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Monday, July 06, 2026

Publicly, the Trump administration is bullish about AI. Privately, some of its analysts are weighing AI against the dotcom bust. read more


SpaceX CEO Elon Musk maintains an extremely close relationship with Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr. Under Carr's leadership ... read more


Hamas has announced that it will hand over power in Gaza to a new technical administration. read more


Microbiologists are used to looking at gross pictures and hearing scary statistics. So when a moderator of a session on emerging fungal infections at the ASM Microbe meeting uttered the words "somewhat terrifying," it caught my attention. He was referring to a sexually transmitted skin infection that is becoming increasingly drug resistant. read more


President Donald Trump's role in FIFA's stunning decision to allow striker Folarin Balogun to be eligible to play against Belgium on Monday in Seattle is under the microscope. read more


Residents of Washington, DC, on Sunday briefly experienced the worst air quality of any major city in the world ... read more


The Trump administration will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Sunday as he faced new questions about the troubled project and the taxpayer money involved. read more


The latest move comes two weeks after Pulte's arrival at the agency, under orders from President Donald Trump to downsize. read more


An Idaho mother who blamed childhood vaccines for the deaths of her 18-month-old twins on a podcast produced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s former anti-vaccine group has been charged with their murders. read more


The Trump Administration is scrapping more than three dozen firearms regulations, abandoning a crackdown on illegal sales, restoring gun rights to some people with mental illness, and loosening oversight of private weapons transactions. read more


Do you know how to get an American company to grant you excellent wages and amazing benefits, even for an entry-level job? Move to Norway and take the job there. read more


Sunday, July 05, 2026

Almost 1 million people lost more than $3.8 billion investing in President Donald Trump's memecoin, the New York Times reported Saturday. read more


The U.S. Navy says it has suspended the active search for a sailor missing since Wednesday, when a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter went down in the Arabian Sea. read more


Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said the critical waterway for energy supplies is now a matter of "national security" in the aftermath of the four-month US and Israeli war on the Islamic Republic. As such, "there will be new arrangements concerning the Strait of Hormuz with the collaboration and cooperation of the state of Oman," he said. read more


The devastating earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24 will have long-term implications for the country's already weak government, which, in the eyes of many Venezuelans, has failed to deliver in an hour of national catastrophe. read more


The timing and speed of the justices' moves are all but unprecedented in recent years, legal experts said. Republicans are expected to reap the most rewards. read more


 

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