ICE is paying Thomson Reuters data brokers $25 million a year to screen individuals and entities for various offenses and identify those violating US laws. / The Week The US and China are in a race to outdo each other in providing drone support to Everest mountaineers. “The contest has geopolitical
The CDC is investigating a new cyclospora outbreak, adding to at least three other clusters currently active in the United States. / Yahoo! News Behind the scenes for how Taco Bell has responded to the outbreak. “You have one shot to get it right.” / The Wall Street Journal [$] Even as RFK
On Monday, the State Dept. issued a 100-page report denouncing Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, and several activists and organizations as “front groups and fellow travelers” for Cuba. / The Guardian So far this year, an unusually high number of gray whales have been found dead on North America’s Pacific
Taylor Farms’ cyclospora was a false positive, but the FDA still links the company to the outbreak. “Absence of evidence is never evidence of absence.” / The Washington Post [$] A new lawsuit alleges the Dept. of Homeland Security has been holding immigrant children in Texas for hundreds of days, well over
The House passes a bill to make daylight saving time permanent—at the behest of President Trump, whose golf courses stand to profit from later evenings. / The Washington Post [$] See also: A look at what permanent daylight saving time will do to the sunrise and sunset times in your area
To push Cuba toward regime change, the White House is pressuring other nations to curb their use of one of Cuba’s most valuable exports: medical personnel. / The Wall Street Journal [$] Refusing to normalize the pain of IUD insertions, a medical startup has created a suction-based device to replace
“As a geopolitical actor, the United States has become a kind of lumbering zombie—a beast that can be startled into reflexive actions but lacks higher functions.” / The New York Times [$] How Trump’s arch doesn’t fit the intent—architecturally or symbolically—of the bridge he cites that congress
Europe is breaking up with corporate America: “You are not dealing with an administration that has processes, you are dealing with a single volatile individual.” / The Wall Street Journal [$] See also: Some US corporations are switching from OpenAI and Anthropic to affordable Chinese AI, as China looks into curbing overseas
In the past 10 months, the US government has killed 221 people in strikes on suspected drug boats—apparently to little effect, based on the purity and prices of street drugs in the US. / The Atlantic [$] “It is hard to say what we all have in common, apart from the
We’ll be off tomorrow for the Fourth of July, and we’ll see you on Monday! Federal models show President Trump’s planned record-breaking fireworks show on the Fourth of July will cause dangerous air pollution, and people should “expect irritation symptoms.” / The Washington Post [$] Watch: That time
