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Biden and Trump in a dead heat in hypothetical 2024 rematch, poll finds
Trump saw slightly more support from his base than Biden, with 88 percent of registered Republicans selecting Trump versus 83 percent of Democrats choosing Biden.
“Watershed Moment”: Montana Rules Youth Have Constitutional Right to Healthy Climate
In a landmark climate case, a judge in Montana has ruled in favor of a group of young people who had sued the state for violating their constitutional rights as it pushed policies that encouraged the use of fossil fuels. In her decision, Montana Judge Kathy Seeley wrote, “Plaintiffs have a fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment, which includes climate.
Old Ted Cruz Post Shows Him Pouring A Different Pint From Current Bud Light Gripes
Cruz criticized Anheuser-Busch InBev for “marketing beer to children” this week despite the Republican making brewing a family affair in 2019.
‘Coward’ Trump Mocked After 2 Backpedaling Announcements In A Row
Critics blast the former president for another broken promise.
Trump Requests April Start Date For Federal Jan. 6 Trial … April 2026
“Even assuming we could begin reviewing the documents today, we would need to proceed at a pace of 99,762 pages per day,” his attorneys wrote in a filing.
Teacher Loses Appeal To Get Job Back After Being Fired For Reading A Book To Her Class
Katie Rinderle was terminated after reading “My Shadow Is Purple” to her fifth-grade class in Georgia.
It Looks Like No One Wants To Be Ron DeSantis’ Guest At GOP Debate
Although the Florida governor has 2.1 million followers, less than 50 liked his post offering a chance to be his guest at the Aug. 23 debate in Milwaukee.
Why Republicans Would Welcome a Biden Challenger
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Some Democrats, echoing GOP narratives about Joe Biden’s age, are invested in the idea of challenging the president’s renomination. But how would that actually work?First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Trump discovers that some things are actually illegal.
The Future of Recycling Is Sorty McSortface
At the Boulder County Recycling Center in Colorado, two team members spend all day pulling items from a conveyor belt covered in junk collected from the area’s bins. One plucks out juice cartons and plastic bottles that can be reprocessed, while the other searches for contaminants in the stream of paper products headed to a fiber mill. They are Sorty McSortface and Sir Sorts-a-Lot, AI-powered robots that each resemble a supercharged mechanical arm from an arcade claw machine.
Life Can’t Get Much Hotter Than This
Anoles have always been happy in the heat. The svelte little lizards, a group some 400 species strong, thrive in the Americas’ warmest parts—from the balmy rainforests of South America up through the United States’ Sun Belt—where they spend their days basking on boulders and scurrying out to the sun-soaked tips of twigs, or even scampering over the blistering metal of exposed city pipes.
An Absurdly Unrelatable Show Has a Relatable Moment
This article contains spoilers through Season 2 Episode 10 of And Just Like That.And Just Like That, like no other show in our admittedly depleted television universe right now, is simultaneously a riot, a rout, and an utterly chaotic melange of small-scale storytelling and high—but-literally-am-I-high—fashion.
Biden’s fall Covid vaccine rollout for the uninsured won’t include pharmacies at first
The administration doesn’t expect to finalize contracts with pharmacies distributing the vaccine to the uninsured until mid-October, weeks after the shot is made widely available.
Biden’s approval rating for the economy remains at about a third, poll finds
The Biden administration has hit hard the president’s economic policy, known as “Bidenomics,” amid falling inflation, steady job growth and diminished talk of a forthcoming recession.
Did the U.S. Push Imran Khan from Power? Leaked Cable Shows How State Dept. Pressured Pakistan
An explosive leaked document obtained by The Intercept appears to show direct U.S. involvement in former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ouster in 2022 because of his stance on the war in Ukraine. Khan is currently jailed and facing trial over a slew of corruption charges that his supporters say are intended to keep him from running for office again.
Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia Demands End to Azerbaijan Blockade Amid Accusations of Genocide
Armenia is calling on the United Nations Security Council to address a worsening humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan home to ethnic Armenians that has been under a blockade for eight months. Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought multiple wars over the territory since the collapse of the Soviet Union, most recently in 2020.
Rabaa Massacre: A Decade After Egypt Slaughtered 900+ Protesters, No One Has Been Held to Account
As Egyptians mark the 10th anniversary of the Rabaa massacre, we speak with human rights advocate Hossam Bahgat about how the mass killing shaped the country in the ensuing years. On August 14, 2013, Egyptian security forces opened fire on a sit-in where tens of thousands of people had camped out in Cairo to protest the ouster of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
We’re on the cusp of another psychedelic era. But this time Washington is along for the ride
From Congress to the Biden administration, there’s enthusiasm for the drugs’ ability to treat mental illness.
Biden administration warns states as millions lose Medicaid
More than 4 million people have had their Medicaid benefits terminated in the last four months, including nearly three-quarters who have lost coverage because of paperwork problems.
Staggering Ohio loss ignites an identity crisis within the anti-abortion movement
This soul-searching on the right shows how fractured the anti-abortion movement remains on both tactics and messaging more than a year after they achieved their decades-long goal of toppling Roe v. Wade.
The White House plays it cool as ‘Bidenomics’ struggles to catch on
The president made a big bet on owning the economy. His team says give it time.
DeSantis’ conservative populism has left some donors chafing
The Florida governor has made a name for himself with the fights he’s picked.
Biden and Trump in a dead heat in hypothetical 2024 rematch, poll finds
Trump saw slightly more support from his base than Biden, with 88 percent of registered Republicans selecting Trump versus 83 percent of Democrats choosing Biden.
Biden resorts to a classic D.C. punt on the debt ceiling. Progressives aren’t pleased.
The president pledged to weigh eliminating the debt limit — for good. Instead, he’s got a group weighing options.
Why No Insurrection Charge? Ralph Nader on How Trump Could Still Be Reelected Unless DOJ Acts
Ralph Nader, the longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic and former presidential candidate, discusses “serial law violator” Donald Trump’s criminal indictments, particularly the second federal case brought by special prosecutor Jack Smith that accuses Trump of conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and of inciting the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill.
Explosive New Footage Shows Roger Stone Hatching Trump’s 2020 Election Plot
MSNBC obtained the footage of the longtime GOP operative scheming just two days after the 2020 election.
Judge Faces Death Threats, Jurors Doxxed Amid Multiple Trump Indictments
“If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you,” a Texas woman allegedly said in a voicemail to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.
Influential Progressive Group Justice Democrats Sheds More Staff In New Round Of Layoffs
On the heels of a much larger round of layoffs, the group that recruited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez let go of three more people this week.
Ron DeSantis Dodges Question On How He’d React If His Kids Came Out
The Republican presidential hopeful didn’t have much of an answer when asked how he’d handle having a gay or transgender child.


























