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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Curt Mills, Andrew Day, and Harrison Berger discuss the framework peace deal with Iran, Vice President J.D. Vance’s efforts to get a final deal, and the pushback from the Israel lobby. Recorded June 23, 2026. Source link

Back in 2018, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg minced no words as he was staring down congressional hearings over the regulation of social media and other parts of the online world. He didn’t need the new AI-enhanced Meta Glasses he announced just yesterday to read the writing on the wall: A growing bipartisan consensus in Congress wanted Zuck—and the heads of Apple and Google and other tech giants—to do something about social media, which was starting to be blamed for everything bad in the world. “I think the question is more what is the right regulation rather than ‘yes or no…

Ranked: Refugees Hosted Per Capita by Country See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key Takeaways Lebanon hosts the world’s highest concentration of refugees, with 131 refugees per 1,000 residents. Most countries at the top of the ranking border major conflict zones, highlighting how geography shapes refugee flows. The U.S. ranks 82nd globally on a per-capita basis despite being among the world’s largest refugee-hosting countries in absolute terms. The countries carrying the world’s largest refugee burden are often not the…

The 14th Amendment of the Constitution guarantees that all Americans are treated as equal individuals, not as members of a racial group. Yet for decades, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), using a legal theory known as disparate impact, pushed employers to do the opposite. Under disparate impact theory, an employer may be liable for using practices that have an adverse effect on members of one racial group, even if the employer did not intend to discriminate. A recent opinion issued by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) holds that the EEOC’s historical interpretation of disparate…

The Qatari Prime Minister said that Gulf Arab states are speaking with Iran about developing a new regional security framework. The Gulf Arab states, which host US military bases, became targets of Iranian missiles during the war.  “Part of what we are doing now, as regional countries, is to create this regional security framework between us and Iran,” Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani added. “That will hopefully have economic co-operation in the future between all of us, to bring the region back to stability.” Qatar and Pakistan are currently mediating talks between the US and Iran.…

Last week in United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the government may not strip people of their Second Amendment rights or prosecute them for illegal gun possession simply because they are marijuana users. That decision was good news for Alexander Ledvina, an Iowa cannabis consumer who received a four-year prison sentence because he owned guns. Ledvina, who was 26 when he was arrested in June 2023, has been incarcerated since then. In a recent letter from the federal prison in Memphis, which he wrote on the same day that the Supreme Court decided Hemani but before he…

You have probably heard the news: The Democratic primary elections in New York City went very well for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, leveraged his popularity and star power to propel three of his best friends to victory over more establishment figures, two of them incumbents. The winners are all but guaranteed to advance to Congress: Brad Ladner—whose ouster of incumbent Rep. Daniel Goldman (D–N.Y.) was a proxy battle over the Israel issue—Claire Valdez, and Darializa Avila Chevalier. Avila Chevalier, the most overtly radical of the three, is an interesting figure because she…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth holds a bilateral exchange with Israel Minister of Defense Israel Katz at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., July 18, 2025. (DoD photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Noel Diaz) Top Israeli officials continue to say that Tel Aviv will not comply with the peace deal that President Donald Trump is negotiating with Iran. Tehran says a top priority is expanding the ceasefire to Lebanon.  “Because what happened in the past in security zones, where there was also a civilian population [present], was roadside bombs and attacks against the soldiers, and therefore we will not allow that,”…

In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, President Donald Trump highlighted significant economic changes in Pennsylvania. Source link

A new study in the American Journal of Public Health traces how one of America’s most recognizable children’s meals was shaped by the same corporate strategies that helped sell cigarettes. Drawing on previously undisclosed internal documents, Laura Schmidt, Ph.D., found that Philip Morris applied its tobacco-industry playbook to develop, market and reformulate Lunchables. Tobacco giant Philip Morris used its cigarette-industry playbook to develop and market “hyper-palatable” foods — including Lunchables and other highly recognizable ultraprocessed foods — to children, according to internal documents cited in a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). The report by Laura Schmidt, Ph.D., is…