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Momochi and Team Zeta evaluate Ingrid's place on the Street Fighter 6 tier list
Ingrid recently joined Street Fighter 6 as its 30th fighter. Her addition marks the end of Season 3, meaning that we're now awaiting Season 4 content, which recently got announced.It's only been a couple of weeks since ...
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Post readers on El Niño, ACA enrollment fraud, a rail merger and more.
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As chairman, he will lead the association’s principal policy-making body, which is responsible for guiding advocacy, policy priorities and strategy.
82-0 but make it all Penguins
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18,467 Shares in Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. $LYV Purchased by Dockside LLC
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How Redistricting Pit Wasserman Schultz Against Black Democrats in Florida
Four candidates running in a historically Black district risk dividing the Black vote and losing to Ms. Wasserman Schultz, who is white.
Medicare Enrollment 101: What You Need to Know
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President Trump Endorses Mike Collins in Georgia Senate Runoff
Mr. Trump backed Mr. Collins over Derek Dooley, a former football coach who is supported by Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican whose relationship with the president is strained.
Things to do in Lancaster: explore and experiment at the Lancaster Science Factory
The Lancaster Science Factory, a nonprofit science center, continues to spark curiosity and creativity among children and families with its dynamic, hands-on approach to learning. Featuring more than 80 interactive
Trump Administration Reignites Its Feud With Anthropic Over Latest A.I. Models
The administration’s surprise restrictions Friday cut off foreign access to Anthropic’s latest models and sparked another round of finger pointing.
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ABC New York's Bill Ritter reveals Alzheimer's diagnosis on air, steps down from anchoring: ‘My life has taken a turn’
Bill Ritter announced he was stepping down from anchoring duties for ABC New York and revealed on air that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's: 'My life has taken a turn.'
Rosie O'Donnell opens up about visiting daughter in prison: 'It was a big day for both of us'
Rosie O'Donnell shared a heartfelt post detailing a visit with her daughter Chelsea in prison: 'It was a big day for both of us.'
Jadan Baugh 2027 NFL Draft: scouting report for Florida, RB
One of the best returning skill position players in the nation is Florida Gators running back Jadan Baugh, who ran for 1,000 yards in 2025.
UVM Health cuts 142 jobs — an estimated $9.5 million in staff positions
UVM Health cuts 142 positions across its hospitals and hospice network, largely administrative roles. The cuts aim to save $9.5 million annually.
James Talarico Plays Up Spurs’ Past Glory in Campaign Ad Aimed at Texas Voters
The Democratic candidate for Senate looked to gain crossover appeal with a spot emphasizing teamwork and his own experience as a teacher in San Antonio.
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Maryland Science Center marks 50th anniversary; Harbor plaza groundbreaking
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State Rep. Joe Schomacker resigns, citing 'new business opportunities' for the decision
A Minnesota lawmaker announced he is resigning from his position, citing new business opportunities as the reason for his departure.
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Unfinished Business
We like it when projects are completed, but what if we could abide comfortably in the toiling and striving it takes to get them there?
Why dietitian who loves strength training stopped taking creatine
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Wages Are Falling. Wealth Is Surging. No Wonder Americans Are Unhappy.
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Independent Cascadia? Greater Idaho? Disunited States Look Toward Divorce
At a moment when even the prospects of dialogue seem far-fetched, movements to redraw state lines to link like-minded regions, or even to secede from the union, are gaining strength.
Trump Is Losing Ground With White Working-Class Voters on the Economy
A review of polling data shows an extraordinary swing among white working-class voters on the president’s handling of the economy.
How Sergio Gor Is Transforming the Role of U.S. Ambassador in the Trump Era
From his post in New Delhi, Mr. Gor has become a force in U.S. foreign policy, chasing business deals and stunning diplomats by reversing a long-planned embassy building project.
In Retrospect: Poland, Russia, Europe
In April I spent a few days with Zryw, a Polish non-profit organization that recruits young people to enter politics and public life. Their aim is to build a new generation of civic leaders in Poland. I’ve followed their evolution from the beginning; my son is one of the founders. (“Zryw” means “impulse” or “burst of speed” in Polish). Julie Chmielewska, one of Zryw’s leaders, interviewed me at the event. Here is the conversation, lightly edited for grammar and context: Julia Chmielewska: Assuming that culture shapes institutions, could we conclude that some cultures are more prone to authoritarianism? Anne Applebaum: I don’t think so. Every culture, every nation, and every country has the potential for change. When we look at history, we can see that nations do change. Poland has changed, for example, from the 1980s to today. There’s a completely different mentality here than the one I encountered when I first visited, in 1988. The current generation sees the world through a different frame. So no, I don’t believe that certain nations are doomed to authoritarianism, or to anything. Of course, there are political and cultural traditions, but they can always be challenged. JC: So do you think there’s something intrinsic in human nature that pushes people to democracy, freedom? AA: I think there is something in human nature, a deep instinct, that pushes people towards freedom, yes. People who live in authoritarian countries – and I’ve heard this from them over and over again – sooner or later find themselves angered by a feeling of helplessness. They can see the unfairness of crooked courts, irrational political decisions. They naturally dislike the fact that somebody has all the power while they have none. In those circumstances, people who have no political background at all sometimes are politicized just by that frustration. I’m thinking of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, for example, who was a Belarusian housewife, until the circumstances of her husband’s arrest forced her to become a politician. I met a woman who is a Uyghur from China, and who had come to live in Turkey. After several of her family members were arrested, she too was propelled into a political role. These kinds of experiences make people interested in democracy or political reform, even if they thought they didn’t care. I also think that the opposite is true: some people instinctively prefer homogeneity, order, hierarchy. They don’t like the confrontation of opinions or the noise of debate, and they lean towards a single leader or a unified regime. I think that most of modern history is shaped by the clash between those two different sides of human nature. JC: Which force do you find more powerful today? AA: I think they both have a lot of power and there’s no way of predicting who wins. Even in countries that seem very shut off or stuck in an authoritarian system can change. We’ve seen that happen. And vice versa, I think democracies can also begin to fail and slide into authoritarianism. So it’s very important not to be complacent in either direction. JC: I want to go into your history and your experiences. You’ve lived in Russia during a time of incredible change in the late 80s, and then you came back to do research in post-Soviet Russia. AA: I was a student in Russia just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. I then traveled and worked there extensively in the 1990s, and I met people who really were full of hope. They hoped that Russia could become a democracy, or at least a place that guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of the press. These weren’t ideas that came from Washington. Although now the narrative in the Kremlin is different, I met many people who were working towards exactly that kind of transformation. A friend of mine ran a series of seminars – once a year, and then later several times a year, in cities all over Russia – designed to get people to discuss politics in new ways. She invited young politicians and journalists, as well as foreigners. I went to many of them, in Moscow as well as Volgograd and Novosibirsk. Over two decades, hundreds of people came to these seminars, and all of them wanted Russia to be different. I remain convinced that many Russians still want Russia to be different. It’s just that the old system, in the form of Putin, a representative of that system, returned. The KGB reimposed their power. And this wasn’t because of something to do with culture, this was to do with money and politics, and who was in charge. JC: You’ve partially answered my question... I wanted to ask whether that excitement of the 1990s was an exception from the Russian historical norm which has been rather authoritarian? AA: Of course, if you look at the history of Russia since the 18th century, there have always been liberal groups, reformers and revolutionaries. There were the Decembrists, in the early 19th century, and the rural populists later on, who tried to organize the peasantry. A significant group of liberal Russians appeared at the turn of the 20th century, people like the father of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, who was a Russian politician before the revolution. These groups were small in number, but sometimes had a broader significance. The Russian dissident movement in the 1950s and 1960s actually invented the modern human rights movement. It was their idea to hold the leaders of the Soviet Union accountable for the language they used, to remind them of the treaties they had signed and the promised they had made. They created the Helsinki group, for example, that held Soviet leadership to the language of the Helsinki Treaty, which formally ended the Second World War and which contained guarantees of human rights, at least on paper. That idea spread to Eastern Europe, and similar tactics were used here in Poland. (Benjamin Nathans recently wrote a great book about the Soviet dissidents, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause) JC: But seemingly, even if they do ever get power, they could never hold on to it. AA: We don’t know, because they have never really had power. But in any case, we also don’t know what will happen in the future. There is no reason to assume that Russia will forever be condemned to totalitarianism. Even during the first fifteen years of Putin’s regime there was some form of democratic politics. Only when the full-scale war began did he bring everything to an end: he shut down all remaining independent organizations and killed his most important opponent, Alexi Navalny. But does that mean he is popular, that he enjoys legitimacy? Even now, we don’t really know what Russians think about him, or about the war. There is no way of doing real polling in Russia because nobody will answer an independent pollster over the phone. JC: Do you think that the flock of young people, especially young men, who fled Russia after the start of the war represent a continuation of liberal movements that refuse to partake in the authoritarian state, or do you think they are moving for the sake of self-preservation – “I don’t want to go to the army, so I leave”? AA: I’m sure it’s both. I actually know many people who left Russia for political reasons either in the very last years before the war, or else just after the war began. JC: And do you see a change in the young generation versus the old one that have fled? AA: It’s hard for me to say because the people who I know were mostly already politicized. I do know some younger people who left, but most of them were already either active in the opposition, or working as journalists. Many of them very self-consciously think of themselves as maintaining Russian culture abroad, just as in the 20th century the Soviet dissidents or the anti-communist White Russians once thought of themselves as people who maintained the true Russian culture, outside of Bolshevik Russia. JC: Let’s move on to Poland. One of your first experiences with Poland was reporting on Margaret Thatcher’s first state visit, in the autumn of 1988. You followed her around the farmers’ market. AA: She was making a symbolic gesture. She wanted to welcome free markets, but the only one she could really visit was the farmers’ market at Hala Mirowska. JC: And I want to talk about this area because today you can look out of any window in that district, Mirów, and see rows and rows of skyscrapers. How does it feel to see a country built from the ground in such a short time, both politically and economically? AA: You know, when you’re living in a period of dramatic change, it’s always hard to know whether the change is positive or negative. The transformation in Poland created winners and losers, as well as new classes of people, new political movements of different kinds. At the time, it sometimes just felt like turbulence. Now, we can look back at the 1990s and early 2000s in Poland and see in retrospect that the country was headed in towards prosperity and European integration. In around 2009 or 2010, I remember speaking to a woman who worked cleaning government offices, and who asked me if her daughter should study in Amsterdam or in London. This seemed to me to be a real transformation, and it happened very fast: within a few years, Poles stopped feeling like second-class Europeans, and a generation of younger Poles appeared who had no qualms about crossing borders. JC: We again live in turbulent times. Do you think we’re heading towards positive outcomes? AA: I can’t make predictions, because everything that happens tomorrow depends on what people do today. Also, history doesn’t have a trajectory. It doesn’t move in a particular direction. You only think it does afterwards. As I said, you can look afterwards at Poland in the 1990s and you could say this was a period of great progress. But not everybody at the time saw that. Sometimes people are very wrong about a given country’s trajectory. I remember people writing about Ukraine in the 1990s, about how dangerous it was that Ukraine was independent, that this was going to be an anti-semitic state, that Ukrainian nationalism was going to come back... and although you can say many bad things about Ukraine, the country made many bad choices, actually it became a pretty tolerant state which now has a Jewish president and until recently a Muslim defense minister. JC: In the 1990s Poland’s and Ukraine’s GDP were roughly similar. Ukraine was even a bit richer. So the starting point was similar for both of these countries, but they’ve turned out very, very differently. Even if we stop in 2014. Why do you think Ukraine “chose East”? Was it external influence? AA: No, I think Ukraine was in a different position. First of all, central and eastern Ukraine had been part of the Soviet Union since the 1920s, and had therefore experienced a longer period of occupation, repression, Sovietization and even Russification. Ukraine did not have, as Poland did, an alternative elite: a large cadre of economists and politicians, who already had some experience in opposition politics and in independent thinking. In Poland, the transformative finance minister, Leszek Balcerowicz, had already thought about how an economy might be decentralized before he took office. We can argue about how successful he was, but at least he was prepared to try something new. In Ukraine, people weren’t prepared. For one, there hadn’t been much space even for an illegal opposition in the previous couple of decades. Ukraine was also in many ways still emerging from colonial occupation. For the previous couple of centuries, many of the most capable Ukrainians had moved to Russia, and the first generation of leaders in independent Ukraine tended to be former Soviet apparatchiks. They didn’t immediately seek to become closer to western Europe. Instead, they looked for some kind of economic and political “third way” and an accomodation with Russia. Ukraine became stuck in this position, half-in, half-out and became pretty profoundly corrupt. JC: The Polish alternative elite had a vision of where they wanted the country to go. I think the general perception now is that this vision ends with the next election, right? Is this a natural process of gaining power? AA: Their vision, and it was shared by the time by politicians who now call themselves both left and right, was that Poland should join the EU and NATO, as fast as possible. My husband (Radek Sikorski) was in the very first government that said it wanted to join NATO. At the time this was taken very badly in Washington: the demand for NATO membership absolutely came from Poland, not from the US. But even then, in the early 1990s, many Poles already understood that the Russian sphere of influence would grow once again, that it was important to become part of the transatlantic alliance and an integrated Europe as fast as possible: NATO, the EU, the Council of Europe, all of the trading and security alliances. That consensus lasted through several different governments and over many years, even governments containing former communists. For twenty years, right, left and center disagreed about many things, but they all agreed on the direction that the country should go. In retrospect, that consensus created the basis for prosperity in Poland. JC: And regarding the Polish-Ukrainian relations. We know that antagonisms, e.g. the myth of Wołyń [a massacre of Poles that took place in what is now Western Ukraine, in 1943] are increasingly used in Polish political discourse today. In Ukraine, nationalist historians make heroes out of UPA, the Ukrainian revolutionary army, which is held responsible for this tragedy. Where do you see a start for burying the hatchet? Is the reconciliation of our nations possible? AA: So here’s a strange thing: For more than a decade after they both gained independence, Poland and Ukraine participated in a number of projects that were designed to solve exactly these kinds of Polish-Ukrainian differences. Books were published that were jointly written by Polish and Ukrainian historians, monuments were built. These projects were successful: If you’d asked me this question in 2010, I would have said that there are no real historical issues between Poland and Ukraine, that the two countries had mostly reconciled. For a number of reasons, this began to shift. In Poland, children and grandchildren of victims of the Wołyń massacre felt their tragedy hadn’t been fully recognized. In Ukraine, nationalist groups wanted the UPA partisans who had fought against the Soviet Union recognized for their heroism, despite the fact that some in this broad and not well-defined group were also linked to Wołyń. In both eastern Poland and western Ukraine, the memory of the ethnic cleansing that took place there in the late 1940s - Poles were moved West, Ukrainians East - to accomodate new borders has left feelings of displacement and bitterness. The wave of Ukrainian immigration, which started before the war, may have provoked some of this. But don’t underestimate the role played by Russia, which has always wanted to create discord between Poland and Ukraine, and pumps out propaganda to that effect in both countries. Vandalism on both sides of the border, damage done to cemeteries and monuments, is sometimes carried out by provacateurs working for Russia, just to create bad feelings. The Polish-Ukrainian conflict also hides a different reality: although there are real grievances and bad memories, the truth is that the biggest tragedies both nations experienced in the twentieth century were inflicted by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. That should unite these two countries, not divide them. JC: This week (19.04.2026 – Ed.) in Hungary we saw that using historical narratives to create grievance has no longer worked. Are you optimistic about the direction after Orban’s loss? AA: The Hungarian election was really important because it shows that people can actually resist powerful, dominant propaganda. The ruling party Fidesz controlled all of the TV, 90% of the newspapers, the constitutional court, the bureaucracy... and yet people had the nerve to vote against it and resist it. It’s also an important election because Hungary created a huge network of well-funded think tanks and foundations that were funding other far right groups and projects. So that loss is going to have a knock-on effect in other places too, maybe even in Poland. JC: What you’ve said about resisting propaganda reminds me of one of the interviews you did about talking to Russians in the post-Soviet era who claimed that people knew that the system was lying. Why do people choose to believe in these regimes anyway? AA: Because it’s useful. Stephen Kotkin, an American historian, once described how people would learn how to “speak Bolshevik”: It was just a language that you needed to use in order to get by in society. If you didn’t talk the way the regime wanted you to talk, then you might have problems, or lose your job, or your kids would not get into university. It was a way of getting along. Communist Poland was similar, at least in the early years. When I was writing a book about the Sovietization of Eastern Europe after World War II, I met a lot of people who wanted to talk a lot about the war, when many of them had done really heroic things. But almost nobody wanted to talk about the decade afterwards, between 1945 and 1956. This was when you had the short period of terror, violence and Polish Stalinism. To stay safe, people felt the need to just go along with what others were saying, or stay out of politics, or use communist jargon without necessarily believing it. I don’t judge them for it, and I wouldn’t describe all of those people as collaborators. It’s easy to feel moral certainty in retrospect, because we know that communism ended. But if you were living in 1949, it might not have been clear to you that communism was going to end. In very repressive societies, maybe about 10% of people who are really evil – collaborators, torturers. Maybe 10% of people are really brave and who find ways to resist. And then around 80% of people have kids, they have parents, they have to have jobs and they’ve had to get through it somehow. Strange though it may sound, I’ve found that the work I did on that book is now very useful in explaining some of what’s going on in the United States today. There are plenty of members of the Republican Party in Congress who know perfectly well that Donald Trump says many things that aren’t true. But they avoid criticizing him because it’s inconvenient, because they would get in trouble, because someone would attack them on the internet. So actually you don’t even need mass terror to get people to conform. JC: Is Gen Z reinventing agency? AA: We’ll see. In any generation you can find groups of people who want agency. If you live in a society that’s unfair, for example where a tiny number of people have captured most of the wealth, then at a certain point people rebel. This is always easier for younger people, who have you have less to lose. The question now is how the internet will affect the relationships between citizens and the state, and how it will change organizations. The “Twitter revolutions” people spoke about as early as 2008-9, mass protests organized online, have often proved to be very superficial. Although you can easily join something just by clicking, the work of creating a real movement requires physical participation. Successful mass movements of the past, for example the Civil Rights movement in the United States, were built by people who had spent many years together. They had participated in non-violent workshops together. They practiced and prepared. Just using the you can get everybody to show up at a certain moment, but then when the protest is broken up, nothing happens. It’s also true that the repressive regimes have more recently learned how to use the internet to undermine leaders and movements. Most of all, they now understand how to make people cynical. The form of propaganda that most modern authoritarians use - and I think the Russians really pioneered this - deploys sneering cynicism. Instead of praising the rulers, the regime propagandists mock the opposition movement leadership for being supposedly corrupt or sexually degenerate, with the goal of undermining any kind of idealism. JC: MAGA grew on the internet? AA: MAGA is a real grassroots movement. They had symbols, red hats, they showed up at rallies. But you’re right that the cynicism, the sarcasm and the distrust that the movement embodies came originally from the internet, and this is different. Fifty years ago, most European political parties had a social base in real organizations, in trade unions for Social Democrats, in church groups for Christian Democrats. As people stopped going to church and as the trade unions became smaller, the social base of these parties disappeared. Now people who wouldn’t have known one another in the past meet on the internet and create new movements, many of which don’t last. JC: Is history ending? Going in stale circles? AA: History never ends. In truth, human beings want contradictory things at the same time: order and freedom, stability and change. These things are never resolved, and when a society swings too far in one direction, people always push it the other way. But each time that happens, the result is different. Certainly it is true that we are now in a period when old philosophers and ideas from the 1930s are undergoing a revival. Carl Schmitt, who was a philosopher who was very influential on the Nazis, is back as an influence on both the far left and the far right, once again inspiring people to think that all politics has to be existential, that all politics is about defining and defeating enemies. In the US, some are also bringing back dominionism, the idea that we need a Christian and not a secular state. It’s also true that we are living through a more fundamental shift. The old left-right divide, which was mostly about the size of the state, is much less important now. Instead, we are arguing about more fundamental things: what are our rights, what protects our freedom. Or how much power do we want to give small elites, versus how much power to give ordinary people. In America a small group of very wealthy people now control information, because they control the social media platforms and AI, which means they determine what people will read and learn. Finding a way to preserve preserve zones of autonomy and independent thinking, this is going to be the main task for the next generation. JC: What is the one book that a person interested in Central Europe should read? AA: You could read my book “Iron Curtain: the Crushing of Eastern Europe” which tells the story of how the Soviet Union imposed its culture on the region. Or read Tim Snyder’s history of the region, “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999.” And everyone should read “The Captive Mind” by Czesław Miłosz, which describes exactly the phenomenon we were talking about: why do people collaborate? I joined Scott Galloway and the brilliant Fiona Hill in a discussion about the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the future of global power, and what these conflicts reveal about America's role in the world. Scott told us that this was the 400th edition of his podcast, which is quite a number: My friend Francesco Chiamulera runs a brilliant series of literary events, Una Colline di Libri, A Hill of Books, in the Prosecco Hills, a region of vineyards and elegant hill towns in the Veneto, north of Venice. We did an event in Vittorio Veneto and also drove and biked around the countryside. Buy Autocracy Inc Buy Iron Curtain Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe
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Gabbard rescinds Biden-era intel assessments that were skeptical about ‘Havana Syndrome’
In what is expected to be among her final acts as the nation’s top spymaster, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has rescinded a pair of Biden-era intelligence assessments that took a skeptical position on the existence of a mysterious ailment known as “Havana Syndrome” that has sickened spies, diplomats and other officials overseas.
Opinion | This Conservative Insider Is Skeptical That the G.O.P. Can ‘Buck Historical Trends’ in the Midterms
Why “top Republicans should actually be more concerned.”
The World Cup Could Be the Biggest Sports Gambling Event Ever
At a time of sluggish growth, betting sites like FanDuel and DraftKings are counting on the global soccer tournament to boost online sports gambling.
Scientists Tracked These Strange Arctic Icebergs and Found Something Unexpected on the Seafloor
Researchers traced new undersea ecosystems of soft coral, sea anemones, sponges, and more to large rocks and mineral deposits ferried by icebergs from dry land to the Arctic floor.
Club Science: Pride
School may be out for summer, but the Science Museum of Minnesota in Saint Paul is keeping the curiosity alive with something exciting for grown-ups. Caillean Kapoor, visitor experience manager at the Science Museum, joined Minnesota Live to share details about Club Science: Pride, a vibrant 21-plus night happening Saturday, June 13 starting at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are still available and include museum admission, an Omnitheater show and a drink ticket.
Defending migrants, Pope Leo calls for ‘legal’ paths, a nod to fraught politics
As he finished a seven-day visit, Pope Leo articulated a fuller position on migration, including the “right” of nations to protect their borders, that his critics often ignore.
Pro-economic growth policy back in business following primaries, some say
Some in the Republican party are feeling positive about returns from the June 2 primary when it comes to legislative races. Results could indicate a shift in policy and legislative leadership.
Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses
The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
Lake Geneva business leaders establish city's first-ever Pride celebration despite some online opposition
Lake Geneva is the latest community with its own LGBTQ+ Pride celebration. The weekend event has family-friendly activities like chalk drawing, a vendor fair, and a community worship celebration.
Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
The Arch Linux User Repository 'AUR' was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised.
Frisco Mayor’s Race Tests Anti-Muslim Politics in Texas
A runoff in the Dallas suburb of Frisco is testing whether anti-Muslim rhetoric, prominent in G.O.P. primaries this year, can win over a broader set of voters.
AIPAC Wants Democrats to Back Israel. Instead, They’re Turning on AIPAC.
Once the guardian of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus, it is now a polarizing force in the party.
Thursday’s camps see Ohio State’s send out several new offers
Thursday’s one-day position camp sees Ohio State’s staff sending out several new offers in the 2028 and 2029 classes
She Used A.I. to Create Better Forecasts for Extreme Weather. Then Her Funding Was Cut.
Amy McGovern was the director of an A.I. institute dedicated to weather forecasting — until the National Science Foundation ended its funding.
Faith, political leaders celebrate religious freedom after Indiana LG's Islam comments
Prominent Republican leaders joined Democrats, religious leaders and devout Hoosiers at the Indiana Statehouse on Thursday to condemn faith-based discrimination — a response to anti-Islam comments Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith made last month, including calling the religion a "demonic death cult."
Dehko Enterprises Announces Expansion of Business Development and Strategic Investment Operations
Michigan-Based Company Expands Growth Initiatives Across Business Development, Strategic Investments, Brand Building, and Emerging OpportunitiesWest Bloomfield, Michigan--(Newsfile Corp. - June 12, 2026) - Dehko Enterprises today announced the expansion of its business development and strategic investment operations as part of a long-term initiative designed to strengthen the company's position across multiple industries while pursuing new opportunities in business growth, strategic...
China Has Arrested U.S. Scholar Who Studies Myanmar Politics
The arrest of U Min Zin, a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley and founder of a research group in Myanmar, took place soon after President Trump met with Xi Jinping in China.
Shohei Ohtani leaves game with injury, Dodgers announce initial diagnosis
Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani was well on his way to a third consecutive National League MVP award on June 11 when he left a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates with an injury. Ohtani left the game with left…
McMahon weighing options on local laws passed by county legislature
He made those comments following a public hearing on Thursday, as lawmakers discussed imposing term limits on the county executive's office.
The Tug-of-War for Control of the House in 2026’s Midterm Elections
While public sentiment has drifted in Democrats’ favor in many of the midterm House races, Republicans have strong-armed a structural advantage: redrawing congressional maps.
Sights and sounds from day 2 of Browns mandatory minicamp
Another day of minicamp is in the books.
How the Rangers Got Back to .500
The Texas Rangers are no longer a losing team after beating the Kansas City Royals on Thursday.
Some States Pull Out of Trump’s ‘Great American State Fair’
At least five have declined to participate, the latest sign that the national 250th birthday celebration has become a fragmented and partisan affair as the president seeks his imprint.
Diamondbacks fans demand accountability after sweep by Marlins
PHOENIX — After winning four series against the Colorado Rockies and San Francisco Giants before the end of May, Arizona Diamondbacks fans hoped the momentum would carry into June. Unfortunately, the opposite happened, and now they’re demanding accountability.
Sorsby gambling case comes up during push for federal college sports rules
A judge’s decision to let a Texas Tech University quarterback keep playing despite breaking the NCAA’s gambling rules is exposing the cracks in college sports’ ability to regulate itself.
Sorsby gambling case comes up during push for federal college sports rules
A judge’s decision to let a Texas Tech University quarterback keep playing despite breaking the NCAA’s gambling rules is exposing the cracks in college sports’ ability to regulate itself.
California Democrat endorsed by Pelosi falls behind younger challenger
The intraparty race is expected to shape up as a competitive one.
Cleve Moler, Who Unlocked the Power of Computing for Millions, Dies at 86
He built interfaces that allowed engineers, scientists and everyday people to solve difficult problems without having to write the underlying code.
We May Be Surrounded by Trillions of Conscious Beings, Research Suggests—And They Aren’t Human
We might need to reconsider our position in the consciousness hierarchy.
Phillies Acquire Outfielder from White Sox
After losing Johan Rojas for the rest of the season, the Phillies have traded for a center fielder.
RPG Maker is deleting 14 years of community content and fans have days to save them
RPG Maker’s official forums are closing in December, and 14 years of tutorials and guides will be permanently deleted with no archive or backup.
Eating 5 fruits and vegetables a day may not be enough for heart health, study finds
New research suggests that meeting fruit and vegetable guidelines may not provide enough flavanols for heart health benefits without choosing specific foods.
A sign of the times? Two more Riverside restaurants closing their doors
Two more Riverside restaurants are closing their doors, sharing the sad news on Facebook.
Man pleads guilty to killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband while posing as an officer
A Minnesota man who posed as a police officer and knocked on lawmakers' doors in the middle of the night, killing the top Democrat in the state House and her husband and wounding a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty to murder on Thursday so that federal prosecutors would not seek the death penalty.
Trump plans to nominate U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to be national intelligence director
President Donald Trump announced the nomination on social media amid pressure from Congress to name a permanent replacement for Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned last month.
Postal Service Issues Proposal to Block Mail Ballots in States That Don’t Turn Over Data
Democrats and voting-rights groups have challenged the proposed rule as a harmful federal intrusion that could affect millions of voters who cast their ballots by mail.
Nintendo’s Palworld Lawsuit Is Falling Apart
Nintendo's patent lawsuit against Palworld gets a preliminary end date, as well as some changes suggesting it's falling apart.
Trump Picks Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence After Backlash Over Bill Pulte
Lawmakers had pressed the president to find someone besides Bill Pulte, the Trump ally who was the president’s interim choice but lacked experience.
Spurs join a growing list of notable collapses in sports history
The San Antonio Spurs have plenty of company in being on the losing end of a dramatic comeback. Matt Ryan and the Falcons losing a 28-3 lead against New England in the Super Bowl.
Scientists Measure Earth’s Vast Underground Fungal Webs
With machine learning and a high-resolution imaging robot, scientists measured and mapped the extent of Earth’s carbon circulatory system.
Huge ‘8647’ etched into grass on the National Mall, aerial images show
The numbers “8647” — a phrase generally used to signal opposition to President Donald Trump — appeared etched into the grass on the National Mall on Thursday, days before massive crowds are expected in the area for a UFC match on Trump’s birthday on Sunday.
New GreatXML Exploit Bypasses Windows BitLocker via Recovery Partition XML Files
GreatXML can bypass BitLocker on Windows systems where Defender Offline Scan was used, exposing encrypted drive data.
A DC-area pizzeria is set to serve its last slice after 50 years in business
A famous D.C.-region pizzeria will be closing its last location in the area after over 50 years of business.
‘Bad policy and even worse politics’: DeSantis spurns potential White House AI preemption
The Trump administration’s longstanding opposition to state AI laws ultimately killed legislation in Florida, and now Gov. Ron DeSantis fears policies in other states could fall by the wayside.
He Spent 15 Years Amassing SpaceX Shares. Now Comes the Windfall.
Justin Fishner-Wolfson, long a minor figure in Elon Musk’s orbit, is at the helm of a multibillion-dollar payout
Why Watching Sports Makes People Happy
Watching sports of all kinds, both in-person and on a screen, can have positive impacts on well-being.
Mateen Appointed Director of New Center for Global Neurology
Farrah Mateen, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Multiple Sclerosis & Neuroimmunology and the Dr. Charles L. Mix Research Professor of Neurology, has been named director of the Center for Global Neurology, a center of the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health (IGH).
Berkeley health officials say 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after contracting leptospirosis from rats
Health officials in Berkeley said one person died and another person was hospitalized after contracting leptospirosis from rats that had infested their RV.
iOS 27 brings another very welcome improvement to Camera Control on iPhone
iOS 27 and Siri AI introduce a positive change to the iPhone’s Camera Control. This welcome improvement is a benefit...