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The convicted killer is in hospital in Tennessee after surviving two lethal injections, in a case that has raised many questions.

Kelvin waves are not like tsunamis, and they don't curl over and crash on the beach. A better image is water sloshing in the bathtub or a swimming pool during an earthquake. In the ocean, they are bulges of water that l…

Kelvin waves are not like tsunamis, and they don't curl over and crash on the beach. A better image is water sloshing in the bathtub or a swimming pool during an earthquake. In the ocean, they are bulges of water that l…

This year's election is a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate.

"For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it's very easy to do, it only takes one!" Trump wrote on social media, noting that passing the bill would give professional golfers more time on the greens.

The one-time Medicare payment is less than half a standard monthly Part B premium, arrives just before the midterms

Over the past six months, Americans have become increasingly aware of automated license plate readers, used by almost 80 percent of American police departments to trace vehicles and their drivers without the hassle of a…

U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday

His religious affairs office reports directly to him, allowing for "spiritual readiness" of the military

A scenic cliff on the wave-swept coast of Hawaii’s Big Island has collapsed

Jake Hutzler spends his workdays directing planes from an airport tower

Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez appeared in court in a wheelchair Wednesday, the bullet still lodged in his spine.

Advocates say the case is an alarming example of the prevalence of unsubstantiated forensic science.

Zeteo’s weekly round-up of the stories you may have missed out of occupied Gaza and the West Bank, as Israel continues its genocidal war and apartheid policies.

Rhonda Jewell was sentenced to 17 years for forgetting 10-month-old Ariya in car’s back seat, leading to child’s deathA state appeals court in Florida reversed the felony murder conviction of a woman who accidentally le…

President says payments, to be sent in early October, are meant to offset cost of monthly insurance premiumsDonald ⁠Trump has said the US government will send a one-time $90 payment to more than 20 million Americans enr…

Temperatures expected to hover around 100F in downtown LA and even hotter inland, raising concerns about wildfiresSouthern California faced scorching heatwaves this summer that made locals wonder what happened to their…

As we head into the election that will define our nation’s future, let us reflect upon the wisdom of our dearly departed Dolly Parton.

We look at how some concerning economic indicators as well as the ongoing war in Iran might affect the midterm elections.

Scandals could be shaping several races in the midterm elections, particularly in places where even small margins can change the outcome.

California voters will decide whether the state will charge a one-time tax on billionaires. The idea that has split Democrats and labor unions.

Farmers and businesses face a looming federal ban on hemp-derived THC products. It is set to go into effect at the by year-end, threatening to upend a multibillion-dollar market for low-dose drinks.

HBO's War is intended to be an anthology series about two dueling London law firms. The first season stars Dominic West and Sienna Miller as a high-profile couple in the midst of a very nasty divorce.

Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.

Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.

Frank Strada will leave role next month after uproar over execution attempt, which sent Pike to hospital in critical conditionTennessee’s prison chief is resigning after the failed execution of Christa Pike, which lawye…

Electoral campaigns can feed workplace struggle by politicizing people, raising their expectations, bringing activists together, and giving them experience organizing others. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns did…

The Supreme Court term opens on Monday with big test cases on religion, guns and climate change. Plus, the emergency docket keeps popping.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. During the Sand Creek Fire, which has burned since the start of August in southwestern Montana…

Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people showed up at a foot…

With Heather Lofthouse and yours truly, Robert Reich

The Smithsonian Institution is using artificial intelligence to better understand its collection related to the American Revolution

The document's existence is in keeping with Director Kash Patel's vocal criticism of the leaders who preceded him

U.S. hiring slowed in September as employers added just 29,000 jobs. The disappointing jobs report has wide-reaching implications for consumer prices and interest rates, and it comes a month before Americans head to the…

Spending for this year's midterms is accelerating as we get closer to Election Day. Political correspondent Lisa Desjardins makes sense of the billions spent to influence who controls Congress next year.

Utah's Republican Rep. Celeste Maloy will face off in a debate Friday against Democratic candidate Kent Udell as voters consider whom to send to the U.S. House.

River's ex-housemate, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, testified he had no idea about his activities.

Zeteo’s weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term.

Two recent polls show him in the lead

After the anchor dropped the news on C-SPAN, one of her guests compared the move to a popular meme from “The Simpsons.”

The lawsuit says the prominent conservative podcaster falsely claimed the protesters were assaulting ICE officers during demonstrations at an ICE facility in Illinois last year.

The North Carolina Republican is set to share a rough timeline of his falling-out with Trump in a new book, due out next week.

President Donald Trump and his Republican Party are under heavy pressure to address surging prices ahead of midterms.

Trump’s hand-picked board of trustees closed the venue last month in retaliation for having to remove Trump’s name from the building.

Nearly eight months after an unimaginable horror, Good’s family has filed two lawsuits seeking justice and accountability.

Unemployment rose slightly as American employers paused hiring with midterm elections just a month away.

A coalition of environmental and consumer protection organizations filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s final rule rolling back federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, a move…

Drop Site News released a major investigation this week into the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh children’s school in the Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Drop S…

When Tovah Feldshuh invited me to her house for break-fast, I said yes right away.

Most Americans think the federal government should increase spending on childcare, and one group of voters more than any other is in favor of that change: Gen Z. Data from a new The 19th/YouGov poll found that 52 percen…

President Donald Trump has threatened to ban diesel exports in a bid to ease prices in the US ahead of the November elections.

If you’re arguing, you’re losing. Trump is arguing.

As mergers concentrate outlets in the hands of a few billionaires, the right's grip on mainstream media grows tighter.

A landmark settlement confronts decades of pollution — but the corporate system keeps moving the toxic waste elsewhere.

President Trump’s motorcade approached 100 mph on wet roads between two rallies after storms grounded his aircraft

Brazil’s presidential election is on a knife-edge. Right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro has powerful interests on his side but is also counting on the Trump administration’s help to push him over the line.

Daniel Ellsberg’s ninth and final book, Truth and Consequence, was published this spring, three years after his passing, and this is a fitting moment—a time of political upheaval much like the one in which Ellsberg firs…

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the United Nations last month, diplomats streamed for the exits. Three years after October 7, when much of the Western world rallied behind Israel in the…

The Federal Trade Commission has settled with Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits over claims of discrimination against small businesses

Tennessee is facing criticism after the failed execution of Christa Pike

Plan to install barriers through popular national park sparked outrage from advocates and politicians alikeA federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from expanding the border wall and other securi…

Kevin Warsh’s predecessor had been investigated over cost overruns related to central bank renovation projectThe US ⁠justice department is not reopening a criminal investigation into former Federal Reserve chair Jerome…

David Brooks of The Atlantic and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of The Boston Globe join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump hitting the campaign trail in a string of reliably Republican stat…

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Nolo has strengthened to a hurricane again in the Pacific Ocean

Newly released police bodycam footage shows officers in Altoona, Pennsylvania, approaching, searching and arresting Luigi Mangione at a McDonald's on 9 December 2024 in connection with the shooting death of United Healt…

When the U.S. Supreme Court returns Monday, the justices will kick off a new term featuring cases on climate change, gun rights, immigration and religious liberty.

A former Miami congressman has been sentenced to ten years in prison for a secret $50 million lobbying campaign for Venezuela during President Donald Trump’s first term

Dozens of residents testify to legislature’s redistricting committee in heated hearing, the last of eight Hundreds of people gathered across from the Mississippi state capitol building on Thursday evening to rally again…

Twenty-seven states have capital punishment, and they vary widely in how they administer the death penalty and just how much of that lethal process they keep hidden from public view, according to the nonprofit Death Pen…

During Jair Bolsonaro’s term as president, he faced a liberal establishment that acted as a bulwark against his worst excesses. If his son Flávio beats Lula in the presidential election, he will encounter much less resi…

The new guidance comes after ICE-initiated vehicle stops have repeatedly escalated when drivers have refused to cooperate or tried to flee. ICE agents have fired their guns during more than a dozen such encounters since…

A drug task force in Mississippi had previously urged people to avoid kratom, an herbal substance that acts as a stimulant at low doses and a sedative at high doses, after authorities found packages of kratom derivative…

The moves offer a stark sign of how dramatically the Senate map has shifted just a month before midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

Friday's jobs report is the last one that will come out before the Nov. 3 elections that will determine whether President Donald Trump's Republicans maintain full control of Congress.

The Maryland senator talks Israeli war crimes and the threat of AI, as well as his own 2028 presidential ambitions and Chuck Schumer’s future as Dem leader in the Senate.

The vice president also talked with NBC News about his potential aspirations for 2028.

San Francisco leaders say AI-powered cameras helped drive a dramatic decline in car crime. We examine the evidence — and whether the city can keep its high-tech dragnet without sacrificing civil liberties.

After 32 years in Congress, Ohio's Sherrod Brown lost his Senate seat in 2024 as many working class voters turned out for Trump. Now Brown is counting on union voters to send him back to Washington.

Young women stand out for their progressive views, but few in the generation are embracing the two-party system

The movement against voter disenfranchisement follows a wave of youth protests that swept India this summer.

On Thursday, a group of men dressed like extras from Les Misérables erected a giant statue outside Elon Musk’s company town of Starbase, Texas: a 50-foot bronze rendition of the Titan Prometheus. Building a godlike figu…

The FBI has released a classified report to the workforce examining what it says are chapters from the bureau’s history when it "fell short."

Final jobs report before the midterm elections also shows the US unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2%US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, a sharp drop from last month’s gains, and unemployment rose sligh…

General Douglas MacArthur was determined that West Point graduates would uphold the most romantic definitions of honor. Instead his credo fostered a culture of duplicity and institutional subterfuge, leading to real-wor…

We can take antisemitism seriously without making communal identity the organizing principle of public life.

Police divers have found the body of a patient who went missing after a medical helicopter crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Catalina Island near Los Angeles

Republicans are scrambling to deal with a data center boom they cheered on not long ago.

The Michigan Democratic Senate candidate also cooked up a moniker for his Republican rival, Mike Rogers.

Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children.

Last week, The Washington Post reported that David Flippo’s congressional campaign falsely claimed on multiple occasions that the Nevada Republican earned a Bronze Star with valor as an Air Force officer. Flippo’s respo…

It’s a mark of the influence of Bernie Sanders’s first presidential campaign that the American political landscape before he ran looks unrecognizable now. Most of the hundreds of socialists who now hold power across the…

New revelations allege French far-right leader Jordan Bardella was once an obsessive antisemite who wrote that Jews dominate and rob other peoples. While his National Rally party has airbrushed its image, the conspirato…

“I’ve never seen anything like what we saw Wednesday night,” said one reporter who witnessed the execution attempt.

After one of the largest wildfires in state history devastated Rio Blanco County, Colorado in 2025, Deirdre Macnab saw her share of horrors across the community: cows burned to death, pigs died from sunstroke, and pastu…

Half the population of Doral, Florida, is from Venezuela. Why haven’t its leaders rescinded their deal with ICE?

Democrat Rebecca Cooke said the deepfakes produced by GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden “undermine our democratic process.”

Resolutions calling to abolish ICE and pushing to block arms sales are laying a progressive groundwork for 2028.

“This is my home,” Angie Nixon, the democratic socialist candidate targeted by Vance, said in response.

Sami Abu Shehadeh, head of the left-wing Balad party, withdrew from Israel’s upcoming elections on Friday.