Prior to President Harry Truman’s 1948 executive order that racially integrated the nation’s armed services, one of the major arguments for keeping the military segregated was the idea that Black sold...

May 7, 2025

when is a deal not a deal?

May 1, 2025

This morning the Bureau of Economic Analysis released a report showing an abrupt reversal in the U.S.

Lawmakers invoke Christ but pass laws that punish, exclude, and silence. They should carry His cross — not wield it.

On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.

Today’s major stories must be seen in the context of President Donald Trump’s dramatic losses in court and his plummeting poll numbers.

The memo says "Alien Enemies" aren't subject "to a judicial review of the removal in any court of the United States."

April 26, 2025

The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

Fernando Collor, who led the country from 1990 to 1992, was sentenced in 2023 after being convicted for corruption Brazil’s former president, Fernando Collor, has been arrested early and ordered to begin serving a prison sentence stemming from his 2023 conviction for corruption. Collor was convicted of receiving 20m reais ($3.5m) to facilitate contracts between BR Distribuidora, a fuel distributor formerly controlled by the state-owned oil company Petrobras, and construction firm UTC Engenharia for the construction of fuel distribution bases. In return, he offered political support for the appointment of executives at BR Distribuidora when it was still state-owned. Continue reading...

April 25, 2025

Donald Trump is openly admitting his defiance of the Supreme Court on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

“Vladimir, STOP!” wrote President Donald Trump on his social media site this morning.

weird how nothing is ever their fault

Theater groups say the bill's use of "sex identity" would limit the ability of women to take on men's roles in school productions.

Coalition allies of Pedro Sánchez said the purchase of millions of bullets jeopardised country’s efforts to hold Israel to account over war in Gaza Spain has scrapped a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company after the junior partners in its coalition government denounced it as a “flagrant breach” of the alliance agreement that jeopardised the country’s sustained efforts to hold Israel accountable for its actions in Gaza. The country’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza, questioning whether it is following international humanitarian law and calling the number of Palestinian deaths “truly unbearable”. Continue reading...

Employees of a private security firm based in Northern California were charged in connection to the detention of a protester during a town hall in Idaho. The company is known for using harsh, controversial tactics in patrolling California marijuana grows.

His campaign promises, from peace in Ukraine to “beautiful” tariffs, were truly unbelievable. And yet, somehow, many people believed him.

Global concern is growing amid a U.S.-China standoff over high tariff levels that amount to a mutual trade embargo between the world’s two largest economies.

April 24, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the Signal messaging app installed on his desktop computer in the Pentagon to circumvent poor cell service in the building, according to a new report in The Washingt...

Metro Atlanta ranks third-worst for ozone pollution and fourth-worst for particle pollution in the Southeast, according to a new study.

The plaintiffs consider eight new laws violations of the U.S. Constitution’s First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, Pope Francis performed his final public act when he waved to worshippers in St.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four House Democratic lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador to call attention to the plight of a man the Trump administration deported to a Salvadoran prison and has refused to help return — even after the Supreme Court ruled that it was the government’s duty to do so.

Defense Secretary hit out late Sunday at demands that he be fired after a bombshell report claimed he's shared confidential attack plans on Signal for a second time — on this occasion, with his wife a...

It is here. We are living through it.

Yesterday, on the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Americans across the country protested against President Donald J.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.

In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by “administrative error” to the terrorist p...

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These are just the US executioners we know. But they are a chilling indication of the executioners we don’t know

His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.

Ed Martin, the Trump administration’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, failed to report hundreds of media appearances he’s made in the past few years, including many on far-right ou...

The Take It Down Act, championed by the first lady, would hand regulation to the FTC. The new administration has ousted two commissioners and at least a dozen staff members.

With Trump starting so many fights with so many different parties, how do we make sense of it all, and how do we proceed?

The White House is moving to exert greater control over who gets to ask the president questions and report on his statements in real time.

yesterday was a banner day for wingnut idiocy

A large crowd of protesters calling for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration sent to a notorious terrorist prison in El Salvador, milled around the courthouse ...

A jaw-dropping conflict of interest.

Trump’s revenge against Harvard University is even more outrageous than it seems.

The Trump administration has already deported hundreds of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the U.S. to El Salvador, where they are in prison.

A staggering 25% of Internal Revenue Service employees are taking buyouts and plan to resign, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

The vice president is lying about Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and starting petty internet fights about it.