Teri Peterson’s recycling bin sat on the side of her quiet Houston street for one extra day. Then two. Two weeks. Four. On June 24 — 29 days since she’d rolled out her 96-gallon bin for its biweekly pickup — she joined thousands of her neighbors across the largest city in Texas, and called Houston’s […]
Professional gamblers say President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” is a bad bet. Deep inside the fiscal measure adopted Thursday, July 3, is a provision that limits income-tax write-offs for gambling losses. “Yikes,” professional poker player Phil Galford wrote on X. “Senate amendment to the Big Beautiful Bill=you get taxes on more than you earned […]
A member of a white supremacist online group has been indicted after creating a hit list of federal officials designated as “high value targets,” including a senator and federal judge, according to an announcement on Wednesday, July 2, from the U.S. Justice Department. Noah Lamb, 24, of California, has been charged with eight federal crimes, […]
The Colombian navy said on Wednesday, July 2, that it seized an unmanned narco-submarine for the first time in South American waters. Authorities said they found the vessel off the country’s Caribbean coast as part of a larger crackdown on drug trafficking involving 62 countries called “Multinational Strategy Orion.” Colombian officials told AFP the narco-sub […]
Berlin, July 3, 2025—After almost 14 years of civil war, the lightning overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in December has unleashed the possibility of returning home for hundreds of exiled journalists. For Ahmad Primo, who was arrested by the government for reporting that the 2011 protests were a revolution and then jailed by Islamic […]
The Pentagon halted shipments of missiles and ammunition to Ukraine on Tuesday, July 1, under orders from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to NBC News. Officials claim the move stems from concerns about remaining U.S. stockpiles. Hegseth ordered a formal review of U.S. munitions levels weeks ago as the Pentagon faces increasing strain from ongoing […]
An Independence Day fireworks display at Big Bear Lake in California is threatening the safety of a famous eagle family, according to wildlife officials. Now a local nonprofit is calling for the show to be canceled. Local community interests, however, are pushing back, noting that the city relies on the tourism that surrounds the July […]
Texas authorities charged a man with capital murder for allegedly slipping his girlfriend the abortion pill mifepristone, which led to her miscarriage. This case marks Texas’s first abortion-related murder charge and has reignited national debate over whether the law should define a fetus as a person. According to the Parker County Sheriff’s Office, Banta learned […]
Researchers have found microplastics everywhere — in our seas, drinking water, food and even people’s bodies, including the brain, bloodstream, vital organs and breast milk. Now, scientists are finding them in human reproductive fluids, raising concerns over how these tiny particles could impact fertility. What are microplastics? Microplastics are tiny fragments of polymers, which are […]
A new lawsuit filed by migrant advocacy groups accuses the Trump administration, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, of indiscriminately targeting people of color during deportation operations, saying Southern California is “under siege.” Los Angeles and surrounding areas have seen an uptick in ICE operations under the Trump administration amid a broader crackdown […]
