AMERICANTHINKER - Russia Is Struggling Badly
American Thinker It went into Ukraine imagining a swift and decisive victory, but after four years, its energy and business sectors are increasingly fragile.
AMERICANTHINKER - What Role Did UNC play with COVID?
Image: https://www.nursetogether.com/ via Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped). https://www.nursetogether.com/ North Carolina taxpayers and families deserve to know whether their flagship public university played any role in the research that may have sparked the COVID disaster.
AMERICANTHINKER - Baltic States Warn Against Defense Policy Funded by the Printing Press
RawPixel.com Politicians from the Baltic states are warning about the consequences of debt-financed defense policy.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: China's humanoid robots new technological advances amid global AI race
With the global race for artificial intelligence and robotics technology in full swing, David Muir takes a closer look at the humanoid robots being built in China – and how it could help humans.
NPR (Steve Inskeep) - How Asia is reacting to Trump's summit in China
President Trump is in Beijing for his big summit with Chinese leaders. How Asia is reacting to the summit.
NPR (Tom Dreisbach) - Ex-DOJ official goes public with blistering criticism of his former bosses
Until recently, Jonathan Gross was a Trump political appointee at the Department of Justice and worked on its "Weaponization Working Group." He has now become a vocal critic of the department.
NPR (Ashley Lopez) - Voters are caught in the middle as the redistricting battle intensifies
Much of the focus of the ongoing redistricting war has been on which political party will come out on top. But it's voters who will pay a cost, say voting experts and voting rights advocates.
NPR (Joe Hernandez) - The MAHA movement is coming to school cafeterias. Here's what that means for kids
U.S. school districts worry it could get even more expensive to prepare a meal under new federal dietary guidelines, as they also contend with cuts to programs that helped them buy local food.
WASHINGTONPOST (Michelle Lee, Lyric Li) - Officially, Marco Rubio is still banned from China. So how is he in Beijing?
Chinese officials are using a different transliterated character for the secretary of state's name, perhaps to allow him to visit without lifting a 2020 ban.
AXIOS (Justin Green) - Democrats get a last-minute reprieve on 2026 redistricting
Republicans are slowing down a feared redistricting blitz across the Deep South, giving several longtime Black lawmakers a temporary reprieve. Why it matters: Democrats had been grappling with the imminent collapse of Black political representation in the South after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act in late April. - As many as 19 Congressional Black Caucus members could be affected in a maximized national redistricting scenario, Black Caucus chair Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) told NBC News on Tuesday. - But Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana have stepped back from the most aggressive redraw plans that were floated after the ruling. Zoom in: In Louisiana, Republicans opted to eliminate only one Black-majority district instead…