Tech firms were quick to abandon their once-proud commitments to diversity and defense of immigrants following the 2024 election and quietly acquiesced to Trump’s attacks on once-scared cows like higher education, free trade and the rule of law.
Prosecutors consented to drop the charge after a ruling earlier this year that prohibited them from using the magazine at trial because it was improperly searched by the officers who arrested Mangione in Pennsylvania.
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Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
17 June 2026
Jones falsely told the man, 31-year-old Tobasia Griffiths, that the woman consented to the attack, and paid Griffiths $100 to carry it out, according to a statement from the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 June 2026
Ironically, or not, bloomers are named for the journalist and Suffragist Amelia Bloomer, who advocated for women to abandon rigid corsets and heavy petticoats in favor of trousers, shorter skirts, and sensible boots.
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Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
29 June 2026
There’s considerable support for the idea in Parliament, where the Liberal Democrats — a centrist opposition party — has advocated for war bonds on 25 separate occasions since the turn of the year.
It was later adopted as the nation’s first official flag after the Continental Congress passed a resolution on June 14, 1777.
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Pete Cuddihy,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2026
Some of the other Angels have adopted Pikachu as an unofficial team mascot and last week during the Angels’ series against the Mariners in Seattle, the team visited Pokémon’s North American headquarters.
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Liana Handler
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
5 July 2026
The budget also raises a tax on commercial health plans, part of a suite of revenue-raising measures lawmakers and the governor agreed upon to balance the budget.
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Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
30 June 2026
Lawmakers agreed last year to require those recipients to pay $30 a month starting next year.
Still, the success of three left-wing candidates endorsed by Mamdani in New York’s congressional primary has reinvigorated Republican midterm messaging around socialism.
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James A. Downs,
The Washington Examiner,
1 July 2026
In a joint opinion piece published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in late May, the two officials endorsed pausing the development of new data centers in Little Rock.
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