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Rapper Macklemore is a vocal supporter of Palestine and Gaza residents. During a recent concert at MetLife Stadium, he yelled “Free Palestine!” onstage, projected images of devastation in the area, and performed protest song “Hind’s Hall.”

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President Trump said at the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday night that if Iran had a nuclear weapon, he would have politely called up the Supreme Leader instead of “bombing the crap” out of the country.

A federal judge late Sunday ordered that the U.S. Postal Service not implement Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail balloting, adding another obstacle to the administration’s effort to rewrite election rules as the Supreme Court is poised to weigh in on the matter.

PFAS companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned.

In an exclusive statement shared with Rolling Stone, Messina Touring Group, promoter of the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s Loop Tour, said: “As the concert promoter for Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour, we have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans.

A newly unveiled statue of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was vandalized at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.

Groups like the ADL and AIPAC’s charity arm received cash from Columbia over the past three years, as the school cracked down on student protests.

Starts to feel like a wave of this kind of BS is hitting the world.

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Jefferson county coroner says 40-year-old woman died on Saturday, while two infants died with disease in August

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A federal judge has ruled that a plan by the Trump administration to slash staffing at the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters by 50% was unlawful.

I guess if the Government/Ice wants you they can imprison you and your friends

The city claimed that the process used to greenlight the stadium construction in 2015 was no longer legitimate after a court ruled a similar development agreement in the Inland Empire was void a couple of years later.

Baylor signed Ukrainian center Kate Koval, the school announced Saturday, several weeks after she left LSU because Tigers coach Kim Mulkey brought in a Russian player.

European Parliament Vice President Pina Picierno on Saturday praised Taiwanese Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) as a role model for freedom-loving women around the world and told CNA that she would soon begin planning a trip to Taipei after accepting Hsiao’s invitation to visit.

[Op-ed by Professor Vince Hooper, an Australian-British citizen and professor of finance and discipline head at SP Jain School of Global Management with campuses in London, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney.]

I think it might be time to call it: Mark Zuckerberg Pervert AI

Just a year ago, Martín Soto was making breakfast at home with his wife, Gabriela, while their daughter got ready for her first day of school. But this September, Martín is in solitary confinement at the Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC) in New Jersey. “I was crying, but my daughter, she told me, ‘Mommy, don’t cry. Daddy’s gonna come home,’” Gabriela Soto told Truthout. “I said, ‘I know…

Officials still investigating death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman, a day after man’s arrest in relation to killing

Donald Trump asked the Smithsonian Institution to install a 30ft “Colossus statue” of George Washington outside the National Museum of American History, and a special exhibit honoring the nation’s first president, in a social media post late on Friday.

The city’s mayor and Tennessee’s governor threw their support behind the name change last month

Most Americans can expect to pay significantly more each month for health insurance next year, whether they get it through work, the Affordable Care Act or Medicare. In some cases, the premium increases may be the largest in decades and are driven by numerous economic pressures. But they won’t look the same for everyone. Some will pay more in the form of higher copays or deductibles.

A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.”

President Trump fell asleep at the 9/11 memorial ceremony.

Florida’s Royer Perez-Jimenez is the youngest person to die in ICE custody under the second Trump administration. His premature death shows that immigrants face a separate, harsher criminal justice system if they live in a town where cops work as ICE deputies.

As the United States ratchets up the pressure on the International Criminal Court, sanctioning two more high-ranking staff members in recent weeks, a small but growing number of the global tribunal’s member states have announced they will quit the institution.

Why it matters: It’s the latest in what critics describe as a pattern of capitulation by the most visible LGBTQ+ rights group in the state.

The Trump administration is poised to loosen environmental restrictions on oil and gas wells that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas.

Alexander Csgero will be eligible for parole as early as next month after being sentenced to three-and-a-half years behind bars for reckless foreign interference.

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao reportedly admitted that the Iranian military “blew the hell” out of the U.S. naval base in Bahrain—a shocking claim that contradicts the Trump administration’s narrative of total destruction of Iran’s attack capabilities.

After 20 years in the Army, Master Sergeant Amiah Sale’s future hangs in the balance.

The U.S. national average price of diesel on Thursday surpassed $6 a ​gallon for the first time ever, according to price tracker GasBuddy, as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s refineries have squeezed supply.

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Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that could support the development of biological weapons.

Kimmel’s interview with James Talarico will be shown on YouTube, the late night host announced

The statue depicted an enslaved Black man dutifully following his enslaver into a Civil War battle, imagery that is often described as the “faithful slave” trope, which historians say has been used to falsely convey that enslaved people were content with their lives before the war. The statue also featured an enslaved Black woman, depicted as a “Mammy,” caring for a white child — a racist caricature that has long been used to whitewash the brutality and exploitation of slavery.

The United States just had its hottest summer in 132 years of recordkeeping, soundly beating the summer of 1936 — during the Dust Bowl era — as well as the summer of 2021, according to data released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Previously, those two years had tied for the hottest summer.

This year’s unprovoked bombings of Iran signify how US foreign policy comes full spiral.

EFF sued the government back in March for information about the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services… The documents (available here) show that WISeR has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patient harm.

The Supreme Court sided with opponents of a Republican-friendly congressional map in Missouri on Thursday, handing down a quick decision rejecting a plan that could have given the GOP an extra seat in the House of Representatives.

A juror in the trial of Lindsay Clancy is sharing new details about what he said happened inside the jury room that led to a mistrial in the case of the Massachusetts woman facing first-degree murder charges for the 2023 deaths of her three young children.

The unfriendly skies: On United, your checked bags might be riding alongside some tank parts bound for Israel.

*AP (6/3/26): “The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries.”*

A far-right hacker that touts cyber attacks on leftist sites has close ties to DataRepublican, the X account of a Pentagon employee.

As public air monitors disappear, federal rollbacks and state laws are making it harder than ever to know what’s in the air

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (WHAM) — Two people convicted in the torture and murder of Sam Nordquist received the maximum sentence Tuesday, coming face to face with his family before being sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that greatness can pay to mediocrity.

Some 92 percent have delayed or abandoned medical care because of costs, according to a survey of 1,507 U.S.adults by financial services firm JG Wentworth.

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Benchmark Brent crude hits $100, shaking markets and fuelling concerns over rising inflation pressures worldwide.

The Diablo Canyon Power Plant, which sits on a cliff on California’s Central Coast, has been the subject of ceaseless protests and political battles since it was proposed in 1963.

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate must remain in custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge in Miami ruled Wednesday.

Airport security checkpoints have been the end of the line since soon after the 9/11 attacks for most friends and relatives who want to see off departing passengers. That is changing at some U.S. airports.

🧑‍⚖️ Love how they are going after Meta in “Alvarez v. Meta” for their use of Instagram user biometrics to train #AI (EMU) plus their Smart Glasses and MetaAI facial recognition software (NAMETAG) 🥸 This could turn into a major win for everyone’s privacy❣️

Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration.

AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts

The people in Kansas voted for Trump, he got their electoral votes; and they’ll fucking do it again.

Broan-NuTone bathroom vent fans have apparently been catching fire (there was a recall a while back, and some fires recently). This case is interesting because the insurance paid and then went to sue NuTone to recoup the payment, but they couldn’t prove exactly how the fan overheated so they didn’t win.

A virulently anti-LGBTQ+ Mobile, Alabama, pastor has dedicated the month of September to spreading anti-trans hate throughout the city. 

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“He created a fictitious event featuring himself, who did nothing, as the hero of 9/11.”

LIV Golf says it intends to restructure its business with a $49.6m bankruptcy loan provided ⁠by the Saudi PIF.

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New York City has released more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records about air quality following the September 11, 2001, attacks, showing city officials at the time knew conditions around Ground Zero were unsafe to breathe despite repeated assurances to the public.

The US is banning Canadian products, including alcohol, dairy and motor vehicles, as Canadian retaliatory tariffs on American goods come into force.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch effort by Missouri Republicans to use a newly drawn congressional map, which was designed to maximize their political power, for this year’s midterm elections.

From rare bacteria to ‘forever chemicals’, a series of cases of violations or alleged pollution has prompted alarm

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally and explicitly warned that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major attack roughly 10 days before the October 7 massacre, but dismissed the threat and did not alert his security chiefs, according to a shocking new Haaretz report.

The cattle ranch at the center of the case demands strict drone regulations, saying legal flyovers threatened “food security.”