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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

A Democratic National Committee panel on Monday recommended a new election for the post held by Vice Chair David Hogg, whose effort to challenge "asleep at the wheel" Democrats sparked a firestorm in the national party. read more


Pete Rose has officially been taken off MLB's permanently ineligible list, the league announced Tuesday. read more


An analysis of Hegseth's thesis through several publicly available plagiarism detection models flagged a total of 12 passages spread out throughout the paper. read more


The White House touted the rollback of tariffs on China as a "historic trade win" for the U.S., but The Wall Street Journal thinks it looked more like a surrender. read more


The Medicaid portions of the GOP megabill would lead to 10.3 million people losing coverage under the health safety net program and 7.6 million people going uninsured, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. read more


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. submerges in creek with high bacteria levels, including E. coli RFK Jr. shared photos of himself swimming in Washington, D.C.'s, Rock Creek. read more


Social media influencer Hasan Piker, widely regarded as one of the biggest names in left-wing independent media, has long been critical of President Donald Trump and of the ongoing war in Gaza. read more


The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have agreed on a $142 billion arms deal potentially the largest such deal in history. read more


In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Trump's administration. read more


President Donald Trump plans to announce while on his trip to Saudi Arabia next week that the United States will now refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, according to two U.S. officials. read more


Schumer also called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify before Congress and answer a number of questions related to the potential gift. read more


House Republicans are moving forward with plans to raise the nation's debt ceiling by $4 trillion as part of a larger plan to advance President Trump's tax agenda. read more


Pope Leo XIV praised journalists seeking the truth in polarizing times. read more


The Trump administration spent at least $21 million transporting migrants ... read more


Alternet's The Conversation writes about the countries that have enshrined term limits for their leaders but still have had to deal with a leader who refused to leave office. read more


Monday, May 12, 2025

Most people need around eight hours of sleep each night to function, but a rare genetic condition allows some to thrive on as little as three hours. read more


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