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Moscow To Host US-Russia Hockey Match Week Of July 4th The world's two largest nuclear powers are apparently turning to old school, Cold War-style sports diplomacy to thaw out their deeply frozen bilateral relations, even as there's as yet no solution to the grinding Russia-Ukraine war. Russian and American ice hockey players are scheduled to face off in Moscow on July 1. President Vladimir Putin first proposed holding hockey matches between Russian and American players in both countries during a direct phone call with President Trump. Getty Images Soon after that March 2025 phone...

Biden-Nominated Judge Dismisses Michigan Case Accusing Oil Majors Of Suppressing Renewables Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, A federal judge dismissed an antitrust lawsuit in which Michigan accused four major oil companies of acting as a cartel to block renewable energy. U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering in Grand Rapids on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit filed in January by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, against BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute. Nessel claimed they caused Michigan residents to suffer "artificially high home and transportation energy costs." She said...

France Recorded 5,000 Excess Deaths During Heat Wave: Officials Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, France recorded more than 5,000 more deaths than normal during a heat wave that started on June 17, the country's public health agency said on July 22. Children cool off under a misting system on the Champs Elysees during a severe heat wave in Paris, France, on July 14, 2026.Djoudi Hamani / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images Public Health France estimated that 5,764 excess deaths from all causes occurred from June 17 to July...