news2shortsNon-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’ A jury in North Dakota has decided that the environmental group Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the pipeline company Energy Transfer and is liable over defamation and other claims over protests in the state nearly a … Read more
The federal judge ordered the government to reinstate the U.S. Agency for International Development systems, saying DOGE likely violated the Constitution in multiple ways. NBC News’ Gary Grumbach and Danny Cevallos break down the judge’s ruling to reinstate USAID amid Elon Musk and DOGE efforts to shut it down.
Maryland’s Glenn Ivey is first Democratic lawmaker to publicly demand that the Senate minority leader step down A Democratic congressman has become the first to publicly call for Chuck Schumer to step down as Senate minority leader, highlighting growing divisions within the party over how to confront and counter Donald Trump’s administration. Glenn Ivey of … Read more
Congressional Democratic unity still appears to be in tatters after a public fracture between Capitol Hill’s top two left-wing leaders over government funding. At least two House Democrats took shots at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., at their respective events on Tuesday after Schumer and nine other Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to avert … Read more
For students who aren’t US citizens, a new reality includes feelings of surveillance, fears of being arrested and reluctance to visit family It was 4am and a Columbia University master’s student two months away from graduation lay awake in bed. His heart thumped so hard, his chest began to hurt. His hands got colder and … Read more
The USL president spoke to the Guardian shortly before officially announcing the league’s historic vote It’s been a big few weeks for the USL. The organization that governs most of lower-division soccer in the United States made a splash by announcing its attention to start a new league at the same tier as MLS, and … Read more
Doge head makes unfounded claim that Democrats use fraud in programs such as Medicare to boost voting ranks Elon Musk is claiming, without evidence, that Democrats have been using fraud in entitlements like social security and Medicare to attract immigrants and boost their voting ranks – language that also echoes racist rightwing conspiracy theories. The … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: The House Small Business Committee will ask Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler for Biden-era data it says the previous administration consistently “stonewalled” throughout a probe into alleged swing-state electioneering. Chairman Roger Williams, R-Texas, and the panel have been pressing the SBA since they first uncovered cooperation between the agency and the state of Michigan … Read more
The 163-page PTPA lawsuit contains some valid and not-so-valid criticism of the professional tours and major events The Professional Tennis Players’ Association came into existence on the eve of the 2020 US Open and at the height of pandemic restrictions. After an inauspicious start, the association co-founded by Novak Djokovic has spent time building its … Read more
The Justice Department accused a federal judge of “digressive micromanagement” on Wednesday in relation to a case involving deportation flights that sent Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador over the weekend. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Justice Department to submit answers to five questions after it insisted Tuesday that the flights did not violate … Read more
