Paris’s Musée D’Orsay Grapples With Art and Auschwitz by Displaying Masterpieces Orphaned in the Holocaust
A new gallery at the high temple of Impressionism asks ‘To Whom Do These Works Belong’?
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Does Downing Street’s Revolving Door Prove Britain Is Ungovernable?
To lose six prime ministers within a decade, to borrow Wilde’s quip, ‘looks like carelessness.’
By STEPHEN MacLEAN
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Johnson Embarks on Ambitious Legislative Week, Hoping Conservatives Won’t Again Gum Up House’s Work
The speaker is trying to pass four critical bills before he sends his colleagues home for the summer recess.
By MATTHEW RICE
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Why the Cervical Cancer Vaccine Is So Controversial
A vaccine that has eliminated cervical cancer in women under 25 in Australia, slashed rates by 87 percent in England, and been administered safely more than 800 million times worldwide.
By HOLLIE McKAY
|The New 5-A-Day? Heart Docs Say Up to Five Coffees Is Fine
The American Heart Association says most Americans can stomach up to five cups of coffee a day. Researchers urge caution.
By JENNIFER DOHERTY
|FDA Says False-Positive Test Doesn’t Clear Taylor Farms Lettuce as Source of Cyclospora Outbreak
The food regulator is trying to clarify details of the investigation into spread of parasite that causes explosive diarrhea.
By LUKE FUNK
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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
The judge will soon hear arguments on whether the deal should be blocked until the case is decided.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Bad Officiating, Caitlin Clark Debates, and Executive Friction Threaten WNBA’s Milestone Season
As the league celebrates its 30th Anniversary, its biggest star has become ‘political ping-pong’ despite her on-court brilliance.
By GEORGE WILLIS
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New Jersey Budget Funds Gaza Activist Group To Fight Trump Immigration Policy
One of the recipients of $20 million in state funding to provide free legal services includes The American Friends Service Committee, which has a ‘Declaration of Resistance’ on its website.
By ALEX ZDAN
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Britain’s New Prime Minister Promises the Panacea of a ‘Ten-Year Plan’ That Would Move the Country to the Left
Andy Burnham, on his first day in office and aware that voters are ‘fed up,’ promises to relieve ‘that pressure’ about finances.
By DONALD KIRK
|Rare 2,600-Year-Old Wooden Beams From Israel’s First Temple-Era Discovered at Jerusalem
Researchers say the ancient beams could help them date other findings with ‘much greater precision’ than ever before.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
|Florida’s Failed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Inspires Israeli Crocodile Clink
‘Are you thinking of attempting to escape? Think again,’ National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Cuba’s Slow Collapse: Blackouts, Hunger, and a Regime Running Out of Road
With its power grid in collapse, its oil lifeline severed, and nearly a million citizens gone in five years, Cuba is facing what analysts call the worst economic crisis in its history and Washington is treating the darkness as leverage.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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U.S. Completes Another Round of Bombings in Iran After Two American Soldiers Killed in Jordan
Israel says it is prepared to attack Iran with its ‘full force,’ if necessary.
By MATTHEW RICE
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China Bids for Global AI Leadership With Breakthrough Model, Third World Outreach
Speaking at a conference at Shanghai, Xi Jinping said AI ‘should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation.
By DAVID JONES
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Battle Lines Drawn in U.S. Senate Over Darline Graham’s Attempt To Hold Her Brother’s Seat
Graham, who has never before held elected office, is hoping to tap into her brother’s network of supporters across the Palmetto State as she seeks the GOP nomination in this year’s Senate race.
By MATTHEW RICE
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Darline Graham Announces Run for Full Senate Term With Trump’s Backing
Two sitting congressmen plan to challenge Graham in next month’s special GOP primary.
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Democrat Election Strategists Hear Echoes of Republican Tea Party Revolt in New Socialist Wave
The relationships of Democratic Socialists and Tea Party Patriots to their establishment brethren share a similar trajectory, tactics, and central goal — to change Washington from within.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Progressive Troy Jackson Becomes the Presumptive Democratic Nominee in Maine Senate Race
Maine Democrats’ nominating process for choosing a U.S. Senate candidate this year is a historic one, precipitated by Graham Platner’s exit earlier this month.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Mullin Promises Voter Fraud Crackdown After Trump’s National Address
The head of Homeland Security vows to punish states that don’t implement administration-backed voting security enhancements
By LUKE FUNK
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Luddites, Deploying Junk Science and Scaremongering, Are Winning the Debate on Data Centers
By DAVID HARSANYI
Reflecting on Lindsey Graham’s Churchillian Legacy
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‘The Gin Game’ Is No Theatrical Tonic
Despite valiant efforts from husband-and-wife stars Debra Winger and Arliss Howard, a 1978 Pulitzer Prize–winning drama is showing signs of rust.
By ELYSA GARDNER
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BMW Keeps the V8 but Loses Alpina’s Soul
The Vision BMW Alpina is handsome and, refreshingly, keeps a combustion V8 — but it loses the magic of Alpina.
By ROSS ANDERSON
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance ‘Odyssey’ Dissenter
Unlike elitist critics, ordinary filmgoers are starting to label Sir Christopher Nolan’s hit epic confusing and underwhelming.
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National Debt Tops 106 Percent of GDP for First Time Since WWII
One budget expert calls it ‘a total bipartisan abdication of making hard choices’ on government spending and taxation.
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|Mission Not Accomplished: Fed Policy Tweaks Under New Chairman Aim To Nip Inflation in the Bud
The Federal Reserve chairman is giving two days of testimony on Capitol Hill as numbers show a slowdown in inflation in June largely due to a now-defunct peace deal in the Persian Gulf.
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Meta Faces Landmark Lawsuit Alleging AI Tools Targeted Disabled Workers for Layoffs
Because employees on protected leave had less activity for the systems to measure, the plaintiffs argue the AI tools effectively penalized them with lower scores.
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12 State Attorneys General Sue To Block Paramount’s $110 Billion Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery
The states allege the deal would combine two of Hollywood’s five major studios, giving the merged entity control of a massive amount of content.
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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.
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$3 Million Later, West Virginia’s New Center Aimed at Countering ‘Woke Indoctrination’ Has Enrolled Just One Student
Supporters of the center are not concerned by the low enrollment rate, but say the school should create a new degree program to boost participation.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Nearly 10 Percent of College Students Read and Do Math at a 4th-Grade Level, New Survey Finds
The survey conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development tested more than 150,000 people of all ages across its 38 member states.
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Date Set for Trump’s Bid To Resurrect Troubled Prosecutions Against James Comey and Letitia James
The Fourth United States Appeals Circuit will hear arguments in September over the fate of the two cases.
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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks South Dakota Law Prohibiting the Advertising of Abortion Pills
The judge says that South Dakota failed to show the advertisements are ‘integral to criminal conduct.’
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|Never-Used Court Awakens as Justice Department Seeks Removal of ‘Alien Terrorist’
The Justice Department will provide documents this week to a 30-year-old court recommended by Trump-blasted judge James Boasberg.
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|Republicans ‘Looking at’ Criminal Charges Against Jack Smith for Lying Under Oath About His Prosecution of Trump
Congressman Jim Jordan is weighing a referral of the prosecutor to the Department of Justice.
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