Europe's quest for digital sovereignty is hampered by a 90 per cent dependency on US cloud infrastructure ... read more
The decision marks a significant setback for California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 21 of his Democratic counterparts, who sued in July to prevent the Trump administration from using Medicaid data obtained ... read more
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are planning to spend $100 million over a one-year period to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers ... read more
Loyalists are complaining, right-wing influencers are sniping at Cabinet officials and now top Trump appointees are snapping back in public, often with visible contempt for the very people who put them there. read more
As Zohran Mamdani prepares to be inaugurated as the city's next mayor, Muslim New Yorkers say his victory represents more than a historic first. read more
Trump has claimed that the US had "knocked out" a "big facility" as part of the US campaign targeting alleged drug boats in Latin America and against Venezuela. read more
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., suggested House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is "under direct orders from the White House" and doesn't truly lead House Republicans. read more
When Republican state Rep. Jim DeSana voted earlier this month to cut $645 million in work project funding, he unknowingly axed about $2 million in state funding meant to repair the roof of a building named after his father. read more
China's military announced Monday it was mobilizing army, navy, air and rocket units around Taiwan in major military drills to test what it said was combat readiness and to send a "serious warning" against any push for Taiwanese independence. read more
A $400,000 shipment of lobster was stolen as it was headed for Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota by a driver impersonating a legitimate carrier. read more
Garry Kasparov: By speaking with Trump in advance, Putin positions Russia's interests as the backdrop against which Ukraine's requests will be evaluated. read more
ProPublica published a list of investigations you may have missed due to America's governing turmoil. One is the story of Zolgensma, a gene therapy drug which gives baby's born with a rare disease a real chance to grow up and live normal lives. Despite being developed with help from taxpayers and nonprofit charities, the drug's maker debuted the drug with a $2-million per dose price tag, which set the stage for other gene therapy drugs to also have million dollar prices. ProPublica dug into the records to show how the drug was developed and why it debuted at such a high cost. "Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation." read more
The New York Time's M. Gessen writes an opinion piece on Sweden's longest criminal trial. Characterizing the often mundane hearings as "the most ambitious effort since Nuremberg to hold corporate executives accountable for alleged complicity in war crimes." The trial examines the actions of oil company executives working to succeed in the war-torn Sudan in the 1990s. read more
From Grandma being confused by the monthly text donations she subscribed to or parents asking if they should be concerned about a youngster admiring Nick Fuentes, The Bulwark writers report back from Christmas with their families. "That's an underappreciated feature of our political age: It's not just that things are bad, it's that they're relentlessly so. You can't turn it off. You can't escape it. You can't distinguish between real and fake, good and bad, normal and abnormal. The stuff keeps piling up." read more
