A secret group chat reveals that Democratic strategists plan to support the pro-crypto GENIUS Act for political gain, despite acknowledging it’s a Trump corruption giveaway.

In fact, the explanation is simple enough. Last month, Shore, together with her husband and fellow scholar of European history, Timothy Snyder, and the academic Jason Stanley, made news around the world when they announced that they were moving from Yale University in the US to the University of Toronto in Canada.

An antisemitic podcaster famous for hosting Kash Patel tried his hand in crypto. It didn’t end well.

The notorious former county sheriff celebrated his 93rd birthday on Saturday. We went so you didn’t have to.

The events following the 2016 protest are urgently relevant to our current political moment.

City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.

Trump's nominees gave some eye-popping answers in their written questionnaires. Why didn't Senate Democrats ask these questions in person?

This country deserves a better class of cynical, pandering politician.

The closest living relatives of an 84-year-old B.C. widow who left her $1 million estate to a much-younger “professional companion and male escort” have been given the go-ahead to challenge the will, according to a recently published court ruling.

A federal jury in Colorado has found MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company.

... In my last McMansion Hell post, I deployed the phrase “Regional Car Dealership Rococo” (henceforth RCDR) as a joke, but I think it works well as a broader idea. We can define RCDR as the ad hoc revival of 18th century ornamentation that arose, perhaps inevitably, during a period of skyrocketing income inequality coupled with consolidated global supply chains that brought down the cost of architectural materials. Culturally, it is a weed in Postmodernism’s garden bed.

The imported mini-trucks are cute, but they’re also quite serviceable—if you can use them on public roads.

The grift goes on.

The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; Public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas, inventoried roadless areas, critical wildlife habitat and big game migration corridors.

A 59-year-old Los Angeles County deputy probation officer has been arrested and charged in connection with accusations he was smuggling controlled substances into a juvenile detention facility, officials announced this week. In a news release, prosecutors at the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office said Michael Solis conspired with a minor detained at Barry J. Nord Juvenile Hall in Sylmar to sell alprazolam, the generic version of the benzodiazepine known as Xanax, in 2023.

“In 1982, biologist Daniel Janzen and paleontologist Paul Martin proposed a revolutionary idea: many tropical plants developed large, sweet, and colorful fruits to attract large animals — such as mastodons, native horses, or giant ground sloths — that would serve as seed dispersers,” said Dr. Erwin González-Guarda, a paleontologist at the University of O’Higgins and IPHES-CERCA, and his colleagues.

“We don’t want an autocrat. We want democracy.”

Florida Sheriff Wayne Ivey and his office have been sued multiple times throughout the years, including for false arrest and imprisonment.

Reuters images showed Marines apprehending a civilian, restraining his hands with zip ties and then handing him over to civilians from the Department of Homeland Security. Speaking to reporters after he was released, the civilian identified himself as Marcos Leao, 27. Leao said he was an Army veteran on his way to an office of the Department of Veterans Affairs when he crossed a yellow tape boundary and was asked to stop.

A woman says armed federal agents stole from her family and left their home trashed. “I know it was a little rough this morning,” one of them later told her.