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As Election Day closes in on us, a lot of fascinating poll results are flying around. But as a longtime political corruption reporter, I’ve found...
Alberta resoundingly voted against a path to independence in a referendum on Monday, in a blow to the right-wing campaign to separate the wealthy...
On January 1, new Medicaid work requirements will kick in nationwide, and states are scrambling to comply—a chaotic process which will lead to...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and AI giant Anthropic have said they will give billions of dollars in shares to the public as general sentiment around the...
Johnny Garcia, the Democratic nominee in Texas’ 35th congressional district, spent one of the last mornings before the start of early voting meeting...
Earlier this month, a video emerged on social media of Arielle Zuckerberg—Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, also known by her alias “AZ”—DJing house...
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By the time Cléo made it...
On Monday, federal authorities announced the arrest in California of at least 11 people, and charges against 28, alleging they registered to vote as...
In a Truth Social post Monday, President Trump made his most direct demand yet around an ongoing fixation: get “Mexico” out of New Mexico’s...
Congressional Democrats sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday, urging him to rescind a new policy...
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...
For all our billionaire social media leaders’ claims to be free speech warriors, they seem to have spent the last few days cracking down on it. As...
Ken Paxton’s message to voters in the home stretch of his closely-contested US Senate race with Democrat James Talarico is a mystery to me. I...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Most Americans feel unease or...
In a clip that quickly went viral Saturday night, Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed countered a bigoted question about his Muslim faith at...
This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Public participation is a hallmark...
Tesla released videos on Thursday of a car that launched into the air, barrel-rolled over a lineup of cars and trucks, and landed on its wheels,...
Since 2018, Trisha Hope has crisscrossed the country to attend 42 of President Trump’s rallies as a “Front Row Joe,” a group of some of...
This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A community solar project built...
2026 would have been a reelection year for Rep. Cleo Fields, who represents the majority-Black 6th Congressional District in Louisiana. But in April,...
“Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider. Katie, do you need this? I don’t think you need this.” Within minutes of President Trump telling...
Election Day is less than three weeks away, and panic is setting in for the GOP. “We see Republican groups pulling money away from House...
Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson, a congressional candidate and high-profile opponent of local data center sprawl, filed suit Thursday against...
For all the despicable acts Elizabeth Holmes carried out as the CEO of Theranos, that long list of criminal behavior somehow manages to feel small...
Earlier this week, Bloomberg broke the news that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which helps regulate the securities market, was told to...
It is rarely an auspicious occasion when a White House press secretary becomes the subject of headlines. But, by attempting the simple act of uttering...
Two months after swimming across the breakwaters to Ceuta, Spain, Mohamed learned that his asylum claim was denied. In late July, at his home in...
For all the despicable acts Elizabeth Holmes carried out as the CEO of Theranos, that long list of criminal behavior somehow manages to feel small...
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Securities and...
On Wednesday evening, conservative businesspeople, digital influencers, and US government officials flocked to the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in...
The Trump administration has desperately searched for evidence that Rep. Ilhan Omar committed fraud, alleging she or her late father are liars for...
Throughout his campaign for Florida governor, Rep. Byron Donalds has been unapologetically enthusiastic about data centers. The Republican candidate...
When Jillian Crochet, a disabled power wheelchair user and artist in Oakland, California, waits to take the bus, she already faces delays that many...
As our tech overlords continue pumping more resources into AI development and innovation—responsibly, of course—they’re facing a massive trust...
“Every time they want to try and get me, they say affordability,” President Donald Trump said in a voice mocking his critics during a midterms...
Last week, less than a month after rolling back power plant pollution standards, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin addressed an...
One of the defining issues heading into this year’s midterms is how redistricting has rapidly reshaped electoral maps across the country. When the...
On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that a Ukrainian bombing strike on Yandex’s data centers, a large Russian technology...
All parties and other social events held in fraternity houses on the campus of Cornell University will be cancelled for the remainder of the 2026-27...
In March, two Mother Jones videographers and I stood outside the Space Center Houston and watched Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life,...
Seven people detained previously by ICE filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the agency, accusing it of illegally refusing to return their personal...
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the embattled US ambassador to Greece, resigned from her post on Tuesday amid multiple alleged instances of corruption. “These...
Any remaining skepticism of America’s literacy crisis vanished Tuesday morning, when Katie Zacharia, a former TV political commentator, stepped up...
As the Cornell rape allegations continue to roil beyond college campuses and into the homes of families across the country, a familiar question has...
“I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.” So said Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Anduril Industries, a military...
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new report paints a...
Over the weekend, a poorly-constructed and very obviously fake claim about Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico sprang up on X only to...
Federal officers raided Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home early Monday morning, reportedly related to an investigation into the...
On Friday, I hosted a Reddit AMA, prompting the Internet to ask me anything about my coverage of anti-abortion activist Kristan Hawkins and the...
President Donald Trump keeps pointing the finger at everyone for surging fuel prices but himself. Over the weekend, he once again blamed Ukraine,...