Podcast Episode · THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent · September 30 · 21m

Three attorneys general in anti-abortion states filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging the abortion shield laws of three Democratic-led states that protect ph…

Defense secretary ranted against diversity claiming ‘no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals’ in troops * Send us your questions about how the Iran war will affect US voters in the midterms US defense secretary Pete Hegseth has confirmed plans to cut 20% of generals and admirals and declared “no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps” would be tolerated inside the country’s military. Delivering his latest extraordinary attack on diversity, and dismissing reports of low morale within the US armed forces as “false claims”, Hegseth also suggested they were retaining service personnel at “record” rates. Continue reading...

For MAGA politicians, there’s no such thing as a gaffe.

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Garry Kasparov, the exiled Russian chess champion and outspoken Putin critic, has reportedly been warned by U.S. authorities that he is the target of an alleged Kremlin-linked assassination plot in the United States.

The global network has operated since at least 2024 and most recently attempted to recruit multiple people in the U.S. to surveil and kill Russian dissidents, prosecutors claimed.

13th World Champion Garry Kasparov was warned by U.S. authorities this summer that he was the target of a plot to kill him and was placed under special protection, says Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

An update in Putin’s murder plot on American soil.

Around 250 Russian soldiers have been captured during the operation, which President Volodymyr Zelensky said thwarted a push toward Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...

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The change follows a court ruling barring Title IX from protecting L.G.B.T.Q. people and has angered advocates for sexual assault survivors.

In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.

They clearly violate the intent of the law. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be easy to stop.

A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.

The story of the scandal in the LBJ administration that first brought queer life into the national political conversation in the 1960s.In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s longest-serving and most trusted adv...

The book series America Unsettled: Political History for What Comes Next published or distributed by the University of Chicago Press.

Prosecutors have questioned potential witnesses about his longtime accountant and lawyer. Both of them have denied wrongdoing.

In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”

The Times has witnessed the country’s transformation. It will keep its eyes open.

The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.

Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment

Photos of President Trump reviewing a poster board with the title “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED” spurred the largest gathering yet in support of the performing arts institution.

A candidate forum in Delaware was disrupted after a candidate for the U.S. House repeatedly misgendered his opponent.

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Tracing Heritage and Kevin Roberts’s ties to a growing network of classical Christian schools—and the policies steering public money their way.

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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So far, the DOJ has lost every one of its case to have been decided — and it also lost an appeal to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.