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A Tesla Semi truck struck two passenger vehicles at a highway intersection in western Nevada on Sunday, killing a married couple and critically injuring another person in what authorities are considering the first known fatal crash involving Elon Musk’s new EV commercial truck. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the crash occurred Sunday morning on U.S. Highway 50 in Dayton, Nevada, approximately 40 miles east of Reno. According to the Nevada State Police Highway Patrol, two people were pronounced dead at the scene, while a third person was airlifted to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. The Record-Courier identified the deceased…

A federal judge blocked the United States Postal Service (USPS) from carrying out President Trump’s executive order requiring, in part, USPS to only transmit ballots for states that follow a list of election integrity rules detailed in the order, which includes providing voter rolls — or a list of mail-in voters — for that state. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan struck down the order, asserting that “the Proposed Rule violates paragraph 2 of the Agreement because the Postal Service cannot post documents reflecting ‘practices and policies for prioritizing the monitoring and timely delivery of Election Mail’ if its policies provide…

The EU wants to cut Moscow out of its nuclear sector, but its reactors remain tied to Russian fuel, technology, and capacity Earlier this week, fuel loading began at the final unit of Slovakia’s Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant. This is the final step before the commercial launch later this summer. The project – construction for which was launched by the Soviet Union back in 1987, in a world long vanished – will propel Slovakia to the leadership position for nuclear power in the EU.But the step, as positive as it may seem for Europe’s beleaguered energy sector, is not without…

The CDU leader has become the least popular German chancellor in almost 30 years, according to a fresh poll A total of 84% of Germans are dissatisfied with the performance of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, including 51% of supporters of his own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, an ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll has suggested.Merz’s ratings dropped by another 3% in June, reaching a record low of 13%, according to the results of the study published on Thursday.The findings make the CDU leader the least popular chancellor since the Infratest Dimap research company began carrying out monthly polls on behalf of German broadcaster ARD…

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel launched a series of controversial criticisms and predictions about AI and Western democracy during remarks at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday. In his most provocative statement, Thiel accused Pope Leo XIV of serving the interests of China with his stance on AI. CNN reports that Thiel, co-founder of Palantir and PayPal and an early Silicon Valley supporter of President Donald Trump, accused Pope Leo of inadvertently functioning as a Chinese communist agent by advocating for AI regulation. He also warned of what he described as an impending democratic-socialist takeover of the United States…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday unveiled a sweeping pensions, tax, and labor reform package aiming to revive Europe’s former economic powerhouse and get the country “back on its feet.” The 34-point reform package, Merz explained, is the result of hours of talks between the ruling  CDU/CSU-SPD center-right and center-left coalition. Merz affirmed at the end of the meeting, “We are modernizing our country and leading it into the future.” Some of the reform’s goals aim for a 600 euro in annual tax relief for low and middle income German families, amounting to some 10 billion euros in total.  Euronews detailed that…

Veteran actress Justine Bateman is ripping Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as “grotesque” for giving a pardon to an illegal alien convicted of raping a child. Bateman, of Family Ties sitcom fame, took to her X account to repost a New York Times story headlined, “Minnesota Pardons Sexual Abuser Who Was Set to Be Deported.” She added that, “There is no other way to regard @Tim_Walz than irrefutably grotesque. He’s a fan of people who sexually terrorize children. You just can’t get lower.” Bateman was commenting on a story going viral on Thursday revealing that the one-time Democrat nominee for…

Washington warned Tehran about Israeli plans to assassinate Mohammad Ghalibaf and Abbas Araghchi, according to the paper The US was concerned that Israel could kill Iran’s top negotiators in an attempt to derail the peace negotiations between Washington and Tehran, the New York Times has reported, citing American officials.According to a report by the newspaper on Thursday, US officials feared that Israel would target Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and “doom” any chance of a settlement.Washington went as far as to ask its allies in the region to warn Tehran about the possible plot by…

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced on Thursday that the outbreak of the rodent-spread hantavirus believed to have begun in April on the cruise ship M/V Hondius had finally concluded. The outbreak made international headlines due to the bizarre circumstances surrounding the initial spread of the virus — experts posited a bird-watching couple was exposed to the disease while visiting a landfill on the southern tip of Argentina — as well as the potentially global spread of hantavirus as contacts were traced to some of the remotest locations in the world. The Hondius itself was the subject of much reporting…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “On the Line,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said President Donald Trump was “projecting” when he accused former President Joe Biden of weaponizing the Department of Justice. Host Alicia Menendez said, “I think what is interesting here, Congressman, is that we often talk about the institutions, the sanctity of the institutions. I think part of what Brennan is getting at here is that this is about individual rights and whether or not an organization can actually protect individual rights, and whether those rights are held in equal regard, regardless of who you are.” Raskin said, “That’s what…