Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia's coast.
There's also plans to reduce its office-based workforce by 300 -- a 15% cut -- by the end of this year. This is all due to the tariffs introduced by President Donald Trump's administration. read more
A federal judge in Boston indicated Thursday that she will intervene in a high-stakes fight over the Trump administration's decision to not tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to help cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. read more
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell drew a stark picture of a labor market that looks fine on the surface -- 4.3% unemployment, solid consumer spending -- but is quietly losing momentum underneath. read more
The F.B.I. made the disclosure in a pointed letter that underscored broader concern over a House bill that would give more authority to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence. read more
Nearly half say Trump and GOP are responsible for the shutdown, the poll finds. read more
Weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges, JPMorgan Chase filed a report alerting the US government to tens of millions of dollars of potentially suspicious transactions involving him and prominent Wall Street and business figures. read more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, "thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol," a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket. read more
On Monday morning, the Trump administration used a picture of Halo's Master Chief to call for the destruction of immigrants. read more
During the first Trump administration, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler documented more than 30,000 lies by the president. Now Trump's back in the White House and Kessler is gone, as the Post's owner Jeff Bezos seeks to make the storied paper more MAGA-friendly. read more
"This is a political prosecution that tries to turn dissent and First Amendment opposition to the Trump administration's cruel policies into a conspiracy," defense attorney Josh Herman told NBC News in an email. "Kat has steadfastly opposed those policies and she will fight these charges with the same principled determination." read more
President Trump's nominee for a top post at the U.S. Export-Import (EXIM) Bank withdrew his nomination this week amid scrutiny over his ties to Russia. read more
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers. read more
Four Republican senators voted with Democrats on Thursday to approve a bipartisan resolution to repeal President Trump's global tariffs ... read more
HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr is changing his story a a month after appearing at a press conference with Donald Trump where the administration stated that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy is associated with a "very increased risk of autism". read more
Dmitri S. Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, told Russian news agencies that recent drone and missile tests were not nuclear weapons tests. read more
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