Record Wildfires Raging in France, Spain, Threaten Major Cities, Famed Vineyards
France says it has ordered what is ‘probably’ the biggest peacetime evacuation in its history.
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Trump Lights Up the White House Correspondents Dinner With Jokes, Jabs, and a ‘Trump 2028’ Hat
‘When I’m not around, you’re all going to be broke,’ he told the ballroom full of journalists.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Israel Vows To Press Ahead With Samaria Heritage Park Despite UNESCO Designation of West Bank Site
The designation of the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel as a World Heritage Site is the latest sore point in a long-running feud between Israel and the UN organization.
By DAVID JONES
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Trial Lawyers and Labor Unions Scheming To Thwart the Driverless Vehicle Revolution
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The ‘Highly Educated, Downwardly Mobile’ Voters Fueling the Far Left’s Rise
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Why Trans Pioneer Renee Richards Now Backs Genetic Testing in Women’s Tennis
The new action puts the United States Tennis Association in line with the eligibility regulations set by the International Olympic Committee in March.
By GEORGE WILLIS
|Mamdani’s Big Trouble at Little Italy
Founded by a mob boss, the Italian American Civil Rights League has been protesting the mayor’s perceived ‘cultural erasure’ of that and other older, predominantly European ethnic enclaves.
By DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN
|Mamdani’s Hostility to Prime Minister Netanyahu Jeopardizes the Mayor’s Relationship With the Police Commissioner
Jessica Tisch has met Mamdani’s open hostility toward Israel with the professionalism that carried her through two prior chaotic administrations, though everyone has a breaking point.
By JENNIFER DOHERTY
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Jewish Leaders, After Stabbings in Manhattan, Accuse Mamdani of Fanning Hate
The New York City mayor is being blasted for rhetoric that may be causing Jews to become targets of violence.
By LUKE FUNK
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NBA Shocker: LeBron James Accepts Meager Contract To Take His Talents to Philadelphia
The NBA’s all-time leading scorer will chase a championship with a record fourth team.
By GEORGE WILLIS
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Federal Judge Questions How the Pentagon’s New Testosterone Treatment Policy Differs From Transgender Ban
The order banning transgender troops said members of the armed forces ‘must adhere to health standards without the benefit of routine medical treatment.’
By LUKE FUNK
|Foreign
Islamist Network’s Dramatic Ambush Exposes Failures of Russia’s Africa Corps in Mali
With a string of bloody attacks along the Gao-Kidal corridor, jihadists and Tuareg rebels have been tightening their grip across the Sahel.
By HOLLIE McKAY
|Britain’s New Prime Minister Willing To Cooperate With Americans on Bombing Missions From British Bases
Andy Burnham does not hesitate as did his predecessor despite Iranian threats to wreak vengeance ‘within the framework of self-defense.’
By DONALD KIRK
|Iran Flew Commanders, Weapons to Houthis in Yemen Ahead of Blockade: Report
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Houthis ‘got snookered’ by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps into starting a blockade of Saudi Arabia.
By LUKE FUNK
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Beijing Tests American Resolve With Latest Aggression in South China Sea
A retired Navy submarine officer tells the Sun that Communist China may be seeking to take advantage while America is preoccupied by its war with Iran.
By ALEX ZDAN
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Are Trump’s New Conditions for a Saudi Nuclear Deal Tied to Israel’s Rejoining the Iran War?
America could drop bunker busters on Pickaxe Mountain, while Israeli ‘boots on the ground’ could destroy what’s inside the facility, a nonproliferation scholar tells the Sun.
By BENNY AVNI
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Ukraine, Seeking To Bring War to Every Russian, Torches ‘Russia’s Amazon’
‘Striking at the most sensitive part of the comfort zone of ordinary imperial patriots and supporters of Putin,’ is how a Ukrainian official describes the tactic.
By JAMES BROOKE
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Cassidy Says He’ll Support CDC Nominee After Changes to Agency’s Autism Statement
The updated website still says the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not evidence-based.
By LUKE FUNK
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Democratic Congresswoman Demands Investigation Into Trump Ties With Tate Brothers Accused of Rape, Human Trafficking
The two influencers are awaiting extradition to the United Kingdom after being arrested in Florida last week.
By MATTHEW RICE
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Ex-South Carolina Governor and Congressman Mark Sanford Announces Run for Lindsey Graham’s Senate Seat
Sanford was for years considered a rising star in the GOP — until he went missing for several days in 2009 and later admitted to having an affair in Argentina.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Trump’s ‘Patience Is Running Out’ With Thune on Failure To Pass SAVE America Act
The typically genteel majority leader is challenging the White House staff to come to the Capitol to start whipping votes.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Congress Split on War Powers Resolutions, With House Passing but Senate Rejecting Respective Measures
Democrats say the pressure campaign to end the war with Iran will not wrap up any time soon.
By MATTHEW RICE
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How a Christian Socialist Clergyman Gave America Its Pledge of Allegiance
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Thomas Jefferson’s Quintessential Aspiration for the Dollar
By JUDY SHELTON
For Democrats, the Inevitable Kamala Comeback Could Prove Prelude to DSA Takeover
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A Taut Chase Movie From Down Under
Al Kalyk’s film ‘Cruel Hands,’ set against the backdrop of the Australian bushfires in 2019, is brief and all the better for it.
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‘The Final Cut’ Isn’t Quite Such a New ‘Manhunter’
The fashion, style, and tone of Michael Mann’s 1986 thriller reek of musty ’80s antiquity, and this new version adds little to the original.
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‘Motor City’ Has a Novel Premise, But Follows a Familiar Route
The film’s wordless narrative is innovative and immersive but the story itself is an unoriginal crime melodrama and revenge tale.
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Economy
The Latest Tariffs Are Here To Stay But You Probably Won’t Notice Them
The new levies on imports from dozens of countries are at or close to the level of other tariffs that expire at the same time.
By JENNIFER DOHERTY
|An ‘Open Scandal’ Is Seen at the Fed as It Fails To Address Questions Over Its Solvency — or Insolvency
Famed newsletter calls on the central bank’s new chairman to establish a special task force as a ‘truth and reconciliation’ repository.
By LUKE FUNK
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‘They Won’t Even Miss the Raspberries I Steal’ Says Millennial as Shoplifting Rises Among Young, Well-off
Poll finds 39 percent of Gen Zers and 38 percent of Millennials report having shoplifted, compared with 24 percent of Gen Xers, 18 percent of Baby Boomers.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Canada Faces 50 Percent Tariffs as Trade Rep Invokes National Emergency at Senate Hearing
The trade representative says trade talks with Mexico and Canada could stretch into next year.
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Hillel Scrambles Amid Backlash After Jewish Campus Org Defends Harvard in Antisemitism Case
The top Jewish campus organization walked back a brief in support of Harvard just a day after Hillel’s attorneys filed the document in federal appeals court, saying the document had not been cleared.
By JENNIFER DOHERTY
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Justice Department Investigates Harvard’s Financial Aid Program for Alleged Discrimination Against Americans
The review focuses on whether the university is illegally using foreign donations, particularly those from China, to provide financial aid to students on the basis of their national origin.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Trump Gutted the Education Department, Then Quietly Went on a Hiring Spree To Rebuild It
The administration that declared mass layoffs at the Education Department its ‘final mission’ is now scrambling to hire hundreds back — raising hard questions about whether the demolition was ever a plan at all.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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Study Finds America’s Homicide Rate on Track To Hit Historic Low This Year
A report from the non-partisan Council on Criminal Justice shows most other categories of crime are also headed below pre-pandemic levels in major cities across the country.
By DAVID JONES
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James Comey Readies Arguments for Claim of ‘Vindictive’ Prosecution on Charges of Threatening Trump
The former FBI director has a deadline of July 28 to mount his case for why the prosecution ought never to reach a jury.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
|Trump Launches ‘Unprecedented’ Effort To Claw Back the $5 Million He Has Already Paid to E. Jean Carroll
The sex and advice columnist writes that she is ‘82 years old and has waited a very long time to receive her award.’
By A.R. HOFFMAN
|Maduro Trial Date Set for June 1, 2027
Federal prosecutors accuse Mr. Maduro and his wife of conspiring with international drug cartels to traffic cocaine into the United States.
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