Fossil fuel interests have long weaponized philanthropy to exert control over academic programs, a new paper argues.

Norway's parliament begins public hearings on Wednesday on ties ​between late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Norwegian diplomats and politicians in a scandal that ‌has shaken the nation's elite.

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The high court put on hold a federal judge’s order that required people who are being deported to get notice and a chance to argue their case.

He was done in by malice, incompetence, corruption, and pathological vanity, not by his willingness to act before he could be stopped.

David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.

Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...

Threat reports from tech firms and independent monitors offer a glimpse of how foreign adversaries are changing tactics.

Jury rules in favor of driver in a case that uncovered unsettling facts about how a vast and secretive network is being used to track people across Texas.

The safeguards that Citizens United assumed would check corporate election spending have failed, and Hawaii is fighting back.

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) drew mockery after defending his office's plea deal in a child sex abuse case by noting the defendant "served 60 days."Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, made the remark in a video clip that the news account Headquarters posted on X Monday. The c...

The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...

After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc...

Our city fathers (if you like them) or oligarchs (if you don’t) have never been richer, more brazen or faced weaker opposition

The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.

World’s largest listed company looks for new ways to draw Wall Street deeper into the financing of the AI boom

Prosecutors say Utah Rep. Trevor Lee forged documents and inflated his income to get a $1 million loan. He faces four felonies and has resigned.

Lawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican running for reelection, sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former pa...

Across the U.S., critics are pressuring public officials to stop or stall new solar projects, often citing unfounded health concerns.