Two teens who engaged a Waymo car for an afternoon of carousing were busted after the vehicle delivered them to the San Mateo police. The 15-year-olds allegedly were drinking alcohol and shooting water beads from a toy gun as they rode in the driverless car Monday, the police's social media post said. Waymo stopped the car in a parking lot and notified the police, who detained the teens. read more
US District Judge Lynn Adelman sentenced former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan (67) $5,000 for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to evade ICE agents ... read more
Trump says Acting Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), can declassify "whatever" records he wants and can declassify "almost everything." read more
If Republicans are really looking for election fraud, they might want to check on their own party members. read more
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was leaving Turkey aboard an older Air Force One aircraft rather than a recently renovated Qatari-donated jet, an unexpected switch that renewed scrutiny of the costly, fast-tracked retrofit. read more
Florida's anti-woke law restricting how lessons on race and gender can be taught in colleges and universities -- policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis -- violates the free speech rights of professors, a panel of appeals court judges ruled Tuesday. read more
The head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division sent letters to election officials in all 50 states on Tuesday threatening criminal action if they knowingly allow non-U.S. citizens to vote or to remain on their voter rolls, the department confirmed to CBS News. read more
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been accused of a potential ethics violation over a major rare earth minerals deal announced by the US government that has links to his family-run financial firm ... read more
Paul Krugman's column on Trump ordering the Treasury to end all trade with Spain. read more
The robotaxi stopped, called 911, and waited for the San Mateo Police to show up. read more
The cease-fire was always just a Trump fantasy. read more
Maine Democrats have until July 27 to choose a replacement candidate to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R). read more
President Donald Trump denied disaster aid to four Democratic-led states in a move that is raising new questions about whether he's injecting political motivations into emergency management decisions. read more
Researchers Peter Allen, David Moon: Politics is the activity through which power and resources are allocated across society -- who gets what, when and how. Politics, and what it does to all of our lives, is consequential. Yet, despite this, many of those who pay the most attention to politics do so from the position of a fan, engaging with it in the way that others engage with entertainment forms like sport and television shows. Previous studies have paid attention to the fandoms and anti-fandoms that develop around individual politicians and movements - in other words, they maintain a focus on the behaviours and actions of these fans of politics. By contrast, in this paper we explore the construction of politics itself as an object of fandom, asking what happens to politics when it is treated in this way. The activity of politics can be socially constructed by humans to serve some purpose. Thus, who does the constructing and how they do this, affects what it becomes. Our claim is that constructing politics as an object of fandom (i.e. constructing it as 'the drama') affects politics itself. read more
