This summer’s World Cup will be unlike any other in the 96-year history of the world’s most popular sporting event. Never before have players on the field and spectators in the stands faced the intensity of heat expected to confront them at the matches taking place over the next 39 days, starting with today’s opener between Mexico and South Africa. The extra heat is due, in no small part, to…
President Donald Trump posted a humiliating economic statistic Tuesday that revealed his kindergarten-level understanding of economics.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that the U.S. trade deficit had “widened by the most in nearly 34 years,” linking an article from six months ago that said that the trade gap had increased 94.6 percent to $56.8 billion after exports tumbled in November. As of April,…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here_._
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.
Donald Trump is really, really, really unpopular. This week brings a barrage of new polling that shows him tanking horribly by a…
The day after Christmas last year, 24-year-old Nick Shirley posted a video about suspected fraud in Minnesota. In it, he and a man named Dave Hoch knocked the doors of tax-funded daycare centers, then attended a meeting about fraud at Minnesota’s State Capitol. At the conclusion of its 42 minutes, Shirley reported they’d uncovered more than $110 million in fraud.
The video lit a fire on social…
With high gas prices caused by an unnecessary war in the Middle East and a floundering economy, the GOP seems to realize they aren’t going to win the midterm elections on policy issues. Instead, they’re pivoting to the most distasteful plan B possible.
A new ad released Tuesday by the dark money organization Citizens for Sanity depicts the Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico wearing a…
The ball smacked the net. Germany had just scored for the fourth time in 26 minutes, brutally exposing the Brazilian squad. As I watched the match in my father’s São Paulo apartment, I heard a woman outside shriek, an understandable reaction. Ours was silence. Germany would score three more times before the referee’s merciful final whistle. Brazil—the only team to have qualified for every World…
I love the summer. Growing up, it meant family vacations, beach days, block parties—really, what’s not to like? But for millions of Americans, the meaning of summer has been shifting. In many parts of the country, excitement for the upcoming season has turned into anxiety over the weather events—the extreme heat, hurricanes, drought, and wildfires—that have increasingly defined our summers in…
In 1954, Time magazine published a short article about the University of Utah using beagles in research to determine the dangers of radioactive material over a lifetime.
At a kennel dubbed “Beagleville,” 450 dogs had been injected with graduated amounts of radioactive material, including plutonium and radium. “These elements accumulate in the bones and bombard tender cells with damaging alpha…
Last week, Donald Trump’s rolling assault on the physical landscape of the capital set its sights on yet another historical landmark. The fountain in the World War II memorial, Trump
declared, looked “in pretty bad shape on the bottom,” in need of a makeover “duplicating” that for the nearby Reflecting Pool, though “maybe with a slightly different color … a lighter blue.”
But as we head toward…
Katie Miller, who is married to Stephen Miller, lashed out at a young Democratic operative on Thursday, after the Democratic Party’s official account called Miller’s husband an “ugly f–k.” The aggrieved wife of the top White House adviser posted the operative’s picture on X and ridiculed her personal life, declaring, “She’s 30, unmarried with no kids,” and adding: “This is what a sad, unhappy,…
Chair Ken Martin’s handling of the report is under scrutiny.
Pregnant women, babies and children are being swept up in the mass arrests ordered under Bukele’s ‘state of emergency’
Did you know that you could sue any recipient of money from Donald Trump's slush fund?
By you, I mean any American citizen, and possibly domestically domiciled corporate entities as well.
You see, everyone has standing to sue under the False Claims Act, AKA the Lincoln Law:
The Justice Department’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which would pay out public money in compensation for…
Has misconduct stopped mattering, or is it another case of amnesia?
Nigeria’s Christians are among the most persecuted in the world. They face threats from Muslim Fulani herdsmen who have raided villages and killed hundreds of believers. They also face threats from terror groups known around the world for their brutality, such as Islamic State (ISIS), against which a significant victory was recently achieved.
In a joint operation on May 16, U.S. and Nigerian…
A teenage boy was pulled from the water near Halifax (Picture: Wikimedia Commons)
Two teenagers have died in separate water-related incidents during the record-breaking heat on Bank Holiday Monday.
A teenage boy was pronounced dead after being pulled from water near Halifax.
A few hours later a teenage girl was found dead at a water park in Warwickshire.
The hottest day of May was recorded…
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[1] tracking geese sightings around the University of Waterloo | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.
surface=laterite tag, intended to describe roads, tracks, or paths surfaced with lateritic soil has been open for a request for comments since 19 May. Lateritic soil is a cohesive iron oxide-rich tropical and subtropical material…
Digital driver licences, NZ Verify, Govt.nz, and online age verification are starting to form part of the same digital verification ecosystem.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 20 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.****
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.
Donald Trump just endorsed MAGA nutjob Ken Paxton in the Texas GOP primary for Senate. This all but ensures a weaker GOP nominee,…
Last week, J.D. Vance gave a speech at a factory in Des Moines, Iowa, that ostensibly was in support of GOP Rep. Zach Nunn’s reelection campaign, but rightly has been evaluated as a trial balloon for his all-but-declared 2028 presidential run. And its message should worry Democrats who are expecting to ride an anti-Trump wave back to power this fall and beyond.
The vice president said the…
About a decade ago, I moved into an apartment in Washington, D.C., that seemed like a bargain. The unit was in good shape and in a nice location. The price was reasonable—slightly below market rate, but not suspiciously low for a fourth-floor walkup. I did a brief walkthrough before signing the lease, just in case, only to cut it short when my editor at the time called to let me know that the…
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[1] | Cast-iron Street Map of the City Centre in the Ukrainian City of Poltava
name:<language>-Latn to consistently tag transliterations in Latin script worldwide following BCP 47.route=safari to map safari routes as dedicated…Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues have a problem on their hands. Americans have an increasingly low opinion of the Supreme Court. Thanks to its aggressive and corrosive rulings, a growing number of voters and elected officials favor structural reforms to rein in the conservative justices—by expanding its size, narrowing its jurisdiction, and other major changes.
The chief justice…
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Writing this week in The American Conservative, Peter Tonguette described the reactions of coastal elites upon learning he lives in Ohio — by choice.
It is an exercise that requires what Tonguette calls…
A federal judge on Monday apologized to Cole Allen, the alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter, for what his lawyers described as “excessive restrictions on his liberty that serve no justifiable purpose.”
Cole Allen, who stormed into the Washington Hilton last month, was placed on temporary suicide watch upon arriving in jail in Washington, D.C.—even as he did not appear to be…
I'm pleading with you to look at the president's self-dealing.
Earlier this month, someone at the FBI made an extraordinary decision: to send a plane to Cuba to bring home an American child who had allegedly been kidnapped. It was a possibly unprecedented intervention, apparently connected to a family member’s reported fear that the child’s alleged kidnappers sought “gender reassignment surgery” for the 10-year-old. On April 21, federal prosecutors announced…
Plus, who writes President Trump's speeches?
A legal case in Kansas shows how surveillance technology can distort policing priorities. When authorities can monitor anyone cheaply, the temptation to target critics increases.
The United States did not always have a Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant founded it in 1870 to help suppress the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern states and enforce federal civil-rights protections for formerly enslaved Americans. On Tuesday, Justice Department officials announced what may be the first Klan-friendly prosecution in the department’s history.
The Southern Poverty Law…