Trump's Department of Justice is appointing Robert Levy, a senior attorney at Exxon Mobil, to lead the DOJ's newly-renamed Energy and Natural Resources Division. read more
The US said it launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran after Tehran struck a ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz. read more
Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week. "We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," he reported. read more
Crime rates, air quality, healthcare access, worker protections, and civil rights laws are among factors that can hurt a state in quality of life rankings. read more
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had "just finished" a physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, without specifying when the exam was conducted. read more
A federal judge in California Friday awarded Hunter Biden $1.7 million in punitive damages in his defamation dispute against former Overstock.com CEO and 2020 election denier Patrick Byrne. read more
Sam Neill, a smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose career moved from art film to blockbuster as he dodged velociraptors in "Jurassic Park" to playing Holly Hunter's husband in "The Piano," has died. He was 78. read more
Alex Shephard: Iran is already a quagmire. As the bombing resumes, just how bad will it get? read more
Victor Marx (R) who claims to do exorcisms by phone, says he killed a man at age seven, took credit for helping rescue 43 missing children in Florida, and that as a civilian he once called in a military airstrike that killed 70 fighters from the Islamic State (IS) group, is now the Republican gubernatorial candidate for Colorado. read more
Amanda McGonigle runs an account dedicated to mocking the vice president and conducting mutual aid efforts read more
"For the first time ever, a presidential administration now claims that species protected by the Endangered Species Act shouldn't be safe from habitat modification that destroys where they live, raise their young, or search for food," Earthjustice attorney Kristen Boyles said in a statement. read more
Major AI data center builders have doubled their debt in five years. read more
Youtube star Ms. Rachel is voicing her support for Muslims and the hijab, after President Trump singled out a kindergarten graduation ceremony in Minnesota. read more
Reid Rasner, an openly gay Republican running for Wyoming's sole House seat, is spending the final stretch of the campaign on a project he didn't expect: suing members of his own party for defamation. read more
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to tackle housing affordability, officially became law early Saturday, despite a series of attempts by President Donald Trump to stall the legislation. read more
The U.S. Army is consolidating its official social media presence, drastically slashing the number of allowable accounts and ordering commanders to remove newly-unauthorized accounts within 30 days, the service announced in a late-June memorandum. read more
