news2shortsDemocratic lawmakers led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen are vowing to go to El Salvador to seek the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the Justice Department says it mistakenly deported there
A federal judge has ordered the North Carolina Board of Elections to begin implementing a state Supreme Court decision in the last unresolved 2024 election in the country. The North Carolina Supreme Court issued a decision on Friday that partially overturned a ruling from a week earlier by a panel of the intermediate-level Court of … Read more
The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish Well, I watched every second of the buildup, flight and aftermath of the first Blue Origin all-female space trip. You’ve heard of one small step for man? This was one giant leap backwards for womankind. I’m kidding, … Read more
Chris Columbus calls cameo ‘an albatross’ but worries he’d ‘have to go back to Italy or something’ Film-maker Chris Columbus says he has come to regard Donald Trump’s cameo in his movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as “an albatross” that he wishes to remove. But, Columbus added, he fears the president’s administration … Read more
As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.
Nick Niarchos reports on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s attempts to use its vast mineral resources as leverage in foreign policy amid military threats.
FIRST ON FOX: The first Mexico-born member of Congress is launching her comeback bid on Tuesday, setting her sights on a Democrat who Republicans view as one of the most vulnerable House incumbents of 2026. “Unfortunately, we don’t have that many voices in the Spanish-speaking community — in Telemundo, in television — talking to the … Read more
As part of Trump’s administrations ‘efficiency’ drive, staff running decades old program for energy assistance laid off Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), is facing new demands to release almost $400m allocated by Congress to help low-income US families keep the air conditioning on this summer. The funds are … Read more
Elon Musk is obsessed with falling birth rates, as is the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. Why would leftwingers want to buy into their ‘pronatalist’ agenda? ‘Perpetuating humanity should be a cross-politics consensus,” read an article in the Atlantic last week, “but the left was mostly absent at a recent pronatalism conference.” It’s such a … Read more
There is a middle ground on tariffs. But Democrats’ free-trade advocacy allows Trump to play the populist To tariff or not to tariff? Today’s tweet-length political discourse pretends this is a binary choice. Donald Trump has pitched across-the-board import levies as a panacea to rebuild American manufacturing, while Democrats insist the president’s proposals are an … Read more
