President-elect Donald Trump announced on Monday that his son Donald Trump Jr. would visit Greenland in preparation for the territory becoming "part of our nation." read more
Meta will dismantle its extensive fact-checking program, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday, ending a practice that has sought to limit the spread of falsehoods on its platform but has been assailed as censorship in conservative circles. read more
The federal judge who oversaw the classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump issued an order Tuesday temporarily blocking the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on his investigation. read more
Tech billionaire Elon Musk exploded in a vulgar outburst on his X platform in the dead of morning on Monday, in response to a foreign grad student accusing him of purveying fake news and urging the European Union to rein him in. read more
A judge on Monday found Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for failing to turn over assets to as part of a judgment to two former Georgia election workers. read more
President Joe Biden urged Americans on Sunday to never forget the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on their democracy and to not allow the history of that day to be rewritten. "We cannot allow the truth to be lost," he said. read more
Former vice president Mike Pence shared a cryptic tweet espousing the merits of humility ahead of the January 6 Capitol riot anniversary. read more
The man in control of the Utah-based rightwing militia Oath Keepers USA, a recent spinoff of the national organization first established by Stewart Rhodes in 2009, is a former Las Vegas metropolitan police department (LVMPD) homicide detective who left the force in acrimony after advocating "race war". read more
A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules, ending a 20-year push to regulate internet service providers like a public utility. read more
At least 95 people have been confirmed dead and 130 are injured after a major earthquake struck the mountainous Tibet region on Tuesday morning, Chinese state media say. read more
North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile into the East Sea on Monday, South Korea's military said, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Seoul to meet with his counterpart amid a deepening political crisis in the country. read more
The Defector's Tom Scocca writes an interesting story about people who do clearly crazy actions for stated political reasons. He exams the New York Times' stories about the Las Vegas and New Orleans attacks. The New York Times was quick to point out how ISIS radicalized the New Orleans suspect but spent little time on how MAGA rhetoric radicalized the Las Vegas suspect. read more
Last month, Mike Johns posted a video on LinkedIn showing what happened after he was picked up by a Waymo self-driving car in Scottsdale, Arizona. read more
Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden -- a move that spares them from the death chamber -- have taken an unusual stance: They're refusing to sign paperwork accepting his clemency action. read more
According to Bloomberg, there is a high expectation that Trump will grant clemency to over 1,000 people who have been convicted. During his Time Magazine interview last year, the president-elect, when he was asked about the pardon, said "I'm going to do case-by-case, and if they were non-violent, I think they've been greatly punished." read more
The pontiff has appointed a sharp critic of Donald Trump to be the next archbishop of the nation's capital"just in time for the president-elect's return to office. read more
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