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[ad_1] At the 81st anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Patrick Baab warns how Germany is marching with apocalyptic blindness towards nuclear armageddon. Guest: German journalist Patrik Baab. Camera & Interviewer: Joe Lauria. Editor: Cathy Vogan. Please Donate toCN’s SummerFund Drive!   [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] President Donald Trump claimed that American weapons stockpiles were full and said he would arrest leakers who have been sources for multiple reports that the military’s arsenal is running low.  “The US has massive amounts of ‘munitions,’ especially of certain types. Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the US as needed,” the President wrote on Truth Social Thursday. “The ‘leakers’ of these treasonous statements are being hunted down. Long-term jail sentences will be sought!” Multiple outlets have reported speaking with sources who confirmed that the US is facing shortages of Patriot, THAAD, SM-6, SM-3, Tomahawk, JASSM,…

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[ad_1] When the Supreme Court ruled on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2010, the majority opinion reaffirmed that political speech is “indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true simply because the speech comes from a corporation.” The state of Hawaii disagrees. In May, Democratic Gov. Josh Green signed Act 11 into law, which strips away corporations’ “power to spend money or contribute anything of value to influence elections or ballot measures” in the state. This means that under the law, all corporations—except for political action committees, political parties, and candidate committees—cannot fund initiatives…

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[ad_1] When Congress approved the National Firearms Act (NFA) in 1934, it framed the law as a tax measure, justifying its regulations as tools to facilitate the generation of revenue. That choice matters, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Wednesday, because several NFA provisions no longer serve that function. When Congress eliminated the federal taxes on making and transferring sound suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns in 2025, U.S. District Judge James Hendrix concluded, it also eliminated the constitutional basis for the ancillary rules governing those activities. Since the decision in Silencer Shop Foundation v. ATF bars enforcement of the…

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[ad_1] The unemployment rate of U.S. teens (ages 16-19) was 14.6 percent in June 2026, compared with a jobless rate of 4.2 percent for the national labor force, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.  The U.S. labor force participation rate for teens was 35.4 percent, or about 5.2 million workers, in June 2026. The U.S. labor force participation rate for teens was 41.2 percent, or about 6.1 million workers, in June 2025. What accounts for this decrease in teen employment? Are employers introducing Artificial Intelligence such as ChatGPT into the labor market and increasing the automation of the labor process? Given that…

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