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‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savingsThe Guardian US JD Vance, once an ‘angry atheist’, is America’s most powerful Catholic. How will he wield his faith?The Guardian US ‘I’d listen to my body before it screamed for help’: Keith Richards on life as an 82-year-old great-grandad – and jousting with Mick JaggerThe Guardian US 10 museums to visit for America’s 250th anniversaryThe Guardian US Feel like a late bloomer? You’re not alone.Vox How Iran won the warVox The college that canceled PlatoVox Why LA’s mayor doesn’t have much powerVox ChatGPT probably isn’t conscious. But what if we’re wrong?Vox Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announcedCNN Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney PowellCNN Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatoryCNN Judge in Fox News-Dominion defamation trial: 'The parties have resolved their case'CNN 'Difficult to say with a straight face': Tapper reacts to Fox News' statement on settlementCNN Several notable Republican senators break with Trump over Iran agreementABC News LIVE: ABC News LiveABC News Trump unveils Qatari-donated 747 that will serve as Air Force OneABC News 2 stores targeted in Pokémon card burglariesABC News

POLITICS & DEMOCRACY

'Who was he?' Trump struggled to remember people he promised to retaliate againstRaw Story GOP strategist flabbergasted by Trump's 'odd' insult to his European 'poster child'Raw Story Todd Blanche just sabotaged himself in upcoming Senate hearings: analystRaw Story 'Obsessed!' MAGA goes berserk as CNN tests water in Trump's Reflecting Pool fiascoRaw Story Trump DOJ thrashes court's demand to officially declare that 'slush fund' is deadRaw Story Italian Prime Minister Humiliates Pathetic TrumpPoliticus USA Obama Disgraces Trump While Opening His Presidential CenterPoliticus USA JD Vance Tried To Defend Trump's Surrender To Iran And It Was A DisasterPoliticus USA Republicans In Total Disarray As Trump Pushes For SAVE America Act That Will Never PassPoliticus USA Trump Knows He Failed In Iran And He Showed It With Some Classic Obama ProjectionPoliticus USA Choice to Keep Coal Plants Open Will Cost Some Coloradans Their LivesTruthout The Story of Juneteenth Reminds Us That Education Is Essential to FreedomTruthout UN Expert Calls for Global Condemnation After 3 More Killed in Trump Boat StrikeTruthout US-Iran Talks Delayed After Israeli Bombardment of Lebanon Kills at Least 18Truthout Emergency Loans Are Costing US Schools Millions — and Lining Wall Street PocketsTruthout "Another Wasted Life": Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her SongDemocracy Now Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera "Omar" About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn SaidDemocracy Now Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across AmericaDemocracy Now

INVESTIGATION & ANALYSIS

Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired StakesProPublica More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food ProgramProPublica “Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty ConcernsProPublica Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.ProPublica Why We Changed Our Code of Ethics to Address Prediction MarketsProPublica Chud the Builder Fantasized About “Race War.” Now He’s Charged With Attempted Murder.The Intercept The Performative Ceasefire in GazaThe Intercept Trump-Loving Crypto Super PAC Finally Backs a Democrat: Ritchie TorresThe Intercept Undercover Cops Infiltrated Delaney Hall ICE Protest to Spy and Make ArrestThe Intercept Police Chased the Wrong Man, Then Shot Him and Watched as He Bled OutThe Intercept Report: ICE Caused Humanitarian Crisis in MinnesotaMother Jones HHS Pushes Fetal Personhood in New Grant GuidelinesMother Jones Trump and Iran: Stupid Is As Stupid DoesMother Jones Kimberlé Crenshaw Says Juneteenth Reminds Us “Freedom Is Not a One and Done Situation”Mother Jones Long After the Climate Apocalypse, Maybe Some Being Will Find “Earth’s Black Box”Mother Jones The War in Three QuotesThe Nation Animal LiberationThe Nation Lessons From the People’s Historian, Howard ZinnThe Nation

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