developing nuclear weapons, alleging that the country was close to doing so.  Iran has… Continue reading Iran Demands IAEA to Answer for Its Alleged Security Blunder The post Iran Demands IAEA to Answer for Its Alleged Security Blunder appeared first on Fair Observer.

Aeon

  • How to run the world

    We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests - by David Van Reybrouck Read at Aeon

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ProPublica

Unicorn Riot

  • Amidst Tourist Season, a Pro-Palestinian Initiative Holds Daily Protests Outside the Greek Parliament

    Athens, Greece — On the evening of Saturday, July 26, pro-Palestinian protesters crafted and placed puppet dolls dedicated to the children killed in Gaza outside the Greek Parliament. The demonstration was organized by Initiative Against Genocide, a group staging sit-in protests and other activities in… The post Amidst Tourist Season, a Pro-Palestinian Initiative Holds Daily Protests Outside the Greek Parliament appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

Sludge

Democracy Now!

  • Democracy Now! 2025-07-29 Tuesday

    Headlines for July 29, 2025; “Designed as Death Traps”: Fmr. Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes; “Deliberate, Systematic Starvation”: Aid Leader Demands End to Israel’s War & Siege on Gaza; “Our Genocide”: Israeli Human Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Destroying Palestinian Society in Gaza

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Grist

The Conversation

The Trace

  • The NYC Shooter Had a Documented Mental Health History. How Did He Get a Gun?

    The perpetrator of the July 28 mass shooting that killed four people, including a police officer, in a Midtown Manhattan office building had twice been hospitalized for mental health reasons. He was still able to get a gun. The shooting has renewed questions about what kinds of mental health hospitalizations disqualify someone from gun ownership. The post The NYC Shooter Had a Documented Mental Health History. How Did He Get a Gun? appeared first on The Trace.

  • Trump Abandoned Police Reform. Fort Wayne is Paying the Price.

    Gawon Benson was supposed to turn himself in. Last July, he’d been charged with a misdemeanor and sentenced to 80 days at the DeKalb County Jail, in Indiana, but when he didn’t show, corrections officials asked police for help locating him. They warned that he might be carrying a gun. His ankle monitor signaled he The post Trump Abandoned Police Reform. Fort Wayne is Paying the Price. appeared first on The Trace.

  • Newest CDC Data Confirms Gun Deaths Fell in 2024, But Were Still Higher Than Before the Pandemic

    Fatal shootings in the United States fell for the third consecutive year, driven largely by a drop in gun homicides and fewer firearm deaths among children, according to a Trace analysis of new federal data.  The data, released in July by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shows signs of progress after a surge The post Newest CDC Data Confirms Gun Deaths Fell in 2024, But Were Still Higher Than Before the Pandemic appeared first on The Trace.

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