“High fuel prices are related to the Strait of Hormuz, not politics. That problem has not yet been resolved,” US House Speaker Mike Johnson said. His explanation differs from Trump’s earlier claim that Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries were driving prices higher. #US

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1/ It looks like Putin told Trump that Ukraine was causing high gas prices, a lie that is convenient for Trump.

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VoteHub’s forecast projects James Talarico to outperform Kamala Harris’s 2024 margin in Texas by 16 points this November. A key driver is a projected Democratic rebound in the heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley, including a 34-point shift toward Democrats in Maverick County.

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Eight decades of global peace and cooperation are coming to an end, writes Thant Myint-U. “The twin convictions of no war and no empire, the load-bearing walls of the long peace, are fast buckling.”

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1,000 World Cup tickets. $50 each. All for New Yorkers. We fought hard to make the people’s game available to the people — and won. Let the summer of soccer begin.

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