Trump speculated at a Nebraska rally that Iran could strike Los Angeles or San Diego. One Republican candidate objected. His party said nothing — and that silence is the story.
A Princeton researcher found AI can link voters to their secret ballots using public election data. Georgia called an emergency meeting. The vulnerability exists in dozens of states — and no federal body is equipped to address it.
Trump's tariffs backfired into a nationalist rallying cry for Lula, while Flávio Bolsonaro's corruption scandal deepens. But the outcome of Brazil's election will determine far more than who governs — it will test whether democratic institutions can survive an authoritarian playbook backed by foreig
The Trump administration's proposed 17,500-person refugee cap is not just historically low — it is explicitly designed to prioritize white Afrikaners, converting a humanitarian program into a racial preference system for the first time in its history.
Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed eight suicide attempts among sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group — disclosed in a letter to a senator, not a hearing. The figure is a measure of what prolonged, unauthorized deployment does to the people executing it.
A Blue Cross Blue Shield analysis found that AI-powered billing tools drove $942 million in additional healthcare costs by flagging diagnoses with no corresponding treatment. The technology isn't making care more efficient — it's making billing more profitable.
California's Supreme Court has ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to return more than 650,000 ballots his department seized in a voter fraud inquiry — ruling that law enforcement control over ballots is itself a threat to election integrity.
David Morales beat a sitting Providence mayor who vetoed rent stabilization. The win is the latest evidence that the democratic left's municipal strategy — target incumbents on housing, organize from the bottom up — is producing results.
Canada's retaliatory tariffs — matching U.S. rates dollar for dollar on hundreds of American products — aren't a diplomatic abstraction. They're a tax on farmers, manufacturers, and consumers on both sides of a border that nobody voted to turn into a trade war.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh's second block of Missouri's GOP-redrawn maps isn't a ruling against gerrymandering — it's a ruling against using courts as last-minute map-switching tools. The distinction is everything.
A new Public Citizen report finds Trump's crypto ventures — meme coin, governance tokens, and NFT trading cards — left retail investors $4.7 billion in the hole while the president collected $635 million in licensing fees on assets he acquired without investing a dollar.
DHS is using an obscure customs law to pull phone records from journalists, nonprofits, and unions — bypassing courts that have already rejected the tactic and going directly to the platforms instead.
America's 100 lowest-wage S&P 500 corporations spent $718 billion on stock buybacks between 2019 and 2025 while their CEOs earned 614 times median worker pay — and lobbied to cut the food and healthcare programs their own employees rely on.
HHS published a report linking support for trans people to authoritarianism and political violence. Scientists say the methodology fails. The policy consequences — dozens of hospitals withdrawing care, a DOJ agreement with a New York hospital — are already real.
The Fifth Circuit ruled there is no constitutional right to clean water — dismissing Jackson residents' lawsuit and establishing precedent that forecloses one of the last remaining legal avenues for environmental justice claims.
Newly surfaced texts show Israeli prison guards celebrating the deaths of Palestinian detainees they beat. Twelve guards face charges. The system that produced them faces nothing.