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GOP Lawmaker Introduces JD Vance By Warning If Trump Isn’t Reelected It ‘Will Take a Civil War to Save the Country’ (www.mediaite.com)

Tennessee’s drag ban is back after appeals court ruling (wpln.org)

Swimsuit wars heat up in an Olympic year (apnews.com)

65% of Democratic Voters Want Biden to Step Aside: Poll. (www.commondreams.org)

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports (www.theatlantic.com)

Why Won't the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine? (www.jeffsachs.org)

For the fifth time since 2008, Russia has proposed to negotiate with the U.S. over security arrangements, this time in proposals made by President Vladimir Putin on June 14, 2024. Four previous times, the U.S. rejected the offer of negotiations in favor of a neocon strategy to weaken or dismember Russia through war and covert...

Senior North Korean diplomat defects to South (www.bbc.com)

A high-profile North Korean diplomat stationed in Cuba has defected to the South, Seoul’s spy agency has confirmed to the BBC....

Inflation is cooling, yet many Americans say they're living paycheck to paycheck (www.cbsnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17601144...

Mirarr, a piracy first movie app. (github.com)

Found this on reddit and decided to share. Here’s the text from the author:...

Zoom exec calls in-office work mandate a ‘success’ — despite working remotely himself (www.kron4.com)

OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework (arstechnica.com)

German city bans ‘silent fox’ gesture in schools over similarity to far-right sign (www.theguardian.com)

A city in northern Germany has become the first to issue an all-out ban on the use of a hand gesture used to encourage silence in the classroom because of its close resemblance to a far-right Turkish gesture....

Boaters in Florida find 56 pounds of barnacle-covered cocaine (www.independent.co.uk)

MAGA Official Found Guilty of Tampering with 2020 Voting Machines (www.rollingstone.com)

I don't think it's true (lemmy.world)

Putin says Ukraine's incursion into Kursk is an attempt to stop Russia's eastern offensive (www.pbs.org)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the Ukrainian army’s incursion into the Kursk region, which has caused more than 100,000 civilians to flee and embarrassed the Kremlin, is an attempt by Kyiv to stop Moscow’s offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region and gain leverage in possible future peace talks.

Why Iran Has Waited to Retaliate Against Israel for Hamas Leader’s Killing (www.nytimes.com)

The crisis comes at an especially delicate moment in Iran, which analysts say is trying to formulate a response that doesn’t let an assassination on its soil go unpunished, while avoiding an all-out war against a powerful adversary. It also comes as a new government in Tehran has taken office, which could be slowing a decision...