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A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and other artificial intelligence-powered tools to manage their he…

A coalition of nonprofit groups and labor unions filed an emergency petition on Friday aimed at blocking the Federal Communications Commission’s recent repeal of a decades-old rule that limited consolidation among television broadcasters, a move that would

One of the most visible consequences of global warming is the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as the powerful nor’easter that hammered the East Coast and mid-Atlantic for several days in late September with heavy rain, wi…

On the night of March 18, 2025, while we were observing Ramadan, my family and I woke to the sound of very loud explosions, one after another.

Outside groups have poured nearly $2 billion into this election cycle with weeks of spending still to come, and a small cluster of groups is responsible for a growing share of that money.

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Friday filed a new lawsuit to try to shut down the Dakota Access oil pipeline, continuing a decadelong battle over the project.

We are about to close out three years and enter another since Israel invaded Gaza, but we are not leaving the war behind to begin a new life.

The upcoming midterm elections seem destined to serve as a bellwether for the state of democracy in this deeply fraught period of U.S. electoral history.

Trump administration officials, facing numerous allegations of war crimes in its actions ranging from Iran to Cuba, issued punishing sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday that threaten the future of the entire body and its work

President Donald Trump made over 500 stock trades in the month of August, recent filings show, including millions of dollars in bonds purchased for SpaceX, just days before the administration loosened regulations that would have affected the company.

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the South African jurist who led the United Nations commission of inquiry that concluded that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.

The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly on Friday adopted a resolution calling for a formal review of its Status of Forces agreement with the US military amid outrage over the alleged murder of local woman by an American Marine.

President Donald Trump encouraged people in Minnesota to “fight” against Somali immigrants in the state on Thursday, openly inciting race war in some of his most violent rhetoric against Somalis yet.

Inside a rented house in the Saraya area, west of Gaza City, 50-year-old Rami Karaja sat talking about a home he can no longer reach and documents he can no longer retrieve.

In a Fox News interview that aired earlier this week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) indicated that he might retire from the House of Representatives altogether if Republicans failed to retain control of Congress following this year’s mid…

Christa Pike woke up on October 6 in a Tennessee hospital with a blood clot and pneumonia, handcuffed and shackled to her bed, having become the first known person to survive an execution via lethal injection.

Paris Lee was shot six times and killed by Samuel Ward Jr.; this is an indisputable fact.

Martin Soto, who helped lead a hunger strike at Delaney Hall immigration jail in Newark, New Jersey, earlier this year, was released from detention with an ankle monitor on Tuesday evening.

A federal immigration officer shot a man Thursday afternoon in New York’s Marble Hill neighborhood, according to police, eyewitnesses and the Department of Homeland Security, in an incident that drew swift rebuke from elected officials and a crowd of spon…

This week, President Donald Trump — facing increasingly worse approval ratings on issues ranging from the Iran war to immigration — is touting a U.S. program to colonize the moon.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced additional charges against ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, alleging that both have committed crimes relating to torture.

When asked to define socialism on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance said that the rising left-wing ideology means a desire to “replace American workers with foreign workers” — a bizarre response coming from an administration that has made anti-socialist p…

Lisa Jo Chamberlin’s life has always been a tangle of drug use, abuse, and extreme violence.

The Supreme Court once billed the Endangered Species Act as “the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species ever enacted by any nation.”

Since construction began on President Donald Trump’s border wall in haste on October 5, federal agents have clashed with land defenders and arrested roughly two dozen activists who camped out on private land to protest the destruction of fragile desert ec…

This week marks 25 years since the U.S.

A Senate request for information on the Israeli killings of Americans in the occupied West Bank was recently blocked by a top aide to U.S.

President Donald Trump announced disaster aid for the state of Wisconsin on Wednesday in a decidedly partisan manner, crediting a Republican candidate in the state’s gubernatorial race rather than Wisconsin’s current Democratic governor, who originally ma…

A lawyer for Ahmed Soliman, a 31-year-old Phoenix man who has been arbitrarily detained in Equatorial Guinea since April, when US immigration agents forced him onto a plane under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy, expressed cauti…

In remarks to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, President Donald Trump admitted that he wanted to push for privatizing Social Security in his first term in office, contradicting campaign promises he made in 2016 and earlier that he wouldn’t touch…

On Tuesday, Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to smear the student mobilizations spreading across France as caused by “out of control mass migration” and “Islam wanting to take over.”

Military contractors with investments from President Donald Trump’s sons have raked in billions of dollars in government deals and contracts since June 2025, when their venture capital company first obtained a major stake in military technology company An…

When I left Gaza in 2024, after six months of living through genocide, I wanted one thing above all else: to spare my only child a life spent permanently at war.

“There were nights full of terror.

A group of House Democrats has called for Israel to release hundreds of health care workers, including physicians like Hussam Abu Safiya, from detention as Israel’s genocide in Gaza reaches into its fourth year.

Quadaire Patterson will vote for the first time this fall, a fact that brought a smile to his face on a recent afternoon as his 1-year-old daughter Trinity frolicked around the living room of the Henrico County home he shares with his wife.

In Gaza, October 7, 2023, is viewed as the beginning of the genocide.

The top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee has opened a probe into Jared Kushner and his private equity firm’s stake in Israeli military suppliers, raising concerns over “significant conflicts of interest” as Kushner serves as a top Middle…

Newly unearthed audio of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) reveals his frustration with President Donald Trump and his policies, which he views as dragging down his own campaign for U.S. senator.

Every year, there were seasons and occasions that brought families together: holidays, Ramadan iftar meals, the end of the school year, and other gatherings.

Documents obtained and released on Wednesday by the advocacy group Democracy Forward show that the investigative arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gathered tens of millions of voter records ahead of the midterm elections as part of a purpo…

On Monday evening, thousands of Cornell University students protested on the university campus, demanding accountability for Cornell’s alleged mishandling of the 2024 rape case that has come under a national spotlight.

White House staffers indicated on Tuesday that President Donald Trump will not be reimbursing the government for the millions of dollars in taxpayer funds he has used to produce promotional TV ads ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

The Trump administration has reportedly deported dozens of LGBTQ immigrants who sought or were granted asylum for their sexuality and gender to third countries where they face danger of persecution and criminalization, a new report says.

Republicans and Democrats in Congress have introduced competing legislation to rein in the government’s use of Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers (ALPRs) following widespread abuses by police and intense public backlash to the powerful

Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year — nearly four times the amount of cases recorded across the entire U.S. in 2024.

For the first time in more than two decades, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will not conduct oversight of the upcoming midterm elections after the Trump administration effectively blocked them from doing so, raising yet mo…

Over the course of two hours, witnesses watched and listened as Christa Pike cried, whimpered and snored through Tennessee’s attempt to execute her.

After setting up robust rapid-response groups to resist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abductions and stopping the buying up of warehouses to detain thousands of immigrants, activists are now focusing on other ways they can disrupt the Trump ad…