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States sue to stop Paramount-Warner Bros blockbuster merger

Federal Judge Nullifies Trump’s Entire January 6 Slush Fund

How Sheikh Hamad revolutionised Arab media through Al Jazeera

“Iran Is Not Going to Capitulate”: Jeremy Scahill on Renewed War

Iraq sentences 12 tax employees in ‘heist of the century’ corruption case

Wildfire rages near Paris as heatwave scorches Europe

Killings continue on Del Monte farm in Kenya

Sheikh Hamad: The Arab leader who broke Israel’s siege on Gaza

Europe Recorded 10,000 Excess Deaths During Late-June Heatwave

McConnell says he is unable to return to US Senate yet

Israeli forces kill five Palestinians in latest attacks on Gaza

Lindsey Graham, key ally of Donald Trump, dies after sudden illness aged 71

US Democrat Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit

California Public Records Expose Israel Lobby Censorship

Epstein Survivors Say His Assistant Lied to Congress

Amnesty Calls for War Crimes Probe After Israel ‘Obliterated Entire Families’ in Lebanon

New York sues 3M, DuPont and others over 'forever chemicals' in consumer goods

US judge orders release of $5.8m Trump owes E Jean Carroll after court loss

Palestinian child among four killed after Israeli strike on Gaza vehicle

Race discrimination case over child’s swim puts ‘Dutch paradox’ in focus

How Private Equity Is Destroying Hospitals

Photo of bound Palestinian detainee corroborates Israeli torture reports

Millions Attend Ali Khamenei’s Funeral Amid Widespread Sense of Victory in War

Stymied datacentre projects threaten global AI revolution

Microsoft Announces Mass Layoff of 4,800 Workers

Air pollution linked to DNA changes in sperm, research shows

Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

Hamas announces dissolution of Gaza governing body

Buckingham Palace says Harry can no longer stay

8 people shot, including 4 children, in New York’s Coney Island

The Atlantic republishes JD Vance’s anti-Trump essay from 10 years ago

Calls for killing of Trump at funeral of Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei

Gaza’s musicians reopen bomb-shattered conservatory – in tents

How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

Washington DC’s Fourth of July parade canceled due to soaring temperature

Crowds gather as six-day funeral for former Iranian supreme leader begins

Pope Leo, Mamdani send pro-immigrant message for US’s 250th anniversary

Billions flow between EU institutions and Israel, despite Gaza genocide

Louisiana: Republican attorney general indicted on criminal charges

Spain immigration scheme sees 1.2 million apply for legal status

Haiti gangs carry out mass killings across the country

EU hides secret Gaza files as UN says Israel is committing genocide

At least 21 dead as Russia launches massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv

Gaza war’s 1,000 days: 90% of strip ‘destroyed’, 80% ‘seized’ by Israel

At least six killed in explosion inside central Damascus cafe

‘Time for condemning is over’: Palestine’s UN envoy demands end to Israeli annexation of Palestinian land

Sotomayor Warns Supreme Court Gave Trump the Powers of a King

Raids reveal scale of abuse of women in Asia’s cyberscam centres

Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres

Supreme Court Strips Protections for Haitian & Syrian Immigrants

There’s No Doubt: The Supreme Court Is Part of Trump’s Anti-Democracy Movement

Hezbollah chief rejects Lebanon-Israel deal, demands Israeli withdrawal

Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown

“Utter Devastation”: Thousands Feared Dead in Venezuela After Double Earthquakes

New York City freezes rents for one million regulated apartments

Gavin Newsom urges a national 'billionaires' tax' while fighting one in California

Mamdani-Backed Progressives Trounce Establishment Dems, AIPAC Cash

‘Nightmare’ shooting in Montreal leaves three dead including police officer and bystander

Global tech sell-off intensifies, led by AI and chip stocks

France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across country

Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza

Fatalities From Israel’s Vast Gaza Genocide Deliberately Undercounted

Keir Starmer expected to announce departure as prime minister on Monday

Iran says it is closing strait of Hormuz over Israeli strikes in Lebanon

Israeli strikes kill 32 in Lebanon, putting US-Iran talks in peril

Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Allocate 50% Public Stake in AI Giants

Gov Newsom Vetoes Wealth Tax on California Billionaires

‘It’s a scam’: Elon Musk power grab on US retirement savings

UAE becomes 1st Arab country to restrict social media use for children under 15

The billionaire hidden behind the curtain inside Trump’s Pentagon

US envoy says ‘without Israel, there would be no America’

“Journacide: The War on Truth.” New Film Investigates Israel’s Killing of Reporters

Israel Hits Lebanon With Drone Strikes Hours After Trump and Iran Sign Interim Peace Deal

The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers: ‘It’s exploiting. It’s grooming. It’s predatory’

Israel Hits Lebanon With Drone Strikes Hours After Trump and Iran Sign Interim Peace Deal

Greece’s ‘war on Roma’ is Europe’s new blueprint for discrimination

Moscow oil refinery struck in Ukraine’s biggest air raid on city since start of war

US progressive Lewis George on track to become DC mayor after Trump threats

Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response

Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response

Gaza children running out of time to treat blast-induced hearing loss

Clinton says Netanyahu is ‘obsessed’ with Iran, Saudi normalisation

18 year old law student vows to fight ‘extremely predatory’ social media

How a 25-Cent Cancer Pill Became a Hundred-Billion-Dollar Business

We Should Never Forget That Diversity Is What Makes America Great

Major Antiracist Rally Held in Ireland to Condemn Anti-Immigrant Riots

Health professionals demand boycott of Israeli Medical Association over Gaza genocide

Trump, Musk, and the Age of the Super Asshole

Palestinian detainee dies after 25 years in Israeli prisons

Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

RIP Trump Kennedy Center: 2025–2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Wants Us to Think He’s Building a God

The attacks on Graham Platner didn’t just fail – they may have backfired

Workers remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after court rulings

Judge Orders Trump Admin to Swear $1.8 Billion Slush Fund ‘Is Not Happening’

British man jailed for goading American to kill himself on video call

Why the World Must Not Look Away From Gaza

Welcome to ‘the Claw’: the White House fighting cage captures Trump era rot

Workers Are Fighting Back Against Silicon Valley’s Race to the Lowest Wage

The FBI Just Raided a Pro-Democracy Group in an Act of “Intimidation”

Nearly 100 Billionaires Are Funding Susan Collins’ Reelection Bid

Texas shooting leaves one person dead and nine others in hospital

NYC’s The New School Guts Faculty & Staff as Colleges Intensify Austerity

David Hockney, the British artist who went in search of Californian colour, dies at 88

SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire

Leaders condemns ‘racist thuggery’ as violence returns to Northern Ireland

Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

Graham Platner Is Testing a New Strategy to Defeat Susan Collins

Labour slams ‘appalling’ Elon Musk after Belfast riots

Trump says ‘I love the inflation’ as rate rises to 4.2% amid Iran war pressure

Progressives Take Down Corporate Dems Nationwide

Shackled, bleeding, raped: Palestinians describe abuse in Israel’s prisons

Elon Musk: Tech-Driven Prosperity & Right-Wing Racist Politics

Italian prosecutors to probe Israeli minister Ben-Gvir over flotilla abuse

US congressman demands probe into Israel’s 1967 attack on USS Liberty

Spanish premier attends pro-Palestinian music festival

Arizona lake closes indefinitely to visitors after all of its fish die

Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank

Chicago professor suspended after assignment mentions Palestinians

UAW Endorses Abdul El-Sayed

Why The New York Times Is Wholly Responsible for Bari Weiss’s Rise

California and New York weaken climate rules as red states ramp up green energy

UAE invites citizens and residents to pledge allegiance to president

MAGA Unites Behind the Wannabe Strongman Vying to Rule Colombia

Ex-Volunteer Doctor in Gaza, Wins NJ House Primary

Thomas Piketty.and Others Call for 90% Tax on Mega-Rich

Hamilton leads Ferrari one-two in Monaco practice

Israel strikes southern Lebanon after ordering evacuations of nine villages

Ireland’s Black community rails against racism after Yves Sakila murdered

US House passes war powers resolution to curb Trump’s authority in Iran

Hegseth removes all women and some Black service members from navy promotion list

Israeli flight diverts to Croatia after Slovenia denies landing

Stacey Abrams: “This Is a National Project ... Not Just the South”

Fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley says CBS told him to inject ‘falsehoods’ into reporting

Trump’s Corrupt IRS Shakedown Backfires Badly as GOPers Turn on Him

Selling dead bodies to the US Navy for Israeli military training?

Six US states sue Trump administration over deal to kill windfarm project

Egypt’s new monorail offers a modern ride

Hegseth Personally Nixed Black and Female Officers’ Promotions

Iran Accuses Europe of ‘Appeasing Aggressors’ as Trump Launches New Military Attacks

Protesters call on Kenyan government to halt femicide crisis

60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley lays into CBS leadership over cuts

New York Times publisher slams AI companies' 'brazen theft' from news outlets

Ex-Federal Reserve chair sounds alarm over political interference

As Israel pushes past the Litani, Lebanese question the purpose of UNIFIL

‘Ceasefire Is a Joke’: Israeli Soldiers Recount Ongoing Indiscriminate Killings in Gaza

Judge Orders Trump to Take His Freaking Name off the Kennedy Center

US measure to deepen Israel military cooperation faces bipartisan pushback

Ghana parliament approves 'anti-LGBTQ' law, awaiting president's signature

ICE Sued Over ‘Civil Rights Catastrophe’ at West Texas Concentration Camp

Israeli outlet owned by top Trump donor reveals Mossad influence operations inside Iran

Louisiana Republicans Complete Their Racist Redrawing of Voting Map

Fired CBS Journalists Speak Out over MAGA media gift Israel

Billionaire supporter of E Jean Carroll’s says legal inquiry meant to ‘silence’ president’s critics

Student awarded CBS News scholarship calls out network at award event

EU to unlock 16 billion euros for Hungary as Magyar pushes ahead

Musical acts back out of performing at Trump-affiliated concert series

US federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s ‘anti-weaponisation fund’

Bipartisan group of ex-federal judges challenges Trump’s $1.8bn slush fund

Delaware Judge Lets Corporations Vote in Local Elections

Israeli authorities to be added to UN sexual violence list over alleged abuse

Argentina’s ‘European’ self-image under renewed scrutiny after racist incidents in Brazil

Trump Boosts Prediction Markets as His Family Profits

Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention

Pope Leo XIV Takes on the Silicon Valley Oligarchy

Zohran Mamdani Gets It. Abigail Spanberger Does Not.

Vermont Applauded for Banning Neurotoxic Herbicide Paraquat

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon falls to lowest level since 2019

Ben-Gvir Says Israel ‘Will Not Allow’ Trump to Make a Peace Deal With Iran

Israeli forces bulldoze land during incursion into Syria’s Quneitra countryside

Israeli settlers and soldiers attack and loot West Bank villages

France’s Kouame becomes youngest male Grand Slam match-winner in 17 years

What exactly are the Savannah Bananas becoming?

Iran partially restores internet access after three-month shutdown

South Carolina Republicans defy Trump again to reject rapid redistricting drive

Pope says AI must be ‘disarmed’ to prevent domination, exclusion, and death

Bodies with names: Inside Gaza’s cemetery of the missing

Heat dome over Europe scorches UK, Ireland, France and Spain

Federal court blocks new Republican-friendly voting map in Alabama

‘A paper city’: New York ‘library’ hosts 3.5 million pages of Epstein files

Hamilton elated after beating Verstappen to second ‘in good day of racing’ at Canadian GP

Why the DNC 2024 Autopsy Is a Giant Turd

This is the face of Israel

France bans Ben-Gvir: Which other Israeli leaders have been penalised?

Ohio State reels from multiple scandals amid wider crisis in higher education

Israel Denounced for ‘Killing Spree’ of Rescue Workers in Lebanon

California governor declares state of emergency over looming chemical disaster

‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’

French cinema faces reckoning as media mogul Bolloré blacklists liberal stars

Everyone is baffled by the exclusion of Gaza in DNC autopsy

Meta and Snapchat blocking Saudi dissidents’ accounts

Epstein’s Assistant Names Three New Abusers in Harrowing Testimony

Greenpeace Raises Alarm After Microplastics Found in Top Companies’ Baby Food Pouches

Fraench school abuse scandal rocks Paris

Republicans Flee Work Early to Avoid Voting on Trump’s Slush Fund

Democrats’ autopsy report riddled with mistakes and missing sections,

Donald Trump Is Finally Cracking Up for Real

Despite US Sabotage Efforts, UN Passes Historic Climate Crisis Resolution

Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement

James Murdoch to acquire New York Magazine and Vox Media Podcast Network

January 6 police officers sue Trump over $1.8bn fund, alleging ‘presidential corruption’

Several nations summon Israeli envoys as Ben-Gvir taunts flotilla activists

South Korea president urges review of ICC warrant for Netanyahu

Trump Screws Himself So Badly on Texas Race, GOPers Visibly Stunned

Top Democrats Demand DOJ and IRS Answer for Trump ‘Taxpayer Shakedown’ and ‘Super-Pardon’

Gaza Flotilla activists begin hunger strike to protest their abduction by Israel

UN Expert Presents Brutal Evidence of Israeli Torture and Sexual Abuse of Palestinians

Israeli Forces Intercept, Open Fire on Gaza Flotilla Activists

Gunmen kill 3 people at San Diego Islamic centre in suspected hate crime

Mayor Mamdani Closes $12 Billion Budget Deficit Without Austerity Measures

Three community kitchen workers among five killed by Israel in Gaza

Israeli army kills Palestinian man, raids homes in occupied West Bank

Mamdani closes budget gap, invests $122 million in public schools!

Three years of the West Bank’s ‘third Nakba’

Digital Colonization: How big tech acts as the new colonial force

Journalists, Audiobook Narrators Sue AI Giants for ‘Stealing Their Voices’

Ro Khanna Calls for Expansion of ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Supreme Court

The Story of the Jewish Bund

Israel’s Netanyahu says suing New York Times over Palestinian rape article

Lamine Yamal’s Palestine flag wave hailed by fans, activists and athletes

Four UK ministers resign as pressure rises on Starmer to quit

US trade court rules against Trump’s 10% global tariffs

Google DeepMind staff unionise over Israel and US military ties

The war on Iran will likely end in American retreat

Louisiana pastor found guilty for third time of molesting teen boys

Alabama, South Carolina Join GOP Push to Dilute Black, Democratic Districts

Peter Magyar sworn in as Hungary’s PM, ending Orban’s 16 years in power

Over 20,000 Global South Ship Workers Stranded at Sea Due to Iran War

Congress Can Restore Voting Rights

Trump shelved ‘Project Freedom’ after Saudis refused use of bases and airspace

‘Leader of the pack’: Reform UK makes election gains, humiliating Labour

The disaster unfolding on Russia’s Black Sea coast is of its own making

Outrage as oil giants profit billions from Iran war

Gaza Faces Public Health Collapse as Israel Blocks Reconstruction

Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Turns Villages into “Moonscapes”

Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority district

Saudis refused Trump's request to use bases and airspace

Over a third of Israeli university students consider suicide due to war

UN demands Israel release Gaza flotilla activists, investigate abuse claims

Ted Turner, CNN founder who reshaped global news, dies aged 87

Kuwait releases journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin after acquittal

As summer approaches, skin diseases spread through Gaza’s refugee camps

House Democrats Demand More Information About Israel’s Nuclear Weapons

Two million airline seats cut amid soaring jet fuel prices

Hundreds of animals rescued from ‘appalling’ conditions at California sanctuary

At least 13 hurt in shooting at Oklahoma campground party

Trump’s Justice Department in Crisis as Thousands of Lawyers Quit

John Roberts Is George Wallace With a Harvard Law Degree

Iran executes three men accused of links to Mossad and killing security officer

India loses its last left-wing government after five decades

Iranian supertanker carrying $220M of oil evades US blockade

Trump Used Shady Crypto Venture to Triple His Net Worth as President

Louisiana Drowns in Lawsuits Over Republicans’ Election Power Grab

May Day protests and economic blackout declare ‘no school, no work, no shopping’

Cuban immigrant dies in Georgia detention center

World reacts to Israeli interception of Gaza aid flotilla

Iran supreme leader issues defiant statement on strait of Hormuz

Return the loot: France must not keep its stolen colonial art

“Political Disaster for Donald Trump”: Jeremy Scahill on Stalled U.S.-Iran Talks

Colombian President Warns of ‘Suicidal’ Fossil-Fueled Capitalism

Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

U.S. is ‘being humiliated by Iran,’ says Germany’s Merz, as Europe’s patience wanes

Justice department indicts ex-FBI director James Comey over Instagram post showing seashells

Zohran Mamdani Is Killing It With Kindness

Colombia Hosts First Global Summit on Transitioning from Fossil Fuels

Former Mossad Chief Says Israeli Violence Similar to Nazis

Bomb blast on Colombia highway leaves at least 20 dead ahead of May elections

Iranian Red Crescent Society Submits Evidence of US-Israeli War Crimes to ICC

Over 2,500 killed in Lebanon in Israeli attacks since March 2

Taylor Swift files trademarks for voice and image amid concern over AI misuse

‘Clearly stronger’: Germany’s Merz says Iran ‘humiliated’ US in its war

From Australia to Vietnam, the Iran war is fuelling demand for EVs

Sanders and Newsom clash over taxing California's billionaires

California billionaire tax proposal garners enough signatures to head to ballot

Trump fires the entire National Science Board

Trump Uses Shooting Outside White House Correspondents’ Dinner to Boost Corrupt Project

Sabastian Sawe breaks two-hour barrier to make history in London Marathon

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles

US gambling addiction is ‘out of control’ as betting markets boom

Lebanese Journalist Amal Khalil Killed in Israelies

US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants

NYC Councilmember Chi Ossé Calls for End to “Deed Theft”

‘Silent suffering’: Why children in Gaza are losing their ability to speak

AI Data Center Resistance: Maine Passes Nation’s First Statewide Moratorium

Eric Trump Brags About Scoring $24 Million Pentagon Deal

Kuwait releases journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin after acquittal

ACLU, Amnesty lead 120 rights groups issuing US World Cup ‘travel advisory’

Mysterious Traders Make Millions on Well-Timed Bets Tied to Trump’s War on Iran