For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we&#821…

A public health expert fact checks RFK Jr.'s recent contentious interview on CNN with facts on vaccines, COVID-19 and measles.

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In Trump's America, the First Amendment is a dead letter. If you're seen as anti-Trump, you apparently no longer have any rights at all. We'll get to the man who moved a box of zines and got thirty years — he wasn't even at the protest, but the judge claimed he was aiding a "terrorist on the run" (he was not).

The commanding officer, executive officer, and command master chief for a ship repair facility in Japan have all been fired.

Flock Safety doesn't seem to care about anyone. Not its customers, not those captured by its cameras, not even the legislators trying to find a balance between safety and privacy. Flock started out by pitching its cameras -- with built-in license plate readers -- to the kind of people with money to blow on unproven tech and the willingness to use it to keep unwanted people (read: not white) out of their neighborhoods.

Legal experts are mocking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after his fiery dissent in Thursday's Mifepristone ruling revealed just how angry he is that blue states have found a way around his decisi...

Now that our detour for the game jam winner spotlights is complete, we're rolling out a new version of these weekly history posts after collecting your feedback. We're shifting the timeframes to drop Five Years Ago and instead cover Ten, Fifteen, and Twenty Years Ago, and simplifying things a bit by just presenting a list of selected headlines. Let us know what you think in the comments!

In case you’re wondering what kind of a news day it was, President Donald J.

Amidst all the other chaos and damage RFK Jr. is doing in his current role as Secretary of Health and Human Services, we noted a few weeks back that he was also seemingly having a hard time finding someone to fill the opening for CDC Director. That opening, created when Kennedy fired Susan Monarez after only a few weeks on the job back in August of last year (!!!), has been vacant this entire time, with only temporary stand-ins filling the gap.

Virginia voters yesterday agreed to a constitutional amendment that would temporarily redistrict the state if any other state redistricted for partisan reasons: that is, in retaliation for the partisa...

There is the unmistakable feeling that the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus.

ALT: darth vader is surrounded by smoke and a light coming from the sky

On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the U.S.

“GOP Ohio lawmaker calls for camera monitoring system to prevent child care fraud.” — Dayton Daily News - - -We Republicans know what you, the Amer...

On Wednesday, Israeli forces hit Iranian facilities in the South Pars natural gas field in the Persian Gulf, shared by Iran and Qatar.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The Trump administration is loosening restrictions on the sharing of law enforcement information with the CIA and other intelligence agencies, officials said, overriding controls that have been in place for decades to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens. Government officials said the changes could give the intelligence agencies access to a database containing hundreds of millions of documents — from FBI case files and banking records to criminal investigations of labor unions — that touch on the activities of law-abiding Americans.

Marimar Martinez said she believes that she survived her encounter with Border Patrol agents so she could share her story.

The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Tens of thousands of Minnesotans took to the streets today in bitter cold temperatures with wind chills of -20°F (–28°C) to protest the occupation of Minneapolis and St.