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“Jay Clayton, who was confirmed last week to oversee U.S. spy agencies, was sworn in as the director of national intelligence on Monday, his office announced,” the New York Times reports. “He was confirmed by the Senate last Tuesday, but the White House did not immediately swear in Mr. Clayton, giving Bill Pulte, a key […]

“The request from a senior officer at the U.S. military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas,” CNN reports. Said the email: “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.” “The crowdsourcing-style query, which military officials said was unusual over […]

Donald Trump's war with Iran continues to deteriorate.

Despite no real progress, the U.S. war with Iran continues, and according to F. Gregory Gause, professor emeritus at Texas A&M University, author of The International Relations of the Persian Gulf (Cambridge University Press, 2014), it has all been meaningless. Photo: DO...

Sideya Sherman, director of the Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission, talks about the department's new report on the demographic makeup of New York City's immigrants, which found that China has caught up to the Dominican Republic as the two leading places where immigrants to the city come from.

Photo: NEW YORK, NY - JULY 23: Tom Ellis films on set for the TV show "CIA" in the Chinatown neighborhood of Queens on July 23, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

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James Martin, SJ, a Jesuit priest, founder of Outreach, an LGBTQ Catholic resource, editor at large for America Media, and the author of the memoir Work in Progress: Confessions of a Busboy, Dishwasher, Caddy, Usher, Factory Worker, Bank Teller, Corporate Tool, and Priest (HarperOne, 2026) talks about his path to the priesthood, as well as the first American pope.

Photo: US priest Father James Martin speaking at the world meeting of families in Dublin, on how the Catholic Church can welcome members of the LGBT community. (Photo by Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images)

 

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Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), and NYC Council Member Carmen De La Rosa, NYC Council Member (District 10, Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill), talk about reports of ICE activity picking up in NYC, as well as a specific incident in Inwood where an observer recording ICE agents was pepper sprayed in the face.

Photo: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents patrol the halls as they detain an individual after exiting his immigration court hearing at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on July 16, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Trump signs an Executive Order: That's a good one. You know, we rate them on a scale of 6 to 10

Trump: The public sometimes sends gifts. It amounts to millions of dollars. I should be able to get it! I should be entitled to it

Trump: Every day our administration is fighting to give our military families the support they dearly need

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My Only Niece Was Born a Few Months After I Was Arrested for Murder. She Represented Hope for Me.
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The cake is baked. The Republicans are cooked.

Plus Fringe Fest kicks off, Uptown Art Fair returns to Uptown (kinda), and Malcolm Yards and Hook & Ladder celebrate b-days.

Here’s some nice news to start the week: The Shattering Peace is a finalist for the Dragon Award this year, in the category of Science Fiction Novel. Also in the category: The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. CoreyRadiant Star by Ann LeckieOperation Bounce House by Matt DinnimanSlow Gods by Claire NorthGod’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines That’s a very […]

What Climate Science Can Tell Us About the Lost World That Inspired The Odyssey. “A new climate study suggests that centuries of repeated severe drought added to the pressures on that collapsing world.”

Historian Micki McElya’s book, ‘Liberation Summer,’ revisits September 1968, when three groups of women converged on the Atlantic City boardwalk: feminists protesting the Miss America Pageant, contestants in the first-ever Miss Black America Pageant, and women defending Miss ...

Dear Astral Skye Data Center Workers, When A-Skye first took possession of four thousand acres of your town’s land to build an AI facility the size of three thousand football fields, it gave some of you pause. You wanted transparency. You wanted oversight. While we couldn’t ...

We’ve got some new and soon-to-end e-bike sales leading this week’s Monday Green Deals, starting with the newly launched Back to School Sale from Lectric that has increased e-bike bundle savings up to $804. The standout there is the XP4 750 Folding Utility e-bike getting ei...

A Hudson Valley man who killed his brother-in-law and claimed he was the victim has learned how long he'll spend behind bars. Continue reading…