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Every column by Silvia Grace Halvorsen for Shadowfetch News.
InvestigationsJul 3, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
President Donald Trump said Friday that he signed pardons for people he described as prosecuted for “fixing their car,” a clemency move now carrying two lanes: the six-person Clean…
Read the story →Science & ClimateJul 3, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
The answer-first version: the Houston toad’s 2026 recovery push is not just “more eggs.” It is a field test of whether egg reintroductions, private-land habitat work, and better…
Read the story →WorldJul 3, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
UN officials used an urgent Human Rights Council debate on July 3 to warn that El Obeid, the capital of Sudan’s North Kordofan state, is facing an immediate risk of further…
Read the story →InvestigationsJul 3, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
Two Romanian men have been jailed at London’s Old Bailey for the 2024 stabbing of Iran International presenter Pouria Zeraati, after a judge accepted prosecutors’ case that the…
Read the story →WorldJul 3, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
Iran began funeral ceremonies Friday for late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with coffins displayed at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla as officials prepared a dayslong procession…
Read the story →Human RightsJul 3, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have moved to withdraw from the Rome Statute, and the presidency of the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties said on July 1 that…
Read the story →Science & ClimateJul 3, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
NASA says the mission to raise the altitude of its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is underway after LINK, a robotic servicing spacecraft built by Katalyst Space, launched Friday…
Read the story →InvestigationsJul 3, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
Google says it worked with the FBI, Lumen and other partners to disrupt NetNut, a residential proxy network also tracked as Popa, in a security action aimed at infrastructure the…
Read the story →Science & ClimateJul 2, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
NOAA Fisheries’ newest Northeast whale-rescue update is not a feel-good animal story. It is a public-safety warning: if a whale is entangled, report it…
Read the story →Breaking NewsJul 2, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
SANA and Al Jazeera now report nine killed and 20 injured after a cafe bombing in central Damascus; AP has also moved the death toll to nine.
Read the story →InvestigationsJul 2, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
The Justice Department’s new egg antitrust case is not just about whether a few large producers coordinated bids. It is about how thin, technical price…
Read the story →Science & ClimateJun 29, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
Across Britain, ponds are quietly vanishing. More than half have disappeared since the early 1900s, according to historic map analysis by researchers at…
Read the story →InvestigationsJun 29, 2026 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
On June 26, 2026, ProPublica published the finding that a centuryold Oregon water law entitles just a few thousand people in one wealthy region to more…
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