Podcast Episode · First Touch | World Soccer · August 20 · 19m

The all-out assault on Black voting

Why this attack on science? It’s just politics. Which means scientists can’t avoid taking political sides: the sides have been taken for us.

Can the Kentucky Republican—inventor, farmer, gadfly, genius—survive standing up to Trump?

Massie says opponents ‘decided to buy the seat’ as victory for Ed Gallrein shows strength of president’s grip on party * Midterm primaries – live updates Donald Trump displayed his supremacy over the Republican party on Tuesday when voters in northern Kentucky rejected the maverick congressman Thomas Massie in favour of the US president’s hand-picked challenger. Ed Gallrein, a retired Navy Seal and farmer who was recruited into the race by Trump, defeated the seven-term incumbent in a primary election in Kentucky’s fourth congressional district in what the president’s allies framed as a test of whether dissent could still exist inside today’s Republican party. Continue reading...

With an April 30 deadline fast approaching, Johnson unveiled his latest proposal to extend the controversial surveillance program known as FISA 702.

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The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as “an operational trigger” for “sleeper assets."