Elon Musk terminates $44 bln Twitter deal  —  Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal for Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), saying that the social media company had failed to provide information about fake accounts on the platform.

Trump considers waiving claim of executive privilege for Steve Bannon  —  A letter from Trump, which could be signed as soon as tonight or tomorrow morning, may clear the way for Bannon to testify before the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack  —  Gift Article

Pregnant woman says her fetus should count as a passenger in HOV lanes.  She got a ticket  —  The overturning of the Roe v. Wade ruling has one driver questioning HOV lane laws requiring two passengers in a car.  —  In economics, they call it the law of unintended consequences.

Covid learning loss has been a global disaster  —  Millions of children are still out of school.  The costs are stacking up  —  MANILA, MUMBAI AND TUXTLA  —  King norvic tarroyo lives with his parents and five siblings in a slum near the sea wall in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Oath Keeper members brought explosives to DC area around January 6 and had a ‘death list,’ prosecutors say  —  (CNN)The Justice Department released new details Friday evening of the alleged extensive planning by the Oath Keepers to prepare for violence in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021 …

Over 300 Virginia state employees resign in wake of Gov. Youngkin's telework policy  —  RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — More than 300 employees from five state agencies have resigned since Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Virginia's new telework policy in early May, according to records obtained by 8News.

Shinzo Abe killing: Security was flawed, Japan police say  —  Japanese police have admitted there were flaws in the security for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead in the southern city of Nara on Friday.  —  “It is undeniable that there were problems in the security,” said Nara police chief Tomoaki Onizuka.

Biden says Supreme Court is ‘out of control,’ orders HHS to protect abortion access  — President Joe Biden blasted the Supreme Court on Friday as “out of control” in its decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion.  — Biden signed an executive order that aims to ensure …

Hubris and Mismanagement Led Sri Lanka Into Economic Collapse  —  The request came as protesters entered his residence and office, and thousands more descended on the capital to register their fury over his government's inability to address a crippling economic crisis.

I stopped reading the news.  Is the problem me — or the product?  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Amanda Ripley is the author of “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped — and How We Get Out” and host of the Slate podcast “How To!”  —  I have a secret.  I kept it hidden for longer than I care to admit.

Sorry, but the Constitution contains no right to eat dinner  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  “Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.  There is a time and place for everything.

Appeals court upholds, but further narrows, House subpoena for Trump financial records  —  A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a House committee is entitled to a wide array of records on former President Donald Trump's finances and business practices, but the court further narrowed aspects …

America's Top Anti-War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine  —  Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter.  Support our nonprofit reporting.  Subscribe to our print magazine.  —  Two prominent figures have resigned in protest from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft …

ShutDownDC group offers bounties on Twitter for public sightings of conservative Supreme Court justices  —  Twitter's policies prohibit ‘behavior that encourages others to harass’  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for July 8  —  The left-wing activist group ShutDownDC on Friday offered …

The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings  —  The spate of shooting attacks in communities such as Highland Park, Ill.; Uvalde, Tex.; and Buffalo has riveted attention on America's staggering number of public mass killings.  But the rising number of gun deaths …

People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows  —  First-generation academics were always rare.  Now they're vanishing.  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  To understand critical issues facing the U.S. economy — soaring inflation, worker shortages and perhaps …

Boris Johnson has vandalised the political architecture of Britain, Ireland and Europe  —  His political career has consisted of chucking rocks over the walls of the neighbours.  We will live with the damage for years  —  t seems rather apt that Boris Johnson pocketed a huge advance …

Georgia's Abrams raises $22M in 2 months, far outpacing Kemp  —  Gift Article  —  ATLANTA — Stacey Abrams' fundraising continues to accelerate, swamping Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and pushing close to $50 million raised in the seven months since the Georgia Democrat announced her campaign in December.

‘Operation Higher Court’: Inside the religious right's efforts to wine and dine Supreme Court justices  —  The former leader of a religious right organization said he recruited and coached wealthy volunteers including a prominent Dayton, Ohio, evangelical couple to wine …

Hunter Biden reportedly called Jill an ‘entitled c-t’ in texts  —  Hunter Biden called his step-mom Jill Biden a “vindictive moron” and “entitled c-t” in text messages after she urged him to go to rehab to kick his drug habit, according to a new report.  —  President Biden's 52-year-old druggie son …