“Our commitment to the law of armed conflict is not a constraint on our lethality,” Adm. Brad Cooper, the CENTCOM head, wrote in a memo.
In news that should surprise no one, Scalia Cheney engaged in virtually identical corrupt behavior, and engaged in a virtually identical defense of the indefensible.
In recent years, Justice Clarence Thomas’s fondness for taking luxury vacations on billionaire-owned superyachts has made Supreme Court ethics reform perhaps the single easiest campaign promise for Democratic politicians to make.…
New Texas Tech University guidelines eliminating references to sexual orientation and gender identity from coursework forced nearly half of surveyed faculty members to make changes they described as harmful to their curricula.
Survey results released by the school’s Faculty Senate showed broad disapproval among educators regarding a memo issued by the university’s chancellors last…
Federal rural health fund meets healthcare desert in eastern NC; Union group wants to bolster Kansas City's affordable housing by investing pension money; After Sarah T. Reed H.S. closure, NOLA teachers worry that school closures will become the new normal
A federal court has upheld a ruling prohibiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from arresting undocumented immigrants in Washington, D.C. without a warrant.
Judge blocks warrantless ICE arrests in DC
Judge Beryl A. Howell issued the 45-page opinion on Friday, months after her initial ruling.
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During the Reagan administration, John Roberts was known for denouncing judicial overreach. Today he has adopted an assertive use of judicial power, using the Supreme Court’s shadow docket to fast-track corporate wins on climate and federal policy.
Chief Justice John Roberts has become the kind of tyrannical, politically unaccountable “activist” judge that he himself once warned…
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Forty-six years ago I told an editor of _The New Republic_ that I’d like my first article for this publication to be about the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. I was an earnest summer intern, less than one month out of college. The editor, Michael Kinsley, seven years my senior, was the smartest journalist I’d ever met (he retains that distinction today). Mike gave me a pitying…
Ascendant DC think tank Searchlight Institute, pushing Democrats to the center, has ties to megadonor Simone Coxe, whose Nvidia-linked money could boost AI-backed efforts to defend data center build-outs and limit AI regulation.
The Searchlight Institute has pushed Democrats toward lighter regulation of artificial intelligence. (Joan Cros / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail that he would sic his deportation agenda on the “worst of the worst,” but that has not been the case.
Approximately 63 percent of the people arrested in Minnesota between December and February had no criminal record whatsoever, according to arrest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project.
During that period, federal agents cuffed more than 3,700…
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President Donald Trump is supporting House Republicans’ uprising against a bill passed by the Senate Thursday night that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security, but exclude funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and part of Customs and Border Protection.
House Republicans were apparently blindsided by the Senate’s decision, and immediately rejected the legislation. They…
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are looking for more answers about missing materials from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.
In a series of letters Thursday, Democrats on the committee sought testimony from three private investigators who removed a trove of materials from the alleged sex trafficker’s mansion in Palm Beach, including several hard drives.
A memo from one private investigator,…
A federal judge on 26 March 2026 granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against DOD, temporarily reversing the government's designation of the AI company a supply chain risk, reports the Verge. US District Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California wrote that the Department of War's own records showed the designation was motivated by Anthropic's "hostile manner…
Some of the most unfortunate anecdotes surrounding Windows involve unexpected updates. Microsoft is trying to move to a regular schedule to make these horror stories a thing of the past.
Microsoft outlined the changes in a massive memo authored by the head of Microsoft’s Windows + Devices group, Pavan Davuluri. In it, Davuluri identified performance, reliability, and craft as the company’s top…
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Is MAGA changing its tune on solar energy? Since the start of the year, a dizzying array of social media posts and news reports have pointed to the possibility, even as the administration continues to double down on its anti-wind policies and rhetoric. Why solar? And why now—especially given that President Trump continues to fulminate against its renewable energy cousin, wind power?
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The FBI warned police departments in California that Iran may be planning a retaliatory drone strike on the state.
“We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the…
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Labor Council Secretary Laurie Wimmer privately suggested councilors sue the city to stop “MAGA of the left” from choosing council president. by Jeremiah Hayden
During the City Council president vote earlier this year, Portlanders may have been surprised to hear City Councilor Loretta Smith (D1) say she wanted to use her office funds to sue the city. After multiple rounds of deadlock, Smith…
Though Covid injections have resulted in the deaths of millions, we will never know how many. Deaths due to Lysenkoism are uncertain, too, but in both, millions of lives were sacrificed by suppression of science, enforced in the pursuit of power.
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The Federal Communications Commission is imploring America’s broadcasters to air propaganda ahead of the country’s 250th birthday.
In a Friday memo establishing the “Pledge America Campaign”, FCC Chair Brendan Carr said that U.S. media companies should run public service announcements, short segments, or specials to advance “civic education, inspiring local stories, and American history.”
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars on mega-prisons where the agency can disappear thousands of people.
In a memo shared with New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte, ICE outlined its $38.3 billion plan to launch a “new detention center model” that would expand the agency’s detention capacity by 92,600 beds by the end of FY26.
“This effort aims to…
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