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President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair was off to a rocky start.Dozens of attendees Wednesday were seen flocking toward the exits in the middle of Trump’s address, which was meant to kick-start the two-week event.Crowds flock towards the exit in the middle of Trump's speech. pic.twitter.com/bM3DPhsM4M— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) June 25, 2026Rather than celebrating America’s 250th anniversary during his speech, Trump chose to focus on the last two years of his disastrous presidency, the BBC reported. Within half an hour of the president beginning to speak, the crowd had thinned out significantly, according to The Bulwark’s Jared Poland. And one person was even spotted sleeping. Trump’s snooze-worthy speech comes after several musical performers pulled out—leaving FBI Director Kash Patel’s country singer girlfriend with a great new gig. Trump’s kick-off event also featured several military flyovers and music provided by the U.S. Army Band Downrange. The president delivered a brief, albeit highly partisan address, which finished after just 30 minutes.

Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to surrender to despair.

AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to breach: the poem.

A Sardinian compound once known for “bunga bunga” parties and a “mini Buckingham palace" are among the luxury properties bought by Gulf billionaires.

18 months after Tropical Storm Helene, Asheville’s music scene is rebuilding through community and resilience — maintaining the vibrant essence of what it once was, even as it grapples with long-standing inequities. Before tropical storm Helene, Asheville was already one of America’s most celebrated music cities — a place where bluegrass spilled out of mountain [...] The post Still Playing: Melody Replaces Malady appeared first on DCReport.org.

An American Anthem: Beware The Impostures of Pretended Patriotism  Ron Kovic, Author of “Born on the Fourth of July”                                                                                               For Alex Pretti and Renee Good   “You can cut all the flowers but you can not keep spring from coming.” Pablo Neruda As a United States Marine in 1968, believing with all my heart that I […]

Researchers used airborne laser mapping to peer through the dense canopy to find the 1,000-year-old settlement on the Yucatán peninsula.

As I page through colorful old copies of the magazines from my eight years at Mother Jones, memories start firing. I came on board as an editor in 1979, just as we were moving into the loft space Rolling Stone vacated when it fled to New York, supposedly because founder Jann Wenner’s then-spouse had a mortal fear of […]

After spending more than four decades studying abortion in American social, medical, and political culture, Carole Joffe was fully prepared for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022. “Dobbs itself wasn’t that scary to me,” she says. “It was upsetting and politically outrageous, but because of our work, we knew abortion wasn’t […]