The Global Engagement Center (GEC), a State Department unit established in 2016, shuttered on Monday at a time when officials and experts tracking propaganda have been warning of the risk of disinformation campaigns from US adversaries such as Russia and China. read more
Republican lawmakers have now clawed back half the investment the Biden administration made in the tax agency. read more
The New York attorney general's office released body cam footage Friday of corrections officers fatally assaulting a state prisoner while he was cuffed to an infirmary bed. Robert Brooks, 43, died a day after the attack. Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the state Department of Corrections to initiate proceedings to fire 14 works at the Marcy Correctional Facility where the incident occured.
The astronauts on the I.S.S. -- including two who were scheduled to return months ago -- held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating contest and built a reindeer from storage bags. read more
The US has imposed sanctions on Georgia's former prime minister and billionaire founder of the Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Ivanishvili and his party had "derailed Georgia's Euro-Atlantic future", leaving it vulnerable to Russia.
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A genetic analysis of viral samples from a patient in Louisiana hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu showed mutations that may result in the virus becoming more transmissible among humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. read more
As state legislatures around the country prepare to convene next month, Wyoming is wading into uncharted political waters: For the first time anywhere in the country, the hard-right Freedom Caucus has won control of a State House. read more
The far-right provocateur is taking aim at Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over their support of highly skilled workers from India, claiming that the country's residents have a low IQ and describing Indians as "third world invaders." read more
Marc Elias, Democracy Docket: Federal Election Day is set by law as the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November in even numbered years. read more
No Democrats are circulating plans to object to Donald Trump's victory. Kamala Harris plans to certify his win. Republicans just need to make sure they elect a speaker in time. read more
Warren "Red" Upton, the last surviving veteran of the battleship USS Utah, which sank in Pearl Harbor during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack and remains there as a memorial, died Wednesday in San Jose, Calif. He was 105. read more
On a May afternoon, Teresa Stratton sat on her walker near a freeway in Portland, Oregon, talking about how much she wanted to live inside. She missed sleeping uninterrupted in a bed and having running water. When you live outside, "the dirt embeds in your skin," the 61-year-old said. "You have to pick it out, because it just doesn't come out anymore." Living inside would also mean no longer having her belongings repeatedly confiscated by crews the city hires to clear encampments. These encounters, commonly known as "sweeps," are the "biggest letdown in the world," she said, noting that she lost the ashes of her late husband to a sweep. read more
UAB research has characterized in detail how polymer-based commercial tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of these particles to be absorbed by human intestinal cells, and are thus able to reach the bloodstream and spread throughout the body. read more
Residents of unincorporated New Castle, Pennsylvania, drove a surge in support for Donald Trump in 2024. Now, they're counting on him not to cut their Social Security benefits, The Washington Post reported. read more
