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Heat Advisory Today: Experts Warn DC’s Historic Fireworks Could Briefly Push Air Pollution to Beijing-Like Levels Air Pollution

Heat Advisory Today: Experts Warn DC’s Historic Fireworks Could Briefly Push Air Pollution to Beijing-Like Levels

Washington's July Fourth fireworks are set against an extreme heat warning, and experts say the show could briefly drive air pollution around the National Mall to levels comparable with Beijing in a bad spell. The warning matters because the city is already dealing with dangerous heat, cancelled events and an…
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July 4, 2026
1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘Entire Existence of the United States’ Is a ‘Crime’ 1619 Slavery

1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘Entire Existence of the United States’ Is a ‘Crime’

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the New York Times‘ now-debunked “1619 Project,” said that paying reparations for slavery would amount to admitting that “the entire existence of the United States” is a crime. Speaking with The Meteor about reparations and American history, Hannah-Jones did not hold back and said many…
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July 4, 2026
July Individual Rookie Idol Brand Reputation Rankings Announced Big Data

July Individual Rookie Idol Brand Reputation Rankings Announced

The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for individual rookie idols! The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, interaction, and community awareness indexes of various rookie idols, using big data collected from June 2 to July 2. RESCENE dominated…
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July 4, 2026
Brazil’s top presidential candidates Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro clash over US tariff proposal Bolsonaro

Brazil’s top presidential candidates Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro clash over US tariff proposal

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his rival Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro clashed over U.S. tariffs this week, as both sought to discourage the Trump administration from following through with its proposal of applying taxes of 25% on Brazilian products despite an extensive U.S. trade…
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July 4, 2026
Artemis II astronauts share touching moon mission story in never-before-seen video Moon Mission

Artemis II astronauts share touching moon mission story in never-before-seen video

When Artemis II blasted off in April for its historic 10-day mission around the far side of the moon, National Geographic partnered with NASA to send cameras along for the ride. The astronauts captured clips for their fellow Earthlings of what life was like inside the Orion spacecraft —including one very…
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July 4, 2026
Tear down this wall! Property developer faces council probe after erecting section of the Berlin Wall in his garden without planning permission Berlin Wall

Tear down this wall! Property developer faces council probe after erecting section of the Berlin Wall in his garden without planning permission

A property developer snapping up part of the Berlin Wall has triggered a new Cold War after a neighbour's complaint - this time not in Germany's but in England's capital. Steve Thorpe, 65, bought a piece of the historic structure and brought it more than 650 miles back to his…
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July 3, 2026
The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him Palantir

The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him

TL;DR Palantir CEO Alex Karp has assembled a $200M+ real estate portfolio centred on seclusion, from a 3,700-acre Colorado monastery to a Miami compound. The privacy-obsessed lifestyle contrasts sharply with the surveillance software his company sells to governments. Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled…
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July 3, 2026