Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s complaints about media coverage came back to bite him Tuesday.
A federal judge ordered a preliminary injunction against the Department of Defense’s restrictions on press access to the Pentagon, based in part on “a consistent stream of derisive comments beginning shortly after the confirmation of Secretary Hegseth and continuing through the present.”
U.S.…
Donald Trump lost three big cases at the Supreme Court on Monday. His appeal of E. Jean Carroll’s verdict failed. He was blocked from firing a Federal reserve official. And most important, the court upheld the counting of late-arriving mail ballots. He ranted wildly over these losses. On the last one he exploded in a long and angry tirade, seething over the “powerful Communist Movement taking…
At least a dozen Mexican lawmakers – including members of President Claudia Sheinbaum ’s Morena party – have reportedly offered to be informants to the United States as part of Washington’s investigations into elected officials’ alleged collusion with cartels. Sheinbaum has denounced the investigations, using them as a rallying cry for her left-wing…
Plus, Bill Pulte's first week as DNI is going exactly how you'd expect (not great) and Trump's Reflecting Pool claims don't add up.
A federal judge has blocked parts of President Trump’s executive order attempting to restrict mail-in ballots as the midterm elections approach.
The order, challenged in court by 23 states as well as the District of Columbia, was struck down Thursday by Obama-appointed Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She argued that the Constitution empowers…
Android 17 has now officially launched, bringing with it a slew of new privacy and security upgrades like the new Contact Picker and post-quantum app signing.
A federal judge in Rhode Island struck down a slew of President Trump’s policies halting immigration processing and freezing out asylum-seekers, ruling that a federal agency was motivated by “anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making.”
Following a deadly attack on a National Guard member in Washington, D.C., last November, Trump ordered an asylum…
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss lost her initial battle against the staff of _60 Minutes._ That was back in December, when she blocked the airing of a segment that highlighted the inhumane treatment at an El Salvador prison of Venezuelan men who had been deported from the United States and sent there. Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent who reported the segment, wrote an email blasting Weiss’s…
Amidst the ongoing awful, we take wary solace in the modest routs newly inflicted on our wannabe Great Dictator. He lost yugely in multiple courts as judges reopened his bogus IRS suit, froze his slush fund, ripped his name from a D.C. landmark and, in Kenya, told him to take care of his own. Meanwhile, his trashy shitshow of a 250th celebration has devolved into "red-meat-for-the-rubes"…
On Tuesday, federal judges blocked an attempt by Alabama Republicans to eliminate a heavily Black congressional district, and GOP politicians in South Carolina opted not to eliminate longtime Representative James Clyburn’s district. But those decisions don’t diminish what’s happened over the last few weeks: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling, Southern Republicans have…
GOP discomfort with Donald Trump is growing. Republicans have effectively blocked taxpayer money for his ballroom, revolted against his corrupt slush fund for insurrectionists, and turned against his war. GOP panic about the his cratering approval and the midterm elections has reportedly escalated amid the ballroom and slush fund dramas. Amid mounting GOP opposition, Trump let out a strange,…
Just a few weeks into Trump’s return to the White House, thousands of people made their way to a Manhattan park close to NYU Langone Hospital. The rally, one of the earlier mass protests against the president’s second administration, was in defense of transgender rights. NYU Langone had begun quietly canceling appointments for gender-affirming care for minors, seemingly in response to a cruel…
Microsoft is about to make a significant upgrade to its Secure Boot system, and if enterprise customers have not gotten started on the upgrade, they are already behind.
Secure Boot is a Windows subsystem that verifies that each driver is signed by a trusted certificate on startup. If something doesn’t match, it gets blocked. For enterprise networking customers, Microsoft Secure Boot enhancements…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has again blocked the Trump administration from transferring transgender women in federal custody into men’s prisons, extending emergency protections in a lawsuit that has become one of the country’s most significant legal fights over the treatment of transgender prisoners under President Donald Trump’s second administration.
U.S. District Judge Royce C.…
The 2025H2 Project Goal period has now concluded. Over these months, the Rust Project pursued 41 Project Goals, 13 of which were designated as Flagship Goals. This post contains curated updates on our progress since the last post and the final status for each of the goals (many of which continue as part of the 2026 period). Full details for any particular goal are available in its tracking…
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday that 11 Pakistanis and 20 Iranians, aboard vessels seized by the United States on the high seas, were successfully repatriated.
Last week, Pakistan reached out to Singaporean authorities for their support in facilitating the “welfare and repatriation” of the crew members. Dar noted that the vessels were near Singaporean waters…
Plus, are journalists properly investigating the official hantavirus narrative?
****The world's most-watched live music event kicks off today in Vienna under the theme “United by Music.” Yet the 70th Eurovision Song Contest is facing the largest boycott in its history over Israel's participation. Five countries said they wouldn’t compete, citing Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, while Slovenia, Ireland, and Spain will not…
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday said that he had spoken with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and requested the country’s support in facilitating the “welfare and repatriation” of 11 Pakistanis and 20 Iranians aboard vessels seized by the United States.
In a post on the social media platform X, he said that the vessels were currently near…
Iranian sailors, who had been evacuated to Pakistan after being released by the United States, crossed the border and entered their home territory on Monday, reported Iranian state media.
According to IRNA , 15 of the 22 sailors crossed through the Rimdan border terminal in Sistan-Baluchistan.
Earlier, the Foreign Office (FO) said that as a “confidence-building measure” by the US, 22 crew…
Plus, how do we calculate read times?
The Foreign Office (FO) said on Monday that as a “confidence-building measure” by the United States, 22 crew members on an Iranian ship that was seized by US forces had been evacuated to Pakistan.
The statement came hours after American outlet _ABC News_ reported that an Iranian ship seized by the US after it “failed to comply” with the blockade imposed by the country on Iranian ports had been…
An Iranian ship that was seized by the United States after it “failed to comply” with the blockade imposed by the country on Iranian ports has been transferred to Pakistan for repatriation, American outlet _ABC News_ reported on Monday.
“US forces completed the transfer of 22 crew members of M/V Touska to Pakistan for repatriation,“ the report quoted US Central Command Spokesperson Captain Tim…
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Edited interviews of the Riverside judicial candidates—Andrea Garcia, Jennifer Loflin, and Michelle Paradise, are now on the Inland Empire Law Weekly podcast, available on both Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Regardless of the upcoming election, each of these candidates have a wealth of information on law that is worth listening to.
Apple Valley woman stabs husband, sets house on…
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a U.S. Food and Drug Administration rule from 2023 that allowed mifepristone, one of two drugs used to terminate a pregnancy before 10 weeks and to treat miscarriages, to be dispensed without an in-person visit with a health provider.
U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley says Congress just hasn’t done enough to hurt trans youth’s access to healthcare. Missouri’s senior U.S. Senator wants a ban on any taxpayer funding for “trans-treatment,” even though his colleagues in the Senate have already rejected such a prohibition.
He sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson calling for the Republican House to amend a budget resolution with…
“The IG has the authority to hold the Federal Reserve accountable to American taxpayers. I expect a comprehensive report in short order and am confident the outcome will assist in resolving, once and for all, the questions that led this office to issue subpoenas,” Pirro wrot.
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Sean Plankey, informed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and the White House that he is withdrawing his nomination after a 13-month stall, during which the well-regarded cybersecurity veteran faced mounting resistance.
“After thirteen months since my initial nomination, it has become clear the…
Plus, the status of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 23 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.
After we recorded, a court blocked the new Virginia map, but that is likely temporary as it will be quickly appealed.
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.
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