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This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending cash bail in Washington D.C. and other jurisdictions around the country. H...
President Donald Trump’s administration is full of sycophants. That was made quite apparent this week (if it wasn't already) during a three-hour-long...
In the federal government’s latest excursion into the private sector, the US announced last week that it took a 10% stake in Intel. The move comes aft...
A lot has happened so far since President Donald Trump took office for a second term, but one thing is certain- he's indisputably unpopular. According...
Third Way, a center-left think tank, released a list of words it thinks Democrats should stop using on Friday. The list included words like “intersect...
On Thursday, California lawmakers passed a redistricting plan aimed at winning Democrats up to five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 elections. It wa...
The White House announced it's leading a "comprehensive internal review of selected Smithsonian museums and exhibitions" to ensure that the museums "c...
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced it's launching a much-needed and super important investigation into Washington D.C.'s crime statistics...
The conversation surrounding artificial intelligence in the US is hard to avoid right now. Powerful companies like Nvidia are making AI chips, doctors...
The Trump administration’s crackdown on universities across the country for alleged antisemitism has made its way from the East Coast to the West Coas...
Nvidia, a U.S.-based chip manufacturer that's now the richest company on earth, has agreed to pay the federal government 15 percent of its profits fro...
President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss the future of the war in...
National Guard troops began showing up on the streets of the nation's capital overnight, a little more than a day after President Donald Trump announc...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing massive backlash — both domestic and international — over his government's decision late last week to take...
President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska this week to discuss a potential end to the war in Ukraine (whic...
If you got a COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna or Pfizer, congratulations, you got a vaccine that uses mRNA to teach your cells how to fight the diseas...
We’re starting to hear the horror stories from some of the Venezuelan men who the Trump Administration deported to the Salvadoran super-max prison kno...
The Voting Rights Act turns 60 today. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, with the goa...
The fallout from President Donald Trump’s decision last week to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over what he called a ‘rigged’ jobs re...
