NPR (NPR Staff) - Here are the District of Columbia's 2026 primary election results
Live election results: Get the latest on U.S. delegate and mayoral primary races in Washington, D.C.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Ted Snider) - Economic Warfare, Militarized Diplomacy Are Brutal and Malfunctioning Tools
The Trump administration hurts the people it claims to be protecting. The post Economic Warfare, Militarized Diplomacy Are Brutal and Malfunctioning Tools appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Economic Warfare, Militarized Diplomacy Are Brutal and Malfunctioning Tools The Trump administration hurts the people it claims to be protecting. On September 15, 1970, Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to “make the economy [of Chile] scream” (CIA Director Richard Helms’s actual note of the conversation can be seen here ). But it wasn’t the economy that screamed: it was people. “The economy” is an abstraction. The concrete reality of sanctions and embargos is people who are starving. Driving people to starvation has become the foreign policy of the United States. America has always struggled for its soul. In…Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Taki) - The Dumb and Joyful Masses
Staring at your phone won’t make for a rich or exciting life, but at least you’ll be happy for a while. The post The Dumb and Joyful Masses appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag The Dumb and Joyful Masses Staring at your phone won’t make for a rich or exciting life, but at least you’ll be happy for a while. TakiMag Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who wrote the great Madame Bovary novel, among other lesser ones. A close friend of his once wrote to him asking for advice on happiness, and Gustave wrote back offering his fail-proof method to achieving joyfulness: “One needs good health, and also good luck. And of course stupidity, but if the last one’s missing, all’s lost.” Good old Gustave, he certainly knew things. If he were around today, he’d be finding some very happy people…Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Andrew Day) - Trump Just Changed the Conversation About Iran
Washington and Tehran need not be enemies forever. The post Trump Just Changed the Conversation About Iran appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Trump Just Changed the Conversation About Iran Washington and Tehran need not be enemies forever. We’ve never seen a president like Donald J. Trump. Heck, I’ve never seen a human being like Trump. When Henry David Thoreau wrote about the man who steps to the music of a different drummer, he was probably imagining a religious seeker or political dissenter—not a billionaire businessman who dated European supermodels and erected golden towers before ascending to the heights of global power. But has anyone danced so wildly through life as the current POTUS? Trump’s latest two-step: waging a brutal war against…Open
NEWSNATIONNOW (Patrick Djordjevic) - Benadryl Challenge: Teen left brain dead after viral TikTok
A 15-year-old girl has been left with "no brain activity" in an ICU after attempting a viral TikTok challenge.
DAILYCALLER (Yoji Gomi) - Introducing Chongryon, The Large Pro-North Korea Organization In Japan
It was established in 1955
STRIPES (Linda F. Hersey) - VA home loan refinancing fee would nearly triple under GOP-led bill | Stars and Stripes
Bill advancing in Congress would nearly triple VA home-loan refinance fees to help fund expanded benefits for severely injured veterans.
DAILYCALLER (Jack Cowhick) - ‘She’s A Diva’ — Virginia Dems Feud Over Data Center Tax Breaks
"Data center, she's a diva."
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - New Florida law gives local governments authority over data center development
This year, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill 484, which deemed local governments had the power to decide development regulation for data centers.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - SCOTUS set to take up cases on jury limits, intellectual disability in death sentences
Justices on the high court will likely hear arguments in both of these cases in the fall and issue decisions by 2027.