On the Strait of Hormuz, BBC Finds Seized Ships and Shark Fishermen as Uneasy Calm Returns Nawal Al-Maghafi, BBC News
Former Pentagon Chairman Fired by Trump Administration Criticizes Use of Military for Political Missions Kaanita Iyer, CNN
“He Didn’t Need to Die.” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis. Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
Zohran Mamdani Rebukes Trumpism With Pro-Immigrant Speech for US’s 250th Birthday Edward Helmore, Guardian UK
Trump Administration Looking at Easing Restrictions on Radiation Exposure at the Nation’s Nuclear Power Plants Rachel Dobkin, The Independent
Families of Venezuelans Recently Deported From the US and Lost in Hotel Collapse Search for Loved Ones, and for Answers Deisy Buitrago and Julia Symmes Cobb, Reuters
Trump's National Mall Fireworks Display Likely to Cause Hazardous Air Pollution Documents Show Jake Spring, The Washington Post
‘Moscow Will Fall’ — 13 Russian Power Stations Shut Down Across Occupied Ukraine, Military Says Abbey Fenbert, The Kyiv Independent
Democrats Will Have ‘Field Day’ With Trump Inquiries if They Win House, Legal Experts Say Peter Stone, Guardian UK
Most Countries to Lose a Decade of Development Progress says United Nations as Global COVID Crisis Continues Jubilee USA Network, RSN Godot
Astronaut’s Journey To The Moon Yields New Perspective For Dealing With Enemies Of Democracy George Monroe, RSN Godot
Treasury Secretary Yellen Encourages Tax and Aid Deals to Confront Pandemic Olivia Engling, RSN Godot
Investigating the 1-6-21 Insurrection: What are the Republicans Afraid of? Dr. Steven Jonas , Steven Jonas
Donald Trump Is a Treacherous, Idolatrous, Know-Nothing Anti-Patriot Michael Tomasky, The New Republic
The Intimate Legacies of a White-Supremacist Coup (The Wilmington Massacre) Lauren Collins, The New Yorker
The Unprecedented Profiteering Revealed by Donald Trump’s Financial Disclosure David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker
The Many Ways Trump Is Trying to Tip the Scales for the Midterms Karen Yourish, Nick Corasaniti and Charlie Smart, The New York Times