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In this Utah primary, Trump endorsed one candidate, pardoned the other
And both have ties to rogue Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
The Southern Baptist Convention was going mainstream. Then the Christian nationalists weighed in.
The SBC appears to be making a significant course correction in the form of a sharp rightward tack.
HHS pushes fetal personhood in new grant guidelines
Trump's latest overture to the religious right offers little funding, but big rhetoric.
Trump’s Justice Department backs Elon Musk in data center lawsuit
DOJ urges judge to throw NAACP's legal action over xAI’s gas turbines in Mississippi.
DOJ's new ICE protest indictment is its most absurd yet
Federal prosecutors' latest antifa conspiracy involves wearing a sweatshirt that says “I'm antifa!”...
Trump DOJ outlines dubious path to force people into psychiatric institutions
"This administration is trying to take away one of the most fundamental rights that people with disabilities have fought for."...
Here's what Americans really blame for causing energy price hikes
Americans across political parties agree that global warming is raising the cost of living, a new survey shows.
ICE took Mom and Dad. Now the Perez kids are home alone.
Four American siblings left to fend for themselves—and they're not the only ones.
The oligarchy attends a cage fight
Sponsored by crypto dot com.
In the early days of AIDS, policymakers overlooked some of the communities hit hardest by the epidemic
Decades before Covid-19 appeared, AIDS tore through the US, but there was little help for the most vulnerable communities.
Why no human being should ever be allowed to have a trillion dollars
Elon Musk's big milestone is no bueno.
The Department of Homeland Security is "kidnapping people's kids”
Trump officials claim, falsely, that they are splitting up families for the children's benefit.
Trump's deportation machine is still targeting pro-Palestinian protesters
A judge ordered the deportation of student Mohsen Mahdawi, abducted from his naturalization proceedings last April.
Karmelo Anthony and the futility of claiming self-defense while Black
Black defendants' “Stand Your Ground” claims against white assailants are denied more than 99 percent of the time.
Utah voters finally got a fair map. Republicans are making sure it never happens again.
The GOP has a veto-proof supermajority, even though the state’s demographics have changed dramatically.
Trump told prosecutors to target ICE protesters. A Chicago jury wasn't buying it.
The Broadview Six case is “a crock of shit,” one juror said.
Most new US data centers are slated for drought-plagued areas
Amid public outcry over water-guzzling server farms, a Guardian analysis indicates trouble ahead.
Trump’s “weaponization” claim is total BS
The $1.8 billion slush fund may be gone (for now), but Trump's sticking with this hogwash.
Trump’s “weaponization” claim is total BS
How Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats
And sell out America.
Hegseth warns Europe to defend itself against a second D-Day
The Pentagon chief said Europeans were being "stormed" again in a speech that seemed to side with the Germans at Normandy.
Florida's GOP OpenAI lawsuit shows the GOP splintering over AI
The lawsuit asserts that ChatGPT has "aided and abetted [mass shooters] in deadly rampages” and has pushed vulnerable people to take their own lives, among other allegations.
Could Democrats get iced out of this California congressional race?
Fans of pro-vaccine warrior Richard Pan are biting their nails as votes trickle in.
The Delaney Hall strikers are hitting GEO Group where it hurts
There's a lot of profit in paying immigrants a dollar a day to run their own jail—until they refuse.
Jared Kushner’s Albanian resort faces a corruption probe and mass protests
The project involves a “network of shady individuals and companies,“ according to an investigative report.
“The waste is heartbreaking”: fired Scott Pelley accuses CBS of courting Trump
His parting shot at CBS News describes a newsroom remade in Trump's image—and a teenager's Emmy speech that saw it coming.
“We are being made to look like fools”: How Trump is weaponizing World Cup visas
Soccer stars with the wrong passport—or complexion—now have to worry about getting to play at all.
ICE's Delaney Hall is being slammed with lawsuits
The converted prison "should be closed because of health and human safety,” Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said.
They were detained by ICE. Then they vanished.
Immigrants are frequently being sent all over the country, and often families and attorneys don’t know where they are.
They were detained by ICE. Then they vanished.
The senator who won’t shut up about climate change
Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse is pushing back on the “climate hushing” trend.
I asked a mining billionaire about his environmental philanthropy. It didn’t go well.
Tom Kaplan's attitude illustrates a common paradox in green giving.
How an obscure MAGA-linked firm lined up $1 billion in Balkan energy contracts
President Donald Trump's official and personal interests are colliding yet again.
Trump's top economic adviser doesn't seem to get that people are struggling.
Kevin Hassert says higher consumer spending reflects optimism—not high prices.
Our power grid is in better shape this summer, thanks to solar and batteries
And no thanks to the Trump administration.
Watch: Is Trump's party stranglehold actually a death grip?
His unmatched endorsement record could be yet another albatross in the midterms.
The Kennedy Center was part of DC life. Trump destroyed it.
It was never the city's most daring arts venue. It was something better: all ours.
Everyone's fleeing Trump's Freedom 250 concerts
The exodus continues apace with Bret Michaels.
Everyone's fleeing Trump's Freedom 250 concerts
Trump taps former private prison exec to run ICE
GEO Group's biggest client is ICE—and ICE's new leader helped run GEO Group.
Why conservatives are trying to kill the Voting Rights Act
On this week’s “More To The Story,” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie examines the conservative movement’s yearslong effort to challenge the right to vote across the country.
They’re all Ken Paxton now
Texas Republicans chose a candidate who embodies something essential about the party under Trump.
Why billionaires pay much less tax than the average American
As wealth concentrates at the top, upper-crust tax rates have declined. Go figure.
White House seeks gag order for all federal workers
Trump tried this before—and failed. The leaks have only gotten worse.
DHS is getting sued for the truth about its "domestic terrorism watchlist"
The agency denies keeping ICE protesters in a database of terror threats—which makes certain incidents very hard to explain.
The ACA affordability crisis Congress won't fix
Deductibles are up an average of $1,000 per person and families are gambling on staying healthy.
The ACA affordability crisis Congress won't fix
Stephen Colbert escaped late night and immediately started having fun
A gloriously deadpan and silly public access appearance after an “excruciating” 23 hours off-air.
Donald Trump is too busy posting weird memes to go to Don jr.’s wedding
Family is one thing, but poorly Photoshopped images of himself looming over Greenland are another.
Minnesota is doing what the feds won't: holding ICE accountable
Christian Castro faces assault and false reporting charges in the shooting of Julio César Sosa-Celis.
A Kentucky primary has become a MAGA reality show from hell
Laura Loomer, Kyle Rittenhouse, and online provocateurs turned Trump’s war on Rep. Massie into a political circus.
GOP push for $1 billion to fund Trump's ballroom hits roadblock
“I think the timing and the optics are really bad,” admitted one Republican senator.
Suing his own IRS? Creating a $1.8 billion slush fund? What the hell is Trump trying to pull?
Whatever it is, it's staggeringly corrupt, and possibly very dangerous.
Interior Secretary claims ignorance of Trump's July 4 “vanity projects”
Doug Burgum told Congress he didn't know who was making his department's decisions on plans for the country's 250th anniversary.
Should Trump get $10 billion in apology money? Mike Johnson hasn't thought about it.
The House Speaker may or may not look into this "congressional oversight" thing.
Report: Trump's Golden Dome would cost $1.2 trillion
A Congressional Budget Office report deemed the missile defense scheme both wildly expensive and ineffective.
In approving Alabama gerrymander, the Roberts Court shows its naked political bias
The justices tossed precedents to allow Republicans to dismantle yet another majority-Black district.
Black lung surges in coal country as Trump slow-walks protections
The administration says it's pro-coal, but miners are increasingly stricken with this brutal disease.
Polymarket's hot new bet: Hantavirus
Users have wagered nearly $3 million on the odds of a hantavirus pandemic.
Polymarket's hot new bet: Hantavirus
How controlled burns can help save taxpayers billions
New research shows every $1 the US Forest Service spent to minimize wildfire risk prevented nearly $4 in damages.
"It's Life Alert or rent": Montana trailer park tenants are on rent strike
Mobile home rents are soaring nationwide as private equity firms snap up trailer parks.
ICE keeps detaining the same US citizen again, and again, and again. He’s fighting back.
“I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.
After SCOTUS destroyed the Voting Rights Act, southern states rush to pass Jim Crow voting maps
“We’re seeing the greatest purge of Black power since the era of Reconstruction.”...
They came for mifepristone. The abortion rights movement is ready.
As the abortion pill heads back to the Supreme Court, advocates have a back-up that's effective and safe: misoprostol alone.
Exclusive: The only woman on death row in Mississippi alleges new civil rights violations in confinement
“This is the worst treatment I have seen by far” of anyone on death row, said the Rev. Jeff Hood of Lisa Jo Chamberlin’s conditions. “By far the worst, not just in Mississippi” but throughout the United States.
Republicans claim widespread food stamp fraud. What's missing? Evidence.
Reviving the “Welfare Queen” stereotype doesn’t make it any more true.
Report Education Departments Office for Civil Rights is Flunking
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Are anti-trans ballot initiatives being used as Republican “ballot candy”?
At least one candidate has admitted his statewide referendum targeting trans kids is intended to drive GOP voter turnout.
Supreme Court reinstates access to abortion pills—for now
Justice Samuel Alito, author of the Dobbs decision, tells the Fifth Circuit to slow down.
Amazon powers ICE. Its workers aren't happy.
Warehouse workers, delivery drivers, and software engineers are organizing against America’s deportation machine.
Amazon powers ICE. Its workers aren't happy.
Trump's new Medicaid work requirements are here
It's just cruelty.
Trump's new Medicaid work requirements are here
A right-wing court just moved to choke off abortion by mail
A sweeping decision threatens to unravel one of the last remaining pathways to care post-Dobbs.
The Iran war remains unpopular—unless you’re a weapons contractor
The US keeps selling arms without congressional approval.
