Trump has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to two people familiar with the selection. read more
Two Australian mathematicians have called into question an old adage, that if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare. read more
A psychiatrist who helped craft the 1973 "Goldwater rule" that has kept many mental health professionals from opining on Donald Trump for nearly a decade said that it was not intended as a hard-and-fast prohibition, and that if he were Trump's doctor, he would order a full battery of tests to determine the cause of what he believes could be the former president's dementia. "He seems to be progressively cognitively impaired," said Allen Dyer, a retired George Washington University psychiatry professor. read more
In early September 2020, wildfires tore through eastern Washington state, obliterating tens of millions of dollars of property, displacing hundreds of rural residents and killing a 1-year-old boy. But then-President Donald Trump refused to act on Gov. Jay Inslee's request for $37 million in federal disaster aid because of a bitter personal dispute with the Democratic governor, an investigation by POLITICO's E&E News shows. Trump sat on Inslee's request for the final four months of his presidency, delaying recovery and leaving communities unsure about rebuilding because nobody knew if they would get federal help. Trump ignored Inslee's 73-page request even after the Federal Emergency Management Agency found during weeks of inspection that the wildfires easily met the federal damage threshold for disaster aid. read more
President Joe Biden plans to formally apologize Friday for the U.S. government's role in running hundreds of Indian boarding schools for a 150-year period that stripped Native American children of their language and culture in a systematic effort to force them to assimilate into White society, according to administration officials. read more
The report about his conduct Gaetz sidetracked by resigning a couple of days before it was to be released? Will it be a Friday night or Sunday morning story?