The Honorable US District Judge Dale Ho of the Southern District of New York blocked DHS from deporting nearly 3,000 refugees back to war-torn and famine suffering Yemen, a country the US and Israel routinely bomb. read more
Reporters Without Borders (or RSF, to use the initialism for its French name, Reporters Sans Frontières) today released the 2026 version of its venerable World Press Freedom Index ... read more
More than two months into a conflict that has failed to deliver a decisive military or diplomatic win, President Donald Trump faces the risk that a standoff with Iran will drag on indefinitely and leave an even bigger problem ... read more
The world's largest container carrier plans a new service linking Europe with isolated Middle East ports, using trucking across Saudi Arabia and smaller vessels in the Persian Gulf instead of transiting the blocked Strait of Hormuz. read more
This January, in a drab committee room of the New Hampshire state legislature, a Republican state lawmaker teamed up with a German Holocaust denier to propose that the state's public schools incorporate a conspiracy theory when developing their lesson plans ... read more
Christopher Caldwell: It would be wrong to say the United States is trapped in the war it started. It has options. But it is now going to pay a very steep price, no matter which of them it chooses. read more
Yep. Here you will find members of the Democratic National Committee, working to ensure that Democrats have an overwhelming majority in the next Congress ... read more
The far-right Daily Wire faced mass layoffs this week ... read more
The Justice Department's second attempt to indict former FBI Director James Comey is the latest salvo in what critics call a campaign of retribution on the part of the Trump administration since Donald Trump returned to the presidency in 2025. Administration officials have insisted that any such actions are, as Vice President JD Vance said, "driven by law and not by politics." But they come after Trump vowed during his presidential campaign that he would seek retribution if reelected. read more
Florida's Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd took aim at MAGA influencer and Jan. 6 riot participant Craig Long on Friday after the pro-Trump figure was caught in a human trafficking sting operation. read more
Donald Trump has said the US navy acted "like pirates" as he described an operation seizing a ship amid the tit-for-tat American blockade of Iranian ports. read more
Kathleen Naranjo was almost eight years into paying off her portion of $50,000 in student loans when a federal appeals court last month ended one of the most affordable loan repayment plans in history. read more
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending 30 years in jail for crime he did not commit. Duncan was overwhelmingly elected into the Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court position. State lawmakers have eliminated the longstanding position before he can take office. read more
Found guilty: "David Rivera (60) and Esther Nuhfer (51) obtained a $50 million contract with a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned and state-controlled oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), to advance the interests of the Venezuelan regime in the US. read more
Golden Tempo and jockey Jose Ortiz rallied down the stretch to win Saturday's Kentucky Derby by a neck, making Cherie DeVaux the first female trainer in history to win the race. The longshto paid $48.24 on a $2 win wager.
A bipartisan effort to expand what Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients can buy has sparked an unexpected rift among Democrats, after Minnesota's lieutenant governor publicly criticized members of her own party over a narrowly focused food policy change. read more
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