In his race for New York state governor against incumbent Kathy Hochul (D), ICE defender MAGA candidate Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R) is behind by 15 points in recent polling. read more
The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump's administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land. read more
The president's "settlement" with the IRS appears set to give him a slush fund of $1.7 billion to dole out to allies. How unconstitutional is it? Jamie Raskin counts the ways. read more
The shake-up of cradle-to-grave care is lowering government spending, spurring innovation and stirring fears about those left behind read more
They are telling you exactly what they are going to do. Believe them. read more
President Donald Trump is scheduled to see doctors for a medical and dental checkup this month -- his fourth publicized visit to medical experts since returning to office -- in what the White House describes as an annual physical and regular preventive care. read more
Since the Citizens United decision of 2010, the justices have dismantled Americans' voices. read more
For the first time in three years, Americans' wages are no longer outpacing inflation. read more
The US Navy plans to buy at least 15 new nuclear-powered battleships endorsed by Donald Trump at $14.5 billion apiece minimum over the next 30 years, making one of them even costlier than the $13 billion USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier, the most expensive US warship afloat today. read more
Shawn Patrick Connelly: [President] Obama was certainly not perfect. He was not Jesus. But he was a serious, decent, intellectually honest man who served the country with evident integrity and was rewarded, in a significant corner of American Christianity, with eight years of contempt from people who never asked whether their contempt was really about what they said it was about. I was one of those people.
Trump will be joined in China this week by 16 chief executives, including Elon Musk and Tim Cook. read more
Rick Wilson: Why don't the MAGA hardcores understand how well and truly Trump is screwing them? Gas is $4.55 a gallon. Foreclosure filings are at a six-year high. Trump's approval is mired in the low 30s. He hasn't ended a war; he's threatening two more. The grocery bill that was supposed to crater on Day One has done the opposite. By every transactional measure, the measure we were all trained to believe decides elections, this administration is a failure in a saggy Brioni suit.
Garlic is not a substance that most people consider an aphrodisiac. It turns out that mosquitoes agree.
In fact, the new Yale study finds that garlic also functions as a de facto birth control for mosquitoes and other winged insects. It's an insight that could lead to eco-friendly pest control strategies. read more
The Republican-led Congress, faced with deepening economic discontent exacerbated by President Donald Trump's Iran war, is struggling to find consensus on any plan to address the cost of living with less than six months before midterm elections.
Alex Haley's book Roots is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County [Tennessee] Schools libraries. ... Roots is a multi-generational story following the descendants of a man sold into slavery in the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a miniseries. There is a statue of Haley in East Knoxville.
A five-month investigation has named 13 previously unidentified victims of US attacks on boats allegedly carrying narcotics in a campaign that has killed nearly 200 people in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. ... [A] joint effort by 20 journalists led by the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP) this week published the identities of 13 of those killed, some of whom showed no indication of involvement in drug trafficking.
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