Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Have you ever pressed a crosswalk button and wondered if it actually does anything? You might be onto something.  Called placebo buttons, controls that don’t do anything exist everywhere. Sometimes it’s because of accidents…

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“There ⁠has been no agreement over ​Iran’s highly enriched ​uranium ⁠stockpile to be shipped out of ⁠the ​country,” Iranian official tells Reuters.  The post Iran Denies Agreement Over Enriched Uranium, Claims ‘New Sovereignty’ Over Hormuz Strait as U.S. Moves to Finalize Deal first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

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Actor Grizz Chapman, best known and widely applauded for his role in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, has died. He was 52. His cousin, the Harlem Globetrotter Donte Harrison, confirmed Chapman’s death on social media. A cause of was not given but Harrison shared Chapman died in his sleep “after years of fighting…

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An employee at a Speedway gas station located in south Minneapolis refused to serve Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, along with several other federal immigration agents, which kicked off a firestorm of controversy surrounding the issue of private businesses having the right to lawfully deny service to law enforcement officers.…

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MS Now anchor Katy Tur received massive backlash after seemingly not recognizing one of the most popular, well-known lines from the Declaration of Independence while having a conversation about Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on live television. Tur, 42, questioned if Johnson was elevating religion over the founding document…

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Speaking to Politico in an interview, finally outgoing RINO Senator Thom Tillis revealed explained how he has always detested the MAGA movement and worked to undermine it, leading to angry commenters sounding off on the idea that Tillis was ever in a position of power or prominence in Republican politics,…

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Corey Smith is a recovering bartender, and a freelance editor. He specializes in memoirs and novels but has a smorgasbord of experience in non-fiction works. In a former life, he ghostwrote several romance novels, which he denies. A cabin far away from sirens and motorcycles would be his ideal home.…

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On this edition of Liberty Nation Radio, we tackle the political comedy of Kamala Harris’ “Brainstorm of No Bad Ideas,” the redistricting frenzy, and OPEC’s coming demise. <iframe title=”Embed Player” src=”https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/41401895/height/128/theme/modern/size/standard/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/0b0c0b/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/df2c2c” height=”128″ width=”100%” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen=”” webkitallowfullscreen=”true” mozallowfullscreen=”true” oallowfullscreen=”true” msallowfullscreen=”true” style=”border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial;”></iframe>

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(José Niño, Headline USA) Tulsi Gabbard stepped down as Director of National Intelligence on Friday, with the resignation effective June 30, publicly attributing her exit to her husband’s cancer battle. However, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters that the White House had forced her out following months of…

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An alleged terror operative tied to Iran-backed groups reportedly plotted to assassinate Ivanka Trump in retaliation for the U.S. killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi national recently arrested in Turkey, allegedly vowed to kill the president’s daughter and gathered information about…

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Donald Trump has indicated a growing desire to challenge China’s expanding influence across the developing world, particularly in regions such as Africa and the Caribbean, where Beijing has entrenched itself through infrastructure, finance, and political access. Roads, ports, energy projects, and telecommunications networks increasingly bear the imprint of Chinese capital…

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Americans often imagine Germany as the model liberal democracy: institutional, consensus-oriented, post-national, and morally disciplined by the catastrophes of the twentieth century. Yet Germany also offers a warning—and perhaps a fruitful lesson—for the United States. Modern democracies increasingly preserve the appearance of electoral competition while building vast state-supported ideological infrastructures…

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America’s history of intervention in Cuban internal affairs goes back to 1899 and the Spanish-American War. President William McKinley insisted on going to war in Cuba in order to fight the “barbarities” and cruelty of the Spanish imperial government against the Cuban people. That war was America’s first true moral…

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Iran has reportedly agreed to hand over its stockpile of highly enriched uranium as part of the agreement announced Saturday by President Donald Trump. According to The New York Times, citing two U.S. officials, Tehran signed off on a statement committing to give up the uranium reserve material believed to…

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