Scotts Miracle-Gro, which markets Roundup in the US, became a sponsor of Freedom 250 before the WH issued an EO protecting glyphosate, a harmful ingredient in Roundup.
Soon after, the Trump admin joined a SCOTUS case in support of a Roundup company.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, who previously ran a company that provides aircraft for fighting wildfires, has proposed ending Forest Service inspections of those aircraft.
One of the company’s aircraft failed an inspection because of a crack in its wing.
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Your regular reminder that the president's family company seeking a bank charter from an agency that the president himself appointed the head of is an outrageous conflict of interest.
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Today, on Juneteenth, America marks the end of slavery. It was a real and dark part of our history.
But Trump wants to rewrite that history and even honor Confederate traitors. It's a disgrace.
America is stronger when we confront our history and work to be better.
The Obama Presidential Center is now open to the public in Chicago. Former President Obama says he does not want the center to feel like a shrine or a museum, but rather a representation of an American story still being written.
@AliRogin has more.
⚠️ The first phase of Trump’s sweeping anti-voting executive order could be implemented in less than two weeks, according to a DHS memo.
The memo shows the administration is actively working to carry out the order despite continuing legal fights.
Now, courts may be more likely to step in. https://t.co/nw3OyT8It9
As a grad student, Lauren Davila found an ad for the auction of 600 enslaved people — the largest known slave auction in the U.S. The discovery prompted a small group to spearhead the creation of a historical marker in downtown Charleston.
(Pub. 2024)
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“If Republicans wish to scrutinize how their party blundered into a calamitous war, the personality cult around the blunderer in chief might be a good place to begin” https://t.co/j1PCMxJXF3
For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library.
Narratives: https://t.co/bQXMUWFFck
Photos: https://t.co/Ih3HoT9RLj
Juneteenth is the day the Union Army entered Galveston, TX under the leadership of General Gordon Granger, who announced that all enslaved African Americans were free. Nat’l Museum of African American history offers perspectives: https://t.co/J5n47jKcSh
As we approach the nation's 250th birthday, PBS News is looking at some notable, but lesser-known, people and moments in American military history.
Of the more than 350,000 Black U.S. service members who served in World War I, 89% were assigned to labor support units due to discrimination.
But one segregated infantry regiment came out of the war highly decorated and renowned: the 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the "Harlem Hellfighters."
PBS News' Cecilia Lallmann explores the regiment’s storied legacy, from its beginnings as New York State’s first all-Black National Guard unit to its historic achievements during World War I.
This post was produced by Cecilia Lallmann, Shyla Duff, Julia Griffin, Travis Daub and Dan Cooney.
Over the past 19 years, I've watched @MichelleObama, who never sought a career in the public eye, become a master orator. Her speech yesterday at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center may have been her very best. Moving, direct and powerful.
June 19—“Juneteenth,” also called Emancipation Day—commemorates the day in 1865 that the Emancipation Proclamation was read to enslaved African Americans in Texas:
In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.
Major surges of ICE agents have largely faded from public view, but immigration crackdowns are still ongoing in many communities, especially where there is cooperation with state and local authorities.
A new law in Tennessee goes further than any other and has critics worried it will cut off life-saving care for children of undocumented immigrants.
@TheStephSy has more.
New concerns are emerging about President Trump’s sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants after a report found that nearly 100 of them have been arrested, charged or convicted of additional crimes since the attack in 2021.
It comes as continuing efforts by Trump and his allies to recast the events of that day have reignited debate over accountability and the rule of law.
@ElizLanders has more.
Trump wants to put RFK Jr., the guy who said "autism destroys families" in charge of special education for K-12 students with disabilities—absolutely NOT.