Trump administration boasts of cutting $1.73bn already allocated for cycling improvements to city streets Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The Trump administration’s plans to stymie and defund bike lane plans in the US, on the unusual basis that they are DEI tools, will hurt efforts to improve roadway safety, non-motorized transportation … Read more
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities We don’t have concentration camps today in the United States, but we have something close. More than 65,000 people are currently confined in demeaning, often dangerous, sometimes torturous and increasingly deadly conditions not because they have … Read more
Roadside safety advocates say some automated license plate readers may not meet highway safety standards Flock Safety cameras have been pilloried for facilitating the AI-powered surveillance of private citizens and for targeting immigrants for years. But now safety advocates are also claiming that their physical location can pose potential roadside hazards. At the bottom of … Read more
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Justice could be in jeopardy after Republicans postponed a key vote set for Thursday on Todd Blanche’s nomination amid a showdown with two GOP senators. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports for TODAY.
Federal Reserve votes to hold its key interest rate steady, sending stocks tumbling. Plus: the origins of Coca-Cola may have been found Good morning. US government borrowing costs have hit their highest level since 2007 after the Federal Reserve voted to hold its key interest rate steady, feeding fears it may not move fast enough … Read more
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is introducing legislation to block federal bureaucrats from accepting cash prizes on Thursday, just a day after laying into Dr. Anthony Fauci for receiving what Hawley said was over $1 million during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hawley accused Fauci during a Wednesday Senate hearing of exploiting loopholes in federal laws that already … Read more
Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court ruling A new analysis of Black voters in the south indicates that Republican attempts to dilute their political power is driving them to the polls in larger numbers and shifting their counties further left. After the supreme court … Read more
To understand the experience of life, don’t look to the mind. Look to the body In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term “somatophobia” to describe the strange human delusion that we are minds rather than bodies. Forty years later, artificial intelligence is everywhere, offering the most powerful illusion yet … Read more
FIRST ON FOX: Lonnie Bunch III, the Smithsonian Institution secretary who called DEI an “integral to excellence in museum practice,” raked in over $4.4 million from 2020-2024 in base salary and added benefits, a Fox News Digital review found. While the Smithsonian funds executive compensation through private trust revenues to comply with federal pay caps, … Read more
Lawmakers scrap planned committee vote and seek further assurances that president’s ‘anti-weaponization fund’ is dead Sign up for the US Breaking News email Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Todd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney-general stalled last night as lawmakers scrapped a planned committee vote. Barack Obama, the former president who installed … Read more
