Another Assassination Attempt, More Fertilizer for Conspiracy Theories
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend became the site of the third failed attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump....
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Ron Wyden Is Pissing Off the NSA’s Biggest Backers. Tom Cotton Warns There Will Be “Consequences.”
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., keeps getting under the skin of the NSA’s biggest supporters with his warnings about intelligence agency...
Democratic Leaders Wanted to Control the Maine Senate Race. Their Pick Just Dropped Out.
The Democratic Party’s pick for Maine senator suspended her candidacy on Thursday. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who entered the race...
Mike Johnson Used Crypto Catnip to Get Freedom Caucus Support for Domestic Spy Law
Far-right Republicans in the House, including many members of the Freedom Caucus, revealed the price of their support for a...
ICE Watchers Worry Democrats Are Trying to Co-Opt Their Movements For Votes
A seventeen-second video shows a dark-haired man rapping his pale knuckles gently below the tinted windows of a silver minivan....
Marco Rubio Is Rebranding the State Department as Explicitly Christian
The State Department has shifted its public image in favor of explicit Christian messaging and iconography and away from secular...
Court sentences former world leader to 7 years in prison for resisting arrest, other charges
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean appeals court on Wednesday sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to seven years in...
We Need to Kick Prediction Market Betting Out of Journalism While We Still Can
A Polymarket pop-up media exhibit shows data relating to potential political candidates popularity on March 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Photo:...
How Trump’s America Produces Normie Assassins
Donald Trump speaks during a press conference after a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 25, 2026,...
Meet the Four Democrats Who’ll Decide If Trump Gets His Domestic Spying Law
A messy fight over whether the U.S. government can conduct warrantless surveillance of American citizens could come down to whether...
Kash Patel Got Arrested for Public Urination After a Night of Drinking
FBI Director Kash Patel was twice arrested in incidents involving alcohol, once for public intoxication and once for public urination...
Palantir Is Helping Trump’s IRS Conduct “Massive-Scale” Data Mining
military contractor Palantir is helping the IRS analyze dozens of different data sets on Americans to investigate a broad range...
“Me Too” Comes Back to Congress
It’s primary season, this time against a backdrop of heightened concerns and awareness of powerful figures skirting accountability for sexual...
Kash Patel Is Using MAGA’s Favorite Tool to Muzzle the Free Press
FBI Director Kash Patel speaks alongside Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche during a news conference on April 21, 2026,...
The Short and Ridiculous Trial of a Protester Arrested in an Inflatable Penis Costume
The trial of Renea Gamble had been underway for almost two hours when Marcus McDowell, the city attorney of Fairhope,...
