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With the mainstream media overjoyed at the appointment of Humza Yousaf as the First Minister of Scotland after winning the leadership contest of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on Monday, troubling facts about the country's first Muslim national lea...

Former President Trump 's historic indictment sets up a legal proceeding that may look similar to parts of routine felony arrest processing in New York — finger printing, a mug shot and all. Yes, but: It's anything but standard as no sitting...

Former President Trump is not expected to take a plea deal if the case related to an illegal hush money payment in 2016 to adult film star Stormy Daniels goes to trial, his attorney said Friday. Why it matters: Trump and his legal team are leaning on a we...

Data: Federal Reserve; Chart: Axios Visuals The year was 2013. The great concern among the Federal Reserve's leaders was that, with the world awash in dollars they had created, they wouldn't be able to raise rates even when they felt they needed t...

The indictment of former President Donald Trump drew an array of reactions from lawmakers in battleground districts: Some lashed out at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, some expressed confidence in the legal process and some simply kept quiet. Lik...

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The real congressional battle over Iraq happened in 2007, when Barack Obama and Joe Biden caved to George W. Bush. The post The Anti-War Vote That Came 20 Years Late appeared first on The Intercept ....

The Manhattan district attorney's office hit back Friday against "unfounded allegations" from House Republicans that the investigation of Donald Trump was politically motivated, as other members of Congress reacted further in the wake of the f...

The Manhattan District Attorney's office, in a letter on Friday, urged House Republican committee chairs to denounce former President Trump's "harsh" rhetoric. Why it matters: The letter comes a day after a New York grand jury voted to ind...

Donald Trump again made history Thursday evening, this time by becoming the first former president of the United States to be indicted, stemming from charges related to illegal hush money payments made to a porn star in 2016.And yet even while in legal je...

Rosie the Riveters, Richard Gere, Damar Hamlin and Starbucks highlighted the action in and around the Capitol this week. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the images. The post Photos of the week ending March 31, 2023 appeared first on Ro...

A truck stop electrification company and a defunct pro basketball league have nothing in common, except that they just merged. Driving the news: Shorepower, an Oregon-based firm founded in 2004, has gone public via a reverse merger with the United States ...

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Newsweek blasted lawmakers for banning drag shows for kids butnot guns, as though some equivalency exists between the tw......

It's not clear if Hale being trans played into the motive tomurder three children and three adults, but what is clear is......

Photo credit: Nasitra, Instagram. There is also an out-of-bodyoption, which allows the participant to look down on their......

The move is the latest in China and other authoritarian nations'attempts to move away from the American dollar as the de......

Bodycam footage of Nashville police officer Michael Collazo was released to the public, and the video shows that police worked as quickly as possible to search the school, find the shooter and subdue the suspect in the form of justifiably shooting them de...

Parents now have tools to combat schools hiding woke or racist curricula....

Amid all the legitimate concerns surrounding the fertility and surrogacy industries, here's a new one to add to the growing pile....

The executive director of the San Jose Police Officers' Association (SJPOA) has been charged with attempting to illegally import a controlled substance in connection with a scheme to smuggle and distribute synthetic opioids into the United States....

The Biden administration talked tough on Iran before the midterms, but its actions since have left much to be desired....

The fire at a migrant detention center in Mexico that claimed 38 lives is a sober reminder of the ongoing crisis along the southern border.... Read More The post Deadly Fire at Migrant Detention Center Sober Reminder of Chaos at Southern Border appeared f...

A leading Asian studies expert is weighing in on how the U.S. can diminish the threat China poses to Taiwan, even as tensions between the... Read More The post Asian Studies Expert Suggests Ways to Diminish China's Threat to Taiwan appeared first on T...

The gargantuan post-Covid plan seems like something that might come out of California or Illinois, not a solid red state such as Indiana....

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...during AFT's Tuesday press conference, [AFT Union President Randi] Weingarten decided to take aim (pun intended) at gun ownership and the Second Amendment in response to Monday's school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee....

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The 20-plus-year anchor of a local news channel in Mississippi was seemingly booted from her position for quoting Snoop Dogg live on air....

We used to be a serious country, lead by serious people. But that's getting harder and harder to remember....

Mike Wise is the living definition of a scumbag. He contributes opinion pieces to the Washington Post and uses his writing talents to make America seem like a racist, good-for-nothing country that is rotten to its core....

Stephen Colbert gives us a run down on current events happening in the cosmos, including Elon Musk vs SpaceX, Elon Musk vs China and a whole bunch of hanky panky going on out there. I'm still waiting for them to find a planet to which we can ship all ...

It took them long enough, but after roughly forty years, Democrats have finally come to understand that the best weapon against Republican gaslighting is not dialogue, not compromise, not logic, not "working across the aisle," not any sort of appe...

Protesters are hailing Israeli courts as the last bulwark of democracy, but democracy for whom? The post Protect the Israeli Judiciary — but Don't Let It Launder War Crimes Against Palestinians appeared first on The Intercept ....

I'm starting to see a trend with Republicans lately with kids getting free lunches at school; they don't give a damn. But if a ten-year-old girl is impregnated by her rapist, she should be forced to give birth without knowing how to care for it, o...

In one instance, in response to anchor Eric Shawn fact-checking one of Donald Trump's election lies, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said, "This has to stop now. ... This is bad business. ... The audience is furious and we are just feeding them materia...

Derrick Miller, who works on military policy for Rep. Matt Gaetz, served eight years for shooting an Afghan civilian in the head during an interrogation. The post Matt Gaetz's Legislative Aide Is a Convicted War Criminal appeared first on The Intercep...

The Senate voted Wednesday to terminate a COVID-19 pandemic national emergency order implemented by former President Donald Trump in 2020 that was due to be terminated in May anyway. The 68-23 vote on the measure came after the House voted 229-197 in Febr...

Legislation aims to protect workers and stop outsourcing American jobs...

House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington said Wednesday that Congress needs to lift the debt ceiling and impose fiscal controls "immediately"; without waiting on a fiscal 2024 budget resolution. One day after President Joe Biden called on Republica...

Architect of India's sanitation revolution says "If young changemakers follow the courage of their convictions, they can literally change the world"...

Congressional Republicans took aim Wednesday at the District of Columbia City Council, the city's public schools, its surging crime and alleged mismanagement in City Hall as they advanced a resolution seeking to overturn a council vote for the second ...

A little over a week after YouTube reinstated former President Donald Trump, his false election narratives were broadcast through livestreams on the platform. Media Matters identified 9 YouTube channels that livestreamed Trump's campaign rally speech ...

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy criticized the Biden administration for calling out Republicans in Congress over their failure to pass a ban on assault weapons commonly used in mass shootings, saying, "The assault weapons ban he wants w...

Dedicated climate correspondents allow networks to focus on covering the issue with more consistency and substance — their expertise enables them to quickly assess the significance of breaking stories and events related to climate change and to prov...