news2shortsPresident Donald Trump on Saturday approved a disaster declaration for Washington, D.C., over the Potomac River sewage disaster. The declaration will allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to step in and provide assistance after a sewer line collapsed in January and dumped millions of gallons of raw filth into the water outlining the nation’s … Read more
Parts of Maga view Israel with suspicion, but US ambassador continues to believe in its divine right to much of the Middle East Parts of the Maga right may be souring on Israel – but a hardline form of Christian Zionism seems to remain unofficial Trump administration policy, if a heated debate between Tucker Carlson … Read more
Long-time rivals play for gold on Sunday at 2026 Games Tensions are high between two teams Status of Canada’s Sidney Crosby still uncertain The US and Canada are prepared for a stormy men’s ice hockey final on Sunday as the long-time rivals face off for Winter Olympic gold. This year’s Olympics mark the first time … Read more
President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he was hiking his newly-announced global tariff to 15%, less than one day after announcing a 10% worldwide duty
A California judge is requiring a San Diego children’s hospital to continue providing transgender treatments to minors for now, extending a temporary restraining order as hospitals in California and New York take sharply different approaches to President Donald Trump’s executive order threatening to pull federal funding. San Diego Superior Court Judge Matthew Braner agreed last … Read more
Congress members write to Kristi Noem to express ‘grave concern’ over detention of Georgia barber Rodney Taylor Representative Pramila Jayapal and 20 members of Congress are seeking the release of Rodney Taylor from Stewart detention center in Georgia, several weeks after the one-year anniversary of when agents seized the double amputee outside his suburban home … Read more
Maryland’s plan to end local law enforcement cooperation with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has hit a snag as many local sheriffs plan to continue workaround efforts that still keep them in compliance with state law. After Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation this week to end long-standing programs known as 287(g) cooperation agreements between local law … Read more
The Department of Government Efficiency’s release of years of anonymous, open-source Medicaid data was hailed by former DOGE chief Elon Musk as a transparency win that will make fraud “easy to find.” But turning internet sleuthing into prosecutions could prove far harder for the Justice Department— and legally messy. Prosecutors and privacy experts warn the … Read more
A new report from the Wall Street Journal revealed that employees at Open AI, the artificial intelligence company known for creating ChatGPT, raised alarm about transgender Canadian mass shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar’s interactions with its chatbot but did not alert authorities. Around a dozen employees reportedly were aware of the concerning interactions months before Van … Read more
The civil rights trailblazer imagined a future for America in which the marginalized became the center of US politics Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil- and human-rights trailblazer who died on 17 February, imagined a version of America where the marginalized became the center. His was a much more progressive vision than what the Democratic party … Read more
