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The Fourth

Politics are colliding with the holiday this year.

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Mike Johnson signing the bill.
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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Is Stripped of Dutch Citizenship

Thirteen years ago, Andre Geim took British citizenship to accept a knighthood. He has just learned he can no longer be a citizen of the Netherlands as a result.

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Andre Geim received the Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm in 2010.
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Could the Electric Hydrofoil Ferry Change the Way We Commute?

New technology can help vessels glide quickly over water in less time and with fewer emissions than their diesel counterparts.

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The P-12 electric hydrofoil ferry from Candela gliding over water near Stockholm without swell or exhaust fumes.
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How Republicans Re-engineered the Tax Code

The product of years of Republican effort, the American tax code now blends traditional supply-side economics with President Trump’s populist 2024 campaign promises.

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Even as President Trump has pointed the Republican party’s tax agenda in a more populist direction, the new law is in many ways the apotheosis of a traditionally conservative, supply-side philosophy.
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Germany’s Rheinmetall, a Maker of Autos and Arms, Is Forging Stronger U.S. Ties

Rheinmetall, an automotive and arms maker, is using a partnership with the builder of F-35 fighter jets to move into aviation and expand its presence in America.

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Armin Papperger, the chief executive of Rheinmetall, called his company’s partnership with the U.S. makers of the F-35 fighter jet a “lighthouse project.”
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Explaining the Roll Cloud Spotted in Portugal This Week

A “roll cloud” spotted off the coast of Portugal looked like something out of a movie. Here’s the science behind it.

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A drone’s view of the roll cloud advances from the Atlantic near Cabo da Roca, Portugal, on Sunday.
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England v India: second men’s cricket Test, day three – live

Mohammad Siraj is on a hat-trick!

Siraj loses his run-up twice before bowling his first delivery. Losing your run-up is bad, losing Joe Root is a whole lot worse. He’s gone to Shami’s third ball, caught down the leg side by the diving Pant! Root can’t believe his luck. He flicked at a poor delivery, on the pads, and got a little tickle that was snaffled gleefully by Pant. That’s a big wicket. Huge. Massive. Massive!

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© Photograph: Gareth Copley/ECB/Getty Images

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Wimbledon 2025: Osaka opens before Alcaraz in action and Sabalenka v Raducanu – live

On No 2 Court: Naomi Osaka v Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
On No 3: the 13th seed Amanda Anisimova v Hungary’s Dalma Galfi
On No 12: Argentina’s lucky loser Solana Sierra v Spain’s Cristina Bucșa

The gates are open. The players are warming up on the outside courts. The spectators are finding their seats. The sun in shining. A high of 27C is forecast. Let’s play!

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© Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

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Slayer review – spectacle, gore, mayhem and some of metal’s greatest songs

Blackweir Fields, Cardiff
The thrash legends’ first UK gig in six years is a lean and unforgivingly mean set – no breathers, no ballads, only teeth-rattling bangers

‘Forty years ago, dude. Duuuuude,” Tom Araya exhales, reflecting on Slayer’s maiden, gob-spackled UK show at London’s Marquee Club in 1985. They were just kids then, on the verge of becoming the most belligerent force in thrash metal’s “big four” with Reign in Blood, but time hasn’t dulled their blade. The bassist-vocalist’s mane might be streaked with grey as he addresses the heaving pit but he still has bile to spare, immediately calling up a take on War Ensemble fit to loosen teeth a dozen rows from the front.

Orbiting their contribution to Black Sabbath’s forthcoming final show in Birmingham, this is Slayer’s first UK date in six years after a final tour that, not unsurprisingly given metal’s spotty record in this regard, wasn’t so final after all. There’s little sense of a sheepish re-emergence, though, with a lengthy video package on the history of the band teeing up South of Heaven’s inimitable riff, which is immediately in the throats of the crowd before drummer Paul Bostaph’s double-kick sparks kinetic mayhem.

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© Photograph: Maxine Howells/Getty Images

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Why bespoke transit could be the answer to Canada’s traffic woes

Traffic congestion is reaching crisis levels across Canada’s largest urban regions, threatening the economy and eroding quality of life for millions. From Toronto’s notorious Highway 401 bottleneck — costing commuters over three million hours of delay each year — to traffic jams in Montreal and Vancouver, the country’s major corridors are consistently among the worst in North America. Read More
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Charred chimneys are all that’s left of these LA midcentury homes. Inside the quest to save them

A piece of history burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires. Project Chimney is salvaging what’s left to honor the architecture – and eventually create a memorial

By mid-morning last Thursday, Evan Hall was standing near the top of Monument Street in Los Angeles’s Pacific Palisades, looking out over the Pacific Ocean. He was running out of time.

Hall stood in the charred ruins of a 1953 home designed by the modernist architect Richard Neutra. Beside him, a handful of hard-hat-clad preservationists, masons and construction workers all looked up at the same thing: a chimney.

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© Composite: Courtesy

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J.D. Tuccille: NYC mayor hopeful’s stated goal is ‘seizing the means of production’

American politics often seem to balance themselves out in the worst possible way. Even as the GOP sheds its last vestiges of affection for limited government and free markets, the opposition Democrats openly embrace bigotry and crazy economic nostrums. Case in point: the rise in New York City of Zohran Mamdani, an avowed socialist who flirts with antisemitism, to represent the Democratic Party in this year’s mayoral election. Read More
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