Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the co-chairs of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force last week. Why it matters: The move could open the task force up to more political influence. It comes as the administration prepares to vet new applicants to the committee, a process in which the c
Detainees at Delaney Hall told a visiting member of Congress that ICE used pepper spray and physical force against them in direct retaliation for an ongoing hunger strike. The agency's own framing confirms the logic — that protesting conditions is itself an offense.
A Kenyan court blocked a U.S. plan to build an Ebola quarantine facility on its soil. The facility was for Americans. The infrastructure that would have made it unnecessary was eliminated by USAID cuts earlier this year.
The SEC's three Republican commissioners have formally moved to kill the 2024 climate disclosure rule. The real casualty isn't climate policy — it's the mechanism that would have let investors verify whether corporate climate pledges were real.
Two police officers, a handful of rebelling Republicans, and a 1998 law stand between the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" and reality. Here is what each of them can actually do — and why none of it is a sure thing.
We told you about the people cashing in on war. Here's the quieter version, the one happening in an election year: the operatives who run the campaigns, quietly wagering on the races they control — with information you won't see until it's too late to matter.
Three rulings landed on May 21 — none of them the term's marquee cases, but each one a window into how this Court reads a statute, when it chooses to look away, and who pays when it does.
How a $10 billion lawsuit, a $1.776 billion fund, and a one-page memo quietly removed every check the Constitution was built to keep.
On prediction markets like Polymarket, you can wager real money on whether the U.S. is about to bomb someone. The unsettling part isn't that people do it. It's how rarely they lose.
The Pacific is tipping back into its warm phase, and the federal forecast now calls a "super" event the single most likely outcome for late 2026. The last two times this happened, the consequences circled the entire planet.
Michael Caputo, longtime Trump ally and veteran of his first administration, filed the inaugural claim from the DOJ's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund — seeking $2.7 million with no published eligibility criteria governing who qualifies.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Democrats' Israel-Palestine strategy has failed — a public admission from a party insider that is more damning than it first appears. The real question is whether the party mistakes a political reckoning for a moral one.
The Gulf and the Pacific are sending the same message: too much value and too much vulnerability concentrated in too few places. The case for sovereign, decentralized infrastructure — now.
Dark money is political spending by groups that hide their donors. Over $2.8 billion flowed through the system in 2024, shaping elections and policy in ways the public cannot see.
House Oversight has launched an investigation into Kalshi and Polymarket over potential insider trading using classified information. The probe is narrower than the problem it's trying to address — and it doesn't ask whether Congress itself is part of the market.
The Loss and Damage Fund was created to compensate developing nations for climate destruction they did not cause. Wealthy countries pledged $700 million. The actual need is $400 billion per year.