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Glasgow women's rights protests planned in 'solidarity' after Roe v Wade overturn

Protests will be taking place in Glasgow in response to the overturning of abortion laws in America with groups spreading the message that it's women's right to choose what happens with their bodies.

Glasgow Live · Jul 6, 2022

Gun violence in America: A long list of forgotten victims

Amid the stream of mass shootings that have become chillingly commonplace in America,  the reality of America’s staggering murder rate can often be seen more clearly in the deaths that never make the national news

The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2022

Paul Sullivan: A tragic event in Highland Park became just another day at the ballpark — and in America

About 3½ hours before the Chicago White Sox met the Minnesota Twins Monday to start the biggest series of the season, manager Tony La Russa’s pregame media session in the dugout competed with a singer practicing over the Guaranteed Rate Field sound system.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 5, 2022

‘Dystopian’ video shows Americans fleeing Philadelphia shooter as fireworks explode on July 4

‘It has just been a night of absolute horror and terror,’ reporter on scene says

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2022

Chicago Area Fourth of July Shooting Leaves 6 Dead, Dozens Wounded

Plus: Inflation eats up Americans' savings, copyright officials want to protect your fireworks photos, and more...

Reason · Jul 5, 2022

Inside Iggy Azalea's rundown childhood home as she reveals real name and humble beginnings

Iggy Azalea - who moved to America to chase stardom at the age of 16 - has taken to social media to reveal a series of childhood memories from her former home in Australia

Daily Mirror · Jul 5, 2022

Editorial: The filibuster is further endangering abortion rights. It's time to scrap it

The irony is thick: A Republican president took office despite getting fewer votes than his opponent, then installed three conservative Supreme Court justices — and now that court majority has ignored America’s majority, not to mention its own precedent, to impose its ideological will on society. The fall of Roe…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Jul 5, 2022

Editorial: Missouri legislation previewed how far post-Roe radicals may be ready to go

One of the more shameful moments in congressional history was the passage in 1850 of the Fugitive Slave Act. It required that even slavery-free Northern states must abet that evil institution by returning enslaved people who’d escaped from the South and believed they had attained freedom. With the Supreme Court’s…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Jul 5, 2022

Our two failing parties need to be shaken up by independents

For 16 years, I had the privilege of representing the people of Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District until I was narrowly defeated in the 2020 Democratic primary. I lost that race because I dared to not always follow in lockstep with my party in an era in which extreme partisanship and…

Chicago Tribune · Jul 5, 2022

Commentary: Will 2022 turn the clock back to America before 1964?

“The United States is now at one of those historic forks in the road whose outcome will prove as fateful as those of the 1860s, the 1930s, and the 1960s,” Nancy MacLean wrote in her 2017 book, “Democracy in Chains.”

Los Angeles Times · Jul 5, 2022