The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system…

Hours after its launch, America.gov's chatbot was censored.

The famously fact-averse president rolled out a new AI tool – but its answers don’t conform to his version of reality

The loveliest thing you will see all day!

You wanna grow up and be a lioness. Go Vote.

Jack Smith Does Not Play. “I will not be silenced by continued threats of prosecution from the president or others. As I appear before you today, it is my belief that the rule of law faces challenges ...

Cross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry’s bottom line

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., questioned former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday about whether he had attended an NBA game in Atlanta in Feb. 2024, but seemingly confused two different basketball tea...

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump, who is constitutionally prohibited from running for president again, has raised over $400 million through his super PAC, MAGA Inc.

grow a brain, why don’t you

Because he fears he can’t prevail any other way

Looking toward November 3

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He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates we warned: stay away from him.

Why Mark Carney went to Strasbourg

Trump claims the spoils at the UN, while the deals, the casualty counts and the alliances tell a different story about what trust is worth

The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented

The Supreme Court has turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress. The White House announced the move on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant serv...

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Neither Repugnants nor Dems are Dedicated to Human Problems,--Only Issues.

In 1915, a girl was born in Paris and named for Edith Cavell, a nurse the Germans shot for helping 200 Allied soldiers escape. Her mother, a circus singer, abandoned her at birth. Her father left he...

From front page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos, chosen by Associated Press photo editors.

Follow the money

When Trump-aligned billionaires control the networks Americans trust for news, they don’t just own the cameras. They gain the power to decide what the entire country sees, hears, and never learns…

Nothing and NO ONE will ever love you like your dog does. You can write this on granite. 💯 (Cats, too) 😻

She drove her husband to Seattle so he could build his dream. She named their company, wrote the business plan, kept its books, negotiated the contracts, and raised four kids. He became the richest ...

George arrived at our farm with no papers, no history, no verifiable age, and I’m pretty sure no one knew his name. He did, however, come with references. Three of them were sitting on his back. My m...

This is what class, integrity, skill and competence look like. I’ll take the black guy to represent me and mine. Y’all can have the bloated, white-trash billionaire. Let’s see how that works for ya.

In 2003, a German film crew in the Gobi Desert captured something sacred: following a challenging two-day birth, a mother camel rejected her newborn. A nomadic family then performed the ancient Hoos s...

God bless Thomas Massie. He got primaried and lost his job due to Trump. A stand up guy, and one of the best defenders of releasing the Epstein files. We should revote him back in next chance we get w...

MAN WATERING HIS LAWNA middle-aged man with a dented straw hat a pot belly and shorts waters his front lawn with an air of defiance as if he were challenging the gods, both hands clenched tight around...

Americans pay extraordinary sums for a system that can still deny doctor-recommended care, while Canada’s Medicare fight shows another path…

On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.

Tonight’s post is long.

Sept 20th sunset.

Farm animals 1, robot 0. Animals just know.

A press ban, a $5,000 promise, and a warning from a conservative judge about January 3, what a nervous president looks like six weeks before the midterms.

No, the US does not now own the island

Federal judges are the bulwark that is defending our democracy.

Give Republicans Congress and Trump promises you $5,000. That extraordinary bargain raises a question America confronted nearly 90 years ago: how far can government power reach into the voting booth?

The Gestapo Meme That Became a Trump Executive Order

To mark 50 years since the director and choreographer’s death, we count down his best fantastical, kaleidoscopic numbers, from erotic silhouettes to sinister tap dancers

Pitching your tent under a hornet’s nest.

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