Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse
Opinion DeSantis promoted the Bud Light boycott. Now he’s mad it worked.
Federal judge tosses Biden administration asylum rule for migrants
Putin appeared paralyzed and unable to act in first hours of rebellion
For volunteers, repopulating Chesapeake Bay with oysters is personal
Opinion Jason Aldean cashes in on the right-wing fantasy of violent retribution - "It might sound as though it’s addressed to urbanites, but they’re not the real audience. It’s not a warning against city people coming to small towns; it’s a dream of how great it would be if they did. Then they could finally get what they deserve."
50 years later, group asks: What if other urban highways had been built?
Opinion Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness. - "Galloway leaned into the screen. 'My view is that, for masculinity, a decent place to start is garnering the skills and strength that you can advocate for and protect others with. If you’re really strong and smart, you will garner enough power, influence, kindness to begin protecting others. That is it. Full stop. Real men protect other people.' ...
"Reeves, in our earlier conversation, had put it somewhat more subtly. 'I try to raise my boys' — he has three — 'to have the confidence to ask a girl out, if that’s their inclination; the grace to accept no for an answer; and the responsibility to make sure that, either way, she gets home safely.' His recipe for masculine success echoed Galloway’s: proactiveness, agency, risk-taking and courage, but with a pro-social cast."
Opinion For proof of the U.S. immigration system’s dysfunction, look to Canada
Opinion We fixed I-95 in 12 days. Here are our lessons for U.S. infrastructure.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests covid was designed to spare Jews, Chinese people
How a Saudi firm tapped a gusher of water in drought-stricken Arizona" Lax rules let the foreign-owned company pump water from state land to grow alfalfa for the kingdom’s cattle. After almost a decade, the deal is in jeopardy. - "Soon after the company, Fondomonte Arizona, arrived in the Butler Valley in 2015, state planners suggested asking the company to install meters and report its water use, according to a memo reviewed by The Washington Post. That way, the memo argued, the state could 'at least obtain accurate information' on water drained from the valley — water that could otherwise serve as backup for booming urban areas.
"But the proposal 'hit a stone wall,' John Schneeman, one of the planners, told The Post. It was spurned, he said, by officials in the administration of then-Gov. Doug Ducey (R) who were 'cautious of tangling with a powerful company.' The proposal also ran headlong into a view, deeply held in the rural West, that water is private property that comes with access to land, rather than a public resource."
Opinion Republicans celebrate their successful deception of voters
Are the orcas out to get us? What to know about recent attacks.: An orca might bump your boat or even spin it around. But don’t worry. You don’t need to cancel that whale watching trip. - "Most of the orcas interacting with boats are juveniles and are primarily interested in the boats’ rudders. 'The game is very simple,' de Stephanis said. 'If there is a rudder, they push it and break it.'"
Maryland’s bid for a new FBI headquarters just got a big boost
Southern border ‘eerily quiet’ after policy shift on asylum seekers - "The preliminary result is a nearly 70 percent drop in illegal entries since early May, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. After two years of record crossings and crisis-level strains, the Biden administration appears to have better control over the southern border than at any point since early 2021."
Sen. Tommy Tuberville relents and says white nationalists are racist
DC approves emergency crime bills. Here's what changes - "Council member Brooke Pinto, who sponsored the changes, told the Council 30 of the suspects or victims in last year's D.C. murders were out of jail awaiting trial, which is one of the reasons she says judges need more tools to keep people charged with violent crimes in jail."
Firing of gay Catholic school teacher could test latest Supreme Court ruling - "Instead of arguing for the 'ministerial exception,' Becket is arguing that a religious school’s employment choices are 'expressive association' protected by the First Amendment, just as Colorado web designer Lorie Smith successfully argued that she has the right to choose which marriages to celebrate with her work."
What I learned when I tried installing a wind turbine on my house
Summer is here. Where are the fireflies? - "Fireflies in the United States spend the vast majority of their lives in their larval state, roaming the dirt to consume snails, worms and other soft-bodied grub several times their size. In contrast to their gentle summertime image, baby fireflies are vicious predators.
"But much of the swampy soil young fireflies need to thrive is increasingly being bulldozed for golf courses, suburban subdivisions and other types of development, making habitat loss a top threat."
Reeling Arctic glaciers are leaving bubbling methane in their wake, scientists warn
What does the Barbie movie have to do with the South China Sea dispute?
South Korea’s biggest Pride parade was blocked. It came back stronger.
Climate change could swamp this island. Home sales are surging.: Maryland’s iconic Smith Island faces one of the nation’s most dire forecasts for rising seas, but real estate is booming - "Some studies have shown similar trends elsewhere. One found more Americans are moving into hot urban areas and zones prone to wildfires that will be intensified by climate change. Hurricanes have become more devastating in Florida because millions have bought homes in their paths in recent decades."
Opinion A Georgia teacher’s plight exposes the essence of anti-woke MAGA fury - "This disconnect captures something essential about state laws and directives restricting classroom discussion across the country: They seem to be imprecisely drafted to encourage censorship. That invites parents and administrators to seek to apply bans to teachers haphazardly, forcing teachers to err on the side of muzzling themselves rather than risk unintentionally crossing fuzzy lines into illegality."
Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse
Buttigieg calls SCOTUS ‘out of step’ on LGBTQ+ issues. He has a point. - "What’s interesting about 303 Creative is that it inverts the hierarchy of oppression. It has been presented as a religious designer seeking to take a stand against a widely held belief with which she doesn’t agree. But she is also a member of a group — conservative Christian Americans — that is obviously larger than the country’s LGBTQ+ population. (Gallup puts the LGBT community at 7 percent of the population; analysis of the General Social Survey puts the conservative Christian population at about a quarter of Americans.)"
Trump pressured Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to overturn 2020 election
THE TAO OF DECEP TION PART I - "'You cannot stop being Chinese,' Yu said. 'Many of these Chinese students in the United States, they don’t remember Mao’s horrors. They believe in a new China dream. And if not, their parents in Beijing and Shanghai will remind them. The Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia, Berkeley, Cambridge, the same. They are still Chinese. That is where we recruit the MSS army.'"
