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Newsworthy News -    Six months after the Eaton Fire torched thousands of homes in Los Angeles County, frustrated survivors are still battl...

G erman Lopze, NY Times - Congress is currently considering cutting federal funding for public media, including NPR, PBS and their affilia...

Michelle Norris, MSNBC -     There are more than 2.6 million people working on farms in the United States. That includes 1 million workers ...

  Axios -  Worldwide insured disaster losses in the first half of 2025 were the highest since 2011, with almost all of that in the United...

A good summary of  the Epstein story   A Timeline of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s Relationship

  The Guardian -    Gaza’s ministry of health says that more than 17,000  of the 58,000 Palestinians killed are children. Israel says that ...

Via  Fernando Oliver, Esq.  

 Occupy Democrats -    The Catholic Church enrages MAGA world as the Archdiocese of Miami unequivocally condemns "Alligator Alcatraz...

John Pavlovitz  -  The Republican Party is destroying the Department of Education because it needs stupid people. By dismantling the hub of...

  MSN -  Americans are downsizing their summer vacations — taking shorter trips, driving instead of flying, and generally staying closer to...

T he Guardian -  Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia to visit his girlfriend last fa...

Science Daily  - For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to A...

NY Times  -  Officials in Texas are under scrutiny for a string of refusals to fund early warning systems for flash floods in an area where...

  Reuters -  The U.S. Justice Department unit charged with defending against legal challenges to signature Trump administration policies ...

  Daily Beast    President Trump has revealed that the champions of the Club World Cup won’t be getting the original trophy, because he’s ...

Larry Cuban -  According to psychologists, reasoning is an untidy mental and emotional process that requires time for an active interplay be...

Data: StreetLight . Chart: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios  

  Axios -  A surprising new study finding that AI tools can reduce programmers' productivity is upending assumptions about the technol...

WalletHub -  With a historic low of 24% of home purchases last year made by first-time buyers, the personal-finance website WalletHub today...

NPR -   Doctors are writing “social prescriptions” to get people engaged with nature, art, exercise and volunteering in the same way they w...

  NPR -  Trump yesterday threatened to implement heavy tariffs on countries that trade with Moscow if the Kremlin doesn’t reach a ceasefire ...

  Bloomberg -  Andrew Cuomo plans to stay in the race for New York City mayor, brushing off calls to step aside after his stunning loss ...

Blomberg  -   The European Union has finalized a list of countermeasures targeting US goods worth €72 billion , including Boeing aircraft, c...

  Bloomberg -  Torrential downpours unleashed flash flooding around New York, New Jersey and Connecticut  last night. Multiple subway stat...

NBC News -     The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move ahead with plans to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of E...

  New Republic -  Trump’s megabill hits women at a time when culture-warring conservatives are more openly pushing to force more women to st...

  These are the most and least polluted national parks in the U.S.

EcoWatch -  Climate change is bad for food production in more ways than one. Aside from stress from extreme heat, drought and flooding, cli...

Sam Smith – As our national engagement with democracy and decency fades thanks in no small part to the action and views of the most distor...

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