FACT CHECK: Kara David quote card on Marcoleta bribery claims is fake
Claim: In response to Senator Rodante Marcoleta’s allegations that the media receives bribes for their coverage of the flood control scandal, broadcast journalist Kara David references her 2025 birthday wish for all corrupt people in the Philippines to die. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: As of writing, the FacebookContinue Reading
How Does This Keep Happening?
Republicans win the White House, enact trickle-down tax cuts, and collapse the economy. Feel like we’ve been here before? Here’s why it keeps happening.Continue Reading
Riots erupt in Northern Ireland after stabbing suspect charged | DW News
Politicians and police are urging calm after a night of rioting in Northern Ireland. Unrest broke out after police charged a Sudanese man with attempted murder over a knife attack that left another man seriously injured. Anti-immigration protesters set cars and homes on fire and clashed with police, while similarContinue Reading
PBS News Hour live episode, June 10, 2026
Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show. Sign up for Here’s The Deal with Lisa Desjardins: https://to.pbs.org/41q6E8i Subscribe for exclusive content in our newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe PBS News podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcastsContinue Reading
Governance Failure and Civil Resistance in Azad Jammu and Kashmir
The June 2026 events in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) are the most recent example of a larger governance issue rather than a singular political crisis. Authorities banned the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JKJAAC) on June 5–6, detained dozens of activists, interfered with internet and mobile services, andContinue Reading
How Gulf States Turned Crisis Into Confidence
The Epidemic of Patriotism How war, intelligence, technology, and state competence are building a new nationalism in the Gulf. There is an old idea in political theory that war makes the state. The pressure of external threat forces governments to centralize, to coordinate, to invest in systems that work. StatesContinue Reading
A Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration Agents
Colleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.Continue Reading
Traitor 47 Is Ready for Fight Night. So Are Donors
The UFC event on the White House’s South Lawn is the president’s birthday gift to himself. Sources expect it to be a lobbying extravaganza.Continue Reading
Across Ecosystems, Dead Organisms Help Shape the Living World
A new paper found that the remnants of “foundation species” strongly influenced the fate of survivors. By Nicholas Kusnetz Death casts a shadow over life, not only for people but also other animals, plants and entire ecosystems.Continue Reading
Indonesia Landslides Devastated Endangered Orangutans, Study Finds
More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris.Continue Reading
The Movement to Stop Data Centers
What to know about the local backlash against the booming data center industry, the era of me-first energy and more climate news.Continue Reading
Hail is getting larger due to climate change, environmental experts say
Climate researchers at Northern Illinois University found that golf ball-size hail or larger will become much more common in the United States.Continue Reading
Fave Five: Queer Soccer/Football Romances
This post is sponsored by Pat Voss in honor of his upcoming 2nd chance m/m love story, Fouled in Open Play, releasing June 24th! The summer soccer event FIFA doesn’t want you to know about. He came to SESU for a second chance. Then his ex released an album exposingContinue Reading