Deal/No Deal, Trump’s Iran Contradictions
On March 9, President Donald Trump said the war in Iran was “very complete, pretty much.” That was Day 10 of the…
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SCOTUS Hands Trump a Temporary Win in His Crusade to Restrict Mail Voting
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily handed President Trump a key victory in his crusade to restrict mail-in voting.…
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Maybe Trump’s Iran Sanctions Will Work This Time
On Monday afternoon, President Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the US would impose…
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It Just Got Way Easier to Sue Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Change
Deadly heatwaves in May smashed records in the UK, France, Spain, and parts of North Africa. India, Pakistan, and…
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Trump’s Plan to Allow Drilling Near New Mexico Heritage Site Sets Off Global Alarms
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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There’s No Good Reason Why Hakeem Jeffries Should Work With Jared Kushner
Democrats and critics of the Trump administration have criticized House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries as reports…
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Rallygoers Meet the Trans Athlete Culture Wars With Celebration
As women’s sports continue to be used as a battleground over trans rights, hundreds of people attended a rally before a…
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The Threat of Human Extinction Will Get Congress to Act on AI Safety…Right?
As many AI researchers have been increasingly fraught with existential terror about their own creations this summer,…
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Trump Administration’s New Priorities Put Profits Ahead of Marine Conservation
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
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This Palantir Billionaire’s Passion Project Is Criminalizing Homelessness
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of the weapons-tech company Palantir, is also a major force behind the Trump administration’s…
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump’s 75-Country Visa Ban
This January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed consular officers to refuse to process immigration visas for…
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A Natalie Harp Conspiracy Theory (Not Really)
A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a…
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In the Wake of a Toxic Disaster, Roseland Parents Still Struggle to Keep Their Children Safe
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a…
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40 Acres and a Lie Part 3
The loss of land for Black Americans started with the government’s betrayal of its “40 acres” promise to formerly…
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The Fight Over Spraying Roundup in California’s Forests Has Only Gotten Bigger
This video was created in partnership with PBS NewsHour. The record amounts of glyphosate being sprayed in California’s…
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PBS airs our glyphosate reporting
“They’re taking away the choice of being surrounded by a toxic chemical,” says Tahoe resident and three-time Olympian…
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Partisan’s Exit Suggests DOJ Is Getting Better at Politicized Prosecutions
Ed Martin, a trench-coat donning former “Stop the Steal” advocate whose work at various senior Justice Department jobs…
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Flock Execs Are Taking Credit For Catching Bad Cops Now
Flock Safety is having a hard month. The surveillance technology company, which has sold more than 120,000 automated…
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Florida’s GOP Has a Very Short Playbook: Call Everyone a Socialist
In a bright red power suit, Ashley Moody, the former Florida attorney general who nabbed the state’s GOP Senate…
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MAHA and the Midterms
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon in 2024, he brought with him the wellness-obsessed,…
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To Miami’s Chagrin, Warming Seas Are Driving a Bumper Crop of Sargassum
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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Why Cancer, Not Affordability, May Be the Biggest Issue in Iowa’s Midterms
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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Native American Leaders Denounce Record Glyphosate Spraying on National Forests
As Stephen Young stepped into the woods about an hour’s drive from Lassen Peak volcano in northeast California, the…
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Adventures in Unplugging
I’m not sure when my smartphone began to feel like an albatross, when my unease about relying on it devolved into…
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Trump’s Minions Say He’s Mulling New Tax Breaks—They’re Mainly for the Rich
President Donald Trump apparently wants to cut taxes for the rich yet again. Is this some kind of twisted midterms…
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Republicans Are Realizing That No One Wants Data Centers
The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a memo Tuesday suggesting that, if incumbent Republican Ohio Sen.…
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Trump Enraged South Korea to Please the North. It Didn’t Work.
North Korea launched several ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, according to South Korea’s…
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Roger Stone Is Lobbying for a Vape Firm Accused of Illegally Marketing to Kids
Ecto World, a Buffalo, New York–based company that distributes vape products and faces legal troubles, believed it…
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Trump Ordered to Release Billions in Resilience Grants for Disadvantaged Communities
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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What Does Trump’s Open Respect For North Korean Nukes Tell Iran?
President Trump hinted on Wednesday that his friendly relationship with North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un may…
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Administration Moves to Open National Forests to Roadbuilding, Drilling, and Logging
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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Angie Nixon Goes on Trial in September. She Just Won Florida’s Senate Primary.
Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon just defeated Alex Vindman, the presumed frontrunner, in the state’s Democratic Senate…
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A Texas Program Has Poured Billions Into Cancer Research. Ken Paxton Voted Against It.
In early 2007, newly reelected Republican Gov. Rick Perry pushed an innovative response to a problem that was killing…
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How Trump’s Deportation Machine Deprives Deaf People of Their Humanity
In February, an ICE agent directed Emilio, a Deaf man, to get onto a bus in southern Texas. By that point, Emilio had…
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Sen. Adam Schiff on Israel, Impeachment, and Post-Trump America
Sen. Adam Schiff is often on the receiving end of President Donald Trump’s rage online. It should be no surprise. Back…
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Trump’s White House Business Shindig Will Be a Cesspool of Financial Conflicts
Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of major cryptocurrency and prediction-market companies to the White House on…
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