According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.

Photographers Hawaii captured what scientists say is the first documentation of humpback whale sex.

A hipbone from Paranthropus robustus, a species of hominin thought to have lived alongside our direct ancestors, has revealed they also walked upright. Besides confirming their similarity to us, the discovery also reveals how small Paranthropus was and how vulnerable it would have been given the fearsome predators of its environment, and also complicates the story we have told about their sex lives.

The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

‘We are ready to step up’ says Ursula von der Leyen after US suspends military aid to Ukraine

The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

In the anonymous paperwork of LLC registrations, scam victims are desperate to find a real person to help them. Sometimes all they have is Lovette.

The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in approving the resolution.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government have caused a record-breaking surge in layoffs. U.S. workers are being laid off at levels not seen since the Great Recession in 2009, all thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. A new report from Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, an international firm that helps laid-off workers find new jobs, said that job losses spiked a whopping 245 percent to 172,017 last month, higher than any month since the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic in July 2020, and the highest in any February since 2009.

Last week the ghouls of DOGE came to gut NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) by firing all the probationary employees, because they were the easiest to fire. It was terrible, but it won’t be their last visit. I wanted to take a moment to focus on this small and amazing agency because in all the chaotic headlines, outrageous speeches, and feral conduct, it’s easy to miss how consequential the Trumpist destruction of NOAA will be, if no one can stop it. Americans, and to a degree the whole world, depend on the nerdy, devoted folks at NOAA to keep the fish biting, the crops abundant, the land peaceful, and their homes and businesses safe and dry.

The Farinellis' High River, Alta., home was targeted early Tuesday morning by a vandal. Both their vehicles sustained damage, including broken side mirrors and a ripped-off door handle. A chunk of concrete was also thrown through a front window of their home. “It’s a shame. Like that. Thou shalt love thy neighbour,” said Garrett Farinelli. “I understand the tension and drama, but we’ve been here for four years, flown the flag for two years.”

Imagine that Tim Walz had blurbed a book praising Mao Tse-Tung as a model for leadership in these troubled times—firm hand on the tiller, knew how to get things done. It would be a headline in every newspaper, the major topic on every talk show. The scandal would go on for weeks. It could decide the election. As it turns out, there’s a real-life case of super-extremist book-blurbing by a vice-presidential candidate, but unless you came across Michelle Goldberg’s excellent New York Times column or an item in USA Today, you probably haven’t heard much about JD Vance’s endorsement of Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (And How to Crush Them). Unhumans is a far-right call to arms by Jack Posobiec and his ghostwriter Joshua Lisec, with a foreword by Stephen Bannon. Who is Jack Posobiec? He’s a far-right propagandist and trickster, best known for promoting conspiracy theories like the Great Replacement, Stop the Steal, and Pizzagate—the proto-Qanon hoax that claimed Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats were engaging in child sex trafficking in the basement of a Washington, DC, pizzeria. (The restaurant has no basement.)

It’s literally just Fetterman and a handful of strategists who won’t put their name on it.

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

On Donald Trump’s first day in office, the Department of Defense announced a spate of hires, including 26-year-old Kingsley Wilson, who will serve as the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary. Wilson is the daughter of Steve Cortes, a longtime Trump advisor and right-wing commentator who promotes Latinos moving to the political right. Wilson is also a Trump 2020 campaign alum, and until taking the job at the DoD, ran digital media and communications for the Center for Renewing America, a pro-Trump think tank founded by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought. She’s also an overt internet troll with a long history of bigoted, xenophobic, and deliberately provocative shitposting. Wilson in many ways embodies the face of the new Trump administration: she’s worked in the MAGA world for seemingly her entire, very short career; besides her roles in the Trump campaign and at the Center for Renewing America, she also served as the national committeewoman for the DC Young Republicans. She also briefly worked at Gettr, the social media platform founded by former Trump aide Jason Miller and with deep links to fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui. When she wasn’t doing any of that, Wilson was busy reeling off an endless tweets excoriating immigrants and trans people, advocating for what she called “zero immigration and mass deportations,” and bemoaning the “death of the West,” a term popularized by Pat Buchanan and often used by nativist, isolationist, and white nationalist groups to argue that immigration dilutes “Western” culture.

The Democrats had a chance to do something bold last night. Almost all of them blew it.

"We ended up with some absolutely adorable mice that have longer, woolly, golden-colored coats," Shapiro says. The mice also have fat similar to the mammoth, Colossal says, enabling them to survive in cold weather.

They're not trying so hard to hide it anymore.

The account, followed by JD Vance, previously boasted of being a white supremacist.

Ernst, an Iowa Republican, is one of the most influential voices in Congress on military topics. Ethics and military experts say her relationships with top Air Force and Navy officials created potential conflicts of interest.