US Vice-President JD Vance has suggested the power of US judges is beginning to reach its limit, as the White House responds to a flurry of lawsuits that aim to stall its agenda. "Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power," he wrote on X. read more
A 36-year-old Michigan lawmaker told the Associated Press that she has been receiving threats after revealing she had her reproductive organs removed in fear that the Trump administration would limit birth control options. read more
Josh Marshall: I suspect this will just end up being something Old Man Trump said on a plane and we won't hear about it again. But after recents, who are we kidding? Anything is possible. read more
ProPublica's Alec MacGillis writes about what happens when you try to make history vanish: This push to whitewash recent history carries a disconcerting echo of countless autocratic regimes, from the Chinese Communist Party's memory-holing of the Tiananmen Square massacre to the Argentine military junta's "disappearing" of dissidents in the 1970s. read more
Boy Scouts of America, as it has been known for 115 years, is now officially Scouting America. The name change went into effect on Saturday. read more
China's tit-for-tat import taxes on some American goods came into effect on Monday, as the trade war between the world's two biggest economies escalates and US President Donald Trump threatens to hit more countries with tariffs. read more
Fiver former Treasury Secretaries write a column for the New York Times warning that our democracy is being attacked: "The nation's payment system has historically been operated by a very small group of nonpartisan career civil servants. In recent days, that norm has been upended, and the roles of these nonpartisan officials have been compromised by political actors from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency." read more
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are now unplugged from Russia's electricity grid and have joined the European Union's network. read more
Elon Musk has called to impeach a federal judge in New York, Paul Engelmayer, over an order that temporarily restricts the tech centi-billionaire and his DOGE team from accessing U.S. Department of Treasury payment systems and sensitive data. read more
Ten years after Budweiser's last Ad Meter win, the brand steps atop the ratings podium with this 30-second journey of determination from a new star of the show--a Clydesdale Foal named Jake. read more
The stop-work order on USAID-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care. read more
With the rise of omicron came the fall of long-lasting protection from reinfection with the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, according to a study published in Nature. read more
President Donald Trump's cryptocurrency, called $Trump, has cost investors billions. read more
Democrat Mike Zimmer is the newest Iowa senator, flipping the Senate District 35 seat in Tuesday's special election. Zimmer won with 52% of the vote to Republican Katie Whittington's 48%, according to unofficial results published by the Iowa Secretary of State. read more
A new report suggests that [Elon Musk's Cybertrucks] actually deadlier than one of the most infamous -- and flawed -- American cars ever made: the Ford Pinto. read more
The Philadelphia Eagles took a 34-0 lead over the Kansas City Chiefs, put in their backups and coasted to a 40-22 victory, ending the Chiefs bid for a threepeat. Jalen Hurts threw for two touchdowns and tush-pushed a third, winning MVP. The Eagles defensive front could have shared that award, sacking Patrick Mahomes six times and pressuring him into two interceptions.
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