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2026-07-17 07:00:40 (1 week ago)

GOP civil war erupts over Trump's latest agenda push as key Republicans threaten to sink megabill

Republican senators and House members raise objections about a draft budget blueprint, threatening the reconciliation timeline outlined by House GOP leaders.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-17 07:00:36 (1 week ago)

Kai Trump opens up about leaving home for college, credits president for giving her 'competitive edge'

Kai Trump discussed her social media career, wrist surgery recovery and her refusal to enter politics ahead of her freshman year in Miami.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-17 07:00:33 (1 week ago)

Doctors warn your 'stomach bug' may actually be a parasite that's harder to detect

Over 1,600 cyclospora cases have been confirmed since May, with 5,100 more under investigation, as the foodborne parasite outbreak hits Midwestern states hard.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-17 07:00:28 (1 week ago)

California county approves reparations plan as neighboring school district 'Black Thriving' effort stalls

Alameda County approved a sweeping reparations plan focused on housing and criminal justice reform as Oakland Unified faces criticism for stalled promises.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-17 07:00:17 (1 week ago)

Maine Democrats recycle Platner's far-left talking points in scramble to replace disgraced ex-nominee

Four Democrats vying to replace Graham Platner in the Maine Senate race echoed his stances on abolishing ICE, Gaza genocide, and healthcare.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-17 07:00:17 (1 week ago)

Maine Democrats recycle Platner's far-left talking points in scramble to replace disgraced ex-nominee

Four Democrats vying to replace Graham Platner in the Maine Senate race echoed his stances on abolishing ICE, Gaza genocide, and healthcare.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-17 07:00:07 (1 week ago)

Knuckle hop and two-foot high kick: the Olympics for Alaska Natives breathe new life into ancient games

The annual World Eskimo Indian Olympics draw hundreds of Indigenous athletes to partake in traditional games and celebrate their heritage

As Nicole Johnson prepared to compete in the Alaska sports arena, she visualized propelling into the air and kicking the ball with both of her feet simultaneously. The Iñupiaq athlete was partaking in the Arctic game of two-foot high kick, long practiced by her community of northern Alaska Natives. When she kicked the ball made of seal skin that dangled from a kickstand, the crowd erupted in cheers. That day in July 1989 at the World Eskimo Indian Olympics (WEIO), Johnson set the women’s world record in the sport by striking the target at 6ft 6in.

For this year’s event, at age 57, she will compete in the dene stick pull, where she and another participant will hold on to the center of a stick covered in grease and attempt to wrest the object from their opponent.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-17 07:00:06 (1 week ago)

‘Laws were broken’: multistate effort to stop Paramount’s $111bn merger heads to court

Attorneys general from 12 states are suing to block the Paramount-Warner Bros deal they say violates antitrust law

A last-ditch effort to block the merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is heading to court as 12 Democratic state attorneys general attempt to stop the $111bn deal they say violates antitrust law and reduces competition in both the film and cable television industries.

The lawsuit, which was filed on Monday, faces a crucial hearing on Friday to determine if a judge will temporarily pause the deal or allow it to continue toward approval. The merger was already approved by the Department of Justice in June.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-17 07:00:06 (1 week ago)

Add to playlist: the nervy breakbeats and acid delirium of Silverwingkiller and the week’s best new tracks

The industrial dance duo make music for this summer’s heatwave: filled with dread and jangling with pent-up energy

From Manchester, via Peterborough and Shanghai
Recommended if you like Crystal Castles, Mandy, Indiana, acid house
Up next Festival dates including East London Block Party, Brighton Psych Fest and End of the Road

Salford’s Silverwingkiller sound how this summer’s heatwave feels: delirious, dread-filled and jangling with pent-up energy. Named after the Chinese title for Blade Runner, they build pummelling industrial dance music from nervy breakbeats, the acid sounds of the Roland TB-303 synthesiser and the shared sense of creative freedom that James Baca and Yushang Ni discovered on moving to Greater Manchester, from Peterborough and Shanghai respectively.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-17 07:00:06 (1 week ago)

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Runner by Scarlett Thomas; The Madman by Henning Mankell; Everything She Didn’t Say by Jane Casey; The Spy and the Snake by MJ Robotham; Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki

The Runner by Scarlett Thomas (Scribner, £16.99)
Part thriller, part romantic suspense, Thomas’s latest novel begins in Cyprus, where 34-year-old Jay is literally on the run from someone who wants to kill him. Jay (not his real name) is well used to evading hitmen: the attempts on his life began at university, when a Japanese man arrived at his flat with a samurai sword. People have been trying to murder him ever since, the contract on his life traded like a commodity, in bitcoin. Now his only apparent ally is the mysterious Ellie, although – given his track record – it’s quite possible that she’s trying to off him, too. Just before the reader’s sense of intrigue turns to irritated bafflement, the action rewinds to Jay’s childhood in Kent, and the reasons slowly become clear in this quirky, exciting tale that takes in exorcism, dictators, high finance, con artists and marathons along the way.

The Madman by Henning Mankell, translated by George Goulding and Sarah de Senarclens (Mountain Leopard, £25)
Written in the 1970s and published in English for the first time, The Madman is set in a Swedish town in the late 1940s. The country’s wartime neutrality-on-paper continues to divide: the town’s pro-Nazis want the past forgotten, but the communist sympathisers, bitter about having been interned, want a reckoning. When a letter to this effect appears in the local paper, those accused, including the director of the town’s sawmill, claim that newcomer Bertil Kras has been stirring resentment for political ends. When the sawmill burns down, Kras is blamed for that, too, and the disintegration of the life he has tried to make provokes an existential crisis. An older Mankell might have been more concise, but the slow build towards inevitable disaster makes for true emotional depth, and the theme of othering, isolating and penalising people for their opinions remain horribly topical.

Fox News - Opinion

2026-07-17 07:00:04 (1 week ago)

America’s broken legal immigration system is replacing US workers by design

Over 83% of H-1B visas went to entry-level workers paid below median wages, while the OPT program lets 400,000 foreign students take key jobs.

Times of India

2026-07-17 07:00:00 (1 week ago)

In 1999, archaeologists found a teenage Inca girl frozen on a 6,739-metre volcano, where she had remained untouched for more than 500 years