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Missouri voters thoroughly rejected the attempt of state Republicans to make it more difficult to pass citizen-sponsored constitutional amendments, and one state over, voters in Kansas thwarted the GOP’s attempt to change how state Supreme Court justices are placed on the bench.
By confirming Todd Blanche, Senate Republicans would ensure that justice turns a blind eye to Donald Trump.
A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from making it more difficult for newly naturalized Americans to register to vote.
A new study finds that ocean temperatures thousands of miles away shape soil moisture in Malawi, offering a potential tool for forecasting malaria outbreaks months in advance.
You can easily get the wrong answer — and others can easily get the wrong answer about you.
No senator who cares even an iota about their constitutional duties should vote to confirm someone as attorney general who has zero interest in justice and only wants to serve the man who put him in that job.
Nobody can accuse Donald Trump of being tethered to reality. But his latest plan is insane even by his standards.
Adding a simple provision to the SAVE America Act would ensure that no eligible American gets disenfranchised, which is why Republicans would never agree to do it.
President Trump has trapped the US in a no-win situation. He’s clueless how to end this.
An administration that claims to be about stopping fraud and waste may want to start asking the nation’s military leaders how they could run out of munitions with a trillion dollar budget.
Prosecutors acknowledged on Friday that the shoddy work of a contractor Donald Trump said he hand-picked for the job was responsible for damage to the Reflecting Pool, not, as the president had claimed, “vandals.” This raises an important question.
While average Americans struggles to pay their bills, the economy is being propped up by AI investments and obscenely expensive purchases made by the rich.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) executive order to pause new data center development for one year is just the latest example of New York challenging the power of Big Tech.
What if the roots of fascism weren’t European at all, but embedded in America’s founding struggles over democracy and race?
Reckoning with perhaps the most evil decade in American history.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has assured senators that the bogus settlement between Donald Trump and his own administration is dead. His actions, and those of the president, tell a very different story.
Wednesday’s Senate hearing with Anthony Fauci was a disgrace for all involved. What could have been a valuable learning experience ended up producing sound bites for GOP senators and nothing else.
A new report further links fossil fuel emissions to extreme weather events. States are trying to make polluters pay.
Can new DNI Jay Clayton be independent and deliver bad news to a president who doesn’t want to hear it? Based on recent events, Americans should be skeptical.
Chad’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court is the latest evidence that the US is engineering an influence campaign to undermine the court that prosecutes the kind of crimes Donald Trump keeps threatening Iran with.
So far, American bombing has succeeded in strengthening Iran’s geopolitical position and influence over the global economy.
From the Arctic to the Pacific, Indigenous advocates say their voices are too often ignored.
Lindsey Graham knew, and what did he do about it? The legacy media knew, and what did they do about it?
Donald Trump keeps being the bane of Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-SD) existence. On Monday, the president called on him to cancel the August recess, which vulnerable GOP incumbents need to campaign back home.
But the upcoming election may still prove to be “too big to rig” for the GOP.
The president’s remarks prior to the dignified transfer suggest troops communicated support for him and the Iran war.
Instead of delivering the kind of self-deprecating humor that has allowed normal presidents to show off their comedic chops in the past, Trump predictably spent most of his remarks airing grievances.
The AI debate is endless. One writer decided to measure it by asking not how smart the machines are, but how humane they are.
Republicans are racing to implement the SAVE Act in time for the midterms, but election experts warn it’s too late and that forcing it could cause legal chaos.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) wants the Department of Justice to investigate whether Jack Smith perjured himself by not volunteering information he wasn’t asked for.
Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention — no matter how much they go viral. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?
Where Medicare and Medicaid leave a gap, one state now bridges it — and policymakers everywhere are taking notice.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) disclosed on Tuesday that her state had erroneously registered about 6,600 noncitizens to vote. While this appears to be a boon to Donald Trump in his effort to pass the SAVE Act, a closer look at what happened tells a different story.
More than 20 women who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein urged the two senators who could stop Todd Blanche from becoming the permanent attorney general to do so.
Donald Trump has proven that he is willing to burn democracy to the ground to obscure the fact that he lost the 2020 election.
The war with Iran is not the only conflict Donald Trump is reigniting. On Monday, he also kicked his trade dispute with Canada into high gear again to the detriment of US consumers.
Most emergency alerts and warnings are not provided in languages spoken by Indigenous peoples, placing them at greater risk during fires, floods, and other disasters.
Claude AI is pretty great, but it clearly has human foibles. And you could find out the hard way.
An epic World Cup ended Sunday, and there is a lot of praise to go around.
In what may sound like a curious statement to anybody who has seen examples of ICE brutality, border czar Tom Homan says he wants Americans to see what his immigrant hunters see when they do whatever it is they do.
Getting rid of the International Criminal Court, which Marco Rubio this week declared to be his goal, would be awfully convenient for a president threatening to commit war crimes on an almost daily basis and an administration that has shown no respect for domestic and international laws.
Rubio is acting like the viceroy of the Americas, imposing crushing sanctions on Cuba and running Venezuela for corporate America.
As part of the Trump administration’s efforts to enlist state election officials to participate in its massive voter suppression effort, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin suggested that noncompliance could lead to severe punishment.
A continuing heat dome over Europe has led to deadly forest fires in France and Spain. The Indian Ocean, which feeds a third of the world, may be an even more serious problem.
Trump makes it clear he will do anything to retain power.
On one hand, Donald Trump’s speech on election integrity Thursday night was the expected nothingburger. On the other hand, however, it shows that the president’s relentless assault on democracy will not end until American voters put a stop to it.