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3 myths about immigration in America

The U.S. is – and long has been – a pluralistic society that contains large immigrant communities.

The Conversation

How the Railroad Killer used America’s vast train network as his personal hunting ground

A serial killer used America’s vast train network as his personal hunting ground in the 1990s. The desperate hunt for Angel Maturino Resendiz, alias Rafael Resendez-Ramirez – chronicled in Netflix’s Catching Killers – came to an end when a young FBI agent and a Texas Ranger negotiated his surrender, writes…

The Independent UK

Affirmative action is ending–but holistic admissions can still allow higher education to better reflect society

Admissions departments will lean on policies that consider the applicant as a whole human being, beyond their academic testing scores.

Fortune

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Why is there no more Sriracha? Sauce shortage hiking some Huy Fong bottles above $60

America’s favorite hot sauce is making online sellers hundreds of dollars.

Fortune

How a 24-hour drag show predicted the past seven years in America

Just before Trump’s election, Taylor Mac staged a spectacular queer history of the US that was mysteriously prophetic about the culture wars that would follow

The Guardian - UK

Fortune 500 companies and CEOs react to end of affirmative action

Fortune 500 companies, including Salesforce and Microsoft, reacted to the Supreme Court's decision to reject affirmative action at U.S. colleges and universities.

Fortune

Is it time for America to adopt a new national anthem?

In the Ryan Coogler-produced documentary Anthem, a cross-country road trip explores a new way to celebrate the US

The Guardian - US

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Nancy Pelosi: ‘Americans deserve safe, efficient, and clean transportation’

In addition to construction underway in California, planning has begun for world-class high-speed rail around America.

Fortune

Supreme Court takes America backwards in striking down race in college admissions

Simply declaring that schools should now be color-blind won’t make it real — or fair. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote as much in a separate dissent, “[D]eeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”

Chicago Sun-Times

‘This is not a normal court’: Joe Biden condemns affirmative action ruling

President says he will ask education department to look into ways to maintain student diversity as race-conscious admissions ends

The Guardian - US

Michael Hiltzik: How profit-driven turmoil at Turner Classic Movies placed a vast cultural heritage at risk

It wasn't that long ago that the cause of film preservation and film history seemed to be on a roll. Multiple cable channels such as American Movie Classics, Bravo and Encore were devoted to classic films from the 1930s through the 1980s. When streaming supplanted scheduled cable programming, FilmStruck offered…

Los Angeles Times

PFF ranks CFB’s top-ten QB rooms for 2023: Where’s Georgia?

Georgia has one of the ten best QB rooms in America for 2023, per PFF

USA Today Sports Media Group

Editorial: Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban is a catastrophic blow to the American dream

The Supreme Court‘s decision Thursday blocking higher educational institutions from using affirmative action policies when considering student applications will have catastrophic effects at a time when the nation is still grappling with generations of racism.

Los Angeles Times

Joe Biden slams Supreme Court in fiery speech dispelling myths about affirmative action

America's colleges and universities can no longer weigh race and gender when considering a student's eligibility for enrollment after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action on Thursday

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The Supreme Court can end affirmative action–but it can’t reverse the course of history

America is changing. Future generations of college students will be less white, and less privileged–regardless of the Supreme Court's decision.

Tribune News Service

‘A dream come true’: Over 1,200 become US citizens at naturalization ceremonies

More than 1,200 people from 85 countries were naturalized Wednesday through two separate ceremonies in Roseville, California, hosted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, with the first ceremony themed as a special tribute to Independence Day.

Autosport

Tony Kanaan joins Arrow McLaren as IndyCar special advisor

Kanaan, who has claimed the 2004 IndyCar title and has 17 IndyCar Series wins to his name since joining America’s premier open-wheel class in 1998, hung up his helmet after racing a fourth car for McLaren in this year’s 107th running of the Indy 500.

Fortune

Bud Light boycotters decimating sales should think about employees, Anheuser-Busch CEO says

Brendan Whitworth, an ex-marine, makes a heartfelt appeal to protect his staff working at a company that is “one degree of separation away from the American flag”.

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Daily Mirror

'I sailed the Mississippi River on the largest steamboat ever built - it's no ordinary cruise'

American Queen is the largest steamboat ever built and a cruise on the mighty Mississippi river in the USA is an easy paced voyage of discovery from New Orleans to Memphis taking in music and plantation homes

The Independent UK

Liberated, livin’ like we ain’t got time: How Renaissance became Beyoncé’s tribute to queer Black America

A disco record and its rollicking world tour is an unprecedented celebration of queer Black life by the biggest pop star in America, critics and scholars tell Josh Marcus

The Week

Daniel Ellsberg: whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers

The “most important whistleblower of our times”, Daniel Ellsberg was the military analyst who smuggled hundreds of pages of top secret material about US actions in Vietnam out of his office at the Rand Corporation, and shared them with a reporter from The New York Times, said The Guardian.

Chronicle Live

Health experts issue urgent warning after 'flesh-rotting' chemical found in UK vapes

A tranquiliser known as Xylazine, which is used on large mammals like horses and cows, has caused a widespread epidemic in America due to its potential to cause skin and muscle to erode when mixed with narcotics

The Guardian - UK

It’s lo-fi Attenborough! Why the internet’s going wild for a ‘fish doorbell’

QI has tweeted about it, American football players have put it on their TikTok and over a million viewers have been hooked in. All you do is wait for a fish, press a button – and save their lives

Axios

Poll: US not yet all-in on EVs, see role for fossil fuels

Americans aren't fully supportive of backing away from fossil fuels.

The Independent UK

Tan France on how Queer Eye has changed, surrogacy, and DeSantis being America’s ‘biggest concern’

‘The worrying thing is what happens in the US often has a knock-on effect in Europe and we see that things are worsening in other countries for the LGBTQ community,’ France tells Lucy Anna Gray

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