Columbus, OH

Los Angeles Times

Barack and Michelle Obama delivered a blistering attack on Donald Trump at the DNC. They endorsed Kamala Harris' election as a repudiation of his rage and resentment-filled politics.

Column: Barack and Michelle Obama are done turning the other cheek — and Democrats couldn't be happier

Minnesota State

Business Insider

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota served in the army, taught high school, and has decades of governing experience.

12 things to know about Tim Walz, the Midwestern dad who coined the biggest insult of 2024

Arlington, TX

A visit to Arlington National Cemetery by former President Trump turned unruly this week. Trump attended a ceremony honoring 13 troops killed in Afghanistan in 2021. And although Trump campaign officials deny this, NPR's Quil Lawrence has learned that some staffers with the Trump campaign did not follow an agreement made with Arlington officials. Political activity is illegal at the cemetery, and what followed was an altercation between two Trump campaign staffers and an official at Arlington trying to enforce the rules.

Trump campaign staffers have run-in with Arlington National Cemetery official

Texas State

A federal judge has temporarily paused a Biden administration program that offers some immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens a path to citizenship without having to leave the country first. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:. A federal judge in Texas has temporarily halted a Biden administration policy that aims to give some immigrant...

A federal judge has paused the Biden administration’s Keeping Families Together plan

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas and a coalition of Republican-led states on Friday sued President Joe Biden's administration over a new program that offers a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally and are now married to U.S. citizens.

Texas sues over Biden legalization program for immigrants married to US citizens

Arizona State

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of lawyers with deep ties to the Republican Party scrambled over the weekend to rescue an effort to get independent presidential candidate Cornel West on the Arizona ballot, offering one of the clearest examples yet of the GOP’s extensive involvement in furthering the left-wing academic’s long-shot bid. As a deadline loomed to submit the needed paperwork, two well-known Republican lawyers in the state and a GOP attorney working to get West on the ballot elsewhere learned that two of their would-be electors — Jerry Judie and Denisha Mitchell — were not interested in fulfilling the...

Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot. The left-wing academic is OK with it

Time to show your economic history skills based on what we’ve covered in Planet Money Summer School 2024: An Incomplete Economic History of the World. Make it through the quiz, and receive a — and we cannot stress this enough — totally fake (yet well-earned) diploma.

Quiz: Do you know your economic history?

Peter Sagal's wife's favorite podcast is back. On each episode of How To Do Everything, underqualified hosts Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag find overqualified experts to answer all your life questions. How do you survive quicksand? How do you plan the perfect first date? How do you count all the hairs on your head? They can't help you. But they will find someone who can.

How To Do Everything is BACK!

It's been more than three weeks since the U.S. and Russia completed the largest prisoner swap since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Speaking from the White House shortly after news broke that three American prisoners were headed home, President Biden described the release as an "incredible relief." Russian-American journalist...

Eggs and Bananas: Life after a Russian prison

Colorado State

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David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

The United States may be the birthplace of the blues, but Philadelphia-born blues singer Davina Robinson found them somewhere far, far away from the U.S., in Japan. Robinson launched her music career after moving to Osaka, where she found an unexpected community of jazz and blues musicians. Since then, she's released an album, several singles, and won the U.K. Songwriting Contest in the blues category in 2020.

Sense of Place: How American singer Davina Robinson found the blues in Osaka

Wisconsin State

Hundreds of former staffers who worked for President George H. W. Bush, President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain and Senator Mitt Romney have published an open letter asking fellow Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in November. The group of more than 200 people warns that...

More than 200 Republicans who worked for Bush, McCain and Romney endorse Harris

Florida State

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said he will consider more DUI patrols if voters legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida. Voters will consider Amendment 3 in November. It would allow adults 21 or older to possess, purchase or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical purposes.

More DUI patrols possible if marijuana issue passes

Chicago, IL

Palm Springs Tribune

Taylor Swift broke Wembley stadium records playing the venue eight times in a single tour at her final London show in of the Eras Tour and debuted her track So Long London live from her latest album, Tortured Poets Department . The timing of her last European performance is politically intriguing, as it coincides with the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where she might have the opportunity to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

Taylor Swift’s Potential DNC Appearance and Endorsement of Kamala Harris: Will It Happen?

MARTÍNEZ: Oh, I - some really vile Spanish curse words (laughter). MARTIN: OK. Well, maybe next time, you could channel Kaare Jensen, who teaches physics at the Technical University of Denmark. KAARE JENSEN: I got a paper cut at home. I thought, this cannot be. Now I have to...

The physics behind the most annoying thing that could ever happen to you: A paper cut

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday kept on hold the latest multibillion-dollar plan from the Biden administration that would have lowered payments for millions of borrowers, while lawsuits make their way through lower courts. The justices rejected an administration request to put most of it back into...

Supreme Court rebuffs Biden administration plea to restore SAVE student debt plan

Mediaite

A panel on Outnumbered slammed Kamala Harris’s vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as a far-leftist “wrapped in a flannel shirt.”. Larry Kudlow opened the discussion by claiming that Harris picked Walz as her running mate because “she needed to pick someone from the Bernie Sanders left” of the party. The Fox anchor added that as governor he has had “an extreme left-wing record.”

‘I Thought Old White Men Were The Problem?’ Fox Outnumbered Panel Blasts Tim Walz As A Leftist ‘Wrapped In A Flannel Shirt’

Wyoming State

Cheyenne, WY

WyoFile

WHITE MOUNTAIN—“That’s a lot of horses,” lamented Cheyenne resident Robyn Smith from a high-desert ridgeline. It wasn’t her first exasperated exclamation. “Argh, oh crap,” was her immediate reaction to learning a federal judge had given the Bureau of Land Management the OK to proceed with plans to fully remove two wild horse herds from the landscape in southwest Wyoming.

BLM wins two lawsuits, clearing way for elimination of two Wyoming wild horse herds

Montana State

To increase the genetic diversity of an island population of grizzly bears , Wyoming and Montana wildlife managers recently worked together to import fresh bloodlines into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Two Montana grizzly bears trucked to Wyoming to bolster genetic diversity, help states’ delisting case

Olathe, CO

One of Colorado's most beloved crop is in trouble again. Worms are infesting a type of sweet corn that's grown in a small pocket on the state's western slope. Farmers are trying new methods to fight back, including by deploying moths with a sexually transmitted disease that sterilizes future generations - yeah, moth STDs. Colorado Public Radio's Stina Sieg explains.

Worms are infecting Colorado's sweet corn. Moths with STDs could help

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The writer Yuval Levin has been thinking about our frustrations with government in a divided nation.

YUVAL LEVIN: It's very hard for us 21st century Americans because we're not actually used to dealing with each other. We are used to living in...

The writer Yuval Levin has been thinking about our frustrations with government in a divided nation.

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