It deals another blow to Trump’s efforts to place hand-picked loyalists at the helm of U.S. attorneys' offices.

They filmed the screaming. Now they're being silenced.

Federal Tort Claims Act, over which DoJ has total discretion, provides workaround to Trump’s $1.8bn slush fund

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As riots spread across Belfast, Tommy Robinson promoted a movement founded by a sanctioned Russian oligarch, which has pushed white supremacist propaganda about the death of Henry Nowak

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Pandemic report warns of growing global threat as health teams in Africa move to contain Ebola outbreak The world is becoming less resilient to outbreaks of infectious diseases, experts have warned, as health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda scramble to contain an outbreak of Ebola. The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) said in a report published on Monday that “as infectious disease outbreaks become more frequent they are also becoming more damaging”, warning that pandemic risk is outpacing investments in preparedness and “the world is not yet meaningfully safer”. Continue reading...

Mike Wendling, author of 'Day of Reckoning: How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy' speaks to Adrian Goldberg for the Byline Podcast

Meta, along with other social media companies, is facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that they have pushed a defective product onto adolescents.

From Hungary to Ukraine to America, one message wins: expose the rigged system and mobilize voters to defeat it…

"It's the greatest honor of a lifetime, and if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting, that's an honor," Blanche said. "If he chooses to nominate me, that's an honor."

The RNC is asking the court to take the extraordinary step of blocking these voters entirely — not just going forward, but retroactively.