The Supreme Court will hear cases in the fall and winter dealing with hot-button social and political issues, ranging from males competing in female sports to pregnancy centers and redistricting.
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The Supreme Court will hear cases in the fall and winter dealing with hot-button social and political issues, ranging from males competing in female sports, pregnancy centers, and redistricting. Here are the nine cases to watch when the court reconvenes.
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President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the United States reached a trade agreement with the European Union after months of tough negotiations. Here are the key takeaways from the historic deal.
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Trump plans to abridge the 50-day deadline he gave Russia to agree to a peace deal with Ukraine.
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Three weeks have passed since a rainstorm triggered catastrophic floods across the Texas Hill Country, killing at least 135 people. Amid the rescue efforts, some blamed the floods on Rainmaker Technology Corporation which conducted a cloud seeding operation 130 miles from the flood area on July 2 caught the attention of the public. Here’s what we know about cloud seeding.
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Planned Parenthood signage is displayed outside of a health care clinic in Inglewood, Calif., on May 16, 2023. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) |
A federal judge on July 28 blocked a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ruling that it likely violates the Constitution. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction blocking a section of the law that she said targeted Planned Parenthood and constituted a form of punishment against the organization and its members for providing abortions.
That provision of the law, which was backed by Republicans and enacted by President Donald Trump at the start of July, bars certain tax-exempt organizations and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid funds if they continue to provide abortions. Those organizations include Planned Parenthood, which filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the provision.
Talwani initially granted a preliminary injunction that prevented the government from cutting Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood members that did not provide abortion care or did not meet a threshold of at least $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in a given year. That order impacted 10 Planned Parenthood offices, while her latest order expands the injunction to all Planned Parenthood clinics. “Patients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,” the judge wrote in her July 28 order. “In particular, restricting Members’ ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives, and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated [sexually transmitted infections].”
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a nonprofit lobbying organization that supports Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country, filed the lawsuit against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, and the Department of Health and Human Services. (More)
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A group Republican and Democrat lawmakers are introducing legislation this week targeting the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations at home as well as its transnational repression campaigns abroad, as Washington and Beijing resumed trade talks in Stockholm.
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A bipartisan group of senators has called on Apple and Google to remove China-owned virtual private networks, or VPNs, from their app stores, warning that these apps pose a threat to U.S. national security because of their ties to China’s military.
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A shooting in midtown Manhattan on Monday left five people dead, including a police officer and the attacker. People in the busy area of Midtown Manhattan, which is close to Grand Central Terminal and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, reported a “crowd panic” after gunfire erupted, leading those in the area to seek refuge for hours in nearby buildings until they got the green light from police to exit.
While details of the attack are still coming in, the New York Fire Department said emergency crews were first dispatched to the scene of a reported shooting around 6:30 p.m.
New York Mayor Eric Adams identified 345 Park Avenue—which houses offices for some of the country’s largest firms—including private equity giant Blackstone, the National Football League, and the consulate general of Ireland—as the location of the shooting. (More)
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More than 165 million people in the United States were under some form of heat advisory or warning as soaring temperatures are expected for much of the East Coast, South, and Midwest starting Monday and lasting until the middle of this week.
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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to abridge the 50-day deadline he gave Russia to agree to a peace deal with Ukraine. Trump said that he was “very disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin and criticized the Russian leader for continuing to allow strikes on Ukrainian cities.
“We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever,” Trump outside his hotel alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Turnberry, Scotland, during a visit to the UK.
“I’m going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number because I think I already know the answer.” When asked by reporters how long he would set for the new deadline, Trump said: “I am going to make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today. ... There is no reason in waiting.”
The president warned on July 14 that he would impose harsh new punitive economic measures on Russia and its trade partners if Moscow did not agree to a peace deal with Kyiv in 50 days. After originally giving Russia until Sept. 2 to make a deal and avoid new economic punishment, Trump’s July 28 remarks suggest that Moscow now only has until the first two weeks of August to get to a deal. (More)
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The United States will establish food centers in Gaza that will not be surrounded by fences, in a bid to address the growing humanitarian crisis in the war-torn enclave, according to President Trump.
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Senior figures in the European Union have reacted with a combination of relief and criticism to the new trade deal with the United States.
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U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Monday that China’s willingness to have another round of trade talks with the United States is a “good sign,” but suggested that there might not be any significant breakthroughs resulting from these negotiations.
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Downloads of virtual private network (VPN) apps have surged in the UK as users look for ways to bypass new age verification rules introduced after the latest provisions of the Online Safety Act took effect on July 25.
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Marine One carrying President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at Trump MacLeod House & Lodge Trump on the Trump International Estate in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, north east Scotland, on July 28, 2025. (Jane Barlow/AFP via Getty Images) |
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"Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" by Caspar David Friedrich. The hiker stands as a back figure in the center of the composition, looking down on a sea of fog amid the rocky landscape. |
The company Motivational Maps has a slogan: “Making the invisible, visible.” Now that’s something, isn’t it? At some intuitive level, we all know what “motivation” is, but what actually is it? The company trades on the basis that we can accurately describe and measure motivation; by doing so, we make it visible. What before was a gut feeling, now is something much more substantial.
Many other things are invisible: our personalities, our psyches, the past, the future, all our values, and even abstract nouns like love. We don’t doubt that love exists, though we don’t see love itself; we experience it through actions, our own and that of others. In fact, the most important things in this world are all invisible, and yet everything depends on them.
To put it another way, the material, visible world depends upon the immaterial invisible one. One of the great Chinese philosophers, Lao Tzu expressed it this way, in the “Tao Te Ching": Those who in ancient times were competent as Masters Were one with the invisible forces of the hidden.
They were deep so that one cannot know them. Because one cannot know them Therefore one can only painfully describe their exterior. (Translation by Richard Wilhelm)
In his wonderful book, “Beauty, Spirit, Matter: Icons in the Modern World,” Aidan Hart commented on an ancient painting technique dealing with the theme of invisibility:
“One task of iconography is to unveil this logoi [explanation/meaning] hidden within creation to make the invisible visible. ... Perhaps the most noticeable aspect of icons is the virtual absence of shadow. This is because the icon reveals all things as living and moving and having their being in God. As God is light, there can be no shadow.” (More)
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"Inspiration Chretienne," by Pierre Cecile Puvis De Chavannes. Monks painting icons on the wall of an abbey in France. (Smithsonian American Art Museum/CC0) |
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