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View More NewsBerlin, July 8, 2026—German authorities must conduct a swift and transparent investigation into attacks on at least four journalists who were covering protests against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party during its annual conference on Saturday in Erfurt, eastern Germany, and bring all perpetrators to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Three reporters working for news website Apollo News— Jonas Aston, Marius Marx, and a third whose name the outlet did not disclose — needed medical treatment after being chased, hit, kicked, and pelted with objects while documenting the protests outside the July 4 conference. They were…
President Donald Trump seemingly did everything he could over the past year to push the U.S. Supreme Court into upholding his agenda. Trump lobbied the justices, bullied them with vituperative social media posts, and even took the unprecedented step of attending oral arguments in person as a sitting president. Yet none of it worked. When it came to the blockbuster cases that Trump repeatedly told us mattered the most to him—tariffs and birthright citizenship—Trump lost. To understand why he lost, it’s helpful to distinguish between the Roberts Court, named after John Roberts, the conservative chief justice who (often) commands it,…
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Science does not often advance in sudden epiphanies that yield “Eureka” moments. More typical are years of failed experiments, dogged hypothesis-testing, and incremental discoveries that are, at best, inconclusive. And then, sometimes, eventually, the accumulated knowledge results in a breakthrough. Two recent examples are stunning advances in cancer medicine—one for pancreatic cancer, the other for melanoma—that are rewriting what doctors can promise their patients. But to understand why these achievements matter so profoundly, it is instructive to appreciate how long they took.A Pill That Doubled Survival for the Disease That Kills Almost EveryonePancreatic cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer…
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