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Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains.

By protecting Matthew Skiba and William Hogan from accountability in the Broadview 6 case, Andrew Boutros may be attempting to protect the other politicized witch hunts they've been conducting.

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Financial Times: “Most U.S. voters say they have become worse off under Donald Trump, according to an FT poll revealing mounting discontent with the president’s handling of the economy and cost of living.” “With less than three months until November’s midterm elections, the nationwide poll conducted by Focaldata found that over 53 percent of registered […]

“In mid-May, U.S. negotiators trying to reach a deal with Iran to end the war ran into a problem: They couldn’t tell if the people across the table actually spoke for the country’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Axios reports. “So Trump administration officials did something unconventional — they went around Iran’s negotiators and reached […]

“Even as U.S. policy has walled off Washington, D.C. from friends across the pond, Americans’ travel overseas is reaching new heights,” Axios reports. “Much like the resilient consumer, the American tourist keeps riding the post-Covid travel wave, even as debt delays life milestones and global perceptions of the U.S. slip.”

Aaron Blake: “One of the Trump administration’s biggest problems in extracting itself from the Iran war is the list of very absolutist goals that President Donald Trump and his team laid out.” “The goals have included complete Iranian surrender, regime change, Iran never getting a nuclear weapon and ending Tehran’s support for its Middle East […]

“A movement of young, progressive outsiders has stormed Democratic politics this year, sparking a wave of contentious primary contests across the country and fueling a fraught debate over whether these new, left-wing candidates are remaking the party in their image,” the New York Times reports. “But as primary season winds to a close, the results […]

Nate Cohn: “When the midterm election campaign began, Michigan seemed like a state that Democrats could take for granted in their pursuit of the Senate. Yes, it’s a presidential battleground state, but that makes it the kind of state that Democrats would ordinarily win easily in what seems like a strongly Democratic midterm cycle.” “It’s […]