Temperatures at Antarctica's Trinity Peninsula hit 20°C above normal in the middle of winter, and a sea-ice mass the size of France has disappeared. Scientists say the loss is likely permanent — and the implications reach far beyond the poles.
Gavin Newsom says Trump directed the DOJ to investigate him and his wife as he considers a presidential run. The pattern of using federal law enforcement against political rivals is no longer speculative — it's documented, escalating, and working exactly as designed.
Wall Street celebrated a US-Iran peace deal on Monday with a 4% drop in Brent crude and record stock closes. No sanctions have lifted. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The market is pricing in a Truth Social post.
A new Oxfam analysis finds 41 G7 energy billionaires gained $23.5 billion — $300 million per day — since the US-Israeli war against Iran began, while a UN projection estimates 32 million people will be pushed into poverty by the same conflict. The transfer of wealth is not coincidental. It is struct
RFK Jr. is demanding that a scientific journal explain why it retracted a vaccine study he used to justify federal policy changes. The study was pulled for methodological failures. That sequence — policy first, retracted evidence second, pressure on the journal third — is the story.
The world's largest banks increased fossil fuel financing by 8 percent last year, committing $906 billion to oil, gas, and coal projects — even as they dismantled the voluntary climate commitments they had made in public. A new report documents not a failure of implementation, but a failure of the e
The Allegheny County medical examiner has ruled the death of Daphy Michel, a Haitian immigrant released from ICE custody into sub-freezing temperatures, a homicide. ICE's response has not changed since March.
ICE spent $38 billion expanding detention capacity for a mass deportation campaign, then pulled back from the enforcement strategy that would have filled it. Daily detainee numbers have dropped to 58,000, leaving roughly 42,000 beds empty. The money is gone. The oversight isn't coming.
SpaceX's IPO made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. More than $15 billion in federal contracts helped build the company that got him there. The public funded the risk. Musk captured the reward.
A survey across 15 European countries finds only one in ten people now see the U.S. as an ally. The real story isn't reputational damage — it's the permanent end of the psychological contract that made NATO deterrence function.
The Social Security trustees moved up the program's insolvency date by one quarter — and the report names the policies responsible. The same coalition now proposing to 'fix' the program caused the damage it is citing.
The Trump administration refused to publish a multi-year international alcohol study. The findings — showing cancer risk at light-to-moderate drinking levels — would have triggered mandatory updates to federal dietary guidelines. The alcohol industry has been lobbying against exactly that outcome fo
A liability shield for Uber and Lyft was tucked into must-pass transportation legislation — bypassing public debate while thousands of sexual assault survivors are still pursuing civil claims against both companies.
The DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel declared EEOC disparate impact guidelines unconstitutional — a non-binding memo that could still gut the enforcement tool workers have used to challenge discriminatory hiring for fifty years.
Seattle's City Council voted 9-0 to freeze large-scale AI data center construction — a unanimous rebuke from the city that built the tech industry, driven by 98,000 residents and a coalition with plans far beyond a one-year pause.
A former David Cameron strategist turned Fox News host is now the Republican nominee for California governor. His career is not a series of contradictions — it's a map of how the transatlantic right radicalized.