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Headlines for July 13, 2026; “Iran Is Not Going to Capitulate”: Jeremy Scahill on Renewed War, Strait of Hormuz & More; Lindsey Graham “Never Met a War of Aggression He Didn’t Passionately Back”: Jeremy Scahill; “Disgraceful”: Rashid Khalidi Slams Israeli Attacks on Journalists, Detention of Rep. Ro Khanna; U.S. Plans “Illegal Embassy” in Jerusalem on Land Stolen from Palestinian Families: Rashid Khalidi

Headlines for July 10, 2026; “Now or Never”: DSA & Justice Democrats on Changing the Democratic Party, Mamdani, Gaza & More; “Exposing Instagram’s Darkest Secret”: BBC’s Divya Arya on Ads for Child Sex Abuse Material in India; FOIA Under Attack: Landmark Transparency Law Turns 60; Fed Gov’t Blocking More Documents Than Ever

Headlines for July 09, 2026; “A Disastrous Development”: Trita Parsi on Breakdown of U.S.-Iran Ceasefire; “Demanding the Truth”: Family Wants Answers After ICE Kills Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo; Homicide by Asphyxiation: What Happened to Geraldo Lunas Campos, Who Died in a Texas ICE Jail?; Albania’s Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov’t

Headlines for July 08, 2026; As Calls Mount for Graham Platner to Drop Out of Senate Race, What Happens Next in Maine?; NATO Meets in Turkey Amid Crackdown on Civil Society; Trump Praises Erdoğan & Considers F-35 Sales; “Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan’s War”: Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Atrocities

Headlines for July 07, 2026; Report from Tehran: Millions Attend Ali Khamenei’s Funeral Amid Widespread Sense of Victory in War; Calls Grow for Israel to Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; U.S. Doctor Says “Nobody Is Safe” in Gaza; Hamas Renouncing Rule Over Gaza Signals Commitment to Ceasefire Despite Israeli Attacks: Amjad Iraqi

Headlines for July 06, 2026; Trump’s Corruption, Birthright Citizenship & Olympian Charged w/ Touching Reflecting Pool: Norm Eisen; Record Heat Waves Are Preview of Our Future on a Warming Planet: Climate Writer David Wallace-Wells; Meet Rafael Rubio, NY City Council Employee Released from Delaney Hall After 5 Months in ICE Jail

“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech; “Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World; Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the “Quasi-Religious” Push for Artificial Intelligence

Headlines for July 02, 2026; Profiting from the Presidency: Trump and Family Rake In Billions from Crypto, Real Estate & More; “Rule of Law vs. Rule of Billionaires”: Supreme Court Says Trump Can Fire Regulators, Except at Fed; “The American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement”: UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley

Headlines for July 01, 2026; “America Is a Multiracial Democracy”: Supreme Court Denies Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship; “We Continue to Fight”: Chase Strangio on the Supreme Court’s Ban on Trans Girls & Women in Sports; Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms; Reparations Efforts “Sweeping the Country” Despite DOJ Attack on Evanston, IL Groundbreaking Program

Headlines for June 30, 2026; “Merciless Indian Savages”: Cherokee Podcaster on Racist Slur in the Declaration of Independence; Meet Aber Kawas, DSA-Backed Palestinian American Who Won New York State Senate Primary; “Keep Supporting the Venezuelan People”: Thousands Missing as Earthquake Rescue Efforts Continue