A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto – blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164056
Foreign tort funders don’t pay U.S. tax on their jackpot payouts.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lawsuits-tax-break-foreign-investment-firms-thom-tillis-kevin-hern-86b2d7d8
That’s the key question with the GOP budget bill, not the deficit.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/congress-tax-bill-cbo-score-deficit-spending-taxes-b4e7dbff
The program’s funding mechanism lends itself to bloat and inefficiency. The Senate can set this right.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/medicaid-is-overdue-for-a-big-beautiful-overhaul-258e04da
The penny’s demise is a sign of ill health for America’s monetary and fiscal policies.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/as-we-get-older-and-stop-making-cents-penny-leaving-circulation-inflation-federal-debt-48fba5dd
Democrats are likelier than not to take the House majority, but it’s far from certain.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-look-ahead-at-november-2026-midterm-elections-52f6ece9
Congress can make up for a missed 2017 opportunity to bolster economic growth.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/full-expensing-boosts-economic-growth-tax-reform-37cb1501
The president unleashes his ‘rescission’ tool—but also pulls his punches. Why didn’t he go further, and what comes next?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-cautious-clippers-4accff9a
The latest NFIB survey finds a slowly weakening job market.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/fewer-raises-at-small-companies-4a99a23d
The former presidential flack is leaving the Democratic party.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/karine-jean-pierre-sticks-to-her-biden-story-3fc965d5
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The timepiece belonged to Herbert Ingram, a British journalist and politician who died when the "Lady Elgin" sank in 1860. His watch was recovered from the bottom of the lake in 1992https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pocket-watch-recovered-from-lake-michigans-deadliest-shipwreck-returns-to-owners-hometown-after-165-years-180986728/
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the pasthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/articles/these-tiny-beautiful-fossils-detail-the-history-of-the-ocean-180986718/
New research suggests the probiotic McH1-7 could help stop the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease among wild corals near Fort Lauderdale, Floridahttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-deadly-disease-is-eating-away-at-caribbean-corals-and-wreaking-havoc-on-reefs-could-probiotics-be-the-solution-180986743/
On Christmas Day in 2014 hackers knocked out the Xbox and PlayStation gaming networks, impacting how video game companies handled cybersecurity for years.https://www.wired.com/story/ctrl-alt-chaos-joe-tidy-book-excerpt/
A requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don’t clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency. ICE declined to explain what that means for future enforcement.https://www.wired.com/story/ice-quietly-scales-back-rules-for-courthouse-raids/
Whether you're going off-grid or safeguarding against blackouts, these beefy, WIRED-tested batteries can keep the lights on.https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-portable-power-stations/
Asus has a Hall effect keyboard now, complete with unique tricks that make it stand out from the crowded field.https://www.wired.com/review/asus-rog-falchion-ace-hfx/
Just like motorists, cyclists are also required to use lights after dark. See and be seen with our best bike light sets.https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-bike-lights/
This is an excellent Android tablet, but OnePlus may have overdone it.https://www.wired.com/review/oneplus-pad-3/