AI's increasing ability to sift through data and track Americans' locations has some lawmakers reconsidering parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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Federal judges have received more than 800 threats since Trump's rhetoric intensified " and retired members of the judiciary are now speaking out. "According to the U.S. Marshals Service, there were 564 threats against federal judges in 2025 and there have been 275 already this year," wrote USA Today's Rex Huppke on Sunday. "The Marshals Service asked Congress for an additional $34 million in April, noting that the threat environment' is unlikely to decrease in the foreseeable future.'" In February, America's top association for lawyers similarly spoke out against Trump's attacks on judges. "The recent remarks by the president of the United States, leveling personal criticisms against members of the U.S. Supreme Court, are not acceptable and cross a dangerous line that threatens the safety of the judiciary and our judicial process," American Bar Association (ABA) President Michelle A. Behnke said in a statement.
Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning.
The Trump administration on Friday dismissed members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation, which finances much of the public scientific research in the United States. On Friday afternoon, National Science Board members received a terse email "on behalf of President Donald J. Trump" that said their position was "terminated, effective immediately."
The security agency is reportedly still waiting for access to the AI model Anthropic fears could upset the cybersecurity power balance, while unauthorized users are already having fun with it.
There is a growing number of US members of Congress pushing for sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to be pardoned, a top Republican has said.
House Oversight Committee chair James Comer was asked if it would be worthwhile to offer Maxwell a pardon in exchange for her testimony.
"A lot of people do," Comer told Politico. Read more
Rihan, the 18-year-old high school student detained by ICE earlier this month and held for more than two weeks at a Massachusetts county jail, has returned home.
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he has canceled plans to send U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan after Iran's chief negotiator left Islamabad after speaking only to Pakistani officials.
All four Black Republicans in the House are leaving Congress next year: Three are seeking statewide office, and one is retiring because redistricting in his state effectively boxed him out of his seat. The exodus is a reflection of the striking and persistent lack of diversity in the G.O.P. ranks of Congress, something that Mr. McCarthy has acknowledged is still an issue even years after his efforts to address it. "When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America," he said shortly after leaving Congress in 2023. "When I look at my party, we look like the most restrictive country club in America." Read more
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Royce White is subject to a no-contact order after a Minnesota judge ruled there was credible evidence of threats of harm toward his ex-wife and one of two children they have together. In court filings, White is accused of making numerous threats and being both physically and verbally abusive toward his former partner and their teenaged son. He refutes the allegations and is appealing judicial findings in the case, telling MPR News on Thursday the order is a "substantial miscarriage of justice" and "excessively punitive."
Counter to the message of Jesus':
progressive Christians stake a claim to their religion amid Trump-pope feud Anti-war, anti-ICE, anti-authoritarian Christians and Catholics are organizing around their faith in opposition to the version claimed by Trump and Hegseth Read more
A proposal that would require California to verify proof of citizenship when a person registers to vote -- and require voters to provide identification at polling places -- will appear on the November ballot, state officials announced Friday.
Under new guidance issued by the Trump administration, immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests, posting criticism of Israel on social media, or desecrating the American flag.
Will this new ukase apply to Jews or Israelis critical of the nefarious Likud junta or ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, like "Jews Against Genocide"?
Just an interesting article.
Democrats are winning races " and even redistricting battles " but some in the party worry they're not yet winning the argument. Recent victories "from a gubernatorial win in New Jersey to a favorable redistricting outcome this week in Virginia, along with a string of special election overperformances " have given Democrats reason for confidence. Heading into the midterms later this year, they say they're on solid footing to win the House, and there's newfound optimism that they could also flip the Senate " something that appeared insurmountable just weeks ago. But the success has also prompted a quieter concern inside the party: that Democrats are misreading what those wins actually signal. In interviews with The Hill, Democrats warned that some in their party may be mistaking backlash against President Trump for support of their policies and rhetoric. Read more
