The opinion in Jennings v. Smith transforms the state’s stop-and-identify law into a show-me-your-papers regime.

The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.

The One Percent’s Problem Isn’t Envy. It’s Math.

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash-in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention

The new academic standards promote U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies' groundless 2020 election conspiracy theories.

President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.

WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

It’s no surprise that the president deleted “climate change” from government websites. But why forbid “advocate” and “institutional”?

Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

Onward.

Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.

A federal judge has ordered half a dozen federal agencies to “immediately” reinstate probationary employees fired last month as part of the Trump administration’s effort to rapidly shrink the federal ...

Somehow, the expense has flown under the radar of the waste, fraud and abuse experts at DOGE.

Officials have begun large-scale destruction of classified documents, including using shredders and ‘burn bags’ Officials at the US Agency for International Development (USAid) have begun a large-scale destruction of classified documents at their…

From the the-only-thing-stunning-here-is-the-hypocrisy dept

Farmers say they're waiting for payments linked to conservation programs, projects aimed at combating climate change, and disaster loans.

When a multi-million federal grant program for dairy businesses was shut down earlier this month in line with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency push to downsize the government, Wisconsin...

Pentagon flack Kingsley Wilson isn’t alone in her antisemitic and racist conspiracism.