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[ad_1] A Record-Setting Pace Wars in Iran, Ukraine, and Israel have drawn attention away from a stark fact: armed conflict is on the rise worldwide in and between states. Two Swedish think tanks with impeccable credentials report the depressing figures: the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. SIPRI’s annual report for 2025 notes: “More people were killed in armed conflict, were forced from their homes or needed humanitarian assistance than in recent years, probably for decades. On many battlefronts, peacemaking was non-existent or stalled.” The Uppsala program notes that there were 65 armed conflicts in…

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[ad_1] The U.S. Capitol Police anticipated a drone attack on the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event at the White House before the FBI broke up a plot to do exactly that, documents obtained by Reason show. An intelligence assessment on May 20 mentioned the possibility of “nefarious actors plotting to use weaponized drones” or to fire from “high vantage points” against UFC spectators. A month later, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd announced the first arrest in “a plot to murder members of the federal government” with a combined drone and sniper assault. The Trump administration has…

[ad_1] Britta Shoot Prism Journalist John Washington’s new book explains how fighting and closing detention centers is critical in the larger battle to stop immigration enforcement Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, dozens of immigrants have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Between January and July 6 this year, at least 21 individuals have died in federal custody. In January, during ICE’s siege in Minneapolis, agents with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed community defenders Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two of at least 11 individuals killed by DHS agents since the start of Trump’s second term. While there was a brief…

[ad_1] In a significant setback for one of the most ambitious AI infrastructure projects in the United States, Blackstone-backed QTS Realty Trust has decided to abandon its portion of the Prince William Digital Gateway (also known as the PW Digital Gateway) in Northern Virginia’s Prince William County. The move comes just days after Bloomberg reported the decision on July 2, 2026, marking the effective end of plans for what was envisioned as the world’s largest data center campus. The sprawling project, spanning roughly 2,100 acres in total (with QTS targeting more than 800 acres), was planned for up to 37…

[ad_1] Arizona’s Republican primary voters sent a clear message Tuesday: The party still belongs to Donald Trump. Across three marquee races – for governor and for two open U.S. House seats – the candidates he endorsed came out on top, reaffirming his grip on the state’s conservative base heading into a high-stakes midterm cycle with control of the House and Senate hanging in the balance. The results come against the backdrop of a state that has swung sharply in Trump’s favor. Arizona backed Joe Biden by a razor-thin margin in 2020 – just 0.3 points – but flipped decisively to…

[ad_1] Since 2019, public school enrollment has fallen by 2.84 percent nationwide, an exodus of roughly 1.4 million. K-12 students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Yet the amount spent on public schools nationwide grew by 34 percent from 2019 to 2024, according to NCES data. Much of that is thanks to the nearly $190 billion Congress provided to state and local governments through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER), in three separate batches from March 2020 to March 2021. Now that the ESSER funds are largely spent, school districts are grappling with staffing decisions…

[ad_1] Across much of the Global South the old certainties of the IMF’s dogma of austerity models have evaporated. What replaces it must come from the people of Global South. Attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari, Italy, Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli with a Pupil, 1495–1500. (Via Transcontinental) By Vijay PrashadTricontinental: Institute for Social Research The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published a paper in 2015 by the influential economist Robert H. Wade titled “The Role of Industrial Policy in Developing Countries.” Wade argued that virtually all successful attempts at late industrialisation (such as in Japan and South Korea) used interventionist…

[ad_1] Once upon a time, anthropologists and archaeologists told us that Lucy was the bridge to our ancient common past with monkey people.  Very controversial. Hopelessly irresponsible mainstream media showed us an artists rendition of female bone of contention.  Dog mats everywhere howled their disapproval. I myself formed my own image of what she would look like today.  I went with Scarlett Johansson. Check it out and tell me I’m wrong: No way the critics scolded and conjured up pictures of Imogene Coco in the hit 60s TV series It’s About Time. I don’t know. The hall Lucy phenomenon didn’t…

[ad_1] For much of its five-decade history, the Colorado Energy Office was a small department with a handful of employees who supported practical, cost-saving energy conservation measures. From 201 [ad_2] Source link