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Ahead of Juneteenth, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear posthumously pardoned 43 people imprisoned for helping enslaved people escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed legislation closing the 'boyfriend loophole,' barring people convicted of domestic violence against a dating partner from owning firearms, effective July 1.
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A Change.org petition with over 20,000 signatures wants to rename the Chicago street outside Trump Tower 'Barack Hussein Obama Ave,' and a city alderman has introduced an ordinance to advance it.
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A new investigation by THE CITY found that more than 93% of 430 ICE street arrests across the New York metro area targeted Latinos, who make up only about 66% of the region's undocumented population.
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DHS has abandoned its plan to convert a Social Circle, Georgia warehouse into a 10,000-bed ICE detention mega-center - after the government paid $128.5 million for the property.
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At least 159 recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland have caught the flu after the annual vaccine was made optional, with the recruit vaccination rate falling from nearly 100% to about 40%.
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On July 1, 2026, Idaho becomes the only U.S. state to designate the firing squad as its primary method of execution under a law signed by Gov. Brad Little.
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Cloudflare data shows bots now generate about 57.5% of web page traffic versus 42.5% from humans, a crossover the company's CEO says agentic AI accelerated by roughly 18 months.
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ICE plans to sell or transfer at least 7 of the 11 warehouses it bought for more than $700M to detain migrants, reversing a ~$1B mass-detention buildup, per internal documents obtained by the NYT.
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An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejected a $15.7 million offer and sold his land's development rights for under $2 million to keep it from becoming an AI data center.
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The National Science Foundation reversed its decision to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $368M network of about 900 ocean sensors, after bipartisan pressure.
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A Florida appeals court ruled the state's ban on firearm sales to adults aged 18 to 20 violates the Second Amendment, striking down a law passed after the 2018 Parkland shooting.
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