More than four million people have been affected by floods across six countries in western and central Africa. / CBC Heavy rainfall caused parts of the Saraha Desert to turn green. / NASA Earth Observatory New analysis suggests that one in seven scientific papers is at least partly fake. / Retraction Watch A
Hezbollah launches its first long-range missile at Tel Aviv. / CNN Was Israel's detonation of the pagers an act of terrorism? "To kill civilians in a mass operation that entails their deaths is neither a tragedy nor an accident." / Zeteo American religious conservatives are working with
Tens of thousands of people in Lebanon have fled their homes since Monday amid Israeli air strikes. / France24 Murders in the United States dropped 11.6 percent from 2022 to 2023, the largest single-year decline in the last 20 years. / NBC News A white paper finds that female politicians,
Citing issues during the primary season, election officials are raising concerns about the US Postal Service's readiness to handle mail-in ballots in November. / NPR In 2017, Cards Against Humanity bought land in Texas at the Mexico border to protest Trump's wall. Now it's
Trump's proposed tax plan is like 2017 but more, and research confirms those gains in fact never trickled down beyond the wealthiest individuals and corporations. / Rolling Stone See also: Explainers on how Trump's tariffs would distribute wealth upward and how his backwards plan to lower grocery
A group of former Donald Trump advisers have helped to build a pro-Russia website that frequently spreads debunked conspiracy theories. / The Guardian A little more than half of Trump supporters say they believe his lies about Haitian immigrants eating pets. / The Washington Post [+] See also: "How the Trump
This year marks the centennial of the abolition of the Caliphate, or the "successorship" to the Prophet Muhammad. / Law & Liberty A brief history of the decades-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah/Iran. / Al Jazeera Who are the best bureaucrats in the United States? There's
The number of people killed or wounded in the Russia-Ukraine war has reached roughly one million. / The Wall Street Journal [+] Devastating flooding sweeps through Central and Western Africa. / DW Europeans are upset about Gaza, but they don't appear to be voting like it. / The Economist Unrelated: "
California lawmakers have passed legislation that would require health warning labels to appear on gas stoves. / NPR Bill McKibben: How seeding pollinator-attracting plants in solar farms might address two climate crises at once. / The New Yorker Boar's Head has shut down the Virginia meat plant where a
Covid is the only virus that has an adequate availability of tests—other infectious diseases remain dangerously lacking in diagnostics. / Financial Times In the first year after the end of affirmative action, colleges' diversity numbers are already dwindling, and many are looking at ways to reverse the trend. / Inside
