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To put American traffic deaths in perspective, consider the Miami Marlins. Since 2012, the baseball team has played its home games at the stadium now called LoanDepot Park. The field’s official capacity is 36,742, roughly the number of Americans who die in traffic crashes every year. America loses a baseball stadium’s worth of lives to vehicular accidents every 12 months. For the first time, there’s a way to prevent many, and perhaps most, of those deaths: self-driving cars. But self-driving cars are controversial. Some worry about safety. Others worry about jobs. Opposition from unions and local political figures has slowed…
Individuals and groups would be required to register with the Bank of Russia before offering certain crypto services, or potentially face fines and prison time. Russia’s government submitted a bill to its parliament’s lower house in an effort to amend the country’s legal code to attach criminal liability for crypto services offered without regulatory approval or licensing. In a draft law sent to the State Duma on Friday, Russian lawmakers proposed that entities “carrying out activities related to the organization of digital currency circulation,” that operate without a license from Russia’s central bank, could be subject to criminal liability. Without registration with…
An excerpt from Delaware Superior Court Judge Sean Lugg’s 42-page opinion yesterday in Newsom v. Fox News Network, LLC: In the midst of civil unrest in Los Angeles, California, Governor Gavin C. Newsom spoke on the telephone with President Donald Trump. The call took place after 10:00 p.m. on the night of Friday, June 6, 2025 (Pacific Daylight Time) (after 1:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 7, 2025 (Eastern Daylight Time)). The two did not speak again before President Trump, at a Tuesday, June 10, 2025, Oval Office press conference, was asked when he last spoke with Governor Newsom; President Trump…
On this episode of Counterpunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Shahd Abusalama, Palestinian academic, writer, and artist, born and raised in Jabalia Refugee Camp, in northern Gaza. Shahd discusses her book, Between Reality and Documentary: A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film, published in 2025 by Bloomsbury and SOAS Palestine Studies, and reflects on her recent book and film tour in Japan. Recorded during the opening days of the recent War on Iran, Shahd reflects on the ramifications of the war for Gaza, historical lessons from her time in Hiroshima, and her…
The Department of Defense announced Friday that it was withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany in the next six to 12 months. “This decision follows a thorough review of the department’s force posture in Europe and is in recognition of theater requirements and conditions on the ground,” said the Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell in a statement. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Roughly 30,000 U.S. troops will remain in Germany, leaving the country host to the largest American force overseas besides Japan. In a Wednesday social media post, President Donald Trump suggested that the administration was considering…
On September 5, 1975, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a member of the Manson Family cult, stood a few feet away from President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California, pointed a pistol at him, and unsuccessfully tried to shoot him. Less than three weeks later in San Francisco, a different woman, an accountant named Sara Jane Moore, managed to actually fire her weapon but missed Ford before being tackled by a bystander. Was there any deep meaning to such violent and potentially world-changing actions? According to her biographer, Fromme “had no personal feelings about [Ford] one way or another….She felt he was destroying…
From Oregon Court of Appeals Judge Ramón Pagán, joined by Judges Robyn Aoyagi and Jacqueline Kamins, Wednesday in Estens v. Wells: [In a child custody hearing, w]itnesses testified to an incident in which mother took the child on vacation to Hawaii and claimed to father that she had been bumped from her flight, requiring her to return the child late. Mother’s boyfriend testified that she had not been bumped from the flight. Mother was also found to be evasive about details of the child’s medical care. She denied, but then later admitted, that she had cancelled or skipped medical appointments.…
A.M. Gittlitz is an organizer, writer and the author of I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism. His latest work, Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team (Penguin Random House, 2026), highlights three phases of the franchise’s history, spanning 1776 to 2005. Part revisionist history, part material culture study, and part ethnography, Gittlitz manages to capture the symbolism and essence of Mets fandom in a way that authors before him have failed to grasp. In this book, he achieves his goal, which is to “use the Mets’ tragic, comic, and chaotic history to rip open…
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi break down how extreme the COVID cover-up has been. They also discuss how Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) is gung-ho on prosecuting Anthony Fauci even though he has a full pardon from the Biden administration. Then they talk about their favorite revolutions and maybe even some of their favorite monarchies. Finally, they talk about Mr. Beast, The Matrix, and how complicated intellectual property and patents are. 0:00—Will Congress try to test the power of Anthony Fauci’s pardon? 8:27—James Comey has been arrested for the silliest reason. 10:40—Celebrating the American revolution and some other revolutions 19:39—The White…
The Banco Central do Brasil has raised gold’s share of reserves from 3.55% to 7.19% in just one year, effectively doubling its exposure and making gold the second-largest reserve asset after the US dollar, while total reserves stand at approximately $358.23 billion and the dollar’s share has declined to about 72%, marking a record low. This is not a marginal adjustment or routine diversification, it is a structural repositioning that reflects a growing unease with sovereign debt markets. When a central bank reduces dollar exposure while increasing gold holdings, it is not acting randomly but responding to a shift in confidence,…