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Inflation vs. wages: How rising prices stack up against growing pay (www.nbcnews.com)

It’s the economy, stupid. Here’s what you need to know about it for the presidential debate (www.cnn.com)

Dutch foreign ministry calls in Israeli ambassador over ICC spying claims (www.theguardian.com)

Israel’s ambassador to the Netherlands was asked to “report” to the Dutch foreign affairs ministry to explain allegations of a secret surveillance and espionage campaign by Israeli spy services against the international criminal court, it has emerged....

Evanston ranked choice voting ordinance passes, hopes to push county clerk’s office (archive.ph)

‘The greatest thinker you’ve never heard of’: expert who explained Hitler’s rise is finally in the spotlight (www.theguardian.com)

After fleeing Hitler, brilliant Jewish economist Karl Polanyi was never welcomed by the British. Now, for the first time in 80 years, his masterwork The Great Transformation has been be published in the UK

Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War (theintercept.com)

Trump’s sledgehammer message to Philadelphia is light on facts, heavy on fear (www.theguardian.com)

The former president used his first rally in the city of brotherly love to tie violent crime with illegal immigration, despite the evidence against this...

World's ugliest dog? Meet Wild Thang, the 8-year-old Pekingese who took the 2024 crown (www.usatoday.com)

A surprising winner in the Supreme Court gun ruling: Hunter Biden (www.politico.com)

Ex-Florida law enforcement official says he was forced to resign for defying illegal DeSantis orders (apnews.com)

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered illegal surveillance of immigrants and ignored concerns that relocating them from Texas to another state could could be considered kidnapping or false imprisonment, the former chief of staff at the state’s top law enforcement agency said in a whistleblower lawsuit....

The EPA's new limits on PFAS in drinking water face legal challenges (www.npr.org)

Motion after motion puts Trump Florida case in slow motion as 3-day hearing begins (apnews.com)

The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump is hearing arguments Friday on a long-shot defense effort to get the indictment thrown out based on the claim that the prosecutor who brought the charges was illegally appointed....

Arizona AG sues governor for attempt to swipe opioid funding for Department of Corrections (www.salon.com)

Video: Cyclists survive hit-and-run with SUV - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)

Beijing urges Britain to stop sanctioning Chinese firms over Russian links (www.reuters.com)

China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday that it had urged Britain to stop sanctioning Chinese firms after the country sanctioned five Chinese companies over their links to Russia....

Willie Mays, SF Giants legend and MLB all-time great, is dead (www.sfchronicle.com)

RIP

US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region's Native tribes (apnews.com)

The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes....

How our brain tries to beat the heat — and why heatstroke is dangerous | Not only does heatstroke have a relatively high mortality rate, but those who recover still may face future health problems (www.washingtonpost.com)

Olympics reassigns a 1900 medal — and its winner — from Britain to France (www.npr.org)

Drenched South Florida faces fresh flood threats from more heavy rains (www.axios.com)

Heavy to excessive rainfall may bring “considerable to locally catastrophic urban flooding” across South Florida through Friday, the National Weather Service warns.

Texas immigrants’ rights groups sue Biden administration over asylum restrictions (www.texastribune.org)

President Joe Biden’s order, issued a week ago, largely suspends noncitizens’ entry into the country whenever the number of migrants entering the country illegally is high....

Jamaican man in UK for 38 years must wait another 10 to apply for citizenship (www.theguardian.com)

Inside the brain school (www.cbc.ca)

All of it was the brainchild of 79-year-old American psychologist Dr. James Hardt, whose neurofeedback program has been endorsed by self-help guru Tony Robbins and featured on CNN’s Larry King Live. Hardt says brain school can make participants smarter and happier. He says it can also allow them to levitate, walk on water and...

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