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Benjamin Netanyahu listened, kinda sorta: The Israeli military has stopped striking Beirut, seemingly buckling under pressure from President Donald Trump and others to deescalate lest a regional ceasefire be threatened. (Iran will not make a deal if Israel continues to strike allies.) Still, Israel’s prime minister has decided to maintain the military offensive against Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon, issuing new evacuation orders Tuesday for Nabatieh, one of the region’s largest cities, indicating that more strikes will follow. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. “Trump…

Photograph Source: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit photographer – CC BY-SA 3.0 While eyes remain peeled on Israel’s increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proving ever more predatory with the Gaza Strip.  With aggrandizing impunity, more territory is being acquired for familiar reasons: Hamas is on the run and needs to be crushed further (the organisation is proving oddly resilient and contradictory to Israeli objectives here); Palestinian autonomy, even in so small an area, would be a future threat to Israel unless heavily invigilated and policed; and, well, there is that old desire to…

What to watch for as voters head to the polls in California, Iowa, and New Jersey. Source link

We fact-checked Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Source link

From Amitay v. Jews for Jesus, decided Thursday by the California Court of Appeal (Justice Marla Miller, joined by Justices James Richman and Tara Desautels): In December 2023, JFJ posted on its social media pages, including on Facebook and Instagram, a blurred photograph of an Israeli soldier wearing a yarmulke. Above the photograph was the following text attributed to “Nachman”: “‘Thank you for leaving at my home a copy of the New Testament. I look forward to reading it when I return home from the war’—Nachman, a young Haredi soldier.” {Haredim are sometimes referred to as ‘ultra-Orthodox,’ although this term…

Herbicide mixtures widely used on industrial farms may damage the gut, disrupt healthy bacteria and trigger inflammation at exposure levels regulators currently consider safe, according to a new peer-reviewed study. Researchers say the findings raise urgent questions about how pesticide safety is evaluated, since regulators typically assess chemicals individually rather than as the “chemical cocktails” people encounter in the real world. Herbicide mixtures widely used on industrial farms may damage the gut, disrupt healthy bacteria and trigger inflammation at exposure levels regulators currently consider safe, according to a new peer-reviewed study. The research, published in April in Archives of Toxicology, examined glyphosate…

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Turnberry Deal Won't Fix Transatlantic Trade. But It' a Start Source link

Photograph Source: Jeremy Bolwell – CC BY-SA 2.0 In what is being touted as the “Golden Age of School Choice,” the option that is most popular with American families—to fund and attend their local public schools—is gradually being made less viable. Take North Carolina, for instance. For years, the Republican-dominated state legislature has chosen to cut the state’s funding for public schools, resulting in a decline in inflation-adjusted per-student funding of about 13 percent since 2003, according to the NC Budget and Tax Center. The Education Law Center’s (ELC) 2025 national ranking of state education funding, “Making the Grade,” report shows that the…

There has been a great deal of speculation about the political consequences of Donald Trump’s “revenge tour” against Republicans he considers insufficiently loyal in the midterm elections. But over the last several days, there have been signs that it may come back to haunt him much sooner than the midterms. The first harbinger of what might be headed Trump’s way was the vote in the Senate to advance a resolution to force a vote restraining Donald Trump’s conduct of the Iranian war under the War Powers Act. Democrats had attempted to force a vote on several previous occasions, only to…