NYTIMES (Stuart A. Reid) - It Was One of the Cold War’s Greatest Crimes. No One Has Paid a Price.
No one apart from the Congolese people has ever paid a price for the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba.
NPR (Frank Morris) - War with Iran disrupts fertilizer exports as U.S. farmers prepare for planting season
Gulf states are major fertilizer producers, and the war with Iran has triggered a 25% price hike just as struggling U.S. farmers are planting corn.
STRIPES (Gary Warner) - Army shelves planned ‘Valkyrie’ laser system, switches to joint ‘Golden Dome’ project | Stars and Stripes
The decision reflects challenges researchers encountered with making a continuous-wave beam capable of targeting a fast, hardened cruise missile.
NYTIMES (Hannah Ziegler) - Chip Taylor, Writer of ‘Wild Thing’ and Other Classic Rock Hits, Dies at 86
Mr. Taylor, the younger brother of the actor Jon Voight, found success as a songwriter for the likes of Janis Joplin and Juice Newton.
NYTIMES (Jeanna Smialek and Stephanie Nolen) - How U.S.A.I.D. Birth Control Meant for Africa Was Ruined
The Trump administration had options for offloading contraceptives once destined for Africa, a newly obtained memo shows. Instead, it has let them collect dust and go bad.
NYTIMES (Winnie Hu and Jeff Adelson) - New York City’s Population Flat After Drop in Immigration
Newly released census data shows that from June 2024 to July 2025, the number of new residents who were international immigrants dropped by 70 percent compared to a year before.
NYTIMES (Jeff Adelson and Amy Qin) - Immigration Slowdown Hits Every Metro Area in the U.S., Census Shows
Large urban counties and the border were the most affected. And in three-quarters of U.S. counties, population growth either slowed or turned negative.
NYTIMES (Edward Wong) - Trump Had His Eye on China, Then Plunged Into a New Mideast War
The Trump administration said the Middle East would “recede” in importance as the China challenge took priority. But the president started the war in Iran.
NYTIMES (Mark Landler) - Trump’s Threats to Europe Put Its Leaders in a Double Bind Over Iran
European politicians risk angering their voters if they join America’s war. Yet they could also face domestic upheaval if they take no action to reopen shipping routes that Iran has blocked and ease an energy crisis.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Ann Coulter) - Vote Fraud: Another ‘Science Is Settled’ Issue
Why is the left so insistent that voter fraud isn’t real? The post Vote Fraud: Another ‘Science Is Settled’ Issue appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Vote Fraud: Another ‘Science Is Settled’ Issue Why is the left so insistent that voter fraud isn’t real? TakiMag Perhaps the left’s greatest contribution to public discourse is to threaten anyone who disagrees with them with financial ruin, slander, embarrassment, condemnation, homelessness and prison—and then announce the existence of a “consensus.” Their signature consensus-by-threat technique has been used to prove the truth of global warming, Russian interference with the 2016 election, Covid -19 lockdowns, Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation , and—especially important today—the…Open