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Before last week, Milo Yiannopoulos was one of the most noxious, divisive, and broadly unpopular far-right figures in the country, having whittled...
The Trump administration is back on the warpath. Over the weekend, the government resumed military attacks on Iran for the first time in a month,...
This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In April 2024, Tish Taylor and her...
On Monday, President Trump promoted continued data center construction and criticized opponents, despite growing bipartisan backlash ahead of the...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a recent August day in the...
Poh Si Teng couldn’t bear the silence as the Israeli government killed hundreds of Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Some were her former colleagues...
Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee has declared his support for renaming Nashville’s airport for Dolly Parton, days after the beloved singer’s...
For Republicans in Florida, the midterm message to voters is clear: All Democrats are socialist. In televised interviews and social media posts since...
Wyoming’s governor is speaking out about what he calls “aggressive” and “irregular” behavior on the part of Department of Justice employees...
In medical school, Aaron Baugh, like most doctors in training, was taught that Black people have smaller lungs than white people. His professors...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States has never been one of...
A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and...
President Donald Trump on Thursday followed through on a threat to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” issuing an executive order to “Make...
In the frenzied, finger-pointing days following Charlie Kirk’s assassination last year, institutions across the country rushed to appease online...
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As power slowly returns to homes...
Last night, I watched Straight Talk, the 1992 Dolly vehicle in which the singer plays, yes, a straight-talker from Arkansas who, through a series of...
A nationwide social media addiction trial against Meta came to an abrupt end on Wednesday, with the company announcing a sweeping settlement with 52...
Ben McKenzie might seem like an unlikely choice to launch an investigation into the complicated world of cryptocurrency. But the television actor...
On Tuesday, Canadian officials announced funding to back businesses, workers, and industries, as they implement dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on...
On March 9, President Donald Trump said the war in Iran was “very complete, pretty much.” That was Day 10 of the conflict. Now it’s nearly Day...
Deadly heatwaves in May smashed records in the UK, France, Spain, and parts of North Africa. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh saw April temperatures...
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily handed President Trump a key victory in his crusade to restrict mail-in voting. The unsigned opinion by the...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration’s...
As women’s sports continue to be used as a battleground over trans rights, hundreds of people attended a rally before a New York Liberty game...
Democrats and critics of the Trump administration have criticized House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries as reports came out Sunday that he met with...
As many AI researchers have been increasingly fraught with existential terror about their own creations this summer, their alarm is spreading among...
This January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed consular officers to refuse to process immigration visas for people from 75 countries because,...
A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and...
This video was created in partnership with PBS NewsHour. The record amounts of glyphosate being sprayed in California’s forests—revealed in a...
The loss of land for Black Americans started with the government’s betrayal of its “40 acres” promise to formerly enslaved people—and it has...
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a young boy in the 1960s, almost...
In a bright red power suit, Ashley Moody, the former Florida attorney general who nabbed the state’s GOP Senate nomination in Tuesday’s primary,...
Flock Safety is having a hard month. The surveillance technology company, which has sold more than 120,000 automated license plate reader cameras to...
Ed Martin, a trench-coat donning former “Stop the Steal” advocate whose work at various senior Justice Department jobs was charactered by brash,...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Iowa, one of the key...
North Korea launched several ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, according to South Korea’s military—just a day after the...
The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a memo Tuesday suggesting that, if incumbent Republican Ohio Sen. Jon Husted loses his upcoming...
Ecto World, a Buffalo, New York–based company that distributes vape products and faces legal troubles, believed it needed an influential friend in...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration said on...
President Trump hinted on Wednesday that his friendly relationship with North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un may owe a lot to the country’s...
In early 2007, newly reelected Republican Gov. Rick Perry pushed an innovative response to a problem that was killing about 35,000 Texans each year....
Florida State Representative Angie Nixon just defeated Alex Vindman, the presumed frontrunner, in the state’s Democratic Senate primary—even...
In February, an ICE agent directed Emilio, a Deaf man, to get onto a bus in southern Texas. By that point, Emilio had spent nine weeks in immigration...
Sen. Adam Schiff is often on the receiving end of President Donald Trump’s rage online. It should be no surprise. Back in 2020, the California...
Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of major cryptocurrency and prediction-market companies to the White House on Wednesday to discuss how they...
On Tuesday, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung reiterated his calls for the country to retake full control of its military operations from the US...
In early August, ICE revealed plans to purchase $20 million worth of electric-shock gloves, manufactured by a company called Compliant Technologies....
Just two days after finalizing a regulation to make sure trans kids from low-income families can’t afford puberty blockers or hormone therapy, the...
On Tuesday, Republican primary voters in central Florida will decide whether Rep. Cory Mills should once again be their party’s nominee for...
On Monday morning, President Donald Trump issued a blunt warning to America’s erstwhile ally: “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out...