About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

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Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...

What life is like in Minneapolis now

Prescribed burns are on hold during shutdown while logging continues.

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Election officials use many checks to ensure mail voting is secure against widespread fraud and tampering.

From simple searches to chatGPT, the big digital buildup threatens the grid and water supplies.

This small falcon faces an existential crisis. Can nest boxes help?

Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory

Starting April 14, phone service will no longer be an option for retirees and survivors applying for benefits, or for beneficiaries making direct deposit changes. Instead, these services will only be ...

Changes could break the system, former officials say.

Legal experts Eliza Martin and Ari Peskoe explain how data centers' massive electricity demands could shift billions in infrastructure costs onto regular utility customers.

In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”

Over the last week a few TPM Readers have written in with...

Biden-era suit sought to curb emissions of the carcinogen chloroprene at Denka plant formerly owned by DuPont

Congress is considering Republican proposals that would make it harder for low-income families with children to get food assistance, which would likely increase their grocery costs and increase...

I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come

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...

A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech

(Ed.Note: I go into a lot of detail below. The bottom line...

As a new report shows that even Trump officials are infuriated by Elon Musk, the author of a new piece on DOGE’s impacts explains how this reveals a deep problem for Trump that isn’t going away.

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…