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The Year Arms Contractors Stopped Sponsoring Pride
This year, corporations across the country have quietly pulled their sponsorship from local pride parades. Companies that once faced criticism for surface-level allyship — changing their logos to rainbow colors during Pride month, for instance —...

U.S.A. shuts down Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico
July 9, 2025: Tuesday (July 8, 2025), Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) reported a new case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Ixhuatlan de Madero, Veracruz in Mexico, which is approximately 160 miles...
Vulgarity of Money
Several times, the question arose of whether Menachem Begin saw any comparison between the struggle of the Palestinians and the Jews’ War of Independence. Once, Mike Wallace, the well-known American interviewer asked him directly, “Mr. Prime...

Vijay Prashad: Patents of a Parasitical North
Global South countries are trapped in Global North-dominated patents and licensing fees that are stripping them of wealth and stunting their development. (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute...

Sino-Russian Convergence in Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference: A Global Threat to the US and Its Allies
The use of AI-driven propaganda and deepfake technologies has significantly escalated the scale and sophistication of disinformation, posing unprecedented challenges from Russia and China for Western intelligence and democratic institutions....

Study reveals surge in illegal arachnid trade via Facebook in Philippines
New research by wildlife trade watchdog TRAFFIC reveals a thriving online trade in live tarantulas and scorpions in the Philippines, with more than 16,000 arachnids found offered for sale on Facebook in 2020 and 2022. Most traded species are...

What is BRICS and why does it matter?
Leaders of the world's fast-growing BRICS economies gather in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, promising to strengthen trade and technology exchange within the bloc in the shadow of US President Donald Trump's tariff threat. Brazilian President Luiz...

Longtime employee of Homestake and SURF takes to the skies in Honor Flight
Ricky Allen, a Lead, South Dakota resident who works at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), is among those who took part in the recent Midwest Honor Flight for veterans. Article by Ollie Langley Peterson Lead, SD (July 2, 2025) —...

Delegation for 7.8.25: Oh, snap! — big, beautiful — transients — LEOs — ‘Alcatraz’
Snapper season oversight Florida sets the dates for red snapper season in the Gulf of Mexico, but the federal government dictates when Atlantic fishermen can reel in their catch. Members of the Florida congressional delegation want to revisit...

From Underdogs To Debutants: Nations Set For Their First-Ever Potential FIFA World Cup 2026 Appearance
Just a year to go before the kick-off of FIFA World Cup 2026 and the qualification scenario is heating up across the globe. The full list of the 48 participating nations is yet to be ratified but several teams have already qualified in what will...

International demand for pineapple juice grows
Demand for pineapple juice and the growth of markets such as Israel and Dubai are boosting Costa Rican exports, despite production limitations due to weather conditions. According to Álvaro Figueroa, president of the Tropicales del Valle company,...

America, ‘nation of immigrants,’ turns on immigrants: A conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
For generations, the Statue of Liberty has stood as a beacon representing the promise of America as a land of freedom and opportunity for immigrants from all over the world. But in 2025, as immigrant communities are being vilified and terrorized...
Spotlighting US export controls amid BIS crackdown on semiconductors in China
The United States asserts jurisdiction over US origin products and technology anywhere in the world regardless of whether a US person is involved in a transaction. The principal distinction between US sanctions and US export controls is that US...

New UN brief prompts growing global action against transnational repression
On 30 June 2025, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) launched its first–ever brief on transnational repression (TNR) at a side event during the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). The event brought...

2025 American Academy of Nursing Fellows to include 16 Emory inductees
The American Academy of Nursing will induct 16 members of the Emory community into its 2025 Class of Fellows. The Emory inductees – faculty, alumni and administrators from the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public...
US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning far beyond Israel's strikes on Tehran
JEFFREY FIELDS USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Published: July 1, 2025 (THE CONVERSATION) Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded...

Beyond the Bombs: The Costa Rican Perspective on the Israel-Iran Conflict
A few days ago, we spoke with the Costa Rican Ambassador to the State of Israel, Antonio López Escarré, who, amidst the growing tension between Israel and Iran, has been the voice of Costa Rica. READ MORE Today He is at the epicenter of the...

2025 Medical Professionals: Physicians to Women
A special advertising section 2025 Medical Professional Profiles: Physicians to Women Dr. Jamie Buck Doctor Jamie Buck joined Physicians to Women in 2012. She was born in Pearisburg, Virginia. Dr. Buck received her Bachelor of Science in Biology...

Trump’s Justice Department wants to denaturalize citizens. Can he do that?
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

The Miami Political Asylum Hearing for Cuban Oscar Casanella Continues Without a Verdict
The defense will submit its briefs for the conclusion of the summary on July 11. The hearing lasted almost seven hours, from 8:30 in the morning / Courtesy 14ymedio, Miami, June 24, 2025 — Cuban scientist Oscar Casanella, a member of the San...