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[ad_1] Joshua Scheer Vice President JD Vance has made one of the most striking public acknowledgments yet of tensions between Washington and Israel over the future of the Iran conflict, claiming that members of the Israeli government are actively working to keep the United States engaged in an open-ended military campaign. In an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Vance said he was “beyond a shadow of a doubt” certain that Israeli officials had attempted to shift U.S. policy away from negotiations and toward indefinite military action. “There have been people within the Israeli government who are trying to shift…

[ad_1] The news landed like a thunderclap in a San Francisco conference room on June 30, 2026. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the cutting-edge Claude model, announced it will launch its own preclinical drug-discovery programs targeting neglected diseases, including rare conditions, while simultaneously unveiling Claude Science, an AI workbench built for researchers and drug-makers. This development could become a direct challenge to the pharmaceutical establishment, a sector that has spent decades perfecting the art of maximizing profit margins while leaving millions of patients with rare and overlooked conditions to suffer in silence. If we’re betting on humanity’s best intentions, Anthropic…

[ad_1] Most debates about the origins of Christianity fall into a culturally entrenched groove: the apologist marshals evidence for a physical resurrection of Jesus; the skeptic counters with naturalistic explanations against it. Both sides, however, share a fundamental error—they assume that “Resurrection” meant “Resuscitation” to the first Christians, treating the walking, talking, fish-eating corpse as the primary historical datum to be either defended or dismantled. By examining the earliest recoverable evidence—specifically the letters of Paul—we discover that the real question is not “Did the physical resurrection of Jesus literally happen?” but “Did the original disciples even claim that it did?”…

[ad_1] In 2024 the United Kingdom’s Labour Party, led by Sir Keir Starmer, won back the prime minister’s office after more than a decade out of power. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Americans will soon choose a set of senators who will take office in January 2027 and serve through early 2033. In the final months of that term, Social Security’s retirement trust fund is expected to run dry and trigger benefits cuts of 22 percent—not just for the wealthy, not just for new retirees, but for everyone up to and including widows living on survivors’ checks. Somehow, this has yet to sink into the national consciousness. The precise timing is a projection. The cuts are not. They’re activated automatically following the law: Once the trust fund is empty, Social Security…

[ad_1] Ellen Brown Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousands of years, work has been the means by which we fed our families, earned our place in society, and gave structure to our lives. We have come to equate paid employment with identity.  That presumption may soon be obsolete.  When Elon Musk proposed replacing Universal Basic Income with what he calls a Universal High Income—a level of income sufficient for everyone to live comfortably while intelligent machines produce much of the goods and services society requires—critics warned…

[ad_1] The U.S. launched airstrikes against Iran overnight, and Iran retaliated against U.S. bases in the region, as the Iran War entered its 139th day on Thursday. CENTCOM said it targeted “Iranian command centers, air defense sites, missile and drone capabilities, and coastal surveillance facilities.” Defense analysts note that many of the sites CENTCOM has claimed to target in recent days are located deep beneath mountains made of granite that may not be penetrable with U.S. missiles. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei condemned a reported U.S. airstrike near Shahid Baqaei Hospital, a children’s cancer treatment center in Iran. Baqaei…

[ad_1] Toxic dust from the vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana. (Screen capture from Libby, Montana–Working the Mine. POV, PBS) Let’s learn from Libby, where, tragically, over 400 people have already died and thousands have been sickened from asbestos lung disease caused by microscopic fibers in mining dust from the mineral tremolite that was naturally mixed in with the vermiculite ore as well as the wall rock matrix that got mined. At the Darby Sheep Creek mine, actinolite, closely related to tremolite, also occurs in the ore as well as the wall rock. Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology reports that…

[ad_1] The Trump administration on Wednesday announced that it would impose a new Section 301 tariff of 25 percent on Brazil for alleged unfair trade practices.  Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox The tariff would impose new import charges on a wide range of goods from the South American nation but exempt some major categories including oranges, coffee, oil and gas, as well as beef.  These new tariffs come as the Trump administration reimposes tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court earlier this year. President Donald Trump has increased pressures on the Brazilian government in part…

[ad_1] As Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff seeks to retain his Georgia seat, he is pointing to Republican challenger U.S. Rep. Mike Collins’ healthcare record as detrimental to Georgians. “Donald Trump and his puppet Mike Collins, they doubled health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians and threw 300,000 Georgians off their insurance altogether,” Ossoff said during a June 27 campaign rally in Savannah.  U.S. adults’ ability to pay for healthcare is at a five-year low, and Americans view healthcare affordability as a massive problem. Ossoff’s campaign said the candidate was referring to 2025 Republican-led changes to the Affordable…