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  Harvard, NYU among 30 universities hit with Pentagon foreign-tie audit deadline

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

  The Pentagon on Monday ordered 30 American universities to conduct audits of their financial and research ties to foreign entities or risk losing federal research funding. The institutions must review the identified foreign collaborations and assess any exposure of "sensitive or export-controlled research." "The Department of War has zero tolerance for academic partnerships that compromise our nat

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  SEE IT: Sophie Cunningham Fans Targeted Again

  Aug 17, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  A mother and daughter attended Sunday’s WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and the Atlanta Dream — but with just two minutes left in overtime, they were told to cover up their “offensive” pro-woman t-shirts or leave the arena. Kasey Thomason and her daughter Annie said that after shelling out thousands for good seats, they were approached by arena security and told to cover their XX-XY Athletics

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  Buttigieg endorses Poindexter in House race against Miller

  Aug 17, 2026 ·The Hill(Center)

  Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is endorsing Brook Park City Council member and ironworker Brian Poindexter as he challenges controversy-ridden Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) in November. “He's an example of somebody who walks the walk. He knows what working families are going through because he's literally a card-carrying union ironworker,” Buttigieg, who’s widely seen as...

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  Why prescription drug prices are plunging

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Axios(Lean left)

  Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Courtenay Brown/Axios America is experiencing its biggest prescription drug price deflation in generations. Why it matters: By one important measure, there is a striking reversal underway for one of health care's most stubbornly expensive necessities amid a major Washington push to lower drug costs. By the numbers: Prescription drug prices fell 0.8% in July

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  Cassidy on Trump's vaccine order, 'crazy, stupid' claims: 'This is why the president's poll numbers are going down'

  Aug 16, 2026 ·The Hill(Center)

  Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Sunday said President Trump's executive order that seeks to alter the childhood vaccine schedule is based on "crazy, stupid" claims, and that is "why the president's poll numbers are going down." During Cassidy's appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, host Jake Tapper reiterated the GOP senator's words in saying that...

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  Florida’s Ambitious “Coastal Corridor” project Is Giving Marine Scientists Hope

  Aug 16, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From disappearing manatees to bleached coral reefs , gender-changing turtles and oyster beds destroyed by hurricanes , no other state’s marine life faces the magnitude of climate-related challenges that Florida’s does. Now, wildlife authorities are attempting to bring some cohesion

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  Democrats' 2028 presidential calendar gives Black and Latino voters and union members an early say

  Aug 15, 2026 ·PBS NewsHour(Lean left)

  The primary lineup pushes Iowa from the traditional top spot and makes South Carolina the leadoff state, voting on Jan. 22, 2028, followed by Nevada on Feb. 1.

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  Solar Panels on Storage Units: Illinois Is Going All In on This No-Brainer

  Aug 15, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Krzysztof Wasowicz, mayor of Justice, Illinois, has some concerns about solar: that it takes up farmland and enriches China. But he’s all-in on the community solar array that was recently deployed at a Public Storage facility in his village, a suburb of Chicago. The panels are loca

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  El-Sayed To Headline Convention With Cleric Who Loves Child Marriage

  Aug 15, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed will spend Labor Day weekend speaking at a Muslim conference alongside an antisemitic cleric who said he forced his 13-year-old niece into marriage. El-Sayed, the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in Michigan, is slated to speak at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention, held in Detroit from September 4-7, The Washington Free Beacon reported . ISNA w

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  Abdul El-Sayed To Headline Islamic Event Alongside Pakistani Cleric Who Forced His 13-Year-Old Niece Into Marriage, Was Denounced for ‘Pedophilic Rhetoric’

  Aug 14, 2026 ·Washington Free Beacon(Lean right)

  Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will spend Labor Day weekend alongside a Jew-hating Pakistani cleric who has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories and admitted to forcing his 13-year-old niece into marriage. El-Sayed is scheduled to speak at the Islamic Society of North America's (ISNA) 63rd annual convention , held in Detroit from Sept. 4-7. El-Sayed, whose father-in-law is a founding

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  Federal surveillance operation targeted progressive groups, unions in Minnesota, documents show

  Aug 14, 2026 ·The Hill(Center)

  Federal agents secretly monitored progressive groups and protesters during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, according to court documents filed Thursday. The surveillance, detailed in a 26-page motion filed in federal court in Minnesota, was part of two investigations dubbed “Operation Puppet Master” and “Project Whipple Shield,” which officials said were to track a.

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  EXCLUSIVE: Congress Moves To Prohibit Foreign Adversaries From Accessing Sensitive US National Labs, Citing Counterintelligence Threat

  Aug 14, 2026 ·Washington Free Beacon(Lean right)

  Congress is taking up new legislation that would bar Chinese, Russian, Iranian, North Korean, and Cuban nationals from accessing all U.S. national laboratories in the latest attempt by lawmakers to stop adversarial nations from stealing sensitive U.S. technology and research, according to a copy of the bill exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon . The GATE Act, led by Rep. Pat Harrigan

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  Cuban ties put powerful US union under microscope over alleged communist influence push

  Aug 14, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

  FIRST ON FOX: The chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is investigating reports that a union representing roughly 600,000 members is working to advance the interests of the Cuban regime. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., sent a letter to the International Association of Machinists (IAM) on Thursday night demanding information about its possible links to the Cuban gover

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  Trump Is Trying To Spin U.S. History

  Aug 14, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

  My wife and I still chuckle about the time we toured the battlefield in Petersburg, Va., where 100,000 Union forces led by Ulysses S. Grant laid siege to 20,000 Confederate soldiers led by Robert E. Lee. It was the longest battle of the Civil War, lasting 292 days. Brutal trench warfare led to 70,000 casualties, as Union forces cut supply lines to the Confederate capital in nearby Richmond and pre

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  Scientists Have Created a New Category of Heat Waves: “Snow Eaters”

  Aug 14, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Matthew LaPlante doesn’t have to go to a lab to see his research in action. On some mornings, he can just look out his own window in the mountains high above Salt Lake City. After a warm night when the temperature stays above freezing, he’ll wake up and see that the snow level has dropped

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  Review: Is Exit 8 an Anti-Screens Metaphor or Something Deeper?

  Aug 14, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

  Based on an atmospheric video game about a man stuck in a subway station who must notice "anomalies," Exit 8 is a tightly wound horror thriller that neatly transforms a simple puzzle game into an elaborate metaphor about taking responsibility and moving on in life. The film opens with a gamelike sequence shot in a first-person perspective on a crowded subway train in which our hero ignores the wor

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  AI Helped Me Build a Killer Drone

  Aug 13, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  Can an average guy build a killer drone in his garage? That’s the question reporter Matt Smith set out to answer over the course of 11 months, armed with zero engineering background and only a handful of AI chatbots to guide him, in this collaboration between Mother Jones and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . His goal: a fully autonomous self-guided drone , one a theoretical evildoer could w

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  Graham Platner Isn’t Exiting The Stage In Maine

  Aug 13, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  Graham Platner, the former Democratic Senate nominee, is scheduled to headline a Labor Day rally in Ellsworth, Maine, next month, marking one of his first public appearances since his scandal-infested campaign collapsed. The event, billed as a “Labor Day Rally for Labor,” is being organized by Hancock County Activists and Acadia Action Peacemakers, two groups that have helped organize “No Kings” p

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  Ivy League Elite Quietly Collaborated With China’s Top Defense Universities

  Aug 13, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  More than 140 research papers written by Harvard researchers were authored in collaboration with Chinese universities known as the Seven Sons of National Defense, according to a report from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Fox News reported . The Pentagon and other U.S. officials have identified those schools as central to China’s defense research and military modernizati

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  HR 10082 Credit Union Investment Authority Act

  Aug 13, 2026 ·Introduced

  To amend the Federal Credit Union Act to expand the investment authority of Federal credit unions.