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[ad_1] Shell posted nearly $10 billion in second-quarter results as consumers struggled with higher living costs and the U.K. suffered a deadly heatwave, Jake Johnson reports.    Shell station in Canada. (Raysonho/Wikimedia Commons / CC0) By Jake JohnsonCommon Dreams The London-based oil behemoth Shell has reported its net profit more than doubled in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2025 as the Iran war pushed up energy prices, causing pain for consumers in the United Kingdom and around the world. Oxfam projected earlier this week that the world’s six largest fossil fuel corporations — Shell among…

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[ad_1] Riding in a car without brakes or a steering wheel might soon be a regular occurrence for residents of Las Vegas and San Francisco. On Thursday, the Transportation Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced it is granting a two-year temporary exemption to autonomous robotaxi company Zoox for commercial deployment of up to 2,500 vehicles annually. Last August, Zoox became the first American autonomous vehicle (A.V.) company to receive a demonstration exemption for its fleet. The company has been operating free rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco, with plans to expand to Austin, Texas, and Miami in…

[ad_1] Juan Cole Informed Comment My interview with Ian Masters is at his Background Briefing Background Briefing with Ian Masters · July 30, 2026 – Juan Cole | Larry Tye | Clay Risen Transcript (produced by VoiceMe app and cleaned up with Anthropic’s Claude as well as my own eye): # Background Briefing — Interview with Juan Cole **IAN MASTERS:** And joining us now is Professor Juan Cole, Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. His latest articles in Informed Comment include “New War on Saudi Refineries by Iran Allies” and “Houthis Aim for Red Sea Tolls, May Have Hit…

[ad_1]  Download Audio. Scott interviews author and writer Ted Galen Carpenter about the Iran war, Israel’s tensions with Turkey, the Saudi Nuclear deal, North Korea and more. Discussed on the show: “Washington’s Two Rogue Allies in the Middle East Face Off” (Libertarian Institute) “North Korea’s Nuclear Status Requires Urgent Negotiation” (Libertarian Institute) Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute. Carpenter has written 10 books including America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan and most recently Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy. He is a contributing editor at The American…

[ad_1] William Buffalo Tiger, Chief of the Miccosukees, 1920-2015. The State Department’s recent report alleging Cuba’s support for left-wing “terrorism” in the United States signals a chilling escalation, as the Trump administration draws up enemy lists for a revived Red Scare. Ultimately, the document reads as an unwitting confession of U.S. foreign policy failure. While the State Department celebrates how mid-century McCarthyism crushed the “old” communist left, it inadvertently exposes Washington’s inability to contain the “new left” and modern movements condemning U.S. aggression toward Cuba. Even after decades of suffocating sanctions and a relentless blockade, Cuba endures as the primary…

[ad_1] Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America’s botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except Fauci actually didn’t testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-era “Faucism,” the mad doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times. It’s an unprecedented defiance of congressional will for a man who has already received a sweeping presidential pardon. Congress would do well to vote to hold Fauci in contempt. Wednesday’s intense senatorial standoff followed Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) earlier release of damning excerpts…

[ad_1] Senate hearings are always theatrical. Even still, Wednesday morning’s Senate committee hearing to interrogate Dr. Anthony Fauci on, among other things, the origins of Covid-19 was a shocking performance: Dr. Fauci barely spoke, while everyone else spent some three hours projecting their emotions onto him. Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] ADC President Jenin Younes and plaintiff Max Blumenthal outside the Alfred V. Bryan US federal courthouse The Grayzone A federal court has granted discovery in Max Blumenthal’s lawsuit against DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and called the seizure of his phones a violation of his constitutional rights. The judge framed the case as part of a wider assault on press freedom by the Trump administration. This article was adapted from the ADC and includes additional information and analysis by The Grayzone. Read a full transcript of the hearing here. On July 29, The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal had his day in court. Represented…

[ad_1] Japan’s parliament passed an amendment on Wednesday that reclassifies cryptocurrency as a “financial asset,” a shift that pulls bitcoin and other digital assets out of the country’s payments regime and into the framework that governs stocks, bonds, and investment trusts, according to a report from public broadcaster NHK [1]. The change strips crypto of its prior status under the Payment Services Act, where regulators treated it as a means of settlement, and folds it into the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA), the same statute that oversees traditional securities [2]. The change takes effect within a year, with a…