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The Supreme Court of the United States today allowed construction of a massive ballroom on the White House grounds to continue, though Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that it's "probably ...

A UMass poll found Mark Zuckerberg's favorability at just 8% among Democrats and 13% among Republicans.

Gabriel Perez, Donald Trump's teleprompt operator since 2016, was placed on leave last month after a decade of loyal prompting. According to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, he used his ...

"Zero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts," wrote far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulis on social media last year. Today the Briton was taken into custody by ICE,

Applicants who have had used the services of sex workers are not eligible to join the FBI, a prohibition the bureau now plans to drop. It will consider "in a ...

Trump's handpicked replacement for her dead brother's Senate seat, Darline Graham, demonstrated why she is unqualified to be a US Senator. At a debate, where Graham is trying to hold on to the job Donald Trump gifted her, the Senator was asked ...

Florida Republican Michael Caruso has strong opinions about pedophiles: they should receive the death penalty when convicted of sexually battering children under 12 years of age. He was arrested Tuesday and charged with five felony counts of child ...

Jonathan Weber has written a history of San Francisco's rise as a global technology capital and the crises that came with it. City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco opens in the early 1990s, when San ...

A whole lotta Canadians love them some Wab Kinew. The current premier of Manitoba (think Minnesota but a whole lot more hockey), Kinew wore a lot of hats before wading into politics: journalist, author and musician. In every one of those roles, his ...

The State Department Africa map put Nigeria in the Sahara at the Aids 2026 conference. Reuters found an AI watermark.