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2 killed, 8 wounded in mass shooting outside Arkansas grocery store (www.cbsnews.com)

Nearly half of 18-24-year-olds say they're 'not fully straight', survey finds (www.thepinknews.com)

Gunman who was killed by Yellowstone rangers had planned a July 4 mass shooting, park reveals (abcnews.go.com)

Yellowstone National Park officials say a gunman killed by park rangers as he fired a semiautomatic rifle at the entrance of a dining facility with 200 people inside had told a woman he planned to carry out a mass shooting...

Families urge judge to block law forcing display of ‘Protestant version of the Ten Commandments’ before kids return to public school in Louisiana (lawandcrime.com)

Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows (www.404media.co)

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Elon Musk says SpaceX and X headquarters moving to Texas, blames California trans student privacy law (www.cnbc.com)

'I'm supposed to be dead' says Trump after assassination attempt (www.bbc.com)

Speaking as he prepared to board a flight to the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is expected to be confirmed as the party’s candidate for president, Mr Trump said he now had a “chance to bring the country together”....

A scrap of cloth found in Goodwill turns out to be part of American history (whyy.org)

Ron DeSantis vetoes millions in arts grants to defund “sexual” theater festivals (www.lgbtqnation.com)

This gay veteran spent 2 years in jail because he had sex. He can finally get a pardon. (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's death (apnews.com)

Julian Lewis didn’t pull over for the Georgia State Patrol cruiser flashing its blue lights behind him on a rural highway. He still didn’t stop after pointing a hand out the window and turning onto a darkened dirt road as the trooper sounded his siren....

Zelenskyy: Seeing children die makes me want to kill Putin (english.nv.ua)

Trump ‘Fine’ After Being Shot at Pennsylvania Campaign Rally (nymag.com)

Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over months (www.theguardian.com)

A Vermont lawmaker was compelled to apologize publicly after being caught on video pouring water into her colleague’s work bag multiple times across several months....

Migrants say border agents continue to throw away their belongings like medicine (www.independent.co.uk)

GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Calling White House Press Secretary ‘DEI Hire’ (atlantadailyworld.com)

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‘I was handed to a complete stranger’: the survivors fighting to end child marriage in 37 US states — and the people who want to keep it legal (www.theguardian.com)

Child marriage, which activists describe as one or both parties entering a union while under age 18, remains legal in 37 US states. There are no federal laws against it, meaning minors can marry, with parental consent, before they can vote, drink, or buy lottery tickets in the majority of the country. Some states have a minimum...

Cyclist fined for kissing wife during Tour de France (www.bbc.com)

The governing body said the fine was for “unseemly or inappropriate behaviour during the race and damage to the image of the sport”.

Trump seeks to distance himself from pro-Trump Project 2025 | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,” the name given to a playbook crafted by the Heritage Foundation to fill the executive branch with thousands of Trump loyalists and reorient its many agencies’ missions around conservative ideals....

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