The wildest, scariest, indisputable truth about AI's large language models is that the companies building them don't know exactly why or how they work. read more
Donald Trump has ordered the National Guard to enter Los Angeles in their thousands, in a move with the potential to set off the biggest domestic political crisis the US has faced since Trump's supporters attempted an insurrection in Washington DC in 2021. read more
Issac Bailey: I've said Pete Hegseth is the least-qualified defense secretary ever. I was wrong. He's the most-qualified. My mistake was comparing him to men whose job was to protect the United States. But Hegseth is working to re-establish white supremacy. read more
The Trump administration diverted 20,000 anti-drone missiles originally promised to Kyiv to American forces in the Middle East, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. read more
Amid rising tensions over immigration raids in the Los Angeles area, the city of Glendale announced Sunday night it has ended its agreement with the federal government to house detainees captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. read more
A plurality of Americans don't approve of the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard and Marines in response to Los Angeles protests, the latest YouGov polling shows. read more
This year, two other GOP-led states -- Arkansas and Tennessee -- passed over-the-counter ivermectin laws. read more
Heather Cox Richardson points out the connection between the Trump Administration's escalation in LA and their desperation to get their enormously unpopular bill passed through the US Senate. "Republicans' "One Big, Beautiful Bill" is the MAGA regime's attempt to replace the American government we've had since the 1930s with one that reflects the antidemocratic values of Project 2025. The measure is unpopular. According to a new CBS News/YouGov poll, 60% of Americans think the bill will help wealthy people, while 54% think it will hurt poor people." read more
Many of the proposed resolutions -- on gambling, pornography, sex, gender and marriage -- reflect long-standing positions of the convention, though they are especially pointed in their demands on the wider political world. read more
President Donald Trump has publicly voiced his support for the arrest of a sitting state governor. read more
President Trump's second term has been a payday for the powerful, exposing a disconnect in his promise to deliver for "the forgotten man" of America's working class. read more
Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose path-finding, psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early '70s, has died. He was 82. read more
President Trump reportedly picks up when his cell rings even if he doesn't know who's calling. Senior members of his team also love chatting on their personal devices. That makes the administration uniquely vulnerable to basic scams like spoofed calls and impersonation attempts. read more
It is the first time since 1965 that a president called National Guard troops to respond to civil unrest without a governor's official request for assistance, according to Elizabeth Goitein, the senior director of the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program. read more
There is no such thing as an "illegal" protest, said an expert on constitutional law at Washington University in St. Louis. The First Amendment explicitly protects the right of peaceable assembly. read more
The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law. This 143-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both democracy and personal liberty. However, recent events have revealed dangerous gaps in the law's coverage that Congress must address. read more
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